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London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

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Birmingham - 43,447 ... 13,472 ... 30,005
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Bridgnorth
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Coventry
Dudley
Evesham

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE BOROUGH
01! GREENWICH.

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List ni4lit Mr. J. Baxter Langley delivered an
address in the Lecture hall, Woolwich, to the elec-
tors of the borough in support of the candidature
of the Right Hou. W. E. Gladstone, and in expla-
nation and vindication of his financial policy, and
his resolutions ou the Irish Church. Mr 111‘Cubry
occupied the chair, the Lecture Hall (which holds
700 or 800) being filled to excess. _ _

Gloucester
Hereford
Kidderminster

4,000 ... 1,800 ... 2,200
2,477 ... 1,00,6 ... 1,381
2,650 ... 614 ... 2,036
Leicester
Newcastle -under-Lyme ... 2,600 ... 1,000 ... 1,600
Stafford 3,137 ... 1,634 ... 1,503
Stoke-on-Trent 14,959 ... 3,445 ... 11,513
Wolverhampton
Worcester 5,738 ... 2,122 .. 2,914
Walsall
The constituency of Wigan has been increased from 860

Mr. J. BAXTER LANGLEY spoke in favour of the
object of the meeting. He had more than once
stated to the electors that he was prepared to retire
at any time if the Liberals brought forward a can-
didate of greater political experience and ability
than himself. When he stated that he had no idea
that events would have brought about the very con-
dition of things in which he would be called upon
to redeem his promise. This, however, he did
on the very earliest occasion by publicly
declaring his intention to withdraw from
his candidature, and to bring all the support he
could to secure the triumphant return of the ac-
knowledged leader of the Liberal party. To have
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone to sit for Green-
wich would be an honour to the constituency. In
Mr. Gladstone they would have an able statesman,
a studied politician, a man of great Parliamentary
experience, debating power, and indisputable finan-
cial ability. The electors of the borough of Green-
wich almost unanimously felt that the election of
Mr. Gladstone for Greenwich would be an immense
service to the Liberal party. His exclusion from
the new Parliament would be a national calamity ;
whilst his double or triple return would be a build-
ing up and consolidation of his power—a just and
deserving tribute to his eminent ability, high integ-
rity, and honest statesmanship ; whilst it would
also tend to unite all sections of the Liberal party,
and furnish significant evidence to Mr. Gladstone's
detractors that the people of England are pre-
pared to follow him as leader. He then answered
the question, " Who is Gladstone? " .by stating
that he was born in 1809, being the son of a mer-
chant, his family being identified with commercial
interests. lie received a highly classical education
at Eton, and closed his college career in 1831 by
taking the highest honours attainable. He entered
Parliament the following year—the year in which
the Reform Bill was passed—and, like many other
public men, imbibed a tinge of the revolutionary
and exciting times prevailing at the time of his en-
tering public life. In 1834 be took office under Sir
Robert Peel, and had an important part in the
adjustment of the fiscal systein of the country. He
traced Mr. Gladstone's political career till his first
budget, which left a surplus of three millions, and
which he cited as proof of his great financial ability.
Ile passed in review Mr. Gladstone's other finan-
cial measures in the abolition of taxes on know-
ledge, articles of food, fire insurance, reduc-
tion of Income Tax, &c., resulting iu the
country being relieved to the extent. of ten mil-
lions. He then referred to Mr. Gladstone's policy
in connection with the Reform Bill of 1866, and
his latter measure 'co undo what should never have
been done, by the disendowment and disestablish-
ment of the Irish Church. He concluded his address
as follows : —" I have thus passed rapidly in review
the paramount circumstances connected with the
public life of a man of whom I have said elsewhere
that he was the ablest and most earnest statesman
of modern times. There are men who have lived
in my time who on particular questions have been
greater and braver, and who will be esteemed by
posterity as the great men of the age. Of such
'were Joseph Hume,. the unrewarded guardian of
the national finances in evil days ; of such was
Richard Cobden, whose name is almost hallowed
as the missionary of peace and the apostle of
free trade ; of such, too, is one who still lives
and works amongst us—Cobdeu's fellow la-
bourer, the unswerving tribune of the people—
John Bright. But as a practical statesman, com-
bining earnest conviction with remarkable finan-
cial ability, with oratory and power of leadership,
there is no man who stands so high as William.
Ewart Gladstone. (Cheers.) No man now in the
House of Commons better deserves the gratitude
and affectionate confidence of the people. As a
pupil of Peel he is greater than his master. His
financial schemes have been uniformly successful ;
and though denounced by Mr. Disraeli as " a con-
spirator against the State," and by Lord Derby as
"a reckless State gambler," he stands to-day, be-
fore not only England but in the eyes of all Europe,
as the foremost financier of the present century.
He found our Exchequer an instrument of oppres-
sion, by which the industry of the country was
taxed for the benefit of the rich and idle. He
entered political life when England's treasury
was on the verge of bankruptcy, owing
to the tactics of Lord Derby and his
party ; and, despite Conservative opposition,
he has emancipated trade, relieved industry
of its burdens, and made our 'financial
position the admiration and wonder of civilised na-
tions. And shall we allow a fanatical Opposition
to send the illustrious public servant into obscurity
when he has entered upon even a greater and more
important work than that which he has hitherto
achieved ? It is a great thing to free the means by
which we live, but it is a greater thing to give free-
dom to those influences which make life worth liv-
ing for. Man does not live by bread alone. If
freedom had been beneficial to commerce, I believe
that it will be a thousandfold of greater advantage
to religion ; and if by the recognition of religious
equality we draw nearer our sister Ireland, so long,
so cruelly estranged, we shall find, as in all Mr.
Gladstone's estimates, that the results are far more
beneficent than even he himself had taught us to
expect.
The following resolution was carried with enthu-
siasm :—" That the thanks of the Liberal electors
of the district of Woolwich are hereby tendered to
Mr. J. Baxter Langley for his able and elaborate
vindication of the financial and ecclesiastical policy
of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and this meet-
ing pledges itself to co-operate with the committee
established to secure Mr. Gladstone's return as re-
presentative of the borough of Greenwich."

at the last election to 4,616.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.

According to the latest rumour Lord Mayo will not go to
India after all. Sir Stafford Northcote is again first favou-
rite for the appointment. It is said that Lord Mayo himself
never wished for the appointment, but that it was in a man-
ner forced on his acceptance. The Chief Secretary for Ire-
land may not be the fittest man to succeed Sir J. Lawrence,
but it will be satisfactory to find that he has recognised be-
comingly the universal exclamation of astonishment which
seuted his selection for the Government of India.—Express.

The Pall Mall Gazette thus delivers itself:—" if the in-
tentions of the Ministry may be inferred from the state-
monts of Conservative journals, Lord Mayo will be
made Governor-General of India in spite of all
the remonstrances that may be offered. The reasons
given for the appointment are those :—Lord Mayo sup-
pressed the Phcenix societies and "crushed" the Fenian
plot, he has long Parliamentary experience, genial
manners, and great industry. With regard to the
Fenians, it may be as well to wait a few months be-
fore concluding that we have heard the last of them. The
objection to Lord Mayo is not that ho is a Conservative,
but that for obvious reasons the Viceroy of India ought
to be a man of great readiness and tact, and of first-class
administrative ability, and it would be the wildest flattery
to attribute these qualifications to Lord Mayo. That he is
"as good" as some Liberal peers that mal be named is
nothing to the purpose. What we have maintained is that
party considerations ought to occupy a secondary place in
the choice of this great official, and that supreme personal
fitness should be the ono thing sought for. A few
years ago, before Sir John Lawrence was appointed,
the Anglo-Indians speculated upon the probability of Mr.
Disraeli himself being sent out as Viceroy. They did not
complain of this prospect, and could he now show so little
appreciation of their generosity as to makJ ruler over them
a nobleman whose talents have only been shown in sup-
pressing the Phcenix societies ?"

MR. GLADSTONE AND TITE ELECTORS OF

THE SALFORD HUNDRED.

The Manchester Examiner has been requested by the
South-East Lancashire Liberal Registration Committee to
publish the following letter, addressed to the chairman,
Mr. R. N. Philips, M.P. :

" Hawarden, August 3, 1868.

"My dear Mr. Philips, I have decided, under the
advice of experienced friends, that it is my duty, with a
view to the general interest, to become a candidate for
South-West Lancashire at the approaching election. The
facts pre.sented to us by the state and views of the con-
stituency are such as to leave no doubt whatever on my
mind with respect to the propriety of this step, and
they have, as you probably know, made my friends in
the south-western division feel it to be an imperative duty
to bring forward a second candidate. You will join in
our satisfaction, and I hope we may take it as an omen
of complete triumph in the Salford Hundred. Yet I
am conscious that I am saying farewell to a body of
political friends in that hundred, as able and energetic,
as generous and indulgent as any man could desire
to see rallied round him, and I cannot part from them
without tendering to them, through you, the expression of
my lasting gratitude. Pray accept also for yourself that
large share of my thanks which is so richly your due.
Believe me, my dear Mr. Philips, most faithfully yours,
" W. E. GLADSTONE."

The Express says : " The intelligence from South Lan-
cashire is most favourable to Mr. Gladstone's chances
of success. The Liberal element in Lord Derby's county
is far stronger than was supposed ; though in
Noah Lancashire Colonel Wilson Patten's seat is
considered safe, and the real contest will be, it is said,
between Lord Hartingtval_and.Mr, Stanley. The few
Liberals who have deprecated Mr. Gladstone's selection
of his field of contest will be doubly gratified if he
succeeds ; and it is at least satisfactory to know that
the miserable personalities showered upon him have
had no effect upon his personal reception by the
electors. The further we see into the tone and character of
the elections the more clearly does it appear that Mr.
Gladstone has the confidence of the great body of the
people. The attempts so strenuously and uneerupulously
made to convert our pulpits into canvassing booths
have not hitherto fulfilled the end they were designed
to compass. The petitions lying for signature in parson.
ages, the appeals in church, the confusion of things
spiritual and things temporal, the profane prayers for
electioneering success, are, we are willing to believe,
exceptional. That such things are possible at all is
unfortunate for the people, and still more unfortunate for
the Church."

The most extraordinary rainfall ever known in
Nottingham took place on Tuesday morning.
'1 here were two distinct storms, both accompanied
by thunder and lightning. The first commenced
precisely at eight o'clock and terminated at half-
past eight, and during the half-hour the rain
gauges, which are kept in three different parts of
the town under the direction of the corporation
surveyor and architect, and which are similar to
those at the Greenwich Royal Observatory, showed
a fall of 0.386 inch, or at the rate of more than
three-quarters of an inch to the hour. The second
and more violent storm commenced at 9.15 a.m.,
and terminated at 9.35. During these twenty
minutes the rain gauges showed a fall of 0.680
inch, being at, the rate of two inches of rainfall
per hour. The total rainfall in fifty minutes was
1.066 inches. The weight of rain in the town or
borough of Nottingham was the enormous amount
of 201,000 tons, which is equivalent to upwards
of 45,000,000 gallons, or, in other words, equAl to
the whole water supply to the inhabitants of the
bore ugh for thirty-five days. The streets were
flooded, some of the sewers were burst, and in
some of the tho:oughfares cab horses plied up
to their knees in water. For four months pre-
viously there had been scarcely a shower.
A Vermont paper says that during the recent, hot
weather in that State there were 83 cases of sun-
stroke, 29 of which were fatal. This number is
considered remarkable for Vermont. Among those
who died were two little girls, who were found dead
in the field. In some of the northern towns the
thermometer ranged from 105 degrees to 108
degrees, and in one instance is reported at 109
degrees.