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    claims to the Lord Rectorship of Glasgow University in favour of Sir E . Bulwer Lytton , between whom and Lord Shaftesbury the contest now lies- A great Reform meeting was held at Glasgow 6 n Tuesday night . Professor Nichol occupied the chair , and remarked on the importance of adhering to certain definite principles of-Reform in the agitation of the question . All the speakers expressed themselves very strongly in favour of manhood suffrage , but at the same time exhibited a disposition to accept less if they could not get as much . A committee was appointed to arrange for future action .

    during the last session for the exercise of greater humanity in the suppression of the rebellion in India , and inveighed with eloquent indignation against the cruelties which were perpetrated by some unworthy representatives of England . . Messrs . Bkight ani > Gibson .. —A banquet is proposed to be given to these gentlemen in Manchester , to congratulate Mr . Bright on his restoration to health , and to celebrate the return of himself and Mr . Gibson to Parliament . The banquet is fixed for the 18 th of December .

    Banbury . —Mr . Tancred , the present member for this borough , takes leav e of his constituents . Illness , added to increasing infirmity , has induced him , he says , to retire . There are already three candidates in the field—Mr . Piggott ( Whig ) , Mr . Hardy ( Conservative ) , and Mr . Samnelson , who has just come forward on the independent Liberal interest . The latter gentleman advocates the extension of the suffrage to all ratepayers , and is in favour of the Ballot , short Parliaments , and redistribution of seats . He promises to support an extension of education and the abolition of Church-rates . The address of a fourth candidate , the Hon . M . Campbell , is expected to appear immediately .

    The Right Ho . v . TV . E . Gladstone . —Mr . Gladstone set out on Tuesday on his way to Corfu , and has left every bod v to wonder what can be the particular pressure which has induced Government to send a Commissioner to the Ionian Islands with such unexpected promptitude , and what are the motives which have induced Mr . Gladstone to accept the mission . We may well be excused for wondering what motive may have proved sufficiently strong to induce Mr . Gladstone to qui t e his place in Parliament at the commencement of a and to

    session promising so much interest importance , serve a Government with which he has not thought fit to place himself in any political connexion , and to attempt the solution of a problem which , as it appears to rest on sympathies and antipathies rather than on practical grounds , seems to be beyond the reach and above the resources of the most inventive and able of statesmen . Perhaps , however , the only reward which Mr . Gladstone seeks is absence from Parliament for the earlier part of the coming session . On the question of Reform he stands uncommitted . The real state of

    public opinion will be made clear by the discussions of the first few weeks , and Mr . Gladstone may £ hink that at Easter he will enter on the stage a fresh champion among weary combatants , and , like Dessaix at Marengo , give victory to the side to which he carries his support . We shall see . All we can suggest at present is , that the policy of the mission is extremely doubtful , and still more doubtful tlie prudence of Mr . Gladstone in accepting it . —Times . The Earl of Shaftesbury O i * thk House of Lords . —At the Fishmongers * Company ' s banquet last Tuesday , Lord Shaftesbury remarked that he had something to say with reference to the House of Lords , to which body it was his privilege to belong . At a great public meeting not long ago he observed some very erroneous but very weighty words fell from the lips of a very distinguished orator , who , speaking of the

    sperity of our common coantry-a theme which I know can never be indifferent or unimportant to them . I believe that the policy best calculated to maintain the peTe of the world iafin the first place , a firm andLjem-Jerate maintenance of our own rights , and a careful deference to the rights of other nations , and ^ os ^ ble abstention from interference in their internal affairs . I wouW add a determination , if offence should unhappily arise , to refer to the friendly offices ^ some neutral country . Lastly , I hold that we should observe an unfl ? nc £ g adhered to all our treaty obligations . These are the principles of her Majesty's present Governmentthe principles which , when we are called upon to account to Parliament , we expect to show that we have inflexibly maintained . There never has been a moment in which our relations with France have been on a more friendly footing than at present , or when on both sides of the Channel there was a stronger desire to maintain that

    alliance which has now so long and so happily subsisted . In speaking of the present Government your Lordship has been kind enough to sketch for us a sort of programme . Your Lordship ' s advice may have been kindly tendered , but it looks exceedingly like a bait for the purpose of drawing us out in anticipation of the session . But , my Lord , we are now growing ; older , and have learned more caution , and we will not take the bait . I am , along with my colleagues , seriously engaged in maturing the details of those measures of legal , social , financial , and political improvement which I hope at the commencement of the session to submit to the impartial judgment of Parliament and the people . As a Conservative Government we look -with , reverence

    and attachment to the great institutions of the country , under which the people have enjoyed as great an amount of civil and religious liberty , and as perfect independence in word and action , as ' ever did any nation on the face of the earth . These institutions have not been the creations of a day , nor of a single generation . They have been brought to their present comparative perfection by successive additions and improvements , and they possess a flexibility which enables them to be adapted to the growing wants and wishes of the people ; I can assure you that our measures will not be framed to . please this or that class , but the community at large . We shall not legislate for the high or the low , for the rich or for the poor , but for the well-understood benefit of all classes of the people . As the institutions under which we live are only the aggregate of successive imthat

    provements by successive generations , so I trust we shall leave our impress on them by adding other improvements which shall harmonise with , -while they improve , their general character . "—In returning thanks for the army , General Peel said he must express his deep regret at tlie absence of the Duke of Cambridge , for he might say , without any flattery , that they were indebted to his Royal Highness for the present discipline of the army , which had never been excelled at any period . —With , regard to the navy , Sir John Pakington said the public had a right to expect that this great department should be managed with all practicable economy ; but they must also expect , and he hoped they would demand , that , whatever might be the neces 3 ary expense , the Government should keep the navy iu a state of vigorous efficiency , and maintain with firm resolve the supremacy of England upon the seas . — Mr . Disraeli returned thanks for the House of

    Corn-House of Lords , said it was a proud , exclusive , arrogant body , and that the inscr iption over the doors of that house should be one which bore these ominous words , " No dogs admitted here . " Now he ( Lord Shaftesbury ) would take this opportunity of saying that neither liim-r self nor any other member of the House of Lords whom he knew could bo any party either to the use of such an expression or to the adoption of such a principle as that motto might be supposed to illustrate . He believed , indeed , that every other member of the House of Lords was as deeply convinced as he was that the grand distinction between the peerage of this country and the nobility of every other country was that the British peerage had boon , still was , and by God ' s blessing would continue to bo , recruited from every class , rank , and order of her Majesty ' s subjects . In conclusion , the noble Earl doelnred that the esteem of his

    fellowmons . The right lion , gentleman ' s speech contained no allusion whatevor to the politics of the day . —Lord John Russell , who was present , also spoke , as member for the City , but said nothing of importance . Mauyuibonb . — On Monday a meeting was held in tl > e Court-house , in support of thq principles of the Political Reform League . Tho chair was taken by Mr . Nicholay , ono of tho oldest Reformers in tho borough . Tho meeting was largo and enthusiastic , and the proceedings vero characterised by much democratic feeling . _ .

    _ . ... . Siu Hewht StbacKv . —Tho Conservative candidate for East Suffolk , who astonished the Eldon Clul ) at Norwich by declaring his conversion to tho Ballot , being invited to become a member of tho council of tho Ballot Society , thus answers tho invitation : — " I stated in my speech at the Eldon Club dinner that if tho expected Reform Bill introduced tho Ballpt , and that if I were in Parliament , I would willingly voto for it ; but I by no means plodgo myself to tho Ballot if any other means , in my vIoay equally efficacious , should bo offorocl to tho country . "

    citizens , of which he had just received another testimony , was tlio richest reward which ho , as a public man , could obtain . Tina Mnainicns for Sheffield . —A meeting of Messrs . Roebuck and Hadfield ' s commit too was held on Monday , to consider tho propriety of inviting them to address their constituents . A resolution was proposed to tho effect that it was inexpedient to ask tho members to conio down until tho basis of a Reform Bill had bcon agrood upon . An amendment was moved , proposing that tho members bo invited to come down as soon as possible . Ultimately tho motion was carried , that tho members nro not to bo invited at present . It was moved that a public mooting bo convened of tho inhabitants of tho town upon tho subject of parliamentary reform before tho borough members bo invited . This was carried .

    Mr . W . Williams , M . P . —Tho hori . mombor for Lambeth , according to hla annual custom , mot bis con-Btituonts at tho Horns Tavern , Kennington . Ho reviewed tho course which ho had himsolf pursuod in tho House of Commons , and stated how much he Approved of tho Roform principles of tho Guildhall Coffoe-houso movement . A motion wns moved , soconclod , and unanimously agrood to , urging upon tho honourable member that lie should support tho fullest measure of Reform in tlio Houso of Commons . Mr . Williams declared that ho would do so , ns the resolution spoko about such changes as ho was dbairoua to soo effected .

    Rehohm Aohvatiox in tub Pnormcrcs . — -At Birmingham a mooting has boon hold to plan the moans of giving ell ' ectuul assistance to Mr . Bright in tho task lio has undertaken . In Nowcustlo a promising programme of looturcH , meetings , and othor instrumentalities of agitation has boon drawn out by tho Northern Roform Union . Bury has given in its adhesion to tho cloolaion of tli * London Conference , Glasgow . —TIjo Lord Justioo Clorlc has waived his

    Mr . Chahlkb Buxton , M . P . , — This gentleman , in his address to hla constituents nt Newport , made flomo observations on tho rebellion In India . Ho justillod tlio Appeal which ho inado in Parliament

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    No . 451 , Notembek 13 , 1858 . 1 THE REAPER . 1229

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    Death of Mr . Blakemore , M . P . —We regret to learn of the sadden death , on Sunday last , in his 57 th year , from apoplexy , of Thomas William Booker Blalcemore , Esq ., of the Leys , Herefordshire , and of "Velinara , Glamorganshire , M . P . for the county of Hereford . The deceased gentleman was the son of the late Rev . L . JBookeV , LL . D ., and assumed , by royal license , the name of Blakemore , in accordance with the will of his uncle , R . Blakemore , Esq ., in 1855 . He took an active part on the Protectionist side in the free-trade controversy , and was a strict member of the Conservative party . He was first returned for Herefordshire in September , 1850 , without opposition . He was also the author of a Treatise on the Mineral Basin of South Wales ; also a Letter , to the People on , the Revenues of the Church .

    Death of Dr . Giffard . —With sincere sorrow we announce the death at Folkestone , in Kent , of Stanley Lees Giffard , Esq ., LL . D ., of Trinity College , Dublin arid of the Middle Temple , barrister-at-law , but who was much better known to statesmen , men of letters ,, and the public , as having exercised for considerably more than a quarter of a century the office of editor of the Standard , and having discharged that office with an amount of ability ,- learning , power , and fearlessness which gave his daily writings an important influence on the public opinion of the coxmtry , and rendered them a great support to evangelical religion in the Church of England , the general advancement of Protestant truth , and the dissemination of Conservative opinions . Dr . Giffard was bom in Dublin on the 4 th of August , 1788 ,

    and died at Folkestone on the 6 th of the present month , having just entered his 71 st year . Half a century of daily reading , added to a memory unusually accurate and retentive , had made his accumulation of general learning seem almost incredible in amount , and the readiness with -which he availed himself of it in composition was one of the greatest charms of his writings . In the obduracy of his s } -mpathies and antipathies in politics he was a man after Dr . Johnson ' s own heart , and with him departed , perhaps , the last of the school of the Georgian political writers , who brought so great a fund of learning to the pursuit of the press . Dr . Giffard died of an excruciatingly painful disease . —cancer , which he had borne with a courage that prevented those around him from perceiving the amount of his sufferings . — Morning Herald .

    Death of the Deas of Ely . —Dr . Peacock , the Dean of Ely , was , on Thursday week , seized with a fit , which from * the first was considered very alarming , and which ended fatally on Monday . Dr . Peacock was long a distinguished member of the University of Cambridge ; he was of Trinity College , and was second wrangler in 1813 , when Sir John Herschel was senior wrangler , and the names of Fallows , Romilly , Amus , and Mill followed him . He was tlie author of a treatise on algebra and other mathematical works . Since his residence in Ely he has taken a niost active part , not only in the restoration and beautifying of the cathedral , but also in the improvement of the town . The Lowndean Professorship ( salary about 300 ? . a year ) as well as the deanery ( 120 / . ) is in tho gift of tho Government .

    Mr . W . C . Macrkady has experienced a bereavement in the denth , on Monday , at Sherborno House , Sherborne , of his sister . Tub Bianor of Oxford on thk Chinese War—Tho Bishop has been , by ono of the Foreign Atfaira Committees , asked to explain how it was ho stated at Bradford that " God has opened up China , " when , in the House of Lords , last session , ho had denounced God ] s vengeance again . it tho very act of opening it up . His Lordship returned tho following reply : — "Oxford , Nov . 2 , —Sir , —I have altered not ono of my views on tho Chinese question , nor have I expressed tlio slightest commendation of what I formerly condemned . It is an attribute of God ' s inscrutable Providence that thocrimoa

    of men are made to work out tho accomplishment of His purposes , and it la no commendation of thoso crimes to accopt tho condition which results iu part from thorn as a fact in tho government of tho world . —I am , &o . —3 . Oxon . " Thou Shalt wot Commit Adulteration-. —u «< Jor this hoad a correspondent of tho Times say a : — " , Since wo cannot buy a pennyworth of peppermint lozongos for our children without feeding M »«» n wltn plaster of Paris , and siuco wo cannot partake oi tue Holy Sacrament without oatintf sham bread and drlniBImr wino which novor camo from grape * , and since all IntorinocUato purclmsoa , flucl . as boor and other aerifUlB , aro but representation * of that winch they protend to bo , I do truat that yourthundeM may roll long , oud , and ducpfor tho inoro corroot observance of , sir , your obotflont servant , —EfcnvKMTK Commandment .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1858, page 1229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2268/page/21/