The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-25 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, JAN. 23.—Transactions very moderate,
yet prices well supported, and the main feature is a
slight increase of confidence.
Three o'clock..-The market closed as follows

4-1 per Cent. ...... 100
End of month...
3 per Cent ......... 63 40
End of mouth... 68 60
Credit Mobilier ... 160
End of month... 163 75
Credit Fonder ...1375
End of in.0nth...1367 o 0
RAILWAYS.

Bank Shares 3235
Italsan Loan
End of month 42 60
Mexican Loan 18 50
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt 32 75
Deferred —

Orleans
Northern 875
1153 k
Lyons and Mediterranean
5
Southern.... B77i
567
5334
Western
Eastern ............ .• 1
Sardinian
Austrian 37
Lombard so7i
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 9O
45i

ADMIRAL TEGETHOFF.—According to rumour,
generally credited at Vienna, Vice-Admiral Tegethoff, who
has just brought back the remains of the Emperor Maxi-
milian, will bo definitively named Superior Commander of
the Austrian Imperial INavy in the place of the Archduke
Leopold, who had only accepted the post temporarily at
the period of the accession of Maximilian to the throne of

Mexico.
THE DEHOLITIONS IN THE STRAND.—Yesterday
another sale of houses which are to be demolished for the
purpose of clearing the site on which the new courts of
law are to be erected took place on the spot by Messi s,
Evers&ld and Home, the auctioneers. The lots sold yes-
terday comprised Lower Serle's-place, formerly one of the
most degraded places in London, Upper Serle's-place,
Bailey's court, and several other courts and alleys, forming
part of that network of dilapidated buildings lying to the
north of the Strand by Temple-bar. Bad as the materials
were they appeared to realise good prices.
ACTION FOR A LAP-DOG.—•A suit between brother
and sister, to decide a claim to the possession of a lap-dog,
has just come before the civil tribunal of the Seine. Mdme.
Bauer, the mistress of Coquette (for so the object in
litigation is named), was staying at Boulogne-sur-Mer in
autumn last, when she was taken ill of the cholera.
Madame Horan, her sister-in-law, went to attend her
during her illness, and on leaving, after Madame Bauer's
convalescence, took away with her Coquette. Thence
arose the dispute. Madame Bauer maintains that she had
only lent the dog to Madame Herza until she should be
sufficiently recovered to again devote to it her accustomed
attention, while Madame Herza, on the contrary, affirms
that the pet was given her as a mark of gratitude for her
attendance on her husband's sister ; that Madame Bauer
then possessed the mother of Coquette, but that the former
having since died, she wished to have Coquette back as a
consolation. Madame Bauer, in the meantime, on her re-
turn to Paris, carried off the deg by force from :ter bro-
ther's house ; M. Herza, who maintained the claim of his
wife, then appealed to the Jugs de Pais, who ordered the
sister to restore Coquette, under a penalty of five francs a
day fur the delay. Maclaine Bauer then appealed to the
Civil Court, which tribunal has now confirmed the decision
of the Juge de Paix.

"Dear Sirs,—l suffered very much from a pain in m
side for twelve months. I tried a gi'eat •mittly remedies

but got no relief until I used the Pain Killer, when I soon
began to recover, and am now quite well.—Yours truly,
ANN MURPIIY." " Sirs,—l desire to boar testimony to the
wonderful efficacy of your excellent medicine, which I be-
lieve has no equal. I was afflicted with heart disease, and
could find no relief till I got the Pain Killer, which soon
cared me. -Yours, &c., FANNY SILVERS. Dudley, Wor-
cestershire, June 10, 180." Messrs. Perry Davis and Son,
17, Southampton-row, Holborn (W.e.) None genuine
without their trade mark, PAIN KILLER, ea the Govern.-
!tient etipmp.—(ApTr.)

MR. ROE.

rEFI lELD.

On Friday evening the annual dinner of the Sheffield
Chanibcr of Commerce took place at the King's Head
Hotel ; Mr. C. Atkinson, the president of the chamber,
in the chair.

Mr. ROTIBUCH, in responding to the toast of " The
Borough Members," made a few introductory observations
on the treatment which he had received for having acted
independently of party. He then continued: We have
got a more liberal Reform Bill than ever Whig proposed. We
have got a bill that has even frightened the persons who
proposed it. It has not frightened me. We shall find now
what the great people of England really mean ; and as I
have got confidence in the right-heartedness of my own
countrymen, I have no dread of the future. (Cheers, and
" That is the point.") That is the point ; you are quite
right, sir. I have no dread of my countrymen, but now
they (the Whigs) wail and whine, and say, " Oh, these
people have clone what they never intended to do—all the
good they have done we ought to have done. These people
are not Reformers ; we are the Reformers. This is a
business to which they are not accustomed—you may see it
by the great good they have done." They bave done good,
but, not for the first time in their party's history, they have
carried Liberal measures. Who carried the resumption of cash
payments? Sir Robert Peel. Who carried Catholic Emanci
pation? Sir Robert Peel. Who carried free trade and the
repeal of the Corn Laws? Sir Robert Peel. All this was done
by a Tory Administration—(loud cheers)—and then I am
told I can get no good out of these people. Indeed, I have
got more good out of them than out of anybody else.
As to the great Reform Bill, that was carried by no
party ; it was carried by the people of England, and
therefore I owe, and my countrymen owe, nothing to
any party, or condition, or sect, for the carrying of the
great Reform Bill of 1832. Well, sir, we carried the
last Reform Bill ; it is before us ; we have got to work it.
The people of this town will by and by—a great number
of them—be endowed with political power, and I have
much more faith in the working men of this country than
—you must pardon me for saying it—l have in the small
shopkeepers of this country. They will be true to them.
selves, and the great governing intellectual power of Eng
land will rule over her destinies still. I have no fear of
what is called the wild democracy. I know my country-
men are wonderfully credulous. The working man is espe-
cially credulous to his own class, and the consequence is that
he is constantly imposed upon by his own class. But the
ramifications and the influences of the upper portion of
society work down deep and low into our social relations,
and I am quite sure that no harm will come to England
while we have a free press and a free people, and that free
press and the constant intercommunication of thought will
render the last Reform Bill one of the greatest boons eves
conferred upon the people of this country. Now, sir, I
have done with the past. I look forward now to the
future, and the future embraces foreign and domestic policy.
As regards foreign policy, I am speaking among corn.
mercial men, and you will all see that I speak the truth.
There is much doubt and suspicion in the public mind that
there is no power given to the enemy of this country. You
are all afraid of something, you don't know what. You
believe that war is at hand. People willnot speak out and
tell you what they mean ; but lam quite sure—and I speak
from the experience of forty years of public life—there is nc
danger of war at the present time. I will go step by step
throughout the European countries, and I begin with France.
Whenever France is agitated Europe cannot be quiet. She
has such an influence over every part of Europe, that any
thing that touches her must affect Europe. The First Na-
poleon, in his wonderful pride and self-appreciation, called
the people of England a nation of shopkeepers. We never
were shopkeepers, but the people of France have be.
come a nation of shopkeepers, and as shopkeepers they
dread war ; the French shopkeeper will go to the wall if
war comes on ; the soldier will take the lead in everything,
and buttons or something else will go down in price.
Prussia wants to consolidate what she has gained. War
don't do it—peace alone can do it, and, depend upon it,
M. Bismarck, who knows what he is about, will not go to
war with France. As for Russia, they won't and can't go
to war. Therefore I say, take heart my countrymen—
my commercial and manufacturing countrymen, take heart.
There is no danger of war ; we shall have peace for many a
good day yet to come ; it only depends upon yourselves,
your own industry, and your own pouraie, to maintain the
position which England has ever maintained, to carry
commerce to the uttermost ends of the earth. Our happi-
ness to a great extent is bound up with that of America.
We are nearly related, and the faults and virtues of both
peoples are very much alike. But there is an element in
America and in England which is working for mischief,
and, I say it with regret, that element is the Irish element
in both countries. The Irish in America hold together ;
they speak not as American citizens, but as Irishmen, and
in that character endeavour to wield the force of America
against England. A very large portion of the press of
America is Irish, and therefore you see a good deal of bal-
derdash in the American papers. It does not belong to
the old Pilgrim Father wen—not a bit of it. They are Eng-
lish, but the rodomontade, what I call the balderdash, that
now too often appears in the American papers is attribu-
table to the Irish element in America. The main politics
of the coining year may be summed up in three great
things—the Scotch Reform Bill, the Irish Reform Bill,
and some legislation or other respecting the trades unions
of this country. Any liberty that has been granted, any
power that has been given to the people of England can be
safely given to the people of Scotland. 'Their representa-
tion I have no fear of. They will bring men of worth,
men of thought, men of prudence, men of honour into the
English House of Commons. They are a great people ;
and it is a great happiness for that people to be able to say
that they are not a conquered people. Scotland joined us
honestly and honourably through her Parliament. They
were a set of uncommon scoundrels, by-the-bye ; but they
did one good deed—they joined Scotland to England, and
from that time to this Scotland has learnt the benefit of
being connected with a richer people. She has brought
into our laws and literature, into our habits of thought and
feelings of society, everything that could honour, distin-
guish, and heighten a nation. I come now to a different
subject—l come to Iceland. A great statesman talks
about Ireland and tells us that we must legislate in the
spirit of Ireland for Ireland. What does that mean ?
Why, if it means anything—l do not know that it does—
it means this, that we are to separate Ireland from Eng-
land. Now, sir, as long as there is breath in my body or
a drop of blood in my veins I will oppose any kind of sepa-
ration of the two countries. When they talk about the
wrongs of Ireland what amazing nonsense they do talk ?
Are there any wrongs of Ireland? I want to know what they
are. What is the difference in the law between England and
Ireland which militates against the interests of the people
of Ireland? Tenant-right—is there any difference between
England and Ireland ? Does the tenant in England
claim anything more than by law he is entitled to ? And
is there not the same law in Ireland as in England ?
But then it was said, " Oh, they don't give us
leases." Well, a great number of English landlords
do not give leases, and a very large portion of the
land of this country is held from year to year. The law,
therefore, is the same in one country as in the other.
Have they not trial by jury, as we have ? Have they not
judges of their own religion ? Is there anyßoman Catholic
country in the world in which the opposing Protestant is
treated as we treat Catholics? (Cheers.) Now, I want to
know what we can do. Canwe alter the laws of nature ?
Can we alter the character of the Irish land ? Depend upon
it, sir, it is not law that will make Ireland what she ought
to be. It is the teaching of her teachers ; it is the
reception of that teaching by hero eople ; it is a determi-
nation on the part of everybody do his duty in that state
of life in which it has pleased God to call him, and
not to turn round to talk nonsense about " Erin-go-brag,h"
or " Bryan Berm" Irishmen go from this country, being
born and bred subjects of her Majesty, to America, and
become American citizens ; they come back here and they
break the law of this country; they are put upon their
trial, and then they have the mild effrontery to ask for a
jury composed of Americans. They are,not Americans ;
they are Irishmen. But then comes back to us this painful
recollection, that we have done amazing wrong to Ireland,
that for centuries we have done mischief, and a nation
cannot be wronged without the coming generation of that
nation feeling it. For centuries we have misgoverned
and ill-treated Ireland, but for the last half-eentury
we have done all we could to repair that mischief.
The emigrant who has gone from Ireland with his heart
full of bitter enmity against England lands in America
and there he finds this—he finds two parties, one fighting
against the other, very much as we do in England, and he
holds the balance between them. Both parties court him,
and both parties talk nonsense to please him—the Demo-
crats and Republicans both forget themselves and their
duty to mankind in so doing, but they do it ; and they
talk nonsense to please the Irish voter. Call upon the
Americans to put aside the stigma that now is endeavouring
to attach to them ; to drag themselves out of this mire, and
to show themselves what they are—a really straightfor-
ward, honest, sincere people, not to be led away by the
talk of those people to whom they have attached them-
selves. (The hon. member, after returning thanks for the
patient manner in which he had been listened to, resumed
his seat amid loud applause.)
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A terrific gale raged at Edinburgh on Friday
from eleven o'clock in the forenoon till six in the evening.
At one o'clock a block of chimneys in Duke-street was
blown over and fell through five flats of dwelling•houses.
One servant in the upper story, two clerks on the street
floor, and a lady in the second floor were killed. Two
other persons were buried ; one escaped unhurt, the other
►vas severely injured. A large number of minor casualties
P. re reported.

WS.

The adjourned delegate meeting of the London trades,
in rezer(n-s:e to the deputation to Mr. Gladstone, was held
Friday evening, at the Bell Inn, Old Bailey. About
100 delegates were present. Mr. George Potter occupied
the chair. _ _

The CHAIRMAN said the movement in which the trades of
London were now engaged bad excited considerable public
attention, and he had no doubt that the result would be not
only to disabuse the mind of Mr. Gladstone, but that of filo
public generally, of the prejudice now existing again::
trades unions. The points which the deputation won! 1.
have to discuss with Mr. Gladstone were, the limitation cji
apprentices, the minimum rate of wages, piece-work
overtime, legal protectiim for the funds of trade societies,
and the ad-Vantages of trades unions ; and also to combat
the assertion that the unions were driving trade out of
the Country. Since the last meeting he had communicated
the proceedings to Mr. Gladstone, and had received the
foll Owing letter, dated llawarden, Jan. 17 :
"Dear Sir,—l fear, from the enclosures in your letter,
that there may have bee,n some slight misunderstanding
between us, and that what I contemplate had better be
further explained. My object is to inform, myself, and this
can only be .done in a conversational interview with afew
persotis. I would name six or eight at the outside, and if
You will kindly procure a selection to be made of such
persons as are themselves best inforind about the facts as
well as the principles of trades unions, I am sure I shall
Obtit greatly by the meeting. I could not name an earlier
day for it than Tuesday, February 18 ; but I have not the
least,objection to the presence of a reporter if you desire
it, and I cl,o, not think the parliamentary columns will by
that time be very full. I propotie half-past two as the
libur, And I remaili your faithful servant,
" Mr. George Potter." "VT. E. GLADSTONE.
He would therefore suggest that the meeting shouki now
proceed to elect a committee of fifteen, who should meet
and select from among themselves eight members to con-
stitute the deputation to Mr. Gladstone.

After considerable dismission the suggestion of the
chairman was embodied in a resolution and unanimously
agree to, and the delegates of the following fifteen trades
were elected as the committee, viz., bookbinders, brush-
makers, cigai-Makers, glassmakers, gas-meter makers,
joiners, masons, organ builders, plasterers, painters, rope-
makers, smiths, saddlers, tailors, and tallow chandlers.

It was then resolved that the committee elected shoula

report to an adjourned meeting of delegates, to be held on
Friday, the 7th February next ; and that in the mean-
time all trades represented should send into the committee
their rules bearing on the points to be discussed.