The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-05 00:00:00

BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel Albert George Austen, Royal Ar-
tillery, having completed the qualifying service in the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel, under the
provisions of the Royal Warrant of the 3d of February,
1866.
The following Officers on the Retired Full-Pay List of
the Royal Artillery to be Lieutenant-Generals, they having
at the time of their retirement been senior to Major-Gen.
Francis Wardo, Royal Artillery, who was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant-General, in the Gazette of 14th Sep-
tember last, vice General Sir J, Michell, K.C.B, deceased,
viz.:—

Major-General George Durnford.
Major-General Joseph Hanwell.
Major-General Philip Sandilands.
Major-Gen. Benjamin Hutcheson Vaughan-Arbuckle.
Major-General John liarbridge Freer.
Major-General Archibald White Hope.
Major-General John Louis Smith.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16 11 16}
Ditto 3 Mouths. 11 19 11 191
11 19
7

Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 40 25 471
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 8k 13 9
Paris ,•. Short 25 15 25 20
Ditto 3 Months. 25 35 25 42
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1191 120 i
Vienna — 13 30 13 35
Trieste — 13 30 13 35
Petersburgu -30/ 31i
Berlin 6 251 6 261
Madrid — 471 471
48}
48
20
27 /5

Cadiz
27

i
Leghorn
27 20 27 25
Milan
Genoa
Naples — 27 20 27 25
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon . —51 i
—51 i

Oporto

Mr. G. POTTER, who, in opening the proceei-
ings, said it was not his intention to detain them Dy
many remarks. He trusted they would give their
attention to the delegates and working men who
were to address them, though he had no doubt they
had come there that night to listen to one whom
they all so much delighted to hear. (Cheers.) They
were all aware that the demonstration of the pre-
vious day was meant for a certain object, and he
believed they were justified in stating that that de-
monstration was most significant, most important,
and most successful. (Cheers.) It was admitted by
all the papers that it was so, and the only cause of
complaint about it on the part of their opponents ap-
peared to be that they did not know how many per-
sons were present at it, and that there had not been
a row. (Laughter.) •Those gentlemen seemed
to feel much disappointed that the proceedings
ended as they did. (No.) Ile would not quarrel
about numbers; he was
.not particular to a few
thousands, more or less, one way or the other. They
were satisfied that tens of thousands did walk along
the streets of London last Monday, and that half a
million of persons or upwards witnessed it, those
spectators being, he was convinced, quite as desir-
ous of seeing the object attained as the members of
the procession themselves. (Cheers.) Of course,
they had not expected to please the Tory party.
They certainly had tried to please them ; but it ap-
peared that no possible reform demonstration would
satisfy them. First their !gatherings were of too
rough and riotous a character ; then the proceedings
were too orderly ; and again the assemblages were
too small. Well, if their critics had not yet seen
enough of the working men of London andthrough.-
out the country, they would show them some more.
(Loud cheers.) They might depend upon it that
that which the working men had begun they would
finish and complete ; and it was for their own cre-
dit's sake, and the sake of all whom they held dear,
incumllent on them to settle that question now, or
the responsibility must rest upon them, and the con-
sequences must be taken by them. (Cheers.) On
Monday they demonstrated by an orderly proces-
sion, and in that procession were the men who had
been stigmatised as venal, corrupt, and ignorant.
On Monday they were orderly, peaceable, and
worthy of the franchise; and yet a few months ago
those very men were grossly slandered and libelled
in the House of Commons. However, on Monday
they had, as he had said, demonstrated. That night
they would have fact, argument, and logic. They
had met to welcome the great champion of reform
—(cheers)—and he wascertain they would be inter-
ested and instructed by him as they ever had been
before, and that the great cause which they had at
heart would be advanced that night another step.
(Cheers.) The working men of London and the
country were getting up these demonstrations to
strengthens the hands of Mr. Bright, who would go
into the House of Commons next session more power-
ful, more influential, because backed by the people,
in advocating the people's cause, a cause in which
both he and the people would triumph together.
(Cheers.) He would say once and for all that if
the Tory 'party was not satisfied with what had
already been done, then they would commence the
next year with something which would be admitted
to be sufficient. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. HENRIETTE, tailor, moved the first resolution,
viz. :-

" That this meeting hereby declares that no Reform Bill
falling short of the principles of registered residential man-
hood suffrage and the ballot will be satisfactory to the
people or .accepted as a final settlement of the Reform
question, and enters its solemn protest against and its de-
nial of the charges of venality, ignorance, drunkenness,
and indifference to Reform brought against the working
classes during the last session of Parliament."

He said that when the Tory Government took office
last July Lord Derby declared that as far as that
Government was concerned they had got rid for a
time at least of the question of Reform. All that
was now changed, and the press was now arguing
that the Tories were as competent and had as good
a right to introduce a Reform Bill as a Liberal Go-
vernment. Why, there had been wonderful con-
descension on the part of the Tory Government
during the last fortnight. For the first time since
their action cbmmeneed they had had very courteous
letters coming from her Majesty's Government to
10, Bolt-court. (Laughter and cheers.) Every-
thing had been granted, and the Tories said, " We
are quite satisfied with the demonstration, and
don't want any more." (Laughter.) They would
have to offer a Reform Bill, but they would never
offer the working classes a genuine measure. The
present Ministry would have to make
way
another set of politicians, and one better than the
r
pure Whigs—namely, the Radical Reformers of
this country, who alone could give
bg ive the working
classes a just measure. (Cheers.)
Mr. JOSEPH LEICESTER, lower, in second-
ing the resolution, said that when he read Mr.
Lowe's speech charging the workinc, classes with
drunkenness, venality, and ignorance, he thought
that if the doctrine of the transmigration of souls
was true then poor Mr. Lowe must have been
born when nobody died. (Laughter.) There ap-
peared to be a class of politicians who would not
serve God till the Devil let them ; and those men it
was who set themselves up as censors and umpires
theastroty
virtues of the working men. There was
good " cheek" in that (laugh ter) —and
a pet
he denied their power to judge the working men
rightly. There was no possibility of pleasing the
Tories, whether they hit them high or bit them low.
If Lord Derby had made such a botch of glass-
blowing as he had of state,snianshiP he would not
have been allowed time to go out of the business—
he would have been kicked out. (Laughter.) When
the people were described as unfit for the franchise
the word " Lancashire" should be whispered. By
their conduct during the cotton famine the people
of Lancashire saved the country from sad dis-
honour, and prey
ArdmDereicrabnys
hadfromn ventinge
t eny
their ire upon us-
Butt
shut the door in the face of the people who asked
for the franchise ; he had slammed it in their faces.
prevents
the
Lo
The resolution having been put and carried
unanimously,
Mr. BRIGHT (who on rising was received with
great cheering) said—lt is about eight years since,
in a speech which I delivered on the question of
Parliamentary Reform, that I took the opportunity
of giving what I thought was some wholesome coun-
sel to the unenfranehised working men of this coun-
try. I told them the monopolists of political power
in this country would not willingly surrender that
power or any portion of it ; that no class that was
excluded could rely upon the generosity of any other
class for the justice which it demanded ; and, fur-
ther, that, although large numbers of the middle
class were then and are now in favour of the en-
franchisement of large numbers of the working-
class, yet they would not make that great effort
which is necessary to wring political power from
those who mainly now hold it to extend it to those
who are now, and were then, excluded from it. I
said that if the working men wish for political power
they have only to ask for it in a manner to show
the universality of their desire, and the union
and the power which they are able to bring to
bear 011 it, And I recollect particularly making a