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I NovEmnEn 5, 1853 to him that he had not more frequent opportunities of meeting his friends in various parts of South Devon ; but since FebekterY. he had not been six c o nsecutive weeks in his own house. owing partly to parliamentary duties, and partly to his endeavours to re-establish a l oca l force which may be of use to the gallant admiral incase an evil should happen which appeared possible a few years entice. Their distinguished representative had, as a sailor, and sailor-like, confined his observations to his own department ; but he could have mentioned with oinal satisfaction that similar efficiency had been given to the army, and that the legal reforms prepared by the most eminent lawyer of the day, Lord St. Leonervia. if carried out. would have been inure beneficial to the country than the alterations since made. These judicious changes were obliged to be abandoned, because laird Derby was driven from an office he would have tilled with the greatest ability. (Hear.) In speaking of these events he really felt warm. (t 'heers.) Coolness was one of the qualifica tions of a politician, but it might be carried too tar and it was impossible not to feel warm when remembering what means were adopted to force honounible writ from offiee. To turn out the Ministry of lewd Derby. his oppo nents coquetted with the Irish Brigade, and. by promising to free Ireland from the income tax, obtained their co operation in thus preventing the many measures of prac ticel importance pre ejected by the last Administrate . It was always preferable to retire with honour than to remain in office with disgrace. This was the oeurse taken by Lord Derby. (Cheers.) lie knew that the detilit on the budget was only a prelude to many successive eliseonifitures if he continued in power, and he thereupon abandoned office to those who seemed to have the eonfidenee of the cenntry— conduct every liononrable and sensitive. • I would think right. (Applause.) Did these Ministers still possess the confidence of the °wintry ? ( Nee, au.) They were the most motley crew that ever obtained possessi of place ; they had a face for everybody. ( Lanyhter.) Peehte— when that suited theirmirpose—Lorel Aberdeen at the head, Mr. Gladstone at the Exchequer, Mr. Sidney Herbert at the Waeoffice,tliey were essentially Peelite. Weise the Whip to be coaxed, they were Whigs—for Lord John I lIIASta was 'Radek in the House of Commons. Were Radicals tole cajoled, they were Radical to the backbone, fur there was Sir W. Molesworth a Cabinet Minister. ( heed cheers.) Peelites, Whigs, Radicals—did any of you Owe confidence in such a ? ( Shoats of " No, oar') Look oat, then, for statesmen who hail a unity of political action and a sympathy of political sent • .nt, and sues men you should assist by returning to the House of Conn ))))) those who would affierd them a zealous, conscientious, inde pendent, and intelligent support. The hon. baronet re sinned his seat amid loud cheering, giving as a toast, "The Mayor and Council of the Borough." Sir H. P. SEALF, Bart., the Mayor, who was warmly greeted, regretted that, during his period of office, his duties had been both difficult and unpleasant, a majority of the council having deemed it necessary to discharge the town clerk, treasurer, and several officers, in conse• quence of mismanagement in corporate affairs. The account-books were lost—( freer)—not a document to ex plain the expenditure could be found, and a huge defidea• tion existed. ( Hear, hear.) He hoped for a better state of things from those who now would be able to regulate the attain of the council. Ile had listened with great pleasure to the last toast, and to the reception it had expe rienced—not only because Sir John Duller held a high position in the House of Commons and in their own county, but because he knew of his unremitting and bene- Wel exertions as a country gentleman, and as the colonel of the old South Devon Corps. (Cheers.) There was a time when Sir John and himself were politically opposed; but years had rolled on, and, although his own opinions of former times were unchanged, those he then Retell with having left him behind in their dangerous and over-rapid course of political progress, lie was delighted to tutu himself able to act iu unison with one whose private character he bad always appreciated, and whose public worth was so universally acknowledged as that of their justly-popular county member. ( ('heers.) Delighted, also, was he to see the gallant admiral the representative of I tartmouth, and additionally pleased at having heard his remarks that evening on the complaints spitefully urged against the late Admiralty—remarks, he felt satisfied, which would tend to dissipate that deliberate misrepresentation which hail been so industriously circulated against the noble duke and his colleagues. (Cheers. ) Other toasts, including " Governor Holdeworth," "Lady Seale," and " The Ladies of Dartmouth," having been duly noticed, the admiral, accompanied by Sir John Buller, Sir H. Seale, and other friends, left the room amid very general cheering. A Ma. H. DAVIDSON, of the Bengal Civil Service, who held the appointment of settlement officer in the Sutlej territories, applied lately to the Uovenior tieneral for an increase of salary, and in writing on the subject to Major Itam.ay, private secretary to the tiov..rnor.tieo-ral, enclosed a cheque for :tom rupees tats,/.) I , .!I. in 7 , alled upon for an ex planation for such an exic.iortlinary proceeding, he repudiated altogether the idea of a bribe, and stated that he had enclosed the money as a fee to the private 'secretary, helloing such to be cus tomary. Upon receiving this reply, Lord Dalhousie ordered Sir Henry Lawrence to report upon Mr. Davidson's sanity. and, after an inquiry at Lahore, his lordship has been assured that the gentleman does not appear to be mad. Under these circiim• stances, there was but one conr:e left for the Gover nor-General to pursue, viz., to suspend Mt. Davidson until the pleasure of the Court can be known ; and this has been done. THE PRESS. JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND. THE recently-formed " National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights" held a monster meet lug in the Edinburgh Music-hall on Wednesday last. A distinguished company of noblemen and gentlemen appeared on the platform, and the general 'limbered more than . ..!,()00, being all that the room could hold, several hundreds more being unable to find clammy. Alitong the oeeupants of the platform were the Earl of Eglinton ; the Earl of Buchan; Lord bray of Kinfamis; the Lord Provost of Edin burgh ; Sir I (ugh I Butte Campbell, Mut ; Sir Archi bald Alistin, Bart.; Sir JAWS Walker Drummond, Bart.; Admiral Sir Charles Napier; Professor Ay 'tm ; Mr. Ilugh Scott of bale; the Lord Provost of Perth ; Pro‘o,4 Philip of Leith ; Provost More and Treasurer Boughend of Ibidilington; the Provosts of Musselburgh, Linlithgow, and Elgin ; !ladies Alor rison and Fyfe of Edinburgh; and Bailie tiourlay, wasgow. Apohtgics for absence were reetived from the Earls of Errol, Caithness, and lnuitlonald ; Lords ' lie►rirdale, Coehraue, Colville of Coleus, and Eli bank ; Sir J . S. Forbes, sir J. MI. Cowan, 11.1), anti Mr. Baird, M.P. The Eat 1 of EtiI,INTON openod the proeetslings in a speech which he devoted, as he remarked, to .4 laying before the publie the motives by which the originators of the association had Levu actuated, and removing the aspersions which had been east upon it." Beginning by an emphatic denial of any wish to weaken the bond of tun which united Scotla n d with England, his lordship declared that their only purpose was to obtain the recognition of rights and privileges justly appertaining to the former co untry, but now either left carelessly in abeyanee or unfairly denied. lie then appealed to the principle of na tionality, which he found thoroughly acknowledged in the original compact concluded at tho Union. That compact they desired to carry out fully and im partially : " It is by carrying out the principles by which that treaty was concluded, by dispensing equal justice Iwtween the two 'tans sus, that you will make find unison more firm anal more implant% It is by flostAsing and n o t repressing the spirit of nati onality that you can make a minim great, 1111114:11CIN Ms, 111141 Ke11 . 411 4 1111111. You 'nay make a Scolollll/111 discontented. but you will 1111141' make 11,111111 a l'.1101:4411111411. ond roihanyed cheering.) I know the penalties which we have to pay, and which we are ready to pay, fir the blessings of union. 1 know that the Sovereign must, for the most part, hold her j'esnument Court in the metro polis of great Britain ; uud where the Court is, thither will follow the rielt, the titled, and the powerful. I know that, for the sake of the tranquillity sot' the United King dom, we must tsar without repining the loss of our Parlia ment; but Ido 114/t knew why centralisat' Attalla be carried beyond the limits which are necessary to carry out the meaning of that meaty." The noble earl then contrasted the amount of public expenditure in offices anal works allotted to the two countries respectively : " Why are all the offices and %soon's which we require for the management of Scotch affairs to be removed to England and placed in English hands ? (Hear, h vi r.) We do not complain that a portion of the imperial revenue, to which WO so largely contribute, is VIIICII4IIII in the maintenance mid !inprovement of the royal palaces in London, or in waking Windsor a lit residence fur the beloved Sovereign of this mighty empire. (Appiwase.) We do not grudge England her palaces and parka—her national galleries, her umseumis, her arsenala, her harbours of refuge ; but we du point with, 1 think, feelings of just indignation to the reveise of the picture hen •; to the neglect of our royal palaces, to the destruction of our royal parks, to the abrence of all assistance to our national schemer, and to the neglect of our nation's' feeling's. We have no Windsor, no Buckingham Palace, no St. James's, no Kensington, no Hampton Carat—we !we only poor old Holyrood—t applause )—peor old Ilsolyrood, with her falling galleries, her roofless chapel, aid her wasted park. I believe that the whole expenditure on the birthplace of Mary, and the last residence of our gallant James Iwfure he went to the fatal field of Flodden, has nut surpassed ; and, if I am nut greatly unmake'', W. was the amount of money laid out on it during the lust year. (Mires.) We have no Hyde Park ; nd the Oros' l'ark, St. James's Park, Richmond, and Win a dsor ate all provided in rich abundance fur our 111111111Orn brethren; and now Nietenia and Battersea are added with unsparing 111111nwst winiggard hard, while the royal garden of Holyrooll Is let to a market-gardener. (Hisses.) ilutadred4 of thousands have been laid out in England in national g illerien, in museums, and in arsenals, while I CllllllOl taw my tuenwry with anything being given to any public inatituf in Scotland. except, I believe, 'tome HOWL to the building on the Mental, which must have been done in some moment when the Clauweller of the Exchequer for the time being was asleep, and Mr. Bruthertoit's motion fur adjournment disregarded. (Laughter. ) The winds' blow sat hard on the Scottish shores, awl the eastern roast is as bleak as any that the mariner has to contend with, and the Scottish sailor's liter is as dear to his family awl to his country as that of any other—(applintge)—but we have no Hover. 110 11111 - Wll'll, no Portsmouth, nu Jersey, no Italy head. There is not a harbour of refuge from Wick to Berwick. I 11i55 , ..)" He proceeded to glance at the expenditure for educational purposes : " Education is at present, I believe I may say, on the increase over the world; but in Scotland, as far as any 629 assistance from the Imperial Government goes, it ha been for many years positivs•ty discouraged. In the Unit unities Of England there have been during the past halfcentury litany 1.1 - olvssiitsliits of immense amount (sinned ; while in Scotland, with, I believe, the small exception of the 'Medical School, there has lowed none." '!'hence his lordship passed on to the subject of parliamentary representation : Can anything be conceited more unequal their our re presentation as ssimistred with that of Englinl? England, with her popidat ttttt Is,osinitio, Iles 4911 members, while Scotland, with her population of 3.1.100,t)00, has but :s:t members. We hate small Isotinglis in England sending twit ineintionitO %hale nub and populous come ties in Scotland have only one. In I aiglauJ there are twenty small laininglis which rend forty cepresenuitiver, w hile tilasgow, With a conatituency of lit,initt, only sends tw o . l'iliveniities of t Wont, Cambridge, and 1 Milian send each two repmeentatives, *lnk the I . nit emotes of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St. Andrew's remain tinnipresetitssl I hate heard it )441—* Yes, lout you are a province ; you ar an integral partof the Lune,' Kingd o m: nut Wr reply—' 100 do not treat ur as it we were a pro) %ince. Trent liet as you treat SIIITt.y and Middle/wit ; give its the proportion of members which Iltivonshire and Siop• shire have, and then INV Whether Scottish interrlltst Mid Scottish will be disregarded.' It it to nquedy this ineqoality, Mild to put All Chit to this that this as. sovietism has been formed. t .I)llliinse. Deprecating all ridicule upon a subject whielt,lixilied Moon as a mailer of honourable feeling, could not be deemed trivial, Lord Eglintout expressed his din content with the interior position assigned t o th e royal arnis of Scotland, declaring that he would never submit without rettionstranco to such i legratta. lion of their national einblent. lie concluded by ad verting to another topic of more practical conse quence, namely, the national go veniment " It is really almost incredible that we should hare In long submitted to the anomalous and &dimwit irresponsible 'amens) mein of the Lunt Advoitati.)—t near, hoer )--11U doubt a man almost invariably of high talent and great profensitund ability, but ill-paid and overworked—with his own profess niiiiild hllallleaa W ittle.tlil in the Cabinet, seldom even in the Privy t 'ltimeil—elianging even oftener than the ministers miller whom he aerves—ready enough, no doubt, to take ',mist , for any measures which may be popular, but totally irresponaible when the unrMlures are of a oontrary tendrney. We want • great saver of State who shall be responsible for the goveniment of Scotland.— Omit up• phrase )—who will not allow Scold' lousiness to be neglected Anil olielved, and tinned over to anybody who may happen to take all Ilitilt•st in it. The hut etusis of England a re well eared for. They limy their !Tinto Ministers, their Lord Presidents, their Home Seeretarier, their Weird of Tisile, their Lords of the 'll' memory, the Colonies, the Army, the Navy, the Post.iittles); and 1.101 that very im portant branch of the service the Itischy of Lancaster has generally a representative in the Cabinet. ( Laughter.) Ireland has her entire separate Government. Scotland alone is left is the tender mercies ola lawyer, who iillookiUg far snore to his prilfesitionnl prosiwcts, and, perhaps, to theupper seats tit' the bench , than for making for himself *great political cha racter. It is impossible to conceive that the country should have gone on so long, allowing ourselves to be govenied in this anonodims, irrespinsible, and most unsatisfactory manner ac, /Intel—and I do hold thnt the first step of this association —whale% er else may follow—should be to lay before her !klalesty, before Parliament, and liefore our own representatives in both I louses of Parlimment the necessity of this change. Ipplassee. ► I have joined this amnesia• non because I aus opposed to the spirit of centralistatiou, which lots been carried too far for the good of (hips country, and twosome 1 believe it, my heart Scotland has been trusted with unfairness and neglect. I believe that this movement will be sticcessfnl, beefiest . ) it is based on justice, and because it will be earned on with eartnestsiesi, but with nioderat• . loud aroma.% )" The noble earl then moved rho following reaoln. tion "That the 'freely of Union between scothunt and England recognises ti e • ainoentecy, anthem the hadaviduality, a n d pro vides 1'or• the preacrvetem of the uatioind leas and Institution* heulhaid ; that any attempt to subvert or place timer. Welkin num; under EnFlialt coot:N.l, under the pretence of a eetoraliolng teoisotuy, would deprive Scetlatid of the benefit if weal action, would Ito Injurious to her welfare, and an Infraction of the true Writ In which that treaty was concluded." Tito next resolution, which was proposed by the Lunt Provost of Edinburgh, rim as follows : "'That this meeting cuentidera It nee eeeee y, fur thee hetter ad eeeeee titration of the public Imithiers of this part of tha united 6u.gdotn, and for *vetoing to Neonated the vraetleal bencilie of a tooted I.cidelattire, that the office of Secretory of Mate fur Scotland he restored, with all the rights and pissitegas formerly appertattomi thereto; awl Oda meeting in% ties the eunu.•tla of cities mid burgh. of Keynoted to petition her Majesty to this effect." A third resolution, declaring "'flat the repreatintatiees returned by Scotland to the bluer• of Coll 11111 l tos are not iu t h e relative pr..porthiti of her people, ur the amount of her revenue, a■ compared with thine of England; and that thin meeting I. of °pintoes that, In order to gave the soles ut S.•otarrd tta dual weight ut l'arltatueut, that atinutom 'should ittercioied to its fair proportion," was moved by Belli° Gourley, of tilasgow. The succeeding resolution, enforcing the claim of Scotland to a pmportional %hare in the money ex pended by the Treasury for important local and national purposes, was moved in an eloquent speech by Sir Mu UIIIAI.n AtisoN. After enumerating the benefits which Scotsmen individually and Scotland as a country bad conferred on Brest Britain, he cola