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loss, and is obliged to fall 1-ack upon his capital to pay
his just debts; and that many of the labourers are un-
able to obtain employment, while some of them are
obliged to content themselves with wages of 75., Bs.,
and 9s. a week—l ask you whether it is not time to put
a stop to this fatal march of unholy legislation, and to
stand forward to defend the agricultural interests of this
country against their reckless and remorseless enemies?
—(Cheers.) You are embarked with us in the same un-
dertaking—in the effort which we shall make to reform
the abuses of legislation, and to remedy the grievances
under which we labour. We are the supporters of an
Administration to which alone you can look for safety
and succour, without which that which has already been
productive of evil and mischief must become fatal, and
end in your entire ruin. When I last addressed you in
this place the Government had been but lately entrusted
by her Majesty to administer the affairs of this country,
and I came before you, only being able to hold out a
pledge that I would do my best to serve you. But let
mo remind you that so little did the Earl of Derby—
who, unlike his predecessor, has never forced himself into
office, and has never obtruded himself into the councils
of his Sovereign—imagine it to be his destiny at so
early a period to be called on to fill his present high
office, that he was indulging in convivialities with a
friend in the country at the time when the late Govern-
ment fell to pieces from its own weakness and inability.
That Noble Lord and those who joined him in an at-
tempt to administer the affairs of the country are the
real benefactors of the people, for they boldly met their
friends and enemies in both Houses of Parliament,
with a large minority in ono House, and certainly no
striking majority in the other—feeling their own stead-
fastness of purpose, and their determination to do their
best to improve the condition of the people, and promote
the interests of the empire.--(Cheers.) What have
they done? They were met by taunts, jeers, and sar-
casms. They were told and taunted that they had as-
sembled together a Chancery barrister and some chair-
men of quarter sessions, and had attempted to form
them into a Ministry to govern this great empire. It
turns out—now that we can look at this matter by the
light of experience—that this Chancery barrister and
these chairmen of quarter sessions have proved
themselves to be eloquent and invincible in
debate, and possessed of the highest order
of qualities, such as become statesmen filling
the highest offices of the State. I will show you
what they have done under the fearful difficulties by
which they were met in Parliament. They were met on
their first appearance in Parliament with the peremptory
intimation that they would be allowed to pass the neces-
sary supplies, but should do nothing else, and that they
must immediately proceed to appeal to the people.
What was the answer of her Majesty's Ministers? They
said we will not dissolve Parliament until we have passed
those measures which wa think necessary for the well-
being of the country. You may oppose us by factions
banded together against us. You may put us in minority
after minority, bat we will trust to the people of Eng-
land, to whose voice you must listen, and who must con-
trol even you in your seats in the House of Commons.
We will pass thoso measures, and you must permit us
to do so, or the country will visit it on you on the day
of trial. What was the result? Why neither Sir J.
Graham, Lord J. Russell, or Mr. Cardwell, the gentle-
man whose voice was heard of late at Liverpool, but
heard is vain, wus able to turn a single Minister to the
right or the left from the straightforward performance
of his duty.—(Hear, hear.) And whey we are
taunted with insincerity, anti with a want of power
and talent to carry on the affairs of this
great country, let me • call your attention, not to
has passed more practical measures for the
what we have promised, but to what we have performed
—(Hear, hesr)—uot to what we have talked of, but to
what we have actually done.—(Bear, hear.) I undertake
to state, fearless of contradiction, that Lord Derby's Go-
vernments.)
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benefit and good of the whole mass of the people in this
t he la sot
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vast empire, within the period of three months, than any
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invasion.—
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other Government that hay ruled in this country during
and counter cheers.) We passed the measure
in
this country than the one which was produced by our
predecessors; and we have now, at a comparatively
trifling cost, placed the country in such a state of defence
as to defy alike the secret machinations and the open
aggression of any enemy on the face of the earth. And
now permit mo to turn to you, my Liberal friends—you
who are in favour of Liberal institutions, of representa-
tive government, and whO desire an extension of the
franchise in this country—and to tell you that Lord
Derby has eat a bright example to all future Go-
vernments, by conferring for the first time many Liberal
institutions a representative Assembly, and a repre-
sentative Government upon the distant but most im-
portant colony of New Zealand, while your friends, the
Whigs, whom you sent to Parliament, while Lord John
Russell only talked about these things, while the Cob-
dens and Brights, careless of the colonies, provided they
could increase by a halfpenny a yard the silk which
they manufactured, and regardless if the whole colonial
empire perished, so long as they could only have added a
few hundreds a year to their enormous incomes, while
those people only talked about a constitution, we gave a
liberal constitution to New Zealand, accompanied with
such safeguards as to render it an example to the rest of
the colonies, and to justify them in demanding to be
placed on a footing of liberty with this the freest country
in the world.—(Cheers.) The Learned Solicitor-
General then briefly reviewed the Metropolitan, Burials,
and Water Bills carried through Parliament by the
Government in the recent session, contrasting them
with the kindred measures proposed by the late Ministry.
(A. voice in the crowd—" Chancery reform.") I
am reminded (he continued) of what is called
Chancery reform. If there can be any subject which
can ever 'occupy the attention of a statesman—with
which, without presumption, I may venture to say I have,
from an experience of now, I am sorry to say, some 30
years, become perfectly familiar—it is that which con-
cerns the administration of the law; and I take upon
myself to state here that within the short period of three
months the Government, of which I have the happiness
and pride to be a humble member, has effected a far
more extensive and more beneficial law reform than has
been attempted oven during the present century by any
Government that preceded it.—(Cheers.) I think that
no fewer than 88 Acts of Parliament have been passed
by the Government of the Earl of Derby, most, if not all
of them, of extensive practical benefit to the community,
during that short period of three months, in spite of the
opposition and embarrassment created by adverse fac-
tions, the Government being only stimulated by their
determination to do their duty to the people. I did in-
tend to say a word on the subject of the eetvigation-laws.
(A Voice—" Harwich," and laughter.) I thaelt you for
calling ray attention to Harwich, for it reminds me of a
certain shipyard where more than 200 shipwrights once
found employment, but where not 60 now obtain the
means of subsistence since the repeal of the navigation-
laws in 1847.—(Hear.) I wish I had now before me
every shipbuilder throughout the kingdom; I would ask
every on
of them whether his trade had increased,
whether his profits had advanced since the repeal or alte-
ration of the n ' • I believe that alteration
evigation-lawt
in the law has gone far to annihilate one of the most
important of our manufactures. The mischief is even
greater than the throwing out of employment 150 or 200
with farad' n,
tt. .
a we should
ic9, and it will be felt, il.ever age' .
have a naval war, in the way in which it has crippled
our resources for manning our ships.—(Hear, hear.) I
have said enough on this fatal and mischievous legislation
to show that You' have not in vain bestowed your confi-
pleddence on in
—7 Colleague in the representation and myself,
they pged and determined as we are to withstand the fur-
ro f le. It on acts
lik gress of tis system o
e those to whichh I have alluded thatlatio n I
nowis rest my
claims to year further confidence and support. The
Government entered on the arduous and solemn duties
1),-1.°E4ce, finally determined to maintain the sacred re-
has
i 5 of their country under which this great empire
es 'nig flourished, and has sometimes stood almost
alone, great, and proud, and powerful amid the storms
and
the ancient
which have desolated Europe, levelling
ancient monarchy with the dust, and under which
theY Pray our empire may yet flourish so long as the
dworld
Bhall endure.—(Cheers.) This religion they are
urn:lined to maintain against all enemies and against
d aggression• and it is their equally firm and solemn
eterrai '
hatton now to dedicate their best efforts to unite
the whole
thei faculties of their minds to one great object—
fro relief of the suffering agriculturist of this country
the burdens,the distressand the '
grievances which h,es under
We 811%13 has so long and unjustly laboured.—(Cheers.)
the first Propose to the ensuing Parliament—it will be
which great principle of our administration, on
obi; we are• bound by the most sacred of
and emegatie
ns•e, to propose to Parliament—large, extensive,
--which.`titr,y measures, which I believe will b. e calculated
fully ade honestly and conscientiously believe will b
d.—(Ro
qtlate to the attainment of that great en ,
hewed cheers )It on these grounds that I have sought
Your support 'e is
confidence.
It is by acting steadfastly
and resolute]and
of that great principle that I
hope
, to retainin support
probation; and, having thus
pieuged your ap
promote your interest
myself to do my best to
and to give effect wishes, I can only thank you
once more f ect to.your
honour you have this day con-
or the high
ferred uponl
I trust when shall again meet
you in tit' 'lle, and say
f opinion that I have de-
la place you will be o
served the he ou have conferred upon me
by dot, -nour which Y
my countr.
Three my duty to you and to for the Queen,
and heart h were' then given
and three f y e eers
and with that ebullition
or the High Sheriff,
of
- loyalty the
proceedings terminated, and the crowd
dispersed.
Sir Fitzroy
Sir B. cE S. Gooch afterwarda
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.J 37 Lord
The el •
eetton for the southern division of the county of
Hants took nl (Wednesday), at the Guild,
hall, s ace yesterday H.
' Co am The candidates were—Mr.
Coombe
Cern__ •
Compton, the late Member and representative
of
Lord
southern division for the last eighteen years; and
SOUTH ANTS.
rd El• Chololondeley, succeeding to the seat deserted
O. Wellesley—vie need scarcely ado, both Con-
servatives.
There was no opposition, though much had
been threatened.

LANARKSHIRE.
Tlao nomination and election for the county of Lanark
SresJtearradacys without
ook place ou Tueeday• Mr. Lockhart was proposed by
Sir William MAxwell, of Calderwood, seconded by Mr.
William Stirling, of KODIMUCO, and declared duly elected.
SELKIRKSHIRE.
Russell,
sogpepMoonrsd.iteildo:nlbi.oyttmuLero.crwkahatasorrt,rowrnoa.psoruedturbnyed l

The election--o— plat yesterday.
The Hon. Stuart Wortley Was proposed by Captain
Villiers Stuart, seconded by Povost Gibson, of liotheay,
COUNT
fort hisYco O
county
ty tBUnTI, E. 7
and unanimously elected.