The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 4.
THE MILITIA. BILL.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
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ceedings of last night was made by the Hon. Member
for Finsbury (Mr. Wakley), who, with a naiveté peculiar
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agreehdiemdtsortoltfh'effer the measure every opposition in his
power.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for the West
Riding of Yorkshire said that, with the exception of the
question of free-trade, there was no question that suited
him 50 Well to go to the country with as the present. It
appeared, then. that the Hon. Gentleman must always
have grievance; for, if he had none, his poli-
tical
become a nonentity.—(Laughter.) He
should
lladifple d
like to know how these petitions, which they had
o
heard so much spoken of, were obtained. How was it
that his county, which was one of considerable import-
ance, had never sent him a petition to present against
the Bill? The great manufacturing towns, in which
the Honourable Member bad so much power, were
the only places from which these petitions emanated.
The Honourable Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright),
when speaking on this subject, like Bob Acres, felt
his courage oozing out of his finger-ends, That Ho-
nourable Gentleman said that the army and nary
were forgotten at that moment in favour of what he
called the blundering,', miserable, and undisciplined
horde that would constitute their militia force. The
House ought to mark well the difference of the lan-
guage used by the Hon. Member when addressing these
persons out of doors. He also said that a political panic
was sometimes got up for the purpose of trading on it.
He (Mr. G. Berkeley) would ask the Hon. Gentleman
whether he did not know of such a panic being got up
for the purpose of exciting the hostility of the people
against the Government; and that language was uttered
on such occasions outside of the House which dared not
be uttered inside of it.—(Hear, hear.) Why, at the
first gathering of the Anti-Corn-law League there was
language used which was well calculated to
lexsctite re-
hellion. The Hon. Member for Manchestetrhea night
Member
was pleased to attach to the Noble Lordtitle
of two
) recollected reading
Now he (Mr. G. Berkeley
same author which he
for Tiverton (Lord Palmerston) the of iyrs. Jellaby.
characters described by the
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thought were singublaorrlyfosrpla
and the Hon. Diem ltihcaobllevtoostthßeidHinogn.oMf
York-
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shire—naely4oUwnohuardwpaygiirJcooo
of this Bill, which he
tutional and appropriate measure to meet the evils com-
plained of.
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to explain
said a st o
s aPr;
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second reading of this Bill. What he had then
stated was that there were 80 guns on the peace esta-
blishment which might be made available upon an emer-
gency.
He also said that the Marine Artillery had 20 guns, but without horses, which also could be made
available. He saw no difficulty in providing them with
horses; so that there could be mastered in all 100 guns
for active service. Sir Hew Ross had written to him
on the subject of this misstatement, and he now wished
to explain to the House what be really did say upon the
occasion referred to. He then went on tos ay that these
horses might be procured at once, and rendered avail-
able, when an Hon. and Gallant Colonel rather sneered
at the observation by alluding to the probability of those
horses running away when brought into action. Now
ho was speaking practically when ho made that state-
ment, for he had gone into action himself withfrom
m
hfoarrses-
collzcted only two or three days before
how,e3 on the road side. He had also
statedo ers,
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number of rank and file, including ea
might be made available for service, wa s thatsws oti
oho
oho
men; that there was alas 9,000 of the Ordnance corps