Butte record., 1856-04-05
The Queens Speech.

taken, and Lhz! IL IS the AAles mo sue
for Peace.
The Earl Of Derby made most ras
ping, numerous and eloquent speech on
the 3lst of January, in which he re-
viewed the Queens speech without mer-
cy. We quote from his remarks the fol-
lowing excessively rich passages:
Ny Lords, l 60 along with the adj
ess in answer to that which, in consti-
tuional phrase, l must call her Majes-
ty's most gracious speech; but, having
said so, | must be permitted to deal with
that speech as it is, and not as it is not
Ia laugh to deal with it as the
speech of the Ministers, and not as the
speech of our gracious sovereign | must
venture to say that of all the documents
of this kind that ever came under my OBJ
servation, never met with one that
could SO little pretend TO the graces of
diction, or even to the intelligible con-
veyance of information to the House. -
(Laughter.) OF course, l ain ignorant
by whom the paragraphs relating to the
war may have been framed bat if they
were the suggestion Of my noble friend
opposite, TO whose department they prin-
cipally belong, it must have been at the
close of one of those exhausting attacks
to which he as we'll as | am unlortu-
nately subject "a laugh or under
the influence net more exhiliaraiing Of
that meagre diet which is their necessary
accompaniment. A langh.) The
speech is redolent of water gruel.-
Great laughter.) 1t reminds me Of
nothing more than those documents
which in our early school days we were
accustom d to prepare, and which went
by the name of 'thcmrs," in the COM
position OF which the object to ac>
complish the allotted task, ard fill up the
six-and-thirty lines of writing, taking
special care not to exceed the allotted
limit, but within that limit TO dilute,
with the largest possible amount of feeble
and unmeaning language. the smallest
modicum of sense. (Laughter.)
But we are told in the speech fron
the throne that, '.Since the close of the
last session of Parliament, Sevastopol,
the great stronghold of Russia in th"
Black Sea, has yielded to the perseverins
constapcy and to the daring bravery Of
the ALI forees;" and we are now asked
to thank her Majesty for giving US this
information inf ,rma'ion which, for the
last three months, has b en- notorious all
over the world. "a laugh-) Within
that time information Of that fact, 50 far
as IL IS a fact-Jecausc unhapp3ty 1t IS not
q fact laughter might be derived
from the columns Of any new>p per
Unhapp ly it is not a fact. ''Sevaso-
pol, the great stronghold Of Ru sia in the
Black Sea-" has not yielded TO Your
|. valor and to your daring, whatever that
valor and during may have ben 1t is
true that, by mp 'rallelod ac!ievem. nts
you have succeeded in forcing portion
, of that stronghold You have DESTROYED
the feet of Russia-or, at least, she has
destroyed them herself and has saved
you the trouble. (''Hear, )" and laugh J
You have blown up, or are blowing up,
those splendid docks which were IN "a
cles of art, ofperseverance, and of skill
but ''the great stronghold of Russia"
still holds you at defiance. In front Of
that stronghold upon the northern coast,
beleaguered rather than beleaguering,
lie your armies at this moment, lille
your fleets are floating at respectful
distance from that stronghold which you
declare has yielded to the perseyering
constancy and to the d tring bravery Of
the lied forces. Although, therefore,
: [ am ready to congratulate her Majesty.
as we are invited to do, upon the sue
cess which has been attained, | must yet
!, say that the fist paragraph Of the speech
: contains an erroneous statement, and
that the great stronghold of Russia has
not yielded to the daring and valpr of
your troops, however great and daring
that valor may have ben. (Hear,
hear My lords, rtjoice to learn That
the naval and military preparations for
the ensuing year have occupied the Sc
rious attention of her Majesty's govern
ment must conf IS that, whatever
hope of peace | may have entertained,
or may entertain, as the result Of these
negotiations, have no: derived any en-
couragement to look for a satisfactory
issue from the language which has been
held by my noble friend who opened the
debate, and by The noble Earl who sec
onded the address BIth those noble
lords expressed considerable doubt as to
the issue Of the negotiations which are
now in progress; and [ concur with them
that, while We should welcome, and cor>
daily welcome, in the interest of Europe,
any peace which would effectually attain
those objects for which we originally
went to war, it will be a permanent dis
grace to this country if we accept any
peace which should fall short of the full
accomplishment of those objects. re-
Joice that, while We are not declining
overtures of peace, we are making effec-
tive preparations for war, Hear, hear;)
and, although fear that the noble Earl
has, to a certain degree, overrated the
state of exhaustion and difficulty and dis
tress of our greet foe, yet believe he
has not overrated the amount-the for
midable amount--of the preparations
which we are making, and which my =