The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-04 00:00:00

LORD PANMURE.

At a dinner given to the noblo lord by his tenantry,
at Castle Edzell, on Thursday last, his lordship spoke as

:ollows :
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—lt is long since the
walls of this ancient castle resounded with such cheers as
these, denoting the affection of the tenantry for a landlord
who cannot boast that ho has yet done much to acquire
these affections. I look upon them yet rather as heredi-
tary than as actually earned, but I look forward to the
time when I may be able sincerely and fairly to ease them.
(Cheers.) It is extremely gratifying, my friends, for mo
to receive from yon this testimony of your attachment,
which is more congenial to my heart —and I say it without
hesitation—than any of the public honours which have
fallen upon me during a now pretty long life. (Cheers.)
Honours fade away, popularity is proverbially evanescent,
but the kindly affection of our neighbours lives with us as
long as we live, and, I believe, in many instances where it
is well merited, long survives us. (" Hear, hear," and
cheers.) It has not been my good fortune to be thrown
among the tenantry of this estate until more than fifty
summers and winters had passed over my head. Circum-
stances to which it is unnecessary to allude have made my
life a somewhat eventful one; and that which I deplore
perhaps more than any other feature in it is that so much
of it had passed away before I was enabled to cultivate
the kindness or even to study the interests of those who
are now under nay charge as a landlord. (Cheers. Ever
since I had the good for Lune to succeed to the vast posses-
sions of my ancestors, calls of public duty have not per-
mitted me, I may say, to take up my residence among
you. These calls, I trust, are only temporary, and I most
cordially join in the wish of your chairman that the time
may not be far distant when I shall be enabled to take up
my home in the home of my forefathers, and to cultivate
the acquaintance of those to whose interests it is my duty
to look. After the passing of the Reform Bill, when you
wore enfranchised, and when I was eufranchised myself
for the first time, circumstances threw me into the melee
of politics, and in 1835, under the auspices of a man whom
I always look up to with the greatest respect and affection
—I mean Lord John Russell—(cheers)--a man who has
elevated the liberties of his country to a higher point than
any man living—I entered public life first as his Under
Secretary of State. Under such a master, gentlemen, it
was my good fortune to learn nothing but lessons of
constitutional liberty, and to the lessons then learnt,
and the friendship thou formed with that noble lord,
I trace my subsequent success in political life. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, from one step of politics to another I have
gone, filling various offices ; and I thought that upon the
retirement of Lord Joho Russell's Ministry my political
career was drawn to a close—l mean my public career in
politics, because I hold that every man in my position
ought never to lose sight of the politics of his country,
although ho may not be officially connected with those who
administer them. But when my noble friend Lord Pal-
merston took office I was invited to accept the office of
Secretary of State for War. Lord Palmerston stated it to
me as his opinion that my experience would be of benefit
to Lim in his Government, and under these circumstances
I did not hesitate to accept the office tendered to me. Up
to the present moment I have enjoyed not only the full
confidence of my noble friend at the head of the Govern-
ment, but such able assistance from him as has enabled me
to conduct the affairs of that office with satisfaction to my
own conscience. I believe if the Duke of Newcastle had
remained in office —if that clamour—for I must call it
clamour, which drove him from the reins of the office
in which I succeeded him—had not occurred, he would
Lave succeeded as well as I have done in bringing the
army round from the state into which it. had unfortunately
fallen to the state of discipline and of improvement
in every way in which it left the shores of the Crimea.
(Cheers.) But there were some steps which were taken
by me which I think did a great deal, not to bring
the army especially from its low estate, but to prevent
the consequence of that low estate upon the retry n of the
ensuing summer; and I think that no greater benefit has
accrued to the army than resulted from the labours of the
sanitary commissioners, consisting of Dr. Sutherland and
others, who were sent out by me to the shores of the Cri-
mea, who by their skill and foreknowledge removed all
offensive matter from the camp, and prevented that which
every ono was prophesying with horror—namely, the rage
of contagion and disease when the hot weather sot in.
From the exertions of these gentlemen, and from the man-
ner in which the commanding officers of the army, from
the highest to the lowest, seconded their efforts, no con-
tagion broke out in the ranks of our gallant forces ; and
from the time that Mining burst upon that island, nothing
but health pervaded the army, and they left the C.inioa and
returned to England in a state of health unknown oven at
home. (Cheers.) I will not detain you long with re•
foronce to myself, or the affairs immediately committed to
my charge. I would only say, with regard to the army,
Ci itAMPTON.—The elevation of Sir John
that it has been my study to improve the condition of the Sin JouN
whichYt It-iheet
soldier from the fist moment that I had. his interests coin-1 Crete:inn, todi4)t?ineal Knight Commander of the Bath
mitred to my charge. (Cheers,) I have endeavoured to appriovaleoffetililelleGdohveisrnzitint
elevate him from the position in which some 20 or 30 years tlle eepretare way
sentetive of'heig• elllllajMay at Washington.l les
ago he was found. He was then to be found either in Roy,ti, THAMES YACHT CLUB.—At the last ineetir
the parade ground or iu the canteen, with no pursuits to of the above distinguished club, held at the Bede
elevate his mind or expand his intellect. I Lave en- l rote], Cavent-gard,n, his Royal Highness Prince Ow
endeavoured to raise, him from such a debased situation, I of Sweden having announced his desire to be enrolled
and to give him a thirst for knowledge, and an opportu I a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, was ,
pity of cultivating those talents which ho holds in coin- acclamation. FOR
FST OF A MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIAiriCent
men with the rest of the community;
)Iv*INDLING.—The Mobile Tribune says that ]try and.
that these endeavours have not been unblessed, and that the
and I thenk God Ai,n
army at thin time may present its ranks to the farmer, afnd Ica 7krs.a:idez de Ayala,i Mitnhiesteßr Pmlebnlii,..peoet; Zeazrtsrhelaai
yueiyoy liitdratora.,di(,nary
the shopkeeper, and the manufacturer, as being a fit pro
iNeerollinas beenelarrest'w'charges of
sion for their children, without their leaving that army rai.a, • ,
as they Maury and Deputy Marshal Scullin 's., .
Paris that an
the course of a few years debased and degraded,
forgery and swindling.
would have done in former times. (Cheers.) I look upoo
It is rumoured in political circles fr the Emperor
the improvements which have taken place iu the conduits,
autograph letter ha.; been addressedaer Majesty, in
iu the education, in the moral condition of the soldier to Napoleon to Queen Isabella, advisiMer people collet.
have been among the greatest boons that have been eon- i the most friendly wanner, to goverot the
terred by ERICCOANiVO GlcYorllD2olltfi oX tau* opwatry. 'ache i
tutionally, anti to respect the bin,'

Now, that is the only contralisation that exists in that act,

and I have the satisfaction to tell my friend ➢ir. Baxter

that if ho had tho opportunity of voting against that mea-

sure as applied to England this year, I suspect most

strongly ho will have the opportunity of voting againa
is as applied to Scotland next year. As I stated before,
I am sorry to have troubled you with this subject here,
but I have mado these remarks in no hostile spirit to Mr.
William Baxter, but merely to show that a measure of a

Government may be traduced upon grounds which really

do not exist. Having said this much, I will now again
refer to my private connection with you all here present.

Whatever I may be, and however I may disappoint is

coon eases, this I will say for myself, that you shall never

find MO inaccessible to any ono of you, be he the chief

tenant of the estate or the poorest and humblest cotter
that holds from me. (Cheers.) And tho reception that I
have net from you this day convinces me that the more I
know you the better I shall like you, and I hope I may
add also tho reverse, that the more you know me the better
you will like me. (Cheers.) I wish to drink all your
good healths, and pray that God may bless you in all
your interest, both civil and religious, so long as we aro
spal e.l to live together. (Cheers.)

THE LATE LORD HARDINGE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIP,—In the series of letters you have been good
enough to publish for me, an important one is omitted,
and as there seems no reason, I ferr that by some over-
sight it was not sent ; it is my reply to the note from
the E iitor of the Times.
Peimit me also to remark that the Editor's note to me
Was not in answer to my first:note to him, but in answer
to my statement about Albnera, which he returned.—
I rentain, &c., 117.. NAPIER, Lieut.-General.

Oct,. 3, 1856.

(Copy -No. 4 )
Sir Williain Napier presents his compliments to the
EAitor of the Tines, whoever he may be, and begs to
inform him that he has mistaken his position.
S r William Napier did not ask for the help of the
Times to sustain his statement of the part taken by the
late Lord llardinge in the battle of Albuera.
The Times, in almost direct terms, called for Sir Wm.'
Napier's help to sustain its own statement of Lord
flarThge's conduct. It was given, and the refusing of
it is a matter of indifference to Sir William Napier.
The tone of the refusal indicates a very low sense of
sel'•re:pcct in the anonymous writer, and whether it
shall be aeceptel as a private comwunication will depend
upon circumstances.

Scinde Hou,e, September 30, 1856.
To the Editor of the Timm

ABERCROMBIE'S BRIGADE AT
ALB UERA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Filt,—At the crit-is whe❑ all looked adverhe at the
bat:lo of Albuera, Abercrombie's brigade was ordered
from the extreme left of the line to advance in open
column and double quick time to the point of struggle.
It did so advance for more than a mile, on level ground,
under a fir.; of forty pieces of artillery, right well served.
It wa•s my lot, as senior lieutenant (Captain Wyatt hay'
ing le:en seriously wounded), to command the Grenadiers
of tl leading regiment, the gallant 34th. When vv.',
reached the rise of ground from whence the Spaniards
were :lowly retiring in some confusion, and so socibncoo__
they passed by our right flank, a column of French
when r
skirr.4 appeared immediately in our front ; and
within about thirty yards of them we deliveredch "
charged,
well-
directed volley, gave the well known cheer,
when the column instantly went to the righot
andshout as
thousand
fast as they could for about the distance of on
As if noth-
-3 arde, and then reformed, and looked as fresh
behind a
onpeyoaerddson;
the
ing had happened. Eight of their un
with cirapa at a distance of about six hundredfrom
onstration to
ai,be heavy rain had
gunpowder had
Mulish Lancers advanced at a small,- trdoteni
small awed of ground, and made
the
atrhgeei e; ad.
charge us, but thought better of it. The
now ceased, and the smoke of
of the French, which
cleared away ; two other columotegti
on
order across the Al-
of evergreen oaks, from
were advancing cm echellon, halted
the
vauced column routed. Tintbing
enemy now retired in skir►nisbing
but ra stream into the lo dawn of morning It was
\tine!' they issued before the
the brigade
the critical moment by the urgent
bout toe that ihey were
the general report thruug
obedient servant,
Lord n uinge.
euililtireeraciletsoufadvancetsh :er
laytoeao
I a m.,iods.
NORTON (late Capt. 34th Regl).
ltuLtierville, Oct. 1, 1856.