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liamentary reforms, while with regard to the question
of ' Maynooth be was ready to support inquiry,
being a sincere Protestant, and if the result should
show that the grant was not advantageous to the nation
at large, he should be ready to vote for its repeal.—
(Cheers.) ,These were his political views, and he trusted,
as they had the confidence of the country, the electors
would once more return him to Parliament.
Mr. DISRAELI then presented himself to the electors,
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and was greeted with an outburst
,of cheering that
for several minutes. He complained that his
Liberal opponents, who were so anxious to hear all on
side, had been exceedingly free with
—r. Dupre, interrupting
him where all interruption was wholly uncalled for,
hthiseirHoonwonura M
Colleague,
and throwing every obstacle in the way of the Hon.
Gentleman; but for his part he was a friend to free ble
the freest criticism.---(Hear, hear.) He there.
t
to
dis-
cussion, and quite ready to submit his views and princi-
plesore 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 he 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
ofse
wasxes called laugh.) Certainly he would not support
what lled 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
churchwardens and overseers,* and therefore, when the
whole subject of universal suffrage was brought forward,
he would not consent to support it except upon the con-
dition that the ladies were allowed to participate in the
benefits of the extension.—(Laughter.) Passing to the
next topic in order, he came to the attack which an
Hon. Baronet had made upon the Ministry, but the Hon.
Baronet must have been smarting under the influence of
the hot weather when he thought of introducing them
to the subject of Tuscan politics.—(oh, oh, and
cries of " Gammon.") Let him tell the worthy
elector who cried gammon, that when parties make
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
office; and ho bagged to tell the Hon. Baronet that he
was not prepared to go to war because a foreign state
would not allow the circulation of the English Bible.—
(Hear.) He regretted that the Hon. Baronet had lost his
Feet 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 hi that time which shouln have
forfeited their confidence?—(A Voice—" You have done
nothing.") The most then, that could be said against
him was that he had done nothing. Surely no candi-
date bad ever appeared before a constituency with
more advantage thee he 'did riow; but he defied any
man to lay his hand'apori his heart and say that the
Government had done nothing.—(Hear, hear.) 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 dis-
solution.—(Haar 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, refnsed 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.) But 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 never could carry
out the recommendations of the Chancery Com-
missioners, and on one occasion Sir James Graham,
while 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 extensive
measures of sanitary reform.—(Hear, hear.) Could it
be said then that Government had done nothing within
the past four months, or that he had been guilty of any-
thing in that brief apace which should induce them to
withhold their confidence from him for the future?
So much then for the past, and now for that something
which looms in the future.—(Hear and a laugh.)
A VOICE—Tell us what it is.
Mr. Desenze—First, then, what he saw looming in
the future was this, that in a few days he should be one
of the Members for the county of Backingham.—(A
laugh.) Bat joking aside, he 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 he nor
they had ever expressed any desire or intention
to bring back the laws which were 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
precipitation, and he had never hesitated to
in panic and
confess that
in
assisting to accomplish what might have
been a necessary
esinsdting
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 be
came to the conclusion that they
must sooner or later have to consider the
financial system of the country, with the
view to its adjustment.—(gear, hear.) That was
the
principle wbioh he 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 tcathe subject of local taxation, he must be
allowed to say, that the views which he advocated some
time ago in the House of Commons had been pretty
extensively adopted
during the elections, not only by
candidates for counties, bat for boroughs and towns too,
and he now found that those views now enjoyed the
sympathy syrnPa and support of both town and county.
long
Too these hadinequalities of taxation separated
and it was his hope, and the wish of the
class from class, .
t to which he belonged, to bring forward
' Government _ .
justice . . .
founded in and applied with policy,
measures should terminate that strife of classes that had so
which . injured and degraded the high moral tone of Eng-
long
errear, hear.) Let them not, however, misunder-
standland•-1/4 did not him; he pretend that a revision of our
tion would give that amount of relief to the agri-
cultural taxa
• tereat, and they must still look forward to the
cultural in
dine when
the Government would be in a situation to
rd other measures which should have a ten-
nriog forward
reduce the hensof
gri nces the cultivator of the
dency tod
ensue him to compete with his foreign rival
soil, advantagen to the country and satisfaction to him-
with a
hear.) They should remember that the
self:—(gear,os would not be found in the next Parliament,
old P
a ardttrather be composed of parties who would rea
i woul
ow principles, and in spite of the influence of
present n .
es, the Minister of the day would be enabled
Party polite
his measures with far less difficulty than he had
to carry Le
encoonter.—(Hear, hear.)
hitherto haetaut what measures do you propose?
A -Vow- Agin did not feel that the present was either
Mr. or the place to go into details.—(Hear,
the time oper audience for that would The pr
hear.) of Commons, and when the time
ae
be the ifehuould be prepared to unfold the particulars
arrived he 6
which the Government would propose for
of the plans "'l hear.) All that he had now to
the country--(gear,the tone of policy that he was prepared
do was to state the
ready to adopt.—(Hear, hear.) He
what to recomenen 'hat was the spirit of the policy
that anim
told them e the Government and the object which
ates'
they wished to obtain, and it remained for him to hope
lunation would secure alike the approval of
that the exp constituency which he sought to
and the
the country
/gee r hear.) There was one interest which
represent.--ln"-B
be flowed to refer to. He alluded to those
he must now
:d in the cultivation of the soil, and who
who were engag- n too anxious to look to an artificial
had hitherto°
beewheat.—(Hear, hear.) But there
price for their
far
more valuable than an arti-
ficial something
that was a reduction in the cost
fieial price, and 'oh should enable the producer to
of production, Whirivald.—(Hear, hear.) His object,
compete with his
object of the party to which he was
then, and the o',seeee
attached, was to bring about such a reduction, and
f Buckingham to give him an
be asked the county, o
opportunity of carrying out the principle which he had
feebly attem tad to explain.(Hear.) With regard to
the questionp of religion' -
he would not detain them
farther than to remark than in issuing the
recent, proclamation the
Government had been actuated
by a sincere desire to
securethe peace of the country;
tions he begged leave again to
and with these obse-eva once more returned him as their
assure them that if they
do his duty • and his idea of the
represent five he would
' • ' was, to make his
duty of a Member in his position
prosperous.--(Cheers.)
country great and prosper . .
Dr. Le 1
ZEElastly addressed the electors, promising that
he would devote the whole of his
if he were returned .
time to f h.
he interests of the people.—(Hear,)
urt ermg t to no expense to promote his
He should, however, go
own return, as he thought elections ought to be free
and independent and promising to put himself forward
pun "Very legitimate occasion as the champion of civil
and religions berty he again appealed to them to
grant him their suffrages if they approved of his prin-
ciplene-(heern)
A show of
hands was then taken, and declared by
the Sheriff to be in favour of Messrs. Disraeli, Dupre,
and Cavendish, which a poll was demanded on be-
half of D. Lee.
' after
v A
, ate of thanks was 'then passed to the Sheriff, and
tee pr 000•
, Ings, which were opened at ten, closed
shortl od
Y alter two o'clock.
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,EGAL EDUCATION.—On Wednesday the 14th
met. the benchers of the Middle Temple appointed Mr.
Henry Sumner Maine, LL.D., Regius Professor of Civil Law
in the Ili, •
ersltY of Cambridge, to the readership in general
jurisprudence and civil law, recently established by the Inns
of Court.
nitnfl on John Russell arrived in Edinburgh from
oiMonday night, and left the next morning for
il2t9-mc4l3elrlozburgiaehire.-BCO6/714.5.