The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-10-01 00:00:00

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SALISBURY.—MigOidah TO LORD HZIDEIT.—A
largo and influential meeting of noblemen and gentle-
men connected with the county of Wilts woo held in
the Council chamber, at Salisbury, on Thurelay, for the
purpose of considering the propriety of contributing to
some public and permanent record of the esteem and
respect borne by the inhabitants of the county of Wilts
to the person and character of the late Lord Herbert of
Lea. Among those present were the Marquis of Bath,
the Bishop of Salisbury, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. •
Thomas Boring, M.P., the Hight Hon. T. Sotherou
Eatteourt, M. P., Mr. W. Ewer', M.P. General
Buckley, M.P., Mr. If. Denby Seymour, M.P., Sir. G.
Hobe, Archdeacon Honey, Major Ileatheote, the Rev.
Prebendaries Lordlier, Pane, Smart, and Renaud,
Major Jacob, Mr. Eyre, Mr. A. Seymour, the Mayor of
• Salisbury, Ice. Me. Sothevon-Estcuurt having been
called to the chair' be opening the proceedings, read
letters from the Marrinie el Lansdowne, Captain Glad-
stone, M.l'., Mr. &trope, M.P., Mr. Antrobus. M P., and
others, apologising for non-attendance, but all concur-
ieg in the object of the meeting. The Marquis of
Lansdowne stated that he Afield have been present
but • serious accident had happresed to one of his legs,
which compelled hint to resort to the nse of crutches.
The right hon. chairman then proceeded to esplain the
object for which the meeting had been convened, and
stated that, in order to reconcile the different opinions
which had been impressed in the sounty upon the
matter, it was proposed to erect • statue of the late
Lord Herbert in Salisbury, and also to establish a cao.
sideseent hospital ur.der the name of " the Herbert
Hospital." He trusted that the meeting would he
unmunseus on any moieties to which they arrived.
Lord Herbert was one of the worthiest Wiltshire men
that ever lived, and it was most desirable that they
should be united in the memorial they erected to his
memory. If they simply erected a statue, but half of
the man—and that too the least prominent part—would
be handed down to posterity, it was, therefore, thought
desirable to establish an hospital; and, by the Fraisious
permission of her Majesty, the hospital at 11% oolwich
, would receive a name which would remind all future
' ages what a good friend to the soldier Lord Herbert
WAS. (Cheers.) The meeting sibwen addressed by the
Mayor of Salisbury, Kr. Everett, Mr. r. Baring, M.P.,
awl General Buckley, M.P. The Bishop of Salisbury
moved :—" That in she opinion of this meeting, the
most suitable mode of attaining the twofold object
refereed to in the previous resolutions is that &statue be
erected be Salisbury, its the capital town of the 'aunty,
awl that a ocildsleacent hospital be established in some
place dettotii best adopted fur that purpose, to be called
and known hereafter sw • The Herbert Convalescent
Hospital."' 'flee right !teemed prelate observed that by
the death of Lord Herbert the dimes° had lost the
only man who, perhaps, of all oehere, conferred the
greatest honour upon the church. Speaking of Lord
Herbert both an • neighbour and friend, he believed that
God could not in his Providence have inflicted • greater
loss npon him suid all his neighbour, than He had dons
, in withdrawing him from them. Wish regard to the
, nature of the memorial Lobe raised to Lord Herbert, he
.hmelim,ve,l that that which would must entirely express
, the feelings of Lord Herbert himself old the
estabhaltrment of a convalescent home; but at the
, same God he confessed that for his own part, if he
, were to consult his own feelings, he should be glad
, to see a endue of so great • man arul so eminent
,a Christian, so that somewhere in the county they
might have that noble presence constantly before
, them. He should be grievously disappointed—indeed,
! lie should he ashamed of his countrymen—if be

did .3;ts...ll.edgba-t-in a abort time a sullicient sum
would have been collected to justify the committee
net only in meeting a ,datue, but also in
establishing • cornaleteent home. (Cheers.) Other
mobil/ens were nr:vtil and seconded by Mr. A.
Seymour. Archdeacon Heaney, Mr. Eyre, Mr. W. Eivart,
M.P., and the Rev. Prebendary Lowther. Mr. H. to.
Seymour, 11.1'., in the course of his remarks, mid that
upon an occasion of this sort, in the lees of • friend and
benefactor to so many amongst them, it was quite
proper that the moveuient of • moon/went ithould
originate where Lord Herbert had been brit known
from Ids earliest childhood. But as had been said by
almost every speaker Lord Herbert was not only a
county man but possessed a national reputation, lie
was a statesman of the highest character, and more than
that, his philanthropic efforts extended not only to the
county and to this country but to the whale world.
(Cheers.) It WAY fitting, therefore, when they showed
on one part of the ineinotial which they proposed to
raise that they wished to perpetuate as far as they
could Mr bodily image amongst them by the eroction of
is statue in the locality, that there should be • second
part of the memorial open to all the world. • (Hear,
hoar.) The motion which he had the honour to submit
was, that not only should the county be allowed to sub-
scribe to the memorial, but that it should be thrown open
I to those without the county—to all those who resided
within the kingdom and even beyond the kingdom,
who chose to subscribe to it. (Cheers.) I mention
this, because I happen to know that at the antipodes
many a grateful heart beats te the memory of Lord
Herbert. It was one marked charaoteristie of Lord
Herbert's life, that when his service" were no longer
required by the State in the year 1840, in the vacancy
which occurred in his political life he turned hem mind
to domestic queations. Many present would remember
the dreadful misery which afflicted the sister kingdom
in 1047, and would be able to compare the vast differ.
ence betwemi ill prevent condition and the poverty and
pauperism which existed at that period. It was ,
characteristic of Lord Herbert, that in that crisis he ,
sought to throw • bridge over between our colonies and
ourselves, and to transport to dimes, where they would
be prosperoue and happy, multitudes of his fellow
beings, who would otherwiae have been miserable and
starving. Most of those present mast have seen the
Petters whisk his exertions produced, and he felt
assured that marry grateful heart, were beating at the
other side of the world in memory of the success of Ills
efforts. (Cheers.) In Lord Herbert's grave were
buried all party feelings. He lived • life which all
would du well to mutate. His private virtues were
great. His love of his kind, although perhapa'svarmest
at home, was not limited by anything save the human
race ; and if Providence had spared him, each year of
his life would have endeared him more to his country
arid to the whole kingdom. (liear, heard He begged
to mote, "That although our fleet anxiety will be to
affonl an opportunity to the residents of the nounty and
neighbourhood to record oar admiration of the virtues
of Lord Herbert, yet we respectfully invite and will
gladly accept the ce-operation of rny person in the
kingdom who desires to join us in this work."
((Amen.) The It.'. Prelnedary Fans seconded the
resolution, and • provisional committee having been
formed, the proceedings were brought to • close with a
vote of thanks to the chairman.