The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-16 00:00:00

reddens, hereafter. (Hear, bear.) This war wee entered
imte ben se sellak msetives—a/theask everything that
laterals lashed interests all Zarepe—se, for the pease
of Europe sad the sake of the world have we ordered lan
tide elated, sad whomever it is *welded it west be row
I *laded es teens which shall give as said muerte fee ri-
posting that geese will not be again dktarbed, or the pro-
gress of free imtereouree sad noel/sties rudely later-
',opted. (then leer.) For thews mamas I thigh Lord
Pa ma has dose wisely to sending a stateless, of the
skaraeter, aateradeate, sad know* ability, of Lord J. Sansei
to witartals whet/see sr mot the tine has arrived w►la we

nut newt seek ormilitioee of pace as shall make that pease
satidentory and lasting, as well as honourable to this sous- I
try. I will sot detain you by entering Into the discussion ,
of qualities of domestic policy, because they are jut now I
overshadowed in the minds of all men by the great sad I
stirring importance of events abroad, and I have the less
need to do so, becense, ever since I entered public life, I
have represented but one constituency, and therefore you
knew the measures I have advocated and the principles I
support (Hear, hear.) I have always entertained a warm
desire for the development of the social and material cam-
forts of the people, and have advocated the cattle of re-
tional progress, and of civil and religious liberty. I had
these opinions when I entered public life, and sow, after an
esperienos almost beyond my years—for lon sent me to
parliament at a very early age—l feel that every year
which las passed over my head has only served to
strengthea my eciaviction of the soundness of those opinions,
and to confirm my resolution to continue their advocacy to
the last. (Hear.) I have now accepted office, feeling that
I was boned in duty to the atuatry to do so, and hello;
that Lord Palmerston was entitled to set me for whatever
hatable aid I could afford in carrying on the public service,
but in accepting the office of Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies, I must my, undiegutsedly and unaffectedly, that I feel
deeply the weight sad responsibility of undertaking an Ake
so important, one which is charged—not with the govern-
ment of the eolooiss, I am glad to say, this country having
been wise enough to And out that dependencies thoussitds of
miles away, had best be left to govern themselves, but,
at all events, to regulate the intercourse between
the Mother Country and her children, and to
develop the moral and religious progress of them
great dependencies, destined, perhaps, in future ages, to
became mighty empires, spreading over the world the tra-
ditions of Basked, and carrying to the remotest parts
the globe those institutions of tampered freedom, that fetes
religion, and that love of order combined with liberty which
form the distinguishing peculiarities of this country. (Loud
cheers.) I feel that through the existence of them colonies,
and their rapid and growing intelligence and wealth, we
shall spread over the world English language and English
institutions; and whatever responsibility may attach
to my oossexion with them, I feel that that responsi-
bility will be lightened by the wise admudstratien
of my predecessors, who have steadily fostered
the growth of colonial self-government, and have
ceased to carry on that system by which it was
attempted to marital* arbitrary restrictions--restrictions

always met by the colonies with recriminations and resist-
ance until at last the relation became anything but these
which ought to subsist between the mother and the child,
(Hear, hear.) Such times have, however, I trust, pa
by, and we have proud by experiment how capable are
Englishman, la whatever climate they may be placed, it
exercising Was rights to which they have been accustoms&
at home—them rights of self-government which form the
best preservatives of order as well as liberty. (Hear,
hear.) Now, gentlemen, I will not detain you any longer,
easephy thanking you heartily for this renewal of your
Slniimes. I have new &peat some leen in
Me service, and in the service of the public.
hue felt that in this country, where we sue all
fee cdtimaa, sad where service is honour, it is the duty of
ell men who have leisure, and have the means of doing so,
114 to spend that leisure in luxurious IN" but te contribute
as far as is them lay, to the conduct of public affairs. I
lave felt, frost the beginning of my public life, that it was
my duty so to do, and I have endeavoured humbly, but
kedustriously, to perform my duty in that position in which
ft has pleased God to place me. (Neer, hear) I have
isms it in a meaner which has sometimes been disapproved
idly way of you ; but those who differed from me In oplafts
did not, I believe, withhold from as their respect. But in
spite of those difference., and at the risk of popularity,
I have advocated what I believed to be right and proper
for the empire at large; rather than that which was in-
tended foe the Interest of any particular clue. (Bear,
hoar.) Such eentrmenise I hope are now at an end, all
parties being pretty toasty done mind on that subject, bat
I feel that I owe to this constituency, whether agreeing or
dimpesiag with me, my tha'ks for the meaner in which
them who differed have tolerated, end those who agreed
berno=sted me In my advocacy of the opinions I have
I have only to repeat the expression of my
armies and my belief that If we be not faint-hearted under
11111•11 in, if we all out every energy sad every effort of
WWI Ms mighty empire is capable, we have before us
fles gempesa of ultimate thumb, sad founded on that,
the resberatisa of such a lasting peace as is required not
only fee the prosperity of England, but for the happiness of
the whole human rase. (The right honourable gentleman
resumed his seat amid general cheering, mixed with a few
dieriedant WWI such as " Who starved the soldiers? 's
" Green coffee," "Why spare Odessa ? " to.)
A vote of theaks to the sheriff, terminated the pro-
ceediage.