The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1862.

was but a novice in the art compared with the
American Secretaries for the Army and Navy De-
partments. This has been made to tell, of course,
at all the public meetings, and, in the prospect of
enormous taxation, must have told strongly against
the Administration. '

of candidates but very recently pressing for-
ward in a crowd to claim the admiring regard
of the electors of Southampton. One of these
resolute claimants of the suffrages of the wished-
for constituency being an advanced Liberal,
—to wit, Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON, the eloquent
lecturer, and sometime M.P. for the Tower Ham-
lets ! The other, being a thorough-going Conser-
vative, and no less a personage—at any rate in the
eyes of a Frenchman (Le Lord Moire being second
only in a Frenchman's eye to La Bone herself !)
no less a personage than the Right Hon. WILLIAM
ROSE, the new Lord Mayor of London. The latter
candidate it is who claims for himself, beyond a
doubt, the exclamation raised from all the dis-
cerning electors dewn at Southampton, of " A
DANIEL, yea a very DANIEL, come to judgment I"
Le Lord Maire ROSE has by this time, it may fairly
be said, completely unbosomed himself to the consti-
tuency he hopes may become his. After the scene
witnessed on Friday evening, we trust we may not
be regarded as in any way irreverent to the dignity
of this great City functionary if, in regard to Jlis
chance of obtaining the vacant seat, we venture
in familiar terms (and with all the fervour the
words are so well xnerstood to imply) an earnest
hope that he may get it ! It may be remembered
of old Mr. WELLER that upon a certain memorable
occasion when he went in search of the Reduced
Consols, or as he pronounced it Counsels, and dis-
covered them, as he imagined, in the agreeable
occupation of eating sandwiches—it may be remem•
bered of old Mr. WELLER that when struggling
out of the crowd in which he had had his hat knocked
over his eyes by some one behind him,who afterwards
turned out (when the old gentleman's head was ex-
tricated from his hat) to be his son SAMUEL, that
Old WELLER pathetically apostrophised his son
with the reproach " A-bonnetting your own
Father !" The LORD MAYOR of London having
been virtually subjected, in the persons of his
friends, to precisely that very process down at the
Dolphin Hotel at Southampton, on Friday evening,
might have contented himself as forcibly and at the
same time as laconically with uttering a somewhat
similar reproach. Substituting for the parental title,
of course, that of "your own LORD MAYOR—your
own Conservative Candidate !" But he went further.

But the great difference, we are sorry to say, be-
tween
the Republicans and the Democrats has
been as to the mode of carrying on the war. It is
a great mistake to suppose that the Democrats are
opposed to the war ; they only demand that it
shall be so carried on that slavery shall emerge un-
harmed. The Republican party, though opposed
originally to the Abolitionists, now includes them ;
the latter having come to the belief that the war
must be adverse to slavery, though not carried on
against it. Hence Mr. LINCOLN has felt con-
strained to do many things to propitiate the Aboli-
tionists ; every one of these things—such as the
hanging of the captain of the slaver, the emancipa-
tion of the district of Columbia, the freeing of all
slaves who came within the Federal lines, the
diplomatic recognition of Hayti, the offer of pecu-
niary aid to the Border States towards the emanci-
pation of their slaves, and the late proclamation, so
far as it was an emancipation decree—each of these

has had the approbation of England, and of Ame-
rican Abolitionists, though we and they felt that
they did not go far enough. But all these things
irritated th e Democrats, with their strong pro-slavery
feeling, to the uttermost. Their avowed policy is to
give every guarantee to slaveholders ; to make the
Fugitive Slave Law morestringent, to give full effect
to the DRED SCOTT decision, in a word, to restore
the Union by making slavery its law from North to
South.

Now this we take to be the worst aspect of the

late Democratic triumph. 7o save the Union is
equally the object of Republicans and Democrats.
the ambition of both is the same—to be the most
powerful empire on earth. The Republicans hold
that this ought to be effected by the circumscription
of Slavery—the Democrats by its protection and
encouragement. The Abolitionistd have the same
aim, and sincerely believe that the abolition of
slavery would soon make America the
greatest amongst the nations. As the
Republicans have failed to restore the Union,
by their policy, the wearied many are, we fear,
beginning to regard the Democratic or pro-slavery
policy as that which may be more successful. They
see that Mr. LINCOLN'S Government cannot, even
with the vast means placed at their disposal,
conquer the South and restore the Union in that
way ; we fear too many are beginning to think it
better to sell the Union to slavery than to break it
up. This, we fear, is the chief cause of Democratic
success. Other causes co-operate. The reckless
imprisonment of political opponents, and
the interference with the press, have no
doubt disgusted all respectable men, and we
have always ourselves thought the suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act one of the most unwarrantable
of Mr. LINCOLN'S doings. Still if we interpret
things aright, the Democratic party has regained
its influence, because it was indeed conservative—
conservative of slavery.
Whether the result will be to stimulate the
PRESIDENT and his generals to greater and more
successful military exertions, and whether it will
induce him to enforce or recall his proclamation for
the Ist of January., we shall soon begin to see. Our

Irritated manifestly by the unlooked-for warmth
of his reception, he may be fairly said to have given
the Southampton constituency a bit of his mind !
Upon their own want of taste, or of any sense of
delicacy or refinement in the first instance,
and in particular ! And afterwards upon all
kinds of things, upon subjects as various as " SHAK-
SPERE and the musical glasses"—upon all the great
questions of the day (many of which we all know
don't answer in the least) not forgetting a gibe
even at the Ballot, and a sneer at American
Rowdyism! The most absurdly inapposite references
those last mentioned by the way—seeing, on the
one hand, that if only there had been vote by bal-
let here in England there would have been no
chance of these disturbances his lordship was
complaining of ! And, upon the other hand, that
his complaints about American Rowdyism were
uttered on Friday evening not, let us say, at Bos-
ton, U.S., but in the English borough of Southamp-
ton ! Altogether, the Conservative display of last
week, more particularly of last Friday evening down
at Southampton, cannot, as we take it, but augur
admirably well for the only " likely" candidate now
before the Southampton constituency: the Liberal
candidate, not the eloquent Radical candidate, but the
Liberal candidate, Captain 'MANGLES. Mr. GEORGE
TriomPsoN we should be glad enough to see in the
House of Commons, a little later on as the choice
of some other constituency. But as a candidate
for the Southampton constituency, we see no
reasonable hope whatever when represented by a
fit and proper person (for that borough) like Capt.
MANGLES. " The right man," Mr. GEORGE
11103IPSON, is to our thinking upon many points—
but he is obviously just now not in the right
place as an extra Liberal candidate down at South-
ampton, with a Conservative candidate actually
there in the field. The latter, however, it must
be confessed, at the same time is no more
formidable than as the Hero of a Charivari!
So ridiculous has he rendered himself by
his bearing on Friday in presence of the

chief hope lies in the temper of the south. The
South will not be coaxed back into union. The
Southern press plainly tells its old Democratic
friends in the North that it is hopeless for them to
expect it. 'W hen discussing the Democratic speeches
before the late elections, it warns the Democrats
that the separation is final, that the South '• thinks
no better of the proposition—of re-union—when

coming from them than -when coming from the
Republicans." If the South persists in this view,
1)v inctLy aura IL Will, one or two
things must follow, either the North must make
such terms with the South as will ensure to the lat-

ter perpetual political supremacy, or the North will
determine to conquer all the Border States it cares
to have, and leave the others to their fate. In the
interests of humanity and freedom all Englishmen
ought to wish for the latter result. And it is the
one to which it is possible to hope the present elec-
tions will tend.

then recent disturbance, that one is tempted to
echo, in honour of this flower among the Lord
Mayors, the old Latin quatrain, applied to his
namesake of the garden ; but not inapplicable, just
now, to himself as Lord Mayor of London, and
Tory candidate at Southampton.

A DANIEL, yea! a DANIEL went to judgment on
Friday evening at Southampton. The Lord Mayor
of London—intent, apparently, upon making the
most of his time—has, within the first week of his
induction into the chair of the chief magistracy,
carried the civic barge through what sailors call
very dirty weather, into Southampton Waters. The
Liberal electors constituting the bulk of the con-
stituency, at that great out-port on the south coast
of England, had already their choice in the way of
obtaining a suitable representative in the Commons
House of Parliament. There was Capt. MANGLES to
begin with—about the fittest and most appropriate
person, in every respect, that could well be selected.
A man perfectly well known at Southampton.
A man whose political opinions are, upon most of
the important questions of the day, identical with
those entertained by the Southampton constituency.
A man peculiarly qualified to look after the distinc-
tive interests of a great arena of maritime and mer-
cantile enterprise like Southampton. Capt.MANGLEs,
Chairman of the Board Directors of the West India
Mail Packet Company—appeared, upon the first
instant, when his name was pointed out to the
Southampton electors as the earliest candidate for
their suffrages—appears still to this moment, when
all the other multifarious and motley candidates
have been announced and taken, one after another,
into consideration by the constituency—the most
likely, and suitable, and appropriate successor, that
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the Peninsular and Oriental Company. of the extraordinary antipathy exhibited towards England
generally a
n known
ive in this country. An intelligent gentle-
of Virginia, who is now in London assisting
So indeed have thought apparently upon calm by
brave Commander Wilkes, of the Federal navy, is not
erally
at
reflection the whole crowd of the other would-be man,
M.P.'s for the borough of Southampton. With two in the promotion of a public undertaking of great import-
exceptions only they have (so thinking) retired from
h"ow"e'vwerhi
ray
surprise
aotry;hseolutioenceosafartyhedime mystery.
cghiviesntomberaousght.tf outt when the war is over, has,
"Why," l•on added now thhee c,a,uhse ?" I protested
the contest. One among them, the Hon. Mr. ASH- On expressing
u
LEY, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of an.tdipaathAy edxdhibited by theh valiant Wilkes, this gentleman
En
to
eanseatlfantic friend, " Pll tell
England, having—from the simple fact of his
commander
tanhedfeurtuefret.'h'elle then
being Lord PALMERSTON'S Private Secretary—an about Wilkes es and Sir John Ross?" ,
,e you r never
replied. heard
mutyionT
immense advantage over all other competitors down "
Wealnl,d" let it continued
hea n a
at Southampton. Had Mr. ASHLEY decided upon y
going to the hustings, and afterwards to the poll, toolud, me that Wilkes was they
States expedition, fitted out, in common with similarljenxipteed
he would, we are satisfied, have been (probably to ditiona by-ENvngltanpd and
eßusTsih'ite, sAommeerears ago, to discover
unrivalled
i the extent of a very large majority) aided by the edaifttieornwwaredn t
Sir John Rossg
followed a few monthsican ex
1 prestige reflected upon
siderable any him by Lord P - ALMERSTON'S fithrestNaondth
The United States party was met on its return by Sir John'
popularity—a popularity undeniably con- Ross, when Captain Wilkes gave all the information he had
where and everywhere in the United acquired (or, as my Yankee friend said, all he chose to give)
to the British expedition. He also gave them a chart of
Kingdom, but es eel lly great
Premier's down in the preserved by Sir John
neighbourhood of thep
',featthat it was altoge-
tuency of the boroughthereamfong that Liberal consti- hish progress. This
subsequentwas carefullytoyed
Home,: down veteran Hampshire
tltoesrsiablluateiousassir experience
Johnßoss's
P ships actually sailed over
Southampton Neverthe- places which Were described as mountains in the chart of
less, with this brilliant Capt. Wilkes. The inference left on the mind of Sir John
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Prime Minister's prospect luring him on, the Ross was, naturally enough, that the Yankee commander.
advancing his claims upon th
Private Secretary refrains from had drawn upon his imagination for his facts. Be this as
1 it may, he was obliged to state in his official report to the
aMpton electors . Acting
t e attention of the South-
thus obvionsl
of the earliest candidate, the most 8 • Government that Commander Wilkes was not quite as reli -
3' ill favour able an Arctic traveller as some of his predecessors, and
tutable of all the that in fact the Yankee report was in some respects a romance
liberal candidates aunounced to the borough—roeui. Hence the bitter antagonism of the valorous Wilkes, and
ing the Chairman of the West India Mail Packet hence his extraordinary anxiety to insult the British flag.--
...apta_n MANGLES. Corespondent of Belfast News Letter.
com Cpany, i
On Saturday summonses were issued from the
Not thus judiciously and magnanimously have Foreign-office, office, appointing a Cabinet Council to meet this
day Lord Palmerston's official residence in Downing-
decided the two exceptions among the crowd s
inett i

" Rosa honor decueque florum,
Rosa floe odorque Divum,
Hominum roes est voluptas,
Dacus ilia Gratiarum."

Divum referring, of course, to " the Gods " (of the
theatrical galleries), from whose ranks the roughs
of Friday, down at Southampton, were manifestly
recruited—in whose nostrils, strange to say, the
very name of the Lord Mayor is in such bad
odour! "A ROSE," to them, by any other
name, would be sweeter than—by the title,
let us say, M.P. for Southampton ! As a
momentary ebullition of feeling, Friday's de-
monstration is little more to us (we cannot but
confess it) than simply laughter.moving. If
repeated, however, it could not but carry
discredit to that great liberal constituency. Let
them think seriously of the matter now, there-
fore, and act earnestly. They have pointedly
enough signified their disrelish for the Con-
servative candidate. Let them henceforth
simply dedicate their energies to the return
of the Liberal candidate, the return of Captain
MANGLES, who, if they are but determined and
united in their efforts, is secure, in spite of every
opposition, of becoming very soon indeed Mr.
WiLcot's successor as M.P. for the borough of
Southampton.

THE PRINCE OF WALES.—His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales is expected to arrive at Windsor
Castle about the 25th inst.

THE PRINCESS ALIGE.—His Royal Highness
Prince Louis of Hesse and the Princess Alice's stay in Eng-
land will be for about two months.

ASCENT OF VESUVIUS BY THE PRINCESS ROYAL.

—The Princess of Prussia made her late ascent of Vesu-
vius on foot, scrambling, slipping, and struggling, with her
companions. After remaining about half an hour, the
Royal party began to descend, ankle deep in fine ashes,
sliding, involuntarily running, the only difficulty being to
keep themselves from rolling to the bottom. One gentle-
man broke the scabbard of his sword, and the Princess found
herself almost shoeless or bootless, and, as the Neapolitans
would say, compelled to "rimediare oon un fazzoletto."
The ann'ial full dress ball, in aid of the funds of
the Royal Dramatic College, is announced to take place at
the St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, on Wednesday, the 10th
December next.

Commandant Zmybrabakis, one of the principal
chiefs of the insurrection at Nauplia, and who bas been for
some time in Paris, has just left for Athens. The depar-
ture of M. Marinovitch, President of the Servian Senate,
has also taken place. lie goes first to Geneva, and thence
direct to Belgrade.

LATEST NEWS.

ST. MATTHEW'S, SPRING GARDENS.—YeEterday
morning the Rev. S. Flood Jones. M.A., the incumbent, at
the close of a very able sermon on " the Mercies of God to
Man," stated that in accordance with the suggestions con-
tained in the circular letter of the Bishop of London, he
would ask his congregation to contribute continuously,week
by week, to the fund in aid of the relief of the distress in
the North. Small as the congregation was, he thought he
might promise in its name that at least four now starving
families should be maintained during the forthcoming
winter. The rev. gentleman intimated that the amounts
hitherto contributed by the congregation had been for-
warded by him to the Lord Mayor's Committee, and that
the church would be opened every Saturday and Monday,
between the hours of 11 and 12, when some one would
be in attendance to receive any articles of clothing, blankets,
&c., which the congregation or persons residing in the
neighbourhood might be disposed to send, and which he
would take care should be duly transmitted to the proper
quarter.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The second trien-
nial election to the office of Rector of Edinburgh 'Univer-
sity took place on Saturday. The candidates were Mr.
Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer, who has held the
office since the first election in 1859, and'llr. Stirling, M.P.
The choice is vested in the matriculated students of the
University, and out of a constituency of 1,331 the number
who voted was 1,112. The poll took place between 10 and
12 o'clock, and at the close the numbers stood as follows
For Mr. Gladstone, 644 ; for Mr. Stirling, 468 ; majority
for Mr. Gladstone, 176. In 1859 Mr. Gladstone was elected
by 643 against 527 who voted for Lord Neaves—majority,
116.

(Via JUBAL.)
CALCUTTA, OCT. 30, via GALLE.
Shirtings quiet. Copper unchanged. Saltpetre

INDIA AND CHINA.

firm.

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—DIVINITY CHAIR.—
We have authority for stating that the Court of the Uni-
versity of Glasgow proceeded on Friday to the election of a
new Professor of Divinity, in room of the Rev. Dr. Hill, re-
signed, when the Rev. Dr. Caird, Park Church, Glasgow,
was unanimously appointed to that office. We understand
that there were in all ten candidates.—Glasgow Herald.
It is stated that the Great Exhibition has been
sold for a railway terminus. We doubt if that will be per-
mitted to be the final fate of the building ; but we do know
that it will witness, before its glories are finally dimmed, a
scene that will rival anything yet beheld in the metropolis
—to wit, a magnificent ball on as elegant a scale of company
as high prices can produce ; but, if the tickets are anything
short of a five-pound note, the building will be sure to be
crowded. It will be a pleasant trip down the middle and
up again, to the sound of a monster orchestra of a thousand
performers, and the full swell of a grand organ to do the
piano passages. The building will be brilliantly illumi-
nated with gas in all directions, and festooned with all the
floral powers that the next-door neighbour---the Horticul-
tural—can bring into operation;to aid in the great event.
January is named for the ball, but that is not a decided an-
nouncement.—Court Journal,

Exchange—Barings' credits, 2s. Oid.
Government Securities—Four per Cents., 944 to
94 ; ditto, Five per Cents., 104 t to 105.
Freights declining.

CANTON, OCT. 14.

OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Duke of Argyle
has bean appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Argyleshire in the
room of the Marquis of Breadalbana. We believe that Mr.
Henry Austin Bruca, M.P. for Merthyr Tydvil, will sue •
teed Mr. George Clive as under-secretary of state. Mr.
Bruce was called to the bar in 1837. The Rev. A. P,
Clemenger has been appointed incumbent of the new dis-
trict of St. Thomas, Agar-town. The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Henry Astbury Leveson, Esq , to be
colonial secretary for her Majesty's settlement of Lagos;
and Charles Piers, Esq., to be superintendent of convicts
for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.

Accounts from Toulon state that the reports cur-
rent on the subject of a fleet of iron-coated frigates being
fitted out for sea have completely ceased, and if the Go-
vernment ever intended anything of the sort it has been
indefinitively adjourned, for the Gloire is about to be laid
up in ordinary and the Invincilde to be placed on the re-
"v The expedition to Mexico having dipped
deeplyrd
iint. the budget of the Marine, it has been found
necessary to postpone various experiments which the Mi •
nister had proposed to make with iron-cased ships of war.
It is said that there is a question of reinforcing
the French squadron in the Chinese seas. The Minister
has received despatches announcing the appearance of a vast
number of pirates. Commodore de Marolles, of the Im-
perial navy, has been forced to enter into a very unequal
conflict with them in the waters of the Ningpo. He lost
from 15 to 20 men, and he himself was wounded. On the
18th of September, the date of the despatches, the cholera,
which had made great ravages among the fleet, had con-
siderably diminished.
NEW SOUTH TV ALES AND THE RELIEF FUND.—

A remittance of £7OO has been received from the Yass dis-
trict, and £443 from Goulburn, in aid of the fund for the
relief of the distressed Lancashire operatives. £13,500 had
already been forwarded from the colony, and another re-
mittance of £3,600 was made by this mail..—Australian and
IVeu, Zealand Gazette.

DEATH OF A CAVALRY VETERAN.--Died, on the
9th inst., at the Cavalry Barracks, Cahir, " Crimean
Bob," the oldest troop horse in the British cavalry. This
veteran commenced his career in the 15th Hussars, and
on their embarkation for India was transferred to the 14th
Light Dragoons, and from that regiment to the 11th Hussars
in like manner, when the 14th were ordered on foreign ser-
vice. He first joined the army on the 2d October, 1833,
making a total of military service of nearly thirty years,
during which period he was all through the Crimean Cam-
paign, and was ridden in the memorable charge of Bala-
klava, and at the battles of Alma and Inkerman, by the
present farrier-major of the regiment, and during the whole
of the campaign was never once struck off duty through
sickness. On the return of the regiment to England he
was shown to his Royal Highness the General Command-
ing-in-Chief, who would not allow him to be cast; but
ordered him to be retained is the regiment until his death,
which occurred on Sunday morning, from old age and
general decay, to the sincere regret of all ranks of the regi-
ment, from the colonel down to the youngest recruit, with
whom the old horse was a universal favourite.— United
Service Gazette.

Gray shirtings unchanged.
Tea—total export to date, 52,000,0001 b.
Exchange on London, 4s. 71-d.
SHANGHAI, OCT. 7.
Tea—Congou firm, but little doing.
Silk firm. Settlements in fortnight, 1,500 bales,
Export to date, 43,000 bales.
Exchange on London, 6s. 31d. (?)
Freights lower.

ANOTHER ACCIDENT TO THE UNDERGROUND
RAILWAY.—On Saturday morning, at 11 o'clock, a further
inspection of the state of the line, the new signals, and the
carriages, the construction of which, with reference to the
doors, &c., had been objeoted to on the part of Col, Yolland,

of the Board of Trade, was made in the presence of that
gentleman, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Parsons, and several of the
directors of the company. All appeared to be comparatively
satisfactory until the neighbourhood of Coppice-row was
reached, when it was found that upwards of 100 feet of
earth on the western aide of the newly-formed line bad
slipped, forcing down about 30 feet of the " retaining" wall,
and materially endangering the large water tank, signals,
and, indeed, the whole of the contiguous property abutting
upon that portion of the line. The whole of this part of the
cutting appears to be in a dangerous state, several piles of

per-
cular position by the strain of the masses of earTh and clay
resting against them, and the pressure of the weight of the
adjacent buildings. On Friday afternooon, and during the
whole of Saturday, large numbers of additional workmen
were engaged in attempting to make good the damage.
TUE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE DISTRESS IN
LANCASHIE.E.—In the course of a circular just issued by
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, he says :—" I beg
to call your attention to the efforts now being made by the
benevolent throughout the country for the relief of the Lan.
cashire operatives. No doubt many of your flock have
already contributed to the common fund through some of
the numerous channels opened for the flow of charity, but
our liberality must keep pace with the distress. You will
therefore be pleased to have in the church under your care
a general collection on Sunday, the 23d instant. I must
leave it to the impulse of your heart how you can best sti-
mulate the generosity of your people. You will be doing
a real act of kindness if you will open at your own house or
school a depot for the receiving of clothes, old or new, shoes,
hats or caps, coverlets or any other article that can be con-
verted into clothing or a coverlet for the night. It is my
intention to transmit the collection to the central committee
in Manchester, which discharges its duties in a business-
like way, withcut bias or partiality. Without any exhor-
tation I have no doubt you will pray to God that this
scourge may cease, and implore of Him not to add pestilence
to famine."

CANTON, via /lIBAL, OCT. 14.

Nothing definite hasyet been ascertained respect-
ing the cause or extent of the recently discovered
conspiracy in this city.

SHANGHAI, OCT. 7.

The city is tranquil.
An engagement has taken place between the
rebels and Colonel Ward's contingent, near Ningpo.
Colonel Ward was afterwards killed while attacking
Reece (?) city. The rebels have appeared in great
force before Ningpo, determined to take the city.
Advices received from Japan announce the per-
petration of a dreadful political murder.
A lady and three gentlemen, while riding on the
high road, were attacked by a Damio with a retinue
of 300 men. Mr. Charles Lennox Richardson, of
Shanghai, one of the party, was murdered in cold
blood. The rest escaped. The vengeance of the
foreign Powers for this act had been averted by the
British Minister, whose interference bad incurred
the indignation of the European residents.

THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.—This morning
a meeting of the parishioners of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
was held at the Vestry Hall for the purpose of taking into
consideration the best means of alleviating the distress
at present existing in Lancashire. Amongst the speakers
were Mr. W. E. Gladstone,
the vicar, the Rev. Mr.
Humphreys, and several other gentlemen, all of whom spoke
in the highest admiration of the condvct of the unem •
ployed in that part of the:country, Resolutions for raising
a subscription in the parish were unanimously agreed to,
and a commencement was made in the Vestry Hall, when
nearly all the leading persons present gave in their names
for very handsome sums,