The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-21 00:00:00

••••• CHAT REFORM DINNER at LEEDS. - (From the Morning Advertiser.) LEtps, THURSDAY, 4,1;: I9.—This mareAcent banquet took place yesterday evening in a ren-e erected a short Klistance from the town, which , vas lent by the eroprietor, Mr. Willans, for this perpose. The assemblage, its the racter, and numbers, have abundantly proved the re-action w'nie'. has taken place in the West Riding of Yorkshires TI - .e room alloted for the entertainment was thronged to excess, there being considerably beyond a thousand persons present. At five o'clock yesterday 'evening the company assembled in the room appropriated to theelinner, was handsomely decorated with pink and buff' kikAktye'ry ; a stage was erected at one end of the room fier Ilee Chairman, and a gallery was carried on a level with it round a conei decade portion of the room, on which were placed the seats of the invite:. guests. Several inscriptions tier(' conspicu ously placed ; immediately aver the chair was a bannerin scribed, " Peace to the Emerald Isle ;" and on either side, were others inscribed, " Russell and Liberty ;" " Melbourne and Honesty;" " Mulgrave and Morpeth ;" " Morpeth and Strickland," &c. &c. Amongst the company present were —Lord Merpeth, Sir George Strickland, M.P. ; Mr.. Ed ward Baines. M.P. ; Mr. Gaskell, M.P. ; Mr. Gully, M.P. ; Mr, Lister, M.P. ; Mr. Parker, M.P. ; Hon. and Rev. Mr. Herbert ; Sir Francis L. Wood, Bart. ; t}'.2 Hon. Sir E. Vavasour, Bart., &c., &c. In the absence of the Mayor of Leeds, from indisposition, the chair was taken by Mr. Alderman Tottie. After the cloth was removed, the CIIAIRMAN had to express his regret at the circumstances which had compel led the absence of the gentleman who was to have filled the place he then held ameeigst them ; and he regretted also to be obliged to state that he had received the apologies of Earl Fitzwilliem, Lord Carlisle, Lord Burlington, Lord .Howden, Lord, Howard of Effing,hani, most of whom had accepted invitations to be present, but were compelled sub sequently to decline from indisposition: The Chairman then announced that he had also received the apologies of Sir 'William Molcsworth and of Mr. Shiel, the latter of whom said only, as he had intimated in a letter addressed to Mr. Williams, that nothing save business of great im portance would have prevented his being present.—(" Hear," and cheers.) The Chairman then concluded b) proposire. " The healai of the King," which was drank with loud applause. - The usual loyal toasts then followed in order ; after which, The CHAIRMAN gave, " L.,rd Melbourne and his Ma jesty's Ministers."—(Loud and continued cheering.) Lord MORPETH came forward amidst loud cheers, and said—lt is well, Gentlemen, that we are now thus met.— (Cheers.) If I may credit all that has reached me during my absence. of what has been passing since the close of the last session of Parliament in this our good realm of Eng land, it would appear that our political opponents have been far from inactive or mute of speech.—(Hear.) They do seem to have been keeping up the ball with considerable vigour, and indeed, in this our special territory of York shire they have been heard of and seen in the face of day, i (Cheers and laughter.) They have been me r r y n thnir feastings, and made valorous speeches. Now at this in my opinion, we cannot repine. On the contrar7, as since it has been my good fortune to be mixed with the public affairs of this county, and this riding, now seven years— seven most important and prolific 'ears have passed, and the Tory party in this vast, this industrious and energetic dictrict, has lain so prostrate, its vaunted blue has so paled before our sun-lit standands, that I think we must hear with a pleasurable exe'nement of the actual presence and the substantial muse ) .e of an embodied adversary, whom we can feel in our grapple before we rise from his overthrow. —(Loud cheers.) As to the practical results of these ef forts, notwithstanding all that has passed, and their much talking, I have vet to learn that the Conservative can vass has been swelled by any material desertion from our own, or that the venerable legions of Conservatism have drafted any recruits from the Liberal borders, and on an at tentive searvey of what has been effected by Conservative prowees, it appears to me that it can be summed up in what. was said of the travelling youth by the poet, that— " They judicious drank, and greatly daring dined." (Cheers and laughter.) But, gentlemen, if we needed any convincing proof of the hollowness of Sonservative boast ing, however high sounding —any real test of the bad faith of Tory pretences, however intrepid, we can get a clear insight into the matter by examining and contrasting the statements of their own press, and of their own orators.— (Hear, hear.) On the one side, the Members of the pre sent Government are represented as the determined, the rancorous and bitter foes of the Constitution, the Throne nnd the Altar—that they exist only by the subversion or betrayal of all the most valuable and time-honoured insti tutions of ilia country—that, in fact, the present Adminis tration had cast off every bond of duty and of honour for the sake of retaining pay and place ; " they have been drinking the ttip of degradation, to the very lees," says a Noble orator at Wakefield, " while their supporters only tolerate their continuance in office whilst they meekly execute their fierce and unscrupulous bidding, and that they are both joined in an unholy league, of which the deep, dark, un hallowed design is to tarnish British fortune at home and abroad, to destroy the integrity of the empire, and to crush the Protestant religion."—(liear.) This on one side is the portrait which has been drawn of the present Govern ment by first-rate artists ; and if it be true, it is indeed sufficient for the condemnation of any Ministry, at any risk or at any cost.----(llear.) But what is the concomitant picture drawn also by a master hand ? Why, the administration under every phase suits the purpose of their representation —whether it be profligately daring, or crouching in its im beciay, it is equally the scorn and the loathing of the com munity—the birth and the rank of the country distrust it —the men of intelligence, wisdom, and education disdain it --the commercial interests deride it—the Universities and the learned professions frown on it—(Laughter)—even, alas ! the softer sex is said to look chillingly on it ; and allu sions, most unconstitutional and unwarrantable as they are, are not wanting to procure a still higher alienation.— (Hear.) Well, then, ye high-minded Conservatives, I challenge you to the question.—(Loud cheers.) If those things are so—if you night and day utter and reiterate these assertions, believing that they are the truth, or that they are like the truth, or that they are anything hut the reverse, why then are we still the Administration ? (Loud cheers.) Why, month after month, do you suffer us to cumber and to pollute the soil on which we commit such treason to the national safety ?—(Cheers.) Why, I ask, do you allow us to retain for one moment longer than is inevitable the position we still hold?—(Loud cheers.) Heir is it that I see the Administration still left the distri bution of places in both the Church and the State, without your moving one foot in so easy a race as that you peeve pourtrayed, or raising an arm to obtain so assured a vic tory ?—(Cheers.) Is the vessel of the State so valueless in your eyes that you can see it perilled on the breakers, or drifting on the quicksands, without making any of those efforts which you have alleged to be so entirely within Sour reach, to roman her crew, or to alter her tack ?. I ask you then, Gentlemen, to contrast one series of these representations with the other, and are they not convicted on their own • showing, as the most unabashed of libellers, on the one side ; or, on the other, the most pusillanimous of recreants ?—(Loud cheers.) 1-las there ever been so much of swagger, or so much of shrinking ? Has there ever been such a sounding of trumpets before the charge, and such a failure in the onslaught ?—(Cheers.) Haste on then, rail on, ye candla, lofty-spirited men ; we still keep the field, and we sti'.l hold the helm.---<Continued cheers.) ' But, Gentlemen, From these virulent and vulgar clamours I now turn :or a moment of repose and recreation to on e milder aceente which lately refreshed the academie lean-efts of Gleeigow.—(Cheers and laughter.) As inieht have been confidently expected, no such unseemly or derogatory annersions upon his political opponents bike the statel and measured periods which edified the abodes of learning and commerce.—( Hear, hear.) Tndeed, so ealtn and un ruffled must have been the tone of feeling in the breast of the great Conservative champion, that after instructing the learned youth o f the University as t o th e mo d e i▪ n which Cicero p ursue d hi s travels in Attica and Asia, with a nice apprehension of the altered capacity of his audience, he stooped to amuse his more political but less classical hearers with an aeceunt of his own equestrian rambles in the Highlands of Scotland.— (Cheers and laughter.) There is only one cruel subject of contemplation which mars the complacency with which I can otherwise dwell upon so interesting a scene ; but your minds can scarce fail to be moved with pity when you think of the spirit of envy and mortification to which Oxford must be reduced, at the recital of these Northern ho m. ages.—(L ou d l aug h ter.) H ow tender must be her gear i▪ ngs over her once slighted son.--( Loud cheering, and laughter.) " Glasgow to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother University— Thebes did his green unknowing youth engage, Ile chooses Athens in his riper age." (kond and continued cheers and laughter.) It must, gen tlemen, necessarily happen to me (though far from an un concerned or uninterested spectator of what has been pas sing at home and amongst yourselves), from the labours to which I have more recently been devoted, that the circum stances of .Poland are those upon which I should naturally be tepptnn, and upon w hi c h I am b est qua lifi e d t o spea k. -- (liear.) But it is a source of true and pure gratifica- Linn to me to believe both that the interests of the two Milted countries are now so intimately bound up together, and perhaps more so at the present than at any previous moment, and that the deep sympathy of all the generous and all the liberal among us iu the long wrongs, the deep wants, and the high qualities of the people of Ireland, is so lively and so sincere, th a t a d eta il of c i rcumstances affecting the condition of Ireland, is unnecessary ; and env appeal concerning them to your con s id era ti on , i s thus rendered superfluous.—(Loud and continued cheers.) THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY. JANUARY 2L 183 Y. EneelishmMt! the Irish people fought withyou, and for you, to civil freedom the mgt unctLitructed range .! and I alh the battle of the Reform Bill.—(Load cheers.) York- most desirous to vanish for ever:S.:sem Mar tehhpleli anti cut shiremen! the Irish peonies lent ileetr beet ell-tete:Ur to the altars the class of steorded cliseeetee and eectuer bickerings. blow with whielt .yeu felled to the earth the gaunt form of --ee Cheers.) And while's we thus advance with the age negre ..t:t'very.—(Loud cbc'eres) INIon of Leeds I the Irish ;ie which Ise live, and adapt the framework of our polity to people' kept not hack their assistanc'd in the stregele which su rro unding circumstances, and clin g , P.O eibilie i fiechme conferred tin `your city the privilege 'of self-government. it happens to be an fs.ncit , _ , A abs ill - . ine Arl4, What, Gentlemen, has heysn the return ? the smallest from ini iMprereiiietit i Nallee lc is a change—(Loud - shred of municipal ireitutions—the slightest pretence to cleeera)—Whilst we thus advance, gentlemen, I must cege provide for the: I:tovernment and management 'ef ichet her at the same time that lam little : largest\ tier busiest, and most thieritNe cities—nay, the desert the nelne by which is recorded est.". mode of policy, with which ~: „. .,..r ., : f. or wim,;t h r i i s i i n , , ose p tl lc to as (Lse , li n it 7 1? t i.. :5 7 con : ' 6O predict. tlee Vega i of i f tsh ais:ren,k„ga .1: 1 A1,t ttin is associated every t'ene Of British—and not only of 13;;,'„ o* ntn":lei'et VAPAhr i'ri t ngd'..- 1 ::::-(1-kcar.,) Wll\ he it so the but Eurerea'n freedom and civilizetiee—bee PAM ett,Yrky• hsanl. & .,3 'of Indi‘viO.a l lS Sri, ''f I ,',arlies and of the empire, and tentemptuously denied them.---(Hoer..) k-"se e dio then, i are lieYold *the !e't a and scan of dittha . ealculetwin i es their 'fellow-countrymen, (telvorreA, Wh }Mean and veer- I but *se set a t ever depths Of o%ciirity I 'or n* eriesegi'say be selves, and instruct yowl. Roreeesentetives to detreind for t consigned, it is seffle'At l'itr ' , Vt'h, 'es an individual, to remem them, that this decrial 4 these common iigh'es `ellicli ynu her that for net!‘.• Uccessive elections I have borne your have won and enjoy, Shall no longer Isa. opposed to their coVeY'sh Lo victory.—( Loud cheers.) It is sufficient for me; 1 manly and perseverin7 derneatke--( Hear, hear, and isseel as a member of a party, to reflect that in fiear eledi.t eat- We cheers.) lam g l a d, 1 i ,7 1 , itew w a y, t o observe aael, "remark— have reformed the reprtesettati'On ',A We Pebple in Parliattent and it could not be tentntentional—the eiiersee of Sir Robert —(Loud elosetthe)seiC hahe refarined mid eiOned).l6 Waal- Peel Peel on this tieead.—(Hear.) ►Ytwt. hre aware, Gentleman, c; t iAt C'efiPeratiOnS-e 2 (Chhe'r - s)=W'i hithi iviv:epL from our that the plea on which the inquality of civil privileree has ' blushing reedr4s 'ell'e 't'kiV , l4e. bode of slavery—(Applause)-- 1 been attempted to be iesetified was grounded ett the affected we lave 4ie'itystl'ichie the Rae and shores of the globe to apprehension aithe prevalence of aritteibte—(Hear.) Be t t feei‘. , Y,sn trade and British enterprise—(Renewed applanst)asa how, I ask, h as thi s been.efirested ?—(Hear, heees) i we, in a word, have done all that upon tree lilleellect and am warranted, I am ?ewe, in hazarding the ttelfertion, that hesitating conduct to ..thi'dli Sir Robert Peel, the ablest there i s an exteos;ion of the confidence *nosed by the bulk champion ef' iNnervatism, rests his sole defence of the re of the Irish people in the up4ght intentions and the ins- cent policy pursued by the House of Lords—(Loud cheers) partial government of the Chief Governor of Irelarei s feelial —and this, gentlemen, the legislation .4 Hee; y&PS, the far ?dulls-rave, under them, and in cor di a l esersestettlece with and dimly-seen r e su lt s o f witai tire calculated to enrich and whom, I have the high satisfaction Woe ettlnes, and to this bless generative et Yoh unborn, and ages yet uncounted, has cause may also be attributed the iffietvement and general beetweel.et the ovcrtimed and the impatient mark it—has been tranquillity of that country, send the diminution of the else- d- 'achieved without the form of the Constitution iselost Vlblatdd racter and the number of outrages there which, -although —without one breaeli of the law btittg tantioned—without lam aware certain persons affect to deny t —IS susceptible one single drop of lumen blood being spilt.—(Loud cheers.) of the most positive proof, from dry returns and statements, Constittosteci'tleisf England! send . us still onward on the same and the authority of doctnents.—(Cheers.) Well, though path.—(Loud cheers.) It. is a career too lofty and glorious itos true that the tranquillity of Ireland has incheetied, for us to desert while there remains a triumph of good largely increased, yet agitation and these tebrmal schools government, of rational freedom, or of human amelioration —which were relied on as the leoditA bug-bear by Lord to be accomplished.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I may Lrulleurst and the House of teottis, in order to check the he thought too much a party interested to urge upon yott general current of legisktien—have hardly ever been. in the propriety of a vigilant attendance at the Courts of such a state of prominent activity.—(Louti cheers.) Registration, or to perseveee In a mutual union and co-ope- Such, gentlemen, has been the precious result of that ration among yelirselves.—( Hear, and cheers.) These are egregious policy, which was not content with drawing thts. posts which devolve on you as electors—it is for the re lines of demarcation between the three countries olden presentatives of a free people—it is for the Ministers of a form the nations of the empire, but has with admirable great empire, to perform their parts honestly, fearlessly, and ingenuity so barbed the wrong with insult, that what. with zeal—to labour in your service—to be jealous of your ever real advantage by the measure of Corporate Reform creditato promote your welfare—to advance and improve ' would have been conferred on the inhabitants of the large your resources—to consult your permanent interests, even towns of Ireland has been lost, whilst a sense of injury has when opposed to your momentary impressions—to guard pierced into every cabin, and rings rettead every hearth- the freedom of Great 13ritain with every safeguard —to stone.—(Loud cries of hear,) It h as opened to indignant array it with all the lustre of the liberal arts, and all the eloquence the most unfrequented echoes, and stirred he Manly, mild, and ,Christian virtues—(Loud cheers)—to be energetic action the 'most slumbering spirites-tLoud as devoted in the Senate and the Council as our soldiers cheers.) Gentlemen, there is another lending question, o n have b e en in the battle, and our seamen on the billow—to which issue not only the Irish but the national policy mate- sum up all in one sentence, to be worthy of such a country. rially depends—(Hear, bear)—it is the state of the Eccle- —(Loud and long-continued cheering.) siastical Establishment of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Ample The next toast was—" The Members for the West endowments were bequeathed by the piety of invlividuals, Riding of the County o f Y or k."—(Loud cheers.) and of former legislations, for the pisses of providing Sir G. STRICKLAND rose to return thanks. They were instruction and religious consolation for the Irish nation. living at a period when great national and constitutional Now, look to the componentsof that nation. I like to put questions were frequently discussed ; and perhaps there was those things plainly to the good sense of the people of York, nothing more remarkable in the present state of the nation for great pains have been taken to keep them out of sight. that this—that amidst almost universal prosperity indivi- The Irish nation consists of eight millions of inhabitants, duals and parties assailed each other with extreme hostility ,of whom not more than 852,000 are members of the Ista- and asperity. But if they took a calm and dispassionate blished Church ; and of the seven millions Who form the view of the questions at present in agitation, they would remaining portion of the population, the immense majority find in them something to surprise ; nothing to alarm ; of 6,400,000 were Roman Catholics.—( Hear, hear.) Well, for they had on the one hand the great body of the people, then, Gentlemen, a State provision has been made for the and a large proportion of the middle and higher classes of religious wants of the Irish people—unleeppily the poorest, society, united to obtain a reform of all the institutions of and, I fear, the most miserable en the face of the earth the state, and a thorough redress of grievances ; and on the —but there goes not a fraction of this to the seven mil- other they had the old Tory party trying to rechristen them lions, but it goes exclusively to the 852,000, who, more- selves Conservatives, and struggling to preserve or to re over, proclaim constantly that they comprise by far the establish those abuses by means of which, for so many years, larger portion of the wealthy, the educated, and the en- they were enabled to misgovern this country, and upon lightened classes in Ireland. (Loud cries of " Hear, which they lived and prospered.—(Cheers.) He had seen it hear.") Now, Lord Wharncliffe tells us, " That the value stated that the repeal of the Test and Corporation Act, of an establishment is the provision by the State for the and the carrying the measure of Catholic Emancipation, had religious wants of the poor ;" but the Church of Ireland laid the foundation for all the subsequent reforms that had does exactly the reverse oh this.—(Hear.) And again taken place. But that was taking a very narrow and con- Sir Robert Peel, in his late speech says, " I mean to sup- traetcd view of the question, and he need dnly appeal to the port a national establishment, which . will connect Prates , . history of' Yorkshire, and to the names of many great men tantism with the State in the three --countries ;" and he also now no more, to prove that for the last fifty years a desire says, " The established religion is deep rooted in the convic- to reform the representation of the people in the Commons' tion, the feeling, and the affection of the Protestant people.' House of Parliament, and to remove those defects which —(Hear, hear.) Now that observation might have been had established themselves in our institutions, had taken a applied to England and Scotland, where with propriety the deep root in the feelings and affections of the people. For people can be said to be a P ro t es t an t p eop l e , an d t h ere f ore fif ty years t h e peop l e were d eterm i ne d to accomp li s h t hi s into the question of the expediency of religious establish- grand object. At length, alter a glorious effort, reform meats in those countries, I shall not enter ; but I cannot reached the House of Commons.--(Cheers.) It never was but think it a left-handed compliment, to place those este- intended that the Act by which that reform was effected blishments on a level with the Church of Ireland.—(Hear.) should remain a dead letter to ornament the shelf of some . lam sure John Knox, who has lately been invoked at a library, there to rest and rot. No, Reform had proved itself great rate, would not be a little scandalized at such a cons- to be a goodly tree, extending its branches far and wide, and panionship.—(Hear and laughter.) But if the Irish are to already it had ripened much wholesome fruit.—( Cheers.) be called by any name, and if it be necessary to distinguish The question was now asked, from one extremity of the the people of the empire by their religious professions, then United Kingdom to the other—cannot reform reach the must the Irish, I fear, be called not a Protestant, but a House of Lords? Deeply as he was attached to the prin. Catholic people;—(Hear, hear.) I wish that this was not ciples of the British Constitution, that was to say, a Govern so, but we must deal with circumstances as we find them, !tient consisting of a King, a House of rtir - ds, or an assembly and therefore although the Protestant establishment be of the Barons and the Aristocracy, and of a House of Corn rooted in the conviction, the feelings, and affections of a Pro- mons, or an assembly of the people, each acting upon and testant people, yet we must not wonder if it be not rooted in controlling the other ; firmly as he was resolved, as far as the conviction, feelings, and affection of a Catholic people. in him lay, to resist any attempt that might be made to re- On this subject I have not kept back my opinions from the model, or rather, he should say, to change the British array of Conservatism and the Tory phalanx in the House Constitution ; yet, still, as he was of opinion that it could of Commons ; and I certainly shall not keep it back from be proved that defects had crept into the construction and an audience which I apprehend to be somewhat less Conser- working of the House of Lords through the lapse of time, vative ; and this opinion is, that in the measures we have and the violence and intrigues of parties, so he thought it hitherto proposed we do not go the full length to which the was their duty to reform, to restore, and, by that means, to premises of the case might naturally carry them.—(Loud preserve the House of Lords.—(Cheers.) He would, cries of " Hear," and cheers.) We are accused by our foes therefore, as shortly as possible refer to those plans which of betraying the Protestant Establishment, but it is my had been proposed for that object. The first, and for a sincere convection s that we euttee offered to that Esta- long period, the only plan which was before the country blishmett terms more favourable than I, who belong to was, that the King should be addressed to make a nume. it, dare now to hope we shall ever see realized.---(Loud rous creation of new Peers. But he (Sir G. Strickland) and ,continued cheers.) And it is painful indeed, for must say that he thought a more unsatisfactory or a more the sake of that Establishment, that we are now corn- clumsy expedient never was proposed, for he would ask this • pelted to fight those, which ought to be the battles of one plain question—Had they not already Lords enough ? purity and faith, with unseemly weapons of warfare, and —(Great cheering.) Nay, of what was it that they com that the clergy, often entirely blameless, are exposed in plained ? That the old, the well-known, the respected situations which they have not made for themselves, but aristocracy of the ccuntry—the real, the true House of being placed in whi c h, th e y co nsid er i t t o b e t h e i r d uty L or d s h a d b een overw h e lm e d a nd swam ped by the deluge rd dependant on their honour not to quit. them. As a of Pitt Peers.—(Cheers.) He said it with feelings of high Orotestant, then, and as a churchman, 1 feel that the time satisfaction that the people had no reason to complain of the presses for a speedy adjustment of this much vexed Peers who bore such names as those of Fitzwilliam, of question, and that if this adjustment be not speedily ac- Russell, of Cavendish, or of Howerd.—(Loud cheer compashed, then meet all hope for it be irretrievably ing.) It was the turncoat merchants and bank lost.—(Loud Cheers.) Gentlemen, I allude to the pa- erg—the speculating lawyers 'of broken fortunes verty ohith affects the balk of the Irish people. I shall -and shattered principles, living upon pensions taken out not dwell upon that harrowing subject, for sure lam that of the pockets of the people, of whom they had reason you will all agree with me that it is not one to be approached to Complain. It had been estimated that the King, in order for the purpose of playing with your sympathies, but that to exercise his undoubted constitutional prerogative of sw ay we rosy adopt sound weestures of practical relief ; and I ing the majority of the House of Lords by new creations, cannot, therefore e quit it without stating my conviction that would be obliged to make an addition of not less than 100 on the part of those intrusted with the management of affairs new Peers. But whilst the House of Commons was limited there is no question can approach— w h e th er with reference in number, and the Housc.. of Lords went. on accumulating to their duty as stotedmen, or their feelings as philanthro- at this rate, was it not evident that the balance of the Con pists—that tiltit is no question which approaches in the stitution must be shaken ? Besides, as had been well and deep importance of its details to the introduction of a sys- wittily observed, if we went on thus continually multiplying tent of IN.anelaws into Ireland.—(Loud cries of " Hear.") the number of Peers, we must double the width of Downing . It is by legi s l a ti ng i n thi s sp i r i t , an d on t h ese en li g ht ene d s t ree t, witten all the avenues to Government, double and considerations for the sufferings of that country—by a re- quadruple the number of sinecure places and undeserved co s enitiOn of the rights and confidence in the gratitude of its pensions, to make room for these hungry expectants after people, that we can most hope for, and best deserve to make place, power, and public plunder.—(Cheers.) Another plan her, instead of a thorn, a burthen, and a blot, our partner, had twee proposed whiciaehe , confessed, was more difficult our help, and an ornament in all the arts of the empire, and I to deal with ; because at first sight it seemed to be better all our paths of glory.—(Loud and continued cheering.) i founded on reason. That plan was that the House of Gentlemen,—with re s pe c t to the external aTtirs of the Lords should, in some manner, be elected by the people. empire, I never meet you, at each recurring year, with- —(Cheer:-.) He had elready taken an opportunity of ex out n,ingling my gratitude. lam sure with your own, that pressinc,rhis dissentfrom that scheme—( Exeression s o f disap we still possess the invaluable blessings of peace—(Cheers). probation)—because he thought it would be opening a wide —and I could wish that other nations, with whose interests and dangerous breach in tire long-tried and established we cannot fail to fsel a natural concern, could see their long principles of the British Constitution. Ile thought that intestine strifes draw to an amicable close ; and though two popular assemblies could not long exist together— I cannot follow them, with entire satisfaction, in every that one of them would become predominant, and the other instance, yet, I must ever feel a lively interest in the spoil- f4ll into .disuse. They would then have a Government taneous warfare of our fellow-countrymen, although not in consisting of one uncontrolled popular assembly, with a the cause of otir own c oun t r y. But I can far less enter , merely executive King ; when the great danger to be ap into the feelings of that party whose constitutional predi- vel-tided would be the establishment of a military and lections have enlisted them in the camp of Don Carlos, kingly despotism—(Loud cheers)—or else the no less or whose orthodox aspirations have induced them to fist- fearful despotism of a wild democracy.—(Cheers and low the banner of the Inquisition.—(Hear, hear.) With hisses.) He knew that there were persons enam?ured respect to the future march of our internal national po- of their early reading, who Would say that in the small )icy, of course I am aware that there are questions on republiss of ancient Greece the human mind made the which the friends of liberal principles may differ.—(Bear.) most a stonishing advances : that the arts of architecture, I hope, however, that however they may differ, with ho- of scuff pture, of painting, and of eloquence, arose to a pitch nour, their mutual respect will lead them to make allow- of per ection of which at this day we were only the humble ante for each other.—( Hear.) And I should here, Gen- imitators ; but their personal safety and liberty were un tlemen, be glad to inquire, are there no questions upon kno•a n. and we still read with feelings of anxiety the stories which the Conservatives—although more inured to discip- of inany great men, who, having well served their country, line, and more disposed to passive obedience—are not found wee e sacrificed to bursts of sudden popular phrenzy, or to be unanimous? Do all Conservatives profess to hate for ever banished from their country.—(Applause.) If they the name of Reform?—(Hear, hear.) Do all Conserve- too ked to more recent examples, they found standing con- Lives shrink from the circulation of one pound notes ? spiouously forward the republic of Venice, but that spon (Hear.) Do all Conservatives cherish the malt tax ? de generated into a cruel oligarchy. Another plan had ( Hear, bear.) Do all Conservatives affect to treat the been proposed which he blieved to be the favourite Irish people as aliens ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Do all or the present day. It was this—that the House of Conservatives agree with the declaration of Lord Whalen-. Lc rds should be allowed only a power of revision—that cliffe, with respect to the establishment of the Catholic tb ey should possess only a veto for two, three, or four years• religion ?—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, lam prepared to per- Flut was not that contending for a mere shadow ? Was it severe in the course of public conduct in which I have . not, in fact, almost a literal description of the present work hitherto trod.—(Loud cheers.) I value, and will to the 'i ing of the House of Lords, with all its delays , of which they utmost maintai n , th e C ons tit u ti on of the count r y—but I so much complained? But then, it might be asked, " are under its broad expansive shade, I would remove every oh- there no methods by which ,e” we can He thoughreform, it thererestore, were.-- an,edpre stacle, and clear ever y avenue o f access t o ever y c l ass , t o . serve the House of Lords every creed, and every race, that ow n s its sway and courtly (Loud cheers.) He would not trespass upon their time for its shelter.—(Loud cheers.) I will persist in the reduction I one moment by making any observation upon the childish and removal of all the remainder that exists of exclusive custom of voting by proxy, without hearing one word of privileges and monopolies, by which one class of our fellow the argument advanced in support of, or in opposition to, countrymen may be benefitted to the detri men t o f a ll th e ii) e question to be decided ; but there was another part of rest.—(Loud cheers.) I would give to religi ous as we ll as t h e report which he could not pass over in silence, because !,t waK ry, 4 : aleeest lirto , 7llt, ender the eonsi eratilan House priety of the Bishops sitting in the Hotne of Lords.- (Great cheering.) Their nurnberis were StriCtly limited ; ap4, theref* he thC,UOt thiS of our hlsrory incre tie double the number of Bishops, together with mitred Ab bots, who sat in, the House of I.9rds, At another period in Our history there were no Bishops in that assembly, At all times they sat theta by iryliitienCe;L-4jheers.) lie *6Ol, Oial44e4el iOliirn the Most [tie stitacet. He had atrCii;:.,; , that by the inordinate increase of the" A.umber i'eers for party pur -I;6se; dtiriii'g r the of , Geo, tjeii: ha ;ince 4 the' COtiiil,Ltian' had been that Wit- ham IV. was the first King of England who had ever been deprived of his constitutional prerogative of influencin g the majority of the House of Lords by new creations, The thitigiii f-UOtled l 6 bn fuilk iinderStood at tie peiltidS .of the tinitin ibith Sebtland afid The Sebtbli 1 1 :ebtt *bit; ilierObre; lirniteci to 16, and the ifisli 63 2g: Biit, the bitperinient tlien tried Of making, the 16 Peers of Scotland a self eieeted bOdy bad prodtteed as sa tisfactory a result as aid seltl-elected corporations, fie:. fhek always returned a filialanit df persons representing one set of tipithoili atone; i 3 tii6 Of all others;—(Cheers.) That there Was a state or the law dna fegtfirtti td le al tered and amended, and as he thought that the principle of the. British Constitution Was that the House of. Lords tir.ltigi§t *1:110 diielent afistoeraey of the land, he thought, that the 16 who sat in Parliament for gatland should be those of the oldest creation. Then taking toge ther all these facts ; these principles; and these precedents— if the House of Ctithbititis weft! lintited itt riumbetif the eicotch and Irish Peers were limited in number—if the ha. lance of the Constitution had been shaken, and the King deprived of one of his great constitutional prerogatives—lie thought they came inevitably to the conclusion that the House of Lords ought to be limited likewise.—(Cheers.) For the sake of argument, then, taking three hundred for the limit a ti on —h e th oug ht that they ought all to be Peers of the oldest creations. Then referring to the toe= cedents of Scotland and Ireland, it would not be necessary to deprive the rest of their high-sounding titles, some of which had been -acquired by public serviced, of of their seats in the House of Lords when their turns might conig. This limitation extending only to the hereditary peerage, the King would have restored to him his prerogative by creating Peers for life, Peers for the Parliament, or, should they live so long, Peers for his own life. There was yet another subject of deep concernment which was certain in various shapes, to be brought before the House of Commons. The question was, " Are you or are you not of opinion that the Reform of the House of Commons has gone for nought ?"—(Cries of " No, no.") In stating his own conviction that the reform of the House of Commons had not gone far enough, he felt the advantage of the strong ground which he bad taken in resting all his argu ments tiport the undoubted principle of the British Consti tution ; for, as he would uphold the true House of Lords as a safety valve to the nation in moments of great public excitement, so he felt himself strengthened and fortified in his position that the House of Commons ought to be, to use the words of Mr. Burke, " the true counterpart and express image of the people."—(Cheers.) To effect that, he thought that the Septennial Act ought to be repealed, and in preference to the five years proposed by some, that they should return to triennial Parliaments.— (Cheers.) But in doing that, he thought some precaution ought to be adopted, that elections on an average should not be much more frequent than once in three years. Be sides this, he long bad been, and still was, a supporter of the vote by ballot.—(Loud and continued cheering.) He coincided in the opinion expressed by Lord Althorp, on the passing of the Reform Bill, that the insertion of the clause which extended the elective franchise to 501. tenants at will, virtually carried along with it the vote by ballot.—(Cheers.) If he were asked how the Reforms he had suggested could be carried into effect, his answer would be, that events had taken place within the recollection of all whom he addressed —aye, within a very few years—which clearly established the fact, that if the people were united and determined they were irresistible.—(Continued cheering.) The next toast was—" Mr. Parker and the Reformers of Sheffield."—(Loud applause.) Mr. PARKER, in returning thanks, said—Gentlemen, 1 feel, after the speech of my Noble Friend, that I am not called upon to enter upon any detailed defence of the mea sures of the Government of which I am a servant, or to attempt any detailed answer to the various accusations which, at the late autumnal banquets, have been adduced against us ; but I must say that no Government ever had combined against it a greater mass of general calumny and abuse, as if the party of which we are the members were not as much interested in supporting the glory and prosperous fortunes of the British empire, as these ancient Tories or -new Conservatives themselves.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, in the name of Lord MelbourneN Government I protest against the imputations with which it has been loaded. Sir Robert Peel, in his late speech at Glasgow, has declared, and in the abstract I quite agree with him, that it is inexpedient and unwise to meddle with such delicate machines as that of Government without much study and deliberate atten tion to its structure. Now I suppose that he means by this that Lord Melbourne and his colleagues are not the persons whom it is safe to intrust with power. If so, I ask him why he did not depart from general assertions, and adduce a single instance ? How is it that no Tory or Con servative ever does so? Of the speech of Sir Robert Peel I have only to say that it appears to me that it would have done equally, so far as its spirit goes, for any other time. It would have done in 1828 ; and after it he might have op posed the repeal of the Test Acts. It would have done in 1829, and after it he might have opposed the Catholic Re lief Bill. It would have done during any year in the inter vening period ; and without departing from its spirit, he might have opposed any of the measures of improvement which have since become laws.—(Hear, hear.) But there is one cardinal defect in such a speech on such an occasion. Only conceive 3,500 persons gathered together to hear the sentiments.of the great Conservative leader, and Ireland, with all its difficulties, dismissed almost without a sentence. --(Hear, hear.) But whatever might be the views of the audience, Sir Robert Peel well knew that silence on such a subject was his wisest course.—( Hear.) He must feel that unless he can induce himself and induce his party to change their Irish policy, that the soliloquy of Wolsey—" Fare well, a long farewell, to all my greatness"—must also be his own.—(Hear, hear.). He must know that it is impossible to base a party, in these times, on the principle of not doing what is just—(Cheers)—and he must feel that the public opinion is taking its position on the side of Ireland. Gen • tlernen, I believe that no man is fit to be a Minister—that no Minister either can or ought to stand a month—who ad ministers Ireland on any other principle than that adopted by Lord Mulgravc—and administered under the direction of that Noble Earl, and our Representative, Lord Mor peth.—(Hear, hear, and loud cheering.) We are bound t 3 do to the Irish as we should expect Ireland, under. other circumstances, were we similarly situated, to do to us, and the people of England will suffer no system to continue which shall impair the union of the triple Crown. —(Loud clioers.) Gentlemen, God and nature have brought these isles together in political and geographical affinity. What God and nature have put together, let no Minister place asunder. I consider the objections to Lord Mulgrave's Irish system a war against statistics ; a war against common sense, against justice, and against facts— (Cheers)—and when I hear distinctions, made amongst English, and Irish, and Scotch representatives, putting the three countries into different schedules, and saying " these are English, but those are Irish only"—(Hear, hear)—l must say I disbelieve altogether in the statesmanlike quali fications of the individuals from whence they come—(Hear) —no matter how high their station or great their authority may be.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel had observed, I must say•without his usual caution, on the differences amongst Reformers, and has adverted to certain uncomplimentary passages between the adherents of the present Government, and some of their supporters, and Mr. O'Connell. Now, gentlemen, much as they talk of disunion amongst Re formers, are they themselves a whit more united ? (Hear.) There are very different spirits in that party from the spirit of Sir Robert Peel ; and were they in power, the great expectation I should feel of the speedy reinstate ment of the friends of the good old cause would arise, from the inevitable differences which, hushed for a moment, would soon break out in the camp of the Conservatives, be cause I am quite sure that Sir Robert Peel could no more command the continual service of his adherents than Lord Melbourne or any Minister in times like these can com mand the adherence of every species of Reformers.— (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I call upon you to attend in the Court of the Revising Barristers, as well as at the hustings, and I will quote the last political words of one, which will have far greater weight than anything which can fall from me. " Register, register, register," said the late Lord Milton, at that last dinner of which he was the Presi dent, in commemoration of the election of my Noble Friend. Though the lips from whence this advice came are now mute, and the young hope of Yorkshire is no more, York shiremen, I am sure, will remember the substance of the precept, and at the proper time will do their duty.— (Loud applause.) The next toast was, " Mr. Baines and the Reformed Constituency of Leeds."—(Loud cheers.) EDWARD BAINES, Esq., M.P., was received with loud applause. He said--Gentlemen, it affords me the most sincere pleasure to witness in this borough, which I have the honour to represent in Parliament, one of the most splendid political festivals that had ever been held in the county of York, or pethaps in the kingdom of England. This meeting unites all the ingredients which are essential to give character and dignity to its proceedings—rank, ta lent, opulence, and numbers, everything, in fact, that, one could wish to see congregated on such an occasion.— AA we have also what, if it were wanted as i‘ ( C h ti e t e kt ee t ,? ‘ would deprive : the meetine of all i I 1,3 jtihii;s t,tl v : liberty an e reforre.— nn hour (Cheers.) ft not feF ge.c as this t ee occupy much time(" tiff ? go 611 1 ----I,vith a sPeeeetsitidri onylea eubleofe Wheels at prevent engage so large a portion of fhe feileeite setticatione When I consi der that I have frequently had opporttenities of speaking so large !lumbers of you, and you' have had frequent oppor o.f heat'ii , .g' and becomieg acquainted with the semi reente . which I hat + Oished to convey, it is the less neces seie that shoald on thin eceelien lon g H detain yen. ow evete ihie I Will i eae; ihat, animated heihereeeption which you have been preeeee to give Mc—a receptiOil Ohich pute quite as Much to your faliCf..); towards my constituents tls te4eids ieyeelfenitnated by that feeleep I cannot en tirely pass by those eieeeeete without observatioe, And I will say, Gentlemen, without demi - gee, This a fit occasion to enter ha anything that belongs to myself, if glitollt return to Par lidtrient fete erlendid exhibition of this night, Palmated ditti invigorated bk the spith "'Web your plaudits have inftlsed into thlg theoting; a . hd the . spirit int./tiled by the speakers who have gone beeste , end if I may he so invidious as to particularize, I must say by net of the Noble Lord, who has to-fiiesbe iseen excelled himself.—{(sheet's.) What a subject of congratulation it isegentlemen, that while we afe reposing in safety in Yorkshire, enjoying ourselves, and stimulating edeil ether' to exertion, anxious to gecore the future pros perity of else cage in which we are embarkOdf we know we have a representative over the channel for a great pert of the year, endeavouring to make happy a people who deserve to be tt ell ettlee, yet have been misgovereed for centuries past.—(Cheers.) It is matter that can never fail to occupy agreeably our minds, when we think how we contributed to raise him to the station he se well deserves, a man who is so honourably acquitting himself in this country and in Ire land. Gentlemen, on my return to Parliament, I shall en deavour to secure one thing, whatever else may fail—justice to Ireland.—(Cheers.) We have heard something of a speech lately delivered at Glasgow, and I confess I read that speech with great delight. I read it with delight because it bears testimony to those principles we support. Instead of show ing the Government we have supported to be imbecile, the speaker bag eibibited a catalogue of acts such agayere never performed before by arty Government since England Was England.—(Cheers.) Sir &beet Peel, to answer his pre sent peepeteg enumerated the Acts Of ten years' legislation. He told his hearcee ihat had been achieved , I will read you shortly his bright and brilliant catalogue of their deeds. I agree with Sir Robert Peel, both in his facts and his deduc tions from those facts, and therefore I hate thought proper to bring before you, as many of you may not already have had an opportunity of reading the speech, what I call the ten cardi nal points adduced in Sir Robert's speech. Sir Robert first utters this sentence :—" The whole commercial policy of the country has been changed ; our intercourse with the East and. West Indies has been put on a totally different footing ; mo nopolies have been destroyed, and free and unrestricted in tercourse established,"—(Cheers.) And this man talks of the imbecility of the Government, The changes here announced pass glibly over the tongue, but when you consider the con sequences of these changes now only beginning to be felt, you will think they were worth living an age to effect. They spread a beneficial influence from the rising to the setting sun. It has been beautifully said that the sun never sets on the dominiotig of England, and if it be the case that free institutions are established in the East and the West, to the extremities of the world, we bevo both benefited the coun tries to which we trade and ourselves. That is the first act of an imbecile Government. Hear a few more. Let it be observed, as Sir Robert Peel says, quoting Lordellohn Rus sell—surely he is an impartialeudge—he cannot be said to be partial to the principles you support. The next point he quotes is this :—" The whole of our criminal law has been revised and consolidated. The severity of our crimi nal code has been mitigated." I confess, gentlemen, some of the merit of the accomplishment of this belongs to Sir Robert Peel. lam sure I would be the last man to with hold whatever merit does belong to him, for his speeches are distinguished in a peculiar manner from those we heard about the close of the last Session, when a certain Noble Lord talked of Irishmen being " aliens in blood, in religion, and in language." Sir Robert seldom introduces language embittered by recrimination. Ido not wish to withhold the tribute that belongs to the Right Hon. Barotiet, and some of the merit of the amelioration of the criminal code is his ; but, at the same time, we must look to the foundation of these ameliorations. Are they not attributable to Sir James Mackintosh, Sir Samuel Romilly, and other true and faith ful, Whigs, who had been so much calumniated, yet who have done so much for their country ?—(Hear.) The next point to which Sir Robert Peel adverts is this—" The civil disabilities have been removed from the Catholics." An achievement certainly of no slight moment, having been contended for during the last thirty years by the Whigs, and at last Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington were compelled to give way, and concede to your opinion and that of the country. The next point to which Sir Robert Peel adverted is the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. —(Hear.) Is that a small achievement ?—(" No, no.") These Acts had existed for nearly two hundred years, and yet by the exercise of public opinion, Sir Robert Peel and those with whom he acted were obliged to repeal these enactments.—(Cheers.) The next" point to which he alludes is a Reform in the House of Commons, which has taken place within the same period, and that in spite of Sir Robert, and in spite of all the force he could bring to op pose it.—(Hear, hear.) Was it an act of imbecility to destroy an oligarchy that had formed itself upon the Con stitution, and that had established itself in such a way as to render its overthrow a gigantic achievement ?—and yet this Government, with all its imbecility, accomplished that act. The next topic to which Sir Robert alludes is the abolition of slavery. Gentlemen, in the accomplishment of the abolition of slavery, I am happy to say that all parties to a certain degree were united ; but when I make that admission, I must say there was one party particularly pro minent in their desire for that abolition, and if a disposition to effect that glorious consummation did exist in one party more than another, I should say it existed in the hearts of the present Government.—(Loud cheers.) Sir Robert Peel next says—" The municipal institutions of Eng land and Scotland have been refortned."—(Hear, hear.) Was that nothing, Gentlemen ?—(" Yes, yes.") Show me any period since the conquest up to the present time where such acts have been performed, and which haVe been performed as the Noble Lord very justly observed, without the shedding or a drop of human blood, and without any description of force being resorted to, but the force which arose from the expression of public opinion, acting on an enlightened Government.—(Loud cheers.) The next point to which Sir Robert thought proper to address him self was to a most salutary object which was accomplished the last year. He said, "In the last Session of Parlia ment, the laws which affected the Dissenters of England as regarded the marriage ceremony and the registration of .births, were entirely altered, and complete relief given." —(Hear, hear.) These arc Sir Robert Peel's own words, and I think we shall not deny that on those questions as relating to Dissenters, complete redress has been given. —(Hear, bear.) Sir Robert says, " The tithes of Eng land have been commuted."—( Hear, hear.) The tithes, as many of you know, have for ages kept up a spirit of bitter hostility between the parochial clergy and their pa rishioners, end have prevented religion from having proper influence over the people ; yet, during the last year this im becile Administration have commuted the tithes in such a way as to render the arran g ement of that difficult question satisfactory to all parties aild tpe ressive to none. The Right Hon. Baronet says again—" That the taxes on knowledge have been removed." I sun eery glad that the taxes on knowledge have been removed, and if the audience to which Sir Robert Peel addressed himself will use in a proper man ner the knowledge they may now enjoy, they will find that Sir Robert Peel ought to be opposed to the party to which he is at present attached. But, gentlemen, there are still remaining other measures to be accomplished, and I hope at the end of Sir Robert's ,rectoral year, he will return to Glasgow, to inform the good people of that city that four other measures of great national importance and advantage have been achieved by the same Administration. I hope he will say, " Gentlemen, when I was before you on a late oc casion, I e numerated a great many public advantages which have been achieved during the last ten years. It is now my happiness to mention four more very important measures, accomplished, indeed, by that Administration of which I have before spoken.—(Loud laughter.) The first is, that there has been complete relief given to the people of Ireland, so far as regards the commutation of their tithes, and that in mentioning to you that fact, I can tell you that it has been determined to apply the surplus reve nues of the Church of Ireland to the moral and religious education of the whole of the people of that country...L. (Loud cheers.) The next act that has been performed is this, that the Government has completely reformed the municipal institutions of Ireland, and has placed them upon the same footing as the municipal institutions of England and Scotland.—(Cheers.) I have also to inform you that a legal provision has been made for the destitute poor of Ireland. The fourth act which the Government has per formed is little less important, namely, the unconditional and entire abolition of church-rates in England." I think whetr Sir Robert Peel has made this annunciation to the people of Scotland, and when he tells the good people et Glasgow how much progress has been made b 5 the Govern ment, they will be satisfied that Sir Robert Peel may say with a very good grace " Gentlemen, seeing how important • and valuable are the measures of Reform passed by this Government, I am determined to leave the party to which I at present belong, and become a member of the Reform Government."—(Cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, whoa Sir Robert Peel has made this public avowal, we may con gratulate him upon having placed himself in a right position. —(Cheers.) The passing of these acts will do more to give stability to the House of Lords,' and to remain for that assembly the affections of the country, which has been so i much impaired by their proceedings dUting the last ses• sion of Parliament, than any logic of Sir Robert Peers.— (Hear.) 'lt is my cordial wish that the House of Loids, without entering , into the elaborate details which my Hon. yriend, Sir George Strickland, has presented for our consi deration, i niu say that it is my ardent wish .that the House of Lords should maintain their proper stand in public estimation ; but this respect and confidence can never be secured by opposing themselves to the wisLeit and interests of the great body of the people either in England or in Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) In conclusion, I have to return you and my excellent friend who has mentioned our names with so much favour, my cordial thanks and the thanks of the Reformers of Leeds, for the enthusiastic manner with which you have received us. It will also be a source of gratific:ttion to us to see associated in our bo rough ro power - nil an array of talent, respectability, and numbers, and I trust that wa shall have frequent meetings of ft similar kind for these convivial and patriotic purposes. These metings will strengthen our already strong position, and tend to uphold that policy which is the best safeguard for the public interests, and the. support of good govern ment.--(The Hon. dentlemau resumed his seat amidst lOud and low , continued cheers.) . . SJveral other toasts were proposed and speeches made, and the company separated. PUBLIC DINNER OF THE TRADES MEN'S REFORM ASSOCIATION TO WILLIAM EWART, ESQ., M.P. (From the Morning Advertiser.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY NIGHT, TWELYR O'CLOCK. This public demonstration of the esteem in which the respected representative, Mr. Ewart, is held by the Reform tradesmen of the town, took place last night at the Royal Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street. The number of tickets disposed cf amounted to upwards of 1,020, and the numerous applications made up to a late hour last evening were necessarily rejected, though large sums were in some instances offered to the Committee and others, as an inducement to them to part with a single extra ad mission. The Amphitheatre was fitted up with exceeding taste, and presented an appearance of great elegance.' Im mediately beneath the proscenium was placed the principal table, which extended nearly from wing to wing of the stage. In the mid-space at this table sat the Chairman, Joshua Walmsley, Esq., supported on the right and left by the most distinguished of the guests. The Chair was taken at half-past six o'clock. The entry . of the Chairman, Joshua Walmsley , Esq ., President of the Association, accompanied by William Ewart, Esq., and the principal guests, was greeted with an enthusiastic cheer followed by clapping of hands, the ladies in the boxes stan ding up, and waving scarfs and handkerchiefs, and the band playing up, " See the conquering hero comes." The Chair man was supported on the right by W. Ewart, Esq., M.P.; Joseph Brotherton, Esq., M.P. for Salford ; Rigby Wason, Esq., M.P. for Ipswich ; Thomas Potter, Esq., of Binley hill, near Manchester, brother to the Member for Wigan ; Edward Baxter; Esq., of Manchester : Thomas Bolton, Esq., and James Harvey, Esq. On the left—Thomas Thornely, Esq., M.P. ; Charles Hindley, Esq. M.P. for Ashton ; and Thomas Gisborne, Esq., M. P. for Der byshire. The cloth was not drawn until twenty minutes to eight o'clock. The following toasts were given from the Chair : The health of his Majesty, the King, Duke of Lancas ter, who has added lustre to the Throne, and strength to the Constitution by his sanction of Parliamentary and Mu nicipal Reform.—(Loud cheers, and three times three.) Band—" God save the King." " The Queen, and the other Members of the Royal Fa mily."—(Cheering.) " The Princess Victoria ; may she continue to rally round her the affections of a free, virtuous, and enlightened nation"—which was drunk amidst reiterated applause and cheering. Band—" Here's a health to all good Lasses." " The Duke of Sussex, the consistent supporter of the liberties of the people."—(Loud applause.) " The People, the only source whence political power can legitimately emanate." Band—" Hearts of Oak." . • The CHAIRMAN then gave " Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers ; may they always feel that the stabi lity of their Administration is best secured by the uncom promising independence with which they advocate the liber ties of the people."--(Loud continued cheering.) The CHAIRMAN then rose and gave " The health of William Ewart, Esq.—(Loud and long-continued cheering) —our able and enlightened Representative, whose Parlia mentary career has been charactorised by an undeviating, and zealous advocacy of the best interes ts of the countr y . —(Tremendous cheering, the whole company rising to do rj honour to the toast.) When the applause had subsided— Mr. EWART rose and, said—Ladies and Gentlemen : the Tories have had their feasts ; they have had a regular sys" tem of organized eating—(Cheers and laughter)—which, with a patriotic spirit, they have been carrying 'into effect for the good of their country.—(Laughter.) But this, Gentlemen, is no got-up dinner—(Cheers)—this is a dinner the simple emanation of public spirit.—(Renewed cheers.) Our opponents have been going round with their system of dinner organization ; it may be said of them, in the words, of the poet, with their ready-made speeches, and their readY appetites— " Fire in each eye, and paper's in each hand, They rave; recite, and :madden round the land." —(Cheers.) But, Gentlemen, it is our turn now, and the exposition made last night at Birmingham—which is making this day at Liverpool—and which is to be made at the great Middlesex dinner on Monday next, of which I have the honour to be one of the stewards—these things will frighten Toryism back to its old haunts, and terrify the Tories, as they always must be terrified when the voice of freedom speaks at a public meeting of the people. Gentlemen, we have, I am sorry to say , too much against us the clergy 0' the Church of England; L wish I could say otherwise, for their sakes as well as for our own ; for if ever men stood uP for the ample remuneration of the democracy of the Church .—for the proper payment of the poorer portion of the clergy of the Church of England—it was the liberal part pf the House of Commons—(Cheers)—for while we tool‘ .the liberty of objecting to Bishops -with 15,0001. a year, and when we objected to one Bishopric, including London , Lambeth, and the whole Metropolitan circuit round Lon' don, I for one took the liberty of declaring that I consi tiered it too topographical a description—that the revenues should be circumscribed, and the surplus appropriated for the be'nefit of the poorer clergymen of the Church.-- -- ' (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we have too many of these powers and dominations against us, and in the towns we have still against us a-power to contend with, and though it it onlY the spectre of the party's power, still it is a power-- mean the ghosts of the late deceased Corporations.--- - * (Laughter.) You will not imagine, when you personify in your minds the spectre of such a Corporation .A 8 still per' haps haunts this town,—you will not imagine it either lessened in its proportions, or 'unsubstantial in its figure' but fat and of goodly pretence, still swelling with conscious power, " with its fair round belly with fat turtle linetl."- ' (Much laughter.) I am sorry to say that in our town this spectral opposition has still too much ascendancy, and will require the nerve and the courage of Englishmen to lay it at rest, and effectually to exorcise it. Let us now, Gen . tlemen, turn to _Scotland, where I am happy to say the spirit of sound independence takes root and flourisikes where the people, with their characteristic firmness an d ' l " deliberation, are determined to accomplish the triumph ° freedom which has begun, and where 1. am happy to say, when the next clect;on comes, we shall certainly see a° increased majority of Liberal representatives returned by Scotland.—(Loud cheers.) It is true, Gentlemen, that celebrated metropolitan performer, well known for his per' formanees in the chapel of St. Stephen's, has been recently exhibiting himself to astonish the Natives of Scotland hut unless I have much mistaken, ou r very neighbours 03 Scotland will already have answered all his p:.ausible sophie tries. I will not say, gentlemen, in what character he b 1 appeared before the inhabitants of Glasgow , but tlit I vro say, that it is not the first time that he has appeared in thi!t character.—(Cheers and laughter.) Sir Robert Peel flo . ' jured the people of Scotland to stand with her army by thee House of Lords, and he tells them that by the House ° Lords be is resolved to stand or fall ; and yet I think, g entle' men, it Rot have occurred to many of our skilful and wad friends in Scotland, that this same declaration of standing W e i a certain part of the Constitution was made by Sir Rober t: Pe when lie said that nothing would induce him to give up the principle of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland — (Hear , hear) —and yet the time came of Catholic emancipation ; the popular tide rose resistless in its swell, and it swept be: fore it the obdurate Peel, and the still more obdura t , u r Wellington.—(Cheers.) 'Before that mighty impuls e Si t Robert Peel was obliged to give way, and even his gon e master, the Duke, turned round ; like the figures on t i h r summit of the weathercock, they both veered round una.cto the impulse of the popular gale, which by the sway of 3 force they found to be irresistible.—(Cheers.) And the gentlemen, Sir Robert Peel proceeded to tell the people n , S that lie was determined to stand by the old COS stitution, but he did not define what he meant by the 0 Constitution. It is a most equivocal term :we knew 13° f what period of time he fixes for the date of its existenc e, w o to which he refers the date of its mutability.—(Hen hear.) All we know is, that he has had some hand lip' self in meddling with it, and has himself set a precedent , least according to his own account, why others sh°:„ o 4 meddle with it also.- Gentlemen, let us now turn '„ 0 land,-,-(Great cheers.) I hope, when the election ceil i f ;s . —indeed, I feel confident—that we shall give a good aceeti of Ireland.—(Cheers.) We, gentlemen, I am sure, in t O . s ,P town, and in this part of the country—if we had bees 0 6 poured, as I hoped we should - have been, with t e pro"