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No. 197.—V0L. V.

EARL OF DERBY'S SPEECH.

Upon Lord AIRME resuming his seat,

The Earl of DERBY rose and said :

My Lords : I entirely concur in the observations of
the noble earl who has this evening addressed your
lordships for the first time, that this is not a proper
opportunity for discussing in detail the topics re-
ferred to in the Speech from the Throne, involving,
as they do, subjects of the greatest importance, and
that this is not a fitting occasion for entering into the
full consideration of any one of those topics. There
are various subjects adverted to in the Speech now
before your lordships, upon which great difference of
opinion exists, and on which much discussion must
take place. There are matters of the highest impor-
tance, both foreign and domestic, brought before us,
and in due course of time these will require at your
lordships' hands the most mature and anxious con-
sideration ; but for many reasons, and especially
considering the importance and multiplicity of the
questions involved, I have to repeat that I concur
with the noble earl in thinking that this is an incon-
venient period for entering into the consideration of
sny one of them, or even of raising a miscellaneous
discussion on the different subjects introduced to
our not►ce.

It has of late years been the general practice of
Parliament that, except on some extraordinary occa-
sions, the Address to the Crown in answer to the
Speech from the Throne at the commencement of the
session should pass without a division, and be, in
point of fact, the unanimous and respectful expres-
sion of the deference with which we receive the first
communication of the session from the Queen ; that,
on the one hand, the Ministers of the Crown should
bring forward in the speeches from the Throne a
statement of the most material circumstances of
public importance which have occurred since Parlia-
ment separated, and that, on the other, they should
shadow forth generally the most material measures
which they propose to bring under the consideration
of Parliament. Adopting this view of the case, I
confess, my lords, I can only entertain a hope that,
with regard to the future, her Majesty's Government
may be able to perform something more than they
have done in the programme now before your lord-
ships, for a more meagre bill of fare for the coming
session, and a more vague and shadowy portraiture
of the measures to which our attention is to be
directed, I never recollect to have seen than is con-

tamed in the few paragraphs of the Speech that are
devoted to domestic affairs and future events.

There are two questions to which the Speech par-
ticularly refers—one the general subject of the
amendment of the law, which has been brought be-
fore Parliament on various occasions by members of
both houses not connected with the Government,
and the other that most important and difficult ques •
tion, on which I carefully abstain from expressing
an opinion, the renewal of the Bank Charter Act.
With regard to the first of these questions, I shall
only say that I shall rejoice to see the Government
entering into an open and honourable ri miry in the
spirit of law reformers with those who have so