The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

" The IJa,lth of the Right Hon. the Earl of
Derhy'and her Majesty's Ministers."
The toast w3.s drunk with considerable enthusiasm.

The Eitd 0f13E7 113—i:in rising to respond to the toast,
was received with loud and. prolonged cheering. On
-silence being Teetered, the4Noblb Earl said : My Lord
Mayoe, Lord:, Ladies, and .Gentlemeu, it is peculiar,
not only indeed to this country, but to all constitutional
Governments,, 'that more or less of politics intermingles
with our every-day coneerntr, meets us at every turn of
our.dornestie life, and even necessarily encroaches some-
what upon those hours of social enjoyment and inter-
course during which public men aro still subjected to a
species of responsibility, -and during which and through
which companies such as that -which I have now the
honour of addressing have the means of exercising
an unofficial but not powerless influence to control,'
to encourage, to excite, and to reward those 'who
may be engaged in the honourable and laborious
duties of performing the services of their country.—
(Cheers.) I own, my Lord, that this distinguished com-
pany have exercised that influence to-day in the most
gratifying manner; first, by permitting us to be partakers
of that magnificent hospitality for which this great'
city has been so long and so eminently distinguished,
and next by the flattering manner in which you have
received the health of ellen who are desirous, in the si-
tuation in Which the favour or their Sovereign has placed
them, of faithfully_ discharging the at-dawns. rheas
which that favour has imposed upon-thern. To obtein"
this sympathy and this approval, it is not at all neees.;
' sary that there should be, upon the part of those whom
I now address, a uniform concurrence of opinion or
agreement with.regard to the details of every measure,
or even the great outlines of our policy. But I have
this confidence in the generosity, in the good feeling,
and in the love of fair play of my countrymen, that even,
if they differ from us,. they will,not withheld the meed
of their approvia and, of their, support, so long as they
believe neee be actuated -by honest motives and actinl
to the best of our abilitius,—(Chersiy
amongst the many gratifying circumstances connected
with this assembly, not the least is to see so largely, and
I may add, so fairly represented here, those foreign na-
tions who now are happily-in 'amity with this country,
and to maintain the most cordial relations of amity and
friendship with whom is the declared and avowed policy
of this, as it ought to be the policy of every Government
of this country.—(Loud cheers.) We accept their pre-
sence here, not as a compliment, however gratifying
that might be to me or to any of my colleagues in our
personal and individual character, but we accept it as a
:nark of adhesion to that phlicy which professes an ab-
solute and entire non-intervention with the internal
affairs of all other countries, and out determination also
to leave unexhsusted no effort, if the case should arise,
by friendly exertion and by friendly interposition to pre-
vent the possibility of the disturbance in any quarter of
the world of the general peace which now prevails.—
(Cheers.) My Lord, it may be that in various portions
of the world there are elements of internal discord, and
elements which may threaten the spreading of that dis-
cord beyond their own boundaries, to defeat the best in-
tentions of the most peaceful states. Ido not believe—
I do not venture to hope,that we are 'arrived at that
Utopian period when any nation can safely or justifiably..
deprive itself of the means' of internal organization for its
own national defence; but this I do believe, and of this I
am confident, that throughout Europe and throughout
the world, there is a general desire upon the part of all'
nations to extinguish at once the :lightest spark which
may appear to threaten external convulsions, or en.
danger the general peace—(Cheers.) Of this I am sure,
that if there be an appearance of hostilities or of
angry feeling arising in any country, the exertions of all
countries will be used, not, as in less enlightened times,
to fan the flame, in hopes of obtaining some remote and
individual advantage, but to pat a friendly extinguisher
upon the first elements of the strife, to interpes3 for the
'prevention of misunderstandings which might at any
time arise; and I am quite confident that if, without
provocation, any one power, either through the miscon-
duct of its own Government or the pressure of its own
people, should be so unwise as to meditate a hostile
and unprovoked aggression, . that power would be met
by the unanimous reprobation and remonstrance of the
of the civilized world. lam confident also of this, my
Lord, that there is an enlightened. feeling arising now
among all Governments, and among all nations—that
there is a growing conviption that their interests, their
honour, their real glory, may. 1)6 better promoted by de-
veloping the internal resources of their country, by
fostering the domestic industry of their people, and
,by
promoting the internal wealth and prosperity of their
subjects, than by any 'dreams of military glory, however
brilliant, or by sty-prospect of 'aggressive cotiqriests,
however dazzling to the imagination.--(Cheers.) My
Lord, at this moment, if I may happily illustrate ia—at
this moment we are engaged with a grea't and powerful
neighbour, whose military prowess all the world ac-
knowledges, and of whose prowess we have ourselves
had great experience—we are engaged, not in those
hostile armaments which have formerly _ deluged the

world in blood, but we are engoged in a nnited effort, by
united councils, in endeavouring by peace!Ol negotiations
to extend, not for our own individual advantage, but
for the benefit of the world at large, the sphere of useful
commerce through the interior of the vast ()eminent of
South America, and in this peaceful effort our councils
are undivided. Our plenip.otcr t arics are indeed dif-
ferent in persnn; but th© instructions on which they
proceed, and the spirit with which they are animated in
this peaceful mission is essentially and unequivocally one
and the same. My Leal, I feel thdt, for ail the world,
for the promotion of peace, and the general good of the
world, the cordial union of all nations in the advancement
of commercial- intercourse is a matter of primary
importance; but if it be so to other na-
tions, most of all must it to so to this, with whom
great manufacturing and commercial power is
so large an element of that greatness to which a long
series of years has enabled us to attain. "My Lord, not
many days have elapsed since a Right Honourable
Friend of mine, in a speech which fully and amply re•
futed the unworthy notion that a man of wit and genies
cannot grapple with the ordinary details of statistics—
(Cheers)—that because a man possesses abili!y, imagi-
nation, and eloquence, therefore he cannot muster the
driest commercial and financial topics—in that speech
my Right Honourable Friend the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer most ably and most eloquently demonstrated to
an admiring. House of Commons the great progress and
the great extent which our trade end commerce had
made ie recent years, and showed bow the reduction of
duties imposed upon foreign commerce had produced a
largely increasing consumption, and, consequently,
largely increasing enjoyment on the part of the - con-
sumers, without affecting the revenue, notwithstanding
that reduction of duties. sty Lord, there_ was one

point, however, which my Right Hon. Friend., in that
able speech, did not touch upon—and properly did_ not
touch upon—because it did not belong to the fiscal and
financial branch of the subject to which his att_en.,tnie!
was then properly and exclusively devoted. Ilerdc lac,
,e'._:
touch upon another topic, but it is one, neovf .
_ta ie i
which no Government ought to lose sight tincf the
esti-
mating the real social and political condition..and
the
country, namely, not only the pro.T.etriwq
whit find
way be
ad-
vancement of commerce, but the cffwe
sn:y
find those
produced on the condition in which. went., are yet
corn
largo classes. which, unoonnectedeiarlth
d cent mainly pro u 9
an element of our strength, as b
My
Lord, a Govern.
timers. _
though they the affairs of
went charged with
deservea the confidence of anyper-
latllrteheenedasinistration of
this country, would ill
tion of its fellow-countrymen,e
attention which is due to all;
if it confined to the inte-
rests of a single class the
ially
or if it deprived a single clalrss
tof thatto diffuse share of
all;
over its at-
tention which it is boundimp,
Governinent hinasterteostsso, Iva:
and the problem which every
is—how to reconcile apparently oonfhoting
as that, giving no undue advantage to one class, of our
fellow-citizens over another, ist.maypromote the interest
of each, and by
mutual concessions and mutual compro-
mi,Ts blend the interests of all in one harmonious whole.
(Cheers.)
My Lord, in fact the whole system of govern-
ment in every constitutional country is a system of
com-
promises and concessions—not of undue compromises, ,
not of unworthy concessions—not of compromises of prin-
ciple for .the sake of expediency,. but compromises be-
tween
co/Acting expel tents, and mutual concessions be-
tween
apparently diversified interests.—(Cheers.) The
whole system of our constitution is one great compro-
mise. The throne itself is based on a compromise be-
tween arbitrary and monarchial power, and.those befit-
ting and dignified restrictions which are imposed by
constitutional Governments upon the mightiest monarchs.
Our House of Lords is a compromise between an here-
ditary exclusive aristocracy and a body partaking of the
advantages of the institution of a nobility, at the same
time that it is enabled to claim this great advantage
that it is daily, at least yearly and perpetually, recruited
from the ranks of the people, thus blending the aristo-
cracy and the commonalty- together. The House of
Commons is a system of compromise between that in-
fluence which is exercised by the higher classes of so-
ciety and the restrictions imposed by partial exclusion
between those elements on the one side and the demo-
cratic power of the people on the other, by which ample
and full means are given to the full and free expression
of every popular sentiment and of every public opinion.
'The Church of England,' anti long may
preserve it to us--(Cheers)—i Providence
6 a compromise between
the unrestricted power of spiritual dominion and. the ab-
solute dependence of the clergy upon the caprice of the
flocks over whom they were called to preside. Your whole
system is a system of hompromise, and he best adrninis-
tera the arduous post of conducting the greet and com-
plicated affairs of this great empire, who knows how fitly
to adjust together the various portions of the great ma-
chine, it volving the- complicated machinery of mutual
checks and balances, which, it you remove one, the
action of some of the other parts may perhaps be morerapid, but the whole machine may be broken into dis-
order and disarrangement. My Lord, it would be an
easy task for a minister to avail himself on every occa-
sion of every gust of popular opinion to send before. the
gale, and to congratulate himself on the rapidioty.oont
thatilx
..
progress; mindless or reckless in ItimatclY
gale is blowing, whether it is beseiegth
whit
himci treu ti
o more
upon a lee shore or a daegercus rock w_lo_ress on which
cer-
tain destruction the more rapid jar 11l 5 the
_higher
he is ni,ng-ratiilating —himsei'• mast: feel that
and nobler sense of statesmanshipju the. valuable
..
to use the popular energy,your course• in the
breeze that fills the ,sails* not setting. or ' ecudtlin blindly be-
teelh of 'he wind OM NW,