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" Sir,—Through the courtesy of an elector of
Guildford I have received a handbill printed by Mr.
Stent, printer, stationer, &c., Guildford, purporting
to contain a report of a speech delivered by you to
an enthusiastic. meeting of Mr. Garth's supporters,
held at the White hart Hotel, Friday evening, Dec.
14, 1866.' I wish to call your attention to some
passages in this speech. I pass by much which is
open to criticism, and confine myself to certain
exact statements to which you appear to have com-
mitted yourself. 1. You ask, What has Mr.
Bright done for his own people ? Has he ever stood
for his own place? Dare he ever stand for it? Not
he! He has been hooted away from his own premises ;
his own people distrust him.' 2. You ask, What
did he do in the cotton famine ? When thousands
of men were out of employment, when people down
here who had no direct interest in the matter sub-
scribed soliberally,—why he did not subscribe a half-
penny.' 3. You say, I will tell you what he did.
He wanted to give them a loan which was to be re-
paid in so many years, so that during those years he
would have these people as his serfs at his beck and
call, to do ;what he pleased with, and to prevent
their rising when he chose to put wages at whatever
rate he liked.' You state that I have not answered
charges of a similar kind made against me, and you
therefore assume that they are true. I cannot stoop
to reply to the folly and the slander of any poor
Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not
have noticed you but for the fact that you are a
member of the House of Commons. lam quite
sure you will not venture to say on the floor of Par-
liament, where I could meet you, what you have
had the courage to say at the White Hart in Guild-
ford, and, therefore, I address this letter to you rather
than wait till the opening of Parliament. With re-
gard to the paragraph which I have marked No. 1,
I beg to tell you that the only part of it which
is not false is that which assumes or asserts that I
have not stood as a candidate for the borough of
Rochdale. I have not been a candidate for this
borough, though on several occasions I have been
asked to stand by the most eminent men of the
Liberal party, which has a large majority in the
borough. I believe there is not a respectable man
in Rochdale, of your own party, who will not admit
that, if I had wished it, and had consented to leave
the great constituency which has for nine years past
honoured me with its confidence, I might, at this
moment, have been the Parliamentary representa-
tive of this borough. The rest of the paragraph
marked No. 1 is simply a falsehood in every part of
it. Of the assertion in paragraph No. 2 I may say
the same. It is a falsehood in every part of it. I
am not in the habit of boasting of what I give, and
I shall not now enter into particulars that I may,
confute you. I may say that, after we had sub-
scribed as largely as any other firm in the town, my
only complaint against the relief committee in this
district was that it did not make further calls upon
the millowners here before it applied for assistance
from the general fund at the disposal of the com-
mittee in Manchester. I may say further, that,
according to my means, I believe I did not fall
short of what was done by any other contributor to
the fund, whether in or out of this county. Pos-
sibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest
sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a
trifle when compared with the losses suffered by
nearly all the firms in the cotton trade in the disas-
trous years of the American war. In paragraph
No. 3 you make a strange assertion both as to fact
and motive. I am obliged to tell you that the
whole paragraph is false from beginning to end.
You must be singularly ignorant of the condition
and temper of the working men of this-district to
imagine that any employer can have them 'as his
serfs at his beck and call," to do what he pleases
with, and to prevent their rising when he chooses
to put wages at whatever rate he likes.' I have now
called your attention to some statements of your
speech. I say that these statements are
false—wholly and absolutely false. If you
knew them to be false when you made them, I
need not write the word which would properly
describe you. If you made them, not knowing
whether they were true or false, I can only pity
your disregard of all honourable feeling and caution
when dealing with the character of your opponents.
I do not expect you will deny the accuracy of the
report of your speech, for I find that you repeated
the substance of the slanders in your speech at the
nomination for Guildford. I do not expect that
you will attempt to prove the charges you have
made, for that I know to be impossible. Whether
you will retract what you have said, and express
sorrow for having said it, will depend on whether,
being a Queen's Counsel and a member of Parlia-
ment, you possess the qualities which are never
found 'wanting in the character of a gentleman.—
I am, respectfully,
"JOHN BRIGHT.
" R. Garth, Esq., M.P., 3, Paper-
buildings, Temple."

" Temple, Jan. 3.

" Sir,—l have already explained to you my
reasons for not replying earlier to your letter of the
24th of last month. I was anxious, in justice to
you, as well as to myself, to put you in possession,
as far as I could, of the sources of information upon
which the statements I made at Guildford, and of
which you complain, were founded. I have no
personal knowledge either of yourself or of Roch-
dale, and my impressions have been derived partly
from your own speeches and partly from correspon-
dence and other statements which have appeared
from time to time in the public prints. I have not
yet been able to lay my hand upon some of these,
but I would call your attention to two speeches,
which I have recently read, and which, no doubt,
were fresh in ray memory at the time when I ad-
dressed my friends at Guildford. The first of these
is a speech of Mr. Pope Hennessy, addressed to the
electors of the county of Wexford, and reported
in the Times of the 6th of November last, from
which the following is an extract :—' He is a great
manufacturer, and he employs what he calls a good
many hand* . . . he employs a large number
of human beings—men, women, and children.
Now, no man stands up so stoutly for his own
strong class as against the weak instruments they
employ as Mr. Bright; he was a leader in the de-
fence of the cruel old system of slavery, of disease,
of ignorance, of shortened, unhappy lives which
the Factory Acts have successfully attacked.
Hardly two years have passed since, at a meeting of
the magnates of Manchester, he boasted of his former
opposition to the Factory Acts, and said be should
be prepared to do the same again. He kept his
word ; for when the Lace Factories Bill was before
the house, and the Bleachworks Bill, and a bill to
give some protection to the poor girls who work in
the Bradford warehouses, he was not only present,
but violent in his opposition to those salutary and
benevolent acts. Ile fought, and the other Radical
manufacturers with him, for what he deemed to be
a sort of property of his—the right of doing what
he liked with his own workpeople. e carried his
class feelings even below the surface of the earth,
and when the Mines Regulation Bill was before
Parliament he and his class would not give the
smallest help to the miner to get better ventilation
or greater safety from accidents, simply because
bete,' ventilation and greater safety means addi-
tional expense to the mine owner. . . . lB6l
a deputation from the miners came to London, and
presented me with an address of thanks for omos
little services I tried to render them, and from shemen I hoard a unanimous condemnation of Mr.
Bright.' The other speech to which I alludwie (and
of which printed copies have, I believe, been dely
circulated) wad delivered by Mr. Ferrand to the

Working Men's Conservative Association at Brad-
ford, on the 20th of November last. In this speech
Mr. Ferrand says I have watched Mr. Bright
for years, and although, as I have told you, he is
possessed of marvellous powers of eloquence, a
greater political coward never entered the House of
Commons. . . I never heard him make a
speech which indicated peace and goodwill among
men ; but, on the contrary, he has always tried to
set the different classes of the community against each
other, and thereby to encourage bloodshed. For 25
years I have worked with you working men of
Bradford in obtaining many great and conciliating
measures from Parliament, while he has opposed
them all. During that time I never heard him
speak a word in favour of working men in the House
of Commons. You have been reminded of what
his conduct was in Lancashire during the cotton
famine. He took no part, either in purse or person,
to relieve the distress in his native county ; but when
I met, at Manchester, a great assembly of delegates
from the cotton districts of Cheshire, Lancashire,
Staffordshire, and Yorkshire, they unanimously de-
clared that England had no more bitter enemy than
Mr. Bright, and that he was detested by all the
working men in Lancashire.' I can hardly suppose
that your attention as a public man has not been
directed to these passages ; and I am not aware that
they have ever been contradicted. I had seen other
public statements, and I had heard reports evincing
your unpopularity among the working classes at
Rochdale, and in Lancashire generally, and I .cer-
tainly did believe that you were unpopular there.
You admit that you never stood for Rochdale, al-
though you have been invited to do so by your
friends ; and it was therefore surely not unreasonable
that I should form an opinion, which I believe I share
in common with many others, that if you had stood
for Rochdale you would not have been successful.
My views in this respect may have been erroneous ;
but I consider that I had a perfect right to entertain
those views and to express them. I also most firmly
believed, from statements and reports which I had seen
and heard, that you had been hooted from your own
premises and were distrusted by your workpeople, but
as you tell me that what I said in this respect was
wholly without foundation, I, of course, take it for
granted that I was misinformed, and I beg, not only
to retract my statement, but to express my sincere
regret for having made it. With regard to the other
paragraphs of which you complain, I must observe
that the report of my speech is in some respects in-
accurate. I disclaim having ever said or intended
to say that you had not subscribed a halfpenny' in
aid of the distress which prevailed during the cotton
famine. I sincerely hope and trust that there was
no manufacturer in any of the cotton districts
against whom such a charge could justly be made.
But I believe that I am quite correct in supposing
that at Rochdale, in the month of January, 1862,
you did propose or suggest that instead of raising
further subscriptions, the Poor Law Guardians,
or the mill-owners, or both, should lend sums of
money to the distressed operatives, upon the under-
standing that such loans should be repaid out of
their earnings as soon as they should be restored
to work. It was this proposition of yours to which
I alluded, and upon which I animadverted in my
speech at Guildford ; and I certainly was of
opinion then, and I am so still, that the effect of
such a scheme as you proposed would have been to
entail a very heavy load of obligation upon the
working men, which would have placed theln,
possibly for years, in great measure under the
control of their employers, who might have
exercised that control either in regulating the
amount of wages, or in other ways ; and I was,
and am still further of opinion that, to have
carried out your proposition at such a time, and
under such circuttstanees, would have been by no
means a liberal or generous policy towards the
distressed operatives. It is almost unnecessary to
add, that you are quite at liberty to make any use
you please of this letter.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant,
I "John Bright, Esq." "RICHARD GARTH.

" ROCHDALE, Jan. 4, 1867.

F'Sir,—Your letter of yesterday has just arrived,
and I find it almost precisely what I expected.
After a week's search, you have not found a single
fact to establish the gross charges brought against
me in your speech at Guildford. Instead of facts
and proofs you fill three pages of your letter with
extracts from speeches of Mr. Ferrand and Mr.
Hennessy, which speeches have doubtless been
spoken, but which I have never read. I will give
you an anecdote of Mr. Ferrand. About 20 years
ago he was in the House of Commons, And on one
occasion he made a ferocious and vulgar attack on
my lamented friend Mr. Cobden. At the con-
clusion of his speech, Mr. Byng, then member for
Middlesex, one of the most respected members of
the House, came up to Mr. Cobden, and said to
him, ' Don't trouble yourself about him—l have
been in the House for 50 years, and no such ruffian
has been here before in my time.' You will not be
surprised, therefore, that I do not trouble myself
with what Mr. Ferrand may say. But in what Mr.
Ferrand and Mr. Hennessy have said I find no
proof of the truth of what you have said. You
made three charges of the most distinct
character—that I had been hooted from my own
premises—that I have not given ' a halfpenny' to
the relief of the distress in these districts—
and that I wished to support the suffering workmen
by loans, that I might have them at my ' beck and
call," to do what I pleased with,' and to prevent
their rising when I chose to put wages at whatever
rate I liked.' Your authority for the first charge is
evidently such that you dare not produce it ; it is
not even equal to the authority of Mr. Ferrand and
Mr. Hennessy, and, therefore, you retract it. The
second charge you escape from by denying the ac-
curacy of the report, without saying what you ac-
tually did say in place of what you are reported to
have said. With regard to the third charge, you
seek to avoid it by expressing an opinion that if
money were lent to families in distress it would be
burdensome to repay it, which nobody doubts ; but
you express no regret that you charged me with
recommending a system of loans in order that I
might use them as a means of oppressing the work-
men during the period that would be required for
the repayment of the loans. My object in suggest-
ing loans was to give relief in such a manner, to a
large number of persons, as would not bring them
into the list of ordinary paupers, and would not
wound their honourable pride ; and if the distress
had lasted only for a few months, as was then hoped
would be the case, the plan would have been prac-
ticable, and might have been adopted with great
advantage. On a review of your speech and your
letter, I come to this conclusion—that you wished
to get into Parliament, and were not particular as
to the path which might lead to it. You threw
dirt during your canvass, doubtless knowing that,
if needful, you could eat it afterwards. There are
many men who go through dirt to dignities,' and I
suspect you have no objection to be one of them.—
I am, with whatever respect is due to you, yours, &c.,
"JOHN BRIGHT.
44 Richard Garth, Esq., M.P,, Temple, London."

" Temple, Jan. 5.

"Sir,—ln acknowledging your letter of the 4th
inst., I only think it necessary to observe that the
conclusion at which you say you have arrived, and
which you are pleased to express in such elegant
phrase, is to inc a matter of the most perfect in-
difference. Whether your opinion of me is correct
or not I shall leave to those who know me better to
determine.

" I am quite aware that I am not your match in
the use of discourteous and insulting language, and
therefore, instead of concluding my letter in the
agreeable form which you have thought proper to
adopt, I beg to subscribe myself, with conventional
courtesy, your obedient servant,
" RICHARD GARTII.
" John Bright, Esq., M.P."

The English line of railway near Bangor and Rhyl
had been snowed up by a heavy drift to the depth
of 15 feet, which completely prevented the further
progress of mails and passengers by the Saturday
night down limited Irish mail from London till the
road was cleared. The Leinster, on this being ascer-
tained at Holyhead, left at 11 a.m., without mails
or passengers, in order to carry out the Kingstown,
passengers in the evening at 7 15 p.m. The Cou-
naught, which left Kingstown on Saturday evening
in the gale for Holyhead, experienced the heaviest
passage ever remembered by her commander., Capt.
Tindell. She was 6 hours and 20 minutes out, and a
heavy sea striking her carriel away the binnacle
head on her quarter deck. 0 wing to the block Up •
near Rhyl the Ulster mail steamer did not leave
Holyhead last evening till a
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while I write, so that it is doubtful whether the
Holyhead mail will be able to start at the usual
hour this morning.
An explosion of Fenian munitions of war yester-
day took place accidentally in Essex-street. It ap-
pears, as far as the facts have at present transpired,
that on Friday evening a stranger called at the house
No. 8, Essex-street, and inquired for lodgings. A
man named Edward Connolly occupied the drawing
room floor, and, as the stranger said he required
nothing but a bed, agreed to let him a small closet
adjoining the drawing room. The man minutely in-
spected the room, and expressed himself satisfied with
the accommodation it afforded. He then went away,
and shortly afterwards returned with a small box,
which he carefully placed on a table, saying he would
shortly return. He again left the house, bat has not
since been beard of. Yesterday Connolly being dis-
engaged, and having his curiosity aroused by the
non-appearance of his tenant resolved to ascertain the
contents of the parcel. Accordingly he proceeded with
great care to open the box and examine the contents
in such a careful manner that were the owner to re-
turn he might not discover that his goods had been
disturbed. The first articles he met with were two
round bottles carefully corked and covered on the
top with chamois leather. He placed the bottles on
a table at the window, and proceeded to further in-
vestigate the contents of the box. A large paper
parcel next presented itself, and on being touched by
Connolly exploded with such terrific force as to
knock down the side walls and partition of the room,
and blow the windows completely out of the house.
Connolly received sericus injuries about the head
and hands. Inspector Armstrong, of the A division,
who happened to be in the neighbourhood at the
time, heard the explosion, and immediately hastened
to Essex-street. On his way thither he meta police
constable, who informed him that a house was on
fire. The inspector desired the constable to alarm
the Fire Brigade, and proceeded himself to the loca-
lity indicated. On arriving in Essex-street he found
the air strongly impregnated with gunpowder, and
saw a large crowd assembled around the house No.
8. His suspicions then became aroused, and, suspect-
ing that some Fenian arsenal had exploded, he des-
patched a messenger for the detective officers. The
inspector next entered the house, and, having heard
what had occurred, proceeded to the drawing-room.
He discovered Connolly lying on the floor writhing
in agony, while the apartment itself was in a perfect
state of ruin. From the force of the concussion con-
sequent upon the explosion, the windows in the
houses 3g and 40, on the opposite side of the street,
were all broken, and it was stated that the persons
in the house No. 8 were either all knocked down
or violently thrown against the walls. Fortunately
the two bottles (supposed to contain Greek fire)
which Connolly had removed from the box re-
mained uninjured on the table ; but next Connolly,
lying on the floor, the inspector discovered a
large parcel, which he at first considered were
candles ; but which eventually proved to be a par-
cel of ball-cartridges. The package was on fire,
and the cartridges had actually ignited when the
inspector's attention was attracted to them. They
were immediately quenched, and taken charge of
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not
having arrived in the interim with the fire-engines, required, left
and finding that his services were
some of the brigade men with Inspector Armstrong
to clear the house of the ruins. This object having
been effected, the premises were taken charge of by
the police. Up to the present the owner of the box
has not been discovered, neither has it been ascer-
tained what material actually caused the explosion.
Connolly, who was removed to Mercer's Hospital,
will, it is considered, if he recovers, be deprived of
the use of his sight.
Dr. F. R. Cruise, writing in the British Medical
Journal, gives details of the recent outbreak of
cholera in Mountjoy Prison. They will serve to cor-
rect various erroneous statements that have been
made on the subject. There has been no new case
since Dec. 27. The attack commenced on Sunday,
Dec. 23, the health of the establishment having been
previously quite satisfactory. The epidemic lasted
five days, during which time nine cases of cholera,
with collapse, occurred, and four terminated fatally.
The inhabitants of the prison are convicts, together
with about 140 untried prisoners, now confined un-
der the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Most of the
cases of cholera occurred among the convicts. The
outbreak was immediately notified to the Govern-
ment, and the most active sanitary measures were at
once put into force, under the direction of the medi-
cal officer of the prison, Dr. R. M'Donnell. To the
promptitude and energy with which these measures
were carried out may fairly be attributed the rapid.
subjection of the attack. Perhaps the most interest-
ing point in connexion with this particular visitation
is the difficulty in tracing its origin. No case of
cholera has taken place among the officers of the esta-
blishment or their families. 'The prisoners in the vari-
ous divisions of the prison do not communicate with
each other, nor with the same officers ; neverthe-
less, cases arose simultaneously in these divisions.
The water supply is derived from the reservoirs of
the north side of the city. It is received in a supply
bank, from which it is pumped by a steam engine to
cisterns on the top of the building. This supply
bank is pumped empty every 24 hours. From its
situation it is absolutely secure from all risk of
contamination from sewage, &c. The adjoining
Female Convict Prison is supplied from the same
Prison. The food recently suppliedhas, on
quality.
tank. But no case of cholera occurred in the Female
exami-
nation, been reported of unexceptionable
The different divisions of the prison are not on the
same diet, neither is the food for them cooked in
the same vessels. Nevertheless the disease appeared
in all the divisions. The disease could not be
ascribed to atmospheric influences, for the prison is
one of the healthiest situations in Dublin.