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London, England, 1870-05-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1870.

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The new Earl of DERBY has not favoured the
public with much of his speaking since his accession
to the title, a fact which has caused some disappoint-
ment, for a general curiosity prevailed to see how he
would act in his strange and unwelcome position. If
his predecessor found the " prim benches of the
upper school " unsuited to his vehement nature and
fiery spirit, the present inheritor of the honours of
the house of STANLEY must instinctively have shrunk
from a sphere where inactivity reigned predominant.
After a few months' experience it is interesting to
meet with a speech from the noble Earl on
the Assembly to which he has recently been called.
On Wednesday, at the annual dinner of the Institu-
tion of Civil Engineers, Lord DERBY returned thanks
for the House of Lords, and contrived to set forth
some important facts relative to the duties and
responsibilities of that august assembly. He went
straight to the point at the outset, and declared that
he could not say it was suffering at the present time
from overwork ; following up the first remark with
another still more distinguished for plainness
than flattery, to the effect that it did not
perhaps set a remarkable example of industry.
Those who know the noble lord must be aware that
abuse is not in his line, and that he never contents
himself by making grand displays, in which the
faults and follies of persons and institutions are
studiously set forth. Lord DERBY can find a use
for everything, and even the House of Lords ha% its
mission to perform. He admitted that it did not
profess to occupy a position of rivalry to the House
of Commons, so far as regarded political power, and
that it had not done so for a hundred years past, but
"in the present and the future, as in the past, there
remained to it special functions to discharge,
and an appropriate sphere of public utility."
It cannot be denied that Lord DERBY has drawn a
very correct picture of the upper branch of the
Legislature, and he has enforced his arguments by
pointing to the condition of that House of which he
was for so many years an active and able member.
The House of Commons, he said, became more and
more burdened with duties which it could not
thoroughly discharge, and yet which it was unwilling
to relinquish. " They all knew that work done in a
hurry was apt to be scamped, and the supervision of
the work was the most appropriate function of the
House of Lords." We have here presented to our
notice an honourable goal for the ambition and
energies of the peers, and a fair opportunity for them
to render good services to their country. Regard-
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their opportunities for performing this duty,