The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-27 00:00:00

DINNER TO MR 0. Q. DU PRE, M.P., AND
MR. DISRAELI, M.P , AT SLOUGH.

Yesterday the Conservative electors of the south-
ern part of the county of Buckingham entertained
their representative; Mr. C. G. Du Pre and. Mr.
Disraeli, at dinner in the Royal Hotel Gardens,
Slough. A handsome tent, containing about 500
persons, was erected on the grounds in front of the
hotel, and tastefully decorated with flowers and
evergreens and a profuse display of flags and ban-
ners. Some of the latter bore inscriptions appli-
cable personally to the guests of the day, such as
" Disraeli and Popular Institutions," "Disraeli
and Protect,on to Native Industry," " Disraeli
and our Ancient institutions," with the motto,
"Furti nibil difficile ;" "Du Pre and Independ-
ence ;" while others were of a more general charac-
ter, as " Church, Queen, and Constitution ; '
"Agriculture, Trade, and Commerce ;" "Prospe-
rity to the County of Buckingham," &c. At 4
o'clock about 500 gentlemen sat down to dinner,
Col, H. Vyse in the chair. Among those right and
left of the chair were the Duke of Buckingham, the
Earl of Orkney, Col. P. Williams, M.P., Col.
Knox, M.P., Mr. Bernard, M.P., .Mr. Vansittart,
M.P., Gen. Hall, M.P., Viscount Curz,m, M.P.,
Mr. J. R. Hibbert, Col. Fane, Gen. Higginson,
Mr. C. Ga-kell, Mr. Rose, Mr: Franklyn, &c.
Grace was said by the Rev. Mr.- Lloyd. After
dinner,

The CHAIRMAN gave in succession, " The
Queen," " The Prince Consort and the rest of the
Royal Family," " The Army and Navy," (for
which Gen. Higginson returned thanks), which
were drunk with the usual honouro,
Mr. - FRANKLYN proposed 'the` health of -"the.
Bishop and Clergy of the Diocess ;" and the Rev.
Mr. LLOYD acknowledged tha toast.
Mr. ATKI cS proposed "The House of Lords,"
coupled with the name of the Duke of Buckingham,
which was drunk with great applause.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM, in acknowledging
the toast, said he felt confident that so long as
the House of Peers existed, it would ever
be found foremost in supporting, the Crown and

• the best interests of the nation. (Cheers.) He
could assure them he had a heart to feel deeply the
compliment which they had paid to him personally,
and he never could forget the kindness which for a
period of 40 years he had received from all classes
in the county of Buckingham. (Cheers.) That very
month 40 years ago he was first brought forward
to canvass the county. He then retired, for reasons
to which it was unnecessary he should now refer,
but he was glad to take the present opportunity—
perhaps the last he might bave—of thanking them
for all the kindness he had received at their hands.
Ile came there that day to do honour to the it ex-
cellent representatives, and he rejoiced to witness
the reception they bad met with in one of the
largest m e ings that ever took place in the county
of Buckingham. (Cheers.) Again he thanked them
for the kindly feelings they had ever shown towards
himself, and he, did so all the more warmly because
it might be the last oc:asion on which he would
ever have an opportunity of expressing his grati-
tude. (Cheers.) Trusting that as their old friend
he might not entirely be flrgotten, he could
only repeat, in conclusion, that he would never
forget them or the kindne:s they had shown him.
(Great cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the health of the
members for the c..innty, Mr. Du Pre and Mr.
Disraeli, congratulated the electors of Buckingham-
shire, which had always been a Conservative county,
upon one of their representatives having achieved
for himself the honour of a position, end that by
no means an unimportant position, in a Conserva-
tive Government. (Hear, hear.) For his own part,
be should he unworthy of his name and unworthy
of living where he did, were ho not to feel the
deepest interest in the progress of Conservative
principles, and he could not but congratulate the
people of Bucks and of England that they again
had a Conservative Government. He had the
greatest pleasure in presiding over a meeting which
was considerably larger than he had ever anticipated
that it would be, and in proposing the healths of
their "Conservative County Me.nbers." (Hear.)
Mr. Du PRF, in:returning thanks, said that he
bad often heard that some little discontent existed
because the county members did not mix so much
with their constituents in that part of Bucks as
they did in other parts, but he could assure the
company that he had often felt and expressed re-
gret that in that part of the country he was a com-
parative stranger. For his own part he could not
help considering the large meeting of that thy as a
triumph of Conservatism, and he believed the peo-
ple of England generally would support any Go-
vernment which would fairly carry out the princi-
ples of Conservatism. The !ate Government were
turned out of office by a national outburst of feel-
ing on the part of the people against having their
laws altered at the instigation of a foreign Power,
or the refuge which this country afforded interfered
with. The present Government during the short
time they had been in office had deserved well of
the country—in the first place for preserving ami-
cable relations with Prance, and iu the next for
their conduct in th A case of the two engineers. He
was afraid that if the present Government were dis-
placed the extreme Radical party might be thrown
into power, and that them would be danger to the
State and Church, and even t. the throne
itself.
(Hear, and a laugh.) The hon. gentleman con-
cluded by thanking the company in the name of his
right hon. colleague and himself for the honour
they had done him.
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the health
of "her Majesty's Ministers." He stated that, in
his opinion, Conservatism consisted in administer-
ing the affairs of the country in a manner •which
should conduce not to the beefit or welfare of one
Class, but of every class of the community ; and,
secondly, in pausing before laying a rough hand
upon institutions which once
were the envy and
admiration of all. He could congretul Ate the
coun-
try upon now having a Government which, in its
foreign relations, would not cringe to the stroll
and bully the weak, but would act with firmness,
and at the same time with
13 d.ence. He esbelievedus
a Conservative Government-uwould command the
support of thecountrYs and he trusted that his right
hon. friend the Chancellor_ of the Exchequer would
as far as his position would allow Mtn to do so, state
the views and pelicy of the Governmnt. The hon.
gentleman concluded by proposing the health of
" her Majesty's Ministers." -
The toast was received with great cordiality.
The CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, CM rising,
was received with loud cheers. On the cheers sub-
siding he said :—Gentleraen, though your kind in-
vitation to meet you here to-day was offered to my
colleague and myself before I was qualified to re-
turn thanks for the toast which has just been given,
I can assure you that I am gratified that this unex-
pected opportunity is afforded me of expressing the
hope that I do not misinterpret the reception you
have accorded me into the belief that so ±',,r as you
can form en opinion you are not dissatisfied woe.
the conduct of her
.Majesty's
atinaaere during their
orief tenure or onn.e. senizeie.) I may be permitted
on this occasion—the first, I believe, that any Mi-
nister of the Crown has bad of g mes..o
tt a large body
of his fellow-subjects BinCa the present Government
came into office—of recalling e,, you for a moment
the circumstances under which we acceded to office.
(Hear.) You will perhaps remember that a Govern-
ment supposed to be omnipotent suddenly fell to
pieces with a collapse altogether unprecedented. (A
laugh.) You will perhaps recollect that her Ma-
jesty, in the exercise of tier constitutional preroga-
tive, in these circumstances applied to my
poble
friend the Prime Minister of England, and re-
quested him to undertake the great responsibility
of directiug public affairs. You will, perhaps, re-
collect that, with a frankness which belongs to him,
Lord Derby, not eagerly grasping at office, repre-
sented to the Queen, as it became
him to do, the
position of himself and his friends in
the House of
Commons, communicating to her Majesty that in
that powerful assembly be could not, from the ex-
traordinary circumstances iu which the present Par-
liament was elected, answer for receiving support to
his Government from a party much exceeding 1 3d
of the number that formed the house. (Hear.) Then,
though he expressed his readiness under all circum-
stances and at all hazards to undertake the respon-
sibilty, he counselled her Majesty to pause and
well consider the great contingencies
at issue, and
riot hastily call on him to uudertstke the charge
which she had so —graci•Ausly 'peered to intrust to
him. (Hear.) I say, therefore, there was no un-
seemly eagerness for office on our part. (Hear.) I
may remind you that her Majesty availed herself
of the opportunity thus afforded her by Lord Derby.
tier Majesty gracioudy condescended to reconsider
the circumstances of the time and of the State, and
it was only after that second consideration that the
Queen expressed her conviction that it was the
duty of Lord Derby to undertake the trust, how-
ever difficult it might be. (Hear.) From that ex-
pression of her Majesty Lord Derby did not shrink,
and he took upon himself, with all its difficulties?,
the office of Prime Minister of this country.
(Cheers.) The heritage of difficulties to which he
succeedel was not a slight one, and it would have
been no easy matter to have encountered those dif-

ficulties even if we had been supported by an over-
whelming majority of the House of Commons.
(Hear.) It is well now for us to think lightly of
the perils we have passed through—even to forget
them ; but when I tell you and tell you, seriously
that the question of peace or war when we acceded
to office was not a question of weeks or days, but
of hours, and I am sure you will remember that
peace has been preserved, while the honour of the
country has been vindicated. (Cheers.) Let me also
remind you that at that very moment two of your fel-
low subjects were lingering, and had long lingered,
in ae`oreign dungeon, and that the efforts of a Go-
vernment which boasted of being irresistible in its
domestic strength and in its foreign policy had not
succeeded in relieving the misery of their position,
or in vindicating the honour of their country.
(Hear.) But in a few weeks—l might say almost
in a few days—the Government of Lord Derby,
with all these difficulties to encounter, and with
its unquestionable want of strength in the popular
house of the constitution, did succeed in freeing
these two neglected and suffering Englishmen—
(cheers)—broneht them back in triumph to that
country which had so long felt indignation inex-
pressible at their unmerited sufferings and shame
for the weakness of that Government which had
permitted them so long to endure it. (Great cheer-
ing.) I think, therefore, I may also refer to that
circumstance as one to which the Government of
Lord Derby, so often described as a weak Govern-
ment, may look back with pride and satisfaction.
Cheers.) Then let me remind you that daring all
this period, while we had to maintain and establish
peace with France—while we were vindicating the
honour of England and the rights and privileges of
all that dWell on its soilewhile we were freeing
from a foreign dungeon our suffering fellow-coun-
trymen, the arts of faction were pursuing us on
every side. (Cheers.) A war between Naples and
Sardinia—which would have been a war that would
have set the whole world in flames—was nearly pre-
cipitated in order to inconvenience, and, perhaps,
upset a Government which was the choice, after due
reflection, of the Queen of this country and which
was honoUred by her confidence not for-
mally, but sincerely and cordially, because
they were the only party who would come forward
and incur the responsibility of carrying on the Go-
vernment. (Cheers.) The foreign difficulties were
not the only ones to which in these difficult circum-
stances we succeeded. The finances of the country
were in a position of the most extreme difficulty ;
and—what was still worse—they were imagim_d by
the country generally to be in a position even more
embarrassing than they really were. The tendency
of that feeling greatly increased the difficulty of
dealing with the subject, because it induced depres-
sion and even panic in the public mind, and acted
in a most injurious manner on the commercial en-
terprise of the country. (Hear, hear.) These fi eau-
cial difficulties were looked forward to by our op-
ponents, equally with those we encountered in our
foreign affairs, as the means by which it was hoped
our failure might be accomplished. (Hear.) It
does not become me to refer to the measures by
which these financial difficulties were encountered,
but I may be permitted to mike this single obser-
vation, that it was my duty., as the Minister of Fi-
nance in the Government—in the midst of this
hostile House of Commons, and facing a bend of
opponents such as few have had to encounter—to
propose measures to meet the emergency which had
the singular and unprecedented fortune of being
passed with general acclamation. (Cheers.) But
our difficulties were not limited merely to the ex-
treme danger of our foreign affairs, when the ques-
tion of peace or war was hourly before us ; they
were not limited to the deficit in our finances, which
can only be counted by millions ; we had before us
the state of India, and had to consider and deter-.
mine on the policy on which the weal or woe of
that great peninsula depended, and with which the
renown and the power of England were so inti-
mately connected. (Cheers.) It is unnecessary to
refer to what has taken place within the last 12
months in India. The great events that have
taken place there are graven on every man's
heart and convictions. They were accompanied
with circumstances of such harrowing interest
that there is no man, whatever his condition
may be, whether he fill the highest place in the
peerage, or follow the plough and gains the
prize at our agricultural meetings, who is not cog-
nisant of all 'the principal details and features of
those great events, and who does not feel for many
of the startling incidents that occurred iu the course
of these transactions. (Hear.) But we had to de-
cide—for it was the turning point of our Indian
empire—the character of the policy which ought to
be pursued ; whether it should be a p Hey of un-
mitigated vengeance, or whether the time had ar-
rived when we should attempt to rebuild our great
empire in the East on principles of a very different
character, and leading, as we believed, to a very
different result. (Great cheering.) Was it to be
military occupation by an army four titnts greater
in amount than any army of Europeans that ever
en' ei el that country ? Was it to be military occupa-
tion, attended byenormous taxation, by a draining
of her Majesty's subjects from this country, and
by a perpetual exhaustion of our resources? Or
were we to recognise that vengeance had done its
duty ? Were we to recognise that the time had
arrived, or was fast arriving, when, upon the fall
of the rebellious capital, we ought to announce to
the inhabitants of India the principle on which we
proposed to reconstruct our empire—a principle
that we believed must contribute to their happiness
and to the welfare and power and glory of this
country ? (Great cheering) Was it always to be
massacre and confiscation ? On the other hand,

was it to be discriminating amnesty ? Was it to
be reipect for private property, toleration for reli-
gion, and a due and decent regard for the manners
and customs of the people? (Cheers.) Were we
or were we not to distinguish the great body of the
miliions—who after all are her Majesty's subjects
in India—from those military and treacherous re-
bels who have received or will receive their due
meed of reward ? (Renewed cheering.) These are
the three great subject?, gentlemen, which have
occupied our councils and which have demanded
ottr management since we came into office—foreign
affairs, that inv, lved the question of peace or war ;
financial arrangements, that involved the question
of millions of a deficiency and a reduction of taxa-

tiou ; and the principles upon which a groat em-
pire should be reconstructed in India—(cheer4)—
three great subjects, gentlemen, and we have been
in office three months ! (Great cheering.) And
yet we are told that we are a weak Government and
have done nothing ! (Cheers.) Why, we have
vindicated the honour of e ngland ; we have pre-
served peace; we have freed from imprisonment
our suffering couttrymen ; we have met an immense.
deficiency, and at the same time reduced taxation ;
and we have laid down principles for the recon-
struction of our Indian empire which England ap-
proves and Europe admires, and which, if acted on
will tut,. na glory cf our couutiy.
Gentlemen, we have had to perform this difficult
task under unprecedented difficulties. lam b and
to declare, especially atter some observations that
have been mad• to-day, that I for one—and from
my position I may be considered a candid and im-
partial judge—have no reason to complain of the
present House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) Con-
sidering that it was elected under the auspices of
our rivals, considering that it was supposed to pos-
se=s an overwhelming majority against U 3 when we
assumed the reins of office, lam bound to say that
the Government have received from the House of

Commons, as a body, a generous courtesy, and that
on more than one occasion the sense and spirit of
the House of Commons have baffled the unceasing
intrigues and restless machinations by which, from
the first moment of our entering offic.?, the Govern-
ment of the Queen has been assailed. (Cheers.)
And, gentlemen, this leads me to the very key of
the position. There exists at this moment in Eng-
land that which has not existed since the days of

Charles 11. There is in England at this moment a
cabal—(cheers)--a cabal which has no other object
but to upset the Government of the Queen, and to
obtain their ends in a manner the most reckless, but

the most determined. (Renewed cheers.) Now,
this cabal consists of some scheming English politi-
cians, and some foreign intrioners. (Hear.) They
possess resources of all kinds, and in considerable

amount, and they are reckless in the mode in which

they diipose of them. (Hear.) Their social in-
fluences are considerable, and they ate perverted
without the slightest remorse to obtain their poli-
tical ends. (Cheers.) They possess great sources
ofpoLtical information, especially with regard to
foreign affairs, obtained in a manner not very con-
stitutional. (Cheers.) They have succeeded in
doing that which no cabal in modern times, I am
proud to say, has yet succeeded is accomplishing ;
they have in a great degree corrupted the only pure
and independent press of England. (Loud cheers.)
Innocent people in the country—(laughter)—who
look to the leading articles in the newspapers for
advice and direction—who look to what are called
leading organs to be the guardians of their privi-
lies;arld directors of their political consciences—
(laugh ter)—are not the least aware, because this
sort of knowledge travels slowly, that leading organs
now are place hunters of the cabal—(cheers and

laughter)—and that the once stern guardians of
popular rights simper in the enervating atmosphere
of gilded saloons. (Cheers and laughter.) . Yes,
gentlemen, it too true thatthe shepherds who were
once the guardians of the flock are now 'in league
with the wolves—(laughter)—and therefOre' it is
that ehough we have been only three months in
office, though during that space we have vindicated
your honour, maintained the peace of Europe, which.
wax in manifest peril, rescued our countrymen from
a fore'gradung.2on, made up-a great deficiency in
your finances, and yet reduced taxation, and laid a
deep foundation for your future empire in the East
—innocent people in the country who read leading
I organs believe we are a Government that do no ihing, •
that we are a weak Government, and not- entitle.l
to the confidence of our country.: (Laughter.)
But, gentlemen, what would .happen if the cal-;a1
were successful ? You know our policy, and you
can judge of it by. its.fruits. .L-A the c be suc-
cessful and iu foreign affairs you will have a truck=
ling foreign policy, while in home affairs you
have gradually e9.tablished a strong and strict cen-
tralized Government; on the model of that Govern-
ment which the cabal admired ; and:whenev_T‘ the
spirit:of the country is interested in those improve-
ments which the spirit of the ago demands—whe-
ther they be social, financial, or constitutional
—and the settlement of which as the first duty and
the most pressing task of a real statesman, then
you will have your attention distracted .from this
- Conservative progress by incornprebet-Sible wars
carried on in distant parts, commenced for no
earthly purpose, and terminating in the waAe of
your resources and, perhaps, of your reputation.
(Loud cheers) Well, then, you have to choose
-Fetwaien our policy and the policy of the cabal—
(hear, hear)—and lam here to-day to ask the pen-
pie of the county of Buckingham, and to ask 'the
poople of England, will you support her Majo.ity's
'Government against the cabal'? (Loud cheers, and
cries of " We will !") Well, gentlemen, 86 deluded
was the cabal, so implicitly did they believe their
own leading articles written by themselves—,
(laughter)—so entirely did they credit the state-
ment, that the people of England are against those
who, in a moment of constitutional difficulty, at
her ajesty's twice expressed wish came forward to
assist- her, and thinking that the opportunity was
ripe, having, as they imagined, a packed ,HOUS3
of Commons—(hear, hear)7--and having every
advantage in their favour, they brought for-
ward a- vote of censure upon a Ministry which
in three months had effected those great results
to which I have alluded. (Cries of " Shame.!"
and cheers.) Well, gentlemen, the moment notice
was given of that motion it was considered

among shortsighted hangers-on in polit'cs that our
doom was sealed as certainly as is that of a man
who has been committed and sentenced, and is
only waiting for the arrival of Mr. Caicraft. (Laugh-
ter.) All thOS3 wise and experienced politicians
thought that the game was up. (A. laugh.) They
knew, according to their own fan les, that no one
would look into the merits of the question, and n
body would then remember what we had done or
consider what we might do. It waS in their, minds
a mere sum in political arithmetic—(a laugh)—
which the merest novice in politics could cralcul ate
and fix in an instant. There were a greater num-
ber of members of the House of Commons at the
set vice of the cabal. The signal was given by the
leader. There were solemn awl pious tools always
at the service of the cabal—(laughter)—and the
thing was to be done offhand. (Renewed laughter.)
Well, gentlemen, they fixed upon an Indian sub-
ject, from which they stole their tactics—(oud
laughter)—and which revealed their views. They
were, in fact, resolved to loot the Treasury. (Roars
of laughter.) There is nothing in my recollection of
politics—which, owing to your continual confidence
in me, extends to a period Of no very-short dura-
tion, for I believe that it was on this very spot and
in the presence of many of those now assembled
here that I made my first speech in public life long
before I had the honour of being a member of the
House of Commons—there is nothing, I say, in my
political experience of any scheme more scienti-
fically managed than the one by which it was hoped
to accomplish the fall of the G Yvernment. , (Hear.)
A gentleman in the House of Commons brought
forward the motion; and he was a man of unim-
peachable character. The cabal, which bad
itself rather a tainted character—(cheers)—chose
its instruments with pharisaical accuracy. (Re-
newed cheering and laughter.) I can assure you
that when the right- hen: gentleman who brouvht
forward the motion in the House of Commons
rose to impeach me I was terrified at my own
shortcomings, and I listened atentively to a nisi
prius narrative, ending with a resolution, which I
think must have been drawn up by a conveyancer.
(Hear, hear.) In the other House of Parliament a
still greater reputation condescended to app ar
upon the human stage—(loud laughter and cheers)
—and like a Pharisee of old, with broad phylac-
teries upon his forehead—(renewed cheering and
laughter)—he called upon God to witness, in the
voice and accents of majestic adoration, that he
was not as other men were—(loud
_cheers. and

laughter)—for that he was never influenced by
party motives. (Renewed cheers and laughter.)
Well, gentlemen, what happened under these cir-
cumstances ? hy, something which lam quite
sure is unprecedented in the Parliamentary history
of England. When we hear of faction, when we
hear of the arts and manoeuvres of party, when we
read sometimes that party spirit will be the ruin
of this country, let us take a calm review of the
affairs of the last fortnight ; and I think we must
come to the conclusion that iu a country free and
enlightened, as in England, there are limits to
party feeling which the most dexterous managers
of the passions of mankind cannot ever pass—(hear,
hear)—and that in the great bulk of those who sit
is Parliament, and in the great bulk of the people
of England, there is a genuine spirit of patriotism
which will always eventually triumph. (Cheers.)
A motion was brought forward about a fortnight
ago by a right hon. gentleman who sits for the city
of Oxford which was to terminate the existence of
the Government, and during the debate which en-
sued, protracted as it was, you may, perhaps, have
observed that the members of the Government very
reluctantly advanced to take part in it, although,
being as we were upon our trial, we were prepared,
if necessary, to defend our conduct on every point,
and to vindicate wilh a becoming spirit the
course which we had adopted. (Hear hear.) But
instead of that, here was a bill of indictment pre-
ferred against the Government, which commenced
as a vote of censure, and which upon the last night
of the debate was expanded into a general vete of
want of confidence. Now, who conducted that de-
bite in defence of the Government, and in oppo-
sition to the motion? Why, not members of the
Government, but independent members of the
House of Commons—(hear, hear)—some of them
g ntlemen of great eloquence and authority not
connected with the Government in politica, hut, on
the contrary, not professing those general principles
which form the basis of our policy. They yet saw
through the flimsy web, and despised the au.hors
of so perfidious and pernicious a movement..
We, gentlemen, refer to 'that debate with such
confidence and triumph that we can fairly ask for a
verdict at the hands of the people of this country.
(Hear, hear.) In point of fact, that verdict has
bean already given. (Hear.) Until that vote of
censure was brought forward we were receiving
from the people of England a fair and unimpas-
sioned trial. We were accepted as a Government
which having taken office under such difficult cir-
cumstances as I have described, and after the pecu-
liar exercise of the prerogative of the Crown, was
deserving of a fair chance, and we were having a
kindly trial. Ido not believe that the great body
of the people of this country had any feeling but
one, and that was a general feeling for those who
had acceded to office under great difficulties, and
who had seduously and with devotion endeavoured
to perform their duty. (Hear, hear.) The moment.,
however, that this motion was brought forward
and introduced in the speech which was made
upon that occasion by the right hon. member fork
Oxford—from the moment that the debate too
place, the cnliehteued and indignant mind of
t
the people of England declared at the m
and in a manner which could not
be ommenis,.
mis-
taken, what its sense was of the conduct
cer-
tain public characters in those transactions,
there is
of
and
if we had gone upon the hustings—which
very little doubt we should have done before we
should have fallen—l believe that the overthrow
of the cabal would have been one of the mcs:.
signal in history. (Loud cries of hear, hear.)
Now, this danger had been overcome by no un-
worthy management or concession on our part.
(Hear.) It has been overcome, not by the united
efforts of friends in a division, but, upon the con-
trary, it has been overcome by the intrinsic and
internal sense of wrongdoing which prevailed in
the ranks of our enemies. (Loud cheers.) There
is nothing like that last Friday evening in the his-
tory of the House of Commons. (Renewed cheers.)
We came down to the house expecting to divide at
4 o'clock in the morning, I myself expecting pro..
bably to deliver an address two hours after mid-
night, and I believe that even with the conscious-
tess of a good cause that is no mean effort, (Hear.)