order to be present at the opening of the new Railway to Manchester, which was to be celebrated with great magnificence and rejoicings, and which ceremony he had long promised to attend.

Those who saw Mr. Huskisson after his return from the Isle of Wight, describe him as looking better than he had previously done, and he himself appeared sensible of some improvement in his health; but he was still very deficient in strength, and had gained but little ground in that respect. On the 1st of September, he made an effort to go out with his gun, but came back in the course of an hour, complaining much of fatigue and languor, and oppressed with a nervous feeling, that he should never again recover his wonted strength for the purposes of exertion and exercise. He was haunted, moreover, with the prepossession, that he should prove unequal to all he wished and all he should be called upon, to undertake at Liverpool. Yet he was so much indebted to the indulgence which had excused his absence at the late election, and to the kindness then manifested towards him, that nothing short of positive inability could be admitted to interfere with the performance of his present engagement.

Under these discouraging circumstances, he and Mrs. Huskisson left Eartham on the 4th; and, after paying two short visits at Mr. Sturges Bourne's and Mr. Littleton's, merely as restingplaces, they reached Lord Stafford's at Trentham,

on the 8th of September. Here they were received with undiminished kindness by his long tried and valued friends; but the gratification which Mr. Huskisson always felt in their society was interrupted by indisposition, which confined him to his room during the greater part of the only day which he was enabled to remain with them. On the 10th, he and Mrs. Huskisson arrived at Sir John Tobin's, near Liverpool, where a large party of his friends was assembled to meet them.

As the period of his intended stay at Liverpool was limited by other arrangements, every day was fully occupied, either by public business, or in inspecting the various improvements which had been made in the Docks, and other great establishments, since his last visit. To Mrs. Huskisson-who had never been at Liverpool before--every thing was new; and he was anxious that she should avail herself of this occasion, to see as much as possible of this great emporium of British enterprise. In pursuance of this object, the morning of Monday was partly occupied in viewing the magnificent docks and quays upon the Mersey. On landing from the steam boat, Mr. Huskisson was called away to attend some engagements in the town, and could not, by this means, accompany Mrs. Huskisson to the public Cemetery. It is remarkable, that he should have been known, on several occasions, to express himself in terms of the strongest admiration of the taste and liberality

which had planned and completed this spot, and that he should have pressed Mrs. Huskisson (who was already fatigued with the previous excursion of the morning) to visit it, with unusual earnest

ness.

On the morning of the 14th, he went to the Exchange, accompanied by Mr. Bolton, Sir John Tobin, and many of his friends, where a vast multitude, in addition to the gentlemen who usually attend about that time, had assembled, to hail his arrival once more, after the disappointment they had experienced by his non-attendance during the late election. The large room was crowded to excess.

If there were any who supposed that Mr. Huskission had, in consequence of his secession from the toils of public life, lost any of his popularity amongst his constituents, they would, could they have been there to witness the enthusiasm with which he was received, have seen abundant proof of the fallacy of such an opinion. He was never more warmly greeted; and there never was a period when his observations were listened to with a deeper interest. After he had passed through the room, amidst the most enthusiastic cheers, he addressed the assembled multitude to the following effect:

"As I perceive among those who have honoured me with this very flattering reception, many who are my immediate constituents, and as I trust that you will allow me

to consider myself as the representative of all the collective interests of this great community, without distinction between those who honour me with their support, and those who are opposed to me, or between those who have votes and those who have not, in the election of the members who are returned by this town to Parliament, my first anxiety in meeting you to-day was to express my regret that I was not able to be present, when it was so much my wish to have been here, at the late election. Gentlemen, I was about to offer you some apology for my involuntary absence; but if I had anything suitable and appropriate to offer on the occasion, I fairly own that your kindness has driven it out of my head. But the very reception which has superseded any explanation which I might have wished to offer, has more strongly impressed upon my heart those feelings of gratitude which are so pre-eminently due for your indulgence on the late occasion-almost the first, I believe, in modern times-in which a member for Liverpool has been restored to the confidence of his constituents, without making his appearance among them at the hustings.

"Gentlemen, this loyal town is about to receive the visit of a distinguished Individual of the highest station and influence in the affairs of this great country. I rejoice that he is coming among you. I am sure that what he has already seen in this county, and what he will see here, will not fail to make a great impression on his mind. After this visit, he will be better enabled to estimate the value and importance of Liverpool in the general scale of the great interests of this country. He will see what can be effected by patient and persevering industry, by enterprise, and good sense, unaided by monopoly or exclusive privileges, and in spite of their existence elsewhere. Gentlemen, he will, I hope, find that if you are not friendly to monopoly in other places, it is not because you require or

want it for yourselves. He will see that you know how to thrive and prosper without it; that all you expect from Government is encouragement, protection, facility, and freedom in your several pursuits and avocations, either of manufacturing industry or commerce.

"Gentlemen, I have heard, with just satisfaction, and from many concurrent quarters, that every thing connected with these interests is in a more healthy and promising state than it was last year. I rejoice at the change for the better. I hope and believe it will be permanent. But do not let us be supine, and think that the energies under which difficulties are diminishing, may relieve us from the necessity of unremitting exertion. In foreign countries you have powerful rivals to encounter; and you can only hope to continue your superiority over them by incessantly labouring to lighten the pressure upon the industry of our own people, and by promoting every measure which is calculated to give increased vigour, fresh life, and greater facility to the powers which create, and to the hands which distribute, the almost boundless productions of this great country.

"I trust, Gentlemen, that, by a steady adherence to these views and principles, I shall most faithfully represent your wishes and feelings in parliament. So long as we are in unison upon these points, I shall be most happy and proud to continue to be your representative, under the sanction of your confidence, and so long as health and strength shall be vouchsafed to me to fulfil the duties of the station which I now hold, as one of your members in the House of Com

mons.

"I am persuaded, Gentlemen, that by this course I shall best consult your prosperity; and I am still more immovably convinced, that whatever advances the general interests of this great mart of commerce, will best advance all the other great interests of the country; and first aud