The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

NORWICH.

The polling commenced at 8 a.m., but, as com-
pared with former years, proceeded rather lan-
guidly. It will be seen that the nomination of
Colonel Boldero was merely made to enable the
Conservatives to claim him as the man of their
choice in the event of Lord Bury being unseated,
and Sir Samuel Bignold being also declared in-
eligible to sit in the House of Commons.

CLOSE OF THE POLL
Lord Bury
Sir S. Bignold
Colonel Boldero

1921
1557
38

It is right, perhaps, to observe that no addre§s
appeared either on Tuesday or yesterday from Col.
Boldero, and Lord Bury has declared his belief that
the gallant Colonel's nomination took place with-
out his consent.

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.
WEDNESDAY.
The following is the official declaration of the
poll :--
Headlam.
Cuthbert.
Majority for Headlam .... -1,067
After the declaration Mr. Headlam, Mr. Cuth-
bert, Mr. Joseph Cowen, jun„ and Mr. S. Hodgson
Hinde addressed the electors.

2,153
1,086

ARRIVAL OF MR. COBDEN FROM
AMERICA.

Mr. Cobden arrived at Liverpool yesterday
(Wednesday) morning by the steamer Indian, which
reached the port about 10 o'clock. He was received
by hisbrother, a deputation fromhis constituents at
Rochdale, Mr. R. Gladstone, and a number of other
gentlemen resident in Liverpool, numbering alto-
gether about 200, who cheered him loudly as soon
as he was perceived on deck. The hon. gentleman
on landing proceeded with his brother in a cab to
the Adelphi Hotel, where he received numerous ad•
dresses during the day.
Shortly after kis arrival became known a meet-
ing of the Liberal party was held in the town, when
an address was agreed upon, and Mr. W. Brown
appointed to head a deputation for the purpose of
presenting it. These gentlemen went forth to the
Adelphi Hotel, and assembled in the large room of
the house. Upon Mr. Cobden making his appear-
ance he was warmly greeted by his friends, and was
cheered most heartily by all present.
Mr. BROWN briefly explained that an address of
congratulation had been voted him on his arrival in
his native country, and called upon. Mr. Riley to
read the same. The address was as follows :

" The numerous body of gentlemen who are now present
fairly represent the feelings of the inhabitants of Liverpool,
who daily appreciate the benefit and advantages you have
conferred, not only on them, but on your country, by your
devotion to the advocacy of commercial freedom. I can
assure you it affords us great pleasure to have this opportu-
nity of offering to you our sincere congratulations on your
safe return from the United States. We were much pleased
to see the manner you were received there. Your private
worth and public services seem to be as well known to our
Transatlantic friends as to your own countrymen. The re-
vocation of the Corn-laws, of which you were so distin-
guished an advocate, will never be forgotten in Great
Britain, where it has contributed to the happiness of mil-
lions ; nor in the United States, as it tends to cement that
friendship and commercial intercourse which is highly ad-
vantageous and of the greatest importance to the two na-
tions, who are so united by kindred, by language,by laws,
and by customs. It must be exceedingly gratifying to you,
as it is to all Freetraders, that we do not bear, a murmur
even from the landed interest, who were afraid that by the
removal of the protective duty on corn theywould be ruined.
They find, so far from being injured, that it has contributed
to their prosperity. It is a proper appreciation of your
services in public life that Rochdale has returned you to
Parliament, in your absence, unopposed ; and that our
most gracious Sovereign has been pleased to call upon you
to occupy a seat in the Cabinet and to be President of the
Board of Trade, for which your antecedents so eminently
qualify you. It puts it in your power, by your counsel and
advice, to render further important services to your coun-
try, and although it will impose on you both anxiety and
labour, we trust and hope you will not for a moment hesi-
tate or shrink from taking upon yourself the important
duties of that office. We live in anxious times, and are
most desirous of having a gentleman in the Cabinet who
has earned the respect and confidence of his country-
men, and who, we feel assured, will use his most strenuous
efforts to maintain our neutrality, and not permit us, if it
be possible to avoid it, to be parties to the unhappy contest
which is now raging in Italy. Sir, we most. cordially offer
you our congratulations on your resumption of your most
honourable public career, and with them our prayers that
your life may be long spared with health and strength to
discharge those public duties to which you are called."
Mr. COBDEN made the following reply :—Gen-
tlemen of Liverpool,—l have just stepped ashore
from the steamer which brought me from America;
having had a somewhat difficult, though not length-
ened passage, and being one of the worst sailors in
the world, I was so much affected by sea sickness
that my head is still swimming
the voyage.. Being utterly with the effects of
unacquainted with the
state of politics in this country, having not seen a
newspaper, until the pilot came on board, for the
last 26 days, it would be presumptuous in me to
attempt to offer any lengthened remarks on this
occasion. The address which has been presented
to me alludes to the reception I met with in Ame-
rica, and as it is the first occasion on reaching my
native shores upon which I have had the oppor-
tunity of saying one word upon the subject, I
should be wanting to myself if I did not take
this occasion for saying that the touching kind.
ness and numberless courtesies which I have
met with in America have left an impression

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, 5D

upon my mind which•widl only be effaced by death
itself. It seems that the further I have gone from
home the less occasion I have had to feel myself
abroad. I was certainly not aware of the number
of my friends until I went to America, and I take
this opportunity of tendering to those on the other
side of the Atlantic my warmest tribute of gratitude.
With regard to the operation of free trade; I take
it that the reception I met with in America, parti-
cularly in the remoter Western States, which are
more devoted to -the production of grain and provi-
-1 sions adapted for European markets, may-be taken
as a proof the manner in which these measures have
been appreciated in that remote region. I haVe not
the least doubt in the world that the views which
were always expressed by my friend on my left
(Mr. Brown) with regard to the effects which would
be produced in America by the repeal of our corn
laws have been amply realised, and 'that we have
made strong and fast friends, and bound them in
ties of interest which will ever make-them the allies
and partisans of peace between'Arnerica and Eng-
land. , (Hear.) From the opportdnitieS I have had of
observing the tendency of opinion in America; I
come back with the belief that there is a more cor-
dial feeling of attachment between the old and new
country than the ordinary- channels of public opi-
nion enable us to appreciate. The Americans and
the'English seem to me to occupythe same'positiou,
to each other which it was stated Goldsmith - had
towards Dr. Johnson. The gruff old doctor liked-
to scold Goldsmith himself, but would never "allow
anybody -else to scold him without taking his part.
(Laughter.) And I have no doubt, from what I have
seen• in my travels in the. United States, that were -
it possible that England should find herself in a
position where'she was hard pressed by enemies in
Europe—give her a gaTod cause, and give her a ne-
cessity for WI), and -nave no doubt in the world that
nothing would prevent in such an emergency the
great bulk of the population in the United States
hurrying to the rescue of the old mother country.
(Applause.) Ido not say this-with any idea that
we are likely to need that help, I think England
is strong enough to hold her own, and that is the
opinion in America. I agree with the address, that
we ought in case of this war to observe a strict
neutrality—(cheers)—and in reading as I have done
in the papers from England, and looking at them
perhaps with more calmness than has been done by
those who live on the spot and are mixed up in the
daily struggle ofpolitics—in reading the English
papers, containing reports of speeches by public
men on the subject of neutrality, I must say that I
find expressions in their declarations of the prin-
ciple of neutrality which seem to me to be rather
calculated to throw a doubt upon the strength of
the principle which they admit, and which I think
deserve to be commented upon. Though my head is
not in a state to deal with that or any other con-
troversy at present, I will express my opinion,
viz, that if we wish to be neutral, we must have the
power to be neutral. (Applause.) I think we are
quite as able to be neutral in these European strug-
gles as the people of the United States ; and that is
the opinion of every intelligent man in the United
States with whom I have conversed. In the speeches
of our public men I also observe that they speak of
preserving neutrality as long as we are able to do
so. In another case I meet with this phrase—" that
we must provide against all emergencies, for there
is no knowing what events may turn up." I again
find it stated " that we may be inveigled in the
strife." Why, that is the old story over again when
we were drifted into the war before. Now, it seems
to me the English people have taken the initiative
on this occasion, and they have, probably for the
first time in the history of this country, taken a
bold stand upon the only safe ground—that is, of
declaring beforehand to the Government of this
country that they will maintain neutrality, and
that they will maintain neutrality in all cages ex-
cept where the safety and interests of this country
are directly menaced, and I won't flinch from stat-
ing what I mean by that term. I observe that
there is a great clamour among certain parts of the
population of Germany for war with France in
defence of Austria, and such States as Bavaria,
and perhaps Hanover—the most backward States
—seem to be anxious of precipitating that great
confederation intothis European strife; but I would
like the English people to give the portion of the
German population to understand distinctly that if
they commence an attack upon Louis Napoleon this
country will not come to their help if they are
beaten. (Applause.) I don't look with so much
hopefulness myself as some do. as to the effects of
the war upon the destinies of the Italian people;
but my sympathies are wholly with the Italians,
and, moreover, I think, were we placed in their po-
sition, we should not be very scrupulous as to the
source of getting assistance to rid ourselves of our
oppressors. 'When the Americans, in their struggle
with the old country, accepted the services of Louis
XVI., who was quite as despotic a sovereign as
Louis Napoleon, I think the Italians may be excus-
ed for looking to the other side of the Alps for as-
sistance in throwing off the yoke of Austria. With
regard to this struggle, wherever I have been, whe•
ther in the United States or Canada, I have found
but one opinion, and that is one of sympathy with,
the Italian people, and a hearty wish for the success
of the French arms ; at the same time, it is coupled
with the belief that there is nothing in the strife
which is now raging on that bloody arena which
can in any way prove inimical to the interests of
England, and I may add what I have heard the in--
habitants of the United States say—they look with
some dread on the amount of preparation which is
making in England, for the purpose, as is said by
those gentlemen who have been 'speaking in public
—" for the purpose of meeting any eventualities."
" Eventualities" is the word I see sometimes used.
Nov, the opinion in the United States is, that war
between two great Powers on the continent does
not involve danger to England more than if they
were at peace, and keeping their armies unemployed.
I once heard an opinion expressed in America to
this effect, " If I were in a merchant vessel and saw
two pirates, I should feel much more at ease if
those pirates were fighting each other than if they
were standing aloof, ready to be down upon me."
(Laughter and cheers.) However, as you in England
have taken the initiative in this matter, 1 hope we
shall keep the power in our own hand, and let both
the executive Government in th's country and foreign
Powers also know that we aro determined upon
this occasion not to allow the blood and treasure-of
England to be wasted for foreign purposes or foreign
objects. Reference has been made in your kind
address to my taking office in the Government of
Lord Palmerston. I really feel, to use a rather
expressive phrase of our good American friends—
I really feel so " badly posted up" upon our politics
here that. I am quite incapable of giving any opinon
On the subject. Until the pilot came on board in
the river this morning I had no idea of anything
that had happened. I now learn, for the first time,
that the Government of Lord Derby has been over-
thrown, and another frtimed in its place. .The cir-
cumstances under which the Government was dis-
placed, and the circumstances or objects upon which
the new Government has been formed, or anything
connected with it, were quite unknown to me until
a few hours since, and at present I am quite unpre-
pared to offer any opinion as to the subject of my
taking office, or on the formation of Government.
Nothing more surprised me than to find myself in-
cluded in such contemplated arrangements. You
will agree with me that this is not a matter which
I ought to refer to new. I have a letter in my
pocket from Lord Palmerston, written in a most
frank and courteous spirit, offering me the appoint-
ment of President of the Board of Trade. 1 think
the answer to the letter is due to kis lordship in
the first place. (Hear.) All I can say is that the
answer which I shall send to,that will be founded
entirely upon what I belieue to be the interest of
the public in this question. You must be good
enough to bear in mind that in a case of this kind
the person most interested is the only one who can
be thoroughly competent to form a conclusion, be-
cause it is he alone who bears the responsibility of
the step which he takes, and, although friends may
advise one course or another, they cannot afterwards
share his responsibility, and therefore he ought, in
duty to himself and the public, to be very deliberate
end careful in coming to a decision upon the matter.
I will say no more upon this subject than that so far as
my humble judgment enables me to decide I will
take the course which I believe will be most condu-
cive to the interests of the public in that respect,
and in doing so I feel that I shall have the friendly
interpretation of the gentlemen I see around me in
whatever may be the course I shall feel bound to
take. I thank you all sincerely for your kindness,
and, Mr. Brown, I congratulate you upon your
excellent health. lam sorry to find that you have
removed yourself from the duties of public life,
though you are still pursuing your path of useful-
ness. I thank all the gentlemen present for their
kind and hearty reception. '
Three cheers were then given for Mr. Cobden,
and three for Rochdale.
Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, the chairman of
the Liverpool Financial Reform Association, then
ixtroduced Mr. J. R. Jeffrey, who read an address
from that body, which was as follows :
" We, the president; members of the Financial Associa-
tion, and others, inhabitants of Liverpool, congratulate you
on your safe return to your native country under drown