The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-16

career In the year lB4l / was az Leamngton; and
septem Der, when there ieli upon me one Of the
West blows that can visit any mi man nv hnnse Snsu bSs
motherless child. Mr. Golden called upon the day
so some conversaon he said aDon allow this
grief great as It Is to weigh gon d0Tn of tGS So nc m
this country wives and children who are & &dying 6 01
nnngS With e We viii never rest I'M we have goE rid
of the Corn Laws" loud and prolonge cheeIsl we
every part OF the nation and we thought % we saw iae
true remedy ana Ine M Tegi anS a o eS Know h19dpes
and thousands OF good men IN various parts Of the
afford that relief to the starving people Of this
country
Mr.. Bright next spoke of the struggle for
abOlishiOg the taxes on newspapers IN Whlch
he and his friends were successful. OF the sig
ni6cance of this success he remarks:-
say that the repeal Of the taxes on newspapers
1 3 not 9en single Via age ' IN the e." UHed Kingdom in
which the average Intelligence Of the people mas not
,Ot his efforts IN behalf of the transfer of the
Government of East India from private COM
pany to the Grown, he says:-
I was against the Company and insisted that thai
Governments Of india SO long as India was a depen-
Crown and that there should be in this country an
ment
He always demanded justice for Ireland.
There is party in England which speaks of justice
to Ireland as II merely catch phrase tor the
ear Now 1 shf Sd 5 @qo 10 Sustain s in S
a foreign and hostile Church, and to condscate
to that Church, and that Church incosng within
peopef s say that t is an sc1 Of nustioe such as
believe statesmanship or misstateemanship has never
sSd say SThe hss to Maintain laws wScS are
ho @ H s o. as 6eh
the last two hundred years. is 10 perpetuate the
soil, and to create and make perpetual paupersm and
discontent u that were done in Poland In Hungary.
N AL no in
huence Of a conquering Government, believe there
not have been ready to condemn such state of
things. (Cheers.) | have raised my voice on
sion-ag'aInst q state Of things which IS absolutely
He next refers briefly to his speeches against
the existence of the laws favoring the preserva-
tion of game; for the abolition of capital pan.
lshment; Tor the restriction OF the immense
land monopoly; against intervention in behalf
OF the Turks; in favor of permanent peuce
with France; and "Of the most cordial friend
ship with the English nation beyond the Allan
tic" He then passes over to his efforts in the
reform question, OF which he speaks as follows:
There is one thing It is true that regret in this
attended any efforts that have been able to make
when ask very reasonable thing that the millions
Chamber which for 50 many hundreds Of years has has
called itself the Commons OF England, when ask
would be GOOD thing for the United Kingdom, GS and d
sSq ene GE Fse M that t they SHOULD
years has been welded by a ciass-when say this
IH
falsehood and malice which know scruple and
which, III not supported by the honest sympa-
thies of millions of my countrymen, might overwhem
s 10 csnge Il
dynasty IL is not TO seize the property of the lit
is not to give to ignorance and vice the disposition
of great national affairs but it Is to give to
Parliament from that source from which its only
power can be received, SO that Parliament may
haye the power to remedy abuses which are acknow-
LEGGED TO exist OH every nand in the departments and
the legislation of the State. Parliament has not
power now to save the public money. We would
give power to save The public money; to make
law something felt justice and benevolence through
out the whole and and also that 1t should be able
raise the people to the highest level of comfort and
instruction, of morality and freedom.
His views on Reform are now the same as
before, aud he believes it to be necessary for
the House of Commons, necessary for every
institution OF the country, and as absolutely
necessary for the contentment of the people,
After the conclusion of the speech, which lasted
more than an hour, the following resolution was
adopted:- l..- o" ~.
That this meeting, regarding Parliamentary reform
as the political question OF the day. thoroughly APP
proves Mr. Brght's course in reference 20 It, and
assures him of its hearty sympathy and pledges itself
to give him and his colleague its earnest support until
ngood, honest, and substantial Reform bill becomes
the law of the land. ~