The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-28 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY; VNENING, MARCH 2-1, 1857.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.-
THREE FREEHOLD VILLA RESIDENCES at St. Mar-
garet's, Midtlesex, be allotted, as also the Taunton Estate in
West Somersetshlre, at the Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand. W.C.,
next THURSDAY, April 2d. Plots may also -be • selected on the
Kentish-town Estate. Plans, price 7d., by post, may be had of
CHARLES LEWLS GRONEISEN, Secretary.

By Authority of the French Consul-General.—Notice is hereby given,
that the following SALE of. PRESERVED BEEF will be the last
on account of the French Government.
faALE zof FRENCH COMMISSARIAT
SURPLUS,STORES, consisting of PRESERVED BOILED
BEEF, of English, Scotch, and Irish manufacture, In tin canisters of
about 6 lb. each, and packed in wooden boxes containing Is tins.—
Mi. A LEXR. COCK E has been honoured with instructions to Sell by
Aucticn, at the L ,ndon•Commercial Sale Rooms, mincing-lane, on an
early date in April next, of which duo notice will be given, several
parcels of the above description of Provisions, composed of the rnanus
facture of the following celebrated firms, vtz
,
Messrs. Henry Powell and Sons, London;
Messrs. John M'Call and Co , London ;
Messrs. John Moir and Son, Aberdeen ; •
Messrs. D. Hogarth and Co , Aberdeen; and
Messrs. John Gillon and Co , Leith."
All the boxes for sale are being opened and carefully examined for
damaged canisters, the whole of which will be selected and replaced
by sound ones, and the fact o- the beef having been original mane-
fictured in this country under strict inspection, expressly for the use
of the troops In the Crimea, where it gave the highest satisfaction,
added to its being perfectly free irons defective fins, will give every
assurance to buyers of its excellent quality and fitness either for
home consumption or exportation. Packages included in the pur-
chase: • The several parcels of beef for sale are now on view at Beal's-
wharf, Mill-lane, Tooley-street, where purchasers may.satisfy them-
selves that every care Is beim; taken in removing from the boxes all
canisters unfit for use. Any further information required can be
obtained at the office of Mr. Cocke, 2, Old Trinity House, Water-lane,
Tower-street, and catalogues six days previous to the sale, at the fo:
lowing places, viz.;—
Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane; , - -
Corn Exchange,
Garraway's, Coffeehouses;
Baltic, and
•Jerusalem
also at the news rooms of the principal Inland towns and outports,

CLOSE OF POLLS—(Yesterday).

BATH.
LIBERAL COMMITTEE.

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THE: GENERAL ELEiTION.

The following speeches Were de,ivered yesterday
at the nomination in' the
: 'CITY OF LONDOi. •
Lord J. RUSSELL. —I ascribe the kind reception
which you have given me to the f,ct that I stand
here to vindicate th'b independence of the electors
of the city of London. I cannot tlink it right that
any select set of gentlemen should tell you, not
only what class of members you night to return,
but who should bathe particular persons whom you
ought to choose from that chts4. It appears to me,
indeed, that such a system would be one of intole-
rable dictation. (Hear, hear.) I nay, perhapq, be.
allowed tosrefer to souse statementt that have been
made by Mr. Dillon. I entertain great respect for
that gentleman, and I hope nothi2g I may say of
him will be inconsistent wiill thai respect. It 'is,
quite true that Mr. Dillon received a letter from

me expressing• my intention to decline the honour
of coming forward as a candidate on this occasion
but he had previously received another letter from
me informing him that I meant to consider maturely
what course I should pursue, and, a 3 the election
could not take place until some timeafter, that letter
was written, I thought that at least several days
would be allowed me to tome to a decision. In de-

termining what course I should take I considered
that I had for a lengthened period discharged the
duties of one of your re.preskatatiseg.i-rs)--
that those duties were by no meanalight, and that
I might properly resign- them to others when the
principles of free trade had, even by the avowal of
their opponents, been firmly established. But,
gentlemen, when I found that at a meeting not
very numerous—and which had probably been pre-
arranged with a good deal of care—(" be tr," and
laughter)—it was presumed without any authority
that I had resigned ; when I found that Mr. Dillon
had not thought prop'er to undeceive any persons
who entertained that impression, and to state that
he knew I had not made up my mind to re-
sign, although I admit he was not bound to
do so ; when I found that a small num-
ber of the electors had come to a decision, without,
I believe, the discussion of any proposal in the
shape of a general resolution excluding me from
the honour of representing the city of London, I
felt, having served you for many years with fidelity
and integrity, though I may, no doubt, have com-
mitted may errors, that thus to exclude me was an
insult to myself and an injury to the electors of the

city of London. (Cheers.) Under these circum-
stances I could entertain no doubt as to the course

I should pursue, and I determined not to shrink
from this contest—(cheers)—however severe it
might be, and however small might be the number
of electors who polled for me, but to come hers
and put it to the constituency 'at large whether
they will confirm or deny the decree of the self-
constituted power to which I have referred. (Loud
cheers.) Mr. Dillon tells me, gentlemen, that he
does not like my faults. (A laugh.) Very well.
I have no doubt that I have my faults—(laughter
and cheers)—but I wonder whether, when the
Registration AssoCiation put forward four gentle-
men to represent you, they ascertained that no one
of them had any fault whatever. (Renewed laugh-
ter and cheering.) Are we to presume that we
have before us to-day four faultless candidates for
the honour of representing you, who have been put
forward by four faultless proposers and four fault-
less seconders ? (Loud laughter and cheers.) For
my part, I am quite ready to admit my faults, but
I doubt very much whether in this city of London
you would be able to find four men to sit in the
House of Commons—unless, indeed, they stayed
away, as one of them has frequently done—who
would not commit faults in the conduct of public
business. (Cheers.) There was another point
upon which Mr. Dillon enlarged with some vehe-
mence. He say, he hears lam to have the sup-
port of a great number of Tories. I don't know
how that may be, but I can very well understand
that, although gentlemen holding Conservative
opinions may have no sympathy with me as Tories,
they may sympathise with me as Englishmen.
(Cheers.) It is the feeling of Englishmen—be they
'Mrisa. be tliny atey Radicals, toe be
they Chartists—to desire to see mu
of "Bravo,' and cheers.) They know that I have
not had fair play—(cheers)—and they wish to see
justice done to me. (A Voice,—" So we will
to-morrow.") (Loud cheers.) The resolutions
passed in the first instance by the committee in
their secret councils, and afterwards brought for-
ward and adopted at a meeting without discussion,

and apparently without any erect reference to me,
declared it expedient that the city of London
should be represented by four commercial men.
Now, I doubt, gentlemen, whether you should ac-
cept that proposition. I don't think it necessary
that every commercial town should have none but
commercial representatives. (Cheers.) Such a
practice has not prevailed either in this city or in
other places, and it must be remembered that Par-
liament is called- upon to deal very extensively
with public business which does not at all partake
of a commercial character. Liverpool is a great
commercial port, and was for a
long time repre-
sented by Mr. Canning, who held high office under
the Crown, but who was not connected with the
mercantile business of the port. Mr. Huskisson,
who succeeded Mr. Canning
in the representation
of Liverpool, although holding office at the Board
of Trade, was unconnected with the local commer-
cial business of the town. I say, then, that a bad
general maxim was' put forward,
'nit I do not be-
lieve it was ad voeate 1 in sincerity as a maxim
which should always be observed. I balieved it
was put forward in order that no risk might be run
by excluding my name directly from the list of can-
didates, but that an attempt was made indirectly
to debar me from again becoming one of your repre-
sentatives. (Hear, hear.) I think, however, gen-
tlemen, that another question is involved in this
election, which it behoves all electors to consider,
—namely, the independence of Parliament. I quite
allow that Lord Palmerston is a man who is fit to
preside over the councils of this empire. (Loud
cheers and faint hisses.) I think he deserves the
support of the House of Commons and of the nation
(cheers)—but I cannot admit that if the House of
Commons comet° a vote adverse to the Government,
they, or the majority of them, are to be stigmatised
as desiring to make the degradation and humiliation
of their country a stopping-stone to power.
(Cheers.) I thinkthe House of Commons ought to be
independent, and that they ought to vote upon the
merits of every question. They may commit errors,
but they should have a free and independent choice,
and they ought not to be browbeaten as they have
been by any Minister. (Cheers.) There are some
other questions to which I wish to refer. (Cheers
and interruption.) I will not detain you long, but,
as I am standing alone against a powerful combina-
tion, I wish to explain the grounds upon which I
claim your suffrages. (Cheers.) I think that among
the measures proposed to the House of Commons
ought to be one for a considerable extension of the
suffrage. (Cheers.) It was my duty in the arst in-
stance as the organ of my own Administration, and
subsequently as the organ of Lord Aberdeen's Ad-
ministration, to introduce a measure which con-
tained provisions for extending the right of voting.
I have sometimes been accursed of inertness in these
matters, but allow me to say that it was owing to
the want of support both in the House of Com-
mons and the country that I was induced not to
persevere with that measure. lam happy to see
that there is now a disposition among the people to
support a measure of that kind. I trust that that
disposition will grow so strong that such a measure
may be carried by a majority of the next House of
Commons. (Cheers, and a Voice—" It will if you
bring it forward.") It belongs, in the first place, to
the Government of the day to bring forward such
•a measure. Lord Palmerston was a member of
the Government of Lord Aberdeen, which intro-

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ducod the last proposal on this subject, and he
may think it right to renew such a proposal. (" He
never will.") But if he repeats the objections which
he stated to Mr. Locke King's motion, and says
that he is neither for a large reform nor for a small

V./••••0
reform, I shall deem it my duty, if I am a member
of the ouse of Commons, to ask for leave to liring
in a bill to extend the franchise. (Cheers.) Gentle-
men, there is another question in which you take a
deep interest, and to which I can only promise my
continued support. It is the extension of the advan-
tagea of religious liberty to our fellow-subjects of
the Jewish persuasion. (Cheers.) I know not how
such a proposition may be viewed by the next
House of Commons, but I shall be glad to see it ro-
ceived by Parliament with favour, because I think
that, the edifice of free trade having been com-
pleted by the repeal of the navigation laws, the
edifice of religious liberty ought likewise to be
completed by the emancipation of the Jews.
(Cheers.) There is another question on which there
has no doubt been great difference of opinion. I
allude to church-rates. I believe that question
may be fairly settled, but I do not think it can be
so settled unless the House of Commons takes info
consideration the claims of the Dissenters on the
one band, and the rights of the Church on the

' other., No partial measure, no measure which is
not founded-on that fair and equal footing, is; in
my. opinion, likely • to • succeed; iu the House of
Lords. (Interruption.). Upon other topics I will
. not detain you long. With regard to the ballot I
have nothing to add to what I have hitherto said,
and I must, therefore,• leave that point without
further remark. • Bat there are two or :three mat-
ters relating ,to foreign policy tin which I wish to
Offer a few words—(hear)—and one of,them ha.i re-
ference to my conduct at Vienna,. (Hisses and
:oheer.4.)- I cannot state that conduct fully. I can
touch on only one or two portions of it, because it
was not thought right by the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs to produce, the despateltei which I
had written. Ido not find• fault with his exercise
9f the discretion vested in him ; hut, the fact being
as I have stated, it is imposlible for me to have my
case fully before the public. This, however, I will.
say deducing it only from what I said in my place
in the House of Commons, and from that which
.has appeared in the . documents laid before Parlia-
inento‘ that it was my opinion that France, Great
britain, and Austria ought all t' combine for the
piirpose of securing Turkey. (Cheers and int-r-
-niptiont) 'I proposed a treaty to that effect to the
Ali-trian Government, and, although the proposal
met with little success then, it has been since adopt-
ed,. and a treaty was accordingly signed last Apt il
at Paris, 'opt the bagii of which the present security
of Turkey rests. Another point which I desire ti
mention is that I wro e from Vienna, with respect
to the Circassian forts, that Russia should not again
be aileaterl to_oecupy thorn ; because it always ap-
peared to me that the greateirarriger 'to Ttirkey
came from the side of Asia. And .1 greitly regret,
when the peace of Paris was made, that that pro-
posal of mineedid not form part of, treaty ; for
then we shouli not have had what we have_ now,
viz., Rus•=ia preparing t subdue the independence
of the Circassians, and , thereby taking an addi-
tional step towards . the conquest .of Turkey.
(" Hear, hear," and contusion.) One word, and

•
one only w;th respect to my vote on the subject of
China. It was my opinion that not only as re-
garded the Chinese, but as regarded British sub-
jects and British property, the conduct of Sir John
BBwring was quite unjustifiable. (Cries of " Yes,
yes," alid " No, no.") My belief was, and still is,
that a fleet and troops should have been sent out--
that any demands which you had to make for the
complete fulfilment of treaties should have been
mad., with a large force in sight ; then,, without
bloodshed, those demands would have been ac•
cepted, and you could have done at once what
you will only be able to do six months hence, when
the Earl of Elgin arrives, and is supported by an
armament which ought to have been there at the
commencement of the contest. (Hear.) That course,
however, was not then taken j and I ask, if the pre-
sent Government think it wise and right now, why
did they not think it equally so when the first ac-
counts reached them of.the proceaings at Canton '?
(Interruption.) I hold, therefore, not less for the
sake of the general principles of 'justice, that that
course should have been adopted ; and I venture to
say—and I always will say—that you ought never

to separate Briiish might from British justice.
(Renewed interruption.) Gentlemen, lam for
peace ; but there are occasions when it is abso-

lutely necessary, both on behalf of right and of the
general interests of
,Enrope, that the sword should
be unsheathed. Such was the'case when Russia at-
tempted her late aggressions upon Turkey. Such
will be the case, I will venture.to say, if Austria
shall pursue the aggressive course which she has
shown a disposition to pursue towards the Govern-
ment of Piedmont, and if Sardinia—a small Power
—is to be attacked or oppressed by a great Power
for the crime (and it is the only crime laid
to ht r charge) of permitting the liberty of the press.
(Cheers.) • While I think, therefore, that we ought
not to use our power without a sufficient cause, I
still maintain that we ought to exercise it in de-
fence of a weak State fighting for principles that we
ourselves profess, and which, because it enjoys a
free and happy constitution, is envied and hated
*by a neighbouring despotisin. (Cheers.) Having
now explained to you my own conduct, and what
I think ought to be the procedure of the next Par-
liament, I shall with confidence leave my cause in
your hands. I have felt it right, at all events, not
to h....h....0.4:01A of the representation of this city
without a word—not to be carted off like rubbish
from the position of one of your members.
(Cheers.) I stand here in the face of day to claim
the honour of representing you, conscious that I
have always acted with integrity. (Cries of " You
have, you have.") I freely grant that I may have
committed many errors, but, relying upon that
love of fair play which pervades all parties in this
country, and which I am sure pervades the elector s
in this ball, I appeal to you to do me justice and to
give me an honest support at to-morrow's poll.
(Loud cheers.)
Baron ROTHSCHILD was received with great
cheering. He said he presented himself again to
claim the honour of being elected as one of their
representatives. His case could be stated in a

very few words, for his claims upon them were very
few. His justification for presenting himself be-
fore tteni was that his cause was theirs also.

(CheerA.) His only reason for coming forward was
to procure a settlement of the question whether
the citizens of London had or had-not the right to
choose their own member, and the man they
thought best qualified to represent them in Parlia-
ment. (Cheers.) There could be no other reason
but that for choosing him. If they thought they
ought to be able to send to Parliament the man
they preferied they would do well again to confer
upon him the distinguished honour of representing
them. The electors of London had already elected

him upon three occasions. He was sorry to say that as
yet he had not been able to do any good to any class
of his fellow subjects, but he delved that the opi-
nion of a constituency so enlightened and so im-
portant as that of the city of London ought to be
set at naught by a small majority of the House of
Lords. (Cheers.) He had been asked what pro
gress the Jewisli question bad made. He thought
that in one respect it had made great progress, for
he could confidently say that in all his canvass, and
in the canvass of his friends and relatives, neither

he nor they had heard a single objection upon ac-
count of religious feeling. (Cheers.) The Conser-
vatives of course objeoted to him, and there were
certain persons who were against every reform and
every alteration, but he hid received from `that
large and enlightened constituency marks of appro-
bation and expressions of kindness and good feel-
ing which be should never forget. (Chars.) fie
had already stated in a circular that if the jewish
question were not carried in the next session be
would, immediately place his seat at their disposal.
(Cheers.) It would then be for them to consider
whether it would be wise to give up the fight.
(" Never !") which they had so generously. and
gloriously commenced, and whether they wished
him to retire from the contest. (" No, no I") He
could only say that his services would always be at
their call, and whenever they honoured him with
their support he would be too happy and too proud
to obey their commands. (Cheers.) He had been
asked how he should have voted on the China ques-
tion. Now, as a commercial man he would state,
without entering into the merits or details of the
question, that he should unhesitatingly have voted
with the Government. (Loud cheers.) The Go-
vernment ought to avoid every occasion for plung-
ing the country unnecessarily into the miseries of
war; but a commercial man he thought it well
for a principal to confirm the acts and contracts
which his agent was empowered to enter into and
had a right to make. He knew the disadvantage
that agents laboured under when the coufiimation
of their acts was doubted, and the effect which that
doubt and uncertainty would have in the negotia-
tions of other great questions. (Hear, hear.) They
all expected that the next would be a very liberal
Parliament, and he felt sure that the friends of
Jewish emancipation would succeed. He would
now leave his cause in their bands. (Cheers.) He
asked them for their support as well for his own
sake as for the evidence it would afford of their
consistency. (Baron Rothschild retired amid gene-
ral cheering, mingled with faint disapprobation.)