The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-17 00:00:00

his Bono =able Colleague, Mr. DuprE, interrupting
him where all interruption was wholly uncalled for,
and throwing every obstacle in the way of the Hon.
Gentleman; but for his part he was a friend to free dis-
cussion, anal quite ready to submit his views and princi-
ples to the freest criticism.—(Hear, hear.) He there-
fore hoped. those who professed liberality would, for the
sake of consistency, extend a patient if not an indulgent
hearing to what he had to address to them.—(Hear,
hear.) Let them remember that insolence was
not wit, and that uproar was not discussion.—
Well, then, with this brief preface he begged
leave to say that ho did not agree with
those who disagreed with Dr. Lee in thinking that
the suffrage ought to be extended to the fair sex.—( A.
laugh.) He had always been of opinion that if universal
suffrage was to be granted there should be no distinction
of sexes.—(A laugh.) Certainly he would not support
what was called universal suffrage with that limited and
disgraceful restriction.—(Hear, hear.) A lady sat upon
the throne, while many of her fair subjects were occa-
sionally called upon to discharge the duties of
chw:chwardens and overseers. and therefore, when the
whole subject of universal suffrage was brought forward,
he would not consent to suppee. it except upon the con-
dition that the ladies were allo•ved to participate in the
benefits of the extension.—(L..ug,hter.) ia
next topic in order, he cams to the, attack which
tohich thean
Hon. Baronet had Iride upon the Ministry, but the Hon.
Baronet must have been smarting under. the influence of
the hot weather when ho thought of introducing them
to the !Inject of Tuscan polities.—(oh, ob, and
cries of " Gammon.") Let bins tell the worthy
elector who cried gammon, that when parties melee
attacks in a spirit of gammon they must be answered in
the same manner.—(A laugh.) Well, now, with regard
to the subject matter of this attack, what does if really
amount to? Why all he could tell them was this, that
the main circumstances all occurred before he came into
tnsttahtee
office; and he begged to tell the Hon. Baronet
forei that
was not prepared to go to war beeause
Bible.—
a g
would not allow the circulation of the English
(Hear.) He regretted that the Hon. %motet had lest his
seat for Bedfordshire, because his speech to-day would
have been reserved for Parliament.—(Hear, and cheers.)
Now, four months ago he was returned for this county
without opposition, and he thought, under the circum-
stances in which he now found himself, he had a right
to ask what he had done in that time which should have
forfeited their confidence?—(A Voice—" You have done
nothing.") The moat, then, that oould he acid against
him was that he had done nothing. Surely no candi-
date had ever appeared before a constituency with
snore advantage than he did now; but he defied any
man to lay his hand upon his heart and say that the
Government had done nothing.—(Hear, bear.) The
electors would remember that the first night he took his
seat after his re-election he was submitted to a severe
cross-examination from Lord John Russell; and the
object of that cross-examination Was to prevent the Go-
vernment doing anything, and produce a precipitate die-
solution.—(Hear, hear.) The Government, however,
resisted the attempt, and eventually they were enabled
to pass many measures of reform, and make provision
for the efficient defence of the country.—(Hear, hear.)
They brought forward other measures, such as those of
law reform, which their predecessors could not carry,
and, after the lapse of three months, which were taken
up with the discussions on these measures, no less a per-
sonage than Sir James Graham, either the friend or the
rival of Lord John Russell, called the attention
of the House of Commons to the then state
of public business, and called upon the Govern-
ment to confess that they were incompetent
to carry on the affairs of the country.—(Cheers.) They,
however, refused to make such a confession, and within
the brief space of another month all those impossible
measures were passed into a law, and received the
approval of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Bat it was
said they had passed measures, but did not prepare them
—(Hear, hear.) Now, was that really so? Was the.
great reform of the Court of Chancery the work of their
predecessors? Certainly not. They
Chancery never could
Ccaorry
out the recommendations of themissioners, and on one occasion Sir James Graham
mwhile allowing the importance of the reforms recom-
mended, exclaimed in despair, where can you find the
man to carry them out?—(Hear, hear.) Now,- the pre-
sent Government did find that man in the Lord Chan-
cellor, and besides that they gave one of our colonies
an important constitution and passed two extensivee
measures of sanitary reform.—(Hear, hear.) Could it
be said then that Government had done nothing within
the past four months, or that ho had been guilty of any-
thing in that brief space which should induce them to
vvithhoA their confid,ne3 from him for the future?
So much then for the past, and now for that something
which looms in the fnturr.—(Hear and a laugh.)
A VOICE—TeII u 9 whati:; is._ _

Mr, DISBAZLI—First, then, what he saw looming in
the suturo was this, that in a few days he should be one
of the Members far the county of Buckingham.—(A
laugh.) But joking aside, hs must say a word or two as
to the future policy of the Government.—(Hear, hear.)
No one could suppose that the present Administration
had any intention, or ever had any intention of re-
storing protection.—(Hear, hear.) Neither be nor
they had ever expressed any desire or intention
to bring back the laws which wore repealed in 1846, but
he had never shrunk either in or out of the House of
Commons from expressing his opinions as to the effect
which the repeal of that law must inevitably produce. He
always held that the law repealed in 1846 was repealed
in panic and precipitation, and he had never hesitated to
confess that in assisting to accomplish what might have
been a necessary end the interest of one great class was
not only wholly lost sight of, 'but absolutely sacrificed.—
(Hear, hear.) The moment they resolved upon that
change he Collie to the conclusion that they
must sooner or later have to consider the
financiel a, stem of the country, with the
view to its aljestment.—(Hear, hear.) That wits
the principle which be held now, it was the prin-
ciple which he advocated in opposition, and which as a
Minister he was prepared to put in practice —(Cheers.)
With respect to the suOject of lees! taxation, he must be
allowed to say, that the views which he advocated some
time age in the House of Commons had been pretty
extensively a:lopted during tee elections, not only by
candidates for counties, but for boroughs and towns too,
and he now found that those views now enjoyed the
sympathy and sepport of both town and county.
Too long had these inequalities of texation separated
class twin class, and it was his hope, and the wish of the
Government to which he belonged, to briog forward
measures founded in justice and applied with policy,
which should terminate that strife of classes that had so
long inured and degre:lee the high moral tone of Eng-
land.—(Hear, hear.) Lot them not, however, misunder-
stand him; ho did not pretend that a revision of our
local taxation would give that amount of relief to the agri-
cultural interest, and they must stilllook forward to
the
time when the Government would be in a situation to
bring forward sneer measures which should have a ten-
dency to reduce the grieeancea of the cultivator of the
soil, and matte him to compete with his foreign rival
with advantage to the country and satisfaction to him-
aelf.—(flear, hear.) They should remember that the
old pvciei would not be found in the next Parliament,
t would rather ho composed of parties who would re-
present new principles, and in spite of the influence of
party politics, the Minister of the day would be enabled
to carry his measures with far less ditfieulty than ho had
hitherto had to encounter.—(fiear, hear.)
A VOICE—Bat what measures do you propose?
Mr. Drsaehee did net feel that the present was either
the time or the place to go into deteils.—(Hear,
hear.) Toe proper audience for that would
be the House of Commons, and when the time
arrived ho should be prepared to unfold the particulars
of the plans which the Government would propose for
the country.—(;leer, hear.) All that he had now to
do was to state the tone of policy that he was prepared
to recommend, and ready to adopt.—(Hear, hear.) /le
told them whet was thespirit ofhepolicy
that animated the Government
iit and the
remained for objet,ia to hope
wo
they wished to obtain,
that the explanation anal
secure alike the approval of
the country and the
constituency which he sought to
represent.—(Flour.hea
r.) There W 33 one interest which
be must now be allowed to refer to. He alluded to those
who were engaged in the cuitivati" of the soil, and who
had hithertoo been too anxious to look to an artificial
price for their wheat.—(Hear hear') But there
was a ething tar more ia the cost
arti-
ficial pried, and that was a reductson,
veluabie, than au
roducer to
of production, which should enable the producer
compete with his rivals.—(Hear, hear.) rl laheuuJw"aws
then, and the object of the party towhich
attached, was to bring about such a reclhetiohtilmaraind
be asked the county of Buckingham to give;h he had
opportunity of carrying out the principle which
feebly attempted to explain.--(Bear,)
the • them
question of religion, he would not detain
With regard to
further than to remark than in issuing tel
recent. Proclamation the Government had been actuated
b *
a sincere desire to secure the, peace of the country;
and with these observations he begged leaveagain to
assure them that i they heir
representative he would do returned him as t
duty; and his ides of the
duty of a Member in hios
country great and re-perouPs• (°slti6)nheers.)
Dr. Lag, who P
was
was, to make his
greeted. with loud applause, said
that he had been charged with being a common distur-
ber of the publics ')
and peace,—(Laughter.)
was (Langahidterb.e)
had Re had been
called a wild fanaticcrotchet, with respect to
conferring
rrin the franchise tiPD'aa
men
won, that wee an insult to the women of the country
utie' —(0a! and laughter.) The melodious nightingale o
tr".
the Chiltern Hundreds had justified bins from thatf
charge.—(Great laughter.) Ile had been asked if he
did not know that the high Tories of the county had
agreed with the Whigs that if they made no opposition
to the return of Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Dupre they (the
Tories) would, as a favour, allow Mr. Cavendish to be
returned. He (Dr. Lee) could only say that the Whigs
bad done more to prevent him from Coming before
them today than his honest and open-hearted opponents
e,°'--(Oheere and laughter.) He must say that
the 1 little enceuregement from the Whin --
he bad very • ie Dr. L then proceeded
Lee at wen-
political views, stating
(Renewed tape
desirable length to expl,tneehia
trade, of Inc ballot, of the
that he w 55 in flv; 3"r or
I British-born
t of asubjects, and
admission to s. arsaamen
of an extension of th"
e oi alee, which in certain eases
he would center upon women. lie was also an advocate
for the separation of Church and State, and he was
anxious to promote the rekrinof ecclesiastical and legal
liberty of the preoe,
and ilVtlit'°". was for the removal of -Ile stampt duty upon news.
papers, advertisements, and paper, and of every impose He at the
which impeded the extension of know -
same time preferred septennial to quinquennial or trien-
nial Parliaments, lie had, from conscientious motives
but ho
refused to employ any paid agents
believed his principles were so far approved IT
as their
tors of the county that they would or canvasserse
elec.
return him
representative.
Mr. Banta wished to auk the Right Hon. Gentleman
the Chanecltor of the Exchequer what the present;
Atthiatvy tacant to do Is tit A national rate for tae suer
pat of the pour?

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