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THE PETITION OF BIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN.

Sir,—As England's glory is her love and observance o:

George Grey, by letter, dated September 30, 1861 (without
having consulted Sir William Atherton, the Attorney-
General, as to endorsing the fiat on my petition of right of
17th September, 1861,) took upon himself to inform me
through Mr Waddington, the Under-Secretary of State,
" that the matter to which the petition relates does not form

law, truth, and justice, I would feel wanting in a most sacred
duty were I to preserve a criminal silence, after witnessing
the sinister occurrence on the 26th ultimo, of the House of
Commons having been misled by statements wholly at
variance with that "love and observance of law, truth, and
justice," which should have bean characteristic of those
who represent the majesty of the law in that House, and
have entrusted to them duties of the most high and exalted
character,

the ground of a petition of right, and, therefore, it cannot
be endorsed in the usual manner."

The marvellously correct versions which the public
journals furnish—literally the ipsissima verba—of the law
advisers of the Crown, enable me to substantiate my asser-
tions so securely, as to defy the hostile criticisms from legal
quarters, which they are sure to encounter, and also to show
the vain attempt made by those high and influential Go-
vernment officials to draw the mind of the House of Com-
mons away from fixing itself with becoming intensity on
the invasion of the rights and liberties of her Majesty's
subjects.

These facts cannot be controverted. They manifestly
appear by comparing the respective dates of the petition of
right, 17th Sept., 1861, and of Sir G. Grey's letter, 30th
Sept., 1861, with the subsequent date of Sir W. Atherton's
letter, 26th Oct., 1861, which was addressed to my solicitor,
Chas. A. Pullen, Esq., 22, Chancery-lane, expressly stat-
ing, "that he (Sir W, Atherton) was ignorant of the
particulars of the case." Moreover, a special endorsement,
to which I refer Sir R. Palmer, appears to have been
made at the Home Office, as to the petition of right of 24th
April, 1861, "that it was not to be referred to Sir W. Ather-
ton, the Attorney-General." This endorsement, together
with the word "nil," is written on my official letter of the
15th July,lB6l,which, together with a "memorandum" and

"statement of facts," I addressed to theHomeOffice, in order

that that petition of right might officially, and in the usual
official manner, be referred for the adjudication of the then
Attorney-General, Sir William Atherton. My solicitor
also addressed a letter, dated the 21st of May, 1862, to Sir
G. Grey, referring him especially to the above letter of
15th July, 1861; but all to no effect—Sir W. Atherton
being studiously kept ignorant of this case. (See page 8,
" Sessional Paper," 342, 1863.)
Sir R. Palmer's next allegation to the House of Com-
mons, in relation to Attorney-General, Sir W. Follett,
whose legal acumen and constitutional learning could only
be equalled by his " love and observance of law, truth, and
justice," is ae inconsistent with the fact, as the learned
gentleman's statements in reference to Sir Fitzroy Kelly
and Bir William Atherton. It is as follows :-
OMr Irwin himself said that in July, 1844, he
transmitted through Sir William Follett, then Attor-
ney-General, his petition of right to the Secretary of
State," " but Sir W. Follett was of opinion that it was no
petition of right at all." Facts are stubborn things. Sir
R. Palmer can readily satisfy him self how utterly fallacious
this statement is by referring to the Home-office, where he
can see, on record there, Sir W. Follett's autograph letter,
dated July. 1544. which 1,..1.1k ;6 LL. a,..3, t. ..1,1,..4,47
her Majesty's Attorney-General, " officially and in the
usual official torm,"to the then Horne Secretary, accom-
panying my petition of right, for the purpose of having
that petition submitted for her Majesty's Royal endorse-
ment, " Let right be done," in order that the matter in
dispute between the Crown and myself might be decided
by the competent jurisdiction.
Sir R. Palmer also continued to assure the House of
Commons, that a petition of Tight had born presented by
me, when Lord Chelmsford was Attorney-General, and
that it was laid before him, then Sir F. Thesiger, " to
ascertain whether he would advise the usual endorsement
to De put upon it, and the fact that that was not done
showed that Lord Chelmsford, like all other attorney.
generals, was of opinion that this was no petition of right
at all." This statement is purely a myth—based on no
other foundation than the very vivacious imagination of
Sir Roundell Palmer. The simple fact is, that no petition
of right at all was presented on my behalf when Lord
Chelmsford was attorney- general, and no such petition was
laid before his Lordship.
It is to be regretted that Sir R. Palmer, like Attorney-
General Heath in Charles I.'s time, should so far forget
himself, and the high and exalted duties which devolved on
him, as her Majesty's Attorney-General, thus by statements
so wholly fallacious, as well as by flippant expressions,
to attempt the repeal of the,most important statute which
has passed since the Great Charter, for remedying the griev-
ances and better securing the rights and liberties of her
Majesty's subjects. I charge the Attorney-General, Sir
R. Palmer, with it, I brand it on his forehead—exsurge
carnifex!

The Ist Section of the Petitions of Right Act, 1860,
(25d and 24th Vic., c. 34) states as follows :
"That a petition of right may, if the suppliant think fit,
be intituled in any one of the superior Courts of Common
Law or Equity at Westminster, in which the subject
matter of such petition, or any material part thereof, would
have been cognizable, if tho same had been a matter in dis-
pute between subject and subject, and if intituled in a
court of common law, shall state in the margin the venue
for the trial of such petition."

subs.
Lord Zetland's Bandarilla, 3 yrs, 6t 91b ...... (Carroll) 1
Mr Wale's Molly Carew, 3 yrs, 6st 10Ib ....(H. Covey) 2
Mr Bowes's Old Orange Girl, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (inc. 91b ex.)
(Snowden) 3

The subject matter of the grievance set forth in my peti-
tion of right, which is duly intituled in the Court of Queen's
Bench, at Westminster, and has, "Middlesex" stated in
the margin for the trial of such petition, is a malicious pro-
secution by the servants of the Crown. The petition suffi-
ciently shows " the subject matter therein set forth would
have heen nozni7•Ada in any nnc r; '}in anneric, vntirtst At
Westminster " if the same had been a matter in dispute
between subject and subject."
Han not the servants of the Crown, but Mr. Robert
Johnston, (who wrote the all-important autograph official
letter of October 12th, 184 which had the material post-
mark dates thereon, and the contents of which having come
to light cannot possibly be reconciled with the contents of his
affidavit, prepared and filed by the servants of the Crown,
to prevent my setting aside the adverse verdict,) been the
party prosecuting, he would have been equally justified in
assuming a power to close her Majesty's Court of Queen's
Bench, at Westminster, against me, and in forbidding a
writ to be issued out of that court, for a malicious
prosecution at my suit against him, in order
to be screened from the consequences of his misdeeds;
as Sir George Grey is now justified in his assumption of
power to prevent the law taking its eourse, and in advising
the Queen not to grant her fiat, in order to be screened—
himself and the other high officials—the real defendants in
the case—from the consequences of their misdeeds ; for the
fiat to the petition of right ie nothing more than the com-
mencement of a suit by the issuing of that process, in the
same manner as a suit against a subject by the issuing of a
writ.

Flirtation and Honest John also ran.
Betting—. 2 to 1 agst Bandarilla, 6to 2 agst Molly Carew,
6 to 1 agat Old Orange Girl, 100 to 15 agat Flirtation.
Won by ten lengths ; a bad third.
The GRAND STAND SELLING STAKES of 3 sous each, with
atldea, fvr tll cisce ot6o. allowmiavvo j
winners extra. Half a mile.
Mr Masterman's Woodbine, 3 yra (L3O) 7at_. 121 b

_
(Noble) 1
Mr W. G. Bennett's Chelmsford, 2 yrs (L3O) 66t 131 b
(Loatei) 2
Mr Yeward's Tabitha Bramble, 2 yrs (£3O) 6st 71b
(Lawrence) 3
The following also ran :—The Dawdler, Lyra, Full
Speed, and Miss Dora.
Betting-5 to 4 agst Chelmsford, 4to 1 agst The Dawd
ler, 5 to 1 agst Lyra, 100 to 8 egst any other.
Won by a length—two lengths between the second and
third.

The Middlesborough Handicap of 100 soya, added to a
Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, 5 ft, and three if declared ;
winners extra ; second to receive 10 soya. One mile and

a half. 25 outs.
Mr J. Barber's The Clown, 3 yrs, 7st 81b ..(Grimshaw) 1
Mr Chilton's Little Duchess. 3 yrs, Est 131 b • .(Carroll) 2
Mr Stewart's Alice, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b.. (Covey) 3
The following also ran :—Stirrup Cup, Changeable, and
Madame Patti.

Bettiag.-2 to 1 on The Clown, 4 to 1 agst Alice.
Won by two lengths—three lengths between the second
third.

ERRATUM.—In transmitting the return of the race for
the Great Northern Leger on Wednesday a mistake oc-
curred in the betting. Instead of 7 to 4 agst Claremont, it
should have been 7 to 4 cn him.

By Sir George Grey's advice to her Majesty to withhold
her fiat—the indispensable requisite for obtaining justice—
the Queen is made to adjudicate upon important questions
of law and fact between the Crown and the subject, and to
subject, Majesty is
t
perform the very highest of all judicial functions; because
he rthusany p
decidingossibility
of its being brought the suit against the
under review of a Court of Error or Appeal—an
adjudication adverse to the subject, final against
his rights and made in private in favour of the Crown, upon
the secret advice and statements of Irish high officials,
which statements, on having come to light, and being placed
in the hands of the hon. and learned member for the King's
County, he, in the most decided manner, pledged himself to
the House of Commons, " WERE TorALLY FALSE."

The flippant expressions, to which I allude, are Sir R.
Palmer's insinuations, in his reply to Sir F. Kelly's state
ment to the House of Commons on Friday, the 22d ult.,
when referring to the all-important autograph official letter,
dated 12th Oct., 1834 (which was addressed by Mr Robert
Johnston, the late assistant barrister for the county of
Mayo, to the then Chief Secretary for Ireland), Sir Roun-
dell actually ventured to insinuate " that it was impossible
to say it was not also a forgery." The high character, posi-
tion, and station of the right hon. Earl Russell place his
lordship's evidence on this head beyond all doubt and suspi-
cion, as proof that the flippant insinuations of her Majesty's
Attorney General,Sirß. Palmer,are as fallacious as his state-
ments. Earl Russell has sworn, filed, and recorded hie
affidavit in the Queen's Bench in June, 1839, alleging as
follows :—" That the said papers and documents required
by the said subpoena (viz.. a letter dated Oct. 12th, 1834, ad-
dressed by Mr Robert Johnston, the late assistant barrister
for the county of Mayo, to the then Chief Secretary for Ire-
land, and other documents), were in his custody as Secre-
tary of State."
Sir G. Grey was duly served with a subpoena duces tecwn,
as her Majesty's Secretary of State, to produce this letter of
Oct. 12th, 1834, and certain other documents, but that right
hon. gentleman thought proper to treat with contempt her
Majesty's writ, and not to comply therewith. Fortunately
for him Sir John Coleridge had not been the presiding
judge on that occasion.
The note, which is annexed to sessional paper, 417, 1864
(being the return to the House of Commons, containing
the important official copies, which Sir Fitzroy Kelly suc-
ceeded in necessitating the Home-office to furnish), states
"that the letter of Oct. 12th was abstracted from the Crown
Solicitor's papers during the trial of Mr O'Malley Irwin, in
1835," and "has never been recovered." Earl Russell's
affidavit also proves how fallacious are the statements in this
note, furnished by the Home.office to the House of Coma
mono, as regards the ambiguity of not specifying which of
the trials (both having occurred in 1835), and as regards
the allegation " that the letter of Oct. 12th had never been
recovered."

All I contend for is, that this final and irreversible dec
sion ought not to be pronounced against me without my
being given the opportunity of pleading my calls°. Appa-
rently, while such abuses are &Ant, We have not yet
obliterated the tyranny of the Star Chamber.

The assumption of power to thus substitute ministerial
regards s t lt
then l
authority in lieu of the judicial tribunals of the country,
questionwh i ch ar eofappointed
the
highest
possible
sbtlhe eirme fpoorreta,
bothgr sy saes
°n ut i o a
subject and the Crown; in fact nose can be higher, and it
is not of a political or party character. The Queen, by her
coronation oath, swears that she will govern her people ac-
cording to law, and neither deny or delay right or justice to
any one. So, no person or authority,
Whether he be a
Secretary ofState or a
joetsht
ye r, wiinse,
violationh of the express
words of the statute, to deny right and justice
any constitutional
adviserishtto
to any one of
her subjects ; or to release and discharge her Majesty from
her sworn obligation to accord sure and righteous justice
to all—lrish as well as English subjeete_
before her Judges
her
at Westminster, in whichever of the courts of justice it now
may please the subject to select.
No more momentous question for the liberties of Eng-
land has come before the House of Commons since the
famous constitutional statute of 1628, when Charles the
First refused to adopt the ancient form of the Royal Assent,
"Soft droit fait cornme it est desire."
For nearly a century
the Stuarts strove to break up or Overcome the rights of the
subject; but the free and determined people of that day
saw the consequences, which necessarily would have
resulted from relinquishing so constitutional a right, as
" trial by jury." The strife ended in the expulsion of the
Stuart dynasty, and in the full establishment of Petition of
Right, which is the birthright of the subject. (See Chitty
on the Royal Prerogative, 341. Allen on the Royal Pre-
rogative, 93. Manning's Exchequer Practise, 84. Fos
ter's Life of Sir George Eliot, 2d Vol.)
Petition of Right is the foundation upon which the great-
ness of England has been built. It existed before the
, Norman Conquest, and in spite of that conquest has con-
tinued to the present day. The operations of this right
have smoothed the task of our monarchy and rendered
our Queen the happiest and most beloved, as well as the
most powerful Sovereign in the world. The true definition
of petition of right is that it is the suit of the subject, whose
right is denied him, and who hath not any adequate remedy
open to him for vindicating the same ; and it is addressed
to the Queen herself, that the fountain of all justice may
supply the deficiency. A necessity therefore exists for pre-
serving in its strictest integrity to her Majesty's Irish, as
well as to her English subjects, this ancient and sacred
institution, which is the best and firmest pillar of support
under our constitutional Monarchy.
In order to sustain Sir George Grey's unconstitutional
advice to the Queen, "not to let right be done," and the
assumption of power to substitute Ministerial authority in
lieu of the judicial tribunals of the country, those influential
and high law officials, who are themselves directors of
Government in cases of emergency, have had recourse to a
mode of procedure, which is so great a perversion and
mockery of "law, truth, and justice," that it needs only
to be mentioned to meet with reprobation.

Nothing can justify Sir George Grey's allegations in
the house, so prejudicial to me in reference to the
documents which Mr Spencer Walpole felt it to be
his duty to place in my hands—actuated by the
same "love of law, truth, and justice" so pre-eminently
distinguishing and characteristic of that right hon. gentle-
man, and of the late eminent Lord Chief Justice Penne-
father and Baron Greene, who, as her Majesty's benchers,
have written so kindly and in so favourable a view on my
behalf, I beg leave, for my own justification, to quote in
extenso the letter which Mr Walpole wrote on the occasion
of his having left sealed up, with instructions to give to
me, the documents which Sir G. Grey stated " must have
been abstracted from the office of the Secretary of State,"
adding "no doubt they came to the hon member for the
King's County through Mr O'Malley Irwin." It is as
follows :

January 27, 1800.
Dear Mr O'Malley Irwin,--I have brought up some
papers, and left them sealed up in Grafton-street, with in-
structions to give them to you.—Dear Sir, yours over very
faithfully, S. 11, WALPOLE.
G. O'Malley Irwin, Esq.
The fundamental securities of the rights and liber-

ties of her Majesty's subjects all over the globe are
now being undermined by the unconstitutional conduct
of her Majesty's high officials, actuated by statements
"wholly fallacious," and by secret evidence in the private
chamber of the Home-office, " totally false," and I am on
trial before the whole empire. I hope, however, next session
of Parliament to chronicle that I have passed creditably
through the ordeal, and to record that all the senators—
Radical, Liberal, and Conservative—who have no sympathy
for substituting ministerial authority in lieu of the proper

Having already shown in a former published letter
that the statements of her Majesty's Attorneys General
far Ireland, the Right Hon. Mr O'Hagan, to the House
of Commons are fallacious, and controverted not only by
the reeords of the house itself—(Appeudia to 17th It sport

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on Public Petitions, page 566, 1836) —but by the personal
evidence of the Queen, who, on February 20th, 1839,
and on several subsequent occasions, has been graciously
pleased to receive me and tc permit my presenting to her
Majesty my petition, complaining of her servants commit-

ting so great an outrage on my character, feelings, and
liberty, which ought to be the object and especial care
of the Crcwn—l will now proceed to give a few instances
of the Attorney-General fur England's statements. In the
commencement of that eloquent personage's address to the
House of Commons, on the 26th ult., he alleged as follows :
—" It so happened that the last of those so called petitions
of right was presented by Mr O'Malley Irwin in the time
of his immediate predecessor (Sir William Atherton), who
added another to the numerous Attorney-Generals, who had
all felt it to be absolutely inconsistent with their duty to
endorse the fiat en a petition of right of that description."
This statement is utterly incorrect and unfounded. It is
also a libel on the great constitutional learning and integrity
of the late lamented Attorney-General, Sir W. Atherton, and
on the other " numerous Attorney-Generals" referred to,
especially Sir Fitzroy Kelly—the foremost member of
the English bar—who held the high office of Attorney-
General for England, and on the 21st of July 1863,
stated in the House of Commons : " That the Secretary of
State hadno right whatever,whether Mr O'Malley Irwin was
right or wroag, to interfere in a matter relating to the
petition of right to the Crown, that it was a constitutional
right, which the subject by virtue of the act (23d and 24th
Vic., c. 34) was entitled to ask; and that no person and no
authority, whether he be a Secretary of State or otherwise,
had any right whatever to advise her Majesty not to issue
her fiat,directing that the petitioner be:heard before her Ma-
jesty's judges of the Court of Queen's Bench in the matter
of his petition of right."
Sir William Atherton's letter, dated 26th October, 1861,
addressed to my solicitor, Mr Pullen, proves that Sir
George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department,
kept Sir William Atherton, the then first law-adviserof the
Crown, ignorant of the particulars of my petition of right
case, and did not refer to him for adjudication officially,
and in the usual official manner, my petition, which
Mr Pullen had duly left at the Home-office on the 17th
September, 1861, for that purpose. On this occasion, Sir

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judicial tribunals cf the country, or for " bearing false wit-
ness against a neighbour," and who glory in the love and
observance of law, truth, and justice, will not only prevent
the House of Commons from being misled by flippant un-
founded insinuations, ambiguities, and fallacious statements,
but for ever more will secure to her Majesty's subjects
their undoubted rights and liberties, and carry an address
to the Sovereign, that there is an obligation on her Ma-
jesty, in her sacred character as dispenser of justice, to
grant her fiat to my petition of right.
I have the honour to be your obedient servant,

GEORGE O'MALLEY IRWIN,

The Sheffield Cutlers' Feast.

SHEFFIELD, Sept. 1.
The annual bat,quet known as the Cutlers' Feast took
place in the Cutlers'-hall, Sheffield, to-night, and passed off
with the greatest eclat.
The Master-Cutler is Mr Charles Atkinson, and among
those who honoured him with their company were the
Mayor (Mr Thomas Joseph), Lord E. Howard, Lord Den-
man, the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, Mr Roebuck,
M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., &c.
The dinner was of the choicest possible description, and
the display of plate of the most profuse and attractive

The royal and patriotic toasts having been proposed by

the MASTER-CUTLER, Alderman JOHN BROWN proposed
the "Health of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk and the
House of Howard."

Lord EDWARD HOWARD responded, and spoke chiefly
on personal and local matters. He sympathised with the
people of Sheffield in their sufferings caused by the recent
flood, and then proceeded to congratulate the audience on
the prosperity of the trade and manufactures of the town.
He also trusted that the time would come when Sheffield
would be made the chief residence of the Duke of Norfolk.
He should use his efforts to bring about that result.

The health of " His Grace the Duke of Rutland" and that
of " His Grace the Duke of Devonshire" were proposed by
Mr Henry Colley; Mr T. Dunn proposed the health of
" Earl Fitzwilliam ;" and Mr J. J. Smith proposed the
health of "Lord Wharncliffe and the House of Wortley,"
and the Hon. J. F. Wortley responded.
Mr Henry Harrison proposed the health of "the Right
Hon. Lord Denman."

In his reply Lord DENMAN spoke with some warmth
against the conduct of the Government in the Deno• Ger-
man question ; he gave his reason for voting against the
Government on the occasion of the discussion on the Vote
of Censure, and defended the giving of proxies by those
who were not present, stating that the correspondence on
the subject was so full that persons who read it were as
capable of giving their vote as those who were present at
the debate. His Lordship quoted from speeches made by
Lord Wodehouse in 1815 and his own father in 1823 to thew
that the course adopted by Government in the Dano-German
affair was highly censurable, and concluded by saying that
if Parliament did not meet early and prevent the aggressions
of Prussia he did not know where the matter would end.
(His Lordship was listened to with marked impatience, and
was frequently interrupted by ironical cheering.)
In reply to the health of the "Borough Members,"
Mr ROEBUCK, who was received with protracted cheers,
said :—Master-Cutler,—l have to thank Master Hunter,
Sir, for the very kind manner in which he has proposed my
health and that of my hon. colleague, and I have to thank
you, gentlemen, for the kind manner in which you have re-
ceived the toast. The health of my colleague brings to my
mind the fact of his absence, and that we all deplore the
cause of it more than his mere absence. (Hear, hear.) lam
sure that if he had been here he would have returned thanks
in terms far more eloquent than I am able to employ.
(No. no.) Sir, in looking back along the long vista of the
years in which I have been member of Parliament, at the
end of it I see myself proposing myself to be a member of
Parliament; and now, when I have grown an old man, I
wonder, Sir, at ray own temerity—l may say my audacity
—upon that occasion, for when I recollect what a man has
to consider who represents England in the House of Com-
mons lam startled and frightened at the result. The
House of Commons forms the greatest part, the most im-
portant portion, of the Government of England—(hear,
hear)--and that important portion influences not only the
interior Government of the country to which we all
belong, but it goes far abroad. Wherever the name of
England is heard—and where is it not heard ?—(hear, hear)
—the influence of the English House of Commons prevails

fly, 1.1.... tr, en,, Eng-
lish House of Commons is cited ; and wherever they are
endeavouring to free themselves from the fetters which
commerce has imposed upon them, there the voice of the
English House of Commons is heard. AU the influence of
the House of Commons influences mankind front beginning
to end, and I say, sir; ram startled with the temerity which
guided me up in that- (iceasien as a man who proposed him.
self as a representative of the people of England, for you
will recollect that the commerce of England pervades every
portion of the universe, and that wherever the commerce of
England goes there ought to go—there does go—the pre-
vailing power of the people of England to protect her sons.
Well, then, there have arisen from time to time difficulties
which have been submitted to' the House of Commons, and
I, as a member of the House of Commons, have had to de-
cide upon those great and important questions. Well, sir,
I say I am now startled at the recollection of what I then
undertook. The commerce, the name of England, as I have
said, pervades the whole world, her name goes to the verge
of civilisation and beyond, and her laws—the laws that are
propounded in the House of Commons—go with the name
of England. Well, sir, I have been taught to believe and I
think I am right in believing that the business of a legisla-
tor is a matter to be learned—that law making is a subject
which requires an apprenticeship. Why not The lawyer
goes through certain forms, a member of the dinich of
England goes through certain forms, but it' weed seem a
legislator is what I have heard of the gig driver,---it comes
by instinct. Every man believes that he is in the position
to make laws for the country to which he belong's. Well,
sir, I think very differently. When I•put before myself the
point at which I aimed—that of being a representatiya of
the people of England in the House of Comm On—what I
did was to consider everything which I thought wonld'con-
duce to make an efficient member of the House of Com-
mons. There were three things which I found requisite as
a member of the house— first,appropriate knowledge; next,
honesty; and thirdly, courage—and any one of these three
being absent I found would nullify the other two. I found
that you could have perfect knowledge ; that !you could
have a desire to do well, but that if you had not courage to,
face the difficulties the thing fell before you—(hear, hear)—
and you don't know, sir, the difficulties a member of the
House of Commons—but there is one present, sir, who will
tell you (alluding to Sir F. Crossley) that I speak truly—
has to encounter. There is cajolery of every sort, there is
temptation of every description—but the grand thing is that
the man should say to himself, " Now I am here repro-
senting the people of England," for though I am returned
for the borough of Sheffield, still I am also representing
the people of England. (Applause.) Mind that. There
is no mistake. Though I read in the papers that I am
mistaken, still that is the fact—l am representing the
people of England. And in this great capacity you don't
know, sir, the difficulties we have to go through. Why, I
will only state one class of those difficulties. Do what I
will, sir, I feel very much like the drummer-boy ; who said,
" Hit him where you will, you cannot please him."
(Laughter.) I feel, sir, that say what I like there are
people determined to oppose it. I feel, sir, that there are
buzzing flies, not simply bred in dirt, but nurtured in dirt.
Their only object is to be uncomfortable to cleanly people.
(Laughter.) Now, that is really the thing we have to go
through. Do what we will—and lam only answering the
toast of " The Members for Sheffield"—do what we will,
we cannot please everybody. Now, I believe we have before
us—and I speak in the name of my colleagues as well as in
the name of myself—difficulties as great as have ever fallen
to the lot of the representatives of the people of England.
Great indeed are now our difficulties. A Tory of the old-
fashioned stamp you cannot find now—we are all Libe-
rals, every man of us. I want to know now where is
the man who is opposed to free trade? Where
is the man who will say the difficulties have happened
which he predicted before the Reformed Parliament?
I would admire any man who could catch a real old-
fashioned Tory. 1 should advise him to put him
under a glass shade and send him to a geological society as
an antiquated specimen. (Laughter.) Sir, these are my
views. Now, I have been representing the people of Eng-
land for some two and thirty years—l wish it were a shorter
time, sir, for then I should be a younger man; but the fact
is so—but I will tell any man who wishes to represent the
people of England that he had better prepare himself for
that great work by learning the great business of life, that
the world is before him, and that the people of England
influence the world. Sir, I thank you. (Cheers.)
Sir FRANCIS CROSSLEY, in returning thanks for the mem-
bers of the West Riding, said—Master Cutler, my Lords,
and Gentlemen—Many have been the invitations which I
have rec ived from you and the members of the corporation,
but this is the first time I bevelled the pleasure of accepting
the hospitality of the Master Cui ler. I am glad of this
opportunity, as one of the West Riding members, of address-
ing the constituency of the southern, and. .
by far the largest
of the ridings of Yorkshire. Parliament m wisdom has
I am glad of this oppor-
ist speak a little politics,
i
seen fit to divide the representation of Yorkshire into twe,
and, as Sheffield is one of the largest,
tunity to say a word at parting. ma
for I feel that England has meddled n the affairs of other na-
tions, for L 800,000,000 is too large a sum to expend, and there
were the lives that were sacrificed in entering into war. I
think that this country acted quite right in not interfering
with the struggles at present going on in Europe and Ame-
rica. If I refer to America I think we must all look upon the
history of that country with deep Commiseration. I visited