The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-24 00:00:00

TV P. SUN, LONDON', 'THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1861.

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THE , PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE
' fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S
" GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES."
The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex-
perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus.
nese has now become the -grim torture. Purity of motive.
intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all
is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully
examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin-
ciples."

from any interference on the part of the Govern-
ment. In the next session of Parliament the groat
object would be to increase the wealth and pros-
perity of the country and to insure its safety. The
House of Commons ought, above all thing's, to
occupy itself with measures of peace. All such
measures would have his most cordial support, for
in no other way, he felt assured, could he act up to
his pledges or promote the interests of his consti-
tuents. (Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to Mr. Alderman, Salomons, for
his unremitting attention to his Parliamentary
duties, terminated the proceedings.

LORD (TWIN, MANY ER$ 'ON THE
GRESS OF CONSERVATISM.
The annual dinner of the donwrvatives took
place at the Corn Exchange, Leicester, on Tuesday
evening, when Mr. Alfred Cooper presided. There
were aiso present Lord John Manners, Lord
Curzon, and Mr. E. B. Hartopp, members for the
county ; Mr. W. U. -Heygate, member for the
borough, and Sir F. Heygate, M,P., and Mr. G. W.
Hunt, M.P.
Lord JOHN. MANNERS, on rising to respond to
the toast of " The Members for the County," was
loudly cheered.. He said,—Mr. Chairman, ladies,
and gentlemen,—l am certain that none of my col-
leagues nor myself is vain enough to suppose that
the reception you. have given to this toast is due to
our individual merits, but thatit is owing to your
anxiety to express to us, as representing the county
of Leicester; the hearty,sympathy which lire town
and trade and commerce feel fur those Nvho live-
outside its walls. (Cheers.) I trust you will be-
lieve me when I say, that our unanimous presence
here to-night—unanimous it would have been had
not illness compelled our worthy colleague, Mr.
Packe, to absent himself at the last moment from
your demonstration—is rendered simply as a proof
of the deep and heartfelt sympathy which we, re-
presenting more particularly the agricultural classes
of Leicestershire, feel towards the trade and com-
merce of Leicester. (Cheers.) Your admiral repre-
sentative has told you that he, for one, regards as
of little moment the old party Shibboleths, and
that he thinks that the time has come when mode-
rate men of all moderate parties may combine to
support the time-honoured institutions of our native
land. Well, gentlemen, so far as the Liberal party of
England is concerned, I believe it to be unfounded,
as well as the remark which is sometimes made that
there is in these days no difference between the prin-
ciples of contending parties, and that those time-
honoured institutions are as safe in the keeping of one
party as in that of another. I do not believe in the
truth of that assertion, and I will give you the
reason why. It can only be true so long as what is
called the great Liberal party is unfaithful in office
to the principles which it professes. (Cheers.) Also
for a moment, we see the heterogeneous elements of
the present Cabinet restrained by the influence, it
may be, of their chief ; or it may be, as I believe,
by the influence of the public opinion of England.
(Cheers.) What should we do if we trusted only to
that abeyance of democratic principles for the
future ? A foreign convention, a domestic distress,
or the-unsatisfied ambition of a single individual
may change the whole current of Liberal Govern-
mental policy ; and then we should find those in-
stitutions which we prided and honoured handed
over with easy indifference to the Radical revolu-
tionst, or the Chartists, by those to whom we had
unwisely and foolishly committed their sacred
keeping. Therefore I, for one, cordially agree in
the policy which last session sustained our efforts
to defeat successfully each attempt which was made
to revolutionize some one or other of our time-
honoured institutions. I do most cordially rejoice
at that movement which, year by year and month
by:month adds a unit to the Conservative moiety of
the House of Commons. (Cheers.) Therefore have
I for one rendered myself here this evening, with
the utmost pleasure and delight, to join you in con-
gratulating the borough of Leicester in having so
able and so faithful a representative as you have in
Mr. Heygate. (Cheers.) I hold it to be of the
utmost importance that out of doors every effort
should be made to restore the determinate and ab-
normal state of political affairs upon which Mr.
Heygate has so ably dilated. I call it abnormal; and
why do I call it so ? Why, gentlemen, two years
ago a Government was formed on what 7vas,
called the broad-bottomed Reform basis, and the
country was led to expect not only violent measures
of Parliamentary Reform, but a series of dangers
in the relations between Church and State. What
has been the result ? You may sum up the result
in one word,—" Nothing." (Laughter.) But how
has that negative result been brought about ? Why
what history does the last session of Parliament
present ? We had week after week some individual
Member of the once great reforming Liberal party
bringing forward his nostrum for the destruction of
some one of our time-honoured institutions j and
how was that met by this Government, in which
we were told that moderate Coservatives of England
might repose implicit confidence P Why, it was met
in this fashion—that the minister rose in his place
and delivered a series of most excellent and philo-
sophical reasons why the reform, as he called it, or
the revolution, as we should call it, should not be
adopted; and then, when the division bell sounded,
walked meekly and tamely into the lobby in the
rear of the revolutionary member whose measure he
had denounced. (Cheers.) In such an assembly as
this, and with such a fgeble voice as mine, you ,will
agree with me that all speeches are worth very
little I but I think you will agreed with me that
speeches of the description I hate mentioned are
worth less than nothing—(eheers)—and that if we
are to look to the security of our institutions in
Church and Stab, *e cannot as honest and as wise
men repose confidence in those who make such
speeches; and then eve such votesi (Cheers.)
Therefore do t, for one, attach the utitost import-
and thetefOre do t, tot of*
and() to every isolated election which takes place;
tejoiee at the signal
triumph which moderate Conservatives ob-
tained last *later lit this your most important
town. Allow me to ask why that which was done
SO successfully and so triumphantly in Leicester
bilotild not be done in other midland towns. Why
should not that Conservative element and that Con-
sertative feeling which I am convinced exists in
i3oroughs like Northampton, Nottingham,. Derby,
and Coventry—why should not that be called out
and stimulated to suceessful exertion by the glori-
ous triumph which you have achieved in Leicester ?
(Cheers.) I do net feel that we are celebrating here
to-night any narrow local triumph, but that we
are stimulating, or it may be calling into existence
that Conservative fire and that Tory spirit which
has sent to Parliament a member from the great
centres of Mantifaaturing industry in England—
members who shall respect and support the institu-
Hens of the cottntty. (Applause.) I think we may
all' assume that the time is singularly precious to
such a movement as f have ventured to indicate.
Two years ago the friends of our institutions in
Church and State were, some of them—l never was
—in something like despair. It seemed impossible
to resist the torrent of Itadical Reform, and it seemed
impossible to resist the onslaught of the leaders.
Our institutions were to be Americanized, and the
Church was to cease to be the Church of the nation.
(Hear, hear.) But in these two years what a change
has occurred! I do not wish to allude more parti-
cularly to the lamentable events which are now
progressing in the United States. I may say this,
that from one end of England to another there is a
determination that our institutions .shall not be
hazarded to the risks and dangers which have fallen
upon the institutions of the United States. (Cheers.)
It is not necessary to confine our remarks or to su-
perscribe our vision to the United States. There is
another great Republic in America—l mean Mexico.
Halt' a century ago every Liberal in Europe heard
with.delight the release of Mexico from what was
called the wornout tyranny
of Spain. What is
nnw tho cenditin v thAt 00-called R 9114414 Re'

public ? Why, we are told—l am afraid,
on
good
authority—that we, the public of England, are to
be at the expense of fitting out a costly ex
pedition in order to do something to bring. the
Republicans of America to a sense of decency
and justice. (Loud cheers.) My firm persuasion
is, though I never was in Mexico, that there is
not a sensible Mexican alive at the present moment
who would not willingly at this instant exchange
the Monarchy of Spain for the Republicanism of
Mexico. (Laughter and cheers.) Such being the
state of affairs, it is a matter of the greatest satis-
faction to be able to say that never since the de-
struction of the Conservative party in 1846 was that
great party so unanimous, so harmonious, and so
united within the walls of Parliament as it is at the
present moment. (Cheers.) And I think I may
add that that harmony, that union, and that cordial
understanding which prevails within its walls is
met and responded to by the confidence which '
is
felt in our leaders without the walls of the House
of Commons. A signal proof of the truth of that
assertion of mine °centred in your, borough, and
that proof has been followed up by victory after
victory in all the important Counties and cities
which have since had the opportunity of register-
ing £heir electoral votes. The county of Cork, the
great division of South Lancashire, and other places,
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longer to trust the safety and the maintenance of
our great institutions in Church and State to the
haphazards of, it may be, the ill-concealed delight
of those who professed what are termed Liberal opi-
nipns in England. Well, gentlemen, I fear I have
detained you too long. (Voices—" Go on.") I may
say that I have come here regarding the festival
not so much as a triumph of onr:political party over
another in the borough of Leicester, but much more
as a triumph of those moderate 'Conservative prin-
ciples which I am satisfied are permeating more and
more the electoral mind of this great kingdom from
one end to the other, and I regard this great festi-
val as an incitement and inducement to other neigh-
bouring constituencies to go and do likewise.
(Cheers.) Certain I am that so long as in the great
centres of manufacturing industry such an assem-
blage as this can be produced to support Conserva-
tive principles, and to rally around our institutions
in Church and State, that, however for a time un-
principled combinations may place in office hetero•
-
geneous politicians, those time-honoured institu-
tions of our land will not be handed over without a
struggle, and a successful struggle, to philosophical
pedants, or to the more avowed inroads of political
demagogues. (Cheers.) For my own part, I beg
leave to return you my most grateful thanks.
(Cheers.)

BUCKS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

AMERSHAM, WEDNESDAY.

The annual meeting of the Bucks Agricultural
Association for Amersham, Chesham, and adjacent
parishes, was held in this town yesterday. In the
morning there was a ploughing match, and in the
afternoon prizes were delivered to cottagers for
roots, and to farm labourers for length of servitude,
and for the cleanly and tidy condition of their
dwellings. In the afternoon the members of the as-
sociation dined together at the Town hall, under
the presidency of Mr. T. Drake, master of the Bi-
costar Hunt. There were also present the Hon. W.
G. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. T. T. Bernard, M.P., Mr.
W. Lowndes, Capt. Parkinson, Mr. G. Carrington,
Mr. J. W. Howey, Mr; I. Hale, the Rev. J. King-
don, rector of Amersham ; the Rev. C. Lloyd, chap-
lain to the Bishop of Oxford; the Rev. J. Graves,
the Rev. T. Evetts, &c.

The presence of Mr. Disraeli had been expected,
but on the morning of the meeting the following
note was received from the right hon. gentleman :

" Hughenden Manor, Oct. 20.

" Dear Sir,—lt is a great disappointment to me that I am
prevented having the pleasure of attending with my friends
at Amersham on Tuesday next. I should feel much gra-
tified if the committee of your society would permit mo next
year to offer a prize of £5 for some act of meritorious ser-
vice or labouring skill. I would leave the details to their
better judgment, but would presume to express my wish
that, if tb,ey were so kind as to sanction the suggestion, that
sum should not be divided. I enclose a check for £s.—l
am, dear Sir, yours, &e.,

"B. DISRAELI."
The ensitZaary loyal toasts having been duly
honoured,

The CIIIIII7dAN proposed'" The Army, Navy, and
Volunteers."

Captain PARKINSON in responding, said he had
no reason to find-fault with the army, save with re-
gard to its numerical strength, which he thought
might, with advantage to the country, be consider-
ably greater than it was at present. He was glad to
see, from the recent order of the Horse Guards, that
we were likely to have a real light cavalry force—
the men proportioned to the horses. Hitherto the
love of obtaining fine men had been allowed to pre-
dominate, and the result had been that the men
had been too heavy for the horses ; indeed, he had
seen in the light cavalry men who might with ad-
vantage have been draughted into the Life Guards
or the Blues—an anomaly not to be witnessed in
any other country, He approved the steps which
were being taken to promote military education; but
with regard to the oflia'rs) he thought it would be
of great advantage to the arri7 if the aristocratic
element were altogether wanting in ii".! composition.
Mr. LowNDES next gave "The Health of the
members for the Countyand Borough of Aylesbury/
Mr. CA'VENDISH, M.P., in acknowledging the
compliment, referred to the condition of the agri.
cultural labourers. Be said—All yon have to do is
to treat them well, and you will find in the end
that they will treat you well. Only provide them
with good comfortable cottages to dwell in, and you
will seep, see that they will take a pride in seeping
them clean and tidy. Give them good wages, and
they will work well for you but I never knew
anybody Yet who was prepared to •rtrotli for nothing.
Pay them properly, and when a pressufti tomes—
when you have your harvest to house quickly, or
any other emergency arises—you will find they are
ready to give you a turn, and to study your inte-
rests as well as their own. (Cheers.) lam afraid
I cannot advocate the celebration of harvest-home
suppers, which have found some favour in other
quarters. I tried it myself, and the result was by
no moans so satisfactory as could have been desired.
Unfortunately there was no church near where I
could first assemble my labourers before they sat
down to supper, and the consequence was that I
was not so well able to keep them together as other
landlords may be in neighbouring parishes. My
harvest-home was a very unfortunate affair. The
husbands came down and had some supper and beer, ,
and I am afraid they had far too much of the latter.
I was obliged to give up all idea of entertaining
them again at the close of the harvest, and I now
do it in another manner. With regard to the Meet-
ings of these local agricultural associations, I think
they do a great deal of good, whenever you are ca-
pable of preserving order downstairs. That, how.
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the labouring classes your annual gatherings will
affect them most prejudicially. Your society here
awards money prizes to cottagers and to labourers
for long servitude. I think it would not be without
its advantages if the society would take a hint from
others in the immediate neighbourhood, and, in-
stead of giving mere money prizes, would give the
labourer some medal or memorial which he could
hang up in his cottage, and point to with pride as
twin bccu tycn to Mill for hio sQ94 conduct And.