British Lion (Newspaper) - June 20, 1868, London, Middlesex THE THE No. 52. JUNE 20, 1868. f ONE THE OF THE Union of and hy tJie Mid of appear in our In tbe present state of political it is tlie duty of every man to state clearly and fearlessly his Tiews upon the future of the working More especially should the working men themselves calmly and impartially consider their present and future political They have large and increasing interests at have to protect those it is can best be by listening to the of Radical by the of What good can come out of Radical which excite the jealousy of one class against another forget by these continued agitations we destroy confidence of the classes above nor must wo forget that the income of the working is said to be per irt time of would be considerably reduced if the having no chooses to withdraw his e contend that the interests of all are so intimately connected that they Cannot be separated without disastrous to the and great misery to the working Capitalists can seek other spheres wherein to work their but the working whose labour is his has Uo field of action but hU own iu the prosperity and harmony of which he is therefore The Radical cries of the last two years are mere set forth by men seeking their own of tlie interests of the Never has any class of politicians dealt so freely in so glaring in that wc are no less astonished at their impudence in tlian at the ready manner in which they received account for this only by ascribing it general apathy of the working men upon political Such apathy may be yet in one sense wo be thankful that it for were it Messrs. and Co. were the true expounders of the opinions of the if the pothouse stale were the real of the working the political future would indeed be but working man 1 emphatically deny such to be the I have been connected with the movement in the metropolis the distinctly declare ir as my belief that we are liable to tile charge but not to the charge 6f. 1 believe that if my fellow men would look into the history of the last twenty Radicalism and its degrading together with its sink into 6bIivion. If we would only look history this is apparently too wearisome and unnecessary a I contend that the first duty of a citizen is lo thoroughly the politics of his which will teach him that the vote he holds is for upon It depends the future prosperity of the that he holds it in and that posterity will hold him responsible for the or tbe evil that may spring out of his use of it. - In a few shall be called upon to exercise the many of us for the first How shall we use it Shall we the of the Liberal party and vote for them or shall we support that by their have proved themselves the real friends of the These are questions to Let the past be for the during the last few the Liberal party climbing to power upon the question of and then cruelly shelving question for seven years Have we not during same their masterly inactivity all political and social Did they reform in the poor to aged and infirm of the state a crying evil during the whole of their administration Did they attempt any legislation between master and which then and is a great public Did they manage our Foreign creditably to the country No both at home and abroad - they showed themselves incapable of directing the business of the nation and the people acknowledge the fact by the manner in which they received the government of Lord No sooner was the noble lord in tlinn a marked change for the better took place in the government of the The Reform was settled in a far more liberal spirit than ever the Liberals dreamt and unlike their iu accordance with the of the The Conservative BUI of 1867 restored to the working man the franchise of which he had been robbed by the of 1832. No sooner were the in than a prepared to relieve the aged and infirm in the of Upon the assembling of it was the first before the gave general and in a few weeks became the law of the At the earliest opportunity the attention of was called to the question of master and workman with tlie view of bringing about a better understanding between The Factory had first been Conservatives some 20 and opposed by Bright and the These Acts had proved a great to the operatives of the and the present Government felt it their duty to extend operation of them to all The Foreign Affairs of the under the guidance of Lord bad conducted in a manner far from creditable to the under the administration of Lord been so conducted as to call forth the admiration of even his political On the other the true political character of the Liberal party has been especially shown by their conduct since they been in As we said they wore content to sit upon the Treasury benches for seven and do nothing towards the settlement of the great political and social questions of the day but no sooner are they in than out comes their If the Irish question be settled they did they not find it out Almost for twenty years has the Government of the been in hands of Liberal a majority in the House of Such being the is it not they are so politically honest as they would have us they never found out all these so-called causes of Irish to suit their purpose upon the Reform the Liberals were dinging into our ears the great intelligence of the working that the question has been taken out of their their ciy is and Lord Russell expresses his fears of the great reduction of the if we do not educate the working This is our experience of a policy at hoine if we look the history of the last twenty years proves that the and not the are the real friends of the working Foreign we may bo are not our business nevertheless let us look well to these questions ourselves they concern us as much or more than any other No country on earth has greater liberties than we have under our oligarchic Look on the democracies of the Continent and compare the condition of the people of and other countries with In where is the liberty of the no meeting of any sort can be held unless the authorities will sanction it by their presence is the liberty of tbe great defender of the liberties of the they are not allowed to criticise the of or give a report of tbe proceedings of the except that put forth by the The Radicals have been very fond of holding up France as a specimen of Liberty and Is there an Englishman who would barter tbe liberties of his country for those of France In England the intelligence of the in France one In England the Government is responsible to the through their for the policy by which they may govern the country in France the representatives must petition the Emperor to allow his Ministers to attend the Legislature to answer certain the nature of which must be mentioned in their In England the Army is recruited on tbe voluntary system iu France the new all the manhood of the country is to be driven into the The same in I if such is the of universal we had better be without it. Space will not allow me to go more these matters from the tacts here set What should be the of tlie working man Shall it be to support the which has always played with their and in every department showed its incapacity to govern or shall it be for the progressive Conservatism is being carried out by the present Government Surely we will not let ourselves be deluded by a senseless cry or deluded by an effete No doubt the Conservatives have been called opposed to all and the natural enemies of the people I are such statements true Let US remember there are two sides to every but that on this question we have as yet heard only By a monopoly of the and the the Liberals have seen able to go on making these assertions without they are now accepted as notwithstanding that they are gross so palpable that we are astonished so many have been deluded by The time has now arrived for ns to throw off onr We have tremendous responsibility thrown upon us the Constitution of England in no small been placed in our Let us defeat the expectation of a noisy and support at the poll those candidates who will support Constitutional A great deal has been said about the inconsistency of a working man being Why be should not be so I cannot My definition of Conservatism to that is good in the existing to reform that which is proved to be and to resist any attempt to subvert the Constitution of the Constitution which has existed 1,000 grown with the intelligence of the and placed England at the head of the civilized I contend that it is as consistent for a working man to defend Constitutional principles as for any other and I am convinced they will not readily throw them over for any new-fangled schemes of dreamy We are not asked blindly to fbl ow any man's lead we are asked to approach our political position fairly and without before deciding upon the course wc shall take at the coming general Do this and we have the greatest confidence in the success of the Constitutional We great faith in the principles on which that cause is sincerely believing they are the best for the interests of the country on the other can produce nothing but a war of and ultimate ruin to the It is but the expression of a senseless and causeless Let us show that independent while making themselves can respect others in their Above all we must remember that under the new we shall more than ever combine two characters we shall be the a but we shall also be the and we must learn to combine the peculiar virtues of We must ever bear in mind the maxim which history that least fitted to rule who cannot be and justice in the governors being no less essential than subordination and respect for superiors in the This is not the doctrine of Radicalism and therefore to avoid Radicalism is the obvious interest as well as the first duty of a working His prosperity lies in the prosperity of the and that can be best attained by an intimate and hearty connection among aU classes of the each one of us actuated by the same the future welfare of onr common These are the principles of which demand not only the serious but the active co-operation of working e. b. Mr. Ralph Ward Jackson announces that it is his intention to become a candidate for the of the Mr. ns is weU is a An ha granted to political prisoners at the anniversary of tha Pope's Thei of troops for the at Rocca del Fapa has been again r 0eemaht. The of Kiel are being pushed forward The defences of the bay nill have the form of a and he extensive to hold three garrisons of 300, 400, and 1,000 The were last January 30O are employed and 400 others in the military Already 41 plots of ground have been the eastern shore between and at a cost of 157,400fr. The to defend the entrance of the wiU carry 4 guns of cast weighing 180 and launching projectiles of 721b3. The official evening replies a newspaper that Frince the in had manifested extraordinary reference to the recent occurrences in the Prince neither received found occasion forthe display of any such activity as that Sir J. Winnington wiU retire from at the end of the present At a public meeting it was to oppose any candidate supported the Irish disestablishment OF We that Colonel of and Mr. of are named as probable candidates in the Liberal for this OF am A of members of the University favourable the return ol a Liberal to Parliament for the Universities of was held on at which it was unanimously agreed to request Mr. James the present senior member for to allow himself to bo A committee was appointed to carry out the of A numerous mooting of the leading Liberals of this borough was hold last after full of the circumstances under which he was offering to the the meeting accepted Mr. Thomas Eustace Smith as Liberal Yesterday a deputation of waited upon Mr. S. invited him to come but ho The arc to contest the and they aro looking for Mr. Philip Henry Muntz has as being willing to be a candidate in the interest for this which will be to rotam three members at the next bat each ns in will have only two Mr. Muntz declares himself to bo an honest and a great admirer of He his address by It a groat honour to represent but it is an honour with of and These I am prepared to if but only with the concurrence of tbo groat bulk of the Liberal party and nothing would me to adopt any course that might its The of the on tha budget has been distributed among the members of the Legislative It contains says that the armaments which have taken place do not warlike and France neither threatens nor fears any She wishes for and Jier Government desires it. leads to the hope that peace will not be The report of the Italian State Treasury on the 31st May Vaa as 1,618,571,169 1,499,410,256 lire Bank notes in 119,160,913 On the of the nomination of the new of the Italy received the same Hon from the Porto as that addressed to the other C reat 1 The lower has passed unanimously a vote of with the Servian The committee appointed by the House to report upon of the Government to authorize a for press offences against M. and also a against M. who has been convicted for the publication of a letter of has proposed to authorise the A rumour Is current that soma of the Servian deputies aro implicated in the Belgrade The Emperor ol Russia has addressed a dispatch to the Provisional Government expressing regret at the death of Prince commending the Servian people for their maintenance of and wishing prosperity to the new apd that he may the expectations of the In consequence of the admissions made by some of the prisoners accused of complicity in the of Prince several fresh arrests have been Among the recently arrested are five and the sister of the Princess Kara The contract between the Egyptian Government and an English company for the of the proposed breakwater and docks at this port has been The company is authorized to hvy the same dock dues as aro paid at In the event of the Egyptian Government taking over the interest at the rate of 12 per will be allowed on the until paid off. release The governor of Richmond Bridewell has received a communication from the Lords Justices of Ireland authorising him to discharge Mr. Richard of the from custody on the 22nd on his perfecting the recognizances for future good behaviour required by the sentence of the The effect of this order will be to commute the sentence from twelve to six Mr. Pigott having been committed to prison on the 22nd February OUTRAGE IJf A telegram from Cork states that on Saturday night two armed with entered the house of Mr. Thomas clerk of meeting a female servant in the demanded be shown where Mr. O'Connell he was The servant then when one of the ruffians fired after She escaped being shot by into a The fellows then made off. The slugs from the pistols tore the stairs and broke a No arrests have been MR. AT On Monday morning Mr. Longfellow left Carlisle for He was accompanied by Miss Miss Edith Miss Annie his three daughters Hr. hia Captain his and Mr. brother-in-law of Captain The company cheered as the train moved off. At Mr. was the guest of tha Master of on Tuesday invested with the degree of Doctor of Laws by the inau address to his works and hia and referred to the visit of Mr. Charles Dickens to and the appointment of Mr. Reverdy and augured therefrom a continuance of international poet and the address wore received with enthusiasm by a thronged audience. THE CROPS IN A writing on the 11th from to the Mark Lane Wheat until the past ten days was looking remarkably and more forward than 1 ever remember bnt am sorry to say that the dry and scorching weather and the total lack of moisture are seriously affecting and under hoy must bo a middling Barley and unless on the best and well-farmed will yield half a Beans and peas short in the and going off for want of and wo have not any what turnips did come the fly have and we have not rain to make the mangold come The pastures are completely bare of and many farmers have put their stock into the meadows that were intended for I never knew rain more The cable the Straits of in connection with the direct line between Susa and has been successfully By general the trial of Mr. Davis has been again until November Mr. Sumner has introduced a resolution the declaring the constitutional responsibility of senators voting at the impeachment In the House of Representatives ex-President Buchanan were rejected by 73 against 46 Rioting occurred at on Tuesday night between the blacks and Two of the latter were TKe elated with tha of the Republican ticket at were the is still - A new Ministry has boon and four of its members have been The remaining elections are The triennial elections in South Australia have Tha shipments of gold to England since the departure of the last mail amount to 164,125 Sir R. Napier states owing to the marching in a difficult it was impossible to complete his but he hopes to forword a continuation by the next and his next despatch will represent for the favourable consideration of Her Majesty's Government the services of the and moil under his report of Sir 0. commanding 1st contains an account of the attack on the fortress of The crown and state dresses of King which were brought from Abyssinia by Colonel have been temporarily deposited at the India Mr. of the Intelligence Department of the Abyssinian was mortally wounded by Shoho whilo travelling between Wells and Through Mr. office we learn that with the exception of a small detachment of the whole oE the force embarked and left Zoulla on the 2d Sir R. Napier was to leave on the 12th. The Commission of Oyer and Terminer for the and city of Dublin was opened before the lord Mr. Justice and Mr. Justice Mr. Justice addressing the City Grand said the calendar exhibit on the face of it a great immunity from There was absolutely no indication of seditious excitement or Addressing the County Grand his said they woold take to tha observations which ho had made to the City Grand but he might in a as the cases to go before them were less in. number than in the OF THE EARL OF Am The body of the lata Earl was on Friday interred in the family vault iu The funeral service wan read by the W. Webb and P. S. After the coffin had been lowered into its place with the Earl's coronet and a cross of white flowers upon the young Viscount and other of the mourners threw flowers into the A detachment of Yeomanry Cavalry was present to keep COURT OF At a meeting in the Lord Mayor a long ensued upon the that 25 delay in the business of the Central Criminal Court had occurred on Saturday last by the absence of an alderman to constitute a It having been explained as Alderman moved a thanks to Colonel the City Commissioner of which was for the highly efficient manner in which the City under his had performed the special of protecting the gaol of Newgate and the Sessions House in the Old during the confinement and trial of the charged with being concerned in the Clerkenwell Sheriff Stone bore emphatic from his own personal to the unwearied of the police on tbe lasting over many to the effective arrangements made by the commissioner for preserving the public peace on the execution of the convict at which there was not a single and to tbe admirable efficiency of the whole City police at this Sir William Rose said no one knew except those connected with the City police what they had gone through during the alarm caused by the Fenian seeing that there was scarcely a public establishment or a great warehouse in the City to which threatening letters had not boen or which had not boon menaced with Greek A letter was rend from the Home Secretary calling the attention of the Court to the fact that the new for the execution within prison walls of convicts for capital offences had received the Royal and asking for any suggestion tbo Court might have to offer for carrying out the especially with reference to the seventh On the motion of Mr. Sheriff the letter was referred to the and the Court KING THEODORE'S The I'll II Mall understands that Her Majesty has expressed a wish that the son of the late King Theodore shall be brought to and educated in this Both tbe Guardian and John Hull have published letters expressing the gravest fears as to the young prince's salvation if he were as Sir R. Napier with Dr. at Dr. Wilson being a Wearied longing for the holidays will be glad to with the Imperial that if the rapid progress which has been made with public business during the last fortnight the session may be brought to a close a week or ten days earlier than has recently been the The last iu the is now considered the most time for the and unless any thing unforeseen it is improbable that Parliament will have occupy it after the Ist of The same authority A strong disposition is said to exist among the Liberals in the House of Commons to get rid of the now introduced by the with a view to a general election m The at of the men who made a raid on the house of near and at the have been arrested and fully names are John Stevens and The former js a is a When captured they carried Admiral Rous os John of has instructed Messrs. Vallance and Vallance to institute legal proceedings against Admiral with a view of vindicating his own character and the characters of his family against the imputations which have been cast upon These gentlemen give ou behalf of Mr. Day tha most and unconditional contradiction to the aspersions which Admiral Rous has thought proper to cast upon Mr. Five bodies wore recovered from the Oaks Colliery ou They were found by the men who were engaged in clearing the roads nearly in the near to the place known as The colliery was crowded during the day with the relatives and friends of the men at present buried in the and ol whom there are upwards of 250 still AU the bodies were identified before many hours as those of Thomas John Bradley Aaron George Hoyland of Alfred whose remains wore got out at the same time as those of Mr. and Thomas of Monk The bodies were but slightly An occurred ou Tuesday at the Victoria Station to tha 9.17 a.m. arrival train from the Crystal The in question was drawn by the Nith and just as it tbe mouth or entrance to the and was over the which at this place intersect each other with almost the intricacy of laco the were surprised to see the engine give several sudden and and almost at the same moment to fall over completely on to its side with a tremendous The coupling irons which attached the engine to the break snapped fortunately the train came at once to a much apparent damage to the except somo and in some cases a slight shaking and a few The escaped unhurt by jumping from the The stoker was but to what extent could not be He was removed to the Powerful cranks were brought into and within a few of Ibe accident the line was again cleared for Shocking and Fatal Accident with a on a labourer named Marwood died from tbo effect of a severe gash in the six inches inflicted with a on by another labourer named The men had been having an altercation while but the is represented as and deceased declared it to be to in bis dylag HOUSE OF In the House of Earl Stanhope called attention to the report of the Public Schools in 18S4, with the view to further that classical studies should still continue tfr be the foundation of the given in public but not be the only and that modern should bo made necessary His ship suggested that a new be appointed to devise somo practical moans of existing but after some the Earl of the Duke of and Lord the motion was Several other bills were forwarded a and their lordships adjourned at HOUSE OF In the House of after a variety of had been asked and Mr. moved that on the 7th of and succeeding orders of the day should be takeff before and the business tho by which he thought the rapid of business might be provided for Mr. Gladstone to the with some and the motion Was agreed After some discussion oa tbe for the redistribution of seats in the Hottas went into committee on tho Irish Reform ahd few clauses having been the rest agreed Mr. then announced to facilitate the progress of the would fix it as the first order on of the Telegraph and progress was The report of supply was agreed to after Mr. and the other business disposed ' ' In the House of Earl Stanhope laid upon the table the report of on titles in Great and by the minutes of The Poor Belief was discussed at in aad the Salmon Fisheries a second HOUSE ' In the House of Mr. Neale moved to refer the Public Schools back to the select committee for the insertion of conferring the new governing bodies to be appointed undor the the power of dealing tbe constitution and revenues of Eton and In its present shape ho regarded the as calculated to raise very nice and difficult of It professed tor be founded upon the report of the Royal but in his opinion it vraa framed rather with the view of evading and escaping from tho recommendations of the inasmuch as the of Eton and Winchester ware exempted from its After a rather long in which Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. and Sir S. took the amendment and the House went into Ou reaching Clause 3, Mr. Lowe moved an giving the commissioners under the Qis power of the governing The proposal was resisted Sir S. defended the right of the existing trustees to a voice in tho appointment of their A division having been the was negatived by 162 to 69. On the 5th Walpole suggested that as it raised an important and only a few minutes of the sitting remained it would be able to report which was accordingly HOUSE OF Iu the House of Mr. Rearden inquired it was true that a Roman Catholic priest named iu a Canadian had been flogged for reading some was met with a sharp rebuff the Colonial who deprecated the practice of making the notice paper the medium of propagating reports which bad no foundation in Of course there was no truth in tjie statement referred The Turnpike Trusts was then debated upon the motion of Mr. that it be ' read a second The object of the as explained by the hon. was to provide for the abolition of the present system of turnpike trusts and and for transferring the maintenance of the roads and tho burden of the existing debt to the parishes and highway districts through which the roads The measure found opponents in Mr. Knight and Mr. who moved and seconded its on of the increased burden which it would throw upon tho and the necessity which existed for considering and settling the larger question of local taxation in first Exception was also taken by Lord Henley to some of the details bnt approving of the mun object of the which was to get rid the the lord intimated that he should vote for the second In the course of the subsequent Sir J. speaking on behalf of the objected to the manner in which the dealt the and he was most seeing that in most cases tho parishes had not been consulted on the subject of making the roads in respect of which the debt had been and were only indirectly and partially interested in the maintenance of the At tlie same time he had a rooted objection to resorting to the Consolidated Fund for tbe maintenance of any roads To treat the subject satisfactorily a more complete scheme was tho anomalies in the shape of and highways existing side by side should be and the question of the debt mnst be settled The would continue all the present anomalies for years to and in many cases aggravate Under the circumstances tho House would gain much by waiting until they were able to devote time to tho production of a more matured and general After soma further debate the motion and amendment were and tho order for second reading Mr. S. Mill moved the second reading Municipal Corporations the object of which is to erect several metropolitan into governed by bodies elected under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Reform by exercising the powers created by that and upon the vestries and other local Mr. Bentinck moved an amendment that the be rend a second time on that day three The debate was continued till the period arrived at which debates on opposed are whereupon the motion foe second reading became a dropped CROSS The of president of this wUch became vacant by the death of the Marquis of has been accepted by Lord
