The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1868.

IHE MEMBERS FOR OXFORDSHIRE AT

BICTSTEI?.

BIOESTER, Tuesday.
The ninth anniversary of the Agricultural So-
ciety for this district was celebrated this afternoon
by a public dinner at the Corn Exchange, under
the presidency of the Earl of Jersey. There were
also present the Earl of Effingham, Mr. Henley,
M.P., Colonel North, M.P., Colonel Fane, M.P.,
Sir 11. Dashwood, Dr. Marsham, the Hon. W.

North, the Hon. Mr. Villiers, the Rev. Mr. Blom-
field, and a large number of the leading agricultu-
rists of the neighbourhood.

The usual loyal and constitutional toasts were
given and received with due honours.
Colonel NORTH, in responding on behalf of the
army, said that since be last had the honour of
acknowledging the toast in Bicester the British
army had entered upon and completed one of the
most arduous campaigns that any army in the
world had ever been called upon to perform. It
was a campaign in which there was no hard fight-

ing, but whenever fighting occurred our army
showed that gallantry and endurance for which it
was so justly celebrated. (Cheers.) Although
there was not much fighting, the army displayed
those virtues which were most important to the
soldier—namely, the strict discipline and endurance

which were so essential to the success of a cam-

paign. (Cheers.) Our countrymen might look
back with gratification and pride on the perform-
ances of that array, when they recollected that
during the whole campaign there was not a single
case of insubordination or of ill-treatment of the
inhabitants of the country through which they

marched, and that they returned safely to this
country to receive those thanks and honours to
which they were so justly entitled. (Cheers.)
Captain DEWAR responded on behalf of the
Volunteers.

The Earl of EFFINGHAM proposed "The Bishop
and Clergy of the Diocese."
The Rev. Mr. BLomFIELD, in acknowledging the
toast, observed that the Church of this country was

a Divine institution, and did not depend on State
aid or ou rich endowments. He who was the head
of the Church would defend his right and preserve

his cause, and if the Church was but faithful to the

trust committed to her charge God would prosper
and bless her, but if she proved unfaithful Ile would
blot her out from the face of the earth. Whatever

changes might be in store for her, if her members
strove to promote the real end which she ought to
have in view, their efforts would by God's provi-
dence tend to the good of the Church and of the
nation at large. In conclusion, he begged to pro-
pose, " The Lord-Lieutenant and the Magistrates

of the County."
Dr. MARSHA:NI (Warden of Alerton) responded.

The CHAIRMAN then proposed, " The Members
for the County," intimating that probably one of
them would not probably have many other opportu-
nities of acknowledging the toast in that capacity.
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
Mr. HENLEY, who on rising was greeted with
loud cheers, returned thanks for the kind manlier
iu which the toast was received. At these social
gatherings every topic that might create differences
of opinion was very properly excluded. Assembling
as they did for a special purpose, it would ill be-
come those who addressed a company including
men of all opinions and all shades of opinion to
disturb the unanimity and good feeling which ought
to prevail. (Hear, hear.) He would not at-
tempt to avail himself of those means which
were very of ten used for introducing particular

subjects. If such a precaution was necessary to
ordinary times, it was especially necessary o❑ the
present occasion ; because, if he might be allowed
to say so, the whole ground was now covered with
gunpowder, and every man who let an incautious
spark fall upon it might cause a blaze which no one
could stop. (Bear, hear, and laughter.) There-
..

fore he would make no remarks that could have
any such tendency ; but he might be allowed to
say that, holding a public position connected with
the county, he felt deeply grateful for the kind
manner in which he had been received by men
holding different opinions, knowing as he did that
Englishmen, whether they agreed with a man
or differed from him, always gave him credit
for acting honestly, and trying to do his duty
to the best of his power and ability when they
met him on social occasions. The labour, and
difficulty, and anxiety attending some public
situations were only known to those who occupied
them, but he could honestly say that the best re-
ward which they received was that feeling of kind-
ness which was evinced by all classes of their fellow
countrymen when they presented themselves on ac-
casions like the present. (Cheers.) He might just
be allowed to refer to the subject of the cattle
plague, from which the country was now happily
free, and from which he hoped it would continue to
remain free. (Cheers.) Although some alarm had
been created, and he was afraid there would still
be alarms, and even more tha❑ alarms, from the
other side of the water, yet he should hope that the
vigilance of those to whom such matters were in-
trusted, to whatever school of politics they might
belong, would be sufficiently alive to the danger of
being liable to the infliction to which the country
was subject a few years ago. (Cheers.) No doubt
there were some things which no human projects
could stop, but he believed that if proper vigilance
was exercised that great curse would to a consider-
able extent, if ❑ot entirely, be prevented from com-
ing among us. (Cheers.) A gap of a hundred years
had occurred before the last visitation, and he honed
another hundred years would elapse before we
should be again afflicted with another visitation of
that calamity. (Cheers.)
Col. NORTH, who was also received with great
cordiality, observed that the greatest reward a public
man could receive was the approbation of those
he had the honour of representing. Reference
bad been made to his services with regard to the
army. No one was more anxious than himself that
the country should be put to no unreasonable ex-
pense, and every one must admit that during the last
year or two there had been a great increase in the
comfort and happiness of the soldier, and he believed
there was no one who did nut approve the addi-
tional outlay %hid' had been made. (Cheers.) Not
only had there been an increase in the efficiency of
the army, but the change which had occurred had
been the means of inducing men of a superior class
to enter the ranks of the army. (Cheers.) That
was a source of great pleasure and satisfaction to all
classes. His right hon. colleague had referred to
the custom of excluding all political and religious
topics from gatherings like the present, and he was
suite sure that a wiser rule could not exist. Meet-
ings like the present included men of all shades of
political opinion and men of all religions, and it
was a source of pleasure to all to meet on neutral
ground without any feeling of anxiety respecting
differences of opinion. (Cheers.)
Colonel FANE, who was loudly cheered, observed
that the noble chairman had been pleased to say,
without any foundation, at least so far as he
(Colonel Fane) was concerned, that this might be
one of the last occasions on which he would have
the opportunity of speaking as one of the repre-
sentatives of the country. He thanked his
friends for the very flattering manner in which
he had been received, which was a proof that
during the short time he bad been in Parliament
he had acted up to the principles which he
had always• professed to the best of his power
and ability. (Cheers.) H e did not think any
man had yet heard him say that he meant to re-
sign. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) What be
had seen in the newspapers had struck him with
astonishment. Ile had observed a paragraph in
the Standard to the effect that Colonel Fane was
about to resign in favour of Mr. Cartwright, and
that three-fourths of the county were delighted at
it. He perhaps might be going to resign, but still
he would app,.al to all present whether three-fourths
of the county would be glad of his retirement.
(Cries of "N0,n0.") He should be exceedingly sorry
to disturb the peace of the county, and put his
friends to any inconvenience, by standing in the hope
of getting in at the sacrifice of one of the present
members. It was far from his intention to do so.
He thanked all present for the manner in which they
had supported him, and he thanked those who hadnot

done so for the kindness th at they had invariably
shown him. (Cheers.) But when his lordship made
the remark to which he had referred he was not
quite correct, that this was.fthe last time he would
have the honour of returning thanks as their repre-
sentative. He denied that . (Cheers.) He gave
way with the greatest respc ct to the majority of the
county, but should any accident happen, or any
vacancy occur, they would find him at his post, and
most likely in an assembly like the present his health
would be drunk again as one of the members for
the county. (Loud c'tteers.)
Several other toasts were afterwards given and
responded to.

ELECHOIv INTELLIGENCE.

CHESHIRE (MID).—The Hon. J. Leicester War-
ren, son of Lord de Tabley, the Liberal candidate
for this new electoral district, delivered his first

address to the constituency on Tuesday, at Al-
trincham. Ile supports Mr. Gladstone on the Irish

Church, is in favour of amending the laws relating

:o land in Ireland, and is prepared to aid in re-

casting the Reform Act, especially in regard to the
ratepaying clauses and the redistribution of seats,
while he has no objection to compulsory education

if all other means failed.
CHICHESTER.—A meeting of the working men
of this city was held on Tuesday for the purpose of
hearing an address from Mr. George Potter on the
Irish Church and other political questions of the

day, which he concluded with an earuest appeal to
the electors to return the Liberal candidate, Mr.

John Abel Smith, which was heartily responded to.
A Liberal association of working men is about to
be formed in the borough

CORK (CITY).—Mr. Macarthy Downing, solici-
tor, Skibbereen, has issued an address offering to
contest the county of Cork at the next general elec-
tion as a supporter of Mr. Bright's policy regarding
Ireland.

HULL.--In the course of their canvass, Mr. Bax-
ter and Mr. Atkinson, the Conservate candidates
for this borough, addressed a speci:►l meeting of the
members of the various branches of the civil service

at this port. Mr. Atkinson is stated to have a spe-
:jai claim on this new class of voters, as having
. .

been the first person to sign a petition from Hull
praying for the bestowal of the franchise on the

civil service.

NORFOLK (NORTH).—The Liberal candidates for
this division, Mr. R. I'. Gurdon and Mr. Wode-
house, have been pursuing an active canvass during
the past week. On Tuesday evening they addressed
a meeting at Great Yarmouth, at which Mr. W.
T. M'Cullagh- forrens, NI.P. for Finsbury, also

spoke.
NOTTINGIIAM.—At a meeting of the Liberal party,
recently held, a resolution was passed expressing
regret at the retirement of Lord Amberley from the
representation of the borough• The noble lord has
returned a reply, and expressed his sincere satisfac-
tion at receiving such a mark of good feeling and
sympathy. His only claim to the thanks of
the meeting tendered to him for his slight services
to the constituency in Parliament is that he
had been earnestly desirous of acting with a
single and conscientious regard for their interests
and for those of the country at large. Engaged
as he is in an arduous struggle for Liberal prin-

ciples in a district where they have long been under
a cloud, and having unusual difficulties to encoun-
ter and unscrupulous efforts to overwhelm him by
calumnious accusations, such a declaration is pecu-
liarly grateful to him. It is understood that Mr.
Bernal Osborne will shortly begin a personal can-

vass in the town.
SUFFOLK (WEST). —The Liberals are endeavour-
ing to start a candidate in opposition to Major
Wind. or Parker and Lord A. Hervey. The name
of the candidate selected has not, however, been yet

announced.
SURREY (MID).—A formal address to the consti
tueney of this district has been published by Mr.
Charles Henry Rubartes, in which he states that
the immediate issue before the country is whether
Mr. Disraeli or Mr. Gladstone shall direct the na-
tional counsels, and he declares for the hearty sup-
port of Mr. Gladstone, inspirel as he is by personal
respect and political sympathy. In a full exposi-
tion of his opinions he shows himself to be unequi-
vocally in accordance with that right hon. gentle-
man. He is opposed to the income tax as a con-
tinuous impost, so long as, in its adjustment, no
distinction is made between precarious and perma-
nent incomes ; and he is in favour of Mr. Locke
King's plan for assimilating the devolution of real
and personal property in cases of intestacy. Ano-
therßsareretire, as his object was
Liberal candidate—Mr. Marsh Nelson—has
formally addressed the constituency. There was a
very full meeting of the Liberal committee at the
Terminus Hotel, Cannon•street, yesterday, to
meet Mr. Robartes. Mr. Marsh Nelson was pre-
sent, and explained ;his reasons for issuing his
address. The committee decided unanimously
to support
as the second Liberal
Goldsmid. It is thought
candidatet
that
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with I
Marsh r
Mr.Ne : n
b Julian Nelson
s will
to aid Mr. Goldsmid, and he now clearly under-
stands that his coming forward is not so received
by that gentleman and his friends. The Conser-
vatives public meeting in this divi-
sion of the Drill Hall, Kingston-
u ponr heldh their
evening, the Bth instant.
_rthearn e
s, on 'Tuesday
county firstue as ay
The meeting was originally convened by private
circular, and was only made public on the morn-
ing before it took place. Mr. Harriman took the
chair, and briefly introduced the Conservative
candidates—the Hon. W. Brodrick and Mr. Peek—
to the meeting. The former gentleman he com-
mended to them on account of the long residence of
himself and his forefathers not far from the spot.
The Chairman informed the meeting that Mr. Peck
haa
given
n shape
awaya great deal of money in Mid Sur-
rey in the of subscriptions. The two candi-
dates addressed the meeting in full.
TIVERTON.—Mr. Denman, one of the present
members for the borough, and who seeks re-elec-
tion, is engaged in a personal canvass of the con-
stituency, and addressed a large meeting from a
window of the Palmerston Hall. He entered with
great minuteness into his political opinions, which
may be described as being strongly Gladstonian.
The proceedings terminated with hearty cheers for
Mr. Denman, Mr. Amory, the other Liberal candi-
date, and Mr. Gladstone.
WIGAN.—Yesterday the Liberal candidates for
Wigan, llenry Wools (one of the sitting members)
and John Lancaster, Esqs., issued their addresses
to the electors. Mr. Woods, in asking re-election,
states that he shall vote with the Liberal party
for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, as
he does not believe that the majority of his
countrymen are in favour of the endowment
by the State of several religious denominations
in Ireland. After advocating the improvement
and enlargement of the opportunities for primary
education, Mr. Woods states, that to each one of
the following questions submitted to him for his'
consideration by the public meeting of working men,
viz. :—That for the protection of the electors from
intimidation and other unlawful influences voting
ought to be by ballot ; that the Irish Church ought
to cease as an establishment ; that Parliament
ought so to legislate as to protect workmen of all
trades from preventible dangers while working in
their calling; that the laws relating to masters
and workmen should be so amended as to place
both on an equality before the law ; that there
should be legal protection for the funds of
trades unions ; that the ratepaying clauses of
the Reform Bill of 1867 ought to be re-
pealed ; that provision ought to be made for
the education of all the people ; that Mr. Glad-
stone ought to be supported as the leader
of the Liberal party—he has already by letter to
their chairman, and in hi§ spoken addresses, given
his hearty assent ; and if any means more satis-
factory than the present can be found for the set-
tlement of questions between employers and work-
men, he will bring to its consideration a sincere
desire for its success. Mr. Lancaster declares for
disestablishment in Ireland, vote by ballot, the
repeal of the ratepaying clauses, reduction of ex-
penditure, &c.
YoßE.—The Liberal party of this city, by an
almost unanimous vote, have declared themselves
in favour of Ur. Brown-Westhead (who formerly

represented the city) and Mr. J. H. Gladstone, as
the candidates to be supported by them at the next
election. The name of Mr. Merry Weather Turner,
of London, was also submitted to the meeting, and
that gentleman stated that if its opinion Was ad-
verse to his candidature he should retire.

7 HE L /NE iTIPLOYED POOR.

Last night an open-air meeting, convened by the

" Unemployed Poor League," was held at the side
of the Ironmongers' Arms, Millwall, for the pur-
pose of bearing a deputation from the league ex-

plain its principles and objects.
Mr. COOKE, who was called to the chair, said the
question upon which they had met was one which
the league had deeply at heart, in common with

their unemployed brethren. As a body they de-
sired to help their neighbours with good example
and good advice. That meeting would not be the
last held this winter, in other places as well as upon
that spot, with the view of creating a public opinion

in favour of the measures advocated by the league.
lie personally knew what it was to have an empty

cupboard with a wife and children looking up
to him and crying for the bread which he could

not give them, and he knew in thousands

of cases tears had been wrung from manly
eyes by the sufferings they could not alleviate.
What the working men wanted was honest work,
in order that they might be independent men and
live by their own labour. (Hear, hear.) He knew
that the working classes in that district had had to

encounter many troubles, and that there were per-
sons who would have helped them with alms, but
said that they were not worthy of them. (Cries of
"We don't want charity.") As a test of the cha-

racter of that meeting he asked all those who were
unemployed to hold up one hand. (A. large majo-
rity of the meeting responded to this appeal by
holding up their hands.) What he wanted, and

what they ought to insist upon was, not charity,
but justice ; and how that could be obtained would
be explained by the speakers who would address

;hem.

Mr. RIDDLE moved the first resolution, which
was to the effect, that it is the duty of the State
to provide casual or temporary employment for
those having no visible means of lawful subsist-

ence other than by their labour, on such terms
and conlitio-ns al might be found practical.
In supporting thi; resolution, the speaker said they.
had come together with one grand object.. namely,
how to support the unemployed poor, not of Lon-

don only, but of the whole country. Many of them,
he knew, preferred to starve rather than wear the
hated garb of a pauper. After 300 years of boasted

freedom and an Established Church, with institu-
tions which were boasted of as the most perfect in
the world, we had a million of paupers in work-
houses and three or four millions out. He asked
whether it was Christianity to rob men of their
natural right to the soil and to reduce millions
to the position of paupers who wanted to earn
an honest living ? (Hear, hear.) Such things
were a scandal to Christianity and to our boasted
civilisation. How did it happen that in a land
where there were millions of acres of land that
had never had a spade put into them there were
at the same time millions of men out of work and
in want of the sustenance of life ? There was a
cause for this, and he would tell them what it was.
For 300 years the Church and the State had been
twin robbers of the people. The land had been taken
from them and given to an overgorged aristocracy
and an overgorged Church. Our government had
been misgovernment. (Cheers.) He was horror-
struck at the spectacles produced in this so-called
Christian country. It was high time that some-
thing should be done. This state of things could
not continue much longer. They did not want a
revolution, but a wholesome reform, based not upon
expediency, but upon truth—a reformation based
upon the principle that land was God-created for a
God-created people. (Cheers.) God did not
create paupers. It was the Church and the aristo-
cracy who bad created paupers, by robbing them of
their natural and inherent right in the soil, and
then trying to bolster up the injustice by soup kit-
chens and charitable doles. Between 1760 and
1834 Parliament had passed no less than 3,742 en-
closure acts, by which 6,840,500 acres 'of common

land had been taken from the people. It had been
computed that three acres of land, well cultivated,
would support eight persons in comfort ; and thus

the land taken from the commons would, if pro-
perly cultivated, have supported a population of
18,240,106 persons. In the face of that fact, why
should there be a single pauper in the country
instead of millions ? While the landlords had
been receiving millions in the shape of rent, the
people of England had been paying hundreds of
millions in the shape of poor rates ; and all for
what ? To support a robbing aristocracy. Why
should so many acres be kept as covers
for partridges and hares, while men with bodies and
souls were starving ? ([rear.) Time did not sanctify
the original injustice. If a man robbed him of his
watch and kept it in his pocket for six years, he was
no less a robber at the end of that time than when
the robbery was committed, and the three hundred
years which had elapsed since- the landlords and the
Church robbed the people did not give them a better
claim than when the robbery took place. (Cheers.)
If the people h Id the land they would become a self-
supporting and educated people, and all other re-
forms were but shams. Until this great reform was
accomplished there could be no secure basis for
peace, prosperity, and contentment. (Cheers.)
Mr. BLIGH seconded the resolution, which was
agreed to.
Mr. MOTE moved and Mr. WEsToN seconded the
next resolution :—" That fully believing that the
realisation of the closing suggestions containd in
Canon Girdlestone's able and truthful p iper, re-
cently real by him before the disapproving and
protesting members of the Association for the Pro-
motion of Science, would not only promote the wel-
fare of the agricuttural labourer, but also by their
beneficial operation conduce to the advancement of
the wages and other important interests of the
artisan and all other ',classes of labourers
in both town and country districts, as well
as speedily empty the unions and poorhouses,
reduce ratepayers' burdens, and generally ele-
vate working men from a state of poverty and
dependence to that of a comfortable subsistence,
and con•parative and honourable in lependence, and
lastly, tend to bring about a more satisfactory ad-
justment of the social scale, this meeting, composed
of the unemployed poor at Millwall and its neigh-
bourhood, and other persons sympathising with
them, strongly and earnestly recommends the next
reformed Parliament to embody those suggestions
in a legislative enactment."
On the motion of Mr. TAYLOR, it was resolved—
" That the most hearty thanks of this meeting are
given to Canon Girdlestone for his outspoken,
truthful, and able paper ; and this meeting also ex-
presses their sincere hope that the noble canon may
be enabled to pursue the same honest, straightfor-
ward course through life, and thus benefit the many
despite the opposition of the few."
A vote of thanks to the deputation closed the
Iroceedings.

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