The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-12 00:00:00

" CLAW ME, CLAW THEE !"

MR. GLADSTONE AT MANCHESTER.

SHARE MARKETS-(THIS Di Y., )

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.

SIR, —Your enlightened journal has long appeared to
me not only the earliest in the kingdom for all Parlia-
mentary and foreign intelligence to those residing out of
London, but likewise the most willing to insert in your
columns, without rejections from party motives or un-
fair and partial decisions, the contributions that reach
you from many who have not the means of displaying
their oratory and sentiments on platforms and at public
dinners, but are compelled to use their pen in animad-
verting on the scenes before them, and the career and con-

Mr. Gladstone's first appearance in public since his
arrival at Manchester was on the Exchange, yesterday
morning, where he was escorted by Mr. Robert Barnes,
mayor of tho city, and accompanied by the Bishop of
Oxford. There was a large assemblage in front of the
Exchange, and the interior of the building was crowded
by subscribers, who with difficulty formed a lane, through
which the distinguished visitors could pass. Mr. Glad-
stone leaned upon the Mayor's right arm, and the Bishop
upon his left. In this order they proceeded from the
west to the extreme east end of the building. The time
was half-past one, the hour of " high change," when
merchants and manufacturers are supposed to be most
deeply immersed in business ; but the fact was that many
hundreds, for fully half an hour before, had done nothing
better than collect as near the front door as possible to
secure the best place for obtining a view of the eminent
statesman. Several loud, if not very hearty, cheers, were
given during Mr. Gladstone's presence in the Exchange,
which the right hon. gentleman acknowledged by slight
bows from time to time, as he passed along. The visit did
not last more than a few minutes. It was a curious cir-
cumstance that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's arrival
should have been so peculiarly timed as it was—his visit to
the merchants and manufacturers of Manchester, yester-
day, being on the first day of his new stamp law coming
into effect. Copies of the new stamps had been freely
handed about before his arrival, by such as had been
able to procure supplies ; and, without any disrespect
meant to the eminent financier, the law was characterised
by many persons as a nuisance. The old receipt stamp
was comparatively inoperative, not because of its high
rates (though that was something), but because the scale
was graduated according to the amount paid, and par-
ties could hardly be expected to have with them a stamp
of the right amount. Hundreds of manufacturers were
on the Exchange, yesterday, who scarcely ever gave a
receipt stamp in their lives, even when receiving sums
of a thousand or ten thousand pounds. The facility for
applying the new stamps seems likely to cause them to
be much more generally if not universally, given and
accepted ; and many houses here expect that they will
pay 701., 801., or 1001. a year in the penny receipt
stamps where they paid nothing before. The large
" country" or home trade houses, will doubtless incur a
charge which will be quite new to them, and a serious
addition to their income taxes. That the Chancellor of
the Exchequer should have been received with a general
feeling of good-will on such a day says much for his
popularity, therefore, and not a little for those who wel-
comed hint on this occasion. Previous to his reception
at the Exchange, Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by the
Bishop of Oxford and other gentlemen, had paid a pri-
vate visit to the extensive works of Messrs. Joseph
Whitworth and Co., machine makers, where he arrived
about half-past eleven, and remained nearly an hour aad
a half, inspecting the various mechanical appliances in
operation. It was expected that Mr. Gladstone would
visit several other of the principal industrial establish-
ments of the town during the day.

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much as it is worth (comparing it with other anonymous
offerings, of which no doubt you have a multiplicity) in
your journal. As a quiet and calm looker on, I cannot
but feel an inexplicable wonder and disgust at the late
exhibitions which England, Ireland, and Scotland have
been favoured with by the prominent, wise, veteran
statesmen of Aberdeen's grand Coalition. It would ap-
pear to me that this blessed harmonious Cabinet left
their antiquated Thane, and the best writer of their
bribe, to keep up in Downing-street their kites as to mo-
difications, their official notes on conference or the whole
conference, while the remainder seem to have set out on
an itinerant expedition through the land, with the pre-
cious understanding between each—
" Mind, I will puff you,
If you will puff me."
They seem to have agreed—lt is unsafe to talk of what
we will do, because we don't know. It is unwise for
any of us to commit even individual opinions, as no two
amongst us may think alike. But if we all mystify by
puffing each other, look big, and dwell on the past
wisdom and success of each individual's statesmanlike
career, assuming all the credit of all the past to our-
selves, we may throw dust in the eyes of the mass in the
gnorant and curious crowds that may assemble to greet
a Cabinet Minister's arrival, and we may get rid of the
mess we have created, and the fix we are in, by a skilful
recurrence and display of all our gone-by brilliant ser-
vices. Short-sighted fools !—as if they were ignorant
of that great bard who writes—
" To have done, is to hang quite out of fashion,
Like rusty mail, in monumental mockery!'

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Lord John opens the ball at Greenock, and not a syl-
lable of the Eastern question—not a word of scarcity or
monetary panic, or the curious complication of our do•
mestic affairs at home—no recurrence to any immediate
plan, prospect, or measure, but exclaims—" Only exa-
mine, gentlemen, all the grand conceptions and success
of my forty-five years' public service as a statesman."
But passing from this puff direct of himself, let me
proceed to Lord Palmerston, albeit the greatest states-
man of the age, the cupid and juvenile Whig of former
years becoming Conservative as time passed on, and,
finally, the great sheet-anchor of the ricketty Coalition
Mixture. Far be it from me to derogate from his
transcendant abilities ; but it is rather sickening to see
him (from the puffing presumed contract) the panegyrist
of the man who, not very long since, ousted this model
for our Foreign Affairs, who was neither the Minister
of Austria, the Minister of Russia, nor the Minister of
Prussia, but the " Minister of England," as the worthy
Mayor informs the public again from Sir Robert Peel's
speech. To see, I repeat, two great statesmen eulogis-
ing the champion of civil and religious liberty, forgetting
the famed letter to the Bishop of Durham, Cardinal
Wiseman, and next styling him the originator of all our
commercial policy and prosperity, as if Sir Robert Peel
had no real credit for free trade, and winding up his
long-laboured oration on the great efforts and wonderful
measures the Government with which he was connected
had in putting an end to that abominable and odious
traffic in slaves—which measures, by the by, were more
vigorously acted upon and directed by Lord Castlereagh
and the Duke of Wellington than by any of their suc-
cessors. Let me ask where you see in either of these
speeches a sentence applicable to the present position of
affairs, which would become a wise politician to address
at this crisis to a large assemblage of people ? So much
for the first act in Scotland, where both these eloquent
subordinates seem to have cast into oblivion l' excellent
cher Aberdeen, their lawful chief and commander.
We come then to Ireland, and we have the First Lord
of the Admiralty at Cork, and pray mark the wonderful
taste and logic of his discourse. Having a horror of
being catechised, he stipulates beforehand for no politics
or party discussion. Truly Scottish—to be safe on all
sides. But he claims unbounded praise for bringing a
British and Irish fleet into Cork Harbour as a great
boon ; but the only one to be afforded, as Ireland must
depend upon itself for any other advantage. But by
way of exhibiting justice to Ireland, he points out to
them he has appointed two Irish Admirals to the fleet,
and one Irish Secretary, O'Brien, of the right sort to his
own bureau. Now, whether O'Brien be of the right
sort is as much unknown to the public at large as whe-
ther Graham be of the right sort.
We then are led to the second act in Scotland. Having
left Ireland and England to the specious cajoling of the
Scotch baronet, we have the great financier at Dingwall
and Inverness. In his public discourses I find a better
exposition of the general interests of the country,
although silent on the funds, the banking rate discounts,
and on his own schemes of his budget, as any one of his
spouting colleagues ; but with the same patriotism as the
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they will not fail to remember that they succeeded toe
the Funds at 100, with twenty-three millions and a half
in the coffers of the Bank, and that we now are blessed
with Consols at 90, and only fifteen millions and a half
in the Bank.

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, OCT. 11.

The Regius Professor of Divinity intends to com-
mence a course of public lectures on Thursday, the 17th
of November, at 1 o'clock, at Christ Church.
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These lectures are open to all members of the Univer-
sity who have passed the B.A. examination ; and those
who wish to attend are requested to call on the Profes-
sor on Wednesday, the 16th of November, with a
recommendation from the head of their college or from
their tutor.

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The Regius Professor of Divinity proposed to resume
his private lectures on the Book of Common Prayer for
the present term, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur-
days, and to read portions of Dr. Routh's Scriptorum
Ecclesiasticorum Opuscula on the intervening days.
Any members of the University who have passed the
examination for the degree of 8.A., and may be desirous
of attending, are requested to call on the Professor on
Monday, the 24th inst., between 1 and 2 o'clock.
The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History pro-
poses to begin his lectures on Monday, October 24,
with two classes—one commencing the course of history,
the other entez-ing the fifth century.
The lectures are open to members of the University
who have passed the B.A. examination (in the School of
Liters Hum-miores at least) ; and all who wish to
attend are requested to call on the Professor between
12 and 2 o'clock on Saturday, October 22.

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THE BRITISH PENITENT FEMALE REFUGE.

The twenty-fourth annual meeting of the friends and
supporters of this institution was held yesterday evening
at the board-room of the asylum, near the Canal Bridge,
Hackney. The chair was taken on the occasion by Mr.
Joseph Maitland
From the annual report which was read by the secre-
tary, the Rev. J. Glanville, it appeared that the institu-
tion was every year instrumental in reclaiming many
females from a vicious course of life, and making them,
as far at least as could be judged by outward appearances,
good members of society ; while some gave evidence of
a thorough reformation and change of heart. During the
last year the receipts had been 1,4801. 18s. 7d., and ex-
penditure had been 1,356/. 16s. 10d. ; the balance in
hand being at present 4591. 3s. 11d. The total number
of females admitted since the formation of the society
was 1,175. At the period of the last annual meeting
there had been 54 inmates in the house, and 53 had since
been received, making a total of 107 on the foundation
during the year. The majority of these persons
had been received under very distressing circumstances ;
34 of them had lost both parents ; 44 had only one
parent living, and 8 were under 20 years of age. It
further appeared that 52 of them had quitted the asylum ;
17 had been reconciled and restored to their families ;
27 had been placed in situations ; 5 had left at their own
request ; 3 had been dismissed for bad conduct, and 1
had died in the institution, leaving 54 still remaining
within its precincts. Every female on leaving the es-
tablishment with the approbation of ;the committee is
presented with a Bible and with two suits of apparel.
The report was unanimously adopted; resolutions were
passed expressing the high sense which the meeting en-
tertained of the useful character of the asylum, and their
conviction of its strong claims on the sympathy and sup-
port of the public ; a vote of thanks was passed to the
chairman, and the proceedings closed with the singing
of the doxology.

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Your admirer as a waiter, being
A CONSTANT READER AND LOOKER-ON.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 1853.

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Business
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CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.

Yesterday a Court was held ; Mr. Deputy Peacock in

the chair.
The Clerk to the Commission stated that he had re-
ceived the following letter from the Governor of the
Tower, in reply to the letter which he had been instructed
to write to that nobleman, with reference to the re-
moval of the barrier at Postern-row, for the purpose of
carrying out the projected improvements in the City
Combermere Abbey, Oct. 7, 1853.
" Sir, —I have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 3rd inst., communicating the wishes of the
Commissioners of Sewers respecting the removal o fthe
barrier of the Postern-row, and I beg you will have the
goodness to inform the court that I shall be most happy
to meet their wishes, if, upon inspecting the premises,
in November, I find that it does not interfere with the
arrangements about to be made in the vicinity of the
Tower.

" I have the honour to be Sir,
" Your moat obedient and humble servant,
"J. Daw, Esq. " COMBERMERE."

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M. H. L. TAYLOR said 'le thought some further no-
tice ought to be taken of this communication, as he anti-
cipated that there could be no difficulty in the way of
thoroughfare through Postern-row, a step in which the
citizens of London were most deeply interested.
The letter was ordered to be referred to the General
Purposes Committee.