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London, England, 1858-08-12 00:00:00

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TYNEMOTJTH, TUESDAY NIGHT.
To-day has been observed as a general holiday ;in this
town on the occasion of the opening of a new building in
Howard-street for the Mechanics' Institute. It is a hand-
some and spacious edifice, with every requisite for the pro-
motion of popular education in the town and neighbourhood,
and the most satisfectory part of the affair is, that it has
been opened nearly clear of debt. Lord Bury, M.P., and
Mr. Justice Halliburton were to have been present, but the
one was prevented by domestic bereavement, and the other
by a sudden attack of gout from doing so. A long preces-
sion of the members, the seamen of the port, and the Free-
masons escorted Mr. Roebuck, M.P., and Mr. W. Lind-
say, M.P., who arrived by the mid-day train, to the hall,
which was densely crowded. The Mayor presided, and after
a few observations from Mr. Alderman Tiuley, the president
of the Institute, and Mr. Lindsay, M.P.,
Mr. RGEBUCK preceded to deliver the inaugural ad-
dress. Ile said,—My esteemed friend, Mr. Lindsay, told
me, while we were coming down from London, that I was
to-day to deliver an inaugural address. I had hoped and
believed my hon. friend Lord Bury would have performed
that duty, and I have certainly to express my sorrow for his
absence in the first place, and for your disappointment in
the second. For he would have done what I shall feebly
attempt to do, and with far greater effect than I can pretend
to; and he would have done that which he has often done,
viz., he would have thrown himself on the popular stream,
and shown that he was indeed the friend of the country by
manifesting and showing himself the friend of the working-
classes. (Applause.) My friend's wishes are to me com-
mands—(mar, hear)—and, if I am unequal to the task, I
will yet buckle myself to it. (Applause.) Still the task is
not a difficult one. (Hear.) I have to point out to you the
great advantages which you may derive from this inslitu-
tion-L-(hear, hear)—an institution which I am told is in
reality what it is called—namely, a mechanics' institution.
Hitherto these institutions, intended for mechanics, have
been sustained and maintained by very different classes ;
they have, in this class, shown themselves wiser than in the
mechanical classes—(hear, hear)—aud I will tell you why.
They ,have shown that the estimation, the value, I may say
the pricelessness of learning, as compared with any physical
enjoyment, that intellectual pleasure is tenfold in magni-
tude. (Hear, hear, and applause.) In the first place, it is
longer in its continuance—(hear)—it is not dependent
upon circumstances; it is more perennial—(hear, hear)—
and it never palls. (Hear, hear.) Let me by a homely illus-
tration mark to you what I intend you should know—what
I mean. But, first of all, let me tell you, that when speak-
ing of the pleasures of intellectual exertion, I do not dwell
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sphere. Now, the great pleasure in intellectual exertion is,
not that it raises a man above his sphere, but that it makes
him happy iu it. (Loud applause.) I know that we are
told that learning and knowledge are a greati distinction ;
unhappily they are. But as knowledge becomes more ge-
neral among the people the distinction will cease—(hear)—
and we shall see that as the multitude improve in knowledge
the great advantages that are bestowed upon knowledge will
apparently be taken from them. (Hear, hear.) What is com-
mon to all is no distinction—(hear, hear)--and I hope that
the time may come when the working men of England may
be learned men—(hear, hear, and applause)—and that they
may not be as now dependent upon physical enjoyment to
render their lives happy. (Loud applause.) Now, let me,
as I was about to say, by a very homely illustration,
mark to you the advantages that I fancy may be derived
from intellectual enjoyment. I will suppose two men
about to take a walk in the fields on a summer's day;
the one an ignorant man; but suppose that he possesses
health, strength, and youth. He goes out into the
fields, and, as far as that walk is concerned, he pro-
cures physical enjoyment; but with the walk his enjoyment
ends. But let the man of knowledge go out—let us suppose
him to be equally endowed with youth, strength, and health.
The very flowers beneath his feet, if he be a botanist, will be
a source of enjoyment—the very stones upon which he treads
will be a book to him; and as Hugh Miller found a stone
quarry a learned volume, the very road will be to him a
source of enjoyment. (Applause.) If he be an agriculturist,
he looks round and sees fields teeming with wealth, and de-
rives enjoyment from knowing how the wealth is produced;
if he he a statesman, and have the knowledge with which a
statesman ought to be possessed, he looks round him and
sees a thriving people learning to make this life the means
of human enjoyment, and sees before and around him hap-
piness which is proverbial. (Hear.) Well then, I say, com-
pare the pleasures of these two men, simply walking upon
the road upon a summer's day; the one derives a certain de-
gree of pleasure that may be got by good health, and there
his enjoyment ends. But the other man goes back to his
closet, and there he reads in his mind books that he has
dwelt upon, anti at every step he derives happiness from this
walk. Well then, i say—and I am speaking what I wish to
speak to the working men—what are your present pleasures?
Why, as I have told my constituents often, "You talk to
me about your great regard for the franchise. You do not
regard it at all ;" and they were in a great rage with me—
(laughter)--" because," I said, " were you to cut off a pot of
beer a week you might live in a £lO house. (Applause.)
You won't do it, and therefore it is that you don't care about
the franchise." (Loud applause.) Well, then, I would say
is the wot king classes, let them forego these wretched phy-
sical enjoyments which pall upon the senses, which rob a
man or that which distinguishes him above all other ani-
mals—viz., bis reason—let him forego those horrible, those
wretched places, and let him come to such a building as
this. (Loud appiause.) But it does not cease there. There
are pleasures derived from knowledge which are not merely
the intellecuttal pleasures I am speaking of. There are =oral
pleasures. For depend upon it no man can be really a good
man who is an ignorant man. (Hear, hear.) Now, that is
a bold thing to say, but depend upon it it is true. (Hear,
bear.) I have no doubt that Hildebrand and St. Dominic
fancied they were doing good when they were destroying
human beings. I have no doubt the wretched King of
Naples fancies lie is doing good—(" hear," and a laegh)—
when he is treating his unfortunate subjects with all the
horrors with which he does treat them. Why is this ? Be-
cause virtue is made up of two things—you must wish to do
good, and you mast know how to do it. (Applause.) It is
not enough to wish and intend good things, you ought to
know what things are good. Time Spaniards have an old
proverb, which I will just quote, though it begins with a
word which is not generally mentioned to ears polite, " Hell
is paved with good intentions." (Hear.) The gi eater part
of mankind intend well, but they don't know how to du
well. They persecute, they are intolerant, they turn round
upon their fellow-man because he differs from them on some
simple matter about which they are both equally ignorant.
(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) They pinch his unfortunate
flesh with red hot Irons because he differs from them. (Hear,
hear.) Knowledge, and knowledge alone, will do away with
this, and as men become learned, and appreciate the value
of knowledge, they will learn to be tolerant, and thus they
will know that the human mind, fully and fairly employed
—many minds being employed on the same object—arrives
at differeat conclusions, and if honestly arrived at they
ought not to be persecuted. (Applause.) Therefore, I say,
that a really good man cannot be made out of an ignorant
man. He may intend well ; he may have all the wishes to
be good man, but he has not the intelligence ; he dces not
know what is good; tie will be a persecutor; he will be a
bigot ; he will be a bad man, although intending to be a
good one. (Loud applause.), There is one more thing that I
intend to speak of, and I reserve it for the last. Every
man has his hobby, and I have mine. (Laughter.) MY
hobby is politics—(loud laughter)—but don't be alarmed
(turning to Mr. Lindsay) I am not going to talk politics here.
(Laughter.) Depend upon it that no people that are igno-
rant can govern themselves, and no people who do not govern
themselves will be well governed. (Hear. hear.) The con-
clusion is obvious ; and I hope my hon. friend will forgive
my politics—(laughter)—for the conclusion is obvious—
namely, that in order to obtain political power you must ob-
tain knowledge.. (Hear, hear.) I do not believe that a nation
which is instructed could possibly suffer as I see nations now
suffering. (Hear.) I do not believe that if the poor Neapo-
litan people were as well instructed as the English people,
King Bombe could play the pranks that be now plays. So,
again, I believe that if the great mass of the French popula-
tion were equal to their literary men, that the sight we now
see could not be seen. No, the people would rise up as one
man and vindicate to themselves the right to govern them-
selves. (Hear, hear.) They would be enabled to speak the
thought that is in them without being punished for so doing.
(Hear, hear, and applause.) There would be intelligence
throughout the land, and with intelligence happiness.
(Loud applause.) Well then, let me point out another thing.
The age in which we live has been marked by greater im-
provements than any age of man's history. My grandfather
was the first patentee of Watt's steam-engine. (Applause
and " Hear.") From his time to the present what has the
steam-engine done? It makes our clothing, it carries Us
across the ocean, it prints our book., it ploughs our fields, it
thrashes our corn—in fact, it will do everything for us by
and by. (Laughter and applause.) But why have the im-
provements taken place so rapidly at the present day ? Be-
cause many minds are applied to improvement. (Hear.)
In times past a man's mind might perhaps arrive at some
grand conclusion, from which improvements might spring,
but his was a solitary mind. Then the work was evoked by
one mind alone; but now, when one man is doing a certain
work, a thousand men are doing the same thing., and a
thousand intellects may be applied to the improvements of
science, and are so applied to the great improvements of
modern times.
Mr. LINDSAY (holding up a piece of the Atlantic cable)
—The electric telegraph
Mr. RonnucK—My hon. friend has just reminded me
of one of the most marvellous results of the intelligence of
the present day. (Hear, hear.) My hon, friend and
myself went to Cherbourg. We went there to see a sight,
and a sight we did see—(great laughter)—and while we
were there we heard of a greater feat than any that we saw.
We learned that the electric telegraph had beets laid in the
depths of the sea between Newfoundlaud and Ireland. (Ap-
plause.) That was a feat of human intellect; perhaps the
greatest that man's intellect ever has made, At that Very
time we were listening to the thunders of artillery—we shw
two great potentates—we saw:their kind kisses, (Laughter.)
We saw that—how much there was in that for the happi-
ness of mankind—but that was a negative happiness. It was
because they did not do any mischief. (Laughter.) The
electric telegraph is a positive good. It binds us to America
—it brings us nearer to our great offspring thereaand it
makes 119, as it were, one people. (Applause.) This is done
by human intelligence. You have in this town known a
man who owed much to the gifts of nature but knew *hat
it was to want learning, and to lack the benefit of instruc-
tion. I mean George Stephenson. That man was a great
man, who was self-cultivated. Now, any than has better
means than George Stephenson ever enjoyed, for he was 18
years of age before he could write. Then you have books,
you have courees of instruction, yon have the means of he=
(miring knowledge • by tilt means you will forward the
happiness, not merely of yourselvea, but of the country in
which you live. (Loud applause.) You may enjoy political
power—you may enjoy intellectual exertion—you may be
what you were intended to be, " the noblest work of God."
(Loud applause.) -But until you are blest with knowledge
you are not a noble creature. (Applause.) I know nothing
that strikes me with a feeling of humility and awe equal to
seeing a drunken man—except a drunken woman. I thinke
there is a being who by God was intended to be a rational
creature, and for a few moments of fiery enjoyments he has
robbed himself of that which distinguisbes him from a brute
—(applause)—aad the brutes are much wiser, for they
never get drunk. Depend upon it I tell you an honest truth
when I tell you that the best means of rescuing people
from the evils and the horrors of intemperance is not by
a Maine Liquor Law—(bear, bear)—but by institutions like
the present. (Applause.) I dare say that may be a very un..
popular doctrine—(" No, no")—but popularity, is not sought
fer by mg. (LAughtor end ppplAuso.) Mis Le riv pplu4ov

and, as it is a habit of mine to say what I think, I say the
Maine Liquor. Law will not do so much to withdraw the
working population of England from the horrors of inebriety
and intemperance- as institutions like the present. (Loud
applause.) The persons most deeply indebted for institu-
tions like these are the working men themselves ; and I
would entreat of them—for I am their friend, and I thinly I
have always shown it—l would entreat of them to put their
shoulders to the wheel and support an institution like this,
and to say, as my hon. friend here said, raise the number of
the members from 300 to 1,000, and then I shall believe the
working men of Sht.ffield not only deseiving to have power,
but I know they will obtain it. (Applause.) [The Mayor—
Of Shields, you mean.] (Laughter.) I mean of Fidel Is.
I believe you are of the same stamp; nay mind runs after
my own love, you see—(laughter)—but it is not a had sign
in a man. (Laughter.) 1 feel. I have occupied your time
too much—(" No, no")--and our time is short; ha the
words I utter are words which I feel. (Hear,bcar,) Ido
not utter them as mere phrases and lip rhetotie, thee come
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from my tart. (Applause.) They are the result of ion; ex-
perience, for I have fought the battle of life—(aeplau e)—
has given me—namely, a mind to
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understand His excellence and the world's beauty. (Loud
applause.) Depend upon ins when I tell you, that in
that you will find the purest source of enjoyment—never
dying, never palling, continuous and ever increasing. (The
hon, member resumed his seat amid great applause.)
At a crowded soiree held in the Albion Assembly Rooms
in the evening, Mr. Alderman Tinley presiding, Mr. Roe-
buck and Mr. Lindsay delivered addresses.
Mr. LINDSAY said—Mr. President and ladies and gentle-
men—On such an occasion as the present it would ill become
me to occupy your time at any length, considering that my
esteemed friend Mr. Roebuck has been pleased to join me
here this evening. Knowing his power of language, know-
ing his extensive knowledge, and knowing that if there is
any one particular branch in which he does excel it is in the
knowledge of the people and the appliances of education,
upon which be is so much more conversant than loit would
as I have said, be idle for me to occupy your, time. I have
therefore been turning over in my mind how I should best
occupy your attention, and I have thought that I could not
do better than give you a short account of my trip to Cher-
bourg. (Applause.) Considering that the leading representa-
tives of the press of London were there, and that they gave,
as they generally do, a very graphic description of that
splendid fete, you may think it presumptuous in me to enter
upon the subject, but the fete was connected with subjects
with which I am familiar—subjects with which you, as a
maritime people, are connected ; and I, as a member of the
House of Commons, had an opportunity of seeing things
from which the press in England would not have been
excluded, but from which, I am afraid, the press of Eng-
land in France were excluded. Well, then, the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Company having been good enough
to place at the disposal of the House of Com-
mons one of their magnificent steamers, we proceeded to
Cherbourg. My first impression on entering that great har-
bour was very different from what it was when I left it.
On entering the harbour I saw a very different display com-
pered with that I saw at Spithead. I refer tq the number of
ships. Considering that France had made very great exer-
tions to make a grand naval display I was disappointed with
the number of ships which I saw in the bay of Cherbourg.
There was one line-of-battle ship, the Bretagne, and there
were eight two-decked ship,. The ships, as a whole, struck
me as very inferior to our own. In number they were no-
thing to those which were moored at Spithead at our naval
review. The harbour, vvh-n we entered it, was, compara-
tively speaking, empty. Therefore the sight did not make
the impression upon me I expected. But as the harbour
began to fill with ships, on which I was proud to see
waving the English flag, the French harbour of Cherbourg
began to have a different appearance. (Hear, hear.) And
when her Majesty entered that harbour in the beautiful
Victoria ':yacht, followed by that magnificent vessel the
Royal Albert, that splendid two-decker the Renown, and
four of the handsomest frig des I ever set my eyes upon,
and when the forts on every side began to fire their salvos
and thunder forth their salutes, the sight was a very im-
posing one. Through the courtesy of the Admiral of the
French fleet—and it is only fair to acknowledge the courtesy
of the Adinira+—owing to his courtesy we were allowed to
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somewhat dry for a few minutes, and, as I don't find that the
press have called attention to the fact, I wish to call atten-
tion to t ie harbour of Cherbourg as compared with our
largest harbour. The largest harbour we have is that of
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of 72 acres. It has two basins, with an area of six acres each.
It has three large dry docks, and it has the usual number of
storehouses and workshops of various kinds. Now, mark the
contrast with Cherbourg. Cherbourg occupies an area of no
less than 220 acres—(hear, hear)—an area three times larger
than our largest dockyard will be when completed. It has
three basins, one containing 15 acres of water, another con-
taiuiugl6 acres, and the third containing 20 acres of water
—five tines the water space of Keyham. Each of these has
30 feet of water at low tides. Along the quay walls of these
basins 25 of the largest line-of-battle ships could be moored
head and stern. Running in connexion with the dockyard
is the railway to Paris and the whole of the interior of
France. Down that line of railroad, the opening of welch
formed part of the sights to be seen at the great fete—down
that railway could be whirled in a day the army of France;
100,000 men could be marched from the interior to the rail-
way station, and from the railway station right on board
ships of war, at any time of the tide, and these ships could
sail at any time of the tide. Naw, there is something very
striking in all this, aid I said to myself, "What can all this
mean?" Docks, forts, and a railway which could bring
100,0U0 men down to Cherbourg, and at a moment's notice,
as it were, carry them to the shores.of England. But when
I looked over the ships and compared them with our own
ships, I said to myself, " You may bring your soldiers down
to your dockyards, but before you can get them to England
you must command the Channel, and you must have a dif-
ferent class of ships from what you now have." I thought it
my duty to examine the ships. I accordingly went on board
tke Bretagne, and examined her with Sir C. Napier. Site
struck me as a very magnificent ship indeed. I afterwards
went on bawd our own Royal Albert, a ship not so large as
the Bretagne, but of a similar class. My feeling after the
inspection of both vessels was this—the Bretagne and the
other vessels there may be very fine ships, but if both of
them were manned by Frenchmen I would prefer to be on
board the Royal Albert, for I believe she would soon sink
the others. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) When I looked
at the sailors—those who got up to the trucks of the masts
(while the Frenchmen could get no higher than the yards),
and there waved the flag of England with one hanJ, stand-
ing on one leg and swinging the ether to and fro—l thought
the Royal Albert would not be long in making short work of
the Bretagne. (Laughter and applause.) When, further, I
looked at what was perhaps one of the most magnificent
sights I ever saw, between 300 and 400 beautiful yachts, the
property of English noblemen, manned by 3,000 or 4,000
of the finest sailors in England, the magnificent ships be-
longing to that company who were good enough to give us
a free passage to Cherbourg—when I thought that they
were not more than one-half of the ships owned by the same
company—when I looked to the maritime habits of our peo-
ple—when I looked at the fine class of fellows who "E-
-mended them, the stalwart forms of the noblemen and gen-
tlemen of England at the helm, and recellected that these
gentlemen could fight in the hour of need as well as their
sailors—when I looked at the skill and knowledge of the
people to which my esteemed friend referred this morning,
I said to myself, " Well,
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a,tftohanemnatvudiegswiha,:ndt
from France, even though she have her mighty dockyards
yioicetchashffriairsneengmandraug:lo—sehtnefatetanleaerdir:l
tinhavtiew—
you, for we must not despise our neighbours—France in the
constructionulterior
object of f
t e rmighty arsenal, must have had some
British vessels left Cherbourg that mighty dockyard must
(bear, hear)—because when the
have been almost deserted. And it struck me, "What
object can France have had in view in constructing such a
mighty arsenal and such immense forts?" Why, depend
upon it, she did not build them unless she had some idea of
building ships to put into them. (Hear, hear.) It is a
very melancholy fact, and I for one regrkdeeply regret,
that a feeling of doubt on the part of one nation towards
another should have arisen ; but we cannot shut our eyes to
the great fact we have seen, that there is one timing in which
we are deficient. We have abundance of seamen—we are
a maritime people—but in the hour of emergency we have
bad a difficulty in obtaining seamen to man our ships.
(Hear.) But I am happy to tell you this evening—for
I think it is time only difficulty we have now to contend
with—'hat the Government are now zealously devoting
themselves to this question. (Applause.) They have ap-
pointed a Royal Commission, of which I have the honour to
be a member, and I do hope, as the result of our labours,
that a plan will be prepared which will remove the only
thing which we have to fear—the manning of our ships in
the hour of need. (" Hear, )near, and cheers.) Mr. Presi-
deat and gentlemen, one word before I conclude. I referred
"
to the fact that one great secret of our strength was our
knowledge. lam sure Napoleon himself, when he sailed
must have
and build great dockyards, and even launch great ships of
saidt ro h withinthahti
s own harbour
mind, and o !In spmeacyte d
create his ships,
m lg t y
arsenals
war, but I can never make my people a great maritime
ncan
nthose get them to own such magnificent
mI see around me now, unless I can
getactri
co
i ya;ti
and gentry to turn their attention more
nation
tu n
shipsless I
nobility
a
earnestly to yachting and kindred pursuits, it is vain for me
to attempt to rival England as a maritime people, as vain as
it would be fdr England to attempt to rival the great nations
of Europe as a military people.'' (Hear bear, and applause.)
But he must have felt too that another great source of our
wealth was our knowledge, the skill of time working classes,
the industry of our artisans—that industry which was en-
couraged by the opening of such institutions as these—
which encouraged onwards those hardy sons of toil, who,
after all, are the true secret of a nation's wealth and a na-
tion's power, (Applause.) These men, ladies and gentle-
men—it is these meg, the mechanics, the hard-working,
Industrious mechanics of this country which have made Eng-
land what site is—great and powerful throughout the nations
of the earth. (Loud and prolonged applause.)
Mr. ROEBUCK was received with great enthusiasm. He
said,—Mr. President, after the melodious sounds you have
the Ong of a nightingale, but I will endeavour to stick into
heard, my voice will sound like the croak of a crow after
that arid sound some intelligence that shall attract your
attention. My bon. friend has told you that we went
both of us upon an expedition to Cherbourg. We did so.
He went there as a learned man, I went there utterly
ignorant of
ac what I went tohear. see. (Lau
wegnthtether.)
re He
as a seasick
went there
landsman. (Loud and continued laughter.) But las a practical railor—()—l
em-
ployed my eyes and used my intelligence, and I saw there
a mighty armament. I saw there countless guns upon
it. They' In
sham from'beginning to end. There was no life in
Itwas a
innumerable forts; but I saw no industry. (Hear, }ear.)
for aggression. (r.—
sy be powerful for defence—they are nothing
•e, eel., bear.) So far as defence went, for us
do not intend to attack t hem.
attackthem us and they
they were nothing, for v...
will find the difference. (Hear, heap.,
sailor
man saw that—(laughter and applause—and the:movig
(Laughter and applause.) But
1 Time seasick
verifies the statement. (Applause.) He went there,
I, with
about the deck as if the deck were pot inmsoolln_n_
arrive at last, when
on fleck, Nosing
" got there I found. wy Mad staullOg
my bead upon my pillow, thinking when I b uldt3ar. rise at
Cherbourg. (Laughter.) We did

his arms, with furrowed brow, at looking at those mighty
forts. He went away and came back, and I thought his
heart was in his mouth. (Laughter.) I said, " Why,
Lindsay, what have you seen ?" He says, " I have seen
something that has terribly astounded me." I saw him next
morning, after he had gone to the Royal Albert, awl then
he was himself again—the man's heart was in its right place
-7-(laughter)—he was no longer afraid. I, as a poor lands-
man, thonght, '1 What are these people to do? 'There is a
mighty .force of forts; there are a sight of poor ships."
Evan for a landsman I discovered that. I think my learned
friend will signify the same • they were poor ships. And
Caen I saw, scattered over ;hat mighty basin, the flag of
England upon every mast—(applause)--and I saw yachtmen
—three, five, or six, or seven thousand men. I want on
shore, and what did I see there ? I saw men in pegtop
trousers—(laughter)—they iput me very much in mind
of Cochin China fowls. (Loud laughter.) I saw priests
and women—and very ugly women too. (Laughter.)
Well, then, I said to myself, is there a man among
them who dare say his soul is his own 1 A man next
door said to me," Take care, and mind what you are nbaut;
the French colonels will be after you. Yeu are not in Eng-
land now. " No, I said, " I know that perfectly well,
but still I will speak out what I think." He s id, ".You
will do it at year own risk," and I did it at my own risk.
(Laughter.) But I waS tadt in England, and recollect there
is a great difference between being able to say that your
soul is your own and not daring to speak above your breath
—(hear, he
I will never believe until see It, and I
don't think I shall tee it in this world, that a set of intelli-
gent, free-spoken, free-hearted, strongfrom ab-armed, and hard-
fisted men will succumb to any terror r (Ap-
plause.) My hon. friend evidently went with the foregone
conclusion in his mind, and I had a foregone conclusion in
my mind. I know my hon. friend objects to politics, and
won't speak a word of them. And when I say that, under-
stand that it is a Parliamentary phrase, and I shall talk po-
litics immediately. (Loud laughter.) But this I will say,
that England has been insulted ; England's Parliament vin-
dicated her;_ and we have had Cherbourg fkes to make up.
(Laughter.) I am perfectly willing to acknowledge all that,
but with my hon. friend I cannot help feeling and thinking
that there is something behind. What is all this for?
If I go down to Liverpool I see dock after dock full of
merchantmen, I see them coming in from all parts, float-
ing into that basin in every breath of heaven, laden to the
very brim with the world's produce. That is England.
But at Cherbourg I saw nothing of the sort. I saw a
solitary 90-gun ship ready to be launched upon a Sunday
(laughter)—and that was France. (Laughter.) That is the
difference between England and France. Depend upon it,
we who are here need not be alarmed by anything that my
friend has seen—PD.. Lindsay.—" Hear, hear.")—while we
have institutions like the present. And new I come to the
moral of my tale. Depend upon it, that while you have
stalwart arms—that while you have clear-thinking
youheads—
e ee
rws)il—t h 1
lneede tot fearcom no
fr;oems p oFt
rtahnacte. theor worldA u Austria,
rodrs (l oud
h Naples.
The free soil of England, washed by the free ccean that is
arming her guarded by her sailors, is free against the world
in
rannaosu. t (:oCrine eorrs;o)
vr a Rba
uu
gt
hat
epro oar
nedr e acthuereer,4e t
DI
ecpoeunl
dd
upon it, every man, woman, and child among us know what
we have in England—we have freedom here. (Cheers.)
We should lose that freedom if we were conquered by any-
body from abroad ; we should cease to be England—we
should cease to be the head of the world, which we now are.
We hold up to nations a torch that they see in darkness,
and, inaamuch as their darkness is greater than our light,
the more brilliant is our illumination. Well, then, my
friends, depend upon yourselves—(hear, hear)—depend upon
your intelligence, depend upon institutions like these' and
every despot in Europe will tremble, as they do now, at your
name. (Cheers.) You are England, you stand at the head
of civilization, and you need not be alarmed at any Cher-
bourg. You are England, against the world in arms. (Loud
cheers.) . .

SPORTING 1N TELLiGENCE.

RENDING RACES-WEDNESDAY.

THE BOROUGII PLATE ef 2,5 so s, added to a Sweepstakes
of 3 sous each, for two-year-olds and upwards; the winner
to be sold for 80 sovs, Sce. Half a mile.
Lord Coventry's My Niece, by Cowl, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b
(Bray) 1
Mr. W. Day's filly, by Tadmor—Matilda, 2 yrs, Gst
(P. Adams) 2
Mr. W. Turner's Lainstone, 2 yrs, GA 71b ....(Custance) 3

The following also ran :
Mr. Leapingwell's Caste Diva, 2 yrs, Est 4lb (T. Fordham).
Mr. Taylor's Parole, 4 yrs, Bst 51b (Flatman).
Mr. Craven's Badsworth, 4 yrs, Bst 811) (Bates).
Mr. Mellish's The Giant, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (J. Goatee).
Mr. Dray's Little Gerard, aged, Bst 111 b (A. Cowley).
Mr. Saxon's Dulcirea, 2 yrs, Est 41b (Cooper).
Betting-2 to 1 agst Badsworth, 4to 1 agst My Niece,
7 to 1 agst any other (off.). The start was delayed upwards
of half an hour. My Niece refused to go near her horses,
but after much time was cut to waste, the flag was lowered.
Won cleverly by three quarters of a length; ahead between
the second and third ; Little Gerard and Badsworth were
next ; the Giant was a bad fifth ; the rest tailed away.
THE EASTHAMPSTEAD PARK STAKES (Handicap) of 5
toys each, with 50 added ; winners extra. One mile and
a quarter. 16 subs.
Mr. Gulliver's Verona, by Orlando, 4 yrs, Gst 71b (Roberts) 1
Mr. J. Edwards' Relare, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (Knight) 2
Mr. S. Williams' Lucca della Robbie, 3 yrs, 6st..(Perry) 3
The following also ran :
Col. Martyn's Nereus, 4 yrs, Sat 71b (Plumb).
Hr. F. Higgins' Laodamia, 4 yrs, 84 ulb (Cresswell).
Mr. Saxon's Princess Royal, 3 yrs, 7st (Snowden).
Lord Clifclen's Schismatic, 3 yrs, Get 1211) (Bray).
Capt. Vaasittart's Adeliz, 3 yrs, sst 711) (W. Bottom).
Mr. J. Evans' Fanny Booth, 3 yrs, sst 7lb (A. Edwards).
Betting-3 to I agst Verona, 4to 1 agst Relapse (offered),
and 6to 1 agst Schismatic. Won by a length and a-half;
a brad between the second and third ; Princess Royal was
a bad fourth; the others, with the exception of Nereus, who
was pulled up, finished in a cluster.
TIIE BERKSHIRE STAKES (Handicap) of 20 sous each,
h ft, and 5 only if declared, &c., with 100 added; the
second to save his stake. Abaut two miles. 34 subs, 11
of whom pay 5 sot's each.
Lord Ailesbury's Compromise, by Alarm, 3 yrs, sst 101 b
(Pritchard) 1
Mr. T. Parr's Odd Trick, 4 yrs, Tat Sib (Charlton) 2
Mr. G. Drew na All's Lost (late The Dupe) 5 yrs, 7st 2lb
(Knight) 3
Mr. Saxon's Queen Bess, 4 yrs, Sit 21b (Grimshaw) 4
Mr. H. Stone's Arcanum, 3 yrs, 4st 101b...(A. Edwards) 5

Betting—Even on Odd Trick ; 5 to 2 agst Queen Bess ;
6 to 1 each agst All's Lost and Arcanum; 7 to 1 agst Com-
promise. Won by a head, bad third, a wide interval be-
tween each of the others ; Compromise swerved at the

finish.
THE ABBEY STAICES of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 50 added;
for two-year-olds; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; allow-
ances and penalties. About five furlongs. 20 subs.
Mr. T. Stevens's Ardour, by Archy, Bst 71b (Wells) 1
Mr. J. Clark's filly by Windhound Elcot's dam, 7st 131 b
(Fordham) 2
Lord Clifden's Brother to Chanoinesse, Bst 21b....(8ray) 3
Mr. T. Bell's Marseillaise, Bst 71b (in 31b ex)..(Grimmer 4
Mr. Merry's Miss Finch, Bst 41b (Sopp).
Betting-6 to son Ardour; 4to 1 agst Marseillaise;
100 to 15 each agst Brother to Chanoinesse and the Elcot's
dam filly; 100 to 12 agst Miss Finch. The favourite
made all the running, and won by three-quarters of a length,
half a length between the second and third; bad fourth.
Miss Finch, who was very fractious at the post, did not get
off; she once fell into the river, but was remounted.
THE LADIES' PLATE of 30 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes
of 3 sovs each, for two-year-olds and upwards ; optional
selling weights, &e. About five furlongs. 13 subs.
Lord Ailesbury's Rosins, by Orlando, 2 yrs, sst 51b, £5O
(W. Bottom) t 1
Mr. W. Day's Syria, 2 yrs, sst 51b, £50...(F. Adams) t 2
Mr. T. Stevens's Boundaway, 3 yrs, Gst 131 b, £3O (Roberts) 3
The following also ran :
Mr. Formby's Temple Bar, 2 yrs, sst 41b, £3O (A. Edwards)
Mr. Griffith's Leo, 4 yrs, Bst 11b, £5O (Hayward).
Mr. Knowle's Johnny, 3 yrs, Est 131 h, L3O (Smith).
Mr. John's Moses, aged, Bst 51b, £3O (Bush).
Mr. Mellish's Yeas, 3 yrs, Gst 131 b, £3O (Snowden).
Mr. Land's colt, by Filbert—Lady Blanche, 2 yrs, sst 81b,
£5O (Ducker).
Mr. Sherring's Halliford, 2 yrs, sst 41b, £3O (Parsons).
Mr. Mellish's Minster, 2 yrs, sst 131 b, £BO, (Custance).
Mr. Evans's Fanny Kaye, 3 yrs, Gst 131 b (L3O).
Betting-5 to 2 agst Temple Bar, 3to 1 agst Syria, 6to
1 agst Rosina. Syria and Rosins ran a dead heat ; Bound-
away was a bad third. Minster and Johnny, who ran home
abreast, were next clear of Mr. Stevens's colt.
DECIDING HEAT.—Betting-2 to 1 on Syria. The
non-favourite made all the running, and won by three-
quarters of a length. The winner was sold to Mr. W. May
for 165 guineas.
THE NURSERY PLATE (Handicap) of 60 sovs. One mile.
Mr. J. Evans's Clara Webster, by Gameboy, Gst 71b
(A. Edwards) 1
Mr. R. King's filly by Orlando—Twitter, Est 71b
(Hibberd) 2
Mr. Stinton's Table Bay, 7st 31b (Ducker) 3
The following horses also ran :
Mr. White's Burlington, Bst 71b (J. Goater).
Mr. J. Lawe's Wild Rose, 7st 121 b
Mr..l. Edward's Nucleus, 7st 91b (smith).
Mr. S. Day's Odd Fellow, 7st 31b (Perry).
Major lloustoun's Broadbrim, 7st 31b (Cresswen).
Mr. T. Stevens's Yellow Rose, '7st 21b Roberts).
Mr. W. Barrett's Shuffle, 7st 21b (Andrews).
Mr. S. Williams's Blackmail, 7st 21b (Fordham).
Mr. S. Thellusson's Orleans 7st (French).
(car. Sat) (Wells).
Mr. Saxon's Lily, Est 111 b (iSnowden).
Mr. A. Douglas's Ochiltree, 6s. 91b (T. W. Fordham).
Betting-3 to 1 agst Wild Rose, 4to 1 agst Black Mail,
5 to 1 agst Clara Webster, and 10 to 1 agst any other—
offered. Clara Webster came out at the distance, and won
by eight lengths; same distance between the second and
third; Nucleus, Wild Rose, and Odd Fellow were next.
BETTING ON THE COURSE.
EBOR HANDICAP.

SlO ttoo 1 agst. gst. hetprßtyoßm ay Candle-taken.
At one time as much as 10 to 1 was offered agst Roman
Candle.

ST. LEGER.
5 to 1 agst. Fitz Roland—taken.
6to 1 Toxophilite—taken.
Toxophilite was backed for nearly £l,oeo at the odds
quoted.

DERBY.
20 to 1 agst. Merryman—taken.
22 to 1 Electric—taken.
25 to 1 Graccbus—taken.
40 to 1 Schuloff—taken.
40 to 1. -.4 • fAtinroo4-44ken.
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