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Mr, Osborne, M. P,, and his Constituents,

On Monday night Mr. Osborne addressed a

crowded meeting of his constituents in the Exchange
Hall, Nottingham. Mr. T. Simpson acted as chair-
man, and the proceedings passed off most good-
humouredly.
Mr. OSBORNE, after some local allusions, said he

felt quite sure that, after the labours of a hard Ses-
sion, they did not begrudge either him or his col-
league, Lord Amberley—at that moment among the
Shakers in America, and doubtless in peril of being
proselytised—the relaxations of the recess. Members
of Parliament were not only fairly classable among
" working men," but they had to work at unhealthy
hours, in a bad atmosphere, where there were no
factory inspectors to look after them ; and he must
say that they had most uncomfortable accommoda-
tion, for, although they had spent three millions on
building a house, positively the seats were too nar-
row for those members ivho rejoiced in what was
called " broad beam." (Laughter.) The last Session
was an unusually hard one for members; it killed
off a great many of the old ones. (A. laugh.) He
had no doubt of it. Sitting until 2or 3 oclock in
the morning, getting excited, and, at the same time,
becoming converts (for this was the age of conver-
sion), was not a very healthy amusement, or con-
ducive to long life. But the Session was not barren
in its results—they all knew that; yet, whatever
might be the merits of that Session, he would take
the liberty of doubting whether the future historian
of England would say that it had increased the
reputation of the public men of this country. (Hear,
hear.) Th 3 hon. gentleman continued :—We have
been told that the age of miracles is past, hut from
what happened last Session am inclined to doubt

that. Since the great event which occurred, I be-
lieve, in the fourteenth century, when Poland, which

was then a Pagan country, was converted, every
man-jack of them, from Paganism to Christianity
in one day, by the influence of one leader, their

Duke, I believe there has been no historical parallel
in the world's history to what took place in the
House of Commons one evening last Session.
(Laughter.) What didwe see? We saw a whole party
who had been talking about the degradation of the
suffrage for years, who had opposed every measure
that had been brought forward, suddenly and alto-
gether in one night undergoing a wholesale baptism
in Liberal doctrines. I say suddenly in one night,
and if it were not mournful it would be ludicrous to
see how these obsolete obstructives, as I may call
them—you have heard lately of "obsolete incen-
diaries," and there are such things an obsolete ob-
structives—(hear)—these obsolete obstructives sud-
denly put in their claims to be considered born
Radical reformers (laughter), and with an uncom-
mon degree of wriggling they endeavour to recon-
cile their old principles with their new practices, and
to prove to the country that they are- at once Con-
servative and consistent. (Hear.) 1 think that
is rare in the history of a great country, and a
mournful sight ; for whatever you may gain by
their sagacious tergiversation I think you more than
lose when you reduce the character of the statesmen
of this country. (Applause.) I have been also
much amused by the sudden affection manifested by
the Tory party—l like to call them by their old
name—for what they call working men. They are
suddenly enamoured of Working Men's Associa-
tions: Whether or not they had an eye to a
" working majority," this is something quite new.
(A laugh.) The other day, at Coventry, there was
a great meeting and dinner to inaugurate a Work-
ing Men's Association ; but there was no working
man, mark, who spoke; no working man was in
the chair. Perhaps, the working man was playing
a weiking part with the knife and fork, but he held
his tongue. (Laughter.) Who had we there?
We had a county member coming forward and
taking a review of this Reform Bill ; and he said,
"Oh ! you know the dual vote, the Ten Minutes
Bill, and all those things," which I myself . should

have called Ministerial dodges, " what did
he say they were ? " Patriotic artifices to pass the
bill." Patriotic artifices ! Is it come to this in
England that a Conservative member of Parliament
calls such proceedings as those " patriotic artifices ?"
However much I may be for education, I mourn for
the education which gives such results to the world.
(Hear.) But there was another right hon. gentleman
here—one of the Ministry, generally called in the

:ouse of Commons the " Colonial Ninepin."

(Laughter.) Ile is put up at awkward moments to
speak, and then disowned by his leader when he has
spoken. It was so on the late occasion of the Re-
form Bill. The Colonial Ninepin—a most respect-
able gentleman—(laughter)—with equal oblivion of
gratitude as well as memory—what did he do ?
Why, after taking credit for passing this bill, he fell
to abusing John Bright. (Hear, hear.) I say he
was oblivious of gratitude and memory ; and why ?
Because the bill is Bright's bill of 1858. (Hear.)
It was filched from John Bright without any ac-
knowledgment. There is, I think, a slight lapse of
memory and of gratitude when he furnished not only
the reasons, but the bill itself. But such is a speci-
men of Conservative gratitude, Gratitude, I fear,

is in most people becoming a commercial principle ;
it has got to be, as was said of it once, a lively ex-
pectation of favours to come. (A laugh.) '1 he Con-
servatives can expect no more from John Bright, so
they take his bill and abuse the author. (Shame.)
But in the case of the Conservative party, I think
the time has arrived when their principles are ex-
tinct; they arc devoid alike of originality and
memory. What have they done ? They have taken
their measure from the Liberal party, and the apo-
logy of it they have copied from a famous leader of
the French Revolution, who said, " Whenever you
arc wrong, get throught it : audacity, always auda-
city." (Hear, hear.) Such is a short history of
the conduct of the Conservative party. The trans-
formations one meets with are so rapid that they
have all the improbability as well as the variety of.
a political pantomime. (Hear.) You have lately
witnessed Lord Derby attending a great dinner of
the Conservative party in Manchester. Lord Derby
there took credit to himself for having passed the bill.
He said—" I have passed this measure, and what
have the Liberal party done ? They have done no-
thing but talk about Reform, but I have passed it."
Now, let me ask any candid man--who was it who
did everythingto oppose the passing of the Reform Bill
last year ? Lord Derby and his party. Who boasted
that it was his mission to " stem the tide of demo-
cracy?"
Lord Derby. And now look at the supple and
reckless acrobat who is not satisfied unless he
throws somersaults in the dark. Why, can there
be a doubt about it? Why was Mr. Gladstone's
bill opposed ? (A cry, " Because it did not go far
enough.") No, because it went too far. Lord
Stanley, and every Minister, from the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to what is called the Boots of the
Administration, opposed the Bill of Mr. Gladstone,
because they saki it would swamp the present con-
stituencies. That was the key-note of their cry.
In 1866, what did Lord Stanley, Lord Derby's son,
say at King's Lynn ? He opposed Mr. Gladstone's
Bill ; but what was the Bill he said he would sup-
' port? He said he was quite ready to support a
Bill that would give a £2O franchise in the counties
and £8 in the boroughs. That was his Bill in 1866.
You may say that was before he was educated
—(laughter)—and put as a sixth form boy into the
Cabinet. Well, that won't do. Here is the speech
he made on March 6th, 1867, after he had been
educated. (Renewed laughter.) He said the
Government had no intention to pass a democratic
measure, or any measure of household suffrage.
Mr. Hardy, the Home Secretary, on March 25th,
1867, said the same thing. And now what do we
see ? These gentlemen have suddenly recanted
everything. The people who went for £2O in the
counties now support £l2 in the counties ; the
people who said that a £7 or £6 franchise would
swamp the present constituencies have passed a
measure of household suffrage, with the personal
payment of rates. Why, it appears to me that not
only do they make a merit of jumping in the dark

—they are not satisfied with plunging into an abyss
whose depths they have not fathomed—they are not
contented until they have taken a good roll in the
mud. (Laughter.) Many of you have heard the
story of the celebrated Roman, who, when a great
hole was discovered in the Forum at Rome—l be-

Hove there is a great hole there now (laughter) ;
but there was one of the equestrian order, a gentle-
man of the name of Curtius—(a laugh)—who got
upon his horse, and on his being asked, "'Will
any nobleman jump in to fill it up ?" Curtius
took the jump "in the dark" into the hole, and they
said it was filled up. But there was this moral at-
tached to the jump in the dark, which I would im-
press upon Lord Derby and hii party—namely, poor
Curtin; never again appeared iu public life. (Laugh-
ter and applause.) After all, we must do justice.
The merits of the Reform Bill, such as they are, are
due to Mr. Bright's 'bill of 1858, which .provided
household with poor-law rating, not the personal
payment of rates; he would have nothing to do with
that. The merits of the bill's passing are due to
Mr. Gladstone. (Hear, hear.) Do not be ungrate-

ful ; he was the first Minister who sacrificed office
when he could not redeem his pledges. And I ask
you this—who most deserves the confidence of his
country, the man wino left office sooner than break
his pledges to the people, or the man who retained

office to execute the feat of "Jim Crow" jumping
in the dark? (Laughter and cheers.) Now we
have lately heard or read the great leader of this
party—it is all very well to talk of Lord Derby
being the leader, but the real man who pulls the
strings and has reconstructed the party is Mr. Dis-
raeli. (Cheers and groans.) Never groan at a man
of such great and brilliant intelligence. Although
I am opposed to him, I am proud of him, and so
ought you to be, and I will tell you why : because
he is a real working man, who has made himself,
without connexions, by nothing but his great abili-
ties; and, though I differ from their application, I
mill always give my meed of praise to the intelli-
gence which has made for itself such a position.
(Hear, hear.) Well, you have read Mr. Disraeli's
" Edinburgh Review" of what I call the "Decline
and Fall" of the principle of Toryism. (Laughter.)
I do Mr. Disraeli full credit, so much so as to think
that though he may occasionally have held the
candle to the delusions of the Tory party, he has
never credited their dogmas, nor acted upon their
principles. I will not go into the morality of the
thing, but I believe Mr. Disraeli, in his heart, has
always been a Liberal—nay, more, has been a
Radical, biding his time. (Hear, hear.) But I
must say the account he has given of the Reform
Bill at the Edinburgh meeting proves that he is not
so successful in works of history as he is in fiction.
(Laughter.) That account strikes me as being
not founded on fact ; and I think it will hereafter
take its place, not beside his " Biography of Lord
George Bentinck," which is a correct historical work,
but by theside of the works of imagination for which
he is so celebrated, and that we shall find it ranged
next to his other most imaginative work, " The
Wondrous Tale of Alroy." (Laughter and cheers.)
When I heard he was suddenly for household suf-

'rage, and that the payment of rates is to be the

salvation of England, I was a little astonished that
he should forget the course he pursued in the year
1848, when I first went into public life. There was
then a man in this country—unfortunately useful

men arc too soon forgotten, but I can never forget

Mr. Hume—(hear, hear)—either privately or pub-
licly—a man who did more to lighten the taxation
of this country than any other man who has lived,

who announced sound economical doctrines and acted

upon them before the Conservatives were educated.
(Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman quoted the
terms of Mr. Hume's motion on Reform, March 25,
1848, which he said he himself supported, but which

was denounced by Mr. Disraeli as " revolutionary,"
though its provisions were now to be the saving of
the country. But this was not all. Mr. Disraeli,

Ln his great Edinburgh work of fiction, confessed

that he beeline a convert in 1859 ; he and Lord

Derby taking counsel together, and keeping every-

body else in the dark, became converts to household

suffrage in 1859. But he would read them Mr.
Disraeli's expressed opinions in 1859. After quoting

a passage protesting against any " predominance of
household democracy," the speaker said he regarded
this as a lamentable lapses on the part of a political
character. As to his further talk about " restoring"
to the people their privileges under the scot and lot

voting, he heard Mr. Disraeli himself, in debate on
Lord Grosvenor's motion, prove that not two-thirds

of the working classes then had votes. The " pot-
wallopers" were confined to six towns, and the
voters were far more fond of a " lot" in the pocket
than they were of the "scot." (Laughter.) But (con-
tinued Mr. Osborne) let us do justice to everybody,
and among others to the real Conservative party ;
because there is a real Conservative party who can-
not be " over-educated" or persuaded against their

convictions. There are especially three well-informed
but not " highly-educated " Conservative states-
men whom i will mention—Geueral Peel, Lord

Carnarvon, and Lord G.ranborne. (Hear.) Differ-
ing as I do entirely from the conclusions they have
arrived at, I honour them alike for their ability and
their consietency. hear.) Of Lord Cran-
borne I will say that the name he bears, Cecil.—
which first became distinguished in the annals of
this country in the reign of one Queen, that of
Queen Bess—will be equally distingtiished under
another Queen, Victoria. (Hear, hear.) They
made a gallant fight, and though beaten, they were
not disgraced. (Hear.) There was another party,
a small and select party—the tenants of a certain
cave—(a augh)—called the Adullatnites —a cave
which, I think, could not now claim to hold a single
vote, not even under a lodging franchise. (Laughter.)
What did they do ? Why this party contrived to
strain at the Gladstouian gnat and to swallow the
Disraelian camel. (Renewed laughter.) Mr.
Osborne, alluding next to Mr. Disraeli's remark
at the Lord Mayor's Banquet, that " a patriotic
Parliament" had passed the Reform Bill, said they
passed it, wearied out by details, and as they would
any other measure had they had their noses kept to
the grindstone night and day—(laughter)—many of
them, too, having paid heavily for their scats and
not wanting a dissolution. (Cheers.) A good deal
had been heard about the origin of househekwiuf-
frage; there-always were numerouS'Ertiiiiiloi
great inventions ; Sir Isaac Newton's were now
claimed for a Frenchman, Pascal ; but it did not
greatly matter whether it was got from Hume or
Bright, or, to go further back, from General Cart-
wright, who once sat for Nottingham, and who was
so Radical a Reformer, he was for abolishing the
Trinity, and owing nothing to anybody. (Laughter.)
It had, however, always been supposed that the wise
men came from the East, but the other day--
though perhaps, not many of them read it, for the
speaker was not a very distinguished gentleman—
the other day there was a still small voice heard in
the west—the West of England. At a Conserva-
tive dinner this small voice denied that Mr. Dis-
raeli had educated his party. The speaker, for
himself and colleagues said, "We were not
at the great Parliamentary academy of Do the
boys' Hall' (laughter) ; we never were put there, but
we, the members for Devonshire, made the discovery
for ourselves." Sir Lawrence Palk claimed that he
suggested it to the Government and they acted
upon it. (A laugh.) Well, that did not seem to
have been the idea of the Scotch members, who
were a canny sort after their kind. They had seen
how they received the communication at Edinburgh
as to who was the inventor.
"Pleased to the last, they cropped the flowery food,
And licked the hand just raised to shed their blood."
(Laughter.) It was an awkward simile for Not-
tingham, because it referred to a "lamb." (Re-
newed laughter.) He now came to the subject of
himself—a topic on which it was said most men
were eloquent and none agreeable. (Laughter.)
They would ask what course did he pursue on this
bill ? The hon. member proceeded to review his
speeches and votes, dwelling on his opposition to the
scheme for introducing voting papers and for the
representation of minorities, insisting that the
former would do away with all liberty of election,
and that if the latter were to be made serviceable it
should be by Mr. Cobden's plan for " wards," with
single votes for one member. The personal payment
of rates he still looked upon as a most mischievous
thing, and he predicted that they had not yet done
with the compound householder. Lawyers informed
him that where a landlord paid the full share of
rates each tenant might claim his vote without more

trouble, so that they must not be surprised if some
fine morning they found the compound householder
in full resurrection. (Laughter.) The representa-
tion of minorities Mr. Disraeli had previously de-
nounced as a "philosophical scheme," but though
struck out-- the Commons. it-camo.back to.;hem

from the Lords, and by some unaccountable ar-
rangement only known to those who were aware
exactly how the cat jumped in those matters—(a
laugh)—it was actually now the law of the land.
Alluding to the ballot, and his seconding Mr. Ber-
keley's motion on the last occasion, he said he now
contidered that provision imperative, not only to
protect the working men voters from corruption,
but from the pressure of their own class. (Hear,
hear.) Passing on to the subject of trades' unions,
Mr. Osborne gave them a qualified approval, but
uged the plan recommended by Mr. Mundella,
from the six years' experience of the hosiery trade,
of boards of arbitration. And this, he said, brings
me to another subject. It has often been used as
an argument by the obsolete obstructives that we

are going to " Americanise our institutions." That
cry has never deterred me. I believe we may copy
many things from America with advantage. (Hear,
hear.) My anxiety is that we should copy the best.
Now, there is a gentleman who was formerly mem-
ber for this town, Mr. Walter—(hear)--a most ex-
cellent and practical man ; he has lately:made a tour
in America, and what was his experience ? It was
that America is one of the best-educated countries
on the globe. (Hear.) The American standing
maxim is that to fit the people for political power
they must first be educated. (Hear.) I believe

they have schools in every locality answering to

our definition of a parish throughout the country.
Now what is the system in vogue among us? We
have a so-called system of national education, and

very large sums of money are voted to it, but it is

not a national system of education at all, as I shall
prove to you. In the year 1839 it began with a

grant of only £30,000, but it got up in 1864 to the

enormous sum of £BOO,OOO, and if it had not been
for the exertions of a man who last year was not

very popular, and whom I believe to be one of the
very best friends of the working classes, though I
know you will hoot when I name him—Mr. Lowe
—(hisses and cheers)—an honest man, he may be
mistaken, but his exertions in the cause of educa-
tion have made the national education whht it is—

(hear, hear).—and introduced the system of pay-
ment by results ; and he would go much further if
he could, and I say it is owing to his exertions that
a saving has been effected on the vote, while a con-
siderable improvement has at the same time taken
place in the mode of education. (Hear, hear.) Mr.
Osborne proceeded to explain that the Government
had not the power of the initiative ; it could only
supplement voluntary aid after a school had been
started. They had an army of inspectors, but no
Minister of Education, which was the first step to
be taken. He instanced Prussia as an example of

the worth of education, remarking that her recent
victories were owing more to her primers than to her
needle-guns. The feelings of this country would
not tolerate a compulsory.rate, which would put to
flight all the noble religious bodies labouring under
the present denominational system. It was for the
Government in so grave a matter to bring in a
scheme, and for private members to consider it. He
wished religious teaching to be combined with edu-
cation, but considering the number of sects we had,
all hating each other for thelove of God—(laughter)
—he doubted that was impossible. As the next best
thing, he said, give us education pure and simple at
any price. (Hear, hear.) having frankly made
the amende honorable for an error he had committed
in the House of Commons respecting the Notting-
ham School of Art, which, he said, arose from his
strong wish to keep the vote for science and art from
being manipulated by a clique, as was its too strong,
tendency, Mr. Osborne asked what did they sup-
pose would be the action of the new Parliament ?
Whomever they sent as their member, he hoped he
would vote for wiping off church rates, and for a
redistribution of seats, the present arrangement of
which was a farce, and would not last a moment
after the new house had met. On another question,
too, if they wished to preserve the greatness of this
country, they must commission their member to
vote —that of preventing bribery and corruption.
(Hear, hear.) The first effect of the Reform Bill,
he firmly believed, would be to flood the towns with
corruption. Contractors and wealthy men would

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come and buy places wholeiale, . The u would arise
a lamentation, and afterwardOvhen•theilatiOn Was
educated, purity would follow. taear,Dl Tlithon.
gentleman then referred at length to the subject of
Ireland, both in connection with Fenianism and the
Irish Church. He gave a number of statistics as to
the proportions of the Roman Catholic and Protes-
tant population, and the ecclesiastical provision
made for each, and ridiculed the appointment of a
commission to inquire into facts which were patent,
especially remembering, lie said, that the views of
six out of the nine were knutvn beforehand. Ili
the course of a forcible denunciation of Fen..ati-
ism, which he said was a revolutionary element
introduced from America, seeking not reform but
only revolutkn, be protested against Ireland be-
ing ruled by a Vieero:-„ but urged that the Queen
of Ireland should go to Ireland as 'The di I to S,_:it-
land. As Sir T. M•iiiro sail of India, so •of Ireland,
we coul I not hope to govern a country against
whose religion and national sentinitiva we had pre
' judices. He implored them not to let the power of
a few desperadoes to put life amid limb in peril in--
fluence them overinh.:ll. Legislate for the plough
and the Irish peasant, and put down Government
by the revolver at any cost. (Cheers.) They were
about to have an extraordinary meeting of Parlia-
ment, and for an extraordinary purpose. They were
entering into a war with a country of which they
knew little or nothing, and were about, he feared%
to reap the minimum of glory and profit at the ma:4-
mum of cost. (Hear.) Moreover, a grave consti-
tutional question arose as to how far Government
was at liberty to levy war and take troops from tho
Indian establishment, Parliament not sitting, and
never having been asked as to the propriety of that
war,_but merely called together to vote the expenses.
(Heir).- Had they looked into the origin of this
war ? The speaker at great length traced the
matter to the appointment of Mr. Plowden as our
first consul there by Lord Palmerston, in 1848, and
attributed all that has happened to attempts to
promote that cursed thing called " British influ-
ence." Arr. Disraeli had told them the Exchequer
was, " without o'erflowing, full ;" would it be so
after the payment for this war, the bill for which he
himself believed would be three millions ? Would
t':ey like an extra screw of the income-tax, for out
of their pockets it would come ? Sir S. Northcote
rightly protested against India being charged, for
what was Abyssinia to her ? Lord Stanley himself
called it " a miserable war," and it was only that
cheery fellow, Sir J. Pakington, who spoke as if he
were to pique and plume ourselves in the matter.
But they all knew what Sir J. Pakington was. (A
laugh.) He should wait to hear the defence of the
Government, but he thought a grave constitu-
tional question was involved, and he must have
explanations .before he voted a penny for the cost
of an expedition so undertaken. (Hear, hear.)
He concluded by saying that it depended upon
themselves whether he was then standing be-
fore his future constituents. A cry, " You'll
have to take Clifton with you." He was not

opposing Sir Robert Clifton ; he stood there as ho
had stood before, as a perfectly independent candi-
date, and if they thought they could be better served

he would take his farewell. (" No," and cheers.)

An almost unanimous vote of thanks was subse-
quently passed to Mr. Osborne, and the proceed-
ings ended very smoothly.

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