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carriages.
In concluding this notice of the royal visit to Woburn
Abbey, it may be observed that her Majesty is the first
crowned head who has visited that ancient seat of the Rus-
sell family since Queen Elizabeth and Charles 1., who, in
their respective reigns, partook of its splendid hospitalities.
The facilities afforded to our correspondent, both by the
duke and duchess, demand our acknowledgments, and it is
but right to observe that the arrangements were without ex-
ception worthy of unlimited praise. Mr. Palfreyman (the
noble duke's house steward) has throughout been indefati-
gable in every department, and indeed nothing escaped that
could contribute an eclat to the visit of royalty.
THE ROYAL ROUTE.
The royal route was through the little village of Hockliffe,
and through Dunstable, Market-street, and St. Alban's, and
from thence by the Hatfield road to Pansanger.
At Hockliffe all those simple demonstrations of popular
regard were evinced by its humble inhabitants, nearly every
dwelling-house being decorated in some way or other with.
flags, bouquets of flowers, and evergreens, and in several
places lines of laurels and flowers, from the centre of which
was suspended a floral crown, extended across the road.
That otherwise retired spot was very full of strangers.
On reaching Dunstable, the troop of the 11th hussars was
relieved by an escort of the Hertfordshire yeomanry cavalry,
(the Hon. Mr. Grimston's troop,) and, after a change of
horses, the Queen and royal retinue left for St. Alban's. A
superb triple arch was erected before the principal inn, with
the usual inscriptions of " Welcome Victoria and Albert,"
" God bless the Princess Royal," &c., and tastefully orna-
mented with a profusion of flowers. The town is known to
be the chief residence of persons engaged in the making of
straw plait for bonnets, and it seemed they were determined
to intimate to her majesty the nature of the craft they fol-
lowed. for nearly fifty " Dunstable " bonnets, of all shapes
and sizes, were attached to the upper part of the triumphal
arch.
At Market-street the narrow carriage-way was densely
crowded, and owing to that circumstance the royal cortege
was only enabled to make progress at a slow place, and what
with a grand triumphal arch and the general decorations of
the houses, the loyal inhabitants of that village deserve
credit for their display on this occasion.
The preparations at St. Alban's were, on a more extensive
scale. A very splendid temporary arch was erected in the
High-street; and, on each side, raised seats accommodated
several hundreds of the leading gentry and inhabitants of
that ancient town. An immense multitude had gathered
long before the arrival of her majesty. A relay of horses
was provided at thelVerulam Arms, were another change was
made in the escort, the hon. Mr. Grimston's troop being
succeeded by that of the Marquis of Salisbury, colonel coin-
mandant of that fine corps, which was appointed to escort
the illustrious visitors to Pansanger. The Queen and Prince
were received with the most rapturous applause, and every
mark of respect and joy was shown by the thousands who
formed the multitude.
PANSANGER, HERTS, THURSDAY NIGHT.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert reached Pansanger Park at a quarter past two this
afternoon, on a visit to the Earl and Countess Cowper, from
Woburn Abbey, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Bed-
ford.
Long before the arrival of the illustrious visitors, the road
from the park gates on the Hatfield-road was lined on each
side with spectators from Hertford and all parts of the
county, desirous of witnessing the arrival of the Queen, and
the carriages of the local gentry were very numerous.
It is almost superfluous to add that the reception of the
Queen and Prince was of the most enthusiastic description.
On reaching the north entrance, her Majesty and his royal
highness were immediately received by the Earl and Countess
Cowper; and the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
Viscount Melbourne, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston,
Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. W. Cowper, Viscount and
Viscountess Leveson, Viscount Duncannon, Mr. and Lady
Mary Vyner, and Mr. Greville, were assembled in the ves-
tibule.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Earl and
Countess De Grey arrived from Woburn Abbey shortly
after the royal visitors.
The Earl Cowper, at the head of his troop of the Hert-
fordshire yeomanry cavalry, relieved the Hatfield troop at
the park gate, and formed an escort to her Majesty to the
mansion, a distance of nearly two miles.
The banquet was served up in the gallery, when her Ma-
jesty the Queen, and his 'loyal Highness Prince Albert,
Earl and Countess Cowper, Duke and Duchess of Suther-
land, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Earl and
Countess De Grey, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Dun-
cannon, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount
and Viscountess Leveson, Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. W.
Cowper, Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, Mr. Greville, and the
Marquis of Headfort, Dowager Lady Lyttleton, Hon. Miss
Cavendish, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. E.
Anson, constituted the circle.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam, and the Marquis of
Salisbury, and Lady Mildred Cecil, came from Gorhambury
and Hatfield House shortly before eight, and had the honor
to join the party.

PANSANGER, FRIDAY EVENINC

_ .
Yesterday, late in the afternoon, her majesty and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Earl and Countess Cowper, the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Marquis and Marchioness
of Clanricarde, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. Earl
and Countess De Gray, Viscount Duncannon, Lord and
Lady Ashley, and the other distinguished guests, who had
the honour to receive invitations to meet the royal visitors,
promenaded the lower garden, situate on the right from the
mansion, laid out with considerable taste, in the Flemish
style, and afterwards passed across the terrace to the garden
facing the east front. It is arranged in the style of Louis
Quatorze, and from the parterres being divided so as to give
at a glimpse the escutcheons of the Cowper family and De
Grey (the Countess Cowper's) family, with the crests, it has
a most singular and altogether unique effect.
This morning the Queen and Prince, immediately after the
breakfast, went alone across the park, and privately visited
the picturesque little village of Hertingfordbury.
At a quarter before one the mayor of Hereford (Mr. John
Lawrence), with the Rev. Mr. Skrimshire, Rev. Mr. Lowe,
and a deputation, including the town councillors, gentry, &c,
of the borough, waited upon her majesty to present congra-
tulatory addresses to her majesty and his royal highness the
Princess Albert.

At one o'clock her Majesty, with the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, Countess Cowper, Marchioness of Clanri-
ricarde, Countess De Grey, Viscount and Viscountess Leve-
son. Lord and Lady Ashley, Dowager Lady Lyttleton,
Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscountess Palmerston, and Mr.
Greville, left in five carriages for Brocket Hall, near Welwyn,
escorted by a troop of the Hertfordshire yeomanry cavalry,
under the command of Lieut. Thornton and Adjutant Smith.
At five o'clock her Majesty returned to Pansanger. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert and the noble equestrians did
not arrive until nearly a quarter of an hour after the Queen.
The Queen and his Royal Highness. Prime Albert leave
Pansanger at noon, to-day, for Windsor. Castle, her Majesty
being desirous of taking farewell of the Queen of the Bel-
gians before her Majesty and the youthful Duke of Brabant
depart for Ostend.
An escort of the 11th hussars, under the command of
Lieut. Cunninghame at Hertford, escorts the Queen for
ten miles, and other detachments of that regiment are sta-
tioned the whole distance to Windsor Castle.
PANSHANGER, JULY 31.
The banquet yesterday was served in the picture gallery, as
on the previous day. The noble host presided, her Majesty
and Prince Albert being on his right.
The Hertford glee singers, who on the previous day sang
in a temporary orchestra erected outside the south window of
the picture gallery, were on Friday honoured by being placed
within the banquet hall, and sang a number of glees during
the repast.
The picture gallery, though small in extent, is worthy of
particular notice for the elegance of its architecture, and the
splendid specimens of the best masters with which it is
adorned. .

It is entered through an ante-room, supported by four
marble columns of great beauty. The gallery, like the rest
of the building, is of the Gothic order, with some portion of
Grecian in the detail. Her Majesty's chair, which was in
the centre of the east side, was immediately facing the ante-
room, and must have commanded a scene of great beauty.
The sideboard at the north end of the room was covered with
a profusion of splendid plate, amongst which two missive
seal vases, formerly in the possession of the Lord Chancellor
Cowper, ancestor of the present earl, and on which are
chased portraits of Queen Elizabeth, the one being an eques-
trian portrait, were much admired. Two smaller gold vases,
of Egyptian character, presented by his Majesty George 111.
to Lord Fordwich, his godson, also attracted considerable
observation. _ -

This morning, Saturday, Her Majesty breakfasted in her
private sitting room, and immediately after breakfast walked
out, accompanied by his Royal Highness, through the park,
wholly unattended, visiting the Panshanger oak, a tree
situated in the rear of the mansion, and justly celebrated for
its immense size and the surpassing beauty of its growth, for
which it has not its rival in the kingdom. The Royal pair
subsequently repaired on foot to the dwelling of the park
keeper, a neat little cottage, situated:at about a mile from
the hall, in a picturesque valley, through which the river
winds, presenting many views of exceeding beauty, enhanced
by the luxuriance of the well-wooded slopes on either side.
The arrangements made here for the sports of the field, the
dogs, &c., were honoured by the personal inspection of Her
Majesty and her Royal consort, who appeared to take great
interest in the scene, and was graciously pleased to express
his approbation of the neatness and regularity preserved in
the establishment.
Upon the return of the Royal pair to the mansion, prepa-
rations were made for immediate departure from Panshanger.
The park, in the direction of St. Alban's, known as the Colt
green-gate, was, as on Thursday, liberally thrown open to
the public, thousands of whom had assembled in the course
of the morning to testify by their acclamations their loyalty
for their Sovereign, and estimation of the honour conferred
upon the county by the Royal visit.
Precisely at eleven o'clock, her Majesty and Prince Albert
having taken leave of their noble hostess, Lady Cowper, and
the distinguished guests, stepped into the travelling carriage,
followed in a second carriage by the Ladies in Waiting, the
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, and the Hon. Miss Cavendish, and
a third carriage containing Colonels Buckley and Bouverie,
the Equerries in Waiting, and Mr. E. Anson, his Royal
Highness's Secretary, Earl Cowper and his brother, the Hon.
W. Cowper, M.P., rode on horseback by the side of the
Royal carriage as far as the park gate.
The cortege was escorted by a party of the South Herts
yeomanry under the command of Lieutenants Sutton and
Thornton, and Cornet J. M. Carter.
A more exciting scene than that presented throughout the
drive of the Royal party through the park has seldom been
witnessed. The strictest decorum was observed, whilst each
vied with the other in testifying their feelings of loyalty and
attachment.
Upon leaving the park her Majesty and suite proceeded at
a rapid pace through Hatfield and St. Alban's towards Wind-
sor. At about two miles Jeyond the former place the B
of yeomanry were relieved by the Hatfield troop, under
the Marquis of
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NEVER SATISFIED !—A man accidentally found a itnall
bag, which he thought was a shot bag ; but on taking
it up,
the bottom came out, and to his great surprise out rolled
500 spade-ace guineas. When he had counted them he was
sorry he had not found them 20 years sooner, that he mght
have had the interest on them also during that period!—
Ipswich .Express.

After the usual loyal toasts had been proposed, W. S. Dug-
dale, Esq., M.P., for North Warwickshire, rose, and in a
highly complimentary speech gave the health of the right hon.
baronet.
Sir R. PEEL then said—Gentlemen, I thank you most cor-
dially for the kind manner 'in which you have received the
proposal that has just been made to you. Gentlemen, that
proposal could not have come from any quarter more accep-
table to my feelings than from a valued neighbour and friend,
the representative of the county in which I believe we are
now situated—a most zealous and faithful comrade in the
great political struggle in which we have been engaged, and
a son of a man for whose character and virtues I entertain
the highest respect. (Loud cheers.) As this is the first oc-
casion on which we have met since the late election, I am
bound to express my acknowledgments to you for that proof
of your renewed confidence, and if in returning those acknow-
ledgments I do not make use of any high-flown and extrava-
gant expressions of gratitude, it is because I do not consider
that confidence to be merely an act of personal favour, or of
honorary distinction. lam deeply sensible of the obligations
which it imposes, and the return I ought to make to you is
not in extravagant expressions of thankfulness, but it is by
the faithful and zealous discharge of public duties, by pro-
moting to the utmost of my power your local and peculiar in-
terests, where they do not conflict with the general good, and
by upholding those political principles which I expressed to
you when I sought for the honour of your suffrages. Gen-
tlemen, Ido intend to uphold those political principles. I
think it hardly necessary, after the active part which I have
_taken in public affairs—after having been called upon not to
vote, but to deliver an opinion on almost every public ques-
tion which has been submitted to parliament for many years
past—it can hardly be necessary for me to state to you what
are my political principles, and what are my views of the
great questions which are likely- to occupy public attention.
Gentlemen, when I was called to office by the favour of my
sovereign, I did convey to the inhabitants of Tamworth my
general views with respect to the principles on which public
affairs aught to be conducted. Gentlemen, it is true that at
a more recent period in the last year, when a resolution was
propose& implying a want of confidence in the present ad-
ministration, I did also state what were my views with re-
spect not only to the general principles on which the admi-
nistration of affairs should be conducted, but with respect to
alrfiost every public measure to which attention was then di-
rected. And, gentlemen, on a review of the declarations
wilitln I made in 1835, and on a review of the opinions which
I expressed with regard to particular measures in 1840, I
have nothing now to retract. I entertain the opinions which
I then professed, and it is my intention, whether in a pri-
vate or in an official capacity, to act upon those declarations.
(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall not presume, whatever
may be the speculations as to the majority which the conser-
vative party may exhibit on the meeting of parliament—l shall
not presume to dictate in what manner her Majesty may think
fit to exercise her prerogative. I retain my opinion that no
government in this country ought to continue in the adminis-
tration of the public affairs unless it possesses the confidence
of parliament. (Great cheering.) But, while I respect that
constitutional principle, I hold in equal respect the preroga-
tive of the crown ; and it is not for any individual to pre-
sume in what manner that prerogative may be exercised.
Gentlemen, I am constantly asked what it is I mean to pro-
pose, supposing I am called to the administration of affairs?
Gentlemen, I will answer that question when I am placed in
that position. (Cheers.) My advice for the present is, dis-
miss those who are at present in office. (Shouts of ap-
plause.) They have not the confidence—they had not the
confidence of parliament, and they have not the confidence
of the people. Change your physician, the patient has not
confidence in him. They found her in health and they left
sickness ; and then they say to me, what do you pre-
? But I'll wait till I'm regularly called in. (Laughter)
mien, I see around me some of my attached friends.
medical profession, and I appeal to them whether they
: cordially concur with me that it is not fit that any
hould offer the prescription whilst another administers
ysic. (Laughter.) No, gentlemen, he would be act-
e part of an irregular practitioner—the part of a quack
~ and not of a professional man, who should profess
tutu. De bad some invaluable nostrum which, without being
consulted by the patient, or allowed to feel his pulse, would
prove a perfect remedy for whatever disease he may labour
under. I therefore, gentlemen, must continue steadily to
refuse to offer my advice until I have access to the patient,
and all those advantages of consultation, without which no
proper advice can be given. I really believe Ido more than
any political physician ever did by referring to the prescrip-
tions which I offered in 1835 and in 1840, and by saying that
I see no reason to alter them. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen,
I am almost surprised to find myself here, for if I could
have believed the newspapers—the organs of her Majesty's
government, I should find myself on the continent, having
taken refuge in a foreign country on account of the embar-
rassments in which 1 am involved from the number of applica-
tions which I receive, or perhaps it may be on account of the
desperate condition in which I find public affairs. I need hard-
ly tell you—for you, I believe, give no credit for the assertion
—that I have not the slightest intention of visiting the con-
tinent, but that I do intend, on the 19th of August to be
present in my place in parliament, personally to witness the
result of the appeal which has been made to the people of this
country. Now, gentlemen, this and other paragraphs which
I read in tke newspapers, I do assure you I see with
great good humour. I think great allowance must be made
for the rage and mortification which are exhibited by those
organs of the government, considering the constant predic-
tions which we had from them from day to day, and from
week to week, as to the result of the elections. We were
first told of a large majority which would be possessed by her
majesty's government, and I received expressions of sympa-
thy for the melancholy condition to which I should be reduced
in having to look forward with reduced numbers to a long
occupation of the uncomfortable benches of opposition.
(Laughter.) Why, gentlemen, this very day, talking of these
paragraphs, I cannot help alluding to it, but I don't know if
you have seen an article in large letters in the Globe news-
paper. Why, gentlemen, our fat friend, the publican near
us, has produced a Globe newspaper' and in it appears the
old story of Mr. Harrison and his demand for 16s. 6d.
(Laughter.) It is in large letters " from a correspondent."
Whenever there is any particularly shabby paragraph it is
always " from a correspondent." (Cheers and laughter.)
But really this is too bad ; for this publican is converted into
my attached friend Mr. Robinson, who is made to complain
of the non-payment of 16s. 6d., and that, from the magnani-
mous way in which he challenged me on the hustings only,
he secured the payment to him of that sum. All I ask of
you is, that when you see these paragraphs, you will let no
consideration induce you to retaliate. Let no vain desire of
seeing yourselves figure as correspondents of a newspaper—
of seeing paragraphs in print indited by yourselves—induce
you to send to any newspaper the small and petty scandal
you may happen to pick up in your own locality. Pass these
things by with perfect contempt ; for be assured of this, that
if they do injury to any one it will be to those who occupy
themselves with such contemptible matters. (Hear.) Now,
gentlemen, I will read to you another paragraph--it is headed
" The Queen and Sir Robert Peel." (Laughter.) It comes
from the Globe again, the organ of her majesty's govern-
ment. (Loud laughter.) "On dit, that the Queen has heard
of the vain boastings of Sir Robert Peel, that if he again
came into power he would make her a tory (or a conservative,
as he said) in six weeks, and that consequently the right lion.
baronet is more disliked than ever at head-quarters. Now,
gentlemen, observe it is not confidently asserted, it is only
' reported," that the queen had heard the vain boast, but
there is no doubt at all about my having used the expression.
The correspondent says " a tory" (or conservative, as he
says). Now, when a person is so particular, who can doubt
his veracity ? Gentlemen, I trust that I need hardly say to
you that the whole of this paragraph is a mere fabrication.
(Loud cheers.) Need I say that I never made this indecent
boast ? (Continued cheering.) I refer to these things with-
out anger or irritation—quite the reverse. I think that such
paragrahs afford the most satisfactory proofs that there is
very little which can be said from that quarter, provided the
truth be adhered to. Gentlemen, if it were possible to sup-
pose that her majesty could look at these miserable fabrica-
tions, which are evidently intended to injure me in her ma-
jesty's opinion, I very much doubt, not only whether her
majesty would attach any credit to them, but more than that,
whether there would not be excited feelings of indignation at
the presumptuous familiarity which undertakes to answer for
the private feelings of her majesty. (Immense cheering.)
I must say that if any one thing can be more unwarrantable
than another in the conduct of a portion of the public press,
it is their attempt to represent her majesty, not as what she
is in truth and in fact, the beloved sovereign of a whole peo-
ple, but as the partisan of a party in the state. (Cheers.)
Now, gentlemen, do not misunderstand me. There is no
man who estimates more highly than I do the importance.of
the press of this country. I know its influence on the
conduct of public men. It is impossible that men of such
ability and such acquirements as those who devote themselves
to political discussion in the public press of this country can
do otherwise than exercise a great influence on public affairs,
provided they confine themselves within the legitimate
sphere of action ; but if there be anything which more than
another neutralises the just and legitimate influence of the
press, which must diminish its controul over public men, and
which must also diminish the confidence of the public in its
assertions or its arguments, it is when the press appeals to
reasonable men, through erroneous fabrications like these,
for the purpose of damaging the character of those to whose
politics it may be opposed. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, Ido not
think I should have been induced to say a word to you on
the subject of party interests—l should have been content to
acquiesce in a suspension of hostilities, considering the near
approach of the period when the combatants must meet face
to face—l say I would have been perfectly content to acqui-
esce in this, if 1 had not recently seen a public manifesto
put forth by Lord John Russell, the leader of the House of
Commons, which, from the tone it assumes towards the op-
ponents of the government, relieves you from any scruples
on that head, and imposes on me the necessity of making a
very few remarks. This manifesto professes to take a review
of the present state of affairs, or rather of past events ; and
it recites, with the utmost satisfaction, the victories that
have been achieved by her majesty's present advisers. Gen-
tlemen, this paper also talks of the dexterity which the oppo-
nents of government have shown in inventing facts, but I
must say that, whatever dexterity we may have shown in in-
venting facts, the dexterity of the noble lord in forgetting
them far surpasses us.—(Cheers and laughter.) If there
were any foundation for this long array of facts, I might
perhaps complain of the triumphant tone taken towards
vanquished opponents. But if this were a true and fair re.
presentation of the state of things, then would the result of
the late appeal to the people be more marvellous than it is at
present. It is surprising that her majesty's government,
having held the reigns of power six years, possessing, as is
their constant boast, the entire confidence of their sovereign,
seeing the use, the improper use, that has been made by
some candidates of the name of their sovereign—it was only
yesterday that I saw' inscribed o Queen banner of the Hon.
Mr. Petre, " Vote for Petre, the e's candidate"—l say
it is surprising that, notwithstanding this, and the ap-
peal to the female portion of the population with reference
to cheap sugar, and the cry of the big loaf to the
labouring classes, the constituency and the people have rati-
fied the decision of the late House of Commons, namely, that
her majesty's present advisers did not possess the confidence of
the House of Commons, and that their retention of office under
such circumstances, was at variance with the spirit of the
constitution. (Cheers.) It has not been the Chandos
clauses that has produced this result. The counties, it is
true, may have- declared themselves against the present
government, and it may be said that some of the counties
which are more intimately connected with the agricultural
districts have manifested their zeal against government on
account of the danger with which those interests were
threatened ; but it was not the Chandos clause that returned
two members for the city of London—it was not the Chandos
clause that, for the first time since the reform bill, returned
a member for the city of Westminster—nor was it the
Chandos clause that wrested one seat from the opposite party
in the great manufacturing community of Leeds. (Cheers.)
It was also something more than the Chandos clause that re-
turned two members for Hull, and two for the city of Dublin,
two for Belfast, and two for Liverpool. - (Continued cheer-
ing.) It was not the Chandos clause that returned four
members for the great county of Lancaster, and frightened
any ministerial candidate from opposing Lord Stanley, Lord
F. Egerton, Mr. Wilson Patten, or Mr. Wilbraham. It was
not the Chandos clause that returned two members for that
district of immense importance, as connected with the vital
manufacturing interests of this country, the West Riding of

Yorkshire—(loud cheers)--which has dispemed from hi,
seat in parliament a nobleman whom from his abilities, corn.
billed with his virtues, it is impossible to mention without
respect. No, gentlemen, there must have been some cause
which has led to this expression of public opinion other than
the influence of landlords over tenants. The counties, no
doubt, have made returns in an increased number unfavour-
able to the government; but if you look to the towns and
boroughs containing populations exceeding 10,003 inhabi-
tants, even where they have little or no connection with the
agricultural interest, the cry of cheap bread and cheap sugar
has totally failed: The returns for those places have been
more unfavourable to ministers than they were in the last par-
liament. How, let me ask, is this to be accounted for? It is be-
cause the constituencies of this empire, representing as they do
the people of this empire, have no confidence in her majesty's
government. They have had the good sense to review the
whole course of the government, from the commencement of
its power to its close—from the appropriation clause, which
excluded me from office, to that vote which was carried at
my instance—(cheers)—and which declared that her maje-
sty's government did not possess the confidence of the coun-
try. (Cheers.) It was not the mere policy that the people
condemned—it was not the question relating to corn ; but
the people of England were of opinion that no government
of this country ought to retain power without the confidence
of the nation—that to do so was an injury to the representa-
tive principle, and a violation of all constitutional doctrine,
and the result has been a decided declaration on the part of
the constituencies, in conformity with the vote of the late
late House of Commons, that the present government is not
entitled to the public confidence. (Cheers.) And gentle-
men, if you will review the course of the government and re-
member the expression put into the mouth of the sovereign
in the year 1834, in which the king, at the instance of the go-
vernment, made use of the following words :
" I have seen with feelings of deep regret and indignation
the continuance of attempts to excite the peopleof Ireland to
demand a repeal of the legislative union. This bond of the
national strength and safety I have declared my fixed and
unalterable resolution, under the blessing of divine provi-
dence, to maintain inviolate by all the means in my power.
To the practices which have been used to produce disaffection
in the state, and mutual distrust and animosity between the
people of the two countries, is chiefly to be attributed the
spirit of insubordination which, though for the present in a
great degree controlled by the power of the law, has been
but too perceptible in many instances. The united and
vigorous exertions of the loyal and well-affected in aid of the
government are imperiously required to put an end to a sys-
tem of excitement and violence which is destructive of the
peace of society, and, if successful, must inevitably prove
fatal to the power and safety of the united kingdom."
If you recollect these words, which were used by the sove-
reign, at the advice of Lord Melbourne, and concurred in
by Lora Palmerston and Lord John Russell. you will not
fail also to recollect that, in 1831, a compact was formed
with those who were the chief advocates of repeal (hear),
and that a resolution was come to implying that no settle-
ment of the Irish church question should be adopted which
did not embody an appropriation of part of the revenues of
the church to the promotion of secular purposes. The con-
stituencies of the country have recollected this compact.
They also recollected the case of Jamaica, where the govern-
ment brought in a' bill to abolish the constitution of that
important colony. They recollected that they were thwarted
in that attempt by the opponents of that government—they
recollected that the ministers stated that the authority of
the government would be injured if that opposition should
prevail. It did prevail, and the government retired under
the vote, and with the admission that they did not possess
the confidence of the House of Commons. The people have
seen them, for two years, retain office without power, and
after a series of concessions alike injurious to the characters
of public men and to the interests of the country ; and it
has been a review of these acts, coupled with the declaration
of the government themselves as to their loss of the confi-
dence of parliament. and the evils that must arise in the ad-
ministration of public affairs from that want—it has been, I
repeat, a review of this conduct on the part of herMajesty'.s
government which has induced the constituencies of this
country to vindicate the constitutional principle, and by
their united voice to affirm the resolution to which the
House of Commons so recently came. (Loud and prolonged
cheering.) Gentlemen, this vindication of constitutional
principle is due to the constituency of this empire. They
deserved the credit, for they gained the victory by their un-
paralleled exertions. It has not been gained by the manoeu-
vres of the leaders of party—it has not been gained by factious
combinations with men of opposite opinions. The govern-
ment has made an appeal to the country with the most fa-
vourable circumstances under which an appeal could be made ;
the country has responded to it, and declared, notwithstand-
ing the introduction of plausible and popular measures, that
the government does not possess its confidence. (Cheers.)
It is impossible to estimate too highly the exertions which
have been made throughout the country. They have been
made by unobtrusive individuals, even unknown to public
rumour, who have sought no advantage for themselves, but
who have been prompted by public principle to the sacrifice
of ease and of everything most calculated to make life happy.
I will venture to say, that there are thousands and tens of
thousands of instances in which single individuals have made
more exertions during the late election than candidates used
to make before—and, gentlemen, it is perfectly notorious to
every person who has been conversant with the elections of
this country ; and to them, gentlemen, and to the constitu-
encies at large, these public acknowledgments are due. All
that I hope is, that they will not repose upon their victory,
and that it will only animate them to continued and increased
exertions. (Hear.) I hope that no disaffection will he felt
that two candidates have not been returned in those places
where one only has been returned. I hope no temporary
dissatisfaction of that kind arising from the best and most
generous feelings—from the, conviction that if the effort had
been made it would have been successful, and that the effort
ought to have been made-1 trust that no feeling of dissatis-
faction, however natural and just, will induce those who feel
it to feel it permanently, and to withdraw from public exer-
tions. I said before, gentlemen, and I believed it has been
proved to be true, that the battle of the constitution must be
fought in the registration court'. And lam sure the victory
which has been achieved must be secured in the registra-
tion courts also. I do hope the conservative party 'in this
country will continue to secure for themselves, by all fair
and all legitimate means, and by no other whatever, the
possession of that power and influence in the state which
their immense wealth, their intelligence, their respecta-
bility, and their character fully entitle them to exercise. I
hope they will carefully consider every franchise to which
the law entitles them, and secure for themselves the exercise
of it, whether in municipal elections, in county elections,
or borough elections. Their good will and their confidence
can be the only safe foundation for political power, and if
they wish to retain the influence they now possess, it must
be by an exertion of the same zeal and industry and perseve-
rance which have placed them in their present position.
These are the means by which they can enable those in whom
they repose their confidence to maintain on their ancient
foundations the institutions of the country in church and
state. (Cheers.) And let them bear in mind that the more
secure the foundations are made, the more confidence there
may be in their stability, and the more easy will it be, with-
out exciting alarm or apprehension. to apply those reno-
vations and those repairs which the lapse of time or altered
circumstances may have rendered desirable in our ancient
institutions. Gentlemen, this being merely a convivial
meeting, I fear have trespassed longer than I ought to
have done upon your attention. (No, no.) But, gentle-
men, I will sit down as I began, by expressing my
gratification that I am again placed in the situation of
your representative. I also thank you for those demon-
strations of attachment and esteem with which, on this
and on former occasions, I have been received within these
walls. I stand to you in a closer and more intimate relation
that that merely of your representative in parliament. lam
bound to you by many other ties than that of a representa-
tive. I look around this assembly, and I see the faces which
have been familiar to me from my earliest youth. I see es-
teemed and cherished friends, I bear in mind that I am con-
nected with you by all the ties of neighbourhood, of social
intercourse, of community of interest, and of long friend-
ship ; and I assure you that whatever be my political desti-
nation, I shall ever regard with the utmost pride and sada-
faction the attachment and esteem of those whom I see
around me, and whom I have a right to consider as my
warmest and most attached friends. And, gentlemen; it is
whilst such feelings are predominant that I will ask you to
join with me in the cordial expression of a sentiment by
which I am animated, and which will ever make me desirous
for the prosperity of the town and neighbourhood of Tarn-
worth." The right honourable baronet concluded his speech
amidst the loudest demonstrations of applause, and the toast
was drunk with equal enthusiasm.

DORCHESTER ELES ECTIO
AHN-ADIMNNER OF SIR
JAM GR.

(Abridged from the Dorset Counts, Chronicle.)
On Thursday, July 22, the Right Hon. Sir James R
Graham, Bart., M.P., gave the customary dinner to the
electors of Dorchester, in celebration of his election.
On the health of Sir James Graham being drunk,
The Right Hon. Baronet rose amidst enthusiastic cheer-
ing, and expressed his grateful sense of the honour just paid
him, and of the compliment conferred on him, having done
him the honour to select him as one of their members in
parliament. When he last addressed them the question was
which of the two great parties in the state would preponder-
ate in the struggle that was then at its height. He con-
fessed that he regarded that struggle with some anxiety, be-
cause he felt an apprehension that a state of affairs might
arise which would fill All with serious alarm. He feared that
it was possible that a broad line of demarcation might be
drawn between the landed interest of the country on the
one hand, and the commercial and manufacturing interest on
the other—a state of things than which he could not contem-
plate any greater misfortune and more serious national evil.
(Hear, hear.) But the good sense of the people of England
had predominated over every such apprehension— (cheers)—
and if he had thought, as he had thought, that the question
would be answered by placing the great interests involved in
comparative security, that anticipation had not been disap-
pointed. (Cheers.) So far from the agricultural interest on
the one hand, and the manufacturing and commercial in.
terest on the other, being ranged in hostile array against
each other, a glance at some facts connected with th late
elections, would show the contrary to be thecase. (Cheers.;
The struggle had commenced in the centre of the great cora•
mercial interest—in the city of London itself. Anoblemar
high in her Majesty's councils, the ministerial leader of till
House of Commons, had there thrown himself into the
breach, and had there begun the struggle. And what was
the result ? Why, that two conservative candidates were
returned above him on the poll ; and it was by mere acci-
dent, by mere mismanagement, that a third conservative was
not returned. (Hear.) The right hon. bart. then referred
to many other parts of the country, particularly to Liverpool,
as shewing the same feeling. In this cursory review he
thought that there was enough to satisfy those whom he
addressed that all pretence of a difference between the ma-
nufacturing and commercial and the agricultural interests
was removed, and he was happy to believe that the agricul-
tural interest of the country was now placed on a solid basis
(great cheers) ; and that the next parliament would show a
considerable majority of members pledged to those opinions
on which he had been chosen by the electors of Dorchester.
They might rely on it that the interests of the great body of
the people were the interests to which he was attached. On
no other ground than this, although immediately connected
with the landed interest, had he been disposed to uphold the
native agriculture of the country, but it was because he was
convinced that the best safeguard of nations was to be found
in that independence which arose from those nations; in the
average course of years, being enabled to supply their in-
habitants with their daily bread. It was because he be-
believed that in a series of years such independence was in-
dispensable, that he had been a friend to the protection of
native agriculture. He had, perhaps, dwelt too long on
this subject (" No, no ; go on ") ; but if he were allowed
by their indulgence, he would allude to a topic which had
been handled with vast skill by an eminent and dignified di-
vine, and he knew not that he could offer a better illustra-
tion of the subject than had been given in an analogy brought
by that writer, and brought, too, from that sacred fountain
Which contained lessons of pure knowledge. They would
remember that the moot ancient commercial city was the
city of Tyre, described in holy writ as sitting like a queen
upon the waters, as " the crowning city, whose merchants
are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the
earth," who was the mistress of the world, enriched by the
ships of Ophir, and dealing in the dyed garments of Bozrah ;
yet a little but striking incident is related with respect to this
city. She was in the neighbourhood of a poor and appa-
rently powerless kingdom, that of Judea. A quarrel arose
between them, and the inhabitants of Tyre were obliged to
send an ambassador and sue for peace at the hands of the
King of Judea, and the reason assigned is that " their
• country was nourished by the king's country." (Hear,
hear.) They did not grow their own corn. (Hear, hear.)