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propriation clause would he aminsalt to.thein....,You offer them
a c sliitolatiun ; but you prescribe it as a condition that they
shall walk under a yoke—a condition which is not to be accepted
or endured. In the course of hi. speech the learned member
more than once repeated that the question to be settled was how
Ireland should he governed. To us it appeared that the ques-
tion was not how she should be governed, but whether she was
not to be exempted from the irksome restraint of being governed
at all."

Sir R. Peal. desired no ampler justification than the speech
of Mr. O'Connell. If to rescind these reaolutions explicitly be
an earnest of 'severity towards Ireland, what must be inferred
from the tacit abandonment of them, as proposed by ministers!
If the appropriation of church property to secular purposes be
necessary to any final arrangement whatever, how could Mr.
O'Connell sanction an arrangement not involving it? Or did
Mr. O'Connell consider it involved in these resolutions ? Was
the house, On this, point, to credit him or the ministers ? The
learned member in his pleading for peace never forgot to talk of
the Scotch way of working out a religious establishment with
the broad-sword. Oh ! but no such extremity was proposed for
Ireland, because the Irish catholics repudiated the notion of
touching the property. And yet, since these resolutions were
published, the learned member hail addressed the Irish recom-
mending that catholic pries.S he endowed' with the Protestant's
glebe—not with the tithe; tithe might be a precarious provi-
sion, but land was a stable one. Sir Robert then reviewed the
history of the appropriation resolutions. On coming into office
at the end of 1831, he had taken up the tithe bill of his prede-
cessors. He had been encountered by these resolutions, and bad
warned his opponents that their triumph would be short; that is,
as to the principle affirmed, not as to the tenure of office—for it
was very possible to hold office with little triumph. (l'his just
apothegm was received with great applause.) On these reso-
lutions he had quitted tlie government in 1935. In the same
year, on 'the bill of these ministers, Lord Stanley had proposed
a separation of the tithe enactments from the appropriation
clauses, and the answer of the chancellor of the exchequer then
Was, that it would have been better candidly to propose the re-
scinding of the resolUtions—the very course- now, pursued. In.
1836 anisther tithe bill passed the House of Commons, and was
sent back front the lords amended, by the omission of the appro-
priation clads -s"; hitt ministers refused to consider the amend-
ments at all with that omission. To omit the clauses, they ar-
gued, Would be to recant the principle. As to 1837, ministers
now said that;the declaration's of the conservatives itt that year
had deceived them. He denied it in terms as peremptory as
would consist with courtesy and parliamentary usage. When
Lord John intimated that ministers would not be restrained by
false pride from doing what they thought heat, be (Sir Robert)
had said, that he would het taunt them for having turned him
out upon this point if they would consent to abandon a clause
which caused so much of bitterness in Ireliind; the more, be
cause it was neither executed nor repealed.. He must say now,
as he always had said, that he would not consent to a settleMent
on the basis of appropriation ; and he had never led ministers to
think otherwise. In this very session. when Lord John inquired
what course would be taken by the conservatives on the Irish
corporation bill, he (Sir Robert) had again referred to the ap- I,
propriat ion resolutions, and had declared he was willing to settle
the other Irish questions, but must insist on security for the
church. He had heard with deep regret the bitter tone of Lord
John, especially the sueer at the clergy. After all their sufferings
and privations, it was too much for a minister to say, that because
the sum which they expressed their readiness to forego for the
peace of Ireland was only 15 per cent instead of 30, therefore 15
per cent was the precise and outside value which they put upon
their country's peace. It would have been difficult, no doubt, for
ministers to agree to a 'solemn vote of abrogation, which must
materially lower them; but they might at least have said they
would practically abandon the appropriation, and do their best to
make the settlement final. Very opposite to this had been the
tone of Lord John Russell's speech and the fortrOf the resolu-
tions indeed, even after the speech, the house had been left as
completely in the dark as ever. It was not till the close of
Monday evening that the house could collect whether appro-
priation were included in them or not. Was it not fit that when
this principle had been used as an instrument for heaving a
government from its base, the house should at least understand
whether this principle was now intended to be applied. A
letter had been published by Mr. O'Connell, intimating, that
the arrangement now proposed involved the principle of appro-
priation, but that this arrangement was not likely to be a final
one. After protesting against the purchase of a short respite
for the church by the sacrifice of £5t),000 or £60,000 of her re-
venue, which would only let in a principle for absorbing in like
manner all the rest of her income, Sir R. Peel observed, that
the church now rests upon firm grounds—on the.act of Union,
which was an express guarantee to her, and the catholic relief
bill, which was an implied one. On these grounds he would de-
fend her. He was willing to grant-funds for the education of
the catholics, but not at the exclusive expense of the protestant
church. They would desert their duty of protestant legislators,
as legislators, whatever their religious creed might be, if they
consented to adopt any principle by which the protestant esta-
blishment in Ireland would be weakened, whether by immedi-
ate, aggregate, or any other means which would ultimately. lead -
the way to its inevitable destruction. He, therefore, cordially
supported the proposition of his hon. friepd, (Sir T. Acland,)
and continued his adherence to that principle, to the mainten-
ance of which he had sacrificed the possession' of office, and to
which be again said, he adhered with equal fidelity. (The hon.
baronet sat down amidst loud cheering.)
Mr. Rice denied that the resolutions in 1835 had been got up
to turn out Sir Robert Peel. But he would not rescind them,
because that would involve the degradation of ministers, and
would be in opposition to his own opinions. In an-angry strain
he charged the conservatives with having lost their tempers, and
deprived him of the hope, which belied entertained some little
time before, of bringing the fith lion to an amicable termi-
nation; but, in his opinion, th M .
shown themselves only
Conservatives of riot, confusion, and disorder. This figure of
speech, which would robahly be called Hibernian if he had not
himself invented the happier term—West British, was received
by the conservatives with good humour, which fully acquitted
them of the right hon. gentleman's charges of virulence and
asperity.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the house divid-
ed, when the numbers appeared—
For the original motion
For the amendment '29B
—l9 .

The honse haVing resolved into committee,
Lord T. liiissEti. said, that at that late hour he should pro-
pose that the cnairman immediately report progress, and ask
leave to sit again on Monday next.
This motion being carried, the house resumed, and adjotirlied
at half-past one o'clock.

lIOUSOP COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY:

The Speaker 'took the chair at four o'clOck.
Mr. R. STEUA RT moved that the house at its risingdo adjourn
until Friday.--Agreed to.
A number of petitions on various subjects were presented.
The Middlesex County-Courts Bitt was read a second time,
and ordered to be committed.
The Dean Forest Roads Bill was read a third time, and
passed.
Mr. C. W. WYNN gave notice that on the 31st of May he
should move an Address to the Queen, praying that her Ma-
jesty would be pleased to give some ecclesiastical preferment
to three late chaplains of the House of Commons.
Mr. H AWES gave notice, that on bringing up the report on
the Benefices Pluralities Bill, he should niece a clause to abo-
lish all pluralities under any circumstances. ( near.)
Mr. P. TitomPsoN expressed a wish that the hon. member for
Dudley would withdraw the British Manufacturers Bill, and he
would pledge himself to bring in a bill ori the satne subject, or
introduce clauses into sonic other measure, which would obtain
the object the hon. member had in view.
Mr. HAWES was understood to assent to this arrangement,
and withdrew the bill.

In answer to a question by an Hon. Member,
Lord J. RUSSELL said, the commissioners sent out to Malta
had finished their inquiry, and
.he believed they were now on
their way home.

. , .
The hionse went into committee, pro forma, on the Glass
Duties Bill The bill was then ordered to be printed.

SMALL DEBTS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the order of the day being read for going into committee
on the Small Debts (Scotland) Bill.
Mr. WALLACE said he should be ashamed of himself if he
did not oppose the bill at every stage. He moved, as an
amendment, that the bill be committed on that day six months.
A discussion ensued, in which Sir W. RAE and the LORD
ADVOCATE took part, after which
Mr. WA LLACE withdrew the amendment, and the house went
into committee on the bill.

The first clause was agreed to.
The second clause was under discussion when we left the
house. •

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, May 12.
On Friday, the 11th inst., Edmund Lloyd Birkett obtained
the Mickleliorrow scholarship in cnemistry in Grenville and
Caius College, in this University.
R. H. Smith, Esq., 8.A., of Caius College, in this University,
has lately been elected to the mastership of the Grammar School
of Andover.

The Rev. James Saunders, of Sidney Sussex College, and
the Rev. John Lodge, of Alagdalane College, in this University,
have been appointed Woodwardian inspectors for the year
ensuing.

TITHES (IRELAND)

TurEqoAy. MAY 15,

Order for Committee read ; Alotion made. and proposed. "That
Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair
Resolutions of the House, of 7th April, 1835, read, as fol-
low :
" Resolved, That any surplus revenue of the present Church
Establishment in Ireland, not required for the spiritual care
of its members, be applied to the moral and religions educa-
tion of all classes of the people, withotit distinction of reli-
gious persuasion, providing for the reiumption of such sur-
plus, or of any part of it as may be required by an intrease
to the number of the members of the Established Church."
" Resolved, That it is the opinion of this House, that no mea-
sure upon the subject of Tithes in Ireland can lead to a satis-
factory and final adjustment, which does not embody the

principle contained in the foregoing Resolution."
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " the
said Resolutions be rescinded," instead thereof :—(Sir Thomas
Acland :) —Question put, "That the words proposed to be
left out stand part of the Question :"—The House divided :
Ayes 317, Noes 298.

_ .
AYES.
Abercrombv, G Ferguson, Sir it Phillips, Sir R
Acheson, Lord Ferguson Sir It A Phillips, M
Adam, Admiral Ferguson R Phillips, G H
Ag,lionby, H. A Ferguson, It C Phillpots, J
Aglionby, Major Finch F Pinney W
Ainsworth, P Fitzgibbon Col Ponsonhy, C F A
Alston, R Fitzroy, Lord C Ponsonhy, Hon J
Andover, Lord Fleetwood P II Potter, J
Anson, Hon Col Fort, J Power, .1
Anson, Sir G French, F Power, J
Archbold, R Fenton, J Price, Sir R
Attwood, T Gillon, W D Protheroe, E
Bainbridge, E T Gordon, R Pryme, G
Baines, E Goring, H D Pryse, P
Ball, N Grattan J Posey, P
Bannerman, A Grattan, 1-1 Ramsbottom, J
Barnard, E. J Greenway, C ltedington, T N
Barron, H W Grey, Sir C E Rice, E It
Barry, G S Grey, Sir G - Rice, Right Hon T S
Beamish, F. B Grosvenor, Lord It Rich, H
Bellew, R M Grote, G Rippon, C
Benett J Guest, J J Roche, B B
Bentinck, Lord W Hall, B Roche, W
Berkeley, Hon 11. Halliburton, Ld DG Rolfe, Sir It M
Berkeley, Hon G Handley, H Runnhold, C E
Berkeley. Hon C Harland, \V C Rundle. J
Bernal, R C Harvey, D W Russell, Lord J
Hewes, 'l' Hastie, A Russell. Lord
Blackett, C Hawes, B Russell, Lord C
Blake, M J Hawkins, J H Salway, Col
Blake, W .-J Hayter, W G Sanford, B A
Blewitt, R J Heathcote, J Scholefield, J
Blunt, Sir C Hector, C J Scrope, G P
Bodkin, J .1 Heneage, B Seale Col
Bowes, J Heron, Sir It Seymour, It
Brabazon, Lord Hill, Lord A M Sharpe, Gen
Brahazon, Sir W Hindley,C Shell, It L
Bridgeman, H Hobbouse, Sir J Shelborne, Earl
Briscoe, J 1 Hohhouse, T Slaney, It A
Brocklehurst, J Hodges, 1' L Smith, .1 A
Brodie, W B Hollond It Smith, B
Brotherton, J Ilorsman. E Smith. Hon It
Browne. R D Hoskins, K Smith, It V
Bryan, G Howard, I' Somers, J P
Buller, E Howard, P H Somerville, Sir W M
Bulwer, H L Howard, R Speirs, A
Busfield. W Howard. Lord Vis Spencer, Hon F
Butler, Hon Col li time, J Standish, C
Byng G . Humphrey, .1 . Stanley, M
Byrw, Rt Hon G S Hurst, R H Stanley, W 0
Callaghan, D 1-Ititt W,, Stansfield, W It
Campbell, Sir J Hutton, R Staunton, Sir G
James
Carnac, W F James, W Stewart,
Carnac, Sir J Jephson, C Stuart, Lord J
Cave, R 0 Jervis, J Stuart, V
Cavendish, Hon C Jervis, S Strangways, G
Cavendish, Hon G Johnson, Gen Strickland, Sir G
Cayley, E S Labouchere, 11 Strurt, E
Lambton, H • Langdale, C - Style, Sir C
Chapman, Sir M Lefevre, C S Talbot, Cll
Chester, 1-1 Lemon Sir C Talbot, ,J
Chetwynd, Major Leveson Lord Tallourd, Serjeant
Chichester J P Lister, E C Tancred, ti W
,
Childers, .1 W Loch, J Thomson, C 1'
Clay, W Lushington, Dr Thintely, 'l'
Clayton, Sir W Lushington C 'Townley, It G
Clements, Lord Lynch, A H Troubridge, E
Clive, B B Macleod, R Turner E
Codriugton,Admiral Macnamara, Major Turner W
Collier, J M'Taggart Verney, Sir II
Collins, W Maher, J Vigors, N A
Colquhoun, Sir J Marshall, W Villiers, C P
Craig, W G Marshall. H Vivian, Major C
Crawtord, W Martin, J Vivian, J H
Crompton, S Maule, Hon F Vivian, Sir R
Cur rie, B. Maule, W 11 Waklev T
Curry W Melgund, Lord Walker, C A
Chalmers, P Mildmay, P Walker, R
Dalmeny, Lord Milton, Lord Wallace, R
Dashwond, G H Moreton, Hon A Warburton, H
Davies, Col Morpeth, Lord Ward, H G
Denison, W.. 1 Morris, 1) Wemyss, J E
D,rinistoun, J Murray, Hon J Westenra, H It
D'Eyncourt, C Muskett, G A Westenra, Hon J
Divert, B Nagle, Sir R White, A
Duckworth S O'Brien, C White, L
Duff, J O'Brien, W S White. S
Duke, Sir J O'Callaghan, C Wilbraham, G
Duncan, Lord O'Connell, D Wilde, Serjeant
Duncombe. 'l' O'Connell, J Wilkins, W
Dundas, C W D O'Connell, M J Williams, W
Dundas, Capt 1) O'Connell, M Williams, W A
Dundas, F O'Connell, M Wilshere, W
Dundas, Hon J O'Ferrail, R Al Winnington,T
Dundas. Horn T Ord, W Winnington, II
Easthope, J - - L'--,-.Pt. Lord A Wood, C
Ebring,ton, Lord Paget, le vv 'mu, oar lit
Edwards. J Palmer, C F Wood, G W
Elliott, Hon. J E Palmerston, Lord Worsley, Lord
Ellice, Capt A Parker, J Woulfe, Serjeant
Ellice, Rt. Hon E Parnell, Sir H Wrightson, W
Erle, W Parrott, J Wyse, 'l'
Etwall, It Pattison. J Yates, J A
Evans, De Lacy Pease, .1 --
E,rans, G Pechell, Capt TELLERS.
Evans, W Pendarves, E W Stanley, E G
Fazakerley, J N Steuart, H

- - NOES.
Acland, Sir T D Farrand, It Maxwell, H
Acland, T 7 Fector, J M Meynell. Capt
A'Court, Capt Feilden, W Miles, W
Adare, Lord Fellowes, E Miles, 1' W S
Alford, Lord Filmer, Sir E Miller, W El
Alsager, Capt Fitzroy, Hon 11 Milnes, R M
Arbuthnott, Hn Fleming, J Monypenuv, T
Archilall, M Foley, E T Mordaunt,Sir J.
Ashley, Lord Follett, Sir W Morgan, C M It
Ashley, Hon II Forester, Hon G Neeld, Joseph
Attwood, W Fox, G L Neeld, John
Attwood. M Freshtield, J W Nichol], J
Bagge, W Gaskell, J M Norreys, Lord
Bagot, Hon W Gibson, T Northland, Ld
Bailey, J Gladstone, W E O'Neill, Hon J B
Bailey, J jun Glynne, Sir S It Ossulston, Lord
Baillie, Col Goddard, A Owen, Sir J
Baker, E Godson, R Packe, C W
Baring, Hon F ' Gordon. Capt Pakington, J S
Baring, Hn WII Gore, 0J R Palmer, R
Barneoy, J Gore, 0 W Palmer, G
Barrington, Lord Goulburn, H Parker, M
Bateson, Sir IL Graham, Sir J Parker. R T
Bell, M Granby, Marquis Parker, 'l' A W
Bentiuck, Lord Grant, Hon Col Patten, .1 W
Bethell, R Greene, T , Peel, Sir R
Blackburne, I Grimstlitch, T Feel, J
Blackstone, W Grimston, Lord Pemberton. T
Blair, J Grimstoo, E II Perceval, Col
Blakeinoreo R Hale, R B Perceval, C J
Blandford, Marq Halford, H Pigot, H
Blennerhassett Harcourt, C G Planta, Rt Hn J
Arthur Harcourt, G S Polhill, F
Boldero, H G Hardinge, Sir H Pullen, Sir J W
Bolling, W . Hawkes, P Pollock, Sit F
Bradshaw, J Hayes, Sir B Powell, Col
Bramston, 'l' w Heathcote, Sir W Powerscourt
Broadley, H Henniker, Lord Lord
Broadwood, H Hepburn, Sir 'l' B Praed, W M
Browniigg, S • Herbert, Hon S Price, R
Bruce, Lit E (. Herries, J C ' Pringle, A
Bruges, W, II L ' Hill, Sir R Rae, Sir W
Buller, Sir J Y •',q, Hilborough, E Reid, Sir J It
Burdett, Sir F •,.' Hinde, J H Richards, R
Burr, R Hodgson, F Rickford, W
Burrell, Sir C Hodgson, E Rollestou, L
Burroughes, H Hogg, J W Rose, Sir G
Calcraft, JEI Homes, Hon W Round, C G
Canning, Sir S' Holmes, W Round, J
Cantelupe, Lord Hope, G W Rushbrooke, II
Cartwright; W Hotham, Lord Rushout, G
Castlereagh, Lord Houldiworth, T St. Paul, H
Chandos, Marquis Houstoun, G Sanderson, R
Chapman,:A Howard, Hon W Sandun, Lord
Chisholm, A W Hughes, W B Scarlett, Iln J Y
Chute, W L W Hurt, F - Shaw, F
Clerk, Sir G Ingestre, Lord Sheppard, T
;;Clive, Lord Vis Ingham, It. Shirley, E J
,Cdere, Hip. It H Inglis, Sir R H Sibthorp, Col
Codring,too, C W lrton, S Sinclair, Sir G
Cole. Hon A /I Irving, J Smith, A
Cole, Lord Vis Jackson, Serj Smyth, Sir G H
,C.olquhoun, J C James, Sir W C Somerset, Lord
Compton, H C Jenkins, It Spry, Sir S T
Connolly, E Jermyn, Earl Stanley, E
Coate, Sir (3 H Johnstone, H Stanley, Lord
Copeland, Ald Jones, J Stewart, John
Curry Hon H. Jones, T Stuart, El
Courtenay, P Kelly, F Stormont, Lord
Cressweli, C , Kemble; /1 Sturt, H G
Crewe, Sir G Kerrison, Sir E Srrgden, Sir E
Cripps, J Ker, D Teignmouth
Dalrymple, Sir A Kirk, P Lord
Dinner, lion D Knatchbull, lit Tennent, J E
Derby, G Hon Sir E Thomas, Col H
Darlington, Lord Knight, 11 G Thompson, Ald
Davenport, J Knightley, Sir C Thornhill, G
De Horsey, SII Lascelles, W S Trench, Sir F
Dick, Q Law, Hon C E Trevor, lion G
D'lsraeli, B Lefrov, Rt Hon T Vere, Sir C B
Dottin, Alt Liddel, Ho II T Verner, Col
Douglas, Sir C Lincoln, Earl Vernon, El
Douro, Marq of Litton, E Villi
Dowdeswell, %V Lockhart, A NI Vivian, J E
Duffield, 'l' Lowther, Col Warldingt-in, II
Dogdale, W S Lowther, Lord Wall, C B
Dunbar, G Lowther, J li Walsh, Sir
buncombe, W Lucas, E Welby, G E
Duncombe, A Lygon, Hon Gen Whitmore, T C
East, J B Mackenzie, 'l' Wilbraham. li
East nor, Lord Mackenzie, W F Williams, It
Eaton, It J Maclean, 1) Williams, 'l' P
Egerton, W 'l' Mahon, Vis Wilmot, SirJ E
Egerton, Sir P Maidstone, Via Woilehonse,,E
Egerton, Lord
Manners, Lord Wood, Cot 1
Eliot, Lord Marsland, T Wood. t'
Ellis, John Marton, G Wyndhatn, W
Esteourt, T Master, TW C Wynn, G\V
Esteourt, T Mathew, G B Wynn, Sir W W
Farnham E B Maunsell, "I' 1' , Yorke, Hon E T
, Young, J
Young, Sir W

TELLERS.
Fremantle, Sir I'.

Baring', H B

The following ntembers voted with ministers in suppo-t of the
very same resolution AGAINST which they voted on the 7th it
1835 :
Benett, J
Ferguson, Sir R
Fleetwood, El
Lemon, Sir G

Martin, 1
Pusey, P
Stewart,

',ME PEEL BANQUET,

On Saturday a sumptuous and complimentary entertainment
was given in Meichaut Tailors'-hall to Sir ltobert Peel, Batt..
by 313 Conservative members of the House of Commons, as
a mark of their admiration and respect for his personal cha-
racter and undeviating confidence in his talents, sagacity, and
prudence, as the great political leader ofthe part y. The beauti-
ful hall was tastefully decorated for the occasion, banners, with
various emblematic devices, being suspended from the roof.
The magnificent and costly service of plate, candelabra, and
other ornamental paraphernalia belonging to the ancient and
wealthy company of Merchant Tailors were displayed on the
tables. The galleries at each end were filled with ladies in
beautiful dresses, among whom were Lady and Miss Peel, the
Dowager Duchess of Richmond, the Countess of Harrowby,
the Duchess of Beaufort, Lady Jersey, Lady Catherine Jermyn,
Lady F. Egerton, Lady Wilton, Lady G. Somerset, Lady
Graham, &c.
The Marquis of Chandos officiated as chairman, supported
on the right by Sir R. Peel, Lord F. Egerton, Mr. Goulburn,
Mr. Alliston, (Master of the Merchant Tailors' Company,)
Mr. C. -Wynn, Sir Edward Sugden, Sir Henry Hardinge,
Lord Lowther, Hon. Henry Corry, Mr. G. Knight, Sir R.
Inglis, Sir R. Planta, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Lascelles :
and on the left by Lord Stanley, Lord Castlereagh, Sir James
Graham, Sir George Rose, Mr. Herries, Sir Edward Knatch-
bull, Lord Granville Suinerset, Sir S. Canning, Mr. Shaw,'
Mr. Lefroy, &c.
The health of the Queen, and the other customary loyal and
patriotic toasts having been given and drunk with appropriate
honour.
The CHAIIIIILiN then gave "The health of the Right Hon.
Sir Robert Peel; and may he long enjoy life and happiness and
rule over this Country as a minister." (The toast was drunk
with nine distinct and most hearty rounds of cheers, the ladies
in the galleries joining in the compliment by waving their
handkerchiefa.)
Sir RonEnT PEEL rose, and was greeted with renewed and
prolonged cheers—when they had subsided he spoke to the fol-
lowing effect:—Lord Chandos, and gentlemen, I am deeply
grateful for the motives which have influenced you in paying
me this ;nark of respect, unparalelled in the political annals of
this country—(cheers)--and for the corresponding feeling with
which you, gentlemen, have just received the proposition of my
noble friend. Gentlemen, I wish 1 had any command of lan-
guage, at least of appropriate and befitting language, to convey
to you the sensations which, as you must perceive, almost over-
power ine—(cheers)—but I feel that it is infinitely better to ap-
peal to your feelings for an estimate and vindication of mine—
to the consciousness of each of you that, were you placed in my.
present situation, you would rather remain perfectly silent than
try to express your gratitude by the trite and exhausted forms
of complimentary acknowledgment. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,
you have conferred upon me the highest reward that can be
conferred upon a public man, who dues aspire to distinction', but
to that distinction, and that alone, which is founded upon the
esteem and confidence of intelligent and enlightened men—
(cheers)—who is ambitions of power, but of that power only
which, having its roots in much esteem and confidence, adds
life and vigour to the authority derived from office, and does not
wither and decay when official authority is extinct. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, you have also proved to nie and others that there
are other bonds of connexion—other sympathies which unite us
besides a cold concurrence in political sentiments. You have
proved to those who are treading the rugged and laborious path
which leads to political eminence, that they may on their way
be cheered by the cordial voice of friendship, and the cheering
tones of personal attachment and esteem. (Cheers.) By this
feeling, gentlemen, you have done much more than even the
honour it confers upon me; you have given a public demon-
stration that the great object to which, for some years past, my
exertions have been mainly directed, is completely accomplished.
My object for some years past, which I have most earnestly
laboured to accomplish, has been to lay the foundation of a great
party, (cheers), which, existing in the House of Commons, and
deriving its strength from the popular, will, should diminish the
risk, and deaden the shock of a collision between the two de-
liberative branches ofthe legislature—which should enable us to
check the too importunate eagerness of well-intending men, for
hasty and precipitate changes in the constitution and laws of the
country, and by which we should he enabled to say, with a voice
of authority, to the restless spirit of revolutionary change,
Here are thy bounds, and here shall thy vibrations cease."
Gentlemen, I was deeply impressed with a conviction of the
necessity of forming such a party from the period when a great
change was made in the representative system of the country;
and 1 am confident that those who were the most convinced of
the abstract merits of that change, who saw its absolute neces-
sity in the progess of events, and the change of public opinion,
would now admit (because I heard them admit it at the time)
that although a necessary, still it was a fearful experiment—
that there was a danger that the great shock given to prescrip-
tive authority might lead to too hasty prescriptive and irrational
future changes—that those who were strongest in good intentions
might, in their too sanguine hopes of reaching a species of per-
fection which could not be aaltainable—that there was i risk
that those who had become possessed of a new power might
think it useless if permitted to remain quiescent, and if not
brought into constant and daily exercise. Gentlemen, that con-
viction led me to the conclusion that it was necessary, by
prudence, by patience, by assuming a new position, by the re-
jection of the old tactics of party suited to other times, and
adapted to other circumstances—that it was desirable at that
time to form a party whose bond of connexion should be the
maintenance of that particular measure of reform, but a deter-
mination to resist further constitutional changes—(cheers)—
chan,es having a tendency to disturb the balance of a mixed
government. There were at that time in operation other causes
which powerfully and mainly influenced the changes of opinion
which so rapidly took place with respect to the necessity of re-
form. There had lately been exhibited to the empire those
events which in France, in three short days, had trampled to
the dust an ancient dynasty, and haul shown physical power
triumphant over constituted authority, hut of those who had
resorted to a system of violation of all law and order. Gentlemen,
I did not disguise to myself the difficulties attending the forma-
tion of such a party. Our own party had been reduced" by the
reform act to little more than one hundred members—at least,
I believe that in the session which followed the passing of the
LAI
,p ~t more than 100 voted with me on any great oc-
casion, but I did nut despair. ( urieer,) ci..•tioien,),.,w count •
I dispair—(cheers)—acting as I was in intimate concert and
union with that illustrious man—(lond cheers )—t he Duke of
Wellington, whose name does not shed a lustre merely upon a
party, or upon the country which be has defended, but sheds a
lustre upon the age in which he lives ? (Loud cheers.) Acting
in intimate union with that man, who has exhibited through his
life a conjunction of qualities, rare in their separate excellence,
but which are wonderful in their combination—that man who
is not without ambition, but is without the ills that attend it—
who would highly but holily asoire—who has shown at dif-
ferent periods of his life, both in military and civil affairs,
a combination of the utmost fortitude amid valour, with the
greatest circumspection and prudence—acting in concert with
such a man I could not despair. Gentlemen, I need not speak
of the military career of the Duke of Wellington, hut I may
remind you that it was he who in civil life stood forward to
assume, on his own undivided responsibility, the whole func-
tions of government fur the purpose of exhibiting an instance
of self-denial without a precedent, and who has at other times,
when a sense of public duty impelled hitn, had the real courage
to assume and maintain a defensive attitude, and it I may so
say, to retire within those moral lines which are forfeited by
circumspection and prudence. Aided by his authority and his
approbation, I looked forward ultimately to the formation of
such a party as now exists. I (lid believe that the good sense of
time country would at length place confidence in a party which
did not profest hostility to improvement, but which manifested a
determination to abide by the leading principles of the British
constitution. Gentlemen, allow me to say that 1 did look with
confidence to the ultimate formation of that nappy union which
now exists between us and the men to whom we were formerly
opposed. I looked forward to it with confidence, because
relied upon their adherence to the principles which they pro-
fessed—because I heard them say, and I believed them, that
they desired that reform should he according to the acknow-
ledged principles of the constitution—because I heard them
declare that they would not assent to it if they believed it in-
compatible with the maintenance of the prerogatives of the
crown and the privileges of the other house of parliament. I
looked to it with confidence, because I heard them declare that,
in their opinion, reform would add new stability to the settled
institutions of the country in church and state. I did think,
without personal acquaintance with their views, that the union
which must be formed would not be the result of conferences—
not the offspring of negotiations—(cheers and laughter)—but a
union about which nothing would ever he (as nothing has to
this hour ever been) said, but which should originally be
brought about by the force of circumstances and by a sense of
common danger, and which, having been formed, would after-
wards be cemented by mutual co-operation and reciprocal con-
fidence and assent. And here, gentlemen, was the difficulty
that I saw, the man who was then chief pride, and ornament,
and mainstay of that party, which he has since vacated—

experto cl-edite quantus
In elypeum essurgat, quo turbine torqueat hastam.
--(Cheers.) I knew the sacrifices that man would be called
upon to make. I was the man who could say how painful it
was to separate from all party associations. I could tell what a
sacrifice it was to forego all party connections, from an over-
powering sense of public duty. I knew that all our hopes are
not bounded by the prospects of. official life, but I knew how
painful it was to observe the averted eye, or experience the
alienated regard of personal friends, whom we sincerely loved.
I knew that that sacrifice they would he called upon to make,
without the prospect of the generous return which I myself had
experienced; but I had that confidence in their acuteness which
assured me that it would enable them to discriminate between
the path which leads to improvement, and that which conducts
to revolution ; and I hail that confidence in their integrity
and moral courage that convinced me that when the de-
termination was once made, office, friendship, party. con-
nection—all would be sacrificed rather than they would lend
their aid to any attempt to undermine the protestant establish-
ment of this country. or disturb our mixed goyernmeut and
limited monarchy. Gentlemen, as I said before, without con-
ference, without any other negotiation than that which led to
the rejection of office, when they removed from office, that union
has been formed, and I think I may say that the anticipations
1 hail formed—the hopes which I had entertained—that,
being once formed, it would gain strength from reciprocal es-
teem and confidence, are fully justified by
existence, and
result. 'Thus,
gentlemen, has this party been brought
have this day given this evidence of its strength.
to
oltd
eh
taesr beenm n e
submitted twice to the test of public opinion—twice has a disso-
lution taken place under circumstaes calculated
which
took
place when
whether that party has or has not the public confidence. One
dissoluticn took place when it was in power, and the other when
itwoal ri,tl
en ts. bower,
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st
th other s
,•)hleurtri
hr as in the hands of
its s
I was at the head of the government of the country, the conser-
vative members were suddenly swollen front about 150 to more
than douLle the number. I believe we divided on the nomination
of the speaker 306 members, but it was said, "You Owe your
success to the possession of power—wait till another dissolution
takes place—till your opponents are exercising the functions of
gevernmeut, which you were discharging when parliament was
assembled in 1835, and be prepared for a reduction of your num-
bers mare rapid still than this increase." Gentlemen, to that
second test we have been subjected. The dissolution took place
in the course of last year was attended by every circumstance
calculated to be favourable to our opponents. There was the
accession of a youthful and beloved Queen. There one ni-
versal feeling of a personal loyalty and attachment towas the Souve-
reign ascending the throne with everything calculated to pre-
, possess in her favour. There was a lavish use of her Majesty's
name for the purpose of influencing elections—(loud cheers;)
there was a happy coincidence of fortunate events for the govern-
ment; we had public despatches, approving of the conduct of
public officers, printed and circulated on the eve of a general
election—(cheers and laughter ; ) there was no fastidious deli-
cacy in the choice of candidates—(laughter)—for the hustings
at Westminster exhibited the spectacle of a secretary of .state
c•,ting in favour of one who had defended insurrection in
Canada, and espoused the cause of the Canadians in their
revolt. And vet, notwithstanding all these favourable circum-
stances—not withstanding the accession of her Majesty—not-
withstanding the unsparing use of her name—notwithstanding
the eh:wove of all squeamishness—still the result exhibited our
numbers unbroken, and as we voted in 1835 to the number of
WI, having all the advantagesof a dissolution during the tenure
of government, I think the names attached to the rwvitation of
this eventing, the oames of 313 members of the [louse of Com-
mons, will show that, not withstandtug the adverse re redictions •