The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-16 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE BANQUET.

The members for the Eastern Division of the West Riding
were entertained at a banquet by their supporters at the
Lowther Hotel, Goole. Mr. Wells, of Booth Ferry, was in
the chair; and, in proposing the toast of the evening,
congratulated his friends upon the success they had
met with at the last election. Mr. Denison re-
presented the commercial and landed interests, and
Mr. Fielden the manufacturing interest, and he felt
convinced that they would deserve the confidence of the
electors. Mr. Denison expressed his thanks for the cordial
reception he bad met with on that occasion, and rejoiced
that they who bad worked so hard together should
bo enabled to meet and celebrate their triumph.
Mr. Denison alluded to his own experience in
Indian affairs, and expressed a hope that he might
make it of service to the country. When he was in the
House of Commons few men in that assembly possessed
more intimate acquaintance with our Indian Empire, and
those who did should not be idle. The hon. member went
on to justify the prediction he had made with respect
to Mr. Fielden. The result had proved that he
was not wrong in asking them to give him time
that ho might make his own way. He then spoke strongly
in favour of Working Men's Conservative Associations, de-
claring that ;there could not be two opinions about their
utility. Chambers of Agriculture should likewise be
encouraged. Referring to religious topics, Mr. Deni-
son observed that he had no fear for the Church,
and he believed that the Church of England
never commanded more universal respect than it dons
at present. With respect to the general election, Eng-
land proper had not given its sanction to the measure for the
spoliation of the Irish Church. He concluded by affirming
that the Conservatives in opposition, as a compact minority,
would be far stronger than if they were in offi le, opposed to
an adverse majority. Mr. Fiolden expressed his great satis-
faction at the result of the recent election, and informed
his hearers that he was not a party man. He held certain
opinions with regard to the working of the Constitution,
and hence he was a true Constitutionalist or Conservative.
He was induced to come forward on this last occasion be-,
cau,o he thought that a direct attack was being made on
the connection between Church and State, and he
considered it to be the duty of all to defend
the institutions of our country from innovations.
Mr. Fieldon alluded to the victory that was achieved in Lan-
cashire wben the eight county seats wore carried for that
Conservative cause by storm, and declared his belief that
the victory was owing to the antagonism created by Mr.
Bright. He considered that the Conservatives had hitherto
overlooked the working men too much, and had thus
lost a great source of strength. The working men's Conser
vative associations were of service, if only in showing both
aides of the question to those who attended them.

LAW AND FOLICE.

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A SURGEONS' BILL.—At the Bail Court a curious case
has been tried. The plaintiffs were surgeons at South
Norwood, the defendant a merchant living near with his
family. In 1867 Mrs. Arnold, the defendant's wife, and
some of her children had the whooping cough, and the
plaintiffs were called in. Their bill was £5B, and the
defence was that their charges were exorbitant. However,
the jury thought otherwise, and found a verdict for the
plaintiffs for the full amount.
THE PROFITS OF A BOX. OFFICE.—In an action for the
breach of an agreement for letting a box and ticket office
near the Alfred Theatre, Church-street, Edgware-road,
tried at the Court of Common Pleas, some noticeable facts
transpired. The plaintiff claimed the right of taking care
of the coats, &c., in the theatre, and of selling the bills,
and it was stated that h:s net profits, after paying a rent
of £7 per week, the wages of his servants, and the cost of
printing the programmes, ranged from £4 to £lO per week.
The defence was that his charges were exorbitant and
injured the theatre. The case was not settled.

CASE OF MR. ELLISEN.—The January sessions of the
Central Criminal Court were brought to a conclusion on
Friday. In the case c,f Mr. Ellisen, who was charged
with having published a libel upon the directors of the
Ottoman Railway Company, the jury were unable to
agree, and were discharged, the defendant undertaking to
appear at the next sessions, should he be called upon to
do so.

ATTEMPT TO BURN A RAILWAY STATION.—At the
Leeds Town Hall, a young man, named John Clay,
who said that he came from Cleckheaton, was
charged with setting fire to the Central Railway
Station. The prisoner was ordered to be imprisoned with
hard labour for two calendar months.

Fifty-eight bodies have been entered for a baby
show in Kentucky.

There are 6,000,000 cotton spindles now in opera-
tion in the United States.

The question whether aeratea bread is fancy bread
was decided in the negative at the Livarpool Police-court
on Thursday.,

A boiler explosion, by which one man was killed
and several other persons were severely scalded, took place
on Thursday at the Timber Field Colliery, near Clay Cross.
Mr. T. Holdsworth, the occupier of the colliery, was amongst
the injured, and he is now in a precarious sta'o.

At Ripley, Derbyshire, on Wednesday night, the
police received information that an attempt would be made
to stop the traffic on the railway by pulling u:, the line. 'The
rumour turned ont a canard, but it had the effect of testing
the vigilance of the police, who mustered in strong force.

The Cork correspondent of a contemporary
telegraphs that an attempt has been made to assassinate a
farmer named Carboy, at Grange, Limerick, who was sus-
pected of endeavouring to get a neighbour's farm. He was
fired at, but narrowly escaped, the bullet passing through
his clothes. The police have no clue as yet to the assassin.
Farewell addresses will be delivered to the present
Bishop of Lincoln from the clergy and laity of the counties
of Lincoln and Nottingham on Friday next, either in the
library or chapter house of Lincoln Catbelral. A service,
consisting of the Litany and the Holy Comn.uuion, will ho
held on the morning of the same day.

Captain Scott, of Lyth wood Hall, Shropshire, has
been committed for trial on a coroner's warrant. on a
charge of manslaughter. Captain Scott was driving through
a turnpike, and a man named William Fenaday was driving
a horse and cart in the gateway. The captain struck at
Ferraday with his whip, the latter's horse started off, Ferra-
day was thrown out, and killed ou the spot.
RUMOURED WITHDRAWAL OF CAMBRIDGE FROM
THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. There are rumours of
Cambridge withholding the annual challenge to Oxford.
It is stated that owing to the unexpected inability of one
of the most promising members of the intended Cambridge
crew, together with the absence of any leading man to
middle the boat, it will be impossib7e to row on anything
like equal terms, and a resolution to withdraw will be
made. We trust, however, that this resolution will be
rejected. In this great public contest between our univer-
saleq defeat is not disgrr ce.—Land and Water.

MISCELCANEOUS A.ETVS.

?SR. DUDLEY BAXTER ON TIIE RESULT OF THE

ELECTIONS.

Mr. Dudley Baxter means to hold his own against
the critics. In reply to various comments, he main-
tains—firstly, that his estimate of the Liberal
majority at 111 is not too small, for it is as large as
many Liberal estimates, and the only difference
between his and the highest calculation is that he
omits some four or five doubtful members, about
whose politics no two persons agree ; secondly, that
his estimate of the Liberal majority at 74 is not too
large, since he derives it from the division list of
April 3, 1868, when there were 365 Liberals and
287 Conservatives ; thirdly, that the principle of
arranging the population according to the politics
of their representatives is fair, and is borrowed
from Liberal newspapers which were accustomed to
accept this mode of reckoning until now, when it
appears to be unfavourable to them. Mr. Baxter
repeats, as a fact eminently encouraging to the Con-
servatives, " that there are in the new Parliament
385 Liberals, representing 16,800,000 population,
and 274 Conservatives, representing 12,100,000 popu-
lation, being a larger population represented by Con-
servatives than in the last Parliament by 200,000.
while the population represented by the Liberals is
less by 200,000, thus making up a difference of
400,000. So in England alone 219 Conservatives
now represent 9,000,000 population, whereas in the
old Parliament 220 Conservatives only represented
7,900,000, shewing a very large Conservative gain in
the importance and population of the seats repre-
sented, and a corresponding loss of nearly 1,100,000
in the population and importance of the seats repre-
sented by Liberals."