The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-08 00:00:00

MR. DD WARD MIALL AT BANBURY

Yesterday evening Mr. Edward Miall addressed,
a crowded meeting of the electors and non-electaxs
of Banbury in the Town-hall. When he came upon
the platform he was attended by 'a ninnber of his
leading supporters. Mr. Alderman Goffe was
called upon to preside. Mr. Wall addressed the
meeting at great length. On the subject of re-
form he !mid, what he should prefer was manhood
suffrage, vote by ballot, and a re-distribution of
seats, whichi would give such an approximation to
equality of constituencies as would secure for the
majority of electors a majority of members; but it
was of more importance to consider what, if
the offer was made, it was worth while to
accept„ He should prefer a moderate measure,
thoroughly eineere and sound, to a large mea-
sure that was defective and rotten. (Hear, hear.)
lie did not, however, believe that a small measure
of reform, however sound, would answer the pur-
pose. , To he acceptable it ought to be large enough
to render utterly unnecessary any further organic
change for at least a generation to come. No con-
siderable class, intelligent enough at least to take
any interest in politics ought to be left by it in a
state of justifiable dissatisfaction. The new repre-
sentative institutions should be such as should easily
and effectually give expression ,to the political con-
viction and sentiments of the people of the. United
'Kingdom, for, say, 30 years to come..lt was requi-
site to take the future into the account, as well as
the present—to strike an average between what is
required at the present moment and what will be
required when those who are now children will
have grown up to be the active spirits of the age.
He thought that any bill, for. reform that would
deMand and deServe the support of 'Parliament
should be sufficiently well considered in its scope'
and, its provisions, and sufficiently, in harmony with
national-feeling, to ensure the approhation of t'fiK
great bulk of the community. It would be false
policy to insist upon carrying a bill which would
require, in order to its success, several years of out
door vigorous agitation.. He considered; it would
-be the dictate of political, wisdom to,limit their
demand for the present to what there was reason-
able ground for supposing that the constituencies
of the country, taken as a whole, would approve.
The hon. gentleman then said that the gran& prin-
ciples that had been announced as constituting the
basis of the bill to be brought forward by Mr, Bright
—with the provisions of which he was acquainted,
but was not, at liberty to make. public—would
answer all the reqUirements that he had laid_ down.
Mr. Miall, in conclusion, said, that as there were
three Liberal candidates, all of whom supposed
that" they possessed a majority of electors supporting
their pretences, he thought ibey should adopt some
proper method for finding out who had the majo-
rity. His committee, therefore, in the course of
to-morrow, would make a proposition to the com-
mittees of the other two Liberal candidates that a
ballot should be taken of the whole Liberal portion
of the constituency, and that those Members who
were below the highest point should retire. At
Uleiconclusion of his address Mr. Wall was loudly
cheered,

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SERIOUS ILLNESS OF IVIR S 1 M 8 REEVES.—We
much'regret to hear that this accomplished artist, wife of
the celebrated tenor; has been for some weeks very seriously
ill, so much so, indeed, as to cause• her fatally and friends
great anxiety and alarm. Under such distressing circum-
stances the frequent inability of her husband to fulfil his
professional engagements, which has recently been com-
mented on in Many quarters in no very charitable spirit,
• may be easily accounted for. "
Mrs. Garratt (formerly Miss' Sinithyes), a
favourite Columbine at Sadler's Wells and the''' Surrey
Theatres, died at Islington. on Friday morning,- of con-
sumption, leaving two young children totally unprovided
for.—Era.
Miss Annie Fowler, the favourite and talented
Colunibine at the Grecian Theatre, died yesterday (Friday)
morning. We are not yet in full possession of the sad par-
' • titulars, but we hear her melancholy and sudden decease
was caused through her clothes accidentally catching fire.
—Era. •
A story is told which is so. good that everybody
who hears it will say it ought to, be true.. sPn the first
" cap" night 'of Ike Weitminsf6r Ptak,' Lord Chancellor
Chelmsford told his' coachinan to" drive-thither; and his.
lordship's astonishment may be at least as readily.imagineil
as described when he found that his carriage had suddenly,
stopped with the door opposite ,that, of Astley's. The.
coachman,' neVerhaving'heard of any 'other " Westminster
play," .naturally 'concluded= that his master Vianteeto see
the horse-riding,—.Era.- .
ACCIDENT TO MISS CHARLOTTE COOKE.—A Very
serious accident occurred last.week ,to Miss. Charlotte Cooke,
who, during the last season took all the leading parts at the
Theatre-avyal, Preston. Miss Cooke had accepted an en-
gagement At Stafford, and was waiting on the platform of
the railway station, Preston, for the South train, when, in
turning round to speak to a friend, she caught her foot and
fell, breaking her arm in the fall. Medical aid was at once
procured; but it was some days before the fracture could bo
reduced. The accident excited strong feelings-Of regret
and sympathy, as Miss Cooke, during her stay in Preston,
had famed many admiring friends by , the ladylike and
effective manner m which she supported many leading le-
gitimate characters in the course of the last season.—Era.
GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—The Government
emigrant ship Alfred, 1,278 tons; Captain George Cossey,
which sailed from Liverpool on the 17th of June, in charge
Of Surgeon-Superintendent John Hayden Brownfield, with
76 married couples, 126 single men, 60 single women, 38
boys between' the ages of 1 and 12, 41 girls between the
same ages, nine male infants and 11 female, making a total
of 437 souls, equal to 3771 statute adults,.arravod at Moreton
'Bay, New South Wales, on the 19th of September. Two
deaths (infants) and, five births occurred dung the voyage.
Mrl Brownfield, the surgeon, was taken ill, and died shortly
before the arrival of the ship in the colony.
EXFORTS FROM HULL.—The following are the
Custoni-house returns of the exports from Hull frora.l3ec.,
1857, to November, 1858, both inclusive :—Plain calicoes,
47,757;361 yards; printed calicoes, 35,340,176 yards cam-
bncs and muslin, 48,690 yards; lace,gauze, net, andcrape,
30,961,571 pirds ; cords, jeans, fustians, velvets,- and velve-
teens, 150,408 ,• cotton thread,. 466,90011►. ; cottons uneim-
merated, declared value, £11,012; cotton yarn, 7`9,273,062;
cotton and linen mixed, 13,643 yards ; linensl
..joartly, de-
dared fit YaluO nnd partly in length; £15,202, and 6,287,249
yards ; linen thread and yarn,'12,002,4951b.; 'woollen goods,
£35;303; woollen:and Worsted goods, £1;203,568 woollen
and cotton goods, 213,331; woollen and worsted • yarn,
14,952,1291 b.; woollen and cottoniarn, £2,937, and 20,4601 b.
_N
ATAL ACCIDENT.7—I' hursday evening, the
6th inst., as Mr. Gnunich, manager, of the lace-ware-
house of Mr. Moritz Marx, Nottingham, was returning
front hunting, and had proceeded so far hemeivard'as the
London-road (about a mile from the town),- his horse
came in contract v-ith a, milk,cartrxhich w-ac goinr.r. in the
opposite Mr. (iii.lf lior,e phi lig,,d
and thi,m- its rid, ig•btt'oll v rroshed.
unfolittnate'stitteru• whs y e(1 .peedil3.3:;is pos-
sible, and surgical assistance procured. tii-,ou examination
it .was found, necessary to amptitate the leg. Mr. Grnmich,
howeVer, never rallied, and. expired a few hours afterwards.
THE REV. Mu. PE7GH AND TILE ST. PANCRAS
Guinnt.t.xs.—The Rev. Thomas Pugh, who was lately
dismissed from his office of chaplain to the St. Pancras
Workhouse for having refused to divillge the address of the
late assistant-surgeon, the same having been comniuni&•tted
to him in his capacity as a minister of, religion as a profes-
sional and privileged communication., has appealed to the
Poor-law Commissioners to institute an official inquiry into
his conduct and to reinstate him in his office. The-hoard
of Guardians, however, deny the right of the Commission-
ers to interfere in the matter, as they are appointed . under
special Act of Parliament. .The. Board aLso denied, upon a
recent occasion, the right of the Commissioners to send an
auditor, but, as the Commissioners insisted, the Guardians
gave way.
MlNES.—During the week the demand for a
few particular mines has been very great, and numbers of
orders could not be .executed. The effect of this has been
in sonic measure to turn public attention to sound progres7
sive mines, such as are likely to have a rise in price. ,Those
chiefly in demand have been Grambler and St. Aubyn,
West Seton, East Basset, Condurrow, Besset, United Mines,
Providence Mines, Great South Tolgti,.' Tamar Consols,
Trelawny, Mary Ann, East Russell, Margaret, North Dol-
coath, South Caradon Wheal Hooper, North Minerva, And a
few others. East Basset advanced to 190, buyerk but after-
wards became flatter, and left off at 175 to 180,; the ore
sold on Thursday realised upwards of £2,000., but it is un-
derstood a dividend will not be paid till March. ,rambler
and St. Aubyn havabeen, in great demand; and have ad-
vanced to 190, 195; or, as the shares have been subdivided
into 486ths, the quot;ion is 921 to 971 ; at the meeting, a
dividend of £3 per share was -declared, and at the'next
two-monthly meeting it will be at least £5 per share ; at the
present price of shares the mine is only selling at
half the price of East Basset, and from the report pre-
sented to the meeting, it would scent to be about the
cheapest in the market. South Frances, 230 to 235 ;at the
meeting the accounts showed a profit of £2,551 4s. 7d. on
the two months' working, and a dividend' of £2,480 (-c5
per share) declared. Copper Hill, 95 to 100; the mine has
much improired in the winze below the 6 fin, whichlis yield-
ing 3 tons of rich ore per fm. Rosewarne Shares have still
been in derhand at 30 to 35, aril MAO Itiii eereditlik
lieved in Cornwall the mine has improved.—Mittikok
nfit4 of this: day.

VACANCIES, ATPOINTKANTS, AND PROMOTIONS
IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—East India Depatment—A
vacancy, in. the Council of India has been caused. by the
resignation of Captain Shepherd. Messrs. Edward Henry
Whinfield, Win. Christopher Eades, Ward, Joseph
Samuel Armstrong, Alexanderdelfafrq 1114ifiegor, • and
Frederick Jones, having -piissiantheinTexaminatiori# are
recommended by the Civil Service Coinnliesioners,fini ap}
pointments in her Majesty's Civil Service in India on the
Bengal establishment. Army Medical Department—The
office of principal medical officer at Fort Pitt, Chatham, has
become vacant by the promotion' of Dr.' J. R. Taylor, C. 8.,
to be Inspector-General of Hospitals in India. Law De-
partmcnt.—A _clerkship has become vacant in the office of
the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, by the
death of Mr. B. Lewis. General Post-office.—Mr. Wm. P.
Reed, of the second class in the secretary's office, general
Post-office, Dublin, has been appointed to the first class, in
the room of Mr. Urquhart J. Thompson, appointed chief
clerk. Public Record-office.—An assistant-keepership in
the Public Record-office has become vacant by the death of
Mr. F. Devon. Customs.—The surveyor-generalship has
become vacant by the retirement on superannuation of Mr.
Thos. How. The office of assistant receiver-general will
shortly beComnrut by the retirement of Mr. T. Lee on
superannuatio . A clerkship in the Receiver-General's
office is vaca , vice M'Dermott. Several clerks are to be
appointed in *he Long Room, owing to increase of businesS.
The establishinent at the portof Grangemouth has been in-
creased, and the following promotions have consequently
taken place :—Mr. Wm. Miller, clerk, has been promoted to
be first clerk ; Mr. David Stevenson, landing-waiter, has
been promoted to be first landing-waiter; Mr. Jas. Cobb,
second landing-waiter at Yarmouth, has been promoted to
be first landing-waiter. Inland Revenue Department,
Excise Branch.—Mr. John Walsh, second-class- clerk,
Athlone collection, has been appointed., to Middleton divi-
sion, Cork collection, at his own request. Mr. John
Thornton, officer of Colyton ride, Exeter collection, has
been promoted to Alloa second division, Stirling collec-
Um—Civil Service Gazette.