Alexandria Gazette

Lord Palmerston.

The correspondent of the New York Mirror gives the following description of Lord Palmerston's great speech in the House of Commons on the foreign policy of the British Government.

"Palmerston arose to his defence on Tuesday evening, and for five hours—immortal hours to humbug them were—did he flame eloquent destruction on his foes. A more magnificent triumph of patriotic principle, public policy, and personal power, never was manifested. From half past nine to half past two, did he pour forth fact and argument in one continuous, cumulative, and overwhelming strain, without the slightest appearance of effort, unsupported by as much as a glass of water, or the moisture of an orange. So little fatigued was he that, on concluding, amidst a whirlwind of acclamation, he bundled up about a half a hundred weight of documents, and tripped up stairs to Lady Palmerston, and carried her off to Carlton Garden, as unconcerned as if he was going to a horn pipe in his patrimonial hall of Ballynafad.—Mem.—Palmerston is 67 years of age, according to his baptismal register, but about 27 according to the evidence of one's eyes and ears."