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2 Marylebone 19,710
1 Merthyr Tydvil 93+3
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Midhurst 279
1 Monmouth Dis. 1,676
1 Montgomery Di 5.1,003
1 Montrose Dis. 1,5h6

1 litorpeth

415

2 New'ork fitl7
2 Newcle.-un.-T.ne 1,090
2 Newcle..up.-Tne 5,209
2 Newport, I. of W. 707

1 New Ross

1 vorthalierton 281
2 Northampton 2,263
2 Norwich 5,390
Total in boroughs, 41
497,138 electors.

ELECTION SPEECHES.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

The nomination and election of the representatives
of Bucks—the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Mr. Dupre, and
Mr. Cavendish—duly took place on Monday last
in the County-hall, Aylesbury. After the declaration
from the High Sheriff, Mr. Dupre advanced and ex-
pressed his acknowledgments for his re election :
He could not conceal from his constituents that he did
not find himself a member of a united Opposition.
Various causes had produced strife and schism in their
ranks, which time might repair, but their principles were
unchanged and unchangeable. For his own part, he would
strenuously resist all hasty and ill-considered changes in
the Constitution. They were in complete darkness as to
what would be the policy of the Government in the new
Parliament. He did not know whether that policy would
be Conservative or otherwise, but he sincerely trusted that
the measures of Reform in their institutions which were
required by the country would not be postponed by per-
petual cries for parliamentary reform. He was anxious

APRIL 4, 1857.

that provision should be made for the extension of educa-
tion, and to see reforms effected in the law, an alteration in
the law of settlement, a reform of the military esublish-
ments, and more salutary regulations adopted with regent'
to beerhouses. He also thought the Legislature ought to
take such measures as would secure the abolition of the
income tax at least in 186(1.
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Mr. CAVENDISH briefly returned thanks, and declared
his continued adherence to those Liberal principles
which he professed when he became the representa-
tive of the county ten years ago. In anwer to a
question, he declined to support the ballot.
Mr. DISRAELI then came forward, and was greeted
with load cheers, on the subsidence of which " One
cheer more" was demanded, and heartily rendered.
The right hon. gentleman having reviewed at length
the conduct and measures of the Opposition when
in power, having pointed out how Lord Derby's
Government raised the militia on the voluntary
principle, created a powerful steam fleet, carried out
important law reforms, re-established the artillery
of the army, and laid the foundations of a firm alliance
with France, and having briefly passed in review the
various social and financial schemes t'..e noble earl's
Government had proposed to adopt, called atten-
tion to the conduct of the Opposition as an Opposition
during the late war:—
After the fall of the Government of Lord Derby the
most important Event that has occurred since I was last
elected as a member for Buckinghamshire was, no doubt,
the war with Russia. Now, what was the conduct of the
Opposition when that war commenced? lam bold to say
that they pursued such a course as was never before taken
by any Opposition. (Cheers.) We called our friends
together; we said the country was in great danger; that
it was involved in a struggle with a continental power of
colosaal military resources; and that the occasion was
not one on which common parliamentary controversies
should ►e encouraged. We said there must be no struggle
for political power while the country was in such a posi-
tion, but that we must show foreigners that, however we
may criticise each other's conduct with respect to domestic
affairs, when the safety of the empire is threatened we are
all united. (Cheers ) We said that we must support the
Government cordially and completely in the prosecution of
a war which we believed to be most necessary and politic,
and that we must not only afford them support by voting
men and money, but by refraining during the progress of
the war—though it should last four years—from introduc-
ing any motion which might enfeeble the Administration
or endanger its existence. (Cheers.) This isnot merely
my own view of the conduct of the Opposition, but Lord
Palmerston has, to his honour, done justice more than
once in the House of Commons. and very recently on the
hustings before his own constituents, to the patriotic con•
duct of the Opposition during the war. (Cheers.) But
has that always been the conduct of the Opposition ? Did
the Opposition pursue such a course during the great war
with France? On the contrary, the Government of that
day were harassed and assailed on every opportunity ; the
talents of our military leaders—even of the Duke of
Wellington himself—were decried and depreciated ; and no
hope was ever held out to England that the termination
of that struggle would be successful and glorious. Now,
acting in a different spirit, we did what we could to support
her Majesty's Government. (Hear, hear.) We have
opposed no measure which they brought forward will the
view of placing great resources at their disposal. The
only course we took was to stimulate their exertions, and
the only objections we ever urgad were objections to the
inefficient mode in which the resources placed at their
disposal were applied. (Cheers.) (A voice—" You knew
the people were with them.") I should be very sorry to
find that the people of this country were not with their
Government when the nation was involved in a severe
straggle with a great military power. (Cheers.) I never
thought ot• that; I took it for granted. (Renewed cheers )
Mr. Disraeli then touched upon the credit Lord
Palmerston has hitherto obtained for having entered
upon, and carried on, the war with earnestness:—

It is said that Lord Palmerston took the reins of Govern-
ment and carried on the war with very great efficiency.
Allow me to 'mention this fact—that the instant he took
the reins of Government he cominenced negotiations for
on ignominious peace. (Cheers and some expressions of
dissent.) lam now stating facts, and lam quite sure it
is your desire, as it is your interest, to have accurate and
precise ideas upon all these subjects. Lord Palmerston
sent Lord J. Russell to Vienna with instructions to nego-
tiate peace. I have heard, and I believe, that those in-
structions which Lord J. Russell received to guide his
conduct at Vienna were drawn up by Lord Palmerston's
own hand. Indeed, I thins it highly improbable that the
most experienced statesman of this country in the manage-
ment of foreign affairs would refrain at so critical an emer-
gency from performing such a duty. Well, it so happened
that, although these proceedings were very secret, some
communications were made to me of the terms upon which
peace Was about to be neiptiated, and they appeared to me
to be terms which would prove most unsatisfactory to the
people of England and most injurious to the interests and
honour of the country. My information, although accurate,
was not complete, and I was in such a position that I could
not make so frank a use of it as I can do at the present day.
I brought forward a motion in the House of Commons—
on the eve, I think, of the Whitsun holidays—asking the
house on the statement I made to resolve that the am-
biguous language and uncertain conduct of our plenipoten-
tiary at Vienna were sources of great distrust and anxiety
to Parliament. That was as much as I could do, hut it
was sufficient to warn the house as to the state of affairs,
and to check the Government. The resolution which I
brought forward, on the eve, I think, of the Whitsun holi-
days, vrae defeated by a large majority—a majority of 100;