The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-28 00:00:00

cries of " Shame," several persons remonstrated with
him, and in the indescribable confusion which en-

sued Sir Lawrence Palk and his colleague left the

room. After a tremendous row the chairman
mounted the table, avowed that he wished to be

mpartial, and said he supposed he had made an
" unintentional mistake." A good deal of pressure

was, however, necessary before he finally declared
the amendment carried, and the meeting then re-
warded him by passing a vote of thanks for his
" impartiality." The meeting broke up in great
excitement.

DEVON (SouTH).—Lord Amberley has visited
several central towns of the southern division of
Devon, and has been well received. At Hather-
leigh, on Tuesday, and at Holsworthy, on 'Wed-
nesday, large open-air meetings were held, and re-
solutions in his favour were carried by acclamation.
The Conservative candidates, Mr. Kekewich and
Sir M. Lopes, will commence their tour on Friday
at Tavistock.

EXETER.—Mr. Coleridge, M.P., has issued his
address, in which he says :—" My course in Parlia-
ment is before you, and I have a right to say that it
has been such as you must have known it would be
if I acted according to my professions. I joined
with the majority of the Liberal party in turn-
ing into a reality that measure of Reform which
in any of the several shapes in which the Govern-
ment proposed it would have been utterly delusive.
On the great educational question connected with
the Universities I shared in the victories of the united
party. I have without any hesitation supported the
resolutions which affirmed the principle of disesta-
blishing the Irish Church, and the Suspensory Bill,
which, if it had been passed, would have rendered
that disestablishment a less difficult and complicated
operation. My constituents, of whatever party,
will I am sure do me the justice to remember that
on this subject 1 have always held the clearest lan-
guage from my earliest appearance amongst them,
and that I have never disguised my intention to
give effect to the convictions of a whole life when-
ever an opportunity might be afforded me. I shall
continue therefore to strive for the disestablishment
of the Church in Ireland, for I regard it as a matter
of imperial concern that the unjust and dangerous
system of attempting to govern a great country by
the ascendancy of a small minority should be put an
end to; and that the Protestant Church, an indefen-
sible and most offensive symbol of that ascendancy,
should be at once disestablished. I am unable to un-
derstand what is meant by saying that the Royal su-
premacy will be endangered by such a measure of
wisdom and j ustice,inasmuch as that supremacyexists
in Scotland, has survived the disestablishment of
the Episcopacy in that country, and is found to be
perfectly consistent in sense and fact with the
establishment of other forms of religion, not always
Christian, in some of the dependencies of the Em-
pire. I shall continue to struggle earnestly for edu-
cational equality through the abolition of religious
tests, believing that thereby education, the one
crying necessity of the day, will be greatly ad-
vanced, while the truths of Christianity will be in
no degree imperilled. The many imperfections still
left in our Parliamentary system by the Reform
Bills of 1867-68 will require to be dealt with ; and
I hope that the Liberal party will be strong enough
to deal with them, by means of a much larger re-
distribution of seats, by repealing or largely
modifying the provisions as to rating, by the
adoption of the ballot, and by some temperate
Reform of the House of Lords, with a view to
make that House of Parliament as efficient and
powerful as it might be, and as, for the true interests
of the nation, it ought to be. There are other great
social questions —such as the relations between work-
men and their employers, between landlord and
tenant, between present owners and reversioners—
which call for solution, and the solution of which I
desire to see effected on Liberal principles, and not
by men of whose principles I am not assured, for 1
cannot refrain-from saying that the present system
of government by a minority, turning the executive
into the mere servants of Parliament, is utterly un-
satisfactory, and ought at once to be Lrought to an
end. It may be possible, no doubt, to obtain from
the present Prime Minister particular measures
which some of us desire, and which with the present
Government in opposition it might be difficult to
carry ; but such gains are not worth pur-
chasing at the price we have had to pay for
the last two years, in the loss of the political cha-
racter of Parliament, and in being governed,
thought not led, by a Minister such as Mr. Disraeli.
I, as a Liberal, in common with the whole of
my party, desire the advent to power of Mr. Glad-
stone, our leader ; not as a man free from faults,
for no man is, but as a man of noble powers, nobly
cultivated, of a pure and generous life, of deep and
strong sympathies with the people, admired for bis
talents and respected for the use of them, and of
whom we are certain, by repeated past experience,
that he will never hesitate to sacrifice power to
convictions and office to honour. Such are the
principles which if you honour me by your selection
I will do my best to act upon ; such is the leader I
am prepared, in or out of Parliament, to follow."
LICHFIELD.—This city loses one of its seats
under the Reform Act, and two candidates are
actively canvassing the electors for the seat which
remains—Major A. IL Anson (Liberal) and Col.
Dyott (Conservative.)
MIDIIHRST.—Mr. Mitford (Conservative), the
sitting member, has issued an address, soliciting re-
election. The borough returns only one member,
and Mr. Mitford will be opposed by Mr. Daniel
Adolphus Lange (Liberal), who has also issued an
address.
MID-SURREY.—Mr. Julian Goldsmid has ad-
dressed the tlectors at the Lammas-hall, Battersea,
Richmond, when Mr. W. J.
and at the lecture-hall,
Maxwell, J.P., presided. On both occasions the
room was crowded, and the candidate very favour-
ably received. He entered into a full statement of
his political principles, and claimed for the Liberal
party credit for the measure of Reform passed in
1867, and for greater economy in the public ex-
penditure than bad been shown by the Conservative
Government. He replied to the charge that the
Liberals had brought forward the Irish Church
question with a view to popularity and return to
power by showing that Mr. Disraeli's Government
had themselves challenged the discussion by propos-
ing the " levelling up" of the unendowed churches
in Ireland, and distinctly supporting tne spread of
Roman Catholicism by establishing a Roman
Catholic University. At both meetings, after the
usual fire of questions, resolutions were unanimously
passed pledging those present to use their best
endeavours to secure Mr. Goldsmid's return. The
Conservatives have at present not held any public
meetings.
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME.—At a numerously-
attended meeting of Liberal electors on Wednesday
evening a resolution was passed in favour of bring-
ing forward a second Liberal candidate for this
borough. It was stated that there were about
1,500 to be added to the voters of the borough,
about three-fourths of whom were understood to be
Liberals. The names of several gentlemen were
mentioned, and it was decided to invite Mr. M. D.
Hollins, manufacturer, of Stoke-upon-Trent.
NOTTS (SOUTH).—It is now understood that Mr.
Barrow will .not seek re-election for this division.
A meeting of some influential Conservatives of this
division was held a few days ago, and Mr. John
Chaworth Musters, of Annesley, was selected as a
proper person to represent the county in the Con-
servative interest. It is not yet known whether he
accepts the invitation.
THE KILMARNOCK BURGHS. Mr. Bouverie,
M.P. for the Kilmarnock district of burghs,
addressed a meeting of the electors in the
Corn Exchange, Kilmarnock, on Wednesday ;
Provost Dickie in the chair. Mr. Bouverie, in
the course of his speech, said that he was the
first Scotch member to intioduce the practice of
annually visiting his constituents, and he remem-
bered a Scotch member telling him that he was in-
troducing a bad practice. He, however, believed
that it was a practice that was of advantage, as it
enabled a member to clear up difficulties and to keep
a clean bill of health with his constituents. He
thought he might take credit to himself for having
all his life been an earnest and eager Reformer, for
he had always voted for an extension of the suffrage
When the question was rafied, It was curiow that the