The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-04 00:00:00

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The Right lion. T. Macaulay addressed his
o . reel runt
the Music-hall, Edinburgh, this
he lies had of thanking theta
traii;Zlirst opportunity
hoeour done him in remising him, unsolicited, end
nee, Se One Of the repreeentatives fur the city of
.-A"T -.•
• TM hell was ilensely crowded immediately on
lb. • - ed, nod they were cloned against *eye-
. . t* opt
nt
0,10 sought admittstice. The organ
I'D--;;ei.a the el itprin was occupied by a brilliant
e, ■Dlece Of The audience could not be lees
tbsu ,h4eese,l five toward, the music hall being the
1.; oe uniting in Edinburgh. On the platform
Cowan, M.P. telt. seaulay's celleessue), Sir
▪ io Cram, who sat foe li,linburgh la last par-
e,- • t • Mr. Monerielf, M.P. tor Leith; Mr. Elastic, M.P.
y ; Mr. Hartman, Mr. Adam Black (chairman),
,kise member. of the Edinburgh wing mearnutee.
nit MN IL. 1•11.0, on the mitiou of Sir W. G. Craig,
ennpretulated the elector. on once more
w▪
eer Mr. seacamay•s presence among them, and intro-
, the right him. gentli in to the meeting.
4.Mr. Mei. et Lae was received by the assemblage rising
nil cheering bim with trenien•lous enthusiasm.
• a *licit prolonged and ethrepeated plaudits had sub-
wet, the right hon. g..ntternan addressed themes follows:-
G, elem.-10 thank you from nip heart kW this kind remption.
In trut. it has almint overcome me. Your good
ara; anahl w ill wire always very valuable to me-more valu-
far than any voice, object of ambition-moo TAW,
an than any oilier. however lucrative or dignified. In
truth, no office' however lucrative or ilignifieu, could have
howled me to do what I have done upon your summons-
to eve again the happiest re,' mot IfSIOISII of ell retreats
far th • beetle of political life. But the honour which you
bus, knonferre,l upon me -an honour of which the greatest
nom gawps% well be urouil -an honour such as it is in the
r„,s, of a free people to bestow-laid on me
ink:, an Mitigation, that I should have thought it Mgrs.
tou.le-I should Alva thou4itt it pusillansmity-not to
in-Mr at lest en effort to serve you. (I. 'ml theirs.)
-tad here, gentlemen. .se hays m. t again in kinder..,
altar a long separation. it i, noire than five years since 1
gaol in this very plat--a large part of human tutu ! There
are taw of us on whom thou' fie* years base not set their
mirk -few circles trout which alum live years bare not
nso ay what tea never be replaced. Even in this
tuulteude of friendly feces I look in vain fur some which
he, this day have been lighted up with joy and
e„,htess I miss one venerable man, who, before I was
bee:, in evil Selen-in taw-sof oppression and corruption
-hat adhered, with almost ...Hwy fidelity, to the cause of
to. iom, end whom I ho, w, in advanced age, but still in
te. tall a igour of mind And holy, enjoying the respect and
er.'itele of his fellow-citizens. (Good applause)
an •e: ini'eed be most ungrateful it I could on this day
tore. t sir James Gibson Craier-(great chessing)-
; oldie spirt, his judicious counsel, sad hia
fat.srly ▪ se to myself. And LAM Jeffrey too [here the
nzhi geotlensaw exhibited gnat emotion, sod the
man • was received with sympathetic cheersi-with what
an .ffueea of generous etre. ,vii he would today have wel-
ciscl me back to Edinburgh. (Cheers.) He, ton, is
jr, u. • but the reinembrence of him is one of many ties, which
bunt me to the city which he loved, and with which his
fame 0 110., parahly associated. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen,
it i- not only here, that in entering again, at your cell, ono
VIM* of life which I believed I had quitted (or ever, I shall
be psintully reminded of the changes which the last five
years hare pnaducail In parliament I shall look in vain
got eietweerhic.i 1 loved, and fur abilities which I admired.
Oft, ii in debate, and never more than when we diecuss
thi great questions of colonial policy which are every day
Stplii.l4 anew interest, I shall remember with regret how
much chipi.nce, end wit, and acuteness, and knowledge
-how m any engaging qualities-how many fair hopes -
arc hurled in the grave of pour Charles Buller.
There were other men, too, with whom I
amt an piny sad lot!e persona', connexion-men to whom
I way' during the greater part of my public life, honestly
opposed, but of whom I cannot now think, without
grieving that their wisdom, their experience, and the weight
et their great rimers, can . ore, in the hour of need,
bring L. tp to the nation or to the throne. Such were those
sea eminent men whom I left at the head-one of civil, the
other of military fame-one the oracle of the House of •
nitmons-tbe other the oracle of the Mune: of Lords.
Item were ports of their long public life which they theist-
'elves, I am persuaded, would, cm a calm retrospect, have
al:owed were ten. ble ; but it is impossible to desygthat
each of them, in his own department. saved the state. One
at them brought to a triumphant close the most for-
midable candid in which this coastry was ever en-
against a foreign enemy; the other, at a seer
Wan re
an immense ascritice-of perseasi feeling and per-
exist ambition, freed us from an odious monopoly,
which n old nut hav•ezisted many yews longer without
producing the meet fearful intestine discords. (Lend
theirs.) I regret them both, hot I peculiarly regret him
oho is weiortateil in my mind with the place to which you
have tent me. I shell hardly know the House of Commies
without Sir Robert Peel. (Cheen.) The first evening I
took my mat there, in 11130, he was there as the he= of
the government in that house ; sad during all the years
of my parliamentary service which followed I scarcely re-
member one important discussion in which he did not bear
a part with couspicuous ability. His figure is now be-
fore vie-all the tones or his voice are in my ears ; sad
the pain with which I thigh that I shell savor sae him
again would be embittered by the reoellection of
soma sharp encounters that took plea, between us
were it not that at the last there was as entire sad
cordial reconciliation, and that only a very Non days be-
fore his death I had the pleasure of receiving from him
narks of kindness sad esteem, of which I shall always
Maoris& the tecillectima. (Loud applause.) Bat, path-
aim it is est only by those changes which the natural law
e[ sorWiey rodscrs-it is sot only by the sucemeive dis-
malness, of great men, that the face of the world has
leen rigged daring the Ave years width have elapsed
gime w mat hen last. News tines the night of as sues
hen then base in years um fondle be poet meta. or
lee lean whin Mee lilt bolded the. men awhl laseran.
• Imo lived may Was In that time. The mobasises
of ages have been asap ramed Sato • few onatha. ham,
G :mazy. Ilenigney, Italy-what • history In thin
bye When ea met ban last, then woo no out-
ward show of ty, and her ens of wine
hew what wild what TIM tbseens, wen be-
wows an panda estadre. lIMMOSO omit.
sem to ell senanabis shim-radsomee mimed het on
day Myod the signal foe the ea=
on lbw is Milers of Enda to no
Clons, nefoin sad mom The slants
of thogroatoot NOM of Range wan_ u?:
ban* ler-
rinks, sod wen stromiag with civil Rein
of Weems led bon Peres; the Pops lad from Same;
the Emperor of Austria was sot oafs is Vienna ; pepalae
Imitations were throne down at lll•ssaiss • pspnlse for
stitatina ware dsetrepil at Regis.
viatica was sitting at Bean, aml amattrat Ihnomellio
easvemtion wee sitting at Faddist Toe nmembor,
am sure, too well how son the what oed ibo mot beast
hateds of refess--eleses as who won most Wind to
lea with Walpole es the saw= impanhis dim the
Mauna of robin Itioarsallool
rim issgats the llT"lire
ant haw all walboaato
mod
serial, nos hought IWO MO
ties. Toe realllUMlt 11•11. OS of dimeloatod
lotions to their 1,0111110•140. WON Ilighal Oro Wed at
Wow te mates, ssi Willa IS dela la Mao doe nyostfo
I stood aghast. a • amorin &go& •
boo -antaralis iletelalserk hap to no pogrom
of unaided-I hr mem* dsabt wlt~ the
course of amided was an to ha hoed lui, mod Menu
we wen est to gam, is am petwallise. hem Ihe dellholloa
ef the eleemeth Maw* to Ma loneriem of ths an. I
numbered that Ades DNA mil that Gibbet hod UM es
that here wait rowass. bea dalmatian of enamel=
by boiliarese. That On mid, wadi wmoo Men
to cam the mob ; they mon to leases=
for they eamend the Mann Memel at no
yen of the mid with the woolum of that pan mein
remained as sad asked fromwhom wan to as
those Hass, a vage,n from when. were to ems tares Veadols,
who ww• spit to dingy divinities'. Al. lit did net
occur to them diet enlistees itself Mem einineili tire
barbarians who sheik! destroy it. It did aft eons to ram
that, in the yen beer. of gnat anisis, la tho
!towhead of *mad palms, ma churn's. and
and libraries, mod monan Ms, sad fgesommia
many mignon/moo a me of Dm bias Me Mesa
who osier Amiluemredd Van a& me,. MO an
destreetion then then who Oman. (Loud sad
Prolonged applause.) Bosh was the danger. It mead
danger.
-civilisation was saved, bat at what • print The
tile of feeling tuned. It ebbed Mout as frig so Y hod
risen. Imprudent sod obstinate OnWitile M nts•Withlis
demands bed brought en anaselsy,ssed as um as use
saw the evils of anarchy. they Ma lea ia to
is
crouch ender despotism. To the domino of mobs
armed with pikes succeeded the MIMI and as. Bat-
fro dominion of discipliesdermien The popsy no=
from its ithemosent-rose mon istaknont ad own
than before-intolerant and lowsloall as is tho tip of SW
dehrand-intolerant and MUM to a deem Mt dlmestgail
and disappointed those who lid hedtkallsosegbr tho hop
that its spirit had bees unplug fin Bee st_ifen
and by the progress 01 hareederillim Imoge__e_ewomi'
region where, little men ilea sone pro ago, we mown
in vain for any stable authority, we Saw leek as vilely hr
any trace of constitutional hoodoos. (Cheers.) Aad was
in the meantime, have boss imempt from both the
calamities which have wow& ride on all monad es.
Thy madness of IfteS did eat subvert our Throne;
the reaction which followed has not touched our
lthi vie,. (Loud cheers.) And why was this f Why
has our country, with all the ten plagues ragtag
vowel, been another land of Goshen ? Everywhere
else the thunder and the are have been running along
l!.. itronnd-a very grievous storm-a storm such se the
like has nut been known oe earth-and yet everything is
tranquil re he. There was then thick night and darkness,
which might be felt, yet light in all our dwellings. (Loud
the ere.) Weenie this. under the blessing of God, to a wise
and noble comititution, the work of many generations, sad
of ge at men. Let us profit by the lemon which we ham
received, and let as thank God that we profit by the ears-
'juice of others, and not by our own. Let us prise that
constitution-lit us purify it-let as amend it; bat let as
not destroy it. (Loud cheers.) Let us shun ezuseaso, ern
only because each Mils* is in itself • positive evil, bet
also because it has been proved to as by cantina PO
each extreme necessarily engenders its opposite. If WSW'
civil and :r us ens freedom, let in every day of
hold law order ; litre are zealous fur law anit=
us loins, as the best security of law and order, Mate
and religious freedom. (Cheers.) Yea, Renme,.
reason that oar liberties remain in the midst of the plod