The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00


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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 9.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise
and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday after-
noon.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
and attended by the Countess of Gainsborough,
went out this morning.

LOUD CAMPBELL AT HARTVICH.

The autumn meeting of the Harwich Liberal
Association was held on Wednesday evening in the
large room of the Three Cups Hotel. Lord Camp-
bell, a former member for the borough, had been
to attend it.

Dr. BrmT, the chairman of the association, having
called on Lord Campbell to address the meeting,
Loid. CAMPBELL said that since he had the plea-
sure of visiting their body some years back,
he had declined the invitation to be present
from various impediments. Unless, however,
members of the Legislature who no longer
sat in the House of Commons mixed from tune
to time with the electors of the country, they
would wholly want the lamp of popular opiniOut
one element at least of truth to aid in their di-
rection. As regards public speaking, his view
was that when men had nothing to say they ought
to stay at home, but that when anything occurred
to them which might, however indirectly, affect the
legislation of the country, they ought to go out and
briefly state it to the people. Of one thing he was
certain, that many topics which could not be at first
alluded to judiciously in Parliament required discus'
sion out of doors, and one or two of these he meant
with their leave to touch upon that evening. Facts also
which had lost their edge when the ensuing session
opened, might sometimes be referred to with the
hope of salutary consequences in a meeting like the
present. But he must first convey to them as frienai
his true regret that under the new Act they had not
grown to a majority. The result at Ipswich would,
however, give them some degree of consolation ulicl
encouragement. (Hear) The sun could not shill°
everywhere at once. But if he could not congratu-
late them on a local triumph, he might do so on the
voluntary downfall of the last Administration. 1.,
that downfall there was little to surprise. It di'
not become a man like Mr. Disraeli to defend the
transactions of the last three years, for which he was
far from being exclusively responsible. It became
him still less to hold power—as Addington Of
done from Pitt—at the dictation and the mercY °
another. As regards the rest, men who knew they
had appointed a Governor-General, not because II:
was great enough to hold the post, but because tho
post was great enough to hold him ; men oh,
in 1866 bad permitted riot to prevail, eir,
though the maintenance of law and order IT
their only title to existence—men who had grossly
misconducted the larger and the smaller busitle''
in both Houses of Parliament, habitually renouo'
ing their engagements, :and systematically contre:o
dieting one another, had done wisely to anticip3l'
the sentence and to escape the battle which awaited
them. Last of all. it might tend to raise thea
spirits, damped as they had been, to bear in u 1113130
that the Sovereign had summoned, without t
slightest hesitation, Mr. Gladstone to the eruinerto
e
of place, which answered to his eminence of virtues
that for the first time during the century; ,:o
might almost say the first time since the Govern
ment of Sir It. Walpole, or at least Lord Chat td
their party had a leader, who owed his lustre no
_A
birth, but to ability. (Loud cheers.) Dr. Burt Ja3;
remarked that since 1865, when he had met thealf.,
great organic change had happened. It remindedi;
of a certain law which seemed to run through °
the
history; the law by which from time to tirue.
ruling power of the State has altered its foundatle'l.
They all knew in the early centuries after the Carlin
quest the power resided chiefly in the Barons. Fro
these, about the time of Henry VIII., it passed lute
the monarchy. In 1688 it was effectively trat3;
ferred to the two Houses of Parliament, which Orr,
based upon a landed aristocracy and some consideit
able cities. In 1832, after a great straggle, ea
centred in the middle class, and it has now Pa o 0
into the larger body, who depend not so nauch..cii
capital as labour. At least he was led to su,s
a view, because, in nearly all the borougo;
which formed the Parliamentary majority
polo
new electors were predominant, and the 'lt' id
middle class were before included, unless theY
juterr.
not care to register. He was also led to
0 ao"
their position in this manner, because, even 3
Co f
ting that the middle class are not as yet deprived,‘,
their authority, the new Acts seemed to him 'tor•
without the faintest promise of stability. Co
tion marked their limbs, and death was traced ;ca.
their features. The ratepaying clauses armed 2.00.
chial interests against it. The combination for 031 a
ops
rid t
es enlists against the law the very party " 06
ascendancy it favours. The £l2 qualification
030
one of the most arbitrary limits, and thereferetoo
of the most frail, which had ever emanated yet: to
the infirmity of councils. It has overwhebnooto.
freeholders ;it threatens to demoralize the ja•
ties ; and, what is even worse, it has given afar'
tensity, which did not before exist, to the decid.
cation of the urban and agricultural constituolo is
Some of the most flagrant boroughs still reniaerved
Ireland. In Scotland groups have been preset
without a reference to either justice or geegr
...tio•
If you renounce a £lO limit for the house TO°
you cannot long impose it on the lodger. hao
who, looking to these symptoms, imagine thel
solid ground and permanent security in this I;tiglitoo
tive measure, remind me of the lines which the
ntroduces about a class who form, perhu?'GO.
best and truest element of maritine constitue°
rg la agt
He has been speaking of Leviathan, the :"/
" of all the beasts that swim the ocean streaw
"Him haply slumbering on the Norway foan%
The pilot of some small night-foundered 01°P1

Deeming an island, oft as seamen tell
With fixed anchor in his scaly rind,
Moors by his side under the lee."
But with morning he discovers his illusion.. 0
it be true, gentlemen, that the anchorartoo
rather on a whale than on an island bg
era has passed away, and one Inigljora
permitted for a moment to regret it. t had
Campbell then pointed to the outline of I'M le
been done under the Act of 1832 in legisl3,tl:a tho
finance, in foreign policy, in war, and add it WO
e
they must not dwell too long upon the past ;„atecl'
enough to look into the tomb of the dl'o-siiti'
Regret paralyses energy, because it chills the gel'
ment on which energy is founded, and even Pollet,
vates our losses, because it takes away th,eb; ti
to confront, examine, and repair them. -L"tior
of every man, according to his light, was rattrapi
suggest the useful purposes, a new and toso
ant force might gradually accomplish. I ngfes°:,
be strange, indeed, if education made n° P1.4-ted.tv4
while it rested with those most deeply intere,i-
control it. Much might be done 1113°-st P'
point by giving Town Councils, at let4„otiet
the great cities, a large discretionaria:oo
as to how far it ought to be compulsoryoll
not dwell upon that topic. In regard to theas
Church eo, it would be absurd at present to ~b 1
you. It is long since our party were eng-i,-
g
such men as Lord Macaulay, Mr. Senior, : 4iv
es ilo
Henry Ward—upon the subject. If mensti ost
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go beyond the policy they advocated, it
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remembered that their voice was lorig heard
vain ; and the priciple appears to be ine_oesil
however much we may deplore it, that an ef'polici
retribution will always follow the delaY °Groyer,ll:
and justice. As regards the ballot, n° ert
1,1 to tet
men+, he thought, would long be a--° s gret'
The desire seemed to be increasing for it,
baeo coil;
numbers wanted its protection. klad it itafi°,l
been so
ceded, the Act of 1832 might still haVeg
sacriao 6
late in substance ; and those who havie,,blm
that act expected to resist it, seenied.,%.." the idea
men who set fire to a town of stone, wit%tiecl sen.
that all the wooden habitations would berth 0..°
immortalised. (Hear.) In connection tao'
presentative arrangements, there WAS ono teP