The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-23 00:00:00

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THE BRISTOL CONSER VA 7'IVE

BANQUET.

Last night a grand banquet was given to her
Majesty's Ministers by the Bristol Conservative
Association. The Earl of Derby and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer were unavoidably absent, but
among those present were Lord Stanley, M.P., Mr.
M.P., Sir J. Pakington, M.P., and
G. Hardy,
Colonel Taylor, M.P., Lord Tredegar, Lord North-
wick, Sir L. Palk, M.P., &c. The Duke of Beau-
fort, K.G., presided. The banquet took place in
havingweTr eh lea i
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the hall of the Bristol Volunteer Corps. Covers
reT,s,hpTeohnutieseudAalrtmolo,yya, l toasts
Navy,
Yeomanry, and Volunteers."
Sir J. PAKINGTON, who was received with loud
cheers, in responding to the toast, said—lt would ill
become me to remind you of the long-established
claims of the army and navy to the gratitude and
good feeling of their countrymen. I may say, with-
out indulging in any idle boast or in any undue na-
tional partiality—l may say that which I sincerely
believe, that so far as their numerical strength goes,
the army of England is not inferior to that of any
other nation of the world; but, gentlemen, the
glories and the triumphs of the British army have
not been achieved alone upon the battlefield of
Europe. There is no quarter of the globe, there is
no climate in which these troops have not fought
and conquered ; and now at this very moment a
large division of the British army is engaged in a
most arduous service in maintaining the honour of
the country. (Cheers.) It is possible that that
division of the army may not be exposel to any
great amount of the usual dangers of war. We
have read of late in some of the public journals that
King Theodore of Abyssinia with some difficulty
has possessed himself of one great gun, and that
now he is unable to move it. (Laughter.) This
certainly looks as if the ordnance department of
his Majesty was not in the most flourishing condi-
tion. (Laughter.) But, on the other hand, we
don't yet know that our gallant troops may not
have to contend with great—l trust not overpower-
ing—numbers, and certainly with men of indivi-
dual bravery. We are certain they will have to
make long marches in an unknown country ; that
they will have to submit to difficulties and priva-
tions and dangers of climate in a country many
parts of which are most unfavourable to Euro-
peans ; and that, whatever may be the re-
sult of that expedition, our: troops will have
to call into exercise those great powers
of endurance which have always distinguished the
British soldier. (Cheers.) Let me ask you, there-
fore, whilst you are drinking the health of the
British army, to join me in expression of the earnest
hope that our gallant men who have gone to Abys-
sinia may speedily return to their country, having
achieved the righteous. and great object for which
they have gone—(cheers)—and that, whatever may
have bean the exertions they have been called upon
to make, they will return with an untarnished, if
not an increased, reputadon. (Cheers.) •
Admiral TRYON acknowledged the toast on behalf
of the navy.
Colonel HOGG, M.P., then, in highly eulogistic
terms, proposed the toast of the evening, " The
Health of her Majesty's Ministers," which was re-
ceived with great enthusiaom, three cheers being
given for Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli.
Lord STANLEY, on rising to acknowledge the
toast; was warmly cheered. He said—My lords,

ladies, and gentlemen,—Oil my own behalf, and
on that of my colleagues, !absent as well as pre-
sent, I thank you all, and I only wish that our
friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer had been
able to be present, that he might have seen and
heard the enthusiasm with which his name has been
received. (Cheers.) I will not deny that, if a
mark of confidence is at all times welcome, it be-
comes peculiarly so under the circumstances in which
we are at present placed. We have, passed through
a stormy and a critical period. We have been
placed in a position of more than ordinary respon-
sibility and difficulty. We have had to decide
matters of the gravest national importancc, and
upon which hanest and intelligent men, 2ialing at
the same general results, may reasonably differ.
(Hear, hear.) We came to the conclusion, not,
perhaps, on the part of some of us without consider-
able hesitation ; but we cane to the conclusion that
the course which we actually adopted was the best
and safest for the country and the best also for our
party, but we did not expect that that conclusion
would necessarily be shared by all who acted with
us, or that no difference of opinion would. arise ;
and I need not say that, of all differences, none are
more painful than those which break out between
old political friends and allies. (Hear, hear.)
Under these circumstances—and trying circum-
stances I think they were—the Conservative party
stood by those whom it had chosen and recognised
as its leaders with a firm,' generous, and an un-
wearied confiderlje which I for one shall never
forget. In that I think they acted wisely ; and it.
is to us no small gratification that you also share
the same conviction, and by your presence here to-
day, and by your cheers, and by the language of
your chairman, have declared that we had not
lightly abandoned the course which we undertook
to defend, but that we have simply exercised a wise
discretion in declining to place ourselves—and in
placing ourselves in placing yourselves too—in the
invidious and untenable position of antagonism to
the deliberately expressed wish of the nation. I do
not wish to go back into old disputes, but, if there
be any, and there maybe even here those who think
the legislation of the last year involves a certain
amount of political changes, I ask them this—Do
they think there would have been no danger in
standing still ? (Hear, hear.) Look at the circum-
stances of the moment. We cannot say that they
are in all respects satisfactory. We have a war on
our hands—a very little one, no doubt, but still a
war. We have commercial depression prevailing
in some places to an almost unprecedented
degree. We have distress, very severe and
protracted, among a large section of the working
classes in London and elsewhere. We have discon-
tent—l fear I may say disaffection—rather widely
spread in Ireland. And does any man believe that
it would littleotunldthheasevedbiffieennulatiesif, i
or an insignificant addi-
tionn
every town of Eng-
land, you had had a large part of the poorer popu-
lationythdeprived of po-
litical
rights, believingan
and
itself
ready,to uann jy a sot
of them, in the
l
be-
lief to follow any unscrupulous agitator who might
find it his interest to trade on their passions ?
(Hear, hear.) I will not deny that the constitu-
tional change of last year is one of a serious charac-
ter. Nor do I affirm that any man can with abso-
lute certainty predict all its results. Butl certainly
do not look at them with the alarm which is
ing men are a majority in the new constituencies.
ex-
pressed in some quarters, when it is said, " Work-
They can do what they please. Your are absolutely
in their hands." It naturally occurs to me to ask,
Who were the majority ? Who were the most nu-
merous class in the old constituencies ? Well, I
apprehend the answer would be, small tradesmen,
tenant farmers, and persons in that rank of life ;
but I look in vain through the legislation of the.
last thirty years for any indication that small trades-
men and tenant-farmers have directed in any pecu-
liar or exclusive sense either the making or adminis-
tration of our constitutional laws. (hear, hear.)
Others say, Look at the colonies—see how things
are managed there. My answer is, We are not a
colony—we are an old country, with ancient tradi-
tions and social habits deeply rooted; and I do not
believe wealth fairly used, and culture which is real
as well as showy,
will easily lose in England the in-
fluence which they at present possess over the
English people. (Cheers.) Some of you may think
that I have been sanguine in what I have said, and
perhaps it is no less sanguine to hope, as I do hope,
that the next two or three years may not pass away
without leaving behind them something which
shall be not less memorable than the Reform Bill
of 1867 in the social history of the country. (Hear.)
By that something I mean a wise, a large, and
a well-considered measure for the education
of the people. (Loud cheera.) That is a ques-
tion with which the Conservative party are not
one whit behind their opponents in the de-
sire, and, as I believe, in the power, to deal.
(Cheers.) Lord Derby was the founder of that
system of national teaching which still, though in
a modified form, subsists in Ireland. My friend
Sir J. Pakington, who sits beside me, long ago
took up the question as it relates to England.
Others of us have helped according to the measure
of our ability, and I think the present time is
favourable. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, there is
another subject on which I fear I can't speak in an
equal tone. It is one which I suppose at the pre-
sent moment is hardly ever absent from the mind
of any person who takes part in public affairs. I
mean the painful, the dangerous, and to us, in ap-
pearance at least, the discreditable state of things
which unhappily continues to exist in Ireland. We
have, indeed, in that country a strange and per-
plexing problem to solve. I suppose there was a
time when Englishimen of all parties and all classes
were more anxious to give all reasonable satis-
faction to Irish demands, and even, as far
as can be done, without national injury, to
humour the feelings and prejudices of the Irish
people. (Hear, hear.) The material condition of
Ireland is not bad; certainly it is far above the
average of what it has been in former years ; the
peasantry are better fed, better clothed, and better
paid than they were twenty years ago. (Hear,
hear.) The more educated class share absolutely,
and without restriction, the advantages of British
citizenship. Nothing is wanted except a little peace
and security for uncounted millions of British
capital
as English wealth
s it continues every
has
poured
into pour i
sn
nt on t tl ha
na
dt country
n n d
a
day to pour into colonies that are separated from
us by the breadth of the globe. Well, gentlemen.
if I were not wearying yon—(cries of " No, no")
there is that other question of the land upon which
I should like to say a word or two. I want to see
any side as to what
put forward as
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compensation
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tand disguise
nthoroughlyn argued out in
yisnumenallnkt.n
nwT,hies
demandth that
of mconstantlysation
to
be granted
to the tenant for improvements which he has made.
That, under proper safeguards, is well enough.
We have admitted the principle. But, when
you have settled that point, the fundamental
cause of difference still remains. What, I won't
say the Irish peasant, but a considerable number
of the Irish peasantry, want, is not a compensation
for improvements—which not one in a hundred
ever make—but to be transfortne I, without pay-
ment, from yearly tenants into owners of tg soil.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) No, that is a demand
which I cannot conceive, under any circumstances,
that a British legislator can assent to. -'(Loud
cheers, and a voice, " Certainly not.") If the
principle is good for Ireland it is good for England
also ; and more than that, if the operation is to be
performed once it will have to be repeated ,indefi-
nitely, for the tenant turned proprietor rnight, of
course, sublet, and if I know anything ofirish na-
ture, he certainly will-L(hear, bear)—anA then you
will have a fresh class of tenants at will under the
same conditions asi those wh) existel-before, with
only this difference, that you will have removed a

Mr. G. HARDY, who met with a most hearty re-
scaeipdti:o—ni
hraesvpeotnodetdh.ankThme
yrigkhintd hfornie.
Miles, for the handsome and flattering terms in
ndg,enStliermlaVn.
which he has been pleased to allude to any services
that I have rendered in the office which I have had
the honour to hold. lam glad to have heard those
Househearty oafccceonnatsra,
ownhsicwh
t of his hesion of his own party and the respect itwhoeuret gnaeivneirn
gh eoavredr
tihne
at hd
to this time the heartiness which made him, when
e
in the House of Commons, the type of a county
op-
ponents. (Cheers.) lam glad that he has retained
member, and which I hope will continue to be as
well represented in future Parliaments. (Cheers.)
Sir Wm. Miles has spoken of the House of Coin-
mons in terms which any one who is at all ac-
quainted with it would use. He had recalled the
transactions of Parliaments which sat long ago,
and has shown that notwithstanding Reform,
there has been practically no
great change
which has separated one House of Commons
from another; but that, tin spite of advancing
changes, one House of Commons is bound by a na-
tural tie to that which has gone before, and that
every House of Commons has represented the
prevailing opinion of the country, as I believe it did
in the last century, as I am sure it did previous to
1832, as it has done since that time, and as I be-
lieve it will do after 1869. (Cheers.) My noble
friend has spoken of the reasons which rendered it
necessary to introduce a measure of Parliamentary
Reform. Parliament itself had made a Reform Bill
absolutely necessary ; iu 1859 the Conservative
party were themselves parties to a Reform Bill ;
and but for the course of procedure which was then
adopted—a coarse which I will not now characterise
—a settlement of the question might then have been
arrived at which would have lasted for many
years. (Cheers). When we took office—or
rather I may say when we were forced into
office by the peculiar circumstances of 1866—a
Reform Bill had become an absolute necessity.
Every party in Parliament was pledged to it.
Every bill that had been proposed on the subject
had been read a second time, and what is more, the
House of Commons was pledged to a reduction of
the franchise, the only point remaining to be settled
on this question being whether that reduction should
be made on the principle of a fixed rental or of a
rating franchise. In considering this question we
had to decide whether we should undertake so great
a task with a determination to bring it to a perma-
nent conclusion, or whether we should only effect
such a settlement as would be made the ground-work
of a renewed and even dangerous agitation. We
determined to fix it on a basis which we believe
would be durable and permanent. (Cheers.) Wehave
lately been told that attempts will be made to remove
what I believe to be the fundamental principle of the
Act, viz., that clause under which every voter will
bear a portion of the burdens of the country ; but
I believe the good sense of the country will decide
that the residuum which cannot pay its rates
must still remain a residuum, and justly so.
(Cheers.) It is not in such a presence as this that it
is necessary to vindicate our course. When it is
necessary to do so we shall be ready. But not to
linger any more on the past, I hope we shall receive
from this occasion such encouragement for the
future as may tend to bring about results which
will long have a beneficial influence on the pros-
perity and happiness of the country. If you have
come to this banquet merely to cheer, and then re-
turn to your homes and become the idle and apa-
thetic Conservative party—if you withdraw your-
selves from the masses about to be enfranchised,
you will bring about the very danger which has been
so much deprecated, of separating class from class,
as if I and my noble friends were not every bit as
hard-working men as any of you. (Cheers.) Let
us blend and unite ourselves together, and go down
into the great arena which has been opened up
by the new Act of Parliament ; you will there
have a great audience, and, if you fight for
your principles like men, you will find that you
will derive far greater support from it than
many of us are at present disposed to expect.
But we are told we have swept away all the
barriers, and that chaos will come again. I will
repeat the lines weich have been used by a working
man :

" In other lands, by slightest shock,
The civil fabric falls ;
In ours, eternal as the rock,
It rears its massive walls—
A barrier to convulsion firm,
Firm as our island shore,
Which has rolled back ten thousand storms,
And shall ten thousand more."
Not like chaos, and not like the bursting of a reser-
voir, which breaks its banks from want of attention
or from improper construction, but like the flooding
of the Nile, which the Egyptian awaits, and as it
spreads over the land hopes that it will fertilise
the soil ; so I trust the, result with us may be
the spread of peace, religion, and contentment.
(Cheers.)
A number of other toasts followed, and protracted
the proceedings, which were of the most enthu-
siastic character, to a late hour.

STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER IN LIVERPOOL—A tOM-
mittee of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce reported to
the meeting of the council yesterday that they had made
inquiries into rumours, which had caused much anxiety,
that considerable quantities of gunpowder were stored in
Liverpool, and they had ascertained that there was no cause
for alarm, and that the arrangements for storing and de-
livering gunpowder were oufficient o prevent accident.

In an article on the imprisonment of Matilda Griggs,
the Post expresses its belief that the entire system on which
criminal prosecutions are conducted in this country is
faulty in the extreme, and the committal to prison of a
young girl who narrowly escaped being murdered is simply
a grotesque illustration of one of the many anomalies of
the existing law. Except in grave cases, the task of pro-
secuting criminals is imposed on private individuals, and
the discharge of this duty is provided for by the clumsy
expedient of personal recognisances. The consequences
are that a great hardship is inflicted on unoffending indi-
♦iduals, who are thus compelled to put themselves to great
expense and in convenience in order to vindicate the outraged
rights of society. If they attempt—whether from disin-
clination or from stronger motives—to withdraw from the
position into which they are forced, they are heavily
mulcted, orb, if paupers, are sent to prison. If, however.,
this system in practice proved tolerably effectual in secur.
ing the due administration of justice, it might have little
ground for complaint. But such is not the case. It not
infrequently happens that the supposed delinquent finds
the means of satisfying a prosecutor or a witness that more
is to be gained by absenting himself on the occasion of the
trial than by being present, and in such cases justice is
openly defeated. The imposition of a recognisance in-
directly gives a prosecutor or a witness the option of with-
drawing on condition of paying the amount confessed to
be due, and if this be done there is io means of punishing
the most flagrant contumacy.

Apropos of strikes, the Daily News remarks that while
the labourer and capitalist maintain their hostile attitude
the whole country suffers. Trade unionists assure us that
a successful strike causes a permanent addition to their
incomes, but they have never shewn that this gain com-
pensates for the diminution of the national wealth occa.
iioned by the cessation of national industry which is
involved in all strikes and lock-outs. Nor has it been
demonstrated that any artificial increase in the price of
lab-our, whether due to united action on the part of the
labourer, or the result of special legislation, is not a na-
tional misfortune. No one in his senses would leap from
the summit of St. Paul's, in defiance of the law of gravi-
tation ; anti the insanity is as great, though perhaps more
excusable, of him who violates any one of the laws of
economic science. Ignorance of immutable economic laws
is the excuse for many of the mistakes committed by the
uncompromising trade unionist. On the other hand, the
capitalists, if less ignorant, have seldom shewn more
wisdom in their dealings with labourers. It is glad to
observe, however, that since Mr. Mundella delivered his
lecture on Courts of Conciliation, a strong feeling has been
manifested throughout the country in favour of the solu-
tion of the labour question in a way resambling that advo-
cated and practised by him. Until the contending parties
can meet on common ground, it is absurd to expect a
definite cessation of hostilities.

Speaking on the Italian budget of Count Cambray-
Digny, the Standard observes : The creditors of Italy had
their heads full of very alarming apprehensions ; some
feared that the Minister of Finance might propose to pay
them in paper, or even to stop paying them altogether ;
others, buoyed up by greater confidence, yet dreaded that
he would propose a tax upon their dividends ; and the
most sanguine were almost convinced that he would ask
authority for the issue of a new loan, which must tumble
down the price of their already depreciated securities.
Count Cambray-Digny has done nothing of the kind. He
has only acknowledged that unless the Parliament will
impose additional taxation to the extent of six millions
sterling, and agree to administrative reforms by which an
economy of half a million may be effected, the deficit
upon the year 1869 will be nearly ten millions sterling.
Presto there is a general sense of relief. The credit of
Italy has risen in the European markets, and the Italian
Parliament will be left to battle over the question of ways
and means, without much attention from those most
interested in their conclusions.

Among the " grievances " of Indian officers the stiff old
rules ironically styled furlough regulations held a high
place. They were framed expressly to discourage appli-
cations for leave, and they hedged round the permission,
when granted, with conditions intended to restrict the
con-
siderable show of reason when India was as many months
distant as it now is hours, and they harmonised with the
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and the overland
to make India his home. But steam
route have radically altered the relations between
d and her Eastern possessions, and the
England policy which sought to impress every griffin with a desire
ctowrops
creation of .
inevi-
table. Accordingly, new regulations, conceived in a
liberal spirit, and applicable not only to the soldiers,
but to the civilians, have been drawn in Calcutta by a
amalgamation
committee of able men. Under the new rules, ample
terms of leave and fair pay during absence can be obtained ;
but no mau, whatever be his claim, can remain away from
aofsttahffe
India, on pay, for more than two years. Having secured
a furlough, an officer can spend his time where he pleases.
Nor does prolonged absence forfeit employment as it did
wider the old rules. The great gains arc, the liberal terms
of leave, the permission to retain a post held when the
officer quitted India, and the abolition of restr:ctions
affecting residence. As the highest authorities in India
have sanctioned the new regulations, and as the Secretary
of State is known to favour a generous treatment of our
civil and military servants, it is to be hoped that the con-
templated change will not be obstructed by the India
Council, but that. the proposed equitable improvements
will speedily receive every needful sanction.

in the six years 1861-66 the railway companies
of the United Kingdom paid no less than £1,378,167 for
legal and parliamentary expenses. It exceeds £10,00.0
A 49144: . -

On the 23rd April, 1866, the plaintiff brought to the
station of the defendants at Holton, and there delivered
to the company, two horses for carriage from that place to
Lincoln. The p er of the defendants asked the plaintiff
to tie the horses in the horse-box, but this the plaintiff stated
he declined to do, and that he also prevented his groom from
inteifering, saying the company must take all the respon-
sibility, as the horses were in their charge and at their
risk. This was corroborated by the plaintiff's groom (who
was not at the time of the trial in the plaintiffs service) ;
but the porter at the station who tied up the horses
denied .the plaintiff's statement, and stated that
the plaintiff's groom held the horses' heads. Horses
carried by the defendants' railway are fattened to
the inside of the horse-box by means of headstalls.
Evidence was given on behalf of the plaintiff to shew
that the mode of securing horses in horse-boxes adopted by
the defendants was not safe, or the best and most usual;
but the contrary was asserted by a horse-superintendent
in the employ of the defendants. The horses were
led by the company's servant into a horse-box
by themselves, and the headstalls placed upon them
by the same servant, and the ropes attached to the
headstalls were then tied by the company's servant to the
horse-box. A halter belonging to the plaintiff was also on
each of the horses, but these were tied by the company's
servant at greater length, and so as to be out of the way.
The following conditions were on the horse-ticket taken
by, the plaintiff :—" This ticket is issued subject to the
owner's undertaking to bear all the risks of injury by
,-Qonveyance and other contingencies, and the owner is
required to see to the efficiency of the carriage before he
allows his horses or live stock to be placed therein. The
charge being for the use of the railway carriages and loco-
motive power only, the company will not be responsible
for any alleged defect in their carriages or trucks unless
complaint be made at the time of hooking or before,the
same leave the station, nor for any damages however
caused to horses, cattle, or live stock of any description
travelling upon their railways or in their vehicles."
Soon after the train leaving Market Rasen, a station
above five miles from Holton, one of the horses became
restive, and began plunging. The plaintiff's groom and
his companion heard the noise, and on opening the window
in the partition which the plaintiff's groom had closed when
the train left Market Rasen, they saw that one of the
straps of the headstall belonging to the company which
had been placed on the head of one of the horses had
broken, and that the horse itself had fallen and got one of
its fore legs over the partition dividing it from the other
horse. They gave an alarm immediately on the arrival of
the train at Wickenly, when the horse was removed from
the box and was found to have been considerably injured.
On examining the horse-box one of the straps of the com-
pany's headstalls was found broken, as had been alleged
by the plaintiff's groom and his companion on giving the
alarm ; and it was also found that the horse had been con-
siderably injured by the fall, and by getting one of its
fore legs over the partition separating it from the other
horse. On the headstall being examined it was found to
have been apparently recently repaired, and one strap was
split or ripped from one of the buckle holes to the outer edge
of the strap, and witnesses were called on the part of the
plaintiff who stated that they had examined the headstall,
and that the leather where it had given way was rotten.
Two servants of the company were also called on the part
of the defendants, who stated that the leather was to all
appearance sound. The broken headstall was produced
on the part of the plaintiff in court at the original trial,
and examined by the jury, by ;whom the leather where it
had given way was pronounced defective. On this evidence
it was submitted to the learned judge by Mr. A. K. Rolle;
who appeared on the part of the plaintiff at the Qriginal
trial-1. That the condition in the ticket was unreason-
able, and therefore void. 2. That even if the con-
dition were reasonable, it merely professed to protect the
company " for any alleged defect in their carriages or
trucks," and that the damage being caused by the break-
age of a headstall which was not part of, but tied to, the
horse-box at the time the horse was placed in it, the cause
of the damage was not within the protective terms of the
condition. 3. That the condition being unreasonable and
void, and the company being common carriers at
common law, it was unnecessary to prove negligence
on their part, the accident not being inevitable. 4. That,
if it were necessary to prove negligence, the breaking of
the headstall was prima facie, though not conclusive, evi-
dence of it, and that the headstall having been produced
and shewn to be rotti i, and the mode of securing the
horses having been shewn to be improper, there was suffi.
cient evidence of negligence to go to a jury; and that if the
condition professed to protect the company against the con-
sequences of their own negligence, it was unreasonable and
void. It was submitted on the part of the defendants, by
Mr. Evans, of Ashton-under-Lyne-1. That they were pro-
tected from all liability to the plaintiff by the condition fir
the ticket requiring the owner to see to the efficiency of
the carriage before allowing his horses to be placed therein,
and that such condition was just and reasonable ; and 2.
That even if this were not the case, there was no evidence
to go to the jury of any negligence on the part of the defer).-
dants. The judge intimated an opinion that the terms of
the condition might be separated, and that while the clause
protecting the company against any alleged defect in
their carriages or trucks, unless complaint were made at
the time of booking, or before the same left the station,
might be reasonable and good, yet the succeeding clause,
declaring the company irresponsible for any damages,
however caused, to horses, cattle, or live stock travelling
upon their railway or in their carriages, might be unrea-
sonable and void. The learned judge did not, however,
expressly decide the condition to be reasonable or unrea-
sonable. Assuming the first clause to be reasonable, his
Honour said it would be for the jury to say whether the
evidence satisfied them that there had been negligence in
fact on the part of the company. His Honour also left it
to the jury to consider whether the broken headpiece was
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that the company had been guily of negligence in fact, and
returned a verdict against the appellants,with £42 damages.
The defendants appealed from this verdict, and con-
tended that, having reference,to the terms of the contract
on which plaintiff's horses were carried, they were not
liable for the injury sustained by the horse ; and that there
was not any evidence of negligence by the defendants, so
as to render them liable as common carriers.

Mr. Russell having stated the case, cited some cases in
support of the above points ; but the court unanimously
dismissed the appeal, and ordered the verdict to stand as
in the court below, the railway company to pay the costs
both trials.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—A letter front
the secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
has been read at the meeting of the Liverpool Town Coun-
cil, announcing that the country meeting of the society
for 1869 would be held at some place in the district for
that year, comprising the counties of Cumberland, Lanca-
shire, Westmoreland, and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
It was decided to refer the matter to a special committee,
with power to invite the society to hold the meeting at or
in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, and to make other
arrangements which might be deemed necessary.
ANTI-FENIAN MEETING.—A large and enthusi-
astic meeting of the Roman Catholics of the Brynmawr
district, for the purpose of condemning Fenianism and ex-
pressing their loyalty to the Queen and their allegiance to
the Government, has been held at the Catholic Church.
The following resolutions were adopted :—" I. That while
we, Catholics, cannot be indifferent to the grievances of
which our co-religionists in Ireland so justly complain, and
to the disabilities under which we in common with them
labour, we, at the same time believing that those griev-
ances and disabilities can he best remedied by the employ.
meat of constitutional means, do hereby declare our loyal
allegiance to the Queen and Constitution of these realms,
and our reprobation of any insane attempt to subvert the
Government by force. 2. That we, being Roman Catholics,
and the greater part Irishmen, residing at Brynmawr, take
`this opportunity of publicly disclaiming all connection with
political secret 'societies in general, • and Fenianism in
particular. As such are contrary to the teachings of
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members of a Christian Church, do condemn in the
strongest terms the diabolical outrages committed by
members of the Fenian society in London and other
places, being the actions of rowdies, the scum
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sincere wish and prayer of her Majesty's most faithful
and I)ving subjects, the Roman Catholics and IriAgnen of
BriPl4.lYr!",

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