The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1852.

with the weight of responsibility throws on me, to take the
eserstast et the publicaffairs of the erialry. Hader these eir-
minerses her Majesty's govorseasat will have to appeal to
the hebeenam d its IN sad to the petrel insial-
riblike
mime. y lords, khart that
• the t
troversial
'Peregjgljtrupting
dm sod ageing the s Mit A ~ moderate.
MaspoWnlik tsetgeelle et I redid
.character
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ta
and the
WI et osAA • aced I belie •smiding all
ussemseery peaty queetimie, wan apply lies to Own
=eft= matey has long felt an
fm llersst memoressailif rl:fr silaPlifraft and
improving ; eseawla
of social rimy der intprriag the 'on mud comfort of
the pesolo-1 lawn thatorms as aminority in the Hoses
of Commons, we shall set rattans) or dishonourably eon-
duet the government. AM, say lords, if interrupted in
this mime by • mass feetim opposition, I have that cont.
the goal mines it the country to believe that that
helm will, at so distant period recoil upon the authors
and of it. Among the measures, however, of
aedai improvemeat to which I allude, I do not include one
whisk her Majesty's late government thought it necessary
to call the attention of parliament to. It was announced
by the Ines government that they intended to introduce,
and I believe they did introduce into tho other house of
parliament, these Mmenres In some degree musette& with
each ether. The tint far the disfranchisement of a
borough seeseimmly corrupt; the second, for foci-
litating the somas of Rilaraimiag into and cor-
recting sad astroiling these corruptions in other
= sea:d. the third muoure *morning a somewhat
essortmest of topics, but containing, as its
Maw feature, luge and extensive alterations in the elec-
tive meter, and die electoral districts. (Hear, hear.)
With regard I. the first measure, without dealing with in-
dividual opesetime, I avow that rne is no man ready to go
farther than I sou, and I am sure in this I speak the sense
of my is checking, by all possible seem, that
cm mad al system of bribery which I ass afraid
to a great extant within the last Ipyeary
and which is intensity of evil puts into the shade the
Meal kasence by which the constituencies were previesely
sestrelMd. I say no man ?hall go further thee her Ala-
s government is 'Mug to check that system so far as
it can be ehmhedbyleghlMiee, and la seeking to visit it
with eserliga puudimmmt. whoa the easel sod enormity
of it he been posed. Nor de I ipotesi
in
a mutest that
the *mem of aitatios hstredscod in 1831 was a per-
igee maws, or tole of atamdmeat. I think it may
have Mules ; I think there may have Mesa, sad
As min, la the melee of times abases degrading a moody ;
bat before yea smelt to apply a remedy, and pledge your-
self to a delialesplea of unsettling dist whim is, be quite
mare you know the sours' you are Meet to adopt, be mai*.
lied of the evils you mesa to asset, sad he mated that
the messidy yea propose ft
42reriieseauesZed to meet
gad DM Ws megrims the (Bear, boar.)
teyrse.,!flonk Ido Meer your and if Ima
is the premises eat
say of them, would entreat
es7abars et the ether house of parliament, and I would
mikes the seriously to made? the imalgalable
frager be the Ymaliberties of the eosatry, of iseemantly,
ekes abler time, asthig weeyeslag nevi settiMg necking,
✓iag the seidisabled with that wideh wi
`seta the slightest rearing that dimetithetiaa by
that whisk yes mopes. to substitute. Ilse Majesty's
ge-
verwat dyes set prepare I baselly my, to premed
with that maws for the redeem of the representation
whisk wee beesilased by the late goerament. Os the
ether head if yea will show us sabsteatlsl grievances, sem
will be more ready than my colleagues and myself to meet
them grievances, if we can sr the remedy that can
le properly applied to meet them without, at the
same time, involving further change to the constitution. I
haw' eat whether I am correct is my statement, but I
have beard that my noble friend—l hope to call him so, la
spite et oar pelitsal differences—who immediately me-
ceded me, Is some maser, sad for some cause that Ira
at a Ime Se immehend. ebisted together an extensive re-
form Is iseellemmil with as extensive education of the
people. I believe, for the mimes of improving the ahem-
ties of the sissistry, no tratessies of the suffrage is nem
may, or will have the Memel art en it. I feel, and I
rejoice to feel, that the ketteg Mar emensunity at large,
the conviction of all alma, high and low, rich and poor, is
this—they have come to the conclusion that the greater the
amount of education you are able to give and the more
widely you can spread that education throughout the
maser of the community, the greater chance
then is for the tranquillity, happiness, and well-
being of the. seesetry. (Um.) But when use the
ward wheselka," don't let me be misunderstood. I
deal mom the mere development of the mental faculties,
the mare eagelMion of temporal knowledge and mere
iormelimossidbleedleglit ask may b ,which may enable a
ma to keparte his astlities halite, and may give him fresh
tastes and MM. mai the mans and opportunity of grati-
fying these tsetse and IMMO but, valuable as that may be,
when I speak of editorials I meek of this alone—education
involving the sultan it the egad and of the soul, laying
the begs sad hismiatiss of all knowledge upon the know-
ledge Otis lieriPeose. My lords, I desire to look upon all
these who re eareged athe work of spreading knowledge,
h they be of different Christian communities to
lititittlf which I em a nacre and attached member—l
desire to look upon them rather as fellow rhymes
than rivals, in a warfare against vies and imeorality. Bat
I trust' shall sin nothing which could be offensive to any
of them who be to other communities, when I say chef,
ice the promotion o education sal religious knowledge, ,
test mainly on the exertions, the alga, indefatigable, sad
enlightened exertions of the perelialedergy. My lords,
hem been anxious to uoiieW the amok to which they
belong, as the depository of what I Wien to he the troth'
sad as the instrument and geed here and
leading to still greater and noes hereafter.
I say st is not only the istsweet,o* of her Ma•
jeaty's governorate to uphold gad melatela thumb is
all its integrity, set by penal easetweals who these who
may differ from R get by violent if t languor
against the rodgiess bitli of these whims eines we may
deplore, has by sesseisk,
__maiseisig all seemple at agree.
aim epee the *Ma, Winless, add pamemiess or that
chunk seam hem what quartet sod -backed with what
weight it milibeeley they may be, and by lending every
=wed the gommeat to nipper sad Mead its in-
in the mei. et its high and help ealliag—the
Males thseugbeet the width end breadth of the land—
Vaspeak set may et this oesetry—of that kaowledge
us waist Aseivei hem the difmies the Holy
, hem.) My lords, I believe that I
des e
Vie—liskpeelese at NNW leagth than I ought to have ,
and I hope ma with sada, and asinecessery freakiest—a
full statement of the prissiples en which we to set
athe sinensive diftakies whisk ere i hem war
• lionHaar, bass.) I hope I have minted the
primipies sa whisk we propose to ceadatt the admishers-
tics ; Mar,* only sash listens as are set now n
My lords, Ise my ems peel, mime I leek to the difwNles
whisk earrouad us,—whes I leek M the maim eisease-
Nome which nest emblem he glue us a dames of easesos-
folly amousitering the miens great ehelaglee that impede
oar peek I essibee list I ma appalled by the magnitude
of
thiMls•Mes of the Wk which I have seallertakes ; bat
I believe that the destinies of a Wide see is the hand of
ea rrer-reliag Providence; and I haw Oat it sham it the
of that Great Bolsi to chest Ms owe high domes
Clyeaffwgegeke and unwoethy swam. Is he pessmes I ma
selemsly declare, that an native of pemmal mildest has
led me to disregard the dinenit position in whisk the ffe-
verameat is placed. la the mane of thell=leite
gnat duties I have umisetakee,
Is sway me, emptier; these wbhi have led me to
swept 'lke a pommies* seseiderMiss at pal&
duty; sad, with that feeling Is 4 stud,—with
that deep conviction of the sineenity of my own motives,
trusting to the guides*, mad support of higher powers them
my held
I have willkrab indefinites a tisk from while I
the Amid have Metal_ appalled by itemegninre. dad
he the period of my administration law re • r slioner. at
=gisalesti I have Allied the gesseset sliest tif pemeasi
Mt I shall lave anted ass of the
jests ethemies being, the prometies of pease apes aseth
:tarsi will amen am, the admassesest et
sad orligiess ismommast of the emsstry,
*all have wall emedliated to the eighty wed beam of the
sovereign mid her dersiaions. (Loud deem)
Berl GREY rose, but was for some mements totally in-
audible. Ido not intend to dwell um the several topics
Memed by the noble earl. I wish to eapa few words on
e= only. The noble earl has desired, with that
which I expected from his, what the
principle is on which the financial and commercial
policy of his administration is to be conducted.
The noble earl has described that principle with great
clearness, and the comparison which he drew between the
tariff of the United States and the tariff of this country,
for the purpose of explaining it, was a perfect illustra-
tion. It is true, as the noble earl says, that the prin-
ciple which has been adopted in this country, within
the last few years, has been so to improve the duties levied
under the customs laws, that they fall entirely, or as
nearly as poriblo, oa goods imported from abroad, which
do not compete with articles produced in this country. On
the other hand, the noble earl has told us that the principle
lotted on in the United States is the very reverse. Ihe
noble earl has told us that in the United States they do not
tan some of the great articles of consumption produced
allettedi—such as tea ; but that they do tax articles which
me produced partly at home and partly imported from
Monad, and with the avowed object of giving
protection to their own produce. The noble lord
SW the effect of this system of taxation is, that
M relieves the people from a large amount of taxation.
(Hear hen.) Upon this the noble earl bases an argument
whishl seams I was not quite able to follow, but which
swami Mow as the noble curl was understood to ear) was
inteaded to show that the price of the article was not af-
fected. Now it has long been an argument with us that
when you impose a duty on one article partly imported
from abroad and partly produced at home, you raise the
price to the consumer, not only of the imperfect article, but
of that which is prodeeed at home ; and that, so far horn
its being favourable to the revenue, the direct opposite is
the case. You levy a very large tax upon the consumer,
not one sixpence of which is paid into the revenue, of the
state. (Cheers.) The article of corn is one on which •
duty of the kind alluded to by the noble earl formerly ex-
iced. The revenue derived from that duty was very laces-
siderable. But the noble earl wished to reimpose the duty
which previously existed. If he does so, I have no
doubt he will not only Ms' e the price of the four or five
million qu•rters of corn imported into ibis country, but of
the much larger quantity which is produced in this country,
and which dues out go into the Exchequer. Suppose that
the noble earl imposes a duty of lie. per quarter on the
4,000,000 quarters imported, he will revenue a levy of
1,000,0001. to the Exchequer. But the price of the four or

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