The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-20 00:00:00

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

The supplies of meat here to-day are seasonably exten-
sive. Generally speaking the demand is inactive, yet very
little change has taken place in the quotations.

Per Blbs. by tho Carcass.
s. d. a. d.
Inferior Beef 2 Bto 2 10
Mid. d 0..... 3 oto 3 4
Pra.largedo. 3 6to 4 0
Do. small do. 4 2to 4 4
Large pork.. 3 Bto 4 2

s. d. s. d
Infr. Mutton. 3 2to 3 6
Mid. do .... 3 Bto 4 2
Prime do. .. 4 4to 4 6
Veal
Small pork

BOROUGH HOP.

The amount of business doing in all new hops—the show
of which is very moderate—is less extensive ; neverthe-
less, prices are supported. In yearlings and old hops the
transactions are somewhat limited.

Mid and East Kent B6s to 150 s per owt.
Weald of Kent .66s to 90s „
Sussex.... 68s to 82s „

COLONIAL.
TEA.—A rather active business has been transacted, and
prices have shown an upward tendency.
SUGAR.—The demand for home consumption has been
less active, and only a limited business has been done at
barely previous rates.
COEFEE.—Plantation Ceylon has been in fair request,
the finer descriptions realising late quotations; but inferior
qualities have declined about is per cwt.
RICE,—The market is dull, and the few parcels disposed
of realised former quotations.
HIDES.—A considerable amount of business has been
transacted, and prices have been fairly maintained.
SALTPETRE.—There has not been much business trans-
acted, and prices are unaltered.
TALLOW.—The market is steady, and a moderate busi-
ness has been done for consumption. P.Y.C. on the spot
is quoted 58s 6d, and April to June delivery 56s per cwt.

His Excellency the Ambassador of Francs and
the Countess de Persigny arrived at Albert Gate House
yesterday, from Windsor Castle.

The Marquis of Exeter and Lady Mary Cecil
arrived in Grosvenor -square yesterday, from Windsor
Castle, and have size° left for Burghley Ilan, near Stain•
ford,

Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co
Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmett, Pomfret, & Ce. 1,1)93
Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Cobb and Co 22,050
Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank,
Biggleswade-Wells, Hogge, and Co.
Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and C 0... 6,540
Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke-
Svnaour, Lamb, and Co.
13;f.dford Bank, Bedford-Barnard and Co .. 29,861
Bewdle) Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Co. 10,721
Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank,
Bicester-Tubb and Co.
Binning !lam Bank, Birmingham- Attwoods,
Spoonci, and Co.
Boston Bank, Boston-Claypons and Co .. 62,064
Boston Bauk, Boston-Gee and Co.
Bridgwatel• Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. L. Sealey 8,293
Broseley and Bridgnorth and Brid,,north and
Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boycott,
and Co.
Buckingham. Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par-
rott, and Co
Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stow-
market Bank, Bury St. Edmunds--Oakes, Bevan,
and Co.
Banbury Bank, Banbury-J. C. and A. Gilbert
Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 24,220
Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton
Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co.
Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Lloyds and Co 29,101
Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-Harris
and Co.
10,606
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 63,200
Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West,
and Co.
20,876
Burlington and Dxiffield Bank, Burlington-Herd-
ing, Smith, and Co
Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-
Worlledge and Co. . 3,051
Camigidge Bank, Cambridge-Mertlock and Co. 16,103
Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cambridge
-Messrs. Fosters 39,684
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co 30,176
Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthon-David Morris and
Sons
Chertssy Bank, Chertsey-La Cord and 50n.... 2,340
Colchester Bank, Colchester-Ronal, Green, & Co. 14,447
Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex
Bank, and Hadleizh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-
Mills, Bawtree, and Co.
Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co .. 4639/
Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Woodcock 5,393
City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co.
Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbeck, and Co 68,323
Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Monmouth
Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and
Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chopstow-
Bromage, Snead, and Co. 7,816
Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans and Co.
Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel smith and Co
Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak
Bank, Derby-Crompton Newton, and Co. 26,351
Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and
Co.
Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham and Co 10,446
Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster-
Cooke and Co. 16,089
Darlington Bank, Deerham Bank, and Stockton-on-
Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse and Co 51,922
Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Co 1,231
Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dor-
chester--R. and H. Williams
East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster,
and Co.
Nast Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co-. 47,739
Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank, Chelms-
ford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 3966
Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 29,516
Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Farring•
don-Barnes, Medley, and Co 6,261
Farnham Bank, Farnham-John and Jas. Knight 9,206
Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 5,112
Ghodalming Bank, Godalming--Mellermh and Keen 4,759
Guildford Ba'ik, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon 12,630
grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 26,621
Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford-Mat-
thews and Co 14,040
Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull-
Smith, Brothers, and Co
Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting-
don-Veasey and Co.
Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. 6,441
Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin-Sharples
and Co.
Hereford, Ross, and Arehenffeld Bank, and Ross
and Archenfield Bank, Ross-Morgan and Co 16,696
Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. 18,241
Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Sutiblk, Had-
leigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and
Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich-Alexanders & Co 58,442
Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Randall, Mercer, and
Co.

Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-Davies -
and Co.
Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank,
Knaresborough-Harrison and Co
Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, &Co 41,006
Longton Seaffordshire Bank, Longton-C. Harvey
and Son
Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co 64,045
Leeds Union Bank, Leeds--W. Williams, Brown;
and Co.
Leicester Bank, Leicester-T. and T. T. Pages 30,669
Lewis Old Bank, Lewis-Whitefeld and Co
Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison and Go
Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llandilo
Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and Co 24,388
Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middleton
and Cradock
Lymington Bank, Lymington-S. and G. F. St
Barbe . 8,771
Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn 'Aegis-
Gurneys and Co.
Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis-
Jarvis and Co 11,114
Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklahurst and •
Co.
Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and Co 3,961
Mos ionsthshire Bank, Dolgelly-Williams and Son 9,171
Miners' Bank, Truro-Willyams and Co
Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank,
Abergavenny-Bailey and Co.
Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon
Bank, Chepstwv Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and
Ross and llM•efordshire Bank, Monmouth-
Broniage, Snead, and Co.
Newark Bank, Newark-Godfrey and Riddell
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Sleaford-Handley, Peacock, and
Co.
Newbury Bank, Newbury-Bunny, Slocock, and Co. 16,811
Newmarket Bank, Newmarket-Eaton, Hammond,
and Co.
Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank,
Norwich-Hareevs and Hudsons 48,1141
Norwich and Norfolk and Fakenham Banks, Nor-
wich-Gurneys and Birkbecks 87,938
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Notting-
ham-Hart, Fellows, and Co.
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton-Craddock and Co. 1,1105
Naval Bank, Plymouth-Harris & Co
New Sarum Bank, Sarum-Everett and Co. 9,75/I
lsallingham Bank, Nottingham-Samuel Smitk
and Co
Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Oswestry
-Croxon and Co' 11,305
Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Parsons and Co - 12,69
Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge
Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge-
Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge--T. H.
and S. Beaching •
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney-J. W. Clinch
and Sons
10,301
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank as
Beverley Bank, Hull-Pease and Co
Penzance Bank, Penzance-Batten and Co.
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter •
borough-D. Yorke and Co.
Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest--J. and W
Walters
Reading Bank, Reading-Simonds and
Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens, Blandy, & Co. 19,690
Richmond Bank, Richmond-Roper and Co. 6,411
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale-Clement, Royds, & Co. 1,711
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Rochester-
Day and Nicholson
Royston Bank, Royston-Fordham and Sons
Rugby Bank, Rugby-A. Butlin and Son 1,70
Rye Bank, Rye-R. C. Pomfret and Co 10,481
Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Allaway and
MacDougal
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffros
Walden-Gibsons and Co SS 7111
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,
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, & C 0... 13600
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Wood:al
and Co. . 12,401
Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow
Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocko, Eyton, and C 0..... 40,837
Sittingbourne and Milton ank, Sittingbourne--•
Valiance
.. 13,710
Valiance and Co.
Southampton Town and County Bank, Southtunp-
ton—Maddison and Pearce . 10,112
Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde aii Co 0,47T
Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southampton
1511
—Atherley, Fall, and Co.
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co lOl4
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—R&Sonr 23.817
Cayley, and Co
Shrewsbury full Welsh Pool Bank, Shrewsbury—
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Beck, Downward, and Co ............ ._e.0.4.. ..
Taunton Bank, 1 aunton—H. and R. Bad •1 ks
Sons,
dalindd Co Ccn
91,14.
Tavistock Bank,
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kke•
Tavistock—Gill,TTihvoarnrtnbnuryanßdanDke:vo,nhsohirrnbeuyani
ford and Co. ............. .
Thrapston—York and Eland ........ 11,09
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Thrapston and Kettering Bank,.Northamptonsh4t,
To:dchpesotoelreoßladiikßank,
Poole
—G.
110:73;
Town and County of Poole Bank and Ringwood
c..h.e.5.h.....,t;ek..,
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Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian
nliatnhd,
&C0,e0.. 1144
Trainndg
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and Co. ...............
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Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fez, 2(463$
WellingtonG reavesßrothers,a
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C o and POntefraet
43,04
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chapman,
and Co.
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Winches-
ter—Bulpett and Co
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Wey ,
mouth—Elliot, Pearce, and Co.
Wirksworth and Ashbourno Derbyshire Bank—
Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbeelk—Gur
nays and Co 44,2/1
Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscomba—P. aid W ;- - .
Hancock 0,40
Wolverhampton rank,Wolverkampton—.4oodricke
and Holyoake
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Banks
Worcester—Berwiek, Leehmere, and Co 1164911
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R. isa
W. F. Fryer lO,Oll
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth sad
Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth— Gurneys, Eirkbss
and Co. ...... semeem• ..... •••,/elessises• i

INAUGURATION OF THE CLIVE

TA TUE.

SHREWSBURY, THURSDAY.

After the inauguration of the statue, a banquet
took place at the Lion Hotel, under the presidency
of the Mayor, Mr. W. Burr, supported by Earl
Stanhope, Earl Powis, Lord Hatherton, Viscount
Hill, Sir Charles Wood, Secretary for India, Major
Herbert Edwardes, the distinguished Indian hero,
and a large number of ladies and gentlemen con-
nected with the Clive family and with the county.
The banquet was of the most sumptuous descrip-
tion. During its progress, " the loving cop" was
passed round in accordance with ancient usEise—
an enormous silver tankard, presented by the Cor-
poration of Shrewsbury to the great Clive a hun-
dred years ago.
Mr. SLANEY, M.P., proposed the " Army and
Navy," which was responded to by Sir GEORGE
PoLLOolil for the first and Admiral GOWEN for the
latter service.
Colonel HERBERT EDWARDF.S proposed " The
Memory of Lord Clive." (Cheers.) In the course
of an -eloquent speech the gallant soldier said—
Some people deprecate such memorials as these and
call them hero-worship; in my judgment they are
wrong. The giver of empires is indeed God ; but
God works through human means, and when He
pleases to give empire to a people he gives them a
man like Clive, and in honouring the instrument
we do but honour the Providence that wields it.
(Cheers.) It is the true spirit of Christianity to
honour all men in their degree; and the age that
shall cease to do so—the age that shall look
unmoved on the bygone genius and greatness of
its country, is certain to be an effete and little
age—an age without power of its own, an age with-
out poetry or conception or enthusiasm, an age
without faith on earth or reverence in heaven. De-
fend England from a worn-out age like that. (Ap-
plause.) Others there are who say they are quite
willing to pay honour to a hero, provided that he
be perfect, and that Clive was a man of imperfec-
tions ; that they have read history, and know that
his errors were as glaring as his service were great.
They doubt if it be right to honour such a man.
These objections I respect, though I think them
hard and leaning not only towards uncharity but
ingratitude. Let us look back along the ranks of
our great.patriots; or the defenders of our country
by sea and land. I name no names, but ask you to
review them in your memories, and say to whom
should we have given the public monument and the
household niche, had we reserved our gratitude for
a man without a flaw ? (Cheers.) The best of them
could only have carved beneath his bust, " I was a
man !" If we, too, feel that we are men let us hon-
our what is good and great in our fellows, while we
sorrow for their faults, taking a lesson from the
gold-diggers, who never find the pure metal pure,
but much mixed with dross and dirt, and whose
labour it is to fling away the dross and make the
gold their own. Approaching the memory of Clive
in this spirit, we cannot but do it honour—great
and lasting honour—such as can only be expressed
in marble. If we look up to Clive, the boy on the
steeple of Market Drayton, or descend with him to
head his playmates in a skirmish with the towns-
men ; if we sail with Clive the youth to India, and
listen while he weeps over the home and country
he has left ; if we watch Clive, the man stooping
wearily over the desk in peace and leaping up at the
sound of war, flinging away the pen, shouldering the
musket, serving as a volunteer, winning a commis-
sion, daring to devise the capture of Arcot, daring
to take it with 500 men, and daring to hold
it against 10,000 for fifty days, with a starving
but devoted garrison, rejecting with scorn the
bribes of his besiegers, and victoriously repulsing
them in three desperate assaults; if we behold him
in the first pride of military success submit conten-
tedly to servo under his old commander Lawrence,
and refusing to accept a sword from the Court of
Directors unless Lawrence got one too, if we' see
him chosen at Madras to revenge the murder of
123 Englishmen in the black-hole at Calcutta, if we
are compelled to stand by and see Clive, the Orien-
tal intriguer, stooping to win a victory over false-
hood from the traitor Omichund, if we escape with
him into the open air and tented field, and forget
what we have witnessed in the Cabinet, as Clive
the soldier once more grasps his sword, and leads
3,000 men across the Ganges to contend with 60,000
for the empire of Hindostan, calmly laying down
to sleep in the grove of Plassy while the battle
languished, and rising refreshed to turn the tide of
Imperial victory ; it we walk with Olive the con-
queror through the golden vaults of his allies, and
see the giver of a kingdom, and the founder of an
empire, believing himself moderate as he accepts
the fortune only of a noble ; if we return with him
to England, and see him rejoicing to enrich his
friends and relatives, and pensioninc, Ms old com-
mander ; and when the affairs of Bengal fell into
disorder, once more, at the call of masters who had
ill-used him, leaving his country and his wealth to
sail again for India ; if at this crowning period of
his life we look on with unmixed pride and see first

how Clive the civil reformer cleansed the corrupt
administration of the State, and next how Clive
the military reformer grappled with a demoralised
army and put down mutiny as none have done it
since—if at this noble period of his career we learn
that while retrenching others he impoverished him-
self, and conferred upon the army he had re-
buked the noble charity of £60,000; if,
lastly, we re-land upon the shores of Eng-
land and behold with shame and sorrow our
ignorant country permitting a faction, smarting
under Olive's retrenchments and reforms, to im-
peach Olive's Indian Administration, adding " the
pangs of wounded honour" to the agonies of disease,
anti breaking the balance of a noble mind—surely
in this history, if we find much to extenuate, much
to. censure, and much to deplore, we find much to
admire, much to honour, much for which English-
men must feel proud and thankful. (Great ap-
plause.) It was he, indeed, under Providence, who
laid the foundation of our Indian empire—an em-
pire which in extent is now 14 times greater than
the British Isles; nearly 2,000 miles from north to
south, and 1,500 from east to west ; with a popula-
tion of nearly 200,000,000. That empire is not
without its cares and pains—chiefly, I believe, be-
cause we have shrunk from doing our Christian
duty ; but if, on the whole, it be a glory to our
country, and the ceaseless marvel and envy of
foreign nations ; if it develops the resources of two
hemispheres, and confers blessings on mankind ; we
owe it all to the genius and the greatness of Olive,
and it is fit that Englishmen should do honour to
his memory. (The gallant Colonel concluded amid
loud and long sustained applause.)
Earl STANHOPE said, I have been requested to
propose the next toast—" The Government of India,
at home and abroad," and I am sure we feel it on
this occasion a great privilege to have among us
the Secretary of State for India. (Cheers.) Con-
sidering the many calls upon his time, and the
many duties that devolve upon him, more espe-
cially as the opening of Parliament is now close
at hand, I think he has paid no common tribute of
respect to the memory of Lord Clive, and no com-
mon compliment to the town of Shrewsbury, in de-
voting the few hours of leisure at his command
to coming here. (Cheers.) I may venture to-say
that I have known Sir Charles Wood ever since I
entered public life, now, I am sorry to say, 30
years ago. And though we have often happened
to differ on public questions of great moment,
that has never on any occasion prevented me from
feeling towards him sentiments of cordial personal
regard, nor from acknowledging the ability which
he brings to bear on public affairs. and the upright
spirit with which he has dealt with all questions in
which he has been concerned. I may add that al-
though he is the chief of the civil service of India,
in which capacity he will, no doubt, presently ad-
dress you, he is not the only member of that service
present, for we have also present a gentleman who
has been conspicuous for his exertions on the Clive
committee, and who in his general character is not
only a faithful and intelligent servant of the public,
but has distinguished himself as the able historian
of several public transactions. I rejoice that the
Indian civil service should be represented here, not
only by its official head, but by one of its most
gifted and meritorious servants. It once fell to my
!!)-to be, not in the office now held by Sir Charles
Wood, but to be secretary under the Administration
of *ir Robert Peel to that office which in those days
was called in the IV est of London the Board of Con-
trol,i but which in the eastern part of London was
as t
better known he Indian Board. In that capacity
I had frequent opportunities of observing the great
ability which civil of India brought to
bear on the discharge their duties both in India
and at home, and lah to have this public op-
pQrtunity of bearing this ample testimony to those
sez Thcre is only
droll-lark suggested
to me by the proceedings of this
Lord Olive that in his youthful daya3s.'h?cwltNares
bsypiani
N„. by great
rdeiasatinof-
Auished by an active and daring
taraitude
courage and readiness, but not
for study. Colonel Ed .vardes has «ell
s
up the l';t'°t:su
bow. fir-as noted for climbing
steeple of Market Dfayton, and how he led the
skirmishers against the townsmen. Now when
we find him distinguished by an active and daring
spirit of fearless courage, and by no aptitude for
study, and that in India he was distin-
guished in evvy way, not only as a warrior, but
as the founder of a system of civil government, I
confeSs I. am inclined in some degree to doubt
whether the undeviating standard of proficiency in
books now regitt'red for the civil service in India
map be really ori. All occasions the best adapted for
the future welfar,, of the empire. (Cheers.) I am

nooftasaidl
at to
aware,artake
,abrkecathuaset,caasnfbare as
all parties have concurred in making the change
makingparty chaanryacrteemr
that has taken place. The present system is not to
be ascribed to any one party of the State ; but when
we look back and see how many men of great dis-
tinction and eminent public services in India have
attained their distinction, not by proficiency in
books, but by an active and daring and fearless
spirit, sometimes in spite of inaptitude for scholastic
study, I doubt whether we do not shut out what
past experience has shown to be not the sole qualfi-
cation, but, combined with others, an efficient in-
strument of service. I hope you will forgive me
for making these remarks, and I will not further
detain you beyond inviting you to drink, with all
cordiality, the health of our distinguished guest,
and in expressing a hope that the administration of
India may derive fresh vigour and efficiency, ad-
,:ninistered as it is by Lord Canning in India, and
so many servants of the Crown in this country.
(App,lause.)
Sir CIARLES WOOD, who on rising was much
applauded, hope I may be permitted, before
replying to the toast proposed by my noble friend
on my left, to express very shortly my gratitude to
you, Mr. Mayor, and to those gentlemen to whose
kindness I am indebted for the honour and privilege
of being here to-day. I should have held it unbe-
coming if the Minister for India had not taken part
in these proceedings, and had not given his share
of the tribute due from all Englishmen and more
especially those who are intereste i
d n India
to the memory of that great man who has
truly been described as the founder of our
Indian Empire. I esteem it a piece of great
good fortune to myself that I happen at this moment
to hold that position which gave me some claim to
your invitation, and I have had the greatest grati-
fication in taking part in the ceremony, and joining
in that tribute which has been perhaps delayed too
long, but which has been at last paid in tie most
appropriate manner and on the most appropriate
site. (Cheers.) I am now for the seventh time
connected with the Government of India, and the
more I see and the more I learn of that empire the
greater marvel I consider it to be in the history of
the world. Yet it is hardly more extraordinary
than the career of that great man who founded it.
When we look back to his history, and consider
what our Indian Empire is; when we carry back
our recollections to his early career, when he was a
humble and dispirited clerk in a mercantile house,
when the chiefs of the principal factions of India
were captives at Pondicherry, how little could we
have expected that our empire would expand to
such gigantic dimensions. It was his energy, gal-
lantry, and glory which in a few months struck a
fatal blow to the power of our enemies. Again, his
second visit saw him the victor of Plassy, by which
one of the richest provinces of India was subjected
to the rule of this country. But Colonel Edwardes
has, among other things, truly told us that on the
occasion of his last visit to India, Lord Clive ac-
hieved a triumph, not so brilliant perhaps as those
he had achieved before, but which redounds still
more to his credit, when he put an end to unparal-
leled evils and established our constitutional admi-
nistration upon a sound and proper footing, which
has, upon the whole, lasted to this day, and pro-
duced men of the first eminence. He quelled a
mutiny, not such as we have more recently witnessed,
but one much more difficult to deal with—a mutiny
among Indian officers. But how little could Lord
Clive, even in the brighest moments of :his ambition,
antieipato the dimensions to which our Indian em-
pire has since extended ; how little could he, who so
strongly depended upon the devoted attachment of
the Sepoy, suppose that that mighty empire could
be endangered by the mutiny of those very troops !
I:am glad to see that the recent accounts we have re-
ceived show that the last embers of that fearful
mutiny, in the shape even of predatory bands, have
been trodden out. (Applause.) lluch we have to
sorrow for in the events of the last three or four
years, but we have at least the pride—a melancholy
one though it be—of knowing that the inhabitants
of India, both soldiers and civilians, old and young,
the tenderest woman as the strongest soldier, have
shown energy, devotion, and resolution worthy of
this country, and worthy of those who founded our
power in that distant land. (Applause.) I am
glad to see that the Governor-General of India,
whoby his firmness and energy contributed so much
to put an end to that dreadful state of affairs, is
now making a peaceful progress through the north-
ern provinces of the country, lately the scene of
mutiny and rebellion, confirming the loyalty of the
inhahitants, rewarding all those who faithfully
stood by us in the hour of need, and showing the
British character, as supposed to be depicted in the
far-famed banner of the Knights Templars' " Ter-
rible to foes, faithful to friends." I trust now for
a continuance of that peace so necessary for the de-
velopment of the prosperity and resources of that
great country. As you all know, a change has re-
cently been made in the government of India,
which was inaugurated under the auspices of a
noble lord, whose personal acquaintance with
India, added to his character for zeal and ability,
render him the fittest person to be placed at the
head of the Indian administration. I know of little
difference between his opinion and mine upon Indian
matters. (Cheers.) I am glad, therefore, to think that
in the course of the administrations which he has to
pursue under two different Governments, little or
no change is likely to occur, and that in adminis-
tering the affairs of that great empire we shall be
utterly and entirely free from those party differences
which, wholesome and inevitable as they may be in
domestic affairs, ought to be eliminated from a sub-
ject of such vast and Imperial importance as the ad-
ministration of the Queen's Indian dominions.
It will be our duty, the duty of those who are my
coadjutors in the administration of India—the
council and the other civil servants, one of whom I
am glad to see present—to recur to that policy—
which was only interrupted for a time—best calcu-
lated to promote the development of the internal
resources and the lasting benefit of that country. I
believe that by so doing we shall make India the
source of wealth, not only to her own sons, but to
this country also. I hope we may thus bind that
empire to us, not with the iron chain of the sword
or the bayonet, but by mutual interests and bene-
fits received and conferred. (Cheers.) On behalf,
sir, of my coadjutors and myself, I beg to return
you and the good company I am addressing our
warmest thanks for the manner in which the last
toast was proposed and received. (Applause.)
Sir C. WOOD again rose and said—Stranger as I
am to your county, perhaps I ought not to be called
upon again to address this assemblage, but a duty
has been imposed on me from which I cannot
shrink, since it is most grateful to me to have to
propose the health of a nobleman who is one of the
oldest friends I have, "The Lord-Lieutenant of the
County." (Cheers.) When we have been doing,
honour to one native of this county who in a dis-
tant land and at a distant time achieved for him-
self imperishable fame, it is not unfitting to refer
to the memory of one who, nearer home, on the
fields of the Peninsula, acquired honours for him-
self which have worthily descended to his suc-
cessor. You know him so much better than I do
that it would be unseemly in me to dilate, espe-
cially in his presence, on those good qualities
which I believe he possesses ; for I cannot per-
suade myself but that he is a good landlord, a
good neighbour, and, in every sense of the word,
what I hold to be one of the noblest characters
—a good English country gentleman. (Applause.)
In that capacity, in which I propose his health
as your Lord-Lieutenant, I cannot but believe
that the military qualities of the family of Hill,
tested in so many fields, in so many instances, will
enable him faithfully and truly to discharge the
duties of his situation ; and that under his care
your militia, your yeomanry, your rile corps will
form a distinguished portion of that domestic force
without which no country can safely exist. (Cheers.)
I trust that by the manner in which you will re-
spond to the toast you will show that I, a stranger,
have not inadequately appreciated the sense you
entertain of his merits. (Applause.)
-Viscount Mu., in responding, said,—l scarcely
kn3Wr how to reply to the toast so kindly named to
you by one of my oldest associates, and one with
whom I spent the greatest part of my time during
my stay at the university ; and although we have
looked at one another for some years from opposite
sides of the House of Commons, I maintain the
same opinion of him as I held at Oxford, and be-
lieve him to be one of those who most conscienti-
ously does his duty in any situation in which he
may be placed. (Cheers.) I shall not trouble you
with any remarks upon the subject of the day,
which has already been treated by many eminent
men ; nor shall I trespass on your time, except to
say that, connected as I am with this county, and
knowing the feelings which emanate from it, I may
congratulate myself and all around me upon our
having at last done what was needful in comme-
morating the genius of Lord Clive. Many plans of
this description are pursued upon the impulse of the '
moment, just when great or daring acts have been
performed ; but this has been carried out by those
who, after the lapse or many years, prove how much
the country is indebted to the man whom we delight
to honour. I will also congratulate those who are
connected with the name of Clive, as well as our
county, that the monument by an eminent artist
this day erected will be a lasting' and fitting orna-
ment to our county town. (Applause.)
Mr. BERIArt BOTFIELD, M.P.—I thank you for
the courtesy which has afforded me this oppor-
tunity of addressing you and proposing the health
of Lord Stanhope,
os as
labours member of that committee
the result of whose
nessed. When we look ours
you have this day
howwit-
rich English history
is in its materials, and
how vast the fund which he
bas contributed to it, We must acknowledge that

the field is wide enough for every labourer, and that
the harvest will justify and repay the severest toil.
Lord Stanhope has shrunk from no labour, and the
great character of his writings is the painstaking
and perfect accuracy which is impressed upon them.
And I cannot pay this compliment to the greatest
of living historians without recalling to mind him
whom we have lost—the legislator, the brilliant
essayist, the Parliamentary orator, the late Lord
Macaulay, who received that title, the highest
honour a grateful country could bestow, for his
literary ability. It is, perhaps, a singular instance
of a man who by his pen has won nobility ; and
while we justly lament his loss, let us equally
honour the man who happily is still among us, who
by his pen has added fresh distinction to a family
already illustrious. (Cheers.) We have to thank
all the members of the committee for erecting a
memorial to the great conqueror of India, and for
setting before us a bright example of that singular
union of indomitable courage and intuitive sagacity
which we possess in the rare instances of Clive and
Wellington, and enabling us to celebrate that re-
markable example of successful audacity of which
the victor of Plassy affords the most extraordinary,
instance recorded in modern history. I beg to pro-
pose that you drink the health of Lord Stanhope
and the members of the London committee, as well
as those in Shrewsbury, who have equally contri.
buted to this most successful monument.
(Applause.)
Earl STANHOPE replied,—ln the name of the
committee whom I have the honour to represent, I
beg to return thanks, and to thank also my hon.
friend who proposed the toast,for the very kind man-
ner in which he was pleased to speak of me. I can
assure you that in coming down to the interesting
ceremony of this day I undertook a task which has
been most agreeable to me, and which will never
cease to be remembered by me with feelings
of cordial satisfaction. (Cheers.) It is not often that
the great distinction acquired by the founder of a
family is so worthily supported and maintained by
the private virtues of his descendants, and the
general respect in which they are held. (Applause.)
For myself, in bidding you farewell on this occasion
—since the railway train will not stay, even for
such agreeable moments as these—l hope I may be
allowed respectfully to thank you for the kindness
with which I have been received, and to express a
hope that several acquaintances which I have had
the privilege of making this day may not cease with
the occasion, but that I may continue to retain
them, as well as some place in the good opinion of
those whom I now address. Once morel thank you
in the name of the committee and my own, and I
now very respectfully, and with every feeling of
gratitude, bid you farewell. (Applause.)
Sir B. LEIGHTON, M.P., who was veryindistinctly
heard, was understood to speak to the following ef-
fect :—lt is but seldom that we have an opportunity
of distinguishing ourselves upon the battlefield, as
did Clive and Wellington and Hill, but a great dis-
tinguishing mark between our own and foreign
countries is, that noblemen and men of fortune par-
take actively in the conduct of the business of the
country, and even if they do not serve the nation in
a political capacity, there are other opportunities
by embracing which they may yet be useful mem-
bers of society. Any one who knows the present
noble head of the house of Clive is aware that he
still gives his services to his country, though not on
the field of battle. In his native county he gives
his time and talents, and most liberally of his for-
tune, to every charity and object worthy of support.
It is a thing most worthy of remark that in England
we find many of our nobility and country squires,
not acting as foreigners do, spending their time in
foolish amusements, but working in various ways
for the benefit of others. But another member of
that noble house has served his country and at-
tained high rank at a young age; and in future years,
should his services be required, I do not doubt that
we may have him as a talented young general, full
of vigour of body and mind. Let us now pass to one
of the former members for South Shropshire, re-
markable for his courtesy and urbanity of manner.
He has passed from us, leaving a son to succeed him,
who had before him as happy a future as could fall
' to the lot of any:man. The inscrutable ways of Pro-
vidence have taken him away, but let us hope that
there is a younger scion of that house following in
his steps, who signalised himself in the perils of
India, and who is now among us. I beg to give you
the Health of the Earl Powis." (Cheers.)
Earl Powis then rose and said,—l thank you, on
the part of the members of the Clive family, for the
cordial reception with which you have honoured
them this day, upon the occasicn when we are met
to commemorate the name of their ancestor. I also
thank the Mayor for the munificent hospitality with
which he has received and entertained the assem-
bled company, and for the hearty zeal with which
he has done everything in his power to add to the
brilliancy Pnd importance of this occasion. (Cheers.)
The members of Lord Clive's family must feel highly
gratified at the memorial which has been erected a
century after the great battle which commenced his
career in India. Many events are greeted with mo-
mentary applause, but after the lapse of a century
deeds and lives are judged by their results and may
be said to have passed into the scene of history ;
and in this instance there could be no more fit ex-
ponent of the occasion and of the work which has
been completed to-day than the noble and accom-
plished historian who has shown so much zeal and
had so much trouble at the head of the committee.
We are also very sensible of the tribute that has
been paid to the memory and actions of Lord Clive
by the right hon. gentleman who presides over the
Government of India at home, and others among
us, and at seeing the army and service of India re-
presented by a gallant general who stands foremost
in reputation among the living officers of the In-
dian army, and the gallant officer who is himself a
native of this county, and who is now enjoying a
short respite from the labours and anxieties of the
last two eventful years, and whose former return
was greeted with well-merited honour. (Cheers.)
I will not attempt to go through the history of
India from the days of Plassy, or the various
phases through which that great empire passed
under the control of that great company, the great-
est private association that ever exited in the
world, presided over by such men as the Marquis
Wellesley, Warren Hastings, and Lord Cornwallis,
who, by their actions and the prosperity which
their Government produced, justified the esteem of
the Sovereigns who committed to them its manage-
ment and control. I will only express a hope that
under the new Government to which Sir Charles
Wood has adverted, under the great constitutional
change which daring the last few years has taken
place in the Indian Government, when another
century shall have elapsed, and the battle of Plassy
shall be commemorated as having occurred 200
years before, the countless millions, the varied
races, the numberless creeds of which the population
of India is composed, may be found to be enjoying
peace, prosperity, happiness, and contentment, aus-
picio regis et senatus Angliee. (Applause.)
Viscount HILL—We have been so well enter-
tained at this sumptuous banquet that I am quite
sure we shall all unite in returning our most cor-
dial thanks to the mayor, who has not enly liberally
provided for our physical wants, but has given us
the opportunity of hearing the history of one of
whom his country is justly proud. I give you
" The health of the Right Worshipful the Mayor."
(Great cheering.)
The MAYOR suitably responded.
Sir W. YARDLEY said—The assembly has already
expressed its warm appreciation of the exertions of
the committee appointed to bring to an issue the
erection of a noble memorial to Lord Clive, which
you have inaugurated to-day; and I am sure you
will all agree that in no respect has that committee
exhibited greater discrimination and liberality than
in their selection of an artist. The position of Baron
Marochetti is as cosmopolitan as his reputation—
Italian by extraction, French by birth English by
adoption, and each of these countries is illustrated by
works of his creative genius. He has erected a fine
statue at Turin, a colossal statue of Wellington at
Glasgow, a noble statue of Richard of the Lion Heart
in the city of Westminister, and now he has added
a no less noble statue of the no less lion-hearted
Robert Lord Clive at Shrewsbury. (Cheers.) No
artist possesses more strikingly the creative genius
of imparting the real expression of character to his
works. A just and eloquent tribute has already
been paid to him by the noble lord who did the
corporation of this town the honour of presenting
the statue to them, and therefore but little remains
for me to say. But I trust I shall not be considered
to be encroaching upon that wholesome rule which
excludes politics and party sentiments from happy
meetings like this when I express my hope and be-
lief that Baron Marochetti, whose health I propose,
may be called upon to illustrate by his genius a
glorious era in the history of his own country—
Italy, when it shall be a nation united, free, and
happy. (Applause.)
Sir C. R. BouGirrox having in a witty and
graceful manner proposed the health of " the Ladies,"
for whom the lion. It. C. HILL, M P., appropriately
responded, the brilliant assemblage broke up with
the interchange of mutual felicitations upon the
successful issue of the in. eresting demonstration.

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