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« We are bound in justice , as well as , I think , directed licv to wait until these measures aro produced which * to eive to the agricultural interest , to the colonial infest and to the shipping interest all that compensation f which they have hitherto been unjustly deprived—/ huffhtDi' ) - ^ which , are at the same time to confer benefits on every class in the community —( Laughter , and £ eers ) these admirable measures which are to put an C d toi a long contest—which are to satisfy people who 6 at the present moment in the greatest state of satisfacjV which are to content people who have never been discontented—( Laug hter )—and which at the same time to reconcile along with them other classes who are discontented and dissatisfied . " He was sure the farmers expected relief in tlie direction of compensation for alleged ill-treatment ; 'ind he put the case rather humorously , as between the Farmer , the Whigs , and the Derbyites .
"It appeared to me—I may be quite wrong in this respect but I know it appears to me somewhat like the case found in no historical work , and of which there is no precedent amongst statesmen , but of which there are precedents to be found in the practice of daily : life—I mean of the patient who seeks for a regular physician , and who says to him— ' I fe ^ l very much depressed—I have not been well for some time—I want to be cured . ' The physician savs to him— ' I see what it is ; I am sorry to observe that for a long course of years your regimen has been very unhealthy , and that you have lived on artificial stimulants . ( Laughter . ) I advise you to return to wholesome food and exercise , and to trust to nature for your recovery . ' ( A laugh . ) Well , I have very often heard that that patient lias been very much dissatisfied with this advice , and that he has said , ' This is a trumpery fellow of a physician who tells me nothing but to lead a wholesome life ;
it is not ' worth listening to his advice , I will turn him off and send for some one else . ' He has only to take up a newspaper , and he will find the announcements of persons who say that , without any confinement , without any inconvenience , by merely taking a few pills —( Laughter)—the patient shall be restored entirely to health , and shall never have any reason to complain afterwards , but on the contrary shall be strong and vigorous for the next twenty years of his life . ( Laughter . ) I cannot help thinking to «» t the present case is likely in the end to turn out something \ u < o this . ( Cheers . ) But mind , my suspicions may be unjust . T may have the envy of the discarded physician —( A laugh)—1 may foe the person who gave that unpalatable advice—I may , u end the metaphor , think that the happiness , welfare , and i-n ? oSperity of the agricultural classes is to be sought for ya the general welfare and prosperity of the country . ~ ( Loud cheers . )"
If any medicine could be procured which would produce universal satisfaction he would be sure to own that lie was utterly wrong . "But , gentlemen , as all this 19 to be told us in November ; all I can say is , that I think and I trust , when we meet in November , we shall confine ourselves , in the first instance , to asking what the courso is that is to be proposed ; and when we have heard what that course is , we shall then consider what ought to be our course with respect to it . " Tins gathering broke up with three cheers for the Queen .
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DKItHVITR MANIFESTO AT 15 ANBIJRY . l > A \ n ( nty cukes" are familiar as household words to our juvo . nuo population , and the sweet-toothed among our adults . Of course , they are concocted in other towns , iuid often pr » v , » counterfeits ; but Uanbury ltsuli has maintained its mentation , always turning ° "t genuine cakes . On WednesCW ; . there was a jiolii ''< "il dinner given at lJimbury in honour of Mr . Henley : 1 "d Colonel North , and " honoured" by the presmve of * 'iiptiiin Vyse , and a young Knightly from Northamptonshire , who is a worthy successor of bis bucolic parent , Sl 1 ' Charles . At this banquet Mr . Henley was the main spokesman ; he promised to present his hearers with what we may call a genuine Banbury cake polia ° < u ,, as will bo wren , he turned out a . miserable co unterfeit . As the dinner wns liko all other gatherings of its klll ( l ; and i , the interest especially attaches to the most , weighty and most eccentric speakers , we shall () ll"i the commonplace , and tell only of the pretentious : " 1 ( l 'iiicomnion . | 1 | »« ' scene of the feast was the floor of a mall ing — . miluunii uiin diitutsiM wi i iiinii
. ,, , ; « <" k ' "' J ' , ami tlie chairnnin , a Mr . Lovcday . It Hounds " "" . V , 1 ml , is neveiWless true , that ' the toast of llWi l l > erb y and the Jlouse of Lords , " was , out of ^ l"' 1 ' 1 ' <«> the memory of the Duke of Wellington , ( i ""! » " silence , and ' not responded to save by " a ' " "'"•' H <»» g from Mr . Brufon . " After this delectable ^¦ ' ¦'" ' nu uiee , Mr . ( lurtwrighl , proposed the 1 icil 1 I . 1 i of Mr . h 1 i ' . p- Colonel North , nnil the members for
Oxford-1 " '' '"ley , in reply , attacked the press for opposing " ^ ' ^ . V ; 'indfor ' whnt ? llu'VCiill ' ' " "" " ' '' ' '' llllH < lo " ° . lul '' bemuse it ban what , of U ,, ' ! - , ' i . " ° I"" ' " < 'ipl ( iN . ' Now , if I understand anything "" ''it hi " , '" ' . "' " tfoiiMemeii assembled , Mini , Govern-V 011 l »(«| i H " ' . ' ' <' ! > "n n »< iples . ( Cheers . ) Ah Ibis hits been lr «> iu on ' " ¦ " 1 M <> 1 < M 1 ( " . y '" HiHted on -echoed , I limy Hiiy , 3-o . ' < l . " ! () l" 'he country | , Mu > oilier , I shall ' , with 1 -numm on , if I do not trespass too long o » your
time , endeavour to trace out a little what have been the principles of that great party with which I have the honour to be associated , and what are , and what will continue to be their principles to the end . ( Applause . )" And he proceeded to fulfil this pledge by giving , not a statement of principles , but an historical disquisition on the great " Conservative pnrty . " They were , he said , deeply attached to the monarchy . Then they had opposed—nay , Lord Derby had split from , the Whigs on the appropriation clause .
" The next question which followed , and * which shook the then Whig Reform Government to its centre—the question which first gave the Conservative party a tie , or a majority of one ( I forget which ) , in the House of Commons , was whether the people of this country , by the aid of the State , should receive a religious or a secular education . Wow , I ask you , is that a question of principle , or is it not ? ( Cheers . ) Are children to be taught that " the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom , " or are they to receive a merely secular education , and be let loose to pick up their religious principles . where they can ? That was the first question which shook" the Whig Government , and laid the foundation for the accession of Sir 11 . Peel to power . I ask if that principle does not still remain in all its force , and whether the same party who wanted to introduce it twelve or fourteen years ago are not now again ready to proceed with the same measure ?"
Next , he wanted to know what were the Whig opinions with regard to the Irish Chnrch ; decrying Lord John Russell ' s speeches on Mr . Ward ' s motion in 1844 and ' 45 , and claiming immense credit for his own party , who opposed that motion . Then came the Freetrade question , raised by the Whigs , and taken up by Peel . "It was the late Sir Robert Peel ' s Government which first hounded on the country upon these questions . " " They were the first , in 1841 , to make them an electioneering cry . Iu 1840 , when those gentlemen were in opposition , we heard a great deal , and they taught all who trusted in them to believe that there was something
unholy in buying sugar which the slave produced—that it was irreligious and immoral . Well , was that changed in 1846 , when they supported the Whigs in carrying the very measure which they themselves denounced ? Surely , if it were wrong in 1845 , it could not be right in 184 G , and men will be disposed to . ask themselves whether these gentlemen were sincere in the opinions which they entertained ? Five or six years passed on , and great changes were effected in 1846 , ami because the 250 gentlemen , forming perhaps four-fifths of the great Conservative party , who had held those principles uninterruptedly and unbroken from 1832
and 1833 , when they first formed a party , did not suddenly , and without reason assigned , turn round on all they had previously believed , and say that it was wrong to do that which in 1840 they had declared to be right , but chose to say , 'We see no arguments or reasons to make us change our opinions , and we wish to see the operation of those great measures upon the community at large before wo give our assent to them ;'—because they take that course , people turn round upon them and say , ' They have no principles . ' If that be the case , I do not know what a principle is . "
As to their accession to office , and their right to office , why , they did not arrive there by any motion of their own , but by the disunion of " the Liberal party . " Lord John Russell " hit up the Government in a pet , " and said , " There is nobody fit to take the Government , because he has not been in the Government before . " But they , as the largest body , for the Peelites did not count , took office as a matter of duty" We have differed from the lenders of whiifc was called 'tlie great Conservative party' on commercial policy . . Scarcely seven years have passed over our heads since Hint , policy iiecanui the law of the land . 1 . am speaking in Hie
Vresence of men who have not unfrequenf ly heard me express my opinions on this subject , and even lit a time when your feelings ruu somewhat counter to my own . My opinion was , that il , was a question which musl , be decided and settled iih if , should be proved to affect the whole community . ( Hear . ) I know you will dome the justice to admit thill , that is the language 1 have always held in this town . 1 fold you to withhold your judgment , ami Mint , deep us the pressure and difficulty you were labouring under liiiglil . be , not to deceive yourselves into the belief Mint these questions would ever be settled as they merely afleeted yourselves , but , with reference to their bearing on the whoie community . I know il , is an unfortunate thing I knew il , then I know it now it is nil unfortunate
thing for those who happen to be ( he sufferers . Still , I zhould only linve been deceiving you Mien , and I should be only deceiving you now , it' I led you l . o believe Mini , these questions would be settled in Mum country iu any other way than as ( hey allecl , the great mass and majority of the people . " And he digressed here to show | , haf tho l ' eelite branch of the Conserval ivc parly stood alone , having no chance of forming 11 government . So far \ u ' . bad proceeded , and ( here remained 071 / 1 / the quest , ion as to what course would be taken with respect , to flu ) . suffering interests of the country . All ears were opened ; but Air . Henley did not , deign to satisfy the curiosity he had raised .
" Tim agricultural interest ban no doubt suffered , and the shipping interest , has no doubt , suH ' erod ; mid , if it , bad not been for mn . fl . crs to which I shall shortly ndvert , Ihey would have Hiiflered still more severely . \ V e agricult urists , iu the south of Kuglnndpuil . icnln . rly , have nlvvnys bud two grcut difficulties to contend with . At timen we have bad fluctuating prices , and Mint . 1 . am afraid nothing will
remove from us . We shall have them , I fear , fluctuating still , only on a lower scale . Fluctuate they will at seasons , and neither free-trade nor anything else will prevent higher or lower prices ; but no doubt we shall have them on a lower scale , except under special circumstances . The other matter we suffered from in the south of England was our labour market . Every one who is acquainted with the management of land is aware that the occupiers in the south ° do and did cultivate their farms at a greater expense for labour than our brethren north of the Tweed . The actual cost for labour on a farm north of the Tweed , cultivating the same quality of land in the same manner , has been satisfactorily proved to be much less per acre than in the south of England . That , no doubt , is very much
owing to the state of our labour market . Our parishes , many of thorn , were overdone with labour , and we were obliged , therefore , to employ a greater amount of labour at a low rate of wages , and that is the most expensive labour we can employ . ( Cheers . ) Well , circumstances which had nothing on earth to do with free-trade—the famine and the destruction of human life in Ireland—the vast exodus of our people which has taken place in consequence of that and of the discovery of the precious metals in other parts of the world , have occasioned such a diminution in the labour market that no difficulty is likely to be felt on that head for some time to come . That has also very much relieved the shipping interest , the demands for shipping for the purposes of emigration being so groat
that no British ship is unemployed , but that we have been obliged to have recourse to Dutch , Hamburgh , and other foreign ships , to carry the people away . What the ultimate effect will be of thus stripping the land of its smews and strength , God only knows ; but the real fact is , that in Ireland , from the misery of the people , and in England from the hope of gain , the people are rushing from our shores in every way and in every direction as soon as they can muster the passage money . The colonists themselves are sending home large sums of money , which are distributed by a Government office as trustees for the colonists , and in the manner they direct , for the purpose of hiring and sending out labour . The effect , no doubt , has been very much to empty our workhoiises . So far it has
benefited the land , and has also advantaged the shipping interest , by giving them a great amount of employment ; so that the evil is somewhat palliated . ( Hear , hear . ) It would be presumptuous in me to pretend to point out how much this or that cause may have tended to produce this or that amount of prosperity in various parts of the country ; nor shall I attempt to say what that prosperity is . I have lived too long in this county to suppose that you feel anything but the greatest pleasure at the prosperity of any portion of her Majesty ' s subjects . We feel it , not only as a gratification to ourselves , but , further from this interested motive , that if a large portion of the country is doinj ^ swll it must reflect some benefit upon us ; and , aboveall , that they are our fellow-countrymen , and that their being the better off does not make us one jot the worse . " ( Cheers . )
And he wound up by saying that he had gone through all the topics ! The other speakers did not rise to the level of Mr . Henley , and only one ventured to express his disappointment at the speech of the Minister ; but he said such extravagant things that we will print a few to show our readers the intentionsof the " roughs" among the Derbyites . Tlie speaker we allude to is Mr . Kainald Knightley , who succeeded his father , the notorious Sir Charles Knightley , in the representation of Northamptonshire . First , Mr . Knightley expressed his disappointment : —¦
" He was sure they musl , all have listened -with attention to the speech of Mr . Henley , but lie must , way for himself that be should like to have had one little more g limpse of that 'brig ht , thing' which wns ' looming in the future for them . ' ( Loud laughter and cheers . ) He supposed , however , they musl , be content to wail patientl y until Parliament , met , when it would rise upon them with a bright halo all at , once . ( Roars of laughter . ) They must not expect , too much al , present , for the Government , were p laced in rather strange and awkward circumstances . " After ridiculing , in a ribald strain , tlin Whigs and l . he lYelifes , th " n young member showed in what lig ht , lie and such as be regard the mass of th <> communit y at home and abroad : " Besides Miese two parlies , there was yol , 11 . third flies 11 lfrn .-dcmocrn . tic seel ion and a strange combination of monstrous c < ml railiet ions it , consisted of . On the lirst
night of the coming session , then , they would see united on one bench , in the closest bonds of fraternit y and uflinit y , Papists and Puritans , Socialists tind Quakers , . lews and . Jesuits , all united for one object thai , object being the destruction of Ihe Proloslnnt , tail h , ami Hut plunder of I he revenues of the National Church . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , supposing they succeeded in compelling l * is rig ht lion , friend , Mr . I lenley , and his colleagues to resign ( he reins of power , the q uestion he would ask them was ( his oul , of which motley t ; cction of ( his harlequin opposition could her Majesty sejeet a councillor who would have I he slig lifesl , prospect , of being :, ble to curry on ( he government , of Hie country i ( Loud cheers . ) These were not ( lie times when tho im ' porlnnl , duties which pertained ( o ofliivs of the Htuln were to be toyed and trilled with . Who .-imongsl , them did not remeinber Ih . ! awful and inoinonloun epoch of IH 4 H , when the institutions of almost , every country in Uuropo were ; shaken ( o their very foundations , and rent in twain from lop to bottom when order mid anarchy long Trembled in ( ho balance' "or did the latter eventually 'kick the beam' ( ill ( be sword of I ho Aiilocrnl , of Russia was cast into the opposing scale i' ( Hear , bear . ) JiCl , not Kngli .-ihinen l » e deceived by the present , aspect , of coiil . iimnhiMiflnii-N . Tho Socialist . hcU-lumnds of neighbouring slntoM were nl , present chained and muzzled , but , if they could escape their bonds , was it likol y ( hut theluto
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October 2 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 935
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 2, 1852, page 935, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1954/page/3/
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