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Dinner To The American Ambassador. The M...
" This town , gentlemen , has become one of the largest co mmercial emporiums on the face of the earth ; its growth has been in the last forty years almost equal to some of our new cities in the western world ; and , for my own part , I can see nothing to retard its progress . We envy not your prosperity , believing that your interests are identical with those of the United States , and both -with those of mankind . ( Great cheering . ) _ By the application of science to art you have made this ' little fast-anchored isle' the centre of commerce and the great financial settling-house of all nations . ( Hear , hear . ) Yes , gentlemen , you , the merchants , have forged a financial chain that encircles the world , and a single link struck in England not only vibrates around , but is felt in every quarter of the globe . Hence , I say that all countries , and my country in particular , cannot but look with interest upon all you say , and more especially upon all you do . ( Cheers . ) Commerce , Mr . President , has been , and will continue to be , the pioneer of civilization and Christianity , and through all time has been the harbinger of rational liberty . Wherever unrestricted commer ce exists within and without , there you will find freedom of thought and action . And now , Mr . President , I will , in connection with the position occupied at this time by your country , advert to a point which , perhaps , may in some quarters have caused feelings of not the most amiable character . I allude to the competition now that does , or is likely to , exist between the navigating interests of the two countries . ( Hear , hear . ) The so-called navigation-laws of Great Britain have been swept from the statute-book ; and you have embraced a reciprocity navigation law of the United States which was established in 1817 . I am thankful that Great Britain has embraced our law . Many shipowners in the United Kingdom , as well as in the United States , entertained doubts respecting this repeal of the navigationlaws here upon their respective interests . Now , I beleive both countries will derive great benefits from this change . ( ' Hear , hear , * and cheers . ) But a single year has elapsed since the present law came into operation , and it may be said that we cannot yet judge of its effect . ( Hear , hear . ) I cannot deny that such is the fact , and that there is to be a sharp competition . I believe , however , that both parties will be stimulated to greater skill in modelling and constructing vessels , and more economy in sailing them . ( Hear , hear . ) It is a family affair ; it is the old Anglo-Saxon against the young Anglo-Saxon ; it is the son competing with the father ; it is the stars and stripes against that flag that has ' braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze . ' ( Great cheering . ) I pray you , gentlemen , let us in this , as in everything on both sides of the Atlantic , dismiss from our minds all jealousy of feeling . Let us strive to learn of each other whatever is good , whether it be in the construction and sailing of a ship , in religion , law , education , morals , or whatever it may be . ( ' Hear , hear , and cheers . ) There is room enough for both countries : we have but just commenced developing the resources of this planet upon which we live . ( Hear , hear . ) I must say , however , in truth and soberness , that we shall do our best to beat you in ships , and not only in ships , but in whatever else tends to improve our race and elevate the moral and intellectual condition of man . Our policy is to level up , and not to level down . You have the advantage of cheaper capital and cheaper labour for shipbuilding than ourselves , and we must make up as far as possible for these advantages on your side by youthful vigour , and by that confidence in ourselves that youth inspires , in order to meet you in friendly competition upon the mighty deep . ( Cheers . ) I know that our constructors and navigators have a serious task before them ; but they have entered upon it with zeal , and the effect will be to sharpen the wits of the two greatest maritime nations on earth . ( Cheers . )"
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Agricultural Prospects. At An Agricultur...
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS . At an agricultural dinner in Birmingham , Mr . Muntz , in acknowledging the toast of " The Members for the Borough , " made some reference to a speech he had delivered last year , which , he said , had made a very great sensation through the country . On that occasion 41 He had said that the manufacturing interest was going on well , and would go on well , so long as it had an agriculturist to eat up for supper every night . ( Laughter . ) He had no doubt that many people thought his remarks severe , and had found fault with him because the farmers were not all eaten up for supper . ( Laughter . ) He had not said they were eaten up , but they were being eaten up for supper . Could they expect that the whole of the farmers would be eaten up in one or two years ? How many did they suppose there were ? They were estimated at 1 , 000 , 000 , and suppose every farmer was worth £ 100 capital , they had a right to estimate him at £ 100 more credit , and that would give £ 200 , 000 , 000 of capital destroyed before all the farmers were eaten up for supper . He did not pretend to know much of agriculture , but it appeared to him that matters were going on in the same course , and , if all he heard was true , the farmer had lost two rents and a half on the average price of produce within the last few years . Now , without understanding agriculture at all , any man who understands common arithmetic must see that if the farmer had lost two and a half rents , he must either be very poor now or he must have been very rich before . ( Hear , hear . ) He knew from circumstances that had come to his knowledge that the farmers were not rich—that many men who began agriculture with ample capital and great industry and attention had become poor . He knew that to be a fact . Let them take the average price of wheat at 60 s ., at which they had lived for the last twenty-five or thirty years , and that was reduced now to 40 s ., and , taking the present average , it was even lower than it was last year , because the profits were not equal to last year . If that was the case , must they not be wasting their resources , and be literally eaten up by the manufacturers for supper ?
Agricultural Prospects. At An Agricultur...
It was all very well to say that manufacturers were going on well . They might ask Mr . Matthews how iron was going on , or Mr . Chance how glass was going on : or Mr . Shaw how commercial matters were going on ; that was all very well , but even large businesses , if they didnot produce a profit , were only robbing their neighbours of a fair share of the work of the country , while they themselves were spoiling the trade and doing no good . ( 'Hear , hear , ' and laughter . ) Well , then , all the writers in town and country said that the trade of England was good ; that the working people were well off ; that they were never so well off . He ( Mr . Muntz ) thought they were better off than they ought to be at the expense of other classes , but how would it all end ? He thought when the farmers were all eaten up the landlords would not long remain behind . (' Oh ! ' and laughter . ) It was only a question of time , and in the long run they would all eat up each other like mulligrubs . ( Roars of laughter . )" All this worked very well for the Chancellor of the Exchequer , for it could hardly be supposed that the landed interest could lose £ 30 , 000 , 000 or £ 40 , 000 , 000 a-year without the revenue being the better of it . Those who were living on the agricultural interest were consuming more exciseable articles than they had a right to do ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer received the profit , and then he boasted of the prosperity of the country . Mr . Muntz went on to explain that the farmers could never live with wheat cheap and taxes high . But they could not get protection . If they got it to-morrow it would not last twelve months . At the general meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England , on Saturday forenoon , Mr . Williams , a tenant-farmer , protested against the resolution of the council to hold the next year ' s show in Hyde-park , for the purpose , as he believed , of holding out the right hand of fellowship tp the other exhibition , which had been denominated by the Morning Chronicle—one of the organs of free-trade — " an inauguration festival of free-trade . " Now , they were all perfectly aware of the disastrous consequences of the free-trade policy to the farmers . Sir Richard Price rose to order . The society was founded upon the distinct principle , that politics should not be introduced into its proceedings . Colonel Challoner also reminded the meeting that the introduction of politics was a violation of their charter . ( Hear , hear . ) The chairman ( the Duke of Richmond ) regretted that the subject had been introduced , though he was not at all surprised at it ; but he would remind the honourable gentleman that the society would forfeit its charter if they allowed anything like political discussion to take place at its meetings . ( Hear , hear . ) The honourable gentleman had an undoubted right to complain , if he chose , of the resolution to hold the show in Hyde-park . He had a right to show that it ought to have taken place elsewhere , but he was out of order in making allusion to politics . If his ( the chairman ' s ) vote , therefore , could have decided the matter , he would have decided in accordance with the view of the honourable gentleman . Mr . Williams said he was determined to abide by his resolution , to tender his resignation , and to transfer his subscription to the Association for the Protection of British Industry . The chairman , while accepting office of President of the Society for the third time , Btated that , considering how many opportunities they had of meeting for political discussion , it was not very hard that they should occasionally assemble on neutral ground . ( Cheers , )
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ANTI-POPERY MOVEMENT . The Bishop of St . David ' s ( Dr . Connop Thirl wall ) , in sending for publication the following letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury regarding the recent address by the Bishops , explains that " my letter , having only reached after all the Bishops , except the Bishop of Exeter , had given their assent to the address , the Archbishop thought it too late to make so great an alteration as would have been necessary to meet my objection " : — " My dear Lord Archbishop , —I am sure that you will do me the justice to believe that nothing short of a very deep conviction of a paramount obligation would induce me to take a step so repugnant to my feelings , especially at this juncture , as the withholding my signature from the address proposed by your Grace . In its altered form it is certainly free from some of the objections which I urged against it before ; but it seems to me to have become liable to others , perhaps , still graver . The reference to the act of Elizabeth appears to me in every respect most unadvisable . My own opinion would have been that the provision cited from it has been virtually repealed by the Roman Catholic Relief Act . But , at all events , the quotation seems to me to prove , if anything , far too much . For the law of Elizabeth has not been violated for the first time by the recent bull . It was equally set at * defiance' by the appointment of Vicars-Apostolic , who have so long exercised their functions without complaint or molestation ; and it seems unreasonable to charge the Pope with 'defying' a law which has been so long permitted to sleep . But a still weightier objection , in my mind , is that those who refer in such a manner to the statute of Elizabeth must be considered as expressing a wish to sec it a ^ ain put in force , which it seems to me would involve the repeal of the Relief Act . I cannot consent to make myself responsible for language which , directly or indirectly ,
indicates such an object ; and I would respectfully entreat your Grace to consider whether this part of the address does not admit , if not require , such a construction . There are some others with which , I must own , lam not satisfied . I think it is needlessly harsh , to say the least , to treat the Pope ' s ' anticipation ' of our return to his communion , which he must consider as the greatest of all blessings to us , « an unwarrantable insult . ' And I am still afraid that the concluding petition for protection to the labours of the clergy will be interpreted , not without an appearance of justice , as a wish to see the Roman Catholic proselytizers silenced by act of Parliament . These last objections , however , I might consent to waive in deference to your Grace ' s judgment , and for the sake of unanimity . But that which relates to the act of Elizabeth appears to me to involve principles which I may not sacrifice to any other consideration . " The Guardian of Wednesday night says , that at a meeting of the committee of the London Union on Church matters , held on Tuesday , the following resolution was adopted : — " That inasmuch as misapprehension has arisen respecting the resolution expressive of sympathy with the Reverend W . J . E . Bennett—which was adopted by the general meeting of the London Union on Church matters on the 10 th instant—and it being a principle of this Union to ' dutiful and affectionate deference to episcopal authority , ' and not to intrude itself into the office of ' judge in spiritual matters , but that such matters be left to the authorities of the Church '—this committee think it their duty to the Union to make known that the resolution was adopted by the London Union in reference solely to the disgraceful interruptions at St . Barnabas Church , and to the instigators and perpetrators of those wicked acts , before the correspondence between the Bishop of London and Mr . Bennett was in the hands of the members of the Union ; and did not , and was not intended to express any opinion upon that correspondence , or upon the questions which were , or had been , under discussion between the Bishop and Mr . Bennett , upon which questions it would be contrary to the beforementioned principles of the Union to express any opinion either way . " The church of St . Barnabas , Pimlico , was closed by order of the churchwardens on Sunday , and notice to that effect was placed on the door . At St . Paul ' s the service was performed as usual , but Mr . Bennett was not present . The Reverends G . F . De Gpx and F . A . G . Ousley , curates of St . Paul ' s , and the Reverend Henry Fyffe , curate of St . Barnabas , have resigned , on account of the proposal to give up the Puseyite ceremonials . A correspondence has taken place between the Eishop of London and the Rev . W . Dodsworth , with reference to a passage in his lordship ' s letter to Mr . Bennett , in which he says— " Supposing even that I had not objected ( which , however , I have done in the strongest manner ) to some practices in the churches to which you allude , " & c . Believing that this referred to his church , Mr . Dodsworth addressed a letter to the bishop , asking him to relieve him from the imputation the passage was calculated to convey . In his reply his lordship exonerates Mr . Dodsworth from the charge , and states that the churches to which he referred were St . Andrew ' s , Wellsstreet , and Margaret-street Chapel . " In the former of these cases , " his lordship observes , " I remonstrated very strongly with the incumbent , but without effect ; in the latter I objected to certain observances , some of which I believe wore laid aside , while others were suffered to continue till the consecration of the new church , to the building of which I consented upon the express condition that no form should be practised therein which is not authorized by the Rubric , or sanctioned by established custom . " . We learn that a large number of the clergy of this diocese , impressed with a conviction of the erroneous and insufficient statements put forth in the protest now in circulation in many parishes of this county , for the signatures of the laity , have agreed to put forth a new protest , adequate , as they conceive , to the exigencies of the present crisis , and containing a distinct reference to the principles of Protestantism . It is expected to appear in the course of a few days . — Oxford Chronicle . A meeting of freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Surrey , convened by the High Sheriff , was held at Epsom , on Tuesday , to address the Queen on the recent attempt of the Bi ' uhop of Rome to interfere with the prerogative of her Majesty and the liberties of her subjects . The proceedings were attended by a considerable body of gentlemen resident in the county , but of the ccneral public the numbers were very scanty , not exceeding 400 or 500 . Resolutions of the usual kind were carried without opposition . The chief speakers were Sir Edward Sugden , Mr . H . T . Hope , M P ., Sir J . Easthope , Mr . / Vlcock , M . P ., Mr . Mangles , M . P ., and Mr . Locke King , M . P . , „ _ , . A large meeting was held in the Corn Exchange , Nottingham , on Monday , for the purpose of protesting acainst the Papal aggression . The vicar of St . Mary s , the Reverend J . W . Brooks , occupied the chair , and delivered a long and argum entative address ; besides which , speeches were delivered by several other clergymen and the principal Dissenting ministers of the town . The mayor and ex-mayor of the borough , several aldermen , and most of the influential manufacturers of the borough , were ulso in attendance . The only amendments that were moved were by Mr . Goodacre , Wesleyan , and by Mr . Symes , Baptist ; the former contending for a condemnation of the Romanizing practices of the Weslcyan Conference as well as the Tractarian party in the Church ; and the latter proposing that the address to the Queen should be omitted as unnecessary . The original resolutions were all carried amidut great applause . The Unman Catholic clergy of the diocese of Cork assembled in that city last week , to congratulate Cardinal Wiseman and the English Roman Catholics upon the appointment of their hierarchy . Dr , Ddany , the Roman
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 21, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21121850/page/3/
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