Vraniurial.
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
Mr. Buxton met his constituents at Newport last week, and pleasantly commented on past and present polities, accounting for the fall of Lord Palmerston by his devotion to the French Emperor, and the falling away of the large body of the Liberal party because the middle classes were excluded from the Cabinet. Of the future he said- " The Tories are essentially a minority, and they avow it. Some day Mr. Bright will give them one of his playful pokes in the ribs, and down they will go. And what then ? Will it be Lord John, or Lord Palmerston ? For one or the other I suppose it must be. I confess myself to a personal leaning towards the gay and gallant Viscount. I admire his pluck, his vigour, his sense, his humour. The last may sink at times into levity, but really it is a blessing of the first water, after a dull debate, to have Lord Palmerston get up and crack some of his racy „jokes, while arguing with force and clearness all the while. But Lord John Russell is the deeper thinker, and for the great work of next session, the Reform Bill, he is the fit man. If I have any misgiving about the Reform Bill, it is lest it should confine the House still more to men of large property. Extend the suffrage, you increase the cost of elections. Increase the cost of elections and the men of talent, but not of wealth, are more and more driven out of the field. I will just add, that it may have a Conservative effect in this way—at present the Tories are mostly, in fact, moderate Liberals. The party of rioderate Liberals is cut in two—part of it is called Tory, the other part coalesces with the " advanced laberals." Now, after the Reform Bill, I expect that people will drop the name" Con- servative." No candidate would call himself so. He would call himself a "moderate Liberal." Thus the two sections of that moderate party would combine and form a party of immense strength, a good deal opposed on many points to the more advanced party."
Two Sebastopol guns were presented to York. On the 5th they were carried through the streets and placed in position near the Castle. Lord Carlisle Mr. Westhead, M.P., and others afterwards celebrated the day at a banquet in the Guildhall. The Duke of Cambridge had ordered the officers at York not to take part in the celebration lest it look unfriendly to a "friendly Power." Lord Carlisle made a speech on the occasion, and thus explained the view he took of the matter. "If they were merely to serve as the memorials of national strife and of continued ill-will I could scarcely have congratulated you upon the grant you had obtained. We only now know the Russians as those whom we found brave and skilful foes, and whom we are now glad to look upon as
friends. Nay, more, we trace with anxious interest anisyrepasky 1.4 course of the young Emperor, selte did mat -begin, but who ended the vs between us, and who seems nevlintetrimli developing the pacific rees,,,,e, of his mighty empire, and striking off the yokaand getters:of theage wish we may have reason to wirmuitems meth ofskill eterellies In the to wars But those guns, howeveti way be justly 'oonaidetredata the atonumes, of deeds nobly done by all classes -of our ffillow-subjects; of the brigseg achievement and no less heroic endurance of the officers and soldiers offs, United Kingdom; of the just renown of that army which seemed to wassg of its sharp and fiery ordeal with more freshness, and glow, and vigour eyes than marked them at its opening-4' ,(asers.) Mr. Westhead, who had a son wounded before Sebastopol, protested
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against Mr. Bright's views. Colonel Smyth, M.P.,referred to the battle of Inkerman, and then to the lot of the soldiers vibe won "In my opiniou, we do not take as much care as wc ought to do des British soldier. Many will tell you that a three or four year's soldier is a a value which we hardly appreciate. We drill, we humanize, we intereg the raw recruit until he becomes a skilful and accomplished soldier WA well-disposed man, and then we give him little encounagemeut, but 144 barracks, and food, which is sometimes distasteful to him. Doubtless's find some who come from the very dregs of the population, while there are others who join the army from a desire for adventure or from a loses/ glory. It is not too much to say that of such men as these we ought to Ws more care we ought to make their time less monotonous, to teach eanssi, diet a trade, and gave him more employment in his leisure hours. Weaken then make him more civilized and more comfortable, and not make beaks gallant or less persevering." (Cheers.) On the same evening about seventy of the men resident in York who s arms served their country in the Crimea, sat down to a dinner whips sad been provided by public subscription, when the valuable services ergs army were duly acknowledged.
A great banquet in honour of Mr. Gibson and Mr. John Bright, to take place in the Free Trade Hall, is announced for the 9th and 10th Ileum. her. The object is" to congratulate the honourable Member for Binning. ham on his restoration to health, to celebrate the return of hitt:settees his late colleague to Parliament for Birmingham and Ashton, metto thank them for their patriotic conduct during the last session of Perlin ment, as well as for their long and faithful serricee ss representatins
for the city of Manchester." , ,
.Adopting the cry of Mr. Bright, for "a bill, a good bill, qr no bill at all," the chartists of Newcastle have commenced to Orzanise ths tiro counties of Northumberland and Durham for a vigorous aviator cam- paign. Numerous volunteers have enrolled themselves,. and it is in- tended that a demonstration of the two -counties on a grand seals shall shortly be held.—.NSweaatk Chronicle.
For the first time for many years the Liverpool Town Council have elected' a Liberal Mayor—Mr. 'William Preston, a wine -merchant.
The Bradford Magistrates have committed the chemist Hodgson, his as- sistant Goddard, and the confectioner Neal, to take their trial forman- slaughter. The deaths from the eating of poisoned lozenges are now known to be seventeen. The evidence given before the Magistrates shows the most culpable carelessness. The lozenge' makers used a stuff called in the slang of the trade - "daft" or "terra alba," literally plaster of Paris. The slang names were adopted to cover the adulteration. When Neal sent a man for the duff, Hodgson the chemist was ill in bed. Goddard went up to his room, and told him what was wanted, when Hodgson said that Goddard had bet- ter "not meddle with it," and that Neal must wait for the " daff" until he, Hodgson, could attend to the order. Goddard communicated this mes- sage to the servant, who, however, still pressed for the "daff," and upon Goddard returning to his master the latter told him that he would find the article in a cask in a corner of a garret, and that it was "a white powder." [There was no label on the cask t] Thereupon Goddard went into the gar- ret, took out of a cask there twelve pounds of a white powder, and delivered it to Neal's man. But in this garret there were two casks, each containing a white powder—one was filled with " daff," the other with arsenio. God- dard took the white powder out of the arsenic cask, and it was accordingly twelve pounds of arsenic which the messenger took,to Neal instead of twelve pounds of " daff." The arsenic having been delivered to Neal as for purposes of adulteration, he made it up into peppermint lozenges, using for that purpose the whole of the arsenic, about forty pounds of sugar, an about four pounds of gum and water. Both Neal himself and the man wilt made up the materiels were ill, after eating a piece ef the composition, with all the symptoms of arsenic poison, but there is nothing to show that either of them suspected the real cause ; and ultimately, on Saturday evening last, forty pounds of the lozenges, in which arsenic had been used instead of " daff," were delivered to William Ilardaker, a dealer in sweets in the Brad- ford market. He objected to the lozenges on the ground that they were darker-coloured than usual, but -ultimately he was prevailed upon to take them at 7id. per pound, instead of M., Which he had usually paid. Five pounds of them were sold by him or his assistants the same night, and hence the wholesale manslaughter that ensued. A Coroner's Jury at Bradford have found an open verdict—that certain persons died from eating lozenges containing arsenic. "The Jury, when thus leaving an open verdict, are perfectly aware of the men Hodgson, Neal, and Goddard having been committed by the magistrates, but cannot, at the same time, though leaving the persons named in their bands, refrain from expressing themselves in terms of the utmost condemnation of the practices to which some of them have resorted and their horror of the re- sults." Two youths who had escaped from Salford Reformatory have been cap- tured at Hull. They were recognized by a police officer who possessed photograph of each. They criminal histoty of one of these boys, a native of Birmingham, is most remarkable, as well as painful. Though only seven- teen years of age, he has been once in each of the following prisons under. sentence : London, (live years ago,) Liverpool, Nottingham, Bristol, sal one (name uncertain) ; twice each in Worcester, Coventry, Warwick, sr!" Salford; three times in Stafford; five times in Birmingham ; and twice in Manchester, whence he was committed to the reformatory ; in all, twenty- three times, exclusive of upwards of a hendred apprehensions, with din land. s for unproved or minor offences, committed in various towns in En ' I A railway gi accident" was actually prevented last week from becoming a serious calamity. Green, a guard, on the North-Eastern Railway, ob- served that the luggage-van and some carriages had got off the rails. put on his break; Dean the driver drew up his train and kept the coupling- irons on the stretch until the carriages righted themselves. Had Dean shut off the steam and reversed the engine, the rear of the train would have crushed the carriages in trout, and would, perhaps, have killed or wounded the passengers,
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