The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-19 00:00:00

BIRMINGHAM.

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On Wednesday evening a meeting, convened by
the Mayor, in pursuance of a numerously signed
requisition, was held in the Town-hall, for the
double purpose of expressing sympathy with General
Garibaldi, and for memorialising the Government
to use its influerce for the withdrawal of the French
troops from Rome. The hall was crowded from end
to end, Not only were all the seats filled, but the
PoP,sages between them were lined with those who
could not find sittingroom, and the orchestra was

crammed. Many ladie,
must have numbered
conformity with the o
enthusiastically carried.

DUE.

'went. The audience
'OO. Resolutions in
the meeting we re

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A highly influential__. meeto;g, convened bs pri-
vate circular, was held on Mretinusday, when a pe-
tition to the Right Hon. I-
.issell was unani-
mously adopted. The petit rnestly entreated
his lordship to use any infil, is command,
in the proper quarter, to pros no detriment
might ensue to General Garibt•
.is followers,
from the result of the attempe $ dy the evil,
for the removal of which the pe, s felt them-
selves under solemn obligations to r 3 appeal. It
Was then agreed that 500 copies of /-. petition just
read be printed, and forwarded fo- Ignatures to
every town in Ireland.

RWICKSHIRE AG_RICI, 'TRAL
SOCIETY.

ASTON PARK, BIRMINGI
The annual meeting of this sock, is year
been held in the neighbourhood of wn ; the
dinner took place this evening in -. __ ected in
this file old park, the hall of which was the abiding
place of the Holtes a century ago, and which be-
came adme
dedication
i ot:
oPfagßeiran3ntinagn
came the "People's Park"
five years since, the opening
in connexion with which were graced by the pre
sence of her Majesty.
The dinner to-day was presided weer by Lord
Warwick, who was supported by the Youthful Lord
Willoughby de Broke, Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Sir
Charles Mordannt, M.P., the Mayor of Binning_
ham, Mr. C. M. Caldecott, &c.
The usual loyal toasts having been disposed ors
Lord WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE, who was received
with much enthusiasm, gave " The Health of Lord
./... is L ,?Y as Lorry ticaleaant of the county. In doing
so his Lordship said that Lord Leigh's many good
deeds had been over and over again exemplified
years ago in the interest he took in the relief of
those who suffered from the distress at Coventry,
and more recently by an affliction which had be-
fallen the operatives of Lancashire.
fTorhet
the
Healthgo good
d servicesof Lord
1,1 , Sirar wJOHNiek,,,wll
il ;ohs
thanks
tog a
him
"
he had done to this society and to the cause of
agriculture, the meetings of these societies being
no longer, in any reipect, party meetings, but hav-
ing at heart the general interest and prosperity of
agriculture.
The Earl of WARWICK having responded,
Sir JOHN RATCLIFF gave " The Members of the
House of Commons."
Mr. NEWDEGATE, who was cordially received, re-
sponded. He rejoiced (he said) to see the cordiality
of sentiment between the county and the hardware
metropolis, which by their kindness he had so long
represented. He could assure them, he said, of the
sympathy of the House of Commons, and of a feel-
ing of acuteness in which all must share—the ques-
tion of fine weather at this particular moment.
That it was imprudent to make heavy draughts on
the exchequer when the barometer was falling in
the months of August and September every mem-
ber of the House of Commons whose duty it was to
vote for the taxation of the country felt as deeply
as any one present; they would therefore all be
grateful for that fine day—grateful for the promise
of a harvest which might to some extent repair the
damage that had fallen on a part of the industrial
operations of the country. (Hear.) The Chancellor
of the Exchequer, equally with them, watched the
barometer; no doubt the state of the right hon.
gentleman's health varied with it; and he rejoiced
in the hope that if inquiries as to the state of
health of the agriculturists around him were made
the same answer would be given which he had often
been gratified to hear as to the condition of ladies
of his acquaintance—" that they were as well as
could be expected." Before proceeding to reply to
the toast which had called him before them he
would congratulate them on the improvement
which had taken place in the appearance of the
meetings of the association ; in fact, they com-
pletely 'verified a saying of George M., who
when he saw a member for Warwickshire approach-
ing said, " Here comes Old Warwickshire, slow but
sure"—(cheers)—for they had hided the time when
agricultural meetings were subject to much misre-
presentation, and when the honesty of purpose of
rewarding 30 or 40 years' labour was spoken of as
I simply resulting in a coat and breeches. They had
outlived those times, and now their honesty of pur-
pose was recognised and acknowledged. Through-
out that county, and the towns of England in par-
ticular, that fact was now admitted that agricul-
tural associations had been highly useful, and this
utterly irrespective of those who had been more
especially the recipients of their usefulness. So much
for that part of the subject of the meeting of the
day. In returning thanks for the House of Com-
mons, he was anxious not to be suspected of Dun-
drearism, by appropriating that toast to himself.
The English House of Commons was the great
type of representative constitution in the world ;
and he mi _ ht be forgiven for saying that while there
were imitations of its framework abroad they were
lame compared with it. (Hear.) Why were they
so ? Because the House of Commons was not a
1 thing of yesterday, but a creation of the good sense
of generations. It was like the ancient mansion
erected on the lawn on which they met ; it was
devised according to none of the rigid rules of either
ancient or modern architecture ; the House of Com-
mons
lace, was one of the greatest
of u
rn
Pd
was a monument of the
owasins thetit ctli zls, I i nag o
good sense of England.
Solid in itself, it had
been renewed periodically, and was, indeed, a
combination of convenient anomalies ; it was
I calculated to afford a chamber for every phase of
public life and for every expression of public
opinion. (Hear.) It was erected upon old foun-
dations, had been raised by the genius of the
oc. (
people
and adapted to modern times ; while by the
solidity of the masonry it proved that the public
spirit of those who went before built not for them
selves alone, but for us and for succeeding genera-
' tions- (Hear.) Let them look at the men whom
in recent years the House of Commons had com-
prised among its members—that there had beena
Cobbett, a Muntz, a Scholefield, and a Bright ; that
there had sat in it his noble friend the chairman ;
that it had included a Lord Russell—(cheers)—Lord
Derby, and Lord Palmerston. (Hear, ind cheers.)
Could there be a better proof than in mentioning
such names of the universality of the representa-
tion of the people in the House of Commons ? That
ancient structure, which afforded full freedom for
the expression of national sentiment within the
bounds of the constitution ! They had been told
that the system of Government of which the Hous'O
of Commons was the active type was expensive and
complicated; but let them look at the United States !
Was the freedom of those peoples secure by their
exaggerated seeking after simplicity ? He might
cite against them the opinions of the founders of the
Union, of such men as Daniel Webster and others—
of men who had for years warded off the catas-
trophed now beau drawn.
into which the States had
To accomplish all objects, and to adapt itself to
every circumstance, a Government must be expen-
sive, if it was to meet every urgency. (Hear.) M
The Mayor had referred to the meeting hick had
s evening
taken place in the town on the previous ev
s—htop knneoef
sympathy for Garibaldi—but his wor-
wnevertheless, that as much sympathy
thath during
was felt throughout the whole county of War-
wich. (Cheers.) It had been argued
the past Session the House of Commons
utfliction under which her Majesty was bowed
little, but he reminded them of the ad done
state of
down ; and when the state of Europe was
fraught
with so many elements of disturbance,he doubted
interest of England,
tet
whether it was in theor
her institutions.
attempt at great changes in
t
whether her people would have approved any
had been
in Italy, remarking that Garibaldi
that no
The hen. gentleman next alluded orecent events
" trapped" into a mistake; but hehopedout in France
would be carried.re.g_ of
revengeful feeling
to him. He hoped that the bove
bei "
for that actou
was not forgotten, though,
no
haPPI Y'
would not be unmindful of Hain-lT
own Wellington needed indication.
The
against those vrho
turn °gal • d
" dragon's teeth"
might
"baldi's great services, and
were unmindful of Garristood that the. sympathies
nde death of IN eyr
everywhere be !".t
tub s
i country were iu favour o I
iof the people of (cheere.)
Italian froedon.

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