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Yorkshire—(lond cheers}—which has disposied from his
scat in parliament a nobleman whom from his abilities, com-
bined with his virtues, it is impossible to mention without
respect. No, gentlemen, there must have been some cause
which has led to this expression of public opinion other than
the influence of landlords over tenants. The counties, no

doubt, have made returns in an increased number unfavour-
able to the government; but if you look to the towns and
boroughs containing populations exceeding 10,0,03 inhabi-
tants, even where they have little or no connection with the
agricultural interest, the cry of cheap bread and cheap sugar
has totally failed. The returns for those places have been,
more unfavourable to ministers than they were in the last par-
liament. How, let me ask, is this to be accounted for? It is be-

cause the constituencies of this empire, representing as they do
the people of this empire, have no confidence in her majesty's
government. They have had the good sense to review the
whole course of the government, from the commencement of
its power to its close—from the appropriation clause, which
excluded me from office, to that vote which Was carried at
my instance—(cheers)—and which declared that her maje-

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sty's government did not possess the confidence of the coun-
try. (Cheers.) It was not the mere policy that the people
condemned—it was not the question relating to coru ; but

the people of England were Of opinion that no government
of this country ought to retain power without the confidence

of the nation—that to do so was an injury to the representa-
tive principle, and a violation of all constitutional doctrine,
and the result has been a decided declaration on the part of
the constituencies, in conformity with the vote of the late
late House of Commons, that the present' government is not
entitled to the public confidence. (Cheers.) And gentle-
men, if you will review the course of the government and re-
member the expression put into the mouth of the sovereign
in the year 1834, in which the king, at the instance of the go-
vernment, made use of the following words :.

" I have seen with feelings of deep regret and indignation
the continuance of attempts to excite the people of Ireland to
demand a repeal of the legislative union. This bond of the
national strength and safety I have declared my fixed and
unalterable resolution, under the blessing of divine provi-
dence, to maintain inviolate by all the means in my power.

To the practices which have been used to produce disaffection
in the state, and mutual distrust and animosity between the
people of the two countries, is chiefly to be attributed the
spirit of insubordination which, though for the present in a
great degree controlled by the power of the law, has been
but too perceptible in many instances. The united and
vigorous exertions of the loyal'ancl well-affected in aid of the
government are imperiously required to put an end to a sys-
tem of excitement and violence which is destructive of the
peace of society, and, if successful, must inevitably prove
fatal to the power and safety of the united kingdom."
If you recollect these words, which were used by the sove-
reign, at the advice of Lord Melbourne, and concurred in
by Loro Palmerston and Lord John Russell, you will not
fail also to recollect that, in 1831, .a compact was formed
with those who were the chief advocates of repeal (hear),
and that a resolution was come to implying that no settle-
ment of the Irish church question should be adopted which
did not embody an appropriation of part of the revenues of
the church to the promotion of secular purposes. The con-
stituencies of the country have recollected this compact.
They also recollected the case of Jamaica, where the govern-
ment brought in a bill to abolish the constitution of that
important colony. They recollected that they were thwarted
in that attempt by the opponents of that government—they
recollected that the ministers stated that the authority of
the government would be injured if that opposition should
prevail. It did prevail, and the government retired under
the vote, and with the admission that they did not possess
the confidence of the House of Commons. The people have
seen them, for two years, retain office without power, and
after a series of concessions alike injurious to the characters
of public men and to the interests of the country • and it
has been a review of, these acts, coupled with the declaration
of the government themselves as to their loss of the confi-
dence of parliament, and the evils that must arise in the ad-
ministration of public affairs from that want—it has been, I
repeat, a review of this conduct on the part of her Majesty's
government which has induced the constituencies of this
country to vindicate the constitutional principle, and by
their united voice to affirm the resolution to which the
House of Commons so recently came. (Loud and prolonged
cheering.) Gentlemen, this vindication of constitutional
principle is due to the constituency of this empire. They
deserved the credit, for they gained the victory by their un-
paralleled exertions. It has not been gained by the manoeu-
vres of the leaders of party—it has not been gained by factious
combinations with men of opposite opinions. The govern-
ment has made an appeal to the country with the most fa-
vourable circumstances under which an appeal could be made ;
the country has responded to it, and declared, notwithstand-
ing the introduction of plausible and popular measures, that
the government does not possess its confidence. (Cheers.)
It is impossible to estimate too highly the exertions which
have been made throughout the country. They have been
made by unobtrusive individuals, even unknown to public
rumour, who have sought no advantage for themselves, but
who have been prompted by public principle to the sacrifice
of ease and of everything most calculated to make life happy.
I will venture to say, that there are thousands and tens of
thousands of instances in which single individuals have made
more exertions during the late election than candidates used
to make before—and, gentlemen, it is perfectly notorious to
every person who has been conversant with the elections of
this country ; and to them, gentlemen, and to the constitu-
encies at large, these public acknowledgments are due. All
that I hope is, that they will not repose upon their victory,
and that it will only animate them to continued and increased
exertions. (Hear.) I hope that no disaffection will be felt
that two candidates have not been returned in those places
where one only has been returned. I hope no temporary
dissatisfaction of that kind arising from the best and most
generous feelings—from the conviction that if the effort had
been made it would have been successful, and that the effort
ought to have been made—l trust that no feeling of dissatis-
faction, however natural and just, will induce those who feel
it to feel it permanently, and to withdraw from public exer-
tions. I said before, gentlemen, and I believed it has been
proved to be true, that the battle of the constitution must be
fought in the registration court'. And lam sure the victory
which has been achieved must be secured in the registra-
tion courts also. I do hope the conservative party in this
country will continue to secure for themselves, by all fair
and all legitimate means, and by no other whatever, the
possession of that power and influence in the state which
their immense wealth, their intelligence, their respecta-
bility, and their character fully entitle them to exercise. I
hope they will carefully consider every franchise to which
the law entitles them, and secure for themselves the exercise
of it, whether in municipal elections, in county elections,
or borough elections. Their good will and their confidence
can be the only safe foundation for political power, and if
they wish to retain the influence they now possess, it must
be by an exertion of the same zeal and industry and perseve-
rance which have placed them in their present position.
These are the means by which they can enable those in whom
they repose their confidence to maintain on their ancient
foundations the institutions of the country in church and
state. (Cheers.) And let them bear in mind that the more
secure the foundations are made, the more confidence there
may be in their stability, and the more easy will it be, with-
out exciting alarm or apprehension. to apply those reno-
vations and those repairs which the lapse of time or altered
circumstances may have rendered desirable in our ancient
institutions. Gentlemen, this being merely a convivial
meeting, I fear I have trespassed longer than I ought to
have done upon your attention. (No, no.) But, gentle-
men, I will sit down as I began, by expressing my
gratification that I am again placed in the situation of
your representative. I also thank you for those demon-
strations of attachment and esteem with which, on this
and on foriher occasions, I have been received within these
walls. I stand to you in a closer and more intimate relation
that that merely of your representative in parliament. lam
bound to you by many other ties than that of a representa-
tive. I look around this assembly; and I see the faces which
have been familiar to me from my earliest youth. I see es-
teemed and cherished friends, I bear in mind that I am con-
nected with you by all the ties of neighbourhood, of social
intercourse, of community of interest, and of long friend-
ship ; and I assure you that whatever be my political desti-
nation, I shall ever regard with the utmost pride and satis-
faction the attachment and esteem of those whom I see
around me, and whom I have a right to consider as my
warmest and most attached friends. And, gentlemen, it is
whilst such feelings are predominant that I will ask you to
join with me in the cordial expression of a sentiment by
which I am animated, and which will ever make me desirous
for the prosperity of the town and neighbourhood of Tam-
worth." The right honourable baronet concluded his speech
amidst the loudest demonstrations of applause, and the toast
was drunk with equal enthusiasm.

DORCHESTER ELECTION-DINNER OF SIR
JAMES GRAHAM.

(Abridged from the Dorset Count!, Chronicle.)

On Thursday, July 22, the Right Hon. Sir James R. G.
Graham, Bart., M.P., gave the customary dinner to the
electors of Dorchester, in celebration of his election.
On the health of Sir James Graham being drunk,
The Right Hon. Baronet rose amidst enthusiastic cheer-
ing, and expressed his grateful sense of the honour just paid
him, and of the compliment conferred on him, having done
him the honour to select him as one of their members in
parliament. When he last addressed them the question was
which of the two great parties in the state would preponder-
ate in the struggle that was then at its height. He con-
fessed that he regarded that struggle with some anxiety, be-
cause he felt an apprehension that a state of affairs might
arise which would fill all with serious alarm. He feared that
it was possible that a broad line of demarcation might be
drawn between the landed interest of the country on the
one hand, and the.commercial and manufacturing interest on
the other—a state of things than winch he could not contem-
plate any greater misfortune and more serious national evil.
(Hear, hear.) But the good sense of the people of England
had predominated over every such apprehension— (cheers)—
and if he had thought, as he had thought, that the question
would be answered by placing the great interests involved in
comparative security, that anticipation had not been disap-
pointed. (Cheers.) So far from the agricultural interest on
the one hand, and the manufacturing and commercial in-
terest on the other, being ranged in hostile array against
each other, a glance at some facts connected with the late
elections, would show the contrary to be thecase. (Cheers.)
The struggle had commenced in the centre of the great com-
mercial interest—in the city of London itself. A nobleman
high in her Majesty's councils, the ministerial leader of the
House of Commons, had there thrown himself into the
breach, and had there begun the struggle. And what was
the result? Why, that two conservative candidates were
returned above him on the poll ; and it was by mere acci-
dent, by mere mismanagement, that a third conservative was
not returned. (Hear.) The right hon. bart. then referred
to many other parts oT the country, particularly to Liverpool,
as shewing the same feeling. In this cursory review he
thought that there was enough to satisfy those whom he
addressed that all pretence of a difference between the ma-
nufacturing and commercial and the agricultural interests
was removed, and he was happy to believe that the agricul-
tural interest of the country was now placed on a solid basis
(great cheers) ; and that the next parliament would show a
considerable majority of members pledged to those opinions
on which he had been chosen by the electors of Dorchester.
They might rely on it that the interests of the great body of
the people were the interests to which he was attached. On
no other ground than this, although immediately connected
with the landed interest, had he been disposed to uphold the
native agriculture of the country, but it was because he was
convinced that the best safeguard of nations was to be found
in that independence which arose from those nations, in the
average course of years, being enabled to supply their in-
habitants with their daily bread. It was because he be-
believed that in a series of years such independence was in-
dispensable, that he had been a friend to the protection of
native agriculture. He had, perhaps, dwelt too long on
this subject (" No, no ; go on ") ; but if he were allowed
by their indulgence, he would allude to a topic which had
been handled with vast skill by an eminent and dignified di.
vine, and he knew not that he could offer a better illustra-
tion of the subject than had been given in an analogy brought
by that writer, and brought, too, from that sacred fountain
which contained lessons of pure knowledge. They would
remember that the most ancient commercial city was the
city of Tyre, described in holy writ as sitting like a queen
upon the waters, as " the crowning city, whose merchants
are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the
earth," who was the mistress of the world, enriched by the
ships of Ophir, and dealing in the dyed garments of Bozrah ;
yet a little but striking incident is related with respect to this
city. She was in the neighbourhood of a poor and appa-
rently powerless kingdom, that of Judea. A. quarrel arose
between them, and the inhabitants of Tyre were obliged to
send an ambassador and sue for peace at the hands of the
King of Judea, and the reason assigned is that " their
country was nourished by the king's country." (Hear,
hear.) They did not grow their own corn. (Hear, hear.)