utmost enthusiasm
was manifested.' The new member began his first speech as a member of
parliament as follows:--

Gentlemen: In looking forward to the field which is now opened
before me, I cannot but conceive that I shall often be reproached
with being not your representative but the representative of the
Duke of Newcastle. Now I should rather incline to exaggerate than
to extenuate such connection as does exist between me and that
nobleman: and for my part should have no reluctance to see every
sentiment which ever passed between us, whether by letter or by
word of mouth, exposed to the view of the world. I met the Duke of
Newcastle upon the broad ground of public principle, and upon that
ground alone. I own no other bond of union with him than this, that
he in his exalted sphere, and I in my humble one, entertained the
same persuasion, that the institutions of this country are to be
defended against those who threaten their destruction, at all
hazards, and to all extremities. Why do you return me to
parliament? Not because I am the Duke of Newcastle's man, simply:
but because, coinciding with the duke in political sentiment, you
likewise admit that one possessing so large a property here, and
faithfully discharging the duties which the possession of that
property entails, ought in the natural course of things to exercise
a certain influence. You return me to parliament, not merely
because I am the Duke of Newcastle's man: but because both the man
whom the duke has sent, and the duke himself, are _your men_.

RETURNED FOR NEWARK

The election was of course pointed to by rejoicing conservatives as a
proof the more of that reaction which the ministerial and radical press
was audacious enough to laugh at. This borough, says the local
journalist, was led away by the bubble reform, to support those who by
specious and showy qualification had dazzled their eyes; delusion had
vanished, shadows satisfied no longer, Newark was restored to its high
place in the esteem of the friends of order and good government. Of
course the intimates of the days of his youth were delighted. We want
such a man as Gladstone, wrote Hallam to Gaskell (October 1, 1832); 'in
some things he is likely to be obstinate and prejudiced; but he has a
fine fund of high chivalrous tory sentiment, and a tongue, moreover, to