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of Irishmen to carry unv . and tbe « rfw » f P , f ££ fcree resistance to tyranny and morale in ^ Will be . re-anioo « M ^^ $£ A * A few of his retainers , woum try w ^ ^ Wf l fn'JteofJohn - : .. en if tonne to die Cff ? v fl' ^ r nf Craciliation Hall hecwld not prevent ^^ ttba-unS wiUbe b «* on good , and « L « dB « I ° Principles . W . will . Dot trart to Sinr andhMginaand letter writing , and War . ^ , for successf It will fcach the people their S&te » d teil them ^ faattbey are to do to enforce SSr The new Leagne vill not be a second edition Spoliation Hall- II will not be a political mar-Jet Sk or a gfcantic begging-box . It nil ™ MKSpeBdescc . or its leading members Will bB Set" mourners ever blasted hopes , and a country "SSw ^ ue , I » mw > is Bot jrtntifed . The Confederates art ready to enter it . provid e d it bs Sd on honest principles . The O'Connell party Si seem a little skittish en the subject-nay , some of them-U few of the five pound' members-have nositivelv pronounced' against a janrtion with the fflii All won't do . The people are . now win t
make " Their eves are opened . The ' rent' » kft ' fn arrears . " ' John O'Connell ' a occupationfs mnV and a !! that bia lictepittle staff can . io will lot hussbuz the Irish peasantry a month longer . What conciliation haS been tinkering ., t tnese hs . five vears , masC bs done bos out of the face ! Iraland must ba ' as she ou ^ ht to be , ' or she must abant ? rm the stni ^ els for ever . Th " catholic cl ? r 2 y will cot oppose there-nnion of Irish Repealers . " They are averee to rebellion and bloodshed ; but , believe me if Ireland ' s salvation « qai « s their adhesion , thpy wi | Betshrink They Conneli hecies ht
stood aloof expecting O' ' s prop nn « be accomplished , and their country freed , * £ & »* the ios ? of one drop of human Word . They now te ^ n te see the delusion of Conciliation-hall , and they will not be opposed fo any plan for the relief of th » ir oiseaKe country men . iNo class is so conversant with the wrongs and woes of the Irish peasantry as the priests : and I am convinced that when the day of trial arrives , they will not bo found in the ranks of the neutral asc indifferent , 1 he Irish catholic clergy were alw&yB renowned for their patriotism asd Jove of home . They are not now worse
than in days gone pist . ... . . The Irish Repeal pres 3 . too , is all coming over to the right side . Those provincial journals which , Hp to this clung tenaciously to O'Conneliism ano ' moral force ' are now waxins warm , and more for * invfkiDg the god of batties , ' thsn whining or begging at the porch of ' the constitution . ' The meeting of the Confederation , which was to be beM on Wednesday niaht last , wa 3 adjourned till uest Wednesday , the 21 st instant . It will be the greatest meetin g oftLit body ever held in Dublin . Messrs Thns . T . F . Meagher and Richard 0 Gorman were said to be marked out for the vengeance of the Atteney-General . K \ jet , they are a : large and will be at their post on Wednesday evening .
_ The Rev . Mr Kenyon has been reinstated in his parish by his bishop , the Right Rev . Dr Kennedy . There have b « en illuminations m different Ps" «« MunBter to commemorate the joyous event ; and Mr Kenyon has commenced his new eare ? r witn tne publication in the Limeeice ExiWSEB , oi ene of the most withetiu ;; manifestoes against the government and the O'Connelk , which he or any other ' enemy ' ever levelled at an unlucky antagonist . The Rev . Mr Kenyon is in himself a match for a million of Ire land ' s foemen .
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Dcbus , Jpnk 18 . —Mr Holmes , ia consfqaenca of the contiaued refusal nf the benchers of Queen s Inn to admit Dr Grey and Mr Danne to the bar , has re-Bigiied his bencherEhip . Jc . vs 20 . —At a place calied Kill&TulIen . in tke county of Cork , where a meeting to form a club wa 9 fce ' . d on Sunday last , and a resolution was unanimously adopted , ' calling on Mr John O'Cannell to be do barrier to th& union and harnwny nw likely to be established amongst all clasfe 3 of Repealer ? , ' the parish priesi , Rev . P . Green , who was chosen president of the clnb , wa 3 instructed to commnni-Cats this very significant resolution to Mr John O'ConneH , who must yield with a good " grace or re tire altoHe . 'hfr . AH the Dublin Confederate Clubs are to hold an open sir meeting ou Sunday nest , at
Djnnvbrookgreen . Lord Ffrench has coma out as a thoroush advocate of the proposed union of Young and Od Irelaad-A letter from that nobleman , who has fceen heretofore a decided Moral force' man , appears in the Eyskisg FnEEMis ' s Journal £ this afternoon . His lordship thus concludes : — The Toies of the country seems to demand this union ; Smi I coccurin ths ctneral expectation that the proposes Irish LeiEns' will demonstrate , wilh firmntSJ and dijinUv , that the Iri » h people fully understand the Talus of their constitutioEal righti , end that they are resolved to Tiaaicate those righra Egainst infringement . I remain , my deaf slf , JOUTS fflitDfQllj . Ftbikch , To T . H . R \ y , Esq ., S crttary .
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FlTAL ACCIDSM AT THS LIVERPOOL Z OLnoiciL GAHDS 53 . —On Saturnay morning , Jane 17 cir , a meiaiichfaly accident occurred at these gardens . The gtupeodocse . ' ephant , Rijah , tha fiaest anim 3 l of ths Had in Europe , waa chiitised by his keeper . Richard Howard , fligbtlv , for some disobedience . Toe animal ima ^ di tely resented it , and struck his keeper tothe ground , crashing him to death afterwards with Ms foot . This is the second keeper , within a few jears , who has b ; en killed by this elephant , who was generally exceedingly tractable , aEd walked about thegarders on saia nishtswith an eastern car behind Mm . Tne Meslrs Atkins resolved upon destroying
ths animal , and for thi 3 purpose two ounces of prus-Eie acid a ^ d tvrenty-five grains of aconite were addinntered to him in a huh ; baf , b ? joi ) d a ?] ight uneasineis for ah ^ ut five minute ? , the etephvicdi < i not seem at all affected by the poison . After waiting three quarters of an hour , and finding toe poison was EOt likei f to take eff ^ c ? , it was determined to shf > ot ihescical . A detachmact nf the 52 ad Rifles , who sure at present stationed in Liverposl , were sent for , &nd t ^ ehe men ha 7 ins entered the den they waited their opportunity ar . d tired . The animal staggered , Sud leaut a ^ Hin-t the dea Another dozsn of Rfl ; - men entered and fired . This br . iiiht the- animal u >
the ground , and he died instantly . The poor man who has lostlm life was iiteraliy flittened , every rib in his b-dybein ^ broken . Amoagat the gentlemen who * ere present wben the animal was destroyed was Van Amburgh , who is at present falHIlirg an engagement at the Theatre Rojal . There were also several medical genilemen in attendance to assist in destroying the animal . The animal cost £ S 0 O eleven years a ; : o , bat was worth mire than £ 1 , 090 . RociiDALs - ~ Osder of Free Gardesebs . —The snnoa ; G acd Lodge cf tiia United Frea Gardeners was opened at Rjctidale , on Monday , the 12 h inst About ninety deputies from tha various di-stricts ' attended tae meeting , whish was ably conducted by G . M . Sykes , of tke rladdir .-fisld district . The tran-iacr ; oLS between tha various districts were amicably and satisfactorily settled , and all the accounts eiamiDed and foaad correct , 'fno district re , orts ,
in many ins ' . ancej , vrere higa'y fitoarab ' . e , showing a considerable ice-case of members , the number of which is now ab ^ ut 15 , 009 . Nothing cauid more clearly stnw tha usefulness of the society thad tae amount of relief afforded fco members iu diatress . and en travel during the past year , which in consequence of the depressed state of trade has been very cm" » iderabie . Tie union with the Staffordshire Gardeners was ratified and completed to the mutual satbfaction of all parie 3 .
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( From the Gogttle of Tuesday , June 13 . ) BAKKRTJPTCT ANNULLED . Mary BruatOB , Leeds , innkeeper . BAKKRUPTS . John Balaam , Enfield , Middlesex , smith-Gsorge Can bob , Prospect-place , BaU ' s . pond , bricklayer-John ConnnPSt , Hooreate-Street , City , money scrivener— Frederic * vniiiam vicuoiu Croacb , Upper Charlotte-street . Fitzroy-Eqoare , music £ eUer-John Heslop , Ripon , T .-rfeshire , merchant-Thoma * Hollyman , Clevedcn , Somersetshire , butcher-Robert Eugfees , Liverpool , laceman-Hen . y JaUewajs , Pontvpool , Monraouthshire , licenced T'Ctnal-Jer-WMara Plumlej . Bristol , poulterer-Josep h mtchard , Harewooa , Herefordshire , innkeeper—irancis Thomas Smith and Abraham Smith , Cambndge-heath . nurserv , Hactney , seedsmen-John Trevers , sen . aDd John Trevers , jun ., Apollo-bnUdings , Walworth , Dj " Wers John Walker and William vValker , Birkenhead , Cneshire , joiners -Hannah Ward , Xewgate-marUct , city . carcase butcher— G .-. sper Weiss , Lirerpool , ntus : c seller-William Wheatley , Busted , Sasses , wheelwright- James Wright , Birmirghim , seal stone engraver .
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS . ECAldridge , Horsham , Sussex , dealer in chins-j An-^ ev , Stoke Gifford , Gloucestershire , farmer-J Eljtb , Bristol , srocer-C Bromball , Birm . cghamretaUbrewer-G Car ter , Bristol , bater-J Evans , Abbott's Lejgb , Somer ^ h ' ire , blacL = mith-C FeltoB , Aston , Warwickshire , commercial tl-aveller-P B niU . Bampton Devonshire-G Hughes , Leicester , commission /^ "ft r " ? ; ^ George PiU , SomersetsWre , liceusid victualler-T kensin ? , BirminghaiB , nessenger-Q Lene , Bristol , beer retaUer-C T L ? climere , Fownhope , nereford 6 hire , -T Lear , St Thomas the Apostle , DeFOnshire-S Lllley , Aston Warwictollire , eng ineer-W Maunder , Exeter . b ? ier-S Newell , Birmingham , hook and eye maker-J Wiee , Birmingham , fishmonger—J Sandbrook , Birmingham , Slater -W Scattergood , Birmingham , book-keeper— H Scholev . ShefSeld , blade maker—J Senior , Sheffield , tailor— R Spark , Ereter , poulterer—J Sturgis , Northampton , journeyman mason—G W Tilly , Clereaon , Somcr . ietshire , carpeater-G Tilly Hendferd , Somersetshire , tailor—J Water ? , Liverpool , book-keeper— W WhitSeld , Exe Island . Exeter , woolcoraber .
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIOKS . Douglas EUwards , Aberdeen , merchant — Thomas ScdUm , Paislej , p ' umber—Thomas Grocott , GlaBgow , dealer ia fancy goods—James Hamilton , High Mother . ¦ well , Lanarkshire , farmer—John H'Keddie , Fortrote , msrefcant—James UorrisoD , Hawkhill , Perthlbire , coalswwter—James Stirling , Strathaven , horsedjaler—Wil . tAB Stftort Sutherland , irtitb , bookseller .
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . ( Concluded from tht Fifth page . ) Mr DsohhoI'd ttss cot able to satisfy hltaselt tu ta whether Mr Hume regarded the elective franchise as a right or a trust . This was not the first time that bli attention had been directed to the extension of the « uf . frage , and the shortening of the duration of parliaments be himself having written and published a pamp hlet oh thoB * BuV-jesis tn 1829 . In the present state ef tne world ' s affairs they had assumed a degree of importance whicb in ordinary time * they would eot posseis . They were subjects which they would all be called upon to diecuis at the next elections . It was worth while to consider from whom the demands embodied in the resolution proceeded . They were , in the firat place , parsons who , from various causes , were suffering great di&treBS , and who were elamcroni for something to remedy that distress . Those who led this class were not themselves the suSkrera , but it was the maw of suffering endured by those whom they led , which alone gave importance to their leading . There was another OlaBS , that of the
intellectual operatives , who wereunrepretented , nnd who also wcro clamorous for something to better their physical condition , which was the great and the only object the ? had in view . They were mistaken , bowever , in their mode of puieu ' . ng it . The other class was that of a higher order , and n ? oro dangerous description—tbo claes of intellectual speculators , led by , if not chit fly composed of , doctors without pititnts , and lawyers without briefs . These being the throe classes who were novr agitating , the next thin ? to consider was , what it was they were sgiuting for . As to the extension of the franchise , he saw no hope for if , after passing the Reform Bill , but that they shcuJd consent to that poiBt . So far ns they could dtfine property , fo far ghould the right be extended . The great object of civilised society was to make men love peace whether they would or no ; and it was tke duty of the executive , bs they who they might , to put dowa all attempts at mob intimidation . They could not enact equality . There was no equality in all nature . In co ' one of the three kingdom *—animal ,
mineral , or Tegetsblj—wag there ( quality , nor wa » it to be found in man in any state . The complaint of inequality , therefore , on the ground thai avery man wa » not represented , must continue t » the end of titse , fcr inequality would continua whether there was representation or not . Then with regard to the duration of parliaments , He confeBBed that it was , iu his mind , » great disadvantage tnnt the representatires of the people were not thrown back mora freqaently opon their constituents . ( Hear . ) He did not mean ia the off « u . eive way of going ba ^ k to be sco ' . ded and turned away . ( ' Hear , hear , ' and a laugh . ) But ha thought it wa 9 a great adTantsge to the pnblic at large , as well as to the members themselves , that ( hey should be brought together occasionally in pubVc dUcnssion , faca to face , in the same "ay as the representatives were brought to >
eethi r in discussion iu the house . ( Hear . ) They knew what protestations gentlemen male on the huetlngs a § to what they would do in parliament ; but when they came there they found parliament a very different thing from what they had expected , and that they had sot the power to do all they wished . If by frequent meetings with their constituents this could be erplaiaed La thought It would often conduce to a good uodcfttaBdlng between the representatives and the represented . They had heard much about property having its duties as nell as its rights . What was the meaning of thia ? It Was ths dtttj Of every man to maintain himself In that pssitloB in society to which he belonged ; and es ic was said of a nobleman not long ago that ho would be ready to die for bi 9 order , so it was the duty of tvery person poss' sBing property to be ready to die for that property ,
and not permit it to be infringed by any means , direct erindirect . ( 'Ob , 'andlaaghter . ) Hon . gentlemen who wers acquainted with tho works of this country of the Iaet twelvemonth—he spoke not of the doctrines of Louis Blanc and others in France—must be aware that there was pervading a large bo 4 y of our most Intellectual operatives a notion that they did not share sufficiently in the produce of their labour . ( Hear . ) That feeling was gaining ground amoog them , and there was iIbo another feeling obtaining ground amongst them to some extentviz ., that every owner of property was a psblic robber . ( No . ) That he wi 3 tasing away from the public , as It was culled—another abstract Idea—what beloagcd to it . ( No , no . ) He could not remember tho words in English in whica this doctrine was pat forward ; bat he would quote the sentiment sb it had appeared in France . ( Oh . ) Why , did honi gentlemen suppose that the principles which prevailed here wcro §» totally unlike those which obtained in . France ! ( Hear , hear . ) Unquestionably the same views which were maintained in our own country
were entertained in ths other . Touteproprieteeit wJwas the principle laid down in France ; and did they not hear the same principle put forward here ! ( No . ) Why had they not heard of tenant-right in Ireland ! Had they not beard it aiserted that the tenant bad a prior right to the land he cultivated over the landlord ? ( Hear . ) He contended that political power should be confined to those who had property , and those who had none Bbould b entirely excluded from political power . He considered it also most dangerous to suppose , ss indeed was Bopposei , that there ws& a nocessary connexion between an alteration of the constitution of that bouse , and a diminution of taxation . He was opposed , as much as the member for Montrosa , to extravagance , and desired as much as him to curtail the expenditure of th 9 COUtlltf . Bat he conceived that each question—the reform of that house , and the necessity of retrenchment—should stand upon a separate feeting , and each be decided on distinct gfOUnde , If it were to be admitted , that a particular constitution of that bouse would secure a diminution of
the national expenses , thea would It amount to this , that it would be composed of representatives , who , to satisfy their ewn petty and local objects , would sacrifice the satioaal iBterests and hnnoHr . There wns great discontent throughout tho country —( hear , hear)—and there would bs because that houie was a great , expeasive club , which gratified the tastes of many of the people of England ; an i as Ion ? as there i xlsted among men a thing which one man wanted to gain , and which others had not to give , 'O long would there ba a guti for the quo . What certain parties now did , was to hold out to the peoplo exp ctatioas which no government could grant , just w tho French government were holding out the belief that tbey bid tbepo ^ er to feed the people . They had no power—lot them cc-ustitute the power as they pleasedto relieve the distress of tho people . Lst them constitute
their pewer in any way they pleased , such an idea was a gross delusion . It was a gross delusion to tell the penple that anything hut misery was the lot of the great mas 3 of mankind , and that they could relieve it by any legisla'ion whatever . There wh » no doubt , a Bert of instinct—he conld not call it by any other namerunning throughout the world at the present moment , that the time vra « come for the regeneration oi human society . No man seemed to know how it was to ba brought abcut . There should be , however , a regeneration , bat tbey should first of all pass through a baptism ofbliod . Itwa ? time to learn it , for they were preparing the people for it , as they bad begun already in France . A ! l their excitement was leading to nothing el e , and they never should have universal peace until He cam * who alone hid the right to rule .
Lord J , RcssEiL said . —Sir , I rise thus early to address the house tecause I think thu heuse is entitled te an explanation of the riewa which I entertain , not only with regard to the proposition now before tho house , but with regard to the propositions nearly akin to it . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir , the hoD . gentleman has alluded to the pstitions which have been presented to the house in favour of the proposition which he kas brought forward as an expression , as he declares , of the genrral opinion of tho people upon this subject . Now , Sjr , I would observe , witb regard to this Question , that it does aot appear that , except in favour of what is cemmooly called the People's Chart-. r , there have been any large or numerously-Bfgned petitions preBetited . Then , with ra ^ ard to thig fame proposition , it his been eaid that meetings have brea held in support of the hon . gen .
daman ' s motion , but these meetings havo been held un ^ er two remarkable circumstances—one is , that considerable pains have been taken to misrepresent a speech which I made when the hon . gentleman , on a former occasion postponed his motion , with a view to hare it beliuved that I had said that the people wished for ne reform , and so systematically has this been done that I have eeen the worda which I used , expressing my belief on that occasion that progressive refems were required by the laiddh and working classes , have been altogether expunged . ( Hear . ) What I said on that oncaeion was , tha : it waa my belief that the middle and working classes of thia country wero in favour of a gradual and progresiirereform . ( Cheira , and eriea of 'No , no . ) Of course I do not denj it , and I now repeat It agais , tnat I said that I also believed that the middla nnd
working classes of this country wera not in fkVStir either of what is called the People ' s Charter , or of the proposition for reform brought forward by ths boa . gentleman . ( Hear . ) Now that statement of mina ha » been use ! as if it had been a declaration againBt all reform ; but in the words which I usad I merely stated tbatia my opinion the middle and the working classes of this country desired neither the People ' s Charter , nor the m-aenre of reform proposed by the hon . gentleman ; hut I did not say that they < ies ' . re > l bo reform , either fit Bicial or parliamentary , as it has been represented ihat I slid . I excluded no reform ei her financial or
parlinBirnJary . ( Hear , hear . ) Yet I find that on this fubjet eogreat have beea tha misrepresentations that hsr < 3 takes place with regard to what I said on two subject , that at a meeting held in Uarjlebone a resoluti n was proposed by Mr Hume , to tho effect that the Priino Miaistir having declared that there should be no more measures either of financial or of parliamentary reform , &c . New , as the hon . gentleman hail tho means of knowing what I really 1 ) ad said on the occasion alluded to , I think he ought at the time tho resolution « as put into biB hands to have said , 'This nssolution is contrary to fact , and , therefore , it Is impossible for me to DUt ft . '
Hr Hcse . — It is consistent with the fact , to my know , ledge . ( OrJer , order . ) Lord J . Russeli —The other circumstances which the hon . gentleman has recomaieaded us to tuko into oor BeriOUS OOnsidsraticn is , tbe numerous attendance which has taken place at thb meetings held in favour of his proposition for reform . Bat In almost all the meetings which bsve been held for tho purpose of upholding aadsapportiog the four points contained la the ' reoolutionof the hen , gentleman , to wbich in proposing tbv resolution to-niitnt be has ad « ed a fifth—( hear )—wltb a view of sending petitions to this heuse in jupport of that resolution , when thoie * 8 Bemble 4 o 8 me ts the dig . cattfon of the proposition * submitted to . them gonertll / .
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gome Ghartiat tobb and propejied , aa an amendment , a re « o ! ution in favour of tne sir points oi the Charter , whioh , when it was put to the vote , was either carried , or snob , a division took place that tho reporters , who generally attend very accurately to these matte ™ , were unable to sUto whether the resolution waa carried or net . ( Cheers . ) I say , therefore , in the firtt place , that I find that at the meetings ia support of thli motion there has been generally a misrepresentation of what 1 stated on this Bubject in my place in parliament ; and in the next plaoo , I do not consider that tho meeting * which havo boen held in support of the bon . gentleman ' s motion , whether those meetings have been held In Bir . mingbam , LaedB , Manchester , Maryletone , or other places , have givea expression to aay public opinton in favour of this proposition ; but , on the contrary , that
eakiug those meetings generally , they have been divided in opinion , and tbe nupporters of what is called the People ' s Coarter have been often in the majority —( bear hear)—and In those meeting * , pener » lly speaking resolutions favourable to tbe pl » n proposed to night by the hon . gentleman tho member for Montrose bave nol been carried . ( Hsiar , hear . ) Tbe noble lord then proceeded at great length to notice other points of Mr Home ' s spBech , atid to oppose tha motion la a thoroughly Tory style . He concurred nith Mr Hume , tbat to the Reform Bill wan chiefly attrlbutable tho peace of the country in iho present crisis . Bat the hoo , gentleman bad made an cdmisBion of the power of the eleotors , under the Reform Bill , to return to parliament members who might fairly represent them , which should induce the house to pauoo ero it
li'tened to a proposal for further reform . The hon . gentleman ' * plan , as detailed to tha houce , did not accord with the abstract propositions which he enunciated as the basis of hi 3 scheme . One of theso propositions contended for the right of voting without qualification . Beit the hon . gsntleman himstlf proposed a qualification . And if th « re might be one qualification , why not another ? And what waa there In that proposed by the hon . gtntieman which shewed It to be preferable to tbe existing qualification ? The proposition submitted wop ragua and indefinite , pointing out distinctly , neither those who were to be inoluded in , n » r those who were to be excluded from , the franchise . He differed entirely from the bon . gentleman as to tha foundation of bis whole scheme . In his opinion , what every person of full age was en'itled to in this country , as well Indeed
as ths whole population , wb » the best possible governmen * , nnd tbe best legislation which it was possible for it to give to ' them . Tbe mixed constitution of England had for a long period provided for the happiness ef Its ptople . He had always felt how difficult a matter it was to alter in any way the adjustment of tho different powers of the State . He besought the house , therefore , to appro ach with care and deliberation the discussion of any scheme for its alteration . Viewing the matter from this point , tbe question for them to consider was , whether a parliament elected by householders nnd lodgers would be a batter parliament than such a « wai returned by the present body of electors . If they conceded universal suffrage , be conld not see how they could avoid the division of the country Into equal elec . toral districts , ' and he had no hesitation in saying that
a parliament springing from « uch sources would not be eo good a parliament as that which resulted from the pres' -nt system . The Inequality which characterised the distribution of the representation , instead of being ao . ompanied with the evils attributed to it , gavo rise to iaany advantages . He could not folion the hon . gen tlsman in detail through oil nig propositions , As to the ballot , ho thoug ht that it would bo no effectual remedy against Intimidation . As to shorter parliaments , whilst it might bo advisable that members should be frequently thrown back upon their constituents , it was also desirable tbat there should be some etability in the polloy of the country . The present duration of Parliaments , in his opinion , gave it tbat atabi Hiy . If they were fo change tbat duration at all , thought that it would be better to take one jeor iaatead
of three years , tbe htter being about tho worst proposition , in this respect , tbat could be made , He was satisfled nith tbe preBent duration of Parliaments , and would certainly give no vote in favour of departing from tt . He would also put the question raised by the honourable gentleman t < ranot&er test , to which he conW not refuse to subject it . The reform ot- Parliament took place in 1833 . Had tbe House of Coamooa showed itself since tbat time to be the mere tool of the aristocracy—a bigot afraid to enter upon any reform , of Indifferent to improvements ? No one who considered the changes which had been tffecteft einco that time , cculd justly lay such charges against toe reformed Honso of Commons , What Mr Hume proposed would effect a great change in tbe constitution . Ho , on the other hand , was for gradual reform . Since 1832 , no great change in the Reform
Bill had been projected or proposed . But the public miud was bow turned to the consideration of such eubjeets and the time might not be far distant whon some reforms might be ose / ully effected . They might soon be iu possession of sufficient information toenablo them to extend tho franchise without compromising the basis of our repreientative syBtem . He was , therefore , not disposed to say that they could not and might not usefully and beneficially improve the Reform Act . Bat If ho were B 6 ked whether he was prep ^ rtd to bting ia at the present moment any measures for thatpurpose , ho would unhesitatingly reply tbat he was not prepared to intre . duce any considerable measure for such a purpose . He denied eatirely the charge that was made , that gOVtia . ment was carried on in any way for tha benefit of the aristocracy . He thought that the rights of tho people of this country were largo and general rights , and tbat the
people epjojed those rights under a free government , ( Hear , bear , ) Bat if it were to bo said that the aristocracy were to be deprived of their right of taking part in the direction of public affairs , ho did object fo so narrow a view of the question . A Stanley or a Howard bad as complete a right to a share in tbe direction of the nffairs of th-e nation , as if he bad a name less illustrious in the annals of his country . ( Hear , hear . ) But thtra might also be reasons contained in the events on the Continent , which would render impolitic the oonrse that was proposed , ( Hear , hear , ) Their ndbeBion to the ancient forma of the constitution had procured them tbe admiration and respect , not only of those countries that were attached te the fortunes of this , but also of those nations thtt were hostile to them . He hoped that house would do nothing to lose that respect , or forfeit that admiration , which had caused them to be regarded
as' Like a great sea-mark , braving every storm , And saving all who eye It !' Ho trusted tbat they tronld maintain tbat position . —that they would not choose at this time to accede to any Vaguo 8 nd indefinite proposal of some measure of reform , which , wbila it apparently etopped short of adapting the People ' s Charter , could not actually stop short of ultimately enacting that great change—( hear , hear)—tbat they would rather think that it was due to the insti . tutions which they had the happiness to inherit ; and that it was due , above all , to that great people whom it was their honour to represent , to give a steadfast aart most aetermined negatira to tha present motion . — - f Cheers . )
Mr W . J . Fox woald have been better pleased if Lord J . Russell bad declared more explicitly the esttst of the reforms wblcb he had in contemplation , and the resnlt which ho anticipated from them , He also regretted tbat Lord J . Kussell had scarcely touched on t !* o question whether individual classes were properly represented in that house . Now , tho question then before the house was this;— ' Are the working classes of thia country represented as tbey ought to be ; and , if they are not , enn they be eo represented n ithout injury to our institutions ?' Ho iMr Fox ) declared that tbey wero not representedthat they were Helots in the land—that they wero serfs on the soil which bred them—and that tbey bad nothing to do with the laws except to obey them . ( Hear , heor , ) He would revert to tho argument used by the noblo lord in 1822 , aa it was the argument which he meant to adopt
and apply on the present occasion . The noblo lord at t ' aat time pointed to the intelligence of the country , and to the growth of tbat Intelligence , as a demonstration tbat the franchise must be largely extended . He argued , that iu London them were 100 circulating libraries , nnd 900 in the eountry ; and that 23 , 600 , 000 newspapers had been issued in the year preceding . Ho would go back , not to 1822 , but to 1832 , when the noble lord realised his own views by carrying tbe Btform Bill ; and be would assumes that he then proportioned tho franchise to what he held to be the advanced Intelligence ef tho country . Ho csuld not eay , however that tho facts would ol . together bear him out ia relinquishing the vantage ground ho might hare gained by the noblo lord ' s previous concession ? . The noble lord said thery wcro iu 1822 1 , 000 , 000 penons prepared for tho franchise' but the
Reform Bill did not provide for half of that million , and they had been left unprovided for sinoe , with a quarter af a eonlury of wrong pr ^ alng upon their minds and depressing their epirits . While in 1832 tho number oi newspapers ooloulated was 32 , 000 , 000 , the circulation had been for some time nearer 70 , OQO , 000 than 60 , 000 , 000 ; and as regarded societies and institutions established for the people ' s Improvement , he would OEly refer to one oi < vbfch he bad read an account in the papers of that morning , It was an account ot the meating of the Yorkshire Mechanics institution , held at Ripon , where not fewer than eighty-one societies wero included and repreRented in that irutltiition alona . Since 1832 £ 500 , 000 had be « n expended by tbe government on education : a much
smaller sum than outfit , as he thought , to have been ex . pended on a matter of such iaconcelvable importance but s ' . ill tbat eum bnd been laid out , in addition to tbo building of schools from souroes of private subscription nnd private benevoleDce . Since 1832 there had , besides , sprung up a popular literature altogether unparalleled in extent —( hiur)—a literature of which our numerous magazine ! , tho pablicatioaa of the Mesars Chambero , and the works of Charles Knight , formed a distinguished part , and which were circulated through tho country to an amount previously unexampled . ( Hear , hear . ) One of them alone , Chambers ' s Miscellany of Entertaining KnowWgs , being only one of the many publications of that house , had been itsutd to the extant of 18 , 000 , 000 of printed sheets ; aad ho understood that their eater
fluctuated with the ulnto of tbe manufacturing districts , ( hear , hear . ) ono sixth of the issue being in the counties Of York and Lancaster . ( Hear . ) Then , if the ; looked to other facts indicative of tho advance of intelligence among the people at large , thi'y found proofa multiplying all around them . It might be said that tkeoe were cheap publications to which he bad referred , aad that tbe public mind would rather be vitiated than improved by them , that their powftra would be frittered away , such light reading not baing adapted to mature the Intsllectual character ; but ihey . mu&t remember , that all the otaoderd worbiof thsjmatjals btatti authors bad
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at the same time been cheapened ; that the works of Baoon could be bought for ii ,, and those of Shakspeare for 2 s ., and tbat the writinga of all the philosophers whe bad adorned tha country were circulated at tho mcreit ( Wfls flbjve the cost of type and paper . It won a remarkable fact that the production of now literature had not d iuunishfd either . He found , in tho history of printing , ia 31 'CvUoeh ' s Commercial Dictionary , a statement of the number of bow works pnbltohed , and the averag « price per volume , in the four year * ending 1832 and 1842 . in the four your 3 then ending , the new boeka published were 6 , 1 * 9 , and la the four joars ending 1842 tfcey were 8 597 ; while the av « rage prlco per volume was , in the first poriod lie 5 d , and in the second perled 8 s 9 J . ( Hear . ) Tho booksellers' circular bad recently fallen .... .. . ..
into his hands , and he found from it that the number of now works last year was 8 , 414 , and of new editions 070 , while the average prica per volume was 6 g 31 d . ( Haw . ) lie might refer , also , to the establishment , Btnce 1832 , o ? pat Us and places of recreation , which , though not to be used as an argument , might be taken as an indication of growing Intelligence . Take , for example , the vUi'ors to the British Museum . In 1832 , tho cumber of visitors wae 147 , 836 J last year they were 820 , 965 . The visitors to the reading . room of tbe Museum , la 1832 , were 31 , 200 , List year , 67 , 525 , ( Hear . ) Then , aa regarded the economics of the working classes , thty found a vaat improvement . [ Here tbe hon . gentleman pointed out the increase which bad taken place eince 1832 in the deposits of tbo oavings bank , to ebow tbe improved system of economy
now prevalent ; and also the greet increase that had tnktn place in the number of public petitions to parliament , in order to point out the grewlng discontent among the unenfranchised cl&EBes . ] There nas one peculiar fact that could not but strike every reflecting parson at the present day , and that was tbe number of writers who were springing up among tbe working classe s—writers who did not , like the authors of former days , rest on patrons and private patronage , —writers wbo courted no class above them , but yet who retained strong within tbera the feelings of tho working olaas in which they had been born and trad . Nething llko this was known In farmer timed ; but in the literature of which ho spoke tho fact he bad stated wns before them in every page . Their works ware elevated by
a peculiar spirit , a spirit the result of tbe circumstances in which they had been born and bred , and the political condition of tbe class to which they b longed , Perhaps he should bo naming authors whose names would sound strange to the great majority of those he addressed wore be to run over tho list , and yet they were ft clasp of writers whose works every legislator would do well to consult . ( Hear . ) He could not understand the spirit of bis country unlaBB he did consult them . TUey bad ia them the rloh and racy spirit of our old Esgliah writers ; end when they had tho eenso to avoid the conventionalities of modern authors , and follow out the dictates ot their own Jasplrations , they indeed brought forth ' thoughts that breathe , and words that burn . ' ( Hear . ) Ho might refer
to Bamford , tho radical author of LanoaBhire , whose graphio description of the stirring times of 1819 , the future historian would transfer to bis pages as the beat record of the events of that extraordinary time , He might also fpeok of ' one who whistled at the plough , ' whose narrationB Of the flopglngof the soldier were enough to make the fli ! 8 h creep upon the bone » , and draw tears from tbe ej on of the most callous ef our race . There waa the poet Thom , of Inverury , who took shelter under a hedge and saw bis child die there , and wbo could giro bU country songs worthy of Barns ; that man never knew what it was to live in a £ 10 house . There were such men as William Lovett end Thomas Cooper . He would nol ask the house to take an estimate of their literary merit and intellectual power from his question .
able testimony . He would not ask the house to take an estimate of their literary merit and intellectual power from bis own testimony . He would call for tbat of the ben . membcrfor Reading ( Mr Serjeant Talfourd ) , who , as it had been said of Akeenelde , that he had breathed the spirit of Plato into English poetry , might be Bald to have invoked the spirit of Euripides upon the British stage , and not invoked in vain ; or of him who had else gained laurels , though in a different field of exertion , and of whom It would ever be subject of grateful recollection that , with the fine parception of taste and with tbe generosity of geniue he saw and recognised the powers whioh were revealed in the Purgatory of Suicides , though written by a self-taught cobbler , and gave the author facilities for coming before the public which would
otherwise have beea difficult of accomplishment , ( Hear . ) When this whole literature was considered , from the time of Ebtnczer Elliot , the Shiffleld worker ( a iron , it would be found pervaded by the spirit of indignation wh ' ch would arise among men who felt themuelres reduced to a slave class , threatening the disruption of that nationality the unity of which had hitherto constituted the glory of this country , Tbe stream of mind was separated into two distinct coureeo ; and If they did not recognise the claims of a class already represented iu tbe noblest arena , tbat of their national liieraturo , they would exhibit to the world a most deplorable spectacle ; the genius of the eonatry would bi como auioidal by Che antagonism of its elements . Future collectioas of poota and historians would
not be complete without tho authors of these productions . Tbey had a niche in historj . Tbey had a place among the laurelled , but they were not edmisslble into the society of £ 10 householders . ( Hear , hear . ) In all ranlifl high tolonts aad great information were the « - ceptioD ; but they very much m . ' suoderstpocr the working elapses who thought that among them woro not diffused the mind and tbe intellectual aspirations which rendered them not unworthy brothers of such as ho had named ; nay , which rendered thom not unworthy countrymen of these great names , eucb as those of Milton and Locke , which constituted the brightest glory this country had yet achieved . What was the Legislature to lesr ? Tbat those men would render thU house a lose dtcorous and less dignified eccno t Woald It be
thought that those men would return from their body —still less from the refuse of that body—persons to claim fellowship here , wbo would turn the house aside by personalities and sarcasm from every great topic of discussion ? ( Henr , hear . ) Would they eendtnitber men elated , not witb champagne or burgundy , but with beer or brandy , to throw disorder in tbo midst of their business ? Would tbey send people who would make a tax on property ? Wby , property—the love of it was instinctive in an Englishman . ( Ucai , hear . ) They oould not propose to kirn a' Land Scheme , ' or anything of the sort which he could call his own—( 'Hear , ' from Mr O'Connor)—aven with the most forbidding proipects of attainiBg his object—( a laugh)—but he would make tho attempt to acquire property . Now ,
was there any participation in opinions which strangely had found there way into a document which had found l " 8 way to the table of the bouse . He had contorted with working people—not as matter , ns landlord , as emp'oyer , or as patron—and he bad found in them that intolligenoe and those qualities which kept alive faith in human nature . The lion , member prsccctied to refer to the subject of bribery . He snld : Lot them consider what the people had been eipofed to . He was old enough to recollect tho system ef corruption which prevailed fifty years ago . He bad known ss pure a constituency as ever existed in the whole length and breadth of the land . How waa the case now ? That constituency had been rendered corrupt by the continual practice of iastilliujr into them tho notion that their votes
wero worth money . Ha looked upon tho briber as worse chan the bribed . Ho remembered one case of a Yarmouth freemen wbo refused a bribe until it became a means of rescuing him from tbe workhouse ; The house might be sure that the working classes would not select working men , except under peculiar circumstances , as tbelr representatives . In France only thirty . eight bad bten chosen iu an Assembly of nine hundred . ( Hear , hear . ) They would act similarly biro . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbey would look to local importance , or else ( elect men with national reputation . Such men it would bede . elrablo to bavo in the house , rather than men , unknown to localities or to fame , going rambling about the country with their heavy p > iroep , seeking some constituency to corrupt . ( Cheers . ) This would be little barm , if all
of that class wero excluded from the house , ( Hear bear . ) IIu believed that under the plan of bis bon , friend tho member for Montrose , such men would ba excluded . ( Hear , hear . ) Under somu such system there would be an end to tho degrading systtm of canvassing , whioli indeed brought tbo rich aad poor together , but only for their mutual degradation . ( Hear , bear . ) In large constituencies there was no canvassing . Men of mind got return' d , after having boon heard in public tbree or four times by the constituency . He bolioved that the plan of his hon . friend would destroy canvassing altogether , aad If it did It would confer a great blessing on the csuntry , ( Hear , hear , ) Look , then , at tbo evils of tbe present Byatem , at tho disunion which it created . Let them consider tho trflmt ubo importanco of
our being a united antlon , of not having represented and unrepresented , contanted and disooatented , classes . ( Hear , hear . ) Our relations with foreign countries , the goniTOl peace , all depended upon unity amongst all classes of tbe peop lj of this country . Tho conviction of this W « 8 growing amongst tho people , it was bringing tho middle and working olass together , and the aristocracy would act unwieely if they kept much longer aloof . ( Hear bear . ) It was not oar fleets or armloo however , g lorious miK ht bo thottf hi 9 torieO , which COQfltitUtCd the true glory of this country . That glory consisted in tho indomitable energy and industry of our working classes , whom ic would bo unwiee to keep much longer in a State of degradation . ( Hear , htar . ) Let them , then , discard class differences , spread education with a bold
and free band , throw wide tho portals of tha constitution , eqaaliao taxntioa . Lit them do this , and they would no lontsor have ih' 5 uJlllcns an ullanitad body , but forming Biicfoan array na fisi never yet Seen vppooed to tbo foreign enemy . ( Hear , hear ) Ttey would raise a tropliy not watered by blood , but uoro glorious than the inobt sanguinary victory , Untax us ( aaid the hon member In conclusion ) , oner us t quality , educate our population , eDfrgnctiSseonr population , a . nd then , ana your population . ( ChesTB , mixed with some disapprobation . ) Tnen let the nations of the world bo banded against you , and your people will triumphantl y roll back from your shore every wave of hostility . Iu the words of the great charter , neither deny nor dolay jamice , but grant U frocly and promptly to tho working olaiaes of ths Bii tish empire . ( Cheero . )
Mr Pisbaeli saia that the animates aadoloquaut address if the honourable acmbsr who hisd just ant down did not accord sltoccthcr with the resolution ef the hon member for Montroso . The bcaouroWe member bad avowed hinmjli tbe advocate of ; &e people , whom he cflJled serfe , but where ia iheepe&ah &t tjm . b « nour « b ; e
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member for Montrose could any symptom be fosnd of an Intention to enfranchi » 8 them ? ( Hear , bear . ) The speech of the honourable member referred in his ( Mr Disraeli ' s ) opinion to a class purely Imaginary ; but wnether real or Imaginary , bo one could imagine that the preject of the honourable member for Montrose hod any view Of alleviating their position . The plan was not one intended to annihilate £ 10 householders , neither would it provide the franchise for poets , Bleeping or starving under hedges . ( Hear , hear . ) He could not imagine , then , why tbe honourable member for Oidham should hnve thought it his duty to give la his adherence to a plan which , according tohla ( Mr Disraeli's ) view of the case went to increase the difficulties in the way of grantlag the franchise to the classes of whom tho honourable member professed himself to be the advocate . With rev » . i .. «•„„?¦ . « . « / . ^ m ... * cwmntnm io « nd an
gard to the proposition itself , gentlemen on that ( the Opposition ) side of the hoase stood ia s different position either from members of the government , orfrom tfer honourable member for MontroBo and bla friends . It was not for theai either to defend or to attack the Reform Act—they obeyed it . When that act was proposed it was exposed to unrestricted oritlcism , and perhaps it was all the better for that criticism . But once passed , the general feeling : was to obey tbe law , and the general good sense of the people obviated many defects ia the practical working of the measure . Bat having eaid tbat he did not attaok or defend tbe Reform Bill , he did not think that on the motion of the honourable member for Montroue such declaration would justify htm in avoiding the difficulties of debate , at a time and on a question rrkloh promised to be fruitful of difficulty . He thoald ,
therefore , take the present opportunity of making gome observations on a project which bad bees brought forward with bo much preparation , which bad been ao sedu lously prepared ; but the true scope and meaning of which iie feared was not clearly understood by the bo . nourable member they had just heard , tbe eloquent advocate of imaginary serfs and pauper poets . The hononrablo member for Montroie had been the staunch ad . vocato of fiscal reform , and at every meeting tbat ques . tiod bad been prominently brought forward as the incentive to political revolution . Similar were the prayers of all tbe petitions that bad been presented that evening , and yet the honourable member for Montrsne had In the course of his speech eaid little or nothing of fiscal reform . ( Hear . ) He ( Mr Disraeli ) could eiei / y under stand wby the hon . gestlem&a who had just addressed
the house had not dwelt on ( his eubjeot . He was great at statistics , but not such as were usually beard in that bouse . He could tell the gre % t increase of penDy publications , and the amount of railway intellect , and give a Hat of those publications which were found at railway termini and stations . Although these were of importance tbey did not touch tbe question of fiscal reform , or the grounds on which tbe present movement was originally founded . He reserved to himself tbe right of giving his opinion very briefly upon those meaaureB , whatever he might think of their fallacy or their truth . But the liouBe would agree tbat after four months , daring whioh all England had been told tbat there had been an enor . mous Increase of taxation , end Jo the expenditure ef tbe government , and thia , too , at a period of general disturbance and general revolution—when the people of
this country had bten told , in order to impress upon them that there ought to be a change here in nnieon with the ehangoa which were taking place in other countries In consequence of onr opprejslro taxation and oppressive expenditure of government—it wss of some Importance in such a debate that the house and ihe canntry should know whether tboie pleae were founded Ja truth—whether they were just or not . ( Hear . ) He gave the hon , member for Kontrote and his frtenrfs the benefit of the admission , tbat whether tbe pleas were true or not , however it might damage or benefit the hoa . member's position , these were circumstances which did not affect tho abstract excellence or necessity of his measures . ( Hear ) One word then as to the enormouB increase of t&xatioD , * nhlcb | w&s ( he principal reason pat forward for thfe proposed change fa our
parlisment end our constitution . He ehonld not at midnight refer to documents , except from memory , but the fact ? he was about to mention were well known end antbeaticattd . He would take tbe period in which we were now living , and compare it with a period considerably , but not too tit , distant . He would take a period just before the passing of tho Reform Bill , or twenty years ego . Tbe revenue raised In 1828 , from the ordinary resources , was 49 | millions In round numbers . In 18 ( 3 it was 47 Jmiilkns . ( Hear . ) How was it possible then that bon . gtntlemen could maintain the position , that the taxation of thc ^ country had been oppressively increased f But thiB was not all ; the revenue cf 1828 wag raised from a population of less than 33 , 000 , 000 , while that of 1848 was raised from a population of , in round numbers , 30 , 000 , 000 . ( Hear , hear . ) If
ley calculated per head tbe burden of taxation t those two periods , it would be found tb&t while in 128 it was £ 2 12 s . 2 d ., in 18 * 8 it was only £ 110 s . and a action , ( Cheers , ) TbU was the result on the assump * on jthat the aggregate wealth of tbe country bad in-¦ o ae ' ed in the ratio of the population ; bat all must nl w , for It was proved by the official documents , that the ealth of the eouetry had increased in a much greater itio than the population . What then became of thi ea for political change , which was founded upon tbe ) preseive increase of taxation under the new system troduced by the Reform Act ? ( Hear , hear . ) But it as not only true that the taxation per bead now as comkred witn twenty years ago was infinitely reduced In nount , but there was another" filfCUffl 8 ( 4 ) 109 of ittipOr . nee which must not be forgotten ^ viz .. tb&t there bad
been a considerable re-distrlbutlou of taxation , and tb&t la ever ; instance thatre-dlstributlon had been in favour of the workiBg classes . ( Hear , hear . ) The customs of the years 1827 and 1847 , the financial years oi U 2 S and 1818 , were for 1827 und « r 18 millions , and la 1817 tbey barely exceeded that sum . The excise was abeut twelve millions in both years and tbe stamps and taxes ia both years were nearly the eame . in the post . office there had been an immense reduction in favour of those classes who are said co be suffering from the fiscal oppression of the present system . Here was an actual reduction of taxation of more than £ 2 , 000 , 000 , entirely independent sf the increase in the population , ( Question . ) They were told that there wag such oppressive taxation , and that the government expenditure was go enormous in consequence of the existing parliamentary system ,
that it was necessary to have a reform . He did not eay it W 08 not , He Wished to enter fairly into tfee question ; but let tbera not proceed on fa ! 83 pretenceB , The rate of government expenditure daring tbo last twenty years , notwithstanding tbe great Increase of notions ! wenlth and of tho commerce of the country , had bgen almost stationary , tha weight of taxation beisg about tbe came , The popular plea , therefore , for the proposed change was not true . ( Hear . ) The plea repeated tonight ad nauicam in every petition which had been presented was fallacious and false , and It became Iho duty of tbOBe who bad off-red those petitions to the house to vindicate the accuracy of tbe allegatioas tbey contained . He would now touch upon tho second branch of tbe plan —be meant tha right of voting by ballot . He objected to the chsngo , because bo thought it would lead to greet
evils . He believsd tho change from open to secret voting was an evil , and he would oppose it on that ground . He thought that their security was in tho public press , which expressed public opinion , and denounced corruption with unflinohing hostility , and prevented it from being carried into practice . ( Hear . ) No one bow met thfl Secretary of the Treasury at the gangway and received from him £ 500 as head mousy . ( A laugh . ) . This was tbe practice in this houso not more than seventy or eighty years ago . ( a . laugh and oheorg . ) No such thing took place now . Tlie only thing a member asked a Secretary of tbe Treatury for new waa ' a pair . ' ( A laugh . ) As to tke third point—namely , the limitation of thr period during which parliament wbb to meet , he bad only to Observe , tbat as triennial parliaments was tne good old Tory principle , he could not , as for a 8 principle was
concerned , object to it , Hia only objection to it was that tt was a chaege . Tben as to the fourth pointnamely that relating to electoral districts , be odmidetl it wus oue of considerable importance . A pamphlet on thU subject was put Into the hand of Sir Joshua Walmsley , who told him that it would satisfy his mind on this subject , He had read It , but It had not dono what the hon . ban net tipected it would do . The priuc ' plo of the boi > k was that tho representation of England was founded on its population . In tbe work tbe county of Buckingham wan placed in opposition to tbe county of Lnr . cufter , It was trus that Buckingham was far from being as wealiby bb Lancashire , But Buckingham bad refuaed to pay
fiiiip-inonoy in tho reign of Charles , and it furnished tbe UOU 88 With a BCriOS Of nWo statesmen —( o laugh;—wbo suataiaod the renown of this country , and upheld tbe rights of the people , Buckingham gave a Hainpdeo , and tbe Granvilles , and Mr Burke to tbat bouse , ( Hear . ) Was tben Buckingham to be put tn comparison with manilfflOtUrinj towns , who were born in a day and pro . bODly vnniehod . in another . Now let us consider what members would bo returned for Manchester under the new system . This pamphlet wns the inauufacture of the aew party . Mi- Hume .-That pamphlet was written before tho party wits formed .
Jar DisiuEu . —Then this pamphlet was the origin of the party . According to thia manifesto , Manchester would have seven members . Only think of seven members — wh y , ic was difficult to manageone member—how would it be if there were seven ? ( Laughter . ) Tben Liverpool and Glasgow would havo seven also—all statistical members . ( Laughter . ) Dublin would havo six members , and as all the momtera for Dublin had a petition against them , and as they saw a nobie ird prevented from attending a committee of importance by his duties in that committee , what would be the consequence if they had sevea potitions 1 Birmingham and Leeds were to have five members , and Sheffield four . Under this new system London would hnve forty members , It was uvom-d that this nas a middle class
movement , They avowed that hs this was ftmiddle olass government , that they would force it to carry out their views . Now , what he objected to was , that this party should seek to bo predominant . New , what did that party do ? they carried the Reform Bill , but they de . stroyed thcinJuBtrinl franchise , They enmed colonial reform , which eudedin colonial ruin . Now they attempted financial reform , which was to transfer the burthen of taxation upon realised capital . If this took the hundred millions they had to act upon In imposing ten per cent ., but what competisation for the work thut would ba
displaced by it . There was one point he wished to refer to , and it was this , that this movement was not popular . No gentleman opposite ventured to aay it was of that cha . racter . It arose out of a now prolesslon which hud sprung up ; the profession of agitators . ( Laughter . ) It was , however , o . ily new ttmong us . This new school was the originator of great questions , but whea tUnt was carried , the profession was ruined . There was no chair to fill or secretary required , and no paid orators to be employed . They bad , therefore , to make a new queetiou . Tbe lion member for tbe West Riding H - as satisfleA , toot it did not
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ollow that the deputy-chairmaD , the committeemen , the paidorators , and the pamphleteers , were afro satisfied . The hoa . member for the WeBt Riding adopted the principle of uuwergal peace , jmtatthe moment they wore on the point of universal war . ( Laughter . ) He was , therefore , at fault when this pamphlet came in their w « y > and tbey then adopted their great question of electoral districts . The hon . gentleman then read the prsspedtus and circular letter of tho meeting , which elicited much merriment . He said this movement was factitious . Itoriginatcd with the same party which gave them parliamentary reform , and afterwards coloHial reform , and now attempted financial reform . It was not a pnpular movement . It was erroneous , but not popular . Mr Disraeli thus cnncludcd ; Let me not be misunderollow that the deputy . chalrman , the committeemen . th »
stood , nor It t it be said that I am opposed to all popular interest or to all popular feeling when I say this . No ; it is the same movement that lias given you colonial , com . mercial , and financial reform , and now proposes to give you parliamentary reform . It is the same movement tbat lias always resulted by their own confession , in dis . aster and disappointment . ( Cheers . ) But the remark , able circumstance is this , that tbe present movement has not in the slightest degree originated in any class of tha people , even if the people had been misled . It is pos . Bible that there might be a popular movement and yet erroneous ; but this is erreneous and not popular . ( Cheers and laughter . ) But the moral I draw from all this—from observing this system of organised , agltallon —this playing and paltering with popular passions for the aggrandisement of one tho ambitious class—the moral I dr / iwand tae question I ask is this—why are the
people of England farced to find leaders among these persons ? Their proper leadej's are the gentry of England , and if they are not the leaders of the people it is because the gentlemen of England have been so negligent of their duties , and so unmindful of their station , that this jstem of professional agitation , eo ruinous to tho best intents oi the country , has arisen in Enelnnd . f ^ ear , hear . ) It was not always so . Hon . gentlemen call themselves the country party . Why , that was the name once in England of a party who were the foremost to vindicate popular n KhU-wh o were the natural leaders of trte people , and the champions of everything national and popular ; andvoumust blame younelvea aloao if you liaTe allowed the power tbat has been entrusted to you by the constitution to slip from your bands , to bo exercised for perhaps other interests than the general good of your country . When William Wyndham wag the
leader of the country party , do you think that he would nave allowed any chairman , deputy . chalrman , lecturer , or pamppleteerer , to deprive hiai of his hold on tbo heart * and feelings of the people of this country ? ( Hear , hear . ) No , never ! ( Hear , hear . ) Do you think that when tit question of suffrage was brought before tbe house , he would bavo allowed any class who had boldly avowed their determination to obtain a predominance , to take up and Bettle that question ? ( Hear ) Read what Sir J . Hyde Cotton , in the days of WalpoK said on the question of the suffrage , lie was one of the greatest gentlemen in the country , and he did not run away everj night from the house at half-past eleven o'clock , and allow the country te be ruined . ( Hear . ) If it be necessary that great changes should take place in the country , let them be effected b y those who ought to be the leader * in all great and social changes . Then we shall find changes
not earned into effect for the unbluBhinp purpose of securing a middle-class government , but an BngliBh and a national government , which has hitherto risen to be the pride ol the people , and in which confidence is justly placed . ( Cheers . ) If you are called on to make changes of this kind , it is in your power to make them within the scope and according fo the spirit of the English constitution ; because , notwithstanding the sneers of the hon , gentleman and his friend _ , to-night , I am not ashamed to say that I wish to maintain the old constitution . ( Cheers . ) And I will tell you what I mean . I do not mean the House of Commons ; and still less , a particular party in tlie house , which the hon . gentlemfin opposite seem always to consider the English couititution . But I would effect these changes , if necessary , according to the spirit of the constitution ; it is a capacious spirit ; it will allow to do all that is
you necessary , and yet maintain the in-5 tHutiort 8 of the country . ( Hear , hear ) I would main , tain that constitution not / nere'j because it has secure * to us the sway of an ancient monarchy , mitigated in ope . ration by the co-ordinate authority of popular estates not merely because the constitution has planted English liberty broadly and deepl y in tbe land , and not made it a thing dependent on the breath of an individual or the caprice nnd passion of some great city—not merely because it has secured to us the due administration of justice , and tbe safety of person , ani respect for property ( though there arc ail considerations preat and important ); but I would maintain the constitution , because I firmly believe that of all existing polities it is that polity and that constitution which most tends to secure the happiness and elevate the character of the great body of the people . ( Loud cheers . )
Mr Osbobne moved the adjournment of the debate amidst loud cries for a division . Mr Mackenzie wished to know whether the hon . gentleman ( Mr Hume ) had made arrangements with the government for another night to continue the debate . It seemed to him that hon . gentlemen opposite wished ta go away from a division ou their own motion . ( ' Oh , oh , ' and cheers . ) if ; Hcme was anxious to go to a division—the sooner the better . ( ' Hear , ' and cries of ' DirUJe . 'l But as the debate had cot commenced till soren o ' clock , and a « it wns evident that many gentlemen wished to address the house , he hoped the noble lord would give a day for con . tinuing the debate . Lord J . Russell said that he was not able to fix anyday in the prcscut state of public business . ( Hear , hear , and cries of'Diride . ' j The house was cleared for a division , but none took place , tbe debate having beeH adjourned to F / idav , The house tben adjourned at two o'clock . WEDNESDAY , June 21 .
HOUSE OF COMMOSS .-Mr A . Staffobd moved for a new writ for the borough of Cheltenham . Sir G . Gbby supported the issue of tbe writ , on the ground that there had been no special report from the committee .- ( gainst Cheltenham , whereas there had been special reports against both Leicester and Derby . A smart debate followed , and upon a di ? ision , the numbers werefor tlie motion , „ , »' - > Against it ., 7 Majority —12 The issue ot ' the writ was accordingly ordered . Mr H . Dbcmmond moved the committal of the Tenants at Will ( Ireland ) Bill . Sir S . Grey ui ^ ed the postponement of this stage until the discussion could also b « taken on a similar measure introduced by another bon , member , which would necessarily be a saving of time .
Mr H . DacMMOND , on the ground that his bill only applied to an allowance for money already expended by the tenant , while that referred to by the rijsht lion , baronet was merely of a prospective character , felt it necessary to persevere in file motian be had made . Sir W . Somebviile moved that the bill be committed that day six months , which amendment was eventually agreed to ivictiont a division , and tbe bill was lost . On the motion of Sir D . L . Evans , the house went into committee on the Parliamentary Electors Bill , when the clause ( the only one in the bill ) for determining- the period of payment of the assessed taxes up to the month of October of the previous year , instead of the month of April of that in which the election takes place , as required by the existing act on the part of voters , other , wise duly qualified , was , on a division , affirmed by a majority of * 12 , the numbers 59 to 17 . The heuse resumed and adjourned shortly before five o ' clock .
( Fr om our Second Edition of last ivtck . ) THURSDAY , Jone 15 . HOUSE OF LORDS . —Nj business of any importance wae transacted . HOUSE OP COMMONS . — Spanuh AmiRe . —In re ply to a question of Mr Bankes , Lord John Rosseil stated that the departure cf the Spanish Acftsissadar from this country had aot taken place ia consiqu -aco of bis bting recalled by bis own government , bu" was the result of eoma comcainications which bad p-iBuod between him and Lord Palmer-Bton , relative to the recent dismissal of Sir II . Gulwer from iladrlii . It vias tha inieution of her Majesty ' s government to placsou cbo tabla bo : h thoae communications end the correspondence which bad immediately prt ceded Sir H . Bulwer ' a departure from Madrid . New Wbit ro& Leicestke . —Ur Staffobd then moved for a new writ tor Leicester , which after a lonj diseussiou was mgatued by a majjrity of M 3—the numbers being 129 to 6 .
Pcbuc Hbaltk Bill . —On tho motion of L » ra Moa . PETD tbe House then proceeded with tbo furtuer consideration of ihe Public Health Bill , and it was ordered to be rend ix third tlnid OU ilaudav ne * t . Boaocou Elections Bill . —The House then resalvod Itself into committee on the Borough Elections Bill , aad wjo occupied for some time in dUcusoing the various clauses , after which the ITousc aCjounh d . ( From our Third Edition of last week . ] FRIDAY , Joke 16 . HOUSE OP COMMONS . ~ Suo . AR Dcties . —Lord J , Rcssell submitted the views of tho government with refcreace to the sugar questioa and tbo state of distress existing in tho West Indies ; the propobitioa being , ae reirnrds tbe 1 st tor , to make an advance on the security of thu colonial revenue , <¦* to guarantee a loan of £ 500 , 000 for the purpose of providing : an importation of emigrants ;
that sum to be tn addition to the one already allowed tj the bouse fyr carrying out that object . The further propositions with respect to ihe duties on tugar w 6 r 6 the fallowing , to come into oporatiou at t ' ao period stated . Year ending Foreipn . Colonial . July 5 . Brown clayed . Muscovado . Muscovade , s . d . =. d . B . d . I 1819 20 ( I „ ....,...
equalised on all cIrsscs of sugars at 10 < . It was al * o proposed that ihe diff rcutialdu'y on ruin should bo reduced to Id . per gallon , end tbat thu permission given last year for tho use of sugar in brewariea should oe withdrawn ; but , as rpgntded distilleries , no advantaRO hnving buen gained from tho use of sugar , tbe pfrmisr sion would contiaue . The drawback to bo diminished in proportion to tho changes cli'ectej . Tho noble lord concluded by moving thut on Monday the nouso should rtsolve itsilf into 0 committee on the act of 1840 . After a protractod debate , thu motion was agreed lo . Navioatio >< Laws , —On the question of going into committee on the Navigation Laws , tho house divided , whes tho motion was cfttried hy tt majority of 87 , Cfcc numbers bcini ; 119 to 32 .
Lori ! John Uus'ELL postponed hU notice for bringing ia a bill to repeal the Assessed Taxes clause of tbe H «' farm BUI until F : idny next , aad the house odjonrnefl . j , r . . . , . , dill , , , j , , rs . ^ .... ^ tmr
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 24, 1848, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1476/page/8/
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