The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

TRE StJ tOsTiVrT, TIVTII4I4.Ir 7,VV,'NtEN 00r13Fift 16, 1862.

C PA 1 all .L. ES2 01V AT SOUTIIAMPTON,

01j1 11 AAI P'l ON, WEL/lESJDAY

The ceremony of inaugurating the Hartley Insti-
tution was performed to-day with great eclat by
Viscount Palmerston.

The Mayor of Southampton, Mr. T. Perkins, and
the Corporation assembled at the Guildhall at noon
to-day, and from thence proceeded to the Second
Common Gate, the boundary of the borough, for
the purpose of meeting Lord Palmerston, who drove
over from Broadlands, accompanied by Lady Pal-
merston. A large body of the inhabitants also as-
sembled at this point to 'welcome his lordship, who
was greeted with the warmest enthusiasm. A pro-
cession was then marshalled.

Upon entering the hall Lord and Lady Palmerston
were again received with every demonstration of
cordiality. The whole body of spectators rose and
greeted them with cheers, waving of hats and hand-
kerchiefs, again and again renewed. When silence
was restored, the Town Clerk (Mr. Deacon) advanced
and read an address voted to Lord Palmerston by
the corporation.
Lord PALMERSTON, who was received with cheer-
ing, said,—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen of the corpo-
ration, I beg to return you my most sincere and
hearty thanks for the address which you have just
had the kindness to present to me ; and I beg also
to thank the town for that which you have not in-
appropriately described a hearty welcome ; for a
man must indeed be insensible to the manifestation
of kindness and goodwill on the part of his fellow-
countrymen who would not be deeply touched by
the hearty reception which I and Lady Palmerston
have met with this morning. (Cheers.) It has given
me great satisfaction to be enable to assist at the
opening of this, which I may well call great institu-
tion, of whose corner-stone I was allowed some time
ago to lay the foundation. I trust that it will long
continue well to perform those useful and important
services which it is destined to fulfil. (Cheers.) You
have been pleased, Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, to
advert to the services which in my official capacity
during the course of my public life it has been my
lot to perform. It is an easy matter in this great
country for public men to devote their energies and
their time and such abilities as Providence may have
bestowed upon them in the service of the country,
because there is no country on the face of the earth

in which the people are more disposed to give a kind
and generous consideration to the labours of those
who, according to best of their judgment, and with
an honest desire to serve their country, devote them-
selves to the public service. (Cheers.) It is gratify-
ing to me to find that any special services which I
may have been instrumental in performing have
been kindly appreciated by the great community of
this town, and it is still more gratifying that, inde-
pendent of public considerations, I should receive
from friends and neighbours the goodwill which has
been expressed in this address towards me. I have had
the advantage not merely of being your neighbour,
but I have had the advantage of representing that
portion of the county of which you, gentlemen, are
so prominent and distinguished a portion. (Cheers.)
It is to me, therefore, doubly gratifying, both on
public and on private considerations, to receive from
you, Mr. Mayor, and from the Corporation of this
town, that testimony of approval and goodwill
which is contained in the address which you have
just presented to me. I beg to return you again
ray best thanks, and to assure you that there can be
no greater encouragement to industry and exertion
on the part of public men who are engaged in pub-
lic life than the knowledge that their endeavours
will be appreciated—that their actions will be
kindly considered—and that if they do honestly
and sincerely their best to serve their country, both
in its interests at home and its character and dig-
nity abroad, their exertions will be met by those
marks of approbation which it has been my good
fortune to receive at your hands this day. (Loud
cheers.)

The Bishop of ROCHESTER then offered up an ap-
propriate prayer, in which he invoked a blessing
upon the institution.
The International Ode was next sung, after which
The MANOR rose, and addressing Lord Palmer-
ston, observed that, having just had the privilege
of presenting to his lordship an address voted by
the corporation of the town, he now wished to re-
quest him, in the name of education and science, to
confer an additional honour upon the town of South-
ampton by inaugurating the opening of the institu-
tion. (Cheers.)
- -

Lord PALMERSTON, who on rising was received
with renewed cheering and waving of hats and
handkerchiefs, said—Mr. Mayor and Ladies and
Gentlemen, I can assure you that I feel that, if
honour there be on one side or the other, the honour
has been conferred on me by being allowed to be
present on this interesting occasion. It is inte-
resting to me, because having been permitted
to assist, I may say, at the christening of this
child—(laughter)—l am now present at its confir-
mation. (Cheers_) I trust its future life will be
prosperous to itself, and will be an honour to the
community to which it belongs ; that it will be an
honour and an advantage to the country. The peo-
ple of Southampton are a great, flourishing, and
prosperous community. You have a port admira-
bly adapted to the purposes of commerce. You
have docks fitted to receive a larger vessel than even
her Majesty's dockyards can at present hold. That
superiority on your part, I trust, will be of very
short life. You will permit me without offence to
say so. (Hear.) You have an increasing popula-
tion ; you have all the elements of worldly wealth;
but hitherto you have wanted that which is the com-
pletion of that state of existence, you have wanted
an institution like this, where knowledge, where
science, literature, and art will be cultivated as
much as commercial progress in your town. That
-want is now supplied, and with the supplying
of that want will go hand in hand to increase
not only of your welfare but of your power ;
for it is well said, aid must be felt by all, that
" knowledge in power." Not power simply in a
community, but power in every individual member
of that community by whom that knowledge is ac-
quired. We have only to look around us in this
great country to see examples of men rising from
comparatively humble origin to great wealth, to high
dignities, and to high employments in the State, and
how ? Why, by the cultivation of mind, by the
knowledge which they have acquired, and by the
application of that knowledge to the business of life
in which they may have engaged. Your courts of
law,your
Parliament, your manufacturing communi-
ties, all abound with men rising to distinction for
themselves, and performing great service to the coun-
try, owing entirely to the cultivation of those talents
with which Providence at their birth has endowed
them. Therefore,i say, that this town will greatly be
knowledge will
by
will
b an
n institution like this, in which
freely communicated to all who
choose to come and
drink at the fountain; where
op portanities will be afforded to cultivate know-
ledge of every sort and
kind,occuadapted to the natural
talents and worldly
seeking it. But knowledge, ladies of those who are
is not simply a source of 4dies and gentlemen,
power. you may say that
the love of power is a passion duly
som sometime:
in the
human mind; but that it may rote: lead to a
course which may not redound tol
knowledge credit of
those who pursue it. But
always a source of power. It is a sougrec is
not
purest enjoyment to those who posses:
it,of the
there is a natural tendency, happily, i and
the
human mind to pursue knowledge. It e enoughn
for a man to have gained knowledge to induce
him to go on learning, and every fresh addition
which he acquires to the knowledge he has gained
is an additional source of pleasure and happiness to
him, as well as an additional element of good con-
duct in the career which he pursues. The love of
acquisition, the love of accumulation, is a natural
instinct in the human mind, When a man begins
to collect books, be is never satisfied without having
more than his house will hold. The man who col-
lects medals fills all his chests of drawers
he with things
T man who
that perhaps he may never look at.
collects pictures has his covered with the best
walls co
In the same
specimens of art which he can collect.
way, that principle of adding to that wh
as ich has
well
been begun applies to knowledge as
to
everything else, and the more a man knows, the
"more he wishes to learn, and the more he is able to
,'ern, because knowledge of one sort leads easily to ,

the acquirement of knowledge of another and of a
different kind. Well, then, I trust that th'b insti-
tution will not only be a source of prosperi y to the
town, but will be a source of happiness to the indi-
vidual members of the community. As t, the effect
of knowledge upon national interests, y ur worthy
mayor has just now pointed out that the great power,
wealth, and prosperity of the country arises from the
development of intellect, and from the progress of
science, amongst the different members of the com-
munity. Where should we be if it had not been
for the researches of those great men who have given
to the country all those resources of mechanical in-
dustry by which the wealth of the community and
the power of the country have been raised to the
position which they now fortunately hold? In this
institution you will, no doubt, have young men
who here will acquire that knowledge and cultivate
those talents which will not only raise them to a
high position in the country of which they are
members, but will add materially to the wealth,
prosperity, happiness, and power of the country in
which they have been born. You, Mr. Mayor,
have called this building a temple. It is, no doubt
to use classical language, a temple to the Muses—a
temple dedicated to purposes more congenial to
the state of religion which happily prevails. It may
be deemed to be not only a temple of the Muses,
but a temple also for the improvement of religious
feeling amongst the people of this country. Some
1 persons, in other times and countries, have held the
doctrine that the knowledge and the cultivation of
science were incompatible with true religion. There
cannot possibly be a greater error and mistake than
that. (Hear, hear.) Suppose an ignorant man
takes up a watch—suppose him to look at a steam-
engine—he will naturally imagine that the watch
of its own accord tells him what is o'clock—that
the steam-engine twists all those spindles which he
sees revolving. He will never think how it is done.
He will be content with the results. He will have
no notion in his mind of the degree of talent which
must have been required on the part of those
who made those things. He will have no idea of
the wonderful mechanism even by which these out-
ward movements have been produced. He will be
content with results, without thinking of causes. But
show him that ingenious mechanism which makes
the hands move following the sun. Tell him of that
wonderful contrivance by which the steam engine is
worked, and then he will transfer to the maker of
the one and to the author of the other those feelings
of admiration which had not previously existed in
his mind. In the same way, gentlemen, the igno-
rant man sees day and night succeed each other;
he sees the seasons succeed each other ; he sees the
seed he has put into the ground rise into a profit-
able crop ; he sees all the operations of nature, and
it never occurs to him to consider how all these
wonderful operations are brought about, nor by
what power they originate. He is conscious of his
own existence ; he feels his body healthy or sickly,
as it may be ; he feels hunger come at one time and
thirst at another, and knows how to satiate both,
but he is utterly ignorant of what a wonderful
mechanism he himself is, and his mind has not
been brought to that source from whence that won-
derful mechanism has arisen ; but when know-
ledge enlightens his mind, and when he sees
the wonderful effects and contrivances of that
Almighty Power by which these results have been
brought about, I say he must be a strangely consti-
tuted being indeed if the feelings of religion are
not more strong in his mind, and if the knowledge
which he thus acquires of all the wonderful laws
and contrivances of what we call nature do not raise
his mind to the Author of all these things, and
implant in his mind a feeling of religious awe and
veneration which strengthens these precepts which
he may have received from his religious instruc-
tors. I say, therefore, that this is not simply a
temple of the Muses, but it will turn out a temple
of those studies which tend to exercise and
strengthen the religious feelings of those who come
within its walls. I would only say, therefore, that
I hope and trust this institution will long prosper,
and that it will attain the end for which it has
been founded. (Cheers.) Now there are different
ways by which knowledge may be acquired. Some
contend that knowledge, to be deeply engraves in
the human mind, must be acquired by patient in-
vestigation—must be worked out by the individual
himself. No doubt that is the best way to engrave
knowledge on the mind of the man by whom it is
attained; but the pursuits of life prevent all but a
very few from following that course. It is for
those whose time is occupied in other pursuits that
institutions of this kind are particularly valuable,
You will have here men learned in different walks
of science, who will come and give you in a lucid,
plain, and intelligent manner the results of those
long and laborious studies, of those patient and long-
continued investigations, by which they have arrived
at their conclusions. Those conclusions may, per-
haps, not be so firmly impressed upon the minds of
their hearers as on their own understandings;
but still much will be learnt, and it would be as idle
and vain to say that much useful knowledge is not
to be gained by those lectures which will be, I
trust, delivered within these walls, as to say a man
cannot learn geography by maps, but must go over
and survey the country himself. It would be idle
to say that a man cannot acquire a deeply-rooted
knowledge by listening to the discourses of those
who have worked out results, although he might
not be able to follow them in all those intricate
ridges into which they got before they arrived at
those useful results. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I
congratulate you most sincerely on having, in your
town, an institution of this character. lam per-
suaded that all who can derive benefit, but more
especially the younger part of the community, will
take every possible advantage of it, and that it will
tend not only to the prosperity of your town, but
also to raise the minds of all who come within its
walls to a higher scope of intelligence, by develop-
ing those talents with which Providence has en-
-1 dowed them, and by fitting them better than they
otherwise would have been fitted to follow advan-
tageously those different careers of life to which
their fortunes, their talents, and dispositions may
lead them to devote themselves. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. Alderman BLATCH, chairman of the council
of ibe institution, thanked his lordship in the name
of the corporation, the council of the institution,
and the town, for attending to open the institution,
an act which, he said, would long be cherished in
the memory of the inhabitants.
The MAYOR then called upon Lord Palmerston to
formally open
the
Lord PALMERSTON then came forward, in the
ga.nd said :—Mr. Mayor,
ladies, and gentlemen—I% ith your permission,
applause, and
..
midst of great
pp
Mr. Mayor, I will proceed to state a fact—l
would hardly venture to make a prophecy—that
this institution is now fully open. (Cheers.) If I
were to presume to take on myself the gift of
pro-
phecy it would be difficult to foretell the success
future career. But I
which, I trust, will await its
letely open.
now declare that the institution is now, under the
auspices of the mayor, fully and comp
This announcement was followed by enthusiastic
applause.
The proceedings terminated with three cheers re-
spectively for Lord Palmerston, Lady
Palmeystoe,
the Institution, and the Mayor.

THE DINNER.

At the dinner given by the Mayor. among those
present, in addition to the noble Premier, were the
Bishop of Rochester, the Earl of Hardwicke, Col.
Sir Henry James, Adtniral Sir Lucius Curtis, the
the Right Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Mr. W. Digby
Seymour, 34. P., Professor Owen, &c.
In responding to the toast of " Her Majesty's
Ministers,"

Lord 13
ALMERSTON said—For myself, and in the
name of my colleagues, I beg to return you my most
sincere and cordial thanks for the honour you have
done us in drinking the last toast ; and I only re-
gret that some more, of my colleagues should not
have been present on this interesting occasion, to
see the manly and enlightened spirit by which the
people of this town are animated in a matter of pub-
lic interest, and so conducive to the general welfare
of all those who are concerned in the institution we
have this day seen opened. I can assure you, gen-
tlemen,
that her Majesty's Ministers are
deeply sen-
sible of the great importance of encourging,
by all means within their reach, tbe diffusion

of education within the United Kingdom.
It has been our anxious desire that edu-
' cation should be based upon a useful principle;
that it should in every class tend to discipline
and instruct the minds of those to whom it is ad-
ministered, in such a manner as to render them,
during the rest of their lives, not only useful mem-
bers of the community, but also able artificers of
their own fortunes. I may say, too, speaking in a
town which is remarkable for its prosperity—l may
say that it has been the constant object of her Ma-
jesty's Government, and I will not take credit in
that respect simply for those who now administer
the affairs of the country, but it has been the con-
stant object for a long time past of all who have
been responsible for the management of national
affairs, to free the action of industry and commerce
from all those shackles which the less enlightened
Legislature of former periods had thought beneficial
to be imposed upon it. It was thoughiin times
gone by, that although nobody would have taught
a man to dance in fetters, it was useful for him
to trade in fetters, and that the more industry and
commerce were shackled by what were called pro-
tective legislation, the less free men were to employ
their industry and their capital in the manner which
might appear to them to be the best, the more
would the prosperity of the country thrive. I re-
member that a foreigner, who is thought to be a
great theoretical philosopher, admitting that Eng-
land prospered the more since the freedom of com-
merce had been established, said, " Aye, it is true,
but you have been enabled to render commerce free
by the prosperity which you have maintained under
the shackles beneath which your industry has la-
boured ; and therefore your example is not one to
be followed by other countries. We must wait till
we have grown rich by impediments and obstruc-
tions before we can be willing to grow richer by
having our limbs and our intellects rendered free."
I say, then, that I think that corporate bodlyl will
call them, of public men, who from time'to time
have been called upon to incur the responsibility of
conducting the affairs of the country, are entitled to
the approbation of their countrymen for many other
reasons, but for two particular topics which will
most likely be valued and appreciated by the
assembly lam now addressing. First, by their
anxiety to diffuse, as far as possible, among the
people of the realm the blessings of enlighten-
ment and education, and by their constant endea-
vours to free industry and capital from those impe-
diments and shackles which oppressed this nation in
former periods.
The Earl of HABDWICXE, in responding to the
toast of the House of Lords, expressed his satisfac-
tion at the discretion which, up to this moreent, her
Majesty's Ministers had displayed in the,policy of
non-intervention they had adopted in the'interne-
eine struggle in America. He also expreOsed ap-
proval of the sentiment enunciated by Mr. Glad-
stone in his recent visit to the North, that Jeff.
Davis had succeeded in forming in the Southern
States a great and independent nation. (Great
cheering and one or two marks of disapprobation.)
Alluding to the topic of education, the noble lord
praised in warn terms the efforts which had been
made to promote that cause, urging that the steps
which had been taken in that direction had done
more for the general advancement and well-being
of the people than any extension of the elective
franchise could have done.

The Mayor of SOUTHAMPTON, in proposing the
health of Lord Palmerston, highly eulogised the
services which the noble lord had rendered to the
country during the last 60 years, and declared his
strong conviction that so long as the interests of
England were entrusted to his guidance, there could
be no fear that the ship would not weather any
storm it might have to encounter.

The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm.

Lord PALMERSTON, in acknowledging the toast,
after a few preliminary observations, proceeded as
follows :—With regard to those particular public
transactions to which my worthy friend, the Mayor,
has alluded, I can take no peculiar merit to myself
individually. I have acknowledged, in combination
with public men of the highest order, that no great
national effort—whether it be fot internal improve-
ment, whether it be for national defence, or whether
it be for the assertion of national dignity and honour
—can be accomplished by any one single man. It
requires a combination of ability, energy, integrity,
and skill; and that combination must be found
in the members of the Government ; in the first
place, in the departments of the, State ; in the
next place, in the two services of the army and the
navy; and in the last place, their combined action
must be supported and confirmed by the voices of
the representatives of the people in Parliament, and
by the unanimous feeling of the British nation at
large. (Hear, hear.) These are the conditions upon
which alone a successful Administration can be car-
ried an, and I trust that these conditions have been
fulfilled in the transactions to which the Mayor has
referred. I can assure you, that so long as we have
the honour of receiving the confidence of Parliament
and our sovereign, backed by the goodwill and the
confidence of the country, we shall be encouraged
by the support which we have hitherto received to
pursue that course which in our honest and sincere
consciences we may think best calculated to pro-
mote the interests of the country. If we cast aside
all those political sarcasms which parties bandy
against each other from time to time, I am perfectly
convinced that no Administration, whether it is
ours or that to which my noble friend belonged, and
and which may succeed us—that no Administration
of this country can continue for any time, however
short, that does not act on this principle. I have
that high opinion of the public men of this country
to feel that, from whatever side of the house they
may come, they will act on this principle, and will
deserve, as long as they may hold office, the confi-
dence and support of the country. I would only, in
conclusion, relieve the mind of my noble friend
(Lord Hardwicke) from any apprehension that, by
some peculiar construction of the toast in which he i
joined (" Her Majesty's Ministers "), he may have
expressed something like a want of allegiaece to
the party to which he belongs. (Laughter.). Let
me assure him that, verbally, critically, and Jogi-
cally, the toast which he drank was perfectly con-
sistent with the views which lie afterwards ex-
pressed. He drank the health of her Majesty's
Ministers. Now every man, let him be ever so
little conversant with medical science, will know
that the health of man is best promoted by country
air—(laughter)—by rural sports, by an abundance
of exercise, by the absence of care and relief from
labour—(laughter)—and, therefore, in drink-
ing the health of her Majesty's Ministers critically,
literally, and logically, my noble friend wished
that we might as early as possible be placed in the
position which would be most conducive to that
health which he wished us to enjoy; and there are
none of his political friends, however apt they may
the p
be to draw nice distinctions, who would reproach
without
uwthtie I
slightest was him in the slightest degree for having joined, in the
t
rophoseesdit,ataionnd. w(hGicrehathleaudarlahtnekr
and cheers.) Lord Palmerston concluded by think-
ing the Mayor for the manner in which his health
had been drunk, and by assuring all present that
the reception he nad met with would be indelibly
impressed upon a grateful mind.
The proceedings did not terminate
until a late
hour.

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its accompanying symptoms. He also discovered in the
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peared to have been embedded in the cellular tissue. 'Ter.
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GARIBALDI AND 711 E ROMAN
QUES7ION.

T

On Tuesday evening a Town Meeting, called on
a requisition addressed to the Mayor, was held in
the large room, Town-hall, Brighton. Its object
was to express sympathy with Garibaldi and to pro-
test against the further prolongation of the French
occupation of Rome. The Mayor took the chair,
and was supported by W. Coningham, Esq., M.P.,
James White, Esq., MY., Aldermen Cox and Cobb,
Mr. Hooper, Signor Martinucci, Mr. J. Dixon, &c.
The Town Clerk having read the notice conven-
ing the meeting, _

The MAYOR opened the proceedings. He said
that in compliance with a requisition signed by our
worthy representatives and a very numerous body
of fellow townsmen he had called this meeting.
He had been censured by many of his friends for
doing so, yet, although he had seen the refusal of
the Lord Mayor to call a similar meeting, he did not
think that applicable to Brighton, or that he ought
to refuse the request of such a number of requisi-
tionists as those whose names were then before
him. In common, he might almost say, with every
Englishman, he had rejoiced with the great and
noble Garibaldi in his successes, and now he, also
in common with his brother Englishmen, sympa-
thised most deeply with Garibaldi in his present
condition. He thought the great error Garibaldi
made was in catching at the pear before it was
ripe. He thought he should be agreed with when
ha said that if the Italians were only true to them-
selves Rome would as surely fall in due time into
their hands as a pear would when ripe fall to the
ground. (Applause.)
Mr. HOOPER, chemist, moved, in a speech of some
length, the first resolution, to the effect that the
" meeting desired to express its deepest sympathy
with the Italian patriot, Gen. Garibaldi, and recog-
nised him as the representative of the national de-
sires of the Italian people." He was sure the call-
ing of this meeting would place the mayor on a
higher ground of esteem with the inhabitants of this
town. He thought their motto would be " A free
man and a free nation ; Garibaldi for Italy and Italy
for the Italians."

Signor MARTINUCCIseconded the resolution with
the greatest pleasure.
Carried unanimously.
Alderman Cox moved the next resolution, to the
effect that in the opinion of the meeting the French
occupation of Rome, now maintained for fourteen
years past, is a violation of the pledge given to Eng-
land by the French Government in 1849, who then
declared that the occupation should be of short
duration, that it is a breach of the policy of non-in-
tervention, and that it is a constant source of danger
to the peace of Europe.
Dr. ItuoE seconded, in a well-argued speech.
W. CONINGHAM, Esq.. M.P., on rising to speak
to the resolution, was received with loud cheers
again and again taken up. He said he had been
travelling since nine o'clock in the morning in order
to attend the meeting, and he took the earliest op-
portunity which presented itself of congratulating
the mayor on the courage he had shown in not
following what appeared to him to be the very bad
example set in the metropolis—(cheers)--the refusal
to call a public meeting of free-born Englishmen to
discuss those political questions which affect them-
selves and their interests. He thought it was very
desirable this meeting should be held in order to
vindicate the right of public meeting in this coun-
try. (Cheers.) Referring to the warm support he
had always given to the Anglo-French alliance, he
also ventured to think that the debt owed by the
Italians to Joseph Mazzini and to Garibaldi should
be shared with the conqueror of Magento and Sol-
ferino. But, he ventured to tell the Emperor of
the French that if he meant to continue to be tole-
rated by the great European Liberal party, he
must remove his troops from Rome. (Cheers.) After
a reference to the end of the first Napoleon, Mr.
Coningham went on to tell the present Emperor
that if he continued the direct supporter of the in-
carnate lie which presides over the destinies of the
Roman people, his legions, numerous though they
be, and armed as they are with weapons of the
longest range,—that he, and they, and the Papal
party 1u seeks to uphold will be hurled into ever-
lasting chaos_ (Loud cheers.) It was high time
that Englishmen should stand forth to declare their
entire confidence in the great principle that the
affairs of men are guided by an eternal, a retribu-
tive justice, that the world was not in reality go-
verned by diplomatic hocus-pocus—(laughter)—and
ecclesiastical numbo-jumbo. (Cheers and laughter.)
Was it not high time to do this when we saw one
of our foremost men, a Cabinet Minister, dare to
come forward and express his sympathies with the
slave-drivers of the Southern States. He ventured
to tell the right hon. gentleman that in Brighton,
at all events, and in its representatives, he would
find no echo to his miserable—(great cheering,
in which the remainder of the sentence was lost.)
Whatever might be the faults of the Northern
States, there was one principle by which the hon.
speaker stood, that he could have no sympathy
with those who would make the foundation of their
republic the enslavement of man by man. (Loud
cheers.) Garibaldi had shown himself to be a man
almost without a parallel. The only one with
whom he could be compared—the hon. speaker did
not know whether or not the comparison had been
previously made—was the old Roman Dentatus,
who preferred his own earthen vessels and humble
poverty to the gold and silver vessels of the Sam-
nites. Garibaldi stood forward to fight for great
principles, and for him and such as him there was
no peace or rest as long as despotism exists or
liberty remains to be conquered. He would not say
that misfortune had overtaken Garibaldi, it was
only a temporary want of success. (Cheers.) He
rejoiced to see the spirit which animated this meet-
ing. He believed he had expressed the feeling of
this large and important town and constituency
when he said their warmest sympathies were with
Garibaldi. He would not detain them longer on the
present occasion, as his excellent colleague would
follow. Tie had great pleasure in meeting Mr.
White on this platform after their rather tedious
hours in the House of Commons, where, he was
happy to say, they had co-operated in the most
satisfactory manner. (Hear, hear, from Mr. White.)
As they had always held the same principles they
had never found any difficulty in uniting to uphold
that principle whi ch is dear to every English-
man, the right of every nation to govern itself.
(Loud cheers.)
JAMES WHITE, Esq., M.P., said he had come
here expecting to be an auditor rather than a
speaker, still, after the appeal made by his friend,
he took the opportunity of assuring them that he
still Lehi the same fervent faith and consistent prin-
ciples with regard to foreign and domestic politics
which secured him their approval. Personally,
and from family ties, he could not but take a very
deep and most lively interest in the future of Italy.
He could not but reiterate the admirable observa-
tion of the first speaker, that we all had occasion to
bless God for the existence of such a man as Gari-
baldi. He was often told that Garibaldi might
have drawn out a national expression of opinion
from the Italians instead of following the course he
had done ; but in a country like Italy, just emerging
as it is from a revolution which inflicted pangs of
which we have but a faint conception, it is not sur-
prising that the people should be stung almost to
madness by the sense of the position in which Rome
now stands. Therefore, with every confidence in
Garibaldi's character, he said his was a noble mis-
take, a glorious error, a sublime inprudence.
(Loud cheers.) Whatever cold, calculating politi-
Vb
been cians might say, it was certain that Garibaldi had
done good to the cause, and he (Mr. White) ques-
tioned whether in the brightest days of his triumphs
gsnoamnou.ch(Ldoiurdeccthedeertos.
Garibaldi. had more served the cause of liberty than
he does stricken and wounded as he now lies at
to the mighty cause in which he served, that it was
Wanhdichthaist
in ev en o f cou rtshee,
length and breadth of Europe would be not too much to say that a mighty,
burst of
to quail- before tention has now
protest from free men throughout
the result,
will begin indignant
) P
Garibaldi,u b liea t
that tempest of wrath
preparation, and which will sooner or
theiron-hearted Emperor himself
later be heaped on his devoted head, unless justice
be done. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. WooDwaw and a_ genu emap who gaye the

name of PEMBERTON HODSON followed in the same
line of argument, and were loudly cheered by the
meeting.

Alderman Cox then read the memorial, and pro-
posed that it be presented to Earl Russell—praying
him to use his best influence to obtain the evacua-
tion of Rome by the French troops.
Mr. MATTHEWS having seconded, in a somewhat
lengthy speech, the Mayor put the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks to the chair, proposed by Mr.
CONINGLIAM and seconded by Mr. WHITE, brought
the meeting to a close shortly before nine o'clock.

ALLEGED WIFE MURDER IN SHORE-

DITCH.

An inquiry was held by Mr. H. Raffles Walthew,
the deputy coroner for East Middlesex, at the Suf-
folk Arms Tavern, Boston-street, Hackney-road, on
Tuesday, respecting the death of Mary Anne Jones,
aged 22. The case excited considerable excitement
in the neighbourhood, in consequence of rumours
that the deceased lost her life through violence in-
flicted by her husband, and crowds congregated in
the street where the inquiry was held.
Mrs. Martha Turner said deceased was her daugh-
ter, and resided with her husband, a hawker, at
No. 65, Boston-street. She was a delicate young
woman, and very jealous and bad tempered. She
died on Friday last. She had a black eye, and she
told witness on last Wednesday week that she had
had a quarrel with her husband about a curtain,
and that she fell against a door, and blackened her
eye. She had to go to the doctor.
Cross-examined--Her husband might have pushed
her.

Mrs. Mary Ann Dyer, 65, Boston-street, said that
she heard the deceased and her husband quarrelling
some time since. Deceased told witness that she
received her black eye by being pushed against a
door by her husband. Deceased complained to wit-
ness of her head and chest. Witness never saw her
husband strike her. He was a kind man.
Mrs. Alice Frost, who resided next door to the
deceased, said deceased was a very nice young
woman, and had not a bad temper. On the night of
last Tuesday week witness was awoke by loud
screams, and cries of " Murder." The cries con-
tinued for a quarter of an hour. The next morning
she was informed that it was Mrs. Jones who had
been screaming.
Mr. E. Pitt, M.R.C.S., Hackney-road, said that
deceased called on him complaining of suffering in
her head and chest. She had a black eye. She had
inflammation of the membranes of the brain. The
post-mortem examination showed the immediate
cause of death to have been the inflammation of the
membranes of the brain. The cavity of the cheat
was partly filled with fluid.
By the Jury—The inflammation of the brain
might have been produced by a blow, but there was
no proof that it had.
Margaret Bell, boot machinist, said that she re-
sided at 25, Boston-street. On Tuesday week she
and her sister were awoke by a fearful noise in the
street. There were screams of " Police and Mur-
der." Witness went to the window and saw Mrs.
Jones outside her own door and her husband on the
threshold< He struck deceased violently with his
clenched fist eight or nine times. She cried out,
" Oh, don't kill me! You are murdering me!
Don't strike my head." The husband went in and
shut the door. Deceased went to the door and
called out to her servant girl, " Mary, give me the
baby. I will make away with myself, and trouble
you no more." The whole disturbance appeared
to have lasted a long time. The next morning
witness saw that Mrs. Jones's eye was very black
and bruised.

Clara Bell said that she was alarmed by the dis-
turbance described by last witness. She saw Mr.
Jones strike his wife a dozen times with force
enough to kill a woman. He knocked her down.
The row was so great that several persons came to
their windows. It occurred between 1 and 2 o'clock
in the morning.
Mr. Baily, stepfather of the accused, said that he
could produce evidence to contradict the last two
witnesses, and called Mrs. Martha Beaumont, who
said that she heard a quarrel between Mr. Jones
and hie wife about three weeks or a month ago.
He pulled her into the house by the sleeve, but
did not strike her. It was about eleven o'clock at
night.
A Juror remarked that witness might be alluding
to a different occurrence.
The court was then cleared, and after an hour
and a halt's deliberation an adjournment was de-
cided upon by the jury for the production of further
evidence.
The Court accordingly adjourned.

THE ALLEGED PROFLIGACY TN A

TVO.R.K.HOUSE.

OFFICIAL INQUIRY.

Yesterday morning Mr. R. B. Cane, one of the
Poor-law inspectors, resumed the investigation into
the charges against Mr. Theobald Meyrick, the
master of the Bethnal-green Workhouse, in the
board-room of that union, Waterloo-road, Victoria-
park.
Mr. Angel, solicitor, represented Mr. Onion and
the other memorialists who had procured the in-
quiry ; and Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared on
behalf of Mr. Meyrick.

The case of Sarah Anne Smith was resumed.

Mr. Cane, on taking his seat, said that he him-
self wished to call the medical officer of the work-
house.

Dr. Smart, medical officer to the Bethnal-green
Workhouse, said—l produce the medical relief book
of the establishment. By that book I find that
Sarah Anne Skinner was admitted to the infirmary
on the 20th of April, 1861, for a contused knee. I
do not recollect the particular case of Skinner, but
from the fact of the entry being " A contused
knee," I infer that the case was not one of a
" housemaid's knee," but that the injury arose
from direct violence. I do not recollect what
account she gave me about her knee. The
entry is not in my handwriting, but in that of my
assistant, but he may have copied it from my card.
She was discharged on the Ist of May.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—l cannot say
whether it was the right or left knee. Ido not
call to mind whether I saw her knee personally at
all.

By Mr. Cane—ln the ordinary course of my
duties I should have seen the knee myself. I am
responsible for the accuracy of all entries in the
book. I have not a distinct recollection of the case.
I am supposed to see every case admitted, and I do
not think this case could have remained from the
20th of April to the Ist of May without me seeing
it. If the case had been wrongly described in the
book I should, by the examination, have detected the
inaccuracy and have altered the book.
By Mr. Lewis—l do not sal positively that I
ever saw the girl's leg. Unless the case was a very
remarkable one I should not remember it so long.
The workhouse books were then produced, and
at the request of Mr. Lewis the following dates
were taken down :—" March 16, 1861—Sarah Anne
Skinner admitted to the house. Apyit 16—Mr.
Smyth applied for a servant. 17th—Miss Meyrick
removed Skinner to the kitchen. 20th—Skinner
entered the Infirmary. 22d—Gibbs left the house.
May I—Skinner discharged from the Infirmary.
3d—She left the house and went to Mr. Smyth's
as a servant, and June JO and Sept. 2 she called to
see the matron."

Mr. Angel requested the entry, " Oct. 24—Mrs.
Hickman called to see the master," to be taken
do ,-vn.

Mr. Cane, on referring to the entry in question,
said that the three first letters of the name in ques-
tion had been erased, and the letters " Bin"
written in, so as to change the name to Binkman.
Mr. Angel then tendered Mr. Onion for exami-
nation.

Mr. Joseph Robert Onion, 12, Wilmot-square,
was examined by Mr. Cane, and said—l am one of
the guardians of the poor in this district. I only
know through Mr. Angel, my solicitor, of Mr.
Meyrick's taking steps to compromise Skinner's case
before the Police-court. On the sth of July I at-
tended the Police-court, and I hand in a copy of an
affiliation summons obtained at the court against
Mr. Meyrick. There is a memorandum on the back
of it, " Adjourned to the sth of July by mutual con-
sent, and on that day no attendance." I know no-
thing of my own knowledge about Mr. Meyrick
being the father of Skinner's child. Of my own
knowledge I can give no information about Mr.
Meyrick's attempting to see the girl in the Mile-
end Workhouse. Ido not call myself the prosecu-
tor in this affair.

The witness was not cross-examined.
Catherine Brown, called by Mr. Cane, said that
she had been an inmate of the workhouse for over
two years. She remembered the girl Skinner. Wit-
ness had to wait upon Miss Broad (incorrectly
named Brewer by a previous witness). Witness did
not remember meeting the girl Skinner crying on
the stairs as she was going up to Miss Broad's room.
Witness never saw the girl as if she was leaving or
about to enter the master's bed-room. She never
told witness that the master had taken her into his
bed-room and assaulted her, On one occasion wit-
ness Was called up to the master's office, before Mr.
Meyrick, about some indecency. The girl Skinner
was not there. Witness was never called there about
Skinner's case. Mr. Meyrick never said he would
punish witness for talking about Skinner and him-
self. It was false to say so.
Cross-examined by Mr. Angel—Witness never
spoke to Martha Marshall, before the pantryman
hp% about the girl Skinner: She never told any