The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-26 00:00:00

courtly, nor to practise too unlimited a servility even to
princely wishes. (Hear, hear.) The next warning that
his lordship had was on the question of the appellate juris-
diction of the It use of Peers. The House of Veers, as
you know, have endeavoured to limit the royal rerogative
to de: y the right of creating life peers, lest the Queen
should send in more wisdom and patriotism tl an it would
be convenient to them to receive in their h use. (Hear.)
They say, with Doctor Coins, in the " Merry Wives of
Windsor," "What shall the honest man do in my closet?
There is uo honest man that shall come into my closet"—
(laughter)—and accordingly they, while rejecting this pre-
rogative, are attempting to set up for themselves a claim
for being, as they have practically been, the ultimate judi-
cial tribunal of the country. Well, the bill was carried
to its second reading, it was then shelved in a committee,
and the House of Lords and the House of Commons have
this hopeful thing to fight out in the next session ; they
have to give the country a high court of appeal, and they
have also to decide whether the Queen can create peers
who shall be peers in right of their personal qualities, and
not to be the fathers of legislators to the hundredth gene-
ration. (Hear.) I might add to these warnings that which
Lord Palmerston sustained by the mode in which his hill
for the resignation of the two bishops was received. Two
bishops stated that they felt themselves unequal to the
duties of their office. Well, the natural course of things,
when a man is unequal to his duties, is to give up those
duties. (Hear.) " No," said these bishops, "we will not
give up unless you secure for one of us a pension of 6,0001.
a year and a palace, and for the other a pension of 4,00/,
a year." Well, that has been carried, but carried amid
cries of shame which will reverberate through the country,
and which have done more to damage the cause of the es-
tablishment than anything else that could have been de-
vised. (Hear.) I have no complaint to make of Lord Pal-
merston on the subject of the peace. When I had the
pleasure of meeting you last year I testified my warm ad-
miration of him and confidence in him as war minister. I
confess some of the expectations with which I looked with
the degree of complacency which I then felt upon the war
have been disappointed. (Hear, hear.) I thought it might
have ended in a kind of crusade against despotism, uni-
versally. I thought there might have been, incidental to
the conflict, the liberation of the Hungarians, of the Poles,
and of the Italians. (Hear, hear.) That is postponed, but
it is only postponed. The time is coming, and it may perhaps
be nearer than we imagine, when the oppressed nationalities
will rise in their majesty, assert their rights, and obtain
their liberty. (Cheers.) God send that it may come soon.
(Cheers.) Our sympathies, our hearts, and hopes, and
wishes are with them. But this was not the object for
which the war could have been prolonged. The war was
made on definite grounds, for limited purposes, and in
conjunction with allies. Technically, the objects of the
war were accomplished. Turkey was saved, and has only
to work out her own regeneration. Russia, lam happy to
see, has recently manifested a pacific disposition ; and the
exoneration of the country from the recruitment of the
conscription for a number of years is a kind of pledge or
promise of a peaceful tendency and disposition, which I
think we ought to meet with gratification, and to recipro-
cate with pleasure. (Hear, hear.) But, nevertheless, we
cannot look on the state of Europe without deep feelings of
anxiety. We cannot but foresee the coming storm ; we
cannot but trust that, while there will be reforms in Eng-
gland, there will also be emancipation for Europe.
(Cheers.) Well, as I said, Ido not complain of Lord Pal-
meroton, therefore, for making peace; I approve his con-
duct. But there are some other things of which Ido com-
plain of him. I complain of him, in that he has screened
and sheltered from public punishment the Crimean crimi-
nals—(hear, hear)—the men who had an army entrusted to
them, and who saw that army perish before their eyes,
and gave no note of warning, called for no succours
from England, but still kept on a sort of jog-trot kind of
way—working out, it may be, the technicalities of mili-
tary discipline, but showing no power of strategy, no
genius, no attention to the wants of their own perishing
troops. And if we cannot lose a ship at sea but we try
the captain by court-martial, I say those who lost an army
ought to be tried, and to be judged also. (Loud cheers.)
I confess, it sickens my heart when I see the men who are
responsible for this—others have gone to a wore awful ac-
count than we can call them to—when I see the nien
covered with honours, and feted, and elevated into heroes,
who really were only damaging that heroism of the rank
and file, that innate bravery of the common soldiery, by
which the battles of the Crimea were won, and its laurels
nurtured. (Cheers.) Why, the government deserted—l
think, meanly deserted—its own commissioners. There
was the sham of that Chelsea inquiry—that board of
general officers, who seemed determined to hear nothing
that could inculpate a general officer : and the commis-
sioners who were sent out by the government, and did
their duty bravely, diligently, manfully, found themselves
deserted, put on their trial, and arraigned as if they had
been the criminals, when they were in fact the witnesses
out of whose mouths the real culprits should have been
condemned. (Hear, hear.) And for this, I say I complain
of Lord Palmerston; and it augurs little for that search-
ing reform of the army, for that endeavour, through all
ranks and gradations, not only to do more for the comfort
of the soldier, but to take care that we shall have the
nucleus of an efficient force—it argues against the prospect
of such a thorough reform as the army wants being ac-
complished by him, whilst he is thus deferential to
those who hold its titles and its influence. (Hear,
hear.) Another thing of which I have to complain of Lord
Palmerston is this. When the war was finished, when
peace was certain, and when he called his supporters
together to look the future in the face, I certainly did
expect, and I think now that he ought to have given the
country a programme of his domestic policy. He ought
to do it now. Ho should tell us how he means to arrange
and conduct the domestic affairs of this country. Are we
to go en blindfold from session to session ? Is there to be
oo adjustment of war taxation ? Is there to bo no exten-
sion of the representative principle ? Is there to be no
check on the sordidness and domination of ecclesiastical
authorities ? Are there to be no means of carrying on that
great progress throughout the country which has been be-
gun by the people themselves, and only needs the govern-
ment to give it free course in order to establish the most
glorious results? I hear nothing of this. Ho is said to
have summoned the members of his cabinet to meet to-
gether in November, in order to propound the bills which
they wished to prepare for the next session ; and I sup-
pass after that we shall know something ; and so we shall
remain in the state which I described at the beginning —of
waiters upon Providence and upon Palmerston. (Hear,
hear.) Aristocratic government has been tried, through a
course of years, and under a vast variety of circumstances.
What has it done! In peace aristocratic corruption brought
i)n corruption. In war, aristocratic government would
h ‘,-t3 covered us with disgrace, but for the bravery—the
e.e.,ternate bravery—of our rank and file. (Hear, hear.)
i., tex.:tien, arieoeratie government hre spared the rich,
s!el ptesed heavily on the poor. In administration, arise
t arratic government has given us red tape, instead of
talent. In opposition, aristocratic management has given
us faction, instead of patriotism. (Hear. hear.) It has,
asimuch as it could, impaired the glorious destinies of the
country, and it requires imperatively, an amendment.
(Cheers.) The source of the evil ia:thia,—the Queen has
been guided by aristocratic recarninend•,tions in the choice
of her Majesty's servants, and I trust that the Queen in
future:will not accept any for her servants but those who
come with a character from the people. (Great cheering.)

After answering a few questions, and the presentation of
an address from a local chartist association, Mr. Fox re-
tired midst enthusiastic applause.

STATE OF ThADE.

MANCHESTER, SEPT. 25.

There has been a fair business doing in the market to-
lay for most descriptions of goods and yarns, but prices
Oave undergone no alteration since Tuesday. Business
ens been c insiderably checked for some time past by the
uneasiness felt with regard to thecondition and prospects
of the money market, but the absence of unfavourable
so vs from the Bank of England this afternoon may pos.
sOdy tend to a more confident feelinv. So far there has
!.),en very little alteration in values during the past
month, and, although in that period shirting. 4 for India
and China have declined about lid. per piece, it must be
noted that some descriptions of print,:rs and shirtings
have considera'oly improved.
NOTTINGHAM, SEPT. 25.

There is not much alteration in the lace trade, which
continue:i in a satisfactory state, considering the time of
the yelr. Respecting future prospects our manufacturers
are sanguine. The high price of the raw material is
against silk goods, notwithstanding which a fair tra le is
d-ing in those articles.
The hosiery trade is quiet, but not more than is usual
at this period of the year.

BRADFORD, SEPT. 25.
In e piece trade today there is rather a quiet, but,
en the whole, seasonable business doing, when it is con-
eider, d that we are near the end of the month. Combing
wools meet a tolerably fair demand, and there does not
appear the slightest chance of their becoming easier.
Chi; is in great measure attributable to the confidence
mxlifested at the metropolitan wool sab>s that present
rats will be maintained, and that they will be oven fur-
I, or enhanced as stocks get into compass. The report re•
coived t) day states that rather more business has been
dime in English wools, that the demand for the conti-
nent is improving, and that several 'Bra,lford buyers
have been in attendance at them during the week. This
export gave a firmness to our trade in combing wools
this ruoinirg, yet a steady business was done. There
Rag given for yarns, but the
iri,3es a
consequentfair amount
the ordershefirmoess in wool are the great
on of
difficulty in this branch. The demand is principally for
markets.
umbers suited to shipping purposes for the continental

LETTERS FOR THE COLONY OF NATAL—Referring to
he notice issued en the 22d ult., in which it was stated
that letters for the colony of Natal, when forwarded
from this country by ships proceeding only as far as the
Cape of Good H pe, would be liable to an extra charge
on delivery, for their conveyance from the Cape
to Natal ; the Postmaster-General has now to announce
that he has received official information of the abolition,
by the Government of Natal, of theextra charge in ques-
tion, thus placing the letters on the same footing, whe-
ther they are sent to Natal direct or via the Cape of
Good Hope. By command of the Postmaster• General.
—ROWLAND HILL, Secretary.—General Peat-office,
Sept. 23, 1856