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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING OCTOBER 20, 1863.

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CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The 44th quarterly general meeting of the members took
place this day, at the offices, No. 33, Norfolk-street,
Strand.

The SECRETARY (Mr. Gruneisen) read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting. _ .

The NOBLE CHAIRMAN (Viscount Itanelagh) read the
following report of the Executive Committee :
The Executive Committee have the satisfaction of sub-
mitting, in this, their 44th report to the members, the an-
nexed gratifying returns for the past quarter, and the
aggregate items for the financial year ending the 30th Sep-
tember, 1363 :

permission to break the ground when a grave was wanted,
he abused the clerk in terms which, proceaing from a
clergyman, greatly astonished the bystanders. It is said,
though we cannot vouch for the fact, that Mr. Henniker has
declared that he will not officiate at the burial of his pari-
shioners any more. It is understood that the rural dean
will visit Cauldon, and hold an investigation into Mr. Hen-
niker's conduct on the 23d inst.—Stafiorclshire Sentinel.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The gunboat Speedwell, Commander George F. Cottatn,
has sailed from Greenhithe, after the adjustment of com-
passes, for her station on the West Coast of Africa, and
the iron storeship Supply, Master Commander Bowden, has
also sailed from Greenhithe, with icargo- of victualling and
dockyard stores from Deptford and Woolwich, for Gibraltar
and Malta.

Department at a future period. It is believed, however,
that the projectile is to be elongated and hardened at the
point, so as to penetrate the armour •plating of the present
method of line-of•battle shipbuilding, and to be effectual at
considerable distance from the point of action.
A battery of Armstrong guns, intended for the I battery
of the 4th brigade Roy al Artillery, under a course of instruc-
tion at the school of gunnery at Shoeburyness, and a large
amount of warlike stores aro ready for embarcation at Wool-
wichfor New Zealand. A couple of ships intended for the
transport of the above as well as the 412 battalion Military
Train are expected at Woolwich-pier on Thursday next.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

(From the Special Corresponde2zt of the Times.)

The iron frigate Achilles, under construction at Chatham,
is to have her bottom covered with Hayes's composition to
prevent fouling bef6re being undocked. At the request of
the Admiralty, Mr. Htlyaand Mr. Crispin sire to inspect the
bottom of the iron steamer Recruit, to which both their
compositions were applied before the Incrustations and ac-
cumulations on the bottom of that vessel are removed.

The screw steamer Victor, 6, 859 tons, 350-horse power,
belonging to the second division of the Chatham Steam Re-
serve, has been disposed of by the Admiralty, by public
tender, to Mr. Pearson, shipbroker, London, for the sum of
£9,500. By direction of the Admiralty she has been removed
to Sheerness, where she has been docked and examined, and
has since been placed in the great basin, where she is un-
dergoing a thorough overhaul and refit, and at the same
time supplied with a new rig, at the expense of the pur-
chaser. The Victor is a modern vessel of her class, and an
exceedingly fine ship, her sale, therefore, by the Admiralty
for the comparatively low sum stated has created consider-
able surprise. Her engines are in first-rate condition, re-
quiring little repair, and are;of themselves quite worth the
entire sum paid for the ship. The principal reason assigned
for the very low speed hitherto attained by this ship, consi-
dering her enormous engine power, is that her boilers are
placed too low and cannot pass the.steam quickly enough to
the engines. This defect, however, can be easily and cheaply
remedied, and there is little doubt the Victor will ultimately
become an exceedingly fast and efficient ship in the hands
of private owners.

Qrs. ending Sphroar:rsesisn. Complete. Sratraels. Receipts.
£ a. d.
Dec. 24, 1862 136 67 203 15,916 15 2
March 25, 1863 2OB 24 232 16,613 19 11
June 24, 1863 255 91 346 20,697 2 0
Sept. 30, 1863 178 67 245 23,496 8 4
Totals for the
year 1862-1863 777 249 1,026 75,754 5 5
Totals to Sept
30, 1862 14,760 3,925 18,685 625,392 13 2
Grand totals to
Michaelmas,'63 15,537 4,174 19,711 701,146 18 7
The increase in the receipts of the year
1862-3 over the corresponding year of
1861-2 is

The Edgar, 71, screw line-of-battle ship, Capt. G. T. P.
Hot-1216y, flagship of Rear-Admiral of the White, Sidney,
Colpoys Decree, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief of the Channel
Fleet, went into Portsmouth harbour from Spithead on
Saturday for docking and refit.
The Salamander, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 320 horse power,
Mr. Vernon Jones, master in charge, after having been
fitted for the first division of the Sheerness Steam Reserve
and made ready for immediate commission, has been re-
taken into dock at Sheerness by orders from the Admiralty,
to be fitted with a new poop and to undergo other alterations
to render her fit for surveying services off the coast of Van-
couver's Island. The necessary alterations will take six
weeks to accomplish, after which the vessel will be c9mmis-
sioned, and proceed at once to that duty.
The name of the principal and other officers who were
connected with the accident which recently took place on
the occasion of docking the paddlewheel steamer Medusa,
4,312 horse power, at Sheerness, as reported in the Sun
have been forwarded to the Admiralty, together with a full
report of the circumstances connected with the occurrence,
preparatory to a full and stringent investigation as to the
alleged neglect which gave rise to the accident.
His Danish Majesty's screw despatch gun-vessel Fylla,
3 guns, Capt. Kreiger, having completed coaling, &c., went
out of Portsmouth harbour on Sunday morning, and at
noon sailed for St. Thomas's.

WARSAW, Oct. 8.
A barbarous scene was enacted here yesterday
in the courtyard of a private house which the Rus-
sians took upon themselves to turn into a place of
execution. A workman employed at the iron fac-
tory of Messrs. Evans and Co., had been arrested
in the street and found to have in his pocket some
hollow knobs of iron, one inch in diameter, and
which, according to some, were screws for iron bed-
steads, and according to others cases for grenades!,
but which, by all accounts, would net, had they
been filled with fulminating powder, have been at
all formidable missiles. Having positively refused,
after numerous interrogatories, to state for whom
these possible bed screws and probable grenade
cases had been made, he was ordered to be
shot, and at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
Was deliberately executed in presence of his
fellow workmen, who were summoned by the police
the
night before and forced to attend. The poor fel-
low had contravened a Russian police decree, and it
is likely enough that he may have meant the bits of
iron which he carried in his pocket to be used against
the men with whom his country is at war. But,
however that may have been, every Pole who can
read and write has aided the rresent insurrection
against Russia in come form or other, and hence the
workman
convicted of having carried grenades in
his pocket is justly looked upon by his fellow•citi•
eerie as a man who, in the fullest sense of the word,
has suffered for his country—as a man who had done
the same sort of thing that every other Pole has
done; and will continue to do, but who, having been
found out, had to bear the penalties consequent upon
detection. The courtyard of Messrs. Evans's factory
for some hours before the execution was occupied
and guarded from the outside by as many as 2,000
troops, and no one was allowed to go in or out of the
place after 8 o'clock. The prisoner, who has left a
widow and several children, put on the condemned
shirt himself, and died with the greatest firmness.
Where, I wonder, will the Russians do their hang-
ing and shooting at last ? In the dining room of
an hotel before the frequenters of the table d'hote,
summoned to be present uncle/ pain of being hanged
or shot themselves? or in a private apartment, in
presence of the family and intimate friends of the
accused ? , They began at the Citadel, and executed
as, after due conviction, they are executed
countries. After the infamous attempt on
Gen.
in prisoners
other
Berg's life (of which,
by the way, it is idle to
attempt to exculpate the National Government,
since thesie National Government wishes to be held
esbl
for it), they made five of the National
rpon
gendarmes suffer death in the principal places of
the
Afterwards, as if in consequence of the
assassination
of a Russian agent called Ber-
city.
tholdi, at the Hotel de l'Europe, they change their
scene
r
of execution from the public square to the
ty
ard of a private establishment, and appa-
rently fail to perceive that their punishments have
n
e ou
the character of terrible acts of justice,
olonger
but
hey of
are horrible acts of vengeance and retaliation.
T
not able to convict one of their recent vie-
d murder or of an evident intent to murder.
Ttihmeseffence for which they had executed so many
persons
of late has been that of carrying deadly
weapons ur missiles supposed to be deadly. The
Russians
have numbers of men in the Citadel against
whom thereeen is
cos
presumptive evidence of their
having b
nimilnecatred with the insurrection, and
their plan seems now to be to take the blood of one
or more of those in return for every act of violence
committed by the Poles. For the murder of Ber.
tholdione man; for the injuries done to the Cos-
sack,cavalry horse, the two carriage horses and
paletot, five.
the
Bveerr,g thes strange
principle that heads of
fGaemMnieleirreaesleare liable for the acts of their servants, and
owners of factories and shops for the acts of their
workmen and apprentices, is now being introduced
Russian Government in Poland. I know
cases hesetsof proprietors of estates in Lithuania, being
joinedrisotnheed in consequence of their servants? having
insurrection; and
rap
three days ago a fine
of 15,000 roubles was imposed on Messrs. Evans and
Co., in
Warsaw, on account of the aforesaid un-
happy workman of theirs having been found with
supposed grenade cases in his pocket. As this
demanded in virtue of no law (though a
published after the demand had been
fispaeeciwalaspolice edict, applicable to Messrs. Evans'
made), of course, refused. This
case alms,
more than probable result had been foreseen, and
was
of it was,
the Government had deigned to command that until
the fine was paid the works should be closed. The
question then arose as to what wonld become of 400
workmen
idle upon the streets of Warsaw,
exasperatedat the execution, in their forced
presence,a ark
one thrown
of their fellow_workmen, whom they
finethe factory were looked upon, not as a criminal, but as a martyr ?
were told that
unless theyclose their
doors, and that if they decide to close their
The proprieptoari
must still pay
proprietors of
theef
their workmen. The
doors they
reply was that the fine being unjust and founded
upon no conviction, or even accusation, it would
not be paid; that the factory might be shut up, but
that in that case the men would receive no wages.
Finally, Mr. Evans, who is in England, having been
consulted by telegraph, desired that a formal pro-
test against the whole proceedings should be en-
tered on his behalf as an English subject, and to-
night a very becoming notice appears in the War-
saw Police Gazette, to the effect that there has been
some mistake, and that Messrs. Evans and Co. need
not pay the fine of 15,000 roubles unjustly imposed
upon them.
This result leads one to ask how it happens that
the Zamoyski Palace, which the Russian Government
must now be convinced has no connection with the
Zamoyski house, is still held as confiscated property ?
If bombs were thrown from the Zamoyski house
(and Poles who witnessed the explosion say that the
smoke was so great and such general confusion was
caused that it is impossible to say where they came
from), then it is not astonishing that in accordance
with a police edict published last January the house
should have been confiscated. Indeed, Governments
pretending to be more civilised than the Russian
Government have before now, and without any Pre-
vious regulation on the subject, bombarded houses
from which it had been asserted that shots had been
fired upon soldiers, and, more than that, have caused
But this sort of
every inmate to be put to death.
in
face
of
thing is only done, even in France, the
and the
insurrection, or pretended insurrection;..
possibi .
lay of any rising
Russians do not admit the
Zsmoyakt Palace under
iu Warsaw. They seized the
1,-.
the belief that it formed oue building with the Z
must know by this time that
this moyski house. They
point,
Can such a
they have been in error on
Government as that of Russia be only caps_
ble of admitting that it has committed an injustice
when it has acted unjustly towards an English sub.
j ect ? OCT. 11.
It appears that the affair between the Russian Go-
vernment and Messrs. Evans is not yet at an end.
As if annoyed at having had to rescind one of its
orders (though a Government so equitable as that
of Russia ought to remember that it is never too
late to be just), it has now published a formal edict
by which all proprietors of factories and workships
are made responsible for the acts of their operatives
and servant% and condemned to have their eEtab-

His Prussian Majesty's brig of war Rover, and a frigate,
the latter supposed to be the Thetis, have been reported at
Portsmouth as being off the Isle of Wight on Saturday,
bound up Channel for the Baltic.

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lishments summarily confiscated in case of any con-
traband article, such as arms, ammunition, uni-
forms, or military equipments of any kind, being
found on their premises. To carry on business un-
der such regulations as these is of course impossible,
The police of Warsaw can find buliets wherever
they please ; but even if it were certain that they
would always conduct their researches in the fairest
manner the proprietor of a factory would still be
liable at any moment to be ruined, and sure to be
rained if the Government desired it. The workmen
of Warsaw began the insurrectier_. Numbers of
them are at this moment with detachments in the
field, and those who remain at their ordinary occu-
pations are at the same time doing all they can to
help the insurgents. To pretend that their actions
can be constantly controlled by their employers is
more than unreasonable.
The ironworks of Messrs. Evans and Co. must
necessarily bo closed. Polish factory owners will,
it is said, not be allowed to shut up.
I find that whenever any act of tyranny is per-
formed or meditated here the Russians turn naturally
to Imperial France, and ask what the French Go-
vernment would have done, or wou'cl probably do,
.
unecr circumstances. It is a favourite boast
in France that French ideas penetrate everywhere,
and they certainly have penetrated here, As the
Russians, when they were trying to raise themselves,
demanded in their assemblies the introduction of
reforms based on the principles of the English Con-
stitution, so, now that they are degrading themselves,
they inquire what in their present case the Emperor
of the French would do. " When Napoleon's troops
were fired upon from a house in Dec., 1851, he did
not content himself with arresting the inmates and
bringing them to trial," they remark ; and they are
now considering whether he did not, in January,
1852, cause employers of labour to keep their work-
shops open so as to prevent disaffected artisans from
being turned out idle upon the streets. It is as easy
to introduce such ideas as these from France as it
is to put French forage caps upon the heads of Rus-
sian soldiers—a change, by the way, which has
given to the old Muscovite bear somewhat the ap-
pearance of a monkey. Some day, perhaps, when
the present madness of Russia has ceased, the Rus-
sians will discover that there is something better to
imitate in France than its administrative despotism,
which joined to the original Russian despotism of
Oriental pattern gives a result that neither East
nor West can stand.

I have already had occasion to mention that the
Polish newspapers F üblished in Warsaw never men-
tion or allude in any manner to Polish affairs. One
might imagine from the contents of these sheets
that no such place as Poland existed. On the other
hand the Russian journals which arrive here from
St. Petersburg and Moscow speak with considerable
freedom, and not always with admiration, of what
is now taking place in this unhappy country. A
letter from Warsaw published in the St. Petersburg
Vedomoste gives an account of the sacking of the
Zamoyski house, which is very like the accounts
printed in the foreign papers with the adjectives and
adverbs left out. Thus the writer tells us that the
soldiers destroyed 6,000 volumes belonging to Pro-
fessor Kowalewski, and that ho heard a Pole atPiotr-
kow say that several persons were killed during the
pillage, and that an infant in its cradle was thrown
out into the street from a fourth floor window.
Such words as "infamous," " barbarous," ko., are
not once used in the description; nor, indeed, are
they necessary.

The truth, by the way, as to the cradlo story is
that a cradle was thrown out of window, but there
was no child in it.

Earl of Dudley and Sir J, Pakington on
Prison Discipline.

WORCESTER, Oct, 19.

The Michaelmas quarter sessions for the county
of Worcester have been opened here to-day, end
among among other subjects brought under discussion
were prison discipline and capital punishment. The
Earl of Dudley, chairman of the court, presided,
and there was a very full bench of magistrates,
among whom were Lord Lyttelton, Lord North-
wick, Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington, Bart., M.P., &c.
A report, presented by the visiting magistrates
of the gaol, was read, recommending, inter alia,
that for the future the prisoners' bedding, instead
of mattresses, should be boards, with proper cover-
ing for warmth, for the first month of their con-
finement. The question of selecting a place for
erecting a public scaffold having also been referred
to the visiting magistrates, they recommended a
site, but that nothing should be done until a capital
sentence had actually been passed.
Sir J. PAKINGTON approved of the proposal for
sleeping the prisoners on boards, but objected to
defer action with respect to the treadwheel (which
it was recommended should not be used again for
associating prisoners on it) until the _Legislature
had settled the question of prison discipline.
The Earl of DUDLEY explained that the object
was to keep the separate system, and then went
on to express his approval of the proposition of
the visiting magistrates to defer erecting a
scaffold until a capital sentence was actually
passed—an event which he hoped might be long
deferred. He considered a public execution was
nothing more than a public spectacle of a
most demoralising tendency,and he added
an opinion that the railway companies which
helped this abominable system for their own profit
ought to be brought to a better sense of the duty
which they owed to the
_public. It was true, as
was stated, that the late Sir Joshua Jabb (who was
known for his humane tendencies in the matter of
recommended, " hard fare, hard
prison discipline)
beds, and hart work as the most serviceable means
for the reformation of offenders, he thought they
could not no better than adopt it. He (the Earl of
Dudley) would have every prisoner commence his
imprisonment (for whatever term he might be sen-
tenced) with the severer treatment applied to pri-
soners for short terms. He would not propose to
wait for that undefined period when the Legislature
should have settled the general question of prison
discipline, but would suggest that they should pro-
ceed at once to employ such means as they had in
power for the suppression of theircrime. (Hear,
hear.)

sir J. PAKINGTON replied to the remark of the
noble earl on the subject of capital punishments, and
said he did n 4 object to the recommendation that
no steps should be taken for erecting a public
scaffold until a capital sentence should have been
passed, if, by deferring operations, there would still
be left sufficient time should the emergency arise.
Lord Dudley had expressed a hope that the time
for using the scaffold would be long deferred. If
by that remark he meant that ho hoped no capital
crime would be committed in the district, he (Sir
John Pakington) heartily joined in the wish. But
if he meant to express a hope that whatever crime
was committed no capital punishment would follow,
he (Sir John Pakington) could not agree with him.
He was not prepared to express an opinion that
when the life of a man was taken by the law that
sentence should be carried out in private. On .
Bthe
"
cuntrary, he thought that so long "1
as c%pital P
'nest was inflicted it should be carried out
and not in private. in public,
The discussion then ceased.

TYE LATE COUNT D'ORNANO, marshal of Franco, 1
senator, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and Gover-
nor of the Invalides.—The Emperor attended his deathbed.
Just before his arrival the Archbishop of Paris had admi-
nistered extreme unction to the sick man. It is said that
he recognised the Emperor, and raising himself in his bed,
squeezed his Majesty's hand, saying," I shall never 8e
you again, sire, but we shall meet in. heaven!" The Em_
peror left the bedside affected to tears.
LORD FITZJARDINGE'S HOUNDS have h ICI A
teu D.
wards of thirty brace of cubs this season; in by-gone days,
ups
wards average number of foxes killed during
the whole season
scarcely amounted to that AuDAer,

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venerable Lyndhurst rose to oppose the 'f',-;;-,11...,..4:76.`i'N,
Bill? S
The House of Lords has not been stirred S „ , ro-
foundly since the repeal of the Corn Laws as on ti.`iat
occasion. It was agitated to its utmost depths.
From remote castles and feudal halls came old men,
who had riot entered Parliament for years, to mea
sure their strength with the House of Commons,
and to vindicate the privileges of their chamhn..
The area around the throne was thronged with
future peers and distinguished commoners. Th.e
space below the bar was so crowded that Lorct
Reciesdale interrupted the debate to demand that
hers of
all persons except younger sons of peers and mem-
the Lower House should be expelled.
Peeresses and other ladies of distinction rained down.
smiles and sympathy like the dames of old at a
tournament. The anxiety to be present was almost
unprecedented. Great issues were at stake; and all
t yes were at first centred upon the Earl of Derby,
who had taken upon himself the responsibility of
in ourtime."
enters
what Mr. Gladstone afterwards described as "the
most gigantic and the most dangerous innovation.
that has been attempteddy
n old man,
the house.
B
man,
Hisnlotwanerollidmbsseem
almost helpless, a
and he is as-
sisted with pious care by a brother peer. The old
man is led, almost carried, indeed, to his usual seat.
That seat has now become historic, like the Great
Duke's, or the cross bench now occupied by the
heir apparent. It is a seat on the second bench be-
hind Lord Derby, but at its extreme end, nearest to
the bar, and consequently next to the gangway.
Great sensation is excited by the appearance of this
venerable old senator, and still more wonder is felt
when the spectators observe that a little hand-rail
covered with red cloth—the only one in the House
—has been affixed to the back of the bench below,
so as to enable the aged peer to grasp it and address
Lord Lynd-
their lordships without falling. It is
' •
hurst, who enters that day on his eighty-ninth year,
and is about'to celebrate his birthday by a speech
which, as we can already predict, will be accepted
by all the peers on his own side of the House as
perfectly conclusive and unanswerable.
The debate is opened by Earl Granville, who
moves the second reading of the bill. His smiling,
good-humoured face prepossesses the audience in his
favour, but his style is that of one who tries to coax
by a persuasive tone rather than convince by incon-
trovertible arguments. He twitters round his sub-
ject, and pecks at it, like a sparrow amusing him-
self with an empty periwinkle. He holds weapons
of the best edge and temper, but handles them feebly
and inartistically, and too often ekes out a weak
thrust by a jocose smile. After a long speech, in.
which he quotes many authorities in literature
against the paper duty, Lord Granville resumes his
seat.

What do we see now ? The venerable figure that
we saw enter the Howe is showing signs of life
and animation. He grasps his hand-rail, and, after
two or three convulsive efforts, gains his feet. His
lower limbs are so weak that he dare not let go his
hold, for fear of falling either forward or back-
ward. Sir Charles Barry's magnificent chamber
has never offered a more curious and remarkable
spectacle than it presents at this moment from the
members' gallery. The Liberal peers who sit on
the opposite benches look at the old man with
visible interest, but of course without movement or
change of position. Not so the peers on his own
side of the House. They are compelled to turn on
their seats, and thus rows of eager, anxious, in-
a uiring faces, in which admiration and respect ara
equally blended, are upturned to view as they are
directed to the aged orator. It is impossible to
describe the intense interest with which men of all
parties and statesmen of both Houses listen to an
old man who has come to be e icwed as the Nestor
of his time. The Iron Duke, even in the later days
of his life, was scarcely regarded with so much
pride and respect. That a statesman who is almost
a nonagenarian should address their lordships At
is almost unparalleled in Parliamentary annals.
But that a peer of so great an age should bear the
brunt of a debate, should "get up" a constitutional
question, and exhaust ail the precedents and
arguments bearing upon the privilege in dispute,
may safely he said to ho unexampled in the history
of modern Europe. With slow and measured speech,
only occasion illy inaudible; with masterly self-
possession ; taking full time to collect his thoughts
in the pauses between his sentences, and deliberately
choosing his words as he goes along, the noble and
venerable peer defends the privileges of the House
of Peers, and contends for the constitutional right
of that estate of the realm to reject Mr. Gladstone's
bill, if financial difficulties and a dark and troubled
European horizon warned their lordships to inter-
fere. Loud and long wore the cheers that greeted
the close of his masterly speech. The love of praise,
that " last infirmity of noble minds," was by no
means dead in Lord Lyndhurst, and the old man
was evidently gratified by the plaudits and the ad-
miration he excited. While other men of fewer
years have sought to gratify their craving for noto-
riety by rushing into eccentricity, his cool judgment
led him to eschew all singularity except that de-
rived from legitimate oratorical distinction. As
they listened to his peroration the peers could not
help thinking that they might be listening to the
honied and persuasive accents of the venerable
Nestor for the last time. Every one felt that the
scene they were gazing at possessed a certain his-
torical interest. Some Royal Academician may
yet try and make a picture of the ancient lawyer
on his legs, with every peer on the Opposition
side turning round to look at him,
When he lets go the hand-rail, and sinks into his
seat, the old man falls back with such a want of
elasticity that nothing but an apparatus of pulleys
and chains seems likely to lift him on his legs again.
When he leaves the house, the Earl of Lucan well
nigh carried him out, and one would scarcely have
been surprised if the Crimean general had, like
pious eEeteas, seized the old man, and borne him
out on his shoulders. When the division takes place,
and Lord Chancellor. Campbell announces the num-
bers to be—For the Paper Dater Bill, 104; against
it, 193; astonishment at so unexpected a majority
for an instant arrests the Derbyite cheer. When it
bursts forth, a number of strangers in their lordshiPs,
,
gallery are so carried away by the excitement, thatof
they, too, join in the shouts of victory—a breach
cannot
order which the oldest officer of the house
remember to have before occurred. It passes almost
peers in
unnoticed, however, so absorbed are
the
probable
congratulations and conversation p
0:
scar cely less
results of the vote. The auditors
speech of the
interested. And all admit that the
night was not Lord Granvilles which was Weak,
's,tirred his hearers
nor even Lord Derby's, which of an old man with
like a trumpet, but the speech
one foot in the grave.
mes last great speech ill
This was Lord LyndhursCt
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