Lord Palmerston has continued ill all through the week. He
was to have been present at the opening of the new Town Hall at Tiverton on Thursday, but was obliged to depute Earl Fortescue and Mr. Denman to represent him. They Informed a somewhat excited crowd, angry and disappointed at the Premier's absence, that he was at Brocket Hall, that he had the gout in both knees, that he could neither walk nor stand, and that he had been lifted into and out of hi3 carriage for the journey. It would have endan- gered his life to travel to Tiverton, and had he run the risk he could not have spoken. The constituency displayed an amount of ill-tempered selfishness which will disgust even those who do not rank themselves among his Lordship's well-wishers. Yesterday night his Lordship re-appeared in the House amid cheers from all parties.
