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London, England, 1852-10-02 00:00:00

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Aberdeen ...• •• •. •• •• •• •••• ••• ••
Belfast and Ballymena •• •• ••
Belfast andiCounty D0wn...........,
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York ....
Bristol and Exeter

Chester and llolyhead ..... .........,
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ......
Cork and Bandon .. • ...............

Dublin and Belfast Junction ........
Dublin and Drogheda.... • . .

Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath ..............
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen• •
East Anglian

East Lancashire .............• .
Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • ..
Eastern Union .............,

Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • • •• •• • • • •
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • • •• • •
Exeter and Credlton.. •.

Farness Railway

Glasgow, and South-Western........
Great Northern and E. L...
Great Southern and Western.(lreland)
Great Western •• • •
Z 1 Irish South Eastern •••• .... ......

Lancaster and .....
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Leeds Northern ...• .. • • • • • •

Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. • • •
London and North Western • •
London and 81ackwa11..............
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South Western. .... •• • •
Londonderry and Enniskillen .... • • • •
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Shoaled, and Lincolnshire
Manchester and South Junction .• • • • •
Maryport and Carlisle • .............
_...

Midland
Midland Great Western (Irish) •• •• ••
Monklands •• •• •• • .................

Newcastle and Carlisle::
North British • .........

North Staffordshire .:

•
North-Western— ' .. ... •:
•—•
Scottish Central ••
Scottish Midland ••• • • • ...... •••• ••
Shrewsbury and Birmingham ••• • • •
Shrewsbury and Chester ............
Shropshire Union .. • ••• • • •

South Dev0n......,, . ..
South Ea5tern..........
South Wales .. .... ....

South York., Doncaster, and Goole • •

Ulster. .... • ...

Waterford and Limerick ........ •
West Cornwall • • •• • . ............
Whitehaven Junction ........ ..

York and Newcastle, and Berwick ..•
York and North Midland . .. ••

FOREIGN.
Dutch Rhenish ........... •
Maria Antonia ••••••••••••
Montereau and Troyes ..... • ••
Namur and Liege ...
Northern of France
Orleans and Central ..............
Paris and Lyons .. •••••••••• •• ..
Paris and Rouen. •• • ...... • ••••••
Paris and Strasburgh ...........,
Rouen and Havre ...... • .......
Western of France ...... • . •• .. ••

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.

1852,

be placed in—(Hear, hear)—therefore we, who were oon-
malted with the largest body of Members in the Home
of Commons (same 250 strong). thought it to be our
duty to do what our Sovereign called oc us to do, and
endeavour to goreru the country.—(Cheers.) I have said
there were no other men who had been in office. I may
be told that that is not strictly trat; nor is it, in one
respect. There was certainly in the House of Corn.
mons a small number of gentlemen highly distine
guished by their talents, abilities, and character,
who no doubt would have been competent to take
any of the offices in her Majesty's Government. But,
unfortunately for them, there was no party in the House
of Comm rig that hod coy confidence in them at
laugh)—and the result of the last election has
been to show that the constituencies and the country at
large had no confidence in them, many of the most in.
fluential having lost their seats, while their immediate
followers have certainly not increased in number.—
(Cheers.) I think, therefore, I WM warranted in saying
that there was no parry who, as the Whigs contend,
were competent to take the Government. There is a
questiun as to a family feeling among the Whigs, and
their desire to share office among their own clique.
Into that I will not enter, because it is foreign to the
present occasion, but there is a question which I
leaders
not to pass by. We have differed from the
of what was called " the great Conservative
party7lj
have
lion commercial policy. Scarcely seven years
the law
over our heads since that policy be-
came I:_ie of the land. lam speaking in the pre-
sence of men who have not unfrequently heard me ex-
en this subject, and even at a time
somewhat counter to my own.
a question which must be
decided and settled as it should be proved to affect the
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it ev s
whole community.—(Bear.) I know you will do me
heldjustice
i to
language I have always
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withhold your judg-
ment,stswnmit
Itha told
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ot atteto
and that, deep as the pressure and difficulty you
were labouring under might be, net to deceive yourselves
into the belief that these questions would ever be settled
as they merely affected yourselves, but with reference to
their bearing on the whole community. I know it is
an unfortunate thing. I knew it then. I know it
now. It is an unfortunate thing for those who
happen to be the sufferers. Still, I should only have
been deceiving you then, and I should be only de-
ceiving you now, if I led you to believe that these
questions would .be settled in this country in any
other way than as they affect the great mass and majo-
rity of the people. Many unfortunate things have
happened tending to keep the great Conservative party
asunder, and nothing more so than what took place
in the course of last year. We were taunted that
wo must not take office. We were unquestionably
connected with the largest body in the House of
Commons. Nothing but a majority in the House of
Commons can carry on any Government; and bccause
that party, which, us I think, had strangely thrown
U 3 over in regard to commercial matters in 1846,
happened to differ with reference to the question
of the Papal aggression from almost the whole
Conservative body, the leaders of that party were pre-
vented from joining us, as they were also prevented from
joining Lord John Russell last February twelvemonths.
That question has no doubt tended to isolate that por-
tion of the House of Commons from either what is
called the Liberal party on .the one hand, or the Con-
servative party on the other. They stand very much
alone, and that, no doubt, very much strengthens the
position which I started with, that they had no chance
of forming a Government.—(Hear, hear.) The only
other question which remains is the course that is pro-
posed to be taken with reference to those suffering in-
terests of the country. The agricultural interest
has no doubt suffered, and the shipping interest has
no doubt suffered; and if it had not been for matters to
which I shall shortly advert, they would have suffered
still more severely. We agriculturists, in the south of
England particularly, have always had two great difficul-
ties to contend with. At times we have had fluctuating
prices, and that. I am afraid nothing will remove from
us. We shall have them, I fear, fluctuating still, only on
a lower scale. Fluctuate they will at seasons, and
neither free trade nor anything else will prevent higher
or lower prices; but no doubt we shall have them on a
lower scale, except under special circumstances. The
other matter we suffered from in the south of England
was cur labour market. Every one who is acquainted
with the management of land is aware that the occupiers
in the south do and did cultivate their farms at a greater
expense for labour than our brethren north of the
Tweed. The actual cost for labour on a farm north of
the Tweed, cultivating the same quality of land in the
same m,,nner his been satisfactorily proved to be
much less per acre than in the south of England.
That, 'no doubt, is very much owing to the state
of our labour market. Our parishes, many of
them, were overdone with labour, and we were
obliged, therefore, to employ a greater amount of labour
at a low rate of wages, and that is the most expensive
labour we can employ.—(Cheers.) Well, circumstances
which had nothing on earth to do with free trade—the
famine and the destruction of human life in Ireland—the
vast exodus of our people which has taken place in cense-
quenceof that and of the discovery of the precious metals in
other parts of the world, have occasioned such adiminution
in the labour market that no difficulty is likely to be felt
on that head for some time to come. That has also very
much relieved the shipping interest, the demand for
shipping for the purposes of emigration being so great
that no British ship is unemployed, but that we have
been oldiged to have recourse to Dutch, Hamhurgh, and
other foreign ships, to carry the people away. What
the ultimate effect will be of thus stripping the land of
its sinews and strength God only knows; but the real fact
is that in Ireland, from the misery of the people, and in
England from the hope of gain', the people are rush-
ing from our shores in every way and in every di-
rection, as soon es they can muster the passage-
money. The colonists themselves arc sending home
large SUMS of money, which are distributed by a Go-
vernment office as trustees for the colonists, and in the
manner they direct for the purpose oi hiring and
sending out labour. The effect, no doubt, has been
very much to empty our workhouses. So far it has
benefited the land, and has also advantaged the shipping
interest, by giving them a great amount of employment,
so that the evil is somewhat palliated.—(Hear, hear.)
It would bo presumptuous in me to pretend to point
out how much this or that czuse may have tended
to produce this or that amount of prosperity in
various parts of the country; nor shall I attempt to say
what that prosperity is. I have lived too long in this
county to suppose that you feel anything but the greatest
pleasure at the prosperity of any portion of her Ma-
jesty's subjects. We feel it not only as a gratification
to ourselves, but, further from this interested motive,
that if a large portion of the country is doing well it
must reflect some benefit upon us; and, above all, that
they are our fellow-countrymen, and that their being the
better off does not make us one jot the worse.—(Loud
cheers.) I have now gene through the topics to
which I wished to draw your attention. I fear I have
wearied you ; but in the double position in which I
:stand, I could not avoid it, for I have to thank you, not
only on account of the great kindness you have shown to
me on every occasion, in this part of the country Par-
ticularly, but also because I appear before you as one
who has had the honcur of being called to the councils
of his Sovereign, and who, I hope, in that position, will
be able to be at least as useful as he was before in main-
taining those principles which, I believe, we have all so
earnestly at heart.