The Press. — London, England, 1853-06-04 00:00:00

JUNE 4, 1853. CHIEF CoMMIsSIoNER : Is it a tact that in 1829 you expressed your readiness to assist the Duke of Wellington in governing the ►country, by becoming a Lord of the Treasury ? Sir .1. GRAHAM: I am proud to say that, at so early a period of my career. I appreciated the great civil qualities of one who sub. sequently became the most illustrious of my colleagues. CHIEF COMMISSIONER: But his Grace (lid not then avail himself of your services ? Sir J. GRAHAM: He did not. CHIEF COMMIssIONER : And I believe you then went to Brookes's, and stated that you had no doubt the Duke meditated the estab lishment of a military despotism, and that he ought to be im peached" Sir J. GRAHAM : Impeachment is a great constitutional weapon. CHIEF CoMMISMONER: I apprehend I am not in error when I state that, after having produced a very able work in favour of an inconvertible paper currency, you were one of Sir Robert Peers principal supporters in framing the present Bank Charter Act ? Sir J. GRAHAM: Each work may have been adapted to the period in which it appeared. CHIEF COMMISSIONER : I believe you left Lord Grey's Cabinet on a "No Popery" cry yourself ? Sir J. GRAHAM . Something of that sort. CHIEF COMMISSIONER: And that you and Lord Aberdeen refused to join Lord John Russell in 1851, because you looked upon a Protestant ;policy for this country us an " impracticable ab- surdity" ? Sir J. GRAHAM ; I will not canvass your statement. CIIIEE COMMISSIONER : I believe that in the year 1841 you gave it as your opinion in the House of Commons that the manufac turing system of this country was too much developed, and denounced the Whigs as pirates, because they proposed a fixed duty of Ss. per quarter ou corn ; and that a very few years afterwards you induced your colleagues totally to repeal the Corn Laws, on the ground that England was not an agricul tural country ? Sir .T. GRAHAM : 1 dare say all these things may be found in Hansard. CHIEF COMMISSIONER: I have pursued this line of inquiry because, as you state there is no predominating opinion in the Cabinet. it is important to ascertain what may be the opinions of those who arc predominating members of it. Sir J. GRAHAM : All the members of the present Cabinet are pre• dominating members. Sir R. INGLIS: Having stated to the Commissioners that with refer ence to all the important questions. both of foreign and domestic policy, specially mimed to by the Chief Commis sioner, little or no unanimity prevails in the present Cabinet, and having given us to understand that, not improbably, there may not be two individuals in her Majesty's Govern ment who are of the same opinion on any given subject, and having led us to believe that on all subjects of great public interest, both civil and ecclesiastical, your own views arc liable to frequent, not to say periodical, change, would you have the extreme goodness, if possible, succinctly to place before the Commissionerss what, in your estimation, is the main and undeniable motive which induces so many dis tinguished statesmen, still of discordant opinions, and who have passed the greater part of their lives in mutual recrimi nation, to join together so unexpectedly for the conduct of public affairs? Sir J. GRAHAM I look upon the motive that animates us, and super sedes all difficulties of opinion or conduct, to be PERSONAL HOSTILITY TO LORD DERBY. CHIEF COMMISSIONER : Then you conceive that to he the principle on which the present Government is established? Sir J. GRAHAM : And carried on. CUM' COMMDMONEn : I believe relations of very intimate friendship once subsisted between you and Lord Derby ? Sir J. GRAIIAM : They did. CHIEF COIMMISSIONER: Pray. Sir James, do you happen t o be ac. quainted with Lawyer Ford, of Newmarket? Sir J. GRAHAM (somewhat surprised. and drawing up): I do not exactly catch the purport of the Hon. Commissioner's question. rum: CommostoxEn : I repeat the question, and require nn answer. sir J. GRAHAM: It is not impossible that I may have heard of such a person. Cm El , COMMINSIONtR : Were you ever mistaken for him? Sir J. GRAHAM : There are second nicaning,s to be attached to the word "mistaken." aL~'.~ ~ ~n~ls~r6 THE PRESS. 100 Cum . Comennuosem : Is there that resemblanee between yon iu stature. countenance, expression, and rock of the hat, that you might be taken one for each other? Did any person ever stop you in the street. for him? Sir T. kiRAHAM : It may be. CHIEF COMMISSIONER: Phil you ever hear that Lord Derby said that you were so alike that you might. be driven in a curriele ? Sir .1. ORAHAM : I believe that is not in Hansard ; but it may have been Paid nevertheless. CHIEF COMMISSIONER : You may retire. Iler 'Majesty's Commis sioners have at length sueceeded in aseertaining the principle on whieh the present Administration is founded and c arried on. We must proceed at our next. meeting to the third and most important branch of our investigation. namely. the menus by which the present occupants of the Treasury bench obtained their scats. (Adjourned to Friday ne.• f.) A NEW ELECTORAL. FACT. 11113 T TO AN 01. D TUNE. I'll give you, Sir Member, a twelvemonth or twain To canvass our boroughs again and again : But neer shall you find, though you work till you tire, So potent an aid as the barefooted Friar. Yon knight, by his agent, solicits a seat. And is proved in cotutuittee to bribe an►l to treat He expeete►l, poor fool, to be Knight ►►f the shire Without the support of the barc6sited Friar. Your free-bleeding trader his Money pays ( loan, And trusts to the service of Consul or Bro WII He finds, to his cost, 'twould be eli.iper to hire A wild Irish mob wed a barefooted Friar. The Friar is gone forth. and, wherever he goes. Electors and eandidates worship hi- , toes: And the heir of a dukedom will kneel in the mire A blessing to beg from the bale-fo o ted Friar. If he's seen at a hustings, no wight in the trw►n Dares whistle Boyne Water" or Crop pies lie Dowu " For, in street or in court, every bully and liar Will break heads or oaths for the barefooted Friar• If he been at a riot, a fig for pollee. Not a sword or a truncheon dares ?Strike for the peace For the Liberals would hang high as Homan, or higher. Every man that opposes the barefooted Friar. Long flourish the sandal, the Vora. and the cope, The dread of the Tories and trust of the Pope For to carry elections, whate'er may transpire, I granted to none Slave the baretnoted Friar. MORA! . Ye Westminster Soions, who sit on eommittee, Come read me this riddle whieh closes my ditty ; Say why is your goddess SO tender and pure, That the smell of a sixpence she cannot endure ? By bribery tainted, she dies like the ermine. As if gift meant in English what gift means in German; But her physical sense is not shocked in the least, If ordure is thing by command of a priest. Ye purity-mongers, who faint at. " job." If you vote the right side, and are friends to King Mob, With cash in your pockets and will to spend free. Would you purchase with safety the rank of M.P.? Bestow not a shilling on holders of votes, Withhold bite and sup from electoral throats Buy brickbats and bludgeons, go boldly to work, For Meanly and }'A6AN are NiVIONTS 101' fork. THE llamAnt Orr-mlomuvaThe present position of Brigade rebukes prophecy but reiterates fact. As usual, after Derby cotnes. not the Deluge, but the Hume. the the A PhRORATION FOR THE " PONY 111.:El.."—o commend til his fby el low•countrymen the virtuen of " untaxed hemp T , nu longer leavened a same of injustice." 1