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size, which yields large amounts of turpentine, 

 and is available for building purposes or fuel ; 

 and the latter, besides abundant crops of cereals, 

 are not less adapted to the production of fruits 



than those of the adjoining State of California. 

 The crops of apples, pears, plums, and cherries, 

 are described as almost exceeding belief in 

 quantity, and of admirable quality. 



PAGE, Hon. JOHN, formerly a United States 

 Senator, and Governor of New Hampshire, 

 born in Haverhill, N. H., May 21, 1787, died 

 there September 8, 1865. Uis advantages for 

 an education were the common school and a 

 few terms at the academy of his native town. 

 From early boyhood he was a practical farmer, 

 and with the exception of absences while dis- 

 charging public duties, he had always resided 

 upon, and cultivated the old homestead acres 

 which had descended to him from his ancestors. 

 In 1815 he was appointed Principal Assessor 

 of the Direct Tax for the Fifth District of New 

 Hampshire, having for some time been assist- 

 ant assessor. The first record of his appear- 

 ance in political life is that of an active Demo- 

 cratic representative in the State Legislature 

 of 1818. He was also a member of that body 

 in 1819, 1820, and 1835. From 1828 to 1834 

 he was, with the exception of one year, an- 

 nually elected Register of Deeds for Grafton 

 County. During the years 1836 and 1837 he 

 was a Senator in Congress from New Hamp- 

 shire, having been elected to complete the un- 

 expired term of Hon. Isaac Hill, who had re- 

 signed his seat. He was a State Councillor in 

 1838, and Governor from 1839 to 1842. 



PALMERSTON, HEXKY JOHX TEMPLE, third 

 Viscount, a British statesman, for fifty years a 

 member of the British Cabinet, and at his death 

 First Lord of the Treasury and Premier of Great 

 Britain, born at Broadlands, near Romsey, in 

 Hampshire, October 20, 1784; died at his coun- 

 try seat, Brockett Hall, Herts, October 18, 1865. 

 The Temple family have taken a prominent 

 part in the affairs of Great Britain for more 

 than two centuries and a half. Among the 

 ancestors of Lord Palmerston were the secre- 

 tary to Sir Philip Sidney, who settled in Ire- 

 land in 1609 ; his son, Master of the Rolls in 

 Ireland, and an eminent lawyer ; the celebrated 

 Sir William Temple, one of the ablest and most 

 accomplished men of his time, made a baronet 

 by Charles II. for his great diplomatic services ; 

 and his nephew, Baron Temple, the first Vis- 

 count Palmerston, so created in 1772. Henry 

 John Temple, the late Premier, received his 

 early education at Harrow, entered the Univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh from thence, and, after study- 

 ing mental philosophy under Dugald Stewart, 

 returned to England, and in 180G graduated 

 Master of Arts from St John's College, Cam- 

 bridge. He had succeeded to his title in 1802, 

 but as an Irish peer, after the Union, he could 

 only enter the House of Lords by election ; and 

 as his associations and attachments were all 

 with England, he preferred a seat in the House 



of Commons, and though but 22 years of age, 

 contested in 1806 the representation of Cam- 

 bridge University with Lord Henry Petty, but 

 was defeated. He was, however, returned for 

 the proprietary borough of Bletchingley. In 

 the following year he again contested the Uni- 

 versity, but failed, when he was returned for 

 Newport, Isle of "Wight, which he continued to 

 represent until 1811, when he was elected 

 member for Cambridge, and was repeatedly 

 reelected by that constituency for twenty years. 

 In 1807 he was made a junior Lord of the 

 Admiralty in the Duke of Portland's (Tory) 

 administration, but did not attain to a seat in 

 the Cabinet till 1809, when, on Lord Castle- 

 reagh's resignation of the Secretaryship of War, 

 in consequence of his duel with Mr. Canning, 

 Lord Palraerston succeeded him in that office. 

 He continued to hold that office until 1828, 

 under the successive administrations of Mr. Per- 

 ceval, the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. Canning, Lord 

 *Goderich, and the Duke of Wellington, admin- 

 istrations of very different political complex- 

 ions, but all appreciating and respecting his 

 ability as War Secretary. In 1828, however, 

 he retired from the War Office, the affairs of 

 which he had managed with great skill and 

 success, and threw himself into the ranks of 

 the Whig opposition. This brought down upon 

 him a torrent of vituperation from his former 

 associates, at which he laughed and jested. In 

 1830 the Whigs came into power, under the 

 premiership of Earl Grey, and with a pro- 

 gramme of liberal measures which greatly dis- 

 gusted the Conservative or Tory party. Cam- 

 bridge University refused to return Lord Palm- 

 erston, but the borough of Bletchingley again 

 elected him, and he took a seat in the Cabinet 

 as Foreign Secretary. His policy in the For- 

 eign Office was able, and often characterized by 

 boldness and independence, but was generally 

 in the interests of peace and good order. Ho 

 recognized the independence of Belgium, and 

 established the quadruple alliance between 

 England, France, Spain, and Portugal for the 

 maintenance of constitutional government in 

 the two latter countries. The quadruple alli- 

 ance for the protection of Turkish independence 

 was also due to his exertions, and this and other 

 measures created for him a high reputation as 

 a diplomatist. When Earl Grey resigned, in 

 1834, he also went out of office, but resumed 

 his position in 1835 in the Melbourne adminis- 

 tration, and retained it till 1841. In this period 

 of ten years of almost continuous power, he 

 had made his foreign policy so marked that, all 

 over Europe, men spoke of it, not as the foreign 



