The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-30 00:00:00

RUGBY ANDDUNCBURCH CONSER-

VATIVE ASSOCIATION-.

RUGBY, THURSDAY NIGHT.
The annual meeting of this association took place
to-day. The objects it professes to have in view
are," the promotion of pure breeds, exhibiting cattle
in a store state, and also for encouraging the feed-
ing of them at a mature age." But the words
" Conservative Association,"conspicuously displayed
on the front page of the catalogue, betrays its real
purpose, which is also pretty well understood in
the district.

The "show" was small, but considered an average
one.

The dinner took place at the Eagle Hotel—
advertised to be precisely at half-past two o'clock,
it was past five before the cloth was removed.
Rather less than 100 persons, chiefly the farmers
of the district, sat down. The Earl of Dalkeith
presided, and among those by whom he was sur-
rounded were Lord Ingestre, M.P., Mr. Spooner,
M.P., Mr. Newdegate, M.P., the Hon. Colonel
Scott, Mr. C. M. Caldecott, of Rugby Grange, &c.
Mr. C. M. CALDECOTT gave " The health of the
new President, the Earl of Dalkeith."
The Earl of DALKEITII briefly returned thanks,
assuring the company of the warm interest he took
in the success of the association. As to the benefits
arising frem these associations, there could be no
doubt whatever. One improvement which he had
noticed that day consisted in the arrangements for
housing the cattle ; he believed the good effects of
this would be seen at subsequent shows. The noble
earl concluded by toasting "The County Members."
That they enjoyed the confidence of their consti-
tuents there could be no doubt whatever, and he
congratulated the county on having two such men
to represent them.
The toast was drunk with much applause, fol-
lowed by the chorus, " They are jolly good fellows,"
Lord Ingestre acting as fugleman.
Mr. NEWDEGATE first returned thanks. He said
their kindness was a proof that he had not been
altogether unsuccessful in his endeavours to
proye grateful for the long-continued honour they
had conferred upon him in allowing him so long
to remain their representative. He thanked the
noble chairman for the kindness with which ho had
proposed the health of himself and his hon. col-
league. It was a great honour to him, standing
there as a member of the House of Commons, to find
that another member of that house should think fit
to speak as the chairman had done of his services.
He, the noble chairman, had a higher sphere before
him, and in fulfilling his duties as he had done so
admirably in the House of Commons, he was pre-
paring himself to become a member of the Senate
of the United Kingdom, a body of which every
Englishman feels proud ; for the conduct of that
illustrious assembly, the House of Lords, never
stood higher than at the present time. That house
had not yielded to the clamour of the House of
Commons, but had shown this session, when the
House of Commons, lending.too facile an ear to the
eloquence of Mr. Gladstone, refused to pass one of
the most aangcrous financial schemes, and the House
of Peers had resumed their ancient right; and had
let the people of this country have the full benefit
of knowing that the laws of this country, though
they are passed by the advice it may be primarily
of the House of Commons, yet it is with the consent
of the Lords spiritual and temporal. They had
taken a great part, a great step, in the history of
this country in these eventful times ; but they had
done that which they were justified in doing, in
consequence of the dangers which the reckless
policy of the Government had brought upon them,
end the country was grateful. Mr. Bright thought
he had made a great hit in his reform agitation
when he wished to persuade his neighbours that the
Peers should be treated as nonentities. He said
the Peers represented the land; but what would
Mr. Bright say when the represenfatives of the
majority of the people—their peers—refusedto con-
sent to a scheme of representation Mr. Bright was
very discontented with the state of education. He
(Mr. Newdegate) did not know whether those pre-
sent had read his letters to the people of Rother-
ham, cr his speeches at Wakefield, but Mr. Bright
said that the most highly educated classes were the
most ignorant of political economy, and that the

labouring classes shared the ignorance of their
more educated neighbours. He (Mr. Newdegato)
asked them whether it was not possible that the

ignorance might be with the speaker. Such a thing
might never cross the imagination of Mr. Bright,
but still it was an inference from his own assertion.
He believed the fact to be this, that Mr. Bright
was alarmed at the state of feeling which his own
doctrine and the examples of the school to which
he belonged had produced among the productive
classes. In the manufacturing districts, he says,
are combined to obtain a higher rate of wages for
their labour all the school for which Mr. Bright is
the organ ; having inculcated for 20 years the ex-
clusive dogma of political economy—buying in the
cheapest, and selling in the dearest market. How,
then, can he turn round and complain if he sees
people acting on the dogma he has enforced P He
also says that there are co übinations of employers
as well as employed. We know that is true; it
was by the combination of employers that the
whole system of this country has-been destroyed.
It is unreasonable to expect that the employers
should regulate the rate of wages unless they can
regulate the prices. Well, he need not tell them
that it was by the operation of that which was
called the Anti-Corn Law, or the Financial Reform
Association, as it was called at another time, or the
operations of the Peace Society, which brought
about the Russian war, that the State was fairly
driven from the ground of regulating prices in
accordance with that which they believed to be
the requirements of the population. These combi-
nations had an effect on prices ; if they wanted an
illustration, look at the distressed condition of the
riband weavers at Coventry. He had an address
from a meeting at which he was present, in which
it was stated that 50,000 persons were so destitute
that their destitution could not be met by the
charitable exertions of their neighbours, and almost
overpowered the means the Poor Law placed at
their disposal. He appealed to the sympathy of his
countrymen for aid to meet the exigencies which
had been produced by a policy which Mr. Milner
Gibson said had been carried out for the interest
of the community, but, as it appeared, without
regard to these suffering classes. (Hear.) There
was a cold flippancy in the manner in which he
(Mr. Gibson) said free trade must not be interrupted
by considerations for the interest of the riband
weavers. He also expressed a hope, though the new
policy had prostrated them, that they would find
that their trade was placed upon a sound basis.
That was like knocking a man down, and, when he
was flat, saying that he had a,sound basis. Mr.
Bright at Wakefield went on to say, after having
striven for years to set class against class, that he
hoped the course he had adopted would justify the
work of God. Did he believe that internecine strife
was that which the merciful Creator desired should
prevail among the nations of the earth ? Was that
his meaning ? If not, why did he appeal in justifica-
tion to the Divine Author of all mercies as an autho-
rity f He appealed to them, and the country at
large, for sympathy on behalf of those suffering
men in Coventry whose interests had been sacri-
ficed to the interests of the State and the community
at large. They surely should be considered not less
than the men who had been wounded in a general
engagement, and the public should come and give
their active sympathy to mitigate the evil. (Cheers.)
It was said that the state of things which had
existed in this district for some months was not
solely to be attributed to the French treaty. He
would admit that the season which had just passed
was against the producers of these articles of indus-
try ; but the manufacturers of Lyons had again
full
work, operations, and were once more in
work, while the looms of Switzerland were in full
operation, and in the United States the trade was
brisk for all articles of this manufacture; but in
England the trade remained ply
not be attributed to the state of affairs
This could
toon
tthhee
uCnofna:
tinent, or to the changes of
vvfashion,
el
the causes why
vourable season, for if these
should they not also haveoperated in Lyons and
however, arose from
disregarding the w
other places ? The distress,.
oeservation of Sir Robert '
Peel in the adoption of r
the French treaty. That
wise statesman reserved from 10 to 15 per cent.
vpon all. arlteincltest, which with other contingences,
o a protection of about 30 per
equivalent
r.
Again 4 I felt that the forms-
wcoanst.
tguse needed alteration, and I proposed
of the
debate should be commenced after one
o'clock in the
that no new
afterthe noon. I have seen house
continually legislating when thoroughly exhausted.
I have seen tlie Speaker almost dropping from his
chair. The House of Commons, though it did not
sanction my proposal, agreed to consider it in com-
mittee next session. Now, to my great surprise,
Mr. W. Ewart, one of the gentlemen who had been
most active in abusing the forms of the house, has
followed up my motion by one of his own, and on
the principle of " the greater the sinner the, greater
the saint," has been paraded through the newspapers
as the man who would reform the practice of the
House of Commons. (Laughter.)
Mr. SPOONER also briefly returned thanks. At the
present time we were in a most peculiar position ; let
them look at the position of England ; look at that of
Europe ? was there one among them who did not
believe that it was the duty of England to maintain
our national independence and our national
characters We ought to keep ourselves
rfectlyf
free ; and of all things it ought to be the duty
to o
perfect
members in the next session of Parliament
la
0-
endeavour to relieve as much as possible t a b
upon Whom
rious class of our fellow-countrymen
the national taxation pressed most heavily.

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EV.ENING).

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 27.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Henry Gillett Gridley,
Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gezitleraen-
at-rms, vice J. W. C. Ewart, Esq., resigned.
CITY OF RIPON.

The Gazette of this evening contains the Speaker's war-
rant to issue a writ for the election of a member to serve in
Parliament for the city of Ripon, at the end of fourteen
days after this notice, in the room of Ashley Warre, Esq.,
deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, NOV. 30.
Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Waller Ashe,
from the 85th Foot, to be Captain, vice John Cunning-
ham, appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant the Honourable Edward Roden
Bourke, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Arthur Finch
Dawson, who retires.
12th Light Dragoons—Captain John Cuningham, from the
Ist Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Charles Joseph
Harford, appointed to the 85th Foot ; Crofton Thomas
Burton Vandeleur, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Macaulay, appointed to the 72d Foot.
15th Light Dragoons—Alexander Martin Edmiston, Gent.,
to be Cornet,t by purchase, vice John Evelyn Kingston
Mbrley, who retires ; Joseph Norton, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Maxwell, promoted.
17th Light Dragoons—Edward
Eraser,
litiensrey Maunsell,
be Cornet, by purchase, promoted. Gent., to
Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Philip Henry Sandilands, to
be Second Captain, vice Molony, placed on the Super-
numerary List ; Acting Veterinary-Surgeon, John An-
derson, to be Veterinary-Surgeon, vice Ball, deceased.
ROYAL ENGINEERS.—The under-mentioned Lieutenants
with temporary rank to be Lieutenants with permanent
rank, viz. :—Robert Young Armstrong, Robert John
Bond, Arthur Kyle Haslett, George Edward Grover,
Charles Harland Craigie Halkett, George Henry L. Pole,
Charles Bowen, George Wm. Johnson, Wm. Hutchinson
Mulloy, Wm. Randall Slacks, Edward Toler Wynne,
Francis George Oldham, Henry Allen Gun, George
Gordon C. Bigsby, John Charles Ardagh, James J.
Robertson, William Emmerson Peck, Christopher Josiah
Russell, John Mabbott Morgan, Arthur Balfour Haig,
Henry Cautley, Joseph Henry Sutterthwaite, Ernest
Marsh Lloyd, and Thomas Howard.
Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant and Captain Sir John.
Montagu Burgoyne, Bart., to be Captain and Lieuten-
ant Colonel, by purchase, vice Ralph Bradford, who re-
tiree; awl Lieutenant the Hon. Norman Leslie
Melville to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice
Sir J. M. Burgoyne, Bart. ; Henry Amelius Coventry,
Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice

Melville. • -
3d Regiment of Foot—Ensign John Law, Pa be... Lieut-
enant, without purchase, vice Harry Arthur Alexander
Broelon, deceased ; Ensign Robert Charles Hearn, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Law, whose promo-
tion on Sept. 9, 1860, has been cancelled. .
Bth Foot—Lieutenant William Hunter Bailie, from the
91st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Dynely Baynes,
who exchanges,
9th Foot—Lieutenant Francis Tuach Rolls, from the 53d
Foot, to be Lieutenant, Tice Harry Elmhirst, who ex-
changes.
20th Foot—Ensign George Duncan Wahab, to be Lieute-
tenant, by purchase, vice the Hon. Adolphus E. P.
Vereker, promoted.
22d Foot—Ensign Michael Fenton, to be Lieutenant,
. without purchase, vice Ellis, promoted ; Lieut. Edward
Murray Cookesley, to be Adjutant, vice Ellis, promoted.
24th Foot—Lieutenant R. P. 0. P. Lord Louth, from 79th
- Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Alexander John Covin Birch,
who exchanges.
26th Foot—Lieutenant James Armstrong, to be Captain
by purchase, vice James Young, who retires; Ensign
Henry P. Wolferstan, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Armstrong.
44th Foot—Ensign Francis O'Neill to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Robert Montresor Rogers, promoted,
without purchase, to an Unattached Company.
50th Foot—Ensign William Richard White to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice the Honourable Charles C.
Chetwynd, promoted, by purchase, to an Unattached
Company.
53d Foot—Lieutenant Harry Elmhirst, from the 9th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Francis Tuach Rolls, who
exchanges.
56th Foot—Ensign Thomas Charles Watson, from the 14th
Foot, to be Ensign.
67th Foot—Ensign James Hardie Fraser to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Nathaniel Burslem, promoted,
without purchase, to an Unattached Company
79th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander John Colvin Birch, from
the 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lord Louth, who
exchanges.
85th Foot—Captain Charles Joseph Harford, from the 12th
Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Waller Ashe, ap-
pointed to the Ist Dragoon Guards.
91st Foot—Lieutenant Charles Dyneley Baynes, from the
Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice William Hunter Baillie,
who exchanges.
95th Foot—Lieutenant Norton Knatchbull to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Brevet-Major The Hon. Edward S.
Plunkett, who retires ; Ensign Henry V. Brooke to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Knatchbull.
99th Foot—Lieutenant William John Kempson to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Lempster R. Elliot, who retires;
Ensign Philip Homan ffolliott to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Kempson ; Ensign John Francis Stephens,
from the 86th Foot, to be Ensign, vice ffolliott.
3d West India Regiment—J(llm Francis Henry Harrison,.
Gent., to b e Ensign, by purchase, vice Croft, promoted.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Ensign Walter J. Wyatt to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Talbot de Bashal Hughes,
who retires.
UNATTICITED.—Lieut. the Hon. Charles C. Chetwynd,
from the 50th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase.
BREVET.

Lieut.-Colonel John Miller Adye, C. 8., of the Royal
Artillery, having completed the qualifying service for the
rank of Colonel, under the Bth and 10th clauses of the Royal
Warrant of Oct. 14, 1858, to be Colonel in the Army.
The Undermentioned Officers of the Royal Artillery
having completed five years service in the rank of Lieut.-
Colonel, to be Colonels in the Army, under the Bth clause
of the [loyal Warrant of Cot. 14, 18.35, via. :
Lieut.-Colonel Edward Price, C.B.
Lieut.-Colonel James William Doraville.
To BE MAJORS IN TUB ARMY.

Capt. Edward Thomas Wickham, 61st Foot.
Capt. Chandos Frederick Clifton, 12th Light Dragoons.
Capt. Richard Francis Holmes, 89th Foot.
Captain Alfred Stowell Jones, 13th Foot.
Captain Charles C. Wellesley Vesey, 72d Foot.
Captain John James Hood Gordon, 46th Foot.
Paymaster George Pollard, of the 66th Foot, to have the
honoury rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of the
27th January, 1860.

The underinentioned promotions to take place, conse-
quent on the death of General the Hon. Edward Pyndar
Lygon, C. 8., Colonel of the 13th Light Dragoons, on the
11th November, 1860—
Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Cockburn, Colonel of the
45th Regiment, to be General.
Major-General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather, K.C.8.,
Colonel of the 22d Foot, serving with the local rank of
Lieutenant-General in Great Britain, to be Lieutenant-
General.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel John Francis
Glencairn Campbell, C. 8., from the 91st Foot, to be Major-
General.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Clarke, Major, half-
pay. unattached, to be Colonel.
Major Thomas Mathias Luz Weguelin, 100th Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Albert O'Donnel Grattan, Royal Engineers, to
be Major.
MEmonANDum.—Captain John Knight, upon half-pay,
Royal Staff Corps, has been permitted to retire from the
service by the sale of his Commission, he being about to
become a settler in Canada.