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pose free politics.—(Hear, hear.) He would say
to every man who had obtained a position in that House,
to stand by the principles by which he had risen, whether
those principles were right or wrong. If right, carry
them into operation, but if satisfied they are wrong,
retire, and let those who have consistently advocated an
opposite course carry them out.—(Hear, hear.) Though
the Noble Lord who had endeavoured to form a Ministry
had not succeeded in that endeavour, it did not declare
whether he was right or wrong in the policy he was
seeking to carry out ; but he (Mr. Disraeli) did not
think it was right that a Parliament elected on the prin-
ciple of protection, and a Minister who had obtained a
large majority on the faith of that principle, should now
turn his back on that which had brought him into power.
—(Hear, hear.) He admitted that notwithstanding the
great talent of the Minister, and however much the
exercise of that might have operated in bringing the
Conservative party into power, it was not fair to the
people of England to propose such a measure as that he
was about to do.----(Hear, hear.) He was a great party
leader no doubt, and had achieved a victory ; but
how had he done so ? He had obtained a grand
victory, of course, judging from his present policy,
the impolicy of which, not to use any harsher lan-
guage was clearly apparent. Such was the case. If
the Right Hon. Baronet had not come forward at the
time he obtained his Parliamentary majority, and with
the greatest frankness responded to the call of the
country, he would not have been placed in the comman-
ing position he then occupied.—(Hear.) Did not men
say that he made speeches to suit the occasion, accomo-
dating addresses in order to appeal to the sympathies of
the people, so as to carry his majority and elevate him-
self into power ? He recognised a Parliamentary Go-
vernment, because he promised to support the views of
the party which had carried him into power, and who
he ',ad- urged forward with his cheers and ad-
tation.—(Hear, hear.) They (the Conservative
party) might use him to secure the success
of their Parliamentary number, but how they could
be expected to support the principles advocated
uvoceadstateerdbnyd.ht e
men they formally opposed, he could no
(Hear, hear.) The Ministry they werenow
interfere
dfere
on
should to support was not the Ministry who
with those laws relating to protection. That feeling
was not confined to this House, but prevailed extero
aively out of doors.— (Hear, hear.) He said this as an
adv,icate of protection, as one who, while he would not
shriek from maintaining his opinion, would listen with
patience to any refutation of them that might be offered
from any other Member of the House.—(Hear, hear.)
Ho would impress it on their consideration, that whether
a Whig or Conservative Administration was in power,
whether the Noble Lord on the Opposition, or the
Right Hon. Gentleman on this side was at the head
of the Administration, that they should transact
their business and conduct their policy on the
principle that Parliamentary party had been
an institution, and was still to continue an
an institution of this country.—(Hear.) The character
of the Ministry much depended on Parliamentary con-
sistency and the support of party. Let them not, there-
fore, encourage political teragiversation, but do what
they could to declaim this denunciation of party, not
only for the independence of political party, but for the
maintenance of integrity in public men, and the honour
and character of the British Parliament. (The Hon.
Gentleman sat down amidst long-continued cheering.)
Lord NORTHLAND said that he protested in the
name of the people of Ireland against the measure of the
Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Goverment. If
he wished to satisfy the people of Ireland, he would not
have proposed anything of the sort. He (the Noble
Lerd) represented a great county in Ireland, and he
could confidently assert that th's measure would entail
incalcu'atile evil upon the peop'e of the sister country.-
- (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") What would
become of gentry and agricultural labourers if manufac-
turers were to be appeased ? He was not prepared on
the present occasion to enter fully into a discussion of
the question, for he did expect that some Hon. Gentle-
man on his (the Opposition) side of the House, would
have risen on the part of the Irish agricultural interest
to oppose the measures of the Right Hon. Baronet. lie
had, in fact, expected that his Hon. Friend, the Member
for Roscommon, would have been prepared to do his duty
on this occasioe. He would at present content himself
by saying he much regretted the course taken by the
Right Hon. Baronet.—(Hear, hear.)
Nita MILES said he wished the public out of doors to
know that the representatives of the agricultural interest
had in Parliament offered their most decided opposition
to the Right Hon. Baronet's measure.—(flear, hear.)
The Right Hon. Baronet had, in a speech of sarcasm,
rnixe I certainly with some kind words, laid his scheme
before the House, and he was glad to hear the able
speech of Mr. Disraeli, who laid bare his hypocritical
conduct on this question.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr.
Mile,) wished to know whether the Conservatives,
in electing the Right Honourable Baronet in 1841 as
their leader, wished, or expected, that he would
in so brief a period reduce them to the lowest seat of
infamy which could be occupied by any body of men.—
(Hear.) What would become of the other Right Hon.
Members of the Cabinet, and the other gentlemen of the
city inteiested in the law, if the measure of the Right
lien. Baronet should meet with the sanction of the Le-
gislature ?—(Hear.) Was there no public spirit, no
public en husiasm, no recollection, ho would not say of
the promises, but of the implied confidence at the hust-
ings ?—(Hear, hear.) Was everything forgotten because
the Right Hon. Baronet thought proper to bring forward
a measure which it appeared had met with the decided
opposition of the majority of the Cabinet ?—(Hear.) He
dfl think that the agricultural interest should bestir itself
at once and use every constitutional means within their
power for the purpose of opposing the attempt of the
Right Hon. Baronet. The great question now to be
decidt d was whether there should be any or no protec-
tion at all. That was the trne basis on which the next
Government must be formed, and which he thought the
people had a right to call upon the Right Hon. Baronet at
once te adopt, previously to his forcing, or endeavouring
to force, his measure upon the country !Let the Pritne
Minister resign his trust and appeal to the country, and he
would then see whether the people were satisfied with
his measure. He would then see whether they were
preparecL to accept the measures sanctioned by the gen-
tlemen of the Anti• Corn-law League. That, in his
opinion, would be a constitutional method. Before he
Rat down, he was desirous of alluding to a sentiment
which had fallen from the Noble Lord, with respect to the
failure in the potato crop. He (Mr. Miles) thought that.
no man, whoever he might be, who possessed the
slightest spark of humanity, could have read the ac-
counts which had been received from Ireland in August,
September, and the beginning of October last,
without observing from those accounts that a famine
in the spring would come upon millions, he might
say, of the Irish people. It was then asked,
what might the Prime Minister constitutionally
do for the alleviation of the anticipated sufferings of
that people. lie had the pleasure of meeting a large
company of tenant farmers, and he put the case to them
as fairly as he could. He stated this, via.: that if the
Right lion. Baronet, the Prime Minister of the Crown,
should under such circumstances be disposed to open the
ports for a time, were they, the tenant farmers, of
opinion that he would be justified in adopting such
a measti:e ? Ile was happy to say that the
tenant farmers received that sentiment with enthusiastic
uppleu.e.—( Hear, hear.) So little egotistical, so little
in mop ;lilt, were the tenant farmers of England.—
(Hear, hear.) But as he understood from the expres-
sing of the Right lion. Baronet, he proposed to the
Cabinet, on the sth of November last, that the pro-
positien to open the ports should be accom-
pan het by an understanding to the effect, that
an elteratiou should take place to the corn-laws.
Now, as the most sanguine expectations of the Right
Hon. Baronet had been exceeded by the operation of his
measure of 1;42, he (Mr. Miles) thought that the
Mese and the country had a right to call upon him to
suffer the laws relating to the importation of corn to
remain in their present condition.—(Hear, bear.) They
had a right to call upon him to permit those laws to
reraain firm upon the same basis on which he found them.
Eot only would the agriculturists, but all classes of
native industry in the kingdom, be taken by surprise
and filled with indignation, on hearing the intentions of
the Right Hon. Baronet with respect to this question.
—(lleac, hear.) It would appear that the protection
which still remained to the people of England against
foreign traders would be rendered almost useless, and
lie would therefore say that the country was en-
titled to a fair discussion on the question.—
(Hear, hear.) He would venture to say that there
were many Hon. Gentlemen connected with the present
Government, who would support his (Mr. Miles':) views
and statements.—(Hear, hear.) He would also venture
to say that the strongest constitutional opposition would
be offered against the measure of the Right Henourable
Biroliet.—(Elear, hear.) Every impediment should be
thrown in h way of its passing, and he hoped
and trusted that the Right Hon. Baronet, having
now proposed his plan in most solemn and
deliberate mannes, would at once appeal to that tribunal
which should decide this question—viz , the people of the
Un.ted Kingdom.—(Cheers.)
Colonel SIBTIIORP was much surprised, after having
beard the speech of the Right Hon. Baronet, that he
had not long ago gone over to the ranks and the tender
mercies of the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Laughter.) The
aerieultural interest having placed a solemn, trust in
the hands of the Right Hun. Baronet, had a right to ex-
pect him to discharge it honestly and fairly • but he had
betrayed them ; his conduct
teemed with the g
reatest test hy-
pocrisy, and he had now openly allied himself with tha
y
igni'mtrii"ui hand, theAuti-Conl League.—(A laugh.)
lie thought him at one time ther-
amwan to save the coen-
try—(Leughter) —but now he
assert, that if there is any man emiset unequivocally
to destroy the country, it was the lik
ely than another
Right Hon. Gentle-
men.—(Shouts of laughter.)
The Address was then agreed te, and the House ad-
Fs...timed at Half-past Ten o'clock.

HER MAJESTY'S STATE Livzaiss.--New state
liveries have been supplied, by command of her Majesty, to
the coachmen, footmen, and grooms, in the department of
the Master of the Horse. They were worn yesterday, for the
first time, upon the oczasion of her Majesty proceeding to the
House of Lords to open Parliament.
Viscouat and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at
Carlton-honse•terrace on Tuesday evening, from Broadlanda
Bents, for the season.
We understand that Mr. James Wortley is to be
Judge-Advocate, Dr. Nichol' having either resigned or been
promoted—the former, probably.—Chronicle.
Tue ‘VEATHER. IN CUMBERLAND.—The past week
has been most remarkable for the mildness of the atmosphere,
o
, and
sbeginning to produce a premature effect upon vege-
tatio
_ we are afraid will ultimately prove prejudicial. ,
Many of the gardens in this neighbourhood are beginning to
wear the aspect of spring, and we have lately seen several !
handsome bouquets
yeart.onaming flowers very unusual
season of the C this
day. at intervals th Every morning, and throughout the
11.1.3 nes hav
warbling forth their " s been beard in this vicinity,
wood
approach notes wild" to welcome the ,
are yet, according to the
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period of the se of spring, though
ason, in the we
very depth
of winter.—Cum-