The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-06 00:00:00

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Cotton—The market during, the past fortnight has been
to some extent influenced by the course of the market in
Liverpool, and prices have gained a further advance in con-
sequence of the latest advices from Liverpool reporting of a
fresh advance in price there. The inquiries, however, are
very limited, as purchasers are very cautious, and are afraid
of entering into any extensive operations, being uncertain
as to the issue of American offal, s. A few contracts have
been entered into by native houses for new Oomrawattee
cotton, probably for shipment to China. The November
speculation was settled on the 9th inat , when the price
upon which differences are to be paid was fixed at rs. 1741;
the speculation next opened is for the month of May.
Stocks are moderate, and supplies are coming in very
freely.

CALCUTTA, Nov. 9.

Shirting—Grey, few sales lately; prices firm.
.Twist—llule, prices declined a little, but are again
firmer.

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Silk—Raw, some sales at better price.
Indigo—No change; new sowing progressing well.
Copper—Sheating, firm, at rs. 41k; tile, ninety (?), at
rs. 41f to rs. 42. _
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Sugar—Slightly easier.
Rice—N o change.

FEARFUL ACCIDENT AND GALLANT ATTEMPT
TO RESCUE.--A very serious accident occurred at Fareham
the other day, under the following circumstances :—lt ap-
enaelalrhtehrehtusowbnanodf,Fwarheoh,amsh,ewshuepnpotsbeed,fawrmasere'sngwaigfeedweanttthto:
pears that a threshing-machine was at work in a farm yard
machine. She went too near the machine, and her clothes
became entangled, and the poor woman was dragged down
by the machinery. A young workman, named Down, per-
ceivin g her imminent peril, stepped forward, and at the risk
of his life dragged her away. In the attempt, however,
Down was seriously injured; the two middle fingers of his
right hand became entangled in the machinery, and the flesh
and skin of one were literally drawn from the bone. Tha
other finger was much crushed. The unfortunate young
man was conveyed to Portsmouth Hospital, where his fingers
were amputated, his right hand being maimed for ever. 116
was progressing favourably after the amputation on Friday
night.— West Sussex Gazette.
A SWINDLER IN MACCLESFTELD.—Ata am nsing
hoax has just been perpetrated in Macclesfield. A
ed portly
at
and respectable-looking man arrived and reprent th
se
he was the agent of Mr. Mitchell, of London, and had come
to Macclesfield to make arrang,ements for a
concer
Mr. t to
Sims be
given by Madame Jenny Lind Goldsehmidt,
Reeves, and Signor Belletti. On the strength of his plau-
sible representations, several of our local auth. orities, musi •
cal professors, printers, editors, the
.town bill-poster, and
others were duped—each p.arty seeming determind to out-
vie the other in entertaining the impostor. No lord or
squire could have fared better than did
last, and his enter-
Jeremy Did-
dler en Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
tainment did not cost him a farthing. At length one rather
shrewd individual began to suspect that the pretended
whereaboutsht however a
uagent was not what he represented himself to be ; and on a
csa soon ono o
gentle hint being expressed to the gentleman to that effect,
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be ascertained.

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MARYLEBONE AND ITS MEMBERS.

Lord Fermoy and Mr. Harvey Lewis, the members
for this metropolitan borough, met their constitu-
ents last evening in Hall's Riding School, Albany-

street, Regent's Park, to give an account of their
stewardship. There was not a very large attend-
ance. Sir James Duke, M.P., presided.
The CHAIRMAN said he had felt some little hesi-
tation in acceding to the proposal that he should

take the chair, since both Lord Fermoy and Mr.
Lewis went further in their political opinions than
he did. He had always been a consistent Liberal,

but recent events reminded him and others most

strongly that Englishmen had the happiness of
living under the best of Sovereigns, and enjoying
the freest constitution in the world, besides which
thoy possessed the most enlightened and indepen-
dent press in the world. He wished to hold fast

these great advantages, and should be slow to sanc-
tion any interference with them. But, though his
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opinions on some points might not exactly accord
with those of the two borough members, he had for
many years known his noble friend (Lord Fermoy),
of whose usefulness in the House of Commons he
spoke highly. _ _

Lord FERMOY said an opinion had been industri-
ously circulated throughout the country by the
Tory party that the session of 1861 was a do-
nothing session. Now, though on many important
matters the short-comings of the Government had
been blameable and serious, still in matters of prac-
tical and useful legislation the past session had been
as rich as any which could be mentioned for the last
20 years. First, the country had obtained a recog-
nition of the fact that the privilege of imposing and
continuing taxes on the people belonged to the
people's house, and that the functions of the House
of Lords consisted in registering the decisions of
the House of Commons on financial matters. (Hear,
hear.) Having in 1861 repealed the duty on paper
they had, as far as men could do, reasserted and re-
covered the rights which had been invaded in 1860.
By the consolidation and amendment of the crimi-
nal law a reform of the most useful character had
been effected. In some seven bills more than 100
statutes had been repealed or altered, and the
criminal law of the country had been placed upon
a sounder and a better footing. Then they could
point to the reform of the Bankruptcy law by which
they had practically abolished imprisonment for
debt, given to the creditors a speedy and cheap
means of obtaining possession of the debtor's pro-
perty, and abolished all distinctions between traders
and non-traders. (Hear.) Again, they had esta-
blished cheap and safe savings-banks for the people
which would enable thrifty working men to deposit
their savings securely when they were fortunate
enough to have any. The Irremovable Poor Bill
was a step in the right:direction, reducing as it did
the term which gave :the poor man a right to a
settlement from five years to three years. (Hear.)
This was not a very flashy, but it was a practical
and a useful measure. (Hear.) The Affirmation
Bill allowed in criminal cases a man to make an
affirmation if he had a conscientious objection to
take an oath, thereby furthering the ends of justice
while it also secured freedom of conscience
to witnesses. (Hear, hear.) Of the three
Indian Bills, one affected the Civil Service, and
admitted the natives of India for the first time
to employment in it; another changed the
constitution of the Legislative Council, in which
natives were also to be admitted ; and a third re-
ferred to the judicial tribunals of India. He only
hoped that those who governed India would not
allow those measures to remain dead letters, but would
give due effect to them by allowing meritorious na-
tives to share in the public employments for which
Parliament had thought them fitted. (Hear, hear.)
Then came the Act regulating the voting at Uni-

versity elections, which he had been at first inclined
to oppose, but afterwards supported, in :the belief,
as Mr. Henley declared, that it would lead to vote
by ballot. If the University voters were allowed
to exercise their franchise at Dublin, Cambridge,
or Oxford, while sitting quietly at a desk in York-
shire or Essex, he did not see why the poor man
was not equally entitled to consideration and protec-
tion, and why he should not be allowed to record
his vote by the ballot, without the risk of incurring
odium from his Tory customer or the frowns of
some tyrannical employer. (Cheers.) After highly
commending another of the measures of 1861—
namely, the commercial treaty with France, the
noble lord proceeded to handle the reform question.
Mr. Layard had recently told his constituents that
the Government had not given them a Reform Bill
because the people did not appear to want one, and
he said if they wanted reform why didn't they ask
for it ? But it did not lie in the months of the pre-
sent Government, who were put in office specially
to carry reform, now to turn round to say, "We
really don't know whether the people want reform
at all." (Hear, hear.) Mr. Layard would not have
made this statement without authority, but it was
an extraordinary argument to be used by the mem-
bers of any Government. They said in effect, "We
believe reform to be necessary"—and this they
must believe, because they had expressed this
opinion in the Queen's speeches—" but we won't
give it to you, though we believe you ought
to have it, unless you kick up a row about
it." Why, it was like holding a sugar plum before
a child and saying, "My dear, you shan't have this
unless you cry for it." (Cheers and laughter.) He
had always thought that the statesmanlike maxim
was to make political changes when men's minds
were tranquil, and when therefore there was a
greater chance of arriving at just conclusions. But
the new maxim seemed to ho not to amend the re-
presentation unless there was general excitement
throughout the country, unless there were tumul-
tuous meetings, and every constituency rose to
carry a measure which had over and over again been
promised from the throne. (Hear, hear.) Search
history through, and no doctrine could be found so
subversive of good order and good government as
the doctrine thus enunciated before his constituents
by a member of the present Government. (Hear.)
But as the Government had thrown down the
gauge, he advised the people to show the want of
truth in the Tory assertion that they had changed
their minds, and no longer wanted Reform. He
advised all great constituencies like that of Mary-
lebone, which had in their population hundreds and
thousands of non-electors well qualified to exercise
the franchise, to take the Government at their word,
and between this and the next session of Parliament
to hold public meetings and agitate this question.
When the Government abandoned the cause of
Reform in the House of Commons a sort of Bull's
Run was seen ; first the officers deserted, and then
the men. (Laughter.) The motions of Mr. Baines
and Mr. Locke King were rejected, along with Sir
J. Trelawny's Church-rate Abolition Bill. There
was a retrograde movement among the Liberal
party, for when their leaders ran away the Liberal
rank and file had not the pluck to fight. One sub-
ject of considerable importance had been mooted
in the recess—be meant the Education Minute.
lie believed that the vested interests of the
teachers were not sufficiently
regarded in
that Minute. It was only right, however, that
the Ministers who drew it up should have the
opportunity of explaining their views upon the sub-
ject in Parliament. One comfortable reflection was
that the Minute could not take effect until Marcb,
and before that time there would be ample oppor-
tunities of obtaining an explanation from Mr.
Lowe, and of pressing upon him any amendments
which were deemed necessary, (Hear, hear.) The
noble lord then alluded to the Thames embankment,
which he thought a work of sufficient national im-
portance to justify an application to defray some
portion of the cost from the national Exchequer,
He went on to say that there was one subject which
pressed just now on everybody's mind—our rela-
tions with America. Now, he had always taken a
deep interest in the well-being and success of the
democratic institutions of America. His sympathies
had always been enlisted on behalf of the attempt
to govern a great country with as little pressure as
possible upon the masses. And therefore, when he
now unfortunately felt called upon to use strong
language he did so most unwilingly. If, however,
we were to believe what we saw and heard, the
Northern States of America appeared to have lost
t
inae any little sense which might have been left
to them, (11 ear,hear, and a laugh.) Their attempt