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London, England, 1861-07-31 00:00:00

people--(hear, hear)—by the son of that great man
who, called from among us by a great calamity, be-
queathed to his fellow-countrymen the invaluable

heirlooms of commercial freedom and religious
liberty. (Cheers.) lam quit© sure—indeed, I
know it from himself—that the descendant of that
illustrious statesman will go to Ireland animated
with the warmest affection for, and holding in the
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highest honour the memory of his father; that he

desires most sincerely to walk in his footsteps, and
that he is earnestly determined to leave his name

no less enshrined than he will find it in the affec

tions of the Irish people. (Hear, hear.) Wherever
he turns in the country to which he is going he will

discover some vestige of his father's wisdom and

power, and I devoutly hope that he is about to
commence his career under auspices which may lead
to a signal and satisfactory result. (Cheers.) For
my own part, entertaining as I do the most grateful
sense of the unvarying kindness which I experienced
at the hands of the generous and warm-hearted
people of Ireland, I shall always continue to take
the deepest interest in every measure tending to
promote their progress and prosperity. (Hear.)
It is to you, however, the citizens of Oxford, I
chiefly owe it that I have been permitted to take
my part in the public councils of this country • it is
Mr. to
Castlegive has, his
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to you I am indebted for the power to express
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sentiments in Parliament, and
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tent, effect to my opinions.
excellent speech, spoken the progress of
legislation, and has rendered but a just homage to
that great public opinion
'which is, after all, the

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last court of appeal in this free and iutelligeu
country, and by whose force it is in reality that
measures are matured and carried into effect. Of
that public opinion the press, in the first instance, is
the agent, and after it has been sufficiently de-
clared through the medium of that great organ,
then comes the more deliberate and formal discus-
sions of the two Houses of Parliament, and finally
the passing of those measures by which the
destinies of the nation are for the future to be go"
verned. I will not now fatigue you by entering st
any length into subjeots of domestic interest, but
this I may be permitted to say, that we have this
year, while keeping up our naval and military esta:
blishments in the state of efficiency in which all of
us are determined they should be maintained, WI
enabled to reduce the public burdens by lessening
the pressure of taxation—that relief having been
afforded, I believe entirely with your consent, by a
remission partly of direct and partly of indirect
taxation. (Hear.) I know, I may add, at least one
citizen of Oxford, my excellent friend Alderman.
Towle—(a laugh)--who sincerely rejoices that, as
in the last Session of Parliament the remaining Pl -
tective duties on foreign imports were abolished, gO
in the Session now about to expire the last burdenns
were removed which pressed on articles of domestic
manufacture. (Cheers.) Having said thus mueb,
I once more beg to thank you for the unanimous
mark of favour which you have to-day conferred
upon me, and to assure you that as the ties which
bind me to this city are stronger and of earlier date
than those connected with politics, so will they sur-
vive them should anything occur to sever our pall'
tical relationship. (Cheers.)
The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to
the Mayor.

WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE.
At a numerously attended meeting of the Central
Conservative Committee of the West Riding, held
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at Wakefield, on Friday, the 26th inst., resolutions
were unanimously passed for bringing forward Con-
servative candidates for both divisions of the riding
at the next general election.