Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-27 00:00:00

session to express its opinion ; if at this moment we have
no Parliament sitting at Westminster, we have, during
*. present week the parliament of the people of the
united Kingdom. (Loud cheers.) They can do two good
works by
the One act--they can question their candidates upon
„ subject of reform and the subject of war ; and it is for
'ne. electors and the non-electors of the country to put it
dof the power of any man who comes forward as a can-
nal'? t° shirk either one question or the other. (Cheers.),
of e"eve, however, we may safely leave the great question
wavwar to be decided when parliament meets in the right
,
form xou have heard to night-on two sides of this plat-
who the two views entertained by the. two great parties
There"Pre,s opinions on foreign politics in this country.
beari has always been for many years one party
trr
• gto the French, and and another to the Aus-
ju
and Russian alliance. I do not pretend to-night to
saf,e between them, but I am quite sure that we may
Fell
leave them to, watch one another.. (Hear, hear.)
, what is the duty of the people of this country in the
v4snt t-
t the une ? With reference to elections, my counsel
foro the
would be, do not trust to the Conservative. party
aena measure of reform. (Cheers.) I am not going to
dist
-s them demonstrative talent ; I am not going to
ar..e
them as a party, capable of managing with a loyal
Jinst intere regard to the dignity of the crown and material
Rat c, the
the people and government of this country.
You 3_ll 'ne question of Reform, I say, do not trust them.
fro,,,uave no right to expect grapes from thorns, and figs
447 t,histles. It is true, they are now reformers. It is
yerC Indeed, that all men are now reformers. At this
t4;Present election, you have extreme Radicals, Whig-
the 'e,a,ni, Conservative Liberals, old Tories (a very few of
bootii), and that- hybrid sort of a creature, new holding
But, :11.04 "Iv advancing a' little, called a Coniervative.
antecede W. me to remind you, that there is nothing in the
eena ~nts of these men, and nothing connected with their
upon recent questions of parliamentary. reform,
4114, „sw°lll,d warrant you in putting any trust in ,them.
of ae,to remind you that they rejected the resolution
into c"
'Ollll Russell, and wanted to be trusted to. go
lied unnittee. I do not think the House was justi-
(lllc,st:oll, g,4ing- into committee. Mr. Roebuck put the
!ayini"l)Lainly to Disraeli, the last night of the debate,
4 tla -Will you, or will you not, be. consenting parties,
boron. ~nleasure should go into committe,e, to reduce the
deeidegc; franchise to a certain amount ? ' Mr. Disraeli
ether 'Y declined to give any pledge upon that,
.or any
patharnquestion connected with it. Well, then, they dissolved
laught—Aell,t under false pretences. (Hear, hear, and
Prei „;r„.) No man will be understood as slighting the
she rn°7l,"ve of the Queen; when he tells you that the speech
and n-„Te,,,s_ in person is the speech of the Queen's ministers,
l'arlia-r„," that of herself. I say. that that- speech dissolves
whieCent on grounds which do not exist,-and upon an issue
try, not the issue to be tried by the, people of this coun-
raent t was not impossible for them to carry on the govern-
pa of the country, and, if they' were, there was another
ha/Z(1114e willing to' take the -responsibility of it in their
untilt But they chose to dissolve and they' do not do it
neola °rd Derby, in the House' of Lords, had exultingly
that -red that now they had done with the Reform Bill, and
PeonitheY were absolved from any obligation to the
to bringof this country, or Parliament -and the country,
tie in another bill on that subject.
Pareemed to be glad to have got rid of the bill, and then
the h,a'4,ent is dissolved, according to the speech put into
billb-riqs of the Queen and the answer given by the elections
ell,hether the nation will reinforce the supporters of
,
ill the /I DY 8 Government, and give him such a majority
reins of...°llSe of Commons as will enable him to keep the
ealls 4., Power, and to defy the machinations of what he
the,
will discordant sections on the other side, or whether
compel him to resign office, and leave the govern-
% of the country in the hands of those who are not one
01010 themselves. I, for one,: do not regret the discordant
a tita nta which are in the House of Commons., There was
kroa,e when there was but two parties in that House, the
Conserative party of Tories, and the party of
the 'go ; but who does not know that in these days
doe power of public opinion was extremely limited ? Who
thnot know that in those days men went up to parlia-
enot for the purpose of redeeming the pledges given to
ear People on the hustings, or for the purpose of communi-
silog the resolution and wish of the people, but to follow Pitt
part or any one else who might be leader, at the time, of the
toned which they belonged. Now people are not con-
-4o return men, -except on very rare occasions, as the
-hre supporters of any particular man. You must have
thee-,,,,w„n,0 are, to some extent at least, determined to express
Bide gut of the people. All that is wanted on the Liberal
Lithe house is, that the great aristocratic leaders of the
trine Party, instead of abiding by the nonsensical doe-
with °lfinality, should place themselves more in harmony
You b;`,e People of the country at large.-
.
tc the neh men as those who tamely submit
Would -,o,4„`ates of the whipper-in of the Whig party.
Cobden .14,'u have your Roebucks, Gibsons, and
Wake of 7„ uoating like
'pieces of dead matter in the
be la, pl,"1 -Whigs boat, or of any other boat which might
Icreettino-"eu for the purpose of getting a shoal of fishes, and
it is, ahves with them. Certainly not. You will find, as
Co nunetuese independent elements in the House of
day hate which will bring, the government of the
'-'-in---tow,.;ver name that government may assume
not s the adoption of liberal measures. I do
ititcn aY
that all these men are perfectly sincere, and are
they se.IY attached to the motions they make and the votes
to pare) but this I do say, that it is well to send men up
atitue qa,[nent with a sense of their responsibility to con-
men which sent them there, and that it is well that
the wl'?'o, in their hearts, would gladly follow the behests of
in thelPPer-in can be thus kept true in their ordinary votes
eonse-""„?se of: Commons. • Well, I repeat, trust not the
at the ; judge them by the efforts they are making
stami Present time. Is there a good man in the county
to be tag for any place, a man of mark, I mean, who is not
411(1 out, if Conservative money, Conservative interest,
arlton influence can accomplish it ? (Hear, hear.)
of roof
[ this, Mr. Thompson referred to the opposition
Sir ~',right in Birmingham, and that of Mr. Wilson, and
Of wa—,:kme Perry in Devenport. Referring to the question
henags ' quoted a statement lately published in a Belgian
of k,,'„aPer, to the effect that the cost of the peaceful armies
6,7oaPe at the present time amounted to no less than
altop,„';',7° men, and of the navies to 219,000 men, making
o,,ruer 5 924, 000. Soldiers cost each inhabitant of
6s Gan 12s 6d annually, of France lOs 10d, of Russia
armies of Austria '6s 84-d, &c., &c. The maintenance of
aunneasi, in time of' peace, cost the countries of Europe
Plfa £73,313,750, and of fleets £17,687,500, in all
in th 7'250. He declared that the most stupendous fact
how ' history of the world at the present time, and remarked
Of 4illsignificant beside those sums appeared the expenditure
belle whole world for every purpose connected with
mean v(hence, education, and religion. He did not
at 1 to discuss the peace question there, but,
,irapc,,e, same time, he passingly alluded to the great
by -4."ailee of the movement in favour of deciding disputes
ti,‘ernational arbitration, and the necessity of watching
the e e Meantime with the strictest eye the expenditure of
he ne°llntrY• He declared that no Reform measure would
vrorjeptable which did not enfranchise the bulk of the
as llng classes, which did not disfranchise such boroughs
elte'r:undel and Caine, and did not recognise the
tlallvlitri of representation in . properties . with the
e of population and industrial importance.
ktlift-entand now made for reform, reasonable and calm
Pee.„-Ingh it might be, was not the less determined, and the
resAecthad_i but to persevere and they would bye and bye be
e,lith,;;eu by those who now affected to scorn them, and the
4.111 J 24, n growing would come to such a point that
‘ocise,ue sneered°lv at Mr. Bright's bill would be glad 'at last
tiohap.A—'ePt it. After some further observations, Mr. Thomhp-s
4at—ileluded in an eloquent peroration, and resumed i
i 1 loud applause.
reamt.' Charles Willmer was called upon to move the next
He said, he would not have intruded himself on
Cha.
neeting that night, but for his position in the Reform
Tb-uo) which
compelled him to the duty. Mr. George
ter-illirmi was invited by the Liverpool Reform Club,
, " purpos of addressing the Reformers of
rhartiti)2°l on` ethe great questions of the day,
Pclie'arly with reference to that question of foreign!".
Aider-3 Which had hitherto not been so fully co
that eu by the English people, as it deserved. He moved
the cordial vote of thanks be given to Mr. Thompson, for
eve eloquent address which he had delivered to them that
)141Ing• (Applause.)
resf',Stecn seconded the motion, after a few remarks ad-
othe",,e'l, to the working men, encouraging them to help each
111 Obtaining votes for, those who had none..
The
Mr - Proposition was enthusiastically responded to.
app George Thompson returned thanks in brief and
s ropriate terms.
lie; co
:k vote of thanks to the chairman, moved by Mr. Thomp-
' ncluded the business, and the meeting then dispersed.

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