The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-31

Minister OF
Finance and War, died suddenly of disease of the
heart About the lst Of November the cholera
made Its appearance in Sonsnate. On the 10th,
the number of cases reached twenty. Since that
time it has been diminished.
SenOr Don Jose Felix Quiros has been appointed
Minister Of the Interior, in place of Sr. Bosque.
AMERICANIZING ENGLAND.
| MR.. BRIGHT'S SPEECH ON REFORM
| The great cry against the Parliamentary Reform
proposed by Mr.. Bright, in England, is, that he
wishes to Americanize England. At large meet
ing held at Manchester, December 18th, Mr.. Bright
replied to this charge as follows:
| But still | know exactly how we shall be met
| HI ou are going to AmericaniZe u.s. daughter. J
Nothing is so dreadful to an Englishman who is
thinking OF emigrating across the Atlantic as that
we should be Amercanized in England. (Laugh-
| ter That is phrase coined by some cunning
| knave-( laughter intended to catch good many
very simple dupes, and no doubt it will catch some
OF them; but should like to ask these gentlemen
whether representation is not English custom
and an English principle. They were Englshmen
who first took it to the United States (Cheers. J
1t is said that wherever an Euglishman goes Just
as he takes with him his white skin he takes with
him the foundation of representative institutions.
lie has taken them already to the Cape he is al
ready as busy possible in building up four or five
monarchica republics in Australia; he has carried
the representative system to Canada he carries it
wherever he goes Why, the bill of 1882 was a
desperate measure in the direction of American
zing us 1t took some boroughs where IL mem
bers of corporation returned the members to Par
Lament, and it gave the suffrage to some 5000 of
| the people. Was not that Amercanzing such bO-
| roughs with a vengeance? (Laughter.) The
more you extend your representation, the more,
OF course, you become like that systematic and
theoretically perfect representation which exists in
the United States. (Hear, hear.)
| have said over and over again that perhaps
am the very last in England who would pro-
pose any institution here because | found it else
where. l am not nsensble to some things that ap-
pear to me to be errors in princple-sOme that are
errors in practice-in the constitution and the
toms of the United States, but | protest against
our being shut up to take nothing from America
but cotton, and rice, and tobacco, laughter and
cheers, and in fact do take good many other
things. | am told that my friend Mr.. Platt a
member Of a very eminent firm in this neighbor-
| hood, has wonderful machine from America with
which to make bricks. We know that the agricul-
ture of this country has been greatly advantaged
| by the importation of reaping machines from Amer
lea. We know that those persons who are going
about apprehensive of innovation have particular
reason to be delighted with America, because they
| have received from that country the invention of
| the revolver. Laughter. AT this moment. in the
government smal-arms establishment at Enfield,
| they have patent machinery from America for
making gun-stocks. They can turn out a gun-stock
| am told in twenty-five minutes fit for the barrel
what dreadful thing to think Oft laughterl-
and | am sure that Mr.. Miles, if his Protectionist
principles have not long ago deserted him, will be
Mortified to hear that they have actually brought
Americans over to show the English how to work
them, continued laughter; The Times the Morn.
ing Star the Daily Telegraph and the leading news
paper in this district the Manchester Daily Erami-
ner, with, | believe, two three of the widely
circulated London weekly papers, are all printed
on machines which were either made in America,
or being made In this country, were made upon the
American patent. Cheers.
Further than this, don't you remember that the
gentry-the West Enders, including even the ladies
have been subscribing ten guineas apiece to in
ri laynr frnp 70 oh hpY,r
to tame horse? Loud laughter and cheers !
Anything but politics renewed laughter; you
may delight yourselves with their charming poets
if you like-with Bryant, Whittier and Longfel-
| low; you may interest and instruct yourself by
their great historians, Bancroft Prescott and Mot
ley-but if you ask how free popular institutions
| are working among your cOuntrymen the
American continent, you are denounced unpatri-
otto, and at any rate reasonable to the House of
| Lords. Cheers and laughter. But am not with
out great examples in this country will read, if
you will allow me, passage which was particular
! ly calling to those gentlemen. From a report
! OF my speech in Birmingham. | said, generally,
in all the sovereign and independent States of
America, there is franchise as wide as that which
| l have proposed tonight.
! There is an exact and equal limit of members to
the electors, and there is throughout many of the
States the protection of the ballot; yet in America
we find law, order, and property secure and pop
ulatlon IN the enjoyment of physical comforts and
abundance such as not known to the great body
y,
been known in any country in any age of the world
before. Now, Lord John Russell, short time ago
was at Liverpool at meeting of the Social Science
Association and he made a speech, many parts of
which, think, were most admirable and instructive
He referred to America in two particulars and show
ed, how, in the States ofNew York and louisiana
the laws had been codied and simpifed. He said
that with few days study man nightmare him
self perfectly acquainted with the laws with regard
to land and landed property. Lord John RUSSELL
who was not afraid to look abroad on a question of
of this kind, said he did not why old country
should be tormented with system which was
necessary, and which it was found so advantageous
to dispense with in a new country.
The noble lord said, at is education which ena-
bes the United States of America to proceed in
their wonderful career, upheld by the most popu-
lar institutions, without serious disturbance of law
and order" Loud cheers. | will also quote an
other nobleman-a most estimable man, too-a
man who has in his time done great Justice to the
people and institutions of the United States-the
Earl of Carlisle. Cheers. Eight years ago,
when the state of America fresh in his mind, he
delivered lecture from which have taken two
extracts Speaking of the elections in that country
he says: "ElectiOnS may seem the universal bust
ness, the topic and passion of life, but they are at
least with but few exceptions, carried on without
any approach to tumult, rudeness or disorder;
those which l happened to see were the most
sedate, unimpassioned processes | can imagine
In the free states, at least the people at large bear
an active and believe on the whole, a useful part
in all the of internal government and prac
tcal daily life" And then, speaking of the cond-
ton of the people, he said-and you will note how
far it cOrroborates, how for it extends even what
| said-'The feature which is the most obvious
and probably the most inevitable is the nearly en-
tire absence-certainly of the appearance in great
degree-of the reality. In part of the world, /
imagine, is there so much general comfort among
the bulk OF the people, and a gushing abundance
struck me as the permanent character of the and;"
and then, with his own generous sympathy he went
to say at is not easy to describe how far this
consideration goes to brighten the face of nature,
and give room for its undisturbed enjoyment" !
cannot, of course, help the fact that Lord Carlisle
for moment has fallen into rather foolish panic
since | undertook to address my constituents at
Birmingham. | can assure him that do not wish
to Introduce American institutions here; but want
to argue this point, that the people of England
now in a condition in which it would be just to
them and safe for all ciassas in the country that
they should be widely intrusted with the posses |
sion of the elective franchise. loud cheers.l
From THE BRITIsH POSSESSIONS, NoRrH-D ates
from Victoria, V. l., are to November 20th, and |
from Fort Yale, British Columbia, to November
18th.
John Nugent especial Agent of the United
States Government at Victoria, quilted that place |
on the 10th November, and has arrived in San |
Francisco. He goes to Washington to make |
his report to our Government Before leaving |
Victoria, he caused to be published, in the newspa
pers there, an address to the Americans in that |
region, in which he insults the Governor and other
EuSIsI authorities IN tnat country. ms ADDRESS !
has caused much feeling in Victoria-Of Indignation
among the British, and shame and regret among
the Americans. The paper there severely censures
Mr. Nugent for the publication of this "frebrand."
1t certainly has seriously prejudiced American in
terestS IN that quarter. 1t was predicted of NJ
gent, when he received the appointment, that he .
would create difficulty, if possible.
The Governor, and the other officials had left !
Victoria for Fort Langley, and the new Govern
ment of British Columbia was to be at once inaugu-
rated by proclamation. There was little news
from the mines.
From OREGON AND WASHINGTON TERRITORIES
Our dates from Portland, o. t., are to November
oath. The census of Oregon Territory, lust taken,
shows the population to be AZ, ,S62. The number of
voters stated to be 9,9l0. The Territorial Legisla
ture is to assemble on the 9Th of December The
gold diggins on the South Umpqua river are re-
ported to be still very productive. Danford Balch
living near Portland, o. t., shot Mortimer Stump
dead, in that city, for marrying his daughter
against his consent. The Indians in Oregon were
still quiet. The apple crop in Oregon the present
year, is very large.
The Planters Advocate announces the death of
James NJ Marshall, ESQ.,, at his residence at Piscata
way District, Prince Georges county. He repre-
sented that county In the General Assembly of
1854.
Mrs. D. p. Bowers and Mr. and Mrs. Conway of
the Walnut street Theatre, Philadelphia, have en-
tered into an engagement to appear in London
early next March.
The proceeds of the recent Mount Vernon fetes,
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