The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-21 00:00:00

LORD PALME_RSTON AT DOVER.

DOVER, TUESDAY.
To day the town rf Dover is en fete, Lord Palmerston
having received ne of those popular ovations of which he
is so frequently the subject when relieved from the more
weighty du-ies devolving on him as the head of her Ma-
jesty's Government during- the parliamentary session. In
his lordship's newly-assumed dignity of Lord Warden of
the Cinque Ports he has received the flattering compliments
of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of this the most im-
portant of the five ports.
The object of the noble Premier's visit to Dover was to
be present at a ceremony arising out of the presentation of
his lordship's portrait to the town. Already the Maison
Dieu Hall, a spacious building founded by Robert de
Burgh in the reign of King John, and recently restored at
considerable outlay, contains the portraits of many eminent
men, some of whom have held the post of Warden of the
Cinque Ports. Among the most treasured of these is a
full length one of the late Duke of Wellington, who at the
time of his death held the honourable office of Lord War-
den.

The presentation took place at 3 o'clock in the Maison
Dieu Hall. Lord Palmerston, accompanied by Lady Pal-
merston, the Hon. Mr. Cowper, &c., rode over from Wei-
mer. On his lordship descending the Castle-hill a salute of
19 guns was fired from the castle batteries, and at the foot
of the hill his lordship was met by the Ist A Cinque Ports
Artillery Corps, under Captain Wollaston, and the Bth
Cinque Ports Rifles, under Captain Churchward, who
formed a guard of honour.
The following address, engrossed on vellum and bearing
the corporate seal, was read by the recorder of the borough,
Mr. W. H. Bodkin, the passages congratulating the noble
viscount on his undiminished health, and expressing the
hope that his services might be long spared to the country,
being received with cheers :
To the Right Hon. Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmer-
ston, K.G., G.C.8., D.C.L., Constable of her Majesty's
Castle of Dover, Warden, Keeper, and Admiral of her
Majesty's Cinque Ports, two ancient Towns, and
their Members, Master of the Trinity-house, Deptford
Strond, &c.
We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the Cinque
Port and borough of Dover, in counsel assembled, beg to
congratulate your lordship on the cessation of the more
urgent of your lordship's labours by the prorogation of Par-
liament, and to express our hearty welcome to your lord-
ship on your return to the Lord Warden's ancient resi-
dence within the liberties of the Cinque Ports, hoping that
the portion of your lordship's leisure which you may be
able to pass amongst us may conduce to the invigoration of
your lordship's health and strength. We shall ever re-
member with grateful feelings the determination of her
most gracious Majesty the Queen to preserve and main-
tain the time-honoured jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports
by the nomination of your lordship to the distinguished
office of Lord Warden. And we think we may with a
laudable pride refer to the evidence of our appreciation
of your lordship's willingness to accede to her Majesty's
wishes, which was so unequivocally expressed and
so universally shared on the occasion of your lordship's
recentinauguration. In commemoration of this and other
claims to the respect and gratitude of this corporation and
port, we have been anxious to perpetuate the memory of
our official connection with your lordship by placing your
lordship's portrait, painted by one of our distinguished
fellow-townsmen, in our ancient hall. And we thankfully
acknowledge your lordship's kindness in affording us
the requisite facilities for accomplishing this object; and
in now honouring with your presence the ceremonial
of its presentation to the town. When it is remembered
that the portrait will be associated with those of the
eminent Duke of Dorset, who held the office of 'Warden
in the reigns of Queen Anne and of the Kings George
11. and 111., and of the Great Duke of Wellington, who
was removed from his earthly honours whilst at the
Warden's official residence of Weimer Castle, we trust
that the memorial will be universally recognised as most
appropriate.
earnestly hope that in the fulfilment
of your lordship's high and responsible du ies you may
be blessed by Divine Providence with uninterrupted health
and energy, and that our sense of your lordship's public
services as first minister of the crown and a senator of the
realm may by this day's proceedings be recorded by future
generations still revering the honoured jurisdiction of the
Cinque Ports,
Given under our corporate seal in our Council Chamber
at Dover, this fifteenth day of August, in the twenty-sixth
year of her Majesty's reign, in the year of our Lore, 1862.
Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, said—Mr. Mayor and gent-.
tlemen of the corporation, I can assure you that I feel
deeply the honour you are doing me by, this address and
by the occasion upon which it is presented to me. I was
highly flattered when her Majesty was pleased to confer
upon me the high and dignified office of Warden of the
Cinque Ports, an office rendered valuable by the recollec-
tion of those who have held it in former times, and by the
antiquity to which its history extends. But, gentlemen, it
has been a source of great satisfaction to me to find that
the choice which her Majesty was pleased to make of
the individual to fill that office has been sanctioned by your
approval, and that now, when I return to you, a year after
my first presentation to you, you still evince the kindly feel.
ing and regard of which you made such satisfactory and
pleasing demonstration this time twelvemonth. It will be
a source of great pride to me that you have thought fit to
place a permanent representation of the fleeting individual
who now has the honour of addressing you in this ancient
hall amongst the effigies of those distinguished men who
have formerly held the office I now have the honour to hold.
It must indeed be a source of great gratification to any man
living to find the memory of himself placed in connexion
with the records of that eminent and distinguished man
the Dirge or w erungtou, of whom it may truly ho
ti.wye never was in the history of the world any man who
conferred greater benefits upon the country which produced
him, and I may say, upon the whole face of Europe
itself. (Cheers.) To find one's representation placed I
in conjunction iwith the memory of so great and dis-
tinguished a man must be a source of the greatest rade
and gratification to any man living. (Hear, hear!, lam
also the more gratified to find that the "picture which you
now behold is the work of a most distint,;tishei artist of
your own town, one of your fellow-townsmen, who has
shown by the success with which Ire has finished this pic-
ture that he is worthy of the to hen to which his family and
himself belong. Gentlemen., there are occasions upon which
ancient institutions are found to conflict with modern im-
provement, with, the improved organisation of the present
time, and when that is the case nobody can regret that
those ancient institutions should either be modified or
swept away to make room for the more improved arrange•
ments which modern times have suggested. But that is
not, I am happy to say, the case with that office which I
now have the honour to hold ; and where ancient institu-
tions are not found to conflict with modern, improved orga-
nisation, it is a wise policy to perpetuate, them, and to con-
nect the tradition of the past and the existence of the pre-
sent with the anticipation of the future. (Applause.) I
trust, therefore, seeing that the office which I hold has
already been adapted to the arrangements of modern times
by the withdrawal from it of some of those singularities
which fitted an ancient period, but which are not so much
in harmony with our present arrangements--I trust that
the office, being now fitted to the time in which we live,
and being connected with the most honourable traditions of
all the districts to which it belongs—I trust that office,
when I in the course of nature shall cease to hold it, will be
conferred on others after me, and that those honourable
recollections which belong to the arrangements of the
Cinque Ports will be kept alive in the memory of their in-
habitance, and will serve as an incentive and an emulation
to induce them to rival the good deeds of those who have
gone before them for centuries and centuries. (Loud ap-
plause.) Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I beg again to return
you my most sincere thanks, and to assure you I am deeply
sensible of the honour you have now conferred on me.
(Loud cheers.)

Occasion was taken of his lordship's presence in Dover
to open a new bridge connecting the present iron bridge
(the Wellington) with Strond-street. His lordship, after
passing over the bridge, and cracking a bottle of wine in
the centre, formally declared it opened.

BANQUET AT THE LORD WARDEN HOTEL.
Lord Palmerston was subsequently entertained at a ban-
quet given by the Mayor of Dover at the Lord
Warden
Hotel.
In responding to the toast of his health,
Lord PALMERSTON said—l beg you to accept my most
unfeigned and heartfelt thanks for the kind and feeling
manner in which you have been pleased, Mr. Mayor, to
propose, and the hearty manner in which you, gentlemen,
have been pleased to respond to the toast. If I have been
successful in my public career, it has been owing entirely
to the assistance of my colleagues and officers. (Hear,
hear.) 'With the ability and sound judgment of Eng-
lishmen, they have been able to carry out every-
thing necessary, and whatever merit is due belongs to
them. (Hear, hear.) Ido not claim any honour for myself,
Lcud cheers.) You have at Dover a
but for those by whose ability and energy this honour has
been sustained. (
harbour extending its arms, and ever open to receive a
friend; and you have upon your heights (loud and incessant
applause) equally ready to open wide their
m
applause) you have upon your heights certain other things
(renewed
sedto receive a visitor if he Comes in any other
(way. (Prolonged applause.) Although I see around this
board those who are probably indebted to the healthy air of
this district, and one who was a volunteer in the time of
Mr. Pitt, and who, I doubt not, would be equally ready to
join the volunteers of the present day if his services were
on'y required, the object of England is peace ; but we wish
to be on a footing of good feeling and intercourse with our
neighbours.
(Applause.) It has been truly said that the
faults of men are known only at a distance, but their
good feelings are never known until we have an oppor-
tunity of judging and appreciating them. (Hear.) I look
upon the great Exhibition as one of the means of securing
that international communication so essential to our na-
tional prosperity, and I look upon Dover as having been
one of the great chariot wheels which have conveyed the
visitors to the metropolis. They would return with pre-
judice destroyed, and anxious to cement the solid peace
which it is my trust may continue as long as human peace
and happiness may endure.

The toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers" again brought
Lord Palmerston to his feet. He returned thanks for him-
self and his colleagues. Men who were able to do anything
were best pleased when they had a great deal to do; and
although in the past session they had not passed any laws
of great pretensions, there had been many measures of great
utility and usefulness. (Hear.) In the hope and trust
that these had met the approval of the country, tie ten-
dered his thanks. (Applause.)
The noble lord having proposed " The Mayor of Doyer,"
and also " The Ladies," returned to Warner.

-4-.
WAR MEETING AT WASHINGTON-
SPEECH OF 7HE PRESIDENT,

QUEENSTOWN, TUESDAY MORNING.—The Inman\
steamer Edinburgh, being an est:7i vessel on the
line, arrived off the harbour this morning with
New York and other papers of the 7th inst., the
latest yet at hand, the Asia having called only at
Halifax and Boston.
An immense Union meeting was held at New
York on the rth, at which
President LINCOLN delivered the following
speech :—Fellow Citizens—l believe there is no
precedent for my appearing before you on this
occasion—(applause)—but it is true that there is
no precedent for you being here yourselves—(ap-
plause and laughter)—and I offer in justification
of myself and of you that, upon examination, I
have found nothing in the constitution against it.
(Renewed applause.) I, however, have an
impression that there are younger gentle-
men who will entertain you better—(.. No,
no; none can do better than yourself, ga on")
—and better address your understnnaing than I
will or could, and therefore I propose to detain you
but a moment longer. (Cries of "Goon ! Tar and
feather the rebels I") lam very little inclined on
any occasion to say anything unless I hope to pro-
duce some good by it. (A Voice--« You do that.
Go on.") The only thing I think of just now not
likely to be better said by some one else is a matter
in which we have heard some other persons blamed
for what I did myself. (A Voice—" What is it ?")
There has been a very widespread attempt to have
a quarrel between General M'Clellan and the Se-

cretary of War. Now, I occupy a position that
enables me to believe at least these two gentle-
men are not nearly so deep in the quarrel as some
presumingmc
to
ibe
le theiren,s friends.attitude is such that
(Cries of" i n
Go o d
General the
very selfishness
ee eeueeofof his
wish to be —a naturen
d hopehe cannot
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wl7 andb
the
Secretary of War is precisely in the same situation.
If the military commander in the field cannot be
successful, not only the Secretary of War, but my-
self, for the time being the master of them both,
cannot be but failures. (Laughter and applause.)
I know General NlTlellan wishes to be successful,
and I know that he does not wish it any more
than the Secretary of War from him, and both of
them together no more than I wish it—(applause,
and cries of " good"). Sometimes we have a dis-
pute about how many General M'Clellan has had,
and those who would disparage him say he has had
a very large number, and those who would dis-
parage the Secretary of War insist that General
M'Clellan has had a very small nunaber. The basis
for this is, there is always a widek difference,
and, on this occasion, perhaln a wide one
between the grand total on M' Clellan's rolls and
the men actually fit for fluty ; and those who
would disparage him taskof the grand total on
Paper, and those who would disparage the Secre-
tary of
War talk of those at present fit for duty.
General M'Cleltan, has sometimes asked for things
that the Secrete ry of War did not give him. Gera.
ITClellan is tiot to blame for asking for what he
wanted and needed, and the Secretary of War is not
to blame for not giving when he had none to give.
(Applause, laughter, and cries of " Goo 3, good.")
And I say here, so far as I know, the Secretary of
War has withheld no one thing at any time in my
Power to give him. (Wild applause, and a voice—
" Give him enough now !"). I have no accusation
against him. I believe he is a brave and able man
—(applause)—and I stand here, as justice requires
me to do, to take 'upon myself what has been
charged on the Secretary of War as withholding
from him. I have talked longer than I expectec£
to do—(cries of "No, no ;" "go on ")—and now I
avail myself of the privilege of saying no more.