The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-21 00:00:00

MAYO FOR TFIR POPE.

Archbishop M'Hale has somewhat tardily taken
the field in defence of spiritual despotism. He has
summoned a meeting of his subjects, to be held at
Castlebar on Tuesday, the ith of February next.
The requisition, which fills nearly a page of a local
paper, is graced by the signature of a real live tem-
poral lord, Baron Ffrench. There are also the
names of fourteen magistrates appended to the
document, and, as for the devoted clergy, the num-
ber is quite past counting.

THE LATE MR. MASSEY O'GRADY.
(By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.)
DUBLIN, Friday.
The body of Mr. Massey O'Grady was dis-
covered yesterday in a river that runs near New-
pallas station, county Limerick. It appears to
have been in the water for some time.

METROPOLI7'AN BOARD OF WORKS.

The usual weekly meeting of the Metropolitan
Board of Wrorks was held yesterday in the Council
Chamber, Guildhall, Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair.
The financial statement was presented, which
showed a total cash balance of £413,057 ss. 10d.
Payments were ordered to be made to the amount
of £10,253 14s. ld.

BILL FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE METROPOLIS

MANAGEMENT ACT.

Mr. Deputy HARRISON asked the standing coun-
sel of the Board, Mr. Woolrych, when the Bill for
the amendment of the Metropolis Management Act
would he ready ?
Mr. WOOLRYCII stated that he hoped to be able
to furnish the bill in about three weeks.
SOUTHERN OUTFALL, MAIN SEWER.

Mr. CRELLIN, pursuant to notice, moved,

" That the order of the Board of the 6th of January,
1860, accepting a tender for the construction of the t• Jrks
for the Southern Outfall Sewer, with the condition that se-
curity should te given for £20,000, be so far varied as to ad-
mit of the reduction thereof to £lO,OOO, and that the secu-
rity be £lO,OOO accordingly."

The motion was agreed to after some discussion.

THE NORTHERN HIGH-LEVEL CONTRACTS.

Mr. TITE, M.P., wished, while the subject of
contracts was under discussion, to make an obser-
vation upon an article which had appeared in the
Observer of Sunday last, and copied into the
%imes, on the subject of the difference hetwtcn
the amount of the contract taken by Mr. Brother-
hood, of Chippenham, at £282,000, and that pro-
posed by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts, which
was £431,000. He wished to point out that Mr.
Bazalgette's (the engineer) estimate was £291,000,
and although Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Bett's
estimate was £431,000, yet there was the firm of
George Baker and Co., who were the contractors for
the British Museum, also the contractors for the
Plymouth Dock tendered for this work at £294,000, ,
which was within £3,000 of Mr. Bazalgette's esti-
mate, and he considered that firm was quite as com-
petent to do works of this description as Messrs.
Peto and Brassey, as far as capacity and respecta-
bility were concerned. He considered that it was
no part of the duty of the Board to investigate the
difference between contractors, or to inquire why
one contractor required £431,000 to do works which
another firm, equally respectable, was willing to
execute for £290,000. He conceived that all the
Board had to do was to see that the work was pro-
perly executed according to the contract; and, if
they were to ask those gentlemen why they charged
so much more than other contractors, of course they
would refuse to assign their reasons for doing so.
He would beg to call the attention of the Board to
a circumstance more particularly under his own
cognizance with reference to the subject,—he meant
the contract for building the Royal Exchange, a
work which had elicited universal satisfaction ; and
while, as regards other buildings of magnitude and
importance, innumerable complaints had been made
now and then as to the perishable nature of the stone
of which they were built, no indication of decay
was to be found at the Royal Exchange, the con-
tract for which was taken by Mr. Jackson, of Pim-
lico, at between 30 and 40 per cent. less than the
highest tender. He might also refer incidentally
to the difference between the contracts for the
Hanwell Asylum, the one that was taken having
been £46,000, while the highest tender was
£63,000, and as regarded the Chelsea new vestry-
hall, the contract for the building of which was
taken at £5,200, being £2OO less than the
estimated price of the superintending architect.
The highest contract was absolutely £lO,OOO.
It merely proved that builders in many cases
must make enormous profits; but he thought he
had stated to them sufficient to show that such dif-
ferences were constant, as reference to newspapers
in the building interests could testify. Without
understanding the duties of the Board, it was now
the fashion of newspapers and others to find fault
with their proceedings.

NEW-STREET TO COVENT-GARDEN;DELAY OF

WORKS.

The following letter in reference to the delay in
tho formation of the new street from King-street,
Long-acre, was received from the Strand District
Board of Works .
"The Board of Works for the Strand District, Jan. 15.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Board to call the attention
of the Metropolitan Board of Works, in the strongest pos-
sible language of remonstrance, to the long and unaccount-
able delay which is taking place in the formation of the
new street to Long-acre. They are overwhelmed with
complaints of the inhabitants of the locality to the serious,
and, in some cases, almost ruinous effect on their business
by this delay. In the first instance the Board were in-
formed that the Metropolitan Board were advised to take
no steps until the whole of the funds necessary for the pur-
chase of the houses was in hand. That point has many
months since been obtained, yet still unsightly blocks of
houses stand in the way and nothing really effective has
been done. Surely your Board has under the Act of Par-
liament sufficiently extensive power to carry out its work.
A railway company having the funds would soon have
found out the way. No legal difficulties of title can be
pleaded, because the purchase money could be paid into
court, and if the present legal advisers of the Board are too
occupied or too timorous for the work in hand, my Board
earnestly entreat, on behalf of their suffering ratepayers,
that the matter may be placed in other hands, and some
more decided and energetic steps may be at once taken to
carry out the street, failing which my Board very much
fear that the public voice will be brought to bear by an
organised local agitation on the subject.
"I am, &c.,
"J. II LEWIS, Clerk to the Board."

" J. Pollard, Esq.
The letter was received and ordered to be ac-
knowledged, with explanations.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON observed that he
thought the streets were not proceeded with
as fast as they ought, and he believed the
real reason to be that the solicitors were
not paid enough for the amount of work they had
to do. With regard to the Southwark and West-
minster communication, they had obtained the whole
of the money required, at a large rate of interest,
which was lying at deposit at much less, and it
would be an absolute saving to the Board to increase
the legal staff, irrespective of the fact that they
were not obtaining rates which would accrue from
the new houses that were to be built. They had
absolutely obtained the powers and money for
making the street a year and a half ago, and there
were not more than 20 houses down at the present
time.

NEW RAILWAYS FOR THE METROPOLIS.
The engineer reported that he had inspected the
Parliamentary plans of projected railways in the
metropolis for which bills were now before Parlia-
ment, and the solicitor was instructed to take steps
to protect the interests of the Board.
PROPOSED INCREASE OF THE SALARIES OF THE
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.

A report was brought up from the Finance Com-
mittee recommending an increase in the salaries of

various officers, amounting in the aggregate to £9OO
per annum, the consideration of which, on the mo-
tion of Mr. F. Doulton, was deferred for a month,
Mr. Doulton and Mr. D'lffanger declaring that
their intention wax to oppose any increase in their
present expenses.
Some other business wax disposed of, and the
Board adjourned.

THE LATE MTSTERIO US MURD2Ut IN

PARIS.

The Gazette dos Tribunaux says :—" The sup.
posed author of the assassination committed in Rue
Sainte-Anne, upon the girl Marie Tourtoulon called
Celina, has just been placed in the hands of justice
by the chief of the service of safety.
" We said yesterday, when giving the details of
the crime, that it had been occasioned in all pro-
bability by a feeling of vengeance. On this hypo-
thesis, suspicion could only fall on individuals that
had known the girl Celina intimately, and in the
house they could only point out one, but were un-
able for the rest t) give either his name or profes-
sion.
" The chief of the service of safety, who on the
earliest information had repaired to the spot, as
we mentioned, and who wished to direct per-
sonally the inquiries, obtained a precise description,
for he also was convinced that the motive to the
crime had either been vengeance or jealousy. He
soon learned that the individual whose description
they had given him had previously had a warm al-
tercation with Celina, and that in the course of last
week she had even requested the porter not to suffer
him in future to come up to her room, but this pro-
hibition could be easily eluded by him. The chief,
when he saw this first suspicion of his was corro-
borated by this circumstance, made personally some
numerous and minute investigations which he pur-
sued without loss of time, and at their close suc-
ceeded in learning that the individual in question,
believed to be a saddler, had a strong southern ao-
cent, and lived somewhere in the Rue Francaise,
but no one knew his name or the number of the
house.
" After inquiring from doer to door along this
street, the chief came at length to a house, in which
there was a lodger, whose description corresponded
exactly with that of the man he wanted to find.
' His name is Philippe C—, age 28, comes from
the department of the Herault, they said to the
chief, ' but he is not a saddler, he is a leather trunk-
maker ' • his room is on the seventh floor, and he has
only this instant come in.' That is the man I wish
to see,' replied the chief. And he instantly mounted
the flight of steps.
" But on reaching the seventh floor, be found
himself in a long dark passage with several doors
opening into it, and he did not know the room
where the man lodged whom he was seeking. As
it might be inconvenient to trust to chance, he em-
ployed a manoeuvre that was perfectly successful.
' Eh, Philippe!' he cried out, as if the man was
wanted ; a voice answering from within showed
which was the room, to which he advanced, and im-
mediately the door was opened he pushed his way
in by force ; then taking the lodger by the
arm, he said to him, ' You are Phillipe C--. In
the name of the law I arrest you!' The latter, who
could not conceal his emotion, answered directly,
' Why do you arrest me ? I have committed no
crime!' Upon being requested he changed his tress,
and it was not without somehesitation that he con-
sented to put on the clothes pointed out to him, and
which exactly tallied with the description. Observ-
ing that he attempted to hide one of his hands,
they 1 ooked at it, and saw that it bore the mark of
a recent wound, the origin of which he declined
accounting for.
" The chief caused him to be immediately con-
veyed by two of his agents to the spot where the
crime had been committed. There they found M.
Comusat-Basserolles, the Judge of Instruction, and
M. Try, the deputy of the Attorney-General, where-
upon the prisoner was in the presence of this
magistrate confronted with the dead body of his
victim. lie endured the trial without any visible
emotion, and limited himself upon looking at the
corpse to the remark, ' Poor girl !' lie maintained
that he was ignorant of the crime, declaring that
he had not seen Celina since the beginning of last
week, contrary to the affirmation of several wit-
nesses. He then contradicted himself; and this
only served to increase the grave suspicion resting
upon him ; his arrest was maintained as valid, and
after being interrogated by the magistrate he was
sent to the depot of the Prefecture of the Police on
the charge of assassination.
" Celina's body was removed yesterday evening
to the Morgue, where it was placed in a private
room. This morning Dr. A. Tardieu made a post-
mortem examination, and ascertained that several
of the wounds received by the victim were mortal.
Most of them were in the breast, which was much
mangled. Other wounds were observed on the
head, behind the ear, and on the neck. All these
' wounds had been inflicted with a knife-dagger or
sharp-cutting instrument like the one found in the
room, as we mentioned yesterday,"

TILE VE-3 ORLI CROM.

(Rom the Gazette of last erening.)
The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her in-
tention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the
undermentioned officer and soldiers of her Majesty's army,
whose claims to the same have been submitted for her Ma-
jesty's approval, on account of acts of bravery performed by
them in India, as recorded against their several names,
viz. :

Lieutenant Alfred Spencer Heathcote, 60th Rifles—For
highly gallant and daring conduct at Pelhi throughout the
siege, from June to September, 1857, during which he was
wounded. Ile volunteered for services of extreme danger,
especially during the six days of severe fighting in the streets
after the assault. Elected by the officers of his regiment.
Tr iop Sergeant-Major James Champion, Bth Hussars—
For distinguished bravery at Beejapore on the Bth of Sep-
tember, 1858, when both the officers attached to the troop
were disabled, and himself severely wounded at the com-
mencement of the action by a ball through his body,
in having continued at his duty forward, through-
out the pursuit, and disabled several of the enemy with his
pistol. Also recommended for distinguished conduct at
Gwalior.
Colour-Sergeant George Waller, 60th Rifles (Ist Bette-
lion)—For conspicuous bravery at Delhi on the 14th of
September, 1857, in charging and capturing the enemy's
guns near the Cabul-gate ; and again, on the 18th of Sep-
tember, 1857, in the repulse of a sudden attack made by the
enemy on a gun near the Chaudney Choulc. Elected by
the non-commissioned officers of the regiment.
Colour-Sergeant Stephen Garvin, 60th Rifles (let Batta-
lion)—For daring and gallant conduct before Delhi on the
23d of June, 1857, in volunteering to lead a small party of
men, under a heavy fire, to the " Sammy House," for the
pt
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tery of heavy guns, in which, after a sharp contest, he suc-
ceeded. Also recommended for gallant conduct throughout
the operations before Delhi.
Bugler William Sutton, 60th Rifles, Ist Battalion—For
gallant conduct at Delhi on the 13th of Feptember, 1857.
the night previous to the assault, in volunteering to recon-
noitre the breach. This soldier's conduct was conspicuous
throughout the operations, especially en the 2d of August,
1857, on which occasion, during an attack by the enemy in
force, he rushed forward over the trenches, and killed one
of the enemy's buglers, who was in the act of sounding.
Elected by the privates of the regiment.
Private John Divane, 60th Rifles (let battalion), for dis-
tinguished gallantry in heading a successful charge made
by the Beeloochee and Seikh troops on ono of the enemy'e
trenches before Delhi, on the 10th of September, 1857. Ha
leaped out of our trenches, closely followed by the native
troops, and was shot down from the top of the enemy's
breastworks. Elected by the privates of the regiment.
Private James Thompson, 60th Rifles (Ist battalion), for
gallant conduct in saving the life of his captain (Captain
Wilton), on the 9th of July, 1857, by dashing forward to
his relief, when that officer was surrounded by a party of
Ghazees who made a sudden rush on him from a serai—
and killing two of them before further assistance could
reach. Also recommended for conspicuous conduct through-
out the siege. Wounded. Elected by the privates of the
regiment.
Private Samuel Turner, 60th Rifles (Ist battalion), for
having, at Delhi, on the night of the 19th of June, 1857,
during a severe conflict with the enemy, who attacked the
rear of the camp. carried off on his shoulders, under a heavy
fire, a mortally wounded officer, Lieutenant Humphreys,
of the Indian Service. During this service, Private Tur-
ner was wounded by a sabre cut in the right arm. His
gallant conduct saved the above-named officer from the
fate of others, whose mangled remains were not recovered
until the following day.
Private John Kirk, 10th Regiment, for daring gallantry
at Benares, on the 4th of June, 1857, on the outbreak of
at that
the mutiny of the Native Troopsstation, in having
volunteered to proceed with two nr-commissioned officers
Brown,
_Pension Paymaster, and his
to rescue Captain b
unded y rebels in the compound
of
family, who were surro
the • kof
their house ; and having, at risk his own life, suc-
ceeded in saving them.

At a recent meeting of shipowners and others
connected
with the general shipping interest of the United
Kingdom, it was resolved that Mr. R. W. Crawford, one of
the members for London, should be requested to bring under
the consideration of the House of Commons at the opening
of the session the state of British navigation, in accordance
with the resolution of the public meeting of the 29th of
November last.
Accordingly, Mr. Crawford has under-
taken, it is said, to give notice immediately for the appoint-
ment of a select, committee to "inquire into the condition of
the commercial marine and the operation of all legal enact-
ments and local burdens especially affecting the same." In
taking this step Mr. Crawford, of course, does not commit
himself to any particular opinion, but simply lends his
ready aid to a full and impartial investigation with a view
to eliciting the truth on a controverted question of the
highest public interest and importance.
ST. KATHERINE'S DOCK COMPANY.—A meet-
ing of this company was held yesterday, Mr. J. W. Carter
in the chair, when the report recommending a dividend for
the past half-year at the reduced rate of 2 per cent., free of
income-tax, making a total distribution for the year 1859 of
4} per cent., was agreed to. In the last six month' it has
been found necessary to lower considerably the charges on
many of the principal articles of importation, but the direc-
tors have reason to believe that the income of the year 1859
has been to some extent affected by merely temporary
causes. In the goods landed there has been a diminution,
but the stock in warehouse on the 31st of December shows
. an augmentaticn has:likewise taken place.
an increase compared with 1858. In the shipping entered

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(A laugh.) And when men listen; as you I streets of London when the Queen of England was authority for my statements (A laugh ) They . RAILWAY INTELLIGETVCE.
-L-ONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST. )37
MR. BRIGHT AT MANCHESTER. peace.
r eUnITS. T Elt
h. ot e •
are listening here, calmly, disturbing yourselves 1 going to the theatre, or any other place. of public likewise have the same langnage, which ihey say . ,
The report of the directors of this company states
l For the half yea
ee
The annual meeting of the Lancashire Reformers' only o.ccasionally by violent cheers, and if they then res.ort, endeavoured to blow up chariot, Queen, they speak in a purer manner than we do ourselves.
that the capital raised to the 31st December last
tahst therkre.ceipts on this line amounted to £45,616,
mg e 31st of December
Union was held in the Assembly-room of the Free= go qui.etbly home and no windows are broken, or no- Prince, and whoever there might ae of the highest (Laughter.) They have the same literature ; and
exws
o%4in! ex. penses to £16,867, and the interest
trade Hall, Manchester, yesterday afternoon.i. Mr. body is rought up to the police office, they tell rank surrounding the person of the Queen ? Don't every author of eminence in England finds, I be-
Bright attended on the occasion, and took t ieesompt- you the eople don't care in the least about the you suppose the people of England would have lieve, two readers in America for every one in his
matter. p(Laughter.) Surely it must be something been jealous and irritated, that their language own country. It is fair, therefore, to make a little amounted to £9,301,115, of which £1,901,275 c0n-
£2.,314,886 preference capital, and £4,618 - 0f ' gprt
ohperieb
talance of profit .£2. 3:745.
tout o this amount the directors have resolved to
portunity of expressing his views on
atrhe p
ofrl,ooo in our favour when there aro no plots, no riots, no might not have accommodated itself exactly to the comparison between the English nation that has sists of mortgage debt, £469,400 debentu,sreo4stcoocnk-,
solidated stock. The purchase of the West Lon
state of public affairs. There were upw
at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, less income
_ recommend eathvien
persons present. The chair was. oc.cupied by Mr. combinations, no taking of oaths legal or illegal style of the drawing-room ?(A laugh.) But it , gone abroad and the Ela.g.llsh
.natio.n that stays. at
uon and Crystal Palace Railway between Batter-
tax, leaving a balance of £5,018 to the credit of the
G.-Wilson, President of the Association , and among -(a laugh)-and yet this great question goes on its required nothing but the most moderate . condu. et ho.me.. (A laugh.) If you take the oldest man now
reserve fund and next account.
ors to declare a dividend
the gentlemen on the platform wereN-A.11,r. T. Bete- grand march, until at length even those who were on the part of our Government-conduct in which alive in Manchester and imagine him to be a little e
_._ hilips, Mr. our bitterest opponents and were most afraid of our they were followed, I admit, by Lord Derby's Mi- child ; if youalso picture to yourselves his little hand
ley, M.P., Sir E. Armitage,
i.Milel-nte
s, el.r. 11. Ash- proposals are actually coming about us and hoping nistry when it came into office, topu. t
_an end to any in the withe.red hand of the man who, again, was the sea and Norwood having been completed, that por-
fTouhre pinetrerceesnttesrto
T. B. Potter, Alderman
dekividisend
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Oldh- am • Mr. P. that we shall allow them to make some settlement difficulty on that score. What is it, then, that oldest man in Manchester when the person f have tion of the line has become amalgamated with this
worth, Bolton ;
--.
Mr. J. Platt,
Rylands, Warrington ; and Alderman ' Livesey, of this question. (Cheers.) But there are great people here mean ? I don't speak of persons such , first imagined were a mere infant, those tw° lives undertaking. The Payment of the dividend
•staken will carr ou back to a period when there was no on the £290 000 RAILWAY BILLS.
Rochdale. On entering the assemblage Mr. Bright efforts to mislead. Only yesterday I saw iu a Lon- as you and I, who are very likely to be
.mi. .
don newspaper an extract from a speech that was in these matters-(a laugh)-but y
iy •E 1 • -
what is it that national debt in •ng and and when your whole until June, 1865. defeuTedn The examiner t t d
s sa yes er ay and disposed of the
was very warmly received.
t d ' t "11" 1.
dby thesecretary, delivered by a member of the House of Peers as long men at the head of affairs mean by spreading al7l revenue d d no. e.xcee wo .mi ions ster ing. the remaining capital and on the mortgage debt for foll • e 1)11 .-
own], 1 s .
The proceeding were con. men ce
(Before Mr. Smith.)
t ago as the year 1793. These questions of reform these alarms among the people of this kingdom . Let that fact sink into your minds for a moment. the ast half •
p -yew. has been placed to debit of the
Robinson, reading the first annual repor
h fi t l'f th t •11 b • h • DUBLIN AND WICKLOW. F 1
Mr. S. P. vely much discussed by our fathers of that If it be not war it must be a Pretence to excite the If we drop t e rs ie, awi ring t e time revenue account. The issue of the 4 per cent. de- or a terations of the
'1 detailing the operations of the asso- were .
line d h d'
of the counci ,
98 to 1760, the date of the accession of benture stock ; passe t e stan ing orders.
ay There were men then as zealous and intelli- people for some specific purpose, or for some gene- from 1611. extends rapidly, being now £530,000.
for the past year. The report concluded as d .
LETTERKENNY. A bill for th f
ciation I th t • d di it th t .
gent as any of you are on this subject, but they ral course of policy. Do you think it possible that George I n a perm no man ou s a The gross revenue for the half-year has been e
.ormation of a
follows :-
't is always the Government of Eugland was a Government by £476,607, being £29,183 in excess of the cerres ond- railway in the count f D •
y o onegal , did not pass.
hide their report without offer- found the whole question snatched from their grasp, it can be done to make us fancy that 1 .
I k" Tho council cannot cone .
Before Mr. From.)
ing to the membeFs. of th 9 Union their warmest connTatula- d f h• 1' b IC d t £'o 000 000 ft es and to in- the great aristocratic families who contended for ing half-year of 1858. The revenue fo th P h T (
and the cup ashed rem t eir ips y every in necessary o pay i „ o ax , r e year as
.1.41
ANGOLLEN AND
d 11. hbP 1*
tions on the auspicious circumstances un er wic ar la- of d d b f • l• d t • b d as if we liked it ? power around the Throne. In 1760 the taxes
frau ulent pretence, an y a oreign po icy uce us o early our ur en had been £842,293, being £50,300 in excess of that of CORWEN.-To make a railway
merit will be opened on Tuesday next, when, in addition to
which for 40 years did nothing but postpone reform, There never has been a panic of thi ,
's kind false risen from £2,000,000 sterling to upwards of 1858. This increase ma be attributed to th
y e gene- from the Llangollen Re'
away to Corwen. The
the announcement of the almost unexampled industrial
dbt d t d • •'h th I f unded terrors diffused among a People £19,000,000 ; instead of having no debt at all, you ral prosperity of the country, to the opening on standin orders 1. • h
g were comp led wit .
dd to your e an axes, an impoe ens e a arm, un o
, I
prosperity of the country, her Majesty will be able to de- a
- " 'h F h 1 LdL d d I le' •th House by those in authority, but i
't has been done for had incurred a debt of £140,000,000, and all for Oct. 10 last, of the Mid-Sussex line, which ' NE. WCASTLE AND DERWENT VALLEY.--TO matte
dare the fact that her Imperial ally, the head ot 1 e renc peop e. or au er ae, spea ing in e pro- a railway from the Stockton and Darlington Rail-
Government, has resolved upon the inauguration of a policy of Lords a little later, said-" Is there a man in some sinister object adverse to the interest of the a policy which leaves nothine to England, that I mises to remunerate the
D b - f but the re ut t• e'f' th Dkf M 1- ' proprietors ; and to the way, in the parish of Lanchester to the N tl
of free trade-a resolution which cannot fail to dispel what- England who is ignorant that the most wicked arts country. (Cheers.) The Government of Lord er y know o , . p a ion o e ue o ar receipts from the West London and Crystal Palace ewcas 0
ever painful apprehensions may have been recently excited, l t
been practised to irritate and mislead the mei_ began it. They knew the position in which they borough, whim a o use a very homely phrase, would, Rail way, which now appears as a portion of the and Carlisle Rail a 1 'l' •
w y ; a so a rai way in Newcastle.
have
The stand'
mg orders were not complied with.
and a policy which must, in its results, prove the best, the ~ ,
most infamous handbills and stood to the French Government, and their sympa- I believe, be a very g
bad thin indeed for our work- general revenue ; and it affords the directors satis-
surest, and the most lasting guarantee of the future peace- titude e Have not the
ith Austria. The knew at the same in.. population to put a knife and fork into. (Cheers faction to be able to state that th • N C
EWCASTLE AND ARLISLE, AND PORT CARLISLE
, eir expectations as
ful relations of England France. The oonneil do not doubt pamphlets, the most false and defamatory pare- thies were w
t' y i this '''cl 1 uehter.) Immediatel aft th ession of ds h I AND CARLISLE AND SILLOTH BAY COMPANIES.
that the nation will render due honour to those who have graphs in newspapers, been most assiduously eireu- time that there were cer am perso.ns n
ld choun- aGn a erf ettacc regalr t
.e atter line have been fully realised. The
111. be an that s yt
t. to To raise additional capital, and to use the Newcastle
contributed to bring about so cheering an event." lated, all tending to rouse the indignation of this try among whom a. genieral alr.mling wou . aye eorge
ds Eng lish 7s eAm o
.a emhp
ting_ tote ordinary expenses for the past half-year and Carlisle Railway Th t el. d
e s an ing or ers were
The paragraph referring to the new Commercial country against France,with whom it has long been some charms, and with w lom a At e popularity w_as do towa.r
illiegns omfenF ml.
hmerica w a . thety amounted to £180,470, and the renewals and addi- not complied with. *
po understand that lam no
licy recently announced by the Emperor of the determined, I fear, to go to war ?" He then goes likely to be gained_ • . _ _ _ tin the do to six m . . e.ng is men now-viz., o tions t £37,948, together, £218,418, being at the
French was greeted with marked applause, and on to say that one of the stories set afloat was that least discussing the propriety.of everybo y . g .
d beam tax them without giving them any repre- rate of 3s 4d er train '
Th E l• 1, - ' A- • fn *• * p mile, or 46/ per cent. of the -- .
the New River water had been poisoned with arms, as men may do in the united states of America sentation. e ngas-neen in ~.merica re- tramc receipts. For the corresponding period of TRAFFIC -11,ETURNS FOR THE IN EEK.
was followed by three cheers for Mr. Cobden.
The CHAIRMAN in moving the adoption of the arsenic by French emissaries-(laughter)-and that and also in Switzerlan .
d lam not discussine tho sisted that attempt. Whether the time 1858 'the ordina ex ens
rY P es amounted to £171,482, Miles Opened . Receipts.
6 • h E 1. h •
t 1• di the principles of the Union! by these and similar means a frantic rage against question whether you should have the country de_ will come wenng is men here will no longer be and the renewals and additions to £28,427, total, Railways. ~...___.•..______. ~...._____A____,,
rep.orh,hexp.adinde
issed all classes of Reformers and France was begotten in the public mind. Now, let fended by a permanent, well-trained standing array, content to PaY taxes, and have no representation, £199,909, being at the rate of es. eed. ner train 1860. 1859. 1860. 18.59.
WhIC e sai a m
t 't was that there us take care that as France was made such a raw- or by a militia or volunteer force, including all the must be left for the decision of a future day. But mile, or 451 per cent. of the traffic re4ipts'. A tabu_ -
excluded none. Importan as i
x x
" f the franchise, it was head-and-bloody-bones in that day, the same effect young men of the country. That is not the question. our troubles_ with our American colonies then com- lar statement shows the progress of the traffic. In Ballymena and Portrush... 35 35 - -
should be an extension o
Bedale and Leyburn lO
' h the necessity for a re-dis- may not be produced in our times. Everybody ac- Let us keep ourselves to the question which has been menced, and -v9rty ron after that they established a 1848 the number of passengers conveyed was 10 - -
nothing compared wit
Belfast and Ballynaena 65 65 1,105 1,115
eats. There Were those, however, quamted with my opinions or mY speeches will bear before the country. The Government now in power Government of he !own. Look a. t the course of the 2,485,778, and in 1859, 8,395,615. In 1848 the re-
tribution of s htqadst Load Comity Down 2O 20 494 383
ht the pocket boroughs should be re- me out, that I have never stepped forward,in pub- has continued what Lord Derby and his colleagues two Governments since that eriod The two eo- its or ass & Ches. June 32 32 2,180 2,289
ho thoue p . p ce p f p engers amounted to £349,977, and in Blyth.and Ty.'ne 2O 20 1,127 686
wtained in Our representative syitem. I But Messrs. lie or private, to compliment the Emperor of the began, and you maY well discover why. The Go- plea are of the same race, the same language, the 1859 to £580,913 ; in 1848 the annual season Bristol and Exeter 125 119 5,781 5,292
Cobden, Bright, and Milner Gibson, when rejected French, or to utter language defamatory of him. I vernments are all alike, really. (A laugh.) They same ideas! the !lame almost in everything, except tickets amounted to £10,427, and in 1859 to aleeady,rony_ e
1 h adOvithMold) 1:4 1: 14,679 13,500
- _
through the passion and prejudice of misguided have treated him as the ruler of the French nation, may advertise, as you see sometimes with puffing that they inhabit opposite shores ef the Atlantic. £40,218 ; the goods traffic in 1848 amounted to Cockermouth & Workington 8 8 198 203
lar constituencies, had not found it necessary and have left all questions as to the Position he holds shopkeepers, that they have no connection with the There 18, however, this difference between them- £6 L,493, and in 1859 to £157,636. The gross reve- Cork and Bandon 2O 20 262 266
popu
to take refuge in any nomination borough. (Cheers.) he wa -- lau hter -but it is that here we have had the ha iness to be overnad
/ to himself and to the people over whom he rules. establishment over t y ( g ) .
... PP g nue in 1848 amounted to £453,408, and in 1859 to Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64
Deeside l7 17
6-1 200 251
267 266
Having glanced at some of the anomalies in the Some may think that this is not a fitting opportunity not true. When the bubble bursts and there is an by great families, men whose blood goes back no- £842 293 showine an '
„ e increase of £388,886 in eleven Etivii& Belfas t Junction
existing system, Mr. Wilson concluded by recom- to allude to this subject ; but when I see the mea- auction sale, you n t at exec 3 t e same par ner
fi d h tl - 'll t s bod k h f d b •
y nows ow ar an no od knows how thick
- t d I f • h 'b
y ars or 86.
ye , 4 per cent., being at the rate of £35,3531 Dub. iz ApidoiA)orwogloieda 1 539 1 456
(i Kino-st ) till e4k4 1,375 1,246
mending a general agitation in support of the ob- sures that are being taken, though happily they aro belong to both concerns. (Renewed laughter.) so a grea ea oit as ecome. (A laugh.) In the or nearly 8 per cent. per annum. The number of Dundalk and Enniskillen
jeets of the association. frustrated, perhaps, just now-measures forming an the Government which now exists is aristocratic, ' United States they have not been so governed. miles run increased from 1,119,308 in 1848 to Dundee and Arbroath 174 17} 579 603
have been overned b a Washin ton an
Sir E. ARMITAGE seconded the MOtiOn for the exact counterpart to what took place in 1793-1 though not so unpopular as the Government which They _ g y g • 2,499,828 in 1859. The total expenditure increased Dundee, Perth & Aber Jun. 31
East Anglian ' • 31
674 674 853 1,030
866 842
adoption .of the report, which was unanimously cannot help dwelling for a moment on this point. it succeeded. And the aristocracy of this country, Adams, a e
J fferson a Maddison and a Mon-
„ from .£187,087 in 1848 to £398,206 in 1859, /Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 489 24,155 23,013
If there be any man who complains of the step by whatever they may have been compelled at times to roe, and some of these great men were 255 -
agreed to. showing . an increase of £211,119, or £19,192 kata nliceanatireen.Blackbur "a -
Mr. T. BAZLEY, M.P., in moving the re-election which Louis Napoleon became ruler of France, I concede, have always steadily looked for all those a . ,
dvised, counselled and assisted b the immor-
y per annum. The preferential charges increased n) 111 105 _
Edinburgh and Glasgow
of the officers of the Union, denied that the country think no man in an English Government, at least, opportunities by which they can defend their power tal Printer's boy whose name will endure for from £104,041 in 1848 to £166,052 in 1859 ; and Vdo ri I:Pi usi;gif Pdeerp&c.l.?oundee 78 78 3,164 3,062
was indifferent to the question of Reform. The and hardly any Englishman, has a right now to and prevent your gradual march upon them. And ever. (Cheers.) Well, what happened ?We stalled the dividends increased from £3 12s. to £6 per Furness Y un
1n • • • V 204 _ 228 221
'fie and dignified attitnde of the people on this quarrel with him on that matter. He was congra- they know, every man of them, that there is not . .
hin 100 ears a o with £l4O 000 0 of debt Since 22 1,157 961
IMLCI g Y g , , Q.O • cent-per_ annum, at which latter rate they have Glasgow & South-Western. 184 184 :6,296 5,6 6
81.1
bject was misrepresented as apathy and supineness. tulated on what he had done at the time by one on earth so adverse to freedom as the military spirit. then we have added £650 000 000 more to the bure been stationary for four years. The increase in the Great Northern 283 283 23,574 21,896
a d W h + • Is' ' 'l. ' A Great North of Scotland
mr. T. B. POTTER seconded the resolution. He who was then cur Foreign Secretary, and who is (Loud cheers.) Making allowance for hundreds, an- en; e. ave spell. wit.in tue same Perlou• two expenditure during the past half-year arises from qt.southe. &Westn.(lrlnd ) 226 22,;
6,3 1,572 1 252
6,278 6'891
had seen Mr. Cobden on the eve of his departure our present Prime Minister. He subsequently probably thousands, as zealous for liberty as lam, or tnree times as much besides, which was raised the cost of working the branch lines recently opened, Grit Wdeqecical 466 466 27,515 25,835
for France. He knew of that gentleman's great came to this country, and was received with a de- who may still join some military force, whether the bY taxes, and not by way of loans, and which there- as well as, to some extent, from the competition 18
liintvilernaness &°A:e7deesean J u n c . 55 18
55 173 189
726 552
anxiety to succeed, and he had wished him God gree of amity which is not usual by the Sovereign yeomanry, the militia, or a rile corps, you may rely fore does not appear in the shape of debt. Our with the South-Western Company during the first Irish South-Eastern 254 254 242 171
speed in his mission as the Apostle of Peace. It was of England, and with a wonderful amount of en- upon it that as it has been in past periods of our taxation has increased from £19,000,000 to nearly portion of that half-year. The excess of outlay in ii,ailnleaarnseyr Jaunnift toanr li a l e
on 4l 41 315 241
matter for great rejoicing that that mission had thusiasm by scores of thousands of Englishmen who history for the last 100 years, so probably it will £70,000,000-its present amount. Your English the locomotive department is caused by the in- Kendal and Windermere) lop 1 _ _
succeeded. (Loud cheers.) assembled to welcome him in the streets of London. be for the next 100 years, that of every 10 men nation west of the Atlantic have still no debt- creased number of miles worked, and by the larger Lanc. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 289 28 ---.-
The motion was then carried. Therefore, as regards that question, we may pass it who are induced to try, needlessly as most o .
fus nothin that re uires to be s oken of At least
h t g • ' q p . , amount of renewals and additions ; five new power- Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly 2 26
4 4 127 115
366 436
Mr. R. N. PHILIPS moved, and Alderman RY- by as a thing of the past, with which we at least believe, to connect themselves with these organi- w a ever it is, it could be paid at any time ful engines having been built at the cost of revenue, London & North-Western . 917 891 70,618 66,152
LANDS seconded, the following resolution, which are not called upon to deal. He against his own sations, at least nine will come out much less efvhen they choose to buy it off. Their taxation while only three have been broken up. This forms Lgit,'l IngoilaNvv-easlern .33 307 114190 INt93
was carried by acclamation, viz. :- judgment and his own anxious 'desire to avert it, of real reformers than they thought they we.re. 1
i 3
their ener Government according to
g al , e an addition of two engines to the working stock, Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 2234 1904 11,965 11,391
" That this meeting would express its deep sense of the entered. with us into that war into which this coun- (cheers.) et is a very eld trick with the English y. uchanan's recent Message, will amount making, with those previouely so added, 14 locomo- Edeer• yTarbd EnliVEiller..d e4l 60 730 784
value of the services rendered to the cause of Reform by try was drifted by a Government of factions and Government to take advantage of these panics and this year to 61,000,000 dols., or £12,000,000 ster- tives built at the expense of revenue in anticipation etoann.,'Aheitseua'&lenueolensh 179 984 890
11:51 10 489 9,479
Mr. J. Bright, its confidence in his political judgment and
•b il F i n-office (Cheers.) He gave moments of excitement. I found not long ago, in ling. That includes a million and a half for of the period when others may be expected to be- slanch. S.Jun.& Altrincharn 4 '934 855
integrity, and its hope that he will render his co-operation an im ec e
.or g
hich men and funds could reading the e Pictorial History of Engsamee, a note the Post-office-a most expensive and not very come unserviceable. The t 1 f • ' Maryport and Carlisle
in Parliament for the establishment by law of the principles yOU every anis arm!, w pas out ay or improving Midland
' ' the prosecution of that war, in which you describing the particulars of a paper which Lo. rd remunerative servi e in so levee and sca r
of the Lancashire Reformers' Union. give in c , tte ed and fish-joining the permanent way is now produe- Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. 177 177 4,099 3,919
Mr. BRIGHT, on rising to address the meeting, would not have embarked without him,tand out of Svom. e.rs, once Lord High Chancellor, wrote to K ing a community. It may be said that besides • econ • 1
• ing omica remelts, the account showing a saving
• Monkland 52 1,481 1,567
was gree 111 di• li. ttht ticl the e It • fh A i U.
ted with loud and prolonged cheering. which you could not have well come if you had noot A imam ~ a v spingr im a ai par uar mo- . g nera . axation ot e mer can mon, there of £2,331 as compared with the corresponding half
. Alonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal .51,21
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 44 : ,073 2,062
78 2,650 2,815
is the taxatio
He said-Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,-It is had the aid of France. After that what took place . ment to call a new ar lament. Ihe passage runs d nof each separate State to be consi- year, fully confirming by experience the advantages 11, we
aeortn
offilitl7.4llerefor 5O 50 1,154 1,359
with great sincerity I say that I feel almost op- I went abroad in the autumn of 1856. I recollect thus :--e Heads of argunTits to induce the King erect. Whatever may be said of the expense of the expected from improving and maintaining the rail- e . iie lkeithd 154 144 5,582 5,411
North Devon 35 35 402 441
pressed by the kindness with which I have been at that time the papers in England, the Govern_ to can a new parliament in the present ferment and several State Governments, none of them maintain way in the best possible manner. The directors North-Eastern 746 735 i 31,110 29,850
received here to-day, and by the responsibility ment papers, and especially those called Radical, disposition of the nation :.-1. The art of governing any army. I should say very few persons in them have therefore continued the relaying and reballast- goorrllll L oan do n
st ff ordslire 9 g 2,303 3,320
which, judging from the speeches of those who were discussing the propriety of making changes England in watching and using such opportunities. got a salary of
.El,OOO a year, and that the whole ing of other portions of the line, and during the North-Western 233 233 7,683 6,805
have preceded me, is attempted to be laid on my in the Governments of Italy, and particularly in 2. These opportunities do not last. (Laughter.) State Governments of the United States added to- past year £11,484 has been so expended, and placed 41 461
N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 10 - _
- -
_
shoulders. (A laugh.) But lam cheered, and the Government of Naples. You remember that 3. The neglect of making use of them must always gether will not show a cost of much more than the te the debit of the permanent way improvement Oxford, Wore., &Wolver lO2 94 4,419 1,237
Peebles lB4 181 175 172
shall be cheered in every step I may take in connec- England and France withdrew their Ambassadors turn to disadvantage. 4. The like opportunities amount Paid for poor rates in the United Kingdom. account. On the other hand, the increased revenue St. Helen's Canal& Railway 30 30 1,935 2,079
tion with this great qaestion of reform, by the sight from the Court of Naples. In that particular step, not to be had again, there being no like occasion in Bear in mind there is the same population and in- admitting of a larger amount being placed to its ,§,_ !I 12' ~c- q
mcoottlissn Aeourtualastern l2 IN M. N:g
now, and by the recollection hereafter, of the enthu- then, the Governments of England and France view!' (A laugh.) You will observe, if you trace dustrY to all this vast difference in burden,-that credit, £17,000 have been so placed, making, with shrewsbury & Birming,ham 294 24 1,672 1:613
siastic zeal which you have manifested with regard acted together. And, judging from the tone of the our history from that day to this, that it has always their 30,000,000 of people will raise taxation for £3,000 contributed in the previous half_y ear, Shrreewsbury and Chester
to it. It la now about a year ago that we met in press hero, what was moro rational than that the been the cue of the Court and the Ministry for the their general government this year of £12,000,000 £20,000 applied during 1859 towards the extinc_ stir?
Sh wsbury & Hereford
shire Union 294 51 Lae 1,481
745 711
this very room as members of this same association Italians should have thought that England was time being to have Parliament dissolved at a june- sterling, while your 30,000,000 will raise taxatien tion of that amount, being £13,000 in excess of the Sout i Devon 74 3 2,591 2,163
to discuss this same question, and looking over the ready to assist them, or that the French Govern- ture favourable to themselves, either when the people to the amount of £70,000,000 gelling. And what sum originally proposed to be so annually aps goouuttt-tv'aaslteesrn 306 302 16,480 15,145
1714 1714 6,826 6 219
12 months which have since intervened, and remem- ment and nation should have believed that if they are in total apathy on some important political is the foundation of all this ? Just this, that in plied. The total amount now expended in these s. Yorkshire and River Dun log 108 3,6,30 '
3,166
bering the events which have marked that period En land ou have had a olic of war of con nest ' •
, crossed the Alps to help the Italians, if they might question, or when they are excited in favour of g Y , P Y • iI. , improvenients is £137,341, of which £102,921 has spes.isaoe and Darling,ton
I think lam not mistaken in arriving at the con- not count upon the active co-operation, they something that is wrong. 1 say, witnessing the of expenditure, ana of Patronage, while in the Eng- alreadit he'en paid out of revenue. The works :ffsevrale 54 54 4,602 4,062
52 52 1,582 1,679
elusion that our position as the friends of Parlia- might at least rely upon the sympathy and moral disposition of the French Government, and observ- lish nation on the other side of the Atlantic you of the Victoria station and pimeico Railway are Ulverstone and Lancaster
mentary Reform has not lost, but has gained much support of this country ! Well, the Italian war ing the enormous expenditure on armaments voted have had Preached bY every statesman who has left proceeding most favourably, and the directors
IZ'alrer(inf I:lTeoanthand St 254 254 L6Ol 1,172
in that interval. (Cheers.) At that time we had in broke out, and everybody who was anxious for by Parliament, that this attempt to alarm the a name that is ever quoted in America, commercial ockport lO
have received renewed assurances that they will Waterard and Kilkenny
31 _
___
231 277
office a Government presided over by Lord Derby peace much blamed the French Government for people and frighten them all into becoming soldiers, alliance if you like with all the nations of the earth, be completed by the Ist of June next, as origi_ Waterford and Limerick
-a Government which had not the love of freedom the hostilities. But on the conclusion of the strife under the pretence that the country requires to be but political alliances and entanglements with none. nally stipulated. The net amount at the credit r11L=11...r.......ii V L 7,4 ..M 3,44;
to induce them fairly to espouse the cause of reform, we immediately heard the very same men just as defended, is ju
.st one of those tricks which Lord (pheers.)tlizaeystaentthattl attribute whatever dit- ef the revenue account, after providing for all NNuiitteetaavveenn
..glipuctioen.. j
and yet which had not the manly coura(se to enable loud in their blame of that Government because the Somers told -William 111. it was necessary to resort icrenr
t_ e i_s h fly _ Ws fact, that in one preferential charges, is £163,753, out of which the W'haven,Cleator,TE unt 37
35
7 sea 445
290 298
them to oppose that which they really liated. The war was not carried on still longer. (A laugh.) to in seasons of excitement, because Governments coon ry here haS been the most complete control directors recommend the payment of a dividend of FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
true character of that Government w,-, discovered What has been the result of that war ? As much can then do much which the people in their calmer on the Part of all the People over the taxation and 3,1 per cent. for the half_year amountine to
ig £161,649, Ainiatar7arp and Rotterdam
84 52 905 698
to the country the moment they were obliged to good at least as comes from wars generally. Put- InOments will not allow them to do. (Cheers.) If exPenditure
.of t.he State,-that no war can be de- leaving a balance to the credit of the current half_ ftsijiann 6;21 eans 23,338
Eastern Junction 263 212
Place their Reform Bill on the table of the House ting aside the butchery, the blood, and the untold I wanted another argument I might tell you that clared, no mischief can be done that is past remedy, year of £2,104, and making a dividend of 6 per Buffalo and Lake Huron
of Commons - and their measure was no SOOner agony to those concerned in such carnage-and when Sir R. Peel and the Duke of Wellington were without the consent of at least one of their Houses cent. for the year 1859. Detroit and Milwaukie 18.5 185 1,471 1,331
Dut h Rhenish
c
placed there than its pretensions were exposed, and certainly when men talk of wars, especially if they in power, in 1835, the sum voted by Parliament for of Representation. In this country you have ex- 1081 1081 2,707 2,654
Grand Trunk of Canada• •• • 880 880 11,050 6,885
the Cabinet which was the author of it overturned are in favour of them, which lam not, they usually the army and navy was not one-half the sum which actly the opposite system ; you have no real repre- MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND Great Indian Peninsula 1944 1304 3,643 2,776
and destroyed. At this moment we have a Govern -do put these things aside-you have Lombardy de- was voted in 1859. If I needed a yet further illus- sentation, and you have had in your House of Lords LINCOLNSHIRE. Great Luxembourg l2l 122 1,012 1,758
Great Western of Canada 345 294 7,016 6,740
ment of a different character-not exactly the one livered from Austrian domination, which people tration, I might say that in this very year we are during that hundred years when this Xnen,ooo,o6o The directors of this company have just issued Lombardo-Venetian 285 285 - -
we should like, but one which o wes its advent to supposed was a great thing to be accomplished ; spending X 10,000,000 more upon armaments alone has been added to your debt no less than 250 peer- their report. It states that the want of Parliamen- Lyeer7_lneellirG en eve 142 142 3,416 3,096
power mainly, if not solely, to the difference which we have three small States formerly governed by than all that your armaments and your civil govern- ted. I say, then that unless we are if- •
ages
tcrea h A . • d taiy powers has to some extent prevented the cora- a e agessa &Alicant 310 281
Maria Antonia' 2l 21 5,905 0,698
it was able to say existed between its policy and its certain dukes and duchesses, and another State, ment together cost the country in 1838. All the eeo- f to t e mericans-unleas the clim • • t
ehrell il r d'ffe t ate end, ,pletionp arrangements for the convenient working trwrthr otTFruannee - -
602 574 46,101 43,363
principles on this question and the policy and the constituting a part of the dominions of the Pope, nomy of thoseyears was effected, doubtless, from two t eso a
ie.
il ren , and unless there+ be eircuni- of the traffic through London-road station, particu- Paris, ilyaonno, k
r& Mediterrn B7l 8t 65,= 61,45711
principles of its predecessors. I take it for granted, emancipated from their old rulers, forming sources-the suffering and exhaustion of the nation stancest.wfi iic. are !tltogether beyon our control, we larly between Manchester and Liverpool. The Paris and Orleans 922 922 39,866 3g,860
and always have done since this Government was themselves into one State, abolishing the cus- after such long wars, and the control which the ar.elj.us 1 efd in sieeing what a great nation of thirty directors reeret the amount of inconvenience to the ftaoriyaslairanSitsclasburg
formed, that the offers which were made before its tom-house regulations which heretofore sepa- people had over the expenditure in the fiest fresh- mi 11.(mso p.eop e can be governed by, and in feeling public and tao ' the company which has arisen, and Sambre and Meuse . 69
68 69 423 334
68 1,155 1,203
accession Must necessarily be to honourable men dis- rated them, and anxious to be united to that ness of the reformed Parliament. Nothing at this .
humiliated, if not exasperated that we h ve b en so
11 -' ' a e have cause to be dissatisfied with the want of regu- ,k)eust4TanoLFrrsance 777 773 15,669 13,521
tinct pledges to the country with respect to kingdom for which we have professed great sym- moment proves the necessity for a thorough reform foolish as to a ow our Government to tax oan ex-
, t . larity in the service. They trust that these difficul-
W. and N.W. of France 742 721 32,832 30,124
the course they should pursue on this matter. pathy, Sardinia. What has occurred since that of the House of Commons more than the unparal- h• h k o '
tent it erto un n ern in the world (except among a ties will be removed when all the arrangements are -
Their Suffrage Bill-I mean the plan which was treaty was made ? Louis Napoleon has shown in leled profusion with which the products of your in- conquered people), the most hard-working and docile placed under the sanction of Parliament. The direc- _FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT
sketched by Lord John Russell-is so moderate everything that he has done, if we are to judge by dustry and ekill have been squandered by succes- people, I believe, that exists on
,the face of the tors have concluded and sealed an agreement with
that I have on all occasions to make some kind all that enters into the papers, or from anything that sive Governments in late years. (Cheers.) And earth. (Loud cheers.) If any man disputes these -the Lancashire and Yorkshire C LORD GREAT CHAMBETTLAIN'S OFFICE, JAN. 20.
ompany for the use All Peeresses wishing to be present on the occa . f tho
of an apology when I say something in its fav- we know beyond that, a desire to accommodate his after all this alarm-after these, what shall I call facts let him give us the contrary facts. If any man of Barnsley station and for other purposes, and They opening of Parliament, on Tuesday, the 24th Jansusionyo, ill
our. (A laugh.) For although in the 40 or 50 great policy as far as possible to the policy and the wishes them e-these " sulphurous" leading articles in your says I have not a right to propound these doctrines have also agreed with the South Yorkshire Com- have places reserved for them in the House of Lord:,- ieThe
towne_of the kingdom it will give a large and not of the Government of England. Whether it be in leading journals, after all the wretched oratory and make these statements to my countrymen, then pany to work the traffic between Barnsle and Don- announcement be made at the Lord Great Chamberlain's-
he says that we are not a free p 1 d"t ' t th b tM. h.
unsatisfactory addition to the borough franchise, Europe, in Italy, where you sympathise with free- poured forth by speakers at your rine corps meet_ eep e, an i is no caster, ere yes a is ing a, better through ser-
Y office, before 3 o'clock on Monday, the 23d instant, and
tick t t
yet we must never conceal from ourselves the fact dom, or whether it be in the distant empire of China, ings, after a succession of stimulating letters from advisable that the people of England should hear vice between Doncaster and places north and east forw
earsedotto msalferable, for the Peeresses' bench will be
that in the small boroughs, which are by far the where you have no right to be as a power carrying the Seentary at War, and the hints that you don't the truth. I have said repeatedly-and the more thereof and Liverpool and Manchester. The ac- Peers' eldest sons will have tickets for the Peers' eldest
most numerous, and return far more than half the on war-(eheers)-whether it be in the right in know what that man over the water is going to do ) I think of it the more lam convinced-that if we counts of the half-year show a total revenue from sons' box forwarded to them, upon a written or personal
borough members, a£6 rental franchise will add Europe, or in the wrong in Asia, you find the policy -after all this you find the man over the water re- had any honest and real representation of the peo- all sources of £339,819, a total expenditire of application at the office.
very little indeed to the Constituencies where rents of the French Government most anxious to square ceiving one of your fellow-citizens-(loud cheers, ple we should have morality in our Government. £177,607, and a balance of net profit of £162,012, HNo person, except those entitled to be present in the
are so low, and where there are so few persons be- itself with the policy of England. I am not dis- the whole meeting rising up and waving their hats) Why, if the virthe of the English people at this which, with the balance of £942 brought forward L
oTicis eGorfeaLtog
si:mcanrlbeia admitted without a ticket from the
longing to the working classes who occupy houses cussing this policy now ; I am only stating facts -discussing with him the great questions of corn- moment were
hfair.ly represented iu the House of from the previous half-year, gives a total sum of Tickets for the interion; of the House of Lords'will be ad-
of so high a value as £6 a-year. Now, if we as Re- which wo all ought to know, and I ask,. where is merce and of peace (not the matters about which Commons,,suc crimes against Heaven and against £102,954 available for interest and dividend. Tho mated at tho Peers' entrance.
formers feel it our duty out of doors and in Parlia- the fouudation for the statement that the man whom your diplomatists generally concern themselves), the nation s honour. a! the English Government has debenture and other interest charges against the Tickets for the Royal Gallery at tho Victoria Tower en-
ment to support this measure when it is brought you call your ally is your greatest and most secret obtaining information, considering what will be for committ.ed, an.d as it is said they are again about to half-year amount to £60,730, the canal annuities to trance.
forward, let it never for a moment be understood foe ? When- the Derby Government was in office I the advantage of the great nation over which he commit in China, would be absolutely impossible. £13,780, the dividend on debenture stock to £950, The doors will be opened at 12 o'clock.
that we have relinquished the doctrines which we grant you that war with France might have been rules, and of Europe and the world, of which Eng- (Cheerc) I believe the systematic misleading of the dividend on the £6 preference shares to £23,690, WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G. C.
have hitherto held and still hold, We have always possible, and was not improbable. Speeches were land and France form always so large a part. You the people by repeated panics such as I have re- the dividend on the 31 preference stock to £5 9-9 Th FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN.. 12.
acted on this prieeiple-to accept and to carry that made by Lord Derby which, as I know, were felt to find him propounding in a document which deserves ferred to could not by an •leTt b t. d d• •el d
y possi ii y e prae ise , the ivi en on the 6 per cent. preference stock to
, o , e Queen has been graciouslypleased to appoint William
Richard Holmes, Esq„ now her Majesty's Consul at flier-
-which is at the time possible, but still to look ahead, be grievously insulting and irritating to those who to be written in letters of gold a new commercial that the squandering of the nation's money, such £26,160. and the dividend on the new £lO redeem- bekir, to be her Majesty's Consul in Bosnia.
and cherish the hope that, if not we ourselves, others were highest in authority in France. There was policy for France, and, if for France, for the world. as the world has never before witnessed, would be able 6 per cent. shares to £9,500, making a total FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 18.
who come after us will complete the °Teat, the holY neutrality on theirlips, but if not war in their hearts, (Cheers.) And I, who have no regard for that ' absolutely checked. and that whatever taxation charge against the above net balance of £162,954 of Tho Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Frederick
work in which we feel it an honour tno be engaged. there was a course of proaeeding on their part which which men call fame, venture to say that for cen- was necessary for the service of the State would be £140,769, and leaving £22,185 9s. sd. available. Out B. Wells as Consul at Bermuda for the 'United States of
(Cheers.) I stated at a meeting in Birmingham the led almost directly to the peril of war. 'Why were turies to come, if that policy be carried out by the .
levied with some regard to the mean ftl
s o lose who America
of this sum the directorslrecommend that a dividend The Qu. el 2 h al obe 1 dCo a prove of Mr. Cinias
other day my opinion that the proposition to be all those preparations made ? Did they suppose, Emperor of the French, the blessed renown which Ib 1.
are to bear it. e. leve, finally, that if we had abe paid after the rate of one per cent. per annum on Larague aseConassul ast K ienn p ease.). 1)- for the Republic
submitted by the Government would not add more because a particular Sovereign was carrying on war will attach to his name will eclipse all that sangui- fair representation in the House of Commons, such the original stock of the company, which will leave a of Hayti. gston, amalea,
than 30 per cent. of voters to the county constituen- with a great empire in Italy, that therefore, at that nary glory which encircles the founder of the is the intelligence, the virtue, the goodwill of the balance of £2,641 to be carried to the next half WHITEHALL, Sax. 20.
cies, nor more than 60 per cent.toboroughconstituen- particular moment, he was likely to make an enemy dynasty to which he belongs. (Cheers.) But, re- People of this United Kingdom, that we should no year's dccount. The debenture debt of the com The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant George
cies. In the large boroughs there might be consider- of Engl d b d 1 • • t h 1 PWh turninff to the question more immedi t 1 b f
an yec ariug war agams er aso . 7 ~ ae y e ore longer be two nations as we are now-the privi- n falling due th 31 tf D -- Biinewood Potts to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain,
ably more than that ;in the very numerous small was it that your First Lord of the Admiralty gime- this association, we cannot disguise from ourselves dth 1 d
leged few an e exc ued many-but we should pa y, on e s o ecember, has of the Artillery Company of
been renewed on very favourable terms, a large pro- The Queen has also Loudon, vice Snell, promoted.
been pleased to appoint Peter
boroughs considerably less ; and I said the measure fied himself in every speech on the profuseness with the fact that we who have accomplished in past times become one people, greater far than we have ever portion being at 4 per cent. The company's share Mathews, Gent., to be Assistant-Quartermaster of the
would probably add 500,000 electors to the whole which he was pouring out your taxes for the in- the great work of limiting themonarchy of England yet been in everything that constitutes the true of the profit in connection with the South Junction Artillery Company of London.
list. My calculation, mind, is More generous than crease of a navy already as large as all the navies of within constitutional bounds-bounds at least as b
erandeur of a nation. (Great cheering.) Railway has been £7,124, against £4,596 in the BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN'. 20.
that made by many other persons. The total number all the other nations of the world ? Why was it happy for the monarchy as for the people-are now A vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed corresponding half of 1858 The rec i
e pts of the The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
would thus be raised from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 ; that that same Government sought to infuse appre- also endeavouring to limit the power of the English . Y - • • ,
b Mr H Aseewouen se dd b M J 0 • '
con e y r. . . canals show a steady improvement ; the increase seer t
Council for Trade and Plantations have received from th
of State for Foreign Affairs, aco of, e
and nevertheless such a scheme, which some timid hension into the minds of the people by talking of aristocracy to its own house, by admitting the real DYER, and passed by acclamation, when the pro- during the half-year amounted to £5,316, while the 1m eetil Decree, fixing as follow the cluta u
oanFrench
P P hemp
men might possibly hink enloue- a emer enc.
even yet t
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peace. (A laugh.) And when men listen, as you
are listening here, calmly, disturbing yourselves
only occasionally by violent cheers, and if they then
go quietly home and no windows are broken, or no-
body is brought up to the police office, they tell
you the people don't care in the least about the
matter. (Laughter.) Surely it must be something
in our favour when there are no plots, no riots, no
combinations, no taking of oaths legal or illegal
—(a laugh)—and yet this great question goes on its
grand march, until at length even those who were
our bitterest opponents and were most afraid of our
proposals are actually coming about us and hoping
that we shall allow them to make some settlement
of this question. (Cheers.) But there are great
efforts to mislead. Only yesterday I saw iu a Lon-
don newspaper an extract from a speech that was
delivered by a member of the House of Peers as long
ago as the year 1793. These questions of reform
were very much discussed by our fathers of that
day. There were men then as zealous and intelli-
gent as any of you are on this subject, but they
found the whole question snatched from their grasp,
and the cup dashed from their lips by every kind
of fraudulent pretence, and by a foreign policy
which for 40 years did nothing but postpone reform,
add to your debt and taxes, and impoverish the
people. Lord Lauderdale, speaking in the House
of Lords a little later, said—" Is there a man in
England who is ignorant that the most wicked arts
have been practised to irritate and mislead the mul-
titude ? Have not the most infamous handbills and
pamphlets, the most false and defamatory para-
graphs in newspapers, been most assiduously circu-
lated, all tending to rouse the indignation of this
country against France,with whom it has long been
determined, I fear, to go to war ?" He then goes
on to say that one of the stories set afloat was that
the New River water had been poisoned with
arsenic by French emissaries—(laughter)—and that
by these and similar means a frantic rage against
France was begotten in the public mind. Now, let
us take care that as France was made such a raw-
head-and-bloody-bones in that day, the same effect
may not be produced in our times. Everybody ac-
quainted with my opinions or my speeches will bear
me out, that I have never stepped forward, in pub-
lic or private, to compliment the Emperor of the
French, or to utter language defamatory of him. I
have treated him as the ruler of the French nation,
and have left all questions as to the position ho holds
to himself and to the people over whom ho rules.
Some may think that this is not a fitting opportunity
to allude to this subject ; but when I see the mea-
sures that are being taken, though happily they aro
frustrated, perhaps, just now—measures forming an
exact counterpart to what took place in 1793—1
cannot help dwelling for a moment on this point.
If there be any man who complains of the step by
which Louis Napoleon became ruler of France, I
think no man in an English Government, at least,
and hardly any Englishman, has a right now to
quarrel with him on that matter. He was congra-
tulated on what he had done at the time by one
who was then cur Foreign Secretary, and who is
our present Prime Minister. He subsequently
came to this country, and was received with a de-
gree of amity which is not usual by the Sovereign
of England, and with a wonderful amount of en-
thusiasm by scores of thousands of Englishmen who
assembled to welcome him in the streets of London.
Therefore, as regards that question, we may pass it
by as a thing of the past, with which we at least
are not called upon to deal. He, against his own
judgment and his own anxious desire to avert it,
entered with us into that war into which this coun-
try was drifted by a Government of factions and
an imbecile Foreign-office. (Cheers.) He gave
you every assistance which men and. funds could
give in the prosecution of that war, in which you
would not have embarked without him,tand out of
which you could not have well come if you had not
had the aid of France. After that what took place ?
I went abroad in the autumn of 1856. I recollect
at that time the papers in England, the Govern-
ment papers, and especially those called Radical,
were discussing the propriety of making changes
in the Governments of Italy, and particularly in
the Government of Naples. You remember that
England and France withdrew their Ambassadors
from the Court of Naples. In that particular step,
then, the Governments of England and France
acted together. And, judging from the tone of the
press here, what was more rational than that the
Italians should have thought that England was
ready to assist them, or that the French Govern-
ment and nation should have believed that if they
crossed the Alps to help the Italians, if they might
not count upon the active co-operation, they
might at least rely upon the sympathy and moral
support of this country ! Well, the Italian war
broke out, and everybody who was anxious for
peace much blamed the French Government for
the hostilities. But on the conclusion of the strife
we immediately heard the very same men just as
loud in their blame of that Government because the
war was not carried on still longer. (A laugh.)
What has been the result of that war ? As much
good at least as comes from wars generally. Put-
ting aside the butchery, the blood, and the untold
agony to those concerned in such carnage—and
certainly when men talk of wars, especially if they
are in favour of them, which I am not, they usually
do put these things aside—you have Lombardy de-
livered from Austrian domination, which people
supposed was a great thing to be accomplished ;
we have three small States formerly governed by
certain dukes and duchesses, and another State,
constituting a part of the dominions of the Pope,
emancipated from their old rulers, forming
themselves into one State, abolishing the cus-
tom-house regulations which heretofore sepa-
rated them, and anxious to be united to that
kingdom for which we have professed great sym-
pathy, Sardinia. What has occurred since that
treaty was made ? Louis Napoleon has shown in
everything that he has done, if we are to judge by
all that enters into the papers, or from anything that
we know beyond that, a desire to accommodate his
policy as far as possible to the policy and the wishes
of the Government of England. Whether it be in
Europe, in Italy, where you sympathise with free-
dom, or whether it be in the distant empire of China,
where you have no right to be as a power carrying
on war—(cheers)—whether it be in the right in
Europe, or in the wrong in Asia, you find the policy
of the French Government most anxious to square
itself with the policy of England. I am not dis-
cussing this policy now ; I am only stating facts
which wo all ought to know, and I ask, where is
the foundation for the statement that the man whom
you call your ally is your greatest and most secret
foe ? When- the Derby Government was in office I
grant you that war with France might have been
possible, and was not improbable. Speeches were
made by Lord Derby which, as I know, were felt to
be grievously insulting and irritating to those who
were highest in authority in France. There was
neutrality on their lips, but if not war in their hearts,
there was a course of proceeding on their part which
led almost directly to the peril of war. 'Why were
all those preparations made ? Did they suppose,
because a particular Sovereign was carrying on war
with a great empire in Italy, that therefore, at that
particular moment, he was likely to make an enemy
of England by declaring war against her also ? Why
was it that your First Lord of the Admiralty glori-
fied himself in every speech on the profuseness with
which he was pouring. out your taxes for the in-
crease of a navy already as large as all the navies of
all the other nations of the world ? Why was it
that that same Government sought to infuse appre-
hension into the minds of the people by talking of
emergencies that might arise ? I do not want to
charge any one with an offence that I do not know
to have been actually committed ; but that
arise
Go-
vernmentina stpoonkee
thatof the emergencies
it appearemergencies thatthatthose
might
emergencies might not unnaturally be provoked by
the course they were themselves pursuing in regard
to France. All that reference to war could not
have pointed to Austria. You cannot go to war
with Austria. You cannot get to Austria ; and
everybody knows that she cannot get to yen.
Therefore, there can be no war with England -and
Austria alone. Your preparations were, therefore,
made on the sole supposition that the course of
events in Europe might force, justify, or induce
your Government to take side with Austria and
Germany against France. And we know very well
that the sympathies of that party in this country,
and the sympathies of the aristocracy everywhere,
were naturally on the side of Austria and opposed
to France. I hesitate not to make an assertion
which nobody can disprove—namely, that from the
hour when Louis Napoleon was elected co the Pre-
sidenev of the French Republic until this hour
there has not been a single act of his own or of his
Government which can fairly be charged against
him as an unfriendly act towards the Government
or the people of England. (Cheers.) Since that
time we have had six different Cabinets in this
country—that of Lord J. Russell, that of Lord
Derby, that of Lord Aberdeen, of Lord Palmerston,
the second Cabinet of Lord Derby, and the
second Cabinet of Lord Palmerston ; and I
believe there is not a single Minister in England
at this moment who has occupied a seat in any one
of those Governments who can for an instant con-
tradict what I now assert with respect to the uni-.
form friendly policy of the Emperor Uf the French
towards the Government and the people or Eng-
lsirapnda.cylßdiall ?" dare say I may be asked, " What have yon
to say about the Walewski iespatch and the Con-
My answer is this, that occurred at
a moment to which I am afraid almost all men
are subject----a moment of extreme irritation as it
was of extreme peril, of something, it might be,
like panic, not so much pr.obably with the Emperor
roundedhimself
him. should
with
Whatis
Ministers and those who sur-
wesayif some man
came from France and standing in one
eo
of
the

streets of London when the Queen of England was
going to the theatre, or any other place of public
resort, endeavoured to blow up chariot, Queen,
Prince, and whoever there might be of the highest
rank surrounding the person of the Queen? Don't
you suppose the people of England would have
been jealous and irritated, that their language
might not have accommodated itself exactly to the
style of the drawing-room ? (A laugh.) But it
required nothing but the most moderate conduct
on the part of our Government—conduct in which
they were followed, I admit, by Lord Derby's Mi-
nistry when it came into office, to.put an end to any
difficulty on that score. What is it, then, that
people hero mean ? I don't speak of persons such
as you and I, who are very likely to be mistaken
in these matters—(a laugh)—but what is it that
men at the head of affairs mean by spreading all
these alarms among the people of this kingdom ?
If it be not war it must be a pretence to excite the
people for some specific purpose, or for some gene-
ral course of policy. Do you think it possible that
it can be done to make us fancy that it is always
necessary to pay £70,000,000 of taxes, and to in-
duce us to carry our burden as if we liked it ?
There never has been a panic of this kind, false
alarm, unfounded terrors, diffused among a people
by those in authority, but it has been done for
some sinister object adverse to the interest of the
country. (Cheers.) The Government of Lord Derby
began it. They knew the position in which they
stood to the French Government, and their sympa-
thies were with Austria. They knew at the same
time that there were certain persons in this coun-
try among whom a general arming would have
some charms, and with whom a little popularity was
likely to be gained. lgnderstand that lam not in tke
least discussing the propriety of everybody bearing
arms, as men may do in the United States of America
and also in Switzerland. lam not discussing the
question whether you should have the country de-
fended by a permanent, well-trained standing army,
or by a militia or volunteer force, including all the
young men of the country. That is not the question.
Let us keep ourselves to the question which has been
before the country. The Government now in power
has continued what Lord Derby and his colleagues
began, and you may well discover why. The Go-
vernments are all alike, really. (A laugh.) They
may advertise, as you see sometimes with puffing
shopkeepers, that they have no connection with the
establishment over the way--(laughter)—but it is
not true. When the bubble bursts, and there is an
auctioa sale, you find that exactly the same partners
belong to both concerns. (Renewed laughter.) So
the Government which now exists is aristocratic,
though not so unpopular as the Government which
it succeeded. And the aristocracy of this country,
whatever they may have been compelled at times to
concede, have always steadily looked for all those
opportunities by which they can defend their power
and prevent year gradual march upon them. And
they know, every man of them, that there is nothing
on earth so adverse to freedom as the military spirit.
(Loud cheers.) Making allowance for hundreds, and
probably thousands, as zealous for liberty as I am,
who may still join some military force, whether the
yeomanry, the militia, or a rile corps, you may rely
upon it that as it has been in past periods of our
history for the last 100 years, so probably it will
be for the next 100 years, that of every 10 men
who are induced to try, needlessly as most of us
believe, to connect themselves with these organi-
sations, at least nine will come out much less
of real reformers than they thought they were.
(Cheers.) It is a very old trick with the English
Government to take advantage of these panics and
moments of excitement. I found not long ago, in
reading the " Pictorial History of England," a note
describing the particulars of a paper which Lord
Somers, once Lord High Chancellor, wrote to King
William 111., advising him at that particular mo-
ment to call a new Parliament. The passage runs
thus Heads of arguments to induce the King
to call a new Parliament in the present ferment and
disposition of the nation :-1. The art of governing
England in watching and using such opportunities.
2. These opportunities do not last. (Laughter.)
3. The neglect of making use of them must always
turn to disadvantage. 4. The like opportunities
not to be had again, there being no like occasion in
view." (A laugh.) You will observe, if you trace
our history from that day to this, that it has always
been the cue of the Court and the Ministry for the
time being to have Parliament dissolved at a junc-
ture favourable to themselves, either when the people
are in total apathy on some important political
question, or when they are excited in favour of
something that is wrong. I say, witnessing the
disposition of the French Government, and observ-
ing the enormous expenditure on armaments voted
by Parliament, that this attempt to alarm the
people and frighten them all into becoming soldiers,
under the pretence that the country requires to be
defended, is just one of those tricks which Lord
Somers told William 111. it was necessary to resort
to in seasons of excitement, because Governments
can then do much which the people in their calmer
• moments will not allow them to do. (Cheers.) If
I wanted another argument I might tell you that
when Sir R. Peel and the Duke of Wellington were
in power, in 1835, the sum voted by Parliament for
the army and navy was not one-half the sum which
was voted in 1859. If I needed a yet further illus-
tration, I might say that in this very year we are
spending £10,000,000 more upon armaments alone
than all that your armaments and your civil govern-
ment together cost the country in 1838. All the eco-
nomy of thoseyears was effected, doubtless, from two
sources—the suffering and exhaustion of the nation
after such long wars, and the control which the
people had over the expenditure in the fiest fresh-
ness of the reformed Parliament. Nothing at this
moment proves, the necessity for a thorough reform
of the House of Commons more than the unparal-
leled profusion with which the products of your in-
dustry and skill have been squandered by succes-
sive Governments in late years. (Cheers.) And
after all this alarm—after these, what shall I call
them ?—these " sulphurous" leading articles in your
leading journals, after all the wretched oratory
poured forth by speakers at your rifle corps meet-
ings, after a succession of stimulating letters from
the Secrstary at War, and the hints that you don't
know what that man over the water is going to do
—after all this you find the man over the water re-
ceiving one of your fellow-citizens—(loud cheers,
the whole meeting rising up and waving their hats)
—discussing with him the great questions of com-
merce and of peace (not the matters about which
your diplomatists generally concern themselves),
obtaining information, considering what will be for
the advantage of the great nation over which ho
rules, and of Europe and the world, of which Eng-
land and France form always so large a part. You
find him propounding in a document which deserves
to be written in letters of gold a new commercial
policy for France, and, if for France, for the world.
(Cheers.) And I, who have no regard for that
which men call fame, venture to say that for cen-
turies to come, if that policy be carried out by the
Emperor of the French, the blessed renown which
will attach to his name will eclipse all that sangui-
nary glory which encircles the founder of the
dynasty to which he belongs. (Cheers.) But, re-
turning to the question more immediately before
this association, we cannot disguise from ourselves
the fact that we who have acconaplished in past times
the great work of limiting the monarchy of England
within constitutional bounds—bounds at least as
happy for the monarchy as for the people—are now
also endeavouring to limit the power of the English
aristocracy to its own house, by admitting the real
representatives of the real people to fill the
benches of the House of Commons. (Cheers.)
And I venture to assert, if the limitation of the mo-
narchy was happy for the monarch, that the limi-
tation of the aristocracy to its rightful, acknow-
ledged, and, legal place in the constitution will be
much more happy for that aristocracy than that
they should continue for any long period to jostle
the free representatives of the people from the seats
in:the people's own house. (Cheers.) It is a ques-
tion whether you will go on paying £70,000,000 of
taxes, and that imposed by the voice of less than
1,000,000 among you, not chosen by a fair repre
sentation of that million, but by a hocus poems
which destroys even their power ; whether you will
allow that vast sum to be dealt with in expendi-
ture and in patronage by an order of society which
has in the constitution its right place, but has no
more claim to its right place than we and you have
to ours. (Cheers.) Can we find a case by which
we can illustrate the contrast between a " sham"
representation and a real representation ? I was
told the other day by a judicious friend that it would
be much bettor if I would never allude to the United
States. (A laugh.) In the letter of the Emperor
of the French, to which I have just referred, does
not the writer refer in a significant manner to the
assertion that the manufacturing population of
England are in a condition of greater comfort than
the French manufacturing population? And if the
Emperor can do that, and if you read it with plea-
sure, and see that there is a magnanimity in it, I
ask, arc we not to be allowed to look across the
broad Atlantic at our friends and relatives, men of
Our own blood and ancestry, and to see whether it
is not possible to pick up some grains of wisdom—
for there are some even there—that we may make
use of them among ourselves ? Let it be understood
that this is no question between monarchy and repub-
licanism. It is a question of policy, principally of
foreign policy, and a question of the existence of a
real control over the expenditure of the public funds
by those who contribute thorn. In the United States
you have the English nation westward. You are told
constantly they have the same religion, and also to a
great extent the same laws, only much consolidated,
much simplified, and improved, as Lord J. Russell
stated before the Social Science Association at Liver-
pool. You observe, lam obliged to give some high

Mr. BRIGHT, on rising to address the meeting,
was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering.
He said—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—lt is
with great sincerity I say that I feel almost op-
pressed by the kindness with which I have been
received here to-day, and by the responsibility
which, judging from the speeches of those who
have preceded me, is attempted to be laid on my
shoulders. (A laugh.) But lam cheered, and
shall be cheered in every step I may take in connec-
tion with this great question of reform, by the sight
now, and by the recollection hereafter, of the enthu-
siastic zeal which you have manifested with regard
to it. It is now about a year ago that we met in
this very room as members of this same association
to discuss this same question, and looking over the
12 months which have since intervened, and remem-
bering the events which have marked that period,
I think I am not mistaken in arriving at the con-
clusion that our position as the friends of Parlia-
mentary Reform has not lost, but has gained much
in that interval. (Cheers.) At that time we had in
office a Government presided over by Lord Derby
—a Government which had not the love of freedom
to induce them fairly to espouse the cause of reform,
and yet which had not the manly courage to enable
them to oppose that which they really hated. The
true character of that Government was discovered
to the country the moment they were obliged to
place their Reform Bill on the table of the House
of Commons and their measure was no sooner
placed there than its pretensions were exposed, and
the Cabinet which was the author of it overturned
and destroyed. At this moment we have a Govern.
ment of a different character—not exactly the one
we should like, but one which owes its advent to
power mainly, if not solely, to the difference which
it was able to say existed between its policy and its
principles on this question and the policy and the
principles of its predecessors. I take it for granted,
and always have done since this Government was
formed, that the offers which were made before its
accession must necessarily be to honourable men dis-
tinct pledges to the country with respect to
the course they should pursue on this matter.
Their Suffrage Bill—l mean the plan which was
sketched by Lord John Russell—is so moderate
that I have on all occasions to make some kind
of an apology when I say something in its fav-
our. (A laugh.) For although in the 40 or 50 great
towns!of the kingdom it will give a large and not
unsatisfactory addition to the borough franchise,
yet we must never conceal from ourselves the fact
that in the small boroughs, which are by far the
most numerous, and return far more than half the
borough members, a £6 rental franchise will add
very little indeed to the constituencies where rents
are so low, and where there are so few persons be-
longing to the working classes who occupy houses
of so high a value as £6 a-year. Now, if we as Re-
formers feel it our duty out of doors and in Parlia-
ment to support this measure when it is brought
forward, let it never for a moment be understood
that we have relinquished the doctrines which we
have hitherto held and still hold, We have always
acted on this principle—to accept and to carry that
which is at the time possible, but still to look ahead,
and cherish the hope that, if not we ourselves, others
who come after us will complete the great, the holy
work in which we feel it an honour to be engaged.
(Cheers.) I stated at a meeting in Birmingham the
other day my opinion that the proposition to be
submitted by the Government would not add more
than 30 per cent. of voters to the county constituen-
cies, nor more than 60 per cent. to borough constituen-
cies. In the large boroughs there might be consider-
ably more than that; in the very numerous small
boroughs considerably less ; and I said the measure
would probably add 500,000 electors to the whole
list. My calculation, mind, is more generous than
that made by many other persons. The total number
would thus be raised from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 ;
and nevertheless such a scheme, which some timid
men might possibly even yet think perilous—(a
laugh)—would leave near upon six millions of men
over 21 years of age in the United Kingdom still
excluded from the elective franchise. I believe there
are about seven and a-half millions of male adults in
this country, and if you shut out six millions of
them, let me ask how many of the working classes
do you exclude and how many include ? We know
that a £lO rental in counties and a £6 rental in
boroughs would admit all that are called the upper
and richer class, and, speaking generally, all who are
comprised within the middle class of this country.
The exclusion will still be directed against the work-
ing classes, and when you have excluded six mil-
lions of them, I ask you, when you get home to-
night, to try and make a calculation to discover how
many, and particularly whether any perilous num-
ber, will then be admitted within the pale of the
constitution. (A laugh.) I have alluded to the sub-
ject of the suffrage only, and I shall be perfectly
content myself if, during the coming session, that
question be for the time adjusted even on the prin-
ciples to which I have adverted. I mean to say that
a step will then have been made, and a sure step ;
for there is
There is the question
going back in a career of this kind.
to which Mr(li `Nilson
of the ballot, and the question
of the seats.
to
71-on has referred—the distribution
months ago I stated m
opinion, which more than 12
most
l
sitea.rnestly to members of
is t
the present Cabinet,
first the
be desirable to
fi
introduce a bill to settle
t-tethe question of the
h
franchise. I believe when
public eye can be
o
turned without distraction either on one
eside or the
of
other, solely to the consideration
enormous 1
wrongs endured by the great bulk of the populationat
through the unfair allotment of members, th
shall find an amount of public opinion brought to
bear upon the subject which will compel any Gs_
vernment and any Parliament to make a much more
important and valuable change than it is likely will
either be proposed or can be carried by the present
Goverment in the coming session. We occasion-
ally see statements in the papers to the effect that
the people are very apathetic. These opponents of
ours are very hard to please. If anybody makes a
speech that is thought to be arousing to the just
and honest instincts of an honest people, and if there
follows any demonstration of political zeal, he is
immediately denounced as a disturber of the public

FOREIGN .MAIL PACKET LIST.

In the following table E signifies that letters are despatched
by evening- mails from London, and M by morning mails.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND
LINCOLNSHIRE.
The directors of this company have just issued
their report. It states that the want of Parliamen-
tary powers has to some extent prevented the cora-
?Action; Of arrangements for the convenient working
of the traffic through London-road station, particu-
larly between Manchester and Liverpool. The
directors regret the amount of inconvenience to the
public and to ' the company which has arisen, and
have cause to be dissatisfied with the want of regu-
larity in the service. They trust that these difficul-
ties will be removed when all the arrangements are
placed under the sanction of Parliament. The direc-
tors have concluded and sealed an agreement with
-the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company for the use
of Barnsley station and for other purposes, anerthey
have also agreed with the South Yorkshire Com-
pany to work the traffic between Barnsley and Don-
caster, thereby establishing a better through ser-
vice between Doncaster and places north and east
thereof and Liverpool and Manchester. The ac-
counts of the half-year show a total revenue from
all sources of £339,819, a total expenditure of
£177,607, and a balance of net profit of £162,012,
which, with the balance of £942 brought forward
from the previous half-year, gives a total sum of
£102,954 available for interest and dividend. Tho
debenture and other interest charges against the
half-year amount to £60,730, the canal annuities to
£13,780, the dividend on debenture stock to £950,
the dividend on the £6 preference shares to £23,690,
the dividend on the 31, preference stock to £5,959,
the dividend on the 6 per cent. preference stock to
£26,160. and the dividend on the new £lO redeem-
able 6 per cent. shares to £9,500, making a total
charge against the above net balance of £162,954 of
£140,769, and leaving £22,185 9s. sd. available. Out
of this sum the directorslrecommend that a dividend
be paid after the rate of one per cent. per annum on
the original stock of the company, which will leave g
balance of £2,641 to be carried to the next half-
year's account. The debenture debt of the com-
pany, falling due on the 31st of December, has
been renewed on very favourable terms, a large pro-
portion being at 4 per cent. The company's share
of the profit in connection with the South Junction
Railway has been £7,124, against £4,596 in the
corresponding half of 1858. The receipts of the
canals show a steady improvement; the increase
during the half-year amounted to £5,316, while the
expenses were increased by .£4,658. The main-
tenance and renewal of working stock shows an in-
crease. In 1854 the cost amounted to £43,648,
and in 1859 to £67,259. They state thct consider-
able improvements in the working stock have been
made during the half-year. The engine-stock, too,
has been improved, and its efficiency enlarged, an
operation which will ultimately involve a saving in
working expenditure, though at present requiring
a somewhat, larger outlay. The capital account a
exhibits n increase of £26,552, of which £24,347
is for payments of land, works, &c., sanctioned at
the date of the last half-yearly meeting, and £2,205
for new works ordered by the directors during the
half-year. It is expected that the Oldham and
-Guide-bridge branch will be opened early in the
ensuing summer. The works of the Coinpstall line
are proceeding, and the directors have deemed it
their duty to concur with the local parties who
have deposited a Bill for an extension of about seven
miles from the terminus of the present branch to
New Mills and Hayfield. They have also approved
a local project, promoted by the town of Stockport,
for connecting the branch by a line of 21, miles in
length with that town. The unexpected discoveries
of valuable beds of ironstone, near Hazelhead, 241
miles from Manchester, at Shireoaks, 55 miles, and
at Kirton, 84 miles, all on the main line; and each
field presenting a different mineral character, in-
duce the directors to hope that at no distant period
important ironworks will be established at various
points upon the main line of railway. The traffic of
the half-year, both of the railways and canals, has
considerably increased, and continues to show a very
satisfactory growth, testifying to the sound policy
of developing the resources of the railway by
friendly alliances with other companies, and which
policy the proprietors have confirmed.
The capital account shows that £9,114,010 had
been received, and £9,013,410 expended, leaving a
balance of £100,600. The revenue account for the
half year ending 31st of December last shows that
£330,810 had been received, against £293,399 at
the oorrespondind period of iaa, showing: an in-
crease of £46,420 ; and the total expenditure to
£177,807, against £148,846 at the corresponding
period of 1858, 8117,wing an increase of £28,961,
fhe not, 'profit carried to interest and dividend
account amounted to £162,012, against £144,553

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

Next
DESTINATIONS. Despatch Port ef Mail
of Mails. Despatch. due.
----
Australia and Mauritius, via
Southampton Feb.; 11, E(Southamp. Feb. 9
Ditto, via Marseilles ;Feb. 18 , Ei Feb. 3
Bahamas and Havana via New;
York l,jan, —, EiLiverpool.. Feb.7l6
Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt );Jan. 25 ,11 Liverpool.. Jan. 25
Cape of Good Hope, Ascen-
awn, and St. Helena lFeb. 6, E.Devonport Feb. 1
China, Penang, and Sing,a-,
pore, via Southampton Jan. —, M_l Southamp. overdue
Ditto, via Marseilles tiJan. 26, E' 'Jan. 26
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..'Jan. —, i4lSouthamp. overdue
Honduras and Blewfields ... IFeb.l7, ..Southamp. Feb. 16
India (Calcutta) and Ceylon,,
via Southampton an. —,3l;Southamp. ;overdue
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via South-
ampton Jan. 27, MjSouthamp, Jan. 25
Ditto, via Marseilles ;Jan. ii, ,overdue
Lisbon. Brazils,BuenosAyres,C
and F. Islands
Lisbon, Vigo, and Oorto
JJaann..
_27,
5111 le:thhaammips..
loJvaenr.d2ule
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via
Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles lJan 26', E.
overdue
Mexico and Havana ;Jan. —, SI Noutliamp.
Newfoundland 'Jan. 28, El Liverpool..
United States and British N
America (by British packet)iJan. 29, El Liverpool.. Jan. 25
Ditto (by U. S. pact) 'Jan. —,E;Southanap.
West Coast of Africa, Ma-
dcira, and Tenerlife Jan. 23 E Liverpool.. Feb. 10
West India, California, Vene-
zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey-
town, New Granada, &c. ; Feb. 2, n'Southamp. Feb. 1

LORD GREAT CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, JAN. 20.
All Peeresses wishing to be present on the occasion of the
opening of Parliament, on Tuesday, the 24th January, will
have places reserved for them in the House of Lords, if the
announcement be made at the Lord Great Chamberlain's-
office, before 3 o'clock on Monday, the 23d instant, and
tickets, not transferable, for the Peeresses' bench will be
forwarded to them.

Committee
ctoipeduties
ouf
WHITEHALL, JAN. 20..
Brinewood Potts to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain,
of the Artillery Company of Loudon, vice Snell, promoted.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Peter
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant
Mathews, Gent., to be Assistant• Quartermaster of the
Artillery Company of London.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 20.
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
and whalebone :
ImperialSecretaryTh e
RDecree,go fh Right
t t nfor tfixingForeignhe Lordsasfoilfw tAffairs,hthe
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HEMP (STRIPPED) AND TOW. 041 lontfFGphr
French

Per 100
kilos.

In French vessels
In foreign do.

WHALEBONE.
Rough, produce of foreign lln French vessels ........ 5
fisherios
... 10
1 In French vessels.. .... ...
.. 10
Cut and prepared
.. fln foreign do.
........ 15
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Trade and Plantattons have received, through the Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Neapolitan
Royal Decree, establishing the following duties upon the
importation of raw silk into the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies :
Of the denomination below 20 deniers, 1 ducat 77 grani
per rotolo.
perOf the denomination of 20 deniers and upwards, 20 grani
rotolo.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a co
of a Portuguese Royal Order, permitting the importationpy of necessary articles of food into the Cape Verd Islands,
free of duty, until the month of October, 1860 :
CROWN-OFFICE, JAN. 20.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Lewes—John George Blencowe, of The
Hook, Chailey, in the county of Sussex, in the room of the
Right Hon. Henry Fitzßoy, deceased.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
County of Essex—To be Deputy Lieutenants —Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Edward Henry Moore Kelly; Wm. John
Hamilton, Esq. ; Francis George West, Esq.
Glarnorganshire Rifle Volunteers-10th Company—
Richard Bassett, Esq., to be Captain ; Frederick Ridge
Greenhill, Esq., to be Lieutenant ; Charles Henry Wil-
liams, Esq., to be Ensign.
Ist Lincolnshire Artillery Volunteers—Francis Thirkill
First
White, Esq., to be Captain ; Wm. Wilkinson, Gent., to be
Lieutenant; John Field Smyth, Gent., to be Second
Lieutenant.
Ist Subdivision of Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers—Geo.
Charles Uppleby, Esq., to bo Lieutenant; John Stephen-
son, Gent., to bo Ensign.
Norfolk Rifle Volunteers-sth Company—John Lowe,
Esq., M.D., F.R.S., to be Honorary Surgeon.
Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers-2d Company—John. Pleydoll Wilton, Gent., to bo Honorary Surgeon.
sth or Royal Elthorne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia—Ensign D'Oyley William Battloy to be
Lieutenant, vice Truman, resigned.
16th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—Charles Edward Mur-
ray, Esq., to be Captain; Robert Lawes, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant.
18th Madly= Rifts Volunteeri—Duncan

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Gent., to be Ensign; Edward Francis Elliott, Major re-
tired, to be Lieutenant.
21st Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—Nicholas Herbert Her'
rington, Esq., to be Captain; John Lowther Du Plat Tay-
lor, Esq., to be Captain.
6th Company of Cornwall Volunteer Rifles—Edward
Baring Gould, Esq., to be Captain ; William Day Hanson,
Esq., to be Lieutenant.
sth Company of Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles—William
Henry Cox, Esq., to be Captain; Alexander James Henley,
Gent., to be Lieutenant; Alexander Buchanan, Gent., to
be Ensign.
11th Company of Staffordshire Rifle Volunteers—Wm'
Barrows, the younger, Esq., to be Captain.
Bath or Ist Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps—Henry B.
Inman, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Airey, resigned.
Burnham or 4th Somerset Volunteer Rifle Corps—Beni.
Tuthill Allen, Esq., to be Captain; Joseph Allen, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; Charles James Brady Mais, Gent., to be
Ensign.
Bridgwater and Polden Hill or sth Somerset Volunt!er.
Rifle Corps—Gabriel Stone Poole, Esq., to be Captain,
Charles Robert Bate, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Wm, John
Ford, Gent., to be Ensign.
11th Aberdeenshire Rifle Volunteers—William Esplin•
Esq., to be Captain ; Irvine Kempt, Esq., to be Lieutenant;
James Haddon Bower, Esq., to be Ensign.
Edinburgh City Artillery Militia—Henry Rolland, Es4.o
a Lieutenant-Colonel of the Bombay Retired List, to be
Major Commandant, vice Lieut.-Col. Win. Geddes, C. B
resigned.

Ist Company of Kincardineshire Artillery Volunteers--
Alexander Innes, Esq., to be Captain Charles Gordon
Robertson, Esq., to be First Lieutenant; James Tina,
jux., Esq., to be Second Lieutenant.
Ist Company of Kincardineshire Rifle Volunteers
Thomas Fraser Duff to be Captain, Jas. Black to be Lieu-
tenant, and John Milne to be Ensign.
Ayrshire Rifle Volunteers-Ist Company—Jas. Unlit°
Picken, Gent., to be Captain • Robert Railton, Gent., to be
Lieutenant; James Bishop Andrews, Gent., to be Ensign.
Light Infantry Battalion of the Royal Sussex Militia--
Ensign Joseph Bonham Clay to be Lieutenant, vice Arthurßurton, resigned; Augustus Goring Bridger, Gent., to L
Ensign, vice Clay, promoted.
4th Division of Lancashire Artillery Volunteers—rte'
deric Lawrence Boteler, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant;
Charles Birch Bean, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant.
sth Company of Lancashire Rifle Volunteers—Captew
Adam Steuart Gladstone to be Captain Commandant;
sign Charles Edward Crosbie to be Lieutenant, vice Robot'
John Tinley, promoted.
2d Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Mflitia--•
Charles Blundell, Esq., to be Captain, vice Edward Moli"
neux Seel, resigned.
7th Company of Surrey Rifle Volunteers—William Rea.
Brander, Gent., to be Lieutenant.

Dated Jan. 19,1860.