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London, England, 1868-01-24 00:00:00

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LLE N, Mayor.—A COMMON COUNCIL'',
A holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of
London, on Thursday, the 23d day of January, 1868.

serVecily respected. The case, however, is clear ;
the higher appointments in the Established Church,
both in England and Ireland, are in the gift of the
Ministry, and as these offer comfortable provisions
for the younger sons of the nobility the system is
not likely to be modified but under pressure.
I must not conclude without quoting from the
Standard of a late date. After mentioning, under
the head "Ireland," that " the marriage of Lord Bra-
bazon, son of the Earl of Meath, a popular land-
lord in Wicklow, with Lady Mary Jane Maitland,
daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, which took
place at St. George's, Hanover-square, yesterday,"
continues : "At Rathdrum the tenants dined, under
the presidency of the agents, and various toasts
were drunk. The Rev. Mr. Murphy, a Roman
Catholic priest, in replying to the toast of the
tenants, said that if other landlords followed the
example of the Earl of Meath there would be less
Fenianism, if any at all." This needs no comment.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Resolved unanimously,—
That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty
the Queen, expressing the indignation and sorrow with
which this Court has heard of crimes of violence and out-
rage committed by certain desperate and abandoned men,
who, in the prosecution of their base designs, have ruth-
essly sacrificed the lives and property of her Majesty's
loyal subjects; and further declaring the resolute deterini-
rtation of this CourtA' support the constituted authorities
i n their efforts to preserve law and order within this
realm, and to suppress that secret, disloyal, and seditious
organisation of a body of men banded together for revolu-
tionary purposes under the name of Fenisns, whose reck-
lessesist, and unscrupulous violence it is the first duty of theenthusiasmState, sustained by the ardent enthusias of a loyal and
order-loving people, energetically to tiwith exemplary severity. and to punish
WOODTHORPE.

The Times, speaking of the rogressive Con3erva'_'sm,
as enunciated by Lord Stanley, likens the Tories to men
who, having long been accustomed to fight only from be-
hind walls and earthworks, are agreeably surprised to find

they can hold their own in the open field. Their political

country has hitherto resembled the geography of the re•
'ion with which we are j ast making military acquaintance•
They held positions and passes, impregnable rocks, tracks

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of Which the secret was known to but few, gorges and
defiles of which the terror even exceeded the physical
difficulty. Ensconced behind the institutions of the
country, and whatever they chose to call an institution,
they left the plains, the people, and the natural resources
to the invader. Under these circumstances, though the
Conservative citadels remained intact, the Whigs throve,

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prospered, and multiplied, eating the fruits and gathering
the harvest. The Conservatives have been at length
starved out, wearied, and compelled to break covert,
rather to the surprise of the foe, and, it would seem, not
quite to his satisfaction. Lord Stanley is evidently
determined to say and do as much as a Conservative
can say and do, and at the same time what no
Whig can object to. He claims for free consi-
deration in the political balance any institution and
law upon which there can be two honest opinions,
and he also claims the right and duty of indefinite post-
ponement, according to circumstances. He cannot be ac-
cused of having said too little at Bristol ; but, on the
other hand, he has not committed himself beyond existing
arrangements and absolute necessities. We have to finish
the great work which occupied nearly the whole of one
long session, and which has left as much to be done as I
would well employ another. There are also other points
on which nearly all sides, if not quite all, have come- to
some sort of agreement; either by slow convelsion or by
the surrender of hobbies and bigotries, such as the neces-
sity of giving England some form of that national educa-
tion already enjoyed by Ireland and Scotland, and the
wisdom of satisfying, if possible, and within the bounds of
reason, the Irish demand for tenants' compensation. These
are now open questions. They represent principles
which conflicting parties have come equally to recognise;
and accordingly there exists the basis of what may
be called parliamentary negotiation. What more is
it necessary to add to a programme already likely to task
the powers of the performers, the patience of the public,
and the limits of the time ? Lord Stanley does not see the
absolute necessity of settling the question of the Irish
Church before next August for ever and for aye. When
a great politician was once asked how he contrived to do
so much, his reply was, " By doing one thing at a time."
We shall have to do a good many things this year, and it I
is so completely sufficient to say that there is not time this
year to put the Irish Church on the table of the House of
Contasens that the postponement cannot be considered in
the slightest degree prejudicial to a future treatment of
the confessed difficulty. This is very different language
from that which, thirty-five years ago, and still more
recently, expressed the common creed of statesmen, divines,
philosophers, sages, madmen, and impostors landed by
stress of politics on the Conservative shore. In those days
the object was to discover a watchword which could divide,
an accusation which could cam/ crate, and a challenge
which could never possibly come to a reasonable issue or
amicable adjustment.
The Standarl claims for Lord Stanley that he has
spoken the views of the people. He has given concise and
vigorous expression to the national sentiment. He spoke
as a party leader, but he spoke, too, for the country. In
the great questions which now occupy the public mind
there is really but one party, although partisans may
attempt to get up others. Earl Russell is as isolated as
Mr. Eright and Mr. Beaks. They may try, as Mr. Hardy
said, in his powerful speech, to make Ireland the battle-
' ground of party ; they may endeavour to make a profit
even out of Fenianism, but they will not succeed in the
endeavour. The country prefers that the present Ministry
should retain office ; it expects from Lord Derby and his
colleagues that they will complete their great Reform by
Acts for Ireland and Scotland, by a Boundaries Bill, and
a bill for preventing bribery and corruption ; it knows that
they will maintain order at home, and, as far as it is in
the power of any English Government, peace abroad. It
feels that the honour and interests of England are safe in
their hands, and it swill not tolerate the attempts of a
faction to drive them from dike by making party clues.
tinny of great social reforms, which require for their success,
that they should be considered without party bias, and fer
the preparation of which no men are better qualified tha
the present Ministers of the Crown.
According to the Daily ITc ts., there existed at the close
£ the last century, society in London containing a great
many members eminent in literature and science, which
was known as the Dining Club. Her Majesty's present
Ministers constitute a similar society. Their chief busi-
ness during the recess seems to be to dine out. They will
be known in history as the Convivial Administration,

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Government by banquets is a part of the new Conserva-

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tive theory of politics. Bristol has followed the hospitable
example cf Manchester and Edinburgh. It has not been
quite so fortunate in its guests. Lord Stanley is an
exceedingly able man-- the one member of the present
Administration in whom any confidence is felt
outside _ the limits of his party. But he does
not add to his other eminent qualities the merit
of being an attractive after-dinner speaker. His
speech might have been delivered after a repast of
herbs and water. The partakers of the Lenten entertain-
ment provided for them .111 Bristol might well sigh forthe
strong wine tf Lord Derby's eloquence and the stimulating
bitters of Mr. Disraeli's sarcasm. Possibly, Lord Stanley
was weighed down by his companion Secretaries of State.
He may have thought that it was his duty to keep him-
self on the level of Sir John Pakington and M. Gathorne
Hardy. If this was his aim, he achieved a very tolerable
success. A duller piece of festivity than the Bristol dinner
cannot be imagined. The Conservative party in a few of
our larger towns appear to labour under an extraordinary
delusion: they believe that the banquets which they
themselves give to their leaders are expressions of popular
sympathy. The elections go against them in towns ano
counties. Local managers send invitations to Cabinet
Ministers, order a profuse entertainment, induce a thou•
sand or fifteen hundred well-to-do gentlemen to buy
tickets—and popular sympathy with Conservatism is esta•
blished.

The magnificent ovations which have been paid to her
Majesty's Ministers during the last few months are well
calculated, in the opinion of the Herald, to atone for the
fatigues and trials of a session in Parliament almost un-
precedented in the difficulties which had to be grappled
with by the Government which came in with a minority.
Latest and not least of these compliments was that
grand banquet of Wednesday last at Bristol. The
1,400 gentlemen of the loyal West who assembled
under the presidency of the Duke of Beaufort,
on the banks of Avon, were of one mind in their
opinion of the conduct of the Government, and raised
one voice in testimony of their sympathy with the greaij
battle that had been so bravely fought. It is true tho
two chiefs of the Conservatives were not there. They dl
their duty and they do enough if they appear once
or twice in public during the recess. Lord Derby
and Mr. Disraeli have had their say for the present. Lord
Derby, on Wednesday, was worthily represented by his
son. Mr. Disraeli spoke by the mouth of three of his
colleagues, of whom the foremost is only second to himself
in position and influence. The speech of Lord Stanley has
always been characterised, not by a partial pen, as one of
the happiest of his efforts. Though we trust it may be
long before. he is called to bear the mantle of his father,
we cannot speak of Lord Stanley as only of the statesman
of the future. He is not only the practised orator and the
expert logician, he has acquitted himself well in the prac-
tical business of government. He has tried a fall and got
the best of it, with the veteran Machiavel of Western
diplomacy ; be has skilfully extricated himself from all
committal in European complications which do not directly
concern us • he has boldly grappled with the
fAbtitsusdnelaasn
difficulty, and faced the issue with patriotic or
becomes an Englishman.
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A. correspondent of the Manchester Examiner thus writes
.rom Malton :—" The present is a time of great tisialfor
he labourers in the agricultural divisions of Yorkshire.
l'he fine autumn enabled the farmers to get very forward
with work on the land, and gave them the whip hand at
be ' state' • hirings,' where a decided and successful
)nslaught . s made against high wages. This same
season has caused work to be very scarce, and it is
)itiable to see in every town and village numbers of
willing workers standing about without any hope of
Imployment. Even the usual ' spell ' of road-clear-
ng from
.snow, and parish pay for it, has failed this
Tear. With no work, coals advancing, flour 3s, per
tone, and potatoes (as retailed to the poor customer in
'mall quantities) from b-s. to Gs. per bushel, the miserable
:oadition of the labourer with wife and famny may be
)etter imagined than described. There is a general
mpression that wages, with the present price of food,
use too low, but want of work is worse. Upon the Wolds
here is another feature which is now productive of much
suffering. A custom prevails of 'meating' the labourer
n the farmer's house, and paying him additional wages of
)erhaps 7s. per week, upon which he has to clothe himself
tnd family, pay house-rent, and keep possibly a wife and
'our or five children—in many cases not more than ls. per
iead per week. The state of poverty and utter want with
which these poor people are surrounded only now and again
tomes before the world, when a coroner's inquest on some
:ase of starvation affords the material. One of these cases
)ccurred last week in the family of a labourer employed at
flarpliatn, East Yorkshire, and the Driffield correspondent
)f a local paper has given these details The deceased,
fsabella Dixon, was the child of Jolin Dixon, labourer,
who, while he got his meals at his master's house (three
wiles off), had to keep a wife and five yorag, children
)n 7s. a week. One morning last week the mother and
aer five children rose from bed, and the only breakfast
their cupboard afforded was half of a cold, sad dumpling,
and a turnip from the field. These they warmed up for
;heir morning's meal. They had then to fast until night,
when by some means they got a little flour. With this a
lake was made, some kind neighbour giving a little
tripping to it. After the day's fast the meal was vora-
:iously devoured. The consequences were ififligestion,
liarrhcea, and convulsions in the child, for which a dose of
salts and senna was administered, and the child died. Tho
' coroner and jury found the house in a wretched state, and
the mother and children without food, and had to sub•
scribe to relieve their immediate wants.' The correspon-
! dent referred to says this is far from being an isolated case)
m the Driffield side of the Voids, and says hundreds of
families of five to seven members have to subsist on Gs. to
Ts. a week."