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brouglit in a bill for conferring on Ministers ample 

 powers to be exercised on their responsibility for a 

 limited time, and in certain cases to compel the 

 departure of persons coming to England, not from 

 the accustomed motives of business and pleasure, as 

 crowds of foreigners were resorting to this country 

 whose object could not be ascertained, and Govern- 

 ment thought it their duty to stand prepared against 

 every contingency. His Grace expressed some regret 

 that the measure was not of a more stringent nature. 

 On the 2nd of February, 1849, her Majesty opened 

 Parliament. When the usual address was moved in 

 the House of Lords, Lord Stanley proposed an amend- 

 ment to the following effect : " We regret, however, 

 to be compelled humbly to represent to your Majesty 

 that neither your Majesty's relations with foreign 

 powers, nor the state of the revenue, nor the con- 

 dition of the commercial and manufacturing interests, 

 are such as to entitle us to address you in the language 

 of congratulation, but that a large portion of the 

 agricultural and colonial interests of the empire are 

 labouring under a state of progressive depression 

 and anxiety." The Duke of Richmond declared his 

 strong opposition to the ministerial policy, especially 

 to the proposed reduction in the Army and Navy ; 

 he also expressed his confidence that the system of 

 protection to agriculture, of which the landed in- 

 terest had been so unjustly deprived, must be soon 



