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 Chau_
cellor of the Exchequer, who was present at
dinner given to the cottagers on Wednesday,
At the conclusion of the repast,
Lord LTTTELTON 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
possible for him to conjecture. (Laughter.) He

was sorry to say that the toast was going to be pro-
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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—l 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 one 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—

hat the Wisdom wkich 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

here is a person to be fotnd 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. (Cheers.) I
do not believe there is one who enjoys in a
greater degree the affections of friends and rela-
tives.
whose family spring up around him in greater
abundance, or with greater brightness. And as
regards that most 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 y.our sense of what he is,
render it NN 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 and
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 ven-
ture to say, without disparagement to them,
adding to those virtues, and raising those distinc-
tions to a higher post. (Cheers.) It is well
upon occasions like this that you should appeal to
the noble susceptibilities of a youthful mind and
character, by setting before the young what
their fathers have done in their times, and what
they are now doing. You present thus to their mind
the highest mark, not of a mere temporal and world
ly
ambition, but the highest mark of moral, civil, social,
to
and Christian excellence, for no mark can be o
high to offer in order that our endeavours 0f010xt)
ever striving upwards to what, after all, wiizina_f_nd
fully attain. Oa this great English occas
sion—'and
isl ;00-
one, I believe, more full with everye:n
add one more
tore of such rejoicings has never been
even in England—l call upon you to
hsve
_iven to
to thealmost in numerable marks you have
regard and
celebrated
Lord Lyttelton of—l will not sarynisY
to describe the
respect, for these are but cold
nit
ore
testimony and
feelings of your hearts-0 drinking upon
n 'eon, by a
fft'ciatlio prosperity, and his
proof of your devoted
this
happiness.occasio n
(Cheers.)to
with much enthusiasm, and
The toast was drunk
l thy
by
his lordship,
was briefly acknow

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