The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-17 00:00:00

EVENING- SUN NATIONAL GRATITUDE. RAND DINNER TO LORD MORPETH BY THE IRISH REFORMERS. The banquet which was given at the Theatre vester ue)- evening, to testify a nation's gratitude and affection to one of the noblest of her defenders, was beyond all eomparison the most magnificent festival it has ever been fortune to attend. The whole of the pit was boarded over, so as to " join issue" with the stage, and thus an amphitheatre was thrown open of vast extent. The ceilings were hung with coloured silks and calicoes of the most brilliant hues, and the walls all around were festooned with garlands and bouquets. From the centre of the ceiling- a chandelier of enormous di mensions and most exquisite workmanship, and from ehich alone several hundred lights branched, was sus pended. The effect of that vast luminary, when en hanced by that of a thousand minor lamps and lustres, which were suspended in every direction, was such as to shed an effulgence throughout the whole theatre, as bril liant, and almost as pervading, as daylight. The tables were ranged in curved lines—crescent-like—from the ridge of the boxes to the back of the stage. The table at which sat the Chairman and the distinguished guest, was extended across that space intervening between the 1 pilasters of the stage, an excellent arrangement, whereby both of these important personages were visible to all eyes, and their voices were conveyed distinctly to the remotest car. On either side of the brilliant scene, and in the back ground, a vast expanse of mountain scenery, beautifully executed, was extended, which gave to the whole an exceedingly picturesque and imposing effect. The walls were clad with banners, flags, and escutcheons, and immediately in the rear of the Chairman was a splendid transparency bearing those identical arms that were emblazoned on the banner of the famous Belted Will Howard, who, like his present distinguished successor, by the firmness and justice of his administration, spread peace, order, and happiness, amongst those whose happy fortune it was to live beneath his sway. The boxes were devoted to the exclusive service of ladies, who greatly enhanced the brilliancy and interest of the scene. We ob served in the stage boxes Lord Morpeth's sister, and the Lady Dover, with her two sons. The middle gallery, to which access was had by tickets from the Secretary, was densely thronged by a respectable company. The upper gallery was occupied exclusively by the band, which contributed greatly to the festivity of the scene and en joyment of all present, by the admirable performance of some of the most favourite airs. The price of tickets was fixed at thirty-two shillings ; but the company, not withstanding, was densely numerous, the number of those who sat down to dinner being no less than 600. Amongst those immediately around the chair, and at the principal tables, we observed the following Noble men and Gentlemen ;—The Duke of Leinster, the Mar quis of Clanricarde, Viscount Ebrington, the Earl of Huntingdon, the Earl of Fingall, the Earl of Miltown, E.P., the Earl of Charlemont, X.l'., the Earl of Gos ford, G.C.E., Lord Lismore, Lord Talbot de Malahide, Lord Carew, Lord Oranmore, Lord Lurgan, Lord Monteagle, Lord Cork and Orrey, the Earl of Ros common, Lord Meath, Lord Arran, Lord Viscount Dillon, Lord Viscount Southwell e Lord Templetown, Lord Dun boy re, Lord Louth, Lord Rossmore, Lord Steuart de 11;ecies, Lord Clements, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Nugent, Lord Alteenont, Lord Howth, Lord Carnwath, Lord Gosford, Lard Listowel, Lord Cremorne, Lord Strafford, Lord Howard, Lord William Howard, Count D'Alton, D.L., Count Fane de Sails, D.L., the Bight Honourable P. Renew, Bart., D.L., the Bight Honourable F. Pon sonby, the Right Honourable R. L. Sheil, M.P., D.L.; the Right Honourable George Evans, the Right Hon. James Grattan, the Right Honourable Richard More °Terrell, the Honourable Mr. Carew, the Hon. Geoffrey Brown, the Honourable Robert E. Boyle, the Honointhle Henry Canlfield, AL., the Honourable b rt G ire, M.P., D.L., the Honourable William Browne, M.P., D.L., the Honourable Charles Southwell, D.L., the Honourable J. C. Westenra, D.L., the Hon. R. S. Carew, M.P., AL., the Hon. C. Ffrench, D. 8., the Hon. Ffrench, D.L., the Hon. George Vaughan, The O'Conor Don, Sir Henry Meredyth, Sir Valentine Blake, Bart., M.P., D.'.., Sir John Burke, Bart., D.L., Sir Thos. &monde, Bert., M.P., D.L., Sir Ema nuel Moore, Bart., D.L., Sir William Somerville, Bart.. M.P., D.L., Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., D.L., Sir Mon tague L. Chapman, hart., D.L., Sir Richard Keane, Bart., D.IT: , t7ir William Chatterton, Bart., D.L., Sir Richare Nagle, Bart., D.L., Sir James Crofton, Bart., john Power, Bart., Kilfane, D.L., Sir John Kennedy, Bart., I). L., Sir Thomas M‘Kenny, Bart., D.L., Sir M. I). Belie w, Bart., D.L., Sir D. Roche, Bart., M.P., D.L., Sir Dunham jephson Norreys, Bart., M.P., D.L., Andrew Armstrong, Bart., M.P., D.L., Sir H. W. Barron, Bart., D.L., Sir John Power, Bart., D.L., Roe baek, Sir John Burke, D.L., K.C.8., &c. seven o'clock Mr. O'Connell entered the hall, and we received with loud applause. His arrival was c o llewed shortly after by that of the noble guest of the evening, whose appearance was the signal for the most emliiisiastic peals of acclamation from all parts of the hall. At half-past seven o'clo:k the chair was taken by the Most Noble the Marquis of Clanricarde. As soon as the dinner was over " Non nobis Domini was sung, and immediately after the Chairman ruse and proposed the following toasts : " The health of the Queen."—(Loud cheers.) " Prince Albert."—(Cheers.) " The Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Kent, and the rest of the Royal Family."—(Cheers.) " The people, for whose benefit all power was insti tuted."—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then called fur a bumper, and the call having been responded to, he proceeded to say :—;:lentle men, I have now to propose to you a toast mostly expressive • of the sentiments which have called us together here this evening, and I rise to do so, I can assure you, with great fear and trembling, because I feel my inability to do him justice. When I think of the varied nature of the great claims upon you of my Noble Friend near me— when I think of the different excellencies of his head and of his heart, and look around at this great assembly, and call to mind your attachment to him, and your just appreciation—(Hear, hear, and great cheering)—Gentle men, •it is feeling those things that I am impressed with the sense of my inability to do justice to your senti ments, or to the merits of my Noble Friend.—(Cheers.) This is not the first time, Gentlemen, that I have had the honour of attending a dinner in this country in ho nour of my Noble Friend.—(Hear, hear.) It is about thirteen years ego, which is a long space of time, in the public life of our Noble Guest and myself, since he first visited Ireland, and he was even then heartily and warmly welcomed by the people, and he was at that time invited to a banquet, at which many- of my friends around me attended, although the assemblage was not near so nu merous as that which I have the honour to address.— (Loud cheers.) At that time even the people of Ireland, and the party in whom they trust, had per ceived the abilities, and had reason to know the prin ciples of our Noble Guest, and they justly anticipated tile energy and efficiency with which he was then about to serve his Sovereign, and to advance the cause of civil and religious liberty.—(Great cheering.) Since that time the career even of his early manhood has nobly re deemed the promises of his youth, and the zealous and uniform tenor of his opinions have been always in fa vour of wise toleration—of sound constitutional Govern ment, and the principles of freedom, and in the support of those principles, and in the promotion of a system of pol'.ey adopted by the party with whom he associated liimielf—a party which advocated good Government— whiele I tract, you never will surrender.—(Hear, and greet cheering.) You have seen him faithful to those princ'ples.—(Cheers.) You have seen him highly and fully tried, bec a u se - y ou have seen him invested with power and entrusted with authority—using that autho• rity and wielding that power in support of the prin ciples which he manifested in youth, and fur the good of the 1 eople.—(Loud cheers.) It would have b .en to little purpose that we had obtained the erasure 4V the penal laws, and of intolerance, if we were to lose tle spirit which has guided the late Administration. We happily have seen and known the benefits of a Libe ral government in Ireland, and our Noble Guest has been eminently the happy instrument of dispensing equal jus tice to all, teaching the people that government was en trusted not for th e i r d epression , but for their protection —2roclahning aloud that propeety, if it had its rights, had also its duties.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, our Noble Friend has done much good, and it is at the present mo ment a consolation to know, that much of that good must be permanent. The spirit of the old Orange party may possibly be alive, it may be somewhat busy, but it must be prudent. They will never dare to raise their Orange banners in this country again. I will not detain you by alluding to the industry with which our Noble Friend has a pplied himself, and the interest he has taken in all questions connected with Ireland ; nor need I dwell on t h e manner in which he has att en d e d to a ll t h e d eta il s o f his labours,—(Hear.) His merits are too well known to you to require any lengthened comm ent f rom me. B ut I cannot refrain from asking, in the presence of the bright assembly I see around me—eyes that beam on our pro ceedings with approbation and sympathy—is there in Dublin, or is there in Ireland any one member of society who has had the honour and delight of our Noble Friend's acquaintance, or who has heard of his virtues, that will not deeply feel his departure from amongst us.—(Loud cheering.) The soft and fairer sex are not always mild politicians ; and I am quite sure even among that por tion of the sex that have the bad taste to be opposed to • us in politics—(Hear, hear, and a laugh)—the loss of my Noble Friend must be regretted. His generous and courteous hospitality, and the charm of his society will cause him to be remembered to no distant period.— (Cheers.) I am sure, that you will permit me to say in 3 our name, that we cannot consent to his retiring alto gether into private life.—(Hear, hear, hear.) England cannot spare such a man, and Ireland cannot afford to lose such a friendly heart, or the services of such a champion.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It may be agree able to him to enjoy the tranquillity of private life — when he can follow those pnrsuits of literature which have engressed so much of his time, nod the brightness of which illumines his distinguised and enlightened mind —but we cannot affin-d to lose such a man.—(Loud cheer ing.) The toast is—" LOrd Morpeth, who has won and -wears the gratitude of the people of Ireland."—(Nine times nine, and much cheering.) Lord Aro:teem rose and said—My Lord and Gentle men, I think that you will easily give me credit for sincerity when I assure you that all the circumstances attending the present meeting; and the present spectacle— all that has been done and all that has been said upon this occasion—or to sum it up at once, that this present moment must to me, as I now stand up here, wear a character and produce an effect altogether overwhelming. At such a time it could not fail to recur vividly to my memory, even if you, my Lord, had not reminded me of it, you being yourself a witness upon both occasions, that at the interval of thirteen years ago it was my lot, sin Englishman and a stranger, to be received in this name city at an entertainment of more slender dimen sions indeed, but somewhat partaking of the same cha racter and description.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) An Englishman I still remain, but it is, perhaps, the most gratifying portion of the honours which have this day THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1841. been poured so thickly around me, that as a stranger I appear before you no longer.—(Loud cheers.) At the period to which I have adverted, comparatively unknown and inexperienced, I must have been indebted for the distinction then accorded to me wholly to the cir cumstance that I shared the sentimnnts upon the great subjects of civil and national rights which you yourselves considered as peculiarly , consecrated, and that I was disposed in any sphere which might open to me to act honestly upon my convictions.—(Cheers.) But I am here to-night, Gentlemen, having filled for a longer period than any of my predecessors the office of Chief Secretary oflreland—(l - lear)—and knowing now,by my personal experience, the responsible difficulties and de licate duties which it involves, remembering the feelings of anxiety and even of misgiving with which I first en tered upon their discharge, and conscious above all of the many errors and imperfections which a retrospect of 1 the whole intervening period cannot fail to conjure up before my mind, I own that I cannot fully suppress the thrill of pleasure and exultation with which I look at this brilliant scene before me, and say as I look at it, " this my rich reward."—(Loud cheers.) It would, in deed; argue a strong degree both of injustice and in sensibility if I could either forget myself, or pass over in silence the assistance and co-operation which I have received, and which have mainly led to my being placed upon the level by which you, Gentlemen, have effec tively prevented me from ranking as a low or as a mean one.—(Cheers.) I need not to be reminded, without paus ing now to dwell upon upon the acts of my colleagues in the immediate Councils of the Crown, of whose views of policy with respect to this country I.have been the part ner and the interpreter, that it has' been my especial pleasure and pride to act here in Ireland in Adirn nistrations headed by the gallant and chivalrth bearing of the Marquis of Normanby—(Loud cheers) — and by the steady and deep-rooted patriotism of Earl ortescue.—(Continued cheering.) I will not descant here, becaus.: the subject is too copious, upon the ser vices of the successive advisers with which it as been the good fortune of the Government, within the period of my experience, to be connected, and who have brought to its service, with their distinguished natural endow ments and professional attainments, that keen sense of justice and that high pursuit of truth which has outshone even these. There are, Gentlemen, recollections of ser vices and attachments to earth not yielding to any of these, but which, amidst such gay and glittering accom paniments, would be too painful and too tender to dwell upon.—(Cheers.) But as the image of the absent Brutus impressed itself most strongly upon the minds of the spec tators at the pageant of the living Emperor, you would have as sensibly felt the void if I had withheld the allusion. — (Cheers.) But that which has been the main source of spirit and strength—which has given confidence in the struggle, a rallying point amidst discouragement, an ani mation to victory—has been the generous and unswerv ing fidelity of the Irish people.—(Cheers.) I have the gratification of seeing around this board many of the ancient nobility of the land. I see many of its popular representatives, many of whose voices have been wont to give eloquent utterance to its feelings, all of whose votes have been given in furtherance of its just and legitimate pretensions.—(Loud cheers.) The support which the Go vernment has received from them has been an honour able and unfailing one, because it has been responsive to the people's feelings and true to the people's cause. — (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, I must not forget that I come before you to-night as the Membernot of a stand ing but a beaten Ministry ; and although I have happily proved to-day that I am not yet excluded from your streets, from your places of public concourse, from your halls of pleasure, from the warm grasp and the friendly greeting—(Loud cheering)—from the social board and the flowing wine cup, yet into the guarded precincts of the Castle of Dublin I am no longer privileged to go. Into the general causes of the defeat and downfal of the Government to which my colleagues and I belonged I do not think this would be the appropriate time or place to . enter. It is gratifying for me to reflect that, whatever may have been the. other contributing causes, the imme diate occasion of this overthrow has been an endeaVour to do what we conceived was justice—perhaps to the prejudicecertainly in despite of partial and particular interests—to the struggles of industry in all its branches, and to the wants of the entire people.—(Cheers.) If we have acted wrongfully we have probably sealed • our doom ; but if otherwise I most firmly believe that ' time will work out our vindication--(Loud cheers)—and that too in as full a measure as the utmost ardour of party can desire.—(Continued cheering.) But in this place, before the present auditory, and upon this precise occasion, I feel that whatever further remarks I have to oiler ought to have reference to the connection of pass ing events with the fortunes of Ireland.—(dear, hear.) And upon this subject I hope that you will bear with me, or rather that you will take the blame to yourselves, if I feel a less modest estimate than I ought of past transac tions; but now that our day of office is closed, and that we have to transfer the reins of government to other hands, I have no hesitation to come forward and say that, backed and supported as I have described ourselves to have been by the Irish representatives and the Irish peo ple, our time of stewardship has not been unfaithfully or unprofitably spent.—(Cheers.) We come not empty handed to the reckoning, and some of our sheaves are with us.—(Continued cheers.) I might remind you that with a Sovereign—(Cheers)—who has more than shared every benevolent and kindly feeling towards every class of her subjects, and every portion of her dominions — (Cheers)—with a majority in the House of Commons — of slender limit, indeed, but which, up to the last hour, may have been pronounced to have been firm and true — we have yet sufficient power in the Legislature to enable us to effect all that we wished, or all that we attempted. Still I think that any excuse for non-performance of ser vices sounds somewhat lamely, and therefore it would be my with to claim any credit that may be thought due to us, not upon the score of our wishes, our intentions, or our attempts, but for our acts.—(Cheers.) And I must first of all advert to that which has been sometimes re presented as "the very head and front of our offend ing." I mean our conduct with respect to the Tithe ques tion—(Hear, hear)—and the Appropriation clause. Upon our accession to power we found the country disturbed — convulsed would hardly be too strong a term—by the collision between the Church, the law, and the people— (Hear, hear)—which arose from the endeavour to collect the legal impost of tithe. Before our Administration blood had flowed at Rathcormac ; during it blood flowed at Inniscarra. We thought—whether the opinion was right or wrong—that the people had an essential griev ance to complain of connected with this subject, and we endeavoured to embody in an Act of the Legislature a a principle which we thought calculated to counteract and remedy those grievances. We made the attempt ; we renewed it with the same result ; we renewed it a third time, and a third time failed. What ought our course to have been ? We might have retired from of fice, but that was not sought for by those upon whose behalf we made the endeavour, and such a resignation would have been looked upon by them as an aggravation of the evil—(Hear, hear, hear)—to persevere in the at tempt would have been manifestly futile and fruitless— to leave the whole question of tithe perfectly untouched and unsettled would have been to bequeath to Ireland a legacy of strife and mischief, which we thought no empty praise for consistency, no fancied point of honour, should be allowed to balance. And who are the parties that blame us ? Are they the opponents of the Protestant system established in Ireland ?—(Hear, hear.) Without stopping to discuss how far I go with, or fall short of, the extent of their opposition, yet I would pint out to them that bloodshed and riot, and even litigation, are at this time perfectly at an end.—(Cheers.) With respect to the question of tithes, and apart from all abstract considerations, I for one will not repent of my share in the work of peace.—(Cheers.) Are we blamed by the supporters of the present Administration ? I leave them to be rebuked by the Prime Minister of England—by Sir 11. Peel himself. What did he say upon the 10th of July, 1838 ? Why, he thus expressed himself—" lam not about to censure the course which Lord J. Russell has so manfully taken—a course which I think the best that could be adopted. Looking at the difficulties with which this great question is surrounded in Ireland, I believe, really and conscientiously, that he and his col leagues have taken the best course for the general inte rests of the country, and the peace of Ireland."—(Hear, hear.) The only quarter from which I could conceive blame could be consistently or appropriately alleged, would be from those thorough-paced party politicians, who might affirm that as long as we left the tithe ques tion unsettled, it would have been morally impossible for a Conservative Administration to have assumed the go vernment of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) I do not know that I am inclined to dispute the truth of this proposi tion ; but I submit, with perfect unconcern, to any censure which may be founded upon it.—(Hear, hear.) Surpassing in real and paramount importance the question of tithe itself, was that which related to the introduction of the Poor-laws into Ireland.—(Hear, hear)—and I think that no one could have made him self acquainted with the wretchedness—the chilling and horrifying amount of wretchedness—exhibited in many dark hovels and many a squalid suburb in our country, without coming to the conviction that the time had arrivied for lookingfairly in the face the dark linea ments of Irish destitution—(Loud cheers) —and I may say that we were the first Government who encountered in earnest, and grappled with, the appalling difficulties of that great question.—(Cheers.) With respect to our precise mode of dealing with it, I do not conceal from myself that much difference of opinion prevail. ; and I am further quite ready to admit that the measure we in troduced could hardly have been considered to have emerged from its existence as an experiment ; neverthe less, from all I know of the principle upon which it is founded, and the progress and development hitherto ex hibited by it, I would be content to book my place in the diary of posterity for my full share of the responsibility of the introduction of the Irish Poor-law.---(Cheers.) With respect to the Act for the regulation of Irish Cor porations, no one can be more sensible than myself of the extent to which it was docked of its fair and suitable proportion;.—(Bear, hear.) I still, however, hope that it will be found to be a measure capable of practically carrying into effect the principal of popular control in a field where some such corrective process was most urgently wanted ; and I trust that you are prepared to apply that principle in a 'spirit which will combine efficacy with discretion—the assertion of long-slighted rights with enlightened toleration, even in the most impenetrable haunt of time old exclusiveness, the Cor poration of the city in which I have the honour to be addressing this assembly. These are the prin cipal steps in legislation—the discussion and enactment of which signalised the annals of the late Administra tion. There were, I will own, many other measures which I would most earnestly have wished to have seen adopted at some period less occupied with disputed opinions or with party politics, because they in no degree partake of those elements of irritation, and might have fairly been regarded by all parties as n eutral and uncontested ground. I allude to the plans for the regulation of fisheries, the promotion of drainage, the constrnction of railways—(" Hear," and loud cheers) —under competent authority.—(Hear, hear.) Bills upon all these mea sures were introduced into Parliament; and I am least willing to place confidence so far In our immediate suc- cessors to give them credit for a willingness to promote any such work of internal material improvement, which I shall not grudge to them the credit of completing, while we can only claim the credit of contemplating.—(Cheers.) But there is a piece of legislation which I do not wish to bequeath to them, and that is Lord Stanley's Bill.— (Groans and hisses.) I perceis a, that this is almost too grave and peppery a subject to intro - duce, and I fear the very mention of it may have infused some acidity even into the generous vintage of to-night.—(Cheers.) I shall only say I think I could give them very good ad vice upon the subject ; how far they would be disposed to act upon it I don't know; but it is my sincere opinion that on their mode of dealing with that subject mainly depends the question whether they will have any very serious present difficulty in carrying on the Government of this country.—(Hear, hear,) Having said thus much with respect to what we did, or what we attempted, in the way of legislation, I pass on fur a few moments, if I may so far tresspass upon your time—(Hear, hear)—to some of the points connected with our Govern ment. With regard to the administration of the law, I believe I may say, without any degree of over-boast fulness, that we leave the administration of justice, haying been exercised without partiality to class or creed, and with no lack of efficacy and vigour, far more deeply seated in the respect and affection of the people than we found it.—(Loud cheers.) We leave the police, both in this metropolis and in the country, dis charging the difficult and sometimes unwelcome duties allotted to them with far less irritatation to public feeling and less suspision of partizanship than we found it. — ,(Cheers.) We found a portion of the Coercion Act in operation ; we first mitigated it, and afterwards dis pensed with it without detriment to public repose or safety.—(Ceeers.) We found the army with an amount of military force consisting of 23,000 men in 1834—we leave it in 1841 at the amount of only 15,000 men.— (Cheers.) We have done what in us lay to give encouragement and development to the system of national ' education—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear") — which we found established here, upon which point, not withstanding my conviction of its surpassing importance, I would not attempt to dilate further, because I would shrink from giving to it even the appearance of a party complexion, and because I feel that much of the credit due to the principle upon which it was founded, and by which it has been invariably recognised, ought to be allotted to my predecessor in office, Lord Stanley, who, as I have already coupled him with an unpopular measure, I now the more readily associate with one which I am per suaded has done, and which I believe every day in a rapid increase to be doing, more solid and permanent good to this country than almost any other measure I could name. —(Hear, hear.) And I therefirre most unfeignedly_ cherish the hope, that by the Noble Lord to whom it owes its auspicious birth, and his colleagues in office, it will be adequately encouraged and enforced ; being fully satisfied that from whatever quarter any hostile blow or obstruction to the system shall proceed, a more serious or dangerous responsibility could not have been assumed by any one. But the most satisfactory test of the ad ministratsve merits of the Government must be found in the condition of the people, with respect to internal tranquillity, to habits of industry and order, and to the prevailing amount of crime. —(Hear, hear.) Ido not of course seek to conceal from myself, or from others, that during the period of our administration we have witnessed and deplored several instances of shameful and (heedful outrage; even now it is present to my recollection; and to perform the part assigned to the slave in the Roman triumph, to repress sudden exultation, and check un seemly boasting, I admit the fact that outrage has been committed; but still, gentlemen, I venture to affirm that, taken as a whole, the state of society in Ireland, giving every consideration to the causes which stir its depths and trouble its springs, has exhibited a mostencouraging and charming contrast with almost any other period, choose it • when you may, or under whatever circum stances you will.—(Cheers.) I find from the return of outrages which are reported to the Constabulary office, and which are made up under the direction of that admirable and most impartially conducted department, that the gross number of outrages committed in Ireland in 1837, amounted to 6,775; in 1838, to 4,945 ; in 1839, to 5,009; in 1840, to 4,629 ; presenting a dimiution of one-third—(Cheers) —and of the heaviest offences, such as homicides, outrages upon the person, assaults with in tent to murder, aggravated assaults, cutting and maim ing, there were in 1837. 12,096 ; in 1838, 11,058 ; in 1339, 1,077 ; in 1840, 773.—(Loud cheers.) I need nut remind you that the charges of the Judges upon their respective circuits brought down this gratifying progress of tranquillity to the latest moment.—(Hear.) Indeed, I might trouble you with many testimonies to this effect; but I know that after-dinner speeches should not be too statistical; and I believe I owe you some apology already upon that score.—(No, no.) Well, then, in having to transfer our high trust to other hands, I feel that look ing upon the past, certainly not with blindness to our errors—those errors against which no human feeling or perspicuity can at all times guard, I am entitled to say to our successors—" Improve upon our management by all means, in whatever way you can—avoid the errors and imperfections against which we have not been able to guard—carry the fortunes of the Irish people still further and still higher, but do not suffer the sacred de posit to be tarnished in your hands.—(Loud cheers.) Keep it clear. Above all—knowing some of -the cotnpa nionship by which you must be surrounded, and some of the excitements by-which you must be solicited—keep it clear of the blighting breath of bigotry—(Loud cheers)—foster the seeds of religious peace, which, al though they may how be sown at rare intervals through the land, are capable, under friendly and prudent culture, of filling all its furrows with increase, and crowning all its heights with gladness, and may make a united people great, virtuous, and happy."—(Continued cheers.) I have not glossed over the occurrence of past outrages and crimes, so I do not •either keep out of view that there may be causes of difficulty. and sources of difference which may lower upon the advancing horizon. You will easily believe that I would consider it as much beyond my pro vince as it is beyond my intention, to dream of offer ing even to either the Irish Representatives, or the Irish people, anything in the way of advice or admonition with respect to the course which it may be expedient and right to pursue upon political operations of magnitude. To remind you that the observance of moderation and pati ence—of an unqualified adherence to the law—of strict adherence to the neutrality, of the violation of which you would be the foremost to complain, are both the surest road to general success, and the noblest dicta of indivi dual duty, if not impertinent, would be at least superflu ous. As little would Ibe disposed to counsel acquies ence in any positive wrong, or any flagging in the most dauntless or determined resistance to arbitrary proce dures, or paltry obnoxious measures ; but amidst all the difficulty and uncertainty that may rest upon the future, and the elements of difference by which we may be sur rounded, I place, I own, my chief reliance upon the ultimate prevalence of good under the Supreme bless ing, upon the manifest tendency and advance towards improvement, which have of late been exhibited by the Irish people themselves —(Cheers.) I have already adverted to the gradual dimiuution in the amount of crime ; but when I look for the source of the most striking development in this ameliorating process, I own that I am rather pleased - not to have to refer for it to the acts or policies of any Government of the day. It was my lot in my place in the House of Commons to bear an humble but sincere tribute to the wonderful efficacy that attended the exertions of Father Mathew—(Loud cheers)—and although I fear at this moment we present rather too convivial an aspect for his entire approval, yet I two glad to speak in the presence of so many who, from their personal observation, can confirm the marvellous effect his mission has had in extending—nay, increasing —habits of temperance throughout the land.—(Cheers.) He looks not for our praise—higher motives impel him. I will not go into the details of this mighty transforma tion; but I will ask, considering this pure and lofty re novation of a nation's virtue, is there anythin which seems too large to hope for or too bright to realise ? (Loud cheers.) This change which has passed over the people seems to have been anticipated by the poet of a former day, who is never so much at home as when he celebrates heroic or holy actions : "The wretch who once loudlylmghed and sung, And drank in dizzy madness—in his draught Has wept a silent flood—retraced his ways— Is sober, meek, benevolent—and prays." —(Loud cheers.) These are things which make me hopeful, and justify the belief that good will ultimately emerge and prevail. - Upon the occasion to which I ad verted in the opening of my address, no gentleman professing the Roman Catholic religion, when I was a guest in Dublin in the year 1828, could obtain a seat in the councils of his Sovereign or in the Senate of his country. By how many Roman Catholic Members of Parliament am I now surrounded ?—(Cheers.) There are still amongst them some who are wont eloquently to descant upon the imperfect measure of; justice as yet accorded to their beloved country ; but at the time to which he alluded the Members for the counties of Cork and Meath—(Cheers) —could not have crossed the threshold of the House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) I don't mention these things as reasons for an acquies cence in any admitted wrong ; I don't mention them as motives for inaction, but as beacons against despair. And when I look back upon the past history of this country and upon her present capabilities—upon all that she has suffered, and all that she has done, and all that she may become—when I perceive how much she con tributed in some ways to the weakness, and in others to the strength of England—bow her own exhaustion and throes have rolled back upon that country with fearful retribution, how she has shed upon every page of their blended history the traces of her prowess and intellect — the light that still flashes from the sword of a Welling ton, or that plays upon the lyre of Moore—l can form no wish but that two such nations should enter into the fullest and frankest pakicipation of every civil right and every national privilege—(Loud cheers)—that they should repose in the same liberties, and flourish from the same sources, and that they should be more and more encouraged and adapted to essay the task of ho nour and the way to greatness.—(Cheers.) And, Gen tlemen, whatever may be the object—and whatever may be the spot upon which the energies of the em pire may be called into action—whether it is to plant our standards upon the walls of Canclahar, or under the bat teries of Pekin, or above the ruins of Acre—(Cheers) — whether it is to open the Euphrates to our merchants, and the Niger to our missionaries—whether it is to cote solidate dependencies like Canada, or to stem the south ern seas, in order to plant its islands with free in stitutions and with Christian worship—(Cheers) — as Ireland has through all past records shared in every high achievement with England, and has let blood freely mingle upon the crest of the billow and- upon the bayonet of the fooman, so I trust that she is determined through many an age to share those brighter triumphs which will impart to the haunts of barbarism all the benefits of civilization, and which will establish in the abodes of the Heathen the religion of the cross.— (ts thus much i t n taapkpiblna): thesele .s)ve circumstancesoAfn 3 d , o now u a t having hoefnt heer n tbi b me e r e es n aonf l d e adt the etool political party, of those amongst whom I have acted, and by whom I have been supported, I can only express my unshaken reliance in the strength and endurance of the many links which unite and cement our sympathies. I believe that may best be resolved into an ardent attach ment to the cause of civil and religious freedom—not in the cold letter, but in the living spirit—not in the formal language of the lips, but in the deep devotion of the heart.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Viewed as such our cause is grounded upon an immortal principle, and you may all rest assured that it will bring to its adherents no,! shame.—(Cheers.) As for myself individually, it is my • painful, although at the same time gratifying office, to bid farewell to associates whose prompt and active zeal has lightened the load of business and shared and smoothed the responsibilities of office—to friends whose warm and steady kindness has gladdened for years the recreations, and enriched the store-house of kindly and pleasant recollections—and to the people, who must ever command my respectful and affectionate attachment, sympathy, and gratitude, whenever I have the means to ser ie—as long as I have the power to remember.—(Loud an I long-continued cheering.) • Lord MORPETU, shortly:after the cheering subsided, ros again and said—Gentlemen, you will not think, aft •r my lengthened trespaSs upon your kindness, that I am about to intrude again upon you at any length; but I flatter myself that I am at liberty to propose to you a toast that will find its way to your willing and pleased acceptance. ;My own debt of gratitude to our Noble Chairman for coming here upon this occasion, and for the flattering manner in which he has proposed my health to you, may be attributable to the feelings which I know have subsisted between us ; but I cannot think that in any meeting of Irishmen it will be deemed an intrusion to do justice to the merits of the Marquis of Clanricarde. —(" Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) Born of one of the noble families of the land—descended from a family who have illustrated almost every page of Irish history with their deeds—the Marquis of Clanri carde has derived from them a sincere attachment for the land of his forefathers ; and upon every occasion , . . when he had been called upon to come forward he en deavoured to the utmost to assert the liberties of the people of Ireland, and promote their interests.—(Hear, hear.) lle has of late been witdrawn from a residence in this country so constantly as he would have otherwise enjoyed, and from that home which he loves so well, by his services at a foreign Court, where he had been in obedience to her Majesty's command—where I can bear testimony to the amount of skill and ability with which he performed the important duties of his office.—(Hear, hear.) lie has served his country amongst alien institu tions with the same zeal and efficiency which he has ever evinced in its cause.—(Cheers.) I therefore call upon you to do justice to the name of our Noble Chairman the Marquis of Clanricarde.—(Loud cheers.) The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN' rose and said—Gentlemen, I rise to return you my sincere thanks for the honour which you have (lc ne me in drinking my health in so flattering a manner. I am quite sensible of my inability to preside properly over this great entertainment. At the same time I must say, that I was qualified more than most people would be for the task, as I believe there is scarcely any person at this table who has enjoyed so long an ac quaintance with our Noble Guest as I have. We were at school and at college together, and I have had the happiness of meeting him constantly in society ever since, and I need not therefore tell you what my feelings for him must be.—(Hear, hear.) My Noble Friend has been pleased to allude to my family.—(Hear, hear.) The topic is rather a dangerous one, fur, as it has been justly sti id by the poet — Man should look forward in life's noble chase, Nobles look backwards, and so lose the race." I only hope that such will not be my case. I hope tha I will continue to be received for the sentiments which I have always entertained, and which I have ever warmly, though feebly advocated. I hope I shall always main tain the same sentiments ; and, should I ever conscien tiously alter them, I shall, at the same time, change my heart.—(Hear, hear.) I cannot but feel an apprehen sion that, after giving credit for good intentions, I can not still have much confidence in the men who support all the abuses and grievances to which these principles are opposed.—(Hear, hear.) I shall not be sorry to see them act fairly and liberally at any time ; but this I am sure of, that if any attempt be made by them to revert to the vile bigotry of former times, I am sure the people of Ireland will be able to repel it.—(Loud cheers.) The Noble CHAIRMAN again rose and said—l will - at once give you the next toast, which is— " Civil and Religious Liberty all over the world." There were here loud calls for Mr. Sheil, when The Noble CHAIRMAN said he did not wonder at the anxiety displayed by the vast assemblage to hear Mr. Shiel ; but lie would then give them an opportunity of hearing one whom they seldom heard without pleasure— a man with whom he (the Noble Lord) differed on some points, but who was unquestionably the friend of the Irish people. He would give them— " Ireland, good Government, and prosperity to her." Mr. O'CONNELL then rose to speak to the toast, and was received with the most enthusiastic acclamation we ever witnessed. When silence was in some measure re stored, he said—My Lord, I say it without the least affection, that my conviction is, that there is net a man in this assembly less suited to speak to that toast than I am.—(Cheers and laughter.) For my own part, my Lord, I do not despair.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) How are those who are now in power to govern Ireland?—(Hear, hear.) I know how they did it before—(Cheers)—and although I may be told that the Orange flag will no longer wave over that box (pointing to the spot where it was displayed during Lord Haddington's Administration), who shall tell me that the Orange spirit will not inhabit the Castle of Dublin — (Cheers)—that the Orange bigotry will no longer show itself in the streets—that Orange counsels will be less virulent or less malignant in its exertions to promote those interests which that faction have so deeply at heart, by trampling on the rights and liberties of the Irish people?—(Loud cheers.) They may throw over the san guinary Orange rag—the robe of expediency—they may conceal it beneath their surtout. as they did before, and assume an apparent conciliation. But we cannot shut our eyes, or banish from our remembrance this question—What are we to expect from the present Administration ?—(Loud cries of " Hear.") Are we to look for anything at their hands but hypocri tical pretences, and mischievous performances? It is impossible it can be otherwise.—(Hear, hear.) How can the many unrepentent sinners of ancient atrocities among that Administration go otherwise than still follow the same course which has characterised them through life ? —(Cheers.) The Noble Lord (Morpeth) talked of mis sionaries. Who, let me ask, is to be sent as a missioner up the Niger of the soul of Lord Lyndhurst ? —(Loud cheers and laughter.) Who is to convert him ? Ac cording to him, for I heard him proclaim it—and I was not the only witness—(Hear, hear)—we Irish are aliens in blood, aliens in language, and aliens in religion.— (Cheers.) And would we not be the most inconsistent of human beings if we consented to give a government of fraternal amity to those aliens who were, according to him, in every sense, aliens in blood, in language, and religion 2—ls he not now Lord Chancellor? But, my Lord, perhaps he stands alone. I want to know whether the Duke of Buckingham—who remained in opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill, even when that opposition was hopeless, and who, therefore, showed the malignity , of his principles when he had not the power of carrying them into effect—(Hear, hear)—he clung to those prin ciples of exclusion with a desperate tenacity, even when the Cabinet was obliged to grant a reluctant concession —whether he is the man from whom we are to expect justice ?—(Cheers.) Who is. the next ? The Right Hon. Henry Goulburn.—(Groans.) What has Ireland, may I ask, to expect from him ?—(Hear.) He has at all times avowed his bitter hostility to Liberal principles, and be was candid, at least, in doing so.—(Hear.) He has never thrown the cloak of expediency over those principles, nor will he do so on this occasion. —(Hear.) But, perhaps, Sir Edward Knatchbull, who came di rectly from the locality where the eloquent apostle of Canterbury preached—(A laugh)—not as of old in haughty defiance to a tyrant King, who attempted to trample on the political liberties of his subjects, but to preach up fa naticism, and set himself up as the Redeemer.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is true, they make some selection? for office here ; they may draw in men to join with their Administration here, who hitherto, almost exclusively occupied with their own affairs, had not leisure to exhibit their hostility to the people of Ireland, otherwise than by signing every petition calculated to retard and injure her interests. Does any man in his senses believe for a moment that Peel will do anything for Ireland ? They, to be sure, ask for a trial ? But what do we want of a trial ? Do we not know their past history ? They de mand a trial—for what ?—one would suppose for the pur pose of carrying out some promise made by them to do something for the good of Ireland. But did they ever make any promise to Ireland ? Never.—(Hear.) Oh, but they have promised you something there. Yes, they have certainly promised to give you Scorpion Stanley's Bill.—(Hissing.) Oh, try them on that ; you will find that they will n o t f a il in their promise of giving you the Scorpion's Bill. Try them there. They are sure of a majority in one House, while the measure will have an easy passage through the other. Easy, did I say ? No, it shall be a death struggle.—(Tremendous cheering.) Yes, I do say it here, that we would not be men if we did not struggle to the last, to the death, against that atrocious Bill. In doing so, to be sure, we shall confine ourselves within the strict limits of the law and the Con stitution. We shall die on the floor of the House of Commons before we suffer our rights and our liberties to be trampled on and utterly degraded by so foul and monstrous an enactment. Ireland has much to hope for still, but certainly for nothing unless whatever she may win by the exertions of her own sons. It is said that political gratitude is a lively sense of future favours; but ours is not so—it is the sincere and honest tribute of hearts teeming with the highest and the purest gratitude for past kindness, mingled with enthusiastic loyalty to the Throne, enhanced still more by ardent affection. Al though we are separated for a time, Ireland, with her characteristic ardour, will cherish his merits long in her bosom, and hope soon once more to see them devoted as they have been to her interests.—(Loud cheers.) You, my Lord, however you may blame the details of our proceedings, must respect our feelings, and the pure and divine motives from which our acts proceed ; but this I say, and say it solemnly, that come what will— come weal or woe—come prosperity on the one hand, or death in its worst of shapes on the other—let the Lynd hurst faction know that Ireland will never again bear the yoke of tyranny and oppression. —(Hear, hear, and enthusiastic cheers.) Oh ! the attachment to a country which has suffered wrong is infinitely more heart-binding than that which i s felt fur a country surrounded by the full tide of prosperity— ' " More dear in thy suffeaings, thy tears, and thy showers, Than the rest of the world in its sunniest hours." When Sarsfield fell at Salsfield, a ball entered the cavity of his chest, and feeling that his last moments were ap proaching, he filled his hand with his heart's blood, ex claiming—" Oh ! that this had been shed for Ireland" (Cheers.) My Lord, bear home with you the belief that the heart of many a soldier for liberty beats here—that Ireland is grateful—that she hates hypocrisy—that slue .„... loves constitutional freedom— and that the last of her sons will perish ere she consent. to national degradation. (The lion. and Learned Gentleman resumed his scat amid loud and long-continued cheering.) Mr. O'CONNELL again rose and said—l fear you will (kern me guilty of presumption in rising to propose the next toast, but I hope I address those who will not think there is any overweening vanity in my requesting to be allowed to propose the health of Earl Fortescue.—(Loud cheers.) For many reasons lam of opinion that Ireland has sustained a heavy loss in that Nobleman.—(Hear, hear.) I recognise in him the descendant of a family which has ever been the consistent enemy of oppression in every soil. In the House of Commons there was not a more steady friend of the freedom of the Constitution and of human liberty.—(Hear, hear.) Ireland will long regret him, and we shall not require the contrast of his successor to make us recollect with esteem the Noble man who had the manliness to work out his own will as far as possible.—(Cheers.) I give you— " The health of Earl Fortescue, with a wish of every prosperity and blessing to himself and to his family."— (Cheers.) Viscount EBRINGTON returned thanks. . . The Noble CHAIRMAN said, the next toast was that of a body to whom he himself had the honour to belong. He alluded to " the Liberal Peers in Parliament." — (Cheers.) Lord LURGAN returned thanks. " The Liberal Members of the House of Commons." Sir Wm. SOMERVILLE returned thanks. " Lord Melbourne and the late Administration." Mr. SHELL said—The people of Ireland were grateful to the Government over which Lord Melbourne pre sided, and felt that, if measures of imperfect justice were dealt out to them, that deficiency arose from a dispro portion between the means and the solicitude to assert the rights and promote the substantial interests of the country. The people of this country felt convinced that the late Ministers looked to the happiness of the greatest number, that they preferred the welfare of the commu nity to the sustainment of class interests ; and to mono poly in every form, civil, ecclesiastical, and commercial, they were the antagonists. These propositions were re jected by the county constituencies of England ; but the English people would speedily be furnished with matter of repentance.—(Hear, hear.) While Sir R Peel was lavish of professions to the Irish people, he placed the conscience of the Sovereign in the keeping of that con spicuous person by whom an offence was offered to mil lions of her Majesty's subjects, which was indelibly im pressed on the resentful recollections of the country. — (Hear, hear.) . Sir Robert Peel had not ventured to en trust the Foreign Department to a Member of the House of Commons ; there was not a single member of his party to whom he could confide the task of encounter ing Lord Palmerston in debate, and he accordingly re sorted to Lord Aberdeen, by whom, in 1829, Turkey was ignominiously abandoned, and the honour and inter ests of England were scandalously sacrificed.—(Loud cheers.) Sir Robert Peel had given seats in the Cabinet to two of the most conspicuous converts who had deserted the standard of Reform. He had given the Home-office to Sir James Graham, who was one of the Committee of five, by whom, in 1831, the Ballot had been recommended as an incident to the Reform Bill, and who, in 1835, had declared that it would be utterly discreditable to him to unite himself with a party to which he had been all his life opposed, while the Go vernment of Canada, where peculiar wisdom and mo deration were required, was confided to Lord Stanley. " The health of Lord John John Russell, and free trade"—the toast was drank amidst loud applause. Mr. Ross, of Rosstrever, returned thanks. " The health of Mr. Norman Macdonald."—(Cheers.) Mr. NORMAN MACDONALD returned thanks in a clever speech. The Noble Chairman and distinguished guest, as well as the principal portion of the company then retired, it I being half-past one O'clock. 0 IRE ',AND. ARRIVAL OF THE LORI) LIEUTENANT. ...... _ DUBLIN, SEPT. 15.—At six o'clock this morning Earl De Grey, the new Viceroy, arrived in Kingston har bour, on board the Admiralty steamer Medina, which left Liverpool last evening. His Excellency did not land until eleven o'clock, when he took his place in a proces sion, consisting of a long line of carriages, and pro ceeded towards town. His Excellency travelled in his carriage until he reached Ball's-bridge, about a mile from town, where he got upon horseback, and was re ceived in the usual form by the corporate officers. All along the line there was a total absence of any popular demonstration, until the Rev. Tres ham Gregg and some Orange Corporators made their appearance, when the persons casually assembled hooted, and uttered repeated groans "for the dead Cor poration." Through the streets of Dublin the proces sion, chiefly composed of the Tory gentry, several of whom had come up from distant parts of the country, passed on as coldly as a funeral, except at intervals a solitary " hurra" might be heard, but not meeting with any response from the populace, this faint attempt at applause only served to render the otherwise silent pas sage of the cavalcade still more remarkable. Earl de Grey, who seemed to have expected a very different re ception, looked, I thought, impatient and disappointed. There was not, however, the slightest indication of per sonal disrespect towards his Excellency. As the pro cession neared the Castle gates some cheers were given. At twelve o'clock the procession reached the Castle, when his Excellency proceeded to the presence-cham ber, vi here he was received by two of the Lords Justices, Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, and Chief Justice Doherty, both of whom wore their hats, while his Excellency was uncovered. Accompanied by the Lords Justices, his Excollency went to the Privy Council chamber, where the following members of the Council were assembled :—The Duke of Leinster, Mr. F. Shaw, Mr. A. R. Blake, Chief Remembrancer, the Bishop of Kildare, Mr. Pigot, late Attorney-General, Mr. Black hurne, present Attorney-General, the Chief Baron, and Dr. Radcliffe. _ _ As soon as the Queen's letter had been read, and the usual oaths administered, his Excellency, wearing his hat, took his place at the head of the Council-board. Soon after a procession was formed, and his Excellency returned to the presence-chamber, where he held a levee. The following were amongst the presentations : His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Leinster, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, Chief Justice Doherty, Bishop of Kildare, Marquis of West meath, Earl of Clonmel, Lord Gort, Lord Powerscourt, Earl of Rathdowne, Lord Kilmaine, the Chief Baron, Sir Robert Shaw, Mr. Pigott, Lieut.-Col. Shaw, Sir Roger Palmer, Mr. F. Shaw (who bowed twice to his Excel lency), Hon. F. Needham, Mr. B!ackburne, Sir H. Lees, Hon. Captain Bruce, Hon. Walter O'Grady, Sir Parker Catroll, Colonel D'Aguilar, Sir M. C. Smith, Hon. H. Browne, Mr. Lucas (the new Under Secretary), Alder. man Drummond, and five other Aldermen, Mr. James Dwyer, barrister, Sir E. Borough, the Rev. Tighe Gre gory, &c. Upon the presentation of Mr. Gregory, there was a burst of laughterin the Chamber, which seemed to astonish his Excellency. It is stated that the Lord Lieutenant will return to England on Saturday or Monday next, to bring over his family. His excellency is reputed to be very wealthy, and to be popular in his habits. The shopkeepers are calculating upon a busy season during the winter. THE RE-ELECTIONS. SUNDERLAND.- . SUNDERLAND, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15.—The nomina tion look place this day. The Mayor, Rowland White, Esq., acted as returning officer. WALKER FEATHERSTONHAUGH, Esq., proposed Lord Howick, and the nomination was seconded by M. H. CLAYTON, Esq. Dr. MILLER proposed Wolverley Attwood, Esq.. and his nomination was seconded by R. SCARFIELD, Esq., one of the shipowners in the borough. The speeches of the proposers and seconders were inaudible, in conse quence of the tumult which prevailed. Mr. WILLIAM MOWATT, a Chartist, and Mr. ALFRED CARLISLE, another Chartist, proposed and seconded Co lonel Peyronnet Thompson. Lord Howicx. then stepped to the front of the hust ings. His Lordship proceeded to say that the great dif ference of political opinions between Mr. Attwood and himself might be resolved into two points. They dif fered, first, as regarded the commercial policy of the em pire ; and, next, as to the degree of confidence which it was necessary to repose in those who had recently as sumed the reins of power. With respect to commercial policy, Mr. Attwood had avowed himself what he called the friend of protection, to home industry. He (Lord Howick), on the contrary, appeared before them as the advocate for the removal of restrictions on trade. — (Hear, and cheers.) He appeared before them to con tend that, what was termed protection to British in dustry was, in the sense in which it was used, a great delusion. There was one protection, and one only, which British industry required. Britain required that every man should be protected in the produce of his own labour—(hear, and cheers) —that he should not be liable to be deprived of the fruits of his industry by open violence or secret fraud, and that he should not be liable to extremes of any description, and that was the true and only protection which British industry required. All the duties said to be for the protection of British industry were neither more nor less than taxes in dis guise. They were taxes not the 1. ss onerous because they did not bring money into the Exchequer. These duties were all bad in principle, and he thought that Cus tom-house duties ought not to be imposed for the purpose of-raising revenue, and that there was no justification for refusing to the people of England the liberty to purchase what they required wherever they could get it. But although he was the advocate of the general prin ciple, he would, as he had always wished to do, proceed with cautious steps.— (Hear, and cheers.) Mr. At:wood had told them that their views were theoretical. Now, lie (Lord Howick) said, that instead of having anything to do with theory, they were founded in the simple dictates of common sense and experience. He had had proofs of the distress which existed in Sunderland ; and the same distress existed in all the great commercial and manufacturing towns. He asked them, what remedy was to be provided for this state of things ? The only and obvious remedy was to give increased facilities for exchanging the produce of this country for the pro duce of' other countries. With America our trade was languishing, because they- could not pay for our produce unless in produce of their own. The French market was also shut to British industry, because both nations had foolish protection tariffs. Were pro per steps taken, the exports from this country to France in iron and coals alone would more than equal the whole of the present exports. But more than this—the treaty with the Brazils was about expiring, and the market in that country would be destroyed if relaxations were not ' made in our restrictive sstem. Unless, then, they were • allowed to send goods in return, our trade with fo • reigners must cease. All indirect taxes were naturally af!ected by the price of bread.—(Hear, hear.) They were aware that of late years they had had a falling re ; venue, and that was owing, in a great measure, to the ef _ feet of the present Corn-laws.--(Hear.) During the pre- EVENING S GREAT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE sent autumn about 2,000,000 of quarters of wheat had been imported at the lowest duty of Is. per quarter. 1 This and all other similar importations tended to de range the monetary affairs of the country, by demanding an export of bullion, consequent upon the demand for corn not being compensated for by a regular demand for British manufactures. This export of money deranged trade, and hence the difficulties which had overrun the country.—(Cheers.) The difference caused to the re venue by the sliding scale and that proposed by the late Ministers was as between 800,000 and 100,000. Had the fixed duty been adopted, the gain to the revenue would have been the former sum. By the present plan, the ac- • cess to the revenue was only the latter.—(Cheers.) He now came to the second point on which Mr. Attwood and he differed—as to the degree of confidence to be placed in the present Ministry. It appaared to him, looking to Sir Robert Peel's past conduct as a Minister and as a statesman, that he had g:vm no evi dence of possessing that foresight or that discri minating judgment, which, above all other qualities, were requisite in a leader of the Government. But, above all, he (Lord Howick) withheld from Sir Robert Peel his confidence, because he had avowe:lly taken his stand on the principle of a fluctuating duty on corn, and because he had included in his list of colleagues persons whom it was impossible that he (Lord Howick) could re gard otherwise than with feelings of distrust.—(Loud cheers.) Sir Robert Peel had included the Dake of Buckingham and Sir Edward Knatchbull, the great op ponents of free trade, and he had also appointed Lord Lyndhurst. who had declared the Irish to be aliens in blood, in language, and in religion.—(Loud cheering.) Could such an appointment as this last conduce to the harmony of the undivided empire? His opponent had made two objections to him. First, that he was not prac tically conversant with trade ; and, secondly, that he was friendly to the New Poor-laws. If it were necessary to bring a Member of Parliament to be conversant with the details of business, he would say at once that Mr. Attwood had the prior claim to their suffrages; but the duties of a Member of Parliament were very different from those of a manager of a Company of,steam-vessels. —(Cheers.) With respect to the other objection against him, of his being a friend to the New Poor-law, he de fended himself by saying that in the south of Eng . land the old system of the poor laws had become au into lerable n uisance—increasing the sufferings of the poor, whilst it made the value of rent and tithes absolutely nothing ; so much so, that both landlords and tithe-owners had given up their claims rather than pay poor-rates. Under the old law, the industrious man who wished to raise himself had no chance of doing so, because wages were beat down by the parish paying one portion and the employer the other portion of a labourer's wages. By the new system this was pre vented. He would ask them whether it was fair and just that he should be accused of inhumanity, when he openly supported a measure which had met the approval of Mr. Roebuck, Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Hume, the Bishop of London, and the Bishop ofChester. His Lordship concluded by thanking them for the pa tience with which they had heard him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ATTWOOD addressed the electors, and declared hjs opposition to the late Ministry upon financial and commercial questions, and to the late aad present Minis try in reference to the Poor-laws. • Mr. BINNS, the Chartist, then stood forward, and, as the representative of Colonel Thompson, made a lone harangue . He impartially abused the authorities of the town, town, Conservatives and Whie•s, and entered into a long statement about his having had a bribe offered to him . of 125/., to favour . the Conservative cause. He cited a Jew on the hustings as a witness of the truth of his statement, • but the Jew did not avouch for its truth. A show of hands then took place. • The Returning Officer having declared in favour of Colonel Thompson, a poll was demanded on behalf of the other candidates, and . Colonel Thompson was imme diately withdrawn by his proposer and seconder. The day passed off quietly. CITY LAW COURTS. CITY LANDS COMMITTEE.—It has not escaped the active members of the Corporation of London that, at a time distinguished by extraordinary alterations a nd im provements as regards the thoroughfares of the City, and the approaches to this wonderful emporium of CO" merce, the Law Courts at the Guildhall were remarkably defective in many respects, and the Judges, the barris ters, the solicitors, the jury, the suitors, and the Wit nesses, had certain claims of accommodation and conve nience upon those who had power over the City funds. The subject was a short time ago taken up in the C onti of Common Council, and referred to the City La nds Committee, of which Deputy Bridge is the Chairm an, and the most scrupulous inquiry has been made int o the many inconveniences complained of with the view of removing them altogether. The Committed found, upon inspecting the site of the, Law Courts at the Guildhall, that between the Court of Queen's Bench and the Court of Common Pleas ano ther Court could be raised upon the same level, of alirces t equal size, in which the Exchequer business could he transacted, but not without materially diminishing, th! existing accommmodation. They, however, ascert ained that by a complete alteration within the walls, suc h 3 change could be effected as would set at nought anythi"g like an objection, and produce such vast improvement as would meet the warmest approbation of the Judges, as is well known, have complained of these Courts un til they have been actually tired of using the languag expostulation. of The present Courts are in conformity to the sta te science at the time of. their erection, built with elle r " mously high ceilings, in the erroneous supposition 11 1 , ; altitude was indispensible to health ; Lad their length was preposterous, in order to bear the character of Pr °- portion. The consequence has been, that the distan ce between the floor of the Courts and the skylights makehs the short days very short indeed, and interferes in sill a manner with sound, that he must be a very ski he man in the science of intonation to make himself unde,!: stood by all whose business it is to hear him. It is al : the fact, that the impure breath and damp oozings the mass of persons assembled below, and which a''„ caught up into the skylights, return in filthy drops a lilt the gentlemen of the bar,who sit immediately n" these receptacles, of that which it is so necessary to drive out as expeditiously as possible. The Committee called Dr. Reid and Mr. Montag ne ' the City Surveyor, to their aid. F rom D r . Reid t h g e t t learned that in rooms of extraordi nar y h e i g h t an d len g complete ventilation cannot be so eas ily accom plishl in rooms of moderate size and e l eva ti on ; an d that accomplishes he change most favourable to that paramount object w ° , - , be the reduction of the height and length, an d the In, of duction, by mechanical means, of an equal portien i f lc pure air through a number of small apertures in `„„ lower part of the Courts, and by providing fur its esc 3 r; when heated, through small perforations in the corn ice d and other part of the ceiling, ornamentally disP ns % for that purpose. Dr. Reid expressed an opinion ta, the objects which the Committee seemed to have in V i e d might be attained by a false ceiling of glass at the requir 4 height, leaving the floor of the projected three Courts its present level ; but he considered it to be infinitelio preferable, as suggested by some of the Committee, L a raise the floor, so that three. Courts, well lighted n.eaa ventilated, could be erected in the space now oceeP L by two ; while a spacious hall, and an extensive suit e rooms, would be appropriated to the use of suitors, counse_ attorneys, jurymen, and witnesses attending the Coils' Yesterday the Committee sat for the purpose of nec i i , in.- to a decision as to the course of proceeding.t l , l % should recommend to the Common Council, of whic h - f Special Court has been called, according to the termsetig the notice, " to receive a Report from the City Ln c , i f Committee, on the references relatiVe to the Court s w r, Law at Guildhall." Mr. Montague, the City Surrej exhibited a model, formed by himself, of the praP9 sL go improvements, with a proximate estimate of the exP ea he of completing these .immensely beneficial alteration s 9l ) ' whole having been effected under the inspection of t, Reid, so as to secure the advantages of his judgme c r , and to provide for the application of his i m proved rangement in respect to sound and ventilation, and, wn' iti o necessary, of warming every part of the building. Yr the model, it appeared that the accommodations in eve,ho respect would present the most glaring contrast to ell present miserable condition of the City Law Courts, whljoi really may be considered as a slur upon the tast e a humanity of the Corporation. T AZe It was stated that Baron Gurney, the only .) nt to town when a deputation from the Committee w e 1,„ 0 .. consult the Bench upon the ne c e ss ity o f making n"; tions in the Courts, had seen the model, and after an a curate examination of that and th e d raw i ngs conne c i t e with the Courts as they now stand, a pp rov ed of al l "- contemplated changes. t ess Mr. WIRE appeared before the Committee to lmP', r t „ upon them the necessity of recommending to the 1 /° - , of Common Council the adoption of the changes abele cording to the model of Mr. Montague, and the adatira system of ventilation so ably introduced into the fie us to of Parliament by Dr. Reid. He referred with force te , the various matters touched upon in the foregoing stably ment, and expressed a confidence in the warm aPPc ° tion of the community. model' Sir PETER LAURIE strongly approved of the - to by regulating the interior of the building, accordingioug which a new and complete suite of mot nw con Zit 0 Co would be obtained, at the same tinle t" third Court would be formed for the transaction the public business. He congratulated hi s brethren transaction . 0 Corporation upon the perfect success of Dr. Re i "' j cl giving new lungs to the long-diseased Courts ‘7 l , apartments of the Old Bailey, an Ller cu l ean task w inc e period was accomplished in a which app e ared to the who viewed the alterati ons t o b e m i racu l ous ly & The expense of the construction of the Sew Con o f , and the reconstruction of the two old ones in t he „ u Tcs ner proposed, including the adoption of Dr• method of ventilation, is estimated by Mr. g" t3 ' at 8,6001. r ep o rt The Committee unanimously agreed to a '-' e L drawn up by Mr. Saunders, the City Comptroller!s,og commending the adoption of the plan, thus recogn!.lect the expediency of accomplishing the all-important 0%, short. of giving increased facilities to the üblic in a ttend` upon Courts of Justice, and in promoting the health _lir convenience of those learned persons wo are daily e gaged in the arduous duties of its administration • Since receiving the above, the state of the Poll up to half past Eleven yesterday, has come to hand : STATE OF THE POLL—THURSDAY. HALF-PAST TEN O'CLOCK. Attwood 4OO Howick HALF-PAST ELEVEN O'CLOCK. Attwood 528 Ho wick Another account from the Gateshead Observer : HALF-PAST TEN O'CLOCK. Irowick Attwood SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. What with the sales, the settling, and the conference be tween the gentlemen and the Corporation, for the purpose of placing the races on a better footing, the visitors were kept in full employment until after two o'clock ; indeed many did not reach the course until long alter that hour, the insignificant character of the entries having failed to excite the slightest possible intei est. The sales are given below, and of the set tling it is only necessary to state that it was light in amount, but slow in its progress, yet on the whole favourable : Scott's party, of course, were the principal winners, and the majority of the professionals won a little ; but we heard of no great states won or lost, very few having had the hardihood to bet either on or against the favourite. Nothing was said to indi cate that the race had been run otherwise than on the square, but many exclaimed against the folly of throwing a say so valuable a prize merely for want of adequate preparation; no one, we believe, doubts that had Coronation gone direct to Doncaster, and been kept in regular work, he could not have lost. The adjourned meeting at the Club Room was attended by the same parties who were l resent on Tuesday, when it was stated on the part of the Deputation, that at a meeting of the Corporation it had been resolved to place the sum of 500/. at the disposal of the Stewards, in addition to the sum of 200 guineas to the Cup ; and independent of the town subscription, they were then informed, that provided the sum of 1,0001., including the Town and Innkeepers' Plates, was placed at the disposal of a Racing Committee, the noblemen and gentlemen were willing to continue their support to the races, but not otherwise. As the Deputation did not feel justified in agree ing to these terms without taking the sense of the Corporation, the meeting was broken up, with the understanding that a written answer should be sent to the Stewards on Thursday morning. A meeting of the Corporation was held this evening, when it was resolved that the sum of 1,0001. should be placed at the disposal of a Racing Committee, for the next year's races. It is not too much to expect therefore that the Noblemen and Gentlemen will use all their influence to fill the stases, and generally improve the character of the meeting. The following is a more complete list of the fashionables present on Tuesday than we were enabled to collect at the time :—Duke and Duchess of Cleveland; Marquises of West minster, Normanby, Waterford, and Titchfield ; Earls Fitz- Spencer, Scarborough, and Manvers ; Lords Hawke, G. Bentinck, Lyttleton, Macdonald, Beaumont, John Eitzroy, C. Fitzroy, Kelburne, Milton, Galway ; Count Auresperg, Count Halin, Baron Maltzahn, Viscountess Galway; Ladies Cooke, Armytage, Milbanke, L. Cator and Kaye ; Sirs W. B. Cooke, W. M. Milner, C. Ibbet;on, J. Kaye, J. shelley, M. Fou lis, J. Clifton, G. Armytage, 'l'. Sykes, G. Strickland, J. Mor ley, T. Whiehcote, J. Whichester, T. W. White, C. Monck, D. Baird, C. E. Kent, and J. Nelthorpe ; Hons. G. Anson, Captain Spencer, Watson, H. Forester, G. S. Byng, G. Fitz roy, C. M. Sutton, N. Nugent, T. 0. Powlett, R. Howard, and Paulett; Admiral and Mrs. Irby; Colonels Fullarton, Craufurd, Synge, Cradock, Firman, Hancox, Creyke, Thomp son, Broadhead, Hornby, and Shubrick ; Majors Tempest, Drewe, Elmsell, and Yarburgh ; Captains Corbett, Dyson, Gardnor, Gresset, Sands, Ripon, Ibbetson, Ramsden, Lum ley, Higgins, Fairlie, Alexander, &c. &c. The following horses were sold previous to the races : Gs. 50 Ch yearling colt by Jereed, out of Liberty . . B yearling c by The Mole, out of Teresa (in the Derby, 1842) B yearling c by Memnon, Junior, out of Shoehorn 66 Ch yearling c by Memnon, Junior, out of Manila 43 B yearling c by Jereed, out of Gannymede .. 76 B yearling filly by Jereed, out of Abigail 39 B yearling f by Liverpool, out of Wild Rose (in the Oaks, 1842) Br colt, 2 yrs old, by Aluley Moloch, out of Manila (in the Derby and St. Leger, 1842) B c, 2 yrs, by Liverpool, out of Teresa (in the Derby, 1842) Velocipede's dam, by Juniper, d by Sorcerer Francesca, by Partisan, and Aliss Letty's dam, by Orville 190 Velocity, sister to Velocipede Copere, by Velocipede Emineh, by Sultan, out of Velocipede's dam 2OO Gipsy, by Tramp, out of Calypso's dam Ch yearling colt by Velocipede, out of Guerdon 125 B yearling c by Sheet Anchor, out of Lady Fulford 5O B yearling c by Sheet Anchor, out of Forget-Ale-Not (Derby, 14343) .. Bk yearling c by Sheet Ai - le:lie, out of Lillah (in the Derby, 1843) B yearling cby Sheet Anchor, out of Valencia (in the Derby, 1843) Br yearling fby Sheet Anchor, out of Medea . B yearling c by Langar, out f Emigrant's dam (in the Derby, 1843) 250 B yearling filly, by Langar, out of Barcelona 42 Br yearling f by Jereed, out of Gazelle Dolphin, by Priam, 5 yra ... Mermaid, by Whalebone, out of Miss Emma... 175 B yearling c by Liverpool, out of Lady Berners llO Partheon, a bay yearling c by Jereed (in the Derby and Great Stakes at Hippodrome, 1843) „ Prizefighter, a ch yearling c, by Gladi a t or (i n t h e D er by, 1843) Napier, ach yearling c, by Gladiator (in Derby, 1843) 300 Abraham Newland, by Malek, aged LEICESTER RACES—WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Thrice round. Mr. Milner's Humphrey, 6 yrs, lOst ........................ 00 I Duke of Rutl an d' s Th e G en i us , 4 yrs , 9 s t llb ••• ...... 0 2 Mr. Wildman' s m Hero, 5 yrs, 9st 91b .................. 3 0 After the dead heat the favourite was beaten by a neck. The Elelvoir Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added by the Duke of Rutland for hunters. Heats, twice round (9 Subs. ) Mr. Clarke's bm, by C on federate, 4 yrs , 1 Ist 31b 5 1 1 Mr. Butler's The Flyer, 4 yrs, lOst 12Ib Mr. Miller's Wide-awake, 4 yrs, lOst 121 b Mr. Owsley's Balugani, 5 yrs , list 71b Mr. Berrington's Lucy, 4a each y ars,nd 50 added. lostl2l b Sweepstakes of 5 sovs.Heats twice round. (4 Suba.) 1 1 3 2 A M I Booth's Key's l%ir Benjamin, al v 4 4Y yrs 81b s B t s t B l l b 0 lb Mr. tiootk. ~ - . 6 yrs, 9st llb - -- Mr. Milner's Humphrey,2 dr ISLE OF THANET (MARGATE) RACES—WEDNESDAY The Powell Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with 40 added. The win. ner to be sold for 130/. Two mile heats. (5 Subs.) Mr. Shackle's Cantle, 4 yrs, Bst 41b Mr. Clifton's Whalebone, aged, 9st 31b A good race. The winner was claimed. The Ramsgate Plate of 501., the winner to be sold for 1501., &c., 2 mile heats. Mr. Dockeray's Munchausen, 6 yrs, 9st 31b .. (Butler) 1 1 Mr. Hornsby 's Revoke, 5 yrs,'9st 71b Mr. Wood's Baronet (late Wenderton) 5 y rs , B st 91b 5 2 3 2 Mr. Simmond's Ophelia, 5 yrs, Bst 91b Mr. Clifton's Whalebone, aged, 9st 101 b COURT CIRCULAR. bert WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince ='- f l t la drove this morning in a pony phaeton into the of Park and to Adelaide Cottage, and after the retu i lli t be her Majesty and his Royal Highness to the Castieni.ao Prince rode out on horseback, attended by Mr. a c " - '' E. Anson. In the afternoon her Majesty and her Illustriou s Cild sort drove through the Prowl - lore-road, towards: ,i o g , Windsor, in a pony phaeton, his Royal Ilighne s In another pony carriage were Lady Portman, lion' Age Paget, and Hon. Miss Lister ; and in a third ea.,, r ',,;. 5 1 , were Viscount Sydney, and Admiral Sir R. ' L a . oil Colonel Wemyss and Sir Edward Bowater attenue horseback. l O4 The Princess Royal has been taken her usual a' l.- to-da The• orcl y Marquis of Exeter, Earl of Liverpool, E a , r' ,, Countess Delawarr, and Lady Eliza West, Earl a e . :t e lie and Viscountess Sydney, took their departure fr o"" Castle to-day. , Mr. George Edward Anson will have the holl ° " joining the Royal dinner party this evening. n jea His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, 3Lte izefi . by Colonel Jones, arrived in town yesterday frog' a - , ih His Royal Highness attended at the Horse Gil 3r , e ii• the afternoon, and in the evening returned to h is '- dence at Kew. e of Upwards of one hundred Members of the gcn ls- dorif Commons, including Earl Jermyn, Lords S f/-e fri er Eliot, Norreys, and Ernest Bruce, the Att °- 31 1 ' General, the Solicitor-General, Honourable , et * Scarlet, Hon. General Lygon, Right Hon. J. Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Hon. Sidney Herber f '',, ° lis' E. Kerrison, Sir A. Grant, Sir C. Douglas, Si r E. -," „ Sir Stratford Canning, Sir F. Trench, C o l on el 1; 1 9, Messrs. Emerson 'ferment, Charles Russell, J. W i ,;104 ,1 ' Irving, Hogg, and Baring, ass em bl e d at threeAl" yesterday afternoon, at the official residence of bed Peel in Downing-street. _____ The meeting broke up at half-past three o'cloc. Sir John Milky Doyle, K.C.8., Captaitlie Cucn Richards, and Mr. Henry Meyers, Members of al, 3 F c i i mittee of Naval and Military claimants on 17c)r companied by the Secretary, Mr. Eicke, and Aber Hans, had yesterday an interview with the Earl m deen at the Foreign-office, on the subject the c` t and the mode of payment. e The Bishop of Barbadoes, Mr. Peter Brown , c 1( 19' from the House of Assembly of Newfoundland ; ' Archibald, from Newfoundland; Colonel DohertYv Irving, and Mr. G. F. Young, had interviews wit h Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, traristlc° business yesterday at the Foreign-office. 1 3 0 11illg: Lord Strathallan, Sir Robert Stopford, Mr. A i s and Mr. Carr had interviews with Sir James Gr yesTtehredeayh,anactetitewHoorm the Exchequer 19 0 tow nt ie. Wednesday from Cambridge. The Right Hon. , Ge bine‘ arrived man joined his colleagues in the evening at the t- 1 , 1 ,0e ° Dinner given by the Earl of Aberdeen, at his reside in Argyle-street. tog ° The Right Hon. Sir H. H ar di nge h a s arrived is r . rie , j i ZOOLOGICAL GA RDENS.—The men—L e l o ad' the Regent's Park on 'Wednesday received the la,' addition of.three lions, presented by Sir Thoma s I b l ' her Majesty's Consul at Tunis, who, on acc °ent e ° cP ti f active exertions on behalf of the Society, ha s b r i, c , al' i l ; been elected an honorary member. These 110 bro g!',„ mals, along with a fine pair of ostriches, we re Iv ey, ! ii over from Malta by the Great Liverpool step .i n }; 1 , which vessel they have until Wedneday been t ) t he v i le o quarantine, at Southampton. The collection gent's Park now contains six lions, of the carnivora, are in good health. Wit -- iirut '' l l l week there have been added a pair of fine qtro si, 00 c ,, w t, it i h: t t h il e e te st low-deer, an American syren (a sinwghuilcalr', animal' vav'i, allied to the proteus), and three new and singular e b rr t ' i jit , ties of water-tortoises from Carolina. The f • tv - 0 0 panzees also continue in good health and viva ci g ' o f S I " gardens were on Wednesday visited by uPs:v_i 030 children belonging to the St. James's Assoe4w4— tO and Parochial Schools. ice' J o t The Embassy at Vienna has been g bo ot' , Major-General Baron Von Canitz, hitherto Ara f ,A O ,, AN EQUESTRIAN LAMPLIGHTER.—On Wed-Ito e , en dor , I cy ou at rt t o h f Hanover. o Count Von S o uc:_ ceed 135, e0 , nesday evening last, says the Hertford Patriot, we wit- ! 1 I' vO s t; a R ° u r l o w at London,ourt of Bavaria,_ .. is t ~au t e m aj o r -_(-1 0 0 nessed the novel spectacle described in the title of this thedC . and it is said,,l', l _, t i n , wh ° ,,. 0 0 Lindham will go to Munich; Baron Von Aim. paragraph. One of the men who officiates as city lamp lighter had mounted a horse, and with torch in hand the diplomatic circle:—Dutch Paper ' s, Sept- 15 ' gle e' intended for the embassy to Lisbon retires entirely ' was driving through the streets at a furious rate, making TT u NCONTESTED ELECTIONS.-- 2 32 se a short call at every lamp-post, and leaving his fiery card at the top of each. He did not get off once in perform- 1 lion there were in England and Wales alone ...rhs ing his entire route, and yet he stopped frequently to a-light uncontested ; 119 for counties and 113 for born Pl , k P. , ...... The Four ( Mr. the 111 were o man si vas o O h n s n serve i Right the oil .Also the L Th receiv tions, Upon I port, t TII nous( Alessr nell, t for tli intent ers render menta adopt,' Ito pla Which lionsc works New for N Lo : hay in took the C Mr 21st i preset be g withc form( Comt point 'cony( the p Tied Burr large curre letti uhs for th e the