State journal & flag., 1846-10-02

assist and second their efforts and ian the, generous flame. (Cheers.) feel that now above all others, is the time for those who are entrusted with the responsibilities of gov. ernment to do every thing in their power to open the way for all that can improve the condition and elevate the character of our people. (Cheers) No nobIer task can be yet before them. hope they will be found faithful 10 lhe great principles which have hitherto guided their political and public conduct; that it will make it their duty to waica with jealous care the opportunities which may afford themselves of carrying further the sacred principles of civil and re. ligious freedom. (Cheers.) I hope that they will make il a prominent object of their care to find clue, if possible, 10 the disor- ders and mseries which have long afflicted our Irish fellow-countrymen (hear, hear ! and that they will feel iD every department of affairs which some under their cogn. zance, that the government is trust in their hands for the good of the many that it is only by consulting the universal interests of the nation that they can hope either to sat. sfy their own consciences or obtain a per feet acquital at the bar of thet public opin- ion which, again repeat, must now be the sovereign arbter of cabinets and nations. (Hear. hear.) But feel that the time es- pecially is come for discharging the old and worn-out yocabularies of party warfare-of dismssing mere nomical political by words, and see who can do the most, and who can do the best, to call out all the resources and good qualities and increase the happiness and virtues of the great British empire. Cheers It would seem to me that all the countries which have occupied the leading places in the annals of mankind have been distinguished by some peculiar and overrul- ing bent and tendency. In ancient history, if may carry you back so far, the Greek people appear to have been addicted to what. ever was pure in taste and perfect in art. They listened in their theatres to masterpie- ces of composition. Their orators have left models of perfect eloquence to all succeed ing time; and they were for ever intent up. on adding frieze to the temple or stat. ute 10 the portico. The Romans said that they left to others the breathing brass and the living marble; they were intent on feats of arms, and the extension of their domin-
 
 nation seems 10 have combined taste for the decorative arts with a taste for military glory. Now cannot accuse ourselves of any deficiency in our disposition to add to our territories. Clear, hear.) do not wish this country,,to be indifferent to the cul. ure of high art; because I believe that beauty in all it's forms appeals to the mo- best impulses of the human soul. What do desire with the most fervent feeling is, that the peculiar glory of England in com ing generations may be social, and intel lectual, and moral glory (cheers,) the glo- ry of laws made more equal in practice as well as in theory (cheers,) of institutions made more enlightened, both in their gener. al and in their special application; the glory of descending into the receplacles of suffer ing, oi filth, of ignorance, and of crime, in order that, by descending we may raise and clense and illumine and amend-the glory of industry, whether in agricultural or manufacturing pursuits encouraged, - of commerce exiended,-of education made universal-the glory of drying the tears, of brighlening the hopes, of eevating the char. acter. of recasting the destiny of man of making fieedom the guarantee of order federation the alley of religion-govern- ment the object of iove-and law the help mate of virtue.
 "These arts still peace to happy Britain brings,
 These are imperial arts and worthy kings"