The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1865.

TO THE ELECTORS OF LUDLOW.
Gentlem 11,—In bidding- you farewell it is right that I'
should give a few words of explanation.
When returned in 186 e, it was unders.ood that at the next
election I should have the united support of the Conservative
party in Ludlow ; this has not been the case. so far as I 3an
see. Jealousy on the part of t'aose whose influence is necessary
has prevented me obtaining a sufficient number,of promises
to inuuce me to persevere.
1 was perfectly prepared for a contest, but to insure both
seats absolute unanimity is requisite.
This my successor will, I hope, obtain. I have paid the
utmost al tent'on to your I°o,l wants, having followed pre-
cisely in the steps of my predec ssor, Sir. Boi
Having waited until a Conservative was in the field, I sub-
scribe myself,
B .turday.

Your obedient servant,
W. FRASER.

AIR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
J. JOHN PARRY. will appear in their new entertain-
ment, entitled A PECULIAR, FAMILY, by William
Brough. New scenery by T. and W. Grieve. After which,
M. John Parry will give a few Memoranda from his Musi-
cal Note Book, entitled "RI COL LEO fIONS," vocal and
instrumental. Every Evening, except Saturday. at 8. A
MORNING REPRESEN TA TION every Wednesthy and
Saturday, at 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRA-
TION, 14, Regent-street.
Unreserved seats, is. and 2s. ; stalls, 3s. ; stall spring chairs,
ss. Stalls may be secured (without fee) in advance at the
Gallery.

T H X F O R D,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Orford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
66, Comic OPERETTA, by J. Offenbach,
and the BROTHER AND SISTER. by Sir Henry Bishop,
will be performed during this week. Principal artistes :
Signor Spagnoli. M. Marini, Mr. Green, and hr. St. Albyn.
Misses Russell, Barrie, and Tyrell, with full Band and Cho-
rus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian
and Mimic), Miss Kate Balle, the Grotesque, D'Aubans, and
Messrs. Duriah and Davis.

The Misses JE -SY and SARA GU HISS will have the
honour of appearing This Even ng.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
This Evening at Half-past Seven. Admission—area, 6d.;
italiklutd.baluouy,ls.; priVate boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
Sele3tions from mAßrui and THE. BROTHER
AND SISTER, supported by Miss RUSSELL, Miss Barrie,
Miss Hays. dm ; Messrs. ST. ALBYN, Green, &0., with Full
Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jongmans.

Comedy by Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, Messrs. Duriah
and Davis, Miss Kate Balfe, and the Grotesque D'Aubans.

. .
HODGM PODGM—This wonderful Illusion will be re-
peated for a short time longer, to enable country visitors to
witness this most beautiful of the London exhibitions.

In a few days will be produced, with new Optical effects,
the Illusion, entitled KO KO RI KO.

31[ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.

NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance Mich the season, the
Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of
the ancient Court Dresses of the most oostly description,
faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been
renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de-
scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London,
and probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.

A life-size Model of JOHN WILKES BOOTH, the base
assassin of the late President Lincoln, is also to be seen.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

CITY OF LONDON.

The contest in the city is becoming daily more
and more arduouS, and as the election will probably
be the first to the new Parliament that is a topic
t used by the candidates on' oth sides with a view to
urge the constituency to s t an example to the whole
country. In the 25 wards in the city local commit-
tees have been formed by both parties for canvas-
sing the electors ; and the rest of the liverymen re-
siding out of the city, but within the prescribed
limits, are being canvassed in the same way. Meet-
ings, besides, are being held daily in the various
wards, by which-means the electors become fami-
liarised with the candidates, and are afforded oppor-
tunities of interrogating them, and in that way the
opinions of the constituency at large are being eli-
cited. As compared with former occasions, Baron
Rothschild, from being unable from indisposition to
take a personal part in the contest, enters into the
struggle at a certain disadvantage ; but there is a
strong feeling among the citizens that he in his own
person represents _the practical recognition, after a
long and memorable struggle, of a great principle of
religious freedom, besides being the acknowledged
head of the merchant princes of the city ; and these
considerations tell greatly in his favour. At all
meetings of the Liberal pirty the electors are urged
rcit
to vote for all fourof the " beral candidates—Baron
Rothschild, Mr. Crawfo Mr. Goschen, and Alder-
man Lawrence—and not! for one, two, or three
only, if they: would„res44,the victory over the
Coffserviiives complete. On the other hand, the
Conservatives deprecate all splitting, except as
between their own two candidates, and recommend
the constituency to plump.
Last evening the candidates on both sides held
meetings and addressed bodies of electors—the
Liberals in Aldermanbury, and afterwards at the
Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, and the
Conservatives at Gower's Horse Repository, in Bar-
bican. At each of the meetings resolutions were
passed approving the respective candidates, and
pledging themselves to vote for them. Mr. Thomas
Baring, the banker, who is the chairman of the Con-
servative Central Committee, is taking a conspicu-
ous part in the election on behalf of his party. He
has attended several of their meetings, and taken
part in the proceedings, and in other respects he is
giving his personal countenance to Messrs. Lyall
I and Fowler. .

At present the prevailing belief in the city is that
the nomination of candidates will take place onMon-
day next, and the polling on the following day.

WESTMINSTER.

Last evening an aggregate meeting of the com-
mittees pledged to use their best endeavours for the
return of Mr. John Stuart Mill for this ancient con-
stituency was held at St. James's-hall. The place
was very crowded, and in so large a meeting there
were, as might be expected, many who formed no
part of the body invited to meet Mr. Mill; but the
proceedings throughout were undisturbed, and the
candidate was received generally in a most enthusi-
astic manner, and this by a meeting mainly com-
posed of the representative men of the city. Dr.
Brewer was called to the chair.

Mr. MILL was then introduced and was most loudly
and warmly cheered. He said that he had come there
only expecting to meet a small body of those gen-
tlemen who were desirous of seeing him represent
them in Parliament, and he was not in the least
aware of the public character of the meeting he was
expected to address. It would be an honour, indeed,
to represent the great constituency of Westminster
in the House of Commons, and the crown of glory
would rest with the constituency if they were victo-
rious, for they had not only to maintain purity of
election in their own persons, but they had under-
taken to provide for those legitimate expenses of
election ordinarily borne by the candidate, and to
abstain from the illegitimate expenses; and this,
too, in the face of a candidate supported by the
most lavish expenditure. The chairman had alluded
to his (Mr. Mill's) father. He lived in times
when there were fewer to do the work and when
the most moderate views were stamped as "Radi-
cal," and stood in the way of a man's advancing in
the world. His father had to gain his bread by his
pen in times when men of advanced opinions had to
bear much ; but he never wrote a word he did not
believe, though he often wrote words which were at
that time thought to be opposed to the vital interests
of the powerful classes in this country. Nothing
could be given him to do that would have the
thousandth part of the merit of what his father did.
If a man might speak of himself, he might say he
had stood by the cradle of all the political reformers
of this and the last generation, and had not only
stood by their cradle, but before his teens were out
he was up and writing for them. When the sup-
porters of accepted reforms and principles only
counted thousands, he might say their hundreds, and
in some cases their units, he was among them. For
instance, the subject of the responsible government
of the colonies had at one time only two supporters

—Mr. Roebuck and himself. (Cheers.) Another
instance in the Wakfield principle in regard to the
colonies—namely, to put a price on uncultivated
land, to employ the proceeds in paying the expenses
of immigration, the price at the same time being an
obstacle to the too great dispersion of the inhabit-
ants, and the application of this prevented the
people from settling on the land like Irish cotters.
Only three persons held that principle at one time,
and he was one of the three ; but the colonies in
Australia adopted the principle before the gold dis-
covery, and had become one of the most splendid
offshoots. He stated these things to show that he
was not one of those who left difficult questions
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to take up he had left them, saying " Such and such
will not need me now. I can turn to something
else ;" and so he left a matter at such a stage to turn
to something which was still a theory, still an ab-
straction, something that no practical person would
meddle with. He had been accustomed all his life to
see that the crotchet of one generation became the
truth of the next, and the truism of the one after ; and
he had lived long enough to see that process take
placo in several of his opinions. After a few obser-
vations he said he supposed that those at that meet-
ing were aware of his general political opinions, and
it was therefore unnecessary for him to address them
at any greater length, but he would answer any
questions.
In reply to questions,
Mr. MILL said, relative to non-intervention, that
he considered no nation should interfere in the inter-
nal affairs of another nation ; but that when a des-
potic government interfered with a nation which de-
sired to be free, then a free country would be in duty
bound to interfere on the side of right. (Cheers.)
Professor MASSON then made an eloquent address
in favour of Mr. Mill, and said that if Mr. Mill dif-
fered from him in 49 out of 50 questions, he would
still give him his vote.
Mr. MILL, in answer to a question with respect
to Maynooth, said he was of opinion that Church
and State should be perfectly distinct, but he did
not see how this was practical, and, moreover, he
thought the influence of the State over the Church
was exercisedfor its good ; and so lon gas one Church
was supported by the State he should be sorry to
take from the Irish people the small pittance given
in the Maynooth Grant.
The proceedings then terminated.

proud to see around him so many of those old
friends who had assisted him three years since to
obtain the proud position he now held, giving him
full confidence, as it did, that he would again
receive the suffrages of the electors of Lam-
beth. He came before the electors seeking re-elec-
tion on the ground that he had faithfully fulfilled
all the promises he had made when first elected.
(Hear.) His political principles were so well known
to the electors that he thought it would be unneces-
sary- to _enter minutely into those principles, but
should any elector desire to ask him any questions
he should feel bound and happy to reply. The most
important question of the day was that relating to
the franchise. He felt that the position of the Li-
beral party on the question of the franchise was
most humiliating—(hear)—and he had always re-
gretted that the reform bill introduced by the Derby
Government had not been accepted. (Hear.) What
he desired was a measure that would enfranchise
that large mass of the people called lodgers, the vast
majority of whom were as well qualified to exercise
the franchise as any of those who now possessed it.
(Hear.) He thought that a£6 franchise would be
comparatively:useless. unless accompanied by a re-
distribution of seats and the protection of the bal-
lot. (Cheers.) The question of church rates was
also in a very unsatisfactory position, but for him-
self he had always supported their total abolition.
(Cheers.) He had always opposed the Maynooth
grant, not out of any opposition to the Roman Ca-
tholics, but because he was opposed to State grants
for any religion whatever. Before sitting down he
begged further to sa,y he stood upon his own merits
and had not coalesced with any other candidate.
(Cheers.)
Several questions having been put to the hon.
member, and satisfactorily replied to,
Mr. J. RICHARDSON moved, and Mr. G. MURPHY
seconded, a resolution pledging the support of the
meeting to Mr. Doulton, which was almost unani-
mously adopted. A vote of thanks to the chairman
closed the proceedings.
Mr. Alderman Lawrence and Mr. T. Hughes also
held meetings last evening, the first at the Wm.
-
worth Institution, Carter-street, and the latter at
the Stockwell Institute. Resolutions were adopted
at both meetings in support of the respective can-
didates.