The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

Mr. Lowe and the Working OlasseF.

The following correspondence has been for warded
to us for publication :

" 10, Clarendon-gardens, Maida-vale, W.,
Jan. 1, 1867.
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" Sir,---Believing you will kindly pardon the
liberty I take in thus addressing you, I venture to
do so, not with the presumptuous object of question-
ing the views you have seen fit to take on a subject
of profound irnportince to the present interests and
future welfare of this country, but with the more
simple one of asking, in all earnestness and anxiety,
if the great meetings, unprecedented in numbers,
order, and enthusiasm, held during the recess, have
not induced you to modify your harsh, unjust, and
unfortunate opinions.about the working classes ex-
pressed during the last session of Parliament—
opinions which have tended more than aught else to
rouse a spirit of stern, inflexible resolve, and which,
if allowed to foster among the masses a sense of
wrong and insult, may lead to consequences which
few expect and none desire. But surely you will be
ready to confess that the recent gatherings have been
characterised by uniform decorum and good con-
duct, by an entire absence of drunkenness, violence,
turbulence, and the other vices enumerated by you ;
that on those occasions at least the industrial popu-
lations have evinced an honourable eagerness to
sacrifice time, means, comfort, and convenience in
a cause which they were sufficiently enlightened to
consider sacred and beneficial.

~ As a member of the Reform League Executive,
I should certainly deem it neither wise nor neces-
sary here to indicate the moral to which such ilia-
posing and convincing demonstrations of self-con-
trol and intelligence appear to me unmistakably
actuatedif by mere caprice, the your public utterance have
to point ; but I do unhesitatingly submit that under
theseno circumstances,hithertobeen
moment has arrived when you may well undo what
threatens to be a fatal work, and gracefully retract
accusations which only enemies of English freedom,
English character, and English institutions could
hail with pleasure or satisfaction.

4i Again apologising for thrusting myself upon
your notice and trespassing upon your time,
" I have the honour to remain your obedient,
humble servant, " JosEPH GUISDALLA.
" The Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P."

" 34, Lowndes-square, Jan. 2, 1867.
"Sir,—For many months the Reform League has,
by resolutions, handbills, and speeches, aciused me
of charging the entire working class of this country
with venality, drunkenness, and other miscon-
duct. The passage in my speech of March 13,
1866, on which this accusation professes to be
grounded, only states that such things do unhappily
exist in the constituencies, and that where they do
exist they are to be found among the poorer rather
than the richer voters. A comparison of these two
statements will show—first, that I was speaking of
the constituencieA, not of the working class at large ;
and, next, that I only pointed out where such vena-
lity and other misconduct as does exist is most likely
to be found.

" The Reform League, having thus fastened upon
me assertions which I have not made, has loaded
me with the most virulent abuse, and has striven
to make me an object of the hatred, perhaps a mark
for the vengeance, of my fellow-countrymen.
" With such a body and its leaders, of whom
you appear to be one, I have no courtesies to inter-
change. When I think proper to give an opinion
on the recent popular demonstrations it is not to
the Reform League that I shall offer it.
" You call on me to retract not what I have said,
but your misrepresentation of what I have said.
You can hardly be serious in making such a request.
I decline to accede to it, and leave the case to the
judgment of the country. I shall send this corre-
spondence to the newspapers.
" I am, sir, your obedient servant,
" Joseph Guedalla, Esq." " ROBERT LowE.

ADDITIONAL AlAns TO BOMBAY.—Commencing
with the mails to be despatched from Loudon on the 20th
January, via Southampton, and on the 2Gth January, via
Marseilles, all the correspondence addressed to India (with
the exception of newspapers, book packets, and patterns
of merchandise addressed to the Presidency of Madras or
to Lower Bengal) will, until further notice, be sent to Bom-
bay, the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation com-
pany having, as an experiment, appointed additional steam
vessels to sail from Suez to Bombay, simultaneously with
the packets which leave Suez about the sth and 20th of
each month for Madras and Calcutta. Newspapers, book
packets, and packets of patterns addressed to any place in
the Presidency of Madras or in Lower Bengal, and in-
tended to be sent via Southampton, will continue to be
despatched from Suez by the packets proceeding to Madras
and Calcutta.

MAILS FOR HONDURIS.—The mails for Honduras,
which of late have been forwarded from England by
private ship, will, for the present, be made up on the 2d
and 17th of each month for transmission by regular packet
to Havalinah, and thence to Honduras by a schooner which
will be provided by the colonial Government,