The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 25, 1863.

According to annual custom, the Royal Speech,
by which the two Houses of the I egislature were
prorogued last month, commended both Lords and
Commons to avail themselves of the customary
opportunity for promoting the goodwill, the loyalty,
and the Patriotic ardour of the community, the
opportunity,that is afforded to them, every successive
autumn, by the mere circumstance of their scatter-
ing back, each man into his own neighbourhood.
Stereotyped, so to speak, though this gracious re-
commendationlfrom the SOVEREIGN undoubtedly is,
in the ordinary outline of the Royal Address,
whether delivered from the throne itself by the
Monarch in person, or from the foot of the throne
by the Royal Commissioners—it is no merely idle,
complimentary phrase, indicative of the SOVE-
REIGN'S reliance upon the loyal sivism of those
legislative leaders among her subjects. It is, on the
contrary, one fraught, in every syllable of it, with
a deep significance. And it is a recommendation,
moreover, which is sedulously acted upon, year after
year, in all parts of the country, at uncertain inter-
vals it may be, but most certainly thus at intervals,
by one or another, more frequently even, it might
be said, by twos and by threes together, of the more
conspicuous members of both Houses of the
Legislature. Already even, this year, before the
Closed September, we have, and that very recently)
had occasion to remark how many have acted thus in
°bedienee to the SOVEREIGN'S direction, or at any
• rate
recommendation. The establishment of an
institution, the opening of a public park, the in-
auguration of a scientific association, the mere com-
parison of notes upon the last session of Parliament,
down in his
Own borough or county between a
popular representative and his assembled consti-
tuents—each and all of these occasions supply our
legislators with tho desired opportunity for address-
ing themselves during the long recess or vacation to
their neighbours by word
of mouth—sand, beyond
that, thanks to stenography,
to the general com-
munity afterwards, through
the medium of the
newspaper press. Besides the
occasions already
enumerated, however, there are others of a more
homely or more local character, dating
each succes-
sive autumn, occasions of which the foremost men
:
eln themselves.
:ihveeisr.
in Parliament are often enough e
patriotic readiness at all times to avail
There is the Harvest Home, for example. And
there is the Agricultural Meeting, the meeting
new in one locality, now in another of our
numerous Agricultural Associations.
Of each of these home opportunities, as they may
be called, our impression of this evening will be
found elsewhere to afford, so to speak, a very apt
, and noteworthy illustration, viz in the report of
the proceedings in
connection, here, with a Harvest
Home in Buckinghamshire,
here, with an Agricul
tural Meeting in Hertfordshire.
The Harvest Home
at Hughenden Manor eliciting
another admirable
speech from the eminent man who is Lord of the
51anor down there, to wit, the right hon. gentleman
the representative of JOHN HAIIpp
EN s country, and
beyond that, the Leader of Her MAJESTY'S Oppo-
sition, The meeting of the Hertfordshire Agricul-
tural Association down at Hitchin being presided
over and addressed at considerable length by another
right hon. chief from the front bench of the Oppo,„
sition, also representative of his county, and, be-
yond that, one of the very foremost among the
representative men of the age. By how many A ell-
earned titles, Sir ,BLILWEB LYTTON is that, we