Addresses: January, 1874 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from Addresses: January, 1874

Gentlemen, - Her Majesty has been advised by Her Ministers, and has graciously accepted the advice, to dissolve the present Parliament and immediately to summon a new one, for the transaction of the regular business of the year.

In that new Parliament I respectfully solicit the honour of representing you.

I am too well aware that in the choice of a person charged as I am with official duty, you forego for the public good many special claims which you would otherwise justly make on the time and attention of your representative. This sacrifice, so freely and honourably incurred five years ago, I once again presume to ask at your hands, under the circumstances and for the special purposes which I shall now proceed to describe.

Of the House of Commons now about to be dissolved, no one will deny the remarkable amount of its labours, and of those legislative results which, but for untoward and chiefly recent circumstances, would have been greater still. I take upon me to affirm that those great labours have likewise been great services, and that they will give to the Parliament of 1868 a distinguished place in the annals of our country.

It is not to be wondered at if, after five years of anxious and varied effort, the strength both of the House of Commons and of the Administration for the concurrent discharge of their arduous duties has been impaired.

The welfare of the country can never be effectually promoted by a Government which is not invested with adequate authority.

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