The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-21 00:00:00

made for the health and advantages of the popula
tion—(applause)—showing us that amidst the pur-
suit of wealth this great, high, and sacred purpose
has not been, and again I venture to prophesy under
such auspices, will not be, forgotten. (Applause.)
Well, my lord duke and gentlemen, under those
circumstances I ask you to drink prosperity to the
town and trade of Barrow, certainly in no spirit of
rivalry to any other place. There have been cases
in which discoveries most useful to men have had a
prejudicial effect upon particular places and parti-
cular parts of the community. We have seen the
woollen trade transferred from the south and west
to the north and east. We have not seen, but our
fathers have seen, the iron trade which dwelt in the
southern and south-eastern counties of England
finding its way hone in the centre and in the north,
and in Scotland and in Wales ; but it is a pleasing
circumstance to reflect that those useful changes
which, in an earlier stage of commercial develop-
ment, were attended with a heavy drawback and
serious calamity afflicted in particular places, 113 w
appears to go forward without any such drawback.
These resources of trade and capital have been so
much increased, as well as the channels into which
they can be turned, that the communications between
those channels and those communications are so much

improved that there is no fear now, when any ono
place assumes a bold front, and boasts of extraordi-
nary progress in some branch of industry—there
is no fear that other places competing in the
same branch of industry will suffer. (Hear,
hoar.) The result is the cheapening of com-
modities, the stimulating of invention, and the
throwing of all places back on their own resources,
and teaching them to study how to avoid the waste
which a too great plenty of natural gifts and trea-
sures may have encouraged, as has undoubtedly been
the case in some of the mining districts of England ;
and in this way we find that the multiplication of
those points and centres of production necessitates
saving, applies a beneficial stimulus, and ends in
rather an increased prosperity to those centres of
production, which at first sight would seem likely to
suffer. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, gentlemen, I ask
you to answer to this toast. I ask you, men of
Barrow, to answer to it ; and I ask the men
of other places besides Barrow, to answer to
it with the same cordiality and enthusiasm. (Hear,
hear.) Some say Barrow will become a Liverpool.
Let it become a Liverpool if it will, and old Liver-
pool will be none the worse, but the better for its
being so. As a Liverpool man myself, I cordially
ask other Liverpool men to join in drinking
prosperity to the town and trade of Barrow. lam
permitted, gentlemen, to close my remarks in the
most appropriate manner by calling upon a gentle-
man to acknowledge the toast, who is second to
none in this room in competency to do it, from the
part which he has taken in promoting prosperity to
the trade and town of Barrow—namely, Mr. Rams-
den. (Loud applause.)
The MAYOR of Barrow (Mr. Ramsden) briefly
responded.
The LORD PROVOST of Glasgow then gave the
toast of " The Two Houses of Parliament," which
was well received.

The Duke of BUCCLEUCII (vice-chairman) re-
sponded on behalf of the Upper House.
Colonel WILSON PATTEN, in replying for the
Lower House, expressed his conviction that the
leadership of such men as the leaders of the great
parties in the House, notwithstanding any little
conflicts of opinion that might arise, would result
beneficially to the country.
The town was illuminated during the evening in
honour of the great event of the day, the great fea'
ture in the illumination being a blazing pyramid of
tar barrels on Walney Island.