The Life and Times of Queen Victoria vol. 2 of 4

The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; vol. 2 of 4

Mr. Roebuck and EmigrationSelf-Government and the ColoniesUnsympathetic Whig PolicyRadicals and the Colonial OfficeThe Peelites and Hudsons Bay CompanyFinancial ReformMr. Cobden at Variance with Mr. BrightCombined AgitatorsThe Demand for RetrenchmentTrade and the FlagTories and TaxesA reductio ad absurdumA Raid on a SurplusInternational ArbitrationParliamentary ReformParliament and the JewsThe Tories oppose the Alteration of the Parliamentary OathEpiscopal PrejudiceTory ObstructionistsAn Ordnance Department ScandalMr. Delanes Attacks on Lord Palmerston in the TimesThe Queen Remonstrates against Lord Palmerstons RecklessnessAn Anti-Palmerstonian CabalLady Palmerstons IntriguesLord Brougham Betrays the CabalPalmerstons VictoryRome and FranceThe Second WarThe Disaster of ChillianwallaIndignation of the CountryLord Goughs RecallNapier to the RescueThe East India Directors Oppose Napiers AppointmentThe Convict War at the CapeBoycotting the Governor. Another notable event in the Colonial history of 1849 was the introduction by Mr. Roebuck, on the 14th of May, of a Bill for the better government of the Colonies. The debate on this measure brought vividly before the minds of thoughtful men the folly upon which our step-motherly treatment of the Colonies was based. Emigration by itself, exclaimed Mr. Roebuck, is misery; and yet the idea of colonisation which prevailed at the Colonial Office was simply to transport as many people as possible to distant wilds, utterly regardless of their ultimate fate. Why should we not introduce something like system, asked Mr. Roebuck, into our Colonial policy, and recognise the fact that it was now not tribute, but trade that we might expect to get{386} from them? His proposal was to have one plan for settling a colony, another for organising it when settled, and a third for groups of colonies in confederation or union. His panacea for all Colonial ills was to get rid of red tape at the Colonial Office and to give the Colonies Home Rule. The difficulties, said Mr. Hawes, as representing Lord Grey and the Colonial Office, in the way of granting Home Rule to North-American Colonies would be insuperable; besides, England had far too many Colonies already, so that it was of little use to bring forward schemes for settling new ones! Whigs like Lord John Russell condemned a policy which tended to substitute a fixed Parliamentary rule for the discretion of a responsible Minister, and contended that physical impediments rendered the union of Canada into one Dominion impossible. Mr. Gladstone, however, warmly supported Mr. Roebucks policy. Even then the leaven of the Home Ruler was working in his mind. Mr. Roebuck was beaten by 116 to 73. But this did not put a stop to these Colonial debates. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 63290
Author: Wilson, Robert
Release Date: Sep 25, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English