The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-05 00:00:00

Mstntaster,Ostitsritl, rtvit rill why it should bd ft fad
nt, never, within the 111,111"ry 01 living 111811, nothing
than a peer should have occupied that position,
vhich requires a knowledge of busine=s, and something
utter than acquaintance with the r
.erctal necessity, and many oil. r qualities, a hich
,re gat found in one peer out of ten. (Great
polause.) I des,re to be as honest with you as I
el with other?, and I think you deserve it at my h“nib.
)epend upe n it., because we with it to be 811 it will be
0. I beleve at this moment there are not fifty men it?
!le
.House of. Commons who are full proof against the
!)ousand firms of influence by which they are Sur.
~ituided. (Cries of "hear, hear.') This will readily be
.een to be the case when I call your attention to the
act which has been brought prominently under public !M-
-ce, that there is in that house 120 sons of peers, and
00 sons-in-law, grandsons, nephews, or other re-
atives. I don't say that they have no right there
:f they possess the attributes of men calculated to
-arrying on the business of the country. So long as the
constituencies continue to send such men, we shall have
hem. But if things go on as _they are, we must take
tnited steps to remedy them. lam anxious to appeal
-o every one interested in this matter, that it is only so
1.1- as you feel individually respons:b!e for the cantli-
ites for your suffrages that we shall get any real redress.
sheers.) And as a first step towards the attainment of
lat object, there must be a thorough awl entire change
public opinion as to the character of the relationship
•et,,veen a member of parliament and his constituency.
long as he is compelled to go cap in hand to the
voter and ask for his vote, it will no longer be amazing
.o hear persons say that they did not give their
vote, because it was not worth while if it was not worth
asking for. (Cheer.) It is this indifference on the
part of the people which really justifies, at least tho-
roughly accounts for, the state of things to which I ap-
peal. My concluding remarks are, let us, as citizens of
London, take care of that at the next election, (Vo-
dferous cries of hear, hear, and cheering,) lam quite
aware that I am treading upon tender ground. (Cries

f "No, no ; you are on the right vroutid, go on.'') I
quite aware that I am speaking indirectly in re-
erence to a man with regard to whom I must
.xpress the highest personal respect. But in
•eference to all questions of the day—all questions hay-
"g reference to that kind of !e2.iilation on which the
ate lamented Joseph Hume spoke out so strongly—that
rind ot legislation that seeks to promote the largest pos-
,ihle happiness of the largest possible number—with re-
erence to all these cases ot legislation there wa.,

lot that earnest and distinct utterance of opinion

o which I think we have a right. In conclusion, Ido
•ntreat you to bear these things in your. mind, and to
ke care to do your duty in this particular light when
Tou have next the opportunity. (Loud cheers.) I
hank you, heartily, for the kind attention you have
yen me, and I appeal to you, with all my heart, to
.ipport me— (loud cries of "Hear, hear")—in preserving
rler today, and let me also beg of yi.o not to allow
:mr attention to be diverted from the great object be-
,re us, which aims at the formation of an association
k'hich I hope will prove of advantage to the country,
lid which I hope you will maintain. (Loud cheer,.)
:-,fore I sit down I feel very anxious to refer to one
Int, which I have hitherto forgotten. It is thi : I want
expressinylione4inifignati-n,as an .Eaglislrnao, at the
.;ppery of the Prime Minster. (Cheers, and cries of
Hurrah.") Lori Palmerston may be, and is a man of
msummate ability, and has manners which w.u1,1 grace
iy dancing master. (Laughter, and cries of "hear.') I
ave no with to enter into personalities, but the thing is
atrocious, and the deep injuries which R.gland
ti-t tined, have, when mentioned, only been met by
niversa! joking. (Loud applause.) I can tyke you to
,s columns of any newspaper, and I could selec twenty
‘eeches that have been delivered by Lord 13,00meNtfin
;lice be has been Prime Minister, of a. charac er which
,uld have broken the hearts of thon,ands. I can

q,w you that out cf that twe,•ty nineteen at last have
I.sultrd in roars of laughter. (Elear hear.) I trwt-the
tterance from this large meeting wilt be such as a., le,st
check such tendencies for the future. After again

lacking the !netting fur the aLtention they had gi,ien,

,t) the chairman recirned his seat.
Mr. J. J. TRAVERS moved the following. resolution:—
" That the disasters to which the country has been sob-
,ted in the conduct of the present war are attributable to
a inefficient and. practic Illy irresponsib!e Inanagelient of
variou4 departments of the State, and urgently demand
borough change iu the administrative system."

,ere was little, he said, to be added to Nhat had al-
iy stated by the chairarin. Tie divstJrs
) which the country hal been suhj,:cted in the
mduct of the preient war was atAnbutable to

,he inefficient, impracticable, and irrespon ale ma-
lagement of the various departnarlits of the State—
u.l cheer)—anal he believed the country, from one
ad to the other, would agree in the !natured and mild
xpression of such a resolution as that he ha I proposed.
:'hey did not require to look without for evidence
,f the inefficiency and irreßpongibility of the Govern-

,nt, beeauv they had given the einantry evidence of it
.-enselves, (Cheers.) Lord Jahn Ru-scli bad expres9ed
s opinion of the &Teets in our present t,ifili,.l,tration.
,r Robert Peel bad more than once a 4-: rr,eil that

declined to aid in theyespnsibilitieB of Government,

cause Government did everything badly. (Cheer.)
:oilst Sir Graham and Sir Charles Trevelyan had given
;epee of the impossibility of carryin4 on the Govern-
•ut in a correct and proper manner, so long as the
ose was con4ituted as at present. The people of this

untry had no one to blame hut themselves for

i s state of things, an in dealing with ques-
Ong of this kind, he would entreat his tellow-countr~-
ten
to dismiss from their minds any feeling of irritation
eaisst pers-ns who had been called from circuei-
Lances to work a sy,:tem it was impossible to work
o.rectiy. The objects and feelings of the gentlenuoi
dlio in the first instance convened this meeting, it wa.
,ecessary the country shoidd k"ow, and he would en-
1€ avour to explain them. It had lately teen asserted
eat they were making, an attempt at a revolution,
Att. he treated such an ac. ovation with the contemn'.
t deserve I (hear, hear, and cheers) and if any
can in his senses asserted that the tridesmed and mer-
,haets of this cou:rtry, whose debts and property were
" sheep on the hill-side," de,ired to su`iver,, the
aw and good order of this country, he would tell him
vas a madman. (Loed cheers ) No such design
•,(isted in L indon. (Hear, hear.) It hal also been
L,Berted that they desire 1 to subvert the G ivernment of
lie country, but that denied. (Hear, hear.) This
ggvein nt was, he believed, too large •aet too general
o conile..cend to attack any pa ticu ar Gevernment
.r individu (hear, hear)—and he wt-rued it to
-e clearly understood that, s ) far as his
.oinions went, and those with where he hal been in
•eininunication, they had no desire to attack any indi-
or to honl them responsible for the .lisgr ice arid
•vils of a system. Tri,r, was nothing incur or petty in this
eevernent ,f the peo,.le. and he should be asha n-d
.1 any body of men in Lond ,n who could attack any
.rentleinati, as he was grieved to fin I the House of C no-
g-ins ha 1 attacked one man. (Hear, and cheers.) If
icy believed the evils of which they compained e(iste'l
holly and solely with one particu'ar class or govero-
rent, they wontl be almost content to sacrifice
ease or government ; bat it was nit so—the fault
as, as the cha,irinao had stated, with the constituencies
-,heinselves—(sneer:.)—and in proof of that he liovd
:eon to place such facts before them that it was so, for
e every constituency in the country there was a number
,f men on the registry but unpolled suffi.;ivnt in number
,n,l intelligence if they could be tattle to exercise their
Tanchise as would make the present representation of
,he people available for itninediata purpoes. (Cheers.)
He believed it was the first duty of the city of London
cc arouse the middle classes to a sense of their duties

and dangers, and it was with that object that the pre
-ient movement was originated. (Hear, hear, hear.)
It was for them to say if it should be called on
in a proper manner, or things remain as they now
were, left in the hands of a few and comparl-
tively sp=eaking unkneeen individuals. (Cheers.) An-
.e,vering for himself and other=, they were determined,
Ai men of business—as a matter of prudence—and a
tnetter of necesity, t, do everythieg in their pow,,r to
arouse the cenqtituenciee to a sens oftheir d ty. (Cheers.)
In undertaking the onerous charge of put:ing before
the public some definite plan of retortn, it wiend be ac
assumption on their p art without they [lei with t iem
the large misses of the people. (Cheers.) ree) ohj tct of
the present meeting was to apperni a coal n:ttee who
should con-ider and devise seine rue le of ref inning the
evils complained of, and in that he asked them for sup•
por, and he was satiefied from what he knew of the
-ipirit of the people of the country, they would have an
unanimous response to the call. (Cheers.).
Mr. J. B. GA3SIOTT seconded the motion, and Rai.),
whatever may have been the busineee-like charaer of
their statesmen, they certainly had brought this country
int ) a mew state in the estimation of the other nations of
Europe, notwithstanding they had been supplied vitth
unliMited means for carrying on the war. Tue lion.
gentleman then referred to the meeting of Parliament in
December, and the introduction of the foreign enlist-
ment bill, which was oppose]. he theueht, very unfairly
by Lord Derby. (Hear.) Ha hal a statement to bring
before them which he would not have ventured to do
had not the original docanients been in his p esseseion.
Nodoubt many of theta had read the e videnua taken before
the Parliamentary committee, and sew the question
which was put to the Duke of Newcastle, whether there
had net been an offer made to the Cr ivernment of a
guerilla, force, and his answer that it was the first time
he had heard of it. Oil the 28th December the house
rose, and on the 31st a gentleman, wall ku tem to him,
made the proposition to the G ivertimetit. In the last
week of December, 1351, Mr. C. Mauby transmitted to
the Wet. Department a letter &ern Mr. J. L. Manby, of
Paris, containing an offer to furnish for the
Crimea 10,000 Spanish giterilla, troops, armed,
aecont•ed, and officered, 5,000 in three weeks,
and the other 5,000 in three weeks after, at the bounty
't 1/. soeil• These men were to he of the
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!'.rat class of guerillas, and accustomed to their own
r'clViar warfare. This letter was meat to Mr. R thefts,
inelat4ihritebtehelolVt
Uit unifier-Secretary of State. It was feared that otherwise
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