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tutional institutions are obliged to remain passive spec-
tators of these acts of grace by which the Sovereign
may reward the noble services of those who have fought
and bled in their defence. In this country, however,
the people, through their representatives, share in the
acts of their Sovereign, and that participation of the
people with the Sovereign detracts in no degree from that
honour which is conferred by the Crown, but, on the
contrary, enhances the value of that which is done, be-
cause there is associated with the expression of the gene-
rous feelings of the sovereign the sanction and the as-
sent of the representatives of the people. (Cheers.) It
has, air, often been our lot in this house to see appearing
at the bar or rising in their places men who, by their
heroic deeds in the field or at sea, have well de-
served the gratitude and nobly earned the rewards ct
their country. We have heard this roof ring with the
acclamations which have followed the en:0;7:3811%h
which have fallen from the chair in conveviogeonntry.
persons the thanks and gratitude of tht"„econd the
(Cheers.) We have also frequently bag the Crown
generous intentions of the Crown bi:„ more substantial
• to bestow upon deserving men t110087,,,ey to enable them
acknowledgments which were necity which the Crown
adequately to support that
conferred upon them. In
by its peerage may 119'9'eeither of these courses is un-
the case of Lord Reef: 11 That ear which might have
fortunately in our Pc'd; --:nd delight to the expression of a
listened with gr't:st‘leonveyed by this house, unfortunately
nation's thanks
~that hand which might have received
lies still ittiateknowledgemeuts of a country is cold and
the genEL-gsrave. But Lord Raglan has bequeathed to
• 1•11„„i;v- as a debt which I trust will long continue,
bil•
lec:P.-fien-se' of gratitude for the services which he has
parformed. (Cheers.) He has also bequeathed to his
country those who were dear in his affections, and who,
Itrust, may long continue to be the objects of the affec-
tionate solicitude of his country. If Lord Raglan had not
received, before he undertook his appointment, that
peerage which was conferred upon him as an acknow-
ledgment of his long and valuable services in connection
with the army—if that reward had been delayed until
the conclusion of his services in the Crimea, there could
havebeen no doubt that this house would have responded
in his case as it has done in those of other brave men
who have earned in a similar manner the approbation of
the Crown and the gratitude of the country • and to that
peerage there would have been added that adequate
maintenance for the support of that dignity of which
there are so many examples to be quoted in the course
of the present and last century. I conceive that though
that reward, when granted, was not accompanied by any
intimation from the Crown for the means of supporting
that dignity, yet this could have no other effect than
increasing the desire of the house to avail itself of the
present communication for the purpose of making good
that which, so far as Lord Raglan was concerned, would
undoubtedly have been added to his peerage. (Cheers.)
That which lain about to propose is founded upon similar
precedents in the course of the present century. There are
many distinguished soldiers who have received from the
Crown the dignity of the peerage as a reward for their
brilliant services. In all of these cases all the COMM 1113 ica-
tons made by the Crown to this house were followed by
the grant of a pension for the life of the person upon
whom it was conferred, and generally for two successive
lives. These pensions have varied in amount from
two to three thousand pounds. In the present rase un-
fortunately, the country having to lament the loss of the
gallant individual upon account of whose services this
recommendation is made, we must depart in some de-
gree from the ordinary current of proceeding. The re-
ward which I am about to propose to the house is this
—that a pension of 1,0001. per annum should be granted
to Lady Raglan for her life, and that a pension of 2,000/.
should be granted to the present Lord Raglan, with re-
mainder to his next heir succeeding to the title. As a
general rule, pensions have been given for three lives ;
in the present case it will be given but for two as regards
the peerage, the third pension being one which I am
sure the house will feel great pleasure in bestowing.
(Cheers.) With respect to the merits of Lord Raglan,
it is unnecessary for me to add anything to that which
must force itself upon every mind. Lord Raglan de-
voted the whole of his life to the service of his country
in connection with the army. (Cheers.) I believe he
obtained the first step in his career in the army in 1807,
when he went to Copenhagen ; and from that time to
the day of his death he was constantly employed, either
in active service in the field or in the performance of im-
portant official duties in connection with the manage-
ment of the army. His was a life full of military ser-
vice to his country. (Cheers.) He bore about with
him the proof which manifested the devotion with which
he was ready upon all occasions to expose his life in the
field of battle ; but that mutilation—that honourable
rautilation—in no respect interfered with the continued
and efficient performance of his duty. (Cheers.) When
the command of the army in the Crimea was offered to
him, Lord Raglan—without any disparagement to him-
self, resting upon his long services, resting upon his
known chivalrous character, resting upon the memory
of the glorious scenes in which he had been engaged,
and in which he had taken a distinguished part
might, upon the plea of advancing years, of phy-
sical infirmity, of important official duties at home,
have begged to be excused that command, and that
some younger man might be put in his stead.
But Lord Raglan, with the true feeling of a soldier, and
bearing in mind,
" Where honour calls, where honour leads the way,
The sons of honour follow and obey,"

did not hesitate an instant in accepting the command
proffered to him, and, whatever were the dangers, trials,
and difficulties to which he might be liable, cheerfully
resolved to face them all, and to make every personal
sacrifice if it was thought that his services would be use-
ful to his country, and to the last hour of his life he was
devoted to the service of his country and of his Sove-
reign. (Cheers.) Lord Raglan had great difficulties
with which to contend. (Cheers.) He had, after con-
ducting his army gloriously through the perils of war,
to conduct them through the much more difficult perils
which were to be encountered of sickness, privation, and
of all the sufferings incident to a winter campaign, in a
country hitherto unknown to our army, and the pecu-
liarities of which they were scarcely prepared to encoun-
ter. The sufferings of that winter campaign, though great
to the soldier must, to a mind like Lord Raglan's, have
been indeed severe. Lord Raglan had, however, the sa-
tisfaction at lest of seeing that army which had
been ro-
duced to a state of privation and misery during the win-
ter, revive
with the return of spring, invigorated by
c ange of climate, reinforced by supplies of every kind,
znd at last he had the satisfaction of finding himself at
he head of one of the most magnificent armies that had
ever quitted the British shores, or ever followed the
standard of freedom in any quarter of the globe. He
trusted that with that army hcidesae ould have been able to
place the standard of England on the walls of Seb esto-
pol, and I trust that that glory may still be reserved to
the fortunate
that brave arm . E
man who may succeed to the command of
to Lord Rai; 9t it must have been deeply afflicting
i i his sinkinglae painful to a heart like his, to find that
had not long'to ements, when he must have seen that he
hopes, which
nordotautitniiin the world, that those brilliant
realised, and that he e entertained, could not for him be
stage of existence beforweahe doomed to pass away from this
the hopes of which had could achieve the anticipations,
of privation and miser sustained him in the dark days
(Cheers.) is.t
only
vZasthroughlor which he bad passed.
great qualities which peculiadl Raglan eminent for those
belong to the soldier, of
that undaunted bravery whicrhhyutcharacterised the noble
family to which he belongsv,ece..he was also remarkable
for those qualities which peculiarly fitted him for the
position in which he was
atileeenheaildiattohryat
gentleness of natnre—(cheers
considerationa"
—hb (Cheers,)
d
for the feelings
disposition—(cheers)—thatof others—(cheers)—which are frequenti
combined with true courage. It Was hrs and generally
the manner in which he conducted his intearcpopuinrseese;vibtyh
the generals and other officers connected
with
feeling the,
troops of our allies, to cement that cordiality h
and unite together those bonds of union, whit
now
so
happily connect in tho most intimate companionehip
those armies which in less happy times had known each
other
only as opponents on the field of battle. (Cheers.)
In that respect Lord Raglan was eminently sue.
cessfel, and in that respect, allow me to say, sir, he
has laid the deep foundation of the thanks
alntd grati-
tude of his country. (Rear, hear, and cheers.)
happened, when armies came to to-
getherco-operarateghtwell havee hsl previously been acquainted only from
who .a
opposing eachother in fields of action, that jealousies,
of opinion, and those various disa-
greements whichconflict
sometimes arise even among officers
and men of the same country, might have thrown into
the alliance feelings of coldness, feelings of incipient
animosity, which would heaatveamlliaarnrcede
wthheicuhnihtyasohfeaecntiosno
and been fatal to the
happily cemented betag;entthtoe
Laromrdiesßaagnlclann,sathioennsenorf
England and France. Rut,
be it said, his manner of conducting hisirneteeh
intercourse with
with
the generals, officers, and men of h
in-
spired-not only in his own
men that cordiality towards
their French
comrades which it was desirable to excite,
but he inspired
of our allies the convictionthat there was the most per-
fectalso in the minds of the officers and troops
oblivion of any differences which had previously ex-
isted, and from that ti eforward the two armies and the
two nations would be animated by one identical feeling,
and would act together
and of the same l look at
Lord -Raglan as a ma
anq- I eay, then, whether you .
brothers- of the same countries
life in the performancne oyffho 11
who
had devoted himself witheaurtc-"us military duties,
,iadepna'ssed the whole of his
country, or whether
position of great difficulty, pneVerr il,im as placed in a
you consider re.setve to the service of his
position with the most consciernQt.
a success which not only did honloeu'l:tdevotiosi, and with
ni-nts the duties of that
great advantage upon his countryi° hinl nu
sayl,t4t in either
case, or in whatever way you look un t conferred
suaded this house will feel a melancheolly-intel„„a4m, per-
acquiescing in the resolutions Which I a,maa,ati-i7at°" in
pose—(cheers)—for I am confident that thee. 'cl--- j'eof ipro"
while they will on the one hand testify the egereso-o-;ons,
gard of the Crown for those who perform seregocidne- c-:ie-
its cause, and while they will on the other band be r--
that this house is not indifferent to the claims fa-r"
who eithersacrifice their lives in the service of their thoseeou
try, and who perform great feats in its defence, they will al:o.
be acceptable to the people of this country, whit will, I am confident, think higher of this ii ouse, and will look with
more gratitude to the Crown in consequence of the
passing of these resolutions which I am now putting in.
to your bands.
The C EtAIRMAN then read the resolutions which
,
were as follows :-7

" That the annual sum of I,ooot, be granted to her Ma-
jesty to be charged upon the Consolidated Fund of Great
Britain and Ireland, from and after the 2d of July, 1355,
And to be settled, as shall be most beneficial, 'Upon Emily
Harriett, widow of the jate Fitzroy James Henry Lord
Wan.
` Also, that the annual sum of 2,000 t. be granted to her
Majesty, to be charged upon the Consolidated Fund of
Great Britain and Ireland, from and after the 2d of July,
1855, and to be settled, as shall be most beneficial, upon