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    formation of the ' cabinet , on the principle he had stated ,, some were obliged to be self-denying , ; and to give up personal considerations and claims ; the policy of the cabinet was embodied in two simple words , " peace and reform ; " words dear . to every thinking man , and of sufficient import to make every well-wisher to his country offer up a prayer that it might be in the power of the cabinet to accomplish the ends they had in view . ( Cheers . ) With regard to the state of affairs abroad , he said , much depended upon France . If the Emperor did withdraw his armies after effecting the deliverance of the Italian people , the present struggle would not have been in vain ; but if , on the other hand , he became heated with the love of war and conquest , and , flushed with the idea that he was a great general , pushed the war

    At Morpeth , Sir Geohge Grey reiterated the declaration of his colleagues as to neutrality , and said that whatever might be the course of business during the present session , he hoped and trusted and believed that at the earliest period , consistently with their duty to the country , the Government' would be prepared to deal with the question of Parliamentary reform . Mr . Whitb-read , at Bedfor J , has been opposed by Captain Polhii-l TtmxEit , and a very large number of persons assembled to hear their addresses . Mr . Whitbread observed that it was said that , in the opposition of the Liberal party to Lord Derby ' s Government , they acted unjustly and unpatriotically , and that it was not wise on their part , to leave the

    course you cannot ( a voice , ' You don't care * and considerable laughter , in which the right lion , baronet joined ) suppose that I can tell you . It must be the abject of early and serious deliberation among those who compose the present Cabinet . That Cabinet comprehends Lord John Russell , Mr . Cobden , and Mr . Gibson ( a voice , ' Where ' s Bright ? ' ) , and I think you may look at this as a common security , independently of our own opinion , that the bill "will not be of a retrograde nature like the last . " The re-election of Mr . Sydney Herbert gave him the opportunity of assuring the public that the present Government do not intend to relax the wise measures of defence which have been commenced . He remarked ,

    " I have heard it said that great armaments and great defences imply upon the part of those who forward them some covert intentions at some future time of making war . I utterly deny that proposition . We are to use what is commonlycalled amoral influence inEurope and no country exercises a greater influence than England . But when you speak of moral influence , depend upon it there must be something behind which is more than moral . If you are to give advice , and make it respected , it must be understood that you are strong ; and , in my opinion , any Government would be guilty of a great dereliction of duty which did not press forward the utmost preparations for the national defence . On the sea , which is the chief defence of

    England , the greatest exertions must be made . That is our first line , and it is a line which ought never to be broken y but if it be broken then we must fall back upon our second line—namely , the defences we can make upon our own shores : How , I hope there will be no mistake upon this subject . I allude to it because there have been rumours spread abroad i founded upon the grossest , the most absurd mistakes , that the Government will be disposed , in order to reduce the expenditure , to reduce also the preparations for national defence : It is an entire this moment will

    mistake , and I believe that at you find that , so farfiom any preparations being relaxed , every effort is being made for the purpose of putting the country into a proper and safe state of defence . " At Edinburgh the new . Lord Advocate , Mr . Mowcrieff , alluded very slightly to reform . He said that great question , was plainly now on the eve of being settled , and it seemed to him that the late discussions had made the path of settlement a very plain and easy one . Abroad there were heavy Clouds looming , and the banks of the Ticino and the Mincio presented a snectacle which it was denlorable H j ^ ± g £ \ s ¦ ^/ » y jt ^ * J ^ *«• V ^ rf ^ A fcJV ^ J ' r ^^ vfc ^^ rfi * - ^ »»•— — - » .. — — — - -- — — — -

    to think" should be presented in the present age . Hfr trusted that the strong hands in which the country had now placed the reins of power would be able before long to bring back peace to Europe . He concluded by referring to his own appointment as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Edinburgh regiment of volunteer rifles , and by expressing his approbation of the movement going on over the country , because for years he had thought it neither patriotic nor right that we should depend on our small standing army for protection in any sudden exigency that might arise , and that we should be the only nation iu Europe npt in a position to fight for our homes and our country .

    coxintry without responsible advisers when the sound of war had broken upon our shores . But who , let him ask , had , under similar circumstances , left the country without a Parliament ? Who , he should like to know , had hung so despairingly to office as to have rendered necessary not alone the recent general election but that in which he was now engaged ?—¦ Captain Polhill then powerfully criticised all the recent appointments of " round men for square holes , " which have been remarked in the new Ministry ; He . added that Lord Palmerston Tas the most indiscreet Minister who had ever held office in this country . It w , however , idle to complain . He was , perhaps , as a consequence , a Premier all the more fit to preside over the deliberation of such a Cabinet as that ' which he

    had got together . At Newcastle , Mr . IlEADtiii vindicated his conduct on taking office under Lord Palmerston . He had taken office with Lord John Russell , Mr . Milner Gibson , and other Liberals , and it was absurd to think , because he differed from Lord Palmerston on one occasion—viz ., in voting against the Conspiracy Bill—that he should refuse to agree with that statesman upon any subject ever after . His opponents might as well argue that Mr . Walpole , Mr . Henley , and other leading members of the late Derby

    Government should have refused to take office m opposition to Lord Palmerston because they had urged him to bring in that identical bill . The right hon . gentleman ' s opponent , Mr . Cuthbeht , said he was not fond of the ballot , nor , indeed , was Lord Palmerston . In all questions of religious toleration he was thoroughly liberal . Since he last addressed the electors the condition of continental affairs had become more alarming . He alluded to the attitude asstimed by Prussia towards the belligerents .

    Betweeu rue Oovernroeiro oi . uuru isvrvy nut * « " « = *¦ » ««» - sian Government a most cordial feeling had existed ; but what confidence could tlie Prince of Prnssia have in Lord Palmerston , who had truckled to the Emperor of France . At Xew Radnor , onTucsda . r , SirGiiORGK C . Lewis bored his unfortunate constituents with a very long and heavj- disquisition on the state of parties , and reasons why Lord Derby ' s Ministry were compelled to resign ; at the end of which he tucked in a few words ent Government intend to do

    as to what the pres , with regard to the question of Parliamentary reform . He said , "I can only say I feel satisfied the present Government will , at the earliest time which may be consistent with the proper conduct of public business , propose to Parliament a measure of Parliamentary reform , which they will be able to offer upon their own responsibility , and whicli I feel confident will not be founded upon the same principles as that of the late Government—viz ., of taking back with one hand what you appear to give with the other . "

    At Halifax , on a similar occasion , Sir Chahlks Wood said of his party ' s assumption of office : — "It was no light task we had to undertake . When Lord Palmorston ' s Government was dismissed from power we left peace in Europe—we find war . We left a flourishing revenue , with a surplus—we find a very large deficiency . ,-It would have been some comfort to leave those who have sown to reap the fruit of their conduct ; but , thinking it was not for the advantage of the country that tho late Government should continue in power , they have beon removed , though wo have succeeded to a most difficult task . On tho subiect of our national defences , permit me to say a word in reforoneo to the administration of tho navy . Attacks have beon made of lute upon us as having Gontlemon

    noglectcd tho defences of the country . , believe mo , thcro is no truth i « such an accusation . Lord Derby stated tho other clay that when wo loU office tho navy was in a state of impotence and decropitudo . But 1 am happv to bo able to quote the evidence of tho lato Government itsoli , not in words but in acts , to provo that when they did accede to power thoy found tho navy in a most efficient stnto . Wo had a superiority over the French when 1 loll offleo of no less than 240 vossols of stonm power , a superiority greater than the whole number of tho French navy ut tho time' Of the Reform question ho said , "It must bo tlio first business to be undertaken on our reassembling , but before wo separate I dont ballovo it can no performed . What that HfiUxm Bill may bo , of

    farther than his intentions already expressed , it was impossible to predict what mischief might not result . At a given point , France must be told that she must " go no further ; " and such being | the intention of the Government , he hoped that it would receive the support of the people in that endeavour , and in their desire to preserve and secure for the people of Northern Italy their freedom , and the consolidation of liberal Government . But they must be prepared for opposite results : the love of conquest might know no limits , and the stoppage of the war might be impossible . It might be that Germany would arise and take part in the struggle , and all the calamities of the last war might be renewed . They could only hope that the new administration would be successfulin bringing about a different result .

    At Calne , the Right Hon . R . Lowte said his own political opinions were not equally represented by all those who were in her Majesty ' s Government ; but lie believed that the cabinet was actuated by a spirit of moderation and concession towards each other , and it would have been an act of bigotry on his part if he had refused to take office because there were a few of the > members who were not altogether of his own political creed . It would be the duty of the introduce of reformbut

    new cabinet to a measure , that measure he should not look forward to with any very agreeable feelings if it were" prepared by one or two only of the men who composed it . He cordially recognised the principle of maintaining a strict neutrality , and hoped they would be ableto do so . He must deal candidly with them . He was not without some apprehensions on the subject . He believed it was the intention of the Parliament and the people to maintain a position of neutrality in the war , due they must loofe the thing boldly in the face , and see how the matter stood . He would ask , how was it likely that they cduld confine the war to Italy ? They had Kossuth and Klapka sent into Hungary for exciting the people , and France was already in possession of Genoa and Leghorn , and perhaps was now possessing lierself of Venice , and she was drawing close to the frontiers of German \\ Germany was preparing to meet her , and Prussia had made proposals to Germany for concerting together . Therefore , unless through the interposition of One who ruled over kings , it seemed impossible , \ uilcss some wonderful and unaccountable change took place in the minds of the Emperors of France and Austria , that another month should elapse without war being declared between France

    ( Jcrmany . France was a gallant ana military nation , and was flushed with her successes over an < inemy trained to war . He would say then that there was dunger lest the tide of success should flow on as it flowed at the beginning of the present centuryUnder tlio great Napoleon , and lest the country ehould find itself in a position in which a participation in an European war is unavoidable . We must lie prepared to defend our own coast , and to prevent am invasion , for a single week of the presence of an invader on our shores would do us more injury than a century could repair . It was not our money and property that was our only wealth—our credit would l > e damaged . We must take the most energetic measures to put us in a position to rendor an invasion impossible—not to ropol it , but to render it impossible .

    Sir ITknky Singer Kkatino , at Reading , displayed t \ most lawyer-like caution , and took immense care jiot to commit himself to anything definite . Ho was jiorsuadcd that at tho oarliest practical moment tho question of Reform would rceoivo the attention of the ministry . Whether the measuro propounded would meet tho viows of all was doubtful $ ho thought lis might say it would not ; but still , when they did propose a measure of reform , it would be a real and not a ahum one . Of course in tho position ho occupied ho could not tell what that lioform Bill would be , but ho was sure it would be such an oao as the country called fbr . Mr . Fitzuoy told tho Lowos politicians that ho

    navy and army in anofllcient condition . Ab to Parliamentary Reform , if they failed in reflecting the opinions of tho people of this country , ho trusted thoy woulb be speedily removed fVom power .

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    Sir J . Lawrence . —We understand that the University of Oxford will confer the honorary degree of D . C . L . onSir J . Lawrence , at the approaching com momoration . RESirivrs of tub Ei . kctions . —Many of the reelections consequent upon the change of Government took place on " Monday , among them that of Lord John Russell for the City . Mr . Gibson was returned for Ashton without opposition , Mr . Cardwell at Oxford , Sir George Grey , at Morpeth , Sir R . Ik'thell at Wolverhampton , Sir II . Keating at Beading-, Mr . J . Wilson at Devonport , Mr . Lowe at Calnc , and Sir G . C . Lewis at Radnor . Lord Pttl nierston was re-elected for Tivcrton , his presence having beon dispensed with . At Newcastle , Mr . Headlnm defeated Mr . Cuthbert . Sir Charles A \ ood lias beon elected without opposition . Mr . Ilugessca--was opposed by Sir James Fergusson , but unsuccessfully . At Norwich , Lord Bury beat I ) is opponent , SIpS . BlgnoM . At Salisbury , Mr . Sidney Herbert was re-elected for South Wilts without oiipo « tio n . and nt Edinburgh the Lord-Advocate ; . Mr . Wlntbread has defeated Captain FolliiU-Turner , at Bedford , by a majority of fifty , Mh Coudkx . —This gontlomnir arrived in Manchester on Wednesday evening , dovotod a part of Thursday to visits to private friends , and was oxnocted to arrive in London immediately . Various rumours were prevalent in Manchester as to his intentions with regard to ' tho acceptance or rejection of tlio oflloo tendered to him in the Ministry by tl » o Proinior , but , of course , no relianoo could bo placed in tliein . It is probably too early for tlio lion , gontlcmiin to have fully determined for himself as yot on a question about which the public aecin to have so little difficulty . — Times .

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    No , 484 . July 2 , 1859 ] THE LEADER , 785

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 2, 1859, page 785, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2301/page/5/