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were as happy as his serious observations on the

subject were just.

" Those persons and those parties (said his Lordship)
who wish to improve the institutions of a great country
like this, are bound to go slowly and deliberately, and
they are sure to meet with great resistance at every step
which they take. I, for one, do not complain of that
resistance. It belongs to the character of the country,
as it has this advantage, that it presents sudden and ill-
considered alterations, and that measures proposed as
improvements receive that due consideration and discus-
sion which render them ultimately better adapted to the
condition of the people to whom they apply. A love and
. ,

affection for ancient practices and institutions is an honour-
able and peculiar characteristic of the people of this
country, and I am the last to wish that that honourable
and useful sentiment should ever be discarded from
their minds."

Lord DERBY, himself, could not express nor

Conservative sentiments

Lord PALM ERS

TON'S

illustration is ludicrous enough. He sa

iff his

some countries, an innkeeper, meaning to i
establishment, would call it " The New Vii
Horse," or "The New Golden Cross;

whereas in

England, a country alehouse-keeper would prefer
" The Old Plough now Revived," for his signboard.
At Hanwell, near London, there was a well known
inn called " The Old Hats," and when a rival

started up, it at once assumed the apj

llation .of

" The Old, Old Hats." There is significant Mitt'
to be discovered beneath the joke.
In justifying his choice of a militia system in which
compulsory service is the exception, in preference
to one which is the rule, his Lordship told an anec-
dote of a certain private in a local militia regiment
which he commanded, who was the only man who
wished to go home before the twenty-eight days'

training was over.
" He came to me, and said, ' My Lord, I Wish you
would let me go home.' I replied, ' Why ? You have
only a week to serve now ?" Well,' said he,

the fact is,

that before I corned here, I promised a young woman itr
nay parish that I'd marry her, if so be I survived the
campaign.' "

Of course his Lordship, with his usual gallantry
towards the fair sex, permitted the longing Mars to

return to the arms of his expectant Venus. But
his Lordship's experience convinces him that, as a
general rule, the young men of England will not be
afraid of the three weeks' campaign in a

militia

regiment.
There is much more that is both amusing and
instructive in Lord PALMERSTON'S address, which
will very amply repay a perusal.

THE NORTH LANCASHIRE AND SOUTH

LANCASHIRE ELECTIONS,

WE are happy to learn that the electors of North
Lancashire have succeeded in inducing the .Hon..
YoRKE SCARLETT to come forward as a candidate,
in conjunction with their present ConserVative
member, Mr. WILSON PATTEN. Mr. SCARLETT
is a sound Conservative Churchman, and is pos-
sessed of talents which would do honour to any
constituency. In the mean time the
_League party
have secured a fellow-candidate for Mr. HEYWO.OD,
the present Radical member, in the person of mr..
RICHARD FORT, of . Read Hall, near Whalley.;
The nomination is to take place on Tuesday (this
day), at Lancaster ; and the polling on Thuriday
and Friday next, in the various polling places
throughout the division. There has. not been a
contested election in North Lancashire since its
formation into a separate electoral district by the
Reform Bill, so that it is impossible to form any
very accurate estimate of the relative strength of
the two parties. It is known, however, that the
division contains a large number of small land.,
owners, who are the most likely parties to have felt
severely the effect produced upon the agricultural
interest by Free Trade measures.
With respect to South Lancashire, a rumour
was in circulation yesterday that Mr. WILLIAM
BROWN, one of the present members, had agreed
to withdraw on the day of nomination, in order to
make way for Mr. CARDWELL, the rejected of
Liverpool. We learn, on enquiry, that the former-
gentleman was waited upon, immediately on the
rumour transpiring, on the part of the Liverpool
Constitutional Association, who are resolved, should
such a step be attempted, immediately to brink'
forward a candidate, and to contest the division
with vigour. Mr. BROWN, it is said, has given his
assurance that he does not meditate withdrawing.
To make matters sure, however, the leading Con-
servative gentlemen of this district will attend in
force on the day of nomination, which is fixed for
To-morrow (Wednesday).

THOMAS BERRY HORSFALLL, ESQ.,
AND THE DERBY ELECTION.

Is :the account of the polling at the Derh
London Tines introduced a most slandero
nuating boldly that Mr. IIoRsFALL owed his return
the doings of some " mysterious person," who had b
found in a dark room, with a table before him, and a large
sum of money upon it, in gold and bank notes. It was
stated further, that pass-words were demanded for those

entering the room, and that a letter was found upon the
" mysterious person," which would furnish some serious
disclosures. As the slanderous paragraph has been eagerly

made use of by the political opponents of Mr. HORS",
in this town to damage that gentleman, we

uoto, the

following letter, which has been addressed to the e

the Times:—

" Sir,—l observe a paragraph in to-day's Times, in the
report of the Derby election, to the effect that a person
had been arrested with a large sum of money,' in a

dark room,' prepared to bribe 'on the Tory side

. .
" As chairman of Mr. HORSFALL'S committee, and his
proposer on the day of nomination, I beg, in the strongest
possible manner, to deny for Mr. HORSVALL, for myself,
and for all his friends, as far as I know, the slightest
knowledge of, or participation in, the doings of this man,
be he who he may. The individual in question has been,
I am informed, examined before the magistrates to-day,
and, on the authority of several gentlemen present, I can
state that not the most trivial circumstance transpired to
implicate in the remotest manner any of the friends of
Mr. HORSFALL.

" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

" Derby, July 9

" JOSIAH LEWIS

It is generally believed that the whole affair was got up
by the opposite party, and we understand that so 'strong
is Mr. HORSFALL'S impression that such is the case, that
he purposes offering a large reward for the discovery of
the parties concerned in its concoction.

THE HEAD CONSTABLE'S ARRANGE-
MENTS DURING THE ELECTION.

WE expressed strongly, in our third edition on Tuesday
last, our admiration of the excellent arrangements made
by Captain GREIG, the head constable, for the preservatinq
of the peace during the nomination on that day, and far
the praiseworthy manner in which they were carried out
by the superintendents, inspectors, and the entire body
of the force under his command. We have since had
additional opportunities of observing the same gentleman's
admirable conduct during the polling on Wednesday. A
highly excited population were enabled to exercise one of
the most important duties of English men in almost perfect
peace, at a crisis when the slightest error of judgment, or
manifestation of hasty temper, on the part of the police,
might have led to the most deplorable consequences. We
are happy to find that the services of Captain GREIG have
been as highly appreciated by the magistracy of the bo-
rough as they have been by all classes of our fellow-
: a meeting held on Saturday, at
the Sessions-house, the following resolution was unani-

townsmen, and that

❑iouslp passed :

" At a meeting of the Magistrates, held this 10th day of
July, 1852, in the Magistrates'-room and Sessions-house,
" Present the MAYOR in the Chair, &c., &c., &C.,
" On the motion of Mr. C. TURNER, seconded by Mr.

HARVEY

„11CIMMOtal
thanks of the Magistrates are
the Head Constable, for his

Anairable

Police Force during

resolution be tra

LiGli and Jan!

YEsTERD.
certit cat

Eed on

notice

y of the officers
4ugust 26th,