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London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

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cation should be based upon a useful principle;
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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
I from all those shackles which the less enlightened
Legislature of former periods had thought beneficial
to be imposed upon it. It was thought in 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 body, I 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 HARDWICKE, in responding to the
toast of the House of Lords, expressed his satisfac-
tion at the discretion which, up to this moment, her
Majesty's Ministers had displayed in the policy of
non-intervention they had adopted in the interne-
cine struggle in America. He also expressed 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 warm 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 for 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
conscien4s 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
joined (" Her Majesty's Ministers "), be may have
expressed something like a want of allegiance to
the party to which he belongs. (Laughter.) Let
me assure him that, verbally, critically, and logi-
cally, the toast which he drank was perfectly con-
sistent with the views which he afterwards ex-
pressed. He drank the health of her Majesty's
Ministers. Now every man, let him be ever so
I little conversant with medicallscience, 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-
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literally, and logically, my noble friend wished
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its accompanying symptoms. He also discovered in the
cavity of the abdomen a large peach stone, which was pro_
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GARIBALDI AND 711 E ROMAN
QUES7ION.

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., M.P., 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
he 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 MARTINUCCI seconded 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-
teivention, and that it is a constant source of danger
to the peace of Europe.
Dr. RUGE 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 congratulatin g
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 refusa 1
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, be 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 he 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. He 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 held 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-
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
Garibaldi had more served the cause of liberty than
he does stricken and wounded as he now lies at
Varignano. (Loud cheers.) Public attention has now
been so much directed to Garibaldi, and, of course,
to the
mighty cause in which he served, that it was
say
not too much to that a mighty, indignant
burst of protest from free men
throughout the
length and breadth of Europe would be the result,
and that even the iron-hearted Emperor himself
will begin to quail before that tempest of wrath
which is in preparation, and which will sooner or
later be heaped on his devoted head, unless justice
be done. (Loud cheers.)
A Mr. WOODWARD and a gentleman who gave the

name of Pi MBERTON 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.
CONINGHAM 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, end 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, 111.11.C.5., 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 chest
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 ttte
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 his 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.