The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-14 00:00:00

ROCHDALE.

The nomination of candidates for the representation of
this borough, in the room of the late Mr. Cobden, took place
yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, on hustings erected in the
open space in front of the Wellington Hotel. The proceed-
ings appeared to excite the utmost interest. Not only the
area named, but all the streets which converge to that point
were densely crowded with people to the extent of about
100 yards in each direction, and it was estimated that from
15,000 to 20, 000 were collected within ight, though certainly
not within hearing, of what took place on the hustings.
Although in other respects veiy orderly and good-tempered,
the crowd was from the beginning quite as noisy as is cus-
tomary in the contests of Lancashire boroughs, and the dis-
mal uproar of groaning and cheers seemed to increase as the
morning passed. The noise was too continuous to allow of
any speaker being cell heard for more than a few
yards from the hustings ; the cheers and counter-cheers,
therefore, could have little significance as to the actual
expressions of the speakers they interrupted, but must
rather have been provoked by ejaculations from the
midst of the crowd, or mostly from mere rivalry in
exertions of the lungs of the parties opposed to each other.
In the nearer portion of the crowd the favourite cry seemed
to be " Three cheers for Bright," for which, whenever de-
manded, every speaker had to pause in the midst of the
phrase he happened to bo uttering. Before the nomination
began there were aLo " Three cheers for John Bright's
son," and "Three fcr Mr. Potter's son," when those youth-
ful gentlemen came m the hustings. In the numerous rows
of buildings affording a view of the scene the windows had
been let for high prices, and all were filled, chiefly with
ladies, and a considerable number of spectators looked
down from the roofs. The candidates were vigorously
cheered by their rehpective parties when they made their
appearance upon the hustings.
The MAYOR (Mr Tatham), who presided as returning-
officer, at the opening of the proceedings gave expression
to his personal sense of the loss sustained by the consti-
tuency in the lamented death of Mr. Cobden.

Mr. J. S. ENTwistE, of Fox Holes, then proceeded to
nominate the Conservative candidate, Mr. William Baliol
Brett, Q.O. In doing so he took occasion to comment upon
Mr. Bright's speech in support of the Liberal candidate, in
which Lord Derby had been referred to as the advocate of
a Protectionist policy which condemned millions of the
people to pauperism. Mr. Entwisle, on the other hand,
claimed for Lord Derby the recognition of his efforts during
the cotton famine for the relief of the Lancashire operatives,
and he aeked where was Mr. Bright during all that time
and why was he not at the great county meeting in Man-
chester when Lord Derby's donation of L5,OOO—(A Voice
—" Not a day's wages !")--and his eloquent and convincing
speech produced the largest subscription that ever was
raised in one room ?

Mr. JONATHAN FIELD, jun., seconded the nomination.
Mr. HENRY B_Eiscra-, nominated Mr. Thomas Bailey
Potter, of Manchester, as a fit and proper person to repre-
sent tho constituency as a Liberal whose politics closely
resembled those of Mr. Cobden.

Mr. G. L. Asirwonni,in seconding the nomination, com-
plained that personalities had been introduced in this elec-
tion by the Conservatives, and, in reply to the observations
of Mr. Entwisle, said (alluding to his own connexion with
the Central Relief Committee), that he knew rather more
about the distress than that gentleman did, and could tell
him that if Lord Derby - and the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county (Lord Sefton) had not been prompted by others, it
was very doubtful whether the county meeting would ever
have been called at all. Mr. Bright had other duties to per-
form at that time, but if he did not attend the meeting ho
gave him (Mr. Ashworth) what no other gentleman in
Rochdale did, the unlimited command of his purse from the
very commencement of the distress. And, he asked, to
whom were the operatives indebted for the blessings they
had enjoyed for many years past in the general prosperity
of this country if not to the unparalleled labours of Richard
Cobden and John Bright ?
There being no third candidate nominated,
Mr. BRETT next made his speech to the assemblage, and
it must be understood by the reader that the interruption
of all the speakers by the tumultuous shouting was so con-
stant as to render it useless frequently to particularize the
manner in which many of the utterances were received. He
said that now he had the pleasure of standing by the side
of an honourable and not unworthy opponent he would in-
vite him to explain himself on certain subject; instead of
using merely the shibboleths of his party to give the rea-
sons upon which his faith rested. With regard to the obser-
vations of the last speaker, he must remark that he never
before had the pleasure of seeing that gentleman, but of all
the persons he ever heard who were little entitled to com-
plain of personal allusions, he thought Mr. Ashworth was
the last. He had told the Conservatives during this week
h
was4‘ disgusted," that they were " audacious,"
and t
hhe ever met their party he would make them
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not only hear, but feel him. For his, (Mr. Brett's) part,
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(Great laughter he would rather feel than hear Mr.
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halaughter and applause.) Without the
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particle of anger against that gentleman, he must
sh.
tell him that ho had not the commonest rudiments of elo-
quence—(ehl oh, and ironical cheers)—for he had yet to
-
learn that exaggerated adjectives spoil plain substantives.
He would now turn to the speech of a really great orator
who had addressed the constituency during the last week.
, (" Three cheers for Bright.") They 'were right to cheer
talent wherever they found it. (Hear, hear.) But no one
who understood the art of speaking could have failed to
remark the skill with which Mr. Bright had tried to divert
their attention to things past, and away from the question
to be decided at this election. Mr. Bright's remark that his
(Mr. Brett's) voice had not been heard in opposition to the
laws of 20 years back, would only be paralleled for reason-
ableness if it were answered that Mr. Bright's own voice
was not heard in public when Catholic emancipation and
the Reform Act were the questions under debate, and that
Mr. Bright never came forward in political life till his own
private interests were at stake. Mr. Bright had taunted
him with wishing the population to be less numerous, be-
cause he had said they were too numerous for everybody to
be enfranchised with fairness to all classes. And actually
those gentlemen who stood by Mr. Potter put their intel-
lects beneath the feet of Mr. Bright when he ventured on
a fallacy such as that. Whatever Mr. Bright might say, he
(Mr. Brett), though a follower of Lord Derby, was not to be
understood as bound to follow whatever Lord Derby might

do. He thanked his God that he had the power of thinking
for himself, and he acted always upon that which he believed
to be right and just for all. But he never could believe that
in this county of Lancaster Mr. Bright expressed the senti-
ments of the people—(" Three cheers for Bright)"—when he
spoke of Lord Derby as one who would deprive the people of
food. When he thus spoke Mr. Brightgave room to the ob-
servation sometimes made on him, that his heart was not so
warm, and his sympathies with other people not so strong,
as they ought to be. Coming now to the real business of
this meeting, the first question that must arise was the
question of the Church. (" Oh !" and groans.) On this oc-
casion both candidates were for perfect religious equality ;
but while Mr. Potter was a member of the Liberation So-
ciety, he (Mr. Brett) was for the maintenance of the union.
of the State and the Established Church, of the supremacy
of the Queen and of the bench of bishops in the House of
Lords, where they sat for the benefit ofthe whole commu-
nity; and he would not agree to take from the clergy the
property which had been given to them, in order that they
might be set apart for the assistance in religion of any per-
Son who was willing to be under their ministration. Ho
asked his opponent to say distinctly what he meant to do
with the Establishment, or in what respect he meant to do
away with it. His answer the other night, that "when the
case arose he would consider it," was not enough. If he
was a favourite pupil of Mr. Cobden, he ought to have
made up his mind long ago. As to the question of reform,
he (Mr. Brett) had before now argued in the presence of
the electors that not every Englishman.—he did .not.say no
Englishman—had the right of voting for the election of his
representatives. (Greatgroaning and cheering.) The rights
of Englishmen were always those which were contained
in some known law, and he invited Mr. Potter to show, if
he could, that at any time in England the whole population
did exercise that right, or to point to any statute in which
it was given to them. But although they might not have
the right, it migl be very politic and expedient that they
should have it. That was the next question to be dis-
cussed. This country was composed of various classes.
The working classes were so numerous that if every one
had a vote they would outnumber all the others together,
and he had heard one o the speakers of this morning say
that he desired them to have the right, in order that
they might have exclusive power in the country. (Cries
of " No.") But was it not going for something fair
and forward if he (Mr. Brett) said he was prepared to give
the franchise to as many of the working class as could pos-
sibly be admitted, having regard to the safety of the other
classes ? Most of them were taught to believe there was
magic in a £6 franchise. But what difference could it make
to them if a large number, a fair and sufficient number of
them were admitted, what the line of franchise was ? A
uniform franchise had never been known in England. He
objected to a £6 franchise, because it would admit an unfair
and predominating number of the working class. In this
borough at present there were no more than 1,260 electors,
a£6 franchise would introduce upwards of 2,000. And as
Mr. Potter talked of that as an instalment, and was in
favour of a manhood franchise, let them consider, looking
at these streets now filled as far as they could see mostly
with one class, whether there would be a fair representa-
tion of classes inßochdale. (Criesof "Yes.") They thought
at present they would follow Mr. Bright and do what he
told them, but he knew that the first time Mr. Bright him-
self should contradict them (" Three cheers for Bright ")
they would take no more notice of what he said. Ho (Mr.
Brett) would not give exclusive power to any class—to
the aristocracy or to the middle classes—(A Voice.—
"13s. 4d.! "),—or to the class of that gentleman who had
just made that remarkable observation. However un-
palatable it might be to them, he would not shrink from
telling them that he would not submit to put under their
arms the heads of all the other classes. (Laughter and
cheers.) This was the constitutional question of the day.
It was this question for the raising of which Mr. Bright
had said, almost in express terms, although he was so
angry that political discussiOn shoUld take place upon the
death of an eminent person—(C. Three cheers for Bright ")
—he and his party were only awaiting the death of Lord
Palmerston. (A Voice—" I wish he was dead now.") Mr.
Potterr had not darkly disclosed the object with which he
and his coadjutors advocated the entire extension of the
suffrage ; he desired to alter the social condition of the
classes of this country. He desired to do away with our
laws of succession and entail of land—that he considered
"the agglomeration" of land a great evil. Those who de-
sired that change could not, if they meant anything of the
smallest value in even their own conception, confine them-
selves to doing away with the mere law of entail, but must
insist that no man should have the right of leaving his
landed property to his eldest son alone ; for it was but
once in a hundred times that a landlord died intestate.
Had Mr. Potter considered what would be the condition of
the great estates of this country, when those propertieswere
divided which had always gone with the family house that
had been looked up to for generations as the house of the
family—had ho considered how that family house was to
bo kept up ? (Laughter.) Or if the estate was to be di-
vided, did he mean that a new house should be built upon
each division or subdivision? Had he made up his mind
that the agriculture of this country would be benefited by
the subdivision of lands as we had seen it in other coun-
tries ? He (Mr. Brett) did not believe last the mass of the
people themselves, in their calmer moments, were prepared
so to break up those old families which linked themselves
to the hearts of all in their neighbourhood who had lived
under them from generation to generation. Another ques-
tion of interest was the Permissive Bill, and he should
like to know distinctly what were Mr. Potter's views upon
it. (Uproar and "He has given them.") Were the elec-
tors prepared to submit to a law giving to a majority the
power of preventing the sale of beer and spirits to those
who wanted them ? (Upi oar.) He was clearly and dis-
tinctly against giving any such power of coercion to any
body of people. It was an unnecessary encroachment upon
personal liberty, and one to which he would never give the
smallest countenance. (Cheers and groans.) Another ques-
tion in which the electors must feel great interest was the
legislation of the present Lord Chancellor upon what was
called the County Courts Bill. Nothing could be of more
immediate interest both to the small trader and the work-
ing classes. The Lord Chancellor introduced this bill in
his ordinary way. The Lord Chancellor was accustomed to
say that whatever he proposed was a real advance in im-
proving our legislation, but that everything opposing it
was audacious and ignorant. • (Uproar.) Upon introducing
this bill the Lord Chancellor said that imprisonment for
debt was the last relic of a barbarous age—(cries of "Let's
hear Potter" anduproar)—and he said he introduced it to do
away with the credit system on small accounts. Nothing
could be more objectionable to the small trader and working
classes than to do away with credit in times of difficulty.
The Lancashire operatives had nobly passed through times
of frightful difficulty, and it was for their benefit that they
were able, while they were receiving no wages, to obtain
credit, and it was also for the advantage of the shopkeeper
who otherwise would have had little or no custom. (Re-
newed cries for Potter, and uproar.) The mode in which
the Lord Chancellor proposed to carry out his scheme was
to do away with the power of county courts to imprison a
man for debt when it was proved he could pay. The pro-
posed legislation was wholly unnecessary and wholly un-
just. The bill was thrown out by the efforts of the Conser-
vative peers in the House of, Lords. (Groans.) But the
Lord Chancellor when he withdrew it stated in terms—
(renewed uproar)—that he was convinced the principle
was right, and that he would introduce it again at the ear-
liest opportunity. The Lord Chancellor had put into it a
clause diametrically opposed to his own principle, saying
it should not be applied to county courts, but it was easy
to see he was determined to carry it when he could. It was
therefore for the electors of Rochdale to consider whether
they would give a majority to the present Ministry to carry
that measure now, or in the next Parliament, a measure
that was of far more importance to their daily comfort and
good than any of
,these votes, which when they had got
them they would hardly care to use. (Uproar.) He would
now speak upon a subject which was not less important
than any yet discussed—of their duty as a people with re-
gard to foreign war, and of the assistance they ought to
give to every one of the colonies. (Cries of "Time, time,"
and uproar.) Every man was for peace so long as it could
be preserved with honour and safety. He would ask his
worthy antagonist what he meant by "strict non-interven-
tion." (Uproar.) There might come a day when it was
necessary for this country to risk the hazards of war to
protect ourselves from invasion and our fellow-countrymen
from molestation in every part of the world. (Loud dis-
turbance.) The policy of Earl Russell had been wholly
wrong. (Renewed disturbance.) Lord Russell had lost
us the alliance of every Power in Europe ; he had made
the Emperor of the French cold in the alliance so much
prized. (Loud shouts of " Time !") Lord Russell had
weakened our alliance with Prussia and Russia, and had
left us without an ally in Europe. (Loud cries of impa-
tience, necessitating the interference of the Mayor, who
said Mr. Brett would soon finish his remarks.) If Earl
Russell had not by insulting other Governments weakened
our hold upon these countries he might have done that which
he ought to have done—prevented the cruel a ggression upon
those brave and injured Danes. (Groans.) If Lord Rus-
sell had maintained in Europe the proper position of this
country he might, without the smallest danger of involv-
ing 'us in war, have acknowledged the independence of the
South—(tremendous uproar)—which the South had so
valiantly deserved. (Uproar.) There was no more clear
right of any nation than that the moment they had made
themselves a nation they were entitled to be so recognisedatio
n
by all the Governments of the world. And to what
did those heroes belong who had won hundreds
hadmain-
tained battlesn
and had done that which was harder still—whodis-
tress s-
their independence in the days of their
and
tress ? All had heard of the heroic Stonewall Jackson,
admired Gen. Lee—to what nation didel those men belong ?
Would Englishmen insult them
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nation they abhorred, and against Jal

Mr. T. B. POTTER, having met with a mingled reception,
said, at the commencement, he wished to tell them that he
was not a master of the art of speaking like his hon. oppo-
nent, and had not had the education of a professional legal
pleader. (Uproar.) He was not sure that the art of speech
might not, according to the Machiavellian doctrine, be used
rather to disguise sentiments than to lay them candidly
before the public •;. and if the electors of Rochdale wished to
be represented by a lawyer let them return Mr. Brett.
(Uproar.) His hon. opponent had asked him not only not
to speak in the shibboleth of party, but to explain a reason
for the faith that was in him. (Laughter.) He (Mr. Potter)
appealed to the experience of the past whether the exten-
sion of popular power, whether the carrying out of the
principles of free trade, had not been a blessing to the com-
munity. (Loud cheers, and counter-cheers.) He was pre-
pared to follow the great leaders of public opinion, and to
tread in the path in which they might go. (Uproar.) He
felt bound to answer one portion of his hon. opponent's
speech, because he was sure that gentleman had made one
statement in ignorance. It was that statement in which he
said John Bright was actuated by selfish motives. (Great
uproar.) When Mr. Brett spoke of Mr. Bright not having
taken part in important political questions previous to the
Corn Law agitation, he evidently spoke in ignorance of the
matter. Mr: Bright fought as a boy of 18 for the cause of
the people. (Tremendous cheering and groans.) The grey-
headed men of Rochdale would well remember the course
which John Bright took upon the subject of Church-rates.
(Uproar.) Ho (Mr. Potter) might tell his hon. opponent
that in Radicalism they began early. (Laughter.) He him-
self as a boy of 16 went from Rugby School straight to
Wigan to help his uncle in the cause of popular progress.
He should not follow his hon. opponent through his lengthy
speech. (Hear, hear, and uproar.) As he (Mr. Potter) had
said before, he was not sufficiently a special pleader, but he
felt it to be his duty to touch upon one or two points in the
address which had just been given. Mr. Brett talked of the
law of primogeniture—that was, the law that put class
above class in this country. (Uproar.) No caste in India
was so close and sacred as the caste of aristocracy in this
country. (Cheers, and counter-cheers.) The misfortune
was that the plutocracy men who had risen from the ranks
of the people, instead of sticking to the people, bowed down
to the aristocracy. (Uproar.) He wished to do away with
the wide demarcations of class which existed in this coun-
try, and to elevate labour. (Loud cheers and uproar.) He
looked upon labour as the honestest and most to be re-
spected thing in the world, and it was because he held
that view, and because he looked upon the law of primo-
geniture as a relic of the Feudal ages, given to this coun-
try by William the Conqueror to keep down his oppressed
people, that he took his stand as he had done upon this
question. A contest was now beginning which would soon
divide by wide demarcations the two parties in England.
He went for democracy. (Uproar.) He was in favour of the
principles of Free-trade, and for carrying thenaiinto every
department of Church and State. (Renewed uproar.) He
was not prepared or inclined to answer the long string of
questions which had been asked; he almost thought his
opponent was asking those questions on behalf of many of
the electors and non-electors as to his (Mr. Potter's) quali-
fications, rather than explaining his own principlds. Let
him, before closing, express his deep feeling' of grati-
tude for the deep recognition they had shown of the
services of his dear friend who was laid in the grave
on Friday. This was not the time to weep for friends
who were gone ; the best tribute was to carry
out their principles. He had no eloquence at his service to
advocate their cause in the House of Commons, but he had
a true heart to stand by the people and their cause. He
need not recapitulate to them his principles, for there never
were two candidates more diametrically opposed to each
other. He had a very great respect for Mr. Brett. They
did not look, however, at private character, but at public
opinions, and it was in this light the electors and non-
electors would have to *judge now and on Saturday—
whether they would choose him (Mr. Potter), who was an
advocate of human progress all over the world; whether
they would choose hire, who was a bitter enemy to slavery
in America and serfdom in England, or whether they would
choose Mr. Brett, who would uphold the rotten remnant of
feudalism. (Prolonged cheering, and counter-cheering.
Mr. Potter had spoken about ten minutes.)
The show of hands was two to one for Mr. Potter, and
the announcement was received with alternate cheers and
groans.

A poll being demanded on behalf of Mr. Brett, the Mayor
fixed it to be held on Saturday, between eight in themorn-
ing and four in the afternoon.
Mr. POTTER moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor, and,
amid uninterrupted uproar, thanked the assemblage for
"the good temper, the quiet, and the orderly demeanour of
this glorious population."

Mr. BRETT, in seconding the motion, said he felt sure
their personal esteem for the Mayor must have greatly aided
him in ruling, as he had done, their somewhat unruly ways.
. _

The vote having been appropriately given and acknow-
ledged,the va„st multitude dispersed shortly before one o'clock

The question of the demolition of Fort Nicholas
at Marseilles is now exciting much interest in that
city. The Courrier de Marseille publishes a letter from the
inhabitants of the districts of the Catalans, Nive-Neuve,
Endoume, Roucas-Blanc, and Oriol, acknowledging their
obligations to that journal and to M. Borde, engineer, who
for the last five years has advocated the interests of that
portion of the city, which has thus far been excluded by
its position from the increasing prosperity of the other
quarters. M. de Maupas, Prefect of the Bouches-du-Rhone,
is among the warmest advocates of the project; and M.
Bournat, one of the deputies of the department, with M,
Pereire, is said to have had an interview with the Emperor
to express the wishes of the population.
LION HUNTING IN ALGERIA.—A letter from Batna
in the Independant of Constantino gives some fur-
ther details of the recent exploits of MM. Chassaing
and Bombonnel. Having learned that a horse had been
killed by wild beasts, they proceeded to the spot and con-
cealed themselves in some brushwood close by in order to
wait until the animals returned after sunset to devour their
prey. The night was dark, and no moonlight was to be
hoped for. The hunters had not been long at their post
when a magnificent lion approached the horse. The two
friends touched each other with the elbow to show that
they had seen the beast, and Chassaing, firing both barrels,
sent the animal rolling to the bottom of a ravine. There
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hunters were besides trembling with cold, for they had
not taken the precaution of putting on warm clothing
against the night air. They therefore decided on regaining
their,tents, where they found their companions fast asleep,
not having even heard the reports of the guns. The next
morning the party proceeded to the scene of the night's
adventure. Two of the lions were lying dead, but the
others had disappeared. They appeared to have lost much
blood but the dryness of the ground rendered their traces
difficult to follow. Presently a geteral scamper among
the Arabs who were aiding in the search showed that
something had been discovered, and it turned out to be a
large lioness, which had taken refuge at the bottom of a
ravine. Chassaing, Bombonnel, Count Karolyi, and M.
Deichmann advanced together and all fired. But even after
that volley she again raised her head, when a ball beneath
the shoulder from Bombonnel finished her. The other
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wounded animal could not be found.

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Banquet at Alexandria to Sir H. Bulwer, 1,-.4"1: 114;'
(From the Egyptian, March 27.)
..qr ,
r On Saturday, the 18th inst., an entertainment
was given to his Excellency Sir Henry Bulwer, her
Britannic Majesty's ambassador, which will be long
remembered in Egypt. The banquet was given by
Henry Bulkeley, Esq., and took place at his resi-
dence in Ramle, and was one of the most elegant
that has ever taken place in Egypt. Besides the
directors of the Ramle Railway, on whom rested the
honour of carrying out with so much refinement
and taste the happy idea of a farewell banquet to
her Britannic Majesty's ambassador, a number of
gentlemen were invited to be present on the occa-
sion, to enhance the honour which was intended to
be paid to the distinguished guest. Accordingly,
representatives from the Egyptian government, the
navy, the church, bench, the bar, the medical and
commercial professions gave by their presence an
additional lustre to an entertainment which other-
wise was not unworthy of the occasion which evoked
it. More than 150 gentlemen sat down to luncheon,
Mr. Bulkeley presiding. On the right of the chair-
man sat the guest of the day, Sir H. Bulwer, and at
other posts of honour were placed Mr. R. Fleming
and the Governor of Alexandria.
After the usual loyal toasts Mr. Bulkeley proposed
the health of his Excellency Sir Henry Bulwer.
His Excellency Sir 11. BULWER, in reply, said—
I have to thank you, gentlemen, for the compli-
ment you have paid me in assembling here to-
day, and to thank our host for the toast which
he has given, and which you have so kindly re-
ceived. The proposer of that toast was so kind as •
to allude to my health, and, in expressing a hope for
its perfect re-establishment, to say that it did not
prevent me from attending to the public inte-
rests. There was a despatch of M. Guizot
that once accidentally saw the light, which he
wrote to the French ambassador when I was her
Majesty's Minister in Spain, saying, " I don't like
those illnesses of Mr. Bulwer ; he always profits by
them." I cannot say that on this occasion my
illness has been diplomatic ; at the same time it has
not prevented my attending to public business and
to British interests. I consider, however, that this
need create no jealousy in any one, for my view of
British interests is a comprehensive one, deeming
them to be connected with the interests of all the
world, and that we are never to press them beyond
the limits of reason and justice. This is why I pro-
claim myself to be of Capt. Bulkeley's own school of
diplomacy which has nothing to disguise, and which
speaks the truth openly and boldly. It is in this
spirit I now speak. The gentleman who has just
preceded me has gone over so wide a field that I
will not pretend to follow him step by step, for I
fear that my memory would not guide me. But on
all those topics I remember I shall venture to say a
few words. And beginning with that which is most
distant from us, but which nearly concerns my friend
opposite, the Consul-General for America, and my
Government, I agree with him in regretting the con-
test that still exists between the Northern and Sou-
thern States of the American republic ; but I cannot
agree with him in thinking that our Government
ought to have interfered in a question which has to
be decided by local interests and opinions, and of
which after all we may not be the most competent
judges. They, gentlemen,

Who in quarrels interpose,
Often get a bloody nose.
As he has justly observed, when a friend interferes
between man and wife in the arrangement of family
disputes, he generally ends by turning both parties
against him : so I think w e have wisely abstained
from interfering in a matter which we had not the
power to settle, any further than by expressing the
hope, which I now express, whether it may be
popular or not amongst those who hear me, that I
trust the unhappy differences which we are alluding
to may cease, and that whether cotton rise or fall,
the fame and name of our great offspring across the
Atlantic may still may be maintained, and that the
great experiment of liberty, peace, and union by the
Anglo-Saxon race, on a distant shore, though
troubled by the vicissitudes to which all human
affairs are subject, may not finally be a failure. It
is, gentlemen, always agreeable to meet a tociety of
Englishmen. It is especially agreeable to do that
when the meeting is to commemorate a successful
and useful enterprise carried on by one's own coun-
trymen. The gentlemen at the head of the Ramle
Railroad have given an example which I trust will
not be lost. They undertook an enterprise, perse-
vered in it, and have made it prosper to the common
benefit. There has been no sham in their proceed-
ings. They have not stopped in the middle of their
course and gone in for indemnities ; and the result
is a rising city, where two years ago was a barren
wilderness. This is the way for Englishmen to do
business. I trust this country in general will make
as rapid a progress as the Ramle Railway Company
have done. Its material prosperity is advancing
with gigantic strides. I grant that in the great ob-
jects of administration and legislation it is advanc-
ing with slower steps ; but we must consider that
the moral and intellectual career of Egypt com-
menced only a few years ago ; that laws and man-
ners must reform themselves gradually and recipro-
cally ; and that we cannot expect this country to
rise at once to that height of civilisation in laws and
morals that we have attained through a long and
difficult struggle, which dates its commencement
from centuries ago. In many parts of his obser-
vations, our worthy chairman has not unnaturally
contradicted himself. He has said that the high
functionaries have their excellent intentions fre-
quently overthrown by their subordinate agents ;
so the major points of his speech have been upset
in a certain degree by the minor. He acknow-
ledges the immense changes for the better whicl
have taken place in Egypt as a whole within
the last few years; but he then insists that
there are many blots and defects. This, gentle-
men, is the state of society in general, and especially
is it the state of society in an intermediate stage
between barbarism and civilisation. We must not
expect in human affairs what it is impossible to
obtain ; but we must endeavour steadily and per-
severingly to give them a good direction, and trust
to Providence to help us in this undertaking. I
quite, however, agree with him as to the great de-
fect amongst Eastern officials being a want of per-
sonal responsibility. A man's efforts can never be
relied on until he is individually responsible for
success. It is individual responsibility which forms
men, and tells you what they are capable of, and
the Government will never have good agents until
it tries and truts them, and rewards and punishes
Eat it
t hasi s to
to
satisfy as far as
them. I agree with him also in saying that
in
the
European element is an essential ingredient
the
developmenth e
considered,
of
possible European opinions and
interests ; but at the same time it has to maintain
the national dignity and authority ; that it has a
anEdg" thattia the Egyptian
policy of ;
of that
Egypt
right to expect from Europeans a fair and just con-
sideration for the Government which rules over the
country.which they voluntarily come to inhabit.
Justice is the great cementer between man and man.
The Egyptian should be just to the European, and
the European to the Egyptian, and they should aid
each other in a mutual spirit of conciliation in pro-
moting the common prosperity of the country in
which they have a common interest. As a good
augury, I hail the form which our host has given to
his table. Observe, gentlemen, it is in the shape of
an anchor ; a mete symbol of fixity of purpose and
hope of success ; and with this symbol before us,
let me drink to the prosperity of Egypt and the
Ramle Railway.

THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS.—By the Africa we
have intelligence via Boston of the following cap-
tures, communicated to Washington by Admiral Thatcher,
in command of the West Gulf blockading squadron :--The
steamer Matilda, with an assorted cargo ; the schooner
Ben Willis, with 176 bales cotton ; the schooner Louisiana,
with an assorted cargo (but subsequently destroyed) ; the
schooner Anne Dale, with a cargo of cotton ; and the
schooner Echo, with an assorted cargo. On the 17th boats
from the United States steamers Brinville and Princess
Royal cut out of Galveston harbour the schooner Pet, with
256 bales of cotton on board, making the sixth prize during
the week. Five steamers attempted to run into Galveston
—the Will-o'-the-Wisp, the Arcadia, the Granite, the Wren,
and the Lark, of which ,tho two first were captured and
destroyed, while the three latter only got in, with the
ia are all
damaged.
"ThsiestanDrweamof, the
ahee osnfeecdreet,ratteheveDss:al,ida7ndansderivoiusraliny
reported at Halifax, from Nassau. The steamer Owl left
Havannah on the 22d ult., for Matamoras, with Captain
Maffit.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE,
Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
EASTER MONDAY Tom Taylor's Play of THE FOOL'S
REVENGE. Mr. Phelps; Messrs. H. Sinclair, A. Rayner,
E. Phelps, G. F. Neville. Miss Atkinson, and airs. Hermann
Vezin.
After which. on a scale of gre At splendour, Milton's Mask
of COMUS : Messrs. Walter Lacy. M itbye Cooper, Bend
Drayton, Miss Poole, Miss Augusta Thomson, and Mrs. H.
Vezin.

THEA TR E-R OYA L, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. Buckstone.
On EASTER MONDAY, April 17, Mr. So:hem in the New
Sensation, T O
HE WMAN IN MAUVE. Mr. Buckstone as
M. Mary Anne Beetles.
After which, by desire, LORD D'UNDREARY MARRIED
AND DONE FOR Dandreary, Mr. Sothern.
And EASY SHAVING. Miss Louise Keeley, Miss F.
Wright ; Sies.rs. Clark, Gordon, Rogers, &o.
To commence at 7.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
6ale 1-rupri-tor and Managor...)l.7. IS. +t stmt. r.
To-morrow, TIIE LOVE CHASE. Wildrake (his origi-
nal character), Mr. 13. Webster. Messrs. Billin,gton, Ashley,
Stephenson. Widow Green ,20th tine), Mrs. Stirling; Con-
stance (20ta time), Miss Henrietta Simms; Lydia (her 201 n
appearance), Miss Sophie Young.
After watch, sth time, a new Extravaganza, entitled
PAN; or, The Loves of Echo and Narcissus. Messrs. J. L.
Toole, Paul Bedford, J. Smith, H. Isomer, Miss Woolgar,
Miss K. Kelly, Miss Lillian Bruce, and Miss A. Seam
To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the
Pigskin. Messrs. J. L. Tools, Paul Bedford ; Miss K. Kelly.