The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-01 00:00:00

ForeignPiantations.

ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, DEC. 30.—The Queen has
seen pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Lord Ernest
Aagustus Charles Bruiteeell Bruce, to be Vice-Chamber-
laki of Her Majesty's Household, in the room of the Right
Honourable Orlando George Charles Bridgeman, Viscuant
Newport, resigned.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Thomas Henry
Lord Foley to be Captain of Her Majesty's Honourable
Caps of Gentlemen at Arms, in the room of John William,
Earl of Sandwich, resigned.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Robert Visa
coant Sydney to be Captain of Her Majesty's Guard of
Tamen of the Guard, in the room of William Lennox
Leseelles Lord de Ros, resigned.
WHITEHALL. DEC. 30.—The Queen has been
pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the
Great Seal granting to the Right Hon. William Ewart
Gladstone, the offices of Chancellor and Under Tree-
surer of her Majesty's Exchequer; the Queen has
aim been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under
thp Great Seal, appointing the Right. Hon. Sir Charles
Wood, Bart., to be her Majesty's Commissioner for the
&Heirs of India; the Queen has also been pleased to direct
letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting
the office and place of Advocate-General or Judge Mar-
ti il of her Majesty's Forces to the Hon. Charles Pelham
Villiers ; the Queen has also been pleased to direct letters
patent to be passed under the Great Seal for nominating,
mistiming, and appointing the Right. Hon. Mathew
Talbot Baines to be a Poor Law Commissioner for Eng-
land; the Queen has also been pleased to constitute and
appoint the Right Hots. Sidney Herbert to be her Majesty's
Secretary at War; the Queen has also been pleased to
grant the office of Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland to
James Moncreiff, Esq. The Queen has also been pleased
to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, consti-
tuting and appointing the Right Honourable Sir James
Robert Geo. Graham, Baronet; Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker,
C. 8.; Rear-Admiral Maurice Frederick Fitzhardiage
Berkeley, C.B. ' • Captain the Honourable Richard Saunders
' Dundee, C.B. • Captain Alexander Milne, and the Honour.
able William Francis Cowper, to be Her Majesty's Com-
taissioness for executing the office of Lord High Admiral
of the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto
belonging.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 23.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Captain George Thompson Wade to he
Civil Commissioner and Collector of Taxes for the Seychelles
Islands, dependencies of tho Island of Mauritius. Her
Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Thomas T. Kelly,
Esq., M.D., to be an Assistant Magistrate fur the district
of Natal, in South Africa: _ _ _

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DOWNING-STKEET, Dec. 30.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint the Reverend John Ale sander Mathias,
Bachelor of Arts, to be Chaplain ou the establishment of
the Government of the island of Ceylon. }Ler Majesty has
also been please,' to appoint Richard "Laic% Hanson, Esq., to
be Advocate• General for the Colony of South Australia.

WAR OFFICE, Die. 31.
Ist Regiment of Dragoonv—Assistant-Surgeon John Got-
riage, M D., from the 69th loot, to be assistant•surgeen,
vice Orr, who exchanges.
11th Light Dragoons.—Lieutenant Edwin Adolphus Cook
to be captain, by purchase, vice Sykes, who retires ;
Cornet the Honourable Robert John Annesley to be lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vier Cook.
15th Light Dragoons. Cornet Hon. Algernon Thorn's
Moreton to be lieuttuant, without purchase, vice Von'
Streng, promoted ; Serjeant Joseph P. North to be cor-
net, without purchase,, vice Moreton..
Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards.—Ensign and Lieutenant
Alexander Kinlock to be lieutenant and captain, by pur-
chase, vice Lloyd, who retire-.
Coidstresm Guards.—Percy Scawen Wyndham, gent., to
be ensign and lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morgan,
who retires.
Scots Fusilier Guards.—Assistants Surgeon Frederick
Robinson, M.D., from the 74th Foot, to be assistant-
surgeon, vice Bowling, who retires upon half-pay.
19th loot.—Ensign George Clay tr. be lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Rivers, who retires.
32nd Foot.—Ensign Charles Rodick Ricketts to be lieut.-
neat, by purchase, vice Harris, who retires.
3Sth Foot.—Lieutenant Samuel Hackett to be captain,
without purchase, vice Brevet-major Lecky, who retires
upon full pay ; Ensign Rowland Hill Gordon to be lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Hackett.
69th Fsot.—Assistant-Surgeon William John Alexander
Orr, from the Ist Dragoons, to be assistant-surgeon, vice
Gorringe, who exchanges; Ensign Frederick Hacket to
be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chapman, who retires.
60th Foot.—Second Lieutenant Cunyngham Jones to be
lieutenant, without purchase, vice Sl'Quten, deceased;
Ensign William Cubitt, from the 71st Fent, to be 'scowl
lieutenant, without purchase, vice Jones.
62nd Foot.—Ensign James William Tibbitts to be lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Minnitt, promoted in the Roy
Canadian Rifle Regiment.
Royal Cauaiiian Rifle Regiment.—Lieutenant John Chris-
topher Minnitt, from the 62nd Foot, to he captain, by
Ipurchase, vice Cox, who retires.
ItUATUK.—In the Gazette of Nov. 23, 1852, for Robert
Huey Jex Blake, gent. to be ensign in 18th lost, without
purchase, read Robert Hoey Jex-Blake, &c.
MENORANDUIC—The Christian names of Ensign Pratt,
of the Ilith Foot, are Robert Torrens.s
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Dec. 28.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.—Gentlemen Cadets to be
Second Lieutenants.—Franeis Towry Adeane Law, vice
Purvis, promoted ; Major Fraucis Downes, vice Good-
enough, promoted; Albi rt Charles Hugo Light, vice
Williams promoted; Francis Henry William Nisbett,
vies Wolfe, promoted; Fralklund George Eilgworth
Werren, vice Cockburn. promoted; Hurry Clement
Siva ni.erton Dyer, vice Conolly, promoted ; Thomas Lloyd
Sill, vice Nungle, promoted; Joseph lissuwell, vies
Striver, promited ; Joshua Frederick Betty, vice Hardy,
promoted; Francis Wm. Eveleigh Szyse.p, vice Hagan,
, promoted; John Kelly Holdsworth, vice Fisher, pro-
moted ; William Ficderiek Moore, vice Hail, promoted;
Maurice Ilenry litxmaurice, vice Gritlin, promot,il;
Wistiral am !bull Mi!iitan, vice Nile, pluinged ; Arthur
Richard lbanit,ent, %ice Kelly, promoted; floury Rich-
m Martin, vice Down, promoted; Alexander
Patrick Wiilie' vice J. S. Stirling, pronio•ed.
Corps of Royal Engineers.—Gentlentau Cadets to be Se-

cond Lieutenants, with temporary rat.k.—John Henry
Stockman Carter, tins Stoptord, promoted; William
Frederick Gang, rice Bri..ge, promoted; James Bevan
Edwards, vice Whitmore, promoted.

OFFICE OF 011ONAN.CE..DEC. 31.

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Royal Regiment of Artillery•.—First Lieutenant Audley
Mervyn Archdall to be second captain, vice Somerset,
retired upon haltpay ; Second Lieutenant Frederick
Nurse Cromartie to he first lieutenant, vice Archdall.

NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANT.
STAFFUILDSIIIRZ.
George Holgoeke,

THE NEW ELECTIONS.

SIR CHARLES WOOD AT HALIFAX.
HALIFAX, DEC 31.

Last evening the Right Hon. Sir Chnrlea Wood
met his friends and supporters in the large room of the Old
Cock lon. EDWARD AKRUYD, Esq., of Denton Park,
presided, and the meeting was attended by nearly all the
leading liberals of the town ; both the whigs and radicals
were fully represented on the occasion.
The CHAIRMAN referred at surne length to the events of
the last election, to the resignation of the Derby ministry,
and to the position of the liberals of Halifax at the present
time. He spoke with confidence of the return of Sir
Charles Wood, and then introduced him to the meeting.
Sir C. Wow, was received with loud and prolonged
cheering.—lie said—l have often bad to thank you for the
kindness of your reception. (Hear, hear.) It is some
twenty years ago that I first stood before you as a candi-
date for your suffrages, anti you must make some allowance
if the expressions 1 use fall short of those which your kind-
ness deserves, and which my awn feelings prompt me to
use, if I could find words to express them. I don't
know that I can say more than that " I thank you
from the bottom of my heart," and I trust that you
will believe me that those words express what
I do feel ; and it I had spoken in language more eloquent,
I could not sac more than that I am deeply grateful.
(Cheers.) I stand before you now for the eighth time as a
candidate for your suffrages, and I certainly little thought
and expected that I should so soon again have a?.
peered before you in that character. I hope you will
not take it amiss if I do say that I little wished that it
should be so. (A voice—" 1 did." Laughter and cheers.)
And, gentlemen, if in accepting office iu the present
critical state of public affairs, I had only consulted my
own wishes and personal enjoyment, I confess that
think I should not be at. ailing before you new. For the
last week or ten days I have been engaged with these
whom I ant proud to call my colleagues in a difficult and
painful task, considering how much private friendship
and former associations it has been necessary to sacrifice,
and more than once I lievo felt no slight envy for those
who are not included in the present government. (Hear,
hear.) If public office were merely a source of enjoy-
ment and emolument, without its corresponding duties,
it might be a more agreeable task. These who have not
beau placed in that situation look upon it u the highest
political prize of successful ambition. Those who have
know how heavy ate the drawbacks to that successful
ambition in the sacrifice of health and of personal en
oymeut. Believe me, if publie men were not ae•
Crated by what Mr. Akroyd has described as the
sense of public duty, few would RC engaged in the
public service. (Hear, hear.) But I do consider we are
engaged in the performance of a public duty, and although
I ask you to re-elect me simply because I have accepted
office, yet I call upon you to elect me even as you would
do at a general election ; because, in our several capacities,
I consider that we arc but simply engaged in the perform-
ance of those public duties which we hold in common.
(" Hear" and cheers.) We are placed by Providence in dif-
ferent positions in this world, and we must perform our duty.
How many are there among you who are engaged in this
public election at • sacrifice to private interests, private
time, and private enjoyment? (Hear, hear) Those who
are engaged thus sacrifice much. And why? Because
they feel it to be their public duty to return that candidate
wham they think will best serve •the pubiic interests.
(Cheers.) As for myself, I may say that I might retire irto
private life, and etij'y myself for more than in public
office; but it does so happen that I have time which I can
devote to the public service. I have been a man of busi-
ness all my life, and when I was asked by those with whom
I am proud to be connected to engage in the government
of the country, I felt that I should have neglected my duty
to my country, and to the trust which you have imposed
upon me, if 1 declined to do so. (Cheers.) Fur 20 years you
have trusted ins fur bound arty merits or claims of mine;
that oo one can feel more than myself; but when at the
last election I was returned by you, it was not unforeseen
that a time might come when I might be called upon to
take office in the public service. (Cheers.) I was then
told in this room, that if duty placed me is that position,
those who returned me then would stand by me now.
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, no doubt !have felt tt as a great
distinction, that when a large party, computed of very vary.
nog materials—from those with whom I have the honour to
be associated, to whom I have on former occasions been
opposed, but with whom I have row seen to concur in the
views which I always felt to be right—(cheers)—l say,
when a combination of all parties designated by the general
term " Liberal " have united for the formation of a govern-
ment to prevent the rerun to power of those who, by
their own fault and their own folly, have failed in
retaining it—(cheers)—l say, when all these have concurred
in saying that I ought to take my place among the leaders,
I should have failed in my duty to you and to my country
had I d-clined to do so. (Prolonged cheers.) I helieved
that the electors of Halifax would approve of the course I
took—(hear, hear)—at any rate, I did not shrink from ap-
pearing before au intelligent and independent constituency,
a constituency not to be bribed or intimidated by any one,
and I said, " I will go to my constituency ; I feel satisfied
they will approve of what I have done; I will appeal to
them." (Cheers.) I am therefore grateful for what, in
common parlance, is called the exertions you have made
in my favour. 1 have worked in common with you to
promote the principles of civil and religious liberty, and
the extension of the powers of the constitution to those
classes who become entitled to pos• as it—placing the
constitution of this country on a broader basis, believing
that the basis of our constitution should be extruded as far
as the increasing intelligence warrants. (Cheers ) Now,
gentlemen it may be stated to you in a few words, as my
lion. friend (Mr. Akroyd) has done, how it has come to
pass that this election takes place. Gentlemen, you will
remember that at the last election I told you to return men
whom you could implicitly trust as to their opiumus with
reference to the principles of free trade, for it was on that
question that an appeal was made to the country, and on
that the electors of Halifax, together with those of the other
constituencies of the country, were called upon as jurymen
to give their verdict. It would have been betraying that
great trust, if you had returned men, as to whose
opinions on free trade there could have been the slightest
shadow of a doubt. (Hear, hear.) I think you did your
duty in returning me and my honourable friend en my
right. (Loud cheers.) The other constituencies of the
empire did likewise, and what would have been the conse-
quences if they had not, with Lord Derby, professing up
to the moment when he bowed to the will of the country,
protectionist principles, while other members of his govern-
ment, subsequent to that decision, avowed themselves pro-
tectionists still; and that if they sacrificed protection, it
was to enable them to resist what they were pleased to
call the " encroachment of democracy." (Loud laughter.)
They would not yet trust the people, and they there•
I fore properly forfeited office ; but eveu when they pro-
fessed to bow to the will of the country, they did it in a
shuffling and shabby manner. (Cheers and laughter.)
They reproached Sir Robert Peel for changing his opinions,
and avowing that change like a man; and for acting upon
it they denounced him as a traitor. But what did they do
themselves? Every promise they made they forfeited;
every expectation they held out they falsified ; they had
changed their views, but they had not the manliness to say
so. If they were convinced, as they said they were, that
the opinion of the country was declared in favour of free
I trade, they ought to have put that expression of opinion in
the Queen's spec ch, at the opening of the session. But
they did not ; and though since they had tried to say
that there w .s something expressed in the speech to
that effect, my friends will hear me out that an
honest man among them the Secretary for the
Home Department—said that the Queen's speech was
expressly framed 53 that it would admit of either construe-
tiou. (Oheers.) Why, had they not gone to the country
with every opinion in their mouths, from " Derby and Pro-
tection " to " Derby and Free. trade ? " We saw two bro-
thers in the same county—one coming forward for the
county with " Derby and Protection," and the other for
the borough with a "Derby and Free-trade " cry. What
could we expect from them ? What was it our duty to do?
(A voice—" To turn them out.") (Laughter.) An appeal
had been made to the country upon the question of free
trade. The answer was made by the mouth of those
whom you sent as your representatives. If they had
put that expression of the decision of the country in
the Queen's Speech, we should have supported the
government in that expression, and no doubt should
have defeated the tit y-three honest gentlemen who
stood by protection to the last. The late go.
vernment did not, however, put that expression in the
Queen'_ 'speech, and it was our humble duty to deliver the
verdict of the constituencies ou that question. Did we
seek to do it in any factious manner ? We arc accused of
" combination " to turn out the government, and all sorts
of hard words formed on the basis of " combination" and
"coalition" are directed against no. Why, the only " corn-
' bination " in which we entered was a combination not to
torn them out. The leaders of the Whig party drew up a
resolution which could never be taken in an adverse sense,
and the best proof that it could nut be so taken was
that the government adopted it when it was moved by
another party. The resolution of Mr. Villiers was
couched in stronger terms; hut what were the words of
the Government? Why, " Tut the working classes had
been essentially benefited by the repeal of the corn
laws," but they had not the senor to see that that which
benefited was a "wise, just, and bent fizial measure,"
and they had a M the cmrage t. say that which they
believed ; therefore they opposed Me. Villiers' resolution.
We asked f .r it, though with some delicacy, because we
did wish to turn them out—not that I think they would
have gone out upon tb at question even if beaten upon it.
(" Hear," and laughter.) But what I wish to chow is that
the combination, be it right or wrong, was to avoid turning
them out ; and as I said before, when Lord Palmerston
moved t. e vi ry worth which Sir James Graham, Lord
John Rassull, and Lent Al et,i, en had arranged as the most
gentle form of expressing our opinion, the government at
once acquiesced in those words—a decided proof that
they did not consider the resolution calculated to turn
them out. Well, see voted fur the resolution that the

and tended to promote the
free trade measure was " wise just, and ben 1;,.---‘io
but, beaten upon that, I voted foe sea
that " the recent commercial policy was for the bereft
of the whole community,
tentmeut and welfare of the working dames." Thereel*
matter ended, and I was of opinion that we should ha ga;
belief away, and enjoyed those Chrietmas holidays whiclje
by the determination a the government to bring fowittr.
which
ohni*:
forward
lest
ikwnsie,nt o'th,t"
their budget. This was a voluntary air on tuei 4:-
we
nothing was done by any portion of the Opposition to
pal them to bring forward their budget, nor was . *
taken which could have turned them out. Tneuyn‘,it.?
teered their budget—this was their owu doing, and 14;
owe no thanks to any exertion of our party for the res
Well, their budget having been brought forward, were 's
to say, " However boa it may be, however muchs
be accused of ' combination ?' " Would that has
iewb shay
ehi epennnt objectort iuhgehiyyt
tio(e.Cdnii
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i,,:yio,eifts
against that
j'mtuNlusi moo, no.") t
ty
are we to be accused of combination because we coo,
that if you rolled the House of Commons, iudepeudenti.
of the existence of the government, you could not find telt
men who would have voted for it. (" Hear, hear,"
ad
cheers.) I have not heard a single man even of those whs
voted for it state that he approved of the proposaLs of ti,
budget. A gentleman who voted for it, the other day saidto me, "I am glad that we have gut rid of the melt and ho
reduction. I thought that you (Sir Charles) were gulfsright,
taxrig ; b
h t ,attntd.wwe
we did
against the douboug of the helot
wish to turn out the government we
supported them ;" that is to say, they supported that whet
they thought wrong, because they did nut wish to change
the government, or were afraid of the " deluge "
was to follow. (Laughter and cheers.) Now, gentle:
men, as Mr. Aceroyd has said, and truly said, there never
was such a delusion as that budget; it contained at lean
half a dozen things cloth of which ought to have been fate
to it. (Hear, hear.) In the first place, Ido not believe
that the repeal of half the malt tax would have benetitel
any one; the reduction of the malt tax would have mole
but little difference to the consumer, and could not be of
the slightest benefit to the producer; therefore, it would
have been a sacrifice of two millions and a half merely to
put on an sdditiwsal house tax. (Hear, heat.) The budget
contained the principles of protection in the highest degree;
it professed to repeal half the h p duty, and to put on Co
foreign articles what the late Chancellor of the Exchopot
called a countervailing duty of twelve shillings per hundred.
weight. The duty on lame-grown hops is at the maximum'
of twelve shillings per huudreiweight, and the duty he
proposed to put on the foreign hops was 11. 2s, fel, per
hundredweight, and this is the proposed of a man who is for
"unrestricted competition." (" Hear, hear," anti laugh.
ter.) The truth is, the budget was one of promises and not
performances. The late Chancellor promised the Grunts
protection, but threw it overboard; he then promised theta
compensation, and threw that over; and he afterward* pro-
mised a general revisino of taxation which would beceat en
classes, and this he could noL effect. Thu budget was
bundle of promises which they could not ',moons. We
thought it right not to doable the house tax, and acting on
this conviction we resisted the first portion of the budget,
But even with respect to this there was such a fraud at-
tempted as I never before recollect. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer, finding that after having thrown
overboard so many principles he was himself is
danger of being thrown over by his own
prin-
ciples in turn, owing to the great objection made
to his proposal of doubling the house tax, said is
effect, "Our proposal is to double the house tax, but I
beg to remind my friends that if they do vote for it, I do
not consider that they are bound to carry it out;" or, is
other words, " Do nut eniharrass yourself with principles,
vote to keep rue in office, threw overboard the keystone of
our financial fabric if you like, but save the goverment."
(Cheers.) But if he did not get the house tax, how was he
11 to repeal halt the malt tax ? And if he did not intend to
envy out his proposal of the house tax, the proposition was
! then in itself an absolute absurdity. (Hear, hear.) It is
not worth while to trouble you with details further than to
say tint the surplus spoken of was merely fictitious—
(lntighter)—the only surplus the Chancellor had was
" money borrowed." (Laughter.) He professed to have a
surplus of four hundred thousand pounds, which entirely
accrued by applying to the services of the year money bor-
rowed for one purpose, which if not applied to that ought to
have been applied to the extinction of the debt under which
it was borrowed. (" Hear, hear," and ch ors.) I ask any
man whether, in the present prosperous state of the coun-
try, it would have been justifiable to have thrown the
whole financial system into a state of contusion, for a sur-
plus which would not exist ;f it had not been borrowed?
(Laughter.) 1 ask you. gentlemen, who are able to keep a
debtor and creditor sceount, it that is the sort of eureka'
on which you would like to depend to show a balance in
your favour at the end of the yeas? In this position the
government was placed, and, though I have great respect
for many of the individuais composing it, I must say
that during the whole course of my political
career I never saw a government so little caps.
ble of conducting the affairs of the country. (Loud
cheers.) Then came the question, what was to be done on
their resignation ? I beg that you will observe that in spite
of all their blunders they had all but a majority in tin
House of Common. All the liberals, of whatever shade or
class—from those to whom I have during the last twenty
years been opposed, as true conservatives, to those whom,
on the other hand, I have oppoisedebas going too far ;—now,
putting all these together, they barely motto an actual ma-
jority ; therefore, maces all these parties combined to furze
and support a government, there was no alternative but the
return of Lord Derby and his frit ads to power, with the in-
creased strength which they would of course derive from
the impoesibily of tiny other government being formed.
(Hear.) Let me beg of those gentlrmen—tor I know there
are different shades of liberal opinion iu this borough—to
weigh well the consideration, that it is easy to agree to stand
still and do nothing, but that it is very difficult to
agree in the precise measures that should be advanced.
(Hear, hear.) We have comprehended within the present
cabinet men of various shades of opinion. If it were not
so, it would have been impossible to have formed any go-
, vernment. There may he many persons in this room who
may think that in a government comprehending those in-
cluded in the present cabinet, there are some who are
likely to go too far, while others may co. eider it compre-
hends those who will not go fast and far enough ; but
unless the present ministry had been united by mutual
forbearance, and the sacrifice of all personal objections
and individual views to a degree which, I must confess,
I little expected, and never saw exceeded, no li-
beral government amid hove been formed. (Cheers.)
Whatever may be the points of difference among parties
at home, yet tho state of the world abroad is no
such as to allow this country to be without a strong govern-
ment. (Loud cheering) I never was an alarmist, and I
hope I am not now. No man can look beyond the four
seas of this kingdom without teeing that there may be
danger from those who dwell on the continent of Europe.
While every power there rules by military force alone, no
man can assert that affairs arc in so satisfactory a state as to
admit of the government of this country being in weak
hands. (Cheers) Now, gentlemen, I have said that great
sacrifices have been made by many public men of what
they might well consider their just pretensions, in order to
combine in a strong government. (Loud and renewed
cheering.) It was a deep sense of public duty—
an overwhelming sense of the necessity of the cue—
which has induced them to form a liberal go-
vernment—a government not disposed to stand still
but to advance a government combining as much
talent as could be compreho noted in the present cabinet—
that is the combination of which the present government
consists, and on these grounds they appeal to the country
for support. (Loud cheers.) I cannot pretend to say, gen-
tlemen, that in this combination great difficulties have not
been found—roman' considerations uecesearily mast weigh
in all cases, yet e great deal has been sacrificed in order to
form a strong ond united government. (Cheers.) If we
are combined with those to whom on many occasions we
hare been opposed, yet, be it remembered, we are also
combined with those who, on many occasions, have
taken a prominent part in promoting those prin-
ciples which we hold moot dear. (Cheers.) We hays
uuited with us those who took a prominent part in the
repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts—in the mewing of
the Roman Catholic Relief Bill—in passing the Re-
form Bill—in the Municipal Reform Act—and is
promoting all the measures for the repeal of the re-
strictions on commerce and those in favour of the redue.
tion of taxation. The men who have been more or less
united on those questions have all classed themselves in one
government. (Cheers.) Those who have opposed further
reform heretofore, have now made up their minds to concur
in further measures of reform—(hear, hear)—and addresses
are out of those who have hitherto opposed those principles,
decla'ing their adherence to them. It may be necessary
to take time to concert measures of that description
those who have as yet been opposed to them, but we have
at least established this, thet nit classes of those called
liberals concur in the principles if opt in the details of
measures for this object. (Cheers.) I need not refer
to the question of free trade, (or that has
been entirely settled by the complete surrender of
our opponents. (Cheering.) No doubt there are
many further measures to be carried for the abolition of
protectionist laws still in existence, and they must dingo
pear as the surplus revenue will allow it—that you may
consider as certain, and it is only a question of time.
(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, thieve are the principles on
which the government go to the country, and if they be
not supported as a ministry, then the government must fall
into the hands of Lord De :by and his friends, who had
stated their strenuous eh tvilnileition to oppose all further
improvements in our institutions. That declaration
was avowed in the "sty in which the late govern-
ment went to the country; they then said,
Lord John Russell and Ain friends are in power.
they are pledged to promote the further improvement of the
electoral system, and that we consider as an approach to de-
mocracy—• to the Deluge.' " (Hear, and laughter.) If you
are in favour of any advance, however large or small, 1
think you must support those who are opposed by those who
I would stand still altogether—if you are opposed to palter•
ing questions of protection, such as I have shown you were
developed in the proposition with reference to the hop
duty—if, in short, you are in favour of a government of
progress. as against a government opposed to all improve•
ment, then you must support the present government
as against their protect Wei. (Hear,' hear, and
cheers.) Now, gentlemen, Ido not wish to refer to any
local grounds or topics for we had at the last election
too much personal fee' ling, and I am the last mat:,
as I wits then, to do anything of the kind
I (Hear, hear.) It was not my fault that any bitterness
act feeling was excited durina the last election, for 1
base been always anxious that political contests, which
must be carried on amongst those who are for the most
part friends, should he conducted without asperity or bitter-
ness of feeling. (Hear, hear.) Nevertheless, 1 must re-