The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-03 00:00:00

free institutions ?—(Loud cheers.) If he had one wish more
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the firm and united feelings of peace.—(Laud cheers.) When
he looked at the immense advantages the one nation could
confer upon the other if they only entertained just feelings and
views rf their respective interests, he was the more anxious to
see that peace re-established. When he looked at the great
cause of liberty and free institutions, he was the more anxious
to see France and England leagued together. He would net
trespass much further on the time of the House, but he wished
to say a word as to the home policy of the Government with
regard to the education of the people.—(Loud cheers.) He
wished to see education diffused from the mountains of Ber-
wicicshite to the mines of Cornwall ; but he would never go
along with the Right Honourable Baronet in confidine
it to the hands of one particular sect, or exclusive party,
because he believed that such a course would defeat it,
great objects, fetter its exertions, and defeat the wishes
and expectations'of the people._( Hear, hear.) Anxious as he
was on that subject, and knowing how deeply the Noble Lord
was attached to it, long before he assumed any Ministerial
office, he should be sorry indeed to lose his services. One
word more : he looked to their colonial empire, and he remem-
bered how it had been governed for many years, and he re-
gretted to see how little of justice the Government had dis-
vensed to the inhabitants of these colonies. how much they had
been neglected, and how little had been done for their improve-
ment. Let lion. Members recollect the speech that had been
uttered by a political enemy the other night, the agent for the
island of Jamaica, who paid a just tribute of praise to the policy
of the Colonial Government, although it was utterly alien to
his own. He (Dr. Lushington) had some means of knowing
how that policy affected the welfare and comfort, and tranquil-
lity of the island of Jamaica ; and he was anxious that the same
system should be pursued ; and,he believed, as regarded that
country and the colonies, the resignation of the present Ministry
was a step greatly to be deplored. He must be permitted to
make one remark upon the Hon. and Learned Member for
Liverpool, and he thought that Hon. and Learned Member
had no right to stand up in that House and denennce,
without discrimination, all the persons who supported the Go-
vernment as the enemies of the Church.--( Hear, hear.) He
had no right to make that charge ; it could answer no pur-
pose but to embitter party spirit ; and if ever there was a
state of public affairs which imperatively called for calm
consideration—( Loud cheers, and counter cheering)—with
a view to the administration of those remedies which might be
best to effect an alleviation, if not a cure, he apprehended that both
sides of the House would be of opinion that the present was that
time.—(Renewed cheering.) They were then to consider
whether, under existing circumstances, some efforts should not
be made for that purpose. Let them look at the state of their
manufacturing districts.—( Hear, hear.) He might, if he
pleased, as the Right Hon. Baronet had done, refer to paper
after paper, to show that the trade of the country was not fall-
ing off ; but experience demonstrated, that whatever might
be the state of trade upon paper, the reality was, that they
were in the midst of the deepest suffering and distress.—

( Hear, hear.) They might depend upon it that it was impos-
sible the people of that country could maintain themselves, un-
less the trade and manufactures not only did not remain sta-
tionary, but advanced. They might boast of their
enormous wealth—they might exclaim of the immense exports
and imports, but if they were not increasing according
to the demands of the population, absolute wealth was as no-
thing ; the misery would continue, and the people would still
perish by. slow degrees. Had any one proposed a remedy for
that state of things. He had heard of none. The people had
borne the distress with unexampled patience. They had en-
dured the misery with a resignation which that House, and
every man of property, could not be sufficiently grateful for.
It was to be recollected that there was a limit, beyond which
human endurance could not enable men to go. There was a