The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-19 00:00:00

REFORM CONFERENCE 1N GLASGOW.

A conference of Scotch Parliamentary Reform
delegates was held in Glasgow on Tuesday, Provost
Hay, of Dundee, presiding. The conference was
attended by delegates from 36 towns in Scotland,
and from London, Manchester, Birmingham, and
Leeds. Letters of apology for non-attendance were
read from Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, Mr. Mill, Mr.
Hughes, Mr. Berkeley, Mr. M'Llren, Mr. Carnegie,
Admiral Erskine, Mr. Crum-Ewing, and the city
members, Messrs. Dalglish and Graham.
Mr. Gladstone forwarded his recently-published
letter to certain reformers in London as indicating
his views on the present aspect of the reform question.

Mr. Bright wrote:—" I thank you for the invita-
tion to the proposed conference, although I do not
expect to be able to attend it. As to what reformers
should now do I have a very distinct opinion. They
should continue their associations, and make a
grand effort for the ballot. This is necessary both
for burghs and counties, and there will be no real re-
presentation without it. The ballot will more than
double the value of the now extended suffrage, and
will give to public opinion a freedom and a power
which it has never yet possessed in this country.
The demand of every Reformer should be for the
ballot, and if the demand be general it will soon be
gained."
Mr. John Stuart Mill wrote :—" I beg to say that
from England, as well as the demands on
absence _
my time and e,...-.rtions, will make it impossible for
oference at Glasgow. Nor
me to attend the c•._
necessary for writing
cal opiuions as
have I at present the leisure .
out such a statement of my poti::
would be of any use to the League in pi."''Ntring a
programme of future policy for reformers. I pan
only recommend as among the objects most pressing
and urgent,-Ist, a more just redistribution of seats
in Parliament; 2d, measures for the repression not
only of bribery at elections, but of that monopoly of
seats in Parliament by rich men which results from
the enormous expensa of elections ; 33, an efficient
and uusectarian system of national education ; 4th,
restoration of legal protection to the funds of trade
societies, combined with efficient measures to pre-
vent physical molestation, or the threat of physical
molestation, from being employed to promote the
objects of these societies by their officers or mem-
bers; sth, complete justice to our Irish fellow coun-
trymen, especially in the essential points of the
Church and the land."

Resolutions were carried, declaring manhood suf-
frage to be the only true basis of representation, but,
" accepting household suffrage, with a liberal lodger
franchise by burghs, as an instalment of just rights ;"
protesting against an equally extensive franchise
being withheld from counties, against the conferring
of votes on non-resident tenants as occupants in
counties, against the principle of the representation
of minorities ; and against the meagre addition pro-
posed to be made to the number of Scotch represen-
tatives ; advocating vote by ballot; and demanding
the establishment of a free and unseetarian system
of national education ; a complete revision of the
laws affecting the relationship of labour and capital ;
a Reform Bill for Ireland similar to those for Eng-
land and Scotland, and complete justice to Irishmen,
especially in points of the Church and the land.
In the evening a public meeting, very largely at-
tended, was held in the City Hall. The speakers,
with the exception of Mr. Beales, Mr. Ernest Jones,
and one or two English Tetouan, were local men,

Then about Carnarvon. I want him back very
much. I have thought over every possible combi-
nation, and 1 think 1 have hit upon it. Marlborough
must go. Really I hardly know why we ever put
him in ; but I shall be glad to be rid of him, and so,
I think, will you. Then we will make Buckingham
Lord President, and Carnarvon has only to step
back again into his old place.
As for Cranborne, I know that it is useless to
speak to you about him ; and, moreover, after the,
many displays of his temper which he was good
enough to afford us, and his manner to Stanley in
the House, I should not be at all anxious to secure
him. Carnarvon pitched it into us rather strong,
but he was temperate in comparison with Cran-
borne, and he was never cantankerous.
Stanley mentioned these changes at Balmoral, and
they were well received, so I must ask you to take
an early opportunity of letting me know your opinion
about them.

Yours very faithfully, DEnsv.
The Right lion. the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Hughenden Manor.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EICHEQUER TO THE
EARL OF DERBY.

Private.] Ilughenden Manor, Sept. 6, 1867.
My dear Lord Derby,—l have given my best at-
tention to your letter of the 3d, and I am glad to
say that I agree with you in nearly every point.
With respect to Lord Cranborne, it would be, as
you say, superfluous to make any suggestion having
for its object his return to the Cabinet. But I
have a suggestion to make concerning him, never-
theless. It is certainly a pity that the services of
so talented a young man should be lost to his
country. What do you say to sending him to India
in the place of Lawrence ? He would make an ex-
cellent Governor-General, and we should not be
troubled with his presence in the House of Com-
mons. You are well aware that, though I did my
best to keep matters smooth, we never did get on
well together, and latterly his demeanour has been
arrogant and offensive to the last degree.
I sincerely endorse all you say about Pakington ;
but, as I told you in London, I feel very doubtful
about your persuading him to resign even for a
viscountcy. I believe he thinks he ought to be a
duke. The only way that I sec is to affront him
seriously; but he is so thick-skinned that even then
it is doubtful whether you would succeed. Corry
says that he is being driven frantic by P.'s constant
suggestions; that Sir John is always sending him
little notes containing excee tingly novel ideas ; and
that he (Carry) wishes that you would give P. the
command of the Abyssinian expedition, with strict
injunctions to the isextio command to offer him at
once to King Theodore in exchange for Consul
Cameron, and leave him with the barbarians.
I have nothing to say against your proposal about
Carnarvon. I don't set quite the high value upon
him that you are inclined to do ; but if you are so
magnanimous as to forgive his attacks, and if he is
going to be a good boy for the future, I for one shall
welcome his return with pleasure.

Believe me, my dear Lord Derby,
Very faithfully yours,
The Earl of Derby, K.G., &c. B. DISRAELI.

THE EARL OF DERBY TO SIR 'JOHN PAKINGTON.
Private.] Knowsley, Sept. 8, 1867.

My dear Pakington,—lt has long been my con-
viction that the zeal and ability which you have
displayed in the discharge of your official duties in
the various departments of the Government to
which it has given me great satisfaction to re-
commend you to her Majesty for appointment
are such as to deserve more distinguished recog-
nition than you have hitherto received. The
G. C. B. was but 3. poor reward for your
services in 1858-59, and I have reason to believe
that any mention of your name for further honours
would be well received in a high quarter. I am quite
prepared, therefore, in the event of your concur-
rence, to propose to her Majesty to grant to you the
dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom, and
I should be delighted to act upon any suggestion
you might make as to the title which you would
prefer to assume.
Your elevation to the Peerage would, of course,
necessitate the relinquishment of your present post;
but, though I should be thus depriving the Cabbec
of one of its most useful members, I du not think
that I should be justified on that account in defer-
ring the due reward of your merits ; and must there-
fore, though with much regret, resign myself to the
sacrifice.—Believe me, dear Sir John, faithfully
DERBY.
yours,
The Right llon. Sir J. Pakington, G.C.8., &c.

TILE EARL OF DERBY TO GENERAL PEEL.
Private.] Knowsley, Sept. 8, 1867.
My dear General,—l am most anxious again to
avail myself of your assistance ; and, now that we
have done with reform, I venture to hope that you
may be induced to rejoiu us. We want you sadly
at the \V. 0., which 1 will make Pakington vacate,
if you will take it. Will you ?—Most faithfully

yours, DERBY.
The Right lion. Lieut.-General Peel , &e.

THE EARL OF DERBY TO THE DUKE OF MARL-

BOROUGII.

Private.]

Knowsley, Sept. 8.

My dear Duke,—Political exigencies must occa-
sionally override all private and personal considera-
tions. You will, I am sure, be reaiy to concede
this proposition, which is the ground of my asking
you to place the office you now hold at the disposal
of her Majesty. Painful as it is to me to have to
make this request, I am in some measure consoled
by the reflection that to a man of your calibre self-
sacrifice is a congenial task, which will in your case
be rendered still more easy by the consciousness
that you have meritoriously performed your duty,
and that in quitting the Cabinet you carry with
you the esteem and respect of your late colleagues.
Believe m M
e, my dear Duke, faithfully yourn,
His Grace the Duke of arlborough, &c. DERBv.
THE E;,,ltt. OF DERBY TO TILE EARL OF CARNARVON.
Private.) Knowsley, Sept. 8, 1867.
My dear Carnarvon,--killen you informed me of
your intention of leaving the Cabinet, I told you, as
you will recollect, that I entirely appreciated your
views, and that I trusted that the day would come
when you would see your way to rejoining us.
I venture to hope that that day has now arrived,
as I have it in my power to offer you the seals ot
the. Colonial-office, the duties of which department
you have already dizcharged with such credit and
success.
Let bygones be bygones then, my dear Carnar.
von, and write ine at once yet r aeoptupe,
Ever faithfully yours,
The Earl of caramvon, 841,