The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-06 00:00:00

Lord Palmerston and the Working Men of

Bradford.

Some 400 working men of Bradford assembled in the
Temperance Hall of the town on Monday evening, " for
the purpose of reviewing Lord Palmerston's representative
policy, of considering in what manner the unenfranchised
working classes of this great manufacturing community
ought to receive him on his approaching visit, and to deter-
mine what steps should .be taken by them to undeceive him
as to the supposed apathy and carelessness of the people on
the important question of Parliamentary reform." After
some discussion, and the proposal of an amendment which
fell through,:the following resolutions were carried :
" That this meeting believes that Lord Palmerston,
although formally pledged to a considerable extension of
the frahchise, not only at Willis's-rooms in London, in the
spring of 1850, but on other occasions, in the House of
Commons has, nevertheless, been the greatest obstruction
to every means of reform, no matter by whom introduced.
"That this meeting—although told that Lo rd Palmerston
has no direct political object in view in his forthcoming
visit to lay the foundation stone of the New Exchange—
denies that he can, on such an occasion as that even, divest
himself of his political character and influence ; and there-
fcro we, the working men of Bradford, deem it a most
fitting and legitimate opportunity for exhibiting to his
lordship our disapprobation and disappointment at his
breaking faith with the people in not fulfilling those pledges,
and protesting against his assumption that they are apa-
thetic and careless about reform, and content with the ex-
travagance at home, and jealousies abroad, promoted by his
lordship's policy,
" That we, the unonfranchisea mon of Bradford, as a
method of showing our disapprobation of such political im-
morality and injustice, do hereby pledge ourselves, on the
occasion of his lordship's visit, to observe a dignified but
significant abstinence from all enthusiastic cheering.
" That an address, couched in a respectful but firm tone,
embodying the spirit of the foregoing resolutions, be pre-
sented to Lord Palmerston; and that tie address now read
he presented."

Mr RosE, the gentleman who proposed the amendment
for the rejection of the address mentioned in the last reso-
lution, gave his reasons for adopting that course. He said
it was of no use being troubled so much about the errors
and shortcomings of the past. The proper way would be
to take care to retrieve the errors of the past at the hust.
jugs. Working men ought not to look so much to Lord
Palmerston or to any Prime Minister, but they ought to
look to a better Parliament. Their redress could only be
obtained from a better House of Commons than they had
at the present time. They must send to the House of
Commons men who would not betray their trust as many
had done. (Hear, hear.)

THE LORD CHANCELLOR AND THE CMTRUE,—
The Church of England has had to endure many
humiliations of late, and the last and not the least is the
speech of the Lord Chancellor on the "Synodical Con-
demnation" of the "Essays and Reviews." It must have
been galling enough to Convocation to know that it was
impotent to give effect to its declared views; but to be told
that, while they were powerless to punish, they had them-
selves run the risk of punishment—to be reminded of the
disagreeable fact that " the statutes have carefully said
that if Convocation shall attempt to pass any sentence,
any ordinance, or any constitution without the pre-
vious licence and authority of the Crown, they
shall incur the penalties of a pramunire" —to
be further reminded, in a strain or malicious wag-
gery, what those awful penalties are, and to be told
that the prelates have escaped them only because " what is
called a synodical judgment is simply a series of well lubti-
cated terms—a sentence so oily and so saponaceous that no
one could grasp it. Like an eel it slips through your
fingers—it is simply nothing, and it is literally no sentence
at all "—all this must be as gravel to the teeth of any
Churchman with a grain of self-respect. That the episcopal
bench should have been thus mhde sport of in the House of
Lords, and that no lay peer should have come to the rescue,
indicates clearly enough that the Church has lost mach of
the political influence which it formerly possessed. The
contempt of politicians will be even mere dangerous than
the assaults of " Liberators."—Liberator.

OUR MINERAL WEALTH.--Through the courtesy
of our esteemed correspondent, Mr Robert Hunt,
F.R.S., the Keeper of Alining Records at the Royal School
of Mines, we have been favoured with the statistics of our
mineral production for 1863, which will be issued to the
public in a week or ten days from this time. The value of
the minerals produced was £29,151,976, from which metals
of the value of £36,364,327 were extracted. Of gold quartz
we produced 385 tons, worth X 1,550 ; of tin ore, 15,157 tons
worth £963,935 ; of copper ore, 212,947 tons, worth
£'.,100,652; of lead ore, 91,283 tons, worth £1,193,530; of
silver ore, 118 tons, worth £5,703 ; and nine ore, 12,941 tons,
worth £29,963. During the year in question there were
sold 95,376 tons of pyrites, for £62,035 ; and the rarer mi-
nerals—wolfram, uranium, gossans, arsenic, and earthy
minerals—raised were of the value of £1,930,866. These
items, with the value of 9,101,552 tons of ore, £3,240,890,
and 86,292,21 b tons of coal, 2.),572,645, raises the total to
£29,151,976 which was manufactured into nearly £10,000,000
worth of merchantable produce, To produce these results

direct employment has been given to at least 500,000 men,
so that our mineral industries may be considered as alone
supporting a population of nearly 3,000,000, in addition to
adding much to the general wealth of the kingdom, and
especially to the wealth of those whose capital has been
employed in mining operations.—Xliting Journal.
RECLAMATION OF THE WASH.—An important
meeting of the 'magistrates of the counties of Nor-
folk and Lincolnshire was held at the Globe Hotel, King's
Lynn, yesterday, for the purpose of defining the boundaries
of the counties of Norfolk and Lincolnshire in the large
tract of land called Wingland. It appeared that the re-
claimed land proposed to be divided consisted of about 5,000
acres actually brought under cultivation, and above 1,000
acres as yet only partiall3 reclaimed. This work of reclama-

tion is part of the original scheme of making a new county,
Nhicla was to be called Victoria county, and the district
which now presents the aspect of highly-cultivated and
richly productive fields, was but a few years ago a dreary
waste of alluvial mud, ov'r which each tide passed, but
the immediate rause of the reclamation has been the ope-
ration of the New Outfall Act. The magistrates having
agreed to the boundary line, which gives nearly an equal
amount to either county, gave directions fof the line to be
marked out. This is to be dont, by stone posts or landmarks.
It should be mentioned that this is but one portion of a
very large tract of land that is being, through engineering
skill, taken from what has been known as the Wash, but
which would seem to have been ages back dry land, as the
immense submarine forest stretching cross the mouth of the
Wash off Hunstanton indicates. Alan/ thousands of acres
have also been already reclaimed through the operations of
the Norfolk Estuary scheme.

A SUBMARINE FLEET.—The Ironmonger and
Metal Trades Advertiser, in speaking of the trade
of Birmingham, has the following statement :—" The
Messrs Russell are now engaged in the manufacture of an
extensive and very novel order for the Russian Government.
A. fleet of war vessels to sail under the surface are now being
constructed in Russia. To afford some idea of the magni-
tude of the Russian enterprise, it may be stated that the
cost of the tubes alone for a single vessel of this submarine
fleet will be nearly £9,000. It will contain no less than 38
lengths of wrought iron tubes of 60 feet each, having a 13.
inch bore, and a thickness of of an inch. The specifies-
tions demand that they shall be capable of bearing a pres-
sure ot 2,000 lb. to the square inch, and Messrs. Russell
test every tube up to 2,5001 b. The submarine boat which
these tubes are destined for is of such dimensions that it is
estimated.that 200 tons of iron and steel will be used in its
construction. The cost will, it is calculated, reach 275,000
silver rubles, or £27,000, and the expediture of this amount
has been authorised by the Emperor, Each vessel is to have
engines worked by compressed air, and to have a very strong
break, with provisions for attaching large cylinders charged
with powder to the bottom of vessels, to be fired by electri-
city. The parties navigating the vessel will see what they
are doing by means of bulls' eyes,' and they will be able
to regulate the depth at which they swim, generally keep-
ing quite close to the surface."
ARGYLL, MONTROSE, AND THE HOUSE OP
AIRLIE.—At the dinner of the Highland and Agri-
cultural Society of Scotland, on Tuesday, the Duke of
Argyll, the chairman, proposed the health of the Duke of
Montrose, who presided at the other end of (he hall. He
said—l cannot help remembering that my noble friend and
my ancestors have not always lived in such perfect har-
mony together, and I have discovered by mere accident
within the last few days that the ancestors of my noble
friend and my own encestors were connected some 200 years
ago more nearly than I any notion of in what may be
called agricultural pursuits. 7 dare say you may all know
that in the good bravo days of old we in the Highlands had
a peculiar method of improving our stock of cattle. It re •
ceived a very ugly name, but it really was a very useful
and profitable business—it was cattle lifting. Now, gentle-
men, it; does so happen that I have seen en original letter
of the Marefeis of Argyll directing a famous raid into some
country neighbenring to his own for this purpose, and it
ran somewhat in this fashion, addressed to one of his vas-
sals of that time. The letter began—" D,ugal, you will
go with so many hundred men into the country ot ray Lord
Ogilvy, and will lift his cattle, and you will drive them to
the Straan Mohr." Now, very few of you have seen the
Straan Mohr, but I can tell you it is a narrow glen, into
which if cattle are once driven it is very difficult to get
them out. The letter proceeds thus And ye will go
forward to the hoose of my Lord Ogilvy, and ye will de-
stroy the said hoese, and ye will pull doen the yetts and the,
windows, and gin it be langsome ye will fire the hoosadei,
~
Now, gentlemen, this is the history of a famous
which is the subject of a song well known to many 0., raid,
which
—" The Burning of the Bonny House of Airlie. ' Now,
what I was about to tell you is this, that discoveredl'
within the last few days, by mere accident, tha the cele-
brated raid into the country of the Earls of Airlie, then
Lords Ogilvie, which was one of the great
formed
pact
against the Marquis of Argyll, and I supposed m
of the accusation on which he lost his head, was a raid
actively supported and befriended by the greilt MarclUi§ of
Montrose.