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

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JANUARY 21 1860
THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, . f •
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( 1.111,,,h ) And when men listen, as you streets of London when the Queen of England was authority for my statements. (A laugh.) They RAILWAY INTELLIGEKCE; ---
showing an increase of £17,459 in favour of the G
NR. BRIGHT AT -41A1V-CHESTER. Peace' sA '' ' • ' les eoin to -the theatre, or any other place of public likewise have the same language, which the
are listening here, calmly, disturbing yourse v e g y say
• ' only occasiona hariot Queen the s enle in a urer manner h n
• lly by violent cheers, and if they then resort, endeavoured to blow up c , . , yp e p _tawe do ourselves. LONDON •
BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST. past half-year. ti
The annual meeting of the Lancashire Reformers
uietl home and no windows are broken, or no- Prince, and whoever there might be of the highest (Laughter.) They have the same literature; and . ' --
Union was held in the Assembly-room of the Free- go q . _ y
ht ttl 1. office, they tell rank surrounding the person of the Queen? Don't every author of eminence in England finds, I be- The report of the directors of this company states - ULSTER. ri
Mr. body is broug up o ie po ice lc
trade Hall, Manchester, yesterday afternoon.b
o eu the people 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 that the cepital raised to the 31st December last l .et otrh the half year ending the 31st of December
Bright attended on the occasion, and took t e pt- e
tt (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 con- ahs e re.ceipts on this line amounted to £45,616, E
the presen ma er. .
portunity of expressing his views on t e working expenses to £l6 867 and the interest k
ds of 1,000 in our favour when there are ne, 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 debenture stock, to £5,004, 1 • hb 1 ' '
state of public affairs. There were upwarie
by
Mr. combinations, no taking of oaths legal or illegal style of the drawing-room .(A laugh.) But it gone abroad and the English nation that stays at eaving te a hnce of profit £23,745. ,
£2,314,886 preference ca •t 1 d £ " 0l• •
persons present. The chair was oc.cup d
and amone (a laugh)-and yet this great question goes on its required nothing but the most moderate conduct home. (A laugh.) If you take the oldest man now if, pi a, an 4,618,004 con- us of this amount the directors have resolved to
G. Wilson, President of the Association ;
TB ' d h til 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 so mated stock. The purchase of the West Lon- recommend the proprietors to declare a dividend b
e-Mr. . az- gran mare ,un
the gentlemen on the platforn,‘). wer _
h_clip,,,
Mr. d Ali- • • " -oualso icture to ou don end Cr -.nal Palace P • at the rate of 51 Per cent ner annum less income
1 our bitterest opponents and were most afraid of our they were followed, I admit, by Lord Dub) s , child , if 3 , p y rselves hisdittle hand . 3- -allway between Batter- . 2 r • r f
i Is. It.N• n I tax, leaving a balance of £5,018 to the credit of the I
ley, M.P., Sir E. Armitage,
T,
kh s dof the man who e•
\le. 11. Ash- proposals are actually coming about us and hoping nistry when it came into office, to Put an end to any liit the withered han . , aeam, was the sea and Norwood having been completed, that por•
T. B. Potter, Alderman AN at io ,
Mr P t 1 t • 1 11 allow them to make some settlement difficulty on that score. what is it, the„, that r oldest ma., as Manchester when the person I have tion of the line has become amalgamated with this reserve fund and next account.
tt Oldham ; .. . . la ncs la I
worth Boltou ; Mr. 3. Pla , d
I• - - f th• luestion. (Cheers.) But there are great people here mean ? I don't speak of persons such , first imagined were a mere infant, those two lives undertaking. The payment of the dividend -
nd Al ernran sieeeey, 0 is ( RAILWAY BILLS
RylanCls, Warringtoh ; b k to a cried when h -c -
al sseiahlan., Mc. Bright efforts to mislead. Only yesterday I saw iu a Lon- as you and I, who are very likely to be mistaken will carry youi-ae P telnas no on the £220,000 four per cent. stock is def„red 1
Rochdale. On entering tie a he En land and when -our
don newspaper an extract from a speech that was in these matters-(a laugh)-but what is it that national debt g , 3 whole until June, 1865. The interest or dividend upon The e • *
xaminers sat yesterday and disposed of the t
ceived. fll ' bll
o owing 1 s:- I
was very warmly re ffairs mean b s readine all revenue did not exceed two millions sterlin
ced by the secretary, delivered by a member of the House of Peers as long men at the head of a l yi p . ~ . . . g. the remaining capital and on the mortgage debt for (Before Mr. Smith.)
The proceeding were commen
t ago as the year 1793. These questions of reform these alarms among the peep ooft ii g . ,
's kin dom 7I et that fact sink into our minds for a moment the past half-year has been placed to debit of the
Robinson, reading the first annual repor 1 fi tlf y 1 i • * Due W F 1 • 1
LIN AND ICKLOW.- or a terations of the
Mr S. P. -ery much discussed by our fathers of that If it be not war it must be a pretence to excite the If we drop tie
...rs ie, t net wll bring the time revenue account. The issue of the 4 per cent. de- 1.
' ' •1 detailing the operations of the asso- were N (
of the counci ,
T 1 -e ott concluded as day. There were men then as zealous and intelli- people for some specific purpose, or for some gene- from me • passed the standing orders
1688 to I i 60, the date of the accession of benture stock extends rapidly, beina now £530,000. L' • * 1
ciation for the past year. se i p
gent as any of you are on this subject, but they ral courso of policy. Do you think it possible that George 111. In that eriod no man doulsts that ETTERKENNY.-A bill for the formation of a
follows t- - t f E PI
The gross revenue for the half-year has been
le question snatched from their grasP, it can be done to mak° US fancY that it is alwaYs the Governmen o ng and was a Government by X476,607,being £29,183 in excess of the correspond- r'l •th tf D 1 dhl
al way in e coun y o onega ; I not pass. I
'1 cannnt conclude their report without offer- found the who
f‘" The counci , (Before Mr Frere )
f h Unio their warmest cono-ratula- and the cup dashed from their lips by every ki.nd necessary t° pay 170,00, 0," of taxes, and to in- the great aristocratic families who contended for ing half-year of 1858. The revenue for the ear has T ' r ' m'' ...1.. ~ '
jug to the members. ot 9 nt .L.,LANGOLLEN AND vORWEN..-...10 mime a ranway ,
I - hech'Parlia-
tions on the auspicious eircums ances um er wi..,of f d I t t d b f *ein ohcy duce US to carry our ourden as if we liked it ? power around the Throne. In 1760 the taxes had been- 11842,293, being £50,300 in excess of ythat of
rau uen pre ence, an y a oreie p
11 be opened on Tuesday next, when, in addition to
which for 40 years did nothing but postponereform, There never has been a psnic of this kind, false risen from £2,000,000 sterling te upwards of 1858. This increase may be attributed to thegene- from the Llangollen Railway to Corwen. The ]
ment wi
uncement of the almost unexampled industrial le £l9 000 000 . instead of havine no debt at all ou • standing orders were complied with.
the anno add to your debt and taxes, and impoverish the alarm, unfounded thrrors, diffueed among a peop „ , . , , y sal prosperity of the country, to the opening, on
"ty of the country, her Majesty will be able to de- EWCASTLE AND ERWENT ALLEY.- oma e
N . D V T k
authority, but it has been done for had incurred a debt of 1,140,000 000 and all for
pros,p le. Lord Lauderdale, speaking in the House by those in , , Oct. 10 last, of the Mid-Sussex line, which pro-
d ethne feet that her Iniperial ally, the head of the Freneh peop tl ' t tf th l• 1• h leaves tl • a railway from the Stockton and Darlington Rail- ,
GaLernment, has resolved upon the inauguration of a policy of Lords a little later, said-" Is there a man in some sinister object advGerse to ietinf eiresd
no b e apo leyf Nbvtitle ling to England, that I mises to remunerate the proprietors ; and to the
the re uttioti way, in the parish of Lanchester, to the Newca tl
s e
of free trade-a resolution which cannot fail to dispel what- England who is ienorant that the most wicked arts country. (Cheers.) The overn.m. en 0. jor. er y know o ,
hi . _ t p a on of the Duke of Marl- receipts from the West London and Crystal Palace
0 and Carli 1 R .1
s e al way ; also a railway in Newcastle. .
ever painful apprehensions may have been recently excited,
have been practised to irritate and mislead the mul- began it. They knew the position in which they borough, w ich, o use a yerybonsely phrase, would, Railway, which now appears as a portion of the
and a policy which must, in its results, prove the best, the . „ ...
he most infamous handbills and stood to the French Government, and their sympae I believe, he a very bad thing indeed for our work- general revenue ; and it affords the directors satis- The stand" d t 1.• d *th.
mg or ers were no comp ie wi
titude e nave not t NFWCASTLE AND CARLISLE, AND PORT CARLISLE
surest, and the most lasting guarantee of the future peace- dd f ator ara- thies were with Austrid. They knew at the same ing population to put a knife and fork into Cheers faction to be bl
ful relations of England France. The oouncil do not doubt pamphlets, the most false an eam yp. . ( . ae to state, that their expectations as
1 t • • h• - 1 ht • ) I d. 1 *
siduousl circu- time that t iere were cer am persons in eis cella_ and aug ei. mme late y after the accession of re ards the latter li h b . AND CARLISLE AND SILLOTH BAY COMPANIES.-
that the nation will render due honour to those who have graphs in newspapers, been mos as. . g . ne aye eon fully realised. The
contributed to bring about so cheering an event." Y f tie' t ne whom a eneral ar
lated, all tending to rouse the indignation o is ry amo , .ge . , u . v eorg
ming wold ha e G e 111. beean that sst f tt t. t
yem o a emp mg o total ordthary expenses for the past half-year To raise additional capital, and to use the Newcastle
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1. h
h whom it has long been some charms, and with whom a little popularity was do towaras 'ng is men in America what they amounted to £lBO 4eo d h and Carlisle Railway. Th td" d
e s an ing or ers were
The paragraph referring to the new commercial country against France,wit , ,i,an t o renewals and addi- not complied with.
h l'h 1t b • d 111 d t dth t I t• th d t ' millions of F 1. h • t -
1" tl d b th Em eror of the determined, I fear, to go to war e . He ten goes ieey 0 0 game . n ers an a am n 0 in e 0 0 six _Aug is men now-viee -0 tions to 137,948, together, £218,418, being at the
po ley recen y announce y e p
d that one of the stories set afloat was that least discussing the Propriety of everybody bearing tax them without giving them any . repre- rate of 3s. 4d. t• • 1 461 f h -
French was greeted with marked applause, an on to say . e per lain me e, or e per cent. ot e •
the New River water had been poisoned with arms, as men may do in the united states of America sentatima The Englishmen in America re- traffic receipts. For the corresponding period of TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE W EEK.
was followed by three cheers for Mr. Cobden. e
' ri'L n ; ; h adoption of the arsenic by French emissaries-(laughter)-and that and also in , .
Switzerland lam not discussine the sisted. that attem t Whether he time -
0 . . _ ,p • t 1808 the ordinary expenses amounted to £171,482,
1.110 vHAIRMAN, en movAng t e Miles Opened . Receipts.
' les of the Union, by these and similar means a frantic rage against question whether you should have the country de- will come when Englishmen here will no longer be and the renewals and additions to £28,427, total, Railways. ,______--..-______, .-----^---.
report, exp: .
lained the princip
a ll lassos of Reformers and France was begotten in the public mind. Now, let fended bY a Permanent, well-trained standing army, content to Pay taxes, and have no representation, £199,909, being at the rate of es. eld. per train
which he said admitte a c . ___ _
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 recei A b
excluded none. Important as it was . . pts. ta u- X X
' f the franchise, it was head_and_bbeedy.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 - -
be an extension o
should . 10 10 - -
h th necessit 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 very soon after that they established a 1848 the number of passengers conveyed was itiattet aainidd lifyrrn
nothing compared wit e , y 1
tribution of seats. There were tnose, lowever, quain e wi my opinions or y p
-t d •th • ' m s eeches will bear before the country. The Government now in power Government of their own. Look at the course of the 2,485,778, and in 1859, 8,395,615. In 1848 the re- Belfast and CoauLryelLawn 2O 20 494 383
ht the pocket boroughs should be re- me out, that I haste never stepped forward,in pub_ has continued what Lord Derby and his colleagues two Governments since that period. The two peo- ceipts for passengers amounted to £349,977, and in
. Birkd , Lane., &Ches. Junc. 32 32 2,180 2,289
who thong Blyth. and Tyne 2O 20 1,127 686
din our representative system. But Messrs. lie or private, to compliment the Emperor of the began, and you may well discover wh The Go- lee are of the same race the same lan uaee tho -
y. p . , . g a , 1809 to £580,913 ; in 1848 the annual season
taine ristol 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 launh.) They same ideas, the same almost in ever thin e exce t tickets amoun
' -t' 'I; 'en h•h b• • y 1,, p ted to £10,427, and in 1859 to di n
Clies.&Holyhead(withMold) es 1:84 - -
through the passion and prejudice of misguided have treated him as the ruler of the French nation, may advertise, as you see 80M0.1Me8 wit- pu___ng that teyin a it opposite shores of the Atlantic. X 40,218 ; the goods traffic in 1848 amounted to Cockermouth & Workington 8 8. 19S 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 is„
however this difference between thorn- • '
£61,493, and in 1859 to £157,636. The gross reve- 262 286
popu .eorriisc,aistlidulilcraoendir&
rassa . 20 20
to take refuge in any nomination borough. (Cheers.) to himself and to the people over whom ho ru .
les. establishment over the way--(laughter)-but it is that here we have had the happiness to be overned nue in 1848
• - v ' b t f .1. h g amounted to £453,408, and in 1859 to ge el
Deeside l7 17
61 200 251
267 266
. Havine °danced at some of the anomalies in the some may think that this isnot a fitting opportunity not true. When the bubble bursts, and there is an y grea ami les, men w ose blood goes back no- £842,293, showing an increase of £388,886 in eleven Dublin & Belfast Junction
'sting system, Mr. Wilson concluded by recom- to allude to this subject ; but when I see the mea- auction sale, you find that exactly the same partners body knows how far and nobody knows how thick
' s tdl f • ' - years, or 86.4 per cent., being at the rate of £35,353 Dublin and Drogheda 63 1,539 1,456
t Dub. & Wicklow(in.Kingst ) 404 414 1,375 1,246
Zlllding a general agitation in support of the ob- sures that are being taken, though happily they are belong to both concerns. (Renewed laughter.) so , g grea ea oit has become. (A laugh.) In the or nearly 8 per cent. per annum. The number of Dundalk and Enniskillen
jects of the association. frustrated, perhaps, just now-measures forming an the Government which now exists is aristocratic, i United States they have not been a) governed. miles run increased from 1,119,308 in 1848 to Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 5:9 503
Sir E. Altera:inn seconded the motion for the exact counterpart to what took place in 1793-I though not so unpopular as the Government w y
hich The have been overned b a Washineton an
g y e, , 2,499,828 in 1859. The total expenditure increased Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l
East Anglian 3l
674 674 853 1,030
866 842
-
d ption of the report, which was unanimously cannot help dwelling for a moment on this point. it succeeded. And the aristocracy of this co.un y ,
tr , Adams, a Jefferson a Maddisoe and a Mon-
a o e, from X 187,087 in 1848 to £398,206 in 1859, Vet.vties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 489 24,gg 23,013
If there be any man who complains ef the step bY whatever they may have been compelled at times to roe, and some of these great men were showing an increase of £211,119, or £19,192 _
agreed to. isal.anceansLe(in.Blackburn) Xi --
105 - _
Mr. T. RIZLEY, M.P., in moving the re-election which Louis Napoleon became ruler of France, I concede, have always steadily looked for all those advised, counselled and assisted b the immor-
y per annum. The preferential charges increased Edinburgh and Glasrrow
1 •t ' '
.of the officers of the Union, denied that the country think n 0 man in an English Government, at least, opportunities by whist,. they can defend their power ta prhn. er s boy whose name will endure for from £104,041 in 18-18 to ka66,052 in 1859 ; and e-3clortusrA Pder.tPin&clunudee 728 78 3,286 3,02661
d•fferent to the question of Reform. The and hardly any Englishman, has a right DOW to and prevent your gradual march upon them. And ever. (Uneers.) A.Yell, what happened ?We started the dividends increased from £3 19s. to £6 per Furness Y • • 221 21 1,157 961
was in 1
'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 they is not .
.g
hin 100 years a o with £l4O 000 000 of debt Since
,_ g , , • cent. per annum, at which latter rate they have Glasgow & South-Western, 1831 1831 :6,296 5,6 6
pact . .
subject was misi epresen e as apa y
t d th 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 nave added X 650,000,000 more to the bur- been.stationary for four years. The increase in the Great Northern 283 283 23,574 21,896
Great North of Scotland ~ 5B 58 1,572 1,253
den We have sen • •
Mr. T. B. POTTER seconded the resolution. .He who was then our Foreign Secietary, and who is (Loud cheers.) Making allowance for hundreds, and . . p t within the same period two expenditure during the past half-year arises from (4t.Southn. &Westn.(lrina.) 226 226 6,278 5,891
' had seen Mr. Cobden on the eve of his departure our present Prime Minister. He subsequently probably thousands, as zealous for liberty as I am, or three tunes as much besides, which was raised the cost of working the branch lines recently opened, =llil7ll2lerness
18 18 173 180
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 thero- as well as, to some extent, from the competition inverness & Aberdeen June. 55 55 726 552
anxiety to succeed, and he had wished him God gree of amity which is not usual by the Sovereign yeomanry, the militia, obr a .
rile corps vou may rely fore does not a ) ear in the sha eof debt Our •
- ,-
..d-f
-t
t• h• I P P • with the South-Western Company during the first Irish South-Eastern
Killarney Junction 255 255
41 41 242 171
315 214
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 een in past perm so. ohlr p:701.0oon
00as in.creased from £19,000,000 to nearly portion of that half-year. The excess of outlay in Lancaster and Carlisle (in.
. 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 wi 1 E ,
.„ 0-its present amount. Your English the locomotive department is caused by the in- Kendal and Windermere) 100 100 _ _
. succeeded. (Loud cheers.) h of ever 10 men nation west o
assembled to welcome him in the streets of London. be for the next 100 years, tat y f the Atlantic have still no debt- •
et eased number of miles worked, and by the larger (}
Lane. & Yrks. in. Blackburn) 289 289 - _
. The motion was then carried. Therefore, as regards that question, we may pass it who are induced to try, nee . y .
dlessl as most of us nothing that re uires to be s oken of At least
q p • , amount of renewals and additions; five new power- Limerick and 'oynes
Llanelly 2 26
4 4 127 115
366 436
h t •
Mr. It. N. PHILIPS moved, and Alderman RY" by as a thing of the past, with which we at least believe, to connect themselves with these organn wha ever it is, it could be paid at any time ful engines having been built at the cost of revenue, Londsn & yoirjr-wvexern . 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 mhuch less wen they choose to buy it off. Their ta. xation while only three have been broken up. This forms Ifonnelloonn ainSoutr-Western . 339 34 114'337890 11,11:
was carried hy acclamation, viz.:- e were. for their e Government a cor in o
• dement and his own anxious 'desire to avert it, of real reformers than they thought t y g neral , c d g t .
eu e an addition of two engines to the working stock, Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 2231 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.) It is a very old trick with t . e .
he Enelish Mr. Buchanan's recent Messa e will amount
g f making, with those previously so added, 14 locomo- le,o'dnecirYlibdu rvh ,
"nniskillen .. 60
& Southend: 45 60
45 730 781
984 690
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 X 12,000,000 ster- tives built at the expense of revenue in anticipation Man.:Sheffield, & Lincolnsh. 173,1 1734 10,489 9,479
Mr. J. Bright, its confidence in his political judgment and
an imbecile Foreign-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- Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 91 91 934 855
' interPrity, and its hope that he will render his co-operation
ever assistance which men and funds could reading the " Pictorial History of England," a note the Post-office--a most expensive and not very come unserviceable. The past outlay for improving Mrport and Carlisle
in Arliament for tbe establishment by law of the principles yc.ni . y . . ei eland
give in the prosecution o t a war, in w
fh t • hich you describing the particulars of a paper which Lord remunerative service in so large and scattered and fish-• • • h t • d
Joining t e permanen way is now pro tic- 1 d ' •
Midland Gt.ll, estn. of Ir n • 177 177 4,099 3,919
of the Lancashire Reformers' Union."
• • to address the meeting, would not have embarked without him,Eand out of Somers, once Lord High Chancellor, wrote to King a community. It may be said that, besides ing economical results, the account showing a savin
- Mr. BRIGHT, on rising g Noonnkmloaulsh.
Rath &
Canal V .52 1,481 1,567
illiam 111 advisine him at that articular mo- the eneral taxation of the American Union here
d *th loud and prolonged cheering. which you could not have well come if you hadnot AV ~ ,:, . p . g . - , t of £2,331 as compared with the corresponding half 44 ; ,073 2 062
was greete wi Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 2,650 2,813
•d Mr Chairman and Gentlemen,-It is had the aid of France. After that what took p .
lace P ment to call a new Parliament The passage runs is the taxation o each separate State to be consi- year, fully confirming by experience the advantages 60 1,454 1,359
He sat --s . 'Hde f * • - - - - d d f - Is(lece`evggitibselit;l34ll,aeirietei 152
• Ay I say that I feel almost op- I went abroad in the autumn of 1856. I recollect thus :-.-, ea -0. arguinnts to induce the king ere . Whatever may be said of the expense of the expected from improving and maintaining the rail- 4 144 5,582 5311
with great sinceri North Devon 35 35 102 441
1 a new Parliament in the resent ferment and 'several State o , nments none of he
dby the kindness with which I have been at that time the papers in England, the Govern- to cal . h . p G Ner , t m maintain way in the best possible manner. The directors
. presse trrttlltstdern
received here to-day, and by the responsibility ment papers, and esp„ially th„„alled Radical, disposition opt e a•ation ;eel. The art of governing any army. I should say very few persons in them have therefore continued the relaying and reballast- 9 9 2,303 3,320
North Staffordshire 233 233 7,683 6,805
. which, judging from the speeches of those who were discussing the propriety of ma y 0. ,e, .
kin chanaes Eneland in watchme and usin such o ortunities wet a salar of £1 000 a ear and that the whole ' a '
P d g pp 'gt t G y ' y ' in, of other portions of the line, and during the Norythr-Z%ltern l - -
have preceded me, is attempted to be laid on mY in the Governments of Italy, and particularly in e. q hese opportunities 0 net last. (Laughter.) a e overnments of the United States added to- past year £11,484 has been so expended, and placed IN a
41.1Cv eveland 101 _ - _
Oxford, Wore., olver lO2 94 4,419 4,237
. sheuld„s. (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 to the debit of the permanent way improvement Peebles esse 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. OD the other hand, the increased revenue ail
I==V & R way gg se 1,935 2,079
tam with this great question 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 s 50 2,804 2 555
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,439 3,250
, 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, L 17,000 have been so placed, making, wale Shrewsbury & Birminghazn 29i 294 1,672 1,643
heir 30 000 000 of eo le will r Ise xation for '3 000 contribu
- 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 t . „ p p a ta 1, ted in the previous half-year, s
Shrewsbury and Chester
hrewsbury & Heref d 51
or
• to it. It is now about a year ago that we met in press here, what was more rational than that the been the cue of the Court and the Ministry for the their general government this year of £12,000,000 L 20,000 applied during 1859 towards the extine- shropshire Union 294 291 745 711
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 taxation tion of that amount, being £13,000 in excess of the South Devon
• -
to discuss this same question, and looking over the ready to assist them, or that the French Govern- tura favourable to themselves, either when the people to the amount of £70,000,000 stoning. And what sum originally proposed to be so annually ap- ,S. o_
_u Ili -i'v, aaslteesr n 306 302 15,480 15,145
1711 1711 6,826 6,219
- le months which have since intervened, and remem- ment and nation should have believed the.t if they are in total anathy on some important political je the foundation of all this.? Just this, that in plied.. The total amount now expended in these rut
Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 3,680 3,156
En land ou have had a olic of war of con nest
.. bering the events which have marked that period, crossed the Alps to help the Italians, if they might question, or when they are „cited in favour of g y p y , q , improvements is £137,341, of which £102,921 has ,esteehethe and Darlington
I think lam not mistaken in arriving at the con- not count upon the active co-operation, they something that is wrong. I say, witnessing the of expenditure, and of Patronage, while in the Eng- already been paid out of revenue, The works natevr ale 54 4,603 4,062
52 52 1,562 1,67 g
Hsh nation on the other side of the Atlantic ou
• 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- -- y of the Victoria station and Pimlico Railway are Illvlerstone 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 v f Neath 5l 1 501 1,172
Warrinoton and Stockport lgi 2.. ' _
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 have received renewed assurances that they will Waterford and Kilkenny 3l -
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, a, origi_ W
watf
Cford anctil Limerick
a Government which had not the love of freedom the hostilities. But on the conclusion oe the strifo under the pretence that the country requires to be but Political alliances and entanglements with none. nany stipulated. The net amount at the credit we.ria4lepwooalHarbr.&Rail. 384 274 674 452
39 3.718 3,169
, to induce them fairly to espouse the cause of reform, we immediately heard the very same men just as defended, is just one of those tricks which rord (Cheers.) underssan, that I attribute whatever dit- of the revenue account, after providing for all IN,',„
hitehaven Junction l2 12 548 ;go
: mid- yet „hich had not the manly courage to enable loud in their blame of that Government because the Somers told William 111. it was necessary to resort ferenee there is chiefly to this fact, that in one preferential charges, is £163,753, out of which the w h
Iry
eanva&a tF. Liz sgs J unnt: 3.; 35 5•5 445
7 290 298
theni to oppose that which they really hated. 'The war was not Parried on cent longer. (A laugh.) to in seasons nf oreitemont, because Governments country there has been the most complete
.control directors recommend the payment of a dividend of FoltrlGN AND rCOLONIAL.
ftl at Government was discovered en hat has been the result of that war ? As much can then do much which the people in their calmer on t p
he art of all the eo le over the taxation and ' 1 52 905 698
P P - 33- per cent. for the half-year amounting to £161,649, /inustitirr•eiarri and Rotterdam... 52
true cheracter o 1
; to the country the moment they were obliged to good at least as comes from wars generally. Put- moments wi . (
11 not allow them to do Cheers ) If expenditure of the State -that no war can be de- leavine a belance to th
e , e credit of the current half- Belgian Eastern Junction 264 261 251 212
1 their Reform Bill on the table of the House ting aside the bntchery, the blood, and the untold I wanted another argument I might tell you that
- ."
1 d • l•f li'd h •
c are ,no min ne can e one tat is past remedy, year of 112,104, and makin,g a dividend of 6 per Buffalo and Lake Huron
p ace , 185 1,471 1,338
o r lline o ere without the consent of at least one of their Houses
f Commons ; and their measure was no sooner agony to those concerned in such carnage-and when Sir H. Peel and the Duke of 11 eot n w cent, for the year 1859. Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish
P fRe reseutation In this countr ou have ex-
laced there than its pretensions were exposed, and certainly when men talk of vvars, especially if they in power, in 1835, the sum voted by Parliament for o 1 ph . . y y Grand Trunk of Canada BBO 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 act yt. e oppdosite system ; you have no real repre- MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND Great Indian Peninsula 1941 1304 3,643 2,776
Great Luxembourg l2l 122 1 912 1,758
and destroyed. At this moment we have a Govern- 410 put these things aside-you have Lombardy de- was voted in 1959. If I needed a yet further illus-
dsentationi, an you have had in your.llo.use of Lords . LINCOLNSHIRE. 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 _ uriv t hundred ears when this /600 000 000
tldd to Y , , The directors of this company have just issued. Lombardo-Venetian
L ons and Geneva 285 285 - -
. we should like, hut one which owes its advent to supposed was a great thing to be accomplished ; spending .E 10,000,000 more upon armarne.nts alone hoas en t
de debt no less than 250 eer- thei
P.e r report. It states that the want of Parliamen- 142 142 3,446 3 096
3(ad.rid, Saragossa &Alicant 310 281 5,905 r:1196
power main y,
• 1 if not solely', to the difference which we have three small States formerly governed by than all that your armaments and your civil govern- I siriL h 1
itees crea e y! en, t at un ess we aro dit- tary powers has to some extent prevented the com- 3
N ana Antonia' 2l 21 - _
it was able to say existed between its policy and its certain dukes and duchesses, and. anot ,
f,h ,
her State ment toeether cost the country in 1838. All the eco- f
erent to the Americans-unless the climate and pletion of arrangements for the convenient working orthern of b ranee
. NoTegian Trunk 602 574 46,101 43,368
ff td d btl f • t
' ' les on this question and the policy and the constituting a part of the domimons of the Pope, nosily o t oseyears.was ecc e , ou. ess, tom wo the soil are different, and unless there be eircum- - e d dt t• •
of the traffic through Lon on-roda
Ls. a ion, paitieu- F.aarrrs, Lydoasi & Mediterrn 44 44 601 478
prlncip stances which are altogether he o t 1 879 840 65,495 61,513
• • les of its predecessors. I take it for granted, emancipated from their old rulers, forming sources-the suffering and exhaustion of the nation y n our. con ro ~ we larly between Manchester an. iverpool. The r
princip are •ustified in seeing edi t Paris aainid Sfreasablusrg
and. always have done since this Government was themselves into one State, abolishing the cus- after such long wars, and the control v;hich the
..) a g•reat nation of thirt directors re ret the amount of inconvenience o
Y g . t the 1,032 1,016 - -
llions of eo le ea 1: a d • • Royal Danish 69 69 428 334
' formed, that the offers which were made before its tom-house regulations which heretofore sepa- people had over the expenditure in the fi-st fresh- mi . . _ p._ p t n e governe by, and in feeling public and to the company which has arisen, and Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,165 1,203
accession must necessarily be to honourable men dis- rated them, and anxious to be united to that ness of the reformed Parliament. Nothine at this humiliated, if no exasperated, that we have been so have cause to be dissatisfied with the want of regu- =r) ..-!
t eV: r 'lna ntFrrance 777 773 15,669 13,521
71.1 f
tinct pledges to the country with respect to kingdom for which we have professed great sym- moment proves the necessity for a thoroue re orm foolish as to allow our Government to tax to an ex- 1 e • 8
, may in the service. They trust that these difficul- w. and N.W. of France 743 75 799 717
721 32,832 30,124
the course they ehould pursue on this matter. pathy, Sardinia. What has occurred since that of the llouse of Commons more than the unparal- h.th t unkno - h
tent 1 edr o e
teivin in t e world (except among a ties will be removed wilt n 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- congluerel pelhpl ),
the most hard-working and docile placed'under the sanction of Parliament. The direc- IROIII THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGH.'4
. sketched by Lord John Russell-is so moderate everything that he has done, if we are to judge by dustry and skill have been squandered by FilleCOS- peep e,
Lbedesh,e, at exists on the face of the tors have concluded and sealed an agreement with LORD GREAT CHAMBEALAIN'S OFFICE J .20
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. ( ou
.c eers.) If any man disputes these the Lancashire and Yorkshire Company for the use All Peeresses wishing to be present on the occas'ionANof th,
: 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 hs the contrary facts. If any man of Barnsley station and for other purposes, and•they opening of Parliament, on Tuesday, the 24th January, wil
our. (A laugh.) For although in the 40 or 50 great policy as far as possible to the policy and the wishes them 9-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 Lords, if th,
- towns-of the kingdom it will give a large and not of the Government ef 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 betweeußarnsley and Don- announcement be made at tho Lord Great Chamberlain's
unsatiSfactory addition to the borough franchise, Europe, in Italy, where you sympathise with free- poured forth by speakers at your rifle corps meet- he s.ayslthaht wehare not a free people, and it is not caster, thereby establishing a better. through ser- to.fliabefootretr3ano'scfloorcokbloon
_olkrionday, the 23d instant, ant
. twe 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 advisab etat t e people of England should hear vice between Doncaster and places north and east f the Peeresses'. bench will b,
ye forwarhend to them.
that in the small boroughs, which are by far the where you have no right to be as a power carrying the Secretary at War, and the hints that you don't t the truth. I have said re eatedl - n he more
p y ad t thei eof and Liverpool and Manchester. The ac- Peers' eldest sons will have tickets for the Peers' eldes
most numerous, and return far more than half the on war-(cheere)._whether it be in the right in know whet that man over the water is going to do , I hi k f•t th
t n o 1 e 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 persona
boroueh members, a £O, rental franchise will add Europe, or in the wrong in Asia, you flied the policy -after all this you find the man over the water re- had any honedst and real representation of the peo- all...sources of £339,819, a total expenditare 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, lile we. shohul i htave morality in our Government. £1 i i,607, and a balance of net profit of £162,012, HNo peflr,dexcept
bthose entitled to be present in
tth:
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 t eev rhe of the English people at this which, with the balance of £942 hroueht forward LoNeGreat Ch
sa,nezrlaeinadmitted without a ticket from h
; longing to the workina classes who occupy houses cussing this policy now ; lam only stating facts -discussing with him the great questions of com- moment wer
hfair.ly represented in the House of from the previous half-year, gives a total sum of Tickets for the interior of the House of Lords will be ad
of so high a value as 116 a-year. Now, if we as Re- which we all ought to know, and I ask, where is merce and of peace (not the matters about which Commons,,sT crimes against Heaven and against 11102,954 available for interest and dividend. The milted at the Peers' entrance.
formers feel it our duty out of doors and in Parlia- the foundation for the statement that the man whom your diplomatists generally concern themselves), the na.tion onour. a! the English Government has debenture and other interest charges against the Tickets for the Royal Gallery at the Victoria Tower on
- 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 c . ,
ommitted, and as it is said the are ae in about to trance
y ea half-year amount to £60,730, the canal annuities to T '
forward, let it never for a moment he understood foe ? When the Derby Government was in office I the advantage of the great nation over which he Chi
commit in na, would be absolutely impossible. X 13,780, the dividend on debenture stock to £950, he doors will be opened at 12 o'clock.
that we have relinquished tile doctrines which we grant you that war with France might have been rules, and of Europe and the world, of which Eng- I believe th
(Cheers.) e 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 alvrays so large a part. You t e
h people by repeated panics such as I have re- the dividend on the 31 preference stock to £5,959, The Queen has been rac
FOREIGN-OFFICE Jew 12
iou. lypl 'and tO apPoint -Milian
- acted on this principle-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 any possibility be practised, the dividend bn the 6 per cent. preference stock to Richard Holmes, Esq,g, now her Meajesty's Consul at Diar
which is at the time possible, but still to look ahead, be grievously insultine 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, J AN. 18.
who come after us will complete the (-,reat, 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 The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Froderiel
work in which we feel it an honour t.o be engaged. there was a course of prooeedine on their part which which men call fame, venture to say that for cen- was necessary for the service of the State would be 1:140,769, and leaving £22,185 9s. sd. available. Out B. Wells as Consul at Bermuda for the United States o
(Cheers.) I stated at a meetingein Birmingham the led almost directly to the perirof war. Why were turies to come, if that policy be carried out by the levied with some regard to the means of those who of this sum the directors:recommend that a dividend A)4`ljarica, ed t rove of Mr Claim
other day my opinion that the proposition to be all those preparations made? Did they suppose, Emperor of the French, the blessed renown which are to bear it. I believe, finally, that if we had a be paid after the rate of one per cent. per annum on Lara e Quesenr also be.en pleas o app
f th It. bl"
ul t Kingston, Jamaica, or e epu n
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
Hif;tei.a C s a
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 b dance of £2,641 to bo carried to the next half- WHITEHALL, JAN. 20.
, cies, nor more than 00per cent.to borough constituent 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 account. The debenture debt of the coin The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant Georg,
cies. In the larg,e boroughs there might be consider- of England by declariugwar against her also ? Why turning. to the question more immediately before longer be two nations as we are now-the privi- pany, falling due on the 31st of December, has
--- B • d Potts to bo Adjutant, with the rank of Captain
0 nnewoo
- ably more than that; in the very numerous small was ft that your First Lord of the Admiralty glen- this association, we cannot disguise from ourselves leged few and the excluded many-but we should been renewed on very favourable terms, a large pro- f phee Vet?
iaosinplasioly
i been
of London, vice Snell 0
pleased to appOiPlinPetteedi
boroughs coneiderably less ; and I said the measure fied himself in every speech on the profuseness with the fact that we who ha ve 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 the monarchyof England yet been in everything that constitutes the true of the profit in connection with the South Junction Artillery Company of London.
list. Mt? calculation, mind, is more generous than crease of a. navy already as large as all the navies of within constitutional bounds-bounds at ie„t „ grandeur of a nation. (Great cheering.) Railway has been Z 7,124, against X 4,596 in the BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 20.
that made hy 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 f thanks to the chair
Alvote o man was proposed corresponding half of 1858. The receipts of th The. Right Hon. the Lords of the Comm'
ittee 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 by e Ir. H. ASHWORTH, seconded by Mr. J. O. dPI t •
e Council for Trade an an ations have received fr
, om the
canals show a ' steady improvement ; the increase secretary of State for Foreign. Affairs, a
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 tho pro- during the half-year amounted to £5,316, while the Imperial Decree, fixing as follow the duties u
copy of a French
• 1., --mio. oven vet think periloui-(a emergencies that might arise ? Ido not want to representatives of the real neonle to fill the ceedings terminated. expenses were increased by £4.658. The main_ and whalebone :- . pon lime

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 here mean I don't speak of persons such
as you and T, 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 P
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 Austrid. 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 bo gained. understand that lam not in the
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
auction 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 whist, they can defend their power
and prevent your 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
I 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 rum which
was voted in 1959. 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 those years 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 fist fresh-
ness of the reformed Parliama.nt. 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 9—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 Secretary 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 he
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 accomplished 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 /weirs peens
which destroys oven 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
he much better 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 manu!Ucturing 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, are 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 CCM there—that we may make
use of ttem among ourselves ? Let it be understood
that this is no question between monarchy and rspub-
I icanism. It is a question of policy, principally of
foreign policy, and a question of the existence of u
real control over the expenditure of the public funds
by those who contribute them. In the United States
tnhaet isoaninwe' ersetlwi
gai ro You re ttool da
3c'oonus have
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Ee
yn hg al iss- eh
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

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
ettbrts 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 he holds
to himself and to the people over whom ho rules.
Some may think that this isnot a fitting opportunity
to allude to this subject ; but when I see the mea-
sures that are being taken, though happily they are
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 our 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,l:and out of
which you could not have well come if you hadnot
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 stop,
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 bntchery, 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 d:
cussing this policy now ; I am only stating facts
which we 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 procteeding 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 declariug war against her also ? Why
was ft 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
entbsepenokaectoufaltlyhecoemmmeritgteendc;iesbutthatthamtnigGho
vthernhrnave
t
arise in a tone that made it appear that those
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 you.
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 Lo the Pre-
sidency 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 assist with respect to the uni-
form friendly policy of the Emperor of the French
towards the Government and the people or Eng-
land. I dare say I may be asked, 44 What have yon
tsopisraaycyabtoiulltAhe Walewski despatch 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 of extreme irritation as it
iviin
was of extreme peril,
probably something,
w ith itth
emight
Emperor
like panic, not so much
himself as with his
isters and tkoso who sur-
rounded him. What should
came from France and standing say if
ng.m somen one
man
of
fthe

follows
i" The council cannot conclude their report without offer.
jug to the members of the Union their warmest congratula-
tions on the auspicious circumstances under which Parlia-
ment will be opened on Tuesday next, when, in addition to
the announcement of the almost unexampled industrial
prosperity of the country, her Majesty will be able to de-
clare the fact that her Imperial ally, the head of the French
Government, has resolved upon the inauguration of a policy
of free trade—a resolution which cannot fail to dispel what-
ever painful apprehensions may have been recently excited,
and a policy which must, in its results, prove the best, the
surest, and the most lasting guarantee of the future peace-
ful relations of England France. The oouncil do not doubt
that the nation will render due honour to those who have
contributed to bring about so cheering an event."
The paragraph referring to the new commercial
policy recently announced by the Emperor of the
French was greeted with marked applause, and
. was followed by three cheers for Mr. Cobden.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
• report, explained the principles of the Union,
which he said admitted all classes of Reformers and
excluded none. Important as it was that there
should be an extension of the franchise, it was
nothing compared with the necessity for a re-dis-
tribution of seats. There were those, however,
who thought the pocket boroughs should be re-
tained in our representative system. But Messrs.
Cobden, Bright, and Milner Gibson, when rejected
through the passion and prejudice of misguided
popular constituencies, had not found it necessary
to take refuge in any nomination borough. (Cheers.)
. Having glanced at some of the anomalies in the
existing system, Mr. Wilson concluded by recom-
mending a general agitation in support of the ob-
jects of the association.
Sir E. ARMITAGE seconded the motion for the
adoption of the report, which was unanimously
agreed to.
Mr. T. BAZLEY, M.P., in moving the re-election
of the officers of the Union, denied that the country
was indifferent to the question of Reform. The
pacific and dignified attitnde of the people on this
subject was misrepresented as apathy and supineness.
. Mr. T. B. POTTER seconded the resolution. .He
had seen Mr. Cobden on the eve of his departure
for France. He knew of that gentleman's great
anxiety to succeed, and he had wished him God
speed in his mission as the Apostle of Peace. It was
matter for great rejoicing that that mission had
. succeeded. (Loud cheers.)
• The motion was then carried.
Mr. R. N. PHILIPS moved, and Alderman Ri-
LANDS seconded, the following resolution, which
was carried by acclamation, viz.:—
. ".That this meeting would express its deep sense of the
value of the services rendered to the cause of Reform by
Mr. J. Bright, its confidence in his political judgment and
intwerity, and its hope that he will render his co-operation
in Parliament for the establishment by law of the principles
of the Lancashire Reformers' Union."
• Mr. BRIGHT, on rising to address the meeting,
was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering.
lie 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
sow, 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 •
accession must necessarily be to honourable men dis.
tinet 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
liet. 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
aro 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 vou get home to-
night, to try and make a calculation to discover how
many, and particularly whether any perilous num-
ber, will then ho admitted within the pale of the
constitution. (A laugh.) I have alluded to the sub-
_ jest of the suffrage only, and I shall be perfectly
content myself if, (luring the coining session, that
question be for the t.m :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
There is tlee no
question
back in a career of this kind.
of the ballot, and the question
to which Mr. Nilsonreferred—the distribution
of the seats. My
. Plnlwhich more than 12
months ago I stated mostn'earnestly to members of
• the present Cabinet, is that it Would be desirable to
introduce a bill to settle
firsthequestion of tine
when the t
franchise. I believepublic eye can be
turned without distraction either
One
population
other, solely to the consideration of side or the
-wrongs endured by the great bulk of thee ' enormous
l:olaattion
through the unfair allotment of members, that
shall find an amount of public opinion brought toc
bear upon the subject which will compel any Go_
vcrnMent 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
Goverument in the coming sessiee. 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 denvuneed as a disturber of the public

212
1,107
1,138
2,654
6,895
2,776
1,758
6,740

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 com-
pletion 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, and They
have also agreed with the South Yorkshire Com-
pany to work the traffic between•Barnsley and Don-
caster, thereby establishing a better. through ser-
vite 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
£l7 i,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. The
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 bn 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 directors:recommend that a dividend
be paid after the rate of one per ctnt. per annum on
the original stock of the company, which will leave a
b dance of £2,641 to bo 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 Z 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 eiliciency enlarged, an
operation which will ultimately involve a saving in
working expenditure, though at present requiring
a somewhat larger outlay. The capital account
exhibits an increase of £26,552, of which £24,347
is for payments of land, works, 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 Compstall line
elsihnsaerril'acter, 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 21i miles in
of valuable beds of ironstone, near Hazelhead, 241
and
length with that town. The unexpected discoveries
ds7eraicehs
at
l on the
important ironworks will be established at various
in-
duceafiatlei lilde(si
presentingthe directors 8141 nine,
hai
letesdostlehffareei arankai on: 'distant period
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 bad
been recf ived, and £9,013,410 expended, leaving
balance of £100,600. The revenue account for the
half year ending 31st of December last shows that
£339,819 had been received, against £293,399 at
the correspondind period of 1858, showing an in-
crease of £46,420 ; and the total expenditure to
£177,807, against £148,846 at the corresponding
period of 1858, showing an increase of £28,961.
The not profit carried, to interest and dividend
o,eo Qua amounted to 4162,012, against £144,653, i

.478
61,513
39,860

334
1,203
13,521

.717
30,124

.FROM TILE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT

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.

Peers' eldest sons will have tickets for the Peers' eldest
sons' box forwarded to them, upon a written or personal
application at the office.
No person, except those entitled to be present in the
House of Lords, can be admitted without a ticket from the
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Tickets for the interior of the House of Lords will be ad-
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Tickets for the Royal Gallery at the Victoria Tower on,
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The doors will be opened at 12 o'clock.
WILLOUG HBY DE ERESBY, G. C.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 12.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint William
Richard Holmes, Esq„ now her Majesty's Consul at Diar-
bekir, to bo her Majesty's Consul in Bosnia.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Frederick
B. Wells as Consul at Bermuda for the United States of
America.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Cinias
Larague as Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, for the Republic
of Hayti.

WHITEHALL, lAN. 20.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant George
Brinewood Potts to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain,
of the Artillery Company of London, vice Snell, promoted.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Peter
Mathews, Gent., to be Assistant. Quartermaster of the
Artillery Company of London.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 20.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, from the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a French
Imperial Decree, fixing as follow the duties upon hemp
and whalebone :

"ET LIST.

tiers are despatched
by morning mail,.