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Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald on Parliamentary

Reform.

IIonSIIAM, Friday.

The annual exhibition of stock, roots, and
poultry was held in this town yesterday, and was
well attended by the farmers of the district.
Although the show of fat stock, owing to the cattle
plague, was numerically smaller than it had been
for some years, the quality of the animals exhibited
was considered unusually good. In the afternoon
the farmers at the Black Horse Hotel, under the
presidency of Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, the late
member for the borough, who was supported by
Colonel Barttelot, M.P., Mr. Hurst, M.P., Sir
Percy Burrell, M.P., &c.
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The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the' Army, Navy,
and Volunteers," referred to the recent occurrences
in Jamaica. He said that there had been in late
events in connection with Jamaica, in regard to
which he thought a portion of the public and of
the press had not behaved with that justice and
forbearance which the absent at all times were en-
titled to claim, and which we, taking a pride in
the honour of our army, were bound on their
behalf to demand. He did not think that any-
tling could be more pitiable, or could call
more for their regret than the spectacle
which had lately been held out to us as regarded
the position of the colony of Jamaica. We saw
there race set against race, religious sect set against
religious sect, and from the highest to the lowest, '
society in discord and divided against itself. In such
a society, at a time of the greatest difficulty, the
army had been called upon to perform great, diffi-
cult, and important services. There was about to
be an investigation into all the circumstances of the
disturbances in Jamaica, and he thought we might
ask this at least of the most bigoted of our coun-
trymen—that they should not pass a judgment
until they had heard the whole case. (Cheers.)
And if in a moment of difficulty and danger, such
as those resident in Jamaica had passed through,
there had been in some instances errors of judg-
ment, let us at least abstain from that which he was
sorry to see had been too common among public
speakers of late years—namely, the passing of a
general condemnation upon all those who had been
engaged in such difficult circumstances in the ser-
vice of their country. Let us believe this—that
what British soldiers have hitherto been, not more
remarkable for their valour than their mercy, would
be found to be their characteristic now, and that it
would be shown that in Jamaica, as well as in every
other part of the world, their conduct had been a
credit and an honour to the British name. (Cheers.)
Major ALDRIDGE, in responding, strongly censured
the strictures which had been passed upon Governor
Eyre and the authorities in Jamaica. He believed
that when we had the whole of the case before us it
would be found that Governor Eyre, whose sym-
pathy for the black was well known, had acted
throughout for the best.

Mr:Lirrorr. gave the " Health of the Members
for West Sussex," which was received with great
cordiality.
Colonel BARRTELOT, M.P., on responding, said it
was a most responsible and arduous duty for a
member of Parliament to discharge in a straight-
forward manner the duty of representing a consti-
tuency in Parliament. He had endeavoured to the
best of his ability to discharge his, and he wanted
no ;further reward than the kindness with which
they had hitherto received him. They had now
a new Parliament. 'The late Parliament, with
all its good, and with all its shortcomings, had now
passed away, but he thought he might venture to
say of it that although it might not occupy a very
high position in the annals of the country, yet that
that Parliament had done as far as it knew how ex-
actly what the nation wished, and that was not to
do too much, but only to pass those measures which
were absolutely necessary for the welfare and well-
being of the country. That Parliament was presided
over and guided] by a man now gone who would
ever be remembered as an Englishman, who never
swerved from doing all he thought necessary for the
advantage and honour of his country. (Cheers.) At
no period of our existence had there been a man so
well suited to all parties in this country as the late
Lord Palmerston. He and many others had differed
from the noble lord, but still, taking Lord Palmer-
ston on the whole, he was the true type of an Eng-
lish gentleman, and as such would be for ever hon-
oured and respected. (Cheers.) At the same time,
there was one passage in the history of the late Par-
liament which he regarded as a dark spot—namely,
the way in which Denmark was treated by this
country. He regarded it as a mistake and a fatal