The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-25 00:00:00

WATER SUPPLY BILL.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY trusted that this Bill
would not preclude the introduction of some other mea-
sure, haying for its object the supply of purer water to
the metropolis.
The Earl of DERBY said the only alternative was to
pass or reject the present Bill. He admitted the subject
had not been fully considered, but still the only course
left open to the Government, was to propose th© pre-
sent measure or postpone legislation. If the measure
were rejected for another year, most likely the public
would be found in the same disadvantageous position
in which they were at present. But there was
undoubtedly this merit in the Bill, that it pro-
vided a purer supply of water to the people of the
metropolis than was at this moment within their reach.
Lord CAMPBELL expressed a hope that the Govern-
ment would apply their attention to the general subject
of a water supply to the public. The subject had hi-
therto. been much neglected, but he did not charge that
neglect on one Government more than another. He
should much like to eea measures of this kind originated
in their Lordships' House.
The Bill was then read a second time,
On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, the Thames
Embankment Bill was read a second time.
The.Eerl, of DONOUGHMORE presented a petition
from Dr. De Ryshere, complaining of the manner in
which his estate was told in the Irish Encumbered
Es-
tates Court, and moved for a return of the petition, affi-
davits, orders, rental, and particulars of sale, and all other
documents recorded in the Irish Encumbered Estates
Courts relating to the sale of the estate of Dr. De Ry-
there. The petition prayed that the case might be re-
ferred to a Select Committee of their Lordships' House.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

LECTION INTELLIGENCE.
• KING'S LYNN.
Lord Stanley, son of the Premier, and Under-Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, has issued the following ad-
dress:—
"_Tha approaching
dissolution of Parliament induces
ma again to address you, and I do so the rather, because
duties connected with the office which I hold will render
it impossible for me, so long as the House of Commons
to solicit your votes in person.
colt,tiNcelintsbeyitngs tiyou for the discharge of an important
trust, at a time when neither personally nor polieecallY
bad I the honour to be known to any single member of
your constituency, I cannot but remember with feelings
ef wee than ordinary
gratitude the unusual and per-
sonally unmerited confidence which you reposed in me
on that occasion. I hope that hi the course of a brief
Parliamentary career I have done nothing to prove my-
self unworthy of such confidence; and it would be to me
a source of deep regret if a connexion formed under cir-
cumstances so flattering, should be dissolved on a farther
acquaintance. From my side, at least, the separation
will not come.
" But it is not of merely personal matters that I desire
to speak. The state of public affairs is critical; and it
incumbeat upon you not to be misled by any misrepre-
sentations concerning it.
" A period of nearly six years has now gone by since
the greet Conservative party of England was first divided
into hostile sections, by a diffaeuce arising on both
eides oat of honourable feelings, yet, singularly lament-
able Le its. results.
Du: log :he greater part of We in-
terval tho Government eftho country has been entrusted
Conn Administration formed ou the narrowest basis and un-
supported by the confidence of the people. The want of ad-
ministrative energy displayed by the late. Cabinet, though
duo in some measure to the circumstances in which they
were placed, has materially retarded the progress of pub-
lic busiuesa, and left to their successors a legacy of unee-
ceinplis'aedrefereas. That greater evils did not follow from
'the abeence of vi"orous and popular Government, is at-
tributatele mainly to the interposition of Parliament,
and to the agency of an Opposition at once forbearing
and vigilant. Tee accession of the present Ministry to
office, Occurring at a moment when such an event was
least expected, has been caused by_no struggle on their
Tart ter the possession of power, bat solely by the in-
terael weakness aad disorganizstion of their opponents.
Already, in the face of a threatened agitation and a
hostile HOUS9 of COMMOrlin they hare carried through
measures, in overy'depart:nent of public businees, the
necessity of which had long bean severely felt, and the
Utility of Which is generally recognised.
"Law hat been amended; the defence of the country
provided for; ou one great veal growing colony repro-
seitativse institutions have been conferred; and another
has at last beete permitted to enjoy the benefit of a
c metinetion love premised and vexatiously delayed.
These acts, noten themselves unimportant, are an oar-
nest of what may hereafter. be expected from their au-
thor:, whoa the expressed confidence of the country
shell here given there a more:secure Position, and a wide
seepe for action. It ie as a supporter and. a stibordinate
member of this Administration that I now ask your
suffragee.
" donigils.of the Government will ba more fitly
eesplaiieed in the coterie of the impending electiees, by
the respoasiole advisers of the Crown. But it may not
be itrelevant here to call your attention to one or two of
the. .principal cycations which . during the last three
years haee divvied the opinions of Parliament.
"T-he late Prime Minister, at the commencement of
the present session, propounded a scheme intended to
subvert that system of national representation which he
himeelf inaugurated at the passing of the first Reform
Bill. His nroposition, condemned by the public voice,
has fallen with its originator. But it is unquestionable that
some inequalities and abuses exist in the distribution of
eleetoial privileges; and where these can be rectified,
or where en increase of population or of intelligence
renders the actual franchise inadequate to the wants of
the people, I cannot believe that the cause of the ceesti-
tution is bound up with the maintenance of a system im-
perfect in its details. To questions of this nature, how-
ever, not involving organic changes is the constitution,
I do not ascribe that degree of importance which is
sometimes given them. I believe that the House of
Commons, es at present conetituted, represents with
tolerable, acauracy the wants and feelings of every class;
and I knOw that, practically, it opens to talent in every
rank of life_the path of distinction in the service of the
'State. These advantages are not secured to an equal
extent by any other legislative assembly now_ existing in
the World.

," A measure was introduced in-the session of 1851,
DY many persons conscientiously held to be a violation
of religious liberty! for which, nevertheless, I felt it my
vote. I did ao becauae I thought that the as-
sire-,,_ n ..7 .
... . ,
rieey7_. or t.tuiar rank in this country, by the nomi-
wis : a foreign sovereign, could -not be other-
pl.4„,::eardcd than as an encroachment on the
on Lizii,c3avo of. the. Crown, and as au aggression
a,gett
io nationality of England. . Against this'
the opt f protest was required, and I supported
body !!ii
el of protest which it.soomed possible to em-
to think, tilt .v_Butl thought then, and I still continue
and introkrzar teSuner in which that law was framed
violas aulearie. wr-s unhappily calculated to excite reli
g, Icy ..
:.,ast anot4tr."l to array ono portion of the empire
in question are Ed:Der tbis result the framers of the Act
ie Th 0 finlneita :L
‘responsible.
already been partudra of the present Government has
I think, utul
tariff of nostio_.:nnounced in Parliament. It is,
1840 an traTc_ liat by the operation of tha
butd2a3 has • been thYrol_lr_ge proportion of the public
rim certainly
it.La avin`i'oun upon . the land. ! !such
who, in rera•zag the ear,l Sir Robert Peel,
p,n3ating, WrStire'lf Which "frrzy proposed corn-
into,eir,:;,-, by his a11:330.t,0r,. ‘,ltie. nos boon carried
thet imp:),!2.,;‘,„:1 of torctqn cor_7,ttle regard to a tax on
in taint:4)lw roo:o obj,:ctione,bi:
,-L,laannuet am,sider it
as
:tilling on the pailie an
ilarge, I 3 than any other impost
ticm,
(3.220;in11y,
tho,
fet3,.w.g
of
uoi
Peoplequ saio,mtio oftaxa-
cidere-lr; and I have no he't""°in saying that Ibbeele'on"
that f2eling to bc such as to render the imposition
on. al expeeditti ofawe
any
pfotdotivo duty impossibl •
fm...._,,re, and re-
tn:it the
"It is to eeonorny in the nati
vision of the national taxatioh,
,u,l's of Eng. .
land *must look for the amelioration .DE the.
lr peesent
condition. •
stated, a 3 rie'
" I have now, gentlemen,
~ Y4B I eould,
my views on the most important qu.e_ations oc the da
If you approve of those views, and if you believe
, thali
shall,-to the'utmost of my abilil, co:11MUO honestly to
~
defend the political, principles which I have laid down,
ittifblelbt torriuttii tnrhands the-means 0f tarqiut