The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28. 1852.

that subject la terms which lead me to hope
la
that soma of his eolleagut s have already reeaseidered l*:liv.th'e
extreme opinion' which they exressed In the other house
en the principle of the badges, which they thee
: rated they heti, vied would destroy public credit and
endanger the nation,' honour. Sincerely do I hope that
the noble earl sad his colleague., when they Whig forward
their ea n budget, may he walled to frame the renewed
income-tee on such • looting of justice—l cannot say of ab-
so ate nod positive equity to all classes—but of justice in is
general amngements—such as may indut.e the Home or
comm.,.. to COIIMInt to the requipositiou of Om tea; for I
can 140,111.0 the noble earl that nu men is more desirous than
1 am to preserve inviolate the faith of the country, and to
minim due supplies for the exigencies of the public service ;
and no man can be more entirely convinced than I am,
that, without • renewal of the income tax, in some shays er
alter, neither the present nor any other government cas
obtain the requisite revs nut. (Hear, bear.) I make them•
remake with • very general auplication, and speaking only
of the vague programme of the measures of the nuli:e earl,
solar as he has yet developed them. I must, however,
tike occasion to protest against the linguae which the
noble earl has used, as applied t i
now his colleagues—thot between them there is only a dis-
tinction without a differenet—and that there ere such emus
teriai points of difference hetweee all parties as to make the
"sentry at last sick of seeing nominalseperations between
public men. The noble earl must forgive me for sating that
either on this or On a former occasion he has been greatly
mistaken; that be is misteken in respect to there being
no differeuers between himself and his colleagues ; or that
he was mistaken who n he stated that between Wined( end
me there was only a diffaeme with respect to recent cum-
mereial legislation. I will nut enter into a consideration
of the personnel of his cabinet ; and I will not discuss noe
mu' oat concession. which may have been nude of private
and individual feelings. In • free country I know it is
nee ..... y for some extreme °Maine* to be conceded,
and fur gentlemen acting together In a political
party to consent to such suppressions or modifica-
tions of their own views ae, without a violation
of their pries:plat, tend to the harmonious, safe, and sue
ce.siul action of the wtmle body. But when lam told that
the present cabinet esnyriaes the names of all the meet im-
portant men, the heeds of all the principal parties in this
country, then I say, it seems to me that concession must
have been carried to a very contederable degree—to •
degree, at which I cannot help doubting whether the ad-
vent/ego gained by temporary If 01On. as members of the
seine government, may not be counterbalanced by the crea-
tion of a distrust in the public mind, as to the prim
ciples on which that alliance is vs be conducted.
I must say I was umeished at the noble earl when he
stated that fur the last thirty years the foreign policy of this
count,.. had substantially been the same. I quite concur
in those views of foreign policy which the notate earl his
this evening developed They are, I believe, precisely the
sling views which I expressed when first speaking for the
late government from the place which the noble earl now
occupies, and when I was fortunate enough to obtain the
noble earl*. approval. But when I look back on the recent
history—when I consider the antecedents of the noble earl
—sad when I recollect the language in which the
noble earl eonamented on the system—not on incidental
episodes, but on the system in which the foreign
puiicy of the country was at one time oonducted
by statesmen who are now the colleagues of the noble earl,
I must say that we are going very far indeed if we agree
with the noble earl now that there is only a distinction
without a difference between the foreign policy of the pre-
sent g mint, and of the government against whom the
noble earl, on the ground of its erreueous foreign policy,
has so often, so ably, cud so eloquently inveighed. (Hear,
hear.) The noble earl hoe intimated to us that be intends
and he desires to promote and to develope the national
education ; giving Sue weight to the authority and influence
of the religious views of the country, but at the same
time basing the system of national education upon equality
and toluatton. fhe idea is mast praiseworthy ;it is one
in which I entirely Concur. The difficulties in the way of
earryint out the wish tau great, as the noble earl is evi-
dently well aware ; and I only hope and trust that the
noble earl may be enabled to surmount those difficulties,
and to plus before the country a plan of national education
in which all parties may concur ; and I express this hope
because 1 agree with the noble earl that in the extension of
education—by which I mean education governed by rel.-
Rion, as I fun sure the noble earl 'swain, tou,—lite
the best security for the social and political
safety cud prosperity of the empire. (Hear, hear.)
The noble earl also announces his drain to proceed on a
system of administrative reform ; and upon that again
there can be no dtfference of opinion, and the noble earl
will not aoticipate in that rupee any opposition from me
or from my friends—at all events, with regard to the prin.
ciples—the details, of course, depending on the skill with
which the measures may be constructed. The noble earl
also tells its that be intends to deal with the laws affecting
the representation of the people. On that subject the noble
earl spoke is a toile somewhat oracular ; fur be said
the noble lord the member for is city of London
must b. a conservative, us he would nut have joined that
noble lord isi a government ; am: that, on the other hand
he must be a liberal, or the noble lord would not have
joined him. Perhaps he might have mentioned other
members of the government on whom he might have de-
pended for even a larger degree of liberality than charac-
terised the noble lord; but the antidassia was, perhaps,
complete: and the noble earl has contented himself with
stating tha. his measure of parliamentary reform will be
couservativety liberal, and liberally conservative, which is
all the intimation we are to have with resets' to the future
policy of the government. I confess that that does
not convey to my mind ary very distinct idea,
and I hardly think teat it Can be satisfactory to the coun-
try. The advantages to the noble earl are obvious from
this vagueness; fur whatever his unwire, he can say that
he had described it. If it is extreme, and people complain
that it goes too far, the noble earl will say, " Well, did not
I tell you I meant to be liberal ;" and it other parties say
". Oh, this is nothing at all—it is a distinction without •
difference," the noble earl can tura round on them and
my, " Gentlemen, I told you at the outset I would be
extremely conservative." (Laughter.) The noble earl
and his ealleagaes, in fact, so tar as they are pledged by
hie description es given this evening, can do what they
like. They may go the length of the right hosourable
beat. in the ablest, wine is favourable to the consideration
of the Wet I Of ahoy law make some paltry alteration is
the eenetibeennek fee wkfsh they would receive ne thank,,
gad because ill would be a useless, would be a mischievous
change. ffi,p herds, I say the existing system is not perfect ;
it is capable el amendment and improvement. But every-
thing deposit WOW whothor the improvement be one in
principle, OS the ooklell with which the measure is intro-
duffed, and on the skill with whieh the plan is adapted
to its object. Unless there be a clear benefit, without
oorrespoading danger, then I say the noble earl and his out
leagues do not act wisely in entering on a field calculated
to raise so mach difficulty and apprehension, unless they
clearly me a palpable end manifest advantage. The noble
earl kis alluded to language of mine at various times, and
which I repeat now, conveying my apprehension of the ex-
tension of the democratic principle in our constitution.
The noble earl says that he knew the country more
contented, or less disposed to listen to agitation; and
be says that he sees nothing like the preys-
Lace of "deaseereey ; " and that although there
an some ladividuals who entertain visionary ;eon-
ties' sebum' be does not believe that the peat body of
the people sympathise in them geberass. I eustrely concur
with lie wide end; I think the great body et the people
do set wane la Oboes schemes i end I hollow that if they
Imam the peak seassepessess of asap sebum ea the
isseesimest they amid admit ken then awl flea their
enehere with better. Bat when be eels sa it the great
near et Me gsegle—theee, I mean, whey la paint of posi-
tion and Made% enemy tar below the mimeos now entitled
be the bendare—ere, from their Intelligente and far-
eyeing, gegalie of well the effect, of alters-
PP In OP elenstitatkimal system, or of ex-
teenve and essigliteeted gilded measures, this, I say,
madding es I de Mally is the good faith, and in the loyalty
of may consilryname there is danger in entrusting with 1
poligeal pewee these who have too little—mark, not of
intaglios" bat at acquired information, and too small a
stake laths matey, for them fairly and impartially to °on-
side, lawdess se political change. When I speak there
of the ogees; of the democratic element in our
eineffinteleneeend Sat lathe phis.* I have always used—l
de set my ham& the loyalty of rayeemetrymen. but I
eestsed, great as die influence of the Besse of Commons Is
at peesist, and great as it mush be is the unstitution
of the enuag, pnerally, that there le a aerials danger of
Musing the dieSsaisr alas Howse et Oesaammes by throw-
ing We large a prevents& of the revemeneadea of that
body into till blob of the lower sad lies bekesesd doom
of society. I seams% however, antieivate epsilons I. the
moan the wales earl may brie, dimmed ; Irma his lan-
pegs it is at premst iesporible is swain what the cha- '
POP ef that Mame nay be. The amble earl says that
the preseedielp of dee realist general simian twavineed kiln
that the mew* system Is ansetiefasesey. If ha can find
a remedy deaths serreselea of these evils ta which he refers
—and let bile observe that the remedy le not to be found in l'
the mere ealwedes el the framehbe, fee it leis the large con.
stimenciee Melly that these Min ham been pereelved—
then I say there se no one from whoa he shall receive a
wire medial support, ia strengthening th at remedy, how-
Per stringent It may be, than from the man whom the
serge earl very semeseseely supposes to be hostile to his ad-
Minfetrettlem lOM my, in conclusion, that I have no '
haft& lISONEIII Of hostile to the noble earl. I
ee.
Nona say whew I at the compontion of his govern-
ment, that I entertain any confidence in It, for I
have as conception of the principle upon which the com-
hiaation ha bus Imes& about. But if the noble earl is
prepared, and bee pew la his own cabinet, to act on those
winch I hens Wien, believed to be his own principles, he
may rely se A, set only that he will receive no evidence of
hostility tree Ea. but that it will be satisfactory to me to
find that—ode, whatever persons—the government of this
country ass be sallsiy, steadily, and constitutionally carried '
on, in the true conservative sense of the word, not avoiding
or shrinking frem useful and nuessary amendments, but
strongly and determinedly resisting of changes, and
firmly opposing any interference with tea just balance
which at present exists In the constitution. (The noble
earl was warmly cheered by the few partisans around bin
on resuming his seat.)
Their lordship immediately adjourned to Feb. 10.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MoNDAY, Dtc. 27.
The house met, according to adjournment, at 2 o'clock.
There were not many members present, probably from
the expaatatioa that, with the exception of the moving for
the new writs, there would be no business brought on. The
treasury bench wan empty, as a matter of course, the new
ministers being no longer members of the house until re-
elected. Mr. Disraeli, and several of the late muddiers,