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Property. This measure is the result of inquiries
which I have caused to be made into the practicability
of adopting a system of Registration calculated to
give security to titles, and to diminish the causes of
litigation to which they have hitherto been liable,
and to reduce the cost of transfers.
" To combine the progress of improvement with
the stability of our institutions will, I am confident,
be your constant care. We may esteem ourselves
fortunate that we can pursue, without disturbance,
the course of calm and peaceable amelioration ;
and we have every cause to be thankful to Almighty
God for the measure of tranquillity and happiness
which has been vouchsafed to us."
The Queen's Speech having been again read by the
Clerk at the table,
The Earl of EFFINGHAM then rose to move the
Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. The
Noble Lord said that he could assure their Lordships
that he mote sincerely begged their indulgence, not only
on account of its being the first time that he had ever
addressed their Lordships, but on account of the im-
portance of the subjects alluded to in her Majesty's
Speech—subjects which ought to be discussed with
calmness and indulgence.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
lie congratulated the House ou there being a prospect
of a termination at last of that contest with which the
North of Europe had been convuked ; and he trusted
their Lordships would rejoice with him in that pros-
pect at the cessation of hostilities in the kingdom of
Denmark, to produce which cessation the efforts of her
Majesty's Government had been unceasingly di-
rected ; and he trusted that peace would be
produced which was so essential to the
prosperity of all nations. He felt convinced that their
Lordships and the public would be rejoiced to learn that
steps had been taken by the Government of the Brazils
for the suppression of the slave-trade. It was a subject
of great congratulation to consider that, notwith-
standing the great reductions which bad taken place in
taxation, our finances were still prosperous. The pros-
perity of the country was most general, if not universal.
There had been a reduction of taxation in the last year
in stamps, bricks, and other articles, and yet they had a
surplus. In the year 1849 there had been an excess
of 10,000,0001. in our exports. That excess had been
greatly exceeded during the past year. They found, too,
that the number of paupers bad decreased, not only in
the manufacturing but in the agricultural counties.
Perhaps he might be told that this decrease in the agri-
cultural counties was owing to the increase of employ-
ment in consequence of the drainage in the agricultural
countries; but this he considered a subject of congratu-
lation. He might be told that, so far as landowners were
- concerned, distress existed.---(Hear, hear.) This he was
disposed to admit, but he contended that the labouring
population was better off than it had been heretofore.
With regard to the Papal aggression, he thought
their Lordships would admit that there had
been no such aggression attempted in Roman Catholic
times in this country, and that no Roman Catholic laity
would submit to sach an aggreseion.—(Hear, hear.)
The meetings which had been held throughout the
country on this subject showed that the heart of the
country was sound, and that it would not submit to any
aggression.—(Elear, hear.) Some measure, they were
assured, would be submitted to Parliament; it was not
for him to say what that measure would be, but he
trusted that it would be satisfactory to the country;
while, at the same time, it would not deprive any
of our fellow-subjects of their just rights and
privileges. (Hear, hear.) He would afford
to the Roman Catholics every facility for developing
their religion; but if they could not do that without in-
stituting an hierarchy with English territorial designa-
tions, then he was prepared to say that measures should
be taken to prevent them from infringing on our reli-
gious and civil liberties. It had been said that this ap-
pointment of an hierarchy was intended to be preparatory
to the introduction of the canon law, but that law
could not be introduced consistently with the supremacy
of our own law. The Pope by making these appoint-
ments had assumed in this country a power which was
incompatible with the maintenance of the supremacy of
our own Soveroign.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped, there-
fore, that the Government would meet this aggression,
and would introduce a measure for that purpose. He
was rejoiced to find that measures of law reform were
to be introduced. more particularly a measure for the re-
gistration uf deeds. He, in conclusion, begged to express
his satisfaefion at the generally prosperous state of the
Country, and concluded by moving the Address, which
was, as usual, an echo of the Speech.
L srd CREMORNE, in seconding the Address, said
that in doing so he felt much in need of that indul-
gence which was usually extended to those who occu-
pied the position which he then occupied. He would
not, after the able speech of the Noble Earl
dilate upon the topics of the Address, but there were
certain portions of the Address upon which he felt it ne-
cessary to make some observations. The late aggression
by the Papal See celled particularly for observation, and )
hs entirely concurred with the Noble Earl in all he had
said on teat subject, and he trusted their Lordships
would cordially concur in the measures which might
be proposed to prevent the encroachments of the Papal
power—measures which woulfl be calculated to resist
aggression without infringing on the principles of reli-
gious liberty; arid ho felt that the Roman Catholic
Peers themsAves, and the Roman Catholic Members of
the House of Commons, would it necessary to
tulles,' the example of their Roman Catholic ancestors,
and adopt MMIST.2",s to prevent the cocrow...havAits of
the Pope upon the libertir s of this country.—(Hear
leer.) Her Ms jet_ ty has alluded to agricul-
turel distress, is Ls as a subject well worthy
ot. their me-t s,rious censidera.tion.—(Pro-
ttctionist cheers.) lie a ould not allude to the
causes or remedies for this oistresr, but would content
himself with saying, that so intimat-dy were the interests
of alt classes boiled up together, that it was impossible
but that inantVactnring prosperity mast eventually
react on agricultural distress. The Noble Lord then
described the deep distress which was suffered by
the agrieulturel class in Ireland. The recur-
rence of the potato failure for several years, and
the diminished price of agricultural produce, had
deeply affected the state of Ireland, and so deep had
been the distress occasioned than many proprietors
hod been petitioners to the Encumbered Estates
Commissioners; but that did not prove that Ireland was
without capital or resources, fir the greater number of
purchasers under that Act had been Irishmen, and so
convinced was he that that measure had worked well,
thee if a simil-ir measure were introduced for England
he would support it.—(Hear, hear, and cries of "No,
no.") He would no longer detain their Lordships, but
would content himself with seconding the Address.
Lord STANLEY said that, as a general rule, he had
always been of opinion, and he still entertained that opinion,
that unless there were something in an Address to her Ma-
j esty in answer to her Majesty's Speech from the Throne
which contained an indication of principle on which it was
utterly impossible for the House to agree—or unless it spoke
of topics in terms in which it was impossible to concur—it
was generally most respectful to the Crown, as it was most
convenient to their Lordships, and most convenient for the
prompt discharge of public business—that this and the
other House of Parliament should, on such occasions,
proceed with the Speech with that respect which was
due from the Houses of Parliament, and receive such
Speech as a silent indication of the principal measures
and topics which were likely to come under the considera-
tion of Parliament, without expressing any opinion as to
the merits of the reeasures themselves, or the course
winch Parliament might pursue. And though, for his
owe part, he was not satisfied with the language of the
Speech from the Throne, inasmuch as there was something
which might he more appropriately expressed, and that there
were some other matters which might have found a place in
the Speech, but which were not there—yet, upon the whole,
• he would preface what he had to say by a declaration on his
own part, and he believed he might say on behalf of the
great body of those with whom he had the honour to act—
thst it was not his or their intention. by an amendment, to
negative or alter the Address to her Majesty. There were
some topics of an ordinary and common-place kind. With
reference to the suggested amendments of the law they were
most important matters in themselves, though most difficult
to carry out, and to those amendments in short, and to
those alterations, as fully exemplifying the question to which '
they were intended to apply—as, for instance, the registra-
tion of deeds connected with the transfer of property—when
those measures which involved no question of political or
party spirit should be submitted to this and the other House
of Parliament, they should meet with that dispassionate and
calm consideration and attention which the importance of
the subject demanded. With regard to foreign affairs so far
. as they had evidence from the language of that part of the
Speech, the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
had been actively employed.—(A laugh.) In reference to
the Wruggle between Prussia and Denmark, it was satisfac-
tory- to find that the differences between the two countries
wtsee likely to he brought to a termination ; but how far
that state of things was due to the intervention of her
Majesty's Government he was at a loss to discover.
He felt that the settlement of the differences be-
tween Denmark and Prussia was owing partly to the
expression of opinion of all civilised Europe of the unjustifia-
ble character of the aggression, more than to the inter-
ference of arty Governments; partly to the firm attitude
taken by Austria, and most of all by the arguments, backed
by the representations and unsparing efforts, of Russia. But
to whatever cause the settlement of these differences wa_s. at-
tributable, he rejoiced in the removal of a state of things
which at one time threatened to disturb the peace of
Europe; he rejoiced that this the only hactre of hostile
and he'he
movements was for the present,
permanently,d
at an end. The Noble Earl, the mover or the d ress, had
declared. unison with the Speech, that Brazil had taken
new and efficient measures for the suppressionof
didthve atro-
• eious traffic in slaves. Now he (Lord Stanley)urefficient or enture
. to hope, not that Brazil would take any
mea,ures for the suppression of the slave trade, but that
that Government would give bowl fide force to existing
treaties. He believed that no power in the world had
done so much to foster and promote that trade, having
within itself a greater power to mitie
horrors of that trade. lie could notfiteerate the
p calling
attention, that we had, if we thought to use it, a
more powerful engine for the suppression of this most abo-
minable traffic. For years we had employed thousands
put down the trade, and we had
upon thousend.s of men to
expended much blood in the attempt; but what was the
fact? Our commercial regulations strengthened and effectu-
ally encouraged the slave, traee. There were two topics in
the Speech of the deepest interest; and while he, did jntice
to the ability of the Noble Earl who had addressed their
Lordships, he rejoiced to find that an important class—the
- owners and occupiers of land—were now spoken of with
something more of respect, and with something less of
neglect, than had been the case in the course of the last
few years. It was a melancholy satisfaction to those who
were owners and occupiers of land—aye, and he would add,
"labourers" tee—(Cheers)—it was a melancholy satisfaction
to them to know that the reasonableness, the extent, and the
reality of their claims were acknowledged by her Majesty's
Government. Lastyear her Majesty's Government held that
it "se tee the distress of the body generallv, but the com-
mtlete ‘.±t r V.otte4tl P9rtiOn of toliceemiovenon
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