The Sun. — London, England, 1837-01-15 00:00:00

cheering. )—This is our standard ; around it we rally, an 1 tt, do honour to one of its most gifted standard-hearers are wr this night assembled—( Cheers)---that Constitutional states man who has exhibited its glories in the day of its proudest triumphs, and who has fought the battles of its conservation in the day of its greatest perils.—(Cheers.)— it i all well for those who differ from us on the great points now at issue, to my that they love the British Constitution just as much as w' do. They talk of adherence to Constitutional principles ! when there is not one article in all the diversified. rights anti intetests combined in that noble Constitution which is not al - reatened by some one of themselves with change— yes, with organic change.—( Hear, bear, and cheering. )—ls Aot the very name of the party, Movement ? Is not their reatch-word, Forward ; and the chorus of the wild Irish cry of their leader, dismemberment of the empire ; degra dation of the hereditary Peerage ; and prostration of the Protestant Establishment ?—( Applause.) It may be asked, what is all this .to me ? Has any organic change b een titre: toned regarding th e Ch urc h to w hi c h - you belong ? No, Sir, True it is, that no ominous voice frnm high qua rters has calledupon us yet t o " put our house in order ;" but some of us come from a land of mists, where, if many a tale he true, .‘‘ coming events cast their shadows before—we come from a (land of mountain and of storm, where we look to signs an d prognostics. I have seen the adventurous and experi ence d boatman, as he saw a cloud no bigger than a man's hand ap pear in the heaven, and beginning to spread-_I have seen him seek the shore to secure his bark. I have seen the shep herd look to his heath-covered cottage as he listened to an ominous roar coming at a distance over the blue face of the still untroubled ocean ; and when the stortn was seen gathering around our mountains, and about to burst on their lofty summits, the inhabitants of our silent valleys begin to look to themselves , —(Cheers.) We dare not disre gard the signs of the times. We dare not disregard the blow iiiat is aimed at our sister establishment. Common prudence tea c hes us to consider the two Establishments as standing on the s „ le ground. '11:e spirit of the age, which is putting the question of Establishments into agitation in one country, is only waiting to see its success, to prosecute the same object in .ours.—( Cheers.) The deep murmur of the appropriation elapse has reached the remotest manse in our land. We arc confident, that if ever the lofty towers of our ' lister Establish ment aLI demolished, the security in which Our more humble edifices rest can no longer be considered secure, I never sate u mountain oak laid prostrate by the storm, but many a lowly and lovely shrub was crushed by the fall.—(Checrs.) Sir, :it is not for me to eulogise the political character of our distinguished guest, or the measures of h late administration ...-but 1 trust that, as a minister of the Church of Scotland, I may be permitted simply to refer to his first and last act, when at tho head of his Majesty's Government during his late ad . ministfation. lam not aware that any mention was ever made of our National Church in the Speech from the Throne since our union with England, until the opening of the present Par . liament. Can we forget the joy and gratitude which filled the hearts of all who loved our Zion wh,co his Majesty then, not sally declared the sleep interest he felt ise 44t , Church, but also tile intention of his Government to enlarge our means of use. fulness; and thus give to the Church of Scotland all that she wanted—the power of keeping pace with the increasing popu lation ol our land ; and now that the illustrious individual who was then the constitutional adviser of his Afaiesty ig here pre sent:-....(Hear, hear, hear)—he who had the essuroge and the exalted wisdom to propose so patriotic a 113e2544TP, not because the people clamoured for it ; but because the people required it—is it not my duty, as it is my happi- ness, in returning thanks for the Church of Scotland, to tender to him our humble meed of grateful respect ?(applause.) But gratifying as this first act of his Administration was, as a token for good to our land, I do confess that I at least in his last act, iTh the cause of his retirement from office, find a something which just as powerfully calls forth my admiration. The point on which he de clared he would stand or fall, was the integrity of the Established Church of Irel an d—( L ou d c h eers ) —that gran d bulwark a Pro testantism in that unhappy land. This was a point of prgeemiment importance. On this point alone, all his opponents were united; but sooner than yield to such a measure, he resigned his high and 1-o aiourable office, and retired into private life, ' And may I not be permitted, even i n hi s presence, to say that on t h e occasion of his doing so he secured for himself a name and sat honour as great, if not greater, than any measure ever carried through by the most toiumphant majority was capable of bestowing. And new, Mr. Chairman, much cause have I to apologise for this lengthened address. I fear, Sir, I have abused your kind indulgence, and trespassed greatly on the patience of the Company , I . shall only add, in conc l us i on, that lam not afraid for the Church of Scot.' land. That ark of our national security shall swim forward on the tide of time in spite of winds and storms. There still remains an 1 'unconquerable spirit of Christianity in our 'arid, and a deep-rooted attachment cot the part of Scotland's best and steadiest population to our Church and her admirable parochial machinery. The moral 1 weight of the country is and that shall be seen if ever an attempt be made to interfere with our system. Whether that attempt is likely soon to be made or not, is not for ate to say—l have any fears —I could state the grounds of them—Sed einthius aureiro vellit et oda - moult. Our Church is the Church of the people— (Cheers ;_and if she had a principle of supply, she would empha- 1 tieally be the Church of the poor.—(Enthusiastic cheers.) No doubt the population have far out-grown her means ; hut she is making a noble struggle,—(Cheers.) Awakened by circumstances intended for her destruction, but overruled for her good, she is putting forth her own peculiar energies. —(Applause.) She bag appealed to her sons and daughters, and nobly has that appeal been :responded to.—(Cheers.) One hundred and fifty additional Churches—one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, by private sub se,iption, to build them—and affording additional accommodation • for two hundred and forty thousand of our outcast population—and all that within little more than two years, affords no unequivocal demonstration of the number and attachment of her friends— (Continued cheering)—while it furnishes as conclusive evi dence, one should suppose, as the report of a Parliamentary Commission, for the deplorable extent of that national exigency which could call forth such munificent support. Let the Church of Scotland have fair play—let her parochial system' be carried out in all its designs —let her be put in a capacity of meeting the in creased demand of the increasing population, and she shall continue a tower of strength, and a monument of glory —and long after the vain theories of the passing day are committed to oblivion, this " burning bush shall continue to burn."—(Loud cheering,) Yes, Sir I doubt n o t our Ch urc h s h a ll ex i st f or generations to come, to shed over the hills and sallies of our native land all the bles sings of pure Christianity—all the Conservative virtue of Peace—of order—of contentment—of sound patriotism, and true loyalty—ay, Sir, that loyalty that can alone be depended upon —the lofty loyalty of the man who honours his King, because he fears his God.—(Prolonged appla use , Sir D. K. Sestnroun—lt would req u i re a l l the varied and ad mirable powers of our distinguished guest himself, to do full jus tice to the toast I have the honour to propose. I venture to ap proach it—and the great topics that surround it—onl y i n t h e con- 1 &fence that every deficiency on my part will be covered by the ar dour with which you will second an attempt to express our reve rence to uphold, at any hazard, the independence of the House of Lords, 1 --, (Cheers. ) It is at a time when the integrity of that element is threatened in some quarters, and the very idea of that independence is scooted and ridiculed in others, that the thi n ki ng people of this eountry are required to come forth with an expression their unshaken resolution to maintain them. We admire that s?stitution, because it opens up an avenue to great and permanent distinction for every species of exalted merit. We admire that in- V r tu s t ,ion, because we like to see a ;Nelson and a Welletley--an theTu end an Ellenborough—a Scarlett and a Copley, raised toy copi ng gto rank with the proudest aristocracy ; and bea ,f,,e for future ages the path of virtuous arnbitien.—(Loud • Nye 1 : 1. ) We admire and we will maintain that institution, because gain °°W, by old experience, that it supplies the firmest barrier ~s tios t despotic oppression on the one hand, and democratic ulna part , " °utile other. And yet for the last two years the revo l ut i onary vatiLe i s g_ i orant of theory and blind to, fact—dead to the singular ad - Yeour political condition—not caring fur the recorded senti: "Ile deepest reasoners in every age—not dcioning to east an eYe on sc oen i no . s s c real aspect o f ot h er coun t ri es in botlihemispheres— slave beeenglocroino:es recollections and ungrateful for signal services— enttrating all their powers of declamation against services-- that very bra nc h • the high st above all others, we our nation 1 . our institutions towhich, of anding of our national character, and the stability Isom placea' Prosperity. Their itinerant agents have gone about chief to ni ec e . e e witn a pretended picture of the Peerage as the isthe daettractron of their political show-bor —and never, smilingly, than ah m en a g,"gue more happy in the strokes of his audacious peeeil, ste os , end _kf•! is touching up this visionary likeness, to excite the the d en , n atred of the people.---( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, bility,—b ut does draw an ugly picture of hereditary no tolours.—(ll t i 4 immunitis, because he dips into his own heart for the He knows that were he endowed with political 11; r) ! l i i i g l 'itY, he would abuse them—that raise him to rank and e invested u mild trample on those beneath him—that were streegthen tlil ith hereditary claims, he would never seek to a porr r c t of which by personal merit. I throw back upon Isis hands my substantial 14 ' he himself is the original. I will not exchange shut my eye s t o ' sin gs for his paper constitutions—and I will not Almanac.—( the lesso - because he calls it an old ns of history the as' Loud cheers') ashes of the distant lam not going to rake just now amid Al a e n , s Cherie •past ; nor to b the venerable dead or tory_ a ser ,_, ,but there are two great points in our political his erssi,„„si ' a u_o,w a hen the independent functions of the Peerage were his °t, their t u r a pother period at which the nation learnt to esti n ‘,„ _ ue value—which force this moment Politic' "`emorY•—(He themselves at the. In s who - ar• ) I want to remind those aspiring eep sn , e at this day wold I t the Commons at u e eve e experiment ha sf the oth h t tide s b ee , er House of Parliament, t a NI Ltten ii • , a tried already in our annals, and that its results such a • 'l' . thine as , effaceable char •t ' ) There was 'mat addictedt) t ile log. p • at ers.—(Cneers. of Coming to s h arp g Parliament and in its day it was some ns i n that P r actice ; every child knows that the House ' 4l " , and Parliament . ' the ..,_ ~,,. _ da„ger_ 3.voted the Upper House to be a eu nuisance —and - too that can.,,''. Take House of commons . every child knoes th •••• • aw abolished the Monarchy—and then el, l a , ~, . ay that bauble," beeu to ° ' 's "Y a unirprriand their own door was shut in lotion was tilt` aunals su g eh s°l ier•—(Loud cheers. )—There has doctrine wa'se rood old whi a p. thing as a revolution glorious revo laid. G entle ° ,, L.l4t !'at by it ilziemtine for it, and the good old Whig memory of thatern it is not for 0 1 , :r foundation of our liberties were but I appeal upor.(:,t(i),lm:ne.. r,,,, f ro s Company to shrink from the the new Whigs of to l :s tc ;Pic •grosn ~i i i i, the principlee that justified it, opposite principles, thata-:, Xylk, ar ' e t 4 old Whigs to the few, I tell ful for an independent e'ler the coru'i.iing at a new revolution on it was precisely at thatPepeorcair in the fran t . had reason to be grate its government, bitrary prince, and establisliedvil" the threw '(' ol of liberties. Who was it that beard e d ()"ai kl basis her t e l l °. andlfak.e of l i!n . ar i - s it that :tamed him from a throne vi he I . ' ~ , ehoossii tyrant vi . W e h l o g' i o v i as forgotten that when the Cortir2 en - s ' e d . he stivraced ? Have we sent a member of their own body to tir r ea mbesheat-h en they had legal stretch of the prerogative—it s il . i - e °wer 1 and an 11- spiritual Peer, who stood forward to ts pr ot ' ' lee rs, h 044,41 by a ( Great cheering.) Have we forgotten e,(St the majeety of law ? 'Deliverer was to he welcomed to Ea giaria :l i i t at w h en th e Protestant atert again headed by a spiritual Peer—ti o a, iaLa,s again th e P eers — But op the new - Whig—the real renegad e - C" h'rn to our shores? - -Let' s spit the useless part for what pays be Whig principles the future. You people of these realms —y ou op ' . „; - 7,thse present or I;:iPg people—cuconsetous as you seem of your n t,""ig. s e 4 iiml suf it t.me—rise up at the call of a pure, patristic, di sin Y te and degra ss?arivteyr in the u p at of (,e.. 'nova, to put (10:1'n your herzted ma _,l . s, your Egyptian task-nosters, this UMW of Peers— e a : 1 " - km sou tli•nk 'll • wt follow ', Not •ur politial eligranchi- ' what tot the corru it • . bernene— Pecuniary . u l d ion of your laws —not the accumulatfok. ~f : f resh may __,, b . r ens—but, y Lord Melbourne and Lord J. - Ru s „ii , , P. • any be forced tom •• sts • eery inferior and i • •fi „ratify , y the Ki A z hi going out, and those . of Welliegton, Lo n r s c i t gi ,t r a cant etateernen-=Sir It. Pgc) end the Duke in-( Cheers.) There''nley and :_-:r James 61 44 1 .c,--,--ReaY come would e a catastrophe to guard againsits! ' There be a blow to the con , nir), and above ' an to the p.resept ma- jority of it; representatives ! Gentlemen, w hatfver the majority us the House of Commons may at present be, I am tot going to utter one syllable in disparagement of that assembly. Reeling as is under the inevitable shock of a great change, it enshrines impe• rishable principles of liberty and order.--( Cheers.) Crowded as its benches ar•e by many whom nothing but a huge surge of the democratic tide would have wafted to that eminence, there stilt shines within its walls the supreme intellect of Peel, compelling ho mage from all parties—( Cheers.) There are till heard in its debates the intrepid eloquence of Stanley and the luminous argument of Graham—and the ruffian spirit of democracy still rowers et the shout of 300 Conservative voices in harmony with kailers like these. —(Cheering. ) But yet how often in the course of last cession= of which it has not been left for me to furnish the summary—has every man of constitutional sentiments exclaimed, Thank God we have still a House of Lords ! But for them the Protestant inte rest in Ireland—and how am Ito separate the maintenance of that interest, on both sides of the channel, from the very title of the House of Brunswick to the Throne ?—would have been delivered over, bound hand and foot,.to the disposal of a Popish demagogue. But for that independent House, the true and valid tenure of eccle siastical property would have been gone for ever—the first step, as the history of revolutionary rapine shows, to the invasion of property of all descriptions. —( Cheers. ) But for the independence of than House our Scottish Colleges, dear to the affections of the people, and at this moment dearer than ever, would have been torn to pieces by arbitrary bills, or might even yet be plundered and degraded by ignoble and iniquitous conaraissions.—(Cheers.) But for them, an unprincipled Cabinet, than mendicates support from every base and buleful quarter, might even now be riding rough shod over all that makes this goodly land a blessing and a pride to its inhabit ants.—Cheers. ) Hence, the undissemblcd rage of Minis ters against a body they can neither sway nor daunt, and the sedi tious jargon of their emissaries. Anckllll, what an exquisite saga city—what a profound insight into the British character it is is that guides these shrewd tacticians in their attacks on the staunchest bulwarks of our happiness.—(Cheers.) They first assault the Church—and how has she encountered them? She has disproved their facts—laid bare their sophistries—exposed their spirit—and thus she hands them over to the secular arm, to inflict a signal ven geance at the ensuing general election. Let them read their fate in these memorable words, which I hold it no profaneness to quote with such an application—" Whoso falleth on this Rock shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall it shall grind him to powder !" (Cheering.) Next, they make an open question of what they call Peerage Reform—that is, they leave it, as far as depends upon them, the nominal governors of the country, to Revolutionists under the title of Reformers. The Peers will not be bullied by us—the Peers will not be cajoled by us—and therefore, the Peers must be destroyed: Such is the ministerial logic. We don't speak withou authority. We won't suffer Ministers to skulk behind the poor pr•e. text of unauthorised rashness on the part of their allies. Theii great peripatetic orator and teacher—" the Master, Guide, Philo. pher, add Friend" of the existing Government—has been here or their behalf. Down came the colossus of the Lichfield-house con. spimcy— " Of Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of heaviest Cabinets"— ;o earn vice-regal courtesies in Dublin Castle, by de scribing, ae a swinish multitude, the order to which his Noble host has the honour to belong,--(Cheering.) Down he came, commis sioned to enlighten us—a provincial population—a community of shopkeepers—(Laughter)—upon the new Ministerial reeling of the British Constitution. We were too deeply sunk in the commercial puddle, and too far from the source of political illumination, to read it for ourselves !—(Hear.) Gentlemen, the reception which their great travelling partner—the very head of the Ministerial firm— met with amongst us, must have shown the rest of them —even the sleeping partner, if there be any such in the Colonial office—that they had sent their goods to a wrong market. Our perceptions are not so blunted by the toils of traffic, nor our minds so destitute of light, as to be easily misled on a high constitutional question:— Non obtuse adeo gestamus pectora Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol jungit ab urbe ! We have looked at the modest propositions of those Peerage Re formers, and find in them only the curious felicity of copying the worst precedents of the worst times, Let the Lords only be sub missive, says one—let them only be content to register the imma culate decrees of the House of Commons -..0r, according to the let e tet local version of this theory, let them restrict themselves to the occasional enjoyment of a suspensive faculty—and nothing se rious shall befal them ! So said the Surrey petitioners, as re ported by Clarendon, at the blessed epoch of 1641 :—" Wa shall be in duty obliged to defend and maintain your Lordships, as far as yoeiehall be united with the Honourable House of Commons in all their juft PA pious proceedings." So that plan, you will therefore perceive, is not an original one. Let Lords and Commons sit and vote as a united Chamber, says another ! Now, is it not a curious coincidence, that at the same era of delightful reminiscences —tong before this notable experiment had been practically illeserated in France--(Hear)—the petition of "many thousands of poor people in and about the city of London" had prayed the Commons that these noble worthies of the House of Peers, who concur with your happy votes, may be earnestly desired to join with your honourable House, and to sit and vote as one entire body." So there's another plagiarism.—But it has just struck souse of the more sagacious Ministerialists, that an aggregate of the two Houses, at this moment, would produce a sweeping majority against them. " Well, then," says a Noble Lord, whom strange accidents have jostled into the temporary representation of Glasgow—" Well, then," says Lord William Bentinck, giving relit to the magnificence of his oriental fancy, and accustomed to play the potentate on a large scale in Hindostan, and de cidedly not consulting his colleague—(Loud cheers)—" let us call new Peers into existence, to redress the balance of the old !" But here, too, the Noble Lord has been anticipated. —(lfear, ) To be sure the precedent in this case is neither very choice nor wholly adequate, for where Lord Oxford. in the reign of Anne, created twelve, thank Heaven, in the present time and temper of the Upper House, Lord Melbourne must create an hundred.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, we dare him to de it I=.--(Continued cheering.) We think we know a Sovereign, who rather than be an accomplice in such an act of suicide, would give the standard royal to the wind% and throw bimself upon the affections of his subjects,.->{ Cheers.) We think we know the un ennobled Aristocracy of England too well to fear that tools for such a stroke of policy could be counted on among them.--(Cheers.) Let the Premier rain down his coronets as thick as bail, where will he find heads to bear them ?—(Loud cheers.) It would be needless and disgusting to ring the changes further on these varie ties of insolent absurdity, all differing in detail, but all agreeing in practicable wildness and revolutionary principle. I dismiss them with the contemptuous remark of that eminent authority, Mr. Fergus O'Connor :—" The Reform of the House of Lords is a hobby-horse for political buffoonery to ride on—a plan to draw the attention of the people from practical reforms." From these practical and practicable reforms, I beg to add, projected, an nounced, and begin by the Right Hon. Member for Tamworth— before ohm selfishness of faction drove him from that position in the Councils of the King, to which the awakened people of this empire, if they but support the Peers against their common enemy, will speedily restore him. The Lords have taken their stand on true principles—in an unshrinking attitude—they have done their duty to the Constitution and the Laws--and they adjure the people to do theirs. And 0, if there be avy party in the country—if there be any individuals in this room—who more than others are required to respond to that appeal, it is precisely that party, and those indivi duals, who, when the great question of Reform in the House of Commons was agitated, were most loud in their addresses, and petitions to the heredetary legislators did mdtt earneastly them, in . every form of supplication and remonstrance ;in the most emphatic language —by the roost impassioned figures—to withdraw their oppositem to its settlement. They who were so jealous of aristocratic in terference with the elective principle, how, in the name of jusdce, of honour, and of reason, shall they not be as jealous of democratic interference with the hereditary principle, as vital an element—as legitimate an element—and es precious an element in our balanced Constitution ?—( Cheers.) I speak of those who were favourable to Parliamentary Reform, not from motives of po litical partizanship, but in the strength of an honest conviction.— ( Hear, hear.) I, for one, cannot understand that convenient poli tical morality which has one measure for its own Hecht!, and an other for its neighbours. I rejoice to think that there are hun dreds here--hutaiiells of Constitutional Reformers—whoao breasts will echo back these sentiments, and that it is not the least important feature of this brilliant festival that it celebrates the union—a really compact and indissoluble union —between two parties, joining not in the rage of selfish cupidity for a division of plunder, but under the sense of a common danger to guard the altar and the throne.—( Loud cheers.) Look upon the contrast between our illustrious guest, so supported and surrounded, and the heads of the motley faction that supplanted him ! They, begirt by bickering enemies in the guise of friends—he, winning new adherents from the ranks of old antagonists—they, the miserable remnant of a party, from which all that was highest in talent, and purest in prin ciple, has been forced to flee as from a leprosy—he, the rallying name with all who prefer the true consistency of supporting good laws to the sordid mock-consistency of following bad loaders ! (Cheers. ) e Our principle—if I may presume to give a voice to this great Political Union—is to maintain popular rights, but not at the expense of sacrificing kingly governmeat—is to do all that may be necessary for the remedy of unredresscd abuses, but to do no no more—and never, never, under the semblance of Reform, to sanction Revolution, least of all a Popish Revolution. And, as the first test of our principle, when the pragmatical economist of Middlesex, or the hp-valiant repealer of Kilkenny, shall again cry out fur the destruction of the House of Lords, we will again be ready to toss them back the defiance of 3,000 fearless men. We will uphold the political authority of that noble order, because we believe it to be indispensable for the welfare of the people—we will uphold their personal immunities, because we will not loosen the foundations of all civil right—we will uphold the dignity and splen dour of the Corinthian capital—if that he an image inseparably eonnected with this subject—because we know that should it be overthrown, the rest of the social fabric will totter with the fall, and the august form of liberty herself be crushed beneath the ruin. —(Cheers.) Gentlemen, my toast is, " The Independence of the House of Lords." • The Duke of BUCCLEUGH returned thanks. " Principal Macfarlane and the University of Glasgow." Principal %LtCFARLAN feared that, in the presence of the higher officers of the University, it might appear presumptuous in him to acknowledge the last toast.—( Hear.) Still, as his office was of a more permanent character than theirs, and the Chairman had been pleased to mention his name in connection with the Uni versity of Glasgow, he would not shrink from offering, on the part of his colleagues, their students, and himself, their cordial and grateful thanks. Their ancient seminary had undergone many vicissitudes, and, especially of late, had, in common with all th institutions of the country, withstood several violent assaults,— (Cheers.) Still, he trusted that it maintained a position which proreieed fair for its permanence and prosperity.—(Renewed cheers.) Its this confidence he was encouraged by knowing that his learned colleagues laboured with a diligence and energy not to be surpassed, to deserve, as they must succeed in doing, to command public esteem and confidence, by witnessing the ineeeeeins resort of young gentlemen, educated previously in the best setrimaripe. and of families, for a proof of whose high re spectability he hail only to look around the company present— and above all, by the connection it hes lately formed with the highlerhonoured guest of the evening, by the aid pc whose judgment its members may hope to be guided in every measure of real improvement, a nd pp the support o; whose talents and influence they may rely in resisting' every scheme of mischievous and fantastic innovation.--( Cheers. ) He was strregiliened in this bop by the kind feeling expressed by an assembly so nu merous 4 4 eeepeetable—a kindness to which the University might lay additional pleim, les having beets the occasion of bring ing them together ; and tit; felt ftsWedi on all these grounds, that the seminary where Smith, gnd Reid. p 4 gitileetn, and Black, have taught—where Campbell, and Wilson, and Lockhart were educated—may yet be allowed a fair trial of its capability and eflieitoce, ip teeleing another generation of scholars and gentle men, Ile Meat cisc f . (4111 M permission to *hank them for himself. I .!e was not vein enoug h t q 450.4. i e tiv hipq reception they had given hint to anything but their knowledge of him as a long-tried C onservative, and on that account his thanlis sprang from purer seurce than any selfish feeling. Not that he was indifferent to t `"i r a Peroba.tion. His sense was only the narrower, and also the Yl:e Civil e 'tse4, it implies a pledge of their devoted attachment to in and'ileeigse ee ;nstitutions of their country. He believed his heart that theiPpfladielee, ioended on reason and truth, are "' I P" // and insist prevail—(grat that the time is nut THE SUN, LONDON, SUNDAY, JA MARY 14, i 837 far distant when they will resume their accustomed and salutary in llitences in the COuneils of the Empire, and the minds of the people. —(Loud cheers.) Instead of looking en with apathy or approba tion, while those establishments which have long, and most success fully, promoted the fear of God, are vilified and assailed—while the revered memory of the Sovereign is employed for purposes which it would be an excess of courtesy, and an abuse of honour, to call honourable —and while every scheme of frantic and unprofitable change is adopted with reckless precipitation, and pursued with blind impetuosity—it will, ere long, be once more the general character of Britons, that they fear their God, honour their King, and re nounce all sympathy with those who are given to change.—(Great applause.) • The following toasts were then given:— " The Duke of Wellington." " The Memory of Sir Walter Scott, and may Scotland long maintain its high literary reputation." Mr. JOHN C. BUCHANAN rose and said, Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen—The toast which I have the honour to propose, is " The Conservative Constituencies of Ireland, and their Repre sentatives ie Parliament ;" and in giving it, Sir, I give you the and the great of the land.—(Loud applause.) I give you those who love their own green Isle, and who would uphold the time-honoured institutions of their country, honoured from their wisdom as well as their antiquity—institutions which they and their fathers have long been accustomed to consider almost as sacred as the commandments of their GO.I. I give you those who will not bow to the Demon of oppression, that hell-crowned king Democracy, whose throne is the scaffold, whose sceptre the axe, and whose delight is in blood and saw-dust.—(Cheers.) " The Conservative Constituencies of Ireland and their Representatives in Parliament," which was received with great enthusiasm." Mr. J. E3IMERSON TENNENT, M.P. - then rose, and returned thanks in a speech of considerable length. The following toasts were then given : " The Conservative Constituents of Ireland and their Represen tatives in Parliament." " The Earl of Haddington, late Viceroy of Ireland." " The Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lanark." " The Conservative Constituencies of Scotland and their Re presentatives in Parliament." • . " The Conservative Candidates, and success to the cause of the Constitution at the next General Election." " Lady Peel." " The Ladies of Glasgow." " The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of Glasgow." "May the patriotic of all parties speedily unite in support of the Constitution, and in resisting that inordinate desire for inno vation which threatens to subvert it." " The Students of Glasgow College who have done themselves honour by electing Sir Robert Peel to be their Lord Rector." " The Working Classes of the Community." " The Landed Interests and:the Tenantry of Scotland." " The Commercial and Manufacturing Interests." " Mr. Gownox, of Aitkenhead," and thanks to him for the ge nerous use of his property for the erection of the Pavilion." • " Thee Croupiers. ' The Dean of Guild and the Merchants' House of Glasgow." The Deacon Convener and the Trades' House of Glasgow." " The Committee of Management." " The Operatives of Glasgow, who have honoured themselves, by the honour they have done to Sir Robert Peel, in presenting him with the Freedom of the City." " The Deputation which waited on Sir Robert Peel with the in , vitation from the Citizens." " Mr. Lomond, the Secretary." " Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, and the Independent Electors re Argyleshire." " The Operative Conservative Associations of England, an may their example soon be generally followed throughout Britain " David Hamilton, Esq., Architect." 4 ' The Colonial Interests." " The Stewards." The company then separated. We could give several columns more of the speeches delivered on this interesting occasion, but, in order not to disappoint our numerous friends, we arc compelled to abridge the report, in consequence of the hour at which we arc compelled to go to press. In thus curtailing a large quantity.of our report, amounting at least to seven columns, care has been taken to preserve all that is important and characteristic. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. Rear-Admiral Baron Hugon, Commander-in•Chicf the squadron of Observation, arrived at Brest, on the 27th of January, with the Jena and Santa Pc/re of the line ; the corvete, La Dilegente, which are part of that squadron. These ships come from Lisbon ; the times are much changed. The opposition journals, which continually painted, in the most glowing colours, disasters which must attend our intervention in Spain, now eagerly received the benedictions of the people of Madrid, bestowed on the Eng lish who have intervened at Bilboa ; and the pretended ma ledictiotis of the same people, on France, which abandons them, and will not intervene. What will these journals say, now, that the Spanish Government itself is solicited by the inhabitants of Bilboa to bestow a worthy recompense on the brave English officers who have combated under the glorious standard of Great Britain ? " The civil and military authorities of Bilboa," says a letter from Spain, " have waited on Colonel Wylde and Captain Lapidge to express their gratitude for the important services rendered to the cause of the Queen. General Es partero has written to the English Ambassador at Madrid, to beg his Excellency to ask of his Government permission for Colonel Wylde, Captain Lapidge, Lieutenant Hardy, and all the officers of the two English men-of-war, to accept the Cross of the Noble Order of Isabella the Catholic, as a testimony of the gratitude of the Queen's Government. The subaltern officers and the crews will receive the Cross of Isabella 11. Colonel Colquhoun, and the Officers of Ar tillery, under his command, are to have the Cross of Isabella the Catholic." If it should happen, and nobody desires it more than we do, that the raising of the siege of Bilboa has revived the ardour of the Queen's soldiers, if all the constitutional commanders, who are marching from so many different points to the revolted provinces succeed in driving Dun Carlos from the Spanish territory, who can say that Consti tutional Spain will not owe its salvation to the intervention of the English flag ? Who can deny that the English navy has saved Bilboa, and with that heroic city, the cause of Queen Isabella ? Every voice in Spain is raised to proclaim it, Espartere himself has solemnly declared it in his ordor of the day, and in his official dispatches. Now, if the people of Madrid cry " England for ever t "...-if since, the Ra tional friend and filly' of Spain * j fnrptten in the j o y o€ the people of liilllcutuare the 9 pp ualtiuu j ourna l s a right to blame the policy of the Minkgry, they, who in May and June, 1885, whoa Spain officially- asked the assistance of Fr ane y, declared, with all their might, against intervention. —La Paix, Jan, l, We have received " Mosses Parliamentary Guide for 1837." We last year spoke in terms of deserved praise of the variety and correctness of its information. The pre sent edition bears evident marks of the author's care and labour, in making the corrections to the present time. VERY ACCOMMODATING.—The Limerick Chro nicle announced that the usual Wednesday's publication would not appear, the compositors having had a day's .holiday given them to celebrate Christmas. THE TEETIL—The mouth ultculd be rinsed with hot water, and then immediately with cold, every morning throughout the year. If this were regularly done from in fancy, the dentist might shut up shop.—Economy of Health. THE LATE SNOW.—At Landport, 26 sheep, be longing to Mr. 'nude, were frozen to death ; and Mr. Verrill, of Swanbar, lost 19 sheep and a horse in a similar manner. A HINT FOR TIIE BALD.—POr bald people, " French Brandy, with dissolved sulphate of copper," says a New York paper, " applied once. a day, will make your hair grow." SAVING EFFECTED IN THE PUBLIC OFFICES.— In 1815 the number of individua!s employed in the public departments was 27,365 ; number employed in 1835, 23,578. Salaries paid in 1815, 3,768,100/. ; ditto in 1835, 2,786,2781. The actual reduction is, in salaries, 976,0001., and in the number of persons employed, 3,787. The Earl of Sefton, during the holidays, kept open-house, in 'the old English style, at Croxteth-hall, near Liverpool, where Lord and Lady and Molyneux and family have taken up their permanent residence, the Noble Earl intending to occupy his villa at Stoke, near Windsor. The Comptroller of the Household and Lady Agnes Byng have arrived in Eaton-square, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond, at Goodwood. A juvenile night takes place at Drury-Lane Theatre on Monday, when the Pantomime is played as a first piece, and is followed by Illack•eyed Susan, and the Ballet of The Devil on Two Slicks. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—At St. George's, Hanover-square, on Thursday, Thomas Brand, eldest son of the Hon. General Trevor, to Susan, eldest daughter of the lion. C. C. and Lady Catherine Cavendish. There were present—The Duke of Devonshire, Lord and Lady Deere, Lord Lynedoch, Mr. apti Lady Catherine Cavendish, Lady Charlotte Cordon, Lord Frederick Gordon, Lord Francis Gordon, Lady Caroline Cavendish, Lord William Bentinck, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Sir Augustus, Lady, and Miss Clifford, General and Mrs, TreVar, and Miss Brand, &c, The Duke of Devonshire has given directions for many improvements to be made at Devonshire-house, pre vious to the commencement of the fashionable season, All the pictures have been removed from the state apartments, to complete the new gallery lately built at Chatsworth. His Grace will leave town next week, to superintend the ar rangement of the pictures. The Municipal Council of Paris has voted a sum of 60,000 f. to defray the expense of the seavenE,reW carts and. lLabourers employed during the last week in removing the refuse of the saw and ice from the DJulevards, streets, and squares of Paris.—.-"FrOM4 Paper, Lord &lye and Selo and the lion. Twistleton Fiennes have arrived in Bruton -street, from Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire. A young man of the name of Neck was recently married to a Miss Heels; they are now, therefore, tied Neck and lice 4 to ether PRICES OF ST(.\\CES S iTURI) A Y AT ONE (;'CLOCK ank Stock. - , per Cent. Red. 9 0 1 A3 IDitto Ronda 3 per Cent. Cons ... ..... 9o!g 51343 i, South Sea Stock 34 per Cent — Old Annuities Ditto Red 9834 New Ditto New 314 per Cent iny, 8' 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751._ New sper Cent... - Exch. Bills, £I,OOO ",' 24 21 p .Bank LongAnnuitlestnexpi re Ditto .500 22 24 p Jan. 5, 15(10......151 3-16 !-1634 Ditto Small — —pi °ct. 10, 1AL9... _ ' Ditto Comineteun Jan. 5. 14'.0 — pi. Ditto Advertised , Pn Jan. 5, 83 1.. • . - Bank Stock for Acc0unt........ 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ON approach of the COMMENCEMENT of JANUARY, all those who may have to write to us before that time, are requested to do so without delay, and to be particular in directing, HEINE BROTHERS, in HAMBURGH, and to observe, that a letter with one inclosure doutles the Postage only, but several inclosure s wou ld b y f ar i ncrease the saute. Thus 10/. ' 201., or 301 ., fir instance, if remitted in On e B an k o f Eng land Note would only cause double Postage, but 101. remitted in two notes, would he liable to a much higher charge. It is there fore most advisable, for any Person having to remit Money to Ham burgh, to forwari the amount in One Note; or having to receive Money from Hamturgh, to receive the same in One Note, when ever pt.a. - iible. Of course remittances from Hamburgh to England, surpassing the usual amount of One Batik of England Note, may rather be made in Bills of Exchange, on London. We request not to overloik these particulars. HEINE BROTHERS in HAMBURGH. P. S. To persons having to remit 81., on receiving a Ten Pound Note, we return Two Pound in the cheapest way possible. re ! .* 4 eilrA. ' ...04:YN7D. L . , ' %., . ~,,• t ~,,.. . •, • .4,4,..? 1 :51 7 21L - e' .• Lls'3llll-' LONDON, SUNDAY, JAN6ARY 15, 1837. The installation of Sir ROBERT PEEL, as Lord I Rector of the University of Glasgow, took place in that city on Wednesday last. The speech of the Right Honourable Baronet on this memorable occasion, is, without exception, the best he ever delivered. Its chief recommendation was sound common sense, expressed in languago wmaiikable for its simplicity and heartfelt carneakness. It is something new to us to praise the Right Honourable Baronet ; but Heaven forbid we should ever be ungenerous enough to allow po litical prejudices to get the better of us, when discus sing his claims as a friend and instructor of youth! It is delightful to see him in this capacity, laying aside for a time the bitternessea of party spirit, and anxious only to impress on the minds of the rising generation the necessity of strict attention to intellectual pursuits, as the surest means by which they may achieve distinc- Con abroad, and happiness at home. Sir ROBERT did not exhort his young hearers to enlist under the ban ners of party. He did not impress on them the pro priety, of their becoming staunch Conservatives : he doffed the motley Harlequin robe of the politician, and assumed instead the sober dress of the School master. The paints we chiefly admire in his Inaugural Address, are, first, the healthy practi6l view he. took of his subject; secondly, the utter absence of all perplexing, abstract, metaphysical speculation ; and, lastly, the uniformly encouraging tone of his remarks. He spoke, not like a literary pedant, but like a literary cosmopolite. He did, not undervalue great natural en dowments, but he gave due praise to acquired!ones. He spoke rew.rentialty of genius, but he allowed in dustry its full share of praise. " I repeat," said he, " with the earnestness of the deepest conviction, that there is, in my mind; a presumption amounting, almost to certainty, that if any one of you will determine to be eminent, in whatever profession you may choose, and will act with unvarying steadiness in pursuance of that determination, you will, if health and strength be given you, infallibly succeed." Sir ROBERT is here speaking from his own personal experience ; but indeed throughout, it is evident that personal expe rience is the Mentor that suggests his opi nions, as the following passage sufficiently be tokens On by far the greater part of you, it is incumbent to acquire those qualities which shall fit you for action rather than speculation. It is not therefore by mere study, by the mere accumulation of knowledge, that you can hope for eminence. Mental discipline, the exercise of the faculties of the mind, the quickening of your apprehension, the strengthen ing of your memory, the farming of a sound, rapid, tnd discriminating judgment, are of even more im portance than the store of learning:," We have here the good sense of the man of letters, sharpened and modified by the experieuee of the man of the world. Better, or more immediately and generally applicable, advice could not, under the circumstances, have been given, had all the Utilitarians and Political Eco nomists in the kingdom - clubbed their wisdom, for that purpose. Would that the Right Hon. Baronet's exhortations to his party were of the same generous and beneficial tendency ! But we feel ourselves en croaching upon politics, and it is not with these de grading strifes we have here to do. We here meet Sir ROBERT PEEL on neutral ground. He -is not now the politician, but the schoolmaster ; and in this capa city we hold out to him the right hand of respect and amity. We may shortly meet him again in his old, and, we fear, embarrassing vocation, as leader of a great faction, when far other language must be held towards brit this shall not prevent us now saying, which we do in the sincerest and most unqualified terms, that—with the single exception of Lord BROUGHAM'S —his Inaugural Address is the most manly, the most unaffected, the most earnest, and the most intelligible, that was ever delivered at Glasgow. It is a pure and healthy fountain from which the .aspiring youth wln.‘ thirsts for knowltdge may drink and be refreshed. In the above remarks we have spoken in praise —as we felt in duty hound to do—of Sir ROBERT PEEL's inaugural address at Glasgow, observing., that in his capacity of Lord Rector, we met him on neutral ground. Since those re marks were written, he has come before us in a new form—as a politician —as the leader of an obnoxious foe tinn—as the man who scarcely knows his own mind ; and who would, and who. would not, be a Reformer. In h's capacity of Lord Rector, Sir ROBERT PEEL is sincere ar.d decided enough ; . as the leader of the trimming section of tie Conservatives=-that is to say, of those who would fain trim, if they had the opportunity of doing so—he is all hesita tion and insincerity ; halting between two slools—between the Whigs and Tories—with an evident, uneasy conviction that without luck, and the most dexterous management, he must inevitably fall to the ground. We have seldom read a speech more every way meagre and unsatisfactory than that delivered by Sir ROBERT PEEL at Glasgow. It was not decided against the Reformers, it was, not strong in favou r o f the Conservatives. It was a shal low, no-meaning abortion, full of pomp, full of affectation of sensibility and sincerity, full of every thing but that which it should have abounded in. True, :the Right Honourable Baronet is for Reform, but it is for a Reform of his own manufacture, modelled on the principles of his own Tamworth Manifesto. He will have no such Reform , as the people demand—not he : it is Conservative Reform he calls for ; and who does not know that this is based on the as-little-as needs-be sys tem? His speech from first to last is a virtual begging of the question. It has no pluck —no bottom—but is a mere much-ado-about-nothing affair. Was it worth the while of the citizens of Glasgow to put themselves to the expense of some thousands of pounds,:for the mere purpose of hear ing Sir ROBERT PEEL talk much, yet say nothing ? No doubt they expected from him something like a firm, honest declaration of political opinion ; but instead of this they have heard—what ? Why, a whining sup. plication that they will " adhere to the principles upon which the Reform Bill was advocated." And what are these principles, as the Right Honourable Baronet, inter prets them ? Why, the principles of Lord Genet-, which the majority of Reformers have long since outgrown and repudiated ! When we say, however, that the Right Hon. Baronet's speech is vacillating and equivocal, we should except that Orionp . t of it wherein he alludes to the House of Lords. Here he is decided enough—speaking out with a boldness that absolutely electrifies us. What, then, he has at length found out that the Peers are worth fighting for ! He could not discover this last Session, when he had scarcely a word to say in their favour ; he was discreet enough then : but jealousy of Lord LYNDHURST, WO suppose, has put him on his mettle ; as in the old times, did jealousy of CANNINO. " I avow to you." said the Right Honouteible Paronet, "that I mean to support in its full integrity the authority of the House of Lords as an essen tial, indispensable condition of the continued existence of the mixed form of Government under which we live, as tantamjunt to the maintenance of the British Con stitution. I mean to consider every plausible propo sition that may be made, not directly assailing that integrity, but covertly to undermine it,—l mean to consi der it not upon its abstract merits, but the ultimate ten dency it may have to destroy the British Constitution." In other words, he will bear of no proposition for modifying and improving the Institutions of the Upper Chamber. Be it so. At least it is a point gained, to have Sir ROBERT PEEL speaking out unequivocally on any one public ques tion. Here, at least; there can be no mistaking him. Here he speaks out, and the time,we suspect is coming when he will regret his plain dealing on this particular theme, as bitterly as ever he did his opposition to the Reform Bill. Be Sir R. PEEn'a determination invincible as it may, we tell him that either the House of. Lords must be reformed, or the spirit of Reform must retrograde. And to this last alternative the people will never submit. They have struggled for Reform, they have made sacrifices for Reform ; and Reform they will have have, even though the Peerage perish in the contest. The Right Hon. Baronet goes on to say, " I have read the speeches of great legal authorities, and I find that they have not yet made up their minds to the re form of the House of Lords. lam sorry for it. They say that it is coming, but they have not yet seen the plan of operation. They are hard at work, however, ransacking pigeon -holes and depositories, for plans for a reform of the House of Lords. The chief objection is, however, that no plan has yet been drawn outright. Oh ! what miserable trifling But they may spare them selves the waste of time—let them take the first of those which have been proposed—let them substitute for the House of Lords a Council of Ancients, or a Council of Five Hundred—or let them substitute a new body, elected by the Peers, or by the heads of families— or let them give the House of Lords a suspensive veto. Let them, in fact, take one or the other of these, the °Meet will be the same.—Why, do you believe that you can up root the oak of the forest, which has seen a thousetnd gene rations ?—Do you believe you can uproot the noble pro ductions from which the hatchments and the achievements of a thousand ilAustrious names are suspended? DA rely on it our change won't be to thelinstitutions of the United States." What miserable verbiage is all this ? Who desires that out change should be to the " Institutions of the United S..lates ?" We are content with our own form of Govern ment ; with our own limited Monarchy ; all we ask is, that the defects in our Constitution which time has engendered shall be effectually removed. Are we the revolutionists who ask this ? Not so ; but they would refuse so just a desire. Sir ROBERT PEEL has taken high ground on the subject of the House of Lords ; and we congratulate him on his newly felt sincerity. But who shall speculate on its duration ? The time was when the Right Ho nourable Baronet was inveterately opposed to the Ca tholic claims, yet be " twisted 'round" like Jim Crow, on the question, and it would not at all surprise us were he to take another twist round on the subject of Peerage Re form. Altogether, we must confess that his political speech at Glasgow has not disappointed us. It is a strange mix ture of vacillation, effrontery, and wrong-headedness, here begging the question of Reform, there out-Heroding He rod in his opposition to it. We are now on the eve of commencing the fifth session of the Reformed Parliament. Another month, and we shall be able to judge of the sincerity of many those Members of the Legislature who, towards the close of the last session, were so eager to acquaint the country—not with what they had done, but with what the , , , proposed; to do—substituting for Bills passed in 1836, notices of motion, to be made in 1837. We are not alarmists, neither do we now see cause for serious apprehension ; but we honestly tell those gentlemen that the country will not remain indifferent to their fulfilment .of pledges spont aneous l y g i ven. The Government, too, must adopt a more bold and decided course. It would be absurd to suppose that Lord MELBOURNE could' continue to direct the destinies of the British Empire, and yet remain so very far in the rear of public opinion as his Lordship's Adminis tration appears to do at present. Nothing but the adoption iof a straightforward and avowed course of public con duct will satisfy the people. Ministers, to remain in office, must move as much in advance of public opinion as they, to all appearance, are now behind it —must take the lead in the march of improvement, and invite the nation to follow at a safe and steady pace. Acts, not professions, are wanted ; and by i t s acts only will the people judge of the honesty of the Government. To continue to cast a wet blanket upon every liberal measure brought forward by their supporters—a line of policy adhered to during the last Session of Parliament with all hut fatal con sistency—will not do for Ministers in the Ses s i on which is approaching. The political jugglery, which recognises distinctions between public and private virtue—which joins in the celebration of domestic worth, while it denounces the conduct of the indivi dual as far as regards the well-being of millions of his fellow-subjects—is neither comprehended nor approved of by the people. They neither can nor will admit of those distinctions and explanations which now pass current with men so distinguished in public life, as the Hon. Member for Sheffield, and the Noble - Lord,-the Secretary of State for the Home Department. With them dishonesty is sbply dishonesty—whether it private conduct, We quctitictt tzla th;,e ,lstet to Pu:il whether a iffer r cut standard motality would bo For their advantage, • There are seversd imponatit qiignthitm which mtiet he disposed of, in some wety or other, befor e the end of the' ensuing Session. The very best thing Miuisters cm do, therefore, is to make up their minds upon them at once; and to aKet no mystery as to the course whirl) they intend to pursue. The doctrinaire system of being guided solely by events may do very well in France ; but it will not answer in England. The Ministers are , now called upon to determine whether: they hre prepared to give Ireland a Corporation Reform Bill, equal to that granted to England—whether they are disposed to abolish the unholy Tirlre system in that .country—whether they have mad e np their minds to sanction the adoption of a measure recog nizing the right of th e famishing poor of Ireland to relief—whether they will Vote for the shortening of the duration of Parliaments —remain neutral upon the question of vote by Ballot —grant adequate relief to the Dissenters—and afford further facilities for the extension of the Elective Franchise ? It will not do to leave these questions to be settled by circumstances ; nor would such a course accord with the dignity of.a British Cabinet. Ministers have nothing to fear, if they will only act in an open and avowed man ner. The sympathies of the public are strongly in their favour; and nothing short of down right dishonesty on their own part., (for of dis honesty it would be to cajole, Otherwise mislead the people), can deprive then: of that genera l confidence which f orms the main strength of a Government. But to retail) that confidence, there must be an end of the b;:t-try-bit Reform system The Whigs must really separate themselves from the Tory faction, and heart and hand with the party of the people. If o: gee will not do this, the close of the. Ses sion t Parliament, now on the eve of commencing, will behold them as politically defunct —for all the put , - poses of a Government—as are the Tories at the 4- sent moment. Their existence as a party deperM s upon their conduct in the approaching session of Par-. litunent. Let them therefere not attempt to trifle With—much less to deceive—the people. The .Journal du Havre complains of the rapaei•Dus spirit which has been displayed during the late tempe..uous weather along the surrounding coasts, and states that its letters bring daily acco un t s o f t h e disgraceful manner in which the inhabitants on the sea-shore have even contend e d :with the authorities for the p ossess i on of ar ti c l es th rown upon the coast from wrecks. Pitt possessed no landed estat,e, no funded property, nor even a life annuity. He he.d disdained to bestow on himself the Clerkship of the Pei's, and it was not till some Pyears later that he was made Lord Warden of the Cinque orts. I doubt whether the First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the I Nehequer, when his debts were discharged, possessed 'a thousand pounds. Europe might thus have witness e d th e extraordinary spectacle of a Prime Minister, not yet thirty, who—after distributing nearly forty British Peerages, besides fifteen Irish —after creating a sinking fund of a million sterling, humbling France, and by the viirour of his councils extricating Holland from sub servieney to the House of Bourbon—was redrlced to return for support to the bar, as in antiquity ci:acinnatus went back to the plough.— Wraxall's The mortal remains of the late Dowager Viscountess Powerscourt were interred •the latter end of last week at. Powerscourt, where the family vault is situate. The fune ral was free from ostentation. Many persons in France will be pained by the An nouncement of the death of the venerable M. Gre.nier de Fonblanque, for the truly amiable subject of it ha:Anssisted the emigres to an extent which nearly exhausted b•ls patri mony. Himself the head of a Languedocian 'family, and inheriting the title of Marquis (which be ue . ver assumed in England), many of those who fled the; 'political storm naturally addressed themselves to him, as having a double nationality, and his sympathy and exe o ',oris on their behalf were repaid, in many instances, by ",core affection.—Ga lignani's _illessengcr. The Duke and Duchf: 4 ', of Sutherland, Lady Keith, the Right Hon. C r aktr and Mrs. Fergusson, the Hon. Mrs. Darner, Mr. Lady E. Stanley, and Colonel and Lady Mary Fox hP," - €) the honou r o f di n i ng w i th the King and Roy a l F an ' ti, During 1836. of Menday. • 'no fewer than 37 Savings Banks were established, bey —Paris Pay:r. Royal Ord onnance i n t h e d epartments. As r..me Louise Irvine was making her haiar dous asc on Fr;. r Jr:t from the s t age t o t h e ga ll ery, at Covent-garden, to &ay evening, the rope being rather slack caused her tv4P,s her footing upon her return, and she was precipitated vt'.4}, the balance-pole to the stage. The audience upon V.eing the terrific circumstance rose, and simultaneously uttered a cry of horror. The curtain of course fell, and the greatest anxiety was manifested to learn the consequences. By the aid of the performers she was conveyed into the green-room, where she fainted away, and, some restoratives that were applied being unsuccessful, Mr. Lane, surgeon, was sent for, who promptly arrived ; but upon seeing the lady declared that the accident, though not so severe as at first imagined, was yet likely to produce serious effects, Mr. C. J. Smith communicated the result of the surgeon's arri val to the audience, who shortly afterwards left the theatre. It is extremely fortunate that the fall occurred so near the ground ; as, if it had taken place over the orchestra, the consequence must have been fatal ; and it is to he hoped that this horrifying exhibition, which has too long disgraced a national theatre, will henceforth be discontinued. A treaty of marriage is said to be in contemplation between the eldest son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Louie and the Princess Amelia, the late Don Pedro's youngest daughter, which would at once put an end to the party disputes in Portugal respecting the succession to the throne. His Majesty is expected to come to town from the Royal Pavilion, for the purpose of opening the Session of Parliament on Monday, the SOLI' instant. The Queen will accompany his Majesty, and a select party will be enter tained at St. James's Palace in the evening, unless her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester's state of health should be much. worse. Their Majesties will return to Brighton, it is expected, on the Ist of February. Lord Dufierin has been entertaining a party of friends at his seat, Killileagb. ! ANIMAL INSTINCT.—During the fierce raging of the fire in Peter-lane, Smithfield, on Friday morning, the .litt'ention of the crowd was forcibly called to the conduct of Ix fine black cat, which had escaped from theflames, and was, seen on the roof of the parapet of the next house, with her body half stretched over, looking down on the blazing ruins,. and screaming most piteotisly. Every now and then, as the flames suddenly leaped up near her, she would retreat a few yards with increasing screams ; but, as soon as possible, returned, as if under the influence of fascination, and gazing down, renewed her piercing moans. It was understood she was influenced by maternal affection ; her young kittens having perished in the flames. Her position was a dan gerous one, while a retreat in the rear was safe and easy ; but she seemed meditating a spring, either into the fire, or among the crowd in the lane below. At last a youth, by creeping softly along the tiles, secured her, and carried her into the house of Mr. Glover, at the corner of Cow-cross. The adventurous act of the young man was honoured with a general burst of applause. As Might have been expected, the rapid melting of the. scow on Saturday last produced the highest floods wit nessed in this part of the country for upwards of sixty years past ; indeed, all owing f or t h e improvements in the in recent tim es , p er h aps the swell of the waters in Stour was never excee d e d .—Kent Herald. t&hec A singular instance of canine sagacity was exhibited after the tire at Lought on H a ll , E ssex. A' fine Newfound land dog, which had been unhoused by the calamity, was to be seen the next, and for several following days, wan dering about the ruins with most wo-begone countenance, apparently indifferent to the rain that was incessantly falling. Ile hung his head down nearly to the ground, and would pass from one lot to another of the many heaps of salvage strewn on the lawn, making a pause at each, and exhibiting;, as well as dog could, sympathy with his master in his gre at misfortune. If called, the dog would approach any (ue he knew, and passively receive caresses, but without in, the slightest degree, expressing pleasure, or raising his, head from the ground ; and as soon as the hand was vanoved, he would return back to renew his successive vis'Ats to the heaps of half-destroyed furniture. The Reformers of Blackburn are about. 'to open a News-Room adjoining th e M us i c H a ll , for tiro use of C:e working classes of Blackburn, and William- Turner, Es-i., the popular Member for the borough, j jas promised to present to it his Parliamentary papers.