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London, England, 1852-07-10 00:00:00

they would have a great organic change. That was
the reason why ho would not, or cauld not, give in his
adhesion to the further extension of reform. In con-
clusion, Mr, Walpole said the Government was now
standing at the bar of public opinion. The elections were
taking place thoughont the length and breadth of the
laud. The voice of the nountry was now b,iog appealed
to, and it was not for the Government to stay what the
ven-lict of the country would be. There was no doubt
they would await that verdict with some anxiety; but,
atatislebyMnistts.;.on. .thPY shoal+ bo v to their decision wch per-
tec ulf the elections ended by the country
telling them that the oonfidence of the country was not
to be given to the Government, he believed that most of
those terming the G.evrnment - would • relinquish the
duties and responsibilities of their office with submission;
but if covalence was to be' given to them, which he was
inclined to think, from the manner in which he had been
received that day, would be the case, then there were no
hi3nthenofthe
.vwoof thinks to the High Bailiff, the
1 not make to maintain and up-
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INVERNESS BUGHS.
The nomination took place on Thursday. The only
candidate was the late Member, Mr. A. Matheson who
wll3 therefore again elected. ,

MATIIE;ON, in returning thanks, said—My votes
in the House have been invariably on the side of pro-
greas, and in returning to Parliament it will be my en-
deavour to pursue the same course. (An Elector—
What of Maynooth?") lam opposed to the grant of
Maynootb, and pledge myself to oppose it, from a con-
viction of its bail character. I believe we are about to
outer on ono of the moat momentous sessions that has
occurred in the annals of public history. We shall be
called on to affirm or reverse that great freo•trade
policy which has been already attended wi.h so much
good to the country. All my commercial experience has
tended to make me a Free•trader—(Cheers)—and
it
shall be my study to uphold that system under which
we arc now so happily placed by every means in my
power. I shall do my utmost also to maintain inviolate
the Protestant institutions of our land; to promote the
extension of Scriptural education, and the cause of legal
and Parliamentary reform. Every practical measure of
economy and reduction of taxation, as well as its equal
distribution on all classes, will have my cordial support,
and Is shill g
l alrsoourned of peace.--(Cheers.)
to encourage national intorven-
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The nominatWion°eLnVdEeßloacAtioNinnto°r this 'borough took
place yesterday, and resulted in the return of the old
Members, Messrs. Villiers and Thorneiy, who have sat
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sent the
burgesses of Wolverhampton in Parliament.
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dseiTenlhcaeorrelndBe 3immediately, and was received with much cheee
amenrt:
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Mr. VILLIERS advanced to the front of th
should,
under again your representative in Parliament.
said, by the declaration of your worthy ay r
ionrugs.: hustings
under any circumstances, be gratified at that anneal
meat, but I am especially so for the very handsome aaey.
in which the compliment has been conferred.--(Cheeses.)
etre;
For I consider that for a public man to obtain a seat in
Parliament in the honourable manner in which o
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corruption—myhkeirned ois
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any one
you theun
which takes place elsewhere; w hilst, indepedently re-
turned and representing you as independent men,
we know that you desire that we do that which we
believe will best conduce to the interest alai prosperity
of the community at large—(Coeere.) The town of
Wolverhampton is a credit' to the representation in this
county.—(Flear, hear.) When I first appeared hcre
you were fresh from the struggle to obtain a share in
the representation in the Commons House of Parliament.
You have obtained it. and you have shown that you
know how to ti it.—(Cheera.) You gave somewhat of
a contradiction to those great folk who said •that the
eff irts you made to secure a share in the power of re-
turning Slerabers to Parliament was for the purpose only
of " pulling down." You have shown that it was for
the purpose of preserving and perpetuating all that was
good in what is called the constitution.—(Cheers.) You
know that in the old House of Commons they did what
people were in the habit of doing when they have the
chance—they helped themselves.- (Hear, hear, and
laughter) When I first went into the House of
C tremens the conduct of it was disgusting. You
might attack the Crown—the Constitution—anything
you liked—even the bench of bishops--anything you
liked, so that you did not mention free trade. If
you did, then the row began.—(Laughter) Then you
were declared to be a bad subject, *republican, a level-
ler, and indeed all sorts of nerd things,_(Renewed
laughter.) You had t t-endure the advice of all Iciads of
friends, who said, "D in't meddle with that question
(meaning free trade); if you meddle with it you will
never get on in lite—you will ruin yourself." Now, I
was glad to hear that sort of thing. for it determined me
to persevere.—.(Cheers.) ewheers.) It was anything but pleasant
work at that time, I assure yi,u.—(Hear, hear.) I re-
member my old friend, Mr. Fryer, your first Member,
said to me the first time I came here, " Have you the
courage to go on—to persevere, year after year, and not
only to do that, but to move for unconditional repeal?"
—(Cheers) I replied that I knew a great sacrifice was
req-sired, but that I knew the thing was right in princi-
pl-, and I would try.—(Cheery.) And I did so.—
(dear, hear) For the first six years, gentlemen, after
that time, our friends, as they were called, were
power, but they did not try any means like this question
of free trade.—(Herr, hear.) Lord Melbourne said it
was madness to talk of such a thing, and other mem-
bers of his party said it was a mischievous principle to
advooste.—(Hear ) Well, gentlemen, I kept my pre-
mise to your old friend—that geutene Free-trader—Mr.
Fryer. For years I struggled, anuurtny for nine years
in succession I moved fir a repeal of these laws on.
successful!) ; but look at the result; can you appreciate
my satisfaction and my gladnese of heart—l, who strug-
gled so long and so unsuccessfully in the face of such
bitter opposition and such lukewarm support? No, gen-
tlemen, none can appreciate or enter Into the satisfaction
I feel unless they bad
gone through that struggle under
similar circumstances; and not all the places nor all the
'adventures I might have obtained would have induced
me to forego that which I enjoy.— (Cheers.) Why,
gentlemett, at last the whole country has come round to
the views you entertained at the time you first elected
me.—(Hear, hear.) Look at the state of the country
now,
actl east your mind back to what it was in 1842
that most horrible year of suffering.—(Hear, hear.)
Yon withesstd it here, gentlemen. P h
otr- -owes full;
prisons full; hospitals full; the road-sides all occu
pied; the school-houses deserted; the workshops
ecupty. Aye, gentlemen, the suffsriug and the desti-
tution was such (Alt the honest artisan had not even
the decent apparel to appear in 'the house of prayer.—
(Hear.) There had been three bad hatvrs's, and you
nad given notice to all countries now to grow food for
yea at that sad year helped us to victory; it con-
vertedßat Su' Robert Peel. That great man looked on the
sad events and the misery of that year, and he said,
e There must be no more.years of famine in Eegland."
In 1846 there was famine again in the laud, and then
Sir Robert Peel surrendered the garrison. If he ever
had thought that the principles of proteationeimght to
be mainteitted, he now gave it up at orace.—(Hear, hear.)
There wai only one man in his Cabinet who diaseuted;
that matt, gentlemen, was the Earl of Derby.—(feleer.)
But he was not in a very responsible office then; he is
now, and very anxious, I have no doubt, that the prin-
ction should be given up —(Cheers.) Talk
civic' of Prett:
no more a prosperity under protection; why, in 1842,
the declared value of our manufacturing products
exporte. -was forty-six millions, het year the
value was seventy-four millions, and our imports
have me • roused in like proportion.—(clear, hear.)
Ah t bat, say the Derbyttes, the increase of
pauperism
is frightful.—(Laughter.) Well, gentlemen,
rates amounted to Bt. 6d. in the pound;
in 1834 the poor-
-53. 53.41.—(Hear, hear.) Last year
last year it was only
able-bodiedpaupers applying for relief
the number of
was above
17,000 Lees than in 1831, though the popula.
Lion has increased two millions.—(dear, hear.) Why it
is like fly in, in the face of heaven to say that prosperity
g
does not exist •
when we see it every day. And now what
is all thj,a*n'sal inthe country abota Why simply
st
atim-se-th „„ttituencies of England may say whether they
wifl go back. to that blessed year 1842, -and to the sys-
tem then in force.—
(Hear, hear.) Was there ever such
an absurdity?
It's like asking a man who had been
long ill whither be was tired of improved health.—
(Ceeere and leughter.) You know, gentlemen, that as
soon as the Derby Adminiitration came into eines I
put a eettein motion relative to free trade on the paper.
Well, I didn't go on with it, because it was at once
ackuowledeed that the Parliament was in a ma.
jerky for free trade, and now yeti know Lord
Derby has what is called "gone to the country" on the
riirlitiou. Lord Derby would do well to consult the
women of England on this qeestion hoar)—t.,
ask them what is the state of the cupbeard. I think
there is little doubt of the reply. A Neble Lord (Lord
Meidstone) recently a cand:dato for the borough of
Newark, went down there, and I believe the honest
women there threatened to scratch his Lordileip'e eyes
out Unless his Lerdebip was a Free-treder.—(Laughter,)
have gone, beck to Lord
Lord Maidstone is said to
Derby, and advised him to give up Protection. And
the party have rather now modified the thing; they say
tee not protection they want; but " the Constttution."—
(Roars of laughter.)
But they won't admit that pro-
tecion is delft, though if I were a Protectionist I should
think it was; therefire the best thing for us in to look
out teat it should wake up again, all alive. Now, Lord
dO not want to tax your
Derby and his friends cay, we
bread, only let us keep in office. In this, gentlemen,
he resembles the mouse, who, saying to you, let me go
into Your cepb )ard, I
won't touch the breed, eats
npattillptacr about the cheese and butter.—(:Tear, hear.)
don't,
you see, give- up the principle; lout they
11'k inst"ad of revision of taxation--though I don't
know
y what they unwell by that phrase; and
about compeueutiOn to the lendownt rs, and equalising of
their burdens, and that sort of thing. Now, if anybody
is entitled to compensation, it is the hard-workiug man,
will) ought to have had thieblessings and benefits arising
from free trade long before he got it.—(hear, h,ar.)
But lee these phrases that I don't Understand. you
know Mr. Disraeli is a very clever man indeed, and
Perhaps he knows how to shuffle the peck so as to turn
up trumps for the landowners.—
(Elear, hear.) N, w,.
the only revision of taxes I know of that isf reqeired is
to cerey free trade still further--(ceeert)— or the more
markets you open the better off will the man he who
lives by his labour.—(Cheers.) I am odd ;hat I.
only play on one string—( Hear, hear, and laughter)_...,
tnat may •be so, that
d is because it seems to me that
the tune I - Play is the only one worth listening twee:
(Hear.) The domestic comforts of the people
should of
all things be the first care of every Government; great
people talk for them about education and the spiritual ,