The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-19 00:00:00

THE REPRESENTATION OF WOODSTOCK.

Yesterday afternoon s public meeting of the
liberal slogan of the borough wee had in the Town-hall,
Woodstock, for the purpose of promoting the return of
the lion. G. E. Brodrick.

Sir H. DABIIWOOD, who presided, stated that the meet-
ing had been called to enable the borough to decide whe-
ther, in the new parliament, it would be on the side of
°bar uction or of progrees, and he reminded the liberals
that it was only Lye majority of 19 that they lost the last
election. He called upon
Mr. Cs LI:WIN Swint, who responded with considerable
phasure, as he was himself a hearty liberal, not from
mete theory or on abstract grounds, but because the expe-
rit nee of history told him that the progressive application
of liberal principles would result in a more prosperous,
united, happier, and better peettle. (Cheers.) As amember
of the liberal party he could not help most cordially
sympathising with this attempt to make the great exten-
sion of the franchise following tke enactment of the new
Reform Bill a reality in the borough of Woodstock, and
not a mere explosion. ((heers.) Not being an elector
himself, bower, er, he would have bad no right to In-
terfere in the election except with their consent, and ap-
pear, as he now did, on behalf of his personal friend,
Mr. Brodrick, to represent that gentleman's qualifications
and position as the liberal outdid: AA for Weedstoak.
(Cheers.) Mr. Brodrick, whose present state of health
detained him in Scotland, was the scion of a high
conservative family, the son of a nobleman hold-
ing conservative opinions, brought up at the
conservative school of Eton and the conservative
Ilnivasity of Oxford, who had early in life embraced
liberal opinions. (Cheers.) He was a man of no common
abilities or elunacter, of no ordinary fitness to become
a member of the councils of the nation, having given
great attention to our representative institutions, and
taken a prize for a voluntary essay on the subject while
at Oxford. (Cheers.) He bad since then made politics
his special study, and he was not a man who would go into
the House of Commons merely for a social position, but
he would bo prepared and thoroughly determined to do
the work of legislation. (Cheers.) Having read a letter
addressed by Mr. Brodrick to Sir Henry Dashwood, ex-
plaining at length his political views, and having stated
the cause of Mr. Brodrick's absence to be illness arising
from overwork, Mr. Smith observed that if he might
add a remark on his own account, it would be
that he heartily hoped this great exteinien of the
franchise, this great recognition of the rights of
the people, this great improvement of our insti-
tutions, would be accompanied with an improvement
in the mode of election. He trusted that with the ex-
tended constituency, they were going to leave behind the
evil influences that prevailed with constituencies in former
days. Depend upon it, if a man paid money down, or there
was any other corrupt consideration whatever, that which
he had bought he would sell—(cheers)—he would sell it
for a plat*, for social position, for entrance to ministers' ra-
tio, or for something else that would as effectually prevent
him from being a worthy member as if he was bought
with money. Therefore, if they wished to have their share
of the benefits which a really popular government could
bestow, they must send to parliament a man who had not
bought them, and who would not sell them. Let them hope
also that this duty which the legislature had imposed upon
the great mass of the people, would be respected by
the powerful and the rich. If they dewed that
the poor man should resist the temptation in
his hour of distress to trespass upon their rights,
let them set him the example by carefully
respecting the rights the state bad bestowed upon him.
(Cheers.) They net there not merely in the intereata of
the party but in the interests of their country, and he
hoped what they might do that day might tend to the
benefit not merely of one party or of one class, but of all
classes and all parties, of rich and poor, of farmer and
farm labourer, of employer and employed, of every man
who bore tho name of Englishman, and shared in
the greatness and happiness of England. (Cheers.)
Other speeches followed, and resolutions were passed
inviting Mr. Brodrick to contest the borough in the
liberal interest, and appointing a committee to promote
his return.

CORK.—Mr. Murphy and Mr. Matire were
yesterday adopted as the candidates of the ral party,
pledged to aid in ejecting the present ministry.
Dinu.rx CITY.—A requisition is in course of
signature, requesting Sir John Ennis to come forward as
a candidate in the liberal interest for the representation
of the city of Dublin, in conjunction with Mr. Pim, M.P.
Ernes.—Sir John Rarslake and Mr. Arthur
Mills (eon-in-law of Sir T. Acland) addressed a meeting
at the public rooms on Monday evening. The proceed-
ings were most uproarious, and several tights took place
in the room during the speeches of the conservative candi-
dates. The Attorney-General's speech consisted chiefly of
praise of the most prominent members of the administra-
tion, andin criticisingthepolicy of Mr. Oladetoneon the Irish
church question. He defended the government from the
charges of reckless expenditure, and pointed to the im-
proved condition of the soldier, the supplying of guns to
the armed fortresses, and to the ' of the army
with breech-loaders, as proving that it was absolutely
necessary to spend the money. In the course of the proceed-
ings the names of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Coleridge were
loudly cheered.
HACXNEY.—Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson has
issued his address, in which be puts himself forward as
the working man's candidate.
KNAIIRSBOROUGH.—As Mr. Isaac Holden retiree
from Rnarestarough to become a candidate for the
eastern division of the West Riding, it is said that the
liberals intend to put forward Mr. Alfred Illingworth as •
candidate in Mr. Holden'splace. The conservatives will,
it is reported, put forward Mr. Andrew Lawson, of
Aldborough. Mr. B. T. Woodd has represented this
borough as a conservative since 1852, but does not offer
himself for re-election.
TAMWOILTII.—The Right Hon. Sir B. Peel has
just issued a long address to the electors. Speaking of
candidates asking to be returned unfettered, he says:—
"You know what that means, and you may rest assured
that a good deal of confusion is caused in the House of
Commons and in the country by a class of peliticiana who
are always waiting upon Providence to see which way the
cat jumps, on the plea that they are unfettered by any
pledges to party or to measures by their constituents."
On the subject of future policy he says:—"l pledge myself
to support a policy in church and state consonant with the
progress of libeler opinions, whilst as regards many social
questions of the day, such as popular education, the ballot,
ice., my votes stand recorded in • liberal sense, and I am
prepared fully to carry out in general terms an advanced
liberal programme: Referring to the election, he says,
" It is some months diataat, and in the meantime all sorts
of representations will no doubt be hazarded, with a view
to influence the result. Indeed, I have heard that already
some of the working men of our new electoral body have
been pressed to sign pledges as to the vote they are to
bind themselves to give on that occasion. I hope this is
not the case; but if recourse is had to each practices
(which will only recoil on those who seek to enforce
them). nothing can more strongly point to the necessity of
the ballot for the protection of the due exercise of the fran-
chise." Ho then stated that he hoped they would resist
such interference, and reserve to themselves complete
liberty of action until they had an opportunity of bearing
and judging by whom their real interests were best likely
to be consulted.

DOICRINO-EITREET, AUGUST 13.—The Queen has
been pleased to appoint John Hayward, Esq., to be
Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court of the Island of
Newfoundland

THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN IRELAND.—
Archdeacon Denison has addressed to • contemn a
letter in reference to the difficulties connected with the
use of the words "United Church of England and
Ireland," in the recent address to the crown. He defends
the use of the expremion on the following
" 1. Because it expresses the oneness of the rurunchedis..
2. Because it has so Tong formed • part of the title-page
of the Book of Common Prayer. If we had used any
other expression I think we should have justly been open
to great exception, and have put very considerable diffi-
culties in our way." " I am unable," continues the
venerable archdeacon, "to see that the expression im-
plies that there was • time when the churches
were not one. It is true that the form et ex-
pression was adopted by act of the legis-
lature, without concurrence of the assemblies of
the spirituality ; but the fault is not in such non-concur-
sews, kat in the fact that those assemblies were at that
time in abeyance—an abeyance the blame of which must,
I think, be shared between church and state. I trnst this
may appear to you a.s tent answer to your difficulty.
It would be a great misfortens if difficulties of this kind
were allowed to operate against the signature of those
who are as one with us in respect of the substance of the
address. What we want to do is, so far as we may, to
poll clergy and people of the United Kingdom against
disatablnhmmt and disendowisent; and I may perhaps)
be allowed to express my earnest hope that this greet
object may be generally grasped, and not be allowed to
be Interfered with by thrs or that difficulty of detail,
which, after all, does not affect its substance."
The medical schools in connection with the
great Lcndon hospitals will inaugurate the winter session
on Thursday, the let of October. At King's College, the
( oh, lecture will be delivered by I: r.
_Grey ; at Bt.
a, by Dr. Barnes; and at St. Bartholomew's, by
Mr. Thcmee

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Deily News points out the inconveniences wising
from the passion for emigration which hes seized upon the
subordinate members of Mr. Disraeli's government and
party, and which, if not restrained, will soon leave the
conservative leader with a very diminished following.
itl in a few months Mr. Pope-Hennessy, Lord Belmont,
Mr. DuCane, and Sir James Ferguson hay: either left or
arranged to leave England for the cokinks, and others
are spoken of as about to follow their example. These
ntlemen are very well able to judge what is good for
them, and the Deify .Netes by no means distrusts the
belief ou which they have acted, that they hive a better
future to expect abroad than at home. Still, on public
grounds, there must be limits set to this propensity of the
guxeinment td make provision for its political friends at
the expense of our color.ies and dependencies.