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iiushttss bbr£55£5 AT the present time Clothing ao much de- z, notes the position of the wearer that to be ill clad or clothed in garments that are badly made and fitted at once conveys an im- pression unfavourable to the wearer. It is, therefore, of great importance that all who study appearance should be careful to make their purchases only from uch houses as make Style, Fit, and Quality, combined with economy, their leading features. Winter especially requires that change in our attire which i3 so necessary for the due protection of our health and comfort, It is, therefore, of great importance that we should be supplied with overcoats and other warm clothing, not only at a moderate charge, but also fashion- able and well made, as well as being selected from materials of modern design and durable character. To these important requisites MASTERS and COMPANY have especially devoted their attention, and the reader may depend upon being supplied with all he re- quires at either of their establishments. Every person to whom economy is a" object should certainly inspect their stock before purchasing elsewhere. The position occupied by this tirm in the markets as the largest buyers of clothing in Wales or the West of England enables them fre- quently to secure goods at such prices as defy competition, it being an indisputable fact that the tradesman who can buy largest must buy on more favourable terms than the. smaller buyer. 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TOPICS OF THE DAY. +$* If there is truth in the rumour that Prince Bismarck is likely to barter his recent annexations in the Pacific for Heligoland we can see no good reason why the exchange should not be effected. Heligoland is a singularly worthless possession to England, but it is perfectly intelligible that the Chancellor should desire its cession to Germany, not because it is valuable in itself, but because it is almost within sight of the German shores. The Watford magistrates recently earned an unenviable notoriety by opposite decisions in connection with lamps on tricycles. At first they fined two riders for not using them, but on a teat case being got up they decided according to law," and rescinded the previous fines. They would have done better by sticking to the common-sense interpretation of the law, leaving its subtle- ties to be settled by the judges for if a lamp is requisite on a bicycle it is certainly necessary on the three-wheeled machine. That is the general opinion of all wheelmen, who as a body are anxious to obey any laws made for the benefit of the public. The shipowners are organising the evidence they intend to submit to the Royal Commis- sion this year. Mr Horan has been chosen to speak for the Sunderland shipowners. After the meeting of Parliament a confer- ence of shipowners will be held, at which it will be determined what witnesses shall speak for the various interests of shipping. In their annual report, the Sunderland Shipowners' Society refers as follows to the depression in the shipbuilding trade:—"Seldom, if ever, has there been so great a depression and, under such circumstances, any legisla- tion tending further to depress shipping would cause to the town and its property of every description very serious embarrassment. Sunderland has, however, great recuperative energy, and is not prone to look at the dark side when there are any tokens for good." I Where are the "tokens for good ? "The Captivity of the Xisero creiv (Sampson Low and Co.) is a well-written re- cord of the interesting chapter in British maritime history with which the reader is familiar. The writer has a remarkable story to tell, and he writes it in a picturesque and fascinating style. It is a stirring book of adventure, and the adventures are records of real life. Several excellent wood-cuts illustrate the work, and there is as the frontispiece a well-executed photograph of the survivors of the unfortunate crew. There has been a most doleful neglect, a most unfortunately intermittent, piece-meal, half-witted jobbing with affairs of the pro- foundest importance, and no doubt it is this, or rather the natural consequence of it, which has brought back upon Mr Gladstone the sickness he suffered from two yoars ago the sickness of anxiety. To whatever remorse he may feel for the injury and insult he has brought upon England must be added a bitter sense of personal humiliation, which to men of his combative and amazingly egotistical temperament must be intolerable." We quote from a Conservative paper this gracious manifestation of sympathy with the First Minister of the Crown. Criticism of this kind seems to us to raise a simple issue. Are we to expel from political dis- cussion all the usages of decent life ? And is it to be impossible for an aged man, with fifty years of political service upon his head, to suffer the physical in- firmities not unnatural at the age of seventy- five without being brutally taunted by a political opponent ? Fortunately, the savage manners of this Tory print, although they have been imitated by one or two journals in the country, are not generally characteristic of the newspaper press of England. We sincerely hope they will be- come even less common, or that, at any rate, the aristocratic and fashionable press, the journals written by gentlemen for gentle- men, will retain a monopoly of all such brutality. The town of Berwick, we see, is now petitioning for separate repre.senLation under the Redistribution Bill. Berwick has about fourteen thousand people, but under the bill there will be many places with twenty, thirty, or forty thousand which will get no separate representation. It is unfortunate that Berwick and similar places should make these unjust and unreasonable claims claims based upon no consideration of public policy, but only upon the narrowest local feeling. It is argued in the petition that because Berwick has had two members in the past it should retain one in future. The fact that a town has been enormously over-represented in the past is not quite a logical argument for giving it more that its share of representation now. A critic in a Paris paper, who has a very o, nice sense of the fitness of things, complains that Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Theodora wears dark emerald earrings, and that no such stones were known in the Byzantine period. Another journal says that this re- minds one of the criticism passed by an j American farmer on Dubufe's picture of Adam and Eve," when it was exhibited in New York some time ago. The figures he had no fault to find with, but the apple quite spoiled the picture in his eyes. It was, he angrily protested, a new variety of pippin, introduced by himself.

THE news from Korti which we publish to- day shows that a crisis is approaching. The correspondent of the Daily News. says he has been informed by a correspondent, whose information has hitherto been of a trust- worthy nature that the MAHDI is concentrat- ing his forces at Metemraeh, and intends to swoop down upon the first column of the British when our men are exhausted by their march across the desert. But the MAHDI is reckoning with- oujt his host. If his intentions are known to the correspondent of the Daily Nev-s it is not likely that Lord WOLSELEY is ignorant of them, and ive may rest assured that every precaution will be taken to prevent such a surprise, as the MAHDI is said to be preparing for him. When the rebel leader has had a little more experience of what British soldiers, led by such a General as Lord WOLSELEY, can ac- complish, he will be more wary in his movements, and more cautious of letting his intentions become known.

THE continued alarm of the inhabitants of that part of Spain which has been desolated by the repeated shocks of earthquake is day by day recorded in telegrams from Madrid and Malaga. To day again we have news of fresh shocks last evening at Granada, causing the people to fly from the city into the fields, and, after a few hours of quietness, returning to their homes to gather up such of their belong- ings as are deemed of must value, or will be useful to them whilst camping out. It is gratifying to learn that public subscriptions are being got up, to which the Royal family have liberally contributed but no relief thus given can compensate the sufierers for the loss of their relatives. friends, homes—all, in fact, that was dear to them in this life. English travellers have given us vivid pictures of the beautiful cli- mate, fertile soil, and other delights of Spain, but if we in England cannot boast the lovely climate of Spain, we are at least free from such terrible calamities as those we have had to record during the last fortnight. THE resolution of the watch committee yesterday, to erect a new police-station at Cathays, will be hailed with much satisfac- tion by the inhabitants of that popu- lous suburb. Such a resolution ought to have been come to a couple of years ago, but better late than never." The tradespeople especially of Cathays will have reason to rejoice when the new station is completed, for at present they are a constant prey to bands of predatory boys, who lay hands on whatever they can steal. We saw a little crowd of them the other evening, of all ages from nine to fifteen, one of the biggest cutting slices from a large currant cake, which one of the youngest had "nicked" from a confectioner's shop. They took no notice of ordinary passers-by, but one of them, with more than usually sharp ears, detected the slow, heavy tread of a constable coming round the corner not far off, and the whole lot were out of sight ere the policeman made his appearance. But petty thefts from shopkeepers are not the only inconveniences from which the ratepayers of Cathays have to suffer. At one of the "drinking clubs a sort of free and easy is almost nightly carried on, too OftCil till the small hours of the morning, to the great annoyance of the neighbours, who openly talk of summoning the manager. The presence of a police- station and a larger force of constables may minimise this sort of nuisance.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING FIELD. Vote of Condolence with Mrs Lister On the termination of business at the ordinary monthly meeting lJ the Pontypool and Usk Highway Board, which was held at the Usk Sessions House on Monday, Mr E. J. Phillips, J.P., an ex-officio member, rose and said that a most melancholy accident had happened to a gentleman who had been for many years a mem- ber of the board, and who has all tunes taken the most lively interest in the matters which came before it. He was always kind and willing to entertain all matters affecting the board, giving to theui his attention and calm consideration. His death ill the hunting lieid was oup of those sad accidents, so sudden, that it caliecl forth universal sym- pathy. There was not one member of the board who did not value Mr Lister as a colleague, and he was sure every one present felt moat deeply and keenly tiie loss wnich his family had sus- tained by -his death. It called forth their most sincere sympathy aad condolence, and in moving the expression of their sympathy he knew all the board would be as one with him. He moved that a letter or condolence be forwarded to Mrs Lister and Mr Longsworth E. Lister. Mr BCNNING seconded Mr Phillips's motion, and endorsed every word that he had said. The motion was carried uuanim -n-ly. ;.I-

PENARTH LOCAL BOARD. I The monthly meeting of this board was held ou Monday, Mr j. P. Thompson in the chair. There were also present Messrs J. S. Corbett, T. Richards, Captain Ingram, G. Pyle, T. Beavan, D. Morgan, J. Edwards. The collector reported that he had collected of the general district rate £ 637 13s 6d, leaving a balance outstanding of £ 1,218 16s 10d. For private improvements he had collected during the month £ 517 10s 2d, leavitio- outstanding LI,754 12s 7d. The work of scaveng- ing the streets had been, during the past twelve months, done by the board, instead of as formerly by contract, and Mr Harris, the surveyor, was asked to submit a report respecting the costs of scavenging under the two systems. The cost under the contract system was £ 130 a year; under the present system the net cost to the ratepayers was L73 6s thus effecting a saving to the ratepayers of upwards of Ll week.—The Clerk stated that the return did not include a certain percentage of depreciation on the capital charge for the purchase of horses, etc. —Mr Edwards pointed out that under the con- tract system the number of roads attended to was 12; during the last eleven weeks the number was 41, so that the work done was now three times greater than under the contract system, and the caving therefore was btdl more considerable.—The manager of the baths attended, and stated that the visiters were now limited to two or three per week, and it was resolved to close the baths till the 1st of March.—The Clerk reported the balance at the bank against the board was £ 2,863 15s lid. —The board considered that a large amount was due to them for private improvements, and it was resolved to send notices to the persons whose accounts had been outstanding for some time that unless the amount due was paid within 14 days, proceedings would be taken to recover the same.—After the passing of some plans, and or- dering the payment of a number of bills, the pro- ceedingd terminated.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS I [FBOI MONDAY'S MARK-LANE EXPRESS."] Whatever may have been the cause, holders of English wheats have been enabled to obtain Is to 2s per quarter advance on rates current before the holidays from needy buyers, and in some country exchanges fine English wheats were held at 3s against buyers on Saturday. Country flour has improved 6d to Is during the week. In some provincial exenanges barleys of fair quality have gained Is on recent rates, but oats have met with a quiet trade. Other articles remain without quotable alteration. Foreign wheats show no material improvement in consumptive demand, although the quotations since Monday were raised from Is to 2s against buyers. The open weather has brought up thelate sown wheats in very satisfactory form, and the soil is now in excellent condition for sowing Titlavera and other early spring and late winter varieties. All cultivation is forward for the time of year, and the sowing of peas is be^innin^ to be pre- pared for farms. Deliveries h-ive fallen off very considerably during the last few weeks. This may be due to the foggy weather havino- afforded a deterrent influence, and to the fact that the exigencies in connection with rent audits not having been met so far as may have been practicable.

Mp Chamberrlain at Birmingham. BRILLIANT SPEECH ON POLITI- CAL TOPICS. The German Annexation Scare Ridiculed. The New Liberal Platform. BIRMINGHAM, Monday. This evening Mr Chamberlain was entertained at dinner at the Birmingham Town-hall by the newly-formed Birmingham Artisans Association. About six hundred artisans sat down to dinner, under the presidency of Mr F. C. Barnes, the secretary of the Glassworkers' Association. Mr Chamberlain's appearance on the platform was made the signal for an enthusiastic ovation. The company present, both in the body of the hall and on the platform, were confinedfto artisans. After dinner, when the public were admitted to the side galleries, the chairman proposed the health of Mr Chamberlain. Mr Chamberlain having replied, Mr J. H. WIGGETT proposed -'The Associa- tion, after which the following resolution was moved by Mr T. C. BARNES, and seconded by Mr J. CHATTAWAY :— That this meeting of working men tenders to the ■Right Hon. -T. Chamberlain, M.K, its deep sympathy with him in the unwarrantable attacks that have been made upon his personal character, and wnile assuring him oi their string and unabated confidence, congra- tulate him on the passing of the Franchise Bill, and ou the piv.sp.fcts of the great n'easure for the redistribu- tion of i-eats which has been introduced by the Govern- ment uf which he is a member. The resolution having been carried amid long- eoutinr.ed cheering, Mr CHAMBERLAIN, who was again cheered very loudly on rising, spoke as follows :—Ladies and gentlemen,—I thank you for the resolution which you have just passed with so much cordiality and enthusiasm. It is a great satisfaction and a great encouragement to me to know that I still retain your confidence. (Hear, hear.) I have been your member now for nearly nine years, and during the greater part of thai time I have had the honour of a seat ¡ ,1 the Government. I have had to make great claims upon your patience and indulgence, and you have never failed to respond with a generosity which in one of the most striking charac- teristics of great popular constituencies. In the course of that time you will easily understand I have sometimes found it difficult, as the Radical member of a Liberal Government—(laughter and cheers)—to conciliate the loyalty which I owe to my colleagues and to the party at large, with the strenuous and constant promotion of the princi- ples which I am supposed especially to represent. I have had at times to reserve, and sometimes even to sacrifice my opinion. (Hear.) Perhaps I may have disappointed my constituents—(cries of "■No" and "Nsvi-?")—but it has been in my opinion necessary, in order not to bring about a division which might injure our common cause— (hear, he t)—or which might embarass the leader whose unsurpassed ability—(loud cheers)—and long tried devotion to the people's service—(hear, hear) —have earned for him their undying regard and esteem. (Cheers.) I rejoice the more in this ex- pression of continued goodwill to me, because we stand to-night at the commencement of a new •ra. (Hear, bear.) I A NEW DEPARTURE. We are about to take a new departure, and re- joice to think that we shall take it together. (Hear.) The resolution refers with satisfaction to the present position on th question of elec- toral reform.^ For my part, I hardly know whether feelings of pleasure or of surprise ought to be our predominant sentiment. Ever since I last had the pleasure of addressing a public meeting, there has been such a change in the political situation as can only be compared to the trans- formation scene at a pantomime. (Laughter and cheu-s.) We thought a little while aero that we ere on the eve of the most tremendous struggle of our time we were bracing ourselves for a fi^ht which must be protracted and which might have had many vicissitudes, and suddenly, a.s by the wave of an enchanter's wand, we find ourselves in full possession of the fruits of victory, without having fired a shot or drawn a sword. (Loud cheers). But what adds to the strangeness of the situation is that our opponents profess to be equally satisfied. (Laughter). So that I suppose there never was in the whole Doliticjal history ot the country so many thoroughly satisfied and completely contented politician. (Laughter and cheers). I suppose it will I); an ungracious act t) disturb tLe general {eki-ity which is only broken by the plaintive murmurs of the members. THE SOCIETY you P"IOPOIITIONAL REPRESENTATION —(laughter)—who are going Up and down the country with a ballot box met blackboard, ex- hibiting the latest machinery for political thought- reading. (Loud laughter.) 1 do not think it is worth our while to enquire too closely into the foundation of the satisfaction which our opponents profess to enioy. I am not disposed to criticise too acutely the motives of their leaders. It has been said that Lord Salisbury— (hisses)L-has been influenced by a desire to imitate Mr Disraeli, and once more to "dish the I don't think that that can be the true explana- tion. I have read of a tribe in Russia with an unpronouncable name. It is called, I believe, the Tuvac, and it lives on the banks of the Volga river and this tribe has many curious customs, but perhaps the strangest of all is the fact that when any of its members desire to be revenged upon their enemies, they do so by hanging them- selves at the door of the man they hate (Loud laughter and cheers.) Gentlemen, I can hardly believe that Lord Salisbury can L,e actuated by such a motive, or can have adopted the tenets of the Tuvac. I do not suppose that he would com- wou conl- mit political suicide in order to spite Lord Kartington or Lord Granville, and therefore I have come to the conclusion we have all done him great injuscice, that the dearest Widh of his heart has been to speed the advent of the Radical uiillenium, and to pave way for that REIGN OF DEMOCRACY which we thought at one time it was his special mission to stein. At all events that is, it, ixiy judgment, the clear result of the settlement which has been arrived at a few weeks a°-o. I should have kept my impression a profound secret, but now our tongues are loosened and we may speak our inmost thoughts. The Franchise Bill has been passed-(great cheering)—and the pistol, of which Lord Salisbury spoke so emphatically, has been loaded, and it is in our hands. (Renewed cheers.) Next year two millions of men will enter for the first time into the full enjoyment of their political rights, and these men are for the most part your fellow workmen in factory and in field, and ior the first time the toilers and the spinners -(Ioti(I cheers)—will have a majority of votes, and the control, if they desire it, of the government of the country. (Cheers.) To-day Parliament is elected by three millions of electors, of whom, perhaps, one-third are of the working classes. Next year a new House will come to Westminster, elected by five millions of men of whom three-fifths belong to the labouring population. (Applause.) A PEACEFUL KEVOLTTTTFW It is a revolution which has been peacefully and silently accomplished.. (Hear, hear.) The centre of power hai been shifted, and the old order is giving place to the new. (Hear, hear.) This democratic movement will be accentuated by the proposal of the Seats Bill. I ln°k upon that bill as safe and for this simple reason that if our opponents do not take it they will have to take something m their opinion worse. (Hear, hear.) If they don't take it, if some mischance should happen to it, it will be the starting point for another bill more exhaustive even than the present bill. The bill which is now before the country is the minimum that the new voters will have it is the minimum, hut it is enough. The ore at Reform Bill of 1832 distributed 143 seats. The Tory bill of 1867 dealt only with 47 seats, but the bill of 1835 will distribute 160 seats, and will transfer the Denver from the sparse, the slug- gish, and the unprogressive populations in which it now resides to the active, energetic, and highly- organised constituencies which contain the vitalising elements of our political system. THE EFFECT OF THE REDISTRIBUTION RTn- But this account does not exhaust the demo- cratic changes which arp. in nrncrrp« THE TORIES' POLITICAL CLAIMS. I understand that the Tories take credit for this proposal as specially the result of their interven- tion. (Oh.) Equal electoral districts was the dream of the Chartists almost before Lord Salisbury was born. (Hear.) It has been the desire of Radicals ever since, and I think if the Tories would look back only two years ago they would find this proposal and most of the others in the bill contained in an admirable pamphlet which was written by our friend Mr Schnadhorst. (Cheers.) I believe that this proposal, which at one time was thought would be objected to in the country, and especially by the great constituencies, is the most popular part of the whole bill—(hear, hear)—and not without good reason, for, believe me, it will in- fuse new energy into our political life—(hear, hear)—it will widen the interest in pubiic affairs, it will open to a new class of candidates the opportunity of public service, and it will lead to a more definite and complete expression of public opinion. If the description which I have given of this latest chapter in the history of political re- form be accurate, if these are the results which we have the right to anticipate, I don't think that we need waste time in discussing to whom the merits of authorship belong—(hear, hear)— whether it be Lord Salisbury or Mr Schnadhorst, whether it be Mr Gladstone— (cheers)—or Sir Stafford Northcote. We will accept them thankfully from whatsoever hand they came, and with a profound belief in the probability of future benefits to follow in their turn. You are in the position of men who have suddenly come mto a fortune of which a short time ago you had only a distant expectation. By a stroke, almost immediately you will be placed in the full enjoyment of those political rights of which up to this time you have only had a trifling foretaste. These changed conditions will require novel combinations to meet them. The Liberal party next January will have outgrown its old clothes— (laughter)—and it must be prepared with new garments. ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIBERAL PROGRAMME. The organisation of the party and the programme of the party must be alike enlarged to meet the necessities of the situation which will have been created. I we that in some quarters the Tories are consoling themselves for the changes which they fear. They hope that at all events they will put an end to the power and the influence of the dreaded caucus. (Laughter.) They never were more mistaken in their life. (Cheers.) The caucus is like the fabled hydra. You may strike off its head, and half a dozen new ones— (laughter)—spring from the dismembered trunk. (Laughter.) There will be more need than ever for organisation—(hear, hear.)—if you are to gain the full advantage from the new conditions. Vested interests, special crotchets, personal claims —they have a natural tendency to combine; they are on their defence. They are bound together by common ties, and by common fears and if the public good, if the interest of the great majority is without discipline and without recognised leaders, it will be like a mob, and disperse before the steady tread of a few policemen or before the charge of a handful of cavalry. (Cheers.) I desire to impress upon you that our free and open representative Liberal associations are the essential condition of success in the future as they have mainly contributed to our success in the past. (Hear, hear.) But, although the principle re- mains, the form may very likely have to be changed. THE OBJECTS OF THE PARTY. In the big towns we have two objects in view. In the first place I hope to express your opinion when I say that we all desire that the unity of In the first place I hope to express your opinion when I say that we all desire that the unity of the constituencies should be preserved—(hear, hear)-that the initiative and the momentum which have been the prerogatives of these great com- munities should be continued. We should all be be sorry if the places which have been occupied with so much honour- Manchester, and Leeds, and Birmingham, and other large towns—should in the future be empty if these potent voices should be silenced, and if all the traditions of the past, and their bright examples, should be so much ancient history, carrying with thein no practical lesson for the future. But on the other hand, in our reverence for the past, do not let us omit to salute the rising stars—the new constituencies into which our borough is to be divided. They should be encouraged, and invited, and stimulated to dis- charge with honour and dignity the responsi- bilities to which they are called. (Hear, hear.) What the exact form and details of the new organisation should be may well be left to the constituencies themselves. (Hear, hear.) I THE NEW CONSTITUENCIES. It seems to me, however, that it will almost be a necessity of future union and future success that in each of these districts there should be created a powerful and representative district council of the Liberal association—(hear, hear)—and that to this district council should b3 wholly left the duty of selecting the candidates for each of the localities. (Cheers.) But then these district councils which unite to form the United Liberal Association of Birmingham would be no longer an Eig-ht Hundred;" it would be more likely a "Two Thousand"—(hear, hear, and a laugh) — which would alone have the power of collecting and expressing the opinion of the whole town; and so under this system you would have the federated association defining—formulating the policy and the programme of the Liberal party as whole, while the district councils would select their spokesmen and representatives in Parlia- ment, on the school board, and in the town council, to carry this policy without interference, control or dictation from any other body whatso- ever. (Cheers.) When your organisation is per- fected, when in due proportion to their numbers every class and every district sends up its member to the great council of the nation, which, for the first time, will be truly representative, what will this assembly do with the powers entrusted to it ? What effect will the change we have been considering- have upon THE FUTURE POLICY OF THE COUNTRY ? What will be the clireetion of the new legislation in which we shall all be engaged ? I hope at some future time to have an opportunity of deal- ing more in detail than I can do to-night with the programme of the Liberal party. (Cheers.) But there are two important branches of the subject on which, with your permission, I wish to make a few general observations. (Hear, hear.) In the first place, then, I think that on the whole, the extension of popular authority will make for peace. The lata Mr Carlyle, in one of his books, says that the common people desire war, because in wartime there is a demand for common people to be shot. I do not believe in the truth of this cynical ob- servation. (Hear, hear.) I do not think that democracy wilt have any love for a policy of intervention and aggression, nor any ambition for conquest and universal dominion. These things lead straight to conscription, and you will not be eager or even willing to pay the blood tax which is levied on your brethren in continental countries. (Cheers.) EGYPT. I anticipate, tnen, tnat you will give no assist- ance.to the party which is clamouring for what they call a strong foreign policy, and which at this moment, in the interest chiefly of the bondholders and financial specula- tors, are calling upon us to take possession of Egypt without regard to the wishes of the popula- tion, or the just susceptibilities of other nations. We are in Egypt at this time in pursuance of an un--ellisli object. Our task has proved of greater magnitude than we had anticipated it is one, indeed, of almost unexampled difficulty. We have met with hostility and opposition in quar- ters where we had reason to hope for assistance and co-operation, but we will not be driven from our intentions. (Cheers.) We will no £ yield one jot, either to the perfidious liuggestions of dubious friends abroad or to the interested clamour of financial greed at home—(cheers)— and we will not destroy the independence which we are solemnly pledged to Europe and to Parlia- ment to respect. (Cheers). I hüpe and believe that in this course we shall have your approval— h(ear, liear)-g.,nd that you will'know how to distinguish between a policy of justice and 1 a policy of weakness. (Hear, hear). It is not the bravest man who blusters most. (Hear, hear). And the universal bully at a time of pinch is very likely to be found a universal coward. (Cheers). DEMOCRATS NOT AFRAID OF WAR. But if the occasion should coino to assert the authority of England, a democratic Government resting on the confidence and support of the whole nation, and not on the favour of any limited class, would be very strong. It would know how to make itself respected, and how to maintain the obligations and the honour of the country. I think that foreign rulers would be very ill-ad vised if they were to assume, because we are anxious to avoid all cause of quarrel with our neighbours that, therefore, we are wanting in the old spirit of Englishmen, or that we should be found very tolerant of insult or long-suffering under injury. But, then, I hope that the conscious- ness of strength will bring with it the calmness and the confidence which are the characteristics of asense of power and the possession of true courage. Suspicion, irritation, and nervousness, which seem to characterise a certain school of politicians among us, are to my mind altogether inconsistent with the dignity of a great nation, whose resolution never to suffer wrong should make it slow either to give or to take offence. A NECESSITY OF MAINTAINING ENGLAND S DIGNITY. If we are to be thrown into an agony of appre- hension every time any other nation show3 signs of restlessness, our power of effective interven- tion will be lessened when there is real occasion tu put it forth. It would be humiliating indeed if England, the mistress of half the world, were to be driven to imitate the conduct of an angry scold, and indulge in a fit of hysterical passion because Germany had snapped up some unconsidered trifle of territory which we have hitherto not thought it worth our while to acquire. If it be necessary, as I think it may be, to re- view our foreign and colonial policy in the light of recent events, let us face the altered circum- stances of the problem in the spirit of full grown men, and not with the pettish outcry of frightened children. I regret the action, how- ever natural it may be deemed on some grounds, which the C e':lHrl Government has thought it necessary to lake. I see that it is stated that Prince Bismarck, the veteran statesman whose great ability, high courage, and force of character have given him an extraordinary position in European politics, has been influenced in his recent acquisitions by a personal dislike to in his recent acquisitions by a personal dislike to Mr Gladstone, and a desire to embarrass his Government. I do not believe it. JilSMARCK AXD MR GLADSTONE. Prince Bismarck is much too large-minded a man to allow a private prejudice to affect his great designs, and he is much too wise to affront a friendly nation in the person of its chief in order to gratify a feeling of momentary irritation. (Hear, hear.) I have no doubt that he has very different and much more worthy motives for the policy he has pursued but not the less on that account-I am sorry that he should have thought it his duty to imitate a course which has already created widespread feelings of uneasiness, and which has produced feelings of the deepest irrita- tion and alarm in those dependencies of the Crown whose prosperity and welfare are regarded with the liveliest satisfaction by every Englishman. (Cheers.) It does not need a prophet to predict that in the course of the next half century the Australian colonies will have attained a position in which no power will be strong enough to ignore them, and that they will have a supreme authority in the Pacific seas, and for my part I cannot look with any confidence on any settlement which may bs made in those regions in defiance of their united opposition. OUR OBLIGATIONS TO THE COLONIES. Meanwhile, we are not unmindful of our obliga- tions. If foreign nations are determined to pursue distant colonial enterprises, we have no right to prevent them. We cannot anticipate them in every case by proclaiming a universal protectorate in every unoccupied portion of the globe's surface which English enterprise has hitherto neglected, but our fellow-subjects may rest assured that their liberties, their rights, and their interests are as dear to us as our own, and if ever they are seriously menaced the whole power of the country will be exerted for their defence—(cheers)— and that the English democracy will stand shoul- der to shoulder throughout the world to maintain the honourand integrity of the empire. (Cheers.) And now I turn to the last point upon which I propose to address you. What is to be the nature of THE DOMESTIC LEGISLATION OF THE FUTURE ? (Hear, hear.) I cannot heip thinking that it will ¡ be more directed to what are called social subjects than has hitherto been the case. How to promote the greater happiness of the people—(hear, hear)— how to increase their enjoyment of life. (Cheers.) That is the problem or the future—and just as there are politicians who would occupy all the world and leave nothing for the ambition of anybody else, so we have the counter part at home in the men who, having already annexed v' everything that is worth having, expect every- body else to be content with the crumbs that fall from their table. Now if you will go back to the origin of things, you will find that when our social arrangements first began to shape them- selves, every man was born into the world with natural rights, with a right to share in the great inheritance of the community, with a right to a part of the land of his birth, (Loud cheers.) Well, but all these rights have passed away. The common rights of ownership have disappeared. Some of them have been sold. Some of them have been given away by people who had no right todis- pose of them; some of them have been lost through apathy and ignorance some have been stolen by fraud—(cheers)—and some have been acquired by violence. Private ownership has taken the place of these communal rights. and this system has become so interwoven with our habits and usages, it has been' so sanctioned by law and protected by custom that it might be very diffi- cult, and, perhaps, impossible to reverse it. THE OWNERSHIP OF THE LAND. I But then, I ask, what ransom will property pay for the security it enjoys? What substitute will it find for the natural rights which have ceased to bo recognised? Society is banded together in order to protect itself against the instincts of men v.iio would make very short work of private ownership if they were left alone. That is all very well, but I maintain that society owes to these men something more than mere toleration in return for the restrictions which it places upon their liberty of action. There is a doctrine ;u many men's mouths and in few men's practice that property has obligations as well as rights. I think in the future we shall hear a great deal about the obligations of property, and we shall not hear quite so much about its rights. (Hear.) What are the rights of property? Is it a. right of property which per- mits a foreign speculator to come to this country, and lay waste two hundred miles of ter- ritory in Scotland for the gratification of his love of f,port-(" Shame ")-and to chase from the lands which their fathers tilled long before this intruder was ever heard of the wretched peasants who .were convicted of the crime of keeping a pet lamb within the sacred precincts of a cesr forest. (Loud cries of "Shame.") Are the game laws a right of property ? (No.) Is it just and expedient that the amusements of the rich, carried even to barbarous excess, should be protected by an ano- malous and Draconian code of law, and that the community should be called upon to maintain in gaol those who are made criminals by this legis- lation, although they have committed no moral offence? ("Shame.") THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. Is it a right property that sailors ':shou3y be sent to sea to pursue their dangerous occupation with- out any sufficient regard to their security ? Is it to set, to pursue their dangerous occupation with- out any sufficient regard to their security ? Is it tolerable that in pursuit of a necessary livelihood to themselves and their families they should em- bark in ships whose safe return depends wholly on the continuance of favourable weather, and, upon the absence of any of the ordinary accidents of tho sea ? And is it right that they should do this while the owners of these ships, and tie employers of these men sleep comfortably in their beds with a certainty that, whatever happens, they will be no losers-they will probably be gainers, while disasters cause so much misery to tne seamen and to their families ? And, lastly, is it_ atl e.jSQntiai condition of private ownership in land that the agricultural iabouiers in this country alone of civilised conn- sries should be entirely divorced from the soil they till—that they should be driven into towns to compete with you for work, and to lower the rate of wages ? and that, alike in town and country, the labouring population should be huddled into dwellings unfit for man or beast, where the conditions of common decency are impossible, and where they lead directly to disease, intemperance, and crime ? (Applause.) THE QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED AT THE POLL. These are questions which I hope you will ask at the next election—(cheers)—-and to which you will demand au answer. (Hear, hear.) Do not suffer yourselves to be turned aside; do not be diverted. The owners of property—those who are interested in the existing state of things—the men who have privileges to maintain would be glad to entrap you from the right path by raising the cry of "fair trade" -(laug-tlter)-under which they cover their demands for protected industry, and in connection with which they would tax the tood of the people in order to raise the rents of the landlords. Protection very likely migxit, it probably would, have this result it would increase the incomes of the owners of great estates, and it would swell the profits of the capitalists who were fortunate to engage in the best protected industries. But it would lessen the total production of the country, it would diminish the late of wages, and it would raise the prices of every necessary of life. No, believe me, it is not 111 this direction that you have to look for remedy for the depression which undoubtedly prevails. Property cannot pay its debt to labour by taxing its means of subsistence. (Cheers.) THE CURE FOR DEPRESSED TRADE. You must look for the cure in legislation, laying the heaviest burdens on the shoulders best able to bear them. (Cheers.) Legislation will, in some decree, at any rate, replace the labourer on the soil, and find employment for him without forcing him into competition with the citizens of the towns. (Hear, hear). Legislation which will give a free education to every child in the land— (cheers)—and which will thus enable everyone, even the poorest, to make the best use of the faculties with which he may be gifted. (Hear, hear). Gentlemen, I congratulate you on the fair prospect which is opening up for the class to which you belong. In the era which is now commencmg we shall see many experiments intended to lessen the evils which poverty brings in its train, to increase the rewards of labour, to bring hope to the miserable, to give courage to the wean, and in this way to advance the aim and end of all our Liberal policy—the greatest happiness to the greatest number. (Loud and continued cheers.) The toast of "Our Governing Bodies" waO afterwards honoured, and the proceedings* ter- minated.

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. Two Children Suffocated. A sad accident occurred at the Jane Pit; Low Walker, Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Monday after- noon. A number of children, whilst picking coal at the pit-head, undermined a portion of it, and a great mass fell upon them. A girl named Mullen was afterwards taken out suffocated, and another is supposed to be still under the debris. Two other children have been very badly injured.

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