Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-18
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THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH Is, 1890.
State of Engiand.-The late arrival ut New York
brings intelligence not only Of late date, but of the
highest interest. Parliament mot on the 4th Feb.
and the Kings speech, like the Kings Speech always
isis comprised of few unsatisfactory gencralities
The condition of England however, az disclosed in
the debates i'll both Houses. indicates commercial
sagnation and general distress beyond perhaps, oil
former precedent, and in spite of the singular fact
stated in the Kings Speech, that the expectation
of British product and manufacture for the last year.
exceeded oil former example.
The closing paragraph in the Kings Speech is in
tercsting. as proving the serious prevalence of the
opinion, that some adjustment, THAT is the word)
ought 10 be forced upon the public creditors The
meaning of the expression is. that the Public Debt
has arrived at such magnitude to make the pay
ment of interest ruinous upon the subject g. that
the time is not remote when 1t will be impossible
Writers of great power taking this ground, which
the Quarterly Review itself half conntenunces.
The public debt of England has exercised the spec
ulation and the vaccinations Of half century.it is
apparent that it cannot be much longer dragged
by her, and that the failure of single crop will be
enough to produce fiscal if not political revo
tons.
| In the House Of Lords the address was moved by
the young Duke of Bucclesch Earl Stanhope pre-
faced motion to amend the address, by the follow
ing observations. 1--WE copy fromthe Timcsl
| Earl STANIiOPE said he should have thought it
base dercciion of his duty, he the present
occasion to abstain from declaring that the country
was under the deepest and most universal state OF dis
tress one likely to be unequaed in its DURATION it
was lntolerable III its pressure, unless Parliament
thought fit to inquire for n remedy. He would ask
their lordships, then, whether under such circum-
Stances the present address of the noble duke was
that which they ought TO be called upon adopt. He
would ask any rational man who had heard the speech
delivered by the Kings Ministers, if he prepared
to rest the state of the country upon what that
position had disclosed. He did not wish to speak
disrespcctfuly of any speech from the throne but he
could not help saying, that more napt, more in
appropriate, less satisfactory had been deli
vered before any public assembly. With reference
to what was said in that clause of the speech which
alluded to the prevalence of distress in 'some parts
country, he should content himself with asking
in what part of the country had the ministers tailed
to find distress, not partial but general Where was
the terra incognita into which this distress did not
penstrates When allusion was made in the speech
to the expectation tho application of some proposed
remedy, he found the following paragraph:-"His
Majesty is impressed with the necessity Of acting
with extreme caution in reference 10 this important
subject His Majesty feels assured that you will con-
cur with him in assigning due weight to the effect of
unfavorable seasons and to the operation of other
causes, which are beyond the reach Legislative
troll or remedy" Really, this apprehension of seek.
ing remedy, after going some length in admitting the
evil, appeared TO him very odd. 1t was in plain En-
gsh to tell Parliament, stake you do look
for any relief; you are in the river, know, and
take you do not attempt to save yourself from
being drowned" The people would not endure this
species of advice, and more particularly at a moment
when they such combination of causes in ope-
ration to produce Distress and only met by the tender
of consolation that the evils were only temporary
This that mi he
only Of temporary duration, not new they had
often had it before, and found beed by subsequent
events. They had heard the same thing more than
once in the Retaphotic language that the sky was
deiormed by clouds, which would soon pass over,
when the would reappear with its previous radi-
ance; when, in the result, it their misfortune to
find the atmosphere backencd, Ito see it as it
was now, when every man of common sense knew il
to be overshadowed. II was under these circum-
stances that they not to feel despondency and
this was the time when they were assembled to hear
such extraordinary and inexcusable enunciations.
The noble duke at the head of the Government must
surely be better acquainted with the country than to
give credit to such delusve opinions. He must be
acquainted at least with the general nature and pres
sure of the public distress. He had last year
much of tho expression OF the general feeling though
operating then with different view and this year it
had been pressed upon his official attention by repre-
sensations coming from various parts ofthe country
from county meetings, which, however, the noble duke
at time thought TO be nothing more than a farce,
to the proceedings of another assembly, which de-
bntod at great distance from their present place OF
meeting. He regretted to find that no hope ofnqui-
ny was held out in the speeches of the noble mover
and sccondor No rclefwas to be expressed for their
dstresses-no promise given which could convey
consolation to the sufferers. He regretted this cir
cumstance eXtremely-indeed he regretted IL for the
sake of the noble dukes administrations for in this
manner he never could expect safely TO govern The
country. With the rest of the country, he felt Just
admiration for the noble dukes former fameor that
great reputation which he had more than any other
man, acquired in the service OF his country,--whicl
had placed him on pinnacle higher than that of any
OF his predecessors; yet OF what was this glory
if were to be furnished by bad civil administration
of the national affairs Tie had found the vessel of
state surrounded with rocks and qucksands, and
though he took the helm no had consented to steer
the hazardous course-to perscvere in the same
system-to adopt oil the evils and follow the same
perncious views which had brought tho vessel of the
state into danger What were the achievements
which tho noble duke meant TO OF against this per
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