The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-30 00:00:00

AN IMPROILSED ADDRESS TO THE

PREMIER.

When the Premier, accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone
and Master Gladstone, passed through Salisbury station by
the 2.20 train from London en route for Wilton, there
were (says the Salisbury Journal) but very few persons in
the station at the time. Mr. Gladstone, however, was
speedily recognised, and during the ten minutes which
the train stopped at the station, a little crowd, chiefly
composed of railway employCs, collected in front of the
carriage. The Premier seemed perfectly unconscious
that his presence 'excited the slightest interest.
He was busily employed in writing, and scarcely
turned a glance towards the platform. His attention, how-
ever, was soon arrested, for Mr. Harvey, the foreman
of the Great Western Locomotive Department—and who
it will be recollected took a very active part amongst the
Liberal working men at the last election—stepped up
to the window of the carriage, and addressed Mr. Glad-
stone. He said he congratulated the Premier upon the
large majority which had supported his measure on the
Irish Church question, and he hoped that all other bene-
volent and well-meant measures which the right hon.
gentleman might hereafter bring forward would be equally
well supported. He trusted Mr. Gladstone would pardon
his intrusion, but he was impelled to this expression of his
feelings by an impulse which he could n)t resist. Mr.
Gladstone good-naturedly listened to his address, and, in
reply, expressed his thanks to Mr. Harvey, remarking
that it was always a source of gratification to him to
receive the support of the working classes. The train
moved off shortly a:terwards, and as it did so the station
rang with cheers for Mr. Gladstone.

THE LIBERAL CA
BURN.NDIDTES FOR BLACK
A

Messrs. Potter and Morley, the Liberal cadidatos for
Blackburn, have been addressing a large meeting of their
supporters. Mr. Potter expressed great satisfaction at the
prospects before them, and thought that the petition against
the Tory members had done good service to their cause.
He urged his claims on the electors as a friend of the work-
ing people, and declared his confidence in the present Go-
vernment. Mr. John Morley (editor of the Fortnightly Review)
said the silence of the Tory party in the House of Commons
proceeded from their inability to deal with the chief ques-
tions of the day; they were full of apprehension, and did
not know which way to turn. Tho Liberal party felt that
the questions which affected the poorer classes must be
grappled with ; the object of the Government should be the
welfare of the majority of the people, and in many ways that
might be promoted. Mr. Morley said that until his experi-
ence at the last election he had believed the Ballot
to be unnecessary, but he was now convinced
of the necessity for such a measure. Its oppo-
nents denounced it as nu-English, but he would ask
if it was English to prevent a man from voting accord-
ing to his conscience? With respect to himself it had been
said that he was dangerous, because it was believed that he
would tell the truth about everything. In the press he had
nevPr abused ona riase or flattpred another. Ile acted as a
safeguard in pointing out the unsatisfactory state of the
country, and the man who sat on a barrel of gunpowder
smoking his pipe was more dangerous than the man who
warned him of his position.

The summons obtained at the instance of the
Olerkenwell vestry against a comic singer for driving $
Telocipede on the pavement has been withdrawn.

The men and boys who were employed at the
Edmund's Main and Swaithe Main Pits, near Barnsley, and
who had "set" the two pits down in consequence of the pro-
prietors having given notice to a few of their number for
what is termed "Blotching," or sending out dirty coals,
resumed work on Saturday morning. The masters have
angered a severe loss, and they threaten the mon with pro-
secution for setting the pits down without a proper notice ;
but whether this threat will be carried out or not, now that
the men have resumed work, remains to be seen
AT NOTTING-HILL
—We have just received
information that the Notting-hill railway station has taken
fire, and when our reporter left it was still burning.
The Lausanne Gazette says :—A body of Pied-
Zontese masons were passing the Simplon the other day,
when an avalanche overtook thorn, and fourteen poor
fellows perished in the snow.
TWO DEATHS BY LIGHTNING.—On Saturday
night, during a violent thunderstorm at a place called
Shaw-end, near Lealholin-bridge, on the North Yorkshire
line cf railway, a cottage waa struck by lightning, and a
man named Watson, and his wife, were found quite
dead in the bed.
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