The Sun. — 1851-05-07 (London, England)

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1851.  pointment. In conveying these sentiments to you, sir, I am performing both a pleasing and a painful duty —pleasing, because I have the honour to be selected to express the unanimous kind feeling of so many gentlemen of the county towards you—and painful, because the time has arrived for our separation. In taking our leave of you let me express a hope that we may all meet again at no very distant period. When I entered this room I had no idea that I should be called upon to address you, therefore I have had no time to study eloquence. My words are words of the heart, and if I have succeeded in conveying to you the sentiments of the gentlemen who are now present in as strong a manner as I know they feel them, I shall be truly happy. I now, sir, in the name of my brother magistrates, beg you to accept of our sincere and heartfelt wishes for your health, happiness, and prosperity, and in this earnest wish we beg to include Lady Ommanney and the whole of your family. At the close of Sir Henry's address, Sir JoHN OXMANNEY rose and replied to the following effect:—My Lord and Gentlemen, I avail myself of this opportunity to do that which common courtesy towards yourselves would have required of me, and which is now rendered the more necessary from the course which you have been pleased to take. I thank you all for the very kind manner in which you have been pleased to receive Sir Henry Leeke's proposal, which has gratified me very much, and I thank him too for the way in which he has made it. I have now acted as a magistrate for, I think, 38 years, and am almost the oldest magistrate in the county. At one time, when I lived elsewhare, I acted for three divisions in this county, but never did I act where I met with so much support and good will from my brother magistrates as I have uniformly done in this division. I am an old man now, and by God's Providence I have been blessed with much good health, as well as permitted to come to an advanced time of life. I cannot, therefore, look with any degree of expectation to a return to this neighbourhood, but that matter is in higher hands. And should a yetlonger life be extended to me, I shall meet you again with the utmost pleasure; and even now, although removed from each other, I trust we may not be separated. I do from my heart assure you, that could I have anticipated the pain I have been put to in parting from my friends, I could not have made up my mind to accept the appointment, important in every respect as I know it to be. If business or pleasure should lead any of you to the neighbourhood in which I am about to be placed, I assure you that you will ever find from me the open hand and the hearty welcome. My Lord and gentlemen, again I thank you for your great kindness. Several other gentlemen present made some observations, indicating their high sense of Sir John's services as a magistrate, and Lord Henry Cholmondeley (after expressing his entire concurrence in all the observations of Sir Henry Lecke) added that Sir John had often put to shame men much younger than himself, and who had a much less distance to trarel, by the punctuality and regularity of his attendance at the Magistrates' Meetings.—Devonport Independent.  MURDER of a HUSBAND in