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Murray, Esq., M.P.', J. il'Cance, Esq., M. P., The O'Conor Don, M.P., W. Ord, E N., M. P., Sir J. Wrottesley, M. P. The cloth having been removed, • The CHAIRMAN said that, as this was a Parliamentary meet ing, it might not be out of place, since the notice paper was ve ry crowded, to request t h at t h ey s h ou ld con fi ne t h emse l ves to the t oasts set down in the order of the day ; at al l events, till that was exhausted. His Lordship concluded by giving " The King," which was drank with three times three." Queen," was the next toast, and after that " The rvineess Victoria, and the rest of the Royal Family." The latte r of th ese toasts was d run k w i t h ve h ement app l ause . the The Duk e o f S ussex an d t h e p r i nc ipl es w hi c h placed u House of Brunswick on the Throne of England."— ( Applause.) he CHAIRM AN sa id th a t th e next toast upon the list carried with it its own recommendation. It was " The people," for whose benefit Government was instituted and ought to be exer c"'ect•---( Loud cheering.) " The Navy and Army." The CHAIRMAN then said, after these tributes of due but '';' o re ordin ary o b servance, I now arr i ve at t h e ma i n an d s p ec i a l object which has brought us this night together. The very co mpositi on o f t hi s company i n di cates w i t h su ffi cient clearness leiE ; : ns el eq f that we hav e no t thus met for any mere social or fes telr6 • , let me add, trivial purpose ; no, we are assembled here uence of high political considerations, and in further ance f high political results.—( Cheers.) With no further 13,)„-'eue, Job must be so universally anticipated, I turn to •" ii, 111 Y Lord Russell—( Loud and long continued cheer langsser:fl or your honour we are gathered together; and in convey- I te to you the expression of the feeling which pervades this Y, with the sense of many deficiences, I feel this especial .ueutty, of not appearing on the one hand purposely to sink ue l n'ath t h e occasion, and on the other of not trespass i ng on that delicacy, which is ever dear to all refined and ingenuous rin ds•—( Cheers.) Your name, my Lord, I need not remind ithose who h ear me, h as l ong b een assoc i ate d w i t h t h e consti tution and rights of our country—( Cheers.) The very blood illYnur veins has borne its own red witness on the scaffold of B rrty to th e wort h an d generous patr i ot i sm o f your ances t ors . ut happily it is not to this alone that the celebrity of your n ame is attributable—happily you are known to your countrymen s Izi ne to whom the cause of liberty in the present age must acknowledge deep and lasting obligations ; the wants of the existing times required happily different fields and different ,odes of patriotic exertion to those which were formerly ne cessary, and in these you have shown that you do net stand (in debted to any extrinsic or transmitted recommendations— ' r ' h eers). You rest your claims to the respect and admiration of the people on the unquestionable merits of your own political ( Cheers). Highly versed in all literary and historical su bjects, you h ave d evote d f ar th e c hi e f p or ti on o f your time, ability, and endeavour to those questions which in your own time h ave most affected the civil and religious liberty of your country theuandof the human race—( Cheers.) We cannot indeed forget at, in additi on to t h e course y ou h a ve uniformly taken in ttier great and vital struggles conjointly with your associates, t• ova ' by yourself that the repeal of the Test and Corpora til_c'e Act w as move d, an d to a ll i n t en t s carr i e d, in the face of aadvers e t h oug h conce di ng Ministry.--( Cheers.) And it i il 4B bY your Lordship again that the Reform Bill itself was i,troduced . with a clearness, composure, and force commensu e4le with t h e momentous occas i on, an d exc i t i ng a lik e t h e n ' r getic astonishment at its opponents, and the grateful ac h a mations o f a concurr i ng p eo pl e .—( Cheers.) Such you ale been found out of power, such you were found whilst in t u trs and i n se l ec ti ng y ou as o u r o r gan for the future, we I 'vt our expectations not more from the past than the present. I(tHear, h ear. ) All t h at h as ta k en p l ace s i nce th e o p en i ng : f he present Parliament, has essentially deepened the feeling respect and attachment towards your Lordship, so largely r e gained before.—( Cheers. ) r Of that fact, the presence this company, comprising so numerous and so distinguished a t Portion of the station, the wealth, the talent, and the pa triotism of the united representation of the empire, is the most assured, testimony (Cheers) —and our Lordship, I feel 4-44 red, will not - — deem it less acceptable, because they (l a e not rally round you under any positive compact. or un r ally compulsory engagement, but have been ,attracted a sense of one great common object, and by a s wis s teat' at the present period, in a signal crisis of our coun -4.1)0' s f ortunes,or your Lordship should take your post in the _r nt the struggle.--( Cheers.) To an assembly thus saconstituted and thus entreated, I well know it is the desire of v ulei and the hope of others, to impute and to suggest topics mutual difference. . Without dwelling upon a point which t r hardly be deemed worthy of notice, I will just remark, tat Ste very our opinions, whist of the imputation it rests must be upon the sedpresumed tens- 9 of suppo, are of too , ;I . u t a material to yield to the lure of temptation, to the fa of compromise, or even to the force of positive inspira t " c •-•-( Great cheering.) I will only add that, careless of any „rot or reprovals, we are prepared to show, as in fact we do u Ow this night, that whatever may be our separate opinions th Po e n matters not at issue. without in any way departing from fi r , ru, we well know how at the approaching juncture, and in e i t, of the foe, to present a close and serried phalanx that th" he unconqu ' erable.—( Continued cheering.) It is under ese considerations, therefore, combining, I humbly conceive, e d ancient tics of party alliance and connection, with the fresh all r of vo l un t ar y engagemen t s , that I now call upon you • at this momentous epoch—at this auspicious hour—to re- Z l ve the name, and to drink with brimming glasses to the ( e r , 4 ,l,th) the Sappiness--I say with emphasis, the happiness,- si;.ers)---and the fame of Lord John Russell.—( Enthu ' ,:ec cheering.) • I t 'lrd JOHN RE ssELt,—Gentlemen, I feel more than ordina tblY e mbarrassed on this occasion—embarrassed, lest I should th u nable to express the deep sense of gratitude I entertain for e honour you have done me, in drinking, and for the eloquent t l : n timents with which my Noble Friend has proposed, the t which ou have just now so kindly received. I feel the 4 - luarrassmi;, t of my situation less, however, than if I were if sills th at I cou ld ta k e t hi s h onour en ti re ly to myself—than i n endeavouring to express all that I felt, I were induced to l i °ll sider the occasion as one personal to myself, and in my own 1 4 °n°11 r• I am quite sure that if I did entertain any such feel- I should omit to see it in what I really do see in it—an ; s ettiblin g o f many w h o mee t h ere f o r the great and solemn rl3 ° B ' of recordin political sentiments which they, in their etier 2ni , aces , believeg to tend to the welfare, the improvement , u cheer g•) of their country.—( Loud and continued cheer thaq Let me say in allusion to one part of my Noble Friend's a t ch, that I feel how great an honour it is that I meet here RUC the re a l representatives of the people—( Loud and conti nued ch eers ) —t h at I am no t now addressing those who, by d e a ns of nomination boroughs, or false seats, have procured 31 h av e no w into the Commons' House of Parliament ; but that t , i ,ve now before me those who represent the virtue and the in r, "gene ° of the people of the United K ingdom. —( Loud cheers. ) by such an assembly I feel honoured, but, at the ; I r l i le time, I feel awed. It has been my fortune, as my Noble t, '° ,l has said , to proposa a measure for the relief of the Pro -11.-tant Dissenters from the degrading bonds by which they tell formerly confined. It has been my fortune to propose a r , fur the Reform of the representation of this country ; and aZ t n lemen, I may now say, that among all my day-dreams of tvi t c;,_°n, there has been none which, after those connected t 4; ulelss two subjects, I have cherished so long, or enter oir;ed with suc h perseverance , as th e h o pe that I might one day .... r e other be the means of subduing another great grievance l im e:lean the grievance of the abuses of the Church of Ire hitie"-{Tremendous cheerirg)—abuses which seem to com m the political usurpation of our close boroughs with the tte:vgious intolerance of our Corporation and Test Acts.—( Re sowed cheering). It is my hope, Gentlemen, that on Monday % ar t I shall be able to state such a case to the House of Com b. 43 ---to that House of Conurmns nbia i ha* bccticwocrahlea i „.." special summonsfroin the Crown, and with the threat of sta te I ; I say it is my hope that I shall be able to ti "eh a case as will withstand the attacks of sophistry and the 4ence of declamation, founded upon evidence, the force of will eh t our opponents will be unable to resist.—( Cheers.) We tha t snow them that the time is now come to do justice to tt , i ! Portion of the United Kingdom, and to avert every evil 0 1 10 1 future days might otherwise bring with them, by .:Wing that Englishmen and Scotchmen are as ready as i l , l inien themselves, to feel that where a wrong is done, it ( Ile business of the Commons of England to set it right.- 4 , r eat cheering.) Gentlemen, I am glad that we have re ot; ved for this occasion the great trial of strength between t hose and our Tory opponents. Not that I think that tie doctrines which were promulgated so industriously after kiti lli i stniss a l of the late Ministry, of " measures not men," ti„ wait till they have had a fair trial," and " you will find 4 1 7 , Tories more liberal than the late Ministry"—(cheers and thi,_ 4h ter)—not -that I think that those doctrines had any i tia ,"g" of truth in them, to recommend them ; but because I am li i; t e that if we had succeeded in throwing out the present Mi b ee r Y at the commencement of the struggle, it would have .... 4 1 1 1 said that there was no difference of principle between us and at we had availed ourselves merely of a party superiority, that if the present Ministers had been allowed to c ontin u e they would have shown by the measures they adopted, w er toe success with which they advocated them, that they the were better qualified than any other men to conduct those affairs of this country.--; Cheers.) I think that all 110 ever entertained such an expectation roust now be tiers undeceived. and fully imp ressed with the conviction that t rati e c an be no stable, that th ere can be no useful, adminis the " of affairs in this country but by Ministers possessing T h co nfidence of the House of Commons.—(Loud cheers.) I 4 t ',l3 l entlemeil , is the old doctrine of the Constitution, and ti ler 1.1 . its accuracy is sufficiently proved by the result ; for Is scarcely a night on which it is not evident, that if n et -ist ers had merely that common confidence which a Ministry tvo ti tr,cg in popularity possesses, the House of Commons M erit S e disposed to yield to them, without opposition, and ures on which in principle they were disposed to agree, t ° Conced e such points as could be conceded without f or i i . ) l l :otnisin g the principles which they had prescribed sent , eir evvri guidance. With such a Ministry as the pre pos ithowever, the House of Commons have felt it lin os %,... 11 e to give them credit for any intention to propose, urin e ' p` measures, to which they knew, they were in will :pie hostile.-- ( Cheers.) Gentlemen, I never, for one, si st3 "sent to believe, that the administration of affairs con an A rlelY in Proposing measures for Ireland; the . spirit . of th at _ministratio n consists much more in the manner in which free A dministration is conducted--in the tendency either to ad,,Prineiples, or to slavish principles, which it shows in its -"ntstration of affairs at home or abroad. Do not tell me, even supposing to be the case for a moment, that because a Minister, at home, proposed one or two useful measures to the House of Commons, it would be therefore advantageous that be should remain in power, while his agents abroad are doing every thing they can to put down liberty, awl to prompte despotism.--(Lengthened cheering.) Who can believe that the Ministers wha were so anxious for the success of Don Miguel in Portugal, are changed at heart, or that if it were not for the immediate fear of the House of Commons, they would nit even now be taking steps which would tend to the promotion of bad govern ment, and the suppression of good ? And gentlemen, at home is it nothing that there should be in various parts of the country—is it nothing that there should be in Ireland—men who are disposed to promote the ends of one exclusive faction, who will advocate and support intolerance, who will aid the cause of religious and political intolerance by every act and . deed of their lives ?—( Deafening cheers.) These, gentlemen, are great and weighty considerations, even supposing that the measures the present Ministry proposed, were measures which the House of Commons would think fit to accept. It has been shown, however, already, that upon several of those measures the House of Commons differ de cidedly from the present Ministry. In the case fiat we have here to-night, even on the question of granting the power of making Masters of Arts to the London University ; even on that, these Tory Ministers are so bigotted to the old mono poly, and the ancient system, that they could not even con cede even this small privilege.-----( Loud cheers.) Clinging, it would seem, clinging with a desperate fondness to abuses and monopolies, as Ovid describes Niobe clinging to the last of her children— Unam, minirnamque, relinque, De multis minimam posco, clamavit, et unam. Even the removal of the smallest, the least, the slightest abuse, when the time really comes for tearing it away from them, is like parting with their heart's blood. They cannot yield up abuses and live—they cannot make up their minds to part with one.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have now only to express again the gratitude I owe you. I know not how, in adequate terms, to convey to you my sense of the honour'you have done me by asking me to meet you here to-day, or of the honour you have done me in selecting me for your leader in the House of Commons. If I could have believed there was any other course open to us, better calculated to advance the great cause in which we are all engaged, I should have been most happy to have adopted it. If I want other qualifications for the leader of such a body—if I have many imperfections and want many requisites for the important task, I will at least add this—that whenever any occasion arises, that when ever any opportunity presents itself, on which by retiring from that station I can promote the great cause of reform, and of civil and religious liberty, to which I have ever been at heart attached—you may depend upon it no personal va nity, no irr tated feeling on my part, will prevent my re tiring at once and doing all that I can, to promote that great cause, as the humblest individual amongst its advocates. —( Protracted cheering.) I beg now to propose " the health of your Chairman." After what has already fallen from him, it is not for me to enter into any description of his character, or into any eulogium on his merits. We all knew him in the House of Commons ; we all know how firmly he adheres to his principles, and you all know with what talent and ability he advances and defends them. I beg to propose " The - health of your Chairman," my Noble Friend, Lord Morpeth. The toast was received with groat applause. The CHAIRMAN had little need to tell the company with what feelings he must have received a distinction so proposed and so confrred. One thing only on that occasion did he fear for, and that was the want of adequate ability on his part, among so many better qualified, to fill the post that had been assigned to him. It would be sufficient for him to state that, when the proposal was made to him, he did not think it proper to bandy any compliments in the matter, but at once respect fully accepted the office, determined to endeavour to do his best.—( Cheers.) And it certainly gave him great pleasure that he had thus been enabled to enact a more congenial part towards his Noble Friend (Lend . John Russell), who sat beside him, than was formerly done by an unworthy name sake of his (one Lord Howard, of Escrick), towards his Noble Friend's illustrious ancestors.—(Cheers.) One of the duties of the chair was, not unnecessarily to consume the time of the company upon matters which la ere unworthy of engrossing it. He, therefore, begged leave at once to transfer the attention of the company to a name which would well command their immediate notice. It was the name of a statesman who, whether as a Commoner or a Peer as the leader of the Opposition, or the head of an Administra tion—in eager youth, in mature manhood, and in undegene rate age, had lived. struggled, and governed, with continued and undeviating zeal for the happiness and welfare of his coun trymen—( Cheers.) Upon any chances of his still remaining career it was not for him ( Lord Morpeth) then to speculate, but sure be was that when it came to its close—which let them hope the Supreme Bounty might long delay for them—over a more consistent or eminent course no political retrospect would ever be invited to dwell—(Cheers.) " Such," continued his Lordship, "as his country has known him and prized him for half a century, I present him to you, among those who now remain, the earliest supporter of the reform of the representa tion of the people in Parliament, of which he has lived to be the successful achiever.—( Cheers.) True to the people, and trusted by the Crown—with a mind lofty as his own bearing or his own eloquence, yet gentle (as all the satisfied relations of his life attest)—such a mind as antiquity might image, and posterity must revere—l give you the health of Earl Grey."— ( Enthusiastic cheers. ) Mr. DENISON next rose—No Gentleman whom he had the honour of addressing could feel more fdrcibly than he did the comparison that must be drawn between him and his two Noble and eloquent Friends, whose speeches had just been listened to with so much pleasure ; nor could any one feel more strongly than himself how totally inadequate he was to do justice to the toast that had been placed in his hands. The only return he could make to his Noble Friend in the Chair for the confidence he had reposed in him, would be to intrude but for the briefest possible space upon the conviviality of the meeting.—( Hear, hear.) The toast with which he had the honour of being entrusted was the " Health of Lord Mel bourne and his Majesty's late Ministers."—( Loud and long continued cheering.) As that Ministry was dismissed rather abruptly, and without that fair trial which their successors now so loudly called for, he hoped he should be considered in order when he connected the Ministry of Lord Melbourne with that of Earl Grey, especially when he saw his Noble Friend at the upper table who was associated with the former Ministry, and who, as regarded the latter, if not in the temple, was at least in the porch, where he was ever found a firm and steady supporter. In his ( Mr. Denison) humble but honest opi uion the Ministry of Lord Melbourne would firmly and nobly have carried into effect all those improvements both in Church and State which were left undone by Earl Grey.— ( Cheers. ) Here he might conclude, but he thought it would be ungrateful if he did not state a few facts respecting the dif ficulties that both Administrations had to contend against. They were both opposed by a great majority in the House of Lords, and one was opposed by a powerful and not very scru pulous party in the House of Commons, and by a great body of the magistracy, of the squirearchy, and of the clergy through out the country.--( Cheers. ) Under such circumstances they had nothing to depend upon but the purity of their views, the honesty of their intentions, the integrity of their measures, and the support of that large and virtuous body comprised in the middle classes of society—(Cheers)—with whom he believed a great part of the virtue and intelligence of the country resided. He had , already declared that he would not un necessarily trespass upon the time of the company for a single moment, but as this was the first public dinner at which they had been assembled together, he thought be might be permitted to cast back a hasty glance at the measures carried by the liberal Governments of Earl Grey aad Lord Melbourne during the four years that those noblemen were in office.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Among the many other benefits that their judicious policy had conferred upon the country, he found the second great Magna Charta—the Reform Bill —( Cheers)—the reduction of 5,000,0001. out of 18,000,0001. of the expenditure of the ~ nation, beginning with' their own salaries—(Cheers) —the reform of-the Scotch corporations—( Cheers)---a proposition to reform the Irish Church, which, unhappily, was frustrated in another place, though ten Bishops voted in its favour— (Cheers),-the renewal, upon widely different terms, of the East India charter ; the opening of the East India trade • the abolition of slavery in the British colonies—(Cheers)—Aich every humane man and honest heart must rejoice in, whatever the pecuniary cost to this country might have been—( Hear) — the settlement of that great and complicated question—the charter of the Bank of England, which his Hon. Friend on his left ( Mr. Pattison) well knew to be a subject of no or dinary difficulty—( Hear, hear)—the introduction of various highly necessary and highly beneficial reforms in the courts of law ; and finally, the amendment of the Poor-laws, the opera tion of which, for many years past, had been demoralizing to the poor and pauperizing to the rich.—( Hear, hear.) When all this was recollected, he thought that every one who heard him would agree with him, that the country owed a debt of deep gratitude to the Members of the two last Administrations.—( Cheers.) But above this, they had left a lesson to their successors, be they whom they might —that they could only hope to govern by treading in their footsteps, and following their examples—( Hear, hear)—by reforming all those abuses which time, the great innovator, had planted upon the constitution—by sweeping away all those cobwebs that neglect had suffered to gather in the sacred edifice, and by endeavouring to guide the veseel of the state in a spirit of liberality commensurate with the increasing know ledge of the people.—( Cheers.) Intreating the pardon of the company for the length at which he had trespassed upon their time, he would conclude by requesting them to fill a bumper to the health happiness and prosperity of Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's laze Ministers.—( Continued cheers.) Mr. CHARLES GRANT rose to return thanks. Amidst the many of his colleages who were far more adequate to express their sentiments in reference to the toast that had just been drunk it had fallen to his lot to offer to the company the ac knowledgments of the Members of the late Government for the manner in which the proposition of his Hon. Friend (Mr. De nison) had been received. The task, indeed, in one respect, was grateful and honourable ; but the very circumstances which made it grateful and honourable made it also difficult for him to convey to the company all that he felt, and all that he was certain was felt by those with whom he bad the honour of being associated.—( Hear, hear, hear.) If the were true that to express the gratitude of one individual was difficult, what must it be for him who had no less than the gratitude of fifteen persons to express—(laughter and cheers) —and what further must be the difficulty of his position, when he had to express by his single voice the eloquent feelings of those by whom he was surrounded, and whose eloquence was not unknown to any of those whom be had then the honour to address.__( Cheers.) He begged the company, however, to accept from him an assurance of the deep gratitude that was felt by him, by his colleagues who were present, and by those also who were absent, for the honour that had been conferred on them—an honour that by their conduct for the future, he hoped they would emtintv to deserve.—( Hear, hear.) In the presence of his colleagues of the House of Commons he would not allude to them ; but he must be permitted to say, that those of the other House of Parliament whom the company had just been pleased to consider as worthy of being included in the toast were well worthy of an honour conferred upon them by such an assembly as that present. Need he mention to them the name of Lord Melbourne ? It had been recorded by an eloquent friend of his whose classical and brilliant pen had lent fresh point and vigour to the agitating subject of politics, depicted to the life the follies and foibles of fashionable society, and by a magic touch restored the ruins of Pompeii.--(Great cheer ing.) Need he mention to them the name of Lord Lans downe, a Nobleman not less distinguished in political than in private life ; not less admired in public fer his consistency and strict integrity than revered at home for the practice of every domestic virtue.—( Cheers.) Need he mention. to them the name of Lord Althorp ?—( Great cheering.) He should have said Lord Spencer, but he felt that all whom he ad dressed, respected, reverenced, and admired him as Lord Al thorp_( Cheers)—and whenever that nu& was mentioned, where would they find a stronger claim upon their applause for openness of manner, sustained honesty and integrity in public life, and noble magnanimity at momentous and critical periods?—(Cheers.) Need he mention the name of the Noble Lord the late Home Secretary—a name dear to every part of the kingdom, but especially to the most interesting part of it, Ireland ? To him (Mr. Grant) it was a proud gratification to think that he had been associated with such men—not only those that he had mentioned, but all connected with the Go vernment for the last four years—a period during which there had passed more measures affecting deeply the interests of the country, domestic and foreign, than perhaps were ever before crowded within the same brief space of time.—( Cheers.) As his Hon. Friend (Mr. Denison) had so lately and so elo quently adverted to many of those measures, he (Mr. Grant) should content himself with enumerating only a few—negro emancipation, the amendment of the poor laws, the various alterations with respect to our Western and Eastern depend encies, but above all, the great measure of Parliamentary Re form, which might be regarded as the foundation of their assembling there that day.—( Cheers.) That was a measure which had improved the interests and changed the corrupt character of the- representation of the country; it was de manded by the people—it was yielded to the people's de mand—it resulted froth various causes—from the progress of knowledge—from the enlargement of science—from the efforts of distinguished men in Parliament, and of none in a more particular manner than those of the Noble Lord whom they hailed as their guest on that occasion. —(Cheers.) And here he must be permitted to advert to that good and venerable man—to that distinguished statesman, who in early youth commenced his political career with what at that time was deemed a romantic dream, but who yet had lived to see the dream of his youth fulfilled.— ( Cheers.) The Reform Bill, which was the result of the increasing knowledge of the country, had stamped the cha racter of the age for generations yet to come.—( Hear.) It had given a new tone to politics and to public men—it pre cluded all hope of a return to the old system—it guaranteed for the future the voluntary or forced adherence 'of every go vernment to liberal principles.—( Cheers.) He rejoiced that that distinguished company had been pleased to offer so marked a tribute of the respect and approbation of the late Govern ment ; but, in doing so, he believed they were only acting in the spirit of the Reform Bill—in the spirit of that great mea sure they were prepared to act ; and whatever the separate opinions of many upon minor points of policy might be, of this he felt certain, that all in that great assembly were pre pared for ever to maintain the principle of reform, and by every means in their power, actuated by the same common feeling, to advocate and support it, as long as they retained a scat in Parliament —( Cheers.) His Noble Friend ( Lord John Russell) had adverted to the great question now pending —he ( Mr. Grant) felt, that whatever their separate opinions upon minor points connected with Ireland might be, upon the subject of the abuse to which his Noble Friend had directed their attention, all were prepared to follow his footsteo. ( Cheers.) This they would do, relying on the justice of their cause, and acting in the•spirit of the Reform Bill. The Right lion. Gentleman concluded by.repeating his gratitude for the honour conferred upon him and his colleagues in the late Go vernment. The CHAIRMAN rose and said, that in closing, as he feared they would think it high time for him to do, his own trespasses on their kindness and forbearance, he would beg to submit to them the name of an individual, who, although he was in cluded in the toast last drank, he was emboldened, by the re.: ception they had given to the incidental mention of his name, to think they would deem not unworthy of a second and a special commemoration. The name of the leader of the House of Commons, during the ascendency of a Liberal Government, was not wholly out of place on such an occasion; altered c ircumstances had altered his station and changed his title, but those who had been associated with him in political life, witnessed his exertions, admired his virtues, and beheld the general respect and esteem in which he was held, still loved to recall their old leader to their memory bythe name of Lord Althorp.—(Enthusiastic cheering.) To those who were without that experience, he could only say that the Re form Act, under which they now held their seats in the House of Commons, was probably indebted for its final success to the indefatigable industry and still more invincible temper of that Noble Lord, whom no exertions in his country's behalf fatigued, and whom no excess of hostility embittered. Private events seemed for a while to have withdrawn that Noble Lord from the turmoil of public affairs to the peace and tranquillity of private life. He (14: - .:rd Morpeth) believed that his Noble Friend would like nothing better than the " Latis otia, fundis Speluncm, vivique lacus, et frigida Tempe, Mugitusque bourn, mollesque sub arbore somni Non absunt." (Cheers and laughter.) Yet, in the hope that the day was not far distant which would restore him to active co-operation with his former colleagues, and to the possession of the confi dence and esteem of his country, he begged to propose to thern the health of Earl Spencer.--( Great cheering.) The toast was received and drunk with the utmost en thusiasm. Mr. O'CoNrieu having been called upon by the Chairman, presented himself for the purpose of proposing the next toast. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman was received with lengthened cheering, and the warmest demonstrations of ap plause. When silence was restored he said : . My Lord, I heartily—l cordially—respond to that call. Indeed I will say unaffectedly, that I never knew an hour of such happiness in my life as I have enjoyed to-night. We have spent a de lightful evening—an evening whose delights arise from a recol lection of the past—of the many past—evenings connected with our meeting here. It is rendered still more delightful by th t generous sympathy which the independent represen tatives of England, Scotland, and Ireland, exhibit in the public cause, uiving our unpurchaseable voices in the sup port of the leader whom we have this night installed with a confidence free from suspicion upon our part, as it is in capable of deception on his—( Loud cheers)—and ren dered more exquisite in its delights still, by the anticipation of that approaching futurity which, before another week has gone over our heads, will realize, I trust, the commencement of a new era--the era of continuing and peaceful amelioration of the institutions of England ; of the quiet amelioration of the institutions of Scotland ; and commencing the improvement —because commencing to act upon kindly feelings, and upon the sacred principles of liberty and freedom—of Ireland,— ( Cheers.) Glorying in these thoughts—obtruding them per haps upon the meeting, though unconnected with the toast I have been called upon to speak to—idle rumour has attributed to me the intention of going over to France to defend a coun tryman of mine, the victim of some ungenerous tyranny in France. Although I would not shrink from the task of vin dicating the unfortunate wherever I find them, I feel that it would be almost hypocrisy in me to treat the people of Scotland as my clients. That portion of the United Kingdom has sent to this country more than one statesman, wise in the Cabinet and honest in Council ; she has sent to this country so many gallant soldiers who have distinguished themselves in the fields of fight all over the world —so many able advocates, whose fame has extended not only be yond the confines of their own country, but beyond the limits of the British empire—so many wise gentlemen, and sagacious mercantile .men, much more qualified than I am to speak her gratitude, that I would willingly leave the task to them. Qualified as I am, however, I will not shrink from the duty. I delight in the measure of Reform Scotland has gained ; she earned it well ; she deserved it : she never acquiesced in religious tyranny, nor did she allow the despotism of a foreign creed to trample upon her sons with impunity.—(Loud cheers.) She was part of the weakness of Britain until Britain did the Scotch conscience justice; an entire freedom of conscience was established, not only in name and poli tical advantage, but in practical provision for the clergy and Church of Scotland. She well deserved that liberty she I hen obtained, and the British Parliament gave her an ample and excellent measure of Reform. Her constituency was less than 1,100 before the Reform Bill-1,100 not real votes—not men representing the property of Scotland, or Scottish interests—hut representing a fictitious class, and feudal titles. You have changed those 1,100 fictitious votes into upwards of 70,000 real ones.—(Loud cheers. ) But above all, you have given her a Corporate Reform.—(Cheers.) There used to be the wretched, miserable monopoly of thirty-three individuals regulating all the Corporations of Edinburgh. You have destroyed that monopoly, and given those institutions the right of choosing their own Magistrates, and selecting their own Representatives.—( Loud cheers.) And well have they vindicated their authority to make such a selection ! They have chosen for one of their representatives the leader of your English bar ; they have chosen for their other representative him - whom the Colanons of England, in spite of faction, have sent respect fully to his Majesty as the first Commoner in the first City of Eng land.—( Vehement cheering.) Neither is there any sentiment of of regret, much less of resentment, on the part of that country— the land of my birth—to which, great as are my esteem and respect for Scotland, I am bound by ties of a more endearing and lasting nature. She does not participate in the advantages Scotland has gained. Well, if we have not got all we want yet—why there is the more left for us yet to obtain.—(Cheers and laughter.) What I, feel the greatest pride in reflecting upon is this—that, in the con test for Scottish liberty, the honest representatives of Ireland were not backward—that we brought you more than one majority—that our Members converted that, which would have been a defeat, into more than one victory.—(Cheers.) It is a consolation to know that this happened ; and when I toast the Reformers of Scotland, I know that I speak of men who, valuing liberty themselves, know how to bestow it generously upon others.—( Loud cheers.) You won the hearts of the Seatish people, by showing them you had confidence in them. That which succeeded there—it's no secret—will sic, teed elsewhere ; and as it has been foetid, by seven hundred years' experience, that chains of adamant cannot bind to you the people of Ireland—for its links are still broken, its bonds are yet insecure —believe me, the silken thread of conciliation will twine aroerue you—the hearts of these in whom power has never been able to extinguish the love of freedom—from whose breasts violence and coercion have never obliterated a deep sense of the necessity of po litical equality.—(D ea f en i ng cheers.) We are beginning a new era, I hope—the era of a fair trial—not the mockery of that trial which men, convicted by their own confession of every species of delinquency, talked of. Talked of, for what? To gain time — not for a trial, but for a triumph over the people of this empire.— (Prolonged cheering.) Believing an d hopi ng th a t th a t era is ap- I proaching—hailing with gratitude the sentiments I have heard ex pressed on the great subject which the Noble Lord has announced for the ensuing meeting—knowing how much hangs on the wings of that measure—knawing how impossible it is that this great coun try can have that united stre igth it ought to have, and is capable of having, until that measure is set at rest, as I trust it will be, b.y the wisdom of Scottish and English Reformers—l appeal with ,confidence to the assistance of the former ; and, in that confidence, I call upon you to fill a high bumper to the toast of " The Refor mers of Scotland."—(Loud and continued cheering.) The toast having been drunk w,th great applause. Mr. Fox MAULE rose and said:—My Lord Morpeth and Gen tlemen, I deeply feel the honour which has been conferred upon me to-day—the honour of being called upon to take a part in a meeting so distinguished as the present, and to propose a toast of . ' so leading . and important a character as that which has been intrus ted to nay - charge. My Lord; before proceeding to that task I trust'l may be permitted, in - the name of the Reformers of Scot land, to return to Mr. O'Connell our most sincere thanks for the kindly manner in which he has proposed our healths to thii com pany, and for the warm welcome which you haie given to the men tion of our names. The Howourable and Learned Gentleman has said that he has no occasion to be the advocate of Scotland, for Scotland already bends beneath a heavy weight of gratitude for the. :boons that have been conferred upon her. How difficult, then, must it be for me, inadequate as I am to the task, to become the advocate of Ireland, who still is denied those boons and re fused that measure of justice which the Reformers of Scotland . consider her equally entitled to?—( Cheers.) Who that has looked into the history of Ireland, has not felt grief- for the injuries and unjustifiable persecutions under which she has for ages laboured ? And who that has heard the sentiments expressed by our Noble Guest this day. can fail to have hailed with the pleasure and satis faction which are predominant in all our breasts, but must be more deeply seated in the breasts of Irishmen, that dawn of liberty—that dawn of just rights and privileges, which is already appearing in the political horizon ?—( Loud cheers.) The Noble Lord has alluded to an occasion of paramount importance: on that day, the Reformers of Scotland—returned to Parliament, I must say, very much owing to the exertions of Irish Members in former Parlia ments—will not be found wanting at their posts ; and, unlike the ddys of former Parliaments, we shall find that the majority of Scotch Members in the House of Commons is reversed, and that they will be found voting for liberal measures and liberal enactments, and not always accommodating themselves to the Ministers of the day.— (Great cheering.) I will not intrude further upon the company at this moment, feeling that lam not entitled so to do. I shall beg to propose to you, Gentlemen, the toast of " The Reformers of Ire land ;" and I call upon you to remember what the Reformers of Ireland have done in gaining—you will excuse me if I give my own country the precedence—in gaining for Scotland her elective fran chise and borough reform, and for England the speedy prospect of her borough reform.—( Cheers.) I call upon you to recollect, when you are drinking the toast, that Ireland requires much at.your hands ; I feel assured, by the sentiments I have heard expressed this evening, that her just and proper demands will not be refused. —(Cheers.) The toast was drunk with loud acclamations. Lord EBILINGTON—If the toast which he was about to have the honour to propose required argument or eloquence to entitle it to the acceptance of-the company, he should certainly have wished— more especially after the eloquent manner in which they had been addressed by those who had preceded him—that the toast'had been committed to some one better qualified to do justice to its immense importance. But the abuses of the Church of Ireland—( Cheers) —were too notorious ; the necessity of fully and efficiently reform ing them too deeply impressed, not merely upon the liberal and en lightened assembly whom he had then the honour to address, but upon the minds of the millions whom they represented, and whose sentiments, he was sure, were in unison with their own, from one end of the empire to the other, to induce him for a moment to suppose that any thing that he could say could add to the claims which the toast he was about to propose had upon their cordial ac ceptance--( Hear, hear)—more especially as the subject to which it referred had already been touched upon, slightly he owned, but still with the eloquence that belonged to him, by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Dublin, as well as by the Noble Lord who, he trusted, was destined, in a few days, to carry success fully into effect a motion for the reform of the Irish Church— (Cheers)—and thus to add another to the many triumphs he had already achieved in the cause of civil and religious liberty. In proposing the toast of " An effectual reform in the Church of Ire land, and a more beneficial appropriation of, its surplus revenues"— (Cheers) —in proposing that toast, he begged for himself to say, that he yielded not one jot of the respect and devoted attachment which he had always entertained for the Church with which he was connected, nor did he abandon any portion of the anxious desire which he had ever felt that in any reform of the Church Establishment in Ireland, the spiritual wants of the members of that Church should be better provided for than they were at pre sent, with all the revenue that the Church possessed.--( Hear, hear). He never could reconcile to his own mind what the pre sent state of the Establishment seemed to presume, that the advan tage or usefulness of a Church depended upon its wealth.—( Hear, hear) ; and what was infinitely more important, he never could re concile to himself that the interests of religion, for the promotion of which all church establishments were supposed to be maintained, could be advanced in Ireland by a state of things which insulted the feelings of the conscientious Catholic, and shocked and disgusted the decent Protestant—(Cheers), and which, by the means by which an immense portion of the revenues of the Church was col lected, lighted up the flame of religious discord until it raged in all the horrors of civil warfare.--(Hear, hear). He was, and always had been, of opinion that the revenues of the Church were the property of the State.—(Cheers.) He was . bound at the same time to say, that he should regret to see those revenues which, by the piety of their ancestors, were destined for pious and religious uses, devoted entirely to secular purposes. He, therefore, trusted that the surplus revenue of the Church of Ireland would be devoted to- purposes of charity and education. —( Hear, hear.) ' Ireland, beyond all other countries, presented the most ample field for the appropriation of any surplus revenue. With these sentiments, he begged leave to propose—" A thorough Reform in the Church Establishment of Ireland, and a more beneficial appropriation of its surplus revenue."---( Cheers. ) The toast having been drunk with great enthusiasm, the Chair man .called upon Mr. GROTE.—In obedience to the summons with which your Lordship honours me, I rise to propose a toast, yielding not in in terest or importance even to the very interesting toast which has just been drunk. I propose, that we should drink " Corpo ration Reform in England and Ireland."—(Cheers.) Amidst the many amendments of which the two countries stand in need, there is . none of more vital or immediate importanmethan the consideration of their municipal corporations.—( Hear, hear. ) Whether we consider the influence of these bodies upon the per sonal well-being and comfort of the respective districts in which they are placed—whether we consider their influence upon the local administration of 'justice, or the still more important influence, perhaps, which they possess in the general constitution of our re presentative system in Parliament,—in all these points of view, the good constitution of our municipal corporations is a matter of su perlatiie and immense moment.--(Hear, hear.) It would be was ting the time of an enlightened assembly like the present to enlarge upon the actual state of the municipal corporations in the two countries. They rather appear like a heap of absurd and incon gruous anomalies, than the deliberate arrangements of a conside rate and intelligent people.:—( Hear, hear.) Blind and ill-con sidered customs, oftentimes the relics of past and extinct forms, have been allowed to flourish without interruption and without correction; and with these has been blended what is still worse— the usurpation of a local oligarchy, perverting to its own use the empty terms and obsolete ceremonies of freedom.—(Cheers.) In the greater number of our municipal corporations, narrow, self elected authorities have drawn to themselves the entire control of affairs. The citizens funds, the local funds, have been adminis tered by these authorities, and not unfrequently have been applied to useless, or indirect, or jobbing purposes. —t Hear, hear, hear.) Inch pendently of this , the influence conveyed into the representa tive system of the State has been one of the most pernicious and unfavourable kind to all descriptions of liberal measures. Abuses of this description, pervading as they do so large a portion of the soil of England and Ireland, call aloud for an immediate remedy.— (Cheers.) There cannot be a nobler task for any Government to undertake than the consideration of these degenerate establishments; there cannot be a nobler task than that of purifying the fountain of local justice, and of assuring the citizen that the Magistrate who immediately comes in contact with his person and property shall act, not in accordance with the dictates of his own selfish feelings, for his own exclusive good, but for the general interest of that body for the protection of whose welfare he was alone appointed to his office—( Hear)—to restore the principle of popular election to all our muhicipal institutions from which it ought never to have been taken, and to assimilate our corporate system to the spirit of the present age.—(Cheers.) These achievements, I say, are wor thy of the best and most intelligent heads which this country can boast.—( Hear, hear.) In all times, and in all companies, it would have been my delight to propose such a toast as the present ; but I feel peculiar pleasure in doing it in the present company, and on the present occasion, and in connecting the toast with the name and with the Ministry of the Noble Lord in whose house we are this day met.---(Cries of "Hear, hear.") I cannot but recollect that the Reform Bill proposed by the Noble Lord first broke down the abuse of self-election in the representative system ; and I cannot but recollect as still more immediately bearing upon the present question, the noble and magnificent present, in the way of Municipal reform, which the Ministry of 1833 bestowed upon Scotland.—(Cheers.) May they be equally liberal and equally successful when they undertake the reform of the English municipal corporations.--( Renewed cheering.) It would be pre sumptuous in me to add my humble voice to the many deierved eulogies which have been bestowed upon the Noble Lord in the course of this evening ; but I am sure he will not value the testi mony coming from me the less, because it proceeds from one who does not exactly, in every respect, coincide in the line of policy which he professes.—(Cheers.) If I, as an humble individual, may be permitted to express a prayer for the future, it would be that the course of policy, and the measures proposed by the Noble Lord, may be of that mild and liberal cast which at once shall have the effect of silencing differences such as mine, and of uniting all, heart and hand, as we were united during the ever memorable period of the passing of the Reform Bill.—(Loud cheers.) I con clude by proposing " Corporation Reform in England and Ireland." The toast was drunk with cheers. Lord DALMENY observed that there was an old, trite, and very excellent proverb, that brevity was the soul of wit. He could as sure them that he never was more deeply impressed with a sense of its wisdom and truth than at that moment. If, therefore, the wit lay at the other end of the table, he should take care that the bre vity fell to his portion,—( Hear, and a laugh.) In offering to their notice the toast that had been committed to his care—" Liberal and pacific foreign policy"—he trusted he might be allowed to express his joy, and to congratulate the country on the old system of ani mosity and hostility having become obselete—on the ancient preju dices which taught every nation to look with an eye of envy on its neighbour, being abandoned—and on this country having set an example of her disposition to cultivate the relations of peace with all her neighbours, and at the same time to promote the growth of constitutional freedom, and universal prosperity, by the advance ment of trade and commerce.—(Cheers.) He congratulated Great Britain also on other grounds. He had observed that all free coun tries sought her friendship from admiration of her policy, while despots had carefully suppressed their own, from a fear of the in fluence of British principles.— (Cheers.) He would take that op z portunity of offering his humble tribute of praise to his Noble Friend, the late Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Lord Palmerston), for the principles on which he had invariably acted. —(Continued cheers.) For that Noble Lord's political conduct he entertained the most sincere respect: it must be remembered that it was under his auspices that a liberal system of foreign po licy was first successfully adopted; that it was under his guidance that the impulse was first given to its motion ; that he first acted in accordance with its spirit, and that to his vigilance, to his counsel, and to his dexterity, not only were they indebted for the preservation of peace, but also for the adjustment of most difficult and complicated questions, without injury to the honour, security, or welfare, of this great empire. —(Cheers.) What was chiefly remarkable at the pre sen t t i me was , t h at t h ose very men w h o h a d opposed him most indefatigably—those assailants who had resorted to every species of - warfare and to positive calumny—those very gentlemen, since their accession to power, had most marvellously fallen into the tenor of his measured, and most singularly adopted the tone of his policy.—(Cheers and laughter.) But, alas ! about a fortnight ago, the individuals now in power began to feel rather uncomfort ti le their liberal principles ; visions of their ancient leagues with the old despotic thrones floated before their eyes; they felt a _lingering reg-ei for the days of yore, and selected a Noble Lord r s as an expiat iry offering to the shades of their ov;n departed policy, and as an offering with which to soothe the wrath of the Autocrat of all the Russian.--(Loud cheers.) He believed the victim Was led nothing loth to the altar ; but fortunately he was rescued from his fate, and saved, however unwillingly, from too prominent a noto riety.—(Cheers and a laugh.) To leave the field of metaphor, he must express his opinion that, considering the delicate nature of our foreign relations—considering the nice situation of our foreign affairs, of all the absurd and preposterous ideas that ever entered the head of any Minister, none was ever so extravagant, so wild, so repugnant to common sense, or so opposed to common reason, as the selection of the Noble Lord to whom he alluded as Ambassador to the Court of Russia.--( Great cheering.) Hewould not detain them any longer; he felt that while he was talking of foreign po licy, gentlemen must he rather thinking at that time of night of home affairs.—( Laughter. ) Therefore, and as they were on the verge of the Sabbath, with the fear of Sir Andrew Agnew before his eyes, lie would content himself by proposing the toast which had been entrusted to him, hoping that anew era was at length ap proaching, and that all the nations of the earth would soon be joined in one bond of harmonious and enlightened confederacy, where the only rivalry would be emulation, and the only distinction intelli gence and virtue.—(Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with great applause. Lord KERRY, in proposing a toast connected with the cause of education, observed that the subject must always be associated with the name of one who, when a leading and highly-distinguished Member of that House of Commons to which they all now be longed, and long before it reached its present height, had advocated its claims upon the consideration of the country, and fought the battles of reform not only against the influence of the party then in power, but also against the prejudices and opinions of many from whose minds those prejudices had since gradually but certainly dis appeared.--(Hear, hear.) He hoped that the time was not far distant when a system of real education might be established in the country on such a broad and permanent basis as would give satis faction to all classes of the community. He begged to propose " The cause of National Education on broad and comprehensive principles, and its early-tried and consistent advocate, Lord Brougham." Lord MILTON rose to propose the next toast. If his Hon. Friend the Member for Surrey (Mr. Denison), at an early hour of the evening, felt it necessary to claim the indulgence of the assem bly, how much more necessary must it be for him (Lord Milton,) after a still further display of eloquence, to throw himself upon their kindness and indulgence.—(Hear, hear.) Certainly he should much regret that the toast which he should have the honour of proposing had been placed in such hands as his if he had not the pleasure of reflecting that the sentiment embodied in it would so meet with the cordial acceptance of the company, that, what ever the demerits or deficiencies of him who proposed it, the merit of the toast, itself would be more than sufficient to command atten tion and respect.—( Hear, hear.) Perhaps their regret might in some degree be called forth, that several of those who mainly con tributed to the success of the great measure which was the subject of the toast he was about to give, were not able to participate in the festivity of that evening, when he mentioned that he was going to propose the measure which terminated in the extinction of ,filavery—(Loud cheers)—which provided that within the space of a few years, not only no slave set foot upon, the soil of Great Britain, but that no slave should set foot on any part of the British possessions; when he mentioned that subject, there would naturally be associated with it, in the minds of all, the name of one who proposed the resolution to the House of Commons upon which the measure of emancipation was founded, and to whom was intrusted the charge of carrying that great measure through. How much, then, must they lament that he who could refer to those things, and of them as those " Quseque ipse miserrima vidi Et 'quorum pars magna fui !" Perhaps even those tinder his banner, whatever their confidence at the present moment might be, might not be so sure of their game as they fancied. But still he could not help thinking, that every one must regret that even for a moment the Noble Lord and his associates were parted from them. He would not allude to this subject any further. He felt he was trespassing at too great length ; and the very fact of his having been received so kindly ought to remind him how careful he ought to be not to intrude un necessarily upon the patience of his considerate hearers. He would therefore conclude by proposing " The great measure for the abo lition of colonial slavery, and the spread of its beneficial example over the whole surface of the globe."—(Cheers.) The toast haying been drunk, The CIIAIR3IAN said he began to be afraid that his Hon. Friend the Member the Salford (Mr. Brotherton) would move an ad journment—(Laughter)—and under that feeling he thought they could not better close the proceedings of that most harmonious and successful meeting—( Cheers )—from which, he trusted, they should transfer to another place the same spirit both of energy and of concord,—than by giving a toast which he knew would be accept able to the feelings of all who sat beneath that roof, as it was con genial with every sentiment that had been expressed upon that memorable occasion—he begged to propose " The cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world."—_(Cheers.) The toast was drank with loud acclamations. As the company were departing, Lord DUDLEY STUART rose and claimed the privilege of proposing a toast. After descanting at some length on the tyranny that had oppressed the Poles, his Lordship concluded by proposing " The restoration of Poland"— ( Cheers. ) This toast having been drank, the company immediately sepa ated. It was considerably past eleven o'clock. LONDON & GRAVESEND RAIL WAY. PUBLIC MEETING AT WOOLWICH. Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of the inhabitants of Wool wich, Charlton, Plumstead, and Erith, took place on• Wednesday evening, at the British and Foreign School-rG.trn, for the purpose of taking into consi&ration the proposed line of rail-road front Lon don to Gravesend, &c. with a view of ascertaining thebenefits to be derived from the Fame passing through the above places. The room was crowded to excess. Captain FEAD, who was unanimously called to the Chair, briefly stated the objects of the meeting, aud introduced Mr. Green, the Secretary to the Company, who attended for tl:e purpose of giving any explanation that might be required. Mr. GREEN then came forward, and was received with loud ap plause. After some preliminary observations, lie observed that he would do his best to explain the merits and advantages of rail-roads generally ' which were not so well understood as could b e wi s hed, and which were not only locally but publicly beneficial. Their primary utility was, of course, rapidity of communication, which was in a tenfold degree superior to the means of ordinary convey ance. Another advantage was, that a rail-road increased the value of local property. He was aware of the indisposition which occa sionally existed in the minds of landholders and others to have their property disturbed, as a rail-road necessarily , intruded on private and vested rights ; yet, in all instances of the kind, it was provided that an equivalent remuneration for such partial injuries should be allowed, and guaranteed by the highly honourable men who conducted the companies in the most ample and liberal man ner. In instances, whereby it could be shown that by intruding on a part of any property the whole might be damaged, the value of the whole was allowed, as in the case of a field, a house, or gar den. Mr. Green then adverted to the increased value which was giver' to land, in itself really valueless ; as a flint field, which, by either a canal or common turnpike road passing through it, became valuable for building, &c. ; and on the same principle, the advan tages of a rail-road were equally evident. Woolwich, in the pre sent instance, would be made a station ; and the increased inter course, both from and to London and Gravesend, which must naturally accrue from the circumstance, would to the place and neighbourhood be incredibly advantageous ; there being a t present no direct road eastward, the access to the Dover road being through narrow lanes of mire, &c. Mr. Green then ad verted to the advantages derivable, in a parochial point of view, from the rail-road's contiguity, every IL of its value being assessed to the poor, &c. of the parish through which it passed ; and that as, during the progress of the under taking, work would be provided for the present unemployed labourer, considerable relief to the immediate districts would be given. The calculated time to and from London would be about twenty minutes each way, without stoppages ; and he argued that from this facility of communication, an increase of visitors to view the natural and artificial beauties of the spot, as well as a vast ad dition to its residents, would inevitably be the consequence. Mr. Green then referred to the Liverpool and Manchester rail-road, as an example worthy to be followed throughout the United King dom, and asked, " Would the County of Kent, the Garden of Eng land, which was the great thoroughfare to and from the whole continent of Europe, refuse the advantages of rail-roads ?" After answering sonic of the minor objeciions to rail-roads, Mr. G. ob served, that Colonel Landmann, (on whom he passed a warm en logium for his eminent talents), the engineer to the company, was expected, and would give any further explanations to the meeting. In answer to questions for information as to the estimated . profits to be derivable to those interested in the undertaking, as an invest ment for capital, Mr. Green read and commented on the various sources of profit mentioned in the Prospectus recently issued by the directors, and which, to give satisfaction to the meeting generally, he particularly dwelt on the articles—fish, vegetables, and fruits, which from their perishable nature required to be supplied to the consumers as speedily as possible, to preserve their freshness, and which could not be effected in so complete a manner by any other means as through the medium of rail-way carriage ; and hence he inferred the revenue derivable from these articles alone would be considerably above that estimated in the prospectus. Colonel LA NDMA 141 i, who had arrived, was then introduced to the meeting by the Chairman, and was most favourably received. He entered into an explanation of the manner in which it was in tended to carry on the proposed railroad, which would cut Wool. wich completely into two parts—convenient bridges, arches, para pets, &c., where necessary, would be erected to keep the commu nication perfectly free and open. The railway would cross the streets at right angles, or nearly so. There would be several stop ping places for the taking up and setting_ down of passengers, the same as other carriages, one of which would be near Green End, on the new road, and another near the Ship Tavern. He agreed, that where the introduction of a railway was calculated to injure a town its inhabitants ought to rise up in arms to oppose it; but, if advantageous, of course he expected their support. His business was to state its advantages, and not its disadvantages. After referring to the fact, that three-fourths of the eels sent to the London market, by water, died on passing Gravesend ; and that no salmon were at, present found in the Thames, aris ing from the impure state of the water, occasioned by the various sewers, was-works, &c., inconveniences which would be obviated by the proposed improved . mode of carriage ; the Colonel, ;n answer to questions put to him, further added, that the intended railroad would, as we understood the Colonel, enter from Lower Charlton, cross Prospect row, Samuel-street, Harrington's-buildings, Coleman-street, Mary-street, Charles-street, William-street, Thomas-street, Green End, and the New Road, to Plumstead. The probable expense for passengers would be not more than Is., but might be 9d. to and from London. The scale for the carriage of goods would vary ac cording to their class of value.—(Muclilaughter was here excited by an individual asking "whether there would be turnpikes on the rail-road, and whether he could carry his goods in his cart as on the highway ?") The question whether there would be a common road at the side, as in the Greenwich rail-way, had not been agitated. Mr. GAREN was then requested to read the names of the Di rectors, which having done, he explained that the Gravesend rail road, though a continuation of the Greenwich rail-road, was managed by a distinct Company. Mr. DELL then moved a resolution, expressive of the approbation of the meeting of the intended line of road ; which was seconded by Mr. LONGER. J. Iseicsosi, Esq., of Blackheath, rose to oppose it. He observed that he thought before passing such a resolution a little caution was necessary. They had heard a great deal of the advantages ; but none of the disadvantages of the proposed measure. He would ask them what benefit it could be to Woolwich to have it cut into two parts? Then they were to have a dell cut out of it thirty-eight feet in depth. He objected to the passing of the resolution, as being too precipitate a proceeding, as he felt assured that the persons whom he had the pleasure to address, were not sufficiently ac quainted with the details of the measure to warrant their giving so hasty an opinion on its merits or demerits. He (Mr. J.) was not opposed to rail-roads generally ; but in the present instance he thought it would be a better proceeding to adjourn, and wait until the Bill now before Parliament was printed, when having the• facts before them, they would be enabled tc defermtne . with more afety, whether or not this measure ♦cas deserving their approbation. ha therefore would, with the permission of the meeting, move an amendment to that effect. The CIfAIRMAN objected, as he did not consider Mr. Jackson an inhabitant of Woolwich, &c., and to them only was the adver tisement addressed. Mr. JACKSON replied that he was rated on the parish books of Charlton, and he contended that. as such he had a r►ght to attend. After a short discussion on this pint, the objection being waived, Air. BURT asked if Mr. Jackson had not moved a resolution at a late meeting at Greenwich, to oppose the rail-road going further than Greenwich? • Mr. JAexsoN explained—That what he had done at the meet ing in question, was precisely the same as what he now recom mended. There the vestry-clerk had been appointed to watch over the proceedings of the Company, and report accordingly. Mr. DELL was in favour of the original resolution, as he consi dered that'much good might be done to the town, from the increase of v:sitors which so great a thoroughfare would create, and who were now entirely ignorant of those attractions which Vl'oolwich and its neighbourhood contained— viz., the Arsenal, the Repository, Shooter's-hill, &c. &c. The CHAIRMAN observed that it behoved the friends of Wool wich to see what could be done for it. It was as bad off as it could possibly be at present, and no alteration could make it worse. He had tco many kind recollections of the place, not to wish it every poss b:e benefit. . . . . - Mr. BUTLER, after a few preliminary remarks, alluded to e fact that the several places in the intermediate vicinity of the Man chester and. Liverpool Rail-road had suffered from that measure, as instead of individuals enjoying themselves for recreation, health, &c. as before, they now preferred going the whole distance. He had yet also to learn what advantage was to be derived from the rapid conveyance of fresh fish. It might apply to London, but not to M oolwich. He was decidedly for an adjournment. After some further discussion, in which the manner of calling the meeting without consulting the parish authorities was complained of, Mr. BURT explained and said that he took all the blame on him self, if any, for calling the present meeting. He had heard that if the Railway did not go through Woolwich, it would through El them, and he had also heard that petitions were getting up in Greenwich to oppose its going further than that place. As none of the parish functionaries appeared inclined to take the matter up, he suggested the present mode to the surveyor of the roads, as one calculated to assist in arriving at the merits and demerits of the question. With regard to the cutting of the dell through the town, he did not see its inconvenience. He agreed with the worthy chairman, that the town could not be in a worse state than it was, and the question was whether, if the railroad passed through, there would not be more trade created. It was evident that the nobility and others who now went by the Dover-road, and who were ignorant of Woolwich would become acquainted with it. The railroad had received the sanction of the Duke of Richmond, when Postmaster-General, and was originally set on foot under his auspices. Theyw ere aware of the intention - of its being finally carried to Dover, and he had been informed that Rochester, Chatham, &e., were desirous that. it should pass through them without touching Gravesend. If the nobility stopped here, money would circulate. He begged them to look at the various wharfs, warehouses, &c. unoccupied. It was probable • that they might also have a pier which would enable people to land from London and return by the road in the evening, and referred them to what the people of Dept ford were doing to raise themselves into prosperity. He had no objection to adjourn, but thought a specific time should be men tioned for again meeting. Mr. NoREs considered that the meeting ought to be much obliged to the worthy magistrate Mr. Jackson (who as a rate payer, was entitled to be present) for his advice on the present oc casion. He himself would also caution the meeting against so rea dily jumping at conclusions. He begged also to correct Mr. Burt in his assertion that the local authorities had been supine or indif ferent to the proposed measure. The company had communicated with them previously, and they had referred to him (Mr. Nokes) for the purpose of examining the Bill, after which it was their in tention to call a public meeting. After some further discussion a resolution was proposed and carried that the meeting should ad journ, in order to give time for a perusal of the Bill which Mr. Green said would probably be ready in a week, and giving power to the Chairman in conjunction with the parish authorities, to call another public meeting at as early a period as possible. Thanks having been given to the Chairman, the meeting se parated. ~-,~ WINDSOR-(SUNDAY.) Their Majesties drove out yesterday together, in a close carriage, in the vicinity of the Great Park. Sir Watkeit Waller and Baroness Howe arrived at the Castle yes terday, on a visit to their Majesties. Colonel Bowater arrived this morning, but remained only a few hours at the Castle. The King and Queen, Prince George, and the Royal Suite and Household, attended divine service this morning in the private chapel ; the Rev. Messrs. Wood and Gusset officiated. After luncheon the King took a carriage airing, aceompaujed by Viicountess Falkland. At three o'clock the Queen and Prince George, attended by the Earl and Countess Howe, went to the parish church, and were pre sent at the afternoon service. The commanding officers of the troops stationed here, and the Rev. Isaac Gossett, will have the honour of dining with the King and Queen this evening. On Wednesday next. their Majesties will leave the Castle for St. James's Palace, where, it is expected, they will remain until Friday . COURT CIRCULAR. The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg and the Princess Augusta attended divine service, yesterday morning, in the Chapel -Royal, St. James's. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their Royal Highness's Household, attended divine service yesterday morning ; the Rev. W. Fisher officiated. The Duke of Cumberland went on Saturday to his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness returned to town yesterday afternoon. The Duke of Cumberland honoured Mr. Burford with his pre sence, on Saturday, at the private view of his panorama of Je rusalem. The LandgTavine of Hesse Homburg and the Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Kensington Palace. •Their Royal Highnesses honoured the Marchioness of Cornwallis with their company to a dejeune, on Saturday, at' her residence in Park-crescent A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign Office. It was attended by the Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of Rosslyn, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. Seeretary Goulburn, Lord Ellenborough, Earl de Grey, Sir Henry Hardinge, the Right Honourables C. W. Wynn, J. Ilerries, and A. Baring. The Council sat upwards of two hours. The Ministers assembled yesterday at the residence of Earl de Grey. The French Ambassador and the Spanish Minister transacte business on Saturday at the Foreign Office. The Neapolitan Minister transacted business at the Colonial Office on Saturday. MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF MINISTERS. On Saturday afternoon a Meeting of Members of the House of Commons who have hitherto voted with Sir R. Peel, was held at the house of Lord Francis Egerton, in Cleveland-square. About one hundred and thirty gentlemen were present. Captain Ferguson, M.P. for Banffshire, Mr. Walter, and Sir Phillip Durham, left the meeting before its conclusion, apparently not well satisfied. The prospect opened to them could hardly be of the most exhilirating character. It was impossible for them to exult in the success of the past week, and the coming week presents no consoling hope. There were some very blank looks among the compt.ny, and " dire forebodings shook them while they spoke." They felt the peril was great, and that, in all probability, the day of the pre sent Administration would be very short. Before breaking up it was resolved to divide themselves into sections, each sec tion to bring as many as possible to vote ngainst the motion of Lord John Russell - this evening. The Ministerialists must have felt themselves uncomfortably weak before they could have resolved on adopting such a course. DINNER TO MR. DAWSON.—The Secretary to the Admiralty, the Right Hon Geo. Dawson, is expected to visit this town about the 23d of April next, when he will dine with his friends and supporters. A preliminary meeting . is to be held this day (Saturday) to make the necessary arrange ments.—Devonport Independent. CITY CONSERVATIVE MEETING.—The leading City Tories had a private meeting on Friday, at the London Tavern—so private that nom) but those well known to them were admitted. The object was to get up a petition against the appropriation of tithe to any other than ecclesiastical pur poses. Upwards of forty. Conservative Members of Parliament were . present, and Pole, the banker, took the chair. It is understood that the above named petition is being secretly signed, and that the intention is to present it unexpectedly this evening as the petition of the merchant, and bankers of London. It is reported that arraneements are being made by the Mail Coach contractors, on the line of road from London to Plymouth, which when carried into effect will enable the mail to arrive here nearly two hours earlier than it does at present.—Detronport Independent. LIVERPOOT. COTTON-MARKET, MARCH 27. We have had a very brisk market for Cotton this week, with a considerable extent of business done, and at better prices, say d. to id. per lb. on common and good American, Surats, id. per lb., 'Brazils generally id., and in partial instances d. per lb. advance has been obtained on Bahia and Pernam ; bet,. Islands are also Ad. per lb. higher. Exporters have taken 1,240-American, and 1,400 Surat, and speculators 7,500 Ame rican, 2,200 Surat, 650 Bahia, and 350 Pernams. 200 fine Demeraras are declared for auction on Friday next. The im port is 10,970 bags, and the sales are 35,290 bags, viz. 256 Sea Island, 14d. to 2s. 2d.—100 Stained ditto, 12d. to 171 rd. —9,230 Bowed, 9,id. to II:IA.-11,790 New Orleans, 9d. to to 121.-4,100 Alabama, &c. 90. to 12d.-510 Pernams, 13k. to 15d.-2,540 Bahia, 11d. to 134d.-2,430 Alaranliam, Hid. to 143 . d.-20 Barbadoes, 100.-170 West India, 124 d. ---20 Smyrna, 84-30 Egyptian, Ind.—and 4,120 Surats, 60d. to Bi-d. per lb. LIVERPOOL CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH 27. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain since Tuesday are very mo derate in amount, but having a very slender attendance of town millers, and scarcely a buyer from the country, the trade for every article was extremely inanimate. The few transac tions in Wheat this morning were confined altogether to retail quantities, and holders being more disposed to sell than of late, a small abatement was in some instances conceded. For Barley and Malt there appeared very little inquiry, and each may be considered rather cheaper. In the value of Beans and Peas we have no material alteration to note. Oats, in the absence of country demand, were more neglected than usual, and a decline of Ad. to Id. per 451 b. would have been sub mitted to, had sales been practicable. Flour and Oatmeal, influenced by the same cause, scarcely maintained our last quotations. There was nothing done to-day in the Farr. e:s' market. Very few attended. Prices if main nominal. EARTHQUAKE AT SEA.---Exact from the 1.0:/- book of the James Cruikshank, Captain John Young, or, her voyage from Demerara to London :—" Feb. 12, 1835.—At 10h 15m. a severe shock of earthquake shook the ship in a m. at violent manner. Although it lasted a.bnit a minute, there was no uncommon ripple on the water. It was quite calm at the time. Latitude,lB deg. 47 min. N. ; longitude 61 deg. 22 min. NV., Mid. calm and clear."