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London, England, 1858-12-09 00:00:00

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other for the chance of appoin.
justified that appointment. (Hear.) (mild
be no monopolies of these appointments. Tfe
effect of the present fyste m was pretty well shoe n
in the management of the Crimean war. Did they
recollect all the disasters and the dreadful ineffi-
ciency, which the 's newspaper argibd would
have justified something very little short of a revo-
lution unless a remedy were found for it ? The
fault, he (Mr. Gibson) said, lay in the patronage
being distributed according to family, personal, and
political influences, and not fairly according to
the merits of the candidates. (Hear.) Lord Pal.
, merston said it was not the fault of the aristocracy
that things went wrong during the Crimean war.
His words were :—" The sufferings of the army in
the East arose from causes beyond control." And
then he asserted that where the system had broken
down and the service failed was not that the gentry,
the aristocracy, the noblemen of the army, were in
fault, but persons belonging to other classes of the
community. "It is," he said, "in the medical de-
partment, the commissariat department, the trans-
port department, which nobody contends are filled
with the sons of the aristocracy—it is there that
your system has broken down, that the service has
failed; and this it is that has been the main cause
of the sufferings of which we are all complaining."
He did not believe that statement except as to the
fint sentence ; and he believed so much, because
the people were not represented and had not con-
trol over patronage, so that the right men could be
put into the right places, and the public service be
carried on With efficiency. He would undertake to
say that tag-, upon whomthe blame of the Crimean
disasters rested were a very respectable body of
men, most of them probably owing their appoint-
ments to some influence through that aristocracy to
whom the noble lord alluded. It,. was pretendfd
- now timrthe -door to uppoinitiertii *as opened' by
means of competitive examinations; but the prin-
ciple was evaded. Nobody was allowed to go in to
compete (with some exceptions) other than by being
nominated ; so that the old evil of personal influ-
ence and patronage remained as complete as ever,
although there might be the examination as some
proof that a candidate had certain qualifications.
What was wanted was the power, without asking
my Lord This or Mr. That for a favour, to be able
to enter names of candidates, and that those who
passed, and thus proved themselves duly qualified,
should have appointments as a matter of right. In
that way we should uphold not only the rights of
our fellow-citizens, but the independence of Parlia-
ment itself ; for the amount of patronage at the dis-
posal of Ministers—an amount which was daily in-
creasing—was of such a character that members of
Parliament, not being free from the infirmities of
human nature, very often, for the sake of that very
patronage, were induced to swerve from that inde-
pendent course of political action which their con-
stituents desired to see pursued. We must strike at
the root of this system of filling offices by family
and political influence, and thus give to Englishmen
what was nothing but their positive right. The
workiug classes had a strong interest in this matter.
He was not afraid of extending political power
among those classes ; but upon that point he would
not dwell, after detaining them so long. He would
only say that he was not an advocate of universal
suffrage. There must be a register—some means
of identifying the voter ; but depend upon it, that
in the new bill you must consider somehow the
letting of the working classes into a greater share
of political power than they have hitherto enjoyed.
(C4ers.) It might be said that this was very
dangerous to property ; but he did not believe it.
He believed that the working classes were as de-
termined supporters of the rights of property as
were the richest nobles in the land; and let it be
remembered that the working classes had a pro-
perty—their labour,—and that their labour was
the foundation of all property. (Loud applause,
during which the right hon. member resumed his
scat, having spoke for an hour and five minutes.)

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