The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-23 00:00:00

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tiona., in reference to an allusion of the chairman's, he
said that a deputation from Liverpool did him the
honour of waiting upon him on a recent occasion, and
proposed-that he should come for Ward to represent this
aa place,itw a
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fl d7ttibdt
iht
Deeirtfeidenegl
witness
that gratified
he bad,by such
to saontn- ipeffeexr.„
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ot duties
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whatta sh
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setd statesmenin
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net think of deserting that less constituency= 'Which had
always treated him with kindnessed and consideration—
notwithstanding the greater honour that might have ae•
crued from representing suoh a large commercial town as
Liverpool. Mr. Layard then spoke of the advantages
that public men
sys derivedae dri ohas d foruo bmle ddebt
attentions.b beingt introduced
o fI
vi.gratitudethheir coun-
try;resp various comenercial and industrial sections oft
Phsritesatement that he (Mr. Layard) had com.
ect4tattththoee
the
chairman'san chairmand h
for
oer expressed
menced his career at sea, it was not so, but in, perhaps,
the more dangerous profession of the law, (Laughter.)
Mr. Layard then briefly sketched the circumstances
which had led him into public life. Not ' finding
himself at home in the study of the law, he resolved
'to go to India, through a speech he once chanced to
hear-front the - late Daniel O'Connell. But Lie
e. got
I no fordier than Persia, where he thought of introduc-
ing a much more extended British trade. After many
adventures there, he was engaved to the embassy of
Constantieople, - with Lord de Redeliffe. Returning by
chance to this country ebout the time of the rise of the
Eastern question, lie was drawn into it, and thus had he
'become somewhat of a public poiNcian. In other cir-
cumstances he should-have confined himself to literature
ahne,_ll,4cience, of whimb be was dearly fond. He must say
btheftotl3r,ehr.iaitovinsiigic passed sa much of his time abroad, he:was
no, very welfrolnacostntqituubateiinionthedgaitnwtiritiaohdmutechede. practical working of
,
as were then before
become such
trugs
gentlemen
ibeemt that,
teenr
of such vast impoes
acquainted with thos&matters With regard' to -peblic
subjects, he scarcely liked, at•such.a moment as that,
to dwell
few words upon. their, at very great length upon them ; but .questions
ancwere at stake, that when he con-
on the appeals thatin
iiidered their relative
England to the sympathiesposition,
anhde felt
war, as unworthy of the
lare then strongly commented-
been made in the north of
zenerous pocketsd
noble principles
of things that made world?"'
which should actuate nati-
.9lPireospheeity the standard of
Re denounced that state
approval or disapproval,
should preserve its reputation withtinatuheenteeenacabirotya
olght that a nation
individual ; and very much of our.
dfd
daen-
pended. upon our national character. (" H r " .and
cheers.) There were-many who eond edea' .
froni motives of pity, and they would haste termsar
to of peace. Brit he had a brother before Sebastopol, some
of his dearest friends were in the army .and nary; he
bad himself seen them bleed, and do that which was
more than seeking the bubble reputation at -the cannon's
mouth—do their duty in the face of every danger-and
hardship which could appal man=yet he felt that there
were moments when
.sympathy should be repressed be-
fore the sterner worth of principle—of duty. (Cheers.)
Ile.thought the country was never before in such a cri-
tical position as at present. He did not want to go
into a minute history of the war, which he Strongly
held to be just and necessary, as was proved by a care-
ful study of the circumstances which were indicated
by the Vienna note. Count Nesselrode, in his explana-
tion of.that note, proved what the designs Of Russia were
upon Turkey. Had it- not been for that explanation,
most probably our 'Government would have forced Tur-
key to have accepted that Vienna note. Mr. Layard
then proceeded to deny that this was a religions war :
were it so, he would be the last party to encourage the
spilling of another drop of blood. He believed that the
peace of Europe was endangered by the Russian encroach-
ments ; and therefore it was that he supported the war.
If peace at first could have been obtained upon safe and
honourable terms, he should have been the first to accept
t. The speaker then alluded to the noted article in the
Moniteur, which he had no doubt might be attributed to
the Emperor of the French, and which stated that we bad
gone to war to secure the following four points e-eTo
preserve the integrity of Turkey ; to guarantee the
European equi:ibrium ; to advance civilisation ; and to
insure respect for treaties. Alluding to the four points
said to be the basis of the terms upon which peace
was expected to be recorded at the • conference -at
Vienna, Mr. Layard expressed his decided opinion that,
if a peace had been secured merely on these four points,
the whole of this war would have been most cruel-slid
unprofitable. Ho reiterated his often-expressed opinions
of the insecurity of the Austrian alliance, because the
principles of the Russian Government were preciiely
those which best suited the Austrian despotism. He
believed that the proposed quintuple protectorate of the
Principalities woeld be an entire deception, unsatisfac-
t ,ry to the en inhabitts, dangerous to the independence,
and highly injurious to our commercial relations with
those countries, especially with Servia, which considered
the nucleus for the solution of the Eastern question. The
speaker, then alluded in detail to the other three points,
which be argued to be most impracticable and unsubstin-
tial. -Had these terms been agreed upon, we should find
ourselves in a thousand times worse position than if the
Vienna note had been accepted. After alluding to the
propnied increase of t melon, he asked if the war was to
be conducted as it had been hitherto ? (Cries of No, Lu.)
Should it be condue ed with that eternal reference to
the " Peninsula l" He qrongly condemned the sydeln
of family influence, patronage, and self-aggrandisement,
as eentaiiiing within it the very germ of our dangers for
the future, and the causeof our sad past failures. Within
a few iecnitlis this country would have to pass through a
great crisi,, but he thought the " .13eninsula"--7(laughter)
—would xi: t get them out of it. -We wanted states-
men who would introduce into every department of
Gover.itnet.t the listerils and ideas in keeping with the
improvements of the age. (Cheers.) Alluding to the in:i-
nto/ea representation-of the peo:tie, and the feebleness ,
of the Wnig,,, Air. Layard concluded his telling speech
by A peroration in v.-hich he alludtd to the dee'ine of the
cern:nerd:al cages of the middle ages as fur,tishing an
example and a warning to Britain, Atter calling up,tn
the assembly to join with him in exposing all abuses,
and in endeavouring to put the right men in the right
places, lie concluded by proposing "The Town arid
Trade of Liverpool," and sat down amidst overwhelm-
ing applause. e

The toast was acknowledged in suitable terms by Mr.
11,11ornby.

Several toasts, including some highly complimentary
to gentlemen connected with the Black Ball tine Of
packets, followed, and the entire proceedings were of p,
highly interesting character.

MELANUIOLY DEATH OF THE LAST SENIOR
WRANGLER OF CAMBRIDGE.

CAMBRIDGE, April 21.—A great gloom has pervadel
all members of the university throughout the day, by
reason of the intelligence of the .eudden death of Mr:.
James Savage, of St. John's College, who, at the exami-
nation in Januiry last, won, atter a keen intellectual
contest, the highest honour that his Alma Mater could
bestow. From the beat evidence that can be gleaned,
Mr. Savage left his rooms on Thursday morning for the
purpose of taking his " customary walk, or in Cambridge
term 'his constitutional, and nothing more could be as-
certained of his whereabouts until this morning, when in.
telligence arrived in Cambridge that he bad been found
lying dead in a dry ditch bounding a field in the occupa:
tion of Mr. Tofts, of Whittle Farm, near this town. At
half-past 5Ws afternoon, an inquest was held at the Three
Horseshoe,, Madingley, before Mr. F. Barlow, county,.
coroner, when, by the evidence adduced, it appeared
that a labourer in Mr. -Tuft's employ was, with hir! :
brother, passing by the ditch above-mentioned a little.
before 7 a m. this morning, when he saw the body of
deceased. The hat was off, and laid near his head, with
a pair of spectacles therein, and a pocket handkerchief
lay near his feet.' Inforination was immediately given
to the authorities, who . found, upon instituting in-
quiries, that the deceased bad been first missed from his
college on Pridaymcirnitig, when deceased's bedinaker
informed Mr. Courtney, one of his intimate friends,:ause
Mr. Savage bad net slept in his room on Thursday.
night. Mr. Courtney immediately 'ac sainted / n
France, tutor to deceasedland deceased's
• undergraduate of Pembroke College, of his
idiVr PLon.
RUC?, and his brother started by the next tram
_eceas, ,
don, to see if he had been heard ;of ther.
ofl- Sir P.
was a botanist, and one of the
gamekeepershimin Madingley- .
Cotton deposed that he had seen brother,Oa,.
Thursday morning en—
wood about half-past eleven
gaged apparently in
amekeener that be vras.
having been informed byg
the flowers there were
trespassing, and that if he wanted
away
in the . direction of
plenty by the roadside, went
searching farm
af I odpwebieaer
tisle.
rcontainingiopu es e
p ede".l.
presented no inclinations of violence,
nation of the body f a scuffle. Some silver was
the place where ho
also
found in deceased's, pockets,
nzTorehurnall
orleegular habits,•
camphor and water,
oe Led,
there was picked up another
n o were
w Presentingaardysa
no found.
an d
evidencehalfn et
fromi:i
a.
the head of the d
$ a surgeon of
small phial empty,
a large
arneornunetxoatmeinxatrtaiovna,sas:da
over
r.
A.anything.tsand
wh
were much distended with
enjoyed good
Iran
Cambridge,
_w o
that the vessels
brain, wide the post
du of the dtvra mater, .or
ra nutter,
wcsesal:elemtdouwfchabsicovofinos3 re
sy. i.o.onn.t a
abstemiousi nom
(
and
covering of the
blood, and there
surface. On re-
blood was found on the surface
otherwise presented no appearance of 'the brain, which
was no doubt that deceaseddied of disease. There
moving the
phial produced contained from apoplexy. The
of-cam-
phor, Which manye only a weak solution ofnam-
mouths with. The other phial
carried to rinse their
jury, Withort hesitation,r was perfectly clean. The
returned a verdict of " Died.
by the visitation of God."
Nr. Savage was • .
Staffordshire in his 22d year, a member of a
fatally, and was educated at University
College, London. After the in thi remains were
conveyed to St. John's College,es
as ' a s
and mark of honour
deposited in the Corribinotionroom, previous to removal
for interment in 'Kentish-town. At the period of his
decease Mr. Savage was not a fellow of St. John's„rt buit, .
would have been so elected at the first vacancy.
but a few weeks since the remains of the late
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-second wrangler in 1854, and who also meta premature
Steel,
C brid
death, were deposited in the cemetery of a ge.

THE NEW SOCIETY OF , PAINTERS IN WATER- •
coLowts.-Amotig the company present at- the private
-.view of this society on Saturday; were—the Duice of --
/sTorthumberland, the Marquis ot Lansdowne, Mar- •
ebioness of Aylesbury, Ea Cardigan, Eart.Grey, Earl
Earl of
Ducie, Dowager Cotintess of Longford, Earl of Denbigh,
the Ruh: Miss Eden ; Bishops of Wincheiter, Lichfield,
Carlisle, and Worcester, Lord Grosvenor, Lord•Glenelg; -
and Lord-Broughton, Major-General Sir William Her- /
rise, Sir John Anson, the ilon. Arthur sines
T00e55t137941•7. _ s."