The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer and
Lord Lyttelton.

The coming of age of the Hon. C. J. Lyttelton,
the eldest son of Lord Lyttelton, is being celebrated
at Hagley with considerable spirit and good feeling
by all classes there. Amongst the guest at Hagley-
hall is the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, who was present at a
dinner given to the cottagers on Wednesday.
At the conclusion of the repast,
Lord LITTELTON announced the order of the pro-
ceedings. His son was to be presented with an
address, and his health drunk. After his son had
acknowledged this, somebody else's health was to
be proposed. Whose it was, it was of course ime
possible for him to conjecture. (Laughter.) He
was sorry to say that the toast was going to he pro-
posed by a gentleman of no experience in public
speaking, and of no reputation in that country or
any other. (Laughter.)
After the presentation of the address,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said --I rise
for the purpose of communicating to you the secret
to which Lord Lyttleton has alluded—(laughter)—
and as I think it is better on this occasion, since time
is scarce, to dispense with all preliminaries, I had
better tell you at once that my proposal is that you
should drink his health. (Cheers.) I think that
the manner in which you will drink it will be
worthy of him, and equal to the manner in which
you have just drunk the health of his son, If
indeed, this had been a toast which had required
the exercise of persuasive powers, I feel that it would
have been one I ought not to have undertaken, be-
cause I cannot profess to appear before you as a
wholly disinterested witness, or look with eyes
entirely impartial on any question which affects the
honour and happiness of Lord Lyttleton and his
family. Perhaps, gentlemen, there is another
reason why I ought to have scrupled to obey the in-
structions which have put it down upon me to dis-
charge this duty. I cannot help recollecting, what
indeed you would remember if I did not remind
you, that the very fact of my appearance here to-
day, together with the other friends and relatives
of Lord Lyttelton, must recall to your minds one
who was the immediate link, and the earliest link,
though I hope now far from the only link between
Lord Lyttleton and myself. lam certain that,
amidst the festive sounds of joy, and amidst the
happy anticipations of the future and recollections
of the past, there is not ono among the inhabitants of
Hagley whose mind has not also been possessed in
the midst of these festivities with the recollection of
the gracious presence and of the boundless good
works of that person whom you would have desired,
had it been permitted to you to govern her destiny,
to see amongst you to-day, that she might have en-
joyed with you the realisation of her hopes. But
likewise I believe you feel—l am sure we all feel—
that the Wisdom which has ordered it otherwise
has ordered it better far for her, and has called her,
not to the loss of any joy she could have felt
here, but has called her to the additional and the en-
during reward of her Christian life. Gentlemen, it
has pleased the Almighty to lay upon Lord Lyttel-
ton the heaviest burden that can be laid upon man ;
but it has pleased Him also to grant him extraor-
dinary satisfactions and compensations. Ido not
believe that in the length and breadth of this land
there is a person to be foand who more entirely
fulfils in his own individual character all that can
be desired from an English nobleman, an English
landlord, and an English gentleman. (Uheers.)
do not believe there is one who enjoys in a
greater degree the affections of friends and rela-
tives. I do not thing there is one the hopes of
whose family spring up around him in greater
abundance, or with greater brightness. And as
regards that mast conclusive of all testimonies to a
man, the opinions and feelings of his neighbours,
the assemblage we see here to-day, the testimonials
of joy with which the whole village is full,
and the feelings that you have exhibited, every one
of you, upon every occasion when 'you have been
called upon to manifest your sense of what he is,
render it w holly unnecessary, nay, impertinent, for
me to dilate upon them. We have assembled here
upon an occason pre-eminently English, for it is in
this happy country beyond all others that men value
the traditions of their forefathers, and hope end
earnestly strive to make those traditions fruitful as
examples fur the future. You have among you
Lord Lyttelton, presenting in himself the virtues
and distinctions of his ancestry, and I may
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ture to say, without disparagement todits :a.
adding to those virtues, and raising those
is rvell
tions to a higher post. (Cheers.)
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upon occasions like this that you sho
the noble susceptibilities of a youthful, mind
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character, by setting before what
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to their mind
their fathers have done in their times,
they are now doing. Youpresent thus and what
ambition, but the highest mark of the highest mark, not of a mere tefminpoor
mark can be too
and Christian excellence,
true endeavours may be
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civil,dsocial, worldly
high to offer in order that one
after all, we cannot
English occasion—and
ever striving
fully attain. On thisfigill
with every essential fea-
one, I believe, rno ha, never been celebrated
upwards to
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ture of such rejoicings
,- call upon you to add one more
even in England::
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health,
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prosperity, I :lid his
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happiness.
The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm, and
was briefly acknowledged by his lordship,
this occasion to

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