The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-29 00:00:00

SIR ROBERT PEEL, ALP., AT TAAIEVORTiI.

At a dinner given to Mr. F. Ruffe, the Mayor o
Tamworth, on Wednesday night, Sir ROBERT PEEL,
in reply to the toast of the " Borough Members,"
delivered a speech, in the course of which, having
referred with satisfaction to the part he took in
assisting to pass the present Reform Bill, he touched
upon the Abyssinian expedition, expressing his
opinion that there was not a man in that room who
would not approve the course of the Government in
vindicating the honour of their country, which had
been insulted by outrages to its representatives by
a foreign Sovereign. (Hear, hear.) Still it was a
deplorable expedition, and one that might go fur-
ther than any of them anticipated ; but he did not
think, so far as his information went, that the Go-
vernment could have done otherwise than attempt
the undertaking. He next went on to say that he
was one of these who had no apprehensions of
danger on account of the extension of the suffrage.
(Hear, bear.) He had been all along in favour of
a ratepaying franchise. He voted last year in
favour of a rating franchise, which turned out the
late Government, and brought in the Government
of Lord Derby. He believed the ratepaying fran-
chise was one which ought to be supported, because
the duties and privileges of citizenship went to-
gether. Now, there were a great many questions
--awkward questions, too—which would have to be
dealt with by Parliament in the ensuing session.
There were the questions of the Established Church,
ritualism, the Irish Church, the payment of un-
beneficed clergy, friendly and provident societies,
trades unions, and railway legislation. The lat-
ter he held to be of primary importance. (Hear,
hear.) Then, again, the Poor-laws must be re-
constructed. If such things as had lately been
revealed at Farnham had taken place in Turkey,
philanthropists in their own country would have
mouthed over them for no end of time. (Hear,
hear.) There was, too, and above all, the question of
education. That would be a great question for the
Church. In 1864, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
in a primary charge, deplored the want of candi-
dates for holy orders in this country; and when he
told them that for the last 30 years there has been
an annual decrease in the number of candidates,
whilst the population had been increasing to the
extent of 240,000 a-year, he would ask them whether
the matter was not alarming. It was evident that
if great efforts were not made in the direction for
increasing the number of candidates, the Church
would lose that hold which she ought to have upon
the people of the country. He would be sorry to
see the Church of England narrowing her field of
action. He was a staunch adherent to the old,
simple forms of the Reformation. Still he respected
as much as any one the influence which guided that
great and powerful religion of which the Pope was
the head. A great many of the difficulties of the
past, it was true, were over. (Hear, hear.) They
had equalised the revenue of the bishops, and why
should they not do so with the revenues of the rest
of the clergy ? (Hear, hear.) If the principle held
gcod in the one case, it held good in the other.
Speaking of the bishops, the hon. baronet took the
opportunity of making a feeling allusion to the
death of the Bishop of Lichfield, who was appointed
to his office by his (Sir Robert's) father. Dr. Lons-
dale, he said, kept away as much as possible from
the Ritualistic movement. He was not, like the Bishop
of Salisbury, at open war with his clergy—(hear)—
or like another Anglican bishop (Dr. Coleuso), who,
with mallet and chisel, tried to force open the cathe-
dral of a brother bishop. Again, howevar much they
might respect the feelings which animated those of
other religions, did they want to see the clergy
of the Protestant Church decked out in ritualistic
vestments?—(no, no)—or surrounded by sur-
pliced choristers, as he understood they were to
have in Tamworch Church ? But who said they
were to have them ? He thought the question rested
with the vestry. (Hear.) The hon. baronet next
touched upon the Royal Commission appointed to
inquire into the state of the Irish Church. He for
some years, under the advice of Lord Palmerston,
took a great interest—and he still took a great in-
terest in that question. But it was a most dangerous
question to touch. The late Lord Palmerston fre-
quently told him that if they attempted to touch the
revenue of the Established Church in Ireland they
could not end there. There was no doubt much in
Ireland that required consideration ; but he would
be very sorry to see the day when they would do
away with the Established Church in Ireland, be-
cause he believed it was part and parcel of the
United Church of England and Ireland—that if they
once began to touch it they might afterwards consi-
der it right to do away with all endowments. lle
should be very sorry to see the day when it would be
thought proper to disendow the Established Church
of this country. He wt.uld pay to-morrow—he
would vote to-morrow in Parliament (and he be-
lieved his constituents would support him therein)
for paying—the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland.
He could not say how the question would be treated
when it came, as it would have to come, before the
Heuse of Commons. The hon. baronet, turning
again to the suffrage, said it would be hazardous to
predict what would be the effect of the measure
just passed. In 1859, in his place in Parliament,
he spoke in favour of such a measure. He followed
the late Sir James Graham, one of the closest adhe-
rents of his father, and he spoke iu that year upon
his advice and upon his counsel ; but he would tell
thew now what he did expect—he expected that the
Reform Bill would lead to an intolerant, not to a
revolutionary movement, but to a great educational

movement, which would make the great bulk 0
their fellow-countrymen better able than they had
hitherto been to take that part which, by their in-
terests they were entitled to, in the working of the
constitution of the country. (Hear.) He thought a
strong popular element was not incompatible with a
healthy political life. They could not expect
but that certain prejudices which had hitherto
existed amongst certain classes of people would
continue to exist and agitate a section of the com-
munity ; but to his mind the great mass of the
people were sound, true, and loyal to the institu-
tions of their country. (Cheers.)

MEETLVG OF MIDDLESEX
MAGISTRAIES.

The usual meeting of magistrates of the county
of Middlesex was held yesterday at the Sessions-
house, Clerkenwell-green, for the transaction of
county business. Mr. Henry Pownall, chairman of
the bench, presided, and there was a very full at-
tendance of magistrates. Mr. Nicholson, clerk of
the peace, read the report of the committee of
accounts and general purposes, which amongst other
matters alluded to the inquest that was held by
Dr. Lankester on the body of Elizabeth Stainsby,
whose death, it was alleged, was caused by the im-
pure air of the Metropolitan Railway. It was
stated that £lO had been charged by Dr. Lankester
on account of Professor Rogers, of the London
University Hospital, for examinations and attend-
ance on three occasions at the adjourned inquests
held on Elizabeth Stainsby. Now the committee,
having taken the opinion of counsel some years ago,
had no power to allow any such sum not named in
the schedule of fees set down by act of Parlia-
ment, and therefore they deducted from the charge,
on behalf of Professor Rogers, the sum of £7,
leaving it £3 only, and asked the court to sanction
that disallowance. He also mentioned incidentally
that Dr. Lankester's accounts generally were higher
when compared with those of Mr. Humphreys,
and that the coroners' charges cost the county
annually a sum of not less than £12,000, which
was a very serious item in the county expenditure.
He moved that the sum of £lO, included in Dr.
Lankester's account for the services of Professor
Rogers, Professor of Toxicology at the London
University Hospital, at the inquest held on the bodY
of Elizabeth Stainsby, be not allowed. The
motion was put and unanimously agreed to.
Mr. Nicholson read the report from the
committee appointed by the court on the
15th of Aitgust to consider the question of
resuming the transportation of criminals. The
committee report that it is most desirable that 10
all cases of criminals convicted of daring crimes
accompanied by violence they should suffer a por-
tion of the penal servitude sentence here, and then
if not disqualified, should be transported to Wes"
tern Australia, or some other place, for the remain"
der of their terms ; that transportation for long
periods is most advisable in all cases of criminals
convicted at quarter sessions or assizes of felonious
offences who have been previously convicted two or
more times ; that in all cases of criminals sentenced
for brutal violence, particularly to women and chil-
dren and constables acting in the discharge of their
duey, their sentence should be accompanied by one,
or more floggings; that the system of tickets or
leave be wholly abandoned ; that Western Australia
is able and desirous to receive from 1,000 to 1,500
convicts annually, where convict labour can he
made productive, and where there is opportuni▪ ty
afforded the convict of reform in character, which
in the mother country is not the ease. The report
will be taken into consideration on the next county
day. On the motion of Mr. Glossop the sum of
£1,500 was authorised to be expended in providi▪ ng
at Feltham workshops and stores for the instruction
of boys as tailors, shoemakers, carpenters, smiths'
painters, and drummers. The other business was
disposed of and the court adjourned.

THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS.

The Naples correspondent of the Times, writing
on the 21st, gives an account 3f the scene of the
eruption, as witnessed on the previous night. r-r°,
the crater itself," the visitor says—" we could not
reach, but as near to it as was safe. We sat Jowl'
on a monticello of cinders and watched the scene'
Vesuvius shook and trembled with the efforts it
was making ; it panted and roared like sore°
gigantic furnace; there was a sound rapid and re-
peated as of the discharge of a volley of musketry',
and there rose to the heavens full 1,000 feet a
gorgeous mass of lava, stones both great and small/
and fine ashes. We calculated the interval which
elapsed before it fell at from five to ten secondol
varying in duration according to the violence °I
the eruptions, which took place almost every second;
The larger stones-- rocks they may be almost 0110
—rolled at times down to the spot where 1"(0
were seated, while the smaller ones were carried bit
the caprice of the wind in various directions. I°_,
far from us, in the direction of Ottajano, rolled
down a stream of liquid lava from 40ft. to 50ft• sn
width, and 10ft. or 12ft. in height. Like pebbles
ou a shingly beach agitated by a storm was the
noise it made in its progress ; the scoria; on the aor-
face fell continually over, and thus ever diminishing;
yet ever increasing in proportions, the stream rolleu
on and reached the botcom of the mountain. There
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were, however, last night many streams, presenti%
the appearance of an inverted hand, so that tl3
mountain on this side seemed all ablaze. As I pr;
dieted, too, at the beginning of the week, the 131rIe
is now coming down towards the Hermitage.
can mark its red and sinuous course even fr't
Naples ; and there is a promise of greater splend°
than any we have yet witnessed. We can hear, tont
the thunders of Nature's artillery, while each diS'
charge is followed by a display which it is useless °
attempt to describe. Different, yet scarcely less
grand, are the day effects. Volumes and voltig3e
of dark smoke are shot up perpendicularly into tl3OO
air, and then, falling, and circling and rolling °o
over the other, file off like heavy battalions towardo
Capri. The column of smoke is perceptible to Wit
eye all across the bay, lingering horizontally until
derives a fresh impulse from each successive el;
tion. For eight days this brilliant spectacle bla
been exhibited, with ever-increasing grandeur, atoue
the probabilities are that it will continue some tli.so
longer. Within 24 hours the temperature uto
changed from a degree of heat inducing lassictide o ,
a piercing cold. Every one is muffled closelY 01
but the bright sun above us will soon warm up
atmosphere."

ETON
EL PUNNING MATClL—Yesterday mornillgo
person named Lockwood undertook to run over 14°
Southwark, and Blackfriars Bridges in 25 minutes, 11;
Laos,-
wager of £2O. Ho started from the Surrey side of 1-4°lltllo
bridge, and on arriving on the other side darted dovril
stops into Thames-street to Southwark-bridge, door° eiv
steps to Baukside, and from thence to the foot of )31°
friars, lauding on the other sido in 24 min. 35 see.

Births.
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CRAVEN—On the 28th inst., at Ashdown Park, Ber'''
Countess of Crave, of a dauger. .fo 0)
IfoyLE— On the 27th n
inst., at liorn htsey-rise the WI
7 N.,
Savilo S. Hoyle, Esq., of a son. re °l'
HARKER—On the 28th inst., at Drarne , l Hill House,
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don, the wife of George liarker, Esq., of a sou.
Marriages. 60 t
REVISGTOX lIOLDERNESE On the 26th ins-, sob-
John's, Brixton, Henry Revington, of Greek-streetlho late
square, to Louisa Octavia, youngest daughter of t"
John F. lioldernesse, Esq., of Carnberwell-gr0ve.,,,05'4
SIIERLOCK—LUMSDEN-01; the 27th inst., at
Church, Aberdeen, F. G. Sherlock, Captain
hinders, to Edith Shaw, youngest daughter of
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Lurusden, C. 8., of Belhelvie Lodge, Aberdeeusiii'e

Deths. •
HEwErr - On tho 24th insta., at Albury, Clara, the lvife Of
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Sir George Hewett, Bart. her r
PERRIN—On the 27th inst., at Epsom, Mr. Christa
Perrin. 31altilr
SHARP —On the 25th inst., Mr. George Sharp, of ,
street, Bermondsey, aged 54. ~, 1
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WATERS O n the 25th inst at Elm Grove, Salisbli'd
Waters, Esq., late of Boscombo, Wilts, aged B°. covoliet
WILSON—On the 27th inst., at River View, tt
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Cheshire, John Wilson, Esq., aged 81. "010
WIGHT— On the 27th inst., at Richmond -hill, Tb°s'
Esq., late of Lincoln's-inn fields.
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