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strenuously and, as he thought, honestly asserted in
Parliament, so far as opportunities had presented
themselves to him. He believed there was no great
question on which his gallant colleague and he had
differed. For example they voted together on the m° -
tion for the ballot, which he felt to be an absolutely
essential part of any reform in the representation!, ;
and ho Would take that. opportunity to express his
regret that Lord J. Russell, who was looked to by
some as the man to lead the Reform party in the
next session, should on that occasion prove—he was
going to say krecreant, but he would not say that
—though he was certainly not a convert to the
ballot. The nobleilord was, on the contrary, one of
the most strenuous opponents of the ballot who spoke
on the debate ; and, therefore, he (Mr. Locke) said
that the noble lord was not the man to whom they
were to look in the next session of Parliament as
the leader of the Reform party. (Hissing and coun-
ter cheers.) What he (Mr. Locke) wanted was a
full and -complete representation of the people.
(Cheers.) He was not afraid of intrueting the
working classes with the franchise. What he con-
tended for was, that every man who had a vote
should be protected in the exercise of it. • He was
prepared to support a measure of reform of that
kind, let it come from what party it might in the
House of Commons. Turning to the Indian ques-
tion, he said, whatever might have been the origin
of our rule there, India was no longer the territory
of the East India Company, but was now an appan-
age of the British Crown, and belonged to the Eng-
lish people at large. Of late the Times newspatter
hid admitted into its columns statements of opinion
from almost all manner of men in reference to the
causes of the revolt in India ; but he believed that
those who conducted that journal, like everybody
else, had been unable to arrive at any satisfactory
colclusion on the subject. He believed, too, that
Loth the 13oifete Control and the E Ist India Com-
pany knew as little about the matter. And what
was the conduct of the Governor-General, Lord
Canning ? Did he know more about it than the
Board of Control or tile East India Company ? Were
the measures which he and his council had adopted
—and that would be a great question for discussion
in the next session of Parliament—those which the
emergency demanded ? Was he justified in hold-
ing the hands of those gallant men who commanded
our army in India? He (Mr. Locke) would say,
whether it was the army or the navy, there was no
set of men on the face of the earth who were
mo:e humane than they were, and it did not b -
come any Governer-Ceneral to call on them to hold
their hands and not strike down those who were
such treacherous and implacable enemies. He
could n t undcrstand how it could be necessaryt for
the Gov( rament in India, who lived, at home at
ease in Calcutta, to usurp the power of interfering
with the military authorities in the mode in which
they would iedress this mutiny. To say the least
ofit, that was a most extraordinary course of ion-
duct on their part. For his part, he would leaate in
the hands of the military commanders in India the
execution of the mutineers who had formed , the
Bengal at my. It should be for them to make
what distinctions they thought just in the punish-
ments they might inflict ; but he was sure it 'was
not for the Governments at Calcutta to seek to
fetter the free action of these gallant men who at a
great crieis had maintained a glorious struggle, and
who had the confidence of the whole people of
England.
The hon. members subsequently underwent
some interrogation from electors in the room as to
the course they meant to take in the ensuing ses-
sion, and thou,
On the motion of Mr. JoHN VICKERS, seconded
by Mr. MAitcurs SHARPE, a ref olution was carried
expressive of the of meeting that Sir Charles Napier
and Mr. Locke had faithfully fultilled the pledges
given by them on their election ; that the time had
arrived for the adoption of the ballot, the exten-
sion of the franchise, and the abolition of church-
rates,
and for placing the whole government of
India on a more sa isfact ry footing.
The proceedings then terminated.