The Sun. — London, England, 1837-11-15 00:00:00

mustering their forces for one more effort—(Cheers) —which shall put an end to the evils of intimidation, corruption, and exclusive dealing for ever.—( Cheers.) Fain would I see this question decided-by those constituencies who return Cabinet Ministers to Parliament. They are few in number; for our Aristocratic Cabinet is composed of a greater proportion of Peers and fewer Commoners than any Government during the last quarter of a century, and we have had a score of changes in that period. But to them should belong the glory of carrying the Ballot. Stroud, to its honour, has spoken out till its voice has reached the ears of the Lord of Woburn.— ( Hear, hear, hear, and cheers.) I call on Manchester, Nottingham, and Cambridge to follow its noble example. Let them call upon Sir John Hobhouse, Mr. Spring Rice, and Mr. Thomson to pledge themselves to an active not a merely passible adhesion to the Ballot.—( Great cheering.) The Ballot will be worthy of every sacrifice; its fruits will be long wholly to the people. It is the necessary first step to the extension of the Suffrage, the shortening of Parliaments, and the repeal of the Corn-laws ; without the protection of the Ballot these would be insecure, even in the possession of the people. Above all, the Ballot alone can procure us the blessings of a cheap Government. I confess I have hitherto looked in vain for those substantial fruits of the Reform Bill—the reduction of our civil and military expen diture—the curtailment of pensions and the abolition of sine cures. We are in the 22d year of peace—vie are islanders—we call ourselves free citizens —yet here we are, with a standing army of 90,000 men.—( Hear, hear.) But this is but a small portion of the grievances—the officers themselves compose a standing army seven thousand strong—twenty-two hundred of whom are field-officers of and above the rank of major.— ( Much laughter and cheering.) We can boast of four hun dred and sixty generals, being more than four to every regiment, and of these more than four hundred have been created since the peace.—(Hear, hear.) For eight years after the close of the war, our army amounted only on averages to about 75,000 Teen, and in the year 1830 Wellington was content with 81,000 men ; yet now our army is nearly 90,000 strong, and we have besides a new police force in London of four thousand men, and an armed po lice in Ireland eight thousand strong. In the year 1818 in the height of Tory misgovernment, we maintained only 20,000 troops in Ireland ; now we have there a force including the armed police of Dublin and the provinces of 30,000 bayonets. If we glance at the navy, we shall find that in 1818 it was reduced below 19,000 men, whilst at present it contains thirty-four thousand men. We have ten times as many Admirals as would be required to command all the navies in the world. The united services of the army and navy are still costing the country twelve millions sterling a year; and yet I ask again, are we not at peace ? Do we not call ourselves a free people, and are we not islanders ? I know very well the pleas under which from time to time these forces have been raised—it has been under the pretence of putting down disaffection here or in Ireland, of guarding our colonies, protecting our commerce, and such like. But we know also that for 15 years the Whigs, when an opposition party, strenuously resisted every one of these pretences. In 1818 they are found in our Parliamentary records oppoeing a standing army le_;s in magnitude than that they arc now supporting after nearly twenty years of additional peace ; they then re sisted the keeping up a force of twenty thousand troops in Ireland; and now, notwithstanding the guarantee which improved institutions give us for the tranquillity of that country—notwithstanding the Emancipation Act—not withstanding that re have planted schools, those safeguards against brute violence—( Hear, hear)—throughout that land—no:withstanding that our illustrious guest here, whose slightest whisper has more influence than twice thirty thousand bayonets—( Loud cheers)—is our security for the peace of Ireland, notwithstanding these things we re's maintain ten thousand more military, including the armed police force, than were supported when Peel governed that country for a Tory Ministry.—( Hear, bear.) But it is not to the magnitude of the army only that we fi.id the Whigs were opposed ; when a patriotic party they denounced the principle of a standing army in time of peace. Nay, they resisted the erection of barracks throughout the country to hold those troops as unconstitu tional. I will give you the very words of one of the present Cabinet Ministers uttered upon this subject in the House of Commons on the 27th cf February, 1924 : The House might depend upon it, although there was now no • sj i -it alive in the country, that the time would come when they would find it insupportable to have barracks scattered through out the country. There was now no excuse for it. The country was in a state of tranquillity, and Europe was at peace. They had been lately told by the Ministry that the people were obedient, orderly, and happy, every thing that a goverment could wish. Why, then, he would ask, was the system of planting e military force throughout the country continued ?" Such was the patriotic language of Sir John Hobhouse thirteen years ago, nor does it at all weaken the force or truth of those sentiments, if we have to regret that eleven years afterwards he, as Secretary at War, administered to the affairs of military force, stronger, by ten thousand men, than vtlien he thus so indignantly denounced the Tory establishment, and with every barrack still " scattered eronghout the country," end still tenanted with soldiers ! ( 'ries of " Shaine.") But I wed take up his words, reed ask him, as a Caleeet Minister, why is this erstem of planting a military force throue'no-see the country continued." These barracks were chiefly erected at periods when the popula tions of our great towns could only be ren ?ere', Fubscr vient to the corrupt laws of a corrupt Parliament by the aid of the military. The army was the body-guard of the borough-mongers. Thus, in 1820, after the scenes of the preceding year, arising from the intolerable suffer ings of the unemployed and starving operatives of which C )me of you will still retain painful recollections, the barracks in the northern counties were greatly enlarged and increaser: in numbers, new barracks were constructed at Oldham, I3urn ley, Manchester, and in the neighbourhood of this town. The step was justified then in Parliament (aniesing as it may seem now to my radical hearers, our radical Chairman, and our illustrious radical visitor) as necessary to keep down the " Radicals !" One of the Tory partisans gravely as serted in the House of Commons, that he knew the " Radi cals" were busy taking plans of the city of Chester, prepara tory to assaulting that walled town.—( Roars of laughter.) Splendid barracks in the immediate suburbs were the conse quence. The Tories acted wisely after their generation. Theirs was a Government of fraud and violence, resting essen . teally for suppoet upon the aid of the military. But are there no changes to call for a suppression of that most odious feature of their system ? Has net the new Municipal Corporation Act— the: best of geoLl measures which followed the Reform Bill— scaetered throughout the coulary so many little democracies In oar ; and do these now call for the aid of the military to enable them to regula.te their own police? I ask of you (the Chairman) who have just been so ho neat-ably eleva;ed to the Chief Magisterial Chair of this bo ereleh by the unanimous voice of your fellow-townsmen— (Grea, ariolawiel—l ark, do you 10(.1 that your scat is more secure—your office le, s reepoesible—or, in cthee words, arc the life, peace, and pi operty o" 1:or(A;gli more sacred, because in the neighbourhood is to he f oun d a garrison of soldiers ?—(" No, no.") Those barracks here and wherever they are planted stamp the demoralizing nature of the institution upon all that comes within the dick of its operations. Property in land depreciates in value, mo rals deteriorate, female honour is endangered ; in fact, it blights all that comes within the range of its withering influence —( H ear , h ear , an d c h eers .) Why then, I a k again, in the words of our Cabinet Minister, do we continue the system of planting a military force throughout the country ?—( Hear.) The army is essential to the defence of our colonies is the reply. Fifty regiments are stationed in the four quarters of the globe, and supported by the people of Englzed, and for what end? Do they, like the ancient warriors of Greece and Rome, send home tributary supplies to feed and clothe our people ?—(llear.) Not one shilling do we receive from those Colonists to aid our suffering taxpayers. No : we are compelled to take from those colonies inferior timber, dear coffee, and dear sugar, which by tyrannical laws we are compelled to take, instead of the cheaper and better products of Brazil, Se cden, tend Prussia, because our aristocratic law-makers have for their own peculiar ends established a system of exclusive dealing with the West Indian Islands and Canada.—( Hear, hear.) But has this legislation been for the benefit of those colonies ? No. The same aristocratic party which here taxes us for the maintenance of an army under the pretence of defending our foreign possessions, has converted that army abroad into an engine for oppressing and plundering those very colonies. Listen to the cries from the Canadians, the Maltese, the in habitants of the Cape, the apprentices of Jamaica—all pro claim with one voice that Aristocratic miseovernmenthas taken deeper root even in our colonies than at home. The civil service of those colonies are crammed full with the younger branches of our aristocracy and their dependents. There is the little island of Malta, which Lord Byron termed a little military hot-house, but which I shall call a hot-bed of corruption—that little island contains a population of 120,000. souls, about twice the number in this borough—a miser ably poor and depressed community, subsisting with the ut most difficulty upon the naturally barren surface of that rock —from this poor people 100,000/. sterling a year are raised is taxes, nearly one-third of it being a duty on corn, to be paid into the pockets of English sinecurists and placemen. There I found in my travels last year the once celebrated Dr. Slop, Sir John Stoddart, Chief Justice of Malta, enjoying some thousands a-year, wrung from the wretched inhabitants, as the reward for his services against the freedom of English men in the newspaper press of Sidmouth and Castlereagh. What wonder if I add, that there too I found a Board of Commissioners sent out at the expense of the people of Eng land to inquire into the grievances of the Maltese. Such is a sample of the way in which the Civil Service of our Colonies is con d u cted—such the mode in . which the utmost possible amount of public revenue is raised at the point of the bayonet to be spent amongst the English Aristocra c y w h o i n f est our foreign possessions. Ano ther instance to illustrate this system I met with at Gibraltar. --( Hear.) There it was found that a few hundreds a-year might be raised by taxation from the residents, entire rock being a military ga rr i son , the difficulty was how to establish a plea for a civil appointment of any kind. To the amazement of the resident mercha n t s , w h o rubbed their eyes incredulously at their seeing a police magistrate with his retinue of subordinates disembarked one fine morning from England, sent by his Tory patrons, the Ministers of the day to guard the peace of a fortress, where every inha bitant is subject to martial law—a fortress full of soldiers which is closed every evening before sunset, where no inhabitant can appear in the street after night-fall, without a lantern or a pas -word.—( Laughter and cheers.) Think not that I im pute those acts to a Whi G ov ernment ; they were most decidedly the misdeeds of " the Tories, and to their party would I have them conlined—(Hear, hear)—and therefore it is that I call upon the Whig Ministry to repudiate by their actions now the principles which they so eloquently de nounced when in opposition a Tory Government.—(Cries of THE AIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEWER 15, 1831. Bravo !") I call upon them to reduce the army, which has been raised and maintained only to oppress the people at home, or to rob the colonists abroad. The colonists thi.mselves do not desire their protection. They desire to be allowed to have the appointment of their own civil officers, that their taxes may pass into the hands of their own countrymen, and not into the pockets of strangers. Upcn these terms the Colonies would be willing to defray all the expenses of their own Government and protection. The people of Prince Ed ward's Island and other colonies have made formal proposals to this effect. How, then, can our foreign possessions be any longer held as a sufficient excuse for maintaining our standing armaments ? But, say the aristocratic advocates of the present Colonial system, see the streams of commerce which flow from those Colonies to assist your merchants and manufacturers. I speak as a manufacturer, as one of that body by whom nearly all our exchangeable merchandize arc produced, when I say that we desire that the trade of the Colonies should be free—free as air—because we desire that our own commerce should be free. We desire that the farmer of Canada, and the planter of Jamaica, should be allowed a free choice of the markets of the NV orld for the sale of their tubers, coffee, and sugar, and we claim the same privilege in the disposal of our cOitons, woollens, and hard-wares.—(Great applause.) Think not that it is for our benefit that the commerce of the Colonies is put under restraint ; it is a part of that system, based upon 'violence, in which one party alone is interested. That party is not the Colonists themselves, as I trust I have shown—not the people of England or the manufacturers, as I call on ycu to be my witnesses. No, the Colonial system is for the benefit of the Aristocracy none. —(hear.) The Colonies are the outworks of the great citadel of corruption, and before the strong hold itself can be put down, before the army can be reduced that outwork must be assailed. One word more upon the subject of the army. The newspapers inform us that the Ministry are preparing to organize a rural police uniformly throughout the country, and I will frankly admit that I think the present police of England, however well it might have suited our Saxon an cestors, requires some reforms to adapt it to our present wants. But I warn the Ministers that if they should attempt to spread over the country a new-fangled gendarmerie—to meet us in our walks in the quiet lanes and footpaths—to peer into our gardens and parks, or to dot our green fields with blue or scarlet—if they should attempt to impose upon the people such an establishment without having previously suppressed the barrack system, and dis banded the standing army—then I warn them that their doom will be sealed in the opinion of every hearty Reformer.—( Great ap- plause.) Mr. Cobden proceeded to argue for the necessity of abolishing the officers of the Civil List, which are no longer useful, and he quoted Lord John Russell's speech of May, 8, 1820, where he said, " if such offices as Gi - oom of the Stole, and Master of the Hawks, were to 15e upheld from respect to ancient usage without regard to utility, the King ought still, on the same principle, to have his fool, and be allowed straw for his bed, and litter for his chambers." Mr. C. concluded by arguing strongly in favour economy at the present critical juncture of our finances, and cot eluded amid loud cheers. The CHAIRMAN then rose, and said be never felt more pleasure in his life than in giving.thc next toast. He would not insult their feelings or their understandings by any re marks, and he was satisfied that they all responded to the name of their talented and highly-distinguished guest, who had conferred an honour upon their town by his presence. He would, without further preface, give them " Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., and Justice to Ireland."—Nine times nine, and tremendous cheering.) Mr. O'CONNELL then rose, precisely at eleven o'clock, amidst the most deafening cheering. After silence had been obtained, which it was impossible to procure for many minutes, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, said— I do hope, amidst this crowded, popular, and truly influential assembly, there is not one among you that can imagine I have the presumptuous vanity to attribute the reception I have met this morning, and above all the manner in which you have received me this night, to any notion that I have merits to deserve or talents to requite your kindness. lamin my own nature a plain and ungifted creature—(Hear, and cheering)— and I would no more venture to present myself as deserving of one moment of your notice, then I would be guilty of any other act of presumption, if I did not stand before you as the representative of a people long oppressed, still suffering, but looking, with the eye of hope and expectation, to England.—(Much cheering.) To the remotest recesses of my native land the manner you have received me this day will be heard, and' give cheering hope to those who, while their ultimate hope is in their own exertions, they have robed on those exertions—and no man ever deserved the assistance ef others who had not a proper reliance on their own—that people will hear with cheering hope the manner in which von have received the humble individual, myself, but who inis the honour of representing those millione who have been taxed, and fteeced, and tithed, and who now call on the Pm:former; Gf England to 'join them, that. they rimy no longer be taunted as aliens in their native land.—( cheering.) Fellow subjects, with you we will come to an era of great impottance. The British throne has been filled by a succes,ion of Sovereigns that. se:...reely eon idered the.entire of the British people as haying the saute claim to proteation ; who were ready enough to treat us as subjects, but who were not equally ready to give us the be nefit of the allegiance they hld received at our hands.— (Hear.) The Throne is now flied by a Princess of Ili,. highest and the fairest hope—(Cheers)—z !Id I delight at the outbreak of honest English allegiance that. made you cheer till the echo repeated again the reply, " Tue health prosperity of the young Princess."—(lmmense cheering.) I have reason to hope she has been educated free from pre iudiees, and by one of the most crniale and intelligent of . the human race---lier excellent moiller—(Cheers)—and the country looks forward with hope that at. last all the obstacles to the inaprovement of our institutions that existed in the secret and back-stairs authority are about to be done away with in her, to the liberty of the people. What is the beauty of Reformers in both countries ? 'rho liberty of the people. There is no principle of liberty that ca n apply to the one country that does not to the other. I Come not here is ith any prejudices against your advan tenes—l do not went. to pull you down to our level—all 1 want is that you will assist in pulling us up to year station. Loud cries of " will, we will.") The consequence of that equality will be that each of them will intpro.,-? the condition of the ether, and what you wait will he ranr , L readily granted, especially when you have others assist you.—(Cheers.) I am cease among you upon an experi trh_nt.--(‘Cheers.) For seven centuries the Britkla Go vernment has lo:•cn the enerny of Ireland. Our history has been tarnished with tears, and stained with blood.— (Great cheering.) Tee ()ranee faction, though already gorged, is still insatiate for blood.—(Cheere.) I come to warn you against ever letting the Tories come again into power.—(Cheers.) What have they done for you—what have they done for England? Wha, they have loaded it with 800,000,0001. of debt.—(Cheers.) They have male every article of life twice as dear as otherwise they would he. How often have they suspended the Habeas Corpus Act ?—(Cheers.) How often have they spilt the best blood of the country in vexatious wars ?—(Cheers.) What crime is there against humanity the Tories have not been guilty of?—(Cheers.) Will you then allow the To ries ever to come into power agail ?—(No, never.) After the period they have been kept out of office, think you not the severity which they exercised in their rule formerly will not be exercised with tenfold tyranny towards those who have kept them out of office.—(Cheers.) It' you per mit the Tories to come in under the notion that they will never dare to exercise their power in the manner they did when in office before, you will be deceived.—(Cheers.) I call upon you to look at what the state of Ireland would he if you allow the Tories to come in again. Are you pre pared to place her in the hands and tender mercies of Ernest, King of Hanover ?—(Cries of " No.") If not go along with me and resist the Tory faction, and support the Queen's Ministry as far as possible to support them, not encouraging any shrinking from just reform, or postponing necessary improvements, but pressing them firmly and de terminedly.—(Cheers.) We have at heart the same just cause—the cause of religious liberty all over the world. —(Cheers.) What is feudality in Germany, the Inquisi tion in Spain, and tyranny in Turkey ?—lt is all the same.—(Cheers.) But the freeman in every clime is the same, and the brother and supporter of his fellow men.—(Loud cheers.) Ireland has some claim upon you now. The pulpit there, which ought to be the vehicle of instruction, and the tribunal from which the word of peace ought to be poured out upon the listening worshippers of our common God—(Cheers) — the pulpit drum of that country is sounded, not for the purposes of religion, but for the purposes of party.— (Cheers.) 'That pulpit is not built up for the purpose of preaching charity, but for sowing the seeds of dis cord—( Hear, hear, hear, and cheers)—anathematising one party and eulogising another, putting the services of God to the worst passions of men. I deny the charge of the re creant Chancellor.—(Cheers.) I deny that they are aliens in blood—it is untrue. I appeal to Wellington himself whether the Irish were aliens at Waterloo.—(Cheers.) Did Nelson ever say that the Irish were aliens.---(" No, no. ” ) If it were possible for the Irish to exceed the valour of the English and Scotch they did so at Waterloo. In the most sanguinary of wars in the great contest for freedom, the Irish have always been most forward.—(Cheers.) The Reform Bill would never have passed but for the Irish people.—(Cheers.) The Tories have given nothing to the country but taxation ; the highest scheme of taxation upon the poorest man, and the lesser on the rieher.7(Cheers.) Look at the splendid palace of a great Duke, it is taxed at 75 per cent. less than the poor man—(Cheers and cries of shame,)—the window tax for the rich is 25 per cent. less than for the poor. I have spoken of the assistance given by the people of Ireland for the passing of the lhaform Bill--what,is my authority for saying so ?—The Irish influ ence in carrying it.—(Cheers.) Such being the case, .you surely owe us something, and for that we only ask you to equal ; representation with yourselves. Our fran chise u lseis s fact you have the 40s. one, but then you have the unfort una t e 501. clause.—(Cheers.) I call upon you to assist me in extending the franchise, and remember that, in assisting us, you are assisting yourselves.—(Cheers.) I will not detain you, at this late hour, by any discussion ; but I say, every man ought to have the franchise. — (Cheers.) No head of a family ought to be without it. I am the advocate of Universal Suffrage, because it is just in principle, and because I don't see why one class in so ciety should have more influence than another.—(Cheers.) I speak not of the relations of society—l speak of the pri vileges of self-defence, which representation is. lam also for the shortening of Parliaments ; and if you help me to increase the franchise in Ireland, and increase those rights we are entitled to—oh, if you do, we will help you to shorten Parliaments. But I cannot consent to that with ' out the vote by Ballot. Unless the man is allowed to vote as he chooses, it is a mockery to give him the vote at all, and no man can vote as he chooses without the Ballot. At least nine-tenths of the people are under influences that must operate to take the vote from him who has it, and give it to him who has it not. This I say is robbery, disguise it as you may. One of the greatest impediments to this is, that some of us radicals, for I am a thorough radical—(Great a pplau se) ---are so anxious for general Suffrage, that they will not allow us to meet for the Ballot. If we don't sacrifice to them, there are some of them unthinking (1 will call it) enough not to allow us to do so without going under the yoke of their opinions. But I for one frankly avow that I would be afraid of Universal Suffrage if unaccompanied by the Ballot. At present there is the intimidation of the landed proprietors, the employers, and the customers ; but in the other case, there might be some man who would raise himself by playing upon the passions of the excited people, and do just as much mischief as the present Aristocratic ruffians. Insist upon the Ballot in order that Universal Suffrage may be safely conceded. What are we to do to obtain these things ? We arc to do what I have often said in Ireland—AGlTATE—(Chee rs laughter.) That is only one word, and there are but two more—Agitate, Agitate.—(Great cheering.) I am the pre sident of the Trades' Union in Dublin, because they think me an excellent workman ; and did you ever know a good workman to finish the job by sitting down with his hands before him. To finish the job well—to procure good and cheap government—Agitate, agitate, agitate.—(Bursts of applause.) There is a fable with which you are all perhaps familiar : the clown who was driving his waggon along found his wheel in a rut, and the horses unable to drag it out.. Whereupon he began to pray that the wheels might be loosed. A fellow behind the hedge cried out to him, " Leave off your prayers—put your shoulder to the wheel, and whip your horses."—(Great cheering, and laughter.) This is exactly what I say to you.—(Hear, hear.) Let us talk a little of great lords. In my remarks on the Ballot to-day, I declared that man who was an enemy to the Ballot not to be a sincerely honest man. I in stanced Lord Ebrington, who in moral integrity has no superior ; and I repeat, that he is not on that point politi cally honest. There is another Lord, Durham, who de clared lately that he was for Household Suffrage, Triennial Parliaments, ;and Vote by Ballot. Long life to hi s L or d s hip, sa y L—(Great laughter, and cheering.) All the Tories abused hini for it, and some of the Radicals also, which was quite unfair. But why did they ? Be cause, he added, " I won't force them on the people of England." Why should he ? But will he give them when they are asked for?—(Hear, hear.) You must re solve that question, because you cannot know it if you do not ask him. Therefore, if you ask for them, and if he is honest he must give them, although he will not force you to be happy in spite of your teeth.—(A laugh.) Let us once get the Ballot, and we shall defy all the Tory landlords and the Tory faction— I would defy all if we once got the opportunity of voting honestly. What chance then would the Major have against the gentleman who last addressed you ? They talk of re ligion, but is there any crime greater than that of bribing a voter? They buy in the first place what the other ought not to sell ; in the next they violate his conscience, and then they bring him to take the bribery oath—and thereby they put his soul in danger by calling on him to bring his God to attest a falsehood. This is Toryism. They use the highest things of religion like the money changers in the Temple. Oh, let the spirit cf an honest and indignant people turn out the money-brokers from. the Temple, and obtain the protection of the honest Ballot. Then indeed justice will triumph over the country, and all the abuses which my talented friend has complained of, and the poweiful good sense which your Member has exhibited, justifying your choice, and gratify ing you by showing not only in point of moral integrity and in dependence, hut in manly determination, you have procured a man able to fight your battles—then, indeed, I repeat good sense will triumph. I have addressed you principally upon topics of your extension of the Suffrage, the short ening of Parliaments, and the protection of your votes. And why ? Because I never thonaht it wrong to see Englishinesa in the front of the battle.—(Loud end continued cheers.) It is a situation they have never disgraced when they had a roan upon that T„tone, and they would not do it now when Viey 'show there is a litdc lady looking et them.—(Loud cheers and lau g hter.) Vie want more in Ireland, we want Municipal Corporate Aeform there.--(Cry of Poor Lass s.) - 0 7 11 'IA) I find you are satisfied with your own Poor Laws, you may offer Si stout to us. •We malt Municipal Reform, and will any man in Stockport say that it is not a good thing ? Don't you think we could and in Ireland to fill the highest civic offices some man whose independent principles have marked him through life as the enemy of injustice, persecution, and oppression ?—(Cheers.) Ooe whw'e personal virtues have made him respected by those who politically differ from him ? In other places as well as Stockport such a man niay be found, instead of having a pitiful paltry partiz in making the day disagreeable by his political prejudices, and the night disgusting by worse toasts—would it not be worth while to turn out such a man, and put in such a man as your present Mayor? You k ow little of the Irish he if you think we would be d iplcased with such a thing. Your Mayor needs no police; his orders are better obeyed than if he iv r an Eastern despot. i. myself have no rank or station in Ireland. I am only the son of a gentleman far mer, one of yourselves ; and yet by never despairing, but always working, pressing on the enemy, and always hitting • lirn in the face when he directly opposed me, and hitting him at the other end, when be turned tail—(Roars of laughter, zn I cheers)—l have endeavoured to be always light when I could, and never to join for party purpose s, when my conscience, before God, did not tell me that I was right. My influence there has been ca.iled power. No mail was ever more ready to abdicate it than myself, and for this reason, because it was founded upon the grievances and oppressions of the land of my birth. My power is raised upon the Abuse of the Government. Oh! give me the power to abdicate, by substituting the Government for Daniel O'Connell.—(Loud cheers.) Give the representative of the Queen that situation which I have been compelled to usurp, and I have the pleasure to tell you, that I have a very excellent rival in that country, who, as the school-boy says, is taking the gilding off my gingerbread.—(Cheers.) • We have in Ireland a chivalrous, high-minded nobleman, whose greatest delight is in doing good for all classes of the people.—(Loud cheers.) He is not one of those people who have carried their political prejudices into the market, and bartered them for ready money.—(Cheers.) We have not yet obtained political equality, and so help inc Heaven if I do not feel it a greater affliction because we have not been able on that account to assist you as well as you deserve.—(Loud and continued cheer ing.) Never was known such tranquillity in Ireland as during the last few years. The wild justice of revenge has slumbered. The people see in the horizon the sun begin ning to arise which promises in its meridian splendour to illume the green hills and vallies of my native land.— (Cheers.) The people, sunk in the silence of expectation, are tranquilly awaiting the beneficial results of British con nection. (Cheers.) If you were told that the Irish are a fiery and agitated people—that they are discontented and disaffected—l reply to such calumniators at once, that it is false, and the storm is over the moment the prospect of fair play and justice is carried out.—(Loud cheers.) This is my mission now to England. I come here in the name of the Reformers of Ireland, to ask the Reformers of England to join with me. Let us have no petty quarrelling ; let us support the present Ministry— not that they are doing all I would wish them to do, but because they are infinitely better than the vagabonds that would come in if they were to go out.—(Cheers.) Some people say they pretend to be Radicals. Oh, let the Tories turn out the present Ministry, and then in a short time the people will be so angry, that we shall get a Radical Ministry into office. I don't like men of prophecy. I don't put any great faith in those seers of events. Give me an ounce of reality to a bushel of prophecy. You know the old proverb is, that " a bird in the hand is worth two in a bush." Igo farther than that, and I say that the feather of a bird in hand is better than a goose that is quite loose and flighty ; so that I pay no attention to what is said, viz., " Let us be worse and then we shall be better." There is no maxim better established in morality than that you are not to do the least evil from the certainty of thereby being able to do some good, and when you can not do evil with any certainty of doing good, is it not absolutely absurd to say that you should be at li berty to do evil merely upon the proviso of being able to do some good ?—( Hear, hear.) But then, if the Tories were t o come i n t o power , w h a t ' wou ld th e y d o ? All they durst, perhaps, would be your answer—(Laughter) —but I will tell you what they would do. They would make the franchise more difficult ; they would be sure to make every voter vote in the presence of his task-master. They would do more ; they would narrow the consti tuency in the boroughs and towns till they had again got them into their own power. On the very first day after wards they would follow the example of their great master, the King of Hanover, and pass the edict declaring the Reform Bill was a nuisance, and that the present Constitution should not be bound by it at all. Is there hope to be enter tained for the liberty of our franchise, and would you wish to enjoy that franchise ?—( Hear.) Oh, if you concur with me in thinking that England would be better on friendly terms with Ireland than at animosity with her, would not the best plan be to strengthen and cement those friendly terms, and forward, by every possible means, the allegiance of the people of that country.—(Cheers.) Why what ought to be your allegiance to the Queen ? To make Ireland as loyal as England itself.—( Loud bursts of cheer ing from all parts of the room.) Let me suppose now that Ireland was as perfectly conciliated as Yorkshire, or as the whole of Scotland, and that there was no degrading distinction between the different countries—what would you think of any man who said it is a bad thing for the three countries to be at peace ? We will be so loyal as to cause that arm, which ought to be an assistance to England, to become paralized, and even turned against this country in its heart.—(Loud cheers, and cries of " Hear, hear.") Would you not think that man a maniac—as great a maniac as the man who is now assailing the very life of our young Queen —mad as he is, and diabolical as a demon from hell?—(Cheering.) Is it not well to prevent that which when established you may not be able to cure, by giving justice to Ireland. — (Cheers.) There are many real Reformers in England ; but, Sir, in Ireland we sometimes fancy you have fantasti cal Reformers.—( Hear, hear, hear.) There was a man of the name of Burden, that WAS a Reformer ! Was there not ?—(Cries of Hear, hear, and immense laughter.) Burdett was his name—was it not ?—(Renewed laughter.) There is another old fellow of the name of Burdett now alive—is there not ?—( Hear, and laughter.) They cannot be the same.--(Hear, hear.) Two can never be one. — (Laughter and cheers.) The one " was" a Reformer—the other " is" a renegade Tory.—(Cheers.) The one was a friend of the people, or pretended to be so ; the other is a friend of the people, if they come not " betwixt the wind and his nobility."—(Hear, hear, and great laughter.) He was seditious as a young man—(Hear) —he was traitorous as he grew older ; and actually shook the throne on a visit to the Tower—(Roars of laughter)—and when the people came to take him out of the Tower he shrunk back, went out by the back stairs, and went to the other side of the water. He is there now.—(Renewed laughter.) He went over to the other side of the water, where be now is, and in his old days he is a rank apostate. In the first instance he was disreputable ; in the second he was dan gerous ; and in the last he is disgusting.—(lmmense cheering and laughter.) There was one comparison of a very profane nature which he used to mike. He used to say over and over again, that the Con stitution resembled—l can hardly bring myself to think of the awful resemblance—he used to say that the Constitution was like the Redeemer—it was hung between two thieves—the Whigs were the one thief—the Tories were the other. They were, indeed, both thieves ; but the one was a penitent thief, whereas the other died in his impiety.—(Hear, hear.) Now what has Burdett turned ? If the Whigs were thieves, they have shown signs of repentance ; they have come over to the people, and the people have granted them mercy. The Tories arc the impenitent thieves, and the old fellow knows they are impenitent. The old fellow Burdett is joining those very Tories too—the worst thieves of all.—(lmmense laughter.) Now, that's a specimen of what the Tories call a fine old English gentleman !—( Hear.) Oh yes, the Tories are quite right, for he is fond of quoting Shakspeare, and I remember a quotation of King Lear , talk ing' of the old gentleman, in which the old fool is made to cry out, the Prince of Darkness is a Gentleman.—(Cheers.) Burdett—he is called " Old Glory;" so that according to Shakspeare, it would be by a kind of incantation ; he having been the impenitent thief, he became a gentleman as a matter of course.—;Great laughter.) I would rather have one honest man than a whole churchyard full of such.—(Renewed cheers.) Ido hope some member of the Press will tell him how we have been laughing at him to night—(Cheers and laughter)—and I do know that a friend of mine (Mr. Young), who is the proprietor of The Sun n ewspaper—(lmmense cheering, which lasted fur seve ral minutes) —has sent no less than three of his gen tlemen here (Renewed cheering)— and all I beg of them is to give Burdett my compliments; and it is but an act of justice to laugh at the old shall I call him properly—Miscreant—it is but an act of justice to him to do so.—(Hear, hear.) Why what did he do the other day ? He sat down at the commencement of this election, and wrote deliberately to the people of West minster, who he knew would turn him out, and told them that his health was so impaired that he could no longer attend to Lis Parliamentary duties ; but he found a Tory opening in Wiltshire, and in half an hour he is ground voting again ; and the poor old men who was so sick, sore, and sad, that he could not go up to Westminster, was hale, young, and vigor ous, and able to accept the representation of Wiltshire ! ( Laughter.) I never knew before that Wiltshire was like Morrison's pills, fit for all diseases.—( Renewed laughter.) Welk then, be that is diseased, if he wishes to get well, let him go to Wiltshire, and in that Tory air he will be sure to be reAered to strength. And this is toe man who t:-les to effect lesiest and uncompromising reforms. Alt, I do say it is a stain to the chivalry and to the name or Eng land, that there should be found among its inhal rants a creature so crawling and utterly contemptible, as to be so diametrically opposed, in his old age, to what he pur ported to be throughout tl.e entire period of his former !Fe. —( Hear, hear.) He has said he will sub: tribe to that fund for getting up petitions to unseat the Reform Mem bars in every county in I: eland in which he has any pro perty. I doubt whether be will have,the money. I have no doubt at all that you wig see his name to those subscrip tions, but you all knew there is a great difference betwixt seeing his name there, and his paying down the bank-notes. --(Hear, hear.) I have threatened a prosecution, and I now tell you I will follow up that prosecution against some of the Spottiswoode gang. The old gentleman offers liiin self as one who is trilling to be prosecuted. Ali ! if a pro secution was begun against him, the old doors of the back stairs of the Tower would soon open, and let old Burdett out and off again. He would be again off to the other side of the water, though I really would be afraid that the Thames would sweep the old man away.—(Hear, hear.) Well, so - much for him. And why do I speak to von about him at all. Why, because he stood high in the ranks of Reformers—because I myself have toasted hint among the leaders of ppular sentiment ; and there is not a man who now hears me, who did not feel his heart warm at one time by thinking - that in old Burdett he had one honest English Reformer. Ah, but it is a melan choly thing to think of what he is now, yet that is the fate of every miscreant ; and I won't say the sentence of death but the sentence of utter execration throughout England ought to fall on him. England will never be merry Eng land again until you put an end to such a man. Well, then, I come back to you—having taken good humoured!) , my revenge of old Burdett. I now forgive him —(Considerable laughter)—and come back to you. I call upon you to recollect, that what we are here met for is the support of the great principle—Democratic Liberty. I stand here for that purpose.—( Hear, hear.) And what are the great principles we have inview? Freedom of con science in our religious faiths. We are all amenable to one God--leave man, therefore, to the freedom of his own con science. I look with indignation at that very amiable saint (Lord Sandon), who appeared at an election meeting at Liverpool with a Bible on the dickey of his carriage, and a Crown above it. But what was the Crown composed of? It was composed of nothing but a piece of pewter, with some varnish upon it. And what was the Bible ? Why, simply a solid piece of wood, appearing like the Holy Bible, having the word of God upon it, but consisting of nothing but some rotten Canadian planks, and having nothing more for its contents.—(Hear, hear.) A wooden Bible and a pewter Crown !—(Much laughter, and cheers.) Ali, but Gentlemen, lam the advocate of democratic liberty. I look to the eastern nations of the earth, and I find that the inhabitants of those nations have been happy and prosper ous exactly in proportion to the degree of democratic liberty which they have enjoyed. I need not go farther than Eng land, as compared with other nations on the face of the earth. She is a small country, but has she not been amongst the most formidable and prosperous of all the nations of Europe ? Why has this been so? Why, be cause no other nation cultivated the democratic prin ciple to the extent she has done.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) That extent is not the extent which this country now requires, but it has hitherto been superior to the degree cultivated by others ; and accordingly England has been more prosperous than the others which have been more Tory. Toryism has, however, eclipsed for a time the beauty of the English people. But, ah ! it is only a cloud passing over us for a moment. Reform, with all its efful gence, is bursting forth, which in its strength will go on to Show the gladdening landscape in all its beauty, and be neath its fostering influence England will rise again like a rocket, and be the most splendid nation in the world.— (Much cheering.) Take the democracy of Athens, •and see what a history she has left behind her, and compare with that the history of the Roman Autocrat. Take Venice —take any place wherever the democratic principle has prevailed, and there you will find that liberty has flou rished ; and though there is a black spot upon the eagle, and her talons are covered with the blood of her fellow men of a different colour ; although that blood hangs upon and stains her star-spangled banners, yet deinocratical principle has sprung up there. She has outstripped the aristocratic ; and though there may be a difference be-. tween her and our currency of hank notes into which I do not mean to enter at present, yet she has paid off the whole of her national debt, and there is more comfort and happiness in the families of individuals there than there is to be found in the families of individuals in any other nation en the face of the earth.—Well, then, Englishmen stand by me for the democratic principle.—(Hear, hear, and cries of bravo.) Be your exertions co-extensive with the ex cellent political knowledge of my Noble Friend (alluding to the Honourable Member), if he will per- mit me to call him so, and that of your defeated candidate—let but the democratic principle have but its full sway, and England will yet raise her majestic head as the envy of all nations. You are in an artificial state of society at present ; still you must do nothing by force. There is no condition of society who suffer so much by a revolution as the millions of manufacturing people in this country, If they were all thrown out of employment but for one week by such an event, they would be thrown into a state of perfect starvation ; but then you have everything to achieve which you can desire to accomplish, by plain, open, manly agitation—by constitutional agitation. Call for, insist, demand of Ministers, and of Parliament, that they will not further dare tQ distrust the honesty or the intelli gence of the people of Enghind.—(Hear.) Who are they that say those whom I now address don't understand enough to enable them to be entrusted with the franchise ? (Hear, hear.) Who are they who dare to say that those whom I now address are not intelligent enough to be en titled to it ? I will tell you one. Your representative Major.—(Hear, hear.) If he does not tell you that, he acts it, and a lying action is worse than a lying word— (" Hear," and cheers)—and while they come out upon me, and say the Ballot would create a lying word— why I am aware that sometimes it would create a lying word, but does not the present system create a lying action? And the man who gives a vote which in his conscience he feels he ought not to give, is not that a lie ? is that not a crime against conscience ? And what a paltry affectation it is to say, that lest you should give scope to a lying word, let us proceed in that course in which lying actions might be practised ! But England, be up and doing.—(Hear, hear.) Ireland is said to be in an inflam matory state. Why, Gentlemen, we are all in a perfect calm, and in good temper : we have been blistered—we have been often skinned alive like the very eels, so that we are accustomed to it, and not out of humour at all—we remain in good temper. Why? Because we do not intend to suffer as we have been suffering for one single day longer than we can possibly help it.—(Cheers.) Up then, again, England, and be doing. — (Contin ued cheering.) I stand before you this day proud at what you have done. I shall not trespass longer on you time.—(Cries of go on.) I thank 3 ou sincerely for the manner in which you have re ceived me; for the attention with which you have heard me; and when I am in Parliament with the Tories, shall they not hear of the cry that this day has been raised in Stock port ?—( Much cheering.) Let us then join heart and hand. Liberty is what we are asking for. Freedom of conscience is what we desire to have, that men may worship their God in sincerity and humility, without profaning religion by making it a base instrument of a political system. Let us then have liberty of conscience, that the struggle may not be that I shall be at the same place of worship with you, or you with me ; but that we may res pectively go freely to whatever place of worship we please, and not thereby stain the name of religion and profane the name of our God by submitting to the religious dictation of any autocrat.—(Cheers.) Let us all be for democratic religion. There is only one man that I would exclude from that, and that is the man who would acknow ledge himself to be below the human creation.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, let not this night pass away idly, Let us not to-morrow talk of this night only as the pleasing ex hibition of the talent which your future Member has dis played, and the admirable good sense which your chief magistrate has shown with a remarkable discriminat ing taste in saying anything that was necessary for him to say, and not uttering one useless word. Don't talk of those things, or of the way in which the Irish Agitator wearied your faculties ; but let us all become apostles to the same political creed, and arrive at one grand . . conclusion and act upon it-which is, never submit to a wrong, without endeavouring to get that wrong remedied. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat down (at one o'clock this morning) amidst the most enthusiastic cheering, which lasted for some minutes. The following toasts were then given, and drunk amidst loud applause. Mr. O'Connell proposed— Lord Mulgravc and the Irish Administration. The Liberal Members of England who have honoured us with their Company. Mr. HINDLEY returned thanks.—The Hon. Member alluded, at some length, to the eminent and efficient ser• vices of the Hon. and Learned Member fur Dublin. He congratulated the people of Stockport on the great moral victory they had achieved in rescuing themselves from the domination of a Tory corporate faction ; and, after no ticing the connexion which existed between Stockport and the Borough which he had the honour to represent, con cluded by assuring them that he would be at all times ready to promote the interests, and support the inde pendence, of the borough by every means in his power. The Liberal Members of Ireland who have honoured us with their Company.—Mr. Morgan J. O'Connell returned thanks. • The Mayor of Stcckport, our Chairman.-William Barlow Worthington, Esq., Mayor, returned thanks. Edward John Stanley and George Wilbraham, Esqrs., the Liberal Members of the County of Chester. The Borough Magistrates.—Alderman Thornhill returned thanks. The Council of the Borough of Stockport.—Aldermen Steel returned thanks. The Town Clerk. HENRY CorrocK, Esq., rose and returned thanks for the honour conferred on him. He was gratified to state that the duties which had been imposed on him, as well in the official character in which they bad toasted his health, as in the more pleasing one of acting as their Vice-President on that evening, had been rendered easy of fulfilment by the kind and generous co-operation and support of the in habitants of the borough.—(Great cheering.) He had been unanimously elected to fill the situation of their Town Clerk, and so long only as his conduct met their appro bation and countenance would he discharge the duties of that office. The moment they were dissatisfied with him, he would resign his trust into their hands.—(Great applause.) -He congratulated the people of Stockport upon the great moral victory they had achieved, and it was gratifying to find the great organs and directors of public opinion, the gentlemen of the Press, cheering them on by their presence, and The Sun newspapef, whose exertions in the cause of Reform they were all aware of--(Hear, hear)—had its gentlemen present for the purpose of report ing what took place there that night, and immediately pro mulgating it throughout the whole of -Europe.—(Vehement cheering.) Such superhuman exertions were deserving of success.—(Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he would assure them that he would on all occasions be found at his post — (Cheers) ;—and as the festivities of the evening had been protracted to an unusually advanced hour, he would not further detain them, but again acknowledge his obligations for the favour they had conferred on him.—(Cheers.) The Ballot. National Education, without Sectarianism. The Vice-Presidents and Dinner Stewards. The Meeting then broke up. It is rumoured that Mr. O'Connell is to be invited to a public dinner at Bradford, during the Easter recess. Will Mr. Carlow Hardy be invited to meet him ? Contents of the Observer of Sunday, Nov. 12. Ten long folio columns of particulars of her Majesty's visit to Guildhall, four columns of the illuminations, five co lumns of Prints representing the East and West end of the interior of Guildhall during the Banquet, an appro priate emblematical design' surrounding a miniature of the Queen, and a panoramic sketch of the Procession.—Price of the Observer, five-pence. Copies, with franks to send it to any part of the country, can be had all this week at the Office, 170, Strand. THE BENCH AND THE BAR.—The amusing and instructive work which has just been given to the world, under the above title, by the well-known author of" Random Recollections," must, we imagine, be received with peculiar satisfaction by one very extensive and important class of the community—the Attorneys ; who would do well immedi ately to adopt it as their vade-mecum, at least as relates to the ticklish and difficult question of the choice of counsel in the'eases they may thenceforth bring into court ; for this choice should by no means depend in every case on the precise grade which the counsel holds in his profession, but rather on the peculiar points and features of the case to be argued : and in this point of view Solicitors will find the work we refer to peculiarly useful, since its chief merit and value consist in the care and discrimination with which it points out the peculiar forte as well as foible of each indi vidual treated of—whether he excels most in argument, or in legal knowledge, or in addressing the passions, or the judgment ; whether he is strongest in an appeal to the jury, or a reply to his opposing counsel, or the cross-examination of a witness, &c. &c. All these points are of great importance in determining the choice of an advocate ; and to set forth and settle these points, is the chief aim and a ttainment of this work, which has long been a desideratum in our current literature. THE LATE IRRUPTION INTO THE THAMES TUNNELL.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, and a jury, at the Spread Eagle public house, Rotherhithe, on the body of John Gar land, a miner, aged 42 years, who perished in the Thames Tunnel during the last irruption of the river on -the morning of Friday the 3d inst. The first witness called was Andrew Morris, who stated that he was a labourer employed by the Thames Tunnel Company. On Sunday morning, shortly before one o'clock , he was on the watch observing the rising and falling of the water in the tunnel, when he felt something with a boat-hook in the water, and brought it to the top of the shaft. It turned out to be the body of the deceased, which had been in the water since the irruption. He immediately conveyed it into the parish of Rotherhithe. He was not aware of any of the eirctn -st.lnces attending the late bursting in of the Thames. After hearing other witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict " That John Garland was accidentally drowned by the ir ruption of water into the Tunnel." COURT CIRCULAR• __ ....---''-'.-- 4.1 ---------- na- • Her Majesty gave audiences yesterday a t the new r lace, in St. James's-park, to the Ma r q uis of sham, Earl of le, and Lord ill. Their Alb Royal emar Highnesses theHDuke of Sussex, tbe I)°l ` ..e of Cambridge, and the Duchess of Gloucester, visited the' Queen yesterday. Her Majesty had a dinner par t y last evenin•g ; am aDg f the company were — her Royal Hi g hness the Th oll°s % 9 1 .. Kent, Viscount and Viscoun t es s Howick, Viscount I\l bourne, Lord Hill , Lord Glenelg, Lord Holland, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobboute, 11'1 Barham, Lady Barrington, and the lord, groonl , an equerry in waiting. A military band attended a t the pa land Princess Gagarin, Maddlc. Gagarin. Prince John Ga• The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by lace during the evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had a di. Ine' party at Cambridge House, Piccadilly, on Monday c''' - fling. There were present—their Royal Highnesses [I 'e Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Sussex, Prino,l garin, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and a small party. sasses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, and attended byi Miss Kerr, took a carriage drive to Richmond yesterday. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the 131:thop of Lon the Prin-- I don bad an interview yesterday with Viscount Melbourne I and Lord John Russell. i Mr. Bernal, and a deputat i o n of Magistrates,hadm' an interview with Lord John Russe ll y esterda y , at the He Office. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Gre y , and Sir George at the Arthur, had interviews yesterday with Lord Glen el g ,- Home-office. The Belgian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-Office. Lord Morpeth visited Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home-office. The Earl of Mulgrave had an intervie w yester day with Viscount 'Melbourne, in Downing-street. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of iiondon, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and other Commissiont•rs, at tended a meeting of the Church Commission yesterclay, FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENC ARRIVALS. Sir John Conroy, from his scat in 11 . ontgomerys lir t and' Surrey, in Hyde Park-place, from Little Citarnton : Lord ,i . Lady Langdale, in South-street, Park-lane ; Sir George an l'. Lady Rose, in Palace-yard, from a continental tour ; Colonet Dal- Sir Reynett, at Cambridge House, Piccadilly ; Lord meny, in Somerset-place, from Dalmeny Castle, Stirling-- shire ; Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, in Curzon-street, fronl, a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, at Buclial 'House, Dumbarton ; Lord Poltimore, from Dover' Lord Errol, in St. James's Palace, from ditto ; Lord Saye 2 ' l _ 2 _ ' I . e • Lord, Sele, in Grosvenor-street, from Broughton Castle, Ozferu shire; Countess and the Ladies Cadogan, at Queen sberrl House, Piccadilly, from a continental tour ; Lord and \Vynford, in Conduit-street; Mr. Greville, from stree i Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, at Stevens's Hotel, Clifford from their seat, Ware ; Sir Alexander, and Lady Ran's* at ditto ; John Quick, Esq., at ditto ; Earl of Hovet'-" c ir n o .' e B r , ditto, from Queensferry ; Captain Inger and Rev. Geo- '''' . .i ' from Thorpe, at ditto ; Edward Knight, Esq., jun., and filiT If at ditto, from Overton ; Colonel and Mrs. Colston, at tueir, house in Upper Berkeley-streets a tour. Newmarket: DEPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. Solly and family, from Stevens's Hotel, ClitTorcl street, for St. Alban's ; W. Urquhart , Esq., from ditto, for Scotland; Lieut.-Colonel Porter and Thomas Dundas, EA4 from ditto, for Bisham Abbey. . -- .. The Queen issued her orders yesterday for Draw • :, lug-room dress. Her Majesty will introduce embroidered trains, a fashion which was exploded more than thirts , Ye a r ago. This judicious arrangement will give empisqme at `() a branch of the arts which has been too long neghseted. St. The establishment of the Queen Dowager, a t . Leonard's, consists of nearly 60 persons. It was f o rn.`ed l i l the Earls of Denbigh and Howe. Her Majesty has ti rri rived so much benefit from the salubrious air, that she ":',..' not, it is expected, return to town until March, until hi e " period it is understood her Royal Highness the Prileess Augusta will continue her visitor. The Duchess of Kent will, it is stated, shortli occupy the King of the Belgians' - seat at Claremont; whiebp with short intervals, has been untenanted during the la s six years. a Lady Catherine Jenkinson has, it is understoo 1. • resigned her appointment in the household of her itari Highness the Duchess of Kent, in consequence of her ar proachincr union with Colonel Harcourt. The ' Earl of Clancarty, formerly Minister td tho Court of the Netherlands, arrived at the Clare ndon gate,' yesterday, from Garbally Park, Galway, to take the oath s and his seat in the House of Peers. . • Baron Hugel, first Secretary to the Austrian Em- Baron bassy at Paris, has arrived in town in a very infirm state health. The Councillor of Embassy, De Morn, oficiat cs as Charge d'Affaires until the arrival of Count Apponf• Sir Robert, Lady, and Miss Peel arrived at their residence in Privy-gardens, on Monday afternoon, from 6 continental tour of five weeks. Miss Coutts Burdett has arrived in Stratton-street, from a visit to her father , Sir Fra ncis, at his seat, Fore - - mark, Ashby.ie.la-Zouch, where the Duke of St. Alba Pg paid the Honourable Baronet a short visit, during his re cent tour. The Earl of Aberdeen, accompa nied by Lord Claude Hamilton, M. P., will arrive to-day, or Fsidal morning, at Argyll House, from Haddo Castle, Aberdeen shire. Lord Haddo is still pursuing his travels in Asi a * , The Earl and Countess of Granville are expected al' Devonshire House from Paris ; n the cou rse of this Weci.lc.ci Lord Leveson, M. P., has arrived at th e above spied' mansion from Chatsworth. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond left Gordon. Castle on Monday last for town. The ir Graces will Vi° several noble friends en route. Lady Lyndhurst will not accompany the Noble an Learned Lord to England. Her Ladyship, with the sister and daughter of his Lordship, will remain at Versailles Mr til February, when she will come over for the season. the The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, afs:r meeting of Parliament, will go to Paris for two months' , p ig The Duke and Duchess of Bedford , and Marec . and Marchioness of Abercorn and family , will make as% stay in Paris, on their route to pass the wi nter in the swig of Europe. Their Graces and suite are expected to Jo' town•on Friday next, for the Continent. jafarine g c i Lieutenant Char:es Holmes, of the R o y al while walking home a few evenings since, fell down des in Bell -street, Romsey, occasion by an ossifi cation of tP heart. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. nel Harcourt, of the Grenadier Guards, son fat' . t he o ut to and Most Reverend the Archbishop of York, is e 4Tl°-- ►-all , lead to the hymeneal altar the Lady Catharine Jenkia' - • eldest daughter of the Earl of Liverpool, and Lady of dm , Bedchamber to _her Royal Highness the Duchess of l etl n t. The ceremony is to be performed next week, a nd we, ape derstand will take place at Busted P — a r L k i , eu :e en ra s ig tn-C : c s el° s:e seat of Lord Liverpool, in the presence of a large c' - of their mutually distinguished relatives. Her Majesty is said to have drunk wine with filo° u e , different parties on Thursday, in the Guildha ll ; of e° hrser her Majesty only went through the ceremony of raisi ss ng or glass to her lips. When the Queen drank to the Lord lnY of London, it was in sherry above 120 years old. Sir Thomas Acland has been lately exhibiti ng him'.a self to his Tory friends at Crediton, and elsewhere, 'flea way which fully confirms all that we have lately.obserVed, respecting the awkward predicament in which be is o ° , o We shall next week call the attention of ou r readers the recent speeches of the Hon. Baronet, which only era more clearly than ever that he does not u nderstand eb ' es , his own situation or that of the country.—Western -L I , t „, briii.,o:::fris Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., eldest soli 0 to , late respected Baronet of that name, will attain his 11 1 1 .4,0 rity in September next, when he will take possession 0. v Of the largest estates in the county of Northumberad•iis, The Russian Ambassador, on his way from Pei his was expected to make a detour to visit some friends, 3 n' As b, Excellency, therefore, is not expected to arrive at 1-3 ' burnham-house until Friday next. Windso e r ra C l Sev some of the rooms arc a a s l t t l e e r , at a i n o d nsare being made in the interior owf decorated. The workmen are very actively c the whole is to be completed by ure.'" • Reading Mercury. t 014 A numbb l ed Ye s -c her Majestis r et er of the Tory clique assem i rneot ary afternoon at Aspley-house, to concert their Parltet, v sir tactics of this day. Sir Robert Peel, accomnan' (1, by S ir Hardinge, arrived there privately past four o'clock, and shortly afterwards o thers , 131; to party followed. The Duke of Wellington was via ' . receive them. an" 88 11" ch Yesterday afternoon great excitement 0,..0..rt,0, fested in the neighbourhood of Tottenhatn_ gu_ounowde!, owing to a loud explosion, resembling that o , f ) , _ , u su r rg oa , : on the premises of Messrs. Griffith and I. . r° .s k l e t , the 818 !_j: On an inquiry into the cause, it appeared. 0 t . ", 1e o f vitr,!,°, was occasioned by the explosion of a large b."_ som . T:7. which had been placed on a grate in the baels d ' t i le ch ion Y shop windows were broken and damaged, 9n n;os y.. t he set on fire. The shopmen experienced n° ' J ordered to lea Some of Lord Exeter's tenants were , be e° ao A I , e oii • nate late Conservative feait at Sleaford, who o,oliv `seesig ~, themselves Reformers ; one tenant is gedL t r , ..t nse; d e " Cobbetc" for his extreme Radical opiniobs, compelled;lint g o lion habit leges," and therefore they' were.th TorY 5313 to Sleaford, to eat Winchelsca pudding vi' Lincoln Gazette. ~~ I i