The remlining speeches of the week have been of little
importance. The Mansion House dinner has occurred since our last, but as the only cleverness shown was in avoiding every subject politicians are thinking about, it afforded small scope for remark. Lord Palmerston con- trived to say nothing with more than his usual geniality, and Mr. Adams talked of diplomacy as if America were discuss- ing an Oregon boundary or right of search. Mr. Yancey on the same day, at Fishmongers' Hall, demonstrated that South Carolina was the home of constitutional freedom, and was loudly applauded, apparently for forgetting the blacks!. Mr. H. Berkeley, at Bristol, improved the old text that the people must carry Reform, and expressed his entire disbelief in the honesty of the North, the ballot apparently not having fostered the virtue which that bit of mechanical ingenuity is designed to ensure. Lastly, Mr. Leatham, at Barnsley, has made a very bold, effective, and unfair speech on behalf of the Manchester school. He denounced with severity the increase in our expenditure, some twenty millions in seven years, or more than the loss entailed by an ordinary defi- cient harvest, and ridiculed such an outlay incurred to pre- vent the French from acquiring an island in the Mediter- ranean or a petty provinee, on the Rhine. Obviously, Mr. Leatham thinks that the way to put out a fire is to wait till the flames have the mastery.
