The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-28 00:00:00

111,11:KE7 S-2 IHS DAY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON.
January 28. Sales prolably 10,000 bales or more.
Market steady.

MADAME TUSsAUD'S. —NV e have much pleasure
in calling special attention to the bosts of visitors who aro
daily flocking to the memorable wax-work exhibition in
Baker-street, to the numerous life-size portrait models
which are being continually placed in tho Hall of Kings,
of the most renowned personages of the day. An evening
may be well spent in viewing the great curiosities relatwe
to bye-gone days which ass therein deposited.

RIGHT HON. C. P. VILLIERS ON
COMPOUNDING.

The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., speaking at a
meeting at Cosely, near Wolverhampton, on Tuesday, after
referring at some length to the matter of local govern-
ment boards, advocating their formation to a larger
extent, he remarked that one very important question
now was how to prevent pauperism. Some reference
had been made to the system of compounding for the
rates. His opinion was that the system of compound-
ing was not at the time the bill was passed properly
understood in the House. Since the passing of the
recent bill there was great overcrowding in poor parishes,
several families living in one house, which had. caused
many houses at the present time in Sedgley to be void.
He also learnt that there was extreme difficulty in
recovering rates since the abolition of the compounding,
and he strongly advocated a restoration to composition,
which had proved to he, particularly in Sedgley, a
most valuable and facile mode of collecting rates. The
system of compounding seemed to him to be an
advantage to the owner, the occupier, anti the parish at
large. He was very glad to find that Mr. Gladstone,
in a recent speech, had stated that the compoun.ling
system was a subject which must engage the
earliest attention of the House of Commons. He con-
cluded by assuring them that he should continue to dis-
charge to the utmost of his ability those claims his con-
stituents had upon him. Mr. 'l'. M. Weguelin, M.P., also
thanked his constituents then present for the honour they
had done him. He expressed his disappointment in
not seeing his right hon. colleague a member of the newly-
formed Cabinet. He said they had a Government from
which they expected a great deal. They would anxiously
look forward for two things especially, viz., retrenchment
and economy ; and he felt sure that the present Govern-
ment would do its best to satisfy the wishes of the country
thereon.

EARL GRANVILLE ON NEW ZEALAND.

A committee of the colonists and others interested in
New Zealand gave a dinner in St. James's Hall on Wed-
nesday night to the Hon. W. Fitzherbert, Colonial
Treasurer of the colony which has recently been the scene
of such melancholy events. Sir George Grey, late Governor
of New Zealand, presided, and at the cross table there
were Earl Granville, the Eight Hon. Mr. Alonsell, Mr,
Wentworth Dilke, M.P., Sir C. Clifford, Mr. Vanderbyl,
M.P., &c. During the proceedings a silver service was
presented to Mr. Fitzherbert as a testimonial.

In proposing the toast of the evening, coupled with
the name of the Hon. Mr. Fitzherbert, the CHAIR-
MAN observed that certain financial measures became
the law of New Zealand, and Mr. Fitzherbert
had most faithfully fulfilled the trust imposed upon
him respecting it. Every one must admit that he per-
formed the trust with fidelity, diligence, and faithfulness,
and therefore with the most perfect success. In doing this
lie relieved the revenues of New Zealand of about £30,000,
to say nothing of the gains he bad achieved for the use of
the colonies. Mr. Fitzherbert had devoted the best part of
his life to promoting the true welfare and prosperity of
New Zealand, but in doing s) he had not sought or
received any reward except the avowed approbation
and best wishes of the greatest portion of his fellow-
colonists.

The toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers" was, of course,
e:,sponded to by Earl GRANVILLE. Taking as an omen
the length of time the Government of which the honoured
guest of the evening was a member had lasted, by an infu-
sion of blood—two and a half years— he (the noble earl)
hoped during the time the present Ministers were in office
they would do nothing contrary to the honour and interest
of all parts of the great empire, which, as had been said
ranged all over the globe. The day after the Government
was forme, the Chancellor of the Exchequer made a speech
in which he declared that her Majesty's Government was
perfect, and that they had done nothing absolutely wrong
whatever. He was afraid after six weeks of office it would be
a bold thing to state so much as that. But at all events
they had not been found out. Whether Mr. Gladstone
had dealt a secret blow at emigration nobody knew ;
whether Mr. Bright had forged any fetters of free trade
for the colonies could not be said ; whether Lord Clarendon
lad embroiled us in a new war with the Continent could
not be avowed positively ; and he believed nobody knew
whether Mr. Monsell and himself bad inaugurated
a retrograde policy with regard to colonial affairs.
The question was whether a small office in
Downing-street was to think itself competent to
protect, guide, and interfere in the local affairs of a
race of men as well able as ourselves to take care of them-
selves. Upon coming there he did feel there was a dark
cloud hanging over the affairs of the New Zealand colony.
Events had occurred there which had alarmed the English
friends of the settlers. Yet we need not look to the future
with despair, and without divulging Cabinet secrets,
he might state that during the afternoon he had received
a telegram in the following terms from the Governor
of New Zealand —" The rebels on the east coast
of the island who perpetrated the massacre at
Poverty Bay have been defeated in two engagements with
severe loss. It is now intended, as soon as possible, to
concentrate the greater part of the colonial forces on the
west coast, with the object of putting down the rebellion
in that quarter. The so-called Maori king is still quiet,
and there has been no fresh outbreak hitherto in any part
of the colony." During the evening the sympathy of this
country had been called for. New Zealand had our
sympathy to the greatest extent, and we should all feel
not only the greatest sympathy with the misfortunes that
had taken place, but admiration for the self-reliant action
exhibited by the colonists themselves, crownel as it had
been with so much success.