The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-27 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 27, 1868.

IUINEA. MERRY, Pale or Golden, 21e. per
dome, or 10a M. per gallon, imported direct Awn &wads-
lalPronters.A somid, tall-bathed. serviosable wine, free foal um
natural wait or asidlty. One Amon forwarded, carriage floe. on
of remittaaes. by the importers. PHYTHIAN sad 00X8.rkelg Wiff•ed. WA.

/ILO PORT, 245. per dozen, or 12s. per gallon,
Inverted direct from 6porto (Sandeman's ithippisc). An ex:
tallest. dela fell•bodimi Irina eansdall7 sosmwiso.'4 I.*
requiring • nemine and nutritious wins. One dam forwarded.
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of "The Irish Whisky Drinker P•peco." " Is. Kaiak% of Tamar
howls" Be.
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the Anther of " Ankle Lowill." "Beeves lawmen Yeoman," Ike
Richard Bentley. New Bartiastoneteeet.

MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.

Mr. Bright addressed a crowded meeting of tho
electors at Birmingham last evening in the Town-hall.
Mr. J. B. PILIONT, the chairman of the Liberal AlWeil-
*az, presided, and briefly opened the proceedinga

. _ .
Mr. Barone. contrasted the cirounistances under which he
then appeared with those which attended his first speech
as one of the members for Birmingham, on the 27th of
October, 1868, when he recommended household suffrage
as the basis of the parliamentary franchise. He spoke of
the scorn with which the Conservative prom treated that
suggestion, and in glancing at the history of the tory
party during the past forty years, and in speaking of the
manner in which they had opposed those measures of
progress which they afterwards adopted, he made an
energetic appeal to the electors to support men
who had consistently ailvocatod refoime from • con-
viction that they were right, rather than politicians
who gave those reforms a reluctant assent after
they bad been written in the statute books of the
land. Now, (said the bon. gentleman) may I
ask the working men this question f I do not put it to
those only who are Isere, or to the thousands outside these
walls or within this town, but I put it to the working
men throughout the three kingdoms, whether the acknow-
ledged policy of the tory party or that of the liberal is the
policy which is ►most favourable to freedom, to the ad-
vancement and to the comfort of the great mass of the
workingmen of this kingdom? (Cheers.) Under which
banner will you march ? Under that of your ancient foes,
or under that of those who, with all their shorteemings.
have in the main been your constant friends Y (Cheers.)
I will tell you what somebody has said during his canvass.
=Oxon in the body of the hall.) You have been
everything is changed, that everybody is liberal
now and that the tory party has somehow or other cast
Its rikin, and came forth as • new creature. (Laughter.)
Well, then, we will not ask the pad, but ask the present—
what are they doing about the Irish church?
Is there of all the grievances to which I have referred,
le there coo which is a greater or more outrageous
grievance than the Irish church ? Whilst we have one
part which
liege trar 11: peoVie by rel"rchl antet't. ate
reentry, we have the leader of the tory party telling us
that the condition of Ireland is satisfactory, yet next
version we shall find that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
will have to make provision from your taxes for 30,000
sinned men to keep Ireland If they are not
wanted why keep them there r but if they are wanted
what are they wanted fort If one of the !messiness of
Irelasid which makes the Irish people hostile, will not
ray to English rule, but to your imperial will—if the Irish
church be one of these grievances, then I say in the name
of all that is just let us get rid of that grievance without
delay. (Cheers.) What • strange condition must this
country of ours have arrived at, when what is called the
gentlemanly interest, the power of the aristocracy and
the landowners, who are supposed generally to support
the tory party, can only give us a prime minister who
sees that the condition of Ireland is satisfactory with
30,000 armed men in it to keep the peace, with the Habeas
Corpus suspended for the last three years, and at a time when
there are in our penal establishment more than one hundred
Irishmen who have been convicted of offences against our
state. I say that the tory party has not changed; it
exists still; it is still for supremacy in Ireland. It has
been wrong during these forty years, and during a longer
time, and it is wrong still ; and, when it comes to bo
wrong, it will cease to he a tory party. (Loud and pro-
longed cheering.) My friend, and constituents, although
many of you have had no votes hitherto, and therefore
could not vote fcr me, I will still call you, as being citimns
of the town ; your interest and duty is exactly my interest
and my duty with regard to our legislators. (Cheers.)
We must have done with everything that is intended
solely to please and elevate one clue ea against another
class. We must be one people—(eheers)—and we must
have one law and one measure of justice, and one great
'equality in our institutions; and if you intend to have this,
• you must give no more support to the tory party now, when
you have votes, than you did by your voices when you
had no votes. (Loud chews.) If it bad not been for that
party, your fathers and grandfathers would have had the
votes which have only now been conceded to you. (Cheers.)
What would you think of the liberated negro in the
Southern States coming forward to vote for any member
of the copperhead faction that would have kept bun in
Cretlal bondage? Metaphorically, may I not say
yjour chains are but just dropped off; they
tie now at your feet: your limbs at the very
moment are sore from their chafing ; the sound of their
clinking has not left your ears, and you are impudently
and audaciously asked to vote for the men and for the
party who for hundreds of years have rivetted these
chains upon you. (Loud and protracted cheers.) Years
ago I appealed to you from this place on behalf of the
franchise, which I said you had a right to, and
which must shortly be conceded to you. I did not
appeal in vain. I reminded you then of what
your fathers bad done, the men of thirty years
ago, when they had shaken the fabric of privilege to its
very base. I appeal to you now. Ever sine I have
been permitted to speak in these open councils of my
countrymen I have pleaded for their political rights.
(Cheers.) You have now to a largo extent obtained those
rights. I plead to you once more, that you should regard
those rights as a sacred trust in the eyes of all your
countrymen, in the eye of Heaven itself, and that you
should use those rights as an instrument only of good,
that you should seriously weigh the claims of all those who
seek your suffrages, old that you should so vote
that you may expect to influence any imperial
parliament, and the legislation of your country,
so that you may advance the happiness of all its families,
and the grandeur and security of this nation. (hood
cheers.) The hon. gentleman, who suffered from hoarse-
ness, and delivered the concluding part of his address with
great effort, spoke for a few minutes over the hour. He
proposes on hiday to address a second meeting of the
electors, many of them having been unable to obtain ad-
mission this evening.
Mr. Alderman W more moved, and Mr. Joszen Lau-
rasia, a working man, seconded, the resolution, "That, in
the opinion of this meeting, the three liberal canilidates
Messrs. Bright, Dixon. and MuntA—are tit and proper
persons to represent this borough in parliament."
The resolution was put, and agreed to, amidst loud
cheers._

Mr. BRIGHT, in proposing a vote of thanks to the chair-
man, said that after 2.4 or 30 years of public labours, a
man was fairly entitled to look for • little respite and
quiet, to look on as a spectator, and not join in the
fray as an actor; but when he saw such en assembly as
the present, when he knew how wonderfully the commit-
tee had worked, and how well the 'electors had seconded
them, with the view of baffling the most scandalous inven-
tionthat ever was devised for crippling and destroying tho
power of the great constituencies—when ho saw all this he
wished to say that he hoped to be able to assist in pro-
moting some of those measures which could not long be
delayed when the political franchise had been so widely
extended. (Cheers.) He felt extremely grateful to all
present for the patient manner in which they had listened
to hie observations, and for the unanimity with which
they had expressed their confidence in him and in hie
brother candidate.
The proceedings then terminated.