The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-16 00:00:00

FALMOUTH ELEOTIOH.

The two candidates haverecently addressed several
meetings of their supporters. Mr. Jervoise smith,
Liberal, attended a crowded meeting on Friday
evening. In the course of his address he said that
the reason why he was a Liberal was that as he had
grown in years all the chief measures promoted for
the good and the welfare and prosperity of their
fellow-countrymen had emanated from the Liberal
side of the House of Commons. He could scarcely
call to mind at that moment any measure of impor-
tance that did not at least have its origin with the

Liberal party. The late Government, at the com-
mencement of their recent tenure of office, found a

heavy taxation pressing on the country—they found
numerous articles subjected to customs duties, they
found large taxes laid upon every kind of produce—
and from the beginning they exerted themselves to

carry out to the full the benefits of the policy which
they recommended. They were constantly told
that the country owed more to the Conservatives for
free trade than to the Liberals ; but he would

ask any gentleman who ventured to make such a
statement, whether it was the present Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli, or Mr. Gladstone,
who had reduced the taxation to the extent of
eighteen or nineteen millions? Was it he or Mr.
Disraeli who had reduced the income tax from 9d.
to 4d. in the pound ? Was it he or Mr. Disraeli

who, paying great attention to the wants and neces-
sities of all classes, had introduced such valu-
able measures as the Post-office Savings banks and
Government Annuities ? It was almost ridiculous
to allude to these measures ; but there was not one,
if they traced them to their source, that would not
be found to have emanated from the Liberal Govern
merit.

With respect to reform he remarked that it
was wise to receive any measure which the Conser-
vative party might introduce with reserve ; for, from
what he had seen of them, he should expect some-
thing concealed to suit their exigencies or their con-
venience. The last measure of reform was a mode-
rate one, proposing to introduce a comparatively
small number to the exercise of the franchise; and
yet, earnest as the Conservatives would wish them
to believe they were in the cause of reform, earnest
as they wished them to believe their leader Lord
Derby was, not one of them rose to contradict the
imputations hurled at the working classes in the
House of Commons. There was not one who would
get up and say a word on behalf of those whom they
pretended they desired to endow with the franchise.
They might well be proud when they looked upon
those to whom the franchise was to be extended—
when they noticed in past years the enormous in-
crease in their prosperity, in their sagacity, in their
prudence, in their obedience and love of order.
When they looked at this, were they not surprised
;hat those earnest Reformers on the Conservative
benches did uotrise to say one word in their defence
And should they not themselves take up the battle

in their behalf, and ask the House of Commons
not to dally any. longer with such an important
question, but earnestly to approach it, and,
despite opposition from any side and from any quar-
ter, carry out to the full and extend those measures
recently proposed. He also defended the conduct
of the Liberal Government with respect to naval
matters, and said that Sir J . Pakington should have
remembered that when he, at the downfall of the last
Conservative Ministry, left office, there was not one
ironclad in the fleet, and only one on the stocks.
When the Liberals were in command of the Ad-
miralty they worked hard and earnestly at the sub-
ject, and left it, taking all things into consideration,
in a proper state ; and this he would state, that at
no period in thehistory of this country had the affairs
of the Admiralty been conducted so honestly, so
faithfully, though perhaps not economically. He
concluded by congratulating his friends upon their
prospects of success.
On Saturday evening Mr. Fowler, the Conserva-
tive candidate, addressed an open-air meeting of
electors on the Moor at Falmouth. He attempted
to show, at great length, that the late Government
had not done much for the port of Falmouth, and
said that he " had reason to believe" that the present
advisers of her Majesty were prepared to take a more
just and favourable view of the claims of Falmouth
than their predecessors had done. He thought the
most important question in the borough was whether
the Government were disposed to require the packets
to call at Falmouth. The port ought no longer to
be neglected as a packet station, and he took the
liberty of saying that it was no longer a ques-
tion of local, but of national importance.
Besides the cogent reasons which local interests gave
for the support of a Conservative Government, Mr.
Fowler thought Conservatives had a right to ask for
their support on national grounds. something had
been said of the retrograde policy of then onserva-
tives, but there had not yet been an. opptunity of
judging whether their policy would be retrogrades or
not. He believed they would find in them a pliy
which would command the attention and approval
of the country. The Liberal party was now divsec-
ided
into two sections, one headed by Mr. Lowe, a
tion which certainly most of the Liberals present
would scarcely approve of. Mr. Lowe was a man
of great ability and unrivalled eloquence; but he
said many things with which he (Mr. Fowler) was
not prepared to agree. He was not
prepared to say,
for he was quite of a different opinion, that it might
not be advantageous to admit to the franchise a
large number of people who do not at present enjoy
it. The admission of these classes would render the
basis of our constitution more enlarged, and give
stability to the throne and the institutions of the
country at large. He then referred at some length