The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

working class ; but it was almost a misnomer to call any
&ass, in this country in particular, the working class.
The fact was that in this country of Great Britain, with
some exceptions which were far from numerous, they all
belonged to the working classes. (Cheers.) From the
Queen on the throne, who devoted some hours every day
to concerns affecting the public welfare of her kingdom,
down to the humblest labourer at from four or five shil-
lings a week, and including the ministers, statesmen,
merchants, and gentlemen of landed estate who fulfilled
their duty, they all belonged to the working classes, and
shame to those who did not. (Cheers.) But amongst
others, the warehousemen and clerks belonged to the
working classes, and their object was consistent. They
required not only industry but education and consider-
able faculties of miry!, and it was but fit that those among
them who did not attain the same success as others
should at least have the consolation of thinking that
those who bad been their fellow-labourers would think of
their crphan children after they were gone. The noble
lord concluded by repeating the toast, which was re-
ceived with great cheering.
The Rev. Dr. ARCHER gave the health of the chair-
man, amid loud and repeated cheers.
Lord J. Russinf, said he was not going to make a
political speech in return for the very warm manner in
which his health had been received. He had no fault to
find with people for differing with him in opinion, for of
what use was our free constitution, if the people were
not to form their opinions from their own views and
their own judgment. He could only say, that in all the
speeches he had made during the course of his long poli-
tical life, his only object had been the welfare of the
country. (Hear.) He might have been mistaken, but he
had always acted to the best of his judgment. (Cheers.)
A collection was then made, which amounted on the
whole to about 1,7001.

Yesterday 118 men of the Medical Staff Corps, after
being inspected by S. G. Bunbury, Staff Captain, pro-
ceeded to Gravesend to embark fur the Hospital, Scutari.
An officer of the Land Transport Corps attended at
the barracks at Nenagh on Saturday for the purpose of
receiving such of the Kilkenny Fusiliers as might wish
to exchange into that service. Sixty-seven have already
volunteered into the Land Transport Corps, and it is
thought many more will follow their example.

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ANOTHER MIJRDERn
last a respectable man, named Robert Clarke, who was
employed as steward and gatekeeper at Ballinderry,..
within one mile of Moato, was proceeding to the latter
eocflotsheeoPf ietoMpler': Gwo ades-
Seciety, on Friday, th
place, when he got into a dispute, and was attacked by
moving a number of peasantry with stones. His skull was frac-
tured on the occasion, and he died shortly after. His
remains were brought to Ballinasloe for interment on
distressing of the
Friday night. The sad occurrence, observes the local
paper, is not connected with local disturbances.
THE DWELLINGS or THE PEOPLE.—At the West
abse bad i described.
in
Whi h paralleled in the
cßßoornyodnai
tilipoptnaornios.nifi Improvement
joufteuKnanleinnsgi
a vote of
drt2hiedcathani deliveredniklstg.ht'ioovaebtwhynl eircbMityeiuronrm.teuGt
brro..eneGrG:oc:tdhhdTwaawhiti
rein:t.HhcsaeA:miutdmlte,dhso
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to the country. Theßev.
that the efforts of the clergymen they were. The
a disgrace a'-buildings,
the
Potteries, and
assertione of the lecturer,
Thomas Pearson confirmed
were unavailing with
STATE OF TRAIAt
plreoe
po
ipee r
housedcourt
r taws
towns during the pastn the trade of the provincial
of activity, but the hi week there has been some increase
exert a considerable g prices of the chief articles of food
operative classes epressure and tend to render the
chester the dissatisfiedmarket has
with their wages. At Man-
again been well supported, al-
thoughthere was lesscommencement. ~hani3etion at the close than at the
material alteration ine the Birmingham
eei report shows no
Suchthe iron trade.
change as may have taken I"ancee.
side of improvement, but the maintenanceple,
perhaps,f on the
quotations is still rather doubtful. The "eTerennd "
furnaces have stopped, with liabilities for 38,0001. on,‘",
part of the establishment, who hope to pay in full, "'
require time. A small failure has likewise occurred in
the nail trade, and the mercantile firm of E. V: Blyth
and Co. are seeking the protection of the Private Ar-
rangement Act, in consequence of individual losses sus-
tained by their principal partner. At Nottingham the
upon the orders from
recent recovery, consequent chiefly
America, has been sustained. In the woollen districts
there has been no alteration, and although great pru-
dence is exercised the extent of employment is satisfac-
tory. In the Irish linen markets the operations have
been favourable, and quotations exhibit an improved
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Wednesday

tone. } A Lieutenant of Dragoons cured
of IlDiive,ELT:iitsisEr3:ih E . Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—
oby
i
This officer, s in the Dutch army, states tb at
pills and ointment have cured him of rheu-
a°l;:ws which appeared to be incurable, as neither sea
nl.ining., vapour baths, nor preparations vaunted as sure
remedies, after several months' trial, were without sue.
cess. At this juncture he commenced taking these pills,
and rubbing the ointment into the complaining parts
twice a day, which effectually cured him in the course
of six weeks. The truth of this statement can be
vouched for by Mr. J. B. Stratman, of Bois-le-Du?.
Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway g
Establishment, 214, Strand, London,

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• • may be necessary for carrying on with -g
in which we are engaged, whatever may
with a view to securing the cordial co-oYpebrantri;itabt'
4011;,' allies, we are willing to grant, but we cannot touch AM
of the features of our own internal constitution—(hear)
—onr association is, in this instance, entirely for exter-
nal purposes ; ft would be as reasonable for the British
ieee Minister to prescribe to Austria or France what should
be the internal government of that country, as for
either of those powers to prescribe to us a change in
_ our ancient custom of affording the right of sane-
' tuary to political exiles. Instead of lowering ministers
in the face of Europe by taking this stand, we should, I
believe, gain vastly in their estimation. It is not by
' yielding everything at the request of friends who may
be mistaken respecting our character and our conduct
that we shall secure respect from surrounding nations ;
it is by shoeing them that we value the liberties which u•
have bought with our blood, and that whether it be an
open foe, or whether it be a neighbouring friend, we in-
tend to maintain those liberties inviolate. Gentlemen
I feel it necessary to say before I sit down that the a
nouncement of this meeting, at which I had already Cnpil
sented to take the chair, did not appear to me to
be
exact accordance with the object which it was sought to
accomplish—that object being to maintain 'intact the
right of political exiles to all the freedom of a British
subject. But, the announcement having been made, I
felt that it would be cowardly in me, more especially as
my sentiments are not in accordance with those of the
war party, to withdraw from the post which bad been
kindly offered to me. After conversing, however, with
those who convened the meeting, I find that, whatever
may be their opinions respecting the war, they believed,
equally with myself, that the object for which we aro
met is so important, so sacred, and fraught with such
consequences to numbers who now enjoy the right 'of
asylum in this country, and whose enjoyment of itseerae
to be threatened by the intended policy of the Ministers
—they, I say, equally with myself, believe that that ob-
ject should stand out clearly, distinctly, and separate from
all others—and therefore it is upon that subject alone
that the suffrages of this large meeting will be taken.
(Hear, hear.) I need not, gentlemen, enforce upon
you the vast importance of conducting the proceed-
ings of the meeting to its close with perfect order.
I am certain that every one in this assembly will feel
with me how greatly the moral power and influence of
what is done here will be increased by both the speakers
and the audience keeFing within the limits of decorum,
Ana I feel, pezfect.4.dnusc, OinAjos. are All az twitecLlD,
sentiment that the proposition about to be submitted to
you will be adopted unanimously. lam glad to be able
to convey to you the information that this is not the
only meeting on this subject that is beidg held to-night.
Newcastle is at this moment engaged in the same good
work that we are—(cheers) —and I believe that within
a short time all the towns in England which profess to
hen
have any ambition to sustain inviolate and untouched
the liberties of this country willn o
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take a part re
exal‘mirp.l\ev.
w(CihLercerss.)
t.
n read—not
of disapprobation—the following letter :
7," My dear Sir,—l cannot, I"aMm oh
in your demonstration against the arbitrary treatment of
M. Victor Hugo and his brethren in exile. But, although
distance from town and other engagements prevent me from
being present, I sympathise very cordially with the pro-
moters of the meeting. Surely such proceedings as that
which you are meeting to protest against ought to open the
eyes of at least that part of the public which is supporting
the war from a sympathy with liberalism abroad, as to the
gross delusion that has been practised on their credulity by
those who have told them that in the hands of our present
Government the war in which we are engaged is a struggle
for liberty. Depend on it the tendency, both at home and
abroad, ever since the peace of Europe was broken, has
been the very reverse ; and give us but a few years more of
political
andct
doingsw e shall find
of
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faithfully yours, "R. COBDEN."
Mr. WILKS also read letters from Mr. C. Gilpin, Mr.
G. Thompson, Mr. P. A. Taylor, and Mr. G. Holyoake,
each expressing sympathy with the Jersey refugees. He
then moved the following resolutions :
" That this meeting utters its indignant protest against
the recent expulsion of refugees from Jersey; and affirms
that foreigners landing in the dominion of the British
Crown become at once entitled to the natural and legal
rights of Engli-lenam, public examination and trial by jury
before exposure to any penal consequences.
" That this meeting pledges itself and calls upon the
country to resist, by all lawful means, the apprehended
attempt to carry through Parliament an act invalidating
or restricting the right of sanctuary."
After some gereral remarks of an historical character,
he observed that if they wished to know who was the
author of the recent expulsion, they must consider whom
it was most likely to benefit, and no one could doubt
that this was Louis Napoleon. (Hear.) If, again, they
applied Shakspere's test that men hated those whom
they had injured, that teat pointed in the same direction! •
Tt they were asked whom had the refugees wronged it
might be answered that they bad written no sentence for
which any minister dare bring them into an English
court. They wrote a chapter of history; that was all,
Louis Napoleon was, however, the enemy of history.
Ever since the second: Bartholomew he bad been angry
with history, and he called for expulsion because men
simply stated the events of a given day in a given year.
The speaker was then proceeding to express his regret
that the refugee question had not been combined with
the war question ; but, being met with unmistakeable
symptoms that any remarks in opposition to the war
with Russia would be decidedly unpalatable to the ma-
jority of the meeting, he abstained from attempting to
enlarge on that topic.
Mr. ERNEST JONES seconded the resolution. He ob-
served that the meeting stood upon the common ground
of opposition to any infringement of the rights of refu-
gee,:. It was eomposed of members of the peace party
and members of the war party. He himself belonged to
the latter, and though he did not entirely approve of the
manner in which the war bad been conducted, he was for
letting the war itself go on. (Cheers.) The course of
events connected with the recent expulsion was very re-
markable. A letter having been written by three indi-
viduals, the Attorney-General of Jersey, on being con-
sulted, gave it as his opinion that its publication was not
illegal, and that its authors could not be successfully
prosecuted in the Jersey court,. It was then attempted
to apply Lynch law to the refugees, and when this at-
tempt failed in consequence of their gallant defence, and
when they had written a letter protesting against the
infringement of their liberty, they were expelled by the
British Government. Why were they expelled 1 They
had not fitted out a ship with arms, and landed at Bou-
logne, to make war against an ally of England. (Hear.)
Neither had they been closetted with an enemy of Eng-
land, like Prince Adelbert of Prussia, who was now fight-
ing at the head of a Russian regiment in the Crimea,
after having been received within the precincts of Bal-
moral. An experiment was now being tried in the case
of refugees, and if they allowed the passing of an alien
bill against fi,reigmrs ere long a gagging bill would be
passed against themselves. (Hear, hear.) He rejoiced
in the French alliance, but in order that it might be per-
inanen', it must be an alliance with the peopleof France.
When the French peof le wen.: free s they would be ere
and
w Englishmenheth
ehr atdh
eaNcht eadd
(Hear, hear.) While,
on the one hand, they did not go to war with Louis
eo
xf howles
trial,.
givenlg towardstf' tryh e)l ma yll wouldtno thei inquire
Frenchql inoi ruer
Napoleon, on the other they should not go to war on
their own history and their own honour. (Hear, hear.)
Let them seek less to ally themselves with Francis
Jmoosreepl, wiitahnci‘limazozrieniw;itlhesKs
woistellutLho;ollseNssawpoitlh Beonoambnda,maond
re
with those famous exiles who had never tarnished their
fame.
The resolution was then put and carried, there being
only one dissentient ; and
The CHAIRMAN having declared this to be the termi-
nation of the proceedings, the meeting, after giving a
vote of thanks to the hon. gentleman himself, dispersed.
The whole of the proceedings occupied less than two
hours.

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