The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

Ml?. COBDEN IN EAST LOTHIAN.

On Saturday, a display of the steam plough took place on
the farm of Mr. Sadler, Ferrygate, East Lothian. The
plough was Fowler's, with a 10. horse power engine, and
the work gave the utmost satisfaction to a large assemblage
of the practical farmers of the Lothians. After the trials,
the company was entertained to luncheon by the Right Hon.
B. Hamilton Nisbet, in a marquee at Dirloton Castle. On
the left hand of Mr. Hamilton, who presided, sat Mr.
Cobden, M.P., who is now on a visit to Mr. M'Laren, at
Edinburgh. The health of the strangers was proposed by
Mr. Hamilton.

I Mr. COBDEN, who was received with loud cheers, re-
sponded to the toast. He said—Mr. Nisbet, Ladies and
Gentlemen,--When I left Edinburgh this morning, in
company with my friend, Mr. M'Laren, to pay a visit to
Mr. Pope and witness an exhibition of the steam plough, I
had not the romotest idea that I should have found myself
in presence of a large agricultural gathering such as I find
here; but I can assure you I feel myself honoured by
being permitted to associate with you on this occasion, to
bo witness of the triumph of agricultural skill in this the
head-quarters of advanced agriculture. I am myself the
son of a farmer, and my sympathies have always been with
that class, though I think I see some faces here who
would be inclined to feel dubious on that subject.
(Laughter, and cheers.) My right hon. friend, your chair-
man, has alluded to some passages of arms which we
have had in the House of Commons together. We took
different views of a groat national question, sincerely
and conscientiously differing on that question; but I am
prepared to say for myself what, I am sure, he will be
equally prepared to admit in me, that we had one common
interest in view, that was the welfare of this great country.
(Loud cheers.) In advocating that Pam Which I have
done since I hive been known as a public man, I have
never been under the impression that I was acting in a
manner to be injurious to agriculture. I have always held
a different language. I held that language in presence of
the tenant farmers of this country twenty Years ago. Now,
I must ask of my right hon. friend at the head of the table
candidly to admit that though he fought the battle as man-
fully as anyone could have done in that most manly of all
assemblies, the House of Commons, yet I will ask him freely
and fairly to admit to me that, in advocating as I have
done an unprotected, free, and unrestricted competition in
prov
agriculture, I have not taken a course which has
inimical to that great interest. I think he will admit thated I stand here to maintain my ground, and I now claim ex-
perience to justify me in the course which I have taken.
What is it that constitutes the prosperity of
agriculture
any other pursuit ? It is to have a flourishing, rich, a' or
ad
increasing umber of customer'', Without that no bwkintioa

can prosper. You, as agriculturists above all things, want
a constantly increasing number of, and constantly increas-
ing wealth in, your customers—the manufacturing, mining,
and industrial population of this country. (Cheers.) Above
all things, you want a prosperous community, who
can purchase your cattle and your stock, because I need not
tell you who are so far advanced in that science of agricul-
ture that that which lies at the very foundation of all scien-
tific agriculture is, the large and constantly increasing pro-
duction of the manure-producing animals, the cattle and
sheep which you rear upon your land. But you cannot
find customers for that stock, which is so necessary to ad-
vanced agriculture, unless you have a thriving manufac-
turing, mining, and industrial population. You cannot
send these articles abroad. I can understand that you might
grow some commodities such as hops and other articles,
that you might send abroad, but the cattle and sheep—the
animal life that exists on your farm—must be sold to your
near neighbours, the manufacturing and industrial popula-
tion. The course I took, and the policy I advocated, was
to create a rich and prosperous community at your door,
which would:be customers for your commodities. I think
we may may now say we have succeeded in that. You have
had a constantly increasing development of wealth, a con-
stantly increasing export of your manufactures, and a con-
stantly increasing demand for your cattle, sheep, and wool.
These have been the foundation of your prosperity. I have
always thought that both the landowners and the farmers
took a very unworthy and ignoble view of their own interest
when they measured the value of the land only by the price
at which they could sell their wheat. Wheat, gentlemen, is
a barbarous estimate—a barbarous measure of the value of
land. Wheat was the sole dependence of your grandfathers
when living hero at one quarter of the rent you now pay,
and not enjoying half the prosperity you now enjoy with
your fourfold rents. Therefore, I say, in advookting the
whig;hl...l;;;iiz,,l Od.aition ory eax oAanyaetrel
I have been advocating your interests. 1 could not im-
prove their condition without improving yours, and your
prosperity will go on increasing so long as your customers
go on increasing in wealth, and your prosperity will begin
to decline when they begin to decay. lam sorry that at
the present moment we have for a time a great depression
in the manufacturing interest with which I have been par-
ticularly connected. I hope it will only be temporary.
(Hear.) I hope it will not last so long as to be felt by you
in your pursuits. I hope it will not be sufficient to check
the onward progress of what we have seen—a grand mani-
festation in what we have witnessed to-day. I hope you
will go on increasing in the application of steam to the cul-
tivation of the land, for that is the next step in the progress
of improvement. You must dispense as much as possible
with the old horse, the horse of muscle and flesh, and take
to the horse, which will be less costly to you, for his coals
will be less than the oats, and he will be less liable to acci-
dent or derangement than your live animals. I should,
therefore, hope the prosperity of your agriculture will ena-
ble you to go on still increasing and multiplying your in-
struments of steam power. lam exceedingly obliged for
the honour you have done me on this occasion. It is a plea-
sure I never had before of addressing a body of agrieul-
turista met together to consult and to enjoy themselves
in the midst of their own peculiar pursuits; but I feel myself
highly honoured, and not out of my place in any way by
being with you to-day. (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. Cobden
concluded by proposing the health of Mr. Nisbet Hamil-
ton, remarking that while they had met in the House of
Commons on the Opposition benches, they now met in
social intercourse, and he accepted and reciprocated the
kind expressions which had fallen from him on that occa
sion. (Loud cheers.)

LORD PAL ME.RSTON'S VISIT 70

WINCHESTER.

WINCHESTER, MONDAY.

This morning Lord Palmerston visited this city
on the occasion of the inauguration of the new Dio-
cesan Training School, and his lordship's visit, as
might be supposed, had the effect of attracting an
unusual number of persons to the ceremony, which
took place in the Lecture-hall. The accommodation
of the building is very superior, both with respect
to class rooms, dormitories, dining rooms, &c. The
building stands on a gentle eminence, on a site of
five acres, which was given by the Dean and Chapter
of Winchester.

The programme comprised, first, the opening o

the Diocesan Training School, after which Divine
service was performed in the Cathedral, and a ser-
mon by the Bishop of Oxford, then an address to
Lord Palmerston by the Mayor and Corporation at
the Chapter-house, and the proceedings closed with
a grand banquet in St. John's-hall.
The ceremony of opening the school was performed
by the Bishop of Winchester. Among those pre-
sent were—Lord Palmerston, M.P., Lady Palmer-
ston, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Salisbury,
Sir F. T. Baring, M.P., the Hon. R. H. Dutton,
M.P., Mr. W. Beach, M.P., Mr. S. Booth, M.P.,
Mr. Bovill, M.P., Sir J. B. East, M.P., Mr. Bonham
Carter, M.P., and a large body of the clergy and
gentry of the neighbourhood. Prayer having been
offered, the Bishop of Winchester addressed the as-
sembly at great length, on the objects of the insti-
tution and the circumstances which had given rise
to the erection of that building. The remainder of

the service was then proceeded with, and on the con-
clusion, the building having been pronounced open,
the National Anthem was sung. Divine service was
afterwards performed in the cathedral, when an
eloquent sermon was preached by the Bishop of Ox-
ford, from Romans xii., v. 7. In the course of his
discourse he adverted to the general question of
education and the duty of supporting schools of this
kind.

On the conclusion of the service, the mayor and
corporation proceeded to the Chapter-house, when
the Recorder presented the following address to
Lord Palmerston :

To the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, K.G., Firs

Lord of the Treasury.
"May it please your Lordship,—We the mayor, alder.
men, and citizens of the city of Winchester in council as-
sembled most readily avail ourselves of the presence of your
lordship on the occasion of the opening of the Diocesan
Training School, to express our admiration of your public
character, and our high appreciation and graceful acknow-
ledgment of the administrative abilities displayed by your
lordship, and the great services rendered by you as a Mini •
star of the Government of this country. Our ancient records
testify the visits of many eminent persons, to whom ad-
dresses have from time to time been presented, convey-
ing the congratulations and approval of this corpo-
ration, but we know of none more entitled than your lord-
ship to receive this declaration of our admiration and esteem,
enhanced as it is by your lordship this day supporting by
your powerful influence the opening of an institution de-
voted to the advancement of education, and consequent im-
provement of the moral and social character and condition
of the community. We therefore desire to offer to your lord-
ship a hearty welcome to Winchester; and we earnestly
pray that your lordship's life may yet long be spared to pro-
mote the honour and welfare of this country."
Lord PALMERSTON replied as follows :—Mr.
Mayor and gentlemen, I beg to return you my most
sincere thanks for the address which you have just
been kind enough to present to me. I can assure
you it has given me great pleasure to be allowed to
attend upon so interesting and, I will say, important
an occasion as that which has brought us all toge-
ther to-day. I trust that the proceedings which
have taken place to-day will lead to a useful result,
and a large development of that system of education
which we have assembled to commemorate, and I
may say to found, because we have opened a build-
ing in which for the future it is to be carried on.
I am very sensible of the approval which you have
been kind enough to express of the course which I
have pursued in public life. I need not say
that the approval of neighbours—of those who
are close to one's residence, and who have
more frequent opportunities of judging thanhe
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to-day.
The mayor and corporation then retired.
grlanndthbeaznin:iyLeonrdby the civic authorities. Palmerston was present at
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The pioneer of a fleet of immense iron-clad ships
is now building at Jersey, U,S., for the protection of the
rnoifla coast.

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Affairs were still rather disturbed in the Kesrouan
district of the mountain, but it was hoped the ener-
getic measures taken by Donab Pasha would soon
WanAdfLreEormTeTr.A, 4COct.Ooc.
Beyroutninito 7.
—dtelihree l‘r4it.h inst. in nine days.
bring the recalcitrant Maronites to order. Her
Majesty's ships on the coast of Syria were the Mars,
80, Capt. J. N. Strange ; the Firebrand, Commander
J. B. Piers ; the Surprise, 4, Commander W. H.
Whyte. The Scylla, 22, Cept. R. Lambert, was
expected at Beyront, to relieve the Mare, ordered
to Malta. The latter vessel is looked for here
towards the end of the present month. The Wan-
derer went into dock on the 6th inst. to stop a leak-
Her Majesty's gunvessel Foxhound, 4, Lieut.
Doughty, temporarily commanding, in the absence
of Commander the Hon. A. Hobart, which went up
with the last mail to Admiral Martin, returned at
2 p.m. to-day. She left Corfu at 4 p.m. on the sth
inst., at which time there were anchored there the
Marlborough, 131 (carrying the flag Of the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir W. F. Martin,
K.C.8.), Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8.; the Queen,
76, Capt. F. C. Hillyar ; and the Shannon, 80, Capt.
0. J. Jones. The Trident, 3, Commander C. J.
Balfour, left Corfu on the evening of the 4th for the
Pincus. The Algiers, 88, Capt. E. B. Rice, which
had left that island on the 2d ult., for the Piraeus,

-WREJ expected. hack,.. u
_three ymket_ The Queen
arrived at Corfu on the 2d inst., and was on the
point of sailing with the Lord High Commissioner,
who was proceeding on an official visit to the
southern islands. The Foxhound, on her passage
from Malta, experienced fine weather until making
the land of Paxo, when she was overtaken by a
storm of thunder and lightning and very heavy
weather. She has lately been inspected by Capt.
Stewart, commanding the flagship, who expressed
his entire satisfaction at the state in which he found
the crew and vessel. The discipline on board the
Shannon is said to have much improved since she
has been under the surveillance of the Commander-
in-Chief. The Alacrity, 4, Commander K. E. Baird,
takes up the next mail expected to-night from Mar-
seilles. The Amphion, 36, Capt. A. C. Gordon, is
hourly expected here from Messina, at which port
she arrived on Oct. 1 from Naples and Palermo.
The Magicienne, 16, Capt. his Serene Highness the
Prince of Leiningen, arrived at Naples on the 2d
inst. from Malta. The London, 86, Capt. H.
Chads ; the Neptune, 86, Capt. G. T. P. Hornby ;
and the Doris, 32, Capt. Sir F. L. M'Clintock, were
at Naples, and nothing at present is said of their
making a move. The Icarus, 11, Commander
Salmon, V.C., is refitting at Malta, preparatory to
leaving for Corfu, and is nearly ready for
sea. It is reported that the Liffey, 51,
Capt. George Parker, recently commissioned for
the Mediterranean, will relieve the Malacca, 17,
Capt. G. J. Napier, at Gibraltar, the latter vessel
returning to Malta. The ships here at present are
the Icarus, Wanderer, Alacrity, and Foxhound. The
Commander-in-Chief is expected from Corfu, as
stated in my last, about the end of October, for the
winter. This morning, at 10 minutes past 8 o'clock,
we experienced another slight shock of earthquake.

The Duke of Somerset and Capt. the Hon. James
R. Drummond, C. 8., returned to the Admiralty,
Whitehall, on Saturday night, from visiting Mr.
Cheney's iron mines in Shropshire.
Letters received at Portsmouth by the Dromedary,
from the West Coast of Africa, state that the Inves-
tigator steamer was about to start on an expedition
up the Niger, and that Capt. Burton would form one
of the party on board. The Lords of the Admiralty
had sent out instructions that an officer who was
employed in the last expedition should accompany
the Investigator, and Mr. Southwick, second master
of her Majesty's ship Espoir, had been selected by
the commodore for the purpose. A pretty general
feeling existed among Europeans that-if it was part
of the object of the expedition to produce any effect,
friendly or otherwise, upon the towns in the delta
of the Niger, the Investigator was much too weak a
vessel for the purpose. If, however, it was merely
intended to communicate with Dr. Baikie at the
confluence of the river, that might be attained by
running past the hostile towns in the passage up
and down the river, although the season was far
advanced for the execution of such a plan. The last
expedition up the Niger consisted of the Espoir, 4,
screw gunvessel, Commander Douglas, and the
armed steamer Sunbeam, Commander Douglas being
in command. It will be remembered that the expe-
dition met with considerable opposition from the
natives of the towns on the river's banks, and at one
point their aggression and insolence was checked only
by the energetic measures adopted by Commander
Douglas. From this expedition the Espoir returned
with her officers and crew in a sadly enfeebled state.
The Arrogant and Espoir were at Kabunda on
the 20th July last, when the latter was sent on to
St. Paul de Loando, to fill up coal. On the 22d
she fell in with a bark without a name, colours, or
papers, bat supposed it to be the Traviata, of Cadiz,
of 247 tons, fitted to receive from 600 to 700 slaves.
She was sent on, in charge of a prize master to St.
Helena. The Torch had taken a bark in the Congo
river, and the antelope had taken a prize with 200
slaves on board. A letter from a naval officer serv-
ing in the African squadron speaks of slavers being
" thick as peas in the soup on a pork day." Shark
Point, off the mouth of the Congo, is spoken off as a
capital cruising ground, as, in addition to the chance
of picking up a good prize brimming with slaves
the natives brought off quantities of goats, pigs,
poultry, and fruits, which they exchanged for old
clothes and empty bottles, the rate of exchange
being a couple of pigs, or three dozen of poultry,
for a very old coat.
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain
George H. Seymour, C. 8., is appointed to sail at
8 a.m. to-day from Portsmouth for antwerp.
The Dromedary, screw transport, Master-Com-
mander Brown, which arrived at Spithead on Sun-
day morning from Ascension, sailed again
even-
ing for the Thames. last
The Sutlej, 36, screw, Capt. M. Connolly, fitting
for the Pacific, has completed her outfit alongside
.Portsmouth dockyard, and hauled off to a buoy,
where she will be swung by the
rio
p
master of the r
Vic-
tory to ascertain the deviation of her compass
to going out to Spithead.
were made yester-
The following appoin t_maevn :s
Batt, master, addi-
day at the Admiralty : IPI Liverp
engineer, to the Aslool ; Chas. Beal,
tional to the Indus,
.a for the
Ward Taylor, engineer,
v macdonnell, assist.-sur-
to the Himalaya ;
the virago; Dr. John oimpson
and Dr. Denis A. Riordan,'
goon, confirmed in
to the Royal Adelaide f
Dr. Adam Robertson,
+o
Dr. Thomas Brisbane, ,
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acting assist.-su
;
Plymouth
Dr. Robt. More, Edward Daniel Donovan, D
acting
re, J. Sha-
assist.-surgeons,
wood, and I' W.
Ashford,
to the Victory, for Hasler Hospital.

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