The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-29 00:00:00

LORD PALM.ERSION A 7 MELBOURNE.

Great rejoicings took place yesterday at Mel-
bourne, Derbyshire, in consequence of the presence
of Lord and Lady Palmerston among their tenantry.
His lordship arrived on Wednesday from London,
and stayed during the night at Melbourne Hall, en-
joying the hospitality of Col. Gooch. His recep-
tion was of the moat enthusiastic description. The
bells of the parish church were rung, and triumphal
arches erected along the road.
Yesterday morning his lordship was presented
with an address from the people of Melbourne, the
ceremony taking place in an open space in front of
the parish church. There was a very numerous at-
tendance, a large influx of visitors having taken
place from Derby and neighbouring towns.
Mr. ADCOCK, as chairman of a public meeting of
the inhabitants, read the following address :
" To THE RIGHT HON. LORD PALMERSTON, M.P.,

&c., &C.
" May it please your Lordship,—We, the inhabi-
tants of Melbourne, have again the pleasure of wel-
coming your lordship and your estimable lady to
this locality, and of congratulating you both upon
the vigorous health which, by the blessing of the
Almighty, is still vouchsafed to you.
It must be a source of congratulation to all
classes that a life so valuable to our Queen and the
country has been spared to conduct the affairs of
this great empire. The deep interest which you have
always manifested in behalf of the liberty of the
subject, both at home and abroad—the great consi-
deration which you have shown for the social ame-
lioration and the educational improvement of the
people, and more especiallythe wise discretion which
you have exercised with regard to our internal secu-
rity, as well as the protection of our national
honour, call for the warmest approbation and most
grateful thanks. _ . _

" We congratulate your lordship upon the wisdom
you and your colleagues have displayed in abstain-
ing from any interference in the lamentable inter-
necine war in America. That war, as your lordship
well knows,has caused great distress in this country
as well as in America; but it appears to us that any
interference by her Majesty's Government would ag-
gravate the difficulties by which we are surrounded
and cause increased irritation on both sides of the
Atlantic. If the time should arrive when, on the
solicitation of the contending parties, the advice of
her Majesty's Government should be required, we
have confidence that your lordship will so act as
to secure peace on a right basis, and thus contri-
bute to the benefit and happiness of the American
people, and also reinvigorate the trade and add to
the wealth and social wea-being of our own popu-
lation.

The sympathetic feelings which your lordship
has never failed to express for our suffering fellow-
beings in Lancashire and Cheshire, and the labour-
ing classes in general, have been read with satisfac-
tion by all portions of her Majesty's subjects.
You have applauded their regulation under the
most severe trials that human nature has to con-
tend with. Allow us, then, respectfully to
suggest that the manly fortitude and self-denying
practices which they have exhibited must call to
your lordship's mind the pregnant fact that a class
which thus battles with misfortune, and betrays,under
the most trying circumstances, great respect for
the laws, is entitled to have a voice in the framing
of laws intended for the common benefit, and which,
if "properly enacted, will unite all classes of her
Majesty's subjects in the bonds of unity and good
will.

" We trust your lordship will excuse our expres-
sions of deep regret that the advice of the Home
Secretary, Sir George Grey, was not taken with
regard to the Night Poaching and Game Bill, and
that more time was not given for the due conside-
ration of so important a question.
" It is our earnest hope that your lordship may
be long spared to give the benefit of your wisdom
and experience to our beloved Sovereign, to preside
over the councils of the Government, and to pro-
mote with your influence all measures calculated to
give stability to the throne and prosperity to the
nation.
" We also desire to express a hope that Lady
Palmerston may long live to be an encouragement
as well as solace to your lordship in your ' labour
of love' for the public good, and that both of you,
when it shall please Providence to call you hence,
will find a still happier abode in a future state.

" With many thanks for the important public
services you have always rendered, and the pa-
triotic interest you have taken in the welfare and
honour of our common country, we beg to subscribe
ourselves your lordship's obedient servants."

Lord PALMERSTON, who was received with en-
thusiastie cheers, said—Gentlemen, I beg, on behalf
of myself and of Lady Palmerston, to return you my
sincere and heartfelt thanks for the kind reception

you have given us, and more especially for the ad-
dress which you have just read to me. I can assure
you that it gives me the greatest pleasure to revisit
this place which, especially to Lady Palmerston, is
consecrated by the deep recollection that it is the
seat of her ancestors, and a place in which she has

always taken the most lively interest. (Cheers.) She
regrets, and I regret, that we are not able to devote
a larger portion of time to this residence, but we
have engagements and occupations elsewhere which
prevent us from doing so. We have great plea-
sure, however, in seeing the hall so well occupied
as it is by the worthy gentleman and lady who are
now its inmates. lam much obliged, gentlemen,
for the expression of good will and approval which
your address contains of the public conduct of that
Government of which I am a member. I can assure
you that we do entirely feel that any efforts which
the Government can make in the public service,
can only be carried to a successful issue so long as
they are backed and supported by the feelings and
spirit of the country at large. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) W 6 have, it is true, endeavoured in the
first place to put the nation in a state of defence at
home, and in the next
place, in our relations with
foreign Powers, to maintain the honour and the
dignity of the empire. (Cheers.) It would, indeed,
be a great abuse of those blessings which Provi-
dence has so plentifully showered upon this nation,
if we were lightly to deal with them, and were not
by all human means to endeavour to protect and to
maintain those great advantages which Providence
has bestowed upon this nation. (Hear, hear.) It
is therefore a duty on the part of
the Government,
it is a duty on the part of the People of this nation,
to place themselves in such a position of internal
defence, that while on the one hand it threatens
nobody, on the other hand it tellsus all people they
(Loud cheers,)
As with impunity threaten •
As has been observed in that address, We have, we
hope, in our intercourse with foreign nations main_
tamed properly the dignity, the honour, and the
rights of the country. (Cheers.)
We had lately a
question with the United States of America which
threatened in its outset to bring on events which we
should have deeply deplored; but that question was
settled in a manner consistent with the honour, and
the principles, and the dignity of both parties; be-
cause while on the one hand the American Govern-
ment granted that satisfaction which we demanded,
on the other hand they could not have refused
that satisfaction without departing from the prin-
ciples of international law, which they themselves
had always maintained and considered essential to,
their own interests as a nation. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) There was, therefore, no triumph on either
side. The only triumph was the triumph of truth
and justice, which each party was equally inte-
rested in maintaining. Gentlemen, we must all
regret the calamity which that unhappy war has
Produced, not only in the country in which it rages,
but in many countries of Europe which are depen-
dent upon America for the materials of their do-
mestic industry. (Hear.) In this.country we know
that a large portion of our population are suffering
great privations in consequence of that war. I am
surprised. that in a place where industry flourishes
ow- eeliell f- -
you should have a fng with those unfor-
tunateof Lancashirepeople
who are suffering
greatly under the Privation of the article which is
essential to theirindustry, We trust and hope that
the law which Parliament Pused immediately before
the 'prorogation may materially , e
know also tend
that to mitigate
" and alleviate their sufferings•
those persons who have profited greatly by the in-
dustry of the population are contributing according