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dinetryseit folloies you must;_ take care that the same
justice be done to all her Majesty's subjects.-( stion be Cheers.) '
And I am well aware, gentlemen, if the que
vie ved in that light, and if taxation shall certainly be
placed upon a new principle, I are convinced we shall he ;
able to bring forward measures of relief which will re-
ceive
the -sympathy and approbation and support of all '
the various classes of this country.-(Hear, hear.) I
Now, gentlemen, I am sometimes told that we supported
in Opposition what is called the Protectionist policy,
bat have abandoned it in the responsible position of the
Ministers of the Crown. Gentlemen, I should like to
hear that accusation made in the House of Commons by
any of my opponents. You know very well, gentle..
men, I never have been one of those who asserted that
any sufficient compensation for the abrogation of a law
of protection could be fairly found in a moderate fixed
duty upon corn. I have all along declared, in my official
pcsition, that I should be extremely glad, as a financial
measure, if a moderate duty were agreed upon. It would
bring an immense quota to the national revenue, and I
think. it is a very great mistake so far as financial
considerations are concerned, to suppose that a duty
upon corn is a trifle; but it seems to be determined that
we shall not raise any portion of the revenue from
foreign grain. But suppose, gentlemen, that a measure
were passed, say a ss. or a 4s. duty upon the importa-
tion of corn into this country-suppos3 this; and, I ask,
will that place you in a position equal to that which
you occupied in 1845?-(No, no!) This would be a
relief, gentlemen, I have never supported, and it would
not, by any means,
just position. The moderate rise in prices that might
greatly contribute to place you in a
accrue from this to the producer before it fell upon the
consumer would not really remunerate you for the suf-
fering you have encountered, nor rectify much that un-
just legislation of which you are the victims.-(Sear.)
Bat if you could secure this course, if you could manage
to get this done, you would meet with great provocation
from other classes, at the same time that you reaped no
great or particular advantages. I believe if the counsel
I have given be taken, which I hope, as far as I am
concerned, we shall be able to execute-I believe you
will receive an efficient, an effective remedy.-(Cheers.)
I do not mean to say. gentlemen, that a neg-
ligent man without capital-(No, no)-would find
remedy ,much to his advantage.-(Lsughter.)
my
That none or You would desire.-(Hear, hear.)
But I say the culavator of the soil, who embarks in his
undertaking with arelour and with enterprise, with all
the personal conditions requisite to success-who brings
an adequate amount of okill on the one hand, and a fair
share of capital on the other, will then ba allowed to
enter on his undertaking with a fair prospect of obtain-
ing that remuneration to w‘hich he is entitled.-(Loud
cheers.) Well I say, gentleman, it is, in my opinion,
the duty of a Government to red,vess the grievances un-
der which the agriculturists have unjustly suffered. I
say more, it is their duty to do sou they have the op-
orsui)roff the country, op-
portunity; and I say further, it is Omit. duty to meet
. whatpt hoer t gui nes icr tet; y, and to ask from them an op.
Athiladt
prospects,efreethig gtheinstlermederness.o-f(Csui:cecersiss•)in
particular? If I thought we could'only obtain
dress by a continuation of support from the counties of
England, although I might think the case abstractedly
a just one; although I might feel that being just we
should not refrain from doing that which is founded in
justice, yet I could only do it with regret; under such
circumstances I might shrink from attempti •
ng the great
risk of conciliation.-(Hear.) Bat as far as I can view the
appeal which my Lord Derby has made the I
nob evidence that only one class-the
agriculturalto na tett; see
is
some
out to give its sanction to such views.-(Hear.) I see
"Liverpool")-eagerly
of the greatest towns in the country-(A. voice-
iverpool")-eagerly and zealously advancing to give
us the opportunity of bringing forward these measures,
and that they believe such remedial measures to be just
and necessary. An Hon. Friend has just mentioned
Liverpool, and Liverpool is the greatest port in England
-(Cheers)--much more extensive than London. Bat
this decision of Liverpool is not unaccompanied by
others equally startling and satisfactory. The city of
Dublin-(Cheers)-has done the same; and I have
learned within these few hours that the great manufac-
turing town of Belfast-the Manchester of Ireland-has
returned-two Members to support the Government.-
(Loud cheers.) And if I take the other great towns of
the country-Dover, Greenwich, and Ply mouth-(Cheers)
-I ,find the same result. Well, gentlemen, it is
unnecessary for me further to vindicate the course which
we took in opposition, and which we mean to preserve in
power. You have only to adhere to that principle, and
make justice to the land the condition of all those you
return to Parliament, and I am certain measures will be
brought forward which will place you in a position
to get a fair return with cheerfulness. I say with cheer-
fulness, for no man can do where there is injustice.
I shall not for the present trouble you with the details
of any measures we may present. We have been some-
times asked. " Why don't you say what you will do?"
Why, gentlemen, we ought to go to the country upon
principle, and not upon details. We say we think there
should be measures brought forward to place the culti-
vators of the soil in a position to allow him to compete
with foreign industry. That is the principle. We are
not going to tell you what these measures of detail are.
Aye or no, do you think it fair that English industry
should be burdened?-that is the question.-(Cheers.)
We do not look back, gentlemen, to our opposition to
Sir Robert Peel in 1846 with regret. We think his
measures were conceived in panic and carried in preci-
pitancy-(Cheers)-without any accompaniment of re-
medial plans; we ask England to support us that we
may establish a just policy.-(Cheers.) And, gentle-
men, as far as the measures we propose go, I may say
that I sincerely believe they will receive the general
approbation of all the groat classes in the community.-
(Cheers) Mind you, gentlemen, I am not using that lan-
guage now as a condition of office. I am speaking, at least,
with the responsibility of one, however reluctantly to him-
self, who is honoured with the important trust of an ad-
viser to the Crown.-(Cheers.) My Hon. Friend, gen-
men (Mr. Dupre), has referred to the circumstances
under which the present Geyernment acceded to office.
Gentlemen, I would not have touched upon that theose
had it not been brought before me ; and it is only in,
justice to myself, as a member of that Government, that
I bring it under your notice. It is only, I think, four
months ago, since, at our county town, with I believe
the unanimous feeling of the county, I was returned to
Parliament as a Minister o the Crown ; and then it was
said that within 14 or 15 days our authority would ter-
minate through our incapacity to maintain the business
of Parliement.-(Leughter.) And, gentlemen, no sooner
had I taken my seat in the House of Commons than 1
was subjected to a most extraordinary cross-exaasinte
tion.-(Laughter.). I was called upon to aneounce
when we would appeal to the country, and I suppose
some of them wanted that event to take place within a
week.-(Laughter.) I suggested that certain great
questions should be settled before an appeal was made to
the nation ; and I specified measures respecting the der
fences of the country, the reform of Chancery, and some
-others. Lord J. Russell hoped that we would not parse,
were with any measure for the defence of the country,
although he was the author of that project-(Cheers)-
and as a friend his Lordship advised me not to meddle
with the Court of Chancery.-(Laughter.) And another
great statesman, no other than Lord Palmerston, al-
though offering no factious opposition to the Ministry,
said he was very sorry to hear that the House was about
to be put into Chancery.-(Laughter.) Well, we had
all these sneers and jibes to encounter. But, gentlemen,
we carried all the measures we introduced.-(Cheers.)
We carried that reform of the Chancery Court which
Sir James Graham at Carlisle has stated to be a matter
with which everybody must be pleased; and I will tell
you a little Parliamentary, anecdote. When the report
of the Chancery Commissioners was placed upon the
table of the House of Commons, the -report upon which
I admit our Bills were founded, Sir James Graham said
these were the greatest measures put before Parlia-
ment to remedy the abuses; bet where, asked he, is the
man to carry them out? We, gentlemen, found the, man
--(toad cheers) -for under the present Lord Chancellor
we
etteried every reform proposed id our Bills.-(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, there is another subject it is
upon
we should h
absorbing t have very clear opinions-I mean that all
day. , I knoVe, the religious feeling of the present
-to treat; bat gentlemen, this is a subject difficult
sense. Gentlemen,
confidence in your extreme good
cently delivered, in the speech from the Throne, re-
uphold the Protester Majesty expresses her desire to
(Cheers.) NowNowt earilt institutions of the country.-
engrossed the peopleeers one subject which very much
met, and that was the this country before Parliament
and there existed a eedowment of Maynooth College,
not limited to very street f •
eeling on the subject,
any one class. -
the height of folly for her hi; end it would have been
treated that feeling with contempt,je4tY•B Ministers to have
per-
sonally occupied a position with e - 1 could have
which would, if acted •upen,haveeeet to that question
controversy; for I was one of th dente away with all
endowment at first-(Cheers).-thoiseenteictpposed that
total ignorance of the wants'of the agem— betrayed a
ultimately be opposed by those who ,weelordethat it would
well as those who had given it as a concession; as
to view the question, not in the light of m,ybut had
feeling, and I tnought it necessary toolupport thePelMatn, 41
on
for inquiry of Mr. Spooner; for this was an age in which
Roman Catholics themselves should not oppose inquiry,
_(Hear, hear.) But the Government were pressed to
institute a Royal commission of inquiry. Gentlemen, a
Royal commission has not the power of compelling !the
attendance of witnesses, and its proceedings would: be
liable to all kinds of misrepresentation; but, however' in-
decorous may the proceedings of a House of Commons,
elle country, at least, has confidence in such a', tribuoal,
being ~,n2Yp,
used of men of all
there '
in '3 another oint connected with the religious feel-
get the country,• I must crave your atten-
tion little upon which
Majesty to .. We. thought it our duty to advise her
issuesewith the in-
tention of pi,. '.
-a
Royal proclamation, .
But in
doin this every the peace. of society.
Circulated'; ai'necies of misrepresentation has been
do not object to confess that in this free country I
men, we have beerrestricted criticism ; but, gentle-
lemma to influence old that this proclamation was
statement made by the elections. I have seen that
hustings- All •I :could
rather high •
Wish authority upon the
!Inch statements in the Housewere, they should make,
it might he brought of Commons, so that
tribunal to the teat before that great
Govern means
Government. Gentlemen, in the ever influenced the
were only influenced by a great • course we took we
matter was laid before the Privyimperial eteeasity. The
ner which could (eotin'cil and I " •
deuce not be mistakeh ' • n a man-
, and:
supported by most high with ' i
which we took care to cu
that, examine. before we proceeded--c,e I
at, in certain districts in til ")
consequence of numerous e--d, in
Catholic priesthood processions which the Reims' ---
had instituted,
result, in more than consequences would
endanger the life of thirty places at least, which would
Whet was our duty nlany
of her Majesty's subjects.
h
ender these circumstances? Why,
gentlemen, the moment d
could not hesitate. We a come for us to interfere. We
recommended that her Majesty
Should issue that proclamation which has received thel

approbation of the kingdom. Lam told that the riots
at Stockport were caused by that proclamation. Why,
if the proclamation had not been issued the same dis-
order would have taken place in fifty parts of the king.
dem —(Cheers.) Gentlemen, insteadpooftihaiton
this measure
itea wassore
the tctdpihrogvtideeenxteiaitlectahueseßor Catholicmaahintaig population,
and of sav-
ing the country from bloodshed. And our precautions,
gentlemen, were so great, that we previously interfered
with the Orange processions which were understood to
come off in Ireland. This was the course we took, gen-
tlemen, instead of being guided by those sordid and
selfish motives which awreth yhotoaucr permission,ticsofparty carry.—( out Hear.)
oWuer veiheawisi,ofgpoehltiiceymoehn' it
all these matters with more effi-
cency, and, I believe, with more success in the new Par-
liament.—(Cheers.) It is my firm conviction that the
Government of Lard Darby will meet Parliament in the
autumn with an absolute majority.—(Cheers.) To me
that is not a subject. of doubt. And the Ministry shall;
therefore, no longer have to meet a hostile Parliament,
or be restrained in its policy by an overpowering ,Oppo-
sition. We shall meet Parliament prepared to do our
duty, under a firm conviction that the country wilt
steadily support us. My Honourable Friend (Ur.
Dapt,"o has referred to the position in which the
country would be placed if the Government did not sue;
ceed. Gentlemen, I will not conceive the alternative;
but at the same time no ono can be blind to the fact.
that the Opposition will create its organisation upon re-
volutionary principles.—(Bear, hear.) Happy was the.
prescience of Lord Derby when he told the Whig oppo-
sition that the pear was not ripe last year.—(Laughter.)
The Whigs were in office. They have shown us their
character, and their policy has been received with uni, •
versal scouting by the country; and they cannot, gentle-
men, attain to popularity again, except by calling to..
their councils the Jacobin Clubs of Lancashire.—(Loude
laughter.) But I feel, gentlemen, that the present Go-
vernment is necessary for the preservation of the English
constitution; but the future institution of the Opposition
already peeps from its shell and developes its horns, and
from that shell the Opposition cannot emerge except
enveloped in the shrine of sedition.—(Continued laughter.)
A change in the institutions of the country will be the
condition of its success; and you must indeed be false to
all your professions—false to that high spirit which
Englishmen have ever shown—false to the traditionary
associations of your country, if you stiffer an Opposition
founded upon such principles to govern this nation. Well,
then, gentlemen, when we meet in the county ball on
Friday, I want to know if you will support the princi-
ples and practices which I have so feebly detailed 2—
s(Loud cries of " Yes, yes." Will you be prepared to
ay, "We shall have justice done to the soil—i-n(Ytese,•
yes)—we shall have our legislation conceived . .
spirit of the age—(Yes, yes)—
justice."—(Cheers.) Will you be preparedthtoe.
will have the Protestant constitution of this countrywith
sasypi,r,i,t oef
preserved, not with the sectarianism of
he only
those who believe that Protestantism is t
safe-
guard of English liberty."—(Loud is
to fight
gen-
tlemen, are the issues before you.
preparedwhich an
against those those difficulties and compunctions. ,
and in
the
bigots, but
create,
s Thesehire,whiohwise and eccentric opposition may
ancient spirit of the men of Bile ckihielrt
has conquered in times that are paste
yet awaits us.—(Loud and repeated
~_l°l)eatiDg was
Toasts followed, and the spirit of in°
which now, I
believe, will carry us on to that higher triumph which
somempaisirnatealiinreedtarfonredto
towtinm. time, when air. papa) and Mr.

SUFFOLK (EAST)
The nomination and election .of two
shire, to serve in Parliament for the eastern division
the cenuaty, of Suffolk, took place yesterday (W. h
knights. of
. nthe.
day) on, hustings erected on the Cornlaill, Ipswic no
the presence of Mr. Anstruther, the.thgn ah°,
county, and a great concourse of riff of the
fauns.
no contest on the occasion,
Sir Fitzroy Kelly
rialists, who represented the division at the close of the
both Ministe-
last Parliament. and
sr
E the cullaorosc:a:lnsd
RANCE seconded, Sir E. S. Gooch;
and aptain F.COR-
Mr. W. C. FONNEREATI proposed, C
and
Sir Fitzroy
Kelly was nominated and seconded, respectively, by
' Colonel Bexce and Mr. N. BeetelattoPP.
The HIGH SHERIFF then asked if any other elector
had a candidate to nominate, and no reply being made,
ha declared Sir E. S. Gooch and Sir Fitzroy Kelly to
have been duly elected.
Sir E. S. GOOCH said, be was grateful for the honour
they had done him, which was one of the greatest that
could be bestowed on an English commoner in his native
county. For the future be would sedulously attend to
p
sent them 'in Parliament and they
d him to their local local interstate, and to those of the country at large.
This was the third time they had electe
might rely on it that
the confidence they had,, again reposed in him should
never be abused. He should be a humble supporter of
the Government of Lord Derby, for to_ that nobleman
and his Administration alone they must look now for
the good of the country.—(Cheers and derisive laugh.
ter.) On the subject of Protection, he was afraid they
should not have a re-imposition of the:duty on foreign
corn—(A laugh)—but under the auspices of the present
good Government he hoped that taxes would be removed
and the saddle put upon the right horse.—(Cheers.)
Although John Bull was a good horse, he was at
present over-weighted, and all he (Sir E. S. Gooch)
wanted to see was his carrying no more than his fair
weight in a fair race.—(Cheers.)
Sir FITZROY KELLY, who was received with cheers.
mingled with partial disapprobation, said—lt now be-
comes my pleasing and w.-lcoine duty to return you m 3
sincere and,heartrelt thanks for the distinguished honour
which you have just conferred on me, an honour which
I assure you no man in England more highly appre-
ciates than myself.—(Cheers.) This is nut the firs!
time on which I have had to thank you tbr having con
furred that distinction upon me; but when I came be-
fore you on the last occasion, it was under circumstances
very different from those under which I now have tilt-
s3tisfaction of presenting myself to your notice. Upor
that occasion I was comparatively unknown, and alto-
. gether untried (Oh! oh! laughter, and counter
cheers)—hut I had something to point at in my earlier
and public life which I ventured to hope would entitle
me to your confidence, and I did not entertain that hope-
in vain. Some of you who are now listening to me, and
who may think I had not the confidence of this county•
remember thief for several weeks my pretensions were-
before the entire body of. the electors, and that I was
unanimouslythe
honour
of b
elected
unanimouslythen as I haveelected
thed gratification alio
ow eers.)
I believe, that I was chosen not from annycer(iCtshof rn)
own, but because you believed—and I hope you did not
believe without just grounds—that I was attached to the
same principles, identified with the sameevieevs end in-
terests as yourselves, and that it was not my custom to
depart from those principles which I had professed when
tPel raecsets mien in
the t heroproud
Commons
asleing the suffrages of any constituency, should they
position
Houseof
ofp aardl
ivao
leo ini nt their
believein -
also I came before you with confidence in the support I
should receive, not only on the grounds I have stated,
but because I was known to be a member of that Go
vernment which stands between this people and demo-
cracy—(Loud cheers and ueroar)—which;stands between
our constitution and revolution—which stands between
the prosperity and the destruction of the agriCultural
interest of this country.—(Renewed cheers and confusion.)
I ought no longer to detain you without coming a,
once to the great question which agitates the country,
which you are assembled here to lend your aid in de-
termining, and on which our institutions, our constitu-
tion, the monarchy, and the church, depend .for their
existence or their destruction.—(Cheers,) The 'clues•
lion is, whether you will, by- your representatives in
Parliament, and by the power with which. the constitu-
tion has invested you, support and advance what is called
the doctrine of free trade in this country,. or whether
you are satisfied that it. has already done enough of
evil, and are ready to withstand its further progress, or
at least its progress in the same direction, with all the
power which the constitution has enabled you to confer
on your representatives in Parliament.—(Cheers and
disapprobation.) I desire especially, while addressing
the assembled body of those whom I am proud and
happy to call my constituents—(lronical laughter)—not
to be misunderstood on this allliusportant occasion. It
is easy, indeed, for those who speak in the absence of
others of whom they speak—it is easy for certain
newspaper writers, to whom most public men have as
little leisure as inclination to reply in print in their
own colums—it is easy, I say, for persons on such
occasions to misrepresent the sentiments, the principles,
and the language of any public, man.—(Hear, hear.) I
have—but I do not complain of it—come in for my full
share of such misrepresentation, not only for the few
weeks which preceded the last election, when you were
pleased to return me to Parliamett, but during every
month and week and day, I had almost said every hour,
which has elapsed from that time to the present. It
has been supposed that I denied the beneficial conse-
quences to the country of all the measures brought for-
ward in Parliament by the late Sir Robert Peel. Let
me set myself right on this matter, and if I only have
the honour of your attention I will endeavour to make
clearly intelligible to the understanding of every man
who hears me the extent to which I supported and do
now approve of those measures, and the dividing line
beyond which I held, and still hold, that they were
Productive of nothing but evil and injustice to many of
the more
°Pinion that those measures under which import duties
impotent class of the community. I was of
were repealed on a great number of articles of constant
-and daily consumption by all classes of the people were
calculated greatly to benefit the great mass of the
community,
to the repeal of the corn-laws,
the whole realm
the last,l
of England. But when I coma to
. and that they had that effect throughout
anek I Lament to say the crowning • act of
Which took place
the Government of Sir Robert Peel—when I come
in 1846—it is there that I stop—it is there that I
ri
aidl . 0 (r
argumentC h e e r s
or
protest—it is there that I deny .any substantial good;
and I affirm that that measure was followed by un-
mitigatedee the
e v andand di disapprobation.) a
eloquencepprobat i o
t.
o p)
rDo
vo
oe Does
toit
r
you practical men—the most of you engaged in the pur-
suit of agriculture—the mischievous results of a mea-
sure which, while it left every burden untouched and
undiminished, which pressed upon the productive in-
ter, sts of the country, had the inevitable effeet—by in-
tro:lacing competition with untaxed foreigners over, I
had almost .surface: ,of the globe—of
rendering it
Times for . their 'produce
iBmaipdo'ssiihbleefonrtirtehe cultivators of the soil in
eateththol for the expense of raising
ivitthhifticochus°llvitnohtuerYldeatrroethinCetilleiSsruch Was the effect of the repeal of
the correlates in 1846, which
.rendered it jai. possible for
the cultivator of thssoil in this country to carry. on with
while rates and taxes and tithes, and every burden
effect the fearful competition to which..he teas exposed,
unrelaxed and undie
which presses on the land and tends to embarrass his
operations, remained entirely
Welshed. The result has been, what a
011 f
sad feel; it has not been confined to any particular
yoi know
"rinch or elate of the agricultural community, but ex-
tends from the landlord to the tenant farmer, and from