Very little light industry has survived into the 21st century, and the local agricultural community is supported from Palmerston North, Pahiatua or Dannevirke.

However, in February 1852, Palmerston took revenge on Russell by voting with the Conservatives in a " no confidence " vote against the Russell government.

Palmerston stood again for the Cambridge seat in May but he lost by three votes after he advised his supporters to vote for the other Tory candidate in the two-member constituency so as to ensure a Tory was elected.

When Lajos Kossuth, the Hungarian democrat and leader of its constitutionalists, landed in Britain, Palmerston proposed to receive him at Broadlands, a design which was only prevented by a peremptory vote of the cabinet.

Palmerston strongly opposed Lord John Russell's plans for giving the vote to sections of the urban working-classes.

The Conservatives replied that Palmerston had betrayed the Danes and a vote of censure in the House of Lords was carried by nine votes.

The result of the vote was announced at 2. 30 in the morning and when Palmerston heard the news he ran up the stairs to the Ladies ' Gallery and embraced his wife.

In February 1852, however, Palmerston had his revenge on John Russell by voting with the Opposition on a vote of " no confidence " to bring down the Russell government.

He is widely reported as having gained no votes-but in fact he won the ' popular vote ' ( A show of hands of the people of the town ), and withdrew when Palmerston called a ballot, aware that he would lose in a vote consisting only of the wealthy and propertied in the town.

After the Australian Labor Party victory at the 2001 election, it became the only CLP-held seat west of Palmerston, and the strength of the CLP vote in the seat was seen at the 2000 by-election caused by the resignation of controversial former Chief Minister Shane Stone, when a struggling CLP still managed to easily fend off any challenge in the seat.

Disraeli had offered to stand aside as leader in the House of Commons in favour of Palmerston, but the latter declined.

In 1855 he refused from Lord Palmerston an office not connected with foreign affairs, was elected lord rector of Aberdeen university, and on June 15 moved a resolution in the House of Commons ( defeated by a large majority ) declaring that in public appointments merit had been sacrificed to private influence and an adherence to routine.

Palmerston's father took him to the House of Commons in 1799, where young Palmerston shook hands with the Prime Minister, William Pitt.

The House of Commons was moved by Roebuck to reverse the sentence, which it did 29 June by a majority of 46, after having heard from Palmerston on 25 June.

Lord Palmerston Addressing the House of Commons During the Debates on the Cobden – Chevalier Treaty | Treaty of France in February 1860, as painted by John Phillip ( 1863 ).

When in May 1864 the MP Edward Baines introduced a Reform Bill in the Commons, Palmerston ordered Gladstone in his reply not to commit himself and the government to any particular scheme.

In a speech to the Commons on 23 July 1863, Palmerston said the British government, like those of France and Russia, wished that " the independence, the integrity, and the rights of Denmark may be maintained.

On 27 June Palmerston gave his statement to the Commons and said Britain would not go to war with the German powers unless the existence of Denmark as an independent power was at stake or that her capital was threatened.

Palmerston addressing the House of Commons

The latter was the father of Sir William Temple, a diplomat, and Sir John Temple ( 1632 – 1704 ), Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and father of the first Viscount Palmerston.

" By the 33rd article of the Treaty of Paris 1856 this convention, annexed to the final act, was given " the same force and validity as if it formed part thereof ", Palmerston declaring in the House of Commons on May 6 that it had " placed a barrier between Russia and the north of Europe.

It came to light in 1861 that some of Burnes ' dispatches from Kabul in 1839 had been altered so as to convey opinions opposite to his, but Lord Palmerston refused after such a lapse of time to grant the inquiry demanded in the House of Commons.

From the Middle Ages the Parliamentary Borough of Newport had two seats in the House of Commons, and between 1807 and 1811 they were held by two future Prime Ministers: Arthur Wellesley, later to become the Duke of Wellington ( who also found himself elected to two other seats at the same time ), and Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston who would go on to become one of the United Kingdom's most notable Prime Ministers.

He had previously represented Oxford in the House of Commons and later held office as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) in the Liberal administrations of Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston and William Ewart Gladstone as well as in the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen.

His eldest son, the third Baron, represented Knaresborough, Derbyshire South and Lichfield in the House of Commons as a Liberal and served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip ) under Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdeen and Lord Palmerston.

Edward Stanley started his career in 1831 as Whig Member of the House of Commons before holding various cabinet posts under Prime Ministers Lord Melbourne, Lord Russell and Lord Palmerston.

Speaking in the House of Commons in July 1857, Benjamin Disraeli labeled it a ' national revolt ' while Lord Palmerston, the Prime Minister, tried to downplay the scope and the significance of the event as a ' mere military mutiny '.

Palmerston addressing the House of Commons

; 1858: The Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, responds to the Orsini plot against French emperor Napoleon III, the bombs for which were purchased in Birmingham, by attempting to make such acts a felony ; the resulting uproar forces him to resign.

Lord Palmerston, the British foreign secretary from 1846 to 1851 and prime minister from 1855 to 1865, sought to maintain the balance of power in Europe ; this rarely involved an alignment with France.

Aberdeen and Guizot inaugurated a different policy ; by mutual confidence and friendly offices, they entirely succeeded in restoring the most cordial understanding between the two governments, and the irritation which Palmerston had inflamed gradually subsided.

A few months later, however, this difficulty was surmounted ; the Whigs returned to power, and Palmerston to the Foreign Office ( July 1846 ).

It is generally supposed that Russell and the Queen both hoped that the other would take the initiative and dismiss Palmerston ; the Queen was dissuaded by Prince Albert, who took the limits of constitutional power very seriously, and Russell by Palmerston's prestige with the people and his competence in an otherwise remarkably inept Cabinet.

It was in this speech, which lasted five hours, Palmerston made the well known declaration that a British subject ought everywhere to be protected by the strong arm of the British government against injustice and wrong ; comparing the reach of the British Empire to that of the Roman Empire, in which a Roman citizen could walk the earth unmolested by any foreign power.

Palmerston argued for immediate decisive action ; the Royal Navy should be sent to the Dardanelles to assist the Turkish navy and that Britain should inform Russia of her intention to go to war with her if she invaded the principalities.

The Queen sent for Lansdowne but he was too old to accept: so she asked Russell ; but none of his former colleagues except Palmerston wanted to serve under him.

Palmerston was considered by some of his contemporaries to be a womaniser ; The Times named him Lord Cupid ( on account of his youthful looks ), and he was cited, at the age of 79, as co-respondent in an 1863 divorce case, although it emerged that the case was nothing more than an attempted blackmail.

The whole work was reissued in a revised and slightly abridged form by Ashley in 2 volumes in 1879, with the title The Life and Correspondence of Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston ; the letters are judiciously curtailed, but unfortunately without indicating where the excisions occur ; the appendices of the original work are omitted, but much fresh matter is added, and this edition is undoubtedly the standard biography.

* David Steele, ‘ Temple, Henry John, third Viscount Palmerston ( 1784 – 1865 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 ; online edn, May 2009, accessed 11 December 2010.

A notable beneficial absentee in the 19th century was Lord Palmerston, who went into debt to develop his part of Sligo ; an investment that eventually paid off.

; 1840: Lord Shaftesbury presents a paper to British Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston calling for the ' recall of the Jews to their ancient land '.

In the latter year, having already been admitted to the cabinet, he for about two months at the first of the year succeeded Palmerston as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until Russell's defeat in 1852 ; and-when Lord Aberdeen formed his government at the end of the year, he became first Lord President of the Council, and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ( 1854 ).

Deeply convinced that the maintenance of a cordial understanding with France was the most essential condition of peace and of a liberal policy in Europe, he reluctantly concurred in the measures proposed by Lord Palmerston for the expulsion of the Mohammed Ali of Egypt from Syria ; he strenuously advocated, with Lord Holland, a more conciliatory policy towards France ; and he was only restrained from sending in his resignation by the dislike he felt to break up a cabinet he had so recently joined.

But he re-entered the cabinet in May 1864 as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and upon the death of Lord Palmerston in 1865, Lord Russell again became prime minister, when Lord Clarendon returned to the foreign office, which was again confided to him for the third time upon the formation of Gladstone's administration in 1868.

In 1841, when Pottinger was sent to China, Palmerston instructed him to " examine with care the natural capacities of Hong Kong, and you will not agree to give up that Island unless you should find that you can exchange it for another in the neighbourhood of Canton, better adapted for the purposes in view ; equally defensible ; and affording sufficient shelter for Ships of War and Commerce ".

From 1846 to 1852 he was out of office ; but in the latter year he joined Lord Aberdeen's cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, in which capacity he acted also for a short time in the Palmerston ministry of 1855 ( 1853 – 55 ).

There are several outstanding landforms on the peninsula: the large expanses of undisturbed dunefields at the eastern coast around Shelburne Bay and Cape Bedford-Cape Flattery ; the huge piles of black granite boulders at Black Mountain National Park and Cape Melville ; and the limestone karsts around Palmerston in the Cape ’ s far south.