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PUBLICATIONS.

be incorporated either with the poor rate or the
county rate. But even then I would not diminish
one iota of the Church's due right to her absolute
and independent property. (Loud cheers.) As to
the franchise, my experience has led me to the con-
clusion that the present standard is as equitable
and sound. as it can possibly be. (Hear, hear.) I
maintain that the franchise in boroughs bas worked
well hitherto, and will continue to work well. And
so strong am I on that point, that I would not
willingly consent to a reduction of the
borough franchise to £9 192. 111 d. (Cheers.)
In my address I stated that I considered
the franchise should be extended according to the
progress of education. I quite admit that, but I
am now speaking of the standard as to a property
qualification, and I can only repeat my conviction
that the present standard is a just and proper one.
But I contend also that education is the higher
standard. (Cheers.) There is one other very im-
portant subject which mug interest all of us—it is
the cause of education. (Applause.) I am per-
fectly certain that we have all the deepest interest
in that question. (Hear, hear.) I know that I for
one have, and that I am a sincere friend of educa-
tion, and shall be prepared to vote on every occa-
sion for the right of the poor man's child to a sound
plain education at the charge of the state. (Hear.)
I would see every poor man's child in every county
and borough in England educated to a sufficient
point out of the means of the country. (Cheers.)
And you may rely upon mo that if I am returned
to parliament I shall do all in my power to further
the cause of education_ (" Bravo !") As for our
armaments and our volunteers, there can be no two
opinions with reference to them. (Cheers.) We
are all lovers of our glorious country, and wish our
armaments to be kept up to that position which
should enable us, should it ever become necessary,
to meet even the whole world in arms against us.
(Loud applause.) As for the volunteers, it was the
patriotism of the country which gave rise to them;
and all I can say is, that if they do want a subsidy
I shall not only be happy, but 1 shall feel it my
duty, to do my utmost for that noble body, should
I ever be placed in a position to do so. (Cheers.)
In conclusion, I would say that I come to submit
myself to you hindered by no other ties. I have no
landed interest in any county in England ; and I
hope to be able to identify my future connection
with our soil with the ancient and loyal borough of
Totnes. (Cheers, and a Voice, " He's our man.")

be said that because the American people were
the best educated people in the world, and this
great calamity of a civil war had fallen upon
them, it would have been better had they not
been educated at all ? If some unknown disaster
should follow any individual who had laboured in
the cause of his own education, thwarting his effoi is
preventing him from attaining that success in life
which he thought he had a fair claim to—was it to
be said, "Better he had not been educated at all P"
In the name of moral justice, he (Mr. Milnes)
should say neither the one nor the other. Bet-
I ter to labour even to fail; even better than if any
one were to succeed unjustly and without labour.
(Applause.) The education of an individual co-
operated, so to say, with the education of the world
in the hand of the great Divine Schoolmaster and
Artificer. This was a glorious consideration, which
the humblest of mankind might feel with no unjust
pride or undue conceit. In the midst of this great
Lancashire calamity, nothing seemed to him more
interesting than that a considerable portion of the
grown-up :men were improving' the calamity by
learning to read. (Applause.) It might be said,
"What was the use of reading to men who were
hungry and in unhappy circumstances ? " but did
it not give them a consciousness that there was
something in the world to learn which even in
calamities like this could never be wholly taken
away from them; and did not intellectual pursuits-,
go a considerable way to mitigate the material evils
of life, and to accommodate the man to the uneasi-
ness of his circumstances P (Applause.) The hon.
gentleman concluded by urging the importance of
art education, and by showing that mental study
was only a'duty which a man owed to himself and
to his country, by assisting in the great work of the
civilisation of mankind, which it should be the
glory of every man to be a contributor to, and, if it
pleased God, even to be a martyr to. (Loud ap-
plause.)
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Ml. NE ff'DEGATE A 7 RUGBY.

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In 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait,
THE LIFE OF EDWARD IRVING, Minister
of the National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by
his JOURNAL and CORRESPONDENCE. By➢ Mrs. OLIPHANT.
"Mrs. Oliphant's Life of Edward Irving supplies a long
felt desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent."—
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RUGBY, THIIRSDLY.

The annual show of the Rugby and Dunchurch
Conservative Association was held in a field near
Rugby yesterday, after which the annual dinner
was held in the Town Hall, The Earl of Dalkeitk
presided, and was supported on the right by the
Hon. Chas. Lennox Butler, High Sheriff, and on
the left by C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M.P. Mr.
Spooner was absent through indisposition.
The CHAIRMAN having given 'the Members for
North Warwickshire," which was received with
considerable cheering,
Mr. NEWDEGATE, M.P., rose to respond. After
expressing regret at the non-appearance of his col-
league, he referred to the fact that at the meeting
of the Rugby and Dunchurch Agricultural Associa-
tion last year, he had been the first to advert to the
doings of Captain Wilkes on board the Trent, of
which information had been received that morning,
and he was rejoiced to find that the views he then
expressed.had been subsequently sanctioned by pub-
lic opinion and by the Government. Recent events
had shown that our American cousins were deter-
mined we should not forget them. England never
wished to do so; but it was only natural that at the
present moment, when the heart of this country was
being wrung by an unhappy internecine struggle,
there should be an impatience on the part of Eng-
lishmen that the Government should interfere, and
stay if possible the strife now raging in America, not
only because they were of our own flesh and blood,
but also because it was a struggle destroying one of
the Free States of the world. (Hear, hear.) Eng-
land must always have a deep sympathy with all
freedom, but he was persuaded that Lord Palmerston's
Government had pursued a statesmanlike and pru-
dent course in hitherto pursuing a policy of absten-
tion in reference to American affairs. The Ameri-
can people seemed as though they could not forget
that the first phase of their national existence was
marked by their separation from England, and
there was a sort of national jealousy against Eng-
land amongst the Yankees. Some of them were
angry with us because we did not regret that cir-
cumstance more than it was possible for us to do ;
whilst others suspected us, or seemed to suspect us
in the matter of non-intervention. Not because
they thought we had a feeling of envy or interest,
but because they thought we had some covert
design to grasp again the Goverment of the
United States, which was a most chimerical idea.
Still there was a jealousy which he believed the
English nation most deeply deplored. (Cheers.)
He regretted, as much as any one, that the form of
Government which the Americans had set up had
not proved so successful as ours. The supremacy
of man formed a too prominent portion of the com-
position, instead of obedience to the will of God ;
there was, in fact, too much of that sheer absolut-
ism of the human will expressed by the first Napo-
leon, when he said, " Iletat c'est moi." Finally, he
thought the Government had acted wisely in leav-
ing to some other country the office of pacificator in
the present struggle. The hon. gentleman, refer-
ring to the subject of the distress in Lancashire,
said the distress was a very grievous one to be
borne, and they were bound by special ties to sym-
pathise with them in their troubles. When the
ribbon trade of Coventry was struck down by the
operation of the French Treaty, Lancashire most
readily and nobly contributed to alleviate their
suffering poor, and he trusted that now in the dark
hour of its trial, the whole county of Warwick,
with Birmingham at its head as the metropolis,
would join heart and soul to repay what had been
sent for them with interest. But the troubles of
distress wore not confined to the cotton districts;
it had come near home among their neighbours,
and it was their duty to provide for them. He had
been recently engaged in an inquiry as to the state
of Coventry, and he could assure them that it was
in such a condition as to need their deepest sym-
pathy ; and more than deep symyathy, the bestow-
ment of such means as they could well spare. He
thought the Mayor of Coventry and the Local Re-
lief Committee had recently commenced a separate
subscription for the poor weavers in that place ; but
if they bore in mind that but one-half of the suffer-
ing operatives of that town were weavers, they
then would see how inadequate the movement
was to offer any relief at all commensurate
with the existing distress. He had made in-
quiries upon the subject from the chairmen of the
various district committees, and they assured him
that not only was there great distress in Coventry,
but also in all of the surrounding districts, reach-
ing beyond the town of Nuneaton. In consequence
of that an appeal had been made to Lord Leigh, and
he had nobly answered them by establishing another
fund, to be called the " North Warwickshire Fund,
for the relief of the distressed operatives." The
hon. gentleman then referred to the subject of church
rates, and stated that for seven years he bad devoted
himself to the solution of that great question, which
caused so much dispute between Churchmen and
Dissenters. The result of his labours was a bill
which he introduced into Parliament last session,
and which had been by him withdrawn for purposes
of amendment. In that bill he proposed to remove
the present rate, which was personal, and tax
property for the maintenance of proper worship in
the Church.;_ He believed the subject had caused
i
much irritation for the last 28 years between D!s-
senters and Churchmen, but it would admit of a
solution satisfactory alike to both parties.

I assure you that in every way that lies in my
power I shall be happy to promote the prosperity,
the welfare of the
boroughan d do all
a t
large.c a n t o advance(chee rs
.There is, perhaps,
only one more point to which I would allude. One
and all of us must very deeply sympathise with the
great distress now prevailing in our manufacturing
districts. (Hear, hear.) I trust that distress
will be efficiently relieved, and I shall join in re-
lieving it where it so largely prevails. (Hear,) If
its effects should possibly—as we know they may
—in any way react upon the poor of Totnes, if I
can do anything to relieve that reaction, I shall be
only too happyito offer:my aid in doing so. (Cheers.)
In conclusion I would say that you have received
me so flatteringly and warmly that I feel I may
confidently leave my interest in your hands. (Hear,
hear.) lam prepared to go through to the end,
and to poll the last man on your register—(pro-
longed cheering)—should my canvass justify me in
doing so. (Cheers.)
Oa the motion of Mr. J. F. Phillips, J.P.,
seconded by Mr. Heath, Mr. Dent was unanimously
accepted as a fit and and proper candidate for the
borough.

MR. M. MILNES ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

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The annual soiree of the Leeds Mechanics' Insti-
tution Literary Society and School of Arts took
place last night and passed off with that success
which has for so many years been usual on these
occasions. Unfortunately Earl Granville could not
fulfil an engagement to preside, in consequence of
the recent death of his mother. The duties of pro •
siding were, however, ably discharged by Mr. R.
Monckton Mines, M.P. for Pontefract, who ad-
dressed the large assembly at great length, and to
the following effect. He said, in allusion to Earl
Granville's severe loss, that his lordship held a
titular office which made him the sixth subject
of her Majesty, but a member of the Govern-
ment could scarcely tell anything new, and lately
another member of the Government had got himself
into a scrape by remarks which he made by way of
exception to the general rule. The hon. gentleman
said that during the eleven years which had tran-
spired since the last great Exhibition the nation
had had many disappointments. The first Exhibi-
tion was to inaugurate an era of peace ; but this
country was driven by dire necessity into the Rus-
sian war, which lost so much of English blood and
English treasure, but added so much to English
glory. The terrible tale of the Indian mutiny was
another disappointment ; and another great Power,
founded by England in another hemisphere on the
principles of English freedom and English intelli-
gence, on the other aide of the Atlantic, and which
we once only feared might become greater than
ourselves—that realm had caused another disap-
pointment. He believed there were some persons,
though but few, who had looked with something
like inhuman gratification on the American catas-
trophe, but he for one would never share those feel-
ings which could regard that event as any other
than the greatest calamity which had ever fallen
upon the human race, and as one which Englishmen
oveet
disaster. existing it
h
above all others were bound to denounce and exe-
crate. (Cheers.) All present knew the miserable
moralp
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but it was not his business to " improve" those
occurrences for any peculiar purpose; all he cou!d
do was to call:upon all to suggest to themselves as
they best could what had been the evil, what had
been the wrong, what had been either the injus-
tice, or some other peccant cause, from which the
calamities he had referred to had sprung. Of
the latter which he had alluded to he would say
this—and he trusted that there was no person in
that hall, whatever his abstract opinions might be
upon political subjects, who would not agree
with him—that this great American disaster was
an awful lesson to every other nation how they
allowed a great national evil, as was that of Ameri-
can slavery, to remain within the community unre-
pented of, uncared for, and unimproved. (Applause.)
There were many evils in society to which we must
bend. There were many which, in our limited un-
derstanding, we saw no means of abolishing or even
rectifying ; but that was a totally different thing
from trying to make of the evil good. It was say-
wth will declare that to be
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was which lay at the
root of the American disaster. This it was which
was filling with desolation the valleys of Lancashire
and Cheshire. To his young friends—who would
grow up to the times when these calamities would
be talked of and form a part of distant history—he
would say, " Do not forget this lesson, and may it
be within the scope of their retrospective in those
days to see the abolition of those tremendous evils,
and thus to vindicate the ways of God to man by
the rectification of that great sorrow of humanity."
(Cheers.) Mr. Milnes proceeded to address the men-
hers of the Mechanics' Institute who were not to
receive prizes, and he assured them that though
they might be disappointed, if their hopes had been
elevated, or their characters raised, by theirstudies,
there was something good left behind after all. In
most cases advantage would follow education in an
individual, just as material prosperity followed the
development of education in nations, and in matters
of the community, but there might be circumstances,
, which would prevent
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