The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-28 00:00:00

THE MILITIA.

New colours were presented by Lady Rayleigh,
on behalf of the ladies of Essex, to the West Essex
Militia (which is under the command of Col. Brise),
at Chelmsford, on Saturday. Her ladyship, in
making the presentation, spoke as follows :—" Col.
Brise, officers, non-commissioned officers, and men
of the West Essex Militia, the ladies of Essex have
requested me to present these colours to you on
their behalf. This regiment is associated in the
memory of some among us with recollections of
patriotic enthusiasm and voluntary devotion exhi-
bited in days long gone by, when our beloved coun-
trywas threatened with foreign invasion, and when
she had little to defend her save the brave hearts of
-her children and the waves which beat upon her
shore. God forbid that such dangers should again
menace ovr <ma antl, ineans or the bemt,
security for a--nation's peace—the righteousness
which exalts it, the evils of war may be long averted
from us. I feel sure there is not a man here who,
if duty called upon him, would not fight bravely
and endure patiently in the cause of his Queen and
country, and who would not be ready to emulate
the noble deeds of British soldiers in the Crimea
and in India. But your duties do not, at present,
deniand these heroic sacrifices ; therefore it is espe-
cially incumbent upon you to endeavour to honour
your profession by strict attention to its discipline
during your time of service, and by sustaining in
your own homes and neighbourhoods that charac-
ter for high moral courage which makes a good
man as well as a good soldier., The ladies of
Essex unite with me in expressing to you,
Colonel Brise, and the officers of your regiment,
our grateful sense of the uniform attention we have
received at' your hands, and our best wishes for
your welfare. I 'rejoice in being a soldier's daugh-
ter and a soldier's sister, and I therefore venture,
on my own part, to express my earnest desire that
the blessing. of God may rest upon you all, and my
firm .conviction that I give these colours into the
hands of brave and faithful men who will never
desert them." Lady Rayleigh, as she concluded
her address, was loudly applauded. Colonel Brise
made a suitable speech in acknowledgment. The
interesting ceremony was witnessed by a vast con-
course of people. The regiment, having completed
its 21 days' duty, was dismissed yesterday
(Monday).
-The Essex Rifles.—This militia regiment for
East Essex was dismissed yesterday (Monday),
after three' weeks' training at Colchester.
The Royal South Gloucester Regiment of Militia
(23d), was inspected on Saturday by Col. Patton,
commanding the troops of the district. He ex-
pressed to Lieut.-Colonel Commandant H. W.
Newman, his high satisfaction at the great steadi-
ness of the regiment under arms, and their appear-
ance altogether. They were called on to volunteer
for the line, when 10 men were accepted. The re-
giment will give in their arms and be discharged
to their homes after volunteering on Monday.
Their conduct in billets has been excellent.
The First Devon Militia will assemble for 21
days' training at Exeter next Thursday.
The men of the Royal Cornwall and Devon
Miners' Artillery, now being trained at Truro, are
having four hours' drill a day. On the Ist of
October the regiment will be inspected by Colonel
Pester, the Commandant of the Royal Artillery of
the -Western District.
The Ist division of the Royal Sherwood Foresters,
consisting of about 300 men, under the command
of Major Boddam, left Newcastle-on-Tyne for Glas-
gow at 7 o'clock a.m. on the 23d inst., and arrived
at o p.m. The headquarters division, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Mellish, arrived in Glas-
gow the following evening. This regiment relieved
the Ist battalion of the Rifles, which is now gone
to Newcastle and Sunderland. The detachment
of the Royal Sherwood Foresters which was at
Tynemouth is now stationed at Hamilton, and will
remain there until the Ayrshire Rifles have finished
their 21 days' training.

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REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.

Last night Mr. Alderman Salomons made his ap-
pearance before a large assembly of the inhabitants
of Greenwich, convened in the Lecture-hall, as a
candidate for the vacancy in the Parliamentary re-
presentation of the borough caused by the retire-
ment of Mr. Townsend. The meeting was an-
nounced to take place at 8 o'clock, but so early as 7
the people began to pour into the hall ; and when
the Alderman presented himself on the platform it
was crowded to excess, while some hundreds more
applied in vain for admission. He was accompanied
by General Thompson, M.P., and several of the most
influential inhabitants of Greenwich, and was en-
thusiastically cheered on entering the room. Dr.
Prior Purvis, of Blackheath, acted as chairman, and
briefly congratulated the audience on the recent
alteration in the law, which enabled a gentleman
whom the constituency had ORCC before under me-
morable circumstances sent to represent them in
Parliament, to present himself again for election
with the certainty of now being able to sit and vote
in the House of Commons in the event of being re-
turned.
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS then stood forward to
address the meeting, and was again loudly cheered.
After a passing allusion to the Act of last session,
providing for the admission to Parliament of per-
sons professing the same religious creed as himself,
he said he stood there to challenge the eleotors to
fulfil the promise they once made that they would
return him again to Parliament as their represen-
tative whenever the day arrived on which he should
be freed from the disabilities which until recently
attached to members of the Jewish religious per-
suasion. He told them most unaffectedly that he
was sorry for the circumstances under which an
election for Greenwich was now likely to arise.
(Cheers.) On those circumstances it would not
become him to make any observations. All that he
had to say was that the period of election was at
present so uncertain that he should not have come
so early into the field were it not that others had
come forward to challenge the suffrages of the con-
stituency. That being so, he thought it his duty
not to think of presenting himself as a candidate
for any other place until he first gave the electors
of Greenwich an opportunity of redeeming the pro-
mise they formerly made him ; and he was now
ready to meet any other candidate for their suffrages
at the hustings, where alone the election could be
decided. (Cheers.) Of Mr. Angerstein, who had
recently announced himself as a candidate, he would
only say that he was, in every sense, a gentleman
—a worthy opponent, and a man of honour ; and
if the circumstances were such as he thought ought
to induce him to enter the lists on the present occa-
sion, he would find in him (Alderman Salomons) an
individual who would meet him on terms such as
those on. which gentlemen ought to meet. (Cheers.)
But he did think that Mr. Angerstein, coming for-
ward, as that gentleman said he did, professedly on
the same side as himself—ought not to have pre-
sented himself on the present occasion, allowing his
political opinions to be in accordance with those of
a majority of the electors. Having said so much,
he would come to a statement of his political prin-
ciples, and ask how far they Were in accordance with
those of the greater part of the constituency. He
was no stranger among them. For many years they
had been familiar with his principles ; and living
besides, as he had done, in public for a considerable
part of his life, and having served the office of chief
magistrate of the city of London, in which a man
might be said to live for a whole year in a glass
house at the top of a pole—(laughter)—and to be
wholly unable to hide his light under a bushel, he
thought he had some claim on the consideration of
a metropolitan constituency, when he sought at
their hands the honour of representing them in the
House of Commons. (Cheers.) At present there
were three questions in which the country at large
was interested, and those were—an extension of the
franchise, the ballot in connexion with it, and the
abolition of church-rates. First, in regard to the
franchise, a large extension of it, as they all knew,
was mane in 1832, but since then new interests had
grown up, a striking advance had been made by all
classes of he people in intelligence and moral worth,
and especially by the industrial clavles, and he
thought the time had arrived when the great mass
of the community should be afforded facilities for
expressing their opinions on public questions to a
greater extent than was accorded them by the Re-
form Bill of 1832. This country differed from all
others. With what part of the community had all
the great movements originated which had con-
ferred advantages on the whole country ? Had these
come from above or below? They had all been
the result of public opinion, expressed chiefly by
the middle and working classes, and they had all
led to some signal impetus being given to the trade
of the country, and as a consequence to a manifest
amelioration of the condition of the humbler ranks
of the people. He thought the time had now come
when a large, extension ofthe suffrage should take
place, with the view of satisfying those great public
wants that had grown up in the community since
1832. (Cheers.) The country was to a certain
dark an to t-bn extent to which the
new extension of the franchise should go, If he had
the Government Reform Bill before him he should
be able to say whether he approved or disapproved
of it. But, without knowing the programme of the
Government, his opinion was that the franchise, as
hitherto, should be based on property in some way
or other, whether in the shape of rating, household
occupation, or accumulations of money in the sav-
ings-banks. Those were matters of detail ; but he
I was certain that no person who heard him would
say that the man of no property whatever ought to
be placed in the same position as the man who had
property of some kind or other. (Oh, oh !) He
would convince the gentleman who cried " Oh, oh"
that he (Mr. Alderman Salomons) was right. So-
ciety was banded together for mutual protection,
and what the Legislature should look to was to
place the franchise, or rather the possession of pro-
perty as the groundwork of- it, so low that it should
be the ambition of every man to obtain it ; and
that was the principle by which he (Mr. Salomons)
would test the soundness of any coming Reform
Bill. (Loud cheers.) In connection with that
he would have the ballot. (Cheers.) He himself
believed that both those who were strongly in
favour of the ballot and those who were as much
against it, over-rated its importance. But it
was essentially an elector's question ; and if
an elector thought he would be more protected by
the ballot than without it in the exercise of his
franchise, there was no reason whatever why those
who asked for it should not have it. He might
speak with some confidence on this subject, because
he had conic by slow degrees to the determination
which he had submitted to the meeting. He was
one of those who at one time felt considerable hesi-
tation in having recourse to the ballot ; but seeing
the great advances which had been made by the
working and industrial classes generally—seeing
the order that had prevailed for the last ten years,
and looking at the diffusion of the means of educa-
tion among the humbler orders of the community
—he thought the time had arrived when it should
be conceded, and he would never lend himself to the
imputation that when a working man was asked
for his vote and promised it he would afterwards
seek to evade the performance 6f his promise at the
ballot-box. On the contrary, he was of opinion
that the promise of a working man was as good as
that of a man who wore broadcloth—(cheers)—and
if such a man thought it would be to his advantage
to vote under the protection of the ballot it was not
for him (Mr. Salomons), who asked him for his vote,
to prescribe the manner in which it should be given,
whether in an open or a secret manner. Passing
to the question of church-rates, the speaker pointed
out how inimical to religion and to the interests of
the Church itself, as well as dangerous to the pub-
lic peace, had been the unseemly controversies to
which it had given rise for many years past. He
also alluded to the progress which the voluntary
system of maintaining the fabrics of the Church, and
the expenses attending Divine worship was mak-
ing in the rural districts. Looking, he added,
at the question in a comprehensive spirit, and
when he saw the large sums of money raised
throughout the country for the support of
public worship, in one form or other, he could not
for a moment doubt that if the maintenance of the
ecclesiastical fabrics was a voluntary instead of a
compulsory charge, not only would Churchmen but
Dissenters also be willing to share in it. (Hear.)
He would now say a few words in reference to our
international relations. He spoke in a borough in
which there were two dockyards, and where there
could be no insensibility as to the requirements of
military and naval affairs. A great deal had been
said within the last two or three months on the re-
lations of this country with France. We had been
at peace with France for the last 42 years, and if
under the circumstances of that period we had been
enabled to live on terms of peace with our nearest
and most powerful neighbour, he could see no rea-
son why we should not remain at peace with her
for at least another 42 years. He believed himself
having some intimate
connexions with the French
people, that although there might be among them
those who were still sWay d by the recollection of
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as a nation rich, great, and powerful ; and
be-
lieved there was a very large proportion of them
who were anxious to remain on the best terms
with
this country. When he told the meeting that
during the last 10 years the French imports and
exports had been doubled, they would see how
deep an interest our neighbours had in the undis-
turbed continuance of the peaceful relations which
had so long subsisted between them and us. He
added that it would be unbecoming a great nation
like England to neglect those proper defensive pre-