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subject of the Corn-laws, for if they
)ri the success of ti

ated from the ad-

gt have diss
s opinion, all laws relating to the it

so as to interfere as little
With respect to

as possible with the usual cow.

of trade

the treaty with the United States of America, I

it had been ratified. With reference to the
in the Speech to the liberality of Parliament en-

the Government to bring the hostilities in China and
e, he must say that he did not know of
_ n the part of the Parliament, unless,
ection between the Chinese war and Par-

*ghanistan to a clo

any act of libera

indeed, this con

city was meant as an indirect compliment

to the income tax

The Duke of WELLINGTON said be bad hoped that the
tenor of the speech from the Throne would have rendered it
unnecessary for him to have addressed their lordships, but
he felt himself called upon to reply to some observations
which had just fallen from the noble marquis. He was sur-
prised at any allusion to the conduct of the war, as if nothing
had been done more than would have been done by their pre-
decessors. They had carried on war all over the world with
a peace establishment, and the noble marquis therefore con-
cluded that the present Government would do just the same ;
but the present Government did no such thing, The war
with China he believed to be a just and necessary war on the
part of the Government of this country ; but, if it had been
otherwise, it had been only entered upon on the score of the
robbery of opium, finding the country embarked in it, and
the honour of the country involved in its successful issue, he
should have considered it his duty to use every effort to carry
success, and to ask Parliament for assistance for
This was the course which he had pursued,
the part of her Majesty.
_ nistan, he was prepared
ssued by the Governor-General of

that purpose

to be a j

With respect to theaffairs of Aff

to justify every order
India up to the present

with the United
States, the conclusion of which gave him the most heartfelt

T .nrri - 1

3ROUG-HA.VI deft

e treat

and leas

rred to

ared, that great

anted down (that

f the incendiary

-ned lord then dwelt at
irtvalent in France and

of search proposed

by Great Britai❑ to those powers with the view of abolishing

greed to

g teelin

French

ns of Lord Palmerston

Lord AUCKLAND defended th

se he had pursued. He
General of India

ated the idea of a recent Govern

Jught that neither

_
attacking his successor as unseemly, at
should indulge in terms to the disparagement

or depreciation

Lord ASIIBURTONT

;led the tr,

aty with the United

debate had extended

intended amendment, and

otion for a corn-

ke into its serious considera

conditi,

ive classes, with a

)n the 1

view to

ide for

—...p of EXETER said that Great Btitain was now
Jr the first time to be introduced to China as a great and
powerful country, and he hoped that advantage would be
taken of such an event to make it known to the Chinese as a

eople and to the
The Bis

Direment of their condition

Christian country also.
The address was then agreed to, and their lordships ad-

ourned