The other English speeches of the week have been small
deto- nations, sometimes noisy, rarely very significant. Mr. G. S. Lefevre, indeed, who fills up the place of Mr. Serjeant Pigott at Reading, and has been returned without opposition, made a speech of much spirit and promise, in which, a little inconsistently per- haps, he laboured to prove both that he was not a mere adherent of Government, and that he was not one of the independent Liberals in the sense he attaches to the word, namely, Liberals who can never be depended on. He wished Lord Russell personally to "rest and be thankful," but not to place the Liberal party in that reclining position,—unaware, perhaps, that Lord Russell threw out the phrase more as a motto, or innendo, call it which you please, for his popular chief and colleague, than as his own proper advice. Major Beresford, at Castle Hedingham last Satur- day, paneg,yrized the harvest, and the Prince of Wales, but com- plained of the bakers. He said, that as wheat -went down in price the quartern loaf refused to move on a parallel line,—a difficulty which it will take more bakers rather than more in- vective to overcome. On the Prince of Wales he passed a very high and merited eulogium, both for having married a gracious and pretty woman, and for riding—" taking an awkward cropper" the
Major expressed it,—well. He seemed to approve of the neutral policy of the Government, though he confessed his own preference for the Confederate cause, as also did Captain Jervis, who would much prefer, however, turning out the Government, to keeping in the rains.
