The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-02 00:00:00

Cardwell, 17. P., and his Constituents.

OXFORD, Monday.
The members of Lodge 59 of the Ancient Order
of Druids dined together this evening at the Town-
hall, under the presidency of Brother Dudley. Among
the guests were the'Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P.,
Mr. Neate, M.P., Mr. J. C. Cavell (the Mayor), Al-
dermen Hughes, Thompson, Spiers, Carr, and
Ward; Captain Fane, Mr. Sheriff Castle, Mr. J.
Round, the Rev. J. C. Huims (the city rector), Mr.
Justice Towle, Captain Malian, &c.
The toast of "The Queen and the Druids" was
followed by "Prosperity to Lodge 59," " the Prince
of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family," " the
Army, Navy, and Volunteers."
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Health of
the City Members." The toast was received with
loud and prolonged cheering.
. .

Mr. CARDWELL, who on rising was greeted with
loud cheers, said—Gentlemen, I return you my best
thanks for the kind manner in which you have been
pleased to receive the mention of my name. I as-
sure you that if sometimes public duties are onerous
and laborious, there is nothing which gives to the
discharge of them so much pleasure and so much
encouragement as the knowledge which we possess
that when we return to meet our constituents and
friends in Oxford we are sure to meet from you the
most gratifying proofs of your generous confidence
and of your kind and cordial support. (Cheers.)
When six months ago my friend Mr. Neate and I
stood before you as candidates to render an account
of our stewardship in a former Parliament, and to ask
you for a continuance of the trust which you had re-
posed in us, we hoped, and you hoped, that the Par-
liament would be opened and its earlierdeliberations
guided by that great Minister whose voice was a
power in Europe--(cheers)—and who enjoyed in so
unusual a degree the confidence and affection of all
his fellow-subjects. (Continued cheers.) Gentle-
men, that hope has not been realised. We have
laid him in the tomb. His name has been added to
the long and honoured roll of those who have died
in the discharge of their duty. (Hear, hear.) But
his memory still lives in the grateful recollection of
the people whom he served. (Cheers.) The new
Parliament which her gracious Majesty is about to
open will, I have no doubt, yield to none of its pre-
decessors in its efforts for the public good, and will,
I have no doubt, when it comes to its termination,
bequeath to the nation measures calculated to increase
the prosperity of our country, and contribute to the
welfare and happiness of the people. (Cheers.)
Among those measures, one of the most important
that will enage its consideration will be, I have no
doubt, the question of Parliamentary Reform.
(Loud cheers.) We all know the difficulties of the
subject, since it has been proposed by so many suc-
cessive Governments, and has been dealt with so
unsuccessfully by so many successive Parliaments.
(Hear.) I speak not as a member of the Adminis-
tration, I speak only as a member for the city of
Oxford addressing his friends and constituents ; but
this I will say, that, so far as I have seen the returns
which have been made to the present Parliament, it
does appear to me that there never was a Parliament
better calculated in its composition to give to that
great subject a fair and comprehensive hearing, and
I, for my part, shall be glad if we are able to bring
it to a great and satisfactory solution. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I observed in the papers to-day that a
very eminent member of Parliament said to his
constituents a few evenings ago, that—in which I
most cheerfully express my concurrence—that there
never was a period in our history when we were so
singularly prosperous, and when all degrees of the
community were bound so closely together in the
common ties of brotherhood. (Hear, hear.) I re-
member the time—although my life has not been
long protracted—when very much the reverse was
the case, and when, in the centres of industry,
in which my lot was cast, distress and discontent
were almost as remarkable as prosperity and con-
tent and cheerfulness are now. If you ask me to
what I attribute the happy difference, I say I attri-
bute it mainly to that course of temperate and pro-
gressive improvement in the institutions of the
country which followed on the enactment of the
great Reform Bill. (Cheers.) I know no portion
of our institutions—ecclesiastical, municipal, mili-
tary, above all commercial—which has not shared
in this course of great and temperate and progres-
sive improvement. (Cheers.) In this country dis-
cussion prepares the way for legislation. At first
there are differences of opinion, but by degrees, by
Parliamentary debates, by comparison of opinions
or public feeling, but above and beyond all by the
constant action of a free press examining into the
subject—(cheers)—ideas that were at first captivat-
ing bloom only for a short time, and being unable
to stand the test of criticism fall for ever into well-
deserved oblivion, while those on which opinions
appear irreconcilable are by degrees brought down
to points on -which, although every one cannot be
pleased, yet there does, at least, come that harmony
of opinion through the entire community that en-
ables us to come to conclusions with the general
concurrence of the voice of the whole people.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, if there be one came more
than another to which I attribute this happy change,
I should say it is the entire absence of legislation
for classes, and the determined liberty to view every
measure that is brought forward with a single re-
gard to its bearing on the welfare and happiness of
the whole people, that has principally been the cause
of the prosperity and the content which now exists.
(Cheers.) Why is it that, as you see in the finan-
cial returns of this morning, when taxes are re-
moved, and you imagine a certain loss will be en-
tailed on the Exchequer, it almost always happens
that the stream of national industry, continually
increasing, is not checked by such events as the
American war and the loss of a great portion of
the staple of our manufactures ; that when the
year comes round the loss is smaller than we
expected, and the growth of our prosperity has
done much to replace it? I say, why is it, except
that all these changes are calculated for the good of
the whole community ? (Cheers.) And, gentlemen,
it is not only the effect upon our own country, but
it is the effect of the example upon other countries,
which tends very much to produce that result. I
remember that in the year 1848, when the revolu-
tion in France brought to this country many distin-
guished men of that country—we had then for two
years finished our great free trade conflict—I re-
member saying to one of the most eminent French
statesmen, " My opinion is that you will not be long
before you in France follow our example." His re-
ply was, "No ; we in France are protectionists."
But I was convinced that our example could not be
lost upon an intelligent and flourishing people, and
accordingly we have lived to see France follow our
example, and enter with us into that race of com-
mercial progress which is destined to benefit her, to
benefit ourselves, and by a new link bind the amity
between the two countries. (Cheers.) I hope it will
not be long before the example spreads over the
whole of Europe, andthat the great regions watered
by the Danube will enjoy a share of the blessings of
free commerce. Thus it is that the nations of Europe
will be more and more united together year by year
in the peaceful partnership of commerce. (Cheers

Gentlemen, if we cast our eyes across the Atlantic,
and look at that great nation which speaks thesame
language and draws the law from the same sources
as ourselves, is it not cause of thankfulness not only
to them, but to us, that the great calamity which
afflicted them has now ceased for ever ? Do we not
cordially rejoice that, purged from the sin and stain
of slavery, the great North American country is
about to enter on a career of prosperity and great-
ness and to take a foremost place in the community
of nations. We desire to see the provinces of British
North America associated together in a link of the
firmest union, strong in their own resources, power-
ful for their own government and for their own
defence, and remaining, as they loyally desire to
remain, united under the Crown and under the
name of England. (Cheers.) In our colonial admi-
nistration We have parted with much of the power
which formerly belonged to this country. Many of
our countrymen are settled in distant parts of the
globe. What we retain we desire only to use for the
increase of their power, of their welfare, and of their
growing greatness, and we desire to see them form-
ing communities under the British Crown, indeed,
but in a great degree self-dependent, and owing

their strength and resources and industry and power
to themselves ; and we feel that when we concede
to them the power of self-government we throw upon
them the burden of the power of providing for their
own support. (Cheers.) These are the principles on
which we think Englishmen, wherever they are,
ought to be governed, by which they desire to be go-
verned, and we feel that they are principles which
tend to strengthen the name and power of England,
not only here at home, but in every portion of the
globe where their industry and desire for progress
and prosperity shall lead them to settle. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I will now say a word respectinganother
colony very differently circumstanced. You are well
aware of the anxiety which the great colony of Ja-
maica has caused to her Majesty's Government dur-
ing the last few months. I shall not follow Capt.
Fane into that portion of his address in which he
touched upon party politics. I shall confine myself
entirely to topics which are free from any reference
of that kind, and shall only say that which I thinkit
right you should know, and which youexpectto hear
from me. Gentlemen, you are perfectly aware that
in the middle of the month of October serious dis-
turbances- took place at Morant Bay, on the south
coast of the island of Jamaica, and continued for some
days ; that they spread to a place on the east of the
island, and nearly to Port Antonio on the north of it.
Now, among all the controversies on the subject one
thing has never been disputed, and that is that by
great promptitude on the part of the authorities, and
by the skilful disposition of troops, comparativesafety
was speedily restored to all persons of whatever race
or colour who desired to live in peace and orderly
submission to the law. (Cheers.) But serious ques-
tions have arisen as to the measures which were
taken in the course of that repression, and after that
comparative safety had been effected. Now, the
plain truth is, that we are not in possession of suffi-
cient information to enable us to arrive at a reliable
and just conclusion on this subject, on which ques-
tions have been raised. (Hear, hear.) That being
so, we have felt it to be our bounden duty to in-
stitute an inquiry into the matter, that we thought
that inquiry could only be complete and satisfac-
tory if it was instituted in the island itself.
(Cheers.) Accordingly, we have obtained the
services of the distinguished man Sir H. Storks,
who left the seat of his government at Malta,
and has proceeded for a time to take the govern-
ment of Jamaica, and to preside over the inquiry
there to be conducted. Captain Fane has taken
the opportunity of proposing a question to me,
and it is a question which I have not the least
objection to answer to him and to you. (Cheers.)
He asks me whether the temporary interruption of
Governor Eyre's command was intended as a stigma
upon Governor Eyre, or whether it was a necessary
concomitant of the institution of the inquiry in the
island. I have great pleasure in telling my friend
that it was not intended as a stigma upon Governor
Eyre. (Loud cheers.) I hold it to be the duty of
every man who has the fairness of an Englishman
in his heart—and I am quite sure it is the duty of
her Majesty's Government, and more particularly of
the individual who now addresses you—when he in-
stitutes an inquiry, to avoid all pre-judgment of the
result of that inquiry, and I can only say that when
the whole business comes to be laid before the Im-
perial Parliament that I trust it will be seen that
to the best of our ability, and as far as the circum-
stances of the case have rendered it possible, we have
done all in our power to obtain a fair and full in-
quiry, and to avoid in any degree prejudging the
result of that inquiry with regard to those who, be
it observed, were compelled by, their duty to act
under the circumstances in which they were placed.
(Cheers.) I trust I have satisfactorily answered
the question of Capt. Fane. (Loud cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, we thought that for the good of the colony
and for the completeness and effectiveness of the
inquiry it was most important that all the powers
of the Crown, civil as well as military, should dur-
ing the conduct of the inquiry be vested in a single
hand, and as soon as we had determined upon the
inquiry we communicated with Sir H. Storks, and
as soon as he reached this country he received the
commission from the Crown, and is at this moment
approaching the shores of Jamaica, and about to
enter upon his duties. We have also been able to
secure the services of two other most distinguished
men to assist Sir 11. Storks, and to-morrow they
will leave this country for Jamaica. I think, there-
fore, we have done that which it was our duty to
do, and I trust that we are free from all imputation
of having in any degree prejudged the case. (Loud
cheering.)

Mr. NEATE, M.P., also responded to the toast,
and referring to the Jamaica question, observed that
whatever exaggeration there might have been on
the part of those who were called pseudo-philan-
thropists, they did express, perhaps with some ex
aggeration, what he believed to be the real feeling
of the educated and humane people of this country.
(Cries of "No, no," and " Hear, hear.") He begged
every one not to commit himself prematurely to any
expression of approbation of what he, in common
with the country at large, might, upon obtaining
greater knowledge, have to denounce, reprobate, and
condemn as measures of excessive severity (Hear.)

Several other toasts were afterwards given and re-
sponded to.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

METROPOLITAN AND LONDON, CHATHAM, AND

DOVER.

Yesterday the short junction between these two
lines was opened for passenger traffic. The junction
line passes from the Metropolitan under Snow-hill,
and then up a steep incline and over the oranmental
iron bridge across Ludgate-hill to the Ludgate sta-
tion of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rail-
way. It was this short piece of line which Captain
Tyler, Government hispector, examined carefully in
the course of last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Myles
Fenton, general manager of the Metropolitan, and
Mr. Forbes, of the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway, were in attendance on behalf of their re-
spective companies. The inspection occupied some
time. Late in the evening—about 8 o'clock--the
which .
officials received the Board of Trade certificate
complished yesterday authorising the opening of
morning, i ng the
line,
under the
was tic_
,
supervi-
sion of Mr. Fenton and Mr. Forbes. The first train
was started at 7 28 from the Ludgate station, and
was succeeded rapidly by others. Metropolitan
trains run every five and ten minutes backwards
and forwards between Hammersmith and Moor-
gate stations, while those of the Great Western
were despatched as usual every half-hour from the
old Farringdon-street station to Kensington, and
vice versa. The train service of the London,
Chatham, and Dover was from the Ludgate station
to that of the Great Northern at King's-cross, and
back to the city.
During the day an immense
number of passengers were carried through the
Farringdon-street junction, the number of trains
over the Metropolitan line having been 450. On
Wednesday (to-morrow) the Great Northern Com-
pany will run their trains through the Farri nb rrdon-
street station to the Ludgate station.

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