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ordered away by Mrs. Torr. lie had, no doubt,
secreted himself in one of the workshops (where
his boots were found) before the premixes were
closed, and had thus had easy access to the house
through the kitchen door. The whi4ling outside
leads to the supposition that he had accomplices.
Mrs. Torr had received a considerable remittance
from her husband on Tuesday, but had paid it into
the bank on Wednesday. She cut one of her hands
rather severely with clasping the knife to prevent
injury to her throat when struggling with the
prisoner. The prisoner said nothing in defence,
and was committed to take his trial at the next
assizes at York.

LORD ELGIN AT DUNFERMLINE.

The Earl of Elgin returned to his estate of

Broomhall, Fifeshire, on Wednesday, and was re-
ceived with demonstrations of rejoicing through-
oat the Whole district. The noble lord, accompa-

nied by Lady Elgin, left London on Tuesday night
by the limited mail and reached Stirling about 8
a.m., and after resting two hours took the train to
Dunfermline. In this ancient and populous burgh
the inhabitants turned out en masse to welcome the
noble lord. The church bells were rung, the houses
were gaily decorated with flags, and the factories,
workshops, and schools liberated their whole in-
maths to swell the throng. At the railway station
the Dnnfermline troop of*the Fifeshire Mounted
Rifle Volunteers, under Captain Sir Arthur Hal-
kett, and the two Dunfermline companies of the
Ist Fifeshire Rifles, under Captain Matheson,
mounted guard. The provost, magistrates, and
council, along with the: sheriff and other officials,
were on the platform to meet his lordship, and on
his arrival he was conducted by the civic body to
the Town-hall to receive an address of congratula-
tion on his return. After some remarks from Provost
Whitelaw, Mr. Kilgour (town-clerk) read the fol-
lowing address
To THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ELGIN AND
KINCARDINE.
"May it please your Lordship—We, the Provost, ma-
gistrates, and Town-council of Dunfermline, in council as-
sembled, would, for ourselves and the community we repre-
sent, desire to express our great regard for your lordship,
and our high estimation of the exalted principles and noble
bearing which have ever characterised your public life.
And now, on your return as her Majesty's Plenipotentiary
from another arduous struggle in your country's service,
we would bid you a sincere and heartfelt welcome home,
and congratulate you, not only on the eminent success of
your late mission, but on your preservation, by a watchful
Providence, from the numerous personal dangers to which
your lordship has thereby been exposed. The mission
to China with which your lordship was intrusted was
one of no common kind, and of no ordinary diffi-
culty. And whether we regard the treaties which
your lordship has been enabled to effect as the averting
of an expensive and protracted war in a very distant land,
or as the opening up of a new and extensive field for the
commercial enterprise of this country, or whether we con-
template the effect that Chinese intercourse with Great
Britain must have in improving the moral and social con-
dition of a large and isolated portion of the human family,
we consider your lordship's achievement as a step in
human progress that must take a prominent place in the
world's history. And, while we would not be unmindful of
the noble support given to your lordship by the army and
navy both of England and her gallant allies, we cannot
but express our admiration of the manly courage and con-
summate ability, as well as of the dignified courtesy and
firmness of purpose which your lordship manifested in the
many difficult and trying circumstances in which you were
placed. Nor would we conceal our pride and satisfaction
that interests so important to the country as those to which
we have referred and diplomaey of such a difficult and deli-
cate kind should have been confided to and cared for and
conducted so ably and successfully by a nobleman born and
brought up in our immediate neighbourhood, who, by his
public spirit and exalted patriotism, promises to add in-
creased lustre to a name so famous in Scottish history, and
who, by his many private virtues, has already endeared
himself to our whole community. That your lordship may
be long spared in health and prosperity to enjoy the favour
of your Sovereign and of a grateful country, and that you
may soon witness the happy and widespread fruits of your
late mission, is our earnest and heartfelt prayer. Given
, under our common seal, at Dunfermline, this 11th of April,
1861."
Lord ELGTN. who was received with loud cheer-
ing,.said,—l am deeply gratified by the nattering
terms in which in this address my public services
have been referred to, but I am still more grateful
for that Nselcome which you have tendered to me
today, and for the high honour which has been
conferred on me by the presence of the Provost and
the members of the corporation at my landing,
surrounded by the gallant Volunteers and by
the citizens of Dunfermline. (Applause.) Gen-
tlemen, I have for many years been perhaps too
much a wanderer. It has been my fortune to
receive on various occasions from our countrymen
established in distant parts of the world tokens of
their regard and consideration. The very last ad-
dress of felicitation which I received before I landed
at Dover was from a body of my countrymen esta-
blished in the Philippines, but you must allow me
to say that among all these tokens, those which are
most gratifying to me are those which I receive
from my friends and neighbours at home. (Ap-
plause.) And perhaps I appreciate these tokens
the more highly because I am conscious that the
very fact of my having been so much a wanderer
has prevented me from acquiring some of those
titles to their personal regard which I might have
hoped to establish if I had been more constantly
resident among them. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I
have been an absentee from thiscountry from choice.
I have experienced—as I suppose most of you who
have attained the same period of life have done—l
have experienced in my own case the truth of the
saying of the poet that has become proverbial—
" There is Providence that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will."
When first I entered ;public life in 1841 I little
expected that duty would call me from this coun-
try. I was received in the House of Commons with
that indulgence which is uniformly in that great
Assembly extended to a new member who shows a
disposition to take an earnest and patriotic part in
their deliberations ; but before I had been many
weeks a member of that great and august Assem-
bly I sustained a calamity which deprived me of an
affectionate parent, of whose virtues I need not
speak in an assemby like this, where there are so
many who remember him. And I not only sus-
tained that great loss, but, in point of fact, my
public career seemed for the moment to be entirely
interrupted ; for by succeeding to a Scotch peer-
age I was expelled from the House of Commons
without being• admitted to the House of Lords.
At that time the present Lord Derby, then Lord
Stanley, did me the high honour to ;ask me to
undertake the government of Jamaica. , I
thought that in the position in which I found
myself it was my duty to obey that sum-
mons, and to Jamaica I went. I, remained five
years in that country, and at the end of that time
I came back. I was still in the same position as a
Scotch peer, and I was then invited in the most
gratifying manner by the then Colonial Secre-
tary, with whom at that time I was not even per-
sonally acquainted, to undertake the government of
Canada. I proceeded to Canada, and there remained
eight years. After my return I was asked to go
o
to China. I don't conceal from you that there wer
some of my friends who rather dissuaded me from
undertaking that task. It was felt in regard to the
China question, owing to circumstances which must
still be fresh in your recollection, that a very
divided feeling existed on the subject in the coun-
try, and that it was altogether a ticklish subject to
meddle with. I was told it was a cause in which,
if I succeeded, success might shock the conscience ;
and that if I failed failure would hurt the pride of
England. But I felt that the simplest rule for a
public man in all such cases—the rule I have
always followed, and which I shall always follow
to the end—was to undertake any public duty in
which his services might be useful to the country.
(Loud applause.) Gentlemen, I undertook that
task, and I need not ask you to-day whether I have
any reason to repent of it. (Applause.) And here
lam after all. I have now been gone for a great
many years, and I have come back among you not
quite used up, 40 our friondp the YRukeep Nyinici pay