The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-06 00:00:00

holders remain firm, and ordinary sound common congou
was not to be obtained under lld per lb.
CHICORY.—Supply does not extend of Foreign Root, and
prices are firm at 101 105 to 101 15s in Bond.
PIMENTO.-560 bgs were placed in auction at 514 to
sd, being about former prices.
TALLOW.—There has not been much fluctuation in
prices during the present week, but as usual on the Ist of
the month, buyers have acted on the reserve, and an oc-
casional speculative parcel on the market has given prices
the bias in the consumers favour. New tallow has ranged
from 6 6d to 63s 6d on the spot, and old from 63s 6d to
62s 9d ; all the year 62s to 62s 6d., and generally at 62s
641 for January to March. The reported successes in
the Crimea as portending a most rapid executive,
andiconsequent speedy termination of the war, added
in the early part of the 'week to the inactivity
of the market, but the subsequent doubts and final
contradiction of the rumours by the Government
Gazette have imparted a firmer tone, and this is further
strengthened by the bad accounts of the roads by which
supplies are finding their way overland. Australian and
South American sorts are from their scarcity compara-
tively dear, and firmly held. Home tallow has been in
improved supply, but there has not been much brought on
the market, and 62s is the current rate net cash.
OlLS.—Linseed has not been very active, but a good
current business has been concluded at the steady rates of
34s to 31s 61 on the spot. Rape oil has become flat, espe-
cially the brown descriptions, and purchases might be
made on slightly better terms, 45s to 45s 6d has been the
range for brown, 47s to 47s 6d for pale, the latter figures
being closing prices. Fish oils continue to engage little
attention privately, as public sale are freely brought for-
ward, and we have again several parcels to-day. Sperm,
however, turns out much firmer than was expected, and
some enquiry has found the terms of holders enhanced to
1031. Cocoa-nut oil has been in some measure influenced
by the tallow market, and there has been little disposi-
tionto buy, except at easier prices, which have in very
few instances been accepted. Palm is without quotable
alteration. Olive oil has continued steady at the quo-
tations.

snt CD WARD BULEVER LYTTON AT
HEBEFOJW.

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litem'oetD, Oct. s.—Yesterday the annual meeting
of the Berta Agricultural Association was held in this
town, and the occasion was chiefly interesting from the
speech it elicited from Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, one
of the members for the county. The . proceedings coo-
sisted of an- interesting exhibition of agricultural imple-
ments and 'stock on the farm of Mrs. Dorringtolit at
Waterford-Fall, and at Sele-mill, both in the immediate
neighbourhood, concluding with a dinner in the evening
in the Town -hall, over which Mr. Robert Hanbury, the
high sheriff of the county, presided, and at which a great
number of the neighbouring gentry, clergy, and the
principal agriculturists were present, including, besides
the two gentlemen already named, the Marquis of Salis-
bury, Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. C. W. Puller, Mr. G. J.
Bosanquet, iMr. C. J. Dimsdale, Mr. R. Dimsdale, Mr..
W. R. Baker, Mr. R. W. Goussen, Mr. C. Soames,
Mr. Abel Smith, jun., M.P., Mr. R. W. Phillimore,
the Rev. C. B. Pearson, Mr. Roberts, Mr. G. T. Thorn-
ton, and many other influential persons. The usual
loyal and constitutional toasts having been drunk, that
of " The Army and Navy" being proposed in appropriate
terms by the Marquis of Salisbury, and responded to
with more than ordinary enthusiasm, and Mr. Thornton
having given " The Members of the County,"
Sir EDWARD BULWER LITTON rose to acknowlekre
the compliment, and was received with vehement cheer-
ing for some moments. He said,—Mr. Chairman, my
Lord Salisbury, and gentlemen, feebly indeed, after
the more than usual warmth with which you have so
kindly responded to the toast which has now been pro-
posed to you, can I return you my thanks fur the cow-
-1 pliment you have paid me. Allow me to join in the ge-
neral congratulations you have received on the excel-
lence of your annual show. It is not my intention on
this occasion to detain you for many minutes. I have
nothingto add to what I have before urged on behalfof the
general objects of meetings like the present, and I would
wish to content myself with a brief assurance of the
pride and pleasure I feel in whatever reflects credit
on the industry and intelligence of this country. After
the able and minute speech of our friend—the friend of
all us here on this occasion—Mr. Puller—(cheers)—and
after the critical reply of our friend, Mr. Roberts, I feel
I should do best to make no reference to the minute
points connected with husbandry or with agricultural
machinery, but to leave such remarks to those whose
superior practical knowledge would render their criticism
more worthy of attention. (Cheers.) Upon this occa-
sion, indeed, I am called on pointedly to address you in
my capacity of a member of Parliament. It is in that
capacity that you have just drunk my health, and the occa-
sion justifies and perhaps suggests some reference to more
general topics. Not, gentlemen, that it will be neces-
sary for me to touch on the forbidden ground of party
politics. We have separate interests as Conservatives
or as Liberals, but we •have all some common interests
as Englishmen, and it is only to those that I shall pre-
sume to allude. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, in this world,
as we all know, good and evil, blessings and afflictions,
are inseparably blended together in the divine system of
Providence ; but to make the most of the good, and to
counteract, as far as possible, the evil—that is the art of
the wise man, and that also is the proof of civilisation in
a people. Now, as Mr. Puller has so well observed, it
has pleased Providence to bless this country with an
abundant harvest ; but that favour is not confined to
England alone—it extends also to lands in which
the climate and the soil are infinitely more favoured
by nature than our own. But to make a diligent
use of that harvest—to extend its produce through
a thousand reproductive channels of national prosperity
—to enrich the agriculturist, and, through the increase
of his profits, to give a fresh stimulus to trade—to make
I ue, demands on manufactures—to pour new energies
nto the various investments of enterprise and capital—
that is the merit of the English people, and that is the
way in which the civilisation of man assists the bounty
of the Creator. (Cheers.) In other countries that I
might name—such, for instance, as Spain or Sicily, once
the granary of Europe—lands infinitely more favoured
than our own—for want of roads, for want of markets,
or facilities for interchange—in one word, for want of
civilisation, the corn in many places will rot uncut where
it stands, and the whole harvests pass away, enriching,
no trade, recruiting no manufactures, rewarding no in-
dustry, affording no surplus capital to energy or enter-
prise ; and that is the way in which uncivilised nations
frustrate the benevolence of Providence. So, again,
with regard to those afflictions to which humanity is
liable. It has pleased Providence to visit us with one of
the direst calamities in itself to which man is subject—
war ; and I confess, even in this hour of victory, I do
not like to approach that subject in any spirit of levity,
but more with the sentiment of religious awe. But, as
it has been so well brought before you by my noble
-friend on my right (the Marquis of Salisbury), and in a
spirit so thoroughly English, let us for one instant con-
sider if even to that evil we have not applied some of
the high energies of thoughtful men to make the most of
it, and to draw from it some future profit ; that is to
say; let us compare the objects for which we now send
forth our fleets and our armies with those which have
induced the Emperor of Russia to invade his neighbour.
War to both of us—England and Russia—is a great
calamity ; but there is this difference between the con-
tending -Powers. Suppose Russia were to succeed to
the utmost of her ambition—suppose that next year the
Cossack should stall his horses in the palace of Constan-
tineple—should we be one whit nearer to peace 1 On
the contrary, should we not have all Europe the mote
alarmed, and would not every free State tremble for
itself 1 The war would be carried on on a much larger
scale; it would be no longer a war waged for the inde-
pendence of Turkey, it would be a war of self-defence
over the whole civilised world. (Cheers.) Can any man
say that the triumph' of Russia would conduce to one
single interest of the human race ! . Rather, would it
not endanger every other interest which liberty and in-
telligence defend from brute force ? (Cheers.) If it
please Providence to continue to give triumph to our
armies—that is, the armies of England and France—if
Turkey can be preserved from all further interference—
if Russia can be confined to her ancient dominions,—if
new barriers can be thrown up between barbarian hosts
and peaceable States, who does not feel that the war
would then compensate for all its horrors by the new
bulwarks which we should have secured for human
liberty and the uninterrupted development of intel-
lectual progress? But, gentlemen, here, at this moment,
the joy we feel at the success of our arms is not from
any selfish acquisition of dominion. The fall of Sebas-
topol adds nothing to the empire of England. Onr joy
is in the successful vindication of the generous principle
that we defend the weak against the strong. (Cheers.)
Sufficient reward for all.our treasure and our blood if
we ca.a establish in the hearts of tyrants the Divine
command, "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
goods," and still less shalt thou compass thy neighbour's
death in order to divide his possessions. (Renewed
cheers.) Gentlemen, I must apologise to you for
touching on general topics. (" No, no !" cheers, and
"Go on.") I feel very much obliged to you for
those cheers, and I will tell you why, because they
confirm me in the opinion that there cannot be a
more vulgar mistake than to suppose that because
farmers, partly from the nature of their pursuits and
the greater seclusion of their homes, don't trouble their
heads about mere party struggles quite as much as the
more excitable inhabitants of towns, they are therefore
more indifferent to those graver questions which affect
the honour and welfare of this country. I feel here that
I should touch on womewhat delicate ground, which Mr.
Puller has gone over with much ease and dexterity. But
still, when I min touching on the war, I must say there
are few questions that can more interest the farmer and
affect his calculations, perhaps almost as much as the
weather and the seasons, than the continuance of war.
My friend, Mr. Puller, has shouted, somewhat prema-
turely, as I think, in triumph over our friend Mr. Der-
lug. He reminded us that some three years ago Mr.
Deriag thought the game was nearly up with agricul-
ture ; but be forgets there were two things which Mr.
Dering had no right to anticipate. One was the discovery
of Californian and Australian gold, and the other the war.
Mr. Puller will bear me out when I say that all political
economists of any authority are agreed that' war in itself
is a more stringent mode of effecting what was once called
Protection to agriculture than anything which Parliamen-
tary wisdom could devise. Warin itself restricts foreign
competition; war retires home. prices; and I most heartily
therefore, in this—that the prudent agri-
culturist well to husband all the savings which a
the war may (+cable him to accumulate,
agreestioonnatiwhich,n withua,
buwee
his-
tory, may eihfluiloulfdlly prepared agam.st that inevitable reac-
according to the uniform experience of his-
follow the return of peace. You all remember
the great depression that followed the peace of 1815 ; in
fact, the exorbitant rise of protective duties at that time
was only an expedient of Parliament to replace that de-
gree of Protection which had been the natural and ne-
cessary consequence of the war ; and the severest test of
that new political and commercial system which we
have adopted may probably be found in a year or two
after the peace ; and therefore you cannot do better now
than to make all diligent use of all the improvenients in
agrictilturalscience, and of whatever aids machinery may
afford you, in order that the English agricultural skill
may hereafter be fully and adequately prepared to meet
increased competition, and, if necessary, a fall of prices.
Gentlemen, the toast which I have to respond to would
have led me to pass over, on any other occasion, a some-
what wide field of remark ; I mean the toast that con-
nects me with the House of Commons ; but here I am
forbidden to do so by a rule of your society, which de-
precates all political discussion, and I will not make the
most distant allusion to the debates or votes of the Le-
gislature of the last session. On the contrary, I have
pretty well ficiehed all I have to say to you ; but I feel
that I should neglect a duty if I did not before I sit
down make some allusion to that mournful event which,
since we• last met, has occasioned a change in the re-
presentation of this county. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen,
upon a former occasion, at the eve of my contest with
Mr. Trevor—l call hint by the name he then bore—it
was my lot to call upon you all to lay aside party differ-
ences and to join with me in a tribute of respect to the
memory of the late Lord Deere. That eminent person
went to his peaceful and honoured grave in the fulness
of his days. Release to hint was the natural release
of human infirmity from protracted suffering. But your
late representative, Mi-. Halsey, was taken from you in'
the full vigour of life—no precious warning, no lingering
disease, which could make death itself seem a mercy.
One moment he was seen in all the streegth and spirits
of healthy manhood, and in the next he had vanished
for over horn human eyes. [Here the honourable
baronet's emodUcti overcame his utterance, and lie was
unable for a moment to proceed.] No friend could
receive his last wish ; no kindred could comfort his
last sigh. To his grave there went eo weeping funeral
procession ; over his remains there eves nn holy ser-
vice for the dead—so sudden and awful was the
catastrophe ; the young husband and the young wife
swept away into the deep, scarcely knowing, perhaps,
the previous danger, scarcely hearing, perhaps,
,the

shrieks which rung from -the dying and the doomed
around them ; such a tragedy might well annihilate. all
angry recollections, and we should not be Englishmen,
we should not be men, if we did not now feel a melan-
choly desire to prove our sympathy with the survivors by
some few words of kindness and just praise in honour of
the dead. In the little I have to add, lam sure, Mr.
Chairman, your impartiality and the generous temper of
his opponents will bear with me. Mr. Halsey wag not
a man of showy talents or of profound learning, but
neither did he affect it. Hie information was, upon the
whole, more considerable than those may be aware who
did not know him well. It was an information above
the average of young men born, like himself, to large
fortunes, and who are too often disposed to.treat life as
a lholiday, and to seek only effeminate pleasures. In
him, at least, there was nothing effeminate. He was
thoroughly English and manly, and whenever he was
called on to speak or to act he could speak his senti-
ments with English firmness and act with English
promptitude, There are none of you will think the •
worse of him that he had a strong sense of party, a
strong sense of his own political opinions, and for
the men who shared them. But there arc men who
have an equal warmth for party objects, but who, never-
theless, connect them with sonic party purposes or some
desire of personal aggrandisement. From all buch self-
seeking he was totally free. No desire for place cemented
his attachment to his party; His utmost ambition
your favour permitted him ,to realise—to be a member
for this county and to obtain the esteem of his consti-
tuents. That was all he asked, and such an ambition
is equally dear to every public man. There are come
who are equally fervid politicians, but who nevertheless
envy some superior celebrity among their own friends.
Others there are who are disposed to tyrannise over de-
pendents who differ from them ; and there are those who
are mean and tricky in promoting their own views or
creeping into popular 'favour. No such fault could be
laid to his charge. I never met a man more free from
envy, less disposed to tyrannise over others, or more
thoroughly incapable of fawning, subterfuge, or dissimu-
lation. His whole character and life were in harmony
with his frank countenance and manly bearing. His
faults were those of which Englishmen are always in-
dulgent, and his qualities were those which Englishmen
may most respect. (Cheers.) My younger colleague'
in the representation of the county (Mr. Smith) is here,
and will doubtless speak for himself. •He has youth on
his side, with all its healthy vigour and generous ardour
for whatever position to which he limy aspire ; and he
only wants practice to make you 'familiar not only
with his sentiments, but with all those generous
qualities which are identified with his paternal name.
(Cheers.) I certainly will not deprive him of any op-
portunity for that practice ; but, on behalf of Sir Henry
•Meux and myself, allow me to return you thanks for the
compliment you have paid us. I fear it is a melancholy
truth that we cannot please all parties ; and if we at-
tempted to do so we should succeed in being ,trusted by
none. But upon all those questions on which ourparty
opinions may have been plainly stated, and can be fairly
advocated, I trust you will have no cause to complain of
our sincerity and good faith ; and although still greater
questions may arise from time to time, without any pre-
vious concert with party—questions in which some un-
seen danger may affect our common country, or in which
there may be some occasion to defend just principles or
human rights—l trust we shall rise superior to all other
considerations, and over party itself ; and without one
single care what faction may be or may not be in pdwer,
that we shall think and vote as becomes the representa-
tives of this great people. (Cheers.) It is to this English
House of Commons that all nations now hesitating be-
t‘Veen despotic control and popular government must
turn their eyes ; and if they desire to see how sacred a
thing is liberty, provided only it be accompanied with
a rational care to preserve alike from the mould of
decay and the violence of incautious acts, they must
look to the original framework of those institutions
which contain the title-deeds to the happiness we pos-
sess. (Loud and prolonged cheers.)
Mr. A. SMITH, M.P., also briefly responded to the
toast, as one of the members for the county.
Sir E. B. LYTToN, at a later period of the evening, in
proposing the toast of " the Agricultural Labourers,"
said he could not doubt that such a toast would be wel-
come to all present. At the late hour, however, to
which their proceedings had extended he could not hope
to do justice to it. The toast had reference to a class
not only interesting in itself, but one with which he had
as familiar an acquaintance as he had with any other.
But at the present moment he could not see the neces-
sity of saying anything in praise of the agricultural la-
bourers. To them those present owed whatever wealth
they possessed. Their labour was the origin of capital.
They owed to the labourer something more ♦aluable ;
for they owed to them i❑ a great degree the defence of
their country. It was from the agricultural labourers
that those armies were chiefly recruited which had
just added fresh laurels to the fame of England on
the Alma and at Sebastopol, and which were sus-.
taming her name and prestige in other parts of the
world. -The same class which triumphed at Water-
loo were now engaged in conflict with the legions
of Rassia, and he only hoped they would be as trium-
phant with the sword as they had been with the plough-
share. (Cheers.)
Mr. Puller, Mr. Roberts, and several other gentle-
men spoke in the course of the evening, but the topics
on which they discoursed were for the greater part of
purely local interest, and do not justify a report beyond
the immediate neighbourhood.
The meeting separated between 9 and 10 o'clock.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

MUSIC AND DANCING LICENSES.

The court sat yesterday to hear applications for the
renewal of old, and the granting of ❑ew licenser for
music, and music and dancing, under the statute 25 Goo.
11. The list comprised 165. applications for the renewal
of licenses for music only, 56 for licenses for music and
dancing, 53 new applications for licenses for music only ;
and 6 for music and dancing.
All the old licenses were renewed, except in a few
cases where the parties had failed to send in their peti-
tions.