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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNEbDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1865.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—SUMMER in
WINTER.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY.—
ARRANGEMENTS TO-MORROW :
Orchestral Band
Wizard's World of Magic 2.30
Rope-Tying Trick ... 5.0
Great Organ
The thousand and one other attractions of the Palace in-
clude : —The New Picture Gallery The Fine Arts Courts, in
variety and beauty unequalled in the world—The decorations
of the Palace, with the 3reat Christmas Tree Shakspere
House—Montanari Models—Swings, Houndaboute, Invigo-
rators, and other popular Amusements—galleries of Models
and Ships—Armour Plates and Armstrong 40-pounder lent
by official authority—The extraordinary Chimpanzee— I he
unique Aquariums. All these things render the Crystal
Palace the one place for holiday enjoyment.
Admission, :One Shilling. Children under 12, Sixpence.
Ope, for Admission from Tcn till Six o'clock, Lighted up
till half-past Six.

xr. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JOHN PARRY. In PRE RIVAL COMPOSERS, in
which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and
HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone nde with Mitt. ROSItILE
AT THE SEA-S I uE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening
(except Saturday) at Eight ; Saturday Afternoon, at Three.
- -ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRA LION, 14, Regent-
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OPERA DI CAMERA, the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by
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6, OXFORD STREET, W.
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the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid,
and chorus; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva,
Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto,. and Chorus ; akd final Minuet
and Gelop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz-
henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley ; Messrs. Greene and
Lascelles.

Also, MA.SANIELLO, in which Mons. LAVESSIERE, the
successful new Tenore, from the Theatre Lyrlque, Paris, will
make his appearance.
Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON
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Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. Randal', Mr. Hilton,
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their first appearance in England.
Permanent prices—Area, 4d. ; balcony, 6d. ; stalls, is.
Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. G ttE VILLE.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.
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Manager, M. GRENET.

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ahe Right lion. Mr. Villiers, 31,13., on

Working Men's Institutes•

WILLENHALL, Tuesday.
The inauguration of the new Literary Institute
in this town took place to-day under the presidency
of the Right Hon. Mr. Villiers, M.P., and in the
presence of the Earl of Lichfield, the High Sheriff
of the county, Mr. Weguclin, M.P., Mr. Forley,
M.P., the Revs G. Fisher (the Vice-President),
Messrs. Kettle, Gough, Tildesley, and a large num-
ber of the memb&s and friends of the Institute.

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Mr. Tildesfey (the honorary secretary) read let-
ters from Sir R. Peel, M.P., the Duke of Cleve-
land, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Stanley, M.P., Mr.
Adderley, M.P., and other gentlemen, regretting
their inability to be present.
Mr. VILLIERS, who was received with loud cheers,
after expressing his gratification at the position
which had been assigned to him in the proceedings
of the day, said—Fortunately the tone of
addresses on these occasions is rather one of con-
gratulation than of argument, and we have not to
bring forward any new project upon which we have
to depend • for your faith in our system ; nor have
we to announce any failure in respect to which we
have to appeal to you for our relief. (Cheers.) We
are rather here announcing a great success— a suc-
cess which has been taken as the basis of extended
operations with a view further to carry forward the
original purposes of our project. (Cheers.) In fact,
what is called the' literary institute of Willenhall—
the old institute—by increased connections and ex-
tension of business, feels bound to enlarge its pre-
mises and extend its business. It is matter of no-
toriety that this district has in a most marvellous
manner progressed in its material wealth. There has
been a development of manufacturing industry and
commercial activity that can hardly be paralleled in
any other place in the country. (Cheers.) When
that arises suddenly in any district those arrange-
ments are not easily provided that are now deemed
essential to our first-rate and most civilised com-
munities.ose the projectors of
the stafertretdhtaurP
htlproject. They desired
ol&
institute
I t was
to facilitate the intercourse between classes that
informationthgive to the working
and knowledge
co
loans
sl do
sn oeta
soi tehr eaccess
tmo meet—to
—and to found a convenient place for their reading
the usual organs of information. (Cheers.) Fortu-
nately, the prosperity of this district continued to
increase, and from the success which attended the
institute as then established it became the more
necessary to enlarge its arrangements ; and it is for
that purpose that this structure has been erected,
and that we are now assembled to celebrate its com-
pletion. (Cheers. When we look at the character
of the building—when we consider that it has been •
supported by voluntary contributions—and when
when we also consider its purpose, it is impossible
to say that it is not most creditable to those gentle-
men who have been its promoters, and also reflects
the greatest credit on the town. (Cheers.) This in-
stitution owes its origin to benevolent and public
spirited men, whose names I shall always associate
with it. I have had the nominal honour of being
its president from its first establishment, and I feel
proud of that honour. I always thought that the
institution would be a benefit to the town, and I
believe that institutes of this character may be ren-
dered successful, and may by becoming the nucleus
of operations for the diffusion of knowledge be ren-
dered extremely useful to the working classes, and
may become important aids in the great educational
movement which is now fortunately spreading over
the country. (Cheers.) I have no doubt of the
success of those institutes, or of the continuing
success of the spread of education generally. The
circumstances of the country are most favourable to
that success. We are in a state of I may say almost
unparalleled continuous prosperity, and we must
not disguise from ourselves the fact that this is a
most important element in the result of any effort
that may be made to instruct and educate the work-
ing classes, because their physical condition must
be their first consideration. It is that on which we

the object of these institutions ought to confer

upon the poor all the advantages which they failed
to obtain in their youth. (Cheers.) If I understand

the purposes of those institutions, it is to offer to
the working man that more easy access to infor-
mation and knowledge which may be beneficial to
them, and that without making any great sacrifice,
(Cheers.) I feel that the schools and the provi-
sion of the State can do little more than provide

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them with the mechanical part of education, which
gives them the power of acquiring knowledge by
means of reading and writing. These institutions

provide means for employing the leisure hours of the

working. man wisely for himself and beneficially for
the community. (Cheers.) I know there are per-
sons who question the advantages of these institu-
tions, because they say the instruction given is above
that which is necessary for the working man, that
the opportunity is not given the working man to

profit by them, that the working men generally have
not supported them, and that they have failed. That
would lead to the inquiry, why have they failed, and
could they have succeeded under the management

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which has been applied to them ? If this institution
had been placed in Willenhall at the time to which

I have referred, and books, and maps, and philoso-
phical instruments had been provided, I believe you

would have found the building and the stores of
knowledge where you had placed them, but you
would not have traced the steps of the working man.

They have not considered the capacities of the work-
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pher requiring only books and instruments. But if
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they wish to employ the working man's leisurehours,

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acquiring, they must consider what are his condition
and circumstances, and what is his capacity, and
adapt their arrangements to that purpose. (Cheers.)
One argument used against these institutes is that

the people have not sufficient leisure to come to the
lectures or the library—that they are exhausted by

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physical toil in the course of the day, and require
diversion and relaxation and not the trouble and

force of study. An answer to that objection seems
to be afforded by the working men themselves. A
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if he has not half his life to himself. I hope that

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few people work more than 12 hours a day, and I
trust there are many who work much less. Now,

what have we seen lately, and what is becoming
common throughout the country ? It is what are
called " Working Men's Exhibitions." A very large
exhibition was opened in London, and the principal
articles exhibited were the productions of working

ALEX. !ROSS' FACE POWDER, is. ; sent for
14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps. Skin
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Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218,
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tions merely, but with other branches of art and
science. That exhibition was opened by Earl Russell
and closed by Mr. Gladstone, and the prizes were

base all our expectations of elevating their charac-
ter and spreading information among them. The
working man must be at ease in his physical well-
being before you can successfully appeal to his
mind. (Hear, hear.) I think this district itself
offers you the assurance that this must be so, and as
an illustration I may remind you of what were my
impressions when I was first acquainted with it
exactly 30 years ago this month. (Hear, hear.)

When I first visited Willenhall, I came for the pur-
pose, first, of asking and afterwards of acknow-
ledging the honour and favour which I have ever
since enjoyed. I was pleased with the simplicity
of character and opinion of the people, but it
did strike me that in its moral aspect it was
somewhat rough. (Hear, hear, and laughter.)

I was told that if I wished to commu

distributed by Lord Shaftesbury.
itself created a great sensation.

The exhibition
The example is

about to be followed in other parts of London, and
I have seen an intimation that one is to be formed
in the midland counties, containing the productions

of working men in their leisure hours. (Cheers.)
That is the practical answer to those who say the
people have no leisure to amuse themselves, or to
employ their time beneficially. (Hear, hear.) It
seems to me that if the people have time to employ
their leisure in evil, they have also leisure to employ
it well.

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How the people employed their leisure in

this and neighbouring counties in past times, there

are sufficient records to show. If they have time
to witness brutal sports and degrading practices,
surely they must have time to employ for more ele-
vated and beneficial purposes—(cheers)--and more
especially when a universal feeling prevails that that
ought to be the manner in which they should employ
their time, in contrast to the manner in which it was
spent in former times, when there was too much en-
couragement for the degraded mode of life followed
by the working man. (Hear, hear.) I say, then,
that these institutes ought to succeed—(cheers)—if
they consider what the circumstances of the people
are, because we learn, from all those who have ob-

nicate with the people I had better do so
in the open air, and if I wished a convenient place
from which to address them, they would bring me a
cart of somewhat primitive structure. (Laughter.)
But, certainly, nothing was less passing through
their minds than the subject of education or what
we are now met to discourse upon, and if anybody
at that time had talked of erecting an institute, it
would have been thought that he had ill-selected his
subject. At that time there was only one day-
school in the whole place. If you had searched the
thousand houses of which it might have consisted,
you could not have discovered in any one week more
than 50 copies of the public journals or periodicals
of any kind. You may yourself judge of the con-
trast between that and the present time, _ when no

less than a thousand copies of the public journals
enter the town weekly. (Cheers.) But I must say
that at that time complaints were made that trade
was bad, and not only that trade was bad, but that
it was so not by the visitation of Heaven, but rather
by the meddling of man. (Hear, hear.) That was
the state of mind in which I found the people of this
district at that time, and such was the back-
ward state of education. I don't know that
it differed much from other parts of the
country, for there were certain things which dis-
to spread it among
heartened and discouraged the friends of educa-
tthinenpeaonpdlet.hnoseeweffheoct of a
desired
years'
schooling was
soon dissipated by a few years of want. (Hear.) I
am not going to refer to history or to politics. I
will only say that the curtain has fallen upon that
period, and that I hope we shall never see the like
of it again. (Hear, hear.) It is our better fortune
to stand here at this time and to contemplate a
scene of a very different character, and I think that
those who have striven to benefit the working man
and spread learning among the working classes,
must rejoice at the position which the subject occu-
pies at the present moment. (Cheers.) The ques-
tion of education seems almost to supersede every
other. People of every condition seem to be
awakened to their responsibility of striving to bene-
fit their humbler brethren in this respect. Parlia-
ment votes annually £BOO,OOO a year for educa-
tional purposes, and an equal amount is derived
from other sources. (Hear, hear.) All the mis-
chievous delusions about the danger of over-educat-
ing the poor have been dissipated, and experience,
too, of the most recent kind seems to point to the
information of the working man as offering the very
best assurance for the safety of property and of our
institutions. (Cheers.) The only question that seems
to be in doubt is as to the form and quality of the
education that shall be provided for the poor, and I
am not disposed to differ with those who say that
there must be a limit to the provision made by the
State for school purposes. But my particular rea-
son for referring to the state of public feeling and
the general position of the question of education, so
far as it is provided for the poor, is to draw your
attention to the very great advantage it gives to
institutes like this in fulfilling their purposes and
intentions. (Hear.) If it is considered that the poor
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served the character of working men, that owing to
the humanising influences to which they have been
subject of late, there has been a very great change,
and there is a great desire for intellectual improve-
ment and recreation. They are ready to avail them-
selves of it whenever it is offered to them. (Cheers.)
Why, then, should some provision not be made ?
Why should our institutions be merely philoso-
phical cabinets ? Why should not arrangements
be made to suit the peculiar circumstances of the
poor? lam glad to find that in this institute pro-
vision is made for concerts, lectures, as well as
general reading and the perusal of the daily
papers. All of these are rational and im-
proving modes of occupying a man's time. I under-
stand that whenever a good concert takes place, the
working man is ready to divert himself, if the charge
is within his means. I understand also that even in
the agricultural villages there are readings, at the
low price of a penny, from some of our best English
authors, and that the rooms are crowded. (Hear,
hear.) I understand also from one of the lecturers
who is in the habit of visiting large towns that the
rooms are always crowded when the lecture is suited
to their tastes. Surely all these things might be
brought within the sphere of the operations of such
an institute as this. I feel so much confidence in the
judgment and energy of those who have promoted
and carried the institute to a successful issue that I
am quite sure they will have observed in what re-
spect other institutes have failed, and in what way
they can carry out their objects with most effect,
and I am sure that in the course of a short time we
shall find the working classes within this district as-
sociating more closely with the institute for the pur-
pose of pleasure, recreation, and instruction.
(Cheers.) If I might be allowed to make a reference
to one want in your arrangements, it would be that
I do not see any intention of connecting this insti-
tute with the school of design. Now, that is really
a most important matter for the manufacturing
classes throughout the country. (Hear.) An inquiry
lately took place in the House of Commons as to the
effect of these Schools of Design which have been
in operation during the last 20 years. They cer-
tainly have notbeen well managed, andhave not had
all the success that was hoped for, but on reading
the evidence I was astonished at finding what ad-
vantages have been derived from them—first, by
the students themselves, and then by the manufac-
turers, and the influence which they have on our
trade with foreign countries. (Hear, hear.) Opi-
nions have been expressed in the House of Com-
mons that nothing could be more important to the
manufacturing interests of the country than to
cultivate the art of design, and to improve the
style of the artizan in that respect. The com-
mittee in their report state that the impression
which they have received from the evidence is
that Schools of Art have contributed largely to
the improvement of the taste of the country of late
years, and that great national advantages have been
derived from them—(cheers)--that schools of design
had recently been reconstituted. There is a central
department. It is supposed that the schools will be
conducted with greater advantages than heretofore.
It enables institutions like this to put themselves in
relation with it, and by paying a small sum they
will have the advantage of models and various other
things in connexion with art. We must not forget
the importance of this advantage. We are, gene-
rally speaking, equal to the producers of most coun-
tries ; but if there is one respect which we pay to
others it is with regard to taste and design ; and
although we have now the advantage of free trade,
we must not forget that we must take free trade
with all its consequences. We have derived many
benefits from it, but we never shrunk from the ex-
pectation of an active competition with the foreigner,
and it is in this particular respect that the artizan
in
England, in competition with foreign artizan
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carefully trained. (Hear, hear.) Certainly,
productions are superior to ours in many Certainly, their
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artizan of this country must consider to what disad-
vantages he will be exposed if he is unable to com-
pete with the foreigner. We have not only removed
all obstructions to trade with regard to this country,
but with regard to our colonies. I think if a school
of design could be connected with this institute it
would confer as great a benefit on the town as any
other benefit which it proposes to confer. (Cheers.)
This matter is considered one of much importance
in many other towns. In the town of Halifax
there is a mechanics' institute. It has been con-
nected with the School of Design in London, and
there are 500 members of the institute who are re-
gular students in the School of Design. (Hear.)
There is no reason why the same course should not
be pursued here, and I may remark that more evi-
dence in favour of the School of Design came from
Staffordshire than from any other county. (Cheers.)
It is perhaps presumptuous in me to , suggest to our
friends a proceeding of this kind, for it is ungenerous
to press a willing horse to death. I leave the matter
to their own responsibility and the generosity of their
friends. The promoters of the institute have done
great service. They deserve the support of the town
and the thanks of the county, and they have by
establishing the institute afforded another evidence
of the constant moral progress of our towns, a cir-
cumstance not to be overlooked with the increasing
growth of our material greatness. (Cheers.) When
I look round, I cannot help congratulating the work-
ing man upon the presence of gentlemen holding the
highest position in the county—gentlemen enter-
taining different political opinions—who are assem-
bled to do honour to the institute which has for its
object the spread of information and the elevation of
the character of the working classes. (Cheers.) I
believe it is now my duty to announce that this in-
stitute is now opened, and to express my hearty de-
sire that it may achieve all the success which it-de-
serves. (The right hon. gentleman then resumed
his seat amid loud cheers.)

Mr. M. Gibson and his Constituents.
'Tuesday Night.
To-night Mr. Milner Gibson, President of the Board of
Trade, has addressed a crowded and enthusiastic meeting

of his constituents in the Town-hall. The entrance of the

right hon. member with the mayor, Dr. Galt, Mr. Hugh
Mason, and others was signalled by loud cheering. After
being introduced by the mayor amid renewed cheering,
Mr. GIBSON said,—Although we had removed a great
number of protective duties, and made important fiscal re-
forms, which must be of immense benefit to the country,

we could not have the full advantage of a free-trade policy

unless reciprocity on the part of foreign nations was to a
great extent realised. Setting aside from our present con-
sideration the United States, we found at Brazil, Cuba, and
other colonies and dependencies that our tariff of duties on
the raw produce from those countries was much more op-
pressive than the duties which they imposed on manufac-
tures coming from England, and therefore it was reciprocity

from our side that was required, and not from theirs ; but
if we looked ajc Europe, with the exception of Holland,
Turkey, and Switzerland, the liberality was all on our
side, and we had a right to expect from the various coun-
tries of Europe that before long those erroneous views
which had hitherto guided their policy would be changed,

and that we should have a more general adoption of free-
trade principles. (Hear.) He considered that for such pro-
gress as had, in this respect, taken place, and might yet be
achieved, we should be mainly indebted to Mr. Cobden—
(cheers)—who, breaking down the prohibitive system in
France, had taken the first step to breaking down the pro-
hibitive system of Europe. (Cheers.) France had already
concluded contracts, which would ripen into treaties, with
Turkey, Belgium, Italy, the Zoliverein, Switzerland,

Sweden, and Holland; and into an equal share of the mu-
tual advantages of these treaties England either had been
or would be admitted by treaties simultaneously concluded.
We must give time to countries to overcome the interested
opposition which naturally existed against .the admission
of free competition with their produce and manufactures ;

and also bear in mind that the excessive military expendi-
ture of the various countries of Europe had been one of the
main obstacles in the way of dealing boldly with their tariff
of duties. France, urged forward by the success of her new
commercial policy, was at the present moment engaged in
considering a most important subject—namely, a great re-
laxation of her navigation laws ; and if effected, this might
be of as great advantage to the commerce and industry of
this country as the previous reduction in the French tariff
of import duties. (Hear, hear.) Referring to complaints that
the Foreign-office and the Board of Trade had not between
them been so active as they might have been, he defended
Foreign-office and the Board of Trade from the charge, as
he thought, inconsiderately made of not being sufficiently
active in promoting the adoption of a free-trade policy by
foreign nations, and said he was sure the Government had
seized every promising opportunity of urging freedom of
industry and a reduction of duties in countries where they
had representatives. He said that, in compliance with the
recommendations of a parliamentary committee which sat
last session to inquire into the relations between the Board
of Trade and the Foreign-office, the latter had created a
department to be called " The Commercial Division,"
which would carry on all the correspondence on commer-
cial matters with her Majesty's missions abroad, with the
representatives of foreign Powers in England, with the
Board of Trade, and other departments of her Majesty's Go-
vernment, and with commercial associations, and private
individuals at home and abroad ; but the creation of this
new division had made no alteration in the character of the
relations heretofore subsisting between the Foreign-office
and the Board of Trade. He hoped this new machinery,
by causing commercial matters to be attended to with
the utmost promptitude, might give satisfaction to the
commercial community. Speaking next to the anti-malt-
tax agitation, as one carried on mainly by gentlemen con-
nected with the Conservative party, he said he quite
agreed with a noble lord who spoke at a recent meeting on
the subject in the opinion that the question of the loss of
revenue which would be occasioned by a repeal of the tax
was the Chancellor of the Exchequer's business, and he also
thought that when gentlemen on the one hand supported a
very large expenditure they must, on the other hand, pro-
vide the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the ways and
• means of meeting it. (Cheers.) A friend of his who spoke
at this malt tax meeting had said that the reduction of taxes

on coffee, sugar, tea, and some other articles of that kind
was never complained of, and he maintained the malt tax
repealers were entitled to an equality of justice. ~Now,
admitting this claim, how would the matter stand ? He
had taken the trouble to write down what proportion the
malt tax bore to the tea, coffee, and sugar duties. He
found that on tea, taking the retail price at 38. per lb., the
duty as it existed at present of is. per lb. amounted to 33i
per cent. Taking coffee at the retail price of ls. 4d. per
lb., and paying a duty of 3d. per lb., it gave a percentage
of duty on the price of 19 per cent. Taking brown sugar
he found by a like calculation that the duty upon it was 22
per cent. ; but if he came to malt and allowed that a quart
of porter was worth 4d. he found that the percentage of
duty upon the price was only 12i per cent. (Laughter and
cheers.) Passing on to the Schleswig-Holstein question, he
said he thought every elector in that constituency would
have seen cause to rejoice that this country was not drawn
into the struggle, and he contended that if Denmark had
ever expected material aid from us against her gigantic
opponents it was not owing to any promises held out by the
Government, but to the mode in which the question was dis-
cussed in newspapers a.nd public places. Noticing the features
of the Schleswig-Holstein debate in Parliament, he said the
majority for Government in the House of Commons was
reduced from 65 to 18 by the votes of the Irish Roman Ca-
tholic members, and he maintained that such a combina-
tion as was then effected between the high Ultramontane
Catholics and the high Conservative Protestants of this
country was not one that ever could, or ever ought to
govern England, or which ever could promote the cause of
civil and religious liberty. The Catholics themselves had
nothing to gain from such an alliance, for it was not to the
Conservative party that they owed their emancipation,
they
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bPbora:eddnlirytasuposition. earnestly (Cheers.)thatsupporting such a measure as would, at least,
have the effect, to a certain extent, of extending the politi-
cal power of the [unenfranchised working industry of this
country. In reference to the American war, he could not
sympathise with the South, who were in the position of
partners in a firm who had separated from the rest in a
violent manner without cause, and for the purpose of