The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

Mr. Morrison, M.P.. and his Constituents,

Mr, Wilier Morrison, MT., addressed a crowded
assembly of his constituents at Plymouth on Tues-
day evening. Speaking first on domestic matters,
he congratulated England in general, Plymouth in
particular, and Mr. Collier personally on the eleva-
tion of that gentleman, whose ability and expe-
rience were so great, to a post so important at this
critical moment as the Solicitor-Generalship, Ano-
ther theme for congratulation was the decrease of
the unemployed in Lancashire by emigration—of
which Mr. Morrison wished there had been more—
and by the exhaustion of the stock of manufactured
cotton goods; thus helping to prove more than ever
that cotton was not King. As for a grant in aid of
the operatives, he would not consent to that until
the poor rate of Lancashire was on an average equal
to that of Plymouth, which it bad not hitherto
been. Among other home measures mentioned was
the Sunday Closing of Public-houses Bill,
against
which he did not vote, because he had to some extent
committed himself to its principle with his consti-
tuents, and for which ho did not wish to vote, be-
cause he had never yet met with any beer which
would keep well from Saturday night until the
poor man would want to place it on the Sunday's
mt ted,
disgraced
sdciannederaloutasble,
riot and drunkenness di ahowever, h
botht at
town and country on Sundays. The question of
Church rates was further than ever from a settle-
ment, nor would be settled until there was a com.
promise. Mr. Morrison believed it was scandalous
to exclude Dissenters from fellowships in the uni-
versities. Those institutions, if properly used, would
educate half the nation, instead of two thousand
undergraduates. The terms of subscription ought
to be relaxed ; their stringency did great injury to
the Church itself. It was respecting foreign affairs,
however, that the hon. gentleman was most earnestly
listened to. To the Prussian liberals he, in the name
of England, wished " God speed," for they Were
fi3hting out the battle waged by England two cen-
turies ago as the power of levying taxes; but Prus-
sia had this adverse condition, that she Um 5 t keep
up a strong army to restrain the aggressive
cies of her neighbours. The mention of
of Poland
national Congress to settle the boundaries
dience with
n f a
at einadteenr :
and Europe was received by the
notw how diplo-
applause. Unless such a Con
diplo-
macy be
or
sympathy efficacious,
do
ulddEidnhelp
Congress should be called
more for the Poles
England
of
InFurastneneot
wasgo n to ot
the
warthan
on
n hadthe i
r behalf, been
fcbaore
, The Poles had not the claim to
Austria imulinee" which the S
belligerents
certain, and the risk of hostility with America and
Southern
be recognised as
the latter had been so recog.
for
Lincoln himself first, and had
which had never been assailed,
Mr. Morrison went on to ad-
nise
nixed
Confederacy
by r
im-
mensea
vales occupying many fortified
armies towns, and
also
a arsenals.aapitareishiaddent.
numerous
ad-
vocate the recognition of the independence of the
Confederate States, and urged that they had as much
right to secede as the American colonies had ori-
ginally to separate from Britain ; and that the
Federals had no more right than had George 111.
tehnenunawdivlleiretg return to alle-
ed t o the weak-
ness gtoianee. A endeavourrr. . toAl
Morrison
rnrf
iosrocne
of our colonial possessions, and the duty of
Canada to do something more to protect herself.
The late bombardment of the forts of Kagosima, in
Japan,
was justified by Mr. Morrison, and the burn-
ing of the town ascribed to an inevitable accident.
The hon. gentleman received from those present a
renewed lease of confidence at the close of the
meeting.

LITERATURE, ART, AND OLD AGE.--There is
something remarkable in the longevity of literary women in
modern times, even if wo do not look beyond our own coun-
try. Mrs. Piozzi and Mrs. Delaney perhaps scarcely enter
within the conditions : and the still lamented Jane Austen
was under an early doom from consumption : but Miss
Edgeworth was above 80 when she died; Joanna and Agnes
Baillie were older still ; and Mrs. Trollop® died the other
day at 84. The artists who have departed lately have been
old. Biot was 87, and Vernet 74. Our Mulready was 77 ;
and Professor Cockerel], the architect, was 73,—Once
Weck.

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