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London, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

IIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms fit and efficient representative of the widely-spread
j 1 of the past year the boats of the National Lifeboat requirements of a great nation, and this truth will
Institution saved 417 persons from different wrecks on our
ter be proved as events develo
coasts. The Institution also expended £13,810 3s. 2d. in sooner or lat e them-
the same period on lifeboat establishments, in addition to p
grantin £1,351 Os. d. as rewards for saving 714 shipwrecked selves. Peace-at-any-price is not a doctrine which
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persons by its. lifeboats, and otherhe Committee ot the Instituttolen earnestly APPEAL to is congenial to the genius of the English nation
the for ASSISTANCE enable them to meet the . .
It is not that we are a warlike people like our con-
continrect heavy demands on the Institution's 137 lifeboat
establishmenbtasilkCeonn;traibnudtiboyns are received by all the London .
tinental neighbours, whose military ardour and
the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
"Ititillthceornstaution, 11, John-street, Adelphi.
enthusiasm is their paramont influence and reigns
supreme over every other feeling ; but there is
something contemptible in the notion of such a
thing, which a higheminded and superior people
naturally revolt against. It implies so much in the
background, such betrayal of coafidence, relinquish.
went of rights, and forsaking of friends, that it may
well be stamped as ignoble and unworthy at the very
outset. Only this very year we have seen this
false system prevail in high places, and this fatal
principle takes root in our administration, and the
consequences have been alike deplorable and disas-
trous. The Conservative :demonstration at Roch-
dale may seem nothing to some, but it is by no
means positive that the sequence of the story is not
an important event in the chronicles of time. To
Mr COBDEN and his friends and admirers such an
affair may seem as the speck no bigger than a man's
hand, but those who saw the picture may discern
the likelihood of this adverse combination assuming
fearful proportions and eventually making itself felt
and seen in an unmistakeable manner before long.
Apart from the party tone which characterised the
meeting at Rochdale, there were many observations
made and principles enunciated which might justly
be said to be national ones, and to depict the cur-
rent of public opinion through the confines of the
land. Mr. BRETT, the proposed candidate in the
Conservative interest, made a spirited speech, in
which he denounced the policy of Mr COBDEN as
one fatal to the interests and prejudicial to the
principles which the community of this country
were prepared to uphold and pledged to support
alike by past associations, present convictions, end
future aspirations. So far the feeling and senti-
ment of the reflective part of the constituency will
go with him, and it is very doubtful if his opponent
will be able to gain an advantage over him. Mr
BRETT very properly laid great stress upon the new
foreign and colonial policy which the disciples of
the peace school advocate and will promulgate at
the first opportunity. These new notions advocate
the noneinterference in all foreign questions, and the
abandonment of our colonies to their own resources,
so that we may reduce our army and navy to the
smallest possible proportions, and thus decrease ex-
penditure. Mr. BRETT very forcibly observed that by
this means the credit and character of the country
would be seriously compromised,end our honour irre-
trievably assailed and tarnished. IVho can tell to
what length other nations will go, when it is once
seen and ascertained for a certainty that England
has ceased to be a first-rate Power, intent on keeping
her rightful place, and determined to exercise her
just influence on other nations. The picture drawn
by Mr BRETT is indeed a lugubrious one, but it
is nevertheless very likely to be realised if
full scope is given to the views of Mr COBDEN
and his friends and supporters. When the prestige
of a people is past, of what avail are their old glories
and ancient prowess ? Let us sink to the level that
the utilitarians have prescribed for us ; let us take
up their pusillanimous policy with strength and
spirit, and what will remain ? Any we not
safely venture to affirm that there is every chance
of the worst forebodings being fulfilled, and the
direst prognostications realised. If the Baltic be-
comes a Russian and the Mediterranean a French
lake, what sort of a position shall we hold in Eu-.
rope ? Again, if our colonies are not to be a source
of interest and attraction to uQ, what place shall
we hold among the fraternity of nations ? We might
as well be blotted out of the map of the world. It
has always been our beast and pride that on our
empire the sun never sets, and why should this
feeling be no more powerful to prevail nor potent
to influence. Mr.BRETT brought the case home to
his hearers by saying—" Surely those who advocate
such a policy forget that if all these things were
to take place in Canada, Australia, and India,
there is not a home or family in England that
would not be deprived of some one who is near and
dear to it." Mr. COBDEN and his auxiliaries have
mistaken their vocation and missed their destiny in
their insane attempt to put all things on their own
level, and to make the sentiments and sympathies
of Englishmen accord to their views, as PROCRUSTES
adapted his lodgers to the size of his furniture.
Such a cause will not do, and the announcement of
such a policy in regard to affairs with the outward
world, will materially militate against any effects
that a more vigorous home policy might produce.
It will be a poor advantage if we remedy deficiencies
and rectify abuses that have crept in amongst
us, and then find out that we are nobodies after atl.
It is idle to trust entirely to appearances, because
the great nations that flourished and fell before
our time were as great in their fancied security
until their doom came upon them, and they passed
away as if they had not been. All tends to prove
the truth of the saying, that "The record of all
earthly tales is but the sad rehearsal of the past."
It is the insidioss character of many changes that
constitute their real danger and destruction. Under
the specious pretence and fair-seeming semblance
of reform and retrenchment, the disciples of the
Manchester School are introducing changes into
our political state, and advancing the cause of a
social system that will undermine and deteriorate
the time-honoured and glorious Constitution of
England, It will not do to be deceived or
taken in, however fair or will-sounding the de-
nomination of the new regime. It is better to be
prepared for the emergency. If it is the intention
of this new school of philosphical politicians to bide
their time, and when Lord PALMERSTON has finally
disappeared from the stage of this World's per-
formances to inaugurate their anti-national and
un-English doctrines, then the sooner they are erne
masked the better. It is always easier to go forward
.h in to retrace lost ground, and the lovers of pro-
gress will do better to give their votes for the most
inveterate hater of reform, than to let in one dis-
ciple of the school which counsels the mischievous
policy of peace at any price, and reform at home
with loss of character and credit abroad. The elec-
tors of Rochdale had better be rrepared for the
struggle, and manifest their determination to
oppose the principles of a policy which will under-
mine the influence and stultify the progress of the

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 1, 1864.

Mr COBDEN had better look to his laurels, for he
is threatened by a powerful opposition. Doubtless
he now considers himself safe, and laughs at any
adverse movement ; hit it by no means follows that
when the day of trial comes he may not find that
he has enacted the part of the hare in the fable,
and allowed the tortoise to creep in and win the
race. It is always difficult to define the opposition
that arrays itself against one who, for a long period,
bas been a popular favourite. At first a whisper of
reproof and reproach is scarcely heard, but the
curious feeling takes root end gradually gains
ground, slowly, surely working on to its fatal end.
At the time of the repeal of the Corn LAWS there
was no man in England more highly thought of
than the hon. member for Rochdale; but it was not
a lasting sentiment, deep in the heart of the nation,
but a temporary feeling that was evoked. He rode
on the wings of a transitory triumph and did not
rckon on a more lasting and solid foundation on
which to build his renown. It may truly be said
of Mr CvEDEN that he has missed the tide in his
affair?, which, taken at the flood, would have led
on to fortune. He has not identified himself with
the spirit of the English people, nor fully and fairly
represented their character in his dealings with
foreign nations, There has been too much of one
idea running through all his views to render him a

country.

It is very long since any criminal trial has ex-
cited the keen and absorbing interest with which
all ranks and classes of men have followed the
details of the trial of FRANZ MULLER for the
murder of Mr, BRIGGS. The painful circumstances
of the case had thrilled every heart, and amidst
the sympathy universally felt for the family so
terribly and so suddenly bereaved of a cherished
relative was mingled a sentiment of general nnessi.
nese, since each felt the same disaster might have
happened to himself, and of indignation that such
a crime should have been possible in the very heart
of our well guarded metropolis. For a few days no
trace of the murderer was discovered, and it began
to be feared that the assassination of Mr. BRIGGS
would be added to the dark catalogue of crimes
which never meet their due reward o earth. The
unusual reward which was off,red or the appro.