The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

beg mew's dimpremsent and isandating the boats with
mammas whisk it was Impossible to carry duties the
Mika. As regards the right boa. gentleman's formal pro-
fession of faith, no ono will dispute that oar r.-
MMus with Basta, Austria, and the Coated States are
the cardinal points ow which our fonts.' policy must turn.
I will net aow discus with him the practical application of
Ith parthakr views with regard to these dine great power.,
hat I mug say that wham, se the lather of • great patty,
bey re is thus house Si esaeciate his opipioo, not only
for that hems, bat tkreugh this hem to tbe country, ad to
impound en what, is the op of our outdo", I may call
the pelilsal platform, the profession of faith on which the
future pekitkal prospects at himself and his party are to be
foaaded I and it somewhat singular, not in what
he has slated, but La what he hes omitted.
It is somewhat angular, I think—more nuecially if we ad-
vert to the ants of the last two or three years—that
Frame should not have found a place in the right hon. gem-
tiamaa's picture. (Hear, hear.) Watt we are to infer
from the thanes of toe right hon. gentleman I cannot tell ;
but I may say ea that subject what was said in reference to
the statue of Bratias—that it was the abuses of that one,
awn than thepresena of the *then, that was temoskable.
(Laughter.) IJatioathaUyvkire Majesty's fovea meet bath
not math so Mthellesta eneelesse of the cardinal Mats in
the Amiga relations of this matey. Of their catalogue
Freon fume a meet meatiel put. (Chun.) Thee', how-
ever, were the mate manuatal parts of the right bon gen-
timnan's speech; the prettiest parts were is the first portion
of it. Sir, I did not rise for the parpose of swung into
party sontroversy with the right hon. gentleman. la the
first places, I do not admit the corrections of the
oddest which he nomad, that the public, mind of this
seamy ts impressed with • motion adverse to the
ethoismoy of this hone. Without meaning to apply the az-
, Isto the right boa. anaemia, I must say, that'. It
is en ill bird that tale its own mast " (Laughter) Ido not
think it Is desirable for members of this house to endeavour
to ma it down—(ethers) ;--and instead of being induced to
avail myself of the opportunities which some parte of the
right boa. sandman's speech afford for political contro-
ller', I shall 'adman* to vindicate the aathority and the
theorise of this house. (Hear, bear.) The great charge
lthithtke right him. seatkaten has made, is that a great
amber of musares, having Manus to important
matt are sad the north of which he did not die-
m's, ken failed; sad he laydral what was the canoe.
pats sir, if I were dlapesed le deal with this
as sae ethanol thiseedia fa this hours, I might
ea
" 84 causes
_saris, eireagespies." (Langton., and
" Mar, hear.") The menness referred to have failed in
essequems tithe asthma of ben.gentlemen on the other
eldest the those. (Cries of "No, no," from the opposition )
At alleviate, they have failed through the resistant* which
they have met with. (Heir, hear.) I do not say this by
ways! ,cessationsgaiast those wane obstruction has ocea-
domed the failure of these different measures. Ido not sty
It with the view of 'spraining them, because, for reams
which I am about testate, I de not think there is any just
ones of complaint if eves good measures have been ob-
Waded. If we Used la ea arbitrary country—if this
seaany were we la width the sovereign power
bad nothing to do but to call around it men
who were mamma with the different matters
la regard to which new laws required to be framed ; and if,
whence lam bad been framed, it scald at once on its own
eadiiy, gam them to be serried into effet.t, why then
yeteithiht say, If the severely' power, feeling certain lea-
prommts to be accuser) Is different departments of the
state, had proposed laws is. day and withdrawn them the
met, that it was greatly to blame for settee thus Intend-
&lately. But we mast recollect that suck is not the con-
stitadea of this nanny, sad I think it is much to our od-
that It is not. (Cheers.) And while we
arTarriernlng great Mill's from our constitutional
seynkatice, we nut take the rough with the
mime* accept the good with the bsd—(hear, hear)—
ead we mat not complain tco mach of any inconstant:cis
Midi ma attend • system to which we are indebted for
gush &damage& (Chem.) Now, sir, the
goveramemt finds, en Makin round, that in certain dePart-
sathillsef the admisiMeMtse system upon which commerce,
egrienftwee, mad other latercas pertly depend; tneoavesi-
MOM limeade= 'Massa for lthisletive remedies. Well,
the gonenthent alder these cdresmstasess does its beet to
dodgems/thee which are adapted to secure the object.
These maimeesaassabnetted to parliament ; but do not let
any sae earths* that after they have bees introlated In
this hawse dint sums or failure depends en-
May gym VIM meth or their demerits. (Hear,
base.) Wtilliensiares id the greatest importune,
mew's w age ealeakted to effect great reforms fa
breathes of our medal elates, in which great abase have
oaths*, amusedly meet with much reeistanee, arising
pertly frets dejection, partly from watt of information,
mad partly hem interested motives. For In the use of all
shwa there mast be a certain number of men who profit
by the abase, aid who by Rees of our repreentative
system are enabled to bring their resistants to bear en this
hem; and therefore It Is no proof that a measure is not
a goof one, that it is not well constructed, or notwell adapted
to the pupae, that whoa It mimes in•co parliament it meets,
at all senate in the first instance, with • residence whisk
assess It ee fad. Well, neh has been the case undoubtedly
with mud to many of those asessures to which the right
len. Sondem' has referred. I repeat that I do no .ay
that es a norm& to those through whose obstraotion these
manna have failed. Fallen at first is an auevotdable
amempadment of free discussion, of freedom of opinion,
sad of the inteemenne of members of parliament with per-
seas out of the home, whose organs they must necessarily
le, ens wide, 411 if they were not, we should tot—
Is lith beg" althish—mo this opinions of the a ommunity
=se!Riminsted. (Him he-r) Any man who ex-
ttrete great impeonmenn in any pert of our system
agempllehed off-hand—to see every list attempt sued ief
sad everything that is required done in one
isethin—will be lamentably disappointed. It mem
has bees se; it never will be to; it never
son be so. (Hear, bear) It is a necessary molt of our
thee eonstitutioa that the best measures cannot be carried
amtll a considerable length of time hes elapsed, until they
have ben well discussed, and are well modern od in the
many, until prejudices have been overcome, until interests
have bees Pleat, sad until the great majority of lA4l°oll2'll,
has luseesse esminerd, not only of the existence of abuse
bat also of the goodness of the remedies which it is proposed
to apply. (Hear, hear.) If any man locks back to the dif-
ferent improvement. which have been mode at any pest
period in the binary of the legislation of this country, be
will, I think, pensive that each has been the usual incase
of proceeding. (Hear.) And, air, though soon el .wness
of progress is modify tag to thou who bring la such measure',
knowing that they are good onto; though it is disappointing
to that portion of the community out of doors, who are
anxiously looking for the improvements aimed at, and
although, more sepeclally, it exposes this house to tonsure
from them ardent spirits who, not happening t be here,
think that If they were here they should, by their energy,
their ability, and their eloquence, overcome all resistant
and carry their views tato practieti—Ostighter)—yet,
perhaps, on the whole, this delay is not greatly to the dm-
advantsno of the country, because mann* of Monrovia-
met, however geed fa themeless, might fail to produce
the %mod beech which they are adapted to ocean, if they
were curled too hastily before the public mind bad been
fairly brought into scoordames with them, and before ample
dissuasion bad offorded the means of sifting them
thoroughly, of romans anything in them which might be
defective, and of batwing them as far as possible into her-
'nosy with the state of Oleg. with which they were to he
sonseeted. I say, then, sir, that although we mast regret
that many of those measures which we felt it our duty to
imtrodace Is the coarse of this mein bin not pissed into
law, it must be remembered that • yesr or a menu is but a
ammo% in On history of a people. It is iudeed • long
pried In the Wads of atheist and matins men, but it is
set Meg fa the regrew of the country ; and the country
meth set engines because good =mum have not been
peseth as saes that measures of the same kind
will aid is a &Memel= become law. 81r, tht re has ea-
tataly been so want of application, or of devotion to public.
• duty, on the part of members of this boom. There
was a session fa which du& p the same number of dole the
hoses devoted a greater number .4 hours—day by dey and
night by sight—to .the public genies than in the ,session
which is now about to close. (Hear, hear) The days on
which the base was adjourned before stelnipbt duffel/
the progent smoke are few in number. (Hear, bur.) le -
&Mk MI MI the grater portion of the mat. n we
have been Midas till a late hour of the morning.
My ham Mind the member for Salford (Mr. Bri-
diertoa) teems to have entirely abandoned his factions.
(Laughter.) Hs has nobly sacrificed hie own wishes
and theories to the public good. (Resewed laughter.)
He has nu interfered with the sitting of the hem up to •
late period of the morning. Therefore if measures of im-
portant have not passed into law in the present session of
parliament, no Dann say that it Is owing to any want of
diligence on the part of the members of this house. It may
be said that it hes arisen f. ors the too gnat It quack, of
members, that the measures in ciliation have Ma dintoseed
toe mech. Well, I might at first be disposed nosy that I
would rather there had been less discussion; but, tallest
a larger view of the matter, Ido net may lain, sad I do
not shish the country has a right to enreglith, of
the length of any dame** whisk was both fide intended
to improve or to throw light upon the measure ander coa-
siderattee. New, in se far as the government itself is cm
armed, boa. members ought to bear la Mad what propor-
tioa of the Vise of *Miss included ia thus session has beets at
oar disposal. (Elm, hear.) A fear days ago It appeared
that the house had sat 164 days. Of them 61 were go/era-
mist days; the rest were days at the disposal of private
ambers. Of the 61 days 20 were acceded by committees
of @apply, In dimming old posing fetillietell which form a
seessean part of the mblis 1111111 it% and the whale
N these 20 days, therefore, were anissarily 'Weeded Rai