The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-16 00:00:00

STEWARD'S CUP.

Harry Stanley
Remunerator
Conductor

Eleven ran.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY RACES.—TuEsDAY.

A Handicap Sweepstakes of 6 sovs each, for all ages; win.
ners extra. About three furlongs and a quarter ; straight

run in.
Mr. Locke's Fractious, by Orlando, 6 yrs, 75t.... (Bray) 1
Captain Christie's Marmalade, 3 yrs, fist 111 b.. (Saddler) 2
Mr. Gibbs's Golden Pippin, 2 yrs, sst 51b. (Rayner) 3
Vigo, Royal Oak; Hand-over-Hand, and Norton also ran.
Won by a length ; three lengths between second and third.
The Corporation Plate of 5 soya, for two-yr-olds and up-
wards; the second to save his stake; winners extra.
Three quarters of a mile.

Mr. Gulliver's Contract, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Grimshaw) 1
Captain Christie's Brandyball, 3 yrs, 7st (Saddler) 2
Mr. Edey ns Gwellyon, 2 yrs, 4st 111 b (Parsons) 3
The following also ran :—Harry Stanley, Miss Julia,
Argosy, Zitella, Raven, Lousquenet, Enfield, Awful, Ben
Webster, and Creeper.

Won by half a length; two lengths between second and
third ; a head between third and fourth.

Shorts Handicap (Selling Race) of 3 soya each, with 25

added. About half a mile.

Mr. Locke's Chantresa, 4 yrs, 6st. (Bray) 1
Mr. Cliff's Creeper, 2 yrs, 4st 101 b (Taylor) 2
Mr. Hine's Cumberland 6 yrs, Bst 31b (Fordham) 3

Fusee, Miss Eleanor, Confusion, Maradan, and Kate also
ran. Won by a length ; half a length between second and
third.

The Anglesey Stakes, for yearlings, of 10 sow, 5 ft, with

25 added. A quarter of a mile. 16 subs.
Lord Stamford's Volley filly, 7st 41b. (Edwards) 1
Mr. W. Day's Promise filly, 7st 41b (J. Adams) 2
Mr, Barnard's Cantab, 7st 71b (Fordham) 3

Borodino, Calcutta, Jessamine, Splitnose (late Marma-
lade), Little Jenny, and Kinston also ran.
Won by a length ; three lengths between second and
third; bad fourth.

The Abbey Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added. About
three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. Saddler's Babbler, 3 yrs, 6st 51b .... (Saddler) 1
Mr. Cliff's Lustre, 3 yrs, Est 51b (Gardner) 2
Mr. Pattison's Soothsayer, 4 yrs, Est 131 b (Reeves) 3
Bmndyball and Joskin also ran. Won by two lengths.
The Shrewsbury Handicap of 50 sovs., added to a handi-
cap sweepstakes of 15 sovs ; the seoond receives 20 sovs
out of the stakes. Two miles.
Mr. Hodgman's Mutineer, 3 yrs, sst 91b (Adams) 1
Mr. F. Higgins' Tiraandra (inc. 71b extra), 3 yrs, Est I Ilb
(Grs
Mr. Gill's The Squire (inc. 31b extra), 3 yrs, 6sl 81itnbhaw) 2
(Challoner) 3
The following also ran :—Nucleus, Tunstall Maid, York,
Caliph, Julia, and Whimsical.
Won by a neck; a bad third.

Hurdle Race of 40 sous, added to a handicap sweepstakes

of 7 sovs each.
Mr. Loagley's Magenta, 4 yrs, 9st 21b .. (T. Donaldson) 1
Mr. Bayloy's Jealousy, 6 yrs, list (Kencbill) 2
Mr. Golby'a Maria Agnes (in. 141 b ex.), 6 yrs, 9st lllb
(G. Stevens) 3

Scpoy mid The Miller also ran.
Won by a neck; bad third.

21118 DAY'S MARKETS.

MEXICO.

Mr. Otway has issued the following circular to
the British residents :

" Mexico, Sept. 1.
"As the speech of Mr. Schneider in the House
of Commons on the Bth of July last, a copy of which
I have the honour to enclose herewith, in reference
to the affairs of Mexico, is considered by her
Majesty's Minister to be highly personal and calum-
nious, he has instructed me to lay it before his coun-
trymen resident in the capital, and request them in
his name to pass a verdict upon the justice or in-
justice of the charges therein brought against him.
In accordance, therefore, with Mr. Otway's instruc-
tions, I beg you will do me the favour of communi-
cating to me, at your earliest convenience, either in
the form of a signed declaration or in the manner
you may deem most advisable, your opinions upon
the subject-matter of Mr. Schneider's speech. I
have only to add that Mr. Otway believes you are
all aware under what circumstances asylum was
given to the lady President in her Majesty's Lega-
tion, and that her Majesty's late Government ap-
proved of such asylum having bean accorded to
Madame Miramcn.

"JOHN WALSHAM,
" Her Majesty's Acting Consul.
"To the British Residents in Mexico."

" REPLY TO MIL OTWAY.
" Mexico Sept. 21, 1859.
" In reply to your circular of the Ist inst , ex
pressing the desire of her Majesty's Minister, Mr.
L. C. Otway, that the British residents in this
capital should giro their verdict upon a speech de-
livered by Mr. Schneider, On the Bth of July last,
in the House of Commons, relative to outrages com-
mitted upon British subjects in Mexico, I have the
honour, in compliance with the wishes of his Excel-
lency, to state my views upon the subject for his
information; and if in so doing .I should be more
prolix than might be considered desirable, I trust
the necessity of my being somewhat explicit in
giving my opinion—for the purpose of making my-
self distinctly understood—may be esteemed a suf-
ficient apology for soliciting your indulgence.
" And first, with reference to the statement that
Mr. Otway stood at his balcony, accompanied by
Madame Miramon, and manifested satisfaction at
the occurrence of a British subject being marched
by a prisoner, I feel bound to say 'that I have no
knowledge of the circumstance. But with regard
to what his Excellency has been pleased to deno-
minate asylum afforded to that lady, I must beg to
be permitted to observe, that as there was no per-
secution, nor threat of any injury being offered to
her by any party that I am aware of, the term
' asylum' would seem to be a misnomer in the pre-
sent instance ; and the lady mentioned, being tho
wife of one of the military chieftains of a faction
who have made themselves notorious by their dis-
regard of the rights of British subjects, ought
scarcely to be considered a proper person to receive
very marked hospitality at her Majesty's Lega-
tion ; and the least I can say upon this point is,
that Mr. Otway's proceedings in receiving and en-
tertaining her for so many days consecutively,
under those circumstances, I apprehend, was of ex-
ceedingly questionable expediency, and must, I
fear,
be esteemed a sufficient motive to justify
any hon. gentleman of the House of Commons in
calling the attention of • her Majesty's Govern-
ment to the subject, with a view to the correc-
tion of any abuse which may be found to sub-
sist in her Majesty's Legation in this country.
But I am required to render my verdict upon the
speech, and not upon detached parts thereof, and
will therefore come to the main question—namely,
have outrages been perpetrated as stated by the
hon. member ? And if so, has her Majesty's Mi-
nister here made a becoming remonstrance in the
defence of his countrymen ? Unhappily, upon the
first count in the indictment there can be but one
verdict when it is public and notorious that, by in-
structions of the Government, the liberty of British
subjects has been restrained without a shadow of
cause, that they have been tyrannically imprisoned
without a shadow of accusation being preferred
against them, and subsequently released to, show
the magnanimity of the Government in pardoning
offences never committed. Aye, by the instructions
of the Government, the lifeblood of our countrymen
has been shed without the semblance of a trial—
inhuman outrages committed to satiate despotic
vengeance upon English victims. And you will al-
low me to say that, however burning the indigna-
tion may be which I confess rises in my bosom when ,
I reflect upon these alarming atrocities, worthy the ,
not very remote times of cannibalism in this dis- '
tracted country, I fear a still more melancholy
truth yet remains to be told, which brings me to
the second point involved in the question ; and if I
should express myself in strong language, I never-
theless desire that it may be understood I approach
the subject with grief and pain, and rather in sor-
row than in anger. I will mention a fact here wor-
thy of note—namely, that the British residents have
always hailed the arrival of a Minister in this coun-
try with profound] respect and sympathy, as one
to whom they might look up for counsel and pro-
tection, and surely the case of Mr. Otway formed
no exception to the general rule in this respect;
but, unfortunately he soon alienated the kindly
sentiments which we all entertained for him at that
period, by the indifference he manifested for our well
being, and the unnatural affection he thought fit to
form for a Mexican faction, who are particularly
inimical to British subjects. That Mr. Otway
should have made these persons his bosom com-
panions, and even in matters of business addressed
confidential notes to the Government instead of
official demands for justice in behalf of his country-
men, seems to be incomprehensible conduct in her
Majesty's Minister; and, unhappily the authori-
ties in this city immediately took advantage of hie
lamentable weakness, and fancied they might
trample our rights, under foot with impunity, and
hence arose much of the injury and, perhaps, mo
of the outrages subsequently committed. Therefore
a fearful responsibility rests upon Mr. Otway, in
connexion with our sufferings, and the deduction is
undoubtedly legitimate that his Excellency has co-
operated with the Mexican Government for the
oppression of those whom his official position
rendered it his duty to protect and console in the
great affliction through which we have been made
to pass. I trust, therefore, he will pardon my pre-
sumption in suggesting that it might be well for
him to refresh his memory by looking over chapter
vi. b. iv. of " Blackstone's Commentaries," where
some useful observations may be found upon the
subject of treason—a point which her Majesty's
Government may wish to discuss with him on his
arrival in England; and it is desirable that a con-
stitutional judgment should be given upon his
somewhat anomalous proceedings.
" I have not conceived it necessary to enter into
the details of several cases of outrage, nor the par-
ticulars of the course pursued by Mr. Otway in
relation thereto, which might be adduced in sup-
port of the conclusion to which I am irresistibly im-
pelled—that he has given irrefragable proof of utter
incapacity for the responsible office he holds, and
perhaps, equal evidence of a want of fidelity to her
Majesty's Government, as his Excellency is already
in possession of that information, and I felt desirous
of being as brief as possible consistently with per-
spicuity, but still I fear that the length to which
my remarks have extended demands an apology.
" When the peculiar relative position subsisting
at this moment between Mr. Otway and myself be-
fore her Majesty's Government is considered, it will
be perceived how indispensably necessary it was
for me to state the grounds for my opinion upon
the speech referred to, for, had I simply given my
assent or expressed my dissent without assigning
any reason, I might have exposed myself to the
accusation of being actuated by private motives of
like or dislike in rendering the verdict 'hick I
have now the honour, in obedience to the commands
of his Excellency, to transmit, and with great
regret; but, in the interest of truth and justice, I
must say that, after making allowance for some in-
accuracy of detail in his speech, I do not discover
any substantial error in the staternts.made.by
Mr. Schneider.
" John Walsham, Esq., &c.,
"Her Britannic Majesty's Consul,

MELANCHOLY CASE.—Some mornings since a per-
son named Jane Welch, having on the night previous lost
a victorine, was looking for it in the neighbourhood of the
Moat, at Sheerness, when she observed the body of a female.
The body was soon recovered by Mr. Yeland and Mr. Floyd.
The depth of water was only about three feet, but the de-
ceased was lying on her face. An inquest was held on Tues-
day, when Henry Pain, who was much affected, stated that
the deceased was his daughter, who was 19 years of age, and
at six o'clock on Sunday evening she left home for chapel.
She was not in the habit of staying out late, but on one occa-
sion, when she was not home till half-past nine, he repri-
manded her. Mary Ann Smith, an acquaintance of deceased,
said she accompanied her the night previous; that theyd id not
attend a place of worship that evening, but meeting a young
man named Murphy, witness left deceased and him together.
Arthur Murphy said he had been on friendly terms with
deceased, and accompanied her for a walk on Sunday even-
ing. She then said it was so late she should not go home
at all, and that she should leave for Chatham in the morn-
ing. He accompanied her to the beach, and vainly endea-
voured to persuade her to go home, and he left her sitting
about four yards from the water, crying. He did not call
and tell her father, as deceased had told him that her father
had broken a portrait of his. Did not know what she was
crying for, unless the objection her father had to his keep-
ing company with her. Mr. K. Robinson, surgeon, said
there was a wound over the left eye of the deceased, which
might have been caused by a fall and stunned her. She
appekred to have been in the water about eight hours. 'llll
coroner remarked that there had been cases of persons being
blown into the water, and the jury returned a verdict "That
the deceased was found drowned, without sufficient evi-
dence to show how," expressing a desire that the witness
Murphy should be severely censured for leaving deceased
under such distressing chop:Mai:toes, and which was done.

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Third class . 4 19 7
Fourth class .. 3 4 0
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BANKRUPTS.

Charles William Fitzmaurice Liddle, licensed victualler,
Nell Gwynn° tavern, Bull Inn-court, Strand, to surrender,
Nov. 24, at twelve, and Dec. 22, at the Court of Bank .
ruptcy.
Francis Whitnali, miller, Herne Bay, Nov. 25, at half.
past two, and Dec. p, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Siminona Morris and James Brooks, ironmongers,
Earl-street, Blaekfriars, Nov. 25, at twelve, and Dec. 26,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Isaac Davis, cigar manufacturer, Bristol, Nov. 28 and
Jan. 2, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
John Hooke, paper manufacturer, Bersham Mills, near
Wrexham Nov. 20, at twelve, and Dec. 22, at half-past
eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Balabaw, cotton manufacturer, Bolton, Nov. 29
and Dec. 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
William Smedley, grocer, York, Dec. 2 and 23, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court.

Oa Monday the annual gatherings of the societies
Which have been formed for perpetuating the fame
of Edward Colston, the eminent philanthropist of
Bristol, took place. In a ecuniary point of view
a the Grateful (Neutral) Society took the lead, the
collection amounting to £586. Next came the An-
chor (Liberal) Society, at which £524 were sub-
• - scribed. And at the Dolphin (Conservative) Society
the amount realised was £519. Thus the total
contributions for the purposes of granting annuities
,• to • the aged poor, relieving lying-in-women, and
• apprenticing boys reached £1,629.
The President of the Anchor Society was Mr. E.
- S. Robinson, town-councillor, and the chief speaker
was the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, senior member for
Bristol. Mr. W. H. Gore Langton, the other re-
presentative of the city, was prevented from at-
tending by indisposition, but sent a letter apologis-
ing for his absence, in which the hon. member re-
. viewed the leading political questions of the day.
In responding to the toast of " The Members of
• Parliament for the city of Bristol,"
The Hon. F. H. F. BERKELEY, on rising to ac-
knowledge the toast, was received with loud cheers,
which continued for several minutes. Silence
having been at length restored, the hon. member
said, Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen,—
They say, Sir, that age chills the blood, and that
the feelings are less intense as we advance in years.
I do not know how that maybe, but I can only say
this, that a cheer from my Bristol friends would, I
think, nearly raise hie from the dead. (Laughter and
loud cheers.) I have received so much kindness
- from the people of Bristol, and I have endeavoured
at all to repay that kindness by zeal, but I
have found all my efforts fall short of what I have
attempted to do. This is the 22d consecutive anni-
versary on which I have been enabled to attend at
the anniversary of Colston. (Cheers.) To be able to
attend 22 years successively, and always on the
same day, is, I think, being very fortunate indeed,
• considering the evils to which we are subject in this
life, the occasional indisposition we all must have
• sometimes, and the other occurrences which may
prevent us being present. I have ever felt it aduty,
and a duty from which I think no member for the
city of Bristol ought to shrink to attend this meet-
. . ing. (Cheers.) I believe that there is in no other
• city a similar meeting. Here;_ we are assembled to
do honour to the memory of the great philan-
thropist, and assembled in a particular manner.
We are assembled in one place as one party, in
another place as another party, and in a third place
as all parties combined. (Cheers and laughter.)
The-system has its advantages, and I have not yet
, been able to see the counter'aalancing disadvantages.
One advantage which it possesses is that there is a
kind of rivalry between the two opposite political
parties, which causes the funds of both parties to
increase. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) There is
another great advantage, exceedingly agreeable to
me,. in it affording me the opportunity of my meet-
ing those friends whom Iso highly respect; and
there is another circumstance which to a man of
my political tenets is rather to be considered an ad-
. vantage—l have an opportunity of laying my poli-
tical conduct before my constituents. (Cheers.)
Lately the Tories have shrunk from politics at these
meetings, and for the first time in their life begin
• to say, " Oh, perhaps the less we say of politics on
these charitable occasions the better." (Laughter.)
But when we remember how vividly they used to
look into politics once—how the Dolphin was the
scene of a vast deal of undeniable Toryism once, we
Must wonder what is the reason why now they are
backing out of their former conduct. (Hear, hear.)
I think the reason is explained by recent events.
, The Tories have now a very strong party, but they
. have very little principle. (Hear, hear.) Toryism
itself is dead, while party is strongly alive.
• (Hear, hear.) Toryism ! There are many grey
heads here who remember what Toryism
used to be. There are many young gen-
- tleMen here who know it, who may have learnt it
from reading or from their relations ; they know
what Toryism is now, but they have to learn what
it was then. But it is necessary that we should
Allow the history of the party—that we should
keep the Tories to the acts which they formerly did,
and not allow them to confound themselves, with
the acts they are now doing. (Cheers.) Mr. Disraeli,
a most ingenious man, made a speech once in the
House of Commons, one of those violent philippics.
• against Sir R. Peel which now come back to him-
self and-his party, in which he said that Sir R.
Peel had watched. the Whigs while they were bath-
ing, had stolen their clothes, and put them on his
back. (Laughter.) Whether that was true or was
not, I will not say, but certainly it is realised at
the present moment in the case of Lord Derby and
hisasarty—(cheers)—for the acts which they call
Conservative acts are those which we have been, re-.
commending for a long course of years, which we
have urged on them from time to time, and which
the Tories are now compellel to assist us in carry-
ing out. (Cheers.) This is old Colston's day.
There is scarcely a Bristol man who is not well
, read in the history of old Colston. We know that
old Colston was an honest old Tory ; we know that
he was a staunch Church of England man. We
even know that we could wish to pass over certain
blemishes in the character of Colston, taking into
consideratiou his munificent charities. (Hear, hear.)
For instance, we pardon while we do not see why
• Colston in his charities should have put .a bar on all
Dissent. No Dissenter can be a recipient of Colston's
charities. Why do I call that to your attention ? I
will ask you to walk with tne to the Dolphin dinner.
(laughter.) There is no doubt a splendid and goodly
company. There are assembled the beautiful ladies
of the city, who have been desired to attend in full
dress—(laughter)—at least, so we are informed by a
supplementary advertisement from Mr. Aiken, by
• which both the gentlemen and ladies arc desired
more especially to attend because Mr. Aiken has got
a duke. (Loud applause.) Yes, according to this ad-
. vertisement there is the promise that his grace the
• Duke of Beaufort—a most excellent gentleman, I
wish he was here—(hear, hear)—is to attend at the
, Dolphin dinner; and, moreover, it says not only
have they a live duke with a coronet on his head,
- hut there is to be also Sir Frederick Wm. Slade.
(Laughter.) " Walk up, ladies and gentlemen;
walk in"--(renewed laughter)—says Mr. Aiken,
" here, gentlemen, you shall see what you shall see
—(loud laughter)---a real duke with a coronet on
his brow, and a live lawyer stuffed with straw."
(Roars of laughter.) And so they have gone to the
Dolphin to see it, I hope sincerely they will pass a
pleasant evening. I hope that their funds will be
• increased from what they were last year. I hope—
no, I will not hope that Mr. Phippin has sent his
old port there, because that is said to be very
powerful port. (Laughter.) But Ido hope that they
may have excellent wines, excellent viands, and a
most pleasant evening. (Hear.) I shall be curious to
learn what principles they are now about to be
guided by; they have cat all their old principles.
(Hear.) They go about talking of education—ay-e,
education, whic is to be extended to the hungry I
Dissenter. Is that Toryism ? That was not the Con-
servatism we used to remember, Mr. Kempster.
(Hear.) There is another grey head sits next him ;
do you call that Toryism, Mr. Powell ? (Hear.)
No, it is not. What on earth is Toryism now that
they have cut everythiag ? They have cut the
encouragement:of-ignorance system they once re-
joiced in. They have cut their religious opinions,
for the Jews now through their means sit in Par-
liament. (Cheers.) They have cut their former Con-
servative principles so far that they have adopted
one of the points of the Charter and let people into
Parliament without a qualification. (Cheers.) They
have cut everything, I say. Why, they have cut old
Niblett and the White Lion. (Cheers and laughter.).
.The only thing they have remaining to do is to dye
their old blue rag and turn it out a. dirty green.
Now that is being Conservative. Well, then, all
I can say is I rejoice I am not a Conservative.
(Cheers.) I rejoice and I rejoice for my friends
around me also, that we have never hidden our
principles but ever kept them steadily before us;
that we have ever been the friends of civil and
religious liberty, and that by our acts and deeds
the Tories- have been driven- to adopt the same.
(Cheers.) But, then, do not let them come in
under false colours, do not let them take down the
old flag which was the emblem of the old party of
the Tories, which was the emblem of the Conserva-
tives. It is not the old case. They want a new
watch Word, a new war-cry. I will, tell you what
their watchword and their war-cry is now. It is
to be found in two short monosyllables., 'The war-
cry and the watchword of the Tories is " Self and
Pelf" (loud cheers), and the whole of their princi-
ples are based on that—to attain place, if possible, as 'levies—if not, as semi-Liberals ; and, rather
than not have place at all, I believe they would
turn Radicals. (Cheers and laughter.) They have
tasted the sweets of office lately. It is dangerous
to let wild beasts taste blood (laughter), they always
become mischievous, and I have always observed
that Tories get vicious when they have once had a
taste of the Government loaves and fishes. (Laugh-
ter.) But what I would warn you against is su-
pineness—not to allow these Tories to step into
your slippers, nor to slide into your chairs, or take
your place at your feasts ; reserve them for your-
selves, (Hear, hear.) Do not stand any Toryism
in-the guise of Liberalism ; you will find plenty of
is
e' ,wing- I speak to you after a general election, a
general election of vast importance, and if you will
excuse me and pardon me for detaining your time
(cheers, and "po on ") I should like to say one
word on the' subject of that-election. (hear, hear.)
It has been my fortune in urging that great ques-
tion which I think essential to the liberty of the

electoral aody—l need not tell you I mean the bal-
lot (cheers) —in urging that question on the House
of Commons it has been twice my fortune to do so

on the eve of a general election, I fhlt it to lie my
duty to point out to that house into what kind of
matt:Malta the country was about to be plunged. I
laid before them the miserable position, the de-
graded position in which the electors were is various
boroughs. I pointed out to them that while inti-
midation would be rampant through the land,
drunkenness would stagger after it, and bribery
would not be far behind,andthat intimidat ion ,bribery
and. drunkenness would reduce our electoral system
—the most beautiful working system in the world
in theory—to the most degrading thing possible in
practice. (Hear.) Both times that which I stated
was realised. Both elections proved that, instead
of intimidation having ceased, bribery being dead,
and the electoral body being in a more exalted po-
sition, it never was in a more degraded one. You
have just passed through the last of the two ordeals,
a contested election. You have passed an ordeal in
which temptation has been held out to the poor, in
which the poor wretch has been bribed until he has
become the most degraded of slaves, having to place
his neck teneath the foot of his master whether in
county or borough. England presented herself be-
fore the world in a condition shocking to behold.
We have had a taste of it in Bristol, and this I will
say, that although I believe we were more secure
than we ought to have been, I do not believe that
the Tories ever took the field in greater force, and
with more appliances at their hands for debauch-
ing, corrupting, and depraving the constituency.
(Hear.) The election, however, as fought by the
Liberals might satisfy even the stanchest teetotal-
-ler in this city. (Cheers-) I believe that a more
pure election never was fought, or else the orders
issued from the offiee of Baxter, Rose, and Norton
would have been carried out as regards this city.
We know what those orders were, they have be-
come patent throughout England—" Win fairly if
you can, if you cannot, win foully ; and if you are
beaten, petition." (Cheers and laughter.) That
they attempted to win fairly may. be ; that they at-
tempted to win foUlly and contrary to law we
know; and as regards the last of the three methods,
they were unable to put it in practice, because
your election here was so pure. (Loud cheers.)
And ye't they dare to put it about that my friend
Mr. Langton went about with money sacks in his
carriage. They knew, when they stated that, that
they stated. that which was untrue, and which I
here declare, and maintain to any man who says to
the contrary, is a black lie. (Loud cheers.) The
election here was as I have stated ; what it was in
otherplacesyou know. You have had precious speci-
mens in Glocester, and in Wakefield, and in other
constituencies ; and now, Lord Derby, in talking of
a Reform Bill coming forward, what does he say ?
He says, " Why, • really the state of corruption in
these boroughs is such that it makes us pause be-
fore we can extend the franchise." Did you ever
hear such a wretched pretence ? Do you mean to
say that Lord Derby and the rest of his party in
the House of Commons did. not know that Mr.
Rolt's committee disclosed -exactly that state of
things which exists now ? There is nothing new in
electors being corrupted and debauched. in Gloces-
ter, or in any other city. It is monstrous for Lord
Derby to say, "I will not grant you a £6 franchise
because the £lO householders are a bad lot." He
knew what they were before his agents bought
them—not in his name—oh, dear no ! but in other
persons'; in the name of the " Man in the Ixoon,"
who came down and debauched various places for
pleasure. (Laughter.) I think that very disgrace-
ful. Will it be believed, that when a gentleman
and a candidate for a borough goes to the Treasury,
or to the Conservative club, as the case may be, and
etTers to spend £2,000 or £3,000 in contesting a
small borough, is it possible he does not know it
must be spent illegally ? We know how it is with.
these candidates, what they all say when examined,
"I set my face against bribery; I hate corruption;
I told Mr. Thingamy that I would not have corrup-
tion for the world ' • there was £2,000 for him, but it
Must be spent in the most virtuous manner poisible."
(Loud laughter.) It is a most disgraceful state of
things that such a set of men should exist as candi-
dates—(hcar, hear)—and it is no credit to the
Mimic of Commons that there should be there the
vast number of men who have got into it in that
way. There is a farce I have seen for 20 years in
the House of Commons exceeding all belief. Such a
horrid state of corruption is proved in some borough
—men have been bought Wholesale. Mr. So-and-So
is E upposed to know something about it. He comes
in to the House in a •grave and florid manner, he
looks around him, and he says—that is, he makes a
declaration by which he states that we are mistaken.
What is it, after all ? If any gentlemen are
here who frequent the theatre they must have seen
the farce of " High Life below Stairs," in which
there are a couple of rascally servingmen, who as-
sume the titles of their masters, the one being "my
Lord Duke," and the other " Sir Harry." (Laugh.
ter.) My Lord Duke is given to telling lies, or,
speaking more politely, to romancing a good deal.
Sir Harry each time contraslicts him flatly. When-
ever he does so, my Lord Duke draws himself up,
lays his hand on his heart, and says, " Upon my
honour;" on which Sir Harry raises his hand to
his hat, takes it off his head, and says, " Oh-h-h."
(Laughter.) Now this is what I have seen acted in
the House of Commons over and over again. The
candidate says," I come to declare that I have not
been guilty; I know nothing of this corruption,
upon my honour." (Laughter.) Oh-h-h ! (Laugh-
ter.) And there the farce ends, and we all know
it to be a farce, because we cannot fancy it to our-
selves that any third person would go andpay money
to elect a man to Parliament for his own pleasure.
(Hear, hear.) The man who thinks proper to take
an oath that he knows nothing at all about corrup-
tion because the money has not passed through his
hands to the unfortunate wretch corrupted, is little
else than guilty of perjury. (Cheers.) That is the
state of things with which we have to deal. One
party sometimes falls into error, and is guilty, as
at Gloucester. The Liberals there were exceedingly
gailty ; they bribed in the most extensive manner,
and not only did they bribe to a great degree, but
they did it stupidly. (Laughter.) The Tories, the
moment it was found out, exclaimed " Oh, dread-
' ful ! what a state of things in this world ! Thus it
is; these Liberals, who are always talking of purity
at elections, bribing away; we must petition!'
They did so ; they stated that bribery by the Libe-
rals had taken place. A commission is issued, and
then it is found that the Tories have bribed ten
times mow than the Liberals—(loud laugh ter) —and
that the only difference was that the Tory agents lied
through thick and thin, while the Liberal agents
blurted it all out, (Laughter.) It is not the
genius of LiberalS to bribe—(hear, hear)—they do
it badly, and very stupidly ; but it is the genius of
Toryism, and they do it to perfection. (Cheers
and laughter.) We had a Coppoek, the lamented
Coppoek ; but he, alas! is no more ; but they have
still a Baxter, Rose, and Norton, and while they have
them the Tory nobility will beat the Whig nobility
into fits. That is a state of things thau ought to
be done away with—(hear, hear)—but it never wi'l
be until the people rise in their majesty and say it
shall be. As Parliament is constituted now, you
cannot expect a man, a member for a rotten borough,
to disenfranchise himself, but he will join that body
opposed to reform. There is nothing but the people
using and insisting on it that can carry it. Ido
not believe now they are ready to do so. They do
not lead us, their members, to believe they are in
that position ; the people, in fact, aro the last to
shim dby us. If they do not do so thee thing will go
on in the old way ; the Whi ' z lords the Whig land-
lords, and the Whig oligarchy will bribe against the
Tory oligarchy, and the Tories will always have the
best of it. (Hear, hear.) If you increase the fran-
chise I am all for it. I will take anything they as ill
give me. (Cheers and laughter.) I do not press
even for that question which I think of such infinite
importance, and which must come one day ; but I do
not believe you will find any measure of reform sa-
tisfactory to the minds of the Liberal part of the
country until you have a large extension of the
franchise, and put down intimidation by the ballot.
(Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I will not say any
more on a very voluminous subject—that of politics
—hut I will turn for a moment to your local affairs.
I have the honour to be a director of the great
steam ship; (Cheers.) Much has been said about the
power of members of Parliament with their various

Governments to do thin, or that, or the other.

great deal was said by Mr. S:adf...—l beg his pardon,
Sir Frederick Slade—who would persuade you that
if he had been returned as your member in Parlia-
ment he would have turned every puddle in this city
into a dock, and that he would have made this a

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port for this purpose and that purpose, and a port
of emigration, and so on. (Laughter.) I think it
ought to be so myself, but we cannot always do
that which we desire to do. (Hear, hear.) All we
can do is to try. When Mr. Philip Miles was my
colleague, we set to work to prove to Government
that this was the best port for the departure of the
West India mails. We said, " Give us a commit-
tee." They said, " No." We said, " You shall ;"
we tried it on, we carried our conittee, and had
it. What was the result ? Why, that the com-
mittee reported that this was Rot the most proper
place for the departure of the West India mails.
We did all we could ; we could only get that com-
mittee. (Hear, hear.) We arc in the same
posl-
tion now with the direction of the Great Ship. We
are considering the various ports from which it
ought to sail. It is a difficult question to lay before
you. I stand here in my character as a director of
the great steamship; you may guess which way my
inclination leads, and I should rejoice at this- being
the port of departure of the Great Ship. (Cheers.)
As for any report that the port of departure is
fixed, it is totally untrue. The claims, of every
port will be sifted, and examined into, and fully
discussed, and I believe the port which is the fittest
will be the one selected. As for the clgols of Bris-