Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL AT TAM WORTH.

Oa Tuesday evering, Sir Robert Peel and Lord Rayn-
ham, mernt,ers for Tamworth, were present at a public
dinner given to the ex-Mayor of that town, Mr. E. 13.
ilimel. The Mayor, Mr. S. Ilans;:n, presiclfd. In re-
growling to the toast of the " Borough members." Sir
Rob rt Peel addreised the company at great length, and
reviewed the recent events which have taken place in
India, es well as the whole course of policy of the govern-
ment in the East. He described the war as a most
discreditable contest in the way it bad been brought about
by those who bad the government of India. Although
descritod by Mr. Vernon Smith as nothing more then a
periodical emeute, it bad cost the lives of more officers than
had fallen during a similar period during the hardest
month of the Crimean war ; no fewer than 270 officers
had ei,her been massacJid or had died, or bad fall n in
,he field within three months. He cimplimentrd Lord
Palm rston on the vigour he had displayed in sending
troops to supprrss the mutiny, but condemned their being
sent by way of the Cape, instead of across Egypt. Sir
I.tibert then went on to comment, snausin?,ly, on the spech
of Mr. Bernet Osborne at Dover, and on the speech's m7de
at the Lo.d Mayor's dinner. Be observed of Lard Can-
ruing that he had done nothing yet, and had not show‘i
the ability for civil government he might have done.
After criticising in detail the acts of the Indian govern-
ment, Sir Robert concluded by saying that it might ha
necessary for Lord Palmerston to rally around him his
indepenr'ent supporters, to embcdy these who would give
a vigirous t x;)ression to his policy, and he for one would
be ready and willing to stand true to the sympathies he
had long shown him, a:though he had suffered the misfor-
tune to undergo a temporary separation from the govern-
ment of the man whom he had esteemed in p-.lilics--a man
whc, with al his faults, had bean equal to every situalion
in %anis:it I e had been placed ; a man who, el:hough placed
on the highest pit aaele in the co.ntry to which a subj ct
could aspire, hal not, forgotten the great duties he owed
to the public as a statesman and patliot, who, while he
had si:ceessful:y carried on tha wars of the cauntry in
foteign lands, Icnow wed he w to uphold end vindicate the
liberties and tiz,h,ts of his fellow-countrymen in every
part of the world.

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SIVRT TiMe TNT Put7AroN.—Tw, r oilier mills have, this
w k, been added to thane which are running short time.
Our prosp'cts daily b 'come more g!oorn7. There is much
distress in the town, as may be ima4ined, when from
20,000 to 25,000 peo;ile arc wen leriog about the streets
ociiy partially employed. As a proof tha,. we are living at
present in h,rd Titnts, we may mention a fact related to us
by a te7:t colleeo-, viz., that on Monday pie day of
collection) he only received £2O, whereas his general
'eceints are £47. He also told us that, in the course of
his colection, he became acquainted with the distressing
fact that no less than three married men had deserted their
families and enlisted into the army, on account of the
Prhations consequent npon the scarcity of labour and
wagea,—Preston Guardian, of Wednesday.

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