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      January 1, 1853.J The Leadek. 3

      _January 1 , 1853 . _J THE LEADEK . 3

      F The People, That We Shall Have The Sup...

      f the people , that we shall have the support of thi ountry , so I am sure wo shall have the approbation of ou wn con sciences . My lords , I now beg to move that thi louse at its rising do adjourn until Thursday , _thS lOtl ebruary next . Lord Derb y said there was so little to complain of nd so much with wliich he concurred in the programme f the Government , that he should not have spoken ha < e not , been specially referred to . Lord Derby thei iated over again the whole history of the framing o IQ Free-trade resolutions as detailed mthe famou ! ) eech delivered by Sir James Graham a month ago i order to show that the Opposition had concerted the 11 of Lord Derby ' s Government . He denied that h ( id accused his opponents of conspiracy ; all he hac _tid was that they had combined to oppose the Govern ' lent from the beginning of the session . The most _im-> rtant part of Lord Derby ' s speech had reference tc le future : we give it in his own words :

      "The noble earl has intimated to us that he intends ane : > desires to promote and to develop the national educa _. in giving due weig ht to the authority and influence of e religious views of the country , but at the same time _ifiing the system of national education upon equality and leration . The idea is most praiseworthy ; it is , one in tiick I entirely c oncur . The difficulties in the way ol rrying out the wish are great , as the noble earl is evintly well aware ; and I only hope and trust that the _tble earl may be enabled to surmount those difficulties , Ld to place before the country a plan of national education which all parties may concur ; and I express this hope cause I agree with the noble earl , that in the extension education—by which I mean education governed by ligion , as I am sure the noble earl means too—lies the at security for the social and political safety and osperity of the empire . ( Hear , hear . ) The noble earl ; o announces his _jlesire to proceed on a system of adnistrative reform ; ~ an _7 _i u _^ 6 : _OKat a _^ Ference of opinion , and the noble earl will not anticite in that respect any opposition from me or from my _9 nds—at all events , with regard to the principles—the iails , of course , depending on the skill with which the _lasures may be constructed . The noble earl also tells that he intends to deal with the laws affecting _^ the _iresentation of the people . On that subject the noble 1 spoke in a tone somewhat oracular , for he said the _3 le lord , the member for the City of London , must be a _uservative , or he would not have joined that noble lord a government , and that , on the other hand , he must be _liberal , or the noble lord would not have joined him . _rhaps he might have mentioned other members of the _ernmemt on whom he mig ht have depended for even a yer degree of liborality than characterised the noble 1 ; but the antithesis was , porhaps , complete : and noble earl has contented himself with stating that his asure of parliamentary reform will be conservatively ral , and liberally conservative , which is all the intimai we are to have with regard to the future policy of the ernment . I confess that that does not convey to my id any very distinct idea , and I hardly think that ran be satisfactory to tho country . The advantages ; he noble earl are obvious from this vagueness , for tever his measure , he can say that he had described it . _; is extrome , and people complain that it goes too far , noblo earl will say , ' Well , did not I tell you I meant e liberal ? ' and if _othor parties say , ' Oh , this is nothing II—it is a distinction without a difference , ' tho noble

      can turn round on them and say , ' Gentlemen , I told at tho outset I would bo extremely conservative . ' _^ _ghter . ) The noble carl anel his colleagues , in fact , so is thoy aro pledged b y his _inscription as given this 'ing , cau elo what they like . They may go the th of thei right honourable hart , in the Cabinet , who is urablo to the consideration of tho ballot , or they . may _0 some paltry alteration in the constituencies , feir n theiy would rcceivo no thanks , anel because it would useless , would be a mischievous change . My lords , ' J ' existing _systeim is not perfect : it is capable of idment anel improvement . But everything eleipesnels ' whether the _improvement be emo in principle , on the us with which the measure is introduced , anel em tho with which tho plan is adapted to its _ejbje-ct . _Unle'ss bo a dear benefit , without _corresponding dangor , 1 say the neible ; earl antl his colleagues elo neit act y m entering on a Hold calculated tei raise so much llty anel apprehension , _unle-ss they clearly see a palanel manifest _udvantuget . The noblo earl has _alluelee'l iguage of mine at various timet ) , and whie-h I repeiat conveying my apprehension of the extension ol the cratie principle ! m our constitution . The ; noble earl . hat ho never knew tho country more contented , eir lisposed tei listen to agitation ; anel _hei says that , ho

      ¦ othing like tho prevalence eif ' _eleiineieraeay ; ' anel that igh there are senile ; inelivieluals who eiriteirtain visionary al schemes , he _deieis neit be'lievo thut the givat beiely of oplo sympathize ; in those schemes . I entirely concur ho neible earl ; 1 think the groat boely eif thei _peeiplei - oeineur in those _schomeis ; anel I believe ; that if thoy w the ; _peissible _( . _oiiseepieiiiccs of such schemes em thei inneiit thoy woulel shrink from tlinni anil freim their is with heirreir . Hut when hei asks mo if thei great mass people ; —those ) , 1 meian , whei , in peiinl , eif positiein anel l , are veiry Ihr below the classeis now untitled tei tho use — -ar ,, , freim their intelligence ami far-seeing , _ea-01 well-judging tho effects' of alterations in our con- ' inial HyHtom , or of extensive and com plicated _peilitical : _*<* s , them , 1 say , confiding as I elo fully in the geioel _, lu , « m the loyalty of my countrymen , there is danger _rusting w i | j [ . political power thoso who have teiei littlo * , not uf intellige nce ; , but of aceuiircd information , ; <> small a Htake in the ; country , for thorn fairly and _, j _ittllv to consider questions of political change . When _* , therefore , of tho spread of tho democratic element

      in our constitution—and that is the phrase I have alway used—I do not say impeach the loyalty of my countrymer but I contend , great as the influence of the House c Commons is at present , and great as it must be in th constitution of the country , generally , that there is a seri ous danger of altering the character of the HouseorCom mons by throwing too large a proportion of the represen tation of that body into the hands of the lower and les informed classes of society . I cannot , however , anticipat opposition to , the measure the noble earl may bring foi ward ; from his language it is at present impossible t surmise what the character of that measure may be . Th noble earl says that the proceedings of the recent genera election convinced him that the present system is _unsatia factory . If he can find a remedy for the correction o those evils to which he refers—and let him observe tha the remedy is not to be found in the mere extension of th < franchise , for it is in the large constituencies chiefly tha these evils have been perceived—then I say there is ne one from whom he shall receive a more cordial support , ii strengthening that remedy , however stringent it may be than from the man whom the noble earl very _erroneously supposes to be hostile to his administration . I can _onb say , in conclusion , that I have no feeling , personal o * public , hostile to the noble earl . I cannot say when I lool at the composition of his Government , that I entertaii any confidence in it , for I have no conception of thc prin ciple _ upon which the combination has been brought about But if the noble earl is prepared , and has power in hi : own cabinet , to act on those which I have hitherto believec to be his own principles , he may rely on it , not only tha he will receive no evidence of hostility from me , but that i will be satisfactory to me to find that—under whateve : persons—the Government of this country can be safely steadily , and constitutionally carried on , in the true con servative sense of the word , not avoiding or shrinking fron useful and _necessary amendments , but strongly and deter minedly resisting organic changes , and firmly opposinj any interference with the just balance which at presen exists in the constitution . " The House then adjourned until the 10 th of Februarj 1853 .

      _TKEW WEITS . The House of Commons met on Monday , whei Mr . Hatter moved that the Clerk of the Crown de issue new writs for the election of members to serve ir Parliament for the following places , —viz ., For the city of London , in the room of the Eight Hon . Lore J . Russell ; for the borough of Tiverton ( cheers ) , the Right Hon . Viscount Palmerston ; for the University of Oxford , the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone ; for the southern division of the county of Wilts , the Right Hon . Sidney Herbert ; for the city of Carlisle , tho Rig ht Hon . Sir James Graham , - for the borough of Halifax , the Rig ht Hon . Sir C . Wood ; for the borough of Southwark , Sir W . Molesworth , Baronet ; for the borough of Leeds , the Right Hon . M . T . Baines ; for the borough of Nottingham , the Right Hon . E . Strutt ; for the county of Cavan , Sir J . Young , Baronet ; for the borough of Marlborough , Lord E . Bruce ; for the borough of Scarborough , Earl Mulgrave ; for the borough of Hertford , the Hon . W . 1 <\ Cowper ; anel , for the borough of Morpeth , tho Hon . Edward Howard .

      A short sitting of the House wa . s helel on Tuesday ; and again on Wednesday , when new writs were moved for the following places , on the motion of Mr . Hayter : — -For the borough of Wolverhampton , in the room of the Hon . C P . Vir . T . rERS ; for the borough of Aylesbury , Mr . 11 . _Brthkll ; for the ; city of Oxford , Sir W . P . Wood ; for the Leith district of burghs , Mr . J . _MoKCltiiiFj ?; for the county of Dumfries , Viscount Drumi . anrig ; for the city eif Gloucester , Kear-Aelmiral Bkrkkuoy ; for the county of Linieriek , Mr . _MoNSiii . r , ; for the _boreiugh of Brighton , Lorel A . Mkrvky . On the motion that a new writ be issueel for the lorough of Southampton , in the ; room of Sir A . Cooicuikn , Mr . _FeiRkKKTKR asked fhe Sjieaker whether a lew writ could be issueel ponding the petition against , he former return eif Sir A . Cockburn , on the gnmnil of iribery .

      The' _Speaker replied , that in the _e-ase _; eif an election _letition complaining of au uuelue return , or of the eturn of a member in _conscepieiice of bribery , but not burning tho seat for another person , if , wa . s _competent nr the House to issue a new writ ; but in the ; case eif petition _e'eiinplnining of the ; unelue _; return eif a meiner , anel claiming the seat for another _jinrsem , if , was ot _ceinipefent for the House te _> issuea new writ , _pe-nelig the petition , inasmuch as the House ) in that _e-ase _iiulel not know which of the two had bodi duly elected . After some observations to the same diced , from Mr . ' . Fiucnch ' _,, Mr . IIayticr intimiiteel that . Sir Alexander eickburn wemlel not have vae ; _nfe ; _el his seat , hael he ; not It certain that the charge coulel be renewed . Tho lotion was then agreed to . A now writ , to whie-h a similar objection was taken , as also eirdered for the borough of Carlovv , in the loin of Mr . Saelleir . Tho H ouse adjourned until Friday .

      The Aberdeen Ministry. The Administratio...

      THE ABERDEEN MINISTRY . The Administration of Lord Aberdeen , so far as it is complete , is composed of the following gentlemen . There are twelve Cabinet Ministers , as follows : — The Earl of Aberdeen . First Lord of the Treasury . Lord Cranworth . . . Lord Chancellor . Mr . Gladstone . _.-.. . . Chancellor of the Exchequer . ' Lord Palmerston . . . Home Secretary . Lord John Russell . . Foreign Secretary . The Duke of Newcastle . Colonial Secretary . Sir J ames Graham . . First Lord of the Admiralty . Earl Granville ... . President of the Council . The Duke of Argyll . . Lord Privy Seal . Mr . Sidney Herbert . . Secretary at War . Sir C . Wood President of the Board of Control . Sir W . Molesworth . . First Commissioner of Public Works .

      The remaining members of the Ministry are—Mr . Cardwell .... _Presielentof the Board of Trade . Mr . M . T . Baines . . . President of the Poor - Law Board . Mr . E . Strutt .... Chancellor of thc Duchy of Lancaster . Lord St . Germans . . . Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . Sir J . Young .... Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland . The Right Hon . M . Brady Lord Chancellor of Ireland . Mr . Brewster .... Attorney-General for Ireland . Mr . W . Keogh .... Solicitor-General for Ireland . Sir A . Cockburn . . . Attorney-General . Mr . Bethell Solicitor-General . Mr . C . P . Villiers . . . Judge Advocate General . Mr . J . Moncrieff ... Lord Advocate of Scotland . _wTHW : : : } L ° " _» ° *• _**~«*• Mr . G . Hayter .... Secretary of the Treasury . Hon . W . F . Cowper . _, _^\ _Laord Alfred Hervey . 7 fT " -, yy , . _i iV Admiral Parker . . . > Lords of the Admiralty . Captain Milne .... _) Mr . Osborne .... Secretary of the Admiralty . Mr . F . Peel Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies . Lord Wodehouse . . . Under-Secretary of State for Foreign AfFairs . Mr . Monsell . . . _ . __ Clerk of the Ordnance . Mr . R . Lowe , and } Joint-Secretaries to the Board Mr . A . H . Layard . . . } ' of Control Lord E . Bruce .... Vice - Chamberlain of the Household . The Earl of Mulgrave . Treasurer of the Household . Viscount Drumlanrig . Controller of the Household . Many posts yet remained vacant .

      The Coming Elections. Consequent Upon Th...

      THE COMING ELECTIONS . Consequent upon the Ministerial appointments , there will be elections for various boroughs , as will be seen from our report , eif Parliament . Of the addresses issued by the candidates coming forward for re-election , the following arc the most important , as indicating the complete harmony at present existing in this composite Cabinet : —

      " TO THE ELECTORS OP THE CITY OP J . OXDO . V . " Gentlemen , — Having contributeel b y my vote ; to the ; overthrow eif the aehniiiistratiem eif . Leird Derby , I have ; _e"e _» nsielere > el it my eluty to assist , when called upem by my Sovereign , in the formation eif a ne'W Ministry . I have felt it incumbent upon nil' , in eirele'r to give to the _e-ountry the ; full nelvantage's of a liberal peilicy , tei sink those' personal jireilensions which my peisitieui mig ht have _e'lititlcel me tei form . 1 . have ; _cemse-ipient ly _aeceipteel _eiflie'e uueler the _lOarl of Aberele ? eui , upon whose ; uprig ht , _e'lnirai'le'r and _e-nlig hteneel views I plae * e ; the ) gre'iitest re'liimce . My _se-at is the'refbre _vae-ant . " 1 have ; little ; of" neive'll y to aelel te ) the eleclunif iims 1 _neldresseel tei _ytm on the _'J'Jnel of May , previously tei the ; bite ; _gene-ral _e-le'etiem . I then suiel that . I _e-eiulel have ; nei he ' sitatiein in _ace-e-pt ing the ehalle'iige _; to ele'eiele ; finally , _cennpleiteily _, anel _oeiiie'lusiveily the ; eaintesl . hetwe'cn l _' _reiteeitiem anel _Kre-ei-traeh ' . That _e-einte-st has _bei-n decidcel , finall y anel conclusively , in favour of _Fre ; e-trade' . I then saiel , anel 1 now lvpoat , that , the ; coimncre'ial peilicy eif the ; last ten years was neit an _e-vil tei be ; iuitigafe _> el , but a _goeael to be exte ; _nele'd- neit an unwise ; anel elisastreius _peilie'y , which ought lei be ; revorseel , _ulte'reel , eir _meielilied , but . a j ust , anel _be'iielicial s _^ ite'in , which should bei supported , streuigthcne'el , and _uphe-lel . I _aelve'rte-el at the ; same ; time ; tei the ; legal _eliflicullie'S and e' \ pe'iise's _whie-li e loggeiel the transfer of land , the ; _ceimplie-aLcel _niiie-hine'ry eif _Iheit ' _iestenns' _eleipai'tiiie'iit , and the ; iviuaiuiiig burile ; ns and _re'strie ; - tieins < m the shipping inte'i * e _> st .

      " Neiw , as them , 1 am _prepure'd to attempt the ; _re-nieival eif _the'sei iiiipeeliniemts tei the ; _ine're-iisi ; eif onr preispeirity . " Now , as then , I itiu pivpaml to _ntteunpt _tliei relied" eif that peirtiein of emr _fellow-subje'e ; ts _wliei arei m ( ill _e-xe-luelcel by their religieius _be'lie-f freim p ' eilitieail p _rivilege's . 1 entertain a sanguine hope of _suevi-ss in that e ; nele » avour . " I then state-el that the _preigivss of the _weirking-elasse'u in kneiwleelgei and in _iiile-lligeiiii-n ought , fe > be ; _uceionipaiiioel b y an incre ; _asi-d share of peilitical peiwer , while I waa aware heiw _elillie-ult a task it is tei adjust , in any plun eif _reipreiseiitation , the _re-. _spe-e _' t elue ; te _> ane'ie'nt . _lire'scriptiein with the ; claims eif _aelvane-ing trade- , _incre-as »; el _peipulutiein , and growin / V _inte'llige-ne-e ; . "To this task the ; Ministry eif the ; Karl of Aberdeen will anxiously apply _theniHe-lve-s . A matter eif sei much impe > rt _ane- <; _re-epiiie-s freim the < _Joveirrunent , tho _nieist _eleilibeira |„ _eemsiele-ratieiii be-fore ; any measure ;* are submitted to J _' _arlianieint . "By joining the Administration of Lord Aberdeen I

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1853, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01011853/page/3/