From the Alabama Journal.
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This week we have been favored with the following copy of the Speech delivered by the Hon. DIXON H. LEWIS, at the Public Dinner given to him in this place cn the 10th ult:-

 FELLOW CITIZENS: After an almost unin- terrupted absence of more than two years from the town and county of Montgomery, no occasion could have presented itselfmore gra- tifying, than the one now afforded me, of meeting so large a number ofmy oldest friends and neighbors, to whose kindness have been 50 often indebted for repeated manifestations of personal and political confidence. l stand in the presence of those in whose service have been engaged for five successive years period commencing shortly after my age rendered me eligible to a seat in the State Legislature; and l take pleasure in embrac- ing this opportunity of Acknowledging, on your part, liberal indulgence towards my public conduct, which neither the mutations of time or circumstances can ever efface from my re- collection. The term for which was elect ed to serve you in the Congress of the United States having expired, flatter myself that shall be excused from taking a short retro spect of the prominent measures of legislation during the last session, and of the very hum- ble course which l have pursued as your Re- presentative The laws passed in relation to the public lands have, before this time gone into operation, and their practical results have been experienced by the great body of settlers in the country. That they are liberal, be- yond any other regulations heretofore adopt ed for the protection of the occupant in the purchase of his improvements, cannot be questioned--but l have not fattered myself that they would meet every mans case, or that it was even possible to frame any general laws under which individual cases of hard ship would not occur. Human legislation has not yet arrived to that degree of perfection. It is, perhaps, just to myself and colleagues