The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-03 00:00:00

Mr. Cardwell, M,P , at Oxford.

OXFORD, Jan. 2.
The annual festival-of Lodge 59 of the Ancient
Order of Druids was celebrated this day in the new
Corn Exchange, under the presidency of Brother

W. Wharton,- Grand Arch. Among the guests
were the Right 'llOn. E. Cardwell,
Neate, M.P:, Mr. J. Hughes (mayor), Mr: 11.
Grant (sheriff), Mr. Carr (ex-mayor), Aldermen
Spiers, Ward, Randall, and Towle, Mr. Justice
Pike, Captain, Maiham, Captain Fane, Ensign
Hussey, &c.
The usual -loyal and constitutional toasts were
given and received with great cordiality.
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The _ health of the
Members for the city, the Right Hon: E. Cardwell
and-Mr. Neate." (Loud- cheering.)
Mr. CARDWELL, who on rising to respoid to the
toast was received:with loud cheers, said-T:Gentle-
men, I am sure no,words of mine will suffice to
express the feelings which animate my heart for the
kind.and cordial reception which you have been
pleased to give to the mention
.of my name„: Every
year as it passes over my, head, gives occasion to
some new proof of your kindness and of yOur con-
fidence, and calls from me a corresponding expres-
sion of my gratitude and my cordial regard.
(Cheers.) When me met in this city this time last
year every eye was turned to that dark cloud in the
northern sky which was big with danger to a
friendly nation, and which threatened to disturb
the peace and tranquillity of Europe. I remember
that we then joined in the expression of an earnest
hope that we might be able to preserve, peace for
ourselves, and that we also might be able to main-
tain by our influence the blessings of peace- to
others. (Hear, hear.) That hope was partly gra-
tified and partly disappointed.
" The fates, assenting, grangd half our prayer,
The rest the winds dispersed in empty air."
Gentlemen, so far as this question has been a matter
of political conflict, it is past and 'gone. I have not
a word to say respecting it in that regard ; but the
moral, the public lesson which the British com-
munity has derived from this discussion, is a sub-
ject on which it is worth while briefly to linger. I
have read able speeches from those who recommend
that, :18 our position is insular; so sh-Ordil or is
Clc that.;fve sltd.iild—keep'ortFieries ali—no-if en ire y
aloof from the affairs of others, and-that we should
devote ourselves almost exclusively to the prosecu-

tion of our own improvement and the promotion of
the welfare of our own people. Other able
speakers have said that such a policy would be a
cold and selfish policy, that it would be a derelic-
tion of duty, that it would be an abrogation of the
place which England holds in the scale of nations.
To me it appears far easier to lay down general
principles than it is to guide their practical appli-
cation to the difficult circumstances that arise. But
in this, as in many other instances of public policy,

it seems to me that the analogy of private life
affords a very fair and certain guide by which we
may direct our steps in the mazes of public dia.-.
culty. If an individual in a neighbourhood be
rich and powerful you would not expect him to be
prompt and ready to interfere in all the affairs of
others. Neither, on the other hand, if conflicts
arise in his neighbourhood, and a word of friendly
counsel would avert difficulty and disaster, do you
expect him to separate himself in the coldness of
isolation, and refuse to his neighbours the benefit
of his counsel. (Hear.) And that which is wise
and right in private life is, I think, wise and right
in the conduct of public affairs. I believe that the
judgment of the great British community is this—
that the policy which becomes ,a great nation like
England is at once a free and generous policy, but,
at the same time, a policy exercising intervention
cautiously and charily, and exercising it when-
ever it is necessary in a sense of moderation and
in the interests of peace. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,
I have read, and I am sure that you have looked
with great interest to, the news which you have re-
ceived from the Northern States of America, not
only because you view with deep sympathy and re-
gret the suffering which the continuance of the
conflict in that country has occasioned, but because
you have been shocked to see that danger has been
anticipated lest friendly relations should be inter-
rupted and other countries be made the scene of
preparing hostile operations against a friendly
Power. (Hear, hear.) lam not now in a position
to speak on the precise merits of the questions that
have arisen, but I have no hesitation in assuring
you of my entire conviction that no
,men are more
sensible than Lord Monk (the Governor-General of
Canada) and his advisers of that which is due to
the honour of the British Crown and to the invio-

late neutrality of the British territory. (Hear.)
You may be certain that if the present law in
Canada be adequate they will carry it into execution
with promptitude and vigour, and that if the pre-
sent law be found inadequate it will not long be suf-
fered to remain so. (Cheeas.) And, gentlemen,
what a spectacle have our fellow subjects in British
North America presented to the world. They have
seen in the last 15 or 20 years nearly every throne
in Europe shaken, and they now see the great re-
public of their own continent the scene of civil con-
vulsion and of civil war ; they remember with pride
and gratitude that they are the subjects of a throne as
ancient as the oldest European monarchy, and that
they live under institutions as free as any that ever
were known in the history of mankind. They
have conceived a noble ambition ; they have de-
signed to form, I say, a nation, but not a nation
divided from the allegiance which they owe to the
British throne, nor separated from the institutions
under which it is their pride to live, nor estranged

from the associations and attachments which 'bind
them to the mother country. (Hear, hear.) Gen-
tlemen, I have had the opportunity of reading able
speeches made by leading statesmen in North
America to their constituents, and I may say to you
in passing, what I am sure will interest you as it
interests me, that the President of the Council of
Canada delivers his speeches to the electors of Ox-
ford ; and when he was in this country the other
day I asked him what sort of place Oxford was, and
he replied to me, with pardonable pride, that Ox-
ford was the garden of Canada ; and I said that I

and ready to take their place among the powerful
communities of the world. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,
it is given to other countries to be great and power-
ful empires, but it has been given to England alone to
be also the mother of great and free communities.
In the last century we governed our colonies with

too much regard to our own views, and too little
regard to their views and interests. The result was
a disastrous and discreditable conflict, and in the
end we were compelled to say what we had much
better have avowed in the beginning, -" Wayward
children, depart in peace." There is no subject
of the Queen of England. who wishes now to de-
part from the British Constitution. What the
policy of coercion could not do, the policy of
confidence has effected. (Hear.) But some peciple
say, " Well, but you are now taking the other
extreme, and are governing your colonies too much
for the benefit of the colonies, and too much at
the cost of the mother country." Well, I am ready
to admit, and I am sure the colonies will assent,
that no permanent and enduring connexion can
be formed upon that basis and that principle: But
what the colonists will be ready to assent to, and
what we shall be prepared to go along with them to
establish, is a connexion founded upon the endur-
ing principles of mutual sympathy, of mutual inte-
rest, of mutual advantage ; and I believe that Eng-
land may be proud to be the parent of such colo-
nies, and that the day may come in future when
they will be both able and willing to repay the as-
sistance and protection which they have received
from the mother country, and when England,
speaking as the parent of those distant communi-
ties, may say she will be glad to have her quiver
full of them, and she will not be ashamed when she
speaks with her enemy at the gate. (Hear, hear.)
I have now occupied you a long time, but I wish to
say a few words on a subject of great interest to
the people of Oxford. It is a question affecting
more correctly the University, but on that account
of great interest to you, the citizens of Oxford.
You are aware that the rules with regard to the
admission to the University of Cambridge arc
in some respects more favourable than the

rules with respect to the admission to the
University of Oxford, and that in the last session
of Parliament a friend of mine, the hon. member
for Sussex, a most distinguished member of the
University, brought in a bill which would have had
the effect of remedying that mischief. •In support-
hiii
distinguished part. If that bill had been limited
to that purpose I have little doubt that it would
have been carried. I should have cordially re-
joiced in its success. But the authors of-the bill
went further, and it was 'ultimately not successful.
But the decision then come to did not deter me
from giving it my support in the final stages
in the House of Commons. I think it right to say
plainly that in my judgment, these tests which ex-
clude many from joining the University of Oxford,
are most readily taken by those who care little about
the subjects they concern. I feel the great import-
ance of keeping in the foreground all the truths of
religion in the training of youth, but I think the
time of earnestness will never be the time of perfect
unity of opinion. According to the old saying, the
dead fish floated only with the stream. Wherever
there was earnestness there would be divergence,
and I wish we may look in the conflict in which we
are engaged mere closely on the great points in
which we are agreed, and less to the points on
which we unfortunately differ—(cheers)—and that
we may combine in harmonious action to fight the
great battle shoulder to shoulder in which we are
engaged against the common enemy. (Hear.) I
will now bring my remarks to a close. It is not so
certain that 70 years is the life of man as that seven
years is the termination of the life of a Parliament,
and there cannot be any doubt that the present
Parliament is rapidly approaching its close. I
think we may say of it that it has accomplished
something, and when it has gone it may be num-
bered not unworthily with its predecessors. It is
quite true that we have not performed all that was
expected from us. We certainly have not settled
the question of Parliamentary Reform—(hear,
hear)—a question that has been too difficult
for many successive Governments and successive
Parliaments. But this may be said of the
present Parliament—that during the course
of it the Navy has been to a great extent recon-
structed, the army has been to a great extent re-
armed, the great arsenals of the country have been
fortified and secured against surprise, the volunteer
force has been raised and placed upon a permanent
and secure footing, the Royal Naval Reserve—a
force in itself no mean protector to an insular coun-
try—has been called into existence, and is now in
a state of complete efficiency. (Cheers.) In the
meantime, our income-tax has been reduced one-
third, many articles which encumbered our tariff
have been swept away, and our tariff now consists
of very few articles. (Hear.) The great articles
of consumption of the poorer classes have been the
subject of reduction of taxation. We have now a
buoyant revenue—we have an industrious and a
prosperous population, and I think we may say that
during the present Parliament we have avoided war
and have remained at peace. (Cheers.) During that
time I believe no member has had so much occasion
to be indebted to his constituents as I have. Four
successive times you have placed me in the position
which I have the honour to occupy ; and I most
cordially and sincerely thank you for this and the
other marks of kindness which you have shown me
on this and every other occasion, and I thank you
most especially and most sincerely for the manner
in which you have received me on the present occa-
sion. (Cheers.)
Mr. NEATE, M.P., also
responded to the toast,
expressing his general concurrence in the remarks
which had fallen from his rig hon. CO, league.
Several other toasts were afterwards given and
responded to.

THE TIN STANDARD.—The smelters have made
a further reduction in the prices of tin, which are now as
follows :—Common ingots and blocks, 97s ; common bars,
98s ; refined blocks, 100 s ; grain blocks, 103 s ; fine grain
blocks, 107 s ; fine ditto, granulated, 109 s ; fine ditto, bars,
111 s. This further reduction has been brought about to a
great extent by several lots having-been forced on the
market in order to reduce the stocks before the close of the
year. Unless the demand materially improves no advance
is expected for Some time. •

About 3 o'clock on the morning of the 21st of December,
an eye-witness saw Cumbers take a goose out of a box, the
end of which was unnailed, as it was standing on the
goods platform of the Brick-lane station. He was also
seen to put it under his coat and pass it through the gates
of the company's premises, where it was afterwards found.
His duty as night watchman ended at 4 o'clock in the
morning, and he left without taking the goose with him
Subsequently, when apprehended, he said he knew
nothing about it.

The defence was that the eye-witness might have mis-
taken the prisoner for another man.
The jury, after being locked up for some time, found a
verdict of not guilty.
Frederick Langston, 21, and John Nicholls, 18, were
charged with stealing a desk, containing a gold watch and
other articles, value .00, the property of James Bird.
Tho prosecutor, Mr. Bird, is foreman to Messrs. Watling,
publicans' confectioner, and lives at. 26, Denbigh-street,
Pimlico. He left his house in charge of his maid servant,
Sarah Tayett, on the afternoon of the Ist of December, and
when he returned at a quarter to five he found her absent ;
but presently she returned with the desk unopened under
her arm. It seemed that the girl, who was only 16 years
of age, had gone out to buy a reel of cotton, leaving •the
front door open, and on her return in five or six minutes
she met Langston leaving the house with the desk under
his arm. Nicholls was waiting three doors off. They spoke
together and then ran away. She pursued them and caught
Langston by the collar. He struck her a violent blow on
the nose which drew blood, but she retained her hold, and
he then gave up the desk in order to get free. Both pri-
soners eluded the police until the 28th of December, when
they were seen in company in Rochester-row, and at once
apprehended. There was some doubt as to the identity of
Nicholls, and he was acquitted.
The jury found Langston guilty, and
The Assistant-Judge remarked on the cowardly blow
which he had given to the witness, and sentenced him to
12 months' imprisonment, with hard labour.
Mr Bird was called forward.
The Assistant-Judge—Are you going to keep that little
girl ?

Mr. Bird—Yes, my Lord, a little longer ; but she is
about to be married.

The Assistant-Judge--Her conduct in this case makes
no difference in yoUr estimation of her?
Mr. Bird—Rather the contrary. I think it in her favour.
The Assistant-Judge—We think so, too, and we intend
to give her 10s. We should have given her more if she
had not left the door open. (Laughter:)
_ _

(Before Mr. Payne.) •
Daniel Broolonan, 50, was charged with stealing 48th. of
hair, value £3 165., the property of Messrs. W. and J.
Holland and Sons, upholsterers, in Mount-street, Hanover-
square.

Mr..llesley, instructed by Mr. Edward Lewis, appeared
for the vosycution;,. _the .:prisoner wS pot, -7 deftuded by

This was a rather curious case. The prisoner, it was
provi3A has been for six vicars an inmate. of the workhouse
of St. George's, Hanover-square, with the exception of
about a fortnight in each year, when he has regularly at-
tended the training of a militia regiment to which he
belongs. He was employed by the authorities in the work-
house to collect hair from different shops to be picked
by the inmates and afterwards returned to the owners.
He had occasionally been to Messrs. Hollands, and
blew that their rule was to deliver . out three
dozen pounds' weight at a time. On the 21st of De-
cember, between 3 and 4 o'clock, he was seen at the prose=
cuter's, but no one saw him leave or heard him ask for hair.
When he left, instead of taking. a large bundle which he
carried direct to the workhouse, a few yards distant, he was
seen to walk, by a circuitous route, to the shop of a marine
store-dealer in Gilbert-street, a distance of nearly half a
mile. A police constable, who was in plain clothes, and who
had watched the prisoner, saw him walk through the shop
into a back parlour, and there unfasten the bundle. He
entered, and, although the shopkeeper at first said the man
had brought nothing with him, Brookmail admitted that he
had brought the bundle from Messrs. Hollands, and he said
he was going to take it to the workhouse. It contained
four dozen pounds, in four parcels, and on examination of
two bags capable of 'containing five dozen pounds, it was
discovered that three dozen were missing from one and
one dozen from the other. The suggestion was that the
prisoner intended to take the three dozen pounds to the
workhouse, and to sell the one dozen pounds to the
marine storedealer. Although he received no wages, and
was supposed to be destitute of money, 355. 101 d. were
found upon him.

The jury found him guilty, and expressed a strong
opinion that the marine storedealer ought to have been
prosecuted.
It was stated that he had been in custody, but had been
discharged.

Messrs. Hollands' assistant informed the Court that the
quantity of hair which they had lost exceeded 8001 b.

Mr. Payne said he was afraid the prisoner had been in
the habit of stealing hair. He must be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for 12 calendar.

Robert Gill, 19, was charged with stealing four £5 Bank
of England notes, the property of Edward Soles.
Mr. Pater prosecuted ; Mr. lorry defended. .
The prosecutor, a sailor, had been paid off and lost his
money, but could not tell where or under what circum-
stances. The prisoner was found dealing with the notes,
and his only explanation was that he had found them.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 18
months' imprisonment, with hard labour.

The California State Telegraph Company have
completed their line to Seattle, W.T. ; the line will be
pushed forward to New Westminister, British Columbia,
and is expected to reach there by the new year.—British
Columbian paper.
SEVERE SNOWSTORM IN SCOTLAND.—The dry and
comparatively mild weather which characterised
the three
last days of the week changed on Saturday evening to in-
tense cold followed by a heavy fall of snow, which conti-
nued till an early hour on Sunday morning. The snow
began to fall about 7 o'clock, at first gently, but after the,
first half-hour it became suddenly so thick as soon to cover
the ground to a considerable depth, and at 1 o'clock, when
the fall ceased, there would be four or five inches of snow
on the ground in the city, while in the country around it
was, of course, much deeper. Owing to the sudden fall of
snow the cab traffic was immediately and entirely sus-
pended. At night the wind set in from the west, and con-
tinuing to blow fresh a thaw commenced, which continued
yesterday morning,
and was beginning to clear away the
snow, with the unfortunate effect, however, of rendering
the roads rather more dirty and disagreeable than is desir-
able, particularly at a holiday time like the present. The
cold during the storm was very intense, and on Saturday
the lochs in the neighbourhood of the city were covered
with ice to the thickness of upwards of an inch. The ther-
mometer stood at 1 o'clock this (Monday) morning at 36
deg.—Scotsman.

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