The MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON:  Sir, on behalf of the Members who sit on this side of the House, I rise to second the Motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman.  He has on more than one occasion gracefully, but at the same time justly, recognized the services rendered to the State by the house of Russell.  That house will always occupy a foremost place in the history of the Party to which I am proud to belong, and I hope it will occupy no insignificant place in the history of the country.  Of that house the noble Lord who has just resigned his office is no unworthy member.  There are, Sir, at the present moment but few Members who can recollect the time when he assumed the duties of his office; but I am glad that his resignation has been deferred long enough to enable a number of new Members of this House to add their testimony to that of us who are better acquainted with him, as to the invariable dignity and courtesy with which he has discharged his duties.

The Resolution was adopted by the House, nemine contradicente.

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Lord Charles now retired to his home at Woburn, Bedfordshire, where he spent the nineteen years of his remaining life.  He had always been devoted to the duties and amusements of the county, and his two main joys were cricket and hunting.  He was elected to M.C.C. in 1827, and for twenty years before his death I had been its senior member.  Lilywhite once said to him:  “For true cricket, give me bowling, Pilch in, Box at the wicket, and your Lordship looking on."[*] He was a good though uncertain shot, but in the saddle he was supreme—­a consummate horseman, and an unsurpassed judge of a hound.  He hunted regularly till he was eighty-one, irregularly still later, and rode till his last illness began.  Lord Ribblesdale writes:  “The last time I had the good fortune to meet your father we went hunting together with the Oakley Hounds, four or five years before his death.  We met at a place called Cranfield Court, and Lord Charles was riding a young mare, five years old—­or was she only four?—­which kicked a hound, greatly to his disgust!  She was not easy to ride, nor did she look so, but he rode her with the ease of long proficiency—­not long years—­and his interest in all that goes to make up a day’s hunting was as full of zest and youth as I recollect his interest used to be in all that made up a cricket-match in my Harrow days.”

[Footnote *:  See Lords and the M.C.C., p. 86.]

In religion Lord Charles Russell was an Evangelical, and he was a frequent speaker on religious platforms.  In politics he was an ardent Liberal; always (except in that soon-repented heresy about Free Trade) rather in advance of his party; a staunch adherent of Mr. Gladstone, and a convinced advocate of Home Rule, though he saw from the outset that the first Home Rule Bill, without Chamberlain’s support, was, as he said, “No go.”  He took an active part in