The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-04 00:00:00

hear.) To recommend to the Bank, or any public body, to
overstep the law, is not a matter to be lightly, and without
due consideration, done. We were unwilling to adopt that
course until we found the necessity urgent and ptess'ng
upon us. (Hear, hear.) I believe we did not delay long.
I am quite sure we did not do it too soon— (cheers)—and I
am convinced tl-at those beit acquainted with the state of
matters of such moment will do us the jastice to think the
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02t11.41011 required us to do that which no Government <right
to do without all due consideration. (Hear, hear.) My
right lion. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer will, to.
morrow, in moving the preliminary stage for a bill of indem-
nity, state to the house more in detail than is expedient at
the present moment the various circumstances which made
us think that course necessary. (Hear, hear.) With regard
to that parograph in the Speech which the right hon. gentle-
man (Mr. Disraeli) has quoted in his usual gay manner,
referring to the perfect peace which fortunately prevaa's all
over Europe, the right has. gentleman made allusion to
what fell from me on that festive occasion to which he re-
ferred, and seemed to c nsider that it announced to the
country at that time that we were in danger of some great
invasion, not from the Emperor of China or the King of
Naples, but from some other nearer Governments. I made
no such intimation, and I felt no such apprehension.
(Hear, hear.) On the contrary, all the Governments of
Europe had expressed the most friendly disposition to us ;
and, with re .and to the Government of the neigh-
bouring country of Prance, it is impossible to speak too
highly of the friendly communications which passed. Not
only did the Emperor of the French say that if we were
desirous of sending troops across Egypt to the succour of
our East Indian possessions, he would use any influence he
might be possessed of with the Egyptian Government to
enable us to do so ; but he even said that if it would
be convenient to send troops through the territory of France
be would afford us every facility. (Cheers) Therefore it
would have been most ungrateful and most unfouu ied in.
deed to have entertained the slightest apprehension of any
uuf iendly feeling existing on the part of a country which
did everything in its power to show the sincerity of the
friendship which it professed. (Hear, hear.) The right
bon. gentleman said the few words I spoke on that occasion
were calculated to militate the hearts of the people of this
country. That was my intention. (Cheers.) I thought
the accounts we were receiving of the deeds of our troops
In India were calculated to animate the heart of every Eng.
lishinau—the heroic actions of our countrymen, scattered as
they were over every part of India, and called upon in
small bodies to resist sudden surprises from overwhelming
numbers—l felt I was only speaking the sentiments of all
my fellow-countrymen when I said that 1 believed suoh acts
were calculated to animate the hearts of the people.
(Cheers.) With regard to what the right hon, gentleman
himself said of the gallant deeds of our countrymen in India,
and the gratitude which every man ought to feel to those
brave men who showed themselves equal to any emergency
in all parts of India, every member of this house must have
joined to the full extent in the sentiments expressed by the
right hon, gentleman. (Hear.) It will be my duty upon the
eat liest day which the forms of the house will admit of to bring
down a message from the Crown recommending that a pro.
vision should be mad-, for Sir H. Havelock in additbn to the
honours already bestowed upon him by her Majesty. (Lend
cheers) lam sure the house will feel pleased in avociating
itself with the Crown in marking the distinguished services
of that gallant general. (Cheers.) General Wilson has also
been created a baronet, but as he belongs to the service of
the East India Company, they claim to themselves the pri-
vilege of doing for him what the Crown will do for General
Havelock. (Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman wished that
we should new explain to the house what course the Govern-
ment mean to recommend in reg,a,d to the government of
India, and also in regard to the measures of Parliamentary
reform. The right hon. gentleman, no doubt, would be glad
to have those measures that, he might con them over during
the Christmas holidays. I should hope he might
have the means of amusing himself iu a manner more agree-
able during that season than in reading a bi 1 about India or
a bill about Parliamentary reform. (Laughter.) Bat, how-
ever much the right hoe. gentleman may wish for this Christ.
mas oc3upation, I am afraid I cannot indulge him—(loud
laughter)—because it is not the intention of her Majesty's
Government to enter into those subjects during the short
period which will elapse between the present time and the
next adjournment. (Hear.) It will be our duty, when
Parliament meets again, to state our views on those impor-
tant matters, and until that time the right hon.
gentleman must amuse himself with his own specula.
tions. (Laughter.) I cannot but rejoice that upon
an occasion when the heart of the country is fixed on mighty
events passing in another hemisphere—when tie minds of all
Englishmen must be dwelling on the brave actions of their
fellow-countrymen in India- -I cannot but rejoice that it has
not been thought expedient 1 y the rkle;, bon. gentleman to
move an amendment to the Address weich this house is de-
sirous of presenting to the Throne; and I trust we shall
separate to-night after an unanimous concurrence in that
Address which my two hon. friends, with so much ability
and good feeling have moved. (Cheers.) And I trust that
at the representative assembly of the country in a moment of
anxious interest —when such mighty concerns are hanging on
the balance as the restoration of our power over the vast
dominions of India, feeling the magnitude of the interests at
stake, and anxious to show that in moments of danger and
difficulty this house and the nation are unanimous in support-
ing. the national honour and affording every possible assiitance
to the Crown - I trust, I say, that the party of the right hon.
gentleman will agree with the rest of the house, and that we
shall unanimously concur in the Address which my hon.
friends have so ably moved. (Cheers.)
The Address was then agreed to, and a committee was
appointed to draw up an answer to her Majesty's Speech, in
accordance with the resolution of the house.
The house acljourned.at a quarter to eight.