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verty. They are all persona tO whom it shilling n-day la
to be an object. (Renewed laughter and applause.) The
third qualification is ignorance; for I venture to Lay that,
if ever you take the trouble to observe the
.appearance of
these young fellows who follow the recruiting serjeant
on the streets—(loud Laughter)—you will at once say
that, among our labouring classes, they are not the most
educated—they are not the most intelligent. (Cheers.)
That they are brave stout fellows, I have not the least
doubt. Lord Hardinge tells me that he never saw finer
young fellows ; and I have not the slightest doubt that
if necessary, after a little training, they will be standing
up for our firesides and hearths against the best disci-
plined soldiers the continent can produce. (Cheers.)
But these are not the qualifications of men who are to
have the choice of legislators. (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
The habits that generally send young men from the
ploughtail to the army are rather a disposition to idle-
ness. (Hear, hear.) There is, by the bye, another quali-
fication which I have forgot, and that is, that they must
be five feet two. (Loud laughter, and applause.) This
is a qualification for a county voter. (Renewed laugh-
ter, and appleuse.) What do you think of measuring a
man for the franchise ? (Continued laughter. and ap-
plaum ) Well, this comes from a C iservative Govern-
ment, the swamping of all the county- constituencies in
England, people who possess the Derby-Walpole quali-
fication—that is to say, with youth, poverty, ignorance,a
roving disposition, and five feet two. (Roars of
laughter, and loud :applause.) Why, what have people
who have brought in such a mentire as this to talk
about—l do not say Lord John Russell's imprudence—
but about the imprudence of Ernest Jones and other
people who propose universal suffrage. At all events,
they give wealth with poverty, and knowledge with igno-
rance, and mature age with youth. But to make a
qualification
compounded of disqualifications,. is a thing
I really do believe was never heard of except in the ease
of this conservative reform. (Renewed la.ughte. r.) This
prodigious proposition was made, I believe in a very
thin house, but next day the house was full enough,
everybody having come down with questions, Why not
this? and Why not that? Are all the regular troops to
have a vote, all the policemen, and all the sailors ? for,
if you take ploughboys of one-and•twenty, what possible
class of honest Englishmen and Seotchmen could. you
have the slightest pretence to exclude? Bat then it was
stated the thing had not been sufficiently considered, and
some of his colleagues were not satisfied, and he should
withdraw it. Well, I must say, that if it had happened
to ma first to propose such a reform, and at. the next
sitting of the house to withdraw it, because it had not
been well considered, I do think that to the end of my
life I never would have talked about the fault ere-open-
ing the trastitiplif refasa, and never have read any other
man a lecture on the dare o pr idence and caution
with which he should approach questions of organic
change. (Cheers.) I repeat, if lam to judge from the
language cf the present Ministers, taken in connexion
with those solitary instances of legislative skill in the
way of reform, I am truly at a loss what to expect ; but
what I should expect would be a pertinacious and vehe-
ment opposition to what is most safe and reasonable,
and, in some moment of fear and caprice, fling something
on the table with the most desperate levity, enough to
loosen the foundations of society. For my own part, as
I have said, I think the question of Parliamentary
reform is ono which must soon be taken up, but it ought
to be taken up by the Government ; and I hope, before
long, to see in office a Ministry which will take it up in
earnest. (Cheers.) I daresay you will not suspect me
of saying so from any interested feeling. The truth is,
in no case whatever shall I again be a member of any
Ministry. During what may remain of my public life,
I shall be the servant of none but you. (Loud and pro-
longed cheering.) I have nothing to ask of any Govern-
ment except that protection which every Government
owes to every faithful and loyal subject of the
Queen. But I do hope to see in office before long
a Ministry which will treat this great question as
it should be treated. It will be the duty of that
Ministry to revise the distribution of power. It will
be the duty of that Ministry to consider whether small
constituencies, notoriously corrupt, and proved to be cor-
rupt—such, for example, as Harwich—ought to retain
the power of sending members to Parliament. It will
be the duty of such a Ministry to consider whether such
constituent bodies, even less notoriously corrupt, ought
to have, in the councils of the empire, a share as great as
the West Riding of the county of York, and twice as great
as that of the county of Perth. It will be the duty of Buell
a Ministry to consider whether it be not possible, without
the smallest danger to peace, law, and order, to extend the
elective franchise to classes of the community which do
not possess it. As to universal suffrage—on that subject
you already know my opinions—and I now come before
you with these opinions strengthened by everything which
since that period has passed in Europe. We have seen by
the clearest of all proofs that universal suffrage, even
united with secret voting, is no security against the esta-
blishment of arbitrary power. (Cheers.) Jet, gentlemen,
I do look forward, and at no very remote peroid, to the
extension (.f the franchise, farther than, I admit, I once
thought would be safe or practicable. I believe that
such an extension will, by the course of events, be
brought about in the very best and happiest way.
Perhaps, I may be sanguine, but I think that good
times are coming for the labouring classes of this country.
I do not entertain that hope because I expect that Fou-
rierism, or St. Simonianism, or Socialism, or Com-
munism, or any of those other isms," for which the
plain English word is robbsty—will prevail. I know
such sentiments only aggravate the misery which they
pretend to relieve. I know it is possible by such legis-
lation to make the rich poor, but I know it is utterly im-
possible to make the poor rich. (Hear, hear.) But I
do believe and hope that the progross of experimental
science—the further intercourse of nation with nation—
the unrestricted influx of commodities from countries
where they are cheap, and the unrestricted influx of la-
b ,ur towards countries where it is dear—will soon pro-
duce, and is beginning to produce, a great and most
blessed social revolution. (Cheers.) The Right Hon.
Gentleman, after some brief but eloquent remarks upon
the progress of emigration and its advantages colonially
and nationally, concluded by saying : I have only strength
to thank you again, from the very bottom of my heart,
for the great honour which you have done me, in ap-
pointing me, without solicitation, to the distinguished
post of one of your representatives. lam proud of our
connexion, and I shall try to act in such a manner that
you may not be ashamed of it. (Mr. Macaulay resumed
his seat amid loud and prolonged cheers.)
Mr. MACFARLANE, advocate, said it would be useless
in him to say a word to prolong the meeting after the
speech they had just heard. Ho rose for the purpose
of moving a vote of thanks to a man who—scarcely ex-
cepting the distinguished man whose loss had been so
touchingly alluded to had rendered services to his
country and his fellow-citizens. He meant their excel-
lent chairman, Mr. Black. (Great cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in reply, thanked the meeting for
the honour they had done him, and in return begged to
propose three cheers for Mr. Macaulay.
On this invitation the audience, apparently to a man,
sprang to their feet, waving hats and handkerchiefs, and
gave three deafening cheers. Three cheers were then
given for Mr. Black, and three for " The History of
England," and the meeting quietly dispersed.

ABD-EL-ICAF ALGIERS. THE BISHOP
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We read in the Pays :--" When Abd-el-Kader visited
the church of the Madeleine he spoke to the ecclesiastic,
who led him round the edifice, of his dear friend—of the
Frenchman whom he loved the most of all those whom
he hod known in his days of power, Mgr. Dupuch, the
first bishop of Algiers, and said to Commandant Bois-
sonnet—`rake me to his house to-morrow. The bishop,
on learning this, hastened to visit his old friend, for
their acquaintance is now upwards of twelve years' data.
The year 1840 was a terrible epoch in the annals of
Algeria, a dreadful war staining the fields with blood.
It was for the pious bishop an endless source of affliction
to hear of so many melancholy incidents. He was con-
sidering how it might bo possible for him to lessen the
horrors of the war, when a young woman, all in tears
with a little girl in her arms. called oh him, and implored
him to ask the Emir to restore to her her husband, who
had been taken prisoner at the gates of Douora, in the
Sahel of Algiers. The bishop wrote the same evening
to the disciple of the Prophet:—
"You do not know me; my profession is to serve God,
and love all men as brethren. If I could at once mountorin.
on huiecheA, I would Dot fear the darkneos, or the
to present myself at the entrance of your tent, and j
would say to you in a voice which
e, if what I
who h hear of you
is true, you could not resist:
Giv me bm
just fallen into your bands. But I cannot set out myself.
However, I send to you one of my servants, and suppli-
cateyou:i you by this letter to grant my request. I have
neither
the prayers
at osi give,cer eand
heart,can Only offer
return, and the gratitude
of the family in whose name I write to you these words
—f Blessed aro the merciful, for they shall find mercy.' "
Abd-el-Kader replied as follows:
",amatnet
has
nlohtasvuerrpercise!vdedrayeouaritelorttwehr comprehended it. It
tohave heard of your
.. observe that you
might,sacred in accordance
ticß;uwt
itahlloywour
mission of mercy, have
asked me for the liberty, not of one prisoner merely, but
worthy of your
hoseednoouwhlyin our hands. And,
mission,in addition,if n ot
contentwould
yofoualnl
otth
with procuring such a. benefit for 200 or 300 Christians,
von attempted to extend the favour to a like number of
Musulmano who languish in your prisons ? Is it not
written, Do unto others as you would that they should
do unto you ?
glorious of
F
" Some months after took place that
exchangerhas owervciance and religion. prisoners which redounded so much
to the honour
Since then, Abd-
a sort of veneration to M. Dupucla,
and at Pau, as at Amboise, his happiest days were those
111 which he was able to see
and converse with the pre-
,Ate- Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, M. Dupuch was
announced, and the Emir, although at table, at once
ordered him to be shown in. They embraced each other
most affectionately, and Abd-el-Kuder was under the in-
fluence of so much emotion that he could not utter a
word. After cakes and coffee had been offered to the
prelate and the priests who accomparded him, the former
sAid to the Emir, I have been most anxious to see you,
and congratulate you on your liberty. I have pra)ed
much that you might bo sot free, and I bless the hand
which has broken the bonds of your eaptivity: Abd-el-
Kader replied, You were the first Frenchman who com-
prehended me. Your prayer has ascended to leaven,
and God has enlightened and touched the heart of the
great Prince who has set me free.' During more than
a quarter of an, hour that the Visit lasted, Abd-el-Kader
hold the bishop's hand in his, and more than once ex-
pressed a wish to soon see him again. When you
some days
A.mboise; said the bishop, • I will go and pass
some days with you.' Yes,' replied the Emir,' but come
d see me h
I can never see you enough '
and
we h e
n theer e again ;
moment came to separate,- tears started
to his eyes, and, in a last embrace, ho seemed to repeat
to the bishop what he had said to him the last time he
saw him at Amboise---6lt seems as if my End was tors
from my body when you quit me."'