The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-23 00:00:00

Mang.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAID
COMPANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
of this COMPANY will he held at the Waterloo-bridge
Station, London, on THURSDAY, the 9th day of February
next, at One o'Clock precisely, when the Directors will sub-
mit a Report on the affairs of the Company, a Dividend will
be declared, and the general business of the Company trans-
acted.

And Notice is Hereby further Given, That at this Meeting
there will be an Election of Two Directors, when the Hon,
R. 11. Dutton, M.l'., and Mr. Sergeant Gaselee, who retire by
rotation at this time, will offer themselves for re-election ;
and George Best, Esq ,of Easibury, near Guildford Alex-
ander Hoyes, Esq., of Bitterne-grove, Southampton ; Wynd-
ham S. Portal, Esq., of Malstranger, Basingstoke; William
Ephraim Snow, Esq., of Tredegar-square, Middlesex ; and
William Vansittart, Esq., M.P., of Dover-street, Piccadilly—
have also given notice to become candidates for election.

The Boas of the Company for the Transfer of Stock and
Shares will be Closed from Thursday, the 26th January, till
Thursday, the oth day of February, 1860, both days inclusive.
By order, L. CROMBIE, Secretary.
Waterloo-bridge Station, London, Jan, 20, 1860.

BURROWS AND CO., Wholesale Wine Mer-
chants, LIVERPOOL.
S tere
(Mee 54, Duke-street.
The Proprietors beg most respectfully to call the attention
of the trade, noblemen, clergy, .tc., and the public in general,
to their extensive stock of Choice Wines, of rare vintages.
BURROWS and Co. are not disposed to comment upon the
purity of their wines, which is daily most laudably acknow-
ledged by the public and eminent medical men of all coun-
tries, as the increasing Patronage of the highest families ill
the land is a sufficient guarantee.
They beg to call particular attention to their pure Tonic
Wines, as being so valuable to Invalids and persons of weak
stomachs.
A sample case, containing three full-sized wine bottles,
will be forwarded to any address on receipt of P. 0.0. for 6s.
6d., or a dozen for 245.
It is a well-known fact that impure and adulterated wines,
are the greatest foes to health, producing acidity in the
stomach, and debilitating the d gestive organs, while pure
wines will accelerate the digestive powers, invigorating,
strengthening, and bracing the nervous system.
Their Tonic Wine is admitted to be most essential to in-
valids, both old and young, and should never be absent from
the homes of the weak and sickly. Its properties are duly
acknowledged and appreciated by the leading men of the
faculty, both at home and abroad.
To preveit imposition each bottle is sealed with the name
of the firm.
All orders to be made payable to HENRY BURROWS.

THE HON. W. F. CAMPBELL,
AND BIS CONSTITURYTB.

On Saturday evenini, the Hon. W. F. Campbell,
M.P. for Harwich, met his constituents At the Cups
Hotel. Mr. L. Richmond, one of the borough
magistrates, presided.
The Hon. W. F. CAMPBELL addressed the meeting
at some length, referring to the necessity which at
the time existed for the motion he made in August
last on the affairs of Portugal; and in continuing
his observations he said it would not be propert at
such a moment to confront them without towching
briefly on those questions of organic change which
it was thought would occupy the attention of the
Legislature in the coming session ; and, looking to
the apathy which now existed upon that point, he
would only trouble them with the general opinion
he had formed as to the line they ought to follow
as a nation. He said so with the greater confi-
dence, because in his important speech at Rochdale
in the beginning of the autumn that distinguished
man, Mr. Cobden, anticipated nearly all ho had to
say upon the topic. In the speech of that gentle-
man to which he (Mr. Campbell) alluded, Mr. Cob-
den lent his great authority to the position that
the best mode of dealing with the Reform Act of
1832, if they were to deal with it, was to renounce
all large and ambitious schemes, and to touch, one
by one, separately, the different portions of that
system which required connection and improve-
ment. (Hear, hear.) Experience was ready to
convince them that as regarded the amending of
the Reform Act of 1832, all attempts at a large
and final legislation had met as yet with failure
and disaster. In 1848 the late Mr. O'Connor in-

trodu•ed a scheme of large and comprehensive legis-
lation ; but it met with no support from any order
of society. In 1849, 1850, and 1851 Mr. Hume at-
tempted a scheme not very far dissimilar; but it
met with no response, except aversion in the House
of Commons and indifference from the people. Lord
John Russell in 1852 introduced a large and com-
prehensive scheme, but in 10 days it overthrew his
Government. In 1854 the Earl of Aberdeen, blind
to all those lessons, tried a large and comprehensive
scheme, but it met a similar repulse, although not
at once. In 1859—and they saw he had brought
them down to times at once recent and familiar—

the Earl of Derby, blind to those impressive
antecedents, introduced a large and comprehen-
sive scheme, which overthrew his Government
amid the loudest marks of public reprobation.
(Cheers.) The truth vas— a truth by which he
little doubted Mr. Cobden was greatly influenced in
the opinion he promulgated—that what they termed
large and comprehensive schemes were never likely
to be carried. There were various irnpediments'of
a nature to arrest their progress, some of which he
would touch upon. In the first place, a largo and
comprehensive scheme of organic change was sup-
posed to involve dissolution. It was an admitted
fact in all political society that when a dissolution
was impending the power of the House of Com-
mons as a deliberative body was suspended and its
functions gone by reason of the excitement of can-
vassing and election. What, however, could be
more irrational than to take away the power of the
House of Commons as a deliberative body, and to
suspend its functions as a Senate, at the very time
when they requeste d it to decide upon a question
which must involve the preservation of the empire ?
It was not, therefore, unnatural that Parliament,
reduced to that dilemma, should discountenance a
measure which, in point of fact, it had not the
power or the opportunity to weigh. It had been
found since the epoch of 1832 that a large and com-
prehensive measure of reform had never been
adopted. View the converse. What was the only
change even yet engrafted upon the system of 1832 ?
It was the act for the extension of the Irish fran-
chise, proposed in 1850 by itself, involving no party
change, debated without faction, and carried in the
session through both Houses of Parliament. (Hear.)
Why was it so carried ? Because the Opposition
well knew that, even if that bill was thrown out,
the Government would not have been forced to
resign ; but when it was understood among all
parties that the fall of Government would ensue
from the rejection of a measure, naturally all the
art; all the ingenuity, and all the power of the
Opposition were strained to ascortaii its faults and
exaggerate their consequences. Thus, therefore,
they would see that experience pointed out that by
the mode of action recommended by Mr. Cobden
success might be obtained, and that by the mode
of action he discountenanced only failure could be
courted. If, however, he wanted a brief and con-
clusive argument to prove that the statesmen of
the moinelts mu: k as he esteemed them, were not
qualified to deal with the Reform Act of 1832
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final measure, he should point
only to this circumstance, that they were all op-
posed perhaps genuine convictions, to
the ballot. (Hear, hear.) A large and final mea-
sure of reform in which the ballot was denied would
place a large body of electors who desired that
sound measure of amelioration in a far worse posi-
tion than they were in at present—(cheers)—be-
cause the very gist and essence of a large and com-
prehensive legislation was to dispose of those topics,
to put an end to those debates, and create a period
of silence and tranquillity, during which neither
the question of the ballot, nor any other question
of organic change, would be reopened ; and he could
not help thinking that the electors of this king-
dom, if they really did desire that protection of
which they had heard so much, were bound to
point out briefly and respectfully to the statesmen
who conduct affairs that one of two things they
would have—either a large and final measure which
comprehended the ballot, or an admission that the
bill which was promulgated was not to be regarded
as a settlement upon which they meant afterwards
and almost immediately to improve. (Cheers.) But
while he had stated to them, having thought much
and long upon this question, that he concurred with
Mr. Cobden in the view that gentleman recom-
mended, he (Mr. Campbell) must guard himself
against being thought, because in favour of occa-
sional reform, as opposed to comprehensive legisla-
tion,opinion of the people might desire. ( •
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here let him remind them that by occasional reform,
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(Applause.) Here he would remark that that tran-
quillity was to be prized when they regarded it as
their great security, their great defence against all
foreign powers, whose opportunity would be found
alone in our struggles and divisions. (Hear.) This
point led him to engage their consideration, for a
meat, of the volunteer movement. That movement
ought not to be discouraged or relaxed in conse-
quence of any new commercial treaty which
bound France to this country, or in consequence
of any common enterprise in which they were en-
gaged, or in consequence of any mutual esteem and
admiration they might feel for one another as na-
tions. That movement was first kindled by the
laureate; it was fanned into a wider flame by the
press. Lord Elcho, and every public-spirited man,
by founding the Volunteer Association, endeavoured

to give it character and permanence. This move-
ment was not undertaken to damage the alliance
-of this country with France. For his own part, he
&might the French alliance advantageous to the
country and essential to the world. (Cheers.) If
France and England were disunited for any length
of time, Constantinople would become:Russian terri-
tory, and Europe no longer safe. But how could they
preserve the alliance ? It could only be preserved
by an equality of power--by that equality of power
which would prevent France or Britain from en-
gaging in any course calculated to alienate the
goodwill, the sympathy, and the approbation of
the other. (Cheers.) In the history of the world
they never saw a firm and durable alliance for the
advantage of other countries except between two
Powers substantially equal to each other. (Cheers.)
In former times, to balance the immense prepon-
derance of the French Government by land, Great
Britain exceeded it in the number of her line-of-
battle ships, her frigates, and her gunboats ; that
was so no longer, and if France had become their
equal on the water, no course remained to them
except, so far as possible, to become her equal on
the land. (Cheers.) But how could they effect
that ? Would they raise a standing army 0f300,000
men. The spirit of the country, the traditions of
the country, and the necessities and obligations of
the country would resist it. Nothing remained,
therefore, except to depend in some degree upon
loyal ♦olunteers. This, in his opinion, was a suffi-
cient vindication of the movement and he would
not scruple to remark that the more closely
France and this country were thrown together,
the more essential was it to our honour to become
a nation of armed men. Well, but it was said
that so long as the present Emperor of France
was on the throne, and: our good ally, no pre-
cautions were essential. ,Far be it from him to
disparage that extraoidinary person, who, what-
ever he had been to other countries, had always
been to this an irreproachable ally—(hear)--but
this he would submit—was the Emperor's life
secured to them ? Calculations of ambition, along
with the impulses of sentiment, would all go to de-
ter him from any rupture with Great Britain, for
he well knew that the world was not able to pre-
sent him with an equivalent ally. If the Emperor
of France was, however, led to an attack upon this
country, he (Mr. Campbell) could not help submit-
ting it would only happen in this manner—from
our voluntary weakness in our national defences, or
from a spirit of aggression and rapacity which eves
the Emperor's power was unable to subdue. That
he (Mr. Campbell) hoped they would prevent. But,
as he before observed, was the Emperor's life secured
to them ? In the event of his death France would
be split up into hostile sections, the malignant pas-
sions of which the Emperor could now control, but
which in his absence would bid against each other
in the race of a short-lived popularity in their hos-
tility towards England. He therefore ventured to
submit to them that it was not enough in any per-
son who pretended to discourage their army to
prove that the Emperor was a friend of Great Bri-
tain unless he could also prove the Emperor was
immortal. (Cheers.) But beyond this, on the
grounds of foreign policy alone, the volunteer move-
ment might easily he defended, as the hon. gentle-
man proceeded to demonstrate. With reference to
the volunteer movement in Harwich, Mr. Campbell
urged all who could to join the artillery company
already formed there, and ho linerably offered to
indemnify any of his friends for the time they lost
if they felt unable to bear the loss themselves.
(Loud cries of " Bravo ?") In conclusion, the hen.
gentleman said that on the ground of foreign policy
alone, admitting war to be improbable, and even
impossible, it was still our duty to provide, in the
first place, a Channel fleet, which all the country
called for; in the second place, a reserve of gun-
boats; in the third place, 100,000 regulars in the
army, which was not far beyond the present limit ;
in the fourth place, 100,000 militia ; and, last of all,
at least 100,000 volunteers. (Loud cheers.)
The CuArRuAN said one remark esciped Mr.
Campbell which implied that there was scarcely a
member of the present Government in favour of the
ballot, and he begged to ask the hog. gentleman if
his own opinions were at at all changed with re-
ference to that vital principle reform.
The Hon. Mr. CAMPBELL said they were not.
The proceedings closed with hearty cheers for the
hon. member.