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and responsible Governments, and treachery and false
rulers on *le other, he had to congratulate the country
thee it had never been enten vied in a ft oaezn war.—(Hear,
bear.) It was impossible, however, for the people of
this country not to sympathise with foreign nations who
were endeavouring to share some of the advantages
we ourselves possessed; and we not only did so, but we
offered them an asylum, and let them come from where
they may we should still adhere to that course of conduct.
Sympathy we may always express for them, but fur-
ther than that, as a nation, they must not go. Order
must be preserved, and, therefore, they should not
speak further upon that matter. He must now make
mention of a circumstance which had made a most
serious impression on the public mind. He:alluded to the
visit of a most remarkable man (Kossuth) to our shores.
fin was Wee idol of interest, for a time, among every
grade of the people.—(Hear.) The interest, amounting
almost to religion, which his countrymen felt in him,
was equal almost to idolatry—an interest in which be
he forsaw a ready s:olipathy, and in which all would be
ready to participate.—(fleas, hear.) Bat it should be
recollected that this remarkable man had visited these
coasts with an ostensible motive.—(Hear, hear.) His
objtzt, avowedly, was to wage a war upon the whole of
the despotic Powers of Europe. His orations had been
singularly powerful, and full of political power and poetic
beauty. There was, however, another object to be served
in his visit to this eosntry, and this was evidently shown
in the splendid speeches which he had delivered since his
arrival in America.—(Hear, hear.) The visit of that
great man, therefore, was not in its consequences likely
to disturb our association with other powers.—(Hear,
hear.) He had next to advert to the position which was
occupied by Britain with regard to the principle of that
party which was supposed to advocate protection.—
(Cheers.) On this point it must be remarked that the
Right Hon. Baronet the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had intimated indirectly the necessity for affirming the
income-tax. But if this was accomplished, it should be
recollected how great an amount of taxation had been
repealed. That great statesman, Sir Robert Peel, had
fully anticipated this result, and nothing had evinced
more the magnitude of his ability, and the
greatness of his statesmanship, than the results
at which he had arrived. The next poiat which he had
to take under consideration was the adjudication of
differences in civil matters. Much benefit had arisen in
the codification, so far as it had gone, of our civil and
criminal laws, and this spin was largely owing to
the conduct and management also of the late Sir
Robert Peel. The ordinary- statute law had been
mush simplified, but it should be remembered that
great mischiefs still existed in the practice of the Court
of Chancery. lithe several branches of that court
were both expensive, dilatory, and unsatisfactory.—
(Hear, hear.) To this the attention of her
Majesty's Government had been directed. The remedy
was difficult to find, but still it was necessary,
and he himself being a sufferer could speak to the neces-
sity for the reformation to which her Majesty had that
day alluded in her Speech from the Throne. Into that
matter, however, he would Rot enter. The mischief and
the evils were patent to sib% so that it was quite
unnecessary io particularize instances for an in-
ducement
to the reformation of the whole of our
equitable jurisdiction in matters of property
He was not a personal sufferer, but he had been a trus-
tee for a relative of his, who unfortunately had become
connected with a set of usurers and Jews.—(Laughter.)
The trust was for simple sale, but before it could out
they had to encounter eight salts in Chancery, to some
of which there were fifty or sixty parties; 10,0001. had
been spent in defending actions, and the costa of
litigation had in all amount,:d to no less
than 70,000/. ; and instead of a surplus
there had been in the end a deficiency. Rather than
such a state of things should be permitted, he would say,
perish the Court of Chancery and all connected with it
An Encumbered Estates Act would, in truth, be a blessing
for this country. The Noble Lord, however, could not have
chosen a better time for introducing this measure, for
there never was a time when there were more Gen-
tlemen of the legal profession in the House
than the present. With respect to the manufacturing
interest, which they were told by the Royal Speech, was
in a state of prosperity, notwithstanding that there was
a great number of gentlemen both in and out of
that House, who asserted that the commercial pros-
perity of the country was a fallacy, he, himself, often
us he had heard the contrary, was convinced that
there never was a time when the manufacturing
interest had been more prosperous then the
present. He came next :to the consideration of the
measure upon which he expected there might be
some diversity of opinion. He alluded to the extension
of the suffrage. Political writers had blamed the Noble
Lord for not introducing this measure earlier in
the present Parliament; but he thought they did him
great injustice. Did they not remember the
number of measures which had occupied the
attention of that 114ase during every session?
One session we; ocetaciA in regulating the duties on
corn, another in removing the navigation-laws, and the
last year divided between the pleasures of the Exhi-
bition and a religious warfare in that House. The time
had now arrived when Ministers were about to place on
the title of the House their measure for extending the
suffrage. Some funny writer or other had said, that in
this House Gentlemen " thought in herds."--(Laughter)
and that ho thought was often the case—what one man
said another thought, and so in time it became a party
cry. He, for one, would bo perfectly willing that every
man contributing to the direct taxation of the state
should hews a vote—that every men holding a small
sum, say 501, in the savings' bank, shoUld vote; but he
would gigs no man two votes; and for the way
of takilig them, be must express his utter
abhorrence of the ballot. 'As for triennial Parliaments,
he thought they would have the effect of driving every
person of station and property out of the Hoar, because
who would submit himself to the-triennial nuisance of an
election? Who was afraid to extend the suffrage?
Could they forget that within a short time
,three of
the principal cities of karope—Paris, Berlin, and
Vie era—were in the haude of the mob, and in this
e°9l Fry 110 e had not she slightest attempt from the work-
- 11g classes, tar loyalty to the Throne never once shook.
nor was their respect for constituted authority lessenea
one jot. But it would be said —What had reform done
for the working classes ? Since the Reform Bill the
whole attemion of that House had been turned to
/he bettering the condition of the working classes.
He ebe
he Hon.
n.Member then alluded to the state of Ireland.
teed that the laic Sir R. Peel once stated that
he never recollected a session without a Salmon Fishery
Bill. Now, during the whole time he bad been a Mem-
ber he (Sir
Bulkele IY remembers,
a session in which the grievances
the principal subject of discussion.—('
of sc
Irelanda did not form
re.
gear,) He was
happy, however, to inform the home, that though some
ns
lafsntable circumstances had
occurred
on
in
the
s of
proposing Ire-
laud, her Majesty's Ministers hadi no
legislation d
any additional
leg
subject. They hoped that the ordinary course of the
law would restore tranquillity. He had learnt from the
' Ireland that the same line of
press in conduct would
Members this •
be pursued by Irish session as that
formerly adopted, let the measure they had be
whatever it raight.—(LfeaL, hear.)
would
earnestly appealed to hose Hon.
_Members to recon-
sider their conduct. W re, he asked, could they
find
occurrences such as those which took place last year,
treated with so much
leniency and consideration as
they were by her Majesty's Ministers ?—(Hear, hear.)
On the continent of Europe events were now happening
to which, as Englishmen and Protestants, they could
not be insensible. Two parties were there striving for
mastery—constitutional freedom on the one side, and
despotism on the other. Despotism had called
to its assistaece the ultramontane party of
the Roman Catholic Church. sad they bad ac-
cepted the mission. Now we could not and would not
further the ends of despotism—whether it was that of
the old constitutional dynasties of Europe or oft
any upstart ruler who might have risen out of
the cif mstances of the times.—(Hear, hear.)
We wish lii not only the letter, but the spirit of the
Emancipation Bill to be adopted, and we wished to re-
store that harmony which existed in this country pre-
vious to the arrival of the Papal ordinance; but they
were bound to maintain the Queen on the throne.
Her Majesty's Speech referred to a most important subject,
which, with the country, was become a fixed sentiment and
opinion—namely, a measure of reform, for the extension of
the suffrage. He repeated, that every man who paid direct
taxes should have a vote. He might, on this subject,
advent() the circumstances which a short time back affected
some orilhe great towns of Europe, and yet such war the
'"yalty of the people of this country, and their submission
to the laws, that they remained unmoved by those con-
vulsions which overturned the institutions of other nations.
An effort had been made to get up a demonstration; and
House would recollect the monster petition which
had been brought in, and rolled upon the floor of that
11"use—apetition • which it took eight horses to draw.
Nothin S' however, could be effected on the subject of that
petition at that time, and hints had been thrown out by the
supporters of the petition that • •might
some decision be come
to t i sack London. But that miserable threat effected
nothing, and the ini4evable elmand
at khe sight of a p.liceman.— _Ls their leader vanished
tienun, perhaps, On
the ( ingher.) There were gen-
wou!el say what benefits °PPUaite rile of the House, who
Ref.= Bill ? He would have the people received from the
wh, la attention Qf that Y•—(Hear, hear ) The
been turned to We improvement
olince the Reform Bill, had
ple •; the taxes on the first ceee, • the condition of the peo-
away with, and the people now
&arum of life had been done
got th •
nattily,
.and he wished he
could their beef and bread
E tto ESA dition of the country had say their beer. The
".c."7 and the hours of labour see also been greatly im-
- bed For those 'and other he working classes had
• if(4; indebted to the spiriter beneficial measures
" •* t. He congraugat,4 of reform which per-
th
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