FIRST APPEARANCE OF LORD HARDINGE IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 232, 19 August 1848, Page 3

FIRST APPEARANCE OF LORD HARDINGE IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS.

The House of Peers presented a most animated appearance about four o'clock on Monday, A number of persons of distinction entered that part of the house which surrounds the throne, and many ladies of the Peerage and females of their family were accommodated in the gallery surrounding the house. That portion of the house appropriated to the Commons, was already crowded with members of the Lower House. The object of all this solicitude and curiosity could not long remain a secret, snd it was soon generally known that the gay groupea had been attracted thither to pay ho« mage to the illustrious hero of Ferozeahali and Sobraou —the late Governor-General of India. In a few minutes the crimson velvet curtains were drawn aside, and the Usher of the black Rod, Sir Augustus Clifford, appeared, heading a procession formed of the Garter-King-at-Arms, in a gor(,'eou» uniform, covered with heraldic achievements. Then followed the Earl of Arundal, as Deputy for his father the Duke of Norfolk, Eail Marslnl of England. The Peeis who undertook the office of introducing the Noble Viscount to the House, Lord Viscount Beresford, and Loid Viscount Combermere, a name rendered illustrious in the history of Indian battle fields. mo»t appropriatelyappeared m the cortege of the distinguished man whose appearance for the first time in the House ot Lords to reap the fruits of his military prowets and happy policy, was kindly greeted by all present. The Noble Viscount proceeded to the table where the usual ceremonies were gone through customary upon the occasion of a Peer's iutioduction. At this moment the number of Peers who stood ready to greet the Noble Viscount, was considerable, and the spectacle became highly interesting, if not overpowering, by the appearance of the hero of England's chivalry, the dauntless leader of a hundred furious charges, to protect the almost desperate fortunes of the army of Sir John Moore in the retreat upon Corunna— the victor of the invincible cuirassiers at the "crowning mercy' of Wateiloo— the Marquis of Anglesey. As he slowly pioceeded towaids the observed of all observers, his gillant commander, the Duke himself, appeared in his quiet grey paletot, and the crowd of Peers stood aside to facilitate the meeting of the illustrious Chieftains. The mutilated forms of the noble Marquis and the gallant Viscount, irrcsibtably excited melancholy amidst tue genesal feeling of triumpu. The interesting ce.emony closed by the presentation, through L )rds Combermere and Beresford, of Viscount Hardinge to the Noble Lord on the Woolsack, who shook him coidially by the hand. The galaxy of military talent and renown was completed by the Marquis and the Duke joiuing the circle that now surrounded the Noble Viscount, with whom they both exchanged cordial greetings and congratulations. — Edinburgh Advertiser, March 24.