The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-21 00:00:00

SALISBURY.

On Thursday a numerous and most influ-
ential meeting oftehnng
the inhabitants of Salisbury. and
the neighbourhood was held in the Council Chamber
of that city for the purpose of inaugurating a local
School of Science and Ait, in connection with the
Government Department of Science and Art. The
Lord Bishop of Salisbury presided, and in opening
the proceedings his lordship said he was sure he
should not do justice either to his own feelings or
to theirs if, in mentioning the Government of this
country and the aid which they were prepared to
give to that or any other good work, he did not

speech, said—You have, sir, amid the private hos-
pitality to which you have invited us, thrown a
mournful appearance of gloom by your allusion to
an event which has just within the last few hours
occurred. Well may you say, and truly have you
been followed by my worthy friend, Mr. Austin,
that this is a great national calamity,of which every
man, let him belong to what party he may, if he be
an Englishman, who may have to allude to it, may
speak as in itself a great and lasting national cala-
mity. It was my good fortune during the earlier
years of my life to be acquainted with that illustri-
ous individual who has now passed away from
among us, and at that time I belonged to the same
political party as himself ; but when first the inha-
bitants of Ipswich afforded me the opportunity of
appearing in the House of Commons, in that the
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during his long and illustrious career, whether
from his partisans and friends in the Cabinet, in the
House of Commons, or in the great country of which
he was so distinguished an ornament, or whether
from those who had the misfortune to be opposed
to him conscientiously in the politics and vieWs
which naturally divide the great and intelligent
among men, I never heard but one opinion of those
qualifications which made him what he was—(hear,
hear)—as to his patriotism, as to his disinterested-
ness, as to the deep love_and attachment which he
always felt and evinced in his private as well as in
his public conduct, to the interest, honour, and glory
of this country. (Loud cheers.) I, who have been
opposed to him now for 30 years and more, from
the hour when I was first returned the representaz
tive of the borough of Ipswich, can say most con-
scientiously and sincerely, that although I have been
opposed to him in politics I have had the honour of
enjoying his personal friendship, and I have always
looked up to him as a model and a pattern to all
English gentlemen ; and I believe now that he has
passed away from among us he has not left his
equal behind him. (Cheers.) I will not detain you
longer upon so melancholy a subject ; but I say of
him now, for the last time perhaps on which it will
be my duty or province to speak of him at all, that
during the many, many years, approaching now to
half a century, during which I was more or less
acquainted with him in public or in private life,
he never lost a friend, and never made an enemy.
(Loud cheers.)