The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-28 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OP TEE CITY.

Last night a public meeting of the electors of the
City of London was held in the Waite Hart Hotel,
Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of hearing an
address from Mr. G. J. Goschen, the Liberal candi-
date for the representation of the City. The chair
was filled by Mr. K. D. Hodgson, M.P., the Gover-
nor of the Bank of England, and the meeting Was
very numerously attended,
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings,
alluded in feeling terms to the death of the late
Mr. Wood, whose loss they mast deeply deplore,
and he afterq ards introduced Mr, J. S. Goschen to
the meeting as a candidate for the vacant seat in
the representation of the City. Two objections had
been taken to his return. The first was that his
name had a foreign sound, and the second that he
was too young to be sent to Parliament. As to
the first he (the chairman) would say that the father

of Mr. Gosel; en was a naturalised Englishman, that
Mr. Goschen was born and bred an Englishman,
and that his mother had always been an English-
woman. (Laughter.) He could assure the elec-
tors that if they sent him to the House of Com-
mons they would find in him a thorough English
Liberal member. (Cheers.) As to the second ob-
jection, he might state that Mr. Goschen was now
34 years of age, that he had been the favourite
pupil of one of the greatest men of the day, and that
his abilities in every point would do honour to
any constituency that might choose to elect him.
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. GOSCHEN then addressed the meeting, and
was most favourably received. He said that
although it must be difficult under ordinary cir-
cumstances for a man to addrea an audience for
the first time, yet it became especially difficult to
do so when one had no reputation nor antecedents
to fall back upon. I', however, anything could
make his task an easy one, the language so kindly
used towards him by the chairman would cer-
tainly produce that result. (Hear, hear.) He
then asked the meeting to give him a pa-
tient and attentive hearing, and he would endeavour
to tell them honestly and faithfully what his poli-
tical opinions were. These opinions had not been

formed for to-day, but he believed that his opinions
were in unison with those of the general body of
the electors of the City. (Cheers.) He would
not
promise them that he would vote upon all occasions
just as they wished, but this he would say, that at
heart he was a Liberal in the true sense of the word.
(Applause.) He himself did no hold the fashionable
doctrine of Liberal Conservatism—(hear)—for he
believed that that doctrine had been a great injury
to the Liberal cause. (Hear.) There were many
men professed Liberals who voted for Liberal mea-
sures just because they could not avoid doing so, but
this half-and-half voting was not in accordance with
his own views. As to the foreign policy of the coun-
try they found that disagreements arose in conse-
quence of the division of opinion to which he had
referred, and especially with respect to the question
of Italian liberty the cloven foot had shown itself,
the Conservatives having shown themselves adverse
to the opinion shared in by the supporters of Lord
Palmerston. He would tell the meeting that if he
was returned as their representative his support
would be given to Lord Palmerston's foreign policy,
believing that it was founded upon Liberal senti-
ments. (Cheers.) Turning to the question of home
policy, and especially to the question of reform, he
would say, in the words of his address, that he be-
lieved the people of England could be trusted with
some degree of confidence. (Cheers.) Therefore, he
said, they ought to extend the franchise to those
people who were entitled to it by the progress of
education and self-control. (Cheers.) He did not
shy that they should extend the franchise without
consideration, but that they should give it to those
who showed themselves capable of exercising it
judiciously. The power of England was strengthened
he more they took the people into their confidence.
With respect to the question of church rates, he
thought it was not right that those who differed
with the Church should be called upon to support
it; and therefore he was for the entire abolition
of church rates, and the sooner the question was
settled the better for all parties. (Cheers.) Mr.
Goschen further expressed himself favourable to
the adoption of the vote by ballot ; and with respect
to muncipal self-government, he said that if he was
returned to Parliament as the representative of the
City, he should do all in his power to protect the
municipal government of the City. (Applause.)
He should, if elected, feel the great responsibility of
his position, but he should go to Parliament with-
out any timidity if he knew he had the support of
the Liberal party, and that his views were shared
in by a majority of the electors. (Loud applause.)
Dr. ABRAHAM moved and Mr. IticuanDsoN
seconded a resolution expressing entire approval in
Mr. Go..,chen, and pledging the meeting to use every
endeavour to secure his return as one of the repre-
sentatives of the City in Parliament, which was
unanimously agreed to.
The meeting closed with the customary vote of
thanks to the chairman.

SUMMARY OF AMERICAN NEWS.—The judicious
Hooher has judiciously hooked ft.—Punch.
A familiar legend is related by the Saturday
Review, of the gownsman, whose sense of the ludi-
crous so far prevailed over his indignation at the loss of
his tea that he determined to play the marauder (his
laundress or bedmaker) a trick. He bought two half-
pounds of tea, and, locking up one, from which he helped
himself, he left the other open, to which his bedmaker
helped herself. 01 course she got through her share much
the quicker of the two. Upon which, one fine morning, he
pulled out the remains of his half-pound of tea, and with
infinite good-humour, and in a tone of gentle astonishment
and reproach, he said :—" Now really, Mrs. Brett, you are
going much too fast. I have only begun my half-pound of
tea, and you are nearly at the end of yours. Can't we
manage, do you think, to pull at the same rate?"