The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-23


speech, which was upon the Manchester Gasllght
bill, Hansard, the chronicer OF Parliament, says
that Mr.. Stanley addressed the House sin maiden
speech Of much clearness and ability" Following
up the success which attended his first effort he soon
attained q high reputation as a debater, and took
rank among the most prominent leaders in the Wing
opposition to the then ministry of Lord Liverpool.
In 1926 his constituency was transferred to the
borough OF Preston Lanca shire, and on the llth OF
March in the following year he entered upon Gov
ernment office, becoming UndeT-Secretary for the
Colonies in the administration of Canning, This
ofce he continued to hold after Canning's death,
retaining it until the dissolution of the Goderich
(Ear Of Ripon) Cabinet in January, 1928. The three
years of the Wellington government which followed
this change found Mr.. Stanley among theldrst and
most eloquent of the prominent men who then sat in
the House Of Commons. III 1880, when the reform
Cabinet of Lord Grey was formed, he accepted the
position Of Chief Secretary OF Ireland, involving
great labor and responsibility together with seat
in the Cabinet, an honor which is rarely united with
that appointment Being required, according to the
custom, to resign his seat in Parliament and go be-
fore his Preston constituents for reelection he did
so and sustained defeat at the hands of the radical
agitator, Henry Hunt; but he was soon after re-
turned for the borough Of Windsor, on the retire
ment Of Sir Hussey Vivian. He continued to repre-
sent this borough until 1892 when he secured seat
for one Of the divisions of Lancashire
In the great Parliamentary struggle of 1892 O.
which resulted in the passage of the reform BILL the
church temporalties bill, and the bill to establish
national education in Ireland, Mr. Stanley took q
brilliant and effective part His speeches duriag
that stormy session. in reply to the fierce assaults OF
Daniel OConnell, Richard Labor Shell, and others,
are splendid efforts of parliamentary eloqueuce. In
1888 Mr. Stanley exchanged the troublesome office of
Chief Secretary for Ireland for that of Secretary of
State for the Colonies. He was nominated to this
post with the special object of carrying the abolition
of slavery in the West Indies, which was effected
under his auspices.
In the following year, on the death of his grand
father and the succession of his father to the earl
dom he became known by the courtesy title of Lord
Stanley and in the same year retired from the Cab
net in company wi h Sir James Graham the Earl of
Rpon, and the Duke Of Richmond, in consequence
of his and his three colleagues with
the ministerial proposition to appropriate the surplus
funds of the Irish Church Establishment for secular
education
In the brief administration of Sir Robert Peel Dec.
1884, to April, 1885, Lord Stanley refused to take
Office. But long before the SIX years OF the Whig
dominion under Lord Melbourne had elapsed, he and
| his followers, facetiousy known as ''the Canning
! eaven OF the Wing administration" were found
voting steadily with the conservative opposition, as
avowed members Of the conservative party. In 1871
the Wings went out of office, ana Sir Robert Peel
| formed cabinet in which Lord Stanley occupied
| seat as Colonial Secretary.
| In 1874, while his father was still living, he was
| summoned by writ to the House OF Peers as Baron
| Stanley of Bckerstafie and assumed the leadership
| of the conservative party in that body. When Sir
Robert Peel resolved, in 1Si5, to adopt freetrade
| policy and remove prohibitive duties on foreign
grain and breadstufs, Lord Stanley left the Cabinet
and became the leader of the protectionist oppo-
| ston.
| When in December 1S45, Sir Robert rendered his
| resignation to the Queen, Lord Stanley was invited
by her Majesty, at the instance of Lord John RUSSELL
to form protectonist Cabinet but he resolutey de-
| n1;,o, n,rip acfNy pf
Russels tenure of the premiership, Lord Stanley
! added to his already high fame an orator and
| statesman by his frank manly and magnanmous
course the leader OF the opposition in the hered
tary branch of the legislature. His speech the
! Irish poor laws in 1919, his speech on the
| affairs of Greece in 1850, and his famous
| explanation of the reasons why he declined
| the premiership when offered to him in Feb
mary, 1851, when Lord John Russes minis
| try were defeated in the Houte of Commons on
Mr.. Locke Kings motion for an extension of the
! franchise, are among the most remarkable Of his
! forensic Efforts
"On June 3O 1851 on the death of his father at the
advanced age of 6 he succeeded to the earldom and
the vast ancestral estates in England aud Ireland
which attached to it. On February 90 1852 Lord
John Russell having sustained another defeat on the
! Militia bill, Lord Derby was again called by the
Queen to construct Cabinet, and succeeded in per
forming the task within week after the overthrow
of the Whig chieitan In July of the same year
| Parliament was dissolved, and the new Parliament
! assembled in December. On one of the first test
divisions the ministry were defeated by majority OF
10 in unusually full house, and after ten months
tenure of Office they succeeded by the so-called
coalition Cabinet of which the Earl of Aberdeen was
the head. When in his turn this aforementioned no.
/ beman was driven from power, the seals OF once
! were again offered to and declined by Lord Derby
and finally entrusted TO the care Of Lord Pamerston
who continued TO hold them until 1858, when by the
Fn I,,r NH
thrown six years before, Palmerston was defeated
! by the adoption OF Mr.. Miner Gibsons amendment
| ON the second reading OF the Conspiracy to AIur-
! der bill.
on the resignation OF Lord Pamerston, Lord Derby
| was again summoned into the presence of the
Queen, and entrusted by her with the formation of
! Cabinet. In June, 1859, the Derby ministry was
again Overthr0wn, sustaining defeat in the House
of Commons by majority OF thirteen, on a vote OF
want of confidence having Just previously dissolved
Parliament and made an appeal to the country
Lord Palmerston was in consequence restored to
the premiership, with Mr. Gladstone as Chancellor OF
the Exchequer. on the 18th or March, 1866, Mr.
/ Gladstone introduced in the House of Commons his
first Reform bill. on the motion for a second read
ing Of this bill, the Government was sustained by a
bare majority Of five votes and was subsequently
! defeated by majority OF eleven, on q successful
amendment affecting the scope of the proposed en-
franchisement This defeat forced the Wing Min
istry, OF which Lord John Russell Became the head
| in october, 1866 in consequence of Lord Palmer
stons death, to resign ana the seals of olce were
again entrusted to the hands of Lord Derby. During
the seven years Which he had passed the opposition
benches, Mr.. Dsrae gradually rose to the position
of actual leader OF the Conservatives although the
venerable nobleman who mad so long sWayed the
councils of the party was still its ostenslble haad