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much may be their own share of that blame
which ought to be ascribed to those through whose
errors of these evils have unfortunately happened. Re-
collect that in time of peace this country has always been
most jealous of the existence of a standing array. Vie
have had in this country, in proportion tr 3 our wealth,
our power, our population, and the extent of our em-
pire, perhaps, the smallest army of any European State ;
and, small as it was, it was always looked upon with
jealous eyes, and any augmentation of its strength
w.atcled with the utmost vigilance, and generally, if pcs-

sible, prevented. We have bad the arrui so used and so
distributed that it Wa9_not likely, at the commencement

of a war, that it should be perfect for all the purposes of
warfare. I have explained this elsewhere, but I will now
repeat what I have previously said, because I think the
truth ought to be understood ; and because, likewise,
the words I used before on this subject haee been misre-
presented. I have stated that the English army ought
to be as good as any army in the world. (A. Voice—
"So it is.") I will explain to that gentleman, if he will
allow me, why ours is as good as any other army in the
world, and why, in some respects, it is not so. I may
say, to use a strong expression, that in time of peace we
have had no such thing as an le,glish army. We have
had English regiments. Those regiments were scattered
over different parts of the globe, and stationed in diffe-
rent parts of the United Kiagdom. Nay, more, in Ire-
land those regiments have been positively broken up into
companies, and even into detachments of companies.
You use the army in Ireland for the purpose of hunting
out stills of illicit whisky, and of collecting the taxce—
you use it in Ireland not as an army, in fact, Let as a
police force. When I say that our soldiers arc as capable
as any organised army in the world, I mean that they do
that in which they have been practised better than any
other army in existence. What I mean is, that the re-
gimental system—(interruption, and a Voice, " It is all
the fault of the Ministers.') Well, if the gentleman will
allow me to say what I have to offer, I will be happy to
hear him in reply. I say that the English army is cum-
posed of regiments—that those regiments are thoroughly
masters of their duty—that the regimental system of
the English army is as near to perfection (if I _may use
that word in reference to any human institution) as any
array possibly can be ; and throughout the last campaign
you will have seen that the regimental officers have in-
variably done their duty well, and that there has been
no instance of error or failure on their part ; but what
they want, and what they do not practise in time of
peace, is that organisation adapted for large masses of
men collected together. This you never have in Eng-
land. Nov, I wish you to understand me here. I say
that in every other country in the world an army is a
collection of regiments, and other countries know how
to more, to feed, and to organise large masses of men.
In England, on the other hand, this is 'ever the case
until the time of actual warfare arrives, and then you
expect men lath to learn their duty and to execute it at
one arid the same time. I have said that we must use
every effort to repair the errors which have been com-
mitted, to apply the needful remedy, to guard again t
the repetition of past mistakes, and SO to strengthen and
maietan our army as that ultimately we may feel a
moral cert iinty of seeress. The object of all war, in my
opinion, is pace, because you seek by war to get rid of
those delieulties which interpose to make too pre-exist-
leg, stase of peace insecure or even impossible. And
recollect therefore that the object of war being peace,
those are the nicest anxious for peace shouldcontri-

bute the root r.ndtly every effort they can to forward
vigorous and active prosecution of the present
I say that I look to its termination in peace
—whee, it is impossible for man to toll. You are aware
that the Government have deputed nue of the most
eminent statesmen of the present day to procee 1 on a
mission to negotiate—ti.at is, if negotiations be honestly
and fairly conducted, then he is to negotiate for a pewee
that may he honourable to England and durable for the
whole world. There is no doubt that if there be any
country in Christendom which has an interest in peace
it is England. Her vastly extended commercial rela-
tions with ail parts of the world—and among other rea-
sons I may ;eke; add the strong religious feeling of her
people—make England pre-eteinent among the nations
of Europe as a friend of peace. We hive, however,
entered upon a war, reluctantly it may be, but
from a sense that the peace of Europe was threatenei
by a State which, if not resisted now, might he too
powerful for our resistance hereafter. We embarked in
the contest from no selfish or exclusive motive, because
every European object was an English object likewise.
Our cause is not the cause of England alone, but the
cause of Europe, and, I may almost say, that of the
world. Therefore, in concluding this conflict, we must
conclude it upon terms which will afford solid ground
for the expectation that peace shall not again he lightly
disturbed. I think that the Government of Lord Pal-
tnerston has done wisely in sending a statesman of the,
character, the antecedents, the reputation, and known
abilitp of Lord John Russell to ascertain whether or
not the time has arrived when we can have peace made
upon those conditions which we consider to be neces-
sary and indispensable to secure a (linable, as well as
honourable pacification. Gentlemen, I will not enter
into questions of domestic policy. They are for the
moment overshadowed in the minds of all men by the
great and stirring importance of events abroad. I need
the less touch upon there, because ever since I first en-
tered public life Ihave represented but one constituency,
and you therefore know what are the measures that I
have advocated and what the principles to which I ad-
here. (Hear, hear.) I have always felt a warm inte-
rest .I.,reinent of tl, and material en"'
fort of the people. I nave ever advocated unfailingly
the progress of religious liberty. I hold those opinions
still. I hare had an experience, I might almost say,
beyond my years, because you sent ice ,to Parliament a
very young man, younger than most men who enter
that assembly ; but every year that bas passed over my
head has served only to cenvince me of the truth and
soundness of the principles I have supported, and to
strengthen me in my determination to persevere in
their advocacy to the last. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
have again accepted office, feeling that Lord Palmer-
ston was entitled to ask from me, and that I was
bound to give him, whatever humble services it is in
my power to render. I have therefore entered his
Administration as Secretary of State for the Colonies ;
and I must say, undisguisedly and unaffectedly,
that I feel the full weight of the responsibility attaching
to the man who undertakes an office so important, and
who is charged, not with the government of the colonies
I am glad to say, because England has now grown wise
enough to know that she cannot, at a distance of thou-
sands of miles, pretend to govern countries fit to govern
themselves, but with the task of aiding, in the first place,
to regulate the intercourse between the mother country•
aid her colonial children; and, above all, of assisting in
promoting the development of the material, moral, and
religions progress of those great dependencies, which
will perhaps be the foundations in after times of mighty
empires, and which will spread over the globe the tradi-
tions of England, and carry to the remotest regions those
institutions of tempered liberty and free religion—that
love of order combined with freedom, which are such
distinguishing marks of the parent state. I believe that
through the agency of those colonies and their rapid and
growing intelligence and wealth we shall see diffused over
the world English institutions and the English language.
I feel, as I have already said, the heavy responsibility
imposed upon me, but its weight is lightened by the wise
administration of my predecessors, who have fostered
and encouraged the growth of self-government in our co-
lonial possessions—who have ceased to carry on the sys-
tem by which this country attempted to prescribe arhi-
trary restrictions, and which was met in the colonies by
angry crimination and resistance until the relations be-
tween the mother and child were anything but those
which ought to exist in a family. But those times, I
trust, are gone by ; and we have seen by the experiment
already mode 'low capable Englishmen aro, in whatever
&item they may live, to exercise those rights which they
are accustomed to enjoy at home—the rights of self-
government, which are the best preservatives of order as
well as of liberty. (Hear.) I will not detain you longer,
gentlemen ; I will only thank you most heartily for this
repetition of your confidence. I have now spent some
year. in your service and is that of the public. I have
felt that in England—in a country where we are all free
citizens, and where service is honour—it is the duty,
of all men who have leisure, and the means of doing so,
not to spend that leisure in luxurious ease, but to con-
tribute so far as in them lies to the conduct of public
affair'. (Hear, bear.) I have felt from the beginning
that it was my duty thus to act. I have endeavoured
humbly, but industriously and assiduously, to fulfil the
duties that seem to me to appertain to the station to
which God has been pleased to call me. This I may
have done—as sometimes, indeed. I know I have—in a
manner that was disapproved by souse of you who dif-
fered with me in opinion, but who, neverthlese, did not
feel the less respect for me or fir my opinions, because,
in spite of that difference, and at the risk of popularity,
I advocated what I believed to be for the benefit of the
empire at large, rather than what they considered
to he for the interests of a particular class. That con-
troversy, however, is now happily at an end. I believe
that we are all now pretty nearly of one mind on that
subject ; but I feel that I owe to this constituenoy,
whether they have agreed or disagreed with me, my gra-
titude for the manner in whioh those who have differed
from me have tolerated me, and those who have agreed
cordial
thanks, owpiitnhiomnse. halvehasvielpopnolrytetdbeiresefeo,reintotheexpardesysocmaycy
thanks, and to add, that I believe, H we are not faint-
hearted under difficulties—if we evoke every energy,
and put forth every effort to which this mighty empire
is equal, that we have before us the prospect of ultimate
triumph, and, founded upon that triumph, the restora-
tion of a lasting peace,. which is necessary not only for
the prosperity of England, but for the happiness of the
whole human race. (Loud cheers, amidst which the
right hon. gentleman resumed his seat.)
Some confusion then ensued, during which a smart
fire of interrogatories was kept up. Among these were
taken
What about the green coffee berries served to the
soldiers ?" " Where is our army ?" " What did the
Times say of you yesterday V'
Odessa ?" and the like. No notice' Nlylarhs,yhdoiwdeVhe
of the queriets.
Mr. HERBERT availed himsel of the first lull to pro-
pose a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff for his impar-
tial cenduet in the chair ' • and the motion was agreed
to amid general cheers and faint hisses.
A second volley of ejaculatory questions from the
same quarter as before, comprising, " Who starved the
soldiers ?" and "Let ' he' go to the war himself," &c.,
then followed, but was attended with as little result as
its predecessor ; and the proceedings, which occupied
little more than half an hour, terminated.

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