The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEMING, MAY79,' 1859.

"called the new world into existence to readjust the balance
of the old world." After Mr. Canning's death I was an
admirer and follower of that great regenerator of a free com-
mercial policy, Mr. Huskisson, who first inaugurated a
reduction of the duties upon corn and other necessaries of
life, and who initiated that course of free trade policy which
was afterwards consummated by Sir Robert Peel. Some
may perhaps object to me on this ground, but at all events
it completely falsifies the statement of Mr. Roebuck that I
was ever a fierce Tory. But, to come down to later times
—after the fall of Huskisson on the first occasion when I
was in Parliament, on the accession of Lord Grey as a Mini-
ster of Reform, and through the whole of his ministry, as
well as that of Lord Melbourne, I consistently and without
hesitation co-operated with you in resisting and opposing
both those Administrations. When the first Administra-
tion of Lord Derby was formed I admit that I was in a diffi-
culty as to what I should do ; for up to that time I had fol-
lowed Sir Robert Peel, who had repealed the Corn-laws,
and by so doing had sacrificed power, popularity with his
party, and all that a statesman most values, for his con-
scientious conviction that he was right in granting a repeal
of the Corn-laws. Having thus been an adherent of Sir R.
Peel, when Lord Derby's first Administration took office I
undoubtedly did give my opposition to that Administration,
and as a follower of Sir Robert Peel I could not honourably
have done otherwise. I thought they had treated Sir
Robert unjustly, and .I gave them my opposition. I still
continued my opposition when Lord John Russell came
into power, and I then again united with the great Conser-
vative party, who were unanimous in that opposition. To
that the Administration of Lord Aberdeen succeeded. And
here Mr. Roebuck states as facts circumstances which he
had the means of knowing correctly, and when he was
about to make a personal attack upon me he ought to have
assured himself that they were correct. (Hear.) But he
states as facts things that are inconsistent with the truth.
(Hear, hear.)' Though in Lord Aberdeen's Government I
had not only friends but relatives, I never applied for em-
ployment, I never asked for place, and I never accepted it.
Yet Mr. Roebuck here states that I was Judge-Advocate
under Lord Aberdeen. It is perfectly untrue. (Loud cheers
and cries of " shame"). I was, under very peculiar circum-
stances, Judge-Advocate for a few months under the Admi-
nis.ration of Sir Robert Peel. It was at the time when he
was known to be favourable to the repeal of the corn-laws I
and when his Administration had already been doomed.
remember well the kindness with which Sir Robert Peel
spoke to me when he sent to confer with me, for I never
asked to be made Judge-Advocate, but he sent for me of
his own accord. He said that he knew I was a leader upon
the Northern Circuit, but he perhaps did not know that I
was at the time earning, by'my own abilities—(hear, hear)
—twice as much as the salary he could offer me. He said
to me that his Ministry was in a position of great difficulty
in filling up that office,_ which he said was perhaps not
worth my acceptance, but he told me I should greatly
serve the cause if I would make the sacrifice. (Cheers.)
Under these circumstances, I held the office of Judge-
Advocate in Sir Robert Peel's Administration for four
months. My reward was the power and dignity of that
office, with its comparatively small salary, for four months,
but accompanied with the loss of my business upon circuit.
(Cheers.) During the years when Lord Aberdeen was in
power, notwithstanding what Mr. Roebuck says, I never
held office at all. (Cheers.) When Lord Aberdeen retired
from the Government he was succeeded by Lord Palmer-
ston. At that time a great many of the moderate Conser-
vatives gave a qualified support to Lord Palmerston, and
that noble lord—most unexpectedly to me, and under some-
what similar circumstances—sent for me, and told me that
he had great difficulty in filling up from his own ranks the
office of Solicitor-General, and he asked me if, after he had
taken her Majesty's pleasure upon the subject, I should be
willing to accept that office. I took 48 hours for considera-
tion. I also consulted my Conservative friends, and they
told me that as at that moment there was no public party
question under consideration, I should not be justified in re-
fusing my services to the Queen. (Cheers.) Under those
circumstances I accepted office; but before I did so I re-
quired from Lord Palmerston an assurance upon one sub-
ject, and upon one only. I told him that all through my
life, if I had been signalised for anything, it had been for
opposing, both in and out of Parliament, anything like a
sweeping and dangerous measure of Parliamentary Reform.
(Hear, hear.) I said to Lord Palmerston, " I cannot take
office under you unless I am assured that I am not likely to
be led against my old friends upon the question of Parlia-
mentary Reform. He answered—but perhaps lam not
at liberty to give you his answer—but he gave me his per-
fect assurance that from him there was no danger of such
a proposition. (Hear.) Under those circumstances I ac-
cepted that office, and held it but a very short time. Mr.
Roebuck insinuates, though he does not venture to state it,
that I left that office when I saw that the Ministry was in
danger. (Shame.) So far from that being true, at the
time when I was compelled to resign that office was at the
very moment of a dissolution, and when the Conservatives,
almost as a body, supported Lord Palmerston, and when
he got that enormous majority which for a time gave him
greater power than had been possessed by any Minister
for half a century in England. (Cheers.) It was,
gentlemen, by the hand of God, and of God alone,
that I was at that time compelled to retire from the lucrative
office I held. (Cheers.) I was struck by a severe illness—
brought on by labour and anxiety in the disicharge of my
duties—and for nine months I was incapacitated from taking
part in public business, and I resigned my office, although
Lord Palmerston twice pressed me to keep it and wait for my
recovery ; but I insisted uponresigning upon the ground, and
this ground alone, that as I could not perform its duties—
though it was a source of very large and lucrative profit to me
—I could not conscientiously continue to hold it. Well,
gentlemen, after those nine months—when by God's mercy
I was restored to that perfecthealth which enables me now to
serve your cause— (cheers)—l found things greatly changed.
The opinion of the public had ceased to support Lord Pal-
merston, and he was not only out of office, but had not
above twenty supporters in the house, because he had con-
ducted foreign negotiations in a manner which the country
disapproved. I was, I confess, much embarrassed as to what
seat—for youknow, gentlemen, that parties are distinguished
by seats in the House of Commons—l should occupy. I had
much sympathy with Lord Palmerston, for I could not ap-
prove of the course taken by Mr. DisrEeli and his friends in
coalescing with Mr. Milner Gibson to displace Lord Palmer-
ston. I therefore felt greatly embarrassed, as I have said.
But an occurrence happened which decided the course which
I thought I ought to take. I have told you already of the
assurance I received from Lord Palmerston. I had always,
in consonance with the views of my Conservative friends,
opposed the motion of Mr. Locke King for reducing the
county franchise to £lO. On. one occasion, however, Lord
Palmerston being in opposition, chose to unite with the
Whigs and Radicals, and gave his vote—contrary to all his
votes up to that time—in favour of that motion by MreLocke
King. That decided my course. I felt that Lord Palmer-
ston must have changed his views, and have become prepared
for a more sweeping measure of reform than I could ap-
prove, and from that moment I sat on the opposite side of
the house. There is, therefore, no ground whatever for any
one to state that I left Lord Palmerston for any mean
motives. I left him because I was compelled by sickness,
and if I gave a general support to Lord Derby rather than
him, it was because he was joining with the extreme Whigs
and Radicals, who were determined to force onus a sweeping
measure of reform. But I do not believe now that Lord Pal-
merston and I differ one jut. He made himself unfortunately
and unguardedly a party to the resolution of Lord J. Rus-
sell. But read his speech on the ballot, and his recent
speech at Tiverton, and tell me whether he does not agree
, better with his late Solicitor-General than with his late At-
mtoefyt
Conservativeh oar original
Ministry
lsw Conservativecopinions.hnow
At-
torney- General, who has been the subject of attack in the
House of Commons. Gentlemen, I say that my conduct has
been perfectly consainstdesnutpmpwoiodrtteherra
opinions—Liberal(
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held the reins of power and which appears to me to be act-
ing on principles of moderate Conservatism. Some of their
followers may think they have gone further than they need
have done with reform ; but that shows that it cannot be
said of them that they are playing the part of fierce Tories.
I will say no more of Mr. Roebuck than this. What is Mr.
Roebuck ? (Loud cheers and laughter,' and a voice—" A
wasp.") He is a very clever man—a very good speaker—an
orator. No, he is not an orator. (Laughter.) For to be an
orator, you must join sound sense and good reasoning with
brilliant eloquence. He may be eloquent in his speech, but
he is no orator, because his principles are unwise, and his
opinions are followed by no class of men. (Cheers.) When
I said his principles are not wise, I used an unguarded ex-
pression. I mean that his counsels are not wise—(hear)—
and those who have watched his career in the House of
Commons know well that he has used his great abilities to
magnify himself, in what no doubt is a legitimate ambition.
I have been forced to this egotistical summary of my poli •
tical life. My conscience is clear. It tells me that I have
never sought office. I have never held it contrary to my
conscience. I betrayed nobody. I deserted nobody. From
circumstances I felt bound to give my assistance to her Ma-
jesty's Government, in unison with men not of my party,
but of whose opinions I felt assured, for Lord Palmerston's
Administration (as Mr. Roebuck told me in a private con-
versation, when I gave him my reasons for joining that Ad-
ministration) was the only Conservative Government that
could be formed. He stated emphatically to me, "To be
sure it was, and that was the reason I opposed it with all my
heart."

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS IN CHELM"-

FORD.

CHELMSFORD, FRIDAY MORNING.

Last night the inhabitants of this town were
thrown into a state of considerable alarm by the
proceedings of a body of the free and independent
" non-electors" of this division of the county. Yes-
terday was polling day. and the earlier part of the
time passed off quietly enough. During the
afternoon, however, the excitement increased,
and when the poll closed at five o'clock it
was at its height.. The two Consemative can-
didates—Messrs. Bramston and Watlington—were
well received and vociferously cheered, upon
returning thanks for bcingplaced at the head of the
poll ; but upon Mr. Baker, the defeated Liberal
candidate, attempting to address the electors, the
yells and hisses increased almost beyond descrip-
tion, and it was with the utmost difficulty that the
reporters could catch a sentence or two, to the
effect that, though beaten this time, he should stand
again upon the first opportunity. The excitement
so far was within ordinary bounds for election times,
andgfgoiunnd vent for a time by the partisans of each can-
didate harnessing themselves to their carriages, and
dra them through the town amidst vociferous
But
here the tide turned, the candidates soon
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noise, and creating great alarm to the foot passen-
gers, which was increased by the absence of gas
light, rendering it a matter of no small difficulty
to steer clear of the ponderous casks. So long
as the mob confined themselves to mere fun, the
alarm was but momentary ; but when a large body
of them tried to roll one of the casks into the
gateway
of the Saracen's Head Inn (the head-
quarters of the " blues"), matters assumed a differ-
ent aspect. Assisted by some of the bystanders,
the servants of the inn managed to close the
gates upon the mob; but in the struggle
the hogshead was broken to pieces, the staves
furnishing . most formidable weapons, which were
flourished menacingly by their excited possessors.
The police, however, soon arrived, and by their
firm
thebdisturbance.
judiciousut

THE NEW PARLIAMENT.

MEMBERS RETURNED.
The following is a list of the Members returned
,o the New Parliament up to the time of our going
;o press :

Places.
Abingdon ..
Andover ..

L C.
.. 1

Names.
Mr. I. T. Norris
Mr. Alderman Cubitt
Mr. D. Fortescue
Anglesea .. Sir R. Bulkeley
Arundel Lord E. Howard
Ashburton .. - Mr. Astell • •
Ashton .. Mr. T. M. Gibson ..
Aylesbury .. Mr. T. T. Bernard
Double return { Mr. S. G. Smith • .
Mr. T. V. Wentworth
Sir C. Douglas
Mr G. Potts
Mr. J. H. Davie ..
Mr. Tite
Mr. A. E. Way
lion. W. 0. Stanley
Mr. S. Whitbread ..
Major Stuart
• Mr. Hastings Russell
Col. Gilpin
. Mr. Walter
Hon. P. P. Bouverie
Captain Vernon ..
Captain Gordon ..
Mr. R. A. Erle
Mr. Walters
Major S. Edwards ..
Sir T. Winnington
Mr. Bright ..
Mr. Scholefield
.. Mr. Homby
Mr. Pilkington
.. Hon. F. L. Gower
Dr. Michell
.. Mr. J. Crook
Captain Gray
.. Mr. H. Ingram ..
Mr. W. Staniland
Mr. W. H. Wickham
Mr. Titus Salt ..
Colonel Watkins ..
.. Mr. G. C. Morgan
• Mr. J. Pritchard ..
Mr. Whitmore
• . Colonel Tynte 1
Mr. Kinglake 1
.. Sir G. B. Pechell 1
Mr. W. Coningham .. 1
▪ Mr. J. A. Mitchell .. 1
Mr. K. D. Hodgson .. 1
• Mr. H. Berkeley .. 1
Mr. W. H. Gore Langton 1
.. Sir H. Verney .. 1
Mr. J. C. Hubbard
Buckinghamshire.. Mr. Disraeli .
Mr. G. C. Du Pre ..
Hon. W. G. Cavendish 1
Bury (Lancashire) Mr. F. Peel—
Bury St. Edmund's Lord A. Hervey
Mr. J. A. Hardeastle
.. Mr. R. Lowe
Mr. K. Macaulay ..
Mr. A. Steuart
Cambridge University Mr. Walpole
Mr. Selwyn
Cambridgeshire .. Hon. E. Yorke ..
Mr. E. Ball
Mr. H. J. Adeane
.. Sir W. Somerville
Hon. H. B. Johnston
• Colonel Stewart ..
• Mr. E. Prose
.. Mr. Powell
Sir J. Graham
Mr. Lawson
Carmarthen .. Mr. D. Morris ..
Carmarthenshire Mr. D. Jones
Mr. D. Pugh
Carnarvon 80. .. Mr. Wynne • •
Carnarvonshire .. Hon. E. G. Pennant
Chatham .. .. Sir F. Smith
Chester .. Earl Grosvenor ..
Mr. Humberston • .
Cheltenham .. Colonel F. W. H. Berkeley 1
Cheshire, North .. Mr. W. T. Egerton
Mr. G. C. Legh.
Cheshire, South .. Sir P. Egerton
Mr. Tollemache
.. Lord H. Gordon Lennox
Mr. H. W. Freeland .. 1
ley 1

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.. 1

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•• 1

Banbury ..
Barnstaple ..
Bath.. ..
Beaumaris ..
Bedford ..

.. 1

Bedfordshire
Berkshire

.. 1

Berwick ..
Beverley ..
Bewdley
Birmingham
Blackburn ..
Bodmin
Bolton ..

Boston

Bradford ..

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Brecon ..
Breconshire
Bridgnorth..

- - 1••

.. 1

- 1
• •

Bridgewater

Brighton ..

Bridport

Bristol ..

Buckingham

.. 1

.. 1

. 1

Cable ..
Cambridge ..

.. -- 1

. . •-• 1

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.. 1

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Canterbury

Cardiff ..
Cardigan ..
Cardiganshire
Carlisle ..

•• .. - 1

.. - 1

•• •• .--.

• • 1

.. 1

••• .. - 1

.. 1

.. .. 1

• 0 • • ..'...

• • • • ••••-• 1

•• -- 1

•• - 1

.. • • ..--. 1

.. 1

Chichester

Chippenhara
Christchurch
Cirencester

Mr. Lys)

.. .-.. 1

• • -- 1

.. • • ^ 1

Mr. R. P. Long ..
Admiral Walcott ..
Mr. A. Bathurst ..
Mr. Ponsonby ..
Mr. J. T. Hopwood
Lord Naas

Clitheroe
Cockermouth
Colchester

• . •-• 1

•• - 1

•• - 1

•• -- 1

.. •• ---.. 1
.. .. .. - 1

Mr. Steel
_ . Mr. Miller.
Mr. Papillon
Cornwall, West Mr. R. Davey
Mr. St. Aubyn
Cornwall, East Mr. Agar Robartes
Mr. N. Kendall ..
Coventry .. .. Mr. E. Ellice
Sir J. Paxton
.. Lord Ashley
Mr. Goddard
Cumberland, East Hon. C. Howard .
Mr. Marshall
Cumberland, West Colonel Lowther ..
General Wyndham
Dartmouth .. Mr. Schenley.
Denbigh Boroughs Mr. Mainwaring
Denbighshire . .. Sir W. W. Wynne
ColOnel Biddulph
.. Mr. M. T. Bass
Mr. Beale ..
Derbyshire, North Hon. G. Cavendish
Mr. Thornhill
Derbyshire, South Mr. Vernon...
Mr. Evans ..
Devonport .. Sir E. Perry
Mr. J. Wilson
Devonshire, North Mr. J. W. Buller..
Hon. C. R. Trefusis
Devonshire, South Mr. Palk ..
Mr. Kekewich
Mr. D. Griffith
Mr. S. W. Taylor
.. Mr. It. B. Sheridan
Mr. C. N. Sturt
• Mr. Ker Seymer
Mr. G. Sturt
Hon. W. H. Portman
Dover .. Mr. Nicholl
Sir H. Leeke
.. Sir J. Paldngton.
Mr. H. B. Sheridan
.. Mr. Atherton ..
Mr. J. R. Mowbray
Durham, North .. Lord A. V. Tempest
Mr. R. D.'Shafto
Durham, South .. Mr. J. Farrer
Mr. H. Pease ..
. Hon:W. Beresford
Mi. Du Cane ..
Mr. T. W. Bramston ..
Mr. J. W. P. Watlington..
.. Sir H. Willonghby..
Mr. E. Holland .
.. Mr. R. S. 'Gard
Mr. E. Divett
• Sir E. Kerrison
.. Mi. T. Duncombo
Sir S. M. Peto
Flintshire .. Hon. T. E: Mostyn
Flint Boroughs .. Sir J. Hanmer
Frome Lord E. Thynne
Gateshead .. .. Mr. W. Hutt
Glamorganshiro .. Mr. C. R. Talbot ..
Mr. H. H. Vivian ..
Mr. W. P. Price ..
Mr. Monk ..
Glocestershire, E... Sir C. W. Codrington
Mr. R. S. Ifolford
Glocestershire, W.. Mr. Nigel Kiagscote
Mr. J. Rolt.. ..
• Hon. F. Tollemache
Mr. W. E. Welby
• Mr. W. Angerstein 1
Mr. Alderman Salmons .. 1
Grimsby, Great .. Lord Worsley . 1
Guildford .. Mr. Bovill
Mr. J. H. Onslow
.. Sir C. Wood ..
Mr. J. Stansfeld
Hon. W. Campbell
Captain Jarvis
• Mr. F. North
Lord H. Vane
Hampshire, N. .. Mr. G. S. Boothe ..
Mr. W. B. Beech ..
Hampshire, S. Sir J. Jervoise
Hon. R. H. Dutton
Haverfordwest .. Mr. J. H. Philipps
Helston Mr. J. J. Rogers
Hereford (City) .. Colonel Clifford • .
Mr. G. Clive
Herefordshire .. Lord W. Graham ..
Mr. J. King King..
Mr. Mildmay • .
Hon, IV. F. Cowper
Sir W. M. Farquhar
.. Sir E. B. Lytton
Mr. A. Smith
Mr. Puller ..
Mr. A. B. Cochrane
Mr. J. Locke ..
. Mr. S. Fitzgerald
Mr. E. Akroyd
Mr. J. Clay..
Mr. J. Hoare
General Peel
Mr. T. Baring .
Huntingdonshire Lord R. Montagu • .
Mr. E. Fellowes ,
Baron M. De Rothschild .. 1
.. Mr. J. C. Cobbold
Mr. H. E. Adair
.. Sir B. Bridges
Mr. W. Deedes
"Ltrd Holmesdale
Sir E. Filmer
Kendal .. •.. Mr. G. C. Glyn
Kidderminster .. Mr. Bristow
King's Lynn .. Lord Stanley
H. Gurney..
Knaresborough .. Mr. T. Collins _
Mr. B. T. Woodd
Mr. W. Roupell
Mr. W. Williams
Mr. W. J. Garnett
Mr. L. Gregson
Lancashire, North Colonel Patten
Marquis of Hartington
Lancashire, South Hon. A. Egerton ..
Mr. W. Legh
• Sir Brenton Haliburton • .
• Mr. E. Baines .. 1
Mr. G. S. Beecroft
.. Mr. Biggs ..
Dr. Noble
.Leicestershire, South Lord Curzon
Mr. C. W. Padre ..
Mr. G. Hardy
Hon. C. B. Hanbury
• Mr. H. Fitzroy
Mr. H. Brand
• Lord A. Paget
Captain Anson
.. -Major Sibthorp
Mr. Heneage • ..
Lincolnshire, North Sir M. Cholmeley
Mr. J. B. Stanhope

Cricklade ..

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Derby ..

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Devizes ..
Dorchester

• . . • 1

•• • •
• • • • 1
• • • • 1

••• • 1

Dorsetshire

• • -.

• • • • ... 1

.. 1

Droitwich

Dudley ..
Durham City

.. 1

Essex, North

Essex, South

Evesham ..

Exeter ..

•• - 1
• • 1

Eye .. ..
Finsbury ..

.. .. SO

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Glocester ..

.. .. --

• • • • 1

• • .. 1

Grantham ..

.. 1

Greenwich ..

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Halifax ..
Harwich ..

.. 1

1

Hastings ..

.. 1

• • • • .'".

.. 1
.. 1

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1

• • -.

.. - 1

.. 1

.. - 1

.. - 1

.. 1

..

• • • . 1

Hertford . ,

.. 1

.. 1

Hertfordshire

• • - 1

•• •• • 1

Honiton ..

• • '1

Horsham ..
Huddersfield
Hull.. ..

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Huntingdon

.. •• - 1
.. .. 1

Hythe ..
Ipswich ..

.. - 1

•• - 1

Kent, East..

.. 1

Kent,. West

• • • • - 1
• • •li -- 1

• • 1

.. •• 1

• . --- 1

• . 1

• • - 1

Lambeth ..
Lancaster ..

•. -- 1

.. .. 1

• . 1

.. 1

• . 1 •

• • 1

Launceston
Leeds

•• -- 1

Leicester ..

• • .--- 1

•• -. 1

Leominster
Lewes ..
Lichfield ..
Lincoln ..

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