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      hn'bter . ) There must bave been many of tbe sup . oor not ? er sof the noble lord who entreated him not to ofe" plac e them in aneb . a foolish position . ( Applause . ) 2 n < There is one thing , however , wbicb tbe Whigs do not wai want , and that is coolness and effrontery . They come toi tons and tell u & that itis quite unnecessary to dema © and pledges —( laughter)—that they do notentertain goc such an idea npon the subject of the endowment . « T 'Th ank yon for nothing , gentlemen , ' as the Irishman gai said ( Laughter and lond cheers . ) 1 have ne doubt ft ! ftat the principles wbicb I hold will be unpopular in # < jfie florae of Commons , and probably may bescouted wi « ith derision and scorn . fA voice—* Never mind . ' ) It It is probable tbat the Whigs , and our respected Ci Chancellor m " the Exchequer aimself ; may give that or principle his decided condemnation , ind may speak of ofthe attempt to extend it very muth in the

      Iangr gnase lhatwas employed by Lord Melooarne seven ye years ago , in reference to the question of Free Trade ; hi bnt it is astonishing how fast gentlemen ripen , and h ( bow , when the season of maturity comes and the topis most pear is ripe , all the party ripens also . ( Laugh-U ter . ) Tbe historv of tbe conversations that took p ! place when tbe question of the repeal of the corn h laws was brought forward , induces us to hope that tl there will be other conversions , if not so suddenly , at a all events equally sincere . By enlightening the p people—by instructing the masses , we shall be able t to bear away all Whig obstruction and opposition—if s any should be presented—before tbe universal march q of that great principle wbicb bag avowed its determii nation to emancipate religion from the fetters and f false interference of statesmen . Mr Miall resumed his « seat amid enthusiastic cheering .

      The Rsturmsg Officer tben called for tbe show i ef hands . For Sir Charles Wood not a hundred i were held up . fer Mr truest Jones nearly tbe whole < of that magnificent meeting . Indeed such a sight ! has rarely bsen witnessed . For Mr Edwards aboat - five hundred ( according to the local Tory paper , ) and fWMrMiaUthesameasMr Jones . Tbe Returning Officer having declared tbe show of bands to be in favour of Mr Jones and Mr Miall , ( an announcement hailed with thundering acclamations . ) Mr Stocks demanded a poll on behalf of Sir Charles Wood , and Mr Nicholson on behalf of Mr Edwards , which was granted , and was fixed to commence at eight o ' clock tbe next morning . Sir Charucs Wood then proposed a vote of thanks to the Returning Officer , for the manner in which he bad discharged bis duty upon that occasion .

      Mr E . Josks seconded the motion , in a highly complimentary speech , and upon its being put it was carried by acclamation . Mr AiBXASBKS having briefly acknowledged the compliment , the proceedings connected with the nomination terminated , and the immense concourse af people which bad assembled dispersed peaceably . The proceedings lasted from tea o ' clock till ten ¦ uiaiees past threes ia the afternoon . An immense multitude escorted Mr Jones back to his committee room , from the window of which he subsequently addressed them . Thebsdat . —Result of tbe poll : — Edwards ... 511 Wood ... 507 Miall 348 Jones ... ... ... ... 2 x 2 which result was obtained by the Whig and Tory coalition , there being 352 splits between Wood and ¦ Edwards' !

      After tbe poll was declared , Mr Ernest Jones addressed aa immense assemblage from the steps ofthe Odd-Fellows' Hall , and was greeted with the utmost enthusiasm , since all present felt defeat was only occasioned hy an unprincipled coalition , and that a moral victory had been obtained by the champions of tbe people . Oa Friday , the declaration day , tbe Piece-Hall was filled with numbers scarcely inferior to those attending the nomination . Wood and Edwards were received wjtb one general groan ; Jones and Wall with applause tbat almost baffle description . The two members briefly thanked the meeting for their election , amid continued disapprobation , and then left on the plea of attending the funeral of the late lamented Mr Ackroyd . Air Miall and Mr Jones then addressed the congregated thousands , nobly encouraged by the warm cheers of all present , when they too left , fully in time to attend the melancholy ceremony .

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      Tiverton. On Tuesday Evening, July 274, ...

      TIVERTON . On Tuesday evening , July 274 , Mr Julian Harney , the Cbartist candidate , arrived in Tiverton . Mr Harney was met at the entrance of the town by an immense assemblage of his friends , who escorted bim , with load cheers , to Fore-street ( the main street of the town ) . Arrived at the house of Mr Norman , draper , Mr Harney speedily presented himself at one of the first-floor windows of that gentleman ' s bouse , and his appearance was the aisnal for renewed bursts ef enthusiastic cheering .

      Mr Rowdiffe , an elector , bntny iD . troduced . Mr H ., who , after some preliminary observations , proceeded todiscusa the merits of Lord Palmereton ' s address to tbe electors . Mr Harney commented npon 'his lerdsbipV declaration tbat , as' be had acted in Parliament daring the past twelve years , so would he continue to act if again elected ; ' and showed tbat ' bis lordship ' s' acts bad been almost invariably opposed to the best interests of the people , both at home and abroad . At the conclusion of bis speech , Mr Harney was again enthusiastically cheered .

      Oa Wednesday evening Mr Harney again addressed a splendid gathering of his friends , at the same place . Mr Harney stated bis views at length , on the questions of ' Education . ' the' State Church , ' Ireland , ' the 'New Poor Law , ' and several other subjects . Mr Harney ' s address produced the best possible effect and elicited thunders of applause . Oa Thursday afternoon , Mr Wilkinson , ex-Mayor of Exeter , arrived in the town , and continued his stay until Sunday evening . At the meeting on Thursday evening , which was attended by some thousands , beld again in Fore-street , Mr Wilkinson

      delivered an excellent and lengthy address , in support of the claims of Mr Harney , and was loudly cheered . Mr Harney followed , taking for bis subject , Lord Palmerston ' a Foreign Policy , and the several ' points * of the People ' s Charter . Tbe utmost enthusiasm prevailed throughout the delivery of his address . Mr H . concluded an energetic appeal to electors and non-electors to do their duty on tbe morrow , in these words : — 'To-night we sleep npon our arms ; to-morrow- we march to battle and to vic tory V The effect was electrical : one mighty roar of applause showed the delight and determination of the people .

      THE NOMINATION . Friday , July 30 , was tbe day appointed for tbe nomination . At eleven o ' clock , the usual preliminaries were gone through at the Guildhall , before J . W . T . Tucker . Esq ,, the Mayor , who adjourned the further proceedings to the hustings , which bad been erected ia . front of that magnificent edifice , St Peter ' s Church . The three candidates , who had been seated together—during the preliminary formalities—in the Guildhall , arrived at tbe hustings , attended by nusjerans bodies of their respective supporters . Mr Heatbcoate and Lord Palmerston took up tbeir positions on the right , and Mr Harney on the left ef the Major . Tbe appearance of Mr Harney on tbe baatings was tbe signal for repeated rounds of cheering . After a short address from tbe Mayor , Mr Heatbcoate was put in nomination by Dr Kittle , the proposition being seconded by Mr GtiiWf .

      Mr \ v \ Hows proposed , and Mc W . Assikv seconded . Lord Palmerston . MrRowcLQTFK proposed Mr Julian Harney . He commented , in severe terms , on tbe New Poor Law , and asked , ' How would Lord Palmerston like to be separated from Lady Palmerston V He rather nettled 'his Lordship'by some allusions to his salary , and his ' charitable contributions' to the local necessities of Tiverton . Mr Rowcliffe ' s address produced an excellent impression , and was deservedly and loudly cheered . Mr Bvaoass briefly seconded Mr Harney ' s nomination .

      Mr HxaXHCOATE , who waa cordially received , tben briefly addressed tbe electors , expressing hit adherence to tbe principles by which be bad been gnided during the time be bad held a seat in Parliament . He declared bis anxiety to support any measures tbat be believed would tend to improve tbe condition of tbe working classes , and also his -desire to promote t & e diffusion of education , which might pare the way tor an extension of the suffrage He pointed to tbe Repeal ef the Corn Laws , the grant fer Education , the Ten Hours' Bill , aud the Irish Poor Law , as measures wbicb sufficiently disproved tbe charge of ' daa * legislation' brought by certain parties against the Parliament as at present constituted .

      Lord PAtiuaaro . f , who was received with slight shearing from bis friends , and very strong manifestations of disapprobation from the great body ofthe ** embly , said that he rmderatocdlusoppoaeatrested bis claims , sot merely upon his own merits , but also ¦ u $ oa his ( I ^ rd Palmerston's ) demerits . He would jkerefare waive Ms right to speak now . He would « st hear the attack intended to be made by Mr " « rney , and then make his speech ia reply . was confusion followed this annonncement , many « wflaraCT ' sftiend ^ urging bim sot to forego his ^ ot sjie alunglast , he tang the candidate propo * edla » t . Mr Harney , howeTej , aidresaiog the nayor , said he only wasted fair play i 04 "Would ,

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      therefore , agree to ^ speak first , and state tha ' h « u ' t hi . chwgesagainstlTrd Pal ^ ton . { STSav should then make his speech in renlv - « £ iT $ SP HtrneyVwonld fi ^ ieVSi ^ US forth his views on the reforma * ,. ? J ' rr »| e » mg necessary for *™*\ fJ $ Sl ^«* * ° ** Jtt ^ SSR feernegotia . lordship . ' atlast , aWedStff J -5 8 tated ' * Ms t ft ^^ sszss * imasmeai ' H-ftiHK . wdE ec ^ , » d Non . electorsofTiTermen 7 o ^ w n 6 Ce 83 a , ry I h < mld state at the commence-KJoZ ?« i atltbat COiiD S toTivertonl 52 £ Pm " J respected townsman . Mr uSaE £ k . llk Y' * e r I have listened to tbat * S £ frf ? if ""W J P lea 80 re . because lap-? 0 the * « <> f h » fiews but because IthiKk

      IT . L . , C » i » ^ l ^ v *« fe" « V its good tone the real lithS ° « ? " ! - **«• Unhappily , men who call theniselTes " Liberals" very seldom exhibit liberality m their acts With the exception of Mr Heathcote , the only Whi g I ever knew who proved himw t t !^ " the "wfcofhts hands , was the late Joseph Strutt of Derby ; a maa whose memory wiU go down to posterity justly honoured for ths pure righteousness of his works . But such Whigs are like angels ' visits few and far between . ' ( L-iugh-» r . ) I would that I could meet Lord Palmerston in the spirit in which I meet Mr Heathcote . I have no desire to make this a personal contest , but in assailthe policy of which Lord Palmerston is the representative , it is impossible te separate the noble lord

      frem that policy . ( At this moment a slight crash occurred on the hustings occasioned by tbe breaking of a beam . ) Tou hear that ! that ' s indicative ofthe break-down of tbe noble lord . ( Laughter and cheers . ) Gentlemen . Lord Palmerston will no doubt take credit to himself for his long services as a public man . I remember having lately seen an extract from a pamphlet entitled 'The Claims of Intellect , ' in which the several members ofthe Whig ministry were set forth as the purest , wisest , best of statesmen ; and the writer urged , in behalf of Lord Palmerston , that he bad served in the ministries , and enjoyed the confidence of , Perceval . Canning , Wellington , and Melbourne * As we may judge a man by tbe company he keeps , we may come to speedy

      conclusions respecting Lord Palmerston . who in the course of hispolitical life has been like StPaul , ' all things to all men . ' ( Laughter . ) To give you an idea oi Percival , it wiU suffice tosay tbat the night he wa » shot by Bellingham in the lobby of tbe House of Commons , that very night he was to nave brought forward a measure for the purpose of forming , in the neighbourhood of London , apermanent campof thirty thousand troops . These troops were to overawe the metropolis , and stifle the just discontent ofthe people in blood . ( Hear , hear . ) That scheme died with its projector , but no doubt the noble lord can inform ns as to his share its preparation . ( Hew , hear . ) Canning was a clever jester , a brilliant buffoen , a tax-eater almost tbe entire of bis lifeand the

      deter-, mined enemy of all reform . WiU the noble lord tell os i f he was in the house when Canning excited roars of laughter by his disgu-ting ribaldry in relation to an unhappy , persecuted victim , whom he denominated ' the revered and ruptured Ogden V WiU the noble lord tell us if he joined in that ribald roar ? ( Hear , hear . ) He will remember tbat Canning called the Reformers ' a low , degraded crew / and tbat tbat same Canning declared be would oppose every scheme of reform to tbe last hour of bis life . ( Hear , hear . ) As regards Wellington , the duke hasunquestionab ' e merits as a scientific director of war , but bis name is everywhere linked with despotism : — " The * saviour of the nations' not yet saved , And' Europe's Liberator * still enslaved . "

      As to Melbourne , he superintended tbat atrocity , tbe Caltborpe-street riot , and it was under bis rule that a persecution was waged against tbe press , more vindictive than at any previous period . The Whigs have always been great sticklers for the liberty of the press , their constant sentiment being—' The liberty ofthe press is like the air we breathe , If we have It not , we politically die ;* yet , when in power , tbey persecuted the advocates of a cheap and free press , and filled the prisons with hundreds of

      victims . ( Hear , hear . ) Finally . Lord Melbourne ' s government , of which Lord Palmerston was a member , passed an act to fetter the press more stringent than anything contained in tbe odious six acts of Sidmontb and Castlereagh . I was a sufferer from the persecution instituted by Lord Melbourne and Lord Palmerston . The noble lord belongs te the ' second estate , ' but I belong to the 'fourth estate , and I tell the noble lord that the time ia coming when that estate—like Aaron ' s rod—shall swallow up the

      otters" Bight , not might , shall be the lord . The pen shall role , and not the sword , In the good time coming !" ( Loud cheering . ) Gentlemen , I ask you to remember the conduct of these Peace , Reform and Retrenchment Whigs . Of the ' peace * I shall speak presently . Yon got tbe Reform Bill—' Tbe bill , the whole biU , and nothing but the bill . ' ( Hear , hear . ) Nothing in the way of good , nothing in the way of reformation , though plenty in the way of Reformation . ( Cheers . ) The bitter fruits of the Reform Bill were many , but three stand out prominently : — A Coercion Bill for Ireland , and a Rural Police , and a New Poor Law for England . Gentlemen , far be it from me to attempt to excite vindictive feelings against my noble

      opponent , but I cannot refrain from reminding you tbat Lord Palmerston has ever been the supporter ofthe execrable law I bave last named . ( Groans for 'bis lordship . ' ) Since I came to this town I have beard something of the working of that measure . Men have come to me with tears in tbeir eyes and detailed the horrors they have suffered in tha abominable bastile . ( Cheers and groans . ) They have told me heart-rending tales of the cruel separations of husband from wife , and parents from their children . I have been told of the felon dresses the hapless poor arc compelled to wear , and tbe detestable , poisonous skilly allotted to them for food . Those who have suffered the worse than dungeon-discipline of yonr union-bastile , have declared to me that rather than

      again encounter its horrors tbey would commit some petty offence and get themselves committed to the gaol , where the felon meets " . with kinder treatment than the honest man whose only crime is his poverty . ( Cries of * true' and great cheering . ) The New Poor Law was passed by the Whigs , chiefly at the instigation of that political renegade Harry Brougham , who begged and entreated of the House of Lords to pass the bill that they might save their estates from being eaten op by the poor I He declared that unless tbat bill waa made law he had reason to apprehend that he would become a Westmoreland pauper . But he had already taken care to provide for himself by increasing the

      salary ol tbe Lord Chancellor from four to five thousand a year . You are insolently told that you ought to be thrown upon your own resources , yet these statesmen take good care not to' practise what they preach . ( Cheers . ) My Lord Palmerston , when he retires to private life , and the sooner he does so the better—( cheers)—will take care to have , in some shape or other , bis finger in the public purse as long as be lives . It is notorious ' , that thousands bave perished through the operation of the New Poor Law . Infante have been murdered , and people have committed suicid ? , or died of starvation , rather than seek the sort of relief offered thera under this atrocious law . While I am on this subject I may remind you that , recently , when Mr Peter

      Borthwick proposed to allow aged couples , sixty years of age and upwards , to live together in the workhouses , the Whiggovernment , toaman , opposed tbat humane provision . It was carried , however , in spite of them . ( Great cheering . ) The tards threw out that amendment . Fit work for such an assembly . Fit work to make the people ask themselves of what use are lords at all ? ( Hear , bear . ) I suppose , my Lard Palmerstoae would call that house the noblest assembly in the world , but one of their order , the celebrated Lord Chesterfield , who knew them better than I know them , described that house as ' the Hospital of Hereditary Incurables . ' ( Great laughter and cheers . ) When the bill returned to the house of Commons . Lord John Russell , in spite of what he

      had said and done to defeat Mr Borth wick's clause , Sreposed the reintroduction of that clause . Why ? fotfrem any sympathy with the poor , but because he knew the feeling of the House of Commons was against him , and determinedly in favour of the clause . Besides , he had an eye to tbe coming elections * ( Hear , hear . ) But the Whigs deserve no credit for the passing of tbat clause , indeed , in the House of Lords , Brougham complimented Lord Palmerston and his colleagues on ihe gallant stand tbey had made against the clause ! By the by , it is not often the Whigs get any compliments from their old friend , Brougham , It is tbe best fun iu tbe world to see Harry poking at tbi Whigs . ( Laughter . ) He was one of them , and

      so is acquainted with all their artful dodging ; be knows the way to their sore places , and he takes care there to torment them . ( Laughter . ) You may imagine yoa see Brougham in the character of the keeper ot a menagerie ; there be stands , stirring tbe Whigs up with a long pole , and they growl aad grumble ; but the more they growl , the more Ham pokesatthem . ( Roar * of laughter . ) Gentlemen , I pass te osher subjects . 1 will not weary yeu by detailing all the extravagance ef the Whin , by which they proved their retrenching propetuittea ; suffice it to say , tbat whereas they found , on ooming into office , i a surplus of two milUons of msney at their disposal .

      tbey left omce with a uehciency of eight mUlioas , which Sir Robert Peel had to provide for . Mr Heathcote has given the House of Commons credit for adopting the Income Tax , which , he has told yeu , was adopted for tbe purpose of taxing the rich , and sparing the poor . I will here say , that the In . come Tax is an unjust tax , and ought to be abolished , and a Property Tax . substituted . ( Hear , bear . ) Mr Heathcote is . mistaken ia his view of the reasons for tbe imposition ot the Income Tax , The fact was that the old system of indirect taxation had faUedWailed , at least , in producing sufficient r « meet tha extravagant efipendUflre of

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      the Whigs . " Bis ^ Ebi-asbip hW ~ not "' ferg 6 tt « S 5 the bitter taunt thrown by Sir Robert Peel in the teeth of poor Franky Baring , whom he described as ' apennyless Exchequer Chancellor , seated on an empty treasury-chest , fishing for a budget in a bottomless sea of deficiency . ' ( Great laughter and cheering . ) This state of things produced the general election of 1841 . At that election his lordship indulged in a Joke which many of yeu will remember . A horse within srghtof the noble lord was kicking and rearing , when the noble lord happily remarked that ' s the last kick of the Tories . ' (« True' and laughter . ) That kick , if last it was , was at any rate strong enough to kick his lordship out of office . ( Laughter and cheers . ) I think to-dav w « shall see

      the last hick of the Whigs . ( Renewed cheering . ) A few words on the doings of the Whigs during tbe session of Parliament just closed . As regards Ireland , I quarrel not with the expenditure of one penny ot the epormoussum spent by the Whigs . My quarrel is with the manner of its applicaoion . Rather than one . human being should have perished , I would have said double the national debt , if need f ; ( Hear , bear . ) But , gentlemen , while the Whigs doled out chanty to the starving Irish , they allowed them to become the victims of speculators in grain , andhoarders up ef the people ' s food . Free trade was to give us ' cheap bread , high wages , and plenty to u j ? ^ ° f which you have had thus far dear bread , lower wages , and less employment . The landlord is no laager permitted to rob the poor man of a

      portion of his loaf , but tbe robbery is still carried on by another party . The corn-dealers have taken the place of the landlords , and tbe poor are more plundered than ever . This is free trade 1 ( Hear , hear . ) His lordship calls himself a free trader ; but he is but a new convert . It is not ? o very long since that he was tbe advocate of an eight-shilling fixed duty ; at the very time , too , that the real duty paid on corn was some shilling ' - lower . ( A voice on the hustings : Tbe duty was 5 s . ' ) But to return to Ireland , 1 say it was the duty ofthe government to have seen that not one human being perished for lack of food . ( Hear . ) I say it was the duty of the government to nave established depots of food , from which to have supplied the people , indeoeudentof the g rasoine :

      robbers , who trafficking in the staff of life condemn nations to perish that they may become rich . ( Interruption from the Whigs and loud cheering from the people . ) As regards Ireland ' s future , all the money that the Whigs have spent , might just as well have been thrown into tbe sea . Unless other measures are adopted than they have hitherto brought forward , Ireland will still be the desolate land she is , her standing army of two millions and a half of paupers will continue embodied constantly , pouring out its instalments of wretchedbeings whoin this country compete with the working men for labour and for food , e very year dragging the working classes of this countrylower and lower , and bringing Englishmen nearer and nearer to the dead level of Irish misery . ( Loud

      cheers . ) His lordship has read in the Madrid papers tbe taunts hMing at him by the Spaniards in answer to his silly threat of going to war against Spain in behalf ofthe Spanish bondholders . The Spaniards bid him look at home , and feel , if he can feel , that tbe state of Ireland is a thousandfold more disgraceful to this country than it is for Spain te refuse to pay her debts . ( Hear , hear . ) Almo » t the only partially good measure brought forward by the Whigs for Ireland , — the Waste Lands' Improvement Bill—they abandoned as they have abandoned every other measure containing a particle ef good . Even the Whigs progress . They have progressed from being positively bad to being the men of

      ' good intentions . Bat yon know that ' good intentions , ' are said to form the paving stones of a nameless place * , and you may depend upon it that the Whigs have contributed to make good the highways and the byeways of that unmentionable locality . ( Laughter . ) The Health of Towns' Bill was anothsr of the abandoned measures ofthe session . See the consistency of these men ; they appoint commissioners and print horrifying reports , in which they make it appear that owing to the noxious influence of filth and stench , owing to the bad drainage and bad TCRti . iation ofthe hovels , cellars and garrets of the poor , more people die from typhus and other diseases ia one year , and every year , than were slain at Waterloo . —

      That crowning carnage , Waterloo . On these representations they bring ia a bill , and after dawdling with it all through the session finally abandon it , though they know that , on their own statements , forty or sixty thousand people will perish before such a measure can be passed and be brought into operation next year . ( Cheers , ) Poor . Lord Morpeth , bow I pity bim ; compelled to eat bis own words and throw overboard his own bantling . I have some little respect for Lord Morpeth . I think him the best of the lot . ( Laughter . ) i remember that six years ago I had the pleasure of opposing that noble lord at the West Riding Election , and remember the unaffected courtesy of tbat nobleman ' s manner throughout

      the contest . I am about to ask Lerd Palmerston a favour , mostlikely tbe only ftrour I shall ever ask of him . lt is this , tbatonhis return te town tbat be will be good enough togive my compliments to Lord Morpeth . [ Lord Palmerston here took off his hat and bowed in token of his acceptance of the mission confided in him by Mr H . The people meanwhile laughing and cheering . ] I must now congratulate tbe Whigs on twothingsithey did do last session . First , they passed the Manchester Bishopric Bill . Although Duncombe —glorious Buncombe , the people ' s representative—( loud cheers )—did all he could with a small band of others , to defeat tbat measure , Lord John stuck to it , and fought tooth and nail to give the country the blessing of ' more bishops . ' ( Laughter and groaning . )

      When Lord John is in earnest he can fight , not like a mastiff , bnt like a roost determined little cur—for little he is , little in heart and soul as well as in body . Peel ' s a statesman , but Lord John Russell is a nobody . ( Hear , hear . ) The next matter of congratulation is the continuance of the Duke of Wellington ' s statue on tbe arch . It is my misfortune to lire at the west end of London ; at least , there is one mis * fortune attached to living there . Twice a day I have to pass that monstrosity , the Duke ' s statue . Do you Tivertonians see Punch ? ( 'Yes , yes . ' ) Well , then , you ' ve seen this celebrated statue , fer I assure you that . Punch ' s caricatures hardly exaggerate tbat hideous deformity . Gentlemen , I will candidly confess that I have no great adinirat-on for warriors ,

      whether called emperors or dukes , and it is not to such that I would raise statues . But here was a statue , good or bad , I pretend not to be a judge of these matters , but men of great repute , as judges of art , had condemned the site chosen for this monsterstatue by that precious squad , the committee of 'Competent persons . ' Well , the Whigs concurred in that condemnation , and declared that down the statue should come . After all , however , tbe Whig ? , as usual , turned round and declared the statue should not come down , but should remain upon the arch , I suppose for the purpose oi exciting home disgust and foreign ridicule . I would have had the statue taken down , put into the melting pot , and the then worth of it sent to Ireland

      to buy food fortbe starving poor . ( Greatcbeering ) Now , gentlemen , I come to the real business ofthe day . Hitherto I have condemned Lord Palmerston in conjunction with the Whig party generally , for the acts of that party , but I bave now to speak of matters which more particularly concerti ^ he noble lord personally . I speak of tbat foreign policy of which the noble lord is tbe representative . I hare said the Whigs came into power in 1880 , pledged to a peace policy . Well , they were hardly seated in council when they involved the country in what the Duke of Wellington would call' little wars , ' in consection with the troubles in Spain and Portugal . Tbanks to Lord Palmerston , tbat system called 'liberalism' triumphed in those countries much to

      the disadvantage of the people . In Spain , for instance , the taxes raised before the ascendancy of ' liberalism' amounted to but eight or nine millions annually ; the taxes now amount to thirteen nr fourteen millions every year . That is , tbe people are plundered of the fruits of their industry to the extent of several millions ofmoney more than they ever paid before Lord Palmerston established 'liberalism . ' As regards the liberties ofthe people , it is notorious tbat tbe most sanguinaiy despotism has been esta-Wished in Spain by Donna Christina and her confederates in the name of the liberal Queen Donna Isabella . Another 'little war' was the driving of tbe Dutch out of Antwerp for tbepur * pose of establif-bing , on the Belgian throne , a minion

      of Louis Philippe . By the bye , the French people know something of the sweets of' liberalism . ' They were not content with King Log , they must needs bave King Stork ; tbey turned away Charles tbe Tenth and set up Lord Palmerston ' a particular friend , Louis Philippe , under whose reign the taxes have been enormously increased , corruption has been made the organised means of ruling the country , aided by overwhelming physical force and laws of tbe most despotic character . Indeed , you may take this for granted , that wherever Lord Palmerston ' s friends , the 'liberals' are in power , there the people are more oppresed and ptondered than they ever were in the worst and tha darkest times . ( Cheers . ) The Whigs next showed their peace and libertyloving character by wading the people , of Canada into rebellion . Tha Canadians wished to have full and entire control over their own taxation ; they

      wished to ha * re perfect representation and , therefore , demanded certain organic reforms which the Whig government refused to concede . The Canadians then stopped the supplies , and on this , these libertyloving WUgs seised upon the taxes aud took possession of tjne public funds , in violation of the then existing constitution . These and similar acts drove the Canadians to armed resistance . As the Amenca & s had done before them , they proclaiued the great Principle , that 'Taxation without Representation is tyranny and ought to be resisted . ' I also am here te ^ lay to proclaim that principle . ( Cheers . ) MnsJ ! remember what followed ; a frightful insurrection which was only quelled by the sheddin g of mm * blood , for which these peace-loving Whigs nere whoily responsible . ( Cheers . ) The noble lord next helped us into that infamous contest the war with China . Our merchants were anxious to supp ly the OMrw with , opium , an article forbidden by the go *

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      tfv » w * J 8 ro » cd of the injurious and destruconr rtrr ¥ «« - • • Tm * - of course , did not suit thl iJS , lrad 5 « - who several times broke the Jaw of emii « SS ' . S - ' a , i wakings and threats of the theffi « * eBaDce The ! r insolenceat last roused dialv XaS ? ° , cta of retaliation , which were immedern ,. « «;?? i ^ V le Pretext on which to found a mur-Tnrir Sti . * on the people of that country , iwed andriT ere °° m wded , their shipping deswere immnM 5 ? n ( , s of « " " ¦ ™ men , and children Sd forrS at .. - y lh 93 e Ciiristian civilisers the 22 , th »«»> ntry . We played the part of SoSo ^ - ^ nrf n ; throats tomak « the Chinese swallow of' th « « Jl not co te « fc with that , attheconolusion sum a * £ w ;? , ? Chinese pay an immense KmW- , Pla < - <» a Pistol at the head of his ' victim , and says ' vonrmnnfivnrvni ^ llfa ' / fl-nat

      AffXnlL w'a caine t le fataI interference in w 5 i & Li 7 ^ , 5 " l » 8 , « r bu 8 iness thc * -a - SSadiXsW - dep 08 ed a P ° P fe ™ ° ™> -cb , Sh T ffi . ° u- own on tBe throne-Shah S * SJ- r « ii . r ? ' h , 8 . na ! ne - If I do dot give the exact . Indian prononnoiation ofthe names of perons and places I hope his lordship will remember that I have not had such an intimate acquaintance with either as he has had . Some day I may be in b ' 8 lo /^ P Pfece , aridthenImay Low as much about them as he does . ( Sneering laughter from i" ¥ , an the Whigs , aJg ^ fcXeS T Sa ? « M °° . I u "i 8 aia < we p-acet- >' aod in LLitf , it T bB *™ » PPily we have nothing m ! VS « d Palmerston having got Dual o ^ ° ttTll af K Prison ^ P Shah Soojal , Z t « n „? naTi thou « hltomai «} tainthi 3 a . rangement by keeping a large army of British troops in that country , but behold one div the AfiVhaL VwV ™

      themselves under the command of Akhbar Khan rose against the British and destroyed every one of them . Then was seen the mournful realisation ot Campbells lines : —

      " Pe-v , few shall part where many meet , Tho snow shall be their wiading-. sheet , ' And ererv sod beneath thtir feet

      Shall be a soldier ' s sepulchre . " G .- . d knows while 1 detest the warriors trade , my heart bleeds at the recollection ofthe fate of these unhappy men , of whom but one escaped to tell the tale of their destruction . Think o f the misery that was brought home to hundreds of fathers , mothers , sisters , wives , and others , when the tiding reached them that the bones of those they loved were whitening the passes of Cabul , their flesh having been first theprey of the ravenous vultures a * nd jackals of Asia . I charge upon his lordship and his colleagues tbe Wood of these wretched victims of the noble lord ' s policy . ( These words , and the manner of thespeaker , who looking directly at Lord Palmerston , semed to hurl his accusations ' at the ' noble lord' produced

      ex-, traordinary sensation and excitement in the crowd . Tne Whigs were silenced , and Lord Palmerston bit hia lip , and turned whiter even than usual . ) Gentlemen , much as I may deplore tbe destruction of those unhappy troops , I am bound by every sentiment of justice tosay , that the act of the Afghans was perfectly justifiable . Mr Hea thcote bas spoken disparagingly ofthe Americans , and lam freetoconfess that there are many things about the American ** that I do not admire . There is just now in that country an atrocious sentiment very current— ' Oar country right or wrong . ' I say my country when right , but the right always , and may the right triumph though my country perish . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) Tbe Afghans had not only been deprived of their

      independence , but also were subjected to numberless insults and cruel outrages , For instance , it is a well ascertained fact , that no man ' s wife or daughter was safe from the intrigues or violence of men calling themselves Britishgofficers ; > nd this worst of outrages , did more than anything else to excite the inextinguishable hatred of the Affghans . Under such circumstances , Akhbar Khan was justified in doing as Bruce and Tel ) had done before him . ( Loud cheers . ) Suppose this country had its monarch deposed by the French government , and some tool of Louis Philippe appointed to rule over us . Suppose a French army lodged in the capital , for the purpose of overawing the country . Suppose Englishmen subjected to the insults and outrages that the Affghans

      were , should we not be justified in doing as they did ? ( Cheers . ) Well tben , does not the right exist for them as well as _ for ^ us ? ( Cheers . ) They but did what every nation ia justified in doing , and -vliat every nation has done , or tried to do , when assailed by foreign tyrants . ( Greatcbeering . ) I suppose Lord Palmerston will attempt to show that his interference in the affairs of Afghanistan , was necessary for tbe interests of our Indian empire . ' Our Indian empire ! ' Poor fellows ( speaking to the working men present ) , what a farce it is to talk to you , of our Indian empire , and our colonial possessious , when you have not one foot of soil in your own country you can call your own . How applicable to your condition are the wordsof Lammenais : — ' Go to . the . east . and to the west ,

      and to the north and to the south , and wherever ye shall go , ye shall find some one who will drive you hence , saying 'this field is wt ' nc' and when you have gone through the length and breadth of your fatherland , no where "ill you find a spot of eartb where your wife may bring forth your first born , or your * hildren bury your bones in a place that may be yours . ' Yet such men as my Lord PaltneMton have the assurance to tax you for wars for tbe maintenance of that Indian empire , and those colonial possessions , which may be theirs , but which practically is none of yours . ( Great cuenring . ) When I say this , I wish it to be understood that i am not insensible to the greatness of my country . 1 am not one of those reformers who desire to see a separation between this

      country and the colonies . I am for making that connexion stronger and more certain that ever . I am for binding the whole to us with the link of justice .. I have no detire to see rival empiragrowing up in India , Ametica and Australia . Let the peoph of the whole of these dependencies be invested with their natural rights , let them be relieved from the withering supremacy of oar aristocracy , let thera learn to- Jove our government because that government ' s acts are just , and the world will then see Anglo-Indians , Anglo-Americans , and Anglo-Australians , floating with us down the stream of time , one hanpy , one free , one triumphant British nation . ( Immense cheering . ) It has been said that our interference in Afghanistan was necessavy for the purpose- of

      erecting a barrier against Russia . It that was Lord Palmerston ' s design , he showed himself miserably deficient in foresight . Instead of erecting a barrier against Russia , he literally opened the gates of that country for the admission of the Russians . Lord Palmerston found the Affghans comparatively indifferent towards us , but he loft them in a state of excitement < i ? ainst us , which no time can efface . After one army bad been sacrificed , another was sent , not for the purpose of conquering the country , but for the purpose of avenging tbe degradation which had fallen on the English name ; and this army went through the country , robbing , spoiling , and destroying both life and property , for Ihe pitiful purpose of " revenge . Armed and unarmed were mas .

      sacred , cities were fired , and even tbe crops and fruit trees were ruthlessly destroy *! , trampled down , cujt down and given to the flamei * , that so those w |) 9 escaped the sword might , perish ot hunger , Atotbeso Christian * acts tlie British army decamped , with the curses of the Affchau people following in their train . See the mult , of Lord Valmorston ' s policy . Whenever the struggle comes that must come some day between Kngland and R-iwi * , and when Calmucl * hordes march to at least the attempted conquest of India , then , instead , of finding any barrier ia their way in Afghanistan , they will find in the Afghans enthusiastic allies , inspired by one all-absorbing thirst of vengeance , eager to drench their swords in' the blood of the British ,

      and ready to follow any pnweu- capable of leading them to the gratification ot their revenge . This . will . be the cestain consequence of the noble Lord ' s most wiia- policy ! ( Great cheering J . The Sikh war was no . doubt mainly attributable to the noble lord ' s policy k Affghanistan ,. The Sikhs had seen the Britisli , diiiven out of Cabul , and deeming themselves even , better soldiers than the Affehans , they thought they could , not fsii to beat the British . Gentlemen , fl am not a meaibev of the peace society , I dost believe that as yet we are very near that millesium * when the liou , & UAl the lamb . shall lie down together , nud , therefore , as regards the Sikh war ,. I don ' t say that okb-soldiers could do otherwise than defend themselves when

      attacked . But I charge Lord Palmerston , that by his meddling intrigues , interventions » ud wars , followed by disaster and defeat , he excited the Sikh ? to the aggression they made upon BrUish India , I now com * , Gentlemen , to the war . in Syria . That war war , undertaken in assertion ol' legitimacy , and the divine sight of the Turkish Sultan . I bave no gi-eat veneration for Mebemet Ah "; he is certainly a wonderful man , a man ot great mind , but he has done m » ny atrocious thinp in his time , the infamy of which will cling to his nnnve . It is said he tyrannised over Syria , perhaps he did , but there , was at least order in that country under his rule , and persons and property were safe . But Lord Palmerston did away " « ith all that , lie restored the nominal rule of the Sultan ; but , asev . ryonc knows , there has-been nothing hut anarctiv and misery in that land ever , since . The most horrible excesses have flowed from the * sauguinarv contests of rival

      religious parties , who have not been content to employ fire aaii sword in the usual way between combatants , tbey must needs tovture each uthev to death in the most frightful way . This is the result of my Lord Palmerston ' s policy . ( Cheers . ) Ihe noble lord would , if questioned , no doubt profess great analety to preserve the integrity of the I urkish Empire ; but in crippling the power of Mahomet Ali he half-disarmed the only man capable of rally , ing the Mahommedaa race against the Russians . Lord Palmerston ' s policy baa rendered the dismemberment of tbe Turkish empire more likely than ever . It might have been otherwise had the Egyptian Prince been permitted to ' marohte Constantinople . There is a person well known by name to his lordship , a Mr Urquhart , who has . very laboriously tried t * show that in Lord Palmerston ' s foreign policy * be has constantly done the workot Russia , and baa baea bribed to dp , that work . Tot

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      inysolf , I never believed anything o f the sort , l do not believe a fellow-countryman would soil his hand with a dirty bribe to do the traitors work for a forei gn despot . I trust the noble lord ffill not be offended , because I have called him my fellow-countryman . 1 know not if he is 3 L ? u "{ . ° . - J an Irish landlord , but be what he may by birth , I call bim fellow-countryman , for I would that all those distinctions of English and Irish were effaced , and that we ceuld all be really brethren olacommon country . ( Cheers . ) For my part , I never believed Lord Palmerston to be any S F , J . ""' of ni 8 order . He everywhere allies himself with despotism , and does the work of despotism , though sometimes in the nam * of

      Mheralism ; but in so doing , he does the work natural to an aristocrat . There is no need to seek tor Russian influence to account for the noble lord ' s conduct ; heads neither better nor w e tban the rest ot his class , who are always opposed to true liberty and the progress of nations . ( Great cheering . ) 1 now come to the noble lord ' s policy since bis return to office , and passing several questions , I shall confine myself to three . Some time before the noble lord resumed his old place , an insurrection had occurred at Cracow , the ancient capital of Poland . Thcoriginal partition of Poland—the foulest wrong in historywas certainly not directly shared in by this country , but it is also certain that the despoilers of Poland , had at that very time England for an all y ; the object of the alliance being the suppresssion of liberty on the continent . The intolerable wrongs endured by the Polish people have several times caused frightful struggles in that unhappy land ; and one of these

      ? nu » t 00 k p , ace on tne month of February , 1846 . rhe Russian , Austrian , and Prussian despots comoinetl their Forces , and once more the cause of Poland was lost , and the insurrection suffocated in blood . I pass by the horrid crimes committed by the despot ? , and come at once to the question of Cracow . According to the treaty of Vienna , Cracow was to be , SL » - r . ? mam for evet > a free and independent state , and ' on no account whatever' was therepublic S ^ rM ™^ ' ? ° u , p , ed ¦* forel Sn tro » Ps . Thi » part ot the treaty had several times been violated , and after the suppression of the last insurrection , first Russian and Austrian , and then Austrmn troops only , continued to occupy the city . Lerd Palmerston was questioned on this in the House of Commons , and , in reply , said that he believed the occupation of Cracow by the Austrians was oaly temporary , at the same time he delivered himself of a very valorous warning to the triune despots to the

      etiect that it they did not respect the treaty of Vienna on the banks of the Vistula , other pariics mitht show as little respect for that treaty on ihe banks of the Rhine . Early in November it became generally reported that the oonfiseators ot Poland had completed the measure of their crimes by annexing Cracow to Austria . On this , my Lord Palmerston manufactured a ' protest , ' in which be argued the question on hypothetical grounds . He had heard a rumour but couldn't credit it . lie put it to the three governments , whether so small a state as Cracow could seriously menace the security a ( such powerful empires . lie hoped that what had . been the work of eight powers would not be undone by three , and so on . NowI have good reason to

      be-, lieve , when Lord Palmerston wrote this cringing rubbish , he knew for certain , that tbe confiscation of Cracow was an accomplished fact . Government--know these matters before we know them , and I strongly suspect my noble opponent was thorouj-hiy well acquainted with the truth of what he professed to disbelieve . If bo , then , I say , that , instead oi calling his argument hypothetical I should caU it hypocritical . ( Cheers ) Well , his lordship sent ? his waste paper to the three courts , and the despots received it end grinned contemptuous defiance as their answer ; and England , this mighty England , sovereign of the ocean , and conqueror of Napoleon , crouched before them . ( Hear , hear . ) Oil , shame ! shame !! But am I asked what would I have done ,

      would 1 have sanctioned a war 1 I say' . No , ' not to restore Cracow , Poland , entire , must bo restored , but the timeis not yet . ( Cheew . ) But this I-would have done , I would have withdrawn our ambassadors from Berlin , Vienna , and St Petersburg , and said to those governments 'We will have no part with crowned faith-breakers and royal perjurers . ' Henceforth there is a line of demarcation betwixt you and us . You are on the side of injustice , tyranny and falsehood ; we are oh the side of justice , freedom and truth . ( Great cheerinir . ) And this is all that the nations want us to do . 1 would dissolve the alliance of this country with despotic governments , and seek to establish an alliance . with the * peoples of the world . ( Renewed cheering :. ) . Hitherto our

      government has acted invariably with the op . pressors and against the oppressed . I beg you to remember that horrible treachery breu » ht to light by Mr Duncombe , the opening efj the letters of Mr Mazaini and Captain Stolzraan . I beg you to remember tbat in consequence of that I act , so dishonourable to the name ot cur country , several Italian patriots were butchered in cold blood . It was well done to make the British lion play the part of jackal te the blood-lapping wolfiof Austria . ( Loud cheers . ) But Poland will not perish , even though the tyrants shed oceans of Wood in addi- ' tion to those already shed ; even thoagh England should for a time longer have the misfortune to be represented by such , as the noble lard . ( Cheers . ) . No , there is a vitality in Poland , a pain and

      death-defying devotion in her sens that will ensura her restoration to the life of perfect liberty . The hour is coming when Poland shall again be free . I Enthusiastic cheering . ) How different was tbe part played by ray Lord Palmerstoa in the affairs of Portugal . Donna Maria ii one oft the noble lord ' s liberal pets . She swore to abida by tho Charter of Dora Pedro , and of caurse broke , her oath ; sbawsa then compelled to accept the Constitution of I 83 S , which she also swore to execute ,, anu of course broke her oath . Dicers' oaths are . of more value- than Donna Maria ' s . She will swear to any number of Charters or Constitutions upder compulsion , and violate every , pledge the moment she can safely do so , Under dtosta Cabral's administration-. "

      Liberalism " attained its most * $ tifcct triumph , until at last , unprecedented taxation , atad tyranny drove the people to revolt , and thabold bad minister was . forced tofjy . Under the new ministry the country was quiet . But although , tha ministry of the Duke , of Pulmella was not good- fix" much , it was tno good for the Queen . A pali ^ ce plot was formed . The - Duke of Palme ! la , and the military coxttnamlant ofthe capital , summoned ) to the palace , found them ,, selves g-risoncrs , and compelled to sign , decrees dkvmiasia-g the ministry of which they were members . This- was on the night ef the Oth Oct . ' last . The ne ^ t" morning when the people of Lisbon rose from thei- * beds , they weae-apprised of , these proceeding . * by . violent proclamations , and the assemblagp / oil

      ajmed troops < n allitho principal thoroughfares .. 1 * make the counter-revolution staure , decreed were issued forbidding' the election , of the Cortes , ex-Jinguisbing tha press , suspending tlie laws priding for the personal ) security of the subjeot , ' al » lislung trial by jury , and proolaimift-fciaartial law .. ( 'Hear , hear . ) Supposes some fine ,- morning the-English people were to awake andi f » d decrees , go 8 leol . ' Ht a )) public places announoiag .- tbe assumpUpn of absolute powci * by the cousjt ; . - the- entire press of London aiul the provinces ,, with tho exception of the government Gasede ,. forcibly Rupp . N-8 . wl ; the Habeas Corpus Act suspended , and men dragged from thefr families aod , w » Dg into dufifieons without anv cliai-go being bright against them ; snp poso

      the rig-M of public meeting and frqe- speecn superseded , by the rule . of' tbe sword ; . Bopposc martial , law woolaimed , mdi the Duke ot Wellington , w thati other fieldonarahal , Prince Albert , sent oft to Mnaehester or CUausow to overawa-tho people oljtha NoBtb . by force ,, antaed with full- po « er to wage-a war of exter-HJnation against the people , should they exhibit any signs oi « resistance to , the . 'despotism off the court - ^ suppose this state of things ; , what would the English pe « p > do ? ( Cheers . ) Tbiy wonld do . what thein'tathets did before them whan in the days of Charles the ]> ., they taushi mankind the- mpiriality ot hinis . CGreat cheering ) . The natural consequence of ! Donna Maria ' s . doinas was that ati insurrection , biased out fre t * one end of the . kitsgdom to to tHotliftr , With tlie exception of frhft capital , and : the encampment of the Quijen ' s troops , the

      entire cftun try acknowledged the J : onla ; Hie colonies , iiith I believe , the exception of Madeira , transferred their allegiaaee to the same authority ; mo ^ e than half the artsy did tho aaeje ;; tha steam navy was . equally « ealo » s in joining the Junta , and . in short , only in L & ben was Donna mm queen . She wasqueen the £ 4 \ because the cannoa of the Kjsatah fleet pointed against the people kept her on the the throne . Never was' there a dearer case « f national pronouncement against a bad geveusment . Yet the noble lord interfered to crush the patriots , at a monwnt too , when , in spite of our ftert in the Tagus , a last blow by the insnygents wonld eer amly have seat Donna Maria packing to Windsor Castle . The noble lord wilt no donbi take credit to himself for having put an end to a civil war without b oodV shed . But I ash if , even though without aheddiag blowl jou condemned a nation to slavery , is -4 ( 1 . 3 , 1 nrthing , is tbat any slight offence ? that the flower

      ••• Tis Iiiber ' y alone gives Of fleeting lite its luetve and perfume , Ann we are weeds without It . " ( Cheers . ) It is true Donna Maria hai entered into certain conditions ^ the value of which time will show . For the present only one of them—the amnesty—has been famed out . 1 will predict tbat 'there will yet be , and before long , more outbreak- * , the Queen will again be in danger , and what will the noble lord do thou f Arc there to be repeated interventions at the expense of the people of this country , for no baiter purpose than to prevent another people being governed ai they may think best ? ( Gi-eat cliea'iDg . ) I eorae now to the last point of Lord Palmeiston ' s foreign policy I shall at present discuss . Ilelately , in the House of Commons , indulged in something very like a boastful threat , that unless the Spaniards paid up the principal or interest of the debt owing to tbe parties called 'Spanish Bondholders , this country would go to war to compel payment , l w upon you to protest against that threat , and » «»

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      Lord Paiinerstou that you will sanction no suck war : ( Cheers . ) These Spanish bondholders are iinglisli capitalists , who lent some millions of money to the government of Spain , not , as has been represented , because they were anxious to help tbe people of that country to obtain ' Liberal institutions , ' but because they were promised a higher rate of interest than they could get at home . That money had been derived from the labour of the English people . The holders of that money knew that there were thousands of their own countrymen in a state of ' stai ration , tbey knew also that there were millions of acres of land in this country uncultivated , or ca pable of better cultivation , and that thousands of arms were wanting employment , only the capital was

      wanting . These men had the capital , and had they invested their money at home , they might have turned thousands ef paupers and idlers into independent labourers , while at the same time their money would have heen safe ,, and they mijiht have acquired a handsome pro / it . But no ; they lusted after the seven' , nine , and ten percent , held nut , as-a bait by tbe Spanish government , and were anxious to fasten themselves upon the Spaniards , to suck from the fruits of their industry , in the shape of interest , and tbis they hoped to continue for ever , as io is said we are to be sucked and taxed or ever . Tbey have been justly punished ; theyhavfl lost their money , and if Lord Palmerston dares to

      carry out his threat of going to war in their behalf , I hope you will do as I will in . the event ofthe militia being called out , refuse to sewe , and let the rich protect the r owu property , if they willsanctionwhat tfiey can prevent-so unjust and wieked a'war . ( imraensecheering . ) Gentlemen , I have only one more subject , the last act of the noble lord in * the parliament just dissolved . On the day of proroga-1 on Mr Bankes called the attention ofthe house to the frauds committed on the poer by some of the London bilkers , and moved for a committee of inquiry . The noble lord , by way of defeating the motion , rose to what is called speak against time / and here is the account of'bis speech from the

      Lord PiticBBSTON said , at the close net only of the session , hm ofthe Por )« anlgnt , it would not be seemly , but would cast , be thouKht , ridioule upon this house , if his hon . friend ( Mr Bank ») persisted in pressing his motion to . » division . His hon . friandproposed to appoint a committee to inquire into a complicated subjeot Of political economy , connected with tho ordinary transactions of life . It was exceedingly well for his honfriend to make such a motion , and . to deliver a speed * with the view of expressing his opinion upon the subject of political economy to which the- motion related j but it would be acting : like a set of schoolboys if , when thff Black Eod appeared , they wese in the lobby instead of being ready toattend the speaker to the other house . He heped , therefore , that hia hon . friend would not pufc his motion to tbe test of a din ' sinir . ( The noble lordthen proceeded in a manner which clearly indicated tbat he was proloaglng his speech until * the arrival of

      thesummons to the House of Lords , to the apparent annoy- - ance of Mr Hume , but to the great entertainment of ¦ other members . ) Thej had heard , Weed , of a oombioa--tion amongst a certain body —( laughter )—and a committee was asked for te inquire into that subject , and not one argument had been urged that would justify such > a motion , ( Laughter , every eye bsiug turned to thedoor . ) 'Situated as we are , ' continued the noble lord ,-' instead of following you , sir , to another place—( laughter )—if we go to a division ,, we should , whensummoned , ba occupied with tellors ^ counting us in tho lobby and ia . tlie house—a situation' , in which the heuse would not at-such a moment , like to find itself placed . ( Laughter . No usher appearing the- noble lord went on . ) Now , sir , I will not trouble the house by reading through the whole of this petition—( loud laughter , and > cries of 'Bead , read ; ' )—but the last paragraph is of great importance '—

      Here the 5 * . eakbr called' Order , ' and the Gentleman Usher of the-Black Rod ( Sir A . Clifford ) advanced to ths table , ' hardly preserving his gravity amidst the iil-suppressed mirth of the house , ' and , addressing the chair , said , ' Mr Speaker , the Queen commands the attendanceof this hon . . house in th » House of Pears . ' The Sfsakeb , followed by a tumultuous crowd ef members , then left the house . Here we have the noble lord creating roars of laughter when such a subject was under discussion as that which concerns every poor man * The house , too , seemed bursting with laughter j . it was such a comical subject ! It reminds me of an old fable : —Someboys were pelting some frogs , and every time they

      knocked ithe brains out of any ione of the poor frogs , they shouted with laughter , it was such good fun . At last a-wise old frog addressing the boys , said : — « It ' s alhvery well for you my fine fellows ,- but what is fnn to you is death to us . * ( Groat laughter and cheering ) . The noble lord is-sureofhis bread , and buttered on both sides too , but it ' s very different with many- here ( cheers ) , and what maybe fun to his lordship is death to you . ( Great cheering ) . I now . make way for Lord Palmerston . If the noble lord can answer my speech to yonr . satisfaction , good ; then elect him and reject me .. If-not , and I know he cannot , then I call upon you to bid his lordship make way for abetter man , ( Enthusiastic and longeontiauad-cheering ) .

      Lord Paimbbsion was received with mingled cheers . and groans . He evidently was ill at ease , and-foresaw the result of Mr Haraey's speech . He commenced by indignantly denouncing tneco & struction put upon his speech read from tbe Times , and explained , that if the committee moved for by Mr Bankes had been appointed , it must have dissolved as soon as formed , as it could aot continue to sit after , the house had dissolved . He then took up Mr Harney ' s speech , point by point He justified the measures of Percival , eulogised the memory ofCanning ,, iauded the Dulte- of Wellington , denounced the makiog of the New PoorLawa . topic to excite agitation , regretted the non-enactment of the Healih of . Towns' Bill , vindicated the Wellington statue affile , showed tlie blessings of Liberalism in Spain and Portugal , twitted Mr- Harney with being a

      Tony in disguise , said thepeople of China were very fond of ppiuro , and . that the war had taught them gend manners ; dsteuded the interference with , the affairs of Affs-hanistan , the oonduct of the British ofEcers , and saidsthat hb was in no way responsible for the catastroplie > bieh omaed ; the me asures of vengeance were adopted by the Conservative party after he left power , but he approved of tbeBV . considered he had done great good in driving Mehemet Ali out of Syria ; consideredthat it was . undignified ; Sor nations tathreaten what they could notpprfonn , and more could not have been done for Cracow unlcaa by provoking an European , war ; considered it a great achievement to have put aa end to the civil * war in Portugal , a * regards future events , the future must [ take care of itself ; lastly , he considered r . he claims 1 of the Spanish bondholders just , and should bo pre-I pared to enforce them it need be .

      Mr Jcwan llABitBtithaa again came forward , and delivered a second speacii of nearly an hour ' s duration . He said that the- explanation given by Lord Palmerston of his ( I , csd P ' s ) speech on Mx Baukes a motion did somewhat alter tbe complexion ofthe case , aad if he had done the noble lordaay injustice , he apologised . He- pat it , however , io Lord I ' almeraion . -vhether it was in good taste far mm to maKa sitcb-a speech , or lor tbe ' House' toact as reported in ^ Times when such a subject was ander discus" in Mr Hnext said that if Lord ) Palmerston waa

      n . LiiisHcd with his own defence of bis . own policy , he fMr H . ) was eatKBed—be wassatisied that the electors wo ' ild condemn his lordship an his own detence ; he should , therefore , not waste tiase by aaying one word in rep ly to the noble lord . Mr Harney then explained his views on ' Education , ' the' Poor-law , ' the 'StaJe Church , ' ' Ireland , ' and several other subjeats , concluding with a triumphant defence of tbje principles of tbe Charter . His views called forth , the repeated and enthusiastic cheers of tbe vast majority ot theassemMy .

      The Mjavor then took tho show of hands . . For M Heathcote a very large number of hands was raised ; for Lewi Palmerston tho show was much more select than numerous j . for Mr Julian Harney the shuw , wa ** a triumphant one , and called from his suppliers tremendous cheering . -When silonco was restored , the Mayor said : — " ¦ I declare that the show of hands is in . favour of John Heathcote , Eta . and Julian Uarncy , Esq . The moat indescribable tumult of chewing immediately burst from the people , and was continued for a long time . Lord Palmerston immediately demanded a poll , on which Mr Julian Harney read a written paper , addressed to the Mayor , setting forth his jeasons for not , on this dMtm on , going to the poll .

      Mr Julian Harney then moved » voted thanks to the Mayor , which was seconded by Lord Palmerston and adopted by acclamation . The Mayor having acknowledged the compliment ; the proceedings , which had continued seven hours , terminated . On Saturday the form ef opening the poll waa gone through , and in the course of the morning the declaration was made that Mr Heathcote and Lord Palmerston had been duty elected . ' His lordship then indulged himself with a speech , and repeated an oft-refuted string of fallacies respecting the Charter , apparently to the great delight of himself . The ridiculous ceremony of ' chairing * followed , but notwithstanding the attraction of equipage * banner * - , ribbons , bands , Ac . ' themembers , couw nst raise a solitary cheer !

      On Monday Evening Mr Julian Harney «« Ve...

      On Monday evening Mr Julian Harney «« very large meeting in the very large space of ground , at th ? backof the White BaUInu . Mr H / . speech eicted the greatest enthusiasm- On Tuesday morning Mr Harney quitted the town , accompanied by a number of his committee to tbe railway ««« ou , and followed by the UeNit «« an ' d ^ W . wisbes of thousand * in Simton .

      #»• Lord Falmeratoa's Speech Occupied Fu...

      # »• Lord Falmeratoa's speech occupied furoeolumas of Monday ' s Timet , while the speech of Mr Harney wa * merely notleod . W « have not refuted to give U > ri FalnMsrsion ' s speech through motives of retaliation , at » thoug h such retaliation wm ' . ( l »«> « mly Justice , W « , have not given'his lordship ' s '» pe « ch only beca *; , * wo bave not room for tt . Had wo giren bU sp ^« h w « must haw withheld Mr Barney's , which w ^ id sot have pleased

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07081847/page/7/