THE LATE LORD PALMERSTON.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 355, 5 March 1866, Page 1

THE LATE LORD PALMERSTON.

It is proposed to crest a statue of Lord Palmer* ston in one of the public parka at Southampton. The lest ant of his Lordship trlien in Tiverton for the last time was to sit for his photograph. An artist in the town, Mr Gann, naturally thinking that a likeness of the noble Lord, taken on tno spot, would be acceptable to his many admirers and friends, communicated his wish, to be honored with a sitting to Mr F. Hole, who made it known to his Lordship, and received as answer a free and open “ Yes, with pleasure ; when shall wo do it ?” and appointed eleven the next morning for the sitting. Some little delay occurring next morning, the artist began to be uneasy, but his Lordship’s valet quickly reassured him by saying, ‘- Don’t be alarmed ; he has promised you, and nothing will prevent him; but he never does more, than one thing at a time.” Almost immedi*.fely die following message came: “Toll Mr Gann i’ll be with Lun in a moment,” and so ho was. With his good-humored shake of the hand, and that kinulv knack which made every one feel instantly at home with him, Lord Palmerston soon put his photographer at his ease, and on being asked if the head-rest should be used, replied, “ i am in your hands to do with me as you please.” And when the favor of his autograph was requested, to complete the value of the photograph, i» just as readily conferred. He took the p'ea, and, with a hand somewhat tremulous from advancing years, wrote the word “ Palmerston,” probably the last of his signatures in the town of Tiverton.—Tiverton Gazette. The cares of State and the affairs of Europe did not; prevent Lord Palmerston from, knowing the condition of every one of his farms and the habits and troubles of each of his tenants. A telegram was once sent by Lord Palmerston to one of his agents, about an affair of a shed, which received as much attention from him as a despatch from Lord Cowley, An old fellow at the last June quarter sessions was stating his case against his son about some land to the chairman. “ I went to London about an affair like it myself,” says he, “ and, faith, I saw Lord Palmerston.” “How did you'see him ?” said one of the attorneys. “ Eaith, the moment I send word to him that I walked the most of the way from Sligo, ho ordered mo up.** “ Well, then, I’ll tell you what he done,” said tno litigant, “ hs asked me what ago I was when I had done my business, and I told him I was seventysis, and faith he is a pleasant man, and when I was going ho gave me a glaunagh that lightened my heart, for, faith, it was better than poteen, aad something else too.” About thirty years ago Lord Palmerston visited Siigo. Every morning, no matter how cold or how wild he used to ride five miles before breakfast to the seaside, Mullagnmore, followed by his groom, and there enjoy a" pluaga into the Atlantic, J