The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-24 00:00:00

has been brought against large bodies of this Eng-
lish community of ours, that they are apathetic as
regards the question of reform, is not true.
(Repeated cheers.) For my part I should be very
sorry if that were true, because I have come to this
conclusion from any study that I could give to the
history of my country, that the dangers of England
do not arise from any inordinate love of change or
desire of mutability, but from the apathy or the
ignorance of the people. (Applause.) Let the
people of this country have such an education as
will make them generally intelligent, let them fully
understand the blessings of the great constitution
under which Providence has placed us for centuries,
and there is no fear of the pecple of this country.
(Cheers.) I read the other day—only yesterday
—in a political review, supposed to be written
by one of the leading Conservative states-
men of the country, that " trusting the
English people" meant consigning the Govern-
ment of the country to poverty and ignorance. (Oh,
oh, and laughter.) Well, I should like that nobleman
to see you here vindicating this causein the temperate
spirit which I know actuates you, and I would tellhim
that if we did not trust the English people, no one of
us could lie peacefully and happy in our beds to-night.
(Hear, hear.) With the hard, with the laborious,
with the austere lives of the great part of this great
community; with the sacrifices that they daily make,
with the little hope that many of them have of
a happy future and yet nevertheless with the quiet,
unostentatious, simple, honest labour of their lives,
I cannot understand how he could say he cannot
trust the English people. (Applause.) We are not
governed by any inordinate army, we are not go-
verned by any other force than that of law. There
is no town in this England of ours which would not
be at the mercy of the English people, if they rose
in insane wrath and in fury at theconditionin which
they are placed ; but we rest in confidence, believing
that they as well as we understand the simple prin-
ciples of political economy, the simple conditions of
the life which we all live, the principles which affect
equally the rights of the employer and employed,
the poor and the rich, and by which a poor man '
knows that if he violated those laws to-night he would
be a pauper to-morrow. And thus it is that, belong-
ing to the class in which I happen to be placed, I
have no fear whatever of increasing the privileges
and the power of the people to representthemselves
in a fuller form than they now do. For my own
part, I will not say where the limit is to be placed.
I do not think that in so multitudinous a meeting
as this we can possibly enter into details. I think
think we shall be rather accomplishing the object of
this meeting by expressing as fully and clearly as
we can our desire, I will not say our decisive inten-
tion, to support the present Government in the mea-
sure of reform which they are likely to bring for-
ward. Remember that they have strong, vigilant,
intellectual opponents to meet ; and if they are not
supported by you, if your doubtful, and hesitating,
and capricious, and fanciful upon these matters,
the Reform Bill will go to the ground, as it has
gone aground before. The Ministry may fall with
it ; you may have a dissolution of Parliament, but
nevertheless you may fail in yourgreat and practical
object, which, as I understand it, is to extend the
representation of the people. I would therefore ask
you to merge your differences. Amongst so large a
body of men as compose the Cabinet, probably each
with his own theory and his own opinion of what is
best to be done, there will certainly be differences
of opinion, but, nevertheless, they may all agree
to what is most practicable ; and I ask you to have
some confidence in that Cabinet,and to support Lord
Russell in the measure which it is probable he will
bring forward. (Hear, hear.) I know no more of it
than you do. I know nothing of it except by public
report ; but I do know this—that I have seen Lord
Russell moved even to tears when he was obliged to
abandon his own reform bill. You know that
people approach this question of reform in different
points of view, theoretical and practical. Now,
great injustice on that point has been done to a
statesman with whom I have lived in great inti-
timacy for many years. There is no man in Eng-
land who ever valued constitutional government
more than the late Lord Palmerston. (" Hear,
hear," and cheers.) There is no man in England
who more believed that constitutional govern-
ment was the depository of the happiness of the
people and the great safeguard from revolution ; but
he was not a political theorist. He formed no parti-
cular opinions of constitutions and of politics, but
nevertheless he did believe—l have heard it from
his QWII wouth frequently—that the gradual and
legitimate development of reform was the only just
principle under which English constitutional govern-
ment could live. He was not enthusiastic enough
upon that matter to say that be would carry it in
the face of an unwilling Parliament and an un-
willing Cabinet, but it would be most unjust to his
memory to say that he did not recognise the prac-
tical effect and the practical value of such a measure
in the development of the English constitution.
But I say that practical men just as well as
theoretical men can agree upon the point which we
are met this evening to discuss. I have ever felt
and ever maintained the principle of the increase
of the representation upon the sole and simple
ground that I believe the political education of
this people to be the most useful and practical
part of their education, because I think that as
far as you intelligently, safely, and gradually
extend that representation, so far you will extend
and establish the safety and permanence of the in-
stitutions of the country. (Applause.) I may con-
gratulate you upon the occasion on which we are
now met. With general prosperity about us, with
a firm confidence in the honesty, and some confi-
dence at least in the talents of the government that
guides the country, with a belief that Lord Russell
is sincere—(cheers)—with a belief that Mr. Glad-
stone is sincere—(renewed cheers)—with a belief
that whether the reform bill accomplishes all our
hopes, it at any rate will be a reality and not a sham
—(cheers)—with this belief let us this evening, by
our hands and our voices, declare our desire to sup-
port this resolution, and augur for the statesman
who at this moment guides the helm of affairs in
this country that, after a life in which he has parti-
cipated in so many great Pleasures of popular im-
provement,, he may have for his government an
illustrious close. (Loud cheers.)

Meetings in favour of Parliamentary Reform
were also held on Monday evening at Stafford and
Dalkeith, at both of which resolutions were passed
urging the Government to bring in a measure which
should give to the working classes a real and effec-
tive voice in the representation.

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