The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-18 00:00:00

£70,000,000 annually, that is 50s. a-head for every
man, woman, and child in the kingdom. I ask, is
it necessary that £70,000,000 a-year should be
taken for the government of this peaceable coun-
try, or for its defence against I know not what na-
tions, for I have seen no earnest attempt—there is
almost only one recorded in history—to in-
vade or attack this island ? Now, if I did not think
a Parliamentary Reform should enforce a greattr
responsibility in the House of Commons and the
Cabinet, I would not go across the road to ask for
it, and if I thought that after a Parliamentary
Reform which should give a real hold into the
hands of the peaple upon the national expenditure
and the national policy we were to continue moun..
ing up the expenditure from £70,000,000, as 1.1
now is, to some higher but indefinite sum, I would
not spend my breath or my labour in asking in,Y,
countrymen to obtain such a measure ; but I should
think it a far wiser course to pack up every-
thing I had and remove myself and my family
to a country where the people did not only
pretend to be but actually were in some
,_
degree sane. (Laughter.) The Government that
we have now is one which, in all probability', will
be a considerable improvement upon the last ; a'?,.
indeed, it may very easily be—(a laugh)—and
will not be more difficult for it to be an improve-
ment also upon the Whig Governments which pre.,
ceded the Ministry of Lord Derby. There are some
men in this Government not only in whose senti-
ments, but in whose sincerity and conscientious-
ness, I should be disposed to put some reliance;
but recollect they came into power with a majority
of only 13; indeed, it is not now 13, for the whole
of the election committees have not decided, and it
has so happened by some accident or blunder that
the assault hitherto has fallen almost all on one
side. The majority has therefore diminished to
seven or eight, which is almost no majority at all,
or only just better than a minority or an equal
number. How is this Government to last ? One
thing I can promise, that if it is like the Whig
Governments which preceded Lord Derby it will
not last. The power which put out those Whig
Governments can put out this one. The represen-
tatives of the free and large boroughs of this king-
dom hold the balance fairly between the two par-
ties, and I am sure that their power will be thrown
into a scale adverse to this Government before long,
if it walks in the footsteps of its recent Whig pre-
decessors. Having no reckonable majority in the
House of Commons it will probably before long
have recourse again to the constituencies. It will
depend much on their faithfulness to the principles
on which they were understood to accept office.
Take the question of Reform. Lord John Russell,
just before the dissolution, I think the very night
when the dissolution was announced, explained
what in his opinion if he were a Minister would be
the measure of Reform he would be willing to pro-
pose to Parliament. He said he should propose
with regard to the suffrage that every occupier of
a house of the value of £lO in counties and every
occupier of the value of £6 rental in boroughs
should be enfranchised. Now, I am not going to
argue that this is enough or that it is not
enough. I am merely stating what Lord J. Rus-
sell said—what the leading man on the side of Re-
form and a member of the aristocracy of England
pledged himself to bring before Parliament and the
people of England before the late general election.
No doubt, there are members of this Government
who think that it is rather an extensive measure;
there are members who will endeavour to persuade
Lord J. Russell that such a measure is not desired
or necessary; if there bo such, I beg to give them
this warning—they will not only fail of bringing
forward a measure at all satisfactory to the Reform
party throughout the country, but they will starlit)
upon the Government a trait of treachery which it
cannot survive. (Cheers.). Let them rely, if they
are a Liberal Government, on liberal measures, on
liberal principles, and on a liberal people. We are
not asking for extreme measures ; we have been a
a patient people, too patient under the insults and
under the privations which we have endured. They
have no right to say that the man who asks that
every occupier of a £lO house in a county, or a £6
hous3 in a borough, should be enfranchised is a man
asking for extreme measures. If that be extreme,
then Parliament is extreme, representation is ab-
surd, and the sooner it is done away, probably, the
better. (Cheers.) We who live among the people
know perfectly well that with a constituency like
that, with a better distribution of seats, with the
establishment of vote by ballot, we should have a
Parliament more responsible to public sentiment,
more truthful to its trust, more anxious to husband
the public resources, and more capable to conduct
the government of the country with honour and to
the common interest of all the people. (Cheers.)
Now, let us turn, as we are turning, from the fright-
ful themes which have been before us of late—from
all the pictures and accounts of carnage. I say
not who is guilty. I point not to:the man, or
men, but I hope the time is coming when the finger
of all mankind and the fierce eye of all human na-
ture will be turned in condemnation against those
criminals who thus destroy human life. (Cheers.)
Let us turn from these terrible scenes which have
filled the columns of our newspapers, and look
at home, where we have so much to do.
Are we not a people here hard working from morn-
ing to night, from January to December, almost
from our cradles to our gyaves? Have we not
among ourselves much to instruct, much to help,
much claim upon justice, with a fair and free field
of exertion and competition besides. Let us attend
to all these, to our home affairs, for here lies our
interest. Our people have been patient in suffer-
ing, they have been heroic in labours and in strug-
gles, and I count the ambition of public life to be
of a low and worthless kind if it be not an ambi-
tion to devote every faculty we possess to the true
interests, the permanent welfare, and real eleva-
tion of that great and noble people at home. The
hon. gentleman resumed his seat amid loud cheer-
ing.

After some formal business the meeting sepa-
rated, the proceedings concluding with the usual
vote of thanks to the chairman.

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