The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-27 00:00:00

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'(Laughter.) .. „lent at,. regiment, Corps •after
corps, general aftei general, all acknowledged that
)a shriek
.they-could not march through-Coventry. :(Roars
of laughter.) - It was like a convulsion of nature,,
rather thin any ordinary transaction of humab Are.
(Laughter.) I can only liken it to one of 'tiros°
ear dakes- whieh- take plata, ire 411"abriaitir Peru.
(Laughter.) There was a: tumbling murmur, a
groan—:(laughter ,
a seund of distant
thunder... No one knew-whether it dame from the
top or the bottoni of the house. (Laughter.) Theis
was a met,s fiie:ure in, the ground, andttb.etca
village disappeared-a-Vaughter)—then:a tall tower
toppled down, andlthis vykole of the- QppoeitiCin
benches became o n e greit t disiiehrifig.Vie wof anarchy.
(Loud cheers and laughter.) Are- these the
people whom you *ant governcthecountry.
(No, no)--epeople in whosa.campethere is anarchy,
—(hear,_hear)—between -iilioin there is discord
upon every point, and who are notaivenamited by
the common bond of 'wishing to seize upon- t.lee
polls of office ? (Cheere and laughter:). 'Whatwe
have done I have, I hope, placed-. before you with
no undue urgency—(hear, hear)—but what they
intend to do no one has had the audacity to inti-
mate. (Hear, hear.) .They.say we Nave-no- obey
When we are building' up, an empire;-and yet-they
shrank from, giving any • opinion uponent which- was the subject of our protractedthe • docci-
dis-
cussions. tinder these eircumsta.ncea.my.meating
inyou. here to-day, having, as I before stated, ac-
cepted the invitation as aprivate nieniber of Par-
liament, and not as a mamba of a Government,'is
to me a source of great congratulation, for it giyes
me an opportutinty-after these remarkable occur-
ences of addressing a large body of my countrymen
connected with me •by close and anCientties of
public confidence and private frienclehiP,P44 of
b givine them an account of my •steWar4ship as a
Minister of the Crown. (Hear, „hear.) . Lagain
ask you, then, and I-ask the people:athienountry
—Will you stand by the Qeeen'a •Miisietees'-eirsinat
a "cabal? (Hear; "hiar,• - arid lf-the
country decides to stand- by us, and to 4tencl-taus
permanently that geneious bonfidenn6.insteitd,of
.that which has -temporarily arisen-Croat a- sense of
-the injustice which we have experiencedr-we shall
eisde-avour, with all the moans at ou oetninttnet; to
retain that confidence by introducing such measures
as in our opinion are demanded by necessity, end
our study will be to promote the welfare of the
people of this country.. With regard to our foreign
relations, we shall still pursue that determined, blit
yet prudent and conciliatory system which, while
it will in our opinions maintain peace,:: shall do
so with honour. (Hear, heir.) We shall en-
deavour in the management of our finances to
reduce taxation, while at the same time our
measures will duly respect the maintenance of
public credit. (Hear, hear.) We shall pursue in
India that policy with which I believe the late
debate has made you familiar, because we believe
that it is the only policy by which we can retain
that empire, and we ought to wish to retain it by
considering the happiness of those 180,000,000 of
the Qeeen, and who now by the literal letter, of the
persons who have in spirit long been subjects Of
law will owe her an undivided allegiance. (Hear,
hear.) We shall endeavour to obtain and to retain
that confidence by temperately addressing ourselves
to the solution of all those difficult questions which
have too long agitated and disunited the common-
wealth in which we live. We hope by the measures
which we shall bring forward, whether relating to
legal reform—and upon that head our measure is
prepared—or to social reform, which demand the
attention of any Minister, or whether relating to
those constitutional improvements which all wise
men who are lovers of their country would wish to
see effected in such a manner that they should be
improvements and not mere changes—(hear)-.-
whatever may be the character of those measures,
we will not shrink from bringing forward such as we
shall conceive to be the best adapted for the solution
of the difficulty. But, gentlemen, we shall not be
able to do so unless we are supported by the.confi-
dence and good feeling of the people of England:
(Hear, hear.) We have bean honoured by the confi-
dence of the Crown in a manner not merely formal,
and we have accepted the responsibilitf.of office at
a great emergency, and after the deliberate expres-
sion of opinion on the part of our gracious Sove-
reign that our acceptance of office was a ptlblic duty
from which we could not shrink. (Hear, hear.)
Having employed the brief period during Which we
have ben a Government in managing public affairs
in the manner I have indicated, I think that-we
have a right to appeal to the public and to the
country generally to sanction the selection of Her
Majesty and to support us by the influence of pub-
lic opinion. (Hear, hear.) To that opinion after
the late stirring scenes in the House of Commons
upon the peat of myself and my colleagues I appeal
with diffidence, and yet at the same time with con-
fidence—with diffidence because I know that the
present difficulties may require for their solution
powers greater than those which we possess, but
with confidence because I have confidence in the
generosity and justice of the people of England.
The right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid
lou l and long-protracted cheering, waving of hats
and handkerchiefs, and other manifestations of
sympathy.
Colonel P. WILLIAMS returned thanks for the
borough members of the county.

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• laughter)—and that the once stern 'guardians of
popular rights sitnper in thennervating atmosphere
! of gilded saloons. (Cheers and laughter.) Yes,
1
gentlenien, it is too true that the shepherds who were
• once the guardians of the flock are now in league
with the wolves-4laughter)--rand therefore it is
that ehough we have been only three months in
office, though during that space we have vindicated
your honour, maintained the peace of Europe, which
was in manifest peril, rescued our countrymen from
a foreign dungeon, made up a great deficiency in
your finances, and yet reduced taxation, and laid a
deep foundation for your future empire in the East
—einnocent people in the.-country who read leading
organs believe we area Government that do nothing,
that we area weak Government, and not entitled
to the confidence of bur country. (Laughter.)
But, gentlemen, what 1/4would happen. if the cabal
were successful ? You know our policy, and yoli
can judge of it by its fruits. _ Let the cabal be suc-
cessful and in foreign affairs you will have a truck-
ling foreign policy, while in home affairs you will
have gradually established a strong and strict cen-
tralized Government, on the model of that GOvern-
ment which the cabal admired ; ancliwhenever the
spirit of the country is interested in those improve-
ments which the spirit of the age demands—whe-
ther they be social, financial, or constitutional
—and the settlement of which is the first duty and
them* pressing task of a real statesman, then
you will have your attention distracted from this
Conservative progress by incomprehernible wars
carried on in distant parts, commenced for no
-earthly purpose, and terminating in the waste of
your resources and, . perhaps, of your reputation.
(Loud cheers.) Well, then, - you have to choose
befween our policy and the policy of the.cabal—
(hear, hear)—and I am here to-day to ask the peo-
ple of the county of Ruckingbain, and to ask the
people of England, will you support her Majesty'e
Government against the cabal ? (Loud cheers, and
cries of " We will 1") Well, gentlemen so deluded
was the cabal, so implicitly did they believe their
own leading articles written by themselves—
(laughter)—so entirely did they credit the state-
ment, that the people of England are against those
who, in a moment of constitutional difficulty, at
her ajesty's twice expressed wish came forward to
assist her, and thanking that the opportunity was
ripe, having, as they imagined, a packed House
of Commons—(hear, hear)—and basins" every
advantage in their favour, they brought' for-
ward a vote of censure upon a Ministry which
in throe months had effected those greet results
to which I have alluded. (Cries of " Shame !"
and cheers.) Well, gentlemen, the moment notice
was given of that ..motion it was considered
among shortsighted hangers-on in polit:ce that our
doom was sealed as certainly as is that of a man
who has been committed and sentenced, and is
only waiting for the arrival of Mr. Calcraft. (Laugh-
ter.) All those wise and experienced politicians
thought that the game was up. (A. laugh.) They
knew, according to their own fancies, that no one
Would look into the merits of the question, and no-
body would then remember what we had done or
consider what we might do. It was in their minds
a mere sum in political arithmetic—(a laugh)—
which the merest novice in politics could calculate
and fix in au instant. Thera were a greater num-
ber of members of the House of Commons at the
service of the cabal. The signal was given by the
leader. There were solemn and pious to ds always
at the service of the cabal—(laughter)—and the
thing was to be done offhand. (Renewed laughter.)
Well, gentlemen, they fixed upon an Indian sub-
ject, from which they stole their tactics-o)nd
laughter)—and which revealed their views. They
were, in fact, resolved to loot the Treasury. (Roars
of laughter.) There is nothing in my recolleceion of
politics—which, owing to your continual confidence
in me, extends to a period of no very short dura-
tien, for I believe that it was on this very spot and
in the presence of many of those now assembled
here that I made my first speech in public life long
before I had the honour of being a member of the
House of Commons—there is nothing, I say, in my
political experience of any scheme more scienti-
fically managed than the one by which it was hoped
to accomplish the fall: of the Government. (Hear.)
A gentleman in the House of Commens brought
forward the motion,,and he was a man- of unim-
peechable character. The cabal, . which had
itself rather a tainted character—(cheers)—chose
its instrumerets with pharisaical accuracy. (Re-
newed cheering arid laughter.) I can assure you
that when the right hon. gentleman who brought
forward the motion in the House of Commons
rose to impeach me I was terrified at my own
shortcomings, and I listened attentively to a nisi
prius narrative, ending with a resolu!ion, which I
think must have been drawn up by a conveyancer.
(Hear, hear.) In the other House of Parliament a
still greater reputation condescended to apptar
upon the human stage—(loud laughter and cheers)
—and like a Pharisee of old, with broad phylac-
teries upon his forehead—(renewed cheering and
laughter)—he called upon God to witness, in the
voice and accents of majestic adoration, that he
was not as other men were—(loud cheers and
laughter)—for that be was never influenced by
party motives. (Renewed cheers and laughter.)
Well, gentlemen, what happened under these cir-
cumstances ? Why, something which I am quite
sure is unprecedented in the Parliamentary history
of England. When we hear of faction, when we
hear of the arts and manoeuvres of party, when we
read sometimes that party spirit will be the ruin
of this country, let us take a calm review of the
affairs of the last fortnight . and I think we must
come to the conclusion that in a. country free and
enlightened, ,as in England, there are limits to
party feeling which the most dexterous managers
of the passions of mankind cannot ever pass--(hear,
hear)—and that in the great bulk of those who sit
in ParliaMent, and in the great bulk of the people
of England, there is a genuine spirit of patriotism
which will always eventually triumph. (Cheers. )
A motion was brought forward about a fortnight
ago by a right hon, gentleman who sits for the city
of Oxford which was to terminate the existence of
the Government, and during the debate which en-
sued, protracted as it was, you may, perhaps, have
observed that the members of the Government very
- reluctantly advanced to take part in it, although,
being as we were upon our trial, we were prepared,
if necessary, to defend our condnct on every point,
and to vindicate with a becoming spirit the
course which we had adopted. (Hear hear,) Burt
instead of that, here was a bill of indictment pre-
ferred against the Government, which commenced
, as a vote-of censure, and which upon the last night
of the debate was expanded into a general vote of
want of confidence. Now, who conducted that de-
bate in defence of the Government, and in oppo-
sition to the motion? Why, not members of the
Government, but independent members of the
House of Commons—(hear, hear)—some of them
gentlemen
of great eloquence and authority not
connected with the Government in politics, but, on
the contrary, not professing those general principles
which form the basis of our policy. They yet saw
through the flimsy web, and despised the authors
of so perfidious and 'pernicious a movement..
We, gentlemen, refer to rthat debate with such
confidence and triumph that we can fairly ask for a
verdict at the hands of the people of this country.
(Hear, hear.) In point of fact, that verdict has
been already given. (Hear.) Until that vote of
censure was brought forward we were receiving
from the people of England a fair and unimpas-
sioned trial. We were accepted as a Government
which baying taken office under such difficult cir-
cumstances as I have described, and after the pecu-
liar exercise of the prerogative of the Crown, was
deserving of a fair chance, and we were having a
kindly trial. I do not believe that the great body
of the people of this country had any feeling but
one, and that was a general feeling for those who
had acceded to office under great difficult'es, and
who had eeduously and with devotion endeavoured
to perform their duty. (Hear, hear.) The moment,
however, that this motion was brought forwardsmade
and introduced in the speech which
memberwa for
upon that occasion by the rigbt hotnh-e
debate took
Oxford—from the moment that
place, the enliehteuedmoment,
and indignant mind of
the people of England declared at the
and in a manner
what its sense was e
which
could not be mis-
taken,f the conduct of cer-
tainthose transactions, and
if we had gone upon
public charactersth n
the
in
there is
' very little doubt we
should have done before we
,should have fallen
I believe that the overthrow
of the cabal would have been one of the most
signal in iiistory.h (Loud cries of hear, hear.)
Now, this danger act been overcome by no un-
worthy management or concession on our part.
(Hear.) It has been overcome, not by the united
efforts of friends in a division, but, upon the con-
trary, it has been overcome by the intrinsic and
internal sense of wrongdoing which prevailed in
the ranks of our enemies. (Loud cheers.) There
is nothing like that last Friday evening in the his-
tory of the House of Commons. (Renewed cheers.)
We came down to the house expecting to divide at
4 &clock in the morning, I myself expecting pro-
bably to deliver an address two hours after mid-
night, and I believe that even with the conscious-
ness of a good cause that is no mean effort. (Hear.)

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in pro-
posing the tenant farmers of the county, said, it had
been observed by some one at the late general elec-
tion_that the eyes of the tenant farmers-were at last
opened. He had always, however, been of opinion
that the tenant farmers were Wide awake. (Laugh-
ter.) No one who had travelled over the county of
Bucks and witnessed its cultiva' ion could suppose
that its cultivators were deficient in intelligence ;
but, successful as the farmer was in the exercise of
his art, he would say that he possessed also moral
qualities which all would acknowledge but which
those only who had lived long in the country could
fully appreciate. (Hear, hear.) The last statistical
returns proved that the tenant farmers of England
were the greatest employers of labour, andhe need
hardly say that the greatest employers of labour
must necessarily be one of the most important class
of the community. It was to the tenant farmers of
England he owed his introduction into public
life. They. were his earliest friends, and they had
been his most constant friends ; and though
he proposed the health of the tenant farmers of
Buckinghamshire, in general on public grounds,
he hoped he would not be thought impertinent if
beadded, that when he proposed the toast there
was some mixture iu it of private affection.

The toast was drunk with great applause, and
replied to by one of the tenant farmers.
The health of the Chairman was proposed by the
Duke of Buckingham and responded..to ; and some
other toasts having been given the. party separated
about 9 o'clock.

An instrumental band was in attendance daring
the proceedings.
The dinner was provided by Mr. Bragg, and the
tent, which was an exceedingly comfortable orie,
was erected by Mr. W. Brownie, of Uxbridge.