The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUL y 11, 1859.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
R OYAL AGRICULTURAiL SOCIETY'S MEETING
at WARWICK, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th July. Trains will leave
the Pad. lington Station each day as under :
Departure-6 0 a.m., (7 15 3d class), 9 50 a.m., 11 45 a.m.,
2 0 p.m, 4330 p.m.
Arriving at Warwick-1017 a.m., 1 17 p.m., 12 15 a.m.,
2 45 p.m. , 4 56 p.m., 8 50 p.m.
Returning from Warwick at 7 5 a.m., 7 57 a.m., 10 10 a.m.,
12 45 p.m., 3 32 p.m., and 7 55 p.m.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
HENLEY REGATTA, on the 11th and 12th July.—
Trains leave Paddington for Henley at 715 a.m., 10 30 a.m.,
and 10 p.m., and return from Henley at 355 p.m., 6 0 p.m.,
7 30 p.m., and 9 0 p.m.
In addition to the above, the 11 45 a.m. train from Padding-
ton will stop at Twyford, and a branch train will run in con-
nection with it to. Henley on both days of the Regatta.
Several up-trains will also stop at Twyford, for particulars
of which see handbills.:

CIREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
‘..)1 CHEAP EXCURSIONS. —On SATURDAY, July 16,
a Train will leave the Paddington Station, at 2.30 p.m., for
CIRENCESTER and STROUD (fares, 12s and 6s), Glouces-
ter aud Cheltenham (14s and 7s), Ross and Hereford (16s and
8s), returning on Monday, July 18, from Hereford, at 5.45
p.m., and intermediate stations as per handbills.
On SUNDAY, July 17, a Train will leave Paddington, at
7.45 a.m., for BATH and BRISTOL, returning the same day
from Bristol at 6.30 p.m., and Bath at 7.0 p.m.—Fares there
and back, Bath, 12s and 6s, Bristol, 14s and 7s.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CHEAP EXCURSION to the WEST of ENGLAND.
On 'WEDNESDAY, July 2lth, an EXCURSION TRAIN will
leave Paddington at 8 0 am., for WESTON-SUPER-MARE
and BRIDGWATER (Fares 20s and 13s); Taunton and
Tiverton-road (228 and 15s) ; Exeter (228 Gd and 16s) ; Barn-
staple and Bideford (30s and 20s) ; Starcross, Dawlish,' and
Teignmouth (25s and 17s) ; Torquay, Newton, and Totness
(27s and 18s); Kingsbridg,e-road and Plymouth (30s and 20s),
returning from Plymouth on Saturday July 30th, at 6.26 a.m.,
and intermediate stations as per handbills. Passengers
wishing to proceed to any station on the West Cornwall Rail-
way will be furnished at Plymouth with Ist and 2d Class Re-
turn Tickets at a single fare for the double journey, upon pro-
Unction of their Excursion Tickets.

eIREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
VI CHEAP EXCURSION to SOUTH WALES and
IRELAND. —On WEDNESDAY, the 20th of July, a
train will leave Paddington at 8 a,m., for Chepstow,
Newport, Cardiff (fares. 21s and 14s); Bridgend, Port
Talbot, and Neath (fares, 25s and 17s) ' • Swansea,
Llanelly, and Carmarthen (fares, 30s and 20s); Narberth-
road, Haverfordwest, and Neyland (fares, 35s and 255); Cork
(fares, 425. 6d and 32s 6d); Waterford (fares, 40s and 30s); and
stations on the Waterford and Limerick Railway' (fares, 455.
and 355); and Stations on the Waterford and Kilkenny Rail-
way (fares, 42s 6d and 32s 6d), returning from Neyland (fOr
holders of South Wales Tickets), on Thursday, 28th of July,
at 10 a.m., and intermediate stations as per bills. Passengers
taking Irish tickets can return by any ordinary train within
14 days of the date of issue.
N.B.—Passengers can proceed from Neyland to Tenby and
back on payment of 5s extra for the coach and boat fare by
the new route. _ _ _ _ _ _

Tickets for Killarney via Cork and South-Western Rail Kay
are issued at Cork, available for one week, at 12s Gd each.
Marmion's cars for Glengariffe and Killarney leave the Im-
perial Hotel daily, for Killarney, at 158 each.
Tourists' Tickets to Killarney are issued at Waterford,
available for 13 days, at 35s Gd first-class, 255. second. class,
each. '

ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE AND
GUARANTEE COMPANY,
7, Waterloo place, Pall-mall.
Notice is Hereby Given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVI-
DEND to the 30th ultimo, after the rate of Seven per Cent.
per Annum, will be in course of PAYM
hOlders on and after the 11th July instant.ENT to the Share-
HENRY WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary and Secretary.
July 8, 1859.

the late Sir G. Magrath, M.D. When dismissed last
year the regiment consisted 440 men, of whom
338 are already in barracks again; their progress
in drill is already apparent.

tude in the least degree uneasy. Not so; however,
when the Coldstreams brought their firelocks to
the charge and dashed up the hill to take,
it at the point of the bayonet. - The panic was in-
stant and universal, and pedestrians and equestrians'
carriages and carts of all kinds, made an indiscri-
minate rush from the anticipated scene of slaughter,
the pursued looking back upon the cold white row
of bayonets elOse upon their rear with undisguised
alarni,o,nd with: some vague. notion that they had
been given up as a prey and a spoil to an infuriated
soldiery. This advance, as well it might, concluded
the evolutions of the day, and the enemy having
been repulsed on both flanks—the 'pursuit ceased—
the public regained confidence on seeing that no
bloodshed was really intended, and all assembled to
witness the marching past. This, as may well be.
imagined; was a dusty and long 'ceremony, though
one which well repays the military spectator from
the opportunities which it affords of judging of the'
training and discipline of both men and horses.
It was nearly &o'clock before the troops returned
to their cantonments, so utterly concealed by dust,
powder, and smoke as to resemble an army of Hin-
doos or Arabs, rather than our mild militia, or
English home-service regiments.
There was a great rush back to Farnborongh to
be in time for the special train, and a still greater
demand in the little hamlet for. provisions—a de-
mand which was only met by a limited supply of
Om buns, which apparently had been the sun-dried
ornaments of a village grocer's window for months
past. _ •

Yesterday her Majesty and the royal family at-
tended Divine service at the south camp ehurch.
To-day (Monday) it is expected that the small camp,
formed by three or four regiments at Woolmer Fo-
rest, about 15 miles from Aldershott, will be hon-
oured with a .royalvisit. The time of her Majesty's
departure to-day for Osborne has not yet been fixed.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

WOLVERHAMPTON.

The Right Hon. C. P.Villiers, the new President
of the Poor Law Board, was re-elected on Saturday
without opposition. In returning thanks to his
constituents for the further proof of confidence
and constancy which they had just offered him, ho
apologised for the trouble that his colleague and
himself had given them by causing such frequent
elections. To lessen some of the inconveniences
which attend these elections it had been suggested
to him that the electors would not • deem it disre-
spectful in him if he should not attend personally
on that occasion, and such was the pressure of busi-
ness on, himself in London that he had considered
the suggestion ; but, not feeling sure that some of
his friends might not think it wanting in proper
consideration from himself to those from whom he
had received so much, he had determined at any
inconvenience to be present—(cheers)---:and he was
now gratified that he Fad done so, as it had enabled
him personally to witness and acknowledge their
accustomed kindness on these occasions—(hear,
hear)—as well as to receive some valuable instruc-
.

tion from his friend who had seconded him. His
friend who had prdposed him had made some ob-
servations with regard to the efforts that he had
made in the great cause of free trade at a time
when it was treated with derision, and when
no personal advantage could follow from it. That
induced him to say that he never complained of
any injustice done to himself on that account, and
that he had always consoled himself by two circum-
stances that had followed upon the success of that
question, one of which was the regard which he
had secured for himself from his constituents, and
the other was the great advantage conferred by it
upon the country at large. (Cheers.) He had de-
voted himself entirely to that subject in former
years. Long before he appeared among them he
had traced out the consequences of evil from the
existing system of protection, and of the advan-
tages likely to follow from that of free trade, which
placed it in his opinion beyond every other question
of importance that invited the public attention.
(Hear.) He had always believed that no measure
of improvement for the working class could be en-
during in this country that left them subject to
periods of such intense distress as occurred under
the protective system, when the harvests were
defective—(hear, hear)—and from the moment
when he obtained a position by being their mem-
ber, and acquired the lead of that question in Parlia-
ment, he had had no other object in view bul its
success, and he always, in consequence, hailed with
satisfaction every accession of strength, come from
what quarter it might, that conduced to that end;
and, far from claiming any exclusive merit or glory
to himself for its final achievement, no one had
more fully acknowledged or appreciated than him-
self the eminent service rendered by that enlight-
ened combination which sprang up at Mziachester,
with which their friends Mr. Cobden and Mr. Bright
had been more especially connected, and who by
their persevering energy, intelligence, and distin-
guished powers of oratory had exercised such power-
ful influence over the opinion of the country.
(Cheers.) Since, that time his own great satisfaction
—and especially during the last 10 years, since
which time the new system had actually been in
force—had been in watching the result of that
experiment, atid he did say that whether he looked
to the evils averted, the comparative contentment
of the people, the extension of commerce, or the
prosperity of agriculture, that a more successful
example of enlightened legislation could not be con-
templated either by ourselves or any other country.
(Cheers.) He believed that no department was
more alive to this change than the one over which
he had just been appointed to preside—(hear, hear)
—and on account of which he appeared among them
at present. In former times the duties of that
office, had been discharged under circumstances Gf
great anxiety, and the decisions of the Board had
been matters of deep concern to the public. (Hear,
hear.) The improved condition of the people had
fortunately diminished the difficulties of those days,
and it was now, though an arduous office, one that
could be directed with comparative ease.. His ac-
ceptance of that office was not, he trusted, at vari-
ance With any of the principles which he had pro-
fessed among them—(hear, hear)—nor was there
anything in the constitution of this Government
that precluded any member of the Liberal party
from joining it. (Hear, hear.) There was not a
member of the Government that was not or had not
been an ardent Free-trader. (Hear.) Lord Palmer-
ston, at its head, had always been so, and had for 30
years past and upwards been completely identified
-with all the views and measures of the Liberal
party. (Cheers.) Lord John Russell was there
himself—(cheers)—and, next to Lord Palmerston,
the most prominent member of the Cabinet—(hear,
hear)—and all were pledged to the principles of
peace and reform. (Cheers.) He had asked Mr.
Cobden, after he had refused to join the Cabinet,
whether he had done so on grounds that he thought
applied to other public men, and he inferred from
his reply that he regarded his own case as peculiar,
and that he encouraged Mr. Milner Gibson to re-
main in the Government—(cheers)—and, though
he (Mr. Villiers) repeated then what he had said at
the last election, that life in Parliament was far
more agreeable without office than with it, and that
he was not anxious to take office, yet he really had
believed that when the offer was made without
sufficient reasons for refusing it, that his consti-
tuents would have heard of his refusal with more
surprise than satisfaction. (Cheers.) He was bound
to say, however, that a seat in the Cabinet of
this country was a position of which any man
might be proud, and when associated with men who
had the ability, experience, and will to administer
the country honestly and wisely, it must be one of
great satisfaction and interest. (Cheers.) He had
no reason to expect disappointment, though cer-
tainly this Government commenced its career under
circumstances of no common gravity. There never
was a time when the demeanour of this great coun-
try was of more importance to the world at large—
(hear)—consequently, when the conduct of our
foreign relations was more anxious and difficult.
(Hear, hear.) No one, however, that he knew of,
had any reason for supposing that Lord Palmerston
or Lord John Russell would be indifferent to the
wishes of the country in this respect, or that they
would disregard the opinion that has been so gene-
rally and unreservedly expressed of late, that we
should continue to maintain that position of neu-
trality with regard to the war in Italy which has
hitherto been observed, and that this country
should keep aloof from the great disputants now in
the field, and only arbitrate in their disputes when
they could do so with dignity and effect. (Cheers.)
The British Government made honourable efforts
to avert the war, but its counsels were disregarded,
and there is still a mystery hanging about this war
which they could not explain, but which leaves us
only to grieve at its continuance, and to pray that
of it
tmayhe meritscease,
quence that has followed that he feared must be
considered as a fact—namely, that it has
produced
f( (Cheers.)
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there lndependently,
was
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quence-that n s o
apprehension and a sense of insecurity in every
'State of Europe, and that every country now is
preparing for its defence as great cities do when
some pestilence breaks out and is expected to re-

PlucE 411. STAMPED: SP.

, resume its. former desolating track. (Hear, hear.)
It was somewhat the fashion, he knew, to deride
these fears as exaggerated or uncalledhr, still he
did not think it was for this country so to regard
them, for they must remember that their insular
position, enabling them to have a powerful fleet
on their frontier, afforded to this country - a pro-
tection of which others were deprived, and that
countries on the continent were far more • easily
invaded than our own. (Hear; hear, and cheers.)
coMocucounrret rio.eyvti o Moreover, he, he, questioned whether the . public
feeling in this country had remained wholly un-
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required our .defences to be improved—(hear, hear)!
and that no Government would remain in power a
week which pretended to deride or disregard any
consequences to ourselves that might arise out of the
present diStUrbed and unsettled state of Europe.'
(Cheers.) When this Government, therefore, was
giving-its most anxious attention to the state of our'
defences, - and was peculiarly solicitous as to the
condition of our navy, they were only doing that
which the people had a right to expect and did de-
mand. (Cheers.) And great was the responsibilityj
on this subject increased by the fact that it was im-1
possible for any Government to have more complete '
command over the resources of the country-than was!
always voluntarily awarded to it here whenever its'
honour .or safety were in question. (Hear, hear.)
On them, therefore, exclusive` y clid the duty devolve
of providing for the general protection. (Cheers.)
He was no friend of great or unnecessary armaments,
and he was sure that no man faithfully represented
the wishes of this country who Was so. The thing ,
that would'please this country most, and in which
he heartily joined, would be a genera'. disarmament;
but it was not necessary to 'impute to. any Power
the infamy of a desire to assail us without reason,
nor should we regard with indifference the proceed-
ings abroad of the 1 st four months, or not make ex-
traordinary provision for a state of things so exela.
tional as they now presented. (Cheers.) He hardly
knew what to think of the news of the last day—
that, through an armistice entered into between
France and Austria, there was for the while to be
a cessation of slaughter. (Hear, hear.) He was
sure it came from the heart of this country to hope
that it might be the means of permanently conclud-
ing the dreadful consequences of these hostilities—
(cheers)—but he could not help doubtinn• if such
would be the case. Of this armistice or its history
nothing was known when he left London ; he could
tell them nothing on the subject they had not learnt
for themselves, nor could he at all understandwhat would be the . effect of the war, should it
terminate at present, upon the people for whom it
was said; to be undertaken. (Hear, hear.) We
were in this country too ignorant of the real feelings
and interests of the various peoples that occupied
the different portions of the Italian Peninsula tq
judge precisely of what would most conduce to theit
better government or contentment; but this he
knew, that an henest and hearty struggle for free
dom always enlisted the cordial sympathies o
Englishmen—(hear, hear)—and that nothing i
more. firmly implanted in their breasts than the
belief that free constitutional government is to be
preferred to`eyery other form, as affording the bes
means.of securing freedom
.to the people and peace
to the world. (Loud cheers.) That .the Italians
may have this advantage, whether it spring out of
this war or out of any effort of their own, is the
hearty wish of the people of this country. (Cheers.)
Among the many reasons for which it is desirable
for us that this war should cease, not the least,
perhaps is that is impossible to procure that'
requisite attention to great questions of a mord
domestic kind which now await the decision
of the Legislature. The estimates and the state of
our defences will probably occupy our chief atten-I.
tion during this short session, but there is one en-
gagement with which this Government have taken
office that he had no doubt they would fulfil at the!
earliest period—namely, that which purports to,
improve the present representation of the people.
(Hear, hear.) Legislation on that measure will be
comparatively easy now. The opinions resolved
during the dissolution of Parliament showed that
resistance to reform will be far less than formerly;.
or than was expected, and that the reasonable views
that . generally prevail will render improvement
much more easy to accomplish. He should expect
that after this session a measure removing many
of the acknowledged defects of the present system
would be introduced, and a generous instalment
given of that fuller measure of power for which, by
their intelligence and social improvement, the peo-
pleacquainted
qualifiedpos-
sess.qtainoted
with were
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his votes—to desire to hear from him any further
h(Lis o ud annually
c views, h e
reference to public affairs. They had kindly re-
sponded to the appeal that he had made to them,
and he was proud to think that they had given him
their confidence as cheerfully when he sought it as
a Minister as when he presented himself to them
a few weeks ago as an independent member ; and
he felt sure, as he sincerely hoped, that when they
met again the same friendly relations will not have
been disturbed. (Hear, hear.) He was obliged to
his excellent friend who had seconded him for re'-
minding. them that somewhat more of forbearance
was required towards a Minister than was due to a
member only, and he hoped that they would remem'-
ber that a Ministry acted collectively, and that it
was impossible for every member to indulge his
own crotchet, or have his own way. (Hear, hear.)
He had been reminded of the popular course which
he had adopted hitherto, and was warned against
losing any opportunity of enforcing those views on
his colleagues. He admitted the propriety of
the warning that his friend had given hini
as well as the obligation. of promoting popular
views to' the utmost of his power in the counsels to
which he had been admitted, and they might rely
upon it that he was not then going to abandon the
opinions of his former life. (Cheers.) He begged
only, in conclusion, to repeat emphatically what he
had said on a former occasion, .that he greatly pre-
ferred being their representative in Parliament to
occupying any office whatever, and that, if the time
should come when the policy'of the Government
should displease them, and they thought it more
for their,
,advantage that their member should cease
to be among them, he would, at their request,
readily and cheerfully retire. (Loud* cheers.) ~