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London, England, 1852-05-26 00:00:00

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N G MAY 26 1852.
N°. 18,620,] N ESDAY
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SALES BY AUCTION.

' • STRATFORD, ESSEX.
Valuable FREEHOLD ESTATE; consisting of ST. THOMAS'S
CAPITAL FLOUR-MILL, with STORES, &c., a RESIDENCE
adjoining, and a GRIST—MILL ; the whole let at .4301, per annum.
11/rESSRS. FAREBROfHER, CLARK, and
.431. LYE are instructed by the Executors of the late Walter
Hunter, Esq., to SELL, at Garraway's, on TUESDAY, June 22, at
Twelve, in One Lot, the capital and spacious

FREEHOLD :MILL.
ST. THOMAS'S FLOUR ➢fILL,

called

situated in Marshgate-lane, at Stratford, near Bow-bridge, Essex.
The premises are four stories high, were built by the late Mr.
Ilunter, without regard to expense, upon the best construction,
and fitted with six pairs of French stones, worked by a powerful
supply of water and by a steam engife of 16-horse Power, erected
by Hall and Co. ; extensive stores and warehouses, stabling, Szc„
with convenient residence adjoining, let to Mr. Cook, at 4001. per
annum ; also a wind grist-mill, with small dwelling and meadow,
le:, to Mr. Ellis at 301. per annum. The situation is highly desirable,
from the easy access to the London and county markets.

Descriptive particulars will b 3 ready 14 days prior to the sale
(when the estate may be viewed), and may be had on the premises ;
at Jack's Coffee-house, Mark-lane; of Robert Ellis, Esq., solicitor,
Cowper's-court, Cornhill ; at Garraway's ; and of Messrs. Fare-
brother, Clark, and Lye, 6, Lancaster-place, Strand.

HIGHBURy.
Long LEASEHOLD ESTATE, nearly equal to freehold, being held
for au unexpired term of 76 years, at a peppercorn rent, and let to
a highly respectable tenant at 80/. per annum.
MESSRS. FAREBROTH.ER, CLARK, and
LYE are instructed by the Mortgagees to SELL, at Gar-
raway's, on TUESDAY, the 22d of June (unless an acceptable offer is
previously made by Private Contract), a desirable
ESTATE,

leasehold, held for 76 years, at a peppercorn rent ; consisting of a
brick-bailt and stuccoed
FItIVATE RESIDENCE,

No. 5, on the north side of Flighbury-grange, Highbury, commanding
extensive views over the country. The residence is well arranged,
and contains suitable bed rooms, drawing room, dining room, and
parlour, with convenient offices ; an excellent walled garden in the
rear, with lore-court; now in the occupation of Thomas Fletcher,
Esq., as yearly tenant, at 80'. per annum.
To be viewed by permission of the tenant, and particulars had
14 days prior to the sale at the Highbury-barn Tavern,
ilighbury ; Angel, Islington ; of Messrs. Baker and co., solici-
tors, 52, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; at Garraway's ; and at the offices of
Messrs. Farebrother, Clark, and Lye, Lancaster-place, Strand.

NEAR TO WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK.
COPYHOLD LANDED ESTATES.

ESSRS. FAILEMICAB.R., CLARK, and
LTE are instructed to SELL, at the Crown Inn, Wood-
bridge, on WEDNESDAY, Ju..e 23, at Two for Three precisely, in
Three Lots (unless an acceptable offer is previously made by Private
Contract), the following

COPYHOLD ESTATES,
viz., a compact FARM,
containing about 28 acres of capital arable land, in the parish of
Haskcton, adjoining the estate of Edmund Jenny, Esq., and about
one mile and a half from the market town of Woodbridge ; an
ENCLOSURE OF MEADOW LAND
near adjoining the road to Grundisburgh ; 'and
OF ARABLE AND PASTURE LAND,
to
FIVE Ha sk
ENCLOSURESc to n Chu Church,
containing about 27 acres, situate at Bass-green, adjoining to
Boulge park, and near to the village of Bredtield. The above estates
are let on /ease. which expires at Michaelmas next, to Edmund
Jenny, Esq., at 951. per annum, and in the occupation of his under-
Messrs. Phillips and Smith.
tenants,

To be viewed, and particulars, with plans, had (21 days prior to
the sale) at the Crown, Woodbridge; White Hone, Ipswich ; Cups,
Colchester; White Hart, Manningtree ; of E. J. Jennings, Esq.,
solicitor, 314 re-court-buildings, Temple; at Garraway's ; and at the
offices of Messrs. Farebrother, Clark, and Lye, Lancaster-place,
Strand.

DORSETSHIRE.
The magnificent FREEHOLD and TITHE-FREE DOMAIN of
MILTON ABBEY, SIICKLAND, GLENSTONE. and HILTON;
the noble Mansion, finely-timbered Park, extensive Pleasure-
grounds, and Plantations ; the beautiful old Abbey in the finest
state of preservation, Sixteen large Farms, with excellent Farm-
-buildings ; the picturesque Village of Milton Abbas, also Whit-
church, Stickland, and Hilton Villages, extensive Manors, Two
P..dvowsOns,&c.; the whole Estate about 8,600 Acres.
VIESSRS. FAREBROTHER, CLARK, and
LYE are instructed by the noble proprietor to S ELL, at Gar-
ruway's, on WEDNESDAY, June 30, at Twelve (unless an acceptable
offer is previously made by private contract), the following
MAGNIFICENT FREEHOLD and NEA3LY TITHE-FREE
DOMAIN,
situate about eleven miles from Dorchester, six from Blandford, and
seventeen from Weymouth, viz., the entire parish of Milton Abbas,
including the Manor and Adrowson of the Rectory, the

CAPITAL MANSION
(built of Portland stone by Sir W. Chambers), which displays a fine
artistic work of that great architect, consisting of two grand fronts,
the entrance gateway (surmounted by two noble cictsugular towers),
the fine entrance porch of the old Abbey building, In perfect preser-
vation, leading to the splendid entrance-hall, 54 feet long by 21 feet
wide, one of the finest specimens of the early Tudor style now exist-
ing ; the ceiling is composed of a series of boldly, carved arched trusses
ha oak; the whole is rich in ornamental detail; the screen is ex-
tremely picturesque in character, formerly the refectory of the
Abbots of 3111t,,n, at the end of the hall the oriel leads to a drawing-
room 31 feet long by 21 feet wide, a splendid dining-room of equal
proportions (the ceiling in the best style of the architect), library,
study, numerous principal and scondary bed-rooms, a
SUITE of ELEGANT APARTMENTS EXTENDING the WHOLE
LENGTH of the WEST FRONT,
consisting of ante-room, spacious saloon, and two other noble rooms.
commanding extensive views of the park, grand staircase, and all
the necessary doniestic offices. The mansion is approached by a car-
riage drive and lodge entrances, and stands in the centre of a beauti-
ful valley, 'within a finely undulated park; adjoining are the plea-
sure-grounds tastefully disposed in lawns, with parterres for flowers,
orangery, &c. ; and walks and drives ,of several miles in extent,
leading through the grounds and extensive plantations, good walled
gardens, with peach and forcing houses, grapery, &c., •

- THE MAJESTIC OLD ABBEY
is situate nearly adjoining the mansion, and is in the finest state of
preservation, consisting of a central tower, with two transepts, noble
chancel with side aisles, of the architecture of Edward 111., a stone
altar screen, unequalled in beauty, a richly stained glass window (by
Hardman) in the south transept, finely, sculptured monuments and
carved stalls, the whole presenting one of the most picturesiue mo-
nastic churches in England ; a winding path Crosstng a rustic bridge
leads to a SMALL ANCIENT SAXON CHURCH.
The whole of the lands in hand, including the plantations, walled
deer park, 84c.,
amounts to 1,126 acres. Also the following

FRMS AND LANDS,
occupied by a highly rAespectable and opulent tenantry, who have
taken new leases for ten years, commencing from Lady-day,
1852
holdin 8 The
viz , Milton, Long Ash, Chescombe, Hewish, Bagber, Lucombe, and
small
Delcombe Farms; Milton Mill, with three acres of land, numerous
gs, c•
picturesque and delightfial
VILLAGE OF MILTON ABBAS,
watt numerous senn-etaeohntriliveesOt.tagv;epart let to yearly tenants,
and the remainder leased
2AoReLelNttaresoaNwAgßaMruSe
gardens, at
Nat,
&c., also aP°boußtT
the
KING'S ARMS
the whole containing about 3,600 - INN,whole of the
parish of Hilton, consistine of the BREWERY,Whitchurch, including
acres and nearly the
ieaten-
sive farms, viz. :—llllton Higher,
ulltenor,Lirderthe fuosltl,r;
A yw, nagnd Alter
Farms, about 220 acres Of plantation in hauwd•' The Wills Estate
and Meadows adjoining, let to mr.
Charles . small
Hall. Sundry
holdings, containing together 105 acres, the
WHOLE OF THE VILLAGE • OF HILTON
and TWO VILLAGES AT ANSTEY,
consisting together qt 19 cottages let to yearly tenants, and about 30
others, leasehold, which will realize a greatly-itnproved rental, when
the Present leases fall in ; the whole, including the 1 •
arms, contains
about 1,900 acres.
The
MANOR OF STICKLAND,
otherwise Winterbourne Stickland, with chief rents, &c., the
AND PERPETUAL. RIGHT OF .PRESENTATION
OF THE
ADVOWS" VICARAGE OF STICKLAND,
a parson
age house and about 58 acres of glebe laud, three gtodex-
cellent farms, recently re-let, viz.—Quarleston Stickland, and
Hedge-end Fa ,_
s .
also 122 acres of woodland iii hand, about 27
acres let in shallrm allotments; the
ENTIRE VILLAGE OF STICKLAND,
consisting of
THIRTY-THREE COTTAGES,
with about 30 leasehold houses arid
together
realize . a much improved
et to yearly tenants,
which will shortly
and
a geud inn'the farms, &c., contains about 1,500
gs,
including
garden; the Whole,
' •
acres. The
GLENSTONE ESTATE,
about
Stickland, containing
Abbey with y 'IX ACItr•S OF LAND,
connecting Milton AND EIGHT ••S
of superier coppice
THREE HUNDRED -
and sixty=three acres
and beautiful
let to Mr. James Burt,
the above extensive
land, in hand. /he whole of
estate is in great part -
TITE-FREE,
uses
and buildings are
fence. The farm-he
The lands are in a
and nearly within a ring
arranged. ' ty.
In good repair, judiciously placed and
of great respectatall
high state of cultivation, and- the tenantry
hounds hunt the
and lox-
The covers form a flue preserve for game, .
an
neighbourhood. The estate as a whole compriseS x
nunRED
AREA OF ABOUT EIGHT THOUSAND
- gt -
ACRES,
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the total rent and estimated value of which is ,AN NUM
EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED IWN ~.....DS - 01
The limits of an advertisement will not admit of a full description
this highly valtiable and important property.
Particulars, with plans of the estate and views of the mansion,
abbey, village, and grounds, at ss. each, may be had of Messrs. Den-
ton, Kintlerley, and Doraville, solicitors, Lincoln's Inn ; of B. Fox,
Esq.,solicltor, Beaminster, Dorset ; at Garraway's ; and of Messrs
Farebrother, Clarb:, and Lye, surveyors and land agents, 6, Lancaster.
plug, Strand.

SALES BY AUCTION.

No. 2, HYDE-PARK-GARPENS. • •
Costly FURNITURE in marqueterie, satin-wood, zebra, rosewood,
mahogany;, aliti walnut, in complete suites, mainificent garde-
robe, bouffet and porentine cabinets in ebony and old inthl, splen-
did carved °AI; dining-room furniture, a fevr Ens bronzes, Sevres
and Dresden candelabra, vases, &c.
ESSRS. FARE BROTHER, CLARK, and
LYE, having disposed of the mansion, are instructed by the
executors of the late Admiral. Sir It. W. Otway, Bart., to SELL by
AUCTION, on the prenatses, No. 2, Hyde-park-gardens, on Tugs-
DAY, June 15, and two following ,lays, at Twelve each day, the
costly r • FURNITURE;
consisting of complete suits of bed-rbom furaltare in satin-wood;
zebra, and Knairogany,—viz., canopy-top and other beffsteads, with
excellent btdding,:wardrobes, chests of drawers, writing tables,

toilet ditto and glasses, washstands, &c. ; rich brocaded satin
-damask drawing-room curtains; carved and gilt sofas, ottomans,
and chairs covered en-suite and in Becinvals tapestry, 100, card, and
occasional tables and chairs in niarquaterle, rosewood, and walnut,
' Florentine cabinets enriched with previous stones, a noble bouffet of
fhe old buhl with plate glass doors, beautiful Svres and Dresden
chlna in vases, candelabra, &c.; b horizontal grand pianoforte, with
patent actin, by Broadwood and Sons ; splendidly carved oak fur-
niture for the dining-room, by 'Rogers, consisting of a noble side-
board, enriched with groups of birds, fruits, and-flowers, cellaret,
console and side tables, and set of 12 chairs an-suite; capital dining
tables, chimney and tier glasses, file bronzes, &c.; mahogany li-
brary furniture, with chairs add conches covered In green cut velttet
and morocco, Axminster, Brussels, add ether carpets, the usual ap-
pendages of the-domestic apartments, and numerous effects. _
'To be viewed the two days preteding and the mornings of sale,
and catalogues (Is. each) may be 'obtained at the place of sale; and
at the offices of Messrs. Farebrother, Clark; and Lye, Lancaster-
place, Strand. •

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
WHITSUNTIDE HOLIDAYS.
• OHEAP EXLVESION• TRAINS.
On SUNDAY, May 30, and- on MONDAY, May 31, trains will
leave Paddington, at a Quarter before Eight o'clock in the morning,
for Bath and Bristol, and will return in tne evening of each day
from Bristol at Half-past Six: WeloCki thus enabling the public to
remain either one or two daye, the country.
Fares In Osed carriages—
To Bristol and back (to refill' the same day) -
ditto (dowtron Sunday and return on
Monday) - -14 s. and 10s.
To Bath and back (to return the same day) - 94. and ss.
ditto (down on SUnday and return on
Monday)

-10 s. and 6s.

and 8s

Another train will also leiVe Paddingtou on SUNDAY, May 30,
at a Quarter before Nine d'ehlertn t2ye Unarning, for Chepstow, call-
ing at Swindou, Cirencester4trond, Gloucester, asid Cheiteuhatu,
returning ftvin Chepstow on Monday evening, May 31, at SL
o'clock, thus affording the ruiliro An opportunity of visiting Tintern
Abbey, and the celebrated Scenery of the river Wye.
Fares in f*fse4 Carriages
To Chepstow and back -
'ro Gloucester or Cheltenhatn &back -
To Clreneesthr or Stroud and back -
To Swindon and back -

•
-15 s. and 10s.
-12 s. and Bs.
-p 10s. and 7s.
- Ss. and 6s.

_ _ - - ------
On NiONDA.Y, May 31, a train will leave Paddington, at Twenty
Minutes before Nine o'clock, fbr' Reading,
and Oxford, returning the same evening from Oxford and aunger-
lord, at Half-past Six o'clock. . Newbury, Hungerford,Fares iu clotted carriages— • _.
To Reading and back - - - - _ _ - ss. and 3s.
To Oxford, Hungerford, and Neiiiiury and back - 6s. and 3s. 6d.
Further 'particulars may be Isad at the Company's Offices, '27;
King-street,' Cheap.ilde, and 264,1 Strand, and at the Railway Sta-
tion, Paddington.
Paddington, May 21, 1852. ' •

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby Green, that on WHIT-SUNDAY and
every succeeding SUNDAY TICKETS,
further Notice, FIRST and
SECOND CLASS RETURN TIC,KETS, available for the day of
issue only, will be granted at Paddington for all Stations on the Great
Western Railway at SINGLE P2LRES.
WIND 40R.—On SUNDAYS OPEN EXCURSION CARRIAGES
for WINDSOR will be attached tii.the 9.0 A.R., 10.10 A.y., and 3 P.M.
Trains down from Paddington to Windsor, and to the 1.40 r.m,, 6.35
P.M., and 9.45 P.M. Trains up front Windsor to Paddington.
FARES THERE AND RACK, TWO SHILLINGS.
Paddington, May 21, 1852.

C HESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
2friAiNsstocpunexion with the 6.0 A.M. Ex-
press TraAnnt EXtriOntEustoa WM- from oFILSTKE to
HoLTREAD on FRIDAY, the 28th of MAY; also an EXTRA.
BOAT from HOLYHEAD to KINGSTOWN. Passengers will thus
reach DUBLIN about 7.0 P.M.
FARES AS USUAL viz.:_
First Class, 3/. ; Second, 21. Return Tickets (available for a
fortnight)=First Class, 4/. 10s. ; Second, 31.
Irish Tourists' Tickets (available for a month) seo " Bradshaw,"
page 123. • .

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MOR.NING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—Lord Derby's declarations are becoming so
numerous that we have given no counting them, in the
same despair as the young lady in Juvenal who was
obliged to take breath three times in the enumeration
of her mother's lovers. To be always doing the same
thing over and over again never with effect is the clas-
sical idea of punishment, and men who have been as wily
as Sisyphus, and as false to their vows as the Danaids
cannot reasonably complain of a similar expiation of a
similar fault. Yet who would not rather roll stones, ay,
or break them, rather than undergo the periodical humi-
liation to which the head of our chivalrous Administra-

tion is forced to submit? Or what is filling a sieve
compared with the craving demands of Protec-
tionist supporters, who will not remit to their
leaders one atom of the depredation attending
contact with their' worthless cause, but require
fresh assurances of their fidelity even at the
very moment when they are most convinced
of their desertion? They know that they shall
_never get it, but they like to be talked to about pro-
teeticin, just as a superannuated beauty likes to be com-
.plimented on those charms which her mirror assures

her have long since departed. If Lord Derby were not
to entirely the cause of his own misfortunes, it would
really be pitiable to see him carsed with a'cause which
he OPpot support and dares not disavow; seeking to
conciliate the country by annexing impossible conditions
to a return to protectibn, and his own supporters by pro-
fessions of unshaken conviction of the beauties of scarcity.
There is, however, a keeping and fitness in all this. Such
a chief is every way worthy of the party which sup-
poets him, and of the press ever ready to pour forth
fulsome panegyrics on him, or causeless vituperation on
his opponents. The cruel struggle to keep up rents.
under false pretences, to shift yet a little longer the bur-
den occasioned by reduced prices from the shoulders of
the landlord to those of the farmer, is well represented
by statesmen whose principles are to be sought in their
professions, and not in their actions, who have aban-
doned one policy without adopting another, and are as
unable to deal with the future as to extricate themselves
from the embarrassments of the past. One really
would think, to read the speeches of Lord Derby, that
plainness and fair dealing had fled to the woods, and left
the populous abodes of man to be the haunts of insincerity
and duplicity. We, the once downright straightforward
English nation, have come to this pass—that we are
governed by men utterly incapable of expressing their
meaning or policy in a single speech; who give us no
other clue to their intentions than the endless task of
reconciling contradictions, or speculating on which word
of a sentence the emphasis is to be laid; who will take
back to-morrow what they have conceded to-day; unsay
in the hot fir what they have said in the cold, and recant
with the same facility, with which they assert. We can-
not but regard such a spectacle as deeply humiliating to
the pride and discreditable to the character of the na-
tion. We have never before had a Ministry about to
take the opinion of the country on its personal merits
alone, without identifying itself with a single principle
or connecting its existence with a single definite mea-
sure. Whether the majority of the next Par-
liament shall be for or against protection, for
or against Maynooth, or any other measure,
Lord Derby is prepared to submit to the majority. To
him that majority is not the means of forming an opi-
nion, it is the opinion itself. To it be delegates all
those mental operations which ordinary men are in the
habit of performing for themselves. He asks no better
than to be the instrument of its decisions, and, whether
those decisions be for good or evil, he is equally ready,
as long as he is permitted, to execute them. Compared
with such a state of things as this, Eidonism itself is
desirable. Any principle steadily believed in and vi-
gorously carried out is better than the cupid mortuum,
which contains nothing but the dregs of worn-out no-
tions, the sap and vigour of which have long since eva-
porated. The supporters of Lord Derby do well to
enlist themselves under that- name, for their leader has
left them no other badge of distinction. Honest Pro-
tectionists can see little to admire in a leader whom not
even victory itself will induce to carry their principles into
effect. Honest Free-traders can have as little confidence
in a Government which denies the principle to which it
is forced to render homage, and, while rowing towards
free trade, fixes its longing eyes on the gradually reced-
ing outline of its lost and loved monopoly. These things
might have been far otherwise: Lord Derby cannot, in-
deed, undo {the cruel and selfish delusion of the last six
years, but it was open to him either to foil with dignity
or to yield with grace. He might
,have stood true to his
colours, and, though with little chance of ' success, have
fought his desperate cause to the utmost, and buried
himself under the rains of his party, if not of the con-
stitution. Such a danger—the danger of being called
upon to realize his fervid professions and fiery exhorta-
tions, must have been foreseen by him during the whole
of his career, and the sequel, be it what it might, could
scarcely be more wild and reckless than the antece-
dents. He might, on the other hand, have avowed his
convictions that the thing was impossible, and disclaim-
ing any intention of tampering with the existing com-
mercial policy, have engaged honourably and fairly to
oarry it out. A concession of the whole principle at
once would have been made at a less expense of
character than the gradual haggling by which item
after item of the exploded system is in turn given up.
First it is the navigation-laws, the restoration of which,
notwithstanding Mr. flerries, is declared to be impossi-
ble, while hopes are still expressed of squeezing some-
thing oat of corn. Next the landed interest is thrown
overboard into the same abyss of competition as her
sister of the sea. But here the destroyer is to stop.
Lord Derby will take Sir H ibert Peel's policy, bat not
a step further. Sir Fitzroy Kelly can only go as far as
1845. Lord Derby has got up the subject as far as
June, 1846. but there he is deserted by the authority of
Sir Robert Peel, whom in that month his party ex-
pelled from office. The present stand is in favour of
sugar, and Exeter-hall is invoked to aid it. This also,
we suppose, will be yielded in its turn, and then
Government, having conceded one by one all the
improvements of the past, will have nothing left but
to prevent improvement for the future, and carry
into our commercial legislation the same narrow spirit
which actuated the Lord Chancellor last' night
in his opposition to the enfranchisement of copyholde.
The day is past when anything Lord Derby can
say would do much either for good or evil. People are
tired of promises sure to be qualified, and announce-
ments certain to be contradicted. The country will re-
ceive with indifference Lord Derby's concessions with
regard to the principles of free trade; and his own sup.
porters attach little weight to what he may say on the
side of protection. Both sides are fairly nauseated with
the ever-recurring farce, and seem to be becoming im-
patient for its termination. The more enlightened part
of the Conservative party are day by doy moreestranged
from the Government, whose paltry subterfuges end
dangerous principles tend to make the preservation of
authority more difficult, and to expose public men to
merited contempt. We have always recommendei fair
play to the present Ministry, that they might extricate
themselves from protection, but were certainly not pre-
pallet to see the object attained at such an enormous ex-
penditure of personal character, and are almost tempted
to wish, for the sake of public morality, that the mat-
ter had been brought to issue at once, without subject-
ing even our most heretic statesmen to the periodical
degradation of which Lord Derby has drunk to the

very dregs.
HERALD.—We believe• it to be of vast importance
that the Protectionist party throughout the country
should fully and clearly understand the exact position in
which the question of protection to British industry now
stands. Atter all the mystification which has been, -and-
er, doubt will bo still attempted, after all tho premature
triumphs of our opponents, we do not hesitate to Pay,
that—as thorough, sincere, and uncompromising Pro-
tectionisto—our earnest wish is that our friends through-
out the country should accept the speech of the Earl of
Darby on Monday night in the House of Lords as the
clearest, plainest, and most faithful statement of the true
position which we now occupy. Nothing,letus.say, can be
more candid, more explicit, or, let us add, more con-
sistent, than the statement of the Noble Earl at the
head of her Majesty's Government. Two years ago
Lord Derby stated that his own opinion on the subject
of protection had undergone no change, but that
the question rested with the constituencies of the
empire. On assuming the office to which duty to
his Sovereign called him in March last, he re-
iterated the same statement, and on Monday night in
the House of Lords he repeated in substance the same.
On Monday night the Opposition determined to take
the Noble Lord.by surprise. •• It was manifest to every
observer that their object was to goad, by taunts, by in-
vectie, by sneers, the Prime Minister into some decla-
ration that possibly might be considered rash. They
seized an opportunity when the Ministerial benches were
deserted—when they found the Noble Lord almost alone.
No unworthy art was spared—no malignant insinuation
was avoided. The object of the plot was defeated—de
feated by the manliness, the simplicity, the straightfor-
ward integrity of the Noble Lord at whom their artifices
were aimed. Stung, indeed, by their unworthy attacks,
but preserving both his self-possession and his dignity,
Lord Derby indignantly repelled the misrhpaet the imresentations
tpo-
of those woo represented him as saying
sitiou of a duty on corn was a matter of necessity.
The words of the Noble Lord are wo
worthy y to be pon-
dered and weighed by every friend agricultural
interest:—
" The Earl of DERBY—Tho Noble Earl is quite
•
wrong in supposing that I said a duty on foreign corn
was a matter of necessity. I stated, that Er the pur-
pose at once of relieving the suffering agricultural
the in-
terest, and alio for the purpose
venue, and thereby of improving re-
enabling us to take off other taxes,
without injury to the consumer, I thought it might ho
desirable to impose a moderate fixed duty on foreign
corn. I distinctly stated that that was my essm opi-
nion. I did not say that it was a matter of necessity,
but I stated that, whether the relief should be given by
the imposition of a duty, ou foreign. corn was u matter
which rested upon the judgment of the constituencies,
but that I thought that vi as a desirable mode of affording
relief to the agricultural classes. I hold to that opinion
still; but I state again that that is a questionwhich must
be left to the constituencies of the country; and, more-
over, if it give any satisfaction to the Noble Earl, and to
the Noble Lords opposite, my opinion is,
ion from what I
have since heard and learned, there certainly will not
be in favour of the re-impositionQ f
duty on foreign