“I exhort the people of England—you who are here present to-night—all who shall read my words to-morrow, I exhort them to make this a great question. Your fathers would have made it a great question: they would have maintained, and did maintain their rights; and you are recreant and unworthy children of theirs if you surrender them in your generation.” What cares Earl Derby, with his fifty proxies, whether he throws the country into inextricable confusion? {19} What cares a haughty aristocrat for Mr. Gladstone? His great superiority of intellect—his undaunted courage—his noble conscientiousness, are so many thorns in his side, and it is clear that certain members of both Houses, and envious EX-Chancellors, (as Disraeli, or that renegade sinecurist, Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle—a servant of the Crown, yet working against the Crown—with an office of £2,000 as Comptroller of the Exchequer, money wrung from a heavily taxed Public) dislike our honest Finance Minister. Need I remind you the genius MR. GLADSTONE has displayed as a Financier is a crime in their eyes. To drive the STATE Coach at all hazards, what cares LORD DERBY if the wheels of his chariot knock down the great Commoner? What does such a titled usurper care for offering gross insults to the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER? To OBSTRUCT, to offer every impediment to the spread of knowledge by means of the Penny NEWSPAPER—that great political Intelligence—is the delight of this chieftain and his retainers. You then turn round and most insolently taunt the Poor with their want of knowledge and improvidence, with their hazy and uncertain political ideas. You tempt the poor man with bribes, and complain of his dependence in his exercise of the Franchise, and contemptuously enquire “what will he do with it?” I know of no dishonour, no meanness to be compared with this. You are astute enough in diverting attention from the REFORM Bill by unfriendly criticisms on NAPOLEON, and by the distraction of Foreign Affairs.