The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-03 00:00:00

LORD PALMERSTON AT LEITH.

c,i,TRATFORD-ON-AVON STEEPLE CHASES
kJ will take p ace over the Borden Hi 1 Ground, on Wed-
nesday, Anril 8,18,3
The STRATFORD-ON-AVON OPEN STEEPLE CHASE 'Han-
dicap) of 10 sow; each, 5 It, and 2 only if declared on or bef ,re
Thursday, April 186/, with '0 sovs added, over atout four
mil a of fair hunting country; the winner o' a y handican
steeple chase, after the weights are declared, to carry lb
extra ; the winner to pay 10 s vs towards eXpenses, and the
se .onci horse t save his stake. To close and nom to
Hamilton, Shottery. Stratford-on-AT n. en or before Mon-
day, March 23,1 63; weights to at•pear in " Bell's T ife," on
the 29th day of Ma; ch ; the 5 soya ft, name of horse, and
colours of rider to be ena.sed together, or the nomination
will not be received ' • three horses to start or the public
money will not be added.
The HUNTERS' ',TAXES of 5 sovs each, 3 forfeit, with 30
soya added, over about four miles of fair hunting, country, for
horses that have been regularly hunted with any established
pack of foxhounds in the season 1862-63; four years 12st,
five years lint 71b, six and aged 13st ; winners 715 extra;
profess onal riders 71b extra he
t winner to pay 5 soya to-
wards expenses. To close and name to Capt. Hamilton,
Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon, on or before March 23 1863;
the 3 sovs ft, name of horse, and colours of ride* to be en-
closed together, or the nomination will not be received ;
three horses to start, or the public money will not be added.
The WELTER Cur, allied to a Swee 'stakeout 10 soya
13st 71b ; about three miles ; a winner of 100 sovs to carry 71b
extra, and of 2..0 soya 141 b extra ; gentlemen riders : nomi-
nation, with entrance-money, name of horse, and colours of
rider, to be sent to Capt. Hamilton, on or before Wednesday,
April 1,1863.
't he FARMERS' AND TRADESMEN'S STARES of 2 sovs each,
with 5 soya added, for horse- bona fide and um onditionally
the pronerty of farmers or tradesmen residing within fifteen
miles of Stratford-on-Avon, and tha' have not ben in a train-
inu stable for six months from date of entry ; 12st each ; to
be rid en by farmers, tradesmen, or their sons ; winners of
any steep echase or hurdle race 1015 extra. To close and
name (with entrance money) to Capt. Hamilton, Shottery,
S ratiord-on- Avon. on or before Wednesday, April 1 ; about
three miles ; three horses to start, or the public money will
not be added.
Sir HARLES MORDATTNT, Bart., M.P.,
Sir R"BF.RT HA MILTON, Bart., K.C.8.,
Capt. PEA TT,
Stewards
Hon. W. H. NORTH,
Levi CONYERS,
F. W. HAMILTON, Shottery, Stratford-on-Avon,
Ho Secretary and Treasurer.

A WINDFALL.—At a sale of old naval stores
which took place at, Haulhowline, a few days since,
a woman residing on the island purchased an old sailor's
jacket for a small sum. On examining the article she found
concealed in the lining two £5 Bank of England notes and
a bank order for £9O. The order appears to be genuine, and
as no claimant has or is likely to turn up for the money
she will probably reap all the advantage of her good for-
tune. Considerable disappointment was occasioned by the
discovery to another bidder for the article, who had kept up
a spirited contest with the purchaser, and who had only
been outbid by 34.—Cork Herald.
THE MALT DUTIES.—On the 14th April, accord-
ing to present arrangements, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer will receive a deputation from the central society
for the reduction of the malt duties. I, is rumoured that the
much-vaunted surplus of two or three millions on which
the Chancellor was to operate this year has become already
very considerably attenuated, and that the hopes of all ex-
pectant interests—even those of the insurance companies—
have greatly declined. Meanwhile, the deputation will have
the authority of official statistics for stating that in the past
year, as compared with 1861, there was a deficiency in the
quantity
of malt made of nearly three million bushels. The
Chancellor will hardly be able to lay this upon the cotton
famine, as that would scarcely begin to tell upon the con-
sumption until nearly the close of the year. There was also
a very considerable increase in the drawbacks on exporta-
tion, proving that the consumption of beer in this country
must be rapidly falling off. The local society for the repeal
of the malt duties. will no doubt take some steps to join the
deputation,—Mudslone Journal.

LEITH, Thursday.
This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, Viscount Palmerston
paid a visit to Leith, where great preparations were
made for his reception. Across the main streets
arches were erected and flags trained, and great
crowds from both Edinburgh and Leith crowded
the avenues by which he appronohed the town. The
Provost met his Lordship shortly after 2 o'clock,
and, accompanied by Mr. Miller, the member for
the burgh town, showed the Premier round the
docks, and explained to him the grand projected
improvements in the harbour and docks situate on
this portion of the estuary of the Forth. At half-
past 3 o'clock Lord Palmerston, preceded by the
Provost, magistrates, and council of the burgh, en-
tered the new building called the Corn-Exchange
of Leith, in which between 800 and 900 ladies and
gentlemen had assembled to welcome his Lordship,
and nothing could be more cordial than his recep-
tion. Among those present were the Lord Provost
of Edinburgh, Mr. Miller, M.P., Mr. Black, M.P.,
Sir William Dunbar, M.P., Sir D. Brewster, Pro-
fessor Syme, the Right Hon. W. Cowper, &e.
The Provost of Leith having taken the chair,
His LORDSHIP called on the Town Clerk to read
the address of congratulation voted by the corpora-
tion, which referred to some of the more salient
points of the noble lord's character and administra-
tion, which were received with much cheering by
the assemblage.
Viscount PALMERSTON, who was received with
great cheering, said :
" I beg to assure you that I am deeply sensible of the
kindness which has led you to invite me to this distinguished
meeting, and which has prompted those expressions of ap-
probation and kindness which are contained in the address
that I have just had the honour to receive. (Cheers.)
Nothing can be more gratifying to those who are engaged
in the public service than receiving expressions of approval
on the part of enlightened communities in this country.
(Cheers,) And when you, Mr. Provost, and the municipa-
lity of the town, in that address point especially to those
measures which in recent times have tended to encourage
the development of the productive interest and the commer-
cial enterprise of the country I must feel that there is no
community better entitled to appreciate any benefit which
may heve been conferred upon the country in that direction
than those which have been conferred on the people of the
town of Leith, (Cheers.) I have been happy enough to re-
ceive flattering demonstrations of personal regard and that
approval of g-neral conduct from those parts of Scotland I
have visited before coming here.• I received them on the
banks of the Clyde, and I should indeed have been mortified
if I had not received them also on the banks of the Forth—
(cheers)—and I am glad to find that if the waters of the
Clyde were warm and refreshing, those of the Forth were
equally worthy of the appellation. (Cheers.) It is now, gen-
tlemen, many long years since I visited the town of Leith.
The great features of nature remain as they were ; your
noble estuary is, as then, open to receive every friendly
visitor, and open also for the departure of your vessels to
every quarter of the globe. That gallant island Inchkeith
still rises gloriously from the waters of the Forth. Your
beautiful prospects are still bounded by those picturesque
hills of Fifeshire which are the admiration of you all. Your
links are nor perhqos so crowded with golf-players as they
used to be—(cheers)—because that game, I am told, has
somewhat migrated towards the no: h. Your sand, lam
told, are not so much trodden by the heels of racing
coursers as they used to be—(cheere)—but there they still
are for pleasure, for recri ation, and your noble waters
afford equal advantage for health in bathing. (Cheers
and laughter.) There is one lamentable exception. There
is that unhappy water of Leith. (Laughter.) Would for
its sake it were the waters of Lathe—(renewed laughter)---
that it might forget its former glories and the happiness of
its former days; but there it is, like the List rose of summer
(laughter)—left mourning alone ; all its lovely companions—
namely, the old trading smacks—now faded and gone. (Much
laughter and cheering.) In the days of which I speak its
muddy bottom was covered at low water with a great accu-
mulation of very small and indifferent st ooden ships. They
are gone ; peace go with them 1 But, though the great
features of nature are unchanged, I should hardly know the
Leith of former years. Whatever way I turn there are traces
and results of enlightened intelligence, of ample and well-
guided expenditure of capital, of successful and skilful per-
severance, and your town, which at that time could not rank
high among those communities which were placed by na-
ture on the banks of admirable estuarrts. ies,
now desel
rve to be
classed in the first rank of British po (Cheers.) have
traversed to-day with the greatest delight those splendid
docks which of late years have been the creation of your
genius and your industry ; and it is a proud satisfaction to
the people of Leith to know that they have built the finest
docks for the reception of vessels and for their repair which
exists in any part. at least of this eastern coast, of the king-
dom. (Cheers.) You have a dock 400 feet long, within 20 reet
big enough to receive even the Warrior and the Black f-rince
but large enough to repair all the other ships of her Majesty's
navy, if they should require, in consequence of any disaster
either of tempest or of action, to come to your friendly port
for refitting or repair. Well, this is a noble work—one
which should content ordinary man; but I have had shown
I trust you will be able
to we a plan which you contemplate carrying into execution
on a much larger scale, which will afford basins and docks
almost unrivalled, except perhaps by the great towns of
Liverpo 1 and London. (Cheers.)
to accomplish this, and to your honour be it said that all
hsnourable to you, and
you have, and I believe I may assert also all you are going
to do, has been done by the expenditure of your own capital
and money, the product of your successful enterprise and
industry, and therefore it is doubly
more advantageous it will be in the end than if it had
been the result of donations front other parts of the
empire. (Cheers.) Your worthy Provost has adverted to
the course which this and preceding Governments have
pursued in regard to the commerce of this country. Well,
there was a time when it was believed that the interest and
the profit of the few were to be preferred to the interest and
advantage of the many ; many monopolies were held to be
sacred things, not to be touched by the profane hands' of
innovation ; when exclusive privileges and protection were
considered to be the foundation of the national prosperity
and I remember a very enlightened foreigner talking to me
upon the subject maintaining, and I was unable to convince
him of his error, that it was all very well for England to
counsel liberality of commerce and the abolition of restric-
tions and protection, these being the ladder by which in his
opinion she had risen to greatness and prosperity, and that
we were acting a treacherous Pert to other countries by
advising them before they had reached our eminence to c.ist
away the mains by which alone we had reached that sum-
mit. Why,' I told him, you ere very much mistaken.
You are taking the very wrong end of your argument
These restrictions which you say are the means of our
greatness have retarded its accomplishment. (Cheers.)
They have been the obstacles which have prevented the
earlier development of the natural energies and resources of
the country ; but you now, by persisting in following our
steps in error, will only be longer in arriving with us at the
summit of truth.' (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, strong and
successful in point of argument as those were who advo-
cated free trade and unrestricted exchange of commodities
with other countries, long was it betoie practical men could
be convinced of the truth. We were told, This is all very
well in theory, but we are practical men ; you are theorists
and idle dreamers ; practical men alone are those who are
capable of judging of the effect of legislation upon human
affairs.' Well, it has often well been said that the practi-
cal man:was the greatest theorist, only he was a bad theo-
rist; that he founded his opinions upon a theory which he
had based upon narrow induction and upon a mistaken
view of the foundations upon which theories ought to
rest ; that those whom he called theorists founded their
opinions upon a larger and more rational view of things ;
that they, therefore, were right, and that he consequently
was wrong. (Hear, hear.) Well, great and obstinate was
the battle fought between these theorists and these practical
men, commercial, manufacturing, and agricultural ; all
thought that these theorists were their bitterest enemies;
that their theories if carried into practice would be the
ruin of all the industry of the country, and therefore they
resisted them, as it were to the death. 'Well, their re-
sistance was vain, but their death was not the consequence
of their defeat. (Laughter.) Look around in every direct-
tion, traverse your agricultural districts, see those fields
that you were told were to be left barren and uncultivated
the moment that the country was to be deluged by the
importation of foreign corn. What error is often comprised
in and imported by the misapplication of a word, and be-
cause ' deluge' is a word that conveys the idea of the sub-
mersion of land by water and the extinction of all life
and property the application of the word ' deluge' to
the importation of the staff of life created a prejudice in the
minds of men, and they said, For Heaven's sake, don't
bring upon us a second deluge in the shape of importation
of the staff of life.' Well, look at your agricultural dis-
tricts. See what new life has been inspired by the compe-
tition which the abolition of the corn laws has produced ;
how science has been brought to the aid of agriculture, how
machinery, which never before was thought applicable to
the cultivation of land has been largely and most beneficially
introduced for the purpose ; and talk now to the owners and
the renters of land and they will tell you, if they are men
capable of conviction, that they see their error; that they
would not have protection back again if it could be bestowed
upon them; that they admit the advantages which have
accrued even to them by the extension of the commercial
intercourse of the country with other nations, (Cheers.)