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London, England, 1853-09-29 00:00:00

THE
t,StIN, LONDON, THUItSDAY SJEPTn MIVER 29, 1665,

their clubs, and thinking that the lives of the other
Safirs, who had sided with him would not be safe, he
gave the defendant into custody.
The above having been interpreted to the defendant,
he was in due form asked what he had to say in reply.
Defendant having uttered a few words, the English
interpreter observed, "He wishes to know why he was
pushed and struck for going out ?"
Mr. Broderip to Mr. Caldecott—Has he signed any the
agreement or contract to give you power over him ?
Mr. Caldecut produced an agreement signed by the
defendant and the others on the 30th of November,
1852, and duly certified by Mr. J. Shepston, diplomatic
agent, to the effect that Mr. Caldecott should pay their
passage to England, clothe, maintain, and allow them a
certain sum per month, and land them again at Port
Natal within eighteen months, unless a further agree-
ment should be made by mutual consent, for which they
agreed to serve him faithfully during the said period by
performing all such native dances and other customs as
might be required for the purposes of exhibition or
otherwise.
Mr. Broderip observed that from the remark which
had been made by the defendant, he appeared to be as
good a lawyer as any in Westminster-hall. The parties
agreed to serve faithfully, "by performing such native
dances and other native customs for exhibition ;" but he
could not, by their agreement, for instance, put theni to
any unusual employment, and the accused now wanted
to know why he was not permitted to go out, the con-
tract containing no restriction in that respect.
Mr. Caldecott pointed out to the magistrate that if
they were permitted to go abroad at their own pleasure
without control the consequences to the public might be
most serious. He considered that they were entirely in
his charge, while they were from their native country,
and his father was under sureties to the amount of
1,0001. to see that they were properly cared for and
treated, under the agreement to the Colonial Govern-
ment, and landed at Port Natal, at the stipulated time.
After some further conversation,
Mr. Broderip, addressing the interpreters, said—
" Tell the defendant that if he strikes anybody, he will
be punished according to our law, but if he has any
complaint of the way he is treated, and violent hand.;
are laid upon him, they must let him come here and
complain. Will he undertake to behave well in future,
and not be violent, but come here if he has any com-
plaints?"
The interpreters having communicated this, announced
his reply, " that he was very sorry, and that he would
not do so again, but if a man pushed him, he must push
again."
Mr. Broderip told him he must not push again ; but
that the man who pushes wrongfully, will be brought
here and punished.
He was then discharged.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar General.)
Nine hundred and sixty-nine deaths from all causes
were registered in London during the week ending the
24th of September. In the corresponding week of 10
previous years 1843-52 the average corrected for increase
of population is 1163. The deaths ranged from 808 in
1846, to 1611 in 1849, at which latter period the mor-
tality was much increased by cholera, then on the de-
cline. The deaths in the present return are therefore
less than the average by 194. Cholera was fatal to 29
persons, 15 males and 14 females, an increase of 13
deaths from this disease compared with the previous
week. Twelve deaths from cholera occurred on the
north (the same number as were recorded in the previ-
ous week) and 17 on the south side of the Thamesi;
where the number registered in the former week was
only 4. Of the 29 fatal cases of cholera, 16 are
described as "Asiatic," an increase of 12 cases so desig-
nated compared with the week preceding. Six children
fell victims to this disease under the age of 15 years,
and 23 adults, at 15 years of age and upwards. The
deaths registered from cholera in the last six weeks have
been 10, 18, 16, 7, 16, and 29.
Diarrhoea was fatal to 89 persons, an increase of 11
on the previous return ; during the last six weeks the
deaths from this disease have been 126, 137, 152, 131,
78, and 89. The present return of deaths from diarrhoea
is 12 above the corrected average of the corresponding
weeks of the last 10 years.
The births registered in the week were- 1619, or 650
more than the deaths.
The particulars of the 29 deaths by cholera are as
follows :

in a. collapsed stage of cholera. The drainage is not
good; the drain, being too small, is often stopped, and
the, soil flows into the cellars cf the next house."
Camberwell, sub district of Peckham, at 6, Elizabeth.
place, Melon-ground, on 21st of September, the widow
of a gardener, aged 64 years, " cholera Asiatica (16
hours)."
Rotherhithe, at 69, Church-street, on 22d of Sep-
tember, a mariner, aged 56 years, " Asiatic cholera (22
hours)."
Greenwich, west sub-district, in the Dreadnought
Hospital Ship, on the 15th of September, an apprentice,
aged 19 years, " Asiatic cholera (3 days) ;" on the same
day, a seaman, aged 45 years, " Asiatic cholera (26
hours) ; " and on the 23d of September, an apprentice,
aged 10 years, "cholera, in a state of collapse when ad-
mitted ; survived 10 hours." In the sub-district of St.
Paul's, Deptford, on board the Sophia Marie in the
Thames, on the 23d of September, a Norwegian mariner,
aged 25 years, "Asiatic cholera (11 hours)." In the
Woolwich Arsenal sub-district, at the Royal Ordnance
Hospital, on the 21st of September, an artilleryman,
aged 21 years, "cholera (5 days)."
• Last week the births of 824 boys and 795 girls, in all
1619 children, were registered in London. In the eight
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average
number was 1,396.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich;_ the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.826 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 54• G deg., which is
slightly below the average of the same week in 38
years. The greatest difference between the dew point
temperature and air temperature was 12.0 deg. on
Monday and Tuesday ; the least, 0.0 deg., on Sunday
and Wednesday. The wind blew from the west and
south-west on an average of 89 miles a day. The elec-
tric condition of the atmosphere was positive on each
day of the week.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATUItDAY, SEPT. 24
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 92
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 34
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration 123
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 9
Premature Birth and Debility 25
Atrophy 4O
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 25
Causes not specified ~ 2

DEATHS PRO3I ALL CAUSES 969
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
Itsbl. of 1852. Week
West Districts
North Districts' 491.396 - 191
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males
Females.

1,077 969
468
501

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females

Total

1,619

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LORD PALMERSTON IN GLASGOW.

(From the Glasgozo Constitatiod,al of yesterday.)

The following appeared in part of our impression of
yesterday :

Yesterday the freedom of the city was presented to Lord
Viscount Palmerston, in the City Hall, in presence of an
immense assemblage of ladies and gentlemen.
The hour fixed for the commencement of the proceedings
was 12 o'clock, hut even before eleven, a considerable crowd
had collected around the principal entrance in Candleriggs
Street, and when the doors where thrown open, those who
had been fortunate enough to obtain tickets crowded in
with such eagerness that, in the course of a very few mi-
nutes every seat in the spacious area and galleries was
occupied. A more respectable, a more densely racked, a
more enthusiastic auditory, never filled the immense hall.
Nearly 3,000 tickets were issued, and being divided among
the members of the Town Council, they were well distri-
buted over the more respectable classes of the community.
The demand for tickets was altogether unprecedented, and
we have little doubt, if any place could have been found
where double the number could have obtained a glimpse of
his Lordship's visage, or been brought within range of his
voice, every available space would have been fully occu-
pied.
Precisely at noon, the Lord Provost, accompanied by
Bailie Gourley, his Lordship's seconder in moving the
presentation, conducted Lord Palmerston to the platform.
The appearance of the noble Lord was the signal for a loud,
unanimous, and most enthusiastic burst of applause,
which lasted several minutes. It would be difficult to
imagine a more cordial oz gratifying reception.
Amongst those presented to his lordship, and on the
platform, were —Bathes Watson, Stewart, Whyte, Gil-
mour, M`Gregor, and Drummond ; the Lord Dean of
Guild ; Dr. Strang the City Chamberlain ; Dr. Davie, the
City Assessor ; Messrs. Forbes and Turner, Town Clerks ;
the majority of the members of the Town Council ; the
civic authorities of Gorbals ; the officials of the Chamber
of Commerce, and the Merchant Company; Alex. Hastie,
Esq., M.P. for the city ; Sir Jas. Anderson, M. P. ; A.
Hastie, Esq.. M.P. for Paisley; Provost Martin, and Bai-
lie M'llwraith, of Greenock; Sir James Campbell, of
Strathacathro ; Wm. Connal, Esq. ; John Tennant, Esq.,
St. Rollox ; Wm. Campbell, Esq., of Tillichewan ; Jas.
Scott, Esq„ of Kelly ; the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P.
for Perth; Andrew Orr, Esq., Chairman of the Glasgow
and South-Western Railway ; Sir Archibald Alison, Bart. ;
Professor Nicol ; William Steele, Esq. ; Alexander Camp-
bell, Esq., of Bonhill; the Rev. Drs. Barr, Craik, and
Buchanan ; the Rev. Mr. Gillen, and many other gentle-
, men. _

The cheering which greeted the entrance of Viscount
Palmerston having subsided,
The Lord PROVOST rose and was received with loud
cheers. He said—My Lord Palmerston—lt is now my
duty and my privilege to present to your lordship this
burgess ticket, which admits you to the freedom of this
ancient city, and in doing so, permit me to say that this
Council now represents a population of 400,000, who are
elected from all parts of the town—(cheers)—and are com-
posed of men of different ranks in life, and of all shades of
political opinions. This being the case, to find such a una-
nimous vote as this document expresses, confirmed as una-
nimously by the voice of the citizens—(cheers)—will, I
have no doubt, enhance the value of the compliment this
day paid to you. (Renewed cheers.) Although for a num-
ber of years we have not enrolled many honorary burgesses,
yet we have among our number several men celebrated in
science and literature, renowned as warriors, and eminent
as statesmen. (Cheers.) Two of these were-your contem-
poraries and colleagues, who in this hall received the same
compliment; and when I mention the name of Lord John
Russell—(loud cheers)—a nobleman who has so long and
faithfully served his country—(cheers)—and who has done
so much to promote civil and religio us liberty— (cheers)—l do
not require to say that he was received in a manner be-
coming the patriot and the statesman. (Cheers.) The
other was the brilliant orator, the accomplished scholar,
and the celebrated historian, Thomas Babiugton Macauley
—(cheers)—who was received with an enthusiasm becom-
ing the high position which he occupied in the eyes of the
world. (Cheers.) But groat as was the enthusiasm to
welcome these celebrated men, and deep as was the anxiety
to see and hear them, still, if possible, greater has been the
enthusiasm, to give your Lordship a welcome,worthy of one
who occupies such a proud position in this country. (Loud
cheers.) Few, my lord, have been endowed with such
eloquence or such talents as you ; fewer still have been en-
abled to give to their country for such a lengthened period
those rare abilities with which you have been blessed ; but
few, how very few, have advanced step by step as you have
done, after a service of upwards of forty years, till you have
reached yourpsesent eminence. (Cheers.) For I say, with-
out any intention to pay you an undeserved compliment,
or to cast reflection on any one of your eminent colleagues
—(cheers)—l say it because I believe it, that your are row
considered by your countrymen as the greatest statesman
of the age, and the most distinguished public man of your
day. (Cheers.) In honouring you, therefore, we have done
honour to ourselves. Need I mention the energy, activity,
and business habits you have brought to bear on every
department of the public service, the courage and determi-
nation you have so often displayed in protcting the inte-
rests and the privileges of your countrymen abroad—(loud
,cheers)—or the manner in which you have upheld the hon-
our and maintained the dignity of your Sovereign and
your country. (Loud cheers). Having already in the
Council alluded to what that great statesman, Sir Robert
Peel said of you, the last time his voice was heard in the
House of Commons, I will not do so again here ; but I
cannot help in these times when every one is more anxious
than another, mentioning what was said of you about the
same time by another great statesman and one whose
name I have already mentioned, Lord John Russell. His
Lordship's words were—" He is not the minister of France,
he is not the Minister of Austria, he is not the Minister
of Russia, but he is the Minister of England." (Much
cheering.) These words it was my fortune to hear in the
House of Commons, well do I remember with what cheers
they were received, and these cheers were re-echot,d
throughout the whole country. (Loua cheers.) Sure I
am, my Lord, I only express the universal opinion when I
- , that all rejoice to see you at the present moment oc-
cupying so prominent a place in her Majesty's Councils,
and trust that you may long be spared in health and
strength to del, ote for the berefit of mankind, and the
good of your country, those brilliant talents which have
hitherto proved of such signal service. (Much cheering.)
His Lordship then presented Lord Palmerston with the
minute of Council conveying to his Lordship the freedom
of the city. The box in which the address was enclosed is
of square mould, measuring about seven inches long by
five broad, and is nearly four inches in depth. It is ele-
gantly plated with gold, and ornamented externally with
an exquisite variety of floral devices. On the lid is a
beautifully carved representation of the City Arms. The
box was enclosed in a handsome case, covered with dark
green velvet, and lined with white satin.

Viscount PALMERSTON, who was received with a great

burst of applause, said—My Lord Provost and gentlemen,
a man must indeed be utterly insensible, to all those feel-
ings which ought to animate the inhabitants of a free and
constitutional country, if he was not deeply moved to the
very bottom of his heart by the sight and occasion of
which lam now a witness. (Loud cheers.) The honour
which you have conferred upon me is one which must be
dear to any man whD deserves to be a member, and, as a
public man, an active member of that great country to
which all of us belong. But if a man ought to be proud
of the approbation of a great mass of his fellow-country-
men, distinguished by their enlightenment, by all those
qualities which belong to high civilisation, and which
ennoble and dignify a country—if a man ought to be
proud of the approbation of such a mass of his fellow-
countrymen, I venture to say, without paying you, the
people of Glasgow, an undue or unmerited compliment, that
there can be no portion of the people of this great empire
whose approbation ought to be more an object of ambition
to any man who has devoted himself to the public service,
or from whom honours proceeding ought to be a more
ample and satisfactory recompense for any efforts which he
may have made in the performance of his public duty.
(Loud cheers.) I can assure my Lord Provost and gen-

tlemen, that I feel most deeply and sensibly the great
value of the honour which you have this day conferred
upon me. (Cheers.) I estimate duly the honour of being
admitted a burgess of this great commercial metropolis ;
but still more do I value it as a proof that the
humble services which I have been enabled, in the per-
formance of my duties, in your opinion, to render to my
country, have met with your esteem and approbation.
(Loud cheers.) It is gentlemen, the privilege of the
people of a free country, thus in public meetings to express
their opinion of the conduct of those whose lot it may have
been, in any capacity, high or less exalted, to serve their
country. In countries where the Governments are unfor-
tunately framed upon a different model, public opinion is
ragged, and expresses itself only in ways which do not
often conduce to public tranquility or to the general wel-
fare ; but it is the privilege and the good fortune of consti-
tutional countries that public men- are there enabled from
time to time to have as their guide the expression of pub-
lic opinion ; and whoa they are fortunate enough to obtain
as I have now the honour to obtain the approbation of
their countrymen, they receive the greatest reward for
their past conduct, and the most ample encouragement to
pursue that course which they have thought for the benefit
of their country. (Cheers.) The Lord Provost has also
mentioned the names of those illustrious men with whom
it is my good fortune to be this day associated in honour
as I have in past and in present times been associated also
in labours and in public duty. It must be gratifying to
me to be told that the honour which I am this day receiv-
ing, has also been conferred upon my friend and colleague
Lord John Russell—(ctieers)—a man whose name will ever
live in the grateful recollection of his countrymen as the
most energetic, the most consistent, the most persevering
champion of the cause of civil and religious liberty in
every quarter of the world. (Cheers.) It adds, no doubt,
greatly to the satisfaction which any man must feel at re-
ceiving this honour from your hands that he holds it in
common with a man like Lord John Russell. (Cheers.)
It is also gratifying to think that you aro associating me
with that eminent man, Mr. Macaulay—(cheers)—a man
who has the rare faculty of combining in his person the
sagacity, the wisdom, and the practical experience of a
statesman, with that intellectual distinction which quali-
fies him to be one of the greatest historians which this
country has ever produced —(loud cheers)—and of whose
writings I may say that, although he may have written
almost more than any living author of the same distinc-
tion, there is hardly a page that he has written which does
not contain some moral sentiment, or some maxim of po-
litical wisdom, which the man who reads it would not
wish to Lave for ever engraven on his memory. (Much
cheering.) Gentleman, in regard to the course of my ,
public life, I can simply say that it has been my anxious
endeavour, in whatever position it has been my lot to be
placed, simply to do my duty. (Loud cheers.) No man
can hope or pretend to do more than his duty; and every
man, whoever he may be, in whatever position he may be
placed—ought, to the best of his abilities, to endeavour ,
that that duty should be performed. (Cheers.) I felt it
my duty, in the discharge of the functions of Foreign
Secretary, to endeavour, as the Lord Provost has stated,
to extend to all our fellow countrymen, in whatever part
of the globe their lot may have cast them, or their pur-
suits might have led them, to extend that protecting arm
which this country is enabled to extend from one side of
the globe to the other—(loud cheers)—for you may depend
upon it, that there is no country so remote—there is no
Government so divided, and apparently so unexposed to
external influences that the power of England is not there
dreaded when that power is exerted in a just and holy
cause. It was the object of the Government to which I had
the honour to belong, to encourage the diffusion of free in-
stitutions among those nations who wished to obtain them.
(Cheers.) And though we never pretended to impose on
any country a form of government which the people of
that country did not of themselves desire, yet tam
persuaded that the great and enlightened audience which
I am now addressing is animated by th) same feeling,
which upon all former occasions inspired the people of the

country, namely, that they approved of the conduct of
their Government, when it extended a' helping hand to
those who were anxious to obtain for themselves, and by
their own exertions, the inestimable blessings of free in-
stitutions and constitutional liberty. (Cheers.) Gentle-
men, there was one other subject which was dear to our
hearts, and which I know well, inspires the greatest in-
terest among all those whom I have now the honour of
addressing—l mean the suppression, the extinction of
that destile crime which, by a hyprocritical perversion
of the expression, has been denominated by those who per-
petrated it the African slave trade—(cheers)—as if there
were anything in common between that odious and abomi-
nable crime and those legitimate and honourable pursuits
which.are embraced in the expression of " trad' (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, we were greatly successful. We succeeded, in
the first place, in obtaining from Spain great powers for
the suppression of her slave trade. Up to the period
when the Government of Queen Isabella and Parliamentary
institutions, were established in Spain, the only powers
which this country had for interfering with the slave
trade of Spain, were limited to the northern portion of the
Atlantic. My noble friend, Lord Clarendon, who now so
ably conducts the foreign relations of this country—(loud
cheers)—and who by his independent and truly British
feeling, by the firmness of his mind, by the greatness of
his talents, by the clearness of his perception, and by the
determination which animates his conduct, will amply
answer and repay the confidence and support which I trust
and am persuaded he will receive from the great mass of his
fellow-countrymen —Lord Clarendon, who now so ably
performs the duties of your Foreign Minister, was then
our representative at Madrid. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen,
we bad greatly contributed to the vast improvement which
the Spaniards had obtained in their form of government ;
we asked for no selfish reward ; we asked for no advan-
tage to England, in commerce or in political influence, but
we said to the Government reff Spain—lf you think, as
you cannot deny, that we have done you good service—
that we have enabled you to accomplish objects important
for the welfare of your nation, there is one repayment
which we ask, and that is additional powers to put down
your slave trade. (Cheers.) Lord Clarendon, then minis-
ter at Madrid, most ably executed the instructions of his
Government, and he obtained from the Government of
Spain the same powers all over the world which had been
obtained previously in regard to a small portion of the
slave trade of Spain. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I con-
gratulate you upon the altered condition of things in re-
gard to that abominable crime—(cheers)--a crime, I will
say, the greatest that ever cast a stain upon the moral
condition of mankind—(cheers)—a crime degrading and
debasing to those who commit it, as much as it is afflicting
to those who are its victims. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen,
Brazil has been compelled, aye compelled, by the energy
of the Britith navy, which can accomplish anything—(much
and most enthusiastic cheering)—that navy which, I say,
can accomplish anything which is within human possi-
bility—Brazil reluctantly, and solely against her will, her
prejudices, and what she imagined falsely to be her inter-
ests, has been compelled to put an end to that crime,
as perpetrated by her. (Cheers.) Still Spain con
tinues, to a small degree, to practice that ini-
quity; but I trust that means may be found to
open the eyes of the Spanish Government, as the eyes
of the Government of Brazil have been opened ;
and that not much time will elapse before we can add Cuba
to the list of those counties which shall henceforward be
hermetically shut against the importation of slaves. (Loud
cheers.) Brazil has derived the greatest advantage from
the compulsion we put upon her. The capital which used
to be employed in the traffic of the flesh and blood of men,
is now employed in internal improvements; roads begin to
be made, railways are planned ; improvements of all kinds
are going on ; and I will venture to say that ten years will
not pass over the heads of the Brazilians before they thank
the people of England for the necessity which has been im-
posed upon them of abandoning the vicious traffic of the
slave trade. (Loud cheers.) But, gentlemen, it is in the un-
fortunate regions of Africa that the advantages of your in-
terference—l say your interference, because it was the
good feeling of the people of the United Empire that
enabled the Government to achieve what they have done
—(cheers)—it is in Africa that the benefits of that inter-
ference are most strikingly and manifestly exhibited.
These places which were heretofore the nest of pirates,
sallying forth for plunder, murdering, burning, capturing;
selling, and destroying—these haunts of crime are now be-
coming the seats of peaceful commerce—(cheers)—the mis-
sionary is following the merchant, and we may hope that
Christianity will accompany the progress of civilisation.
(Loud cheers.) That must be a great satisfaction to all
the people of this country, and more peculiarly to the in-
habitants of Glasgow, because Iknow thatin no place more
than here has a deeper interest been felt in that sacred
cause—(cheers)—that must be a great satisfaction to the
people of England ; and if the good things which
mankind do are visited in equal dispensations with
those which invariably attend the bad things they
do, I trust that the people of these islands may not
find themselves the worse off in their temporal welfare
in the dispensations of Providence, for having so nobly
acted in rescuing the whites from crime, and the blacks
from destruction. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, it is a
wonderful sight for those who, like myself, have not visited
Scotland for a considerable number of years, to see the
vast improvement, of every sort and kind, which meets
the eye wherever the stranger goes. One of those qualities
for which the British nation are eminently distinguished
is steady, unflinching perseverance. It is a quality that
belongs to our race, and it is a quality without which all
other qualities are vainly exerted in the promotion of the
welfare of mankind. (Cheers.) But I say it without
compliment, that if there is one portion of the United
Empire which more than another is distinguished for this
great and eminent quality of steady and unflinching per-
serverance, undoubtedly it is the Scottish nation. And it is
to that quite as much as to the great intelligence of the
people, the great interchange of knowledge, the great dis-
position to industry—it is to your unflinching perseverance
in those measures and that course which are calculated to
produce progressive improvement that Scotland is now a
bright example to, I may say, all Europe, in regard to
everything connected with the civilisation of man, with
intellectual improvement, with material and physical wel-
fare. (Loud cheers.) There was a time, gentlemen, when
it was the fashion for public men to say, show me a proved
abuse, and I will do my best to correct it. Times are
' changed. Men now say, show me a practical imp rove-
ment, and that improvement I will do my best toi rea-
lise. (Cheers.) That is, gentlemen, a maxim not only
engrained in the daily habits of the people, but engraven
upon the minds of those who are called upon to ad-
minister the affairs of the country—(cheers)—and
I will venture to say that so great has been the
progress of intellectual improvement among those who are
called upon to act as public men, that there is now no
party in the country who, if called upon to administer
your affairs, would not act upon that maxim more or less,
according to their respective notions of improvement, who
would not act upon the principle of going on for progres-
sive improvement, without waiting to be impelled by the
impulse of proved and undeniable abuse. (Cheers.) lam
sure that the people of this country will in that respect
give their assistance to the executive Government, because
it is plain that the range of observation of a government
must always be to a certain degree limited; and that they
' must derive the greatest possible assistance from sugges-
tions made to them from every part of the country in which
local arrangements may be susceptible of material improve-
ment by any alteration or change. (Cheers.) I can only
say, in regard to the department which is now committed
to my charge, that I shall always be thankful to any one
who may suggest improvements, pointing out what may
in their opinion be wrong, and enabling me to set that
which is wrong right. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have again
to say how deeply sensible I am of the great and flattering
honour which you have this day conferred upon me; and
I can assure you that, abstractly from those personal feel-
ings and considerations which must naturally have made
me proud of the honour which has been conferred, I feel
gratified not merely in my own person, but as one of that
body of men whose lot has cast them in the public service,
because I feel that you are doing a great good to the
country whenever you step forward, as you are doing to-
day, and though undoubtedly over-rating any merits which
the individual may possess upon whom you have been
pleased to confer the honour you are doing, I repeat a
great good to your country, when you hold out to public
men the prospect, that, if they perform their duty honestly,
conscientiously, and energetically, they will receive testi-
monies from great and enlightened bodies of their country-
men • they will be told that they have done what is thought
right and, when they are not so told, they may infer that
a different opinion is entertained. (Cheers, and a laugh.)
The expression of such feelings and opinions, by great and
enlightened bodies like that I have now the honour of ad-
dressing, depend upon it, is a great element of free and
constitutional government ; and you may certain that,
by practising and pursuing this course, you are, to the
utmost extent of your groat means, conferring as great a
benefit upon your country as you are conferring, frequently
indeed not a sufficiently deserved honour upon the indivi-
dual whom you may select as the object of your approba-
tion. (Loud cheers.) My Lord Provost and gentlemen, I
beg again to return , you my most hearty and sincere
thanks, and assure you that I shall ever retain the most
grateful sence of the great and flattering honour which I
have this day been so fortunate as to receive. (The noble
viscount sat down amidst repeated and most enthusiastic
plaudits.)
ALEXANDER HASTIE, Esq., M.P. for the city, then rose
and said—Although not included in the arrangements of
I this day, I feel that we could not separate, in justice to
ourselves, without tendering to the Lord Provost, the Ma-
i gistrates, and the Town Council, a cordial vote of thanks
for the honour they have done themselves, as well as us—
for the honour they have done the city of Glasgow, by in-
viting the noble lord to be present on this occasion, and
bestowing on him the only honour they have it in theis power
to bestow, by enrolling him among our honorary burgesses.
(Cheers.) The political life of the noble lord has not been
a short one ; but he has at all times came forward as the de-
fender of the weak, as the succourer of the oppressed, as
the friend of man. (Cheers) I venture to say that while
he continues a constituent member of our Government,
the name of this country will not only be honoured abroad
but respected in every quarter of the globe. (Cheers.) At
the present moment we seem to be somewhat in a ticklish
position in regard to our foreign relations, but of this I am
sure—that although the noble Lord is not now in that
exact situation of the Government in which I and many
others, I believe, in this country would wish to see him—
(much cheering)—his best services will not be wanting to
maintain, if possible, the peace, but certainly the honour
of this country in any arrangements which may be come
to. (Cheers.) The noble Lord has referred at some length
to a matter that has from a very early period received from
him great anxiety and attention—l mean the abolition of
the slave trade • and I feel assured that, were there no
other trait in the character of the noble Lord than the
exertions he has made for the abolition of that hateful
trade, he would have received from the citizens of Glasgow
a cordial and hearty welcome. (Cheers.) I beg you will
join me in tendering to the Lord Provost, the Magistrates,
and Council, a cordial and united vote of thanks for the
great privilege which they have accorded to us in giving
us the opportunity of being present when such an honour
was paid to the Corporation and to the city by enrolling
Viscount Palmerston among our honorary burgesses.
The proposal of our honourable representative was hailed
by three distinct rounds of enthusiastic applause.
The LORD PROVOST-I thank you very sincerely in my
own name, and for the Magistrates and Council, for this
vote of thanks. I assure you I shall always look back to
this day as one of the proudest in My civic career - -the day
when Lord Palmerston not only visited this city, but did
us the great honour of accepting its freedom as an honorary
burgess. (Cheers.) It is a rare occurrence that we have
a man of his eminence among us ; and we must all have
been gratified by this day's spectacle. (Loud cheers.)
Three cheers were then given for the Queen ; three for
the new Burgess ; three for Lady Palmerston ; three for
the Lord Provost and Magistrates, after which the im-
mense assemblage quietly separated.
Lord Palmerston then proceeded in the Lord Provost's
private carriage, accompanied by his lordship and the Hon.
Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., to visit the public works and
buildings.
The party shortly afterwards returned to the Council-
room, and partool of an elegant lunch.

SERVICES OB ADMIRAL THE EARL OF
DUNDONALD, G.C.8., dc.

The following are the services of Admiral the Earl of
Dundonald, G.C.8., as recorded by O'Byrne :
" The Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Dundonald, born
Dec. 14, 1775, is eldest son of Archibald, ninth Earl of
Dundonald, by Anne, second daughter of Captain James
Gilchrist, R.N. He is brOther of Lieut.-Colonel Hon.
Basil Cochran; of the 36th Foot, who died in May,
1816—of Hon. William Erskine Cochrane, who served
in the Peninsular war as major of the 15th Hussars—
and of Captain the Hon. Archibald Cochrane, R.N.
(1806), who assisted at the capture of El Gamo, and
died August 6, 1820. His first cousin, Sir Thomas
John Cochran; was lately commander in chief in the
East Indies. His lordship succeeded his father in the
earldom of Dundonald July 1, 1831. The noble and
distinguished admiral has since served more than three
years as commander in chief in the West Indies.

" This officer was entered Dec. 6,1780 r as captain's
servant, on the books of the Vesuvius, bomb, com-
manded by his uncle, Capt. Hon. Alex Inglis Cochrane,
by whom his name was successively placed on those
of the Carolina and Sophie. He did not, however, go
to sea until June 27, 1793, when he embarked as a boy
with Captain Cochrane in the Hind, 29 ; previously to
which, although he had not joined his regiment, he had
been gazetted to a captaincy in the 79th Foot. Remov-
ing with his relative, in the course of the same year, to
the Thetis, of 42 guns and 261 men, Lord Cochrane
sailed for the coast of North America, where, as acting
lieutenant of that frigate, we find him, on May 17,
1795, contributing to the defeat, in company with
the Hussar, 28, of a French squadron of five
sail, two of which, La Pr4voyante, of 24, and La
Raison, of 18 guns, were captured, after a close conflict
of more than an hour's duration, and a loss to the Thetis
of eight men killed and nine wounded. His lordship,
whose confimation to the Thetis took place May 24,
1796, subsequently joined the Africa, 64, Captain Rod-
dam Home ; Resolution, 74, bearing the flag of Admiral
Vancleput ; Thetis again, Captain Cochrane ; and Fou-
droyant, Barflenr, and Queen Charlotte, flag-ships in the
Mediterranean of Lord Keith. On Dec. 21, 1799,
having taken command, with Lieutenant William Bain-
bridge, of the boats of the Queen Charlotte and Emerald,
frigate, be was dispatched from Gibraltar Bay for the
purpose of affording assistance to the Lady Nelson,
cutter, surrounded off Cabritta Point by several of the
enemy's privateers and gun-boats, some of the latter of
which be pursued and boarded with the utmost gallantry.
On the capture, Feb. 18, 1800, of the French 74-gun
ship Le Gen4reux, Lord Cochrane was appointed her
acting Captain, and he appears to have conveyed her
from Malta to Minorca under circumstances of great
difficulty. Being promoted to the command, March 28,
following, of the Speedy, sloop, of 14 guns and 54 men,
he commenced a series of operations against the enemy,
unparalleled for activity and success, becoming the per-
sonal captor, within the short space of 14 months, of 33
vessels, carrying altogether 128 guns and 533 men,
besides assisting at the capture of many others.
To particularise every dashing exploit performed
by Lord Cochrane during his continuance in the
Speedy would lead us far beyond our limits, but
there is one feat, from its transcendent heroism, that we
cannot pass over in silence. On May 6, 1801, being off
Barcelona, the Speedy fell in with the Spanish frigate
El Gamo, of 32 heavy guns and 319 men, one of several
vessels that had been sent to effect his capture. Un-
daunted by a force so comparatively enormous, her gal-
lant commander instantly commenced a close action,
and, after a cannonade of 45 minutes, ran alongside his
lofty antagonist, whom, at the head of only 40 men, he
impetuously boarded and carried. The British vessel,
whose force, as we have seen, consisted originally of not
more than 54 men, sustained a loss on the occasion of
three killed and eight wounded, and the Gamo (which,
although immediately afterwards attacked by a division
of gun-boats, was ultimately conducted in safety to
Minorca) of 15 killed and 41 wounded. On July 3 fol-
lowing, however, the Speedy was herself captured by a
Frenchs quadron under M. Linms, but not until she had
exhausted every means of escape, and had behaved in a
manner so conspicuous that, on Losrd Cochrane's pre-
senting his sword to the captain of the 74-gun ship
Dessaix, it was returned to him with the complimentary
request that he would continue to wear what he had so
nobly used. On the 6th of the same month it was his
fortune to be present on board the French squadron
when attacked by Sir James Saumarez in the Bay of
Algeciras, but, being soon afterwards exchanged, he re-
turned to England, anclen his arrival was presented, as
a reward for his wonderful gallantry in the affair of the
Gamo, c ith a post commission, dated August 8, 1801.
From that period Lord Cochrane remained on half-pay
until appointed, Oct. 5, 1803, to the Arab, 22, from
which ship, after immediately serving with great risk
at the blockade of Boulogne, he removed, Dec. 3, 1804,
to the Pallas, 32. In the following March, being
sent to cruise off the coast of Spain, he succeeded
in capturing a galleon. La Fortuna, laden with specie
to the amount of 150,0001., and with merchandise of
nearly equal value ; but he generously returned 10,000
crowns of the spoil to the unfortunate sufferers, and re-
stored them to liberty. On April 6, 1806, while her
boats with all but 40 of the crew were absent on an ex-
pedition up the Garonne, the Pallas gave chase to and
drove on shore two corvettes and a large armed frigate-
buslt store-ship, mounting in the whole 64 guns. In
May, 1806, Lord Cochrane distinguished himself by the
destruction of the semaphores along the French coast,
where he landed with the marines and boat's crews, and
notwithstanding the defence of the militia, demolished
the posts at Point de la Roche, Caliola, and L'Ance de
Repos, burnt down the buildings, and bore off the signal
sags. He also carried by storm the battery at Pointe
d'Equilon, destroyed its stores, and blew up the barrack
and magazine. Four day's after the latter event, the
Pallas, under a heavy fire from the batteries on Ile d'Aix,
singly attacked the French 40 gun frigate La Mirmerve,
in company with three 18 gun brigs, but while preparing
to board, she unfortunately ran foul of the former, and
by the tremendous shock was reduced to a complete
wreck. Assuming command, August 23, 1806, of the
Imp6rieuse, of 44 guns, Lord Cochrane, in the short pe-
riod of one month, took and destroyed 15 vessels, chiefly
laden with wine and previsions. He was afterwards sent
to co-operate with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia,
and he there, on July 31, 1808, compelled the castle
of Mongat to surrender, by which the road to Ge-
rona, then besieged by the French, had been com-
pletely commanded. In September, 1808, his lord-
ship renewed his operations against the semaphores
on the coast of France, where he completely destroyed
those which had since been erected at Bourdique,
La Pinde, St. Maguire, Frontignan, Canet, and Foy,
with the houses attached to them, 14 barracks belong-
ing to the gendarmes, a battery, and a strong tower on
Lake Frontignan. Indeed, he kept the whole of the
enemy's coast in a constant state of alarm, suspended
their trade, and, by the diversion he thus created, pre-
vented those troops which had been intended for Figue-
ras from advancing into the Peninsula. Returning to
the coast of Spain, Lord Cochrane volunteered the de-
fence of Trinidad Castle, attached to the fortress of
Rosas, then besieged by the French, 1,000 of whose
picked men, at the head of 80 of his own people, and
about an equal number of Spaniards, he repelled, Nov.
30, 1808, in an assault made by them on the castle. He
protracted the seige for 12 days, and then, finding fur-
ther opposition useless, in consequence of the citadel
having capitulated, he blew up the magazines of Trini-
dad Castle, and returned to his ship. The captain of
the Impdrieuse subsequently rendered the commander-
in-chief the important service of presenting him with
the key of the enemy's telegraph signals on the heights
of Toulon, which enabled him to derive information
twice a-day, not only of the movements of the enemy,
but of his own cruisers, from the south promontory of
Italy to Cape Rosas, in Spain. In April, 1809, Lord
Cochrane was selected by the First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, in preference to many senior officers, to command
a fleet of fire and explosion ships intended for the
destruction of the French shipping as they lay at
anchor in the road of Ile d'Aix. The glowing success
which attended ibis lordship's personal efforts will
ever remain prominent in the page of history. On
the night of the 11th he went on board one of the
explosion vessels, containing 1,500 barrels of gunpow-
der, which, being conducted close to windward of the
boom that had been placed for the protection of the
French ships, shattered that means of defence. Fa-
voured by wind and current, the fire-vessels having a
passage thus opened for them, rushed onward in blazing
piles, carrying with them so much consternation, that
by the next morning it was found that seven line-of-
battle ships had cut their cables and run on shore. Of
these La Ville de Varsovie, 80, and Tonnant and Aquil-
lon, 74's, were afterwards destroyed, as were also the
Indienne, of 44, and Calcutta, of 56 guns-the latter
after having been captured by Lord Cochrane, who, un-
supported, approached in the Impdrieuse, and commen-
ced an action which lasted until she struck her colours.
On the 26th of the same month his Majesty, to testify
the sense entertained by himself and by the country at
large of the hero's conduct, conferred on him the dignity
of a K.8.-the only instance but one (and that in the
case of Sir John Jervis), in which so high an honour
had been bestowed on an officer holding the rank of
captain. Lord Cochrane continued in the Imp4rieuse
until August 4, 1809, but, in consequence of feelings of
hostility engendered against him by the opposition he
had offered in Parliament to a vote of thanks proposed
to Lord Gambier as Commander-in-Chief of the British
fleet stationed in Basque Roads during the operations
we have just recorded, and but for whose ineffectual
support, it was asserted, the whole of the French ship-
ping might have been destroyed, he was suffered to
continue unemployed until February 9, 1814. He
then at length obtained command of the Tonnant, 80,
as flag captain of his uncle, Sir Alexander Cochrane, at
that time Commander-in-Chief in North America, but
he resigned the appointment on the sth of April fol-
lowing ; and on the sth of July in the same year, from a
combination of fortuitous circumstances, of which he
appears to have been thoroughly the victim, he was
doomed to lose his rank in the navy, also the K.B. and
his seat in:Parliament, in which he had officiated, since
1807, as member for Westminster. Being no longer in
the British service, his lordship, in 1818, accepted the
chief command of the navy belonging to the new state
of Chili, whose final independence the splendour of his
subsequent achievements mainly contributed to effect.
He afterwards assumed control of the Brazilian fleet,
and gave such satisfaction that Don Pedro, in 1823,
created him Marquis of Maranham. On the establish-
ment of peace between Portugal and Brazil, his lordship
returned to England, whence he next proceeded to
Greece, in whose service he appears to have been cm-

ployed for a period of twelve months in 1827.8*. On.
the occasion of William IV.'s accession to the throne he
was at length reinstated in his place in the Thitish nary ;
and on May 22, 1847, although it had until then been
most inconsistently withholden, the order of the Bath
was restored to him, an act which, of course, reesta-
blishes his lordship's character, but not more fully
proves his innocence, than it clearly indicates the debt,
of reparation due to him for having been so long sacra('
to bear the stigma of unmerited disgrace. He became
a vice-admiral Nov. 23, 1841. r

* The Earl of Dundonald possesses three Chilian decors'
tions for capturing the city of Valdivia and the frigate
Esmeralda, and for clearing the Pacific of all hostile ves-
sels of war ; also the Grand Cross of the Order of the OM'
zero, for driving the Portuguese from the northern pro'
vinces of Brazil ; and the Order of the Redeemer of Greece.
His lordships services to his own country have been P.
zetted nine times,
1- His lordship has lately afforded the public some veri
sterling suggestions, the fruits of his vast experience, in
the shape of a pamplet, entitled " Observations on r‘l,lbis
Affairs, and on some collateral subjects, 8;c." In
volume he has published a summary of his naval sere'
and has exhibited acts of injustice, as experienced
self, which should render its perusal imperative their
who feel in any way interested in the honour 0' 11
country, and especially on those whose duty, eq-Ind
whose power, it is to make atonement for the Po.'"'
by future acts, to cancel its recollection.