The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

MIL DU CANE, ALP., ON PUBLIC

The annual mastlngot theHinakfordPonnewstive
sad Apiculture' Clab wee held on Friday waning at
Castle Rockingham, near Rai:bead, end was more 011111.114.
cooly attended than usual. The Hon. J. W. amt.
presidia, and among those puma were Hr. C. Du Cane,
M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty ; Mr. H. J.
(kelvin, M.P. for South Eras ; Colonel Brims, Xi. 3.
Round, Mr. L. Majendie, the Rev. H. Wilkinson, Maior
Da Cane, Mr. Percy pu Cane, Captain Sparrow, Lieut.
Sperling, &c.
After the unial loyal and patriotic toasts,
Bir R. P. HINNIKZI proposed " Her Msjesty's
expre•ng his belief that the government at preeist is
power would be prepared to grapple manfully with the
great question of reform which was now militating the
country—a great and delicate question to handle, bat a
volition which everybody who looked to the signs of the
tunes meet see, could no longer be shelved. The hon.
baronet altar some farther remarks, in the mune of which
he nursed Colonel Seise as the probable second emmarrative
candidate for North Ever, associated Mr. Dn Cane with
the toast, which was drunk with enthralment.,
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Kr. Do Cain, 11. P., who was received with loud chewy
respondad. The hoe. gentlemen said in the *tuns of hla
address :—The grovernneat of Lord Derby took offices
at the dose of a session when we were almost ex-
hausted by • lengthened parliamentary sandlot, end
its official life has been chiefly paned during a neer, the
tranquillity of whicheventhe revolutiouaryron at the peat
Birmingham agitator has does but little to disturb. We
have at the present moment something like fear menthe
Wore us in which to mature our measures and our polity;
and we can now on'; appeal to the !norm and ask item
parliament and the country • fair trial foe that polloy end
for those mama.. We know very well what- sort of •
ler tf.al Mr. Bright would accord to our iseaserse and to
our policy. We know very well that in his Wyse tie only
moan with which Lord De by haa taken Wise ill be
setter the loaves and fishes of patronage for • few short
swaths amongst lie political supporters. We know do
that in his ere the only policy we possess is to nil 14
mace off the table of the house if by so doing we ewer
se. Are a lasting oocupation of the treasury 1011111111111.•
(laughter.) We know, too, that in his eyes ear
polkey
manures should be condemned and our
soontsd by solicitation, and that we annine
should be treated to the most primitive and popular
American institution of lynching, without the preli-
minary of a trial ; that to use the words of the ghost in
Hostid, we should be
Cut off even in the blossom of oar Ma
Ilithousied, disappointed, unanealed,
No reckoning toads but soot to our account
With all oar imperfections un our beads.

(Laughter.) We know, too, the happy future that ia in
store for our suocomors. We know that they ,will be re-
-5.d totem' the knee and doff the hat to manhood suf.
and the great giant of physical force or be swept one
all into their-mit gulf of clionocistio revolution. Thee se
we ere told that history repeats itself, we shall at lest have
Mr. Brightgoinicwnto the House of Commons like a second
Cromwell, cape the Speakerof thatdegradecl,proffigate,
and corrupt einem y--(leughter)—oslling on the mem-
bearer to " take away that bauble," locking the door,
putting the key in his pocket and hurrying to Temple-bar
to elect his praLwGod bambino parliament from the first
658 men withskirt-collars and cost-cuffs who may
happen
to pass throagh that ancient and venerable portalo the
City, (Loudlautrliter.) Gentlemen, this is the programme
*metre have recertly bad issuedin great Birmingham mai-
talkies on north-country platforms ; but I don't think it
to a programme which the great mass of the people of this
'country are yet perfectly ready to adopt. I believe that
U= maw of the people, if they love one thing above
, love fair play and fair and open hitting, sad that
war:aver may be their partMular opinions, they are
*km of the honour and the purity which animate their
leading statesmen. I believe, also, that the people of this
errantry an prepaid to accord to the government of Lord
that fur trial which Mr. Bright would deny
Darby that
Although we may have some differences
as regards putting our theory into practice, yet
in our inmost hearts the old maxim of " Peace, retrench-
ment, and reform," is the political creed of every educated
linglidiman. Well, gentlemen, I believe there an very
few people of thought and education in this country who
see in the advent of a conservxti re government to office
anything that is likely to be fraught with danger to the
continuance of an honourable once ; and if by retrench-
ment you mean the utmost economy that is consistent
with good government and the efficient maintenance of our
national defences, I think it is possible that we may ague!
—I do not know that we may not surpass—our prede-
mmen in that matter. (Laughter). And if, gentlemen,
Krierttr is meant a gradual extension of constitutional
and rational progress as opposed to revolutionary
change ; if by reform Is meant the removal of abases, the
spread of education, and the gradual amelioration of the
social condition of the people, then I think it is just possible
that we may equal—l do not know that we may not sue.
predeoeseors in the matter of reform also.
I)=7 Gentlemen, on these grounds the government
of Lord Derby asks for your support in the present, end
looks forward with confidence to the future. If it sue.
oeeds I think the greater will be its credit and its glory
that commencing its career in the face of a hostile ma-
jority, it should gradually have won its way to the heart.
and affections of the people by the wisdom, the justice,
and the moderation of its policy. If it fails, it will at
least have this consoling reflection, that there M no disgrace
in being overpowered by numbers, and that it falls with
honour, and with its fair fame untarnished, in the at-
tempt to e, while it extends, the blessings of the
ancient, e free, and the, noble institutions of our coun-
try. (Loud cheers.)