The Sun. — London, England, 1834-10-31 00:00:00

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He again returned thanks for the splendid re and ? i t ' he had met with from the honest, the industrious, o lone intelligent inhabitants of Glasgow. His Lordship ,! m einid deafening cheers. the following addresses were then presented, but not read :....„ B Y m Gh;g4 . : W . Thomson, from flat, weavers (hand-loom) of 11 13 Y,, Mr' Dunn, f rom the North West Political Union. Gla s j go c i : ‘A'allac e of Kelly, M. P., f rom t h e po li t i ca l union of P torn th : fr o " e magistrates and town council of Greenock, and Aid e Greenock branch of the Renfrewshire Political Union.. Prom resses were next presented from the trades of Edinburgh h of b s the Edinburgh united Irishmen, and from the burg 13 31 ' , j rt t Y ...h.. Bontine, from the Renfrewshire Political Union. ii Y . t,i‘r. NPFadyen, from the inhabitants of Saitcoats. 11 ) , , !- ) ..r r • Taylor, from the inhabitants of Ayr. i f_ -,', 1 • .Bruce, from the inhabitants of Irvine. . 1) Y isaihe Craig from the Kilmarnock Political Union. . ,1 Captain s itt , et f • . - peirs, from the inhabitants of the western dis i, ,re Stirlingshire. ~ 1,40 THE RIGHT ZION. JOHN GEORGE, EARL OF DURHAM. o ti f tli : d t e,a irl ovvPe,THE INHABITANTS OF THE WESTERN ois- TRICT OE STIRLINGSHIRE. I' MY Of ' ,: e , in Ashire, in the Inhabitants of the Western . District 4.VOlLsuiolitrtEcOsr—sthe l A'est of Scotland, to express the deep gr public meeting assembled, avail ourselves a- kuoi eroenw,tehefereigl i f l O t i s • the many important services your . Lordship etcy of Your country. Your patriotic and liberaladr of the people, while a Member of the Iloase lioilitlitn,„ens,----your consistent conduct—your steady and firm 4d /iiin .- . 4 to the venal majorities of corrupt and tyrannical pii,sin is,rations--the large share you had in framing an ket44,the Reform Act are services which we love to re ,, As ,and can never forget. th iisreotsnien, tie feel in a peculiar manner the benefit of ef; o l; t !' r ril ct, which has rescued our country from a state . Parati;,ll degradation and slavery, and elevated it to com ic Nt • Ireedom and dignity. 4 44 `) Lord, we admire your fearless denunciation of all ~1 1' rtss % ) a : id !sPecially your late public deprecation of all ti i n u - P l, iii ii 4e'ily in carrying into effect such measures of am u el s _ te aq all, lolprovement as are acknowledged to he req l'ala ad nr,• ' ,` e rY department of the state, and for which the Rh ipit°Per 1.,, ut-Trdnded of our country look as the natural and ;;',e sup i L t s of the Reform Act; and we trust that, strong in the boi l ' ' and confidence of the nation, you will persev d er t e h i s n t liat „curable course you have so nobly adopted, an energies °f Y e ur' r stat iell you may occupy, you will exert the tta °Nverful mind to the removal of all existing !thuse , still e a re; 4ll Y to the furtherance of those reforms which are ka t il e 'l for in the representation of the people in the Com ,' Firlilie of Parliament. le ttieip at a "Y , ray Lord, we must be permitted to say, that we lit it to, e In neh good will result to the country from your l'estofasett eemraunication with, the true Reformers of the ~ \vial eotland. 414 wi t h ev erY Wish for your future prosperity and happiness, l'e with the fullest reliance in your unimpeachable integrity, 00 et °l' Chairman to sign this address, in our name, and 04 bebalf. " In name and behalf of the meeting, llr S " A G. SPEIRS, Chairman." '44A..ll'as also presented * ataddress from the town of , } 3' " r , B y N I; gedde s from the magistrates of Kilmarnock. Gr aham from t h e tra d es o f G reenoc k. 143, Ir Nilson from the Strathaven weavers.. 10.44rea,„%rrazer from the inhabitants of Johnstone ; and 'elri:h - ,' a r ,° ,ll the inhabitants m of Galston and Kilbirnie ; and Lord bbourers of Glasgow. °N ile f un il•kst then said, he hoped from a consideration therDT au had yet c to ' undergo, they would allow him flatte r : return his best thanks to the various bodies, for d uet, 'ring testimorie- they had borne to his public con 14,1iliaad to say that the s approbation they bad showered on tired eweald remember to the last hour of his life. He netepo such incentive to active exertion, for he always u !iPle and ever would act, from the purest sense of pri _ kde pe ' n ,o not for the sake of popularity. He had acted 1 1.14 1 vintueot of the frowns of power, nor did he court those fro k t ro he could not agree. He never would swerve t Nil th e a vowal of his opinions, and he hoped he would ge bt) the what alone he coveted—justice.—(Loud . c eer ith4rhelairealiticipated from them a verdict . that he lived in or boprtl l A • " fo r his exertions, not for his own interests,. but f l Interests of his country.—(Cheers.) Till his last nets an e d ) wo uld feel th e d eepest gratitude for the great kind -0 a plia 4 at tention th ey h a d bestowed on him.—(Shouts of ' tiaortl i s ,e eae hing the south side of the hustings, his Lordship . 1 )44, I addr essed al),lriZtaerl the crowd on that side, and to whom his e .l ; Y i was, and again returned thanks for their over t, At - ouness. the pro be co nclusion of the proceedings on the hustings, 4treet:74on moved from the Green along Saltmaikt t e b ; si,fon'ate and Argyll-streets, Queen-street, and in Inn ° c f G'or e's-' uare. His Lordship walked procession along ci with the magistrates, and most '3l°ll t exeellen- h °4l er was maintained in that part of the proces thiew e t ftin and police-officers. Every place where a l e3 ent ° o l' be commanded was occupied. The windows il e a rich display of beauty and fashion, embe - le s it ; e ne. The populace on all sides cheered his Lord i h . " le g as etl i : walked along, but he was so plainly attired, and "et wh• -e i r devoid of that aristocratic and haughty . man : 1/e tlY leti the Tory press so frequently, but most impro 4 ifte'l attr ibute to la . that in many instances it was with eity as Th 2„ known. l A tremendous crush was made e r 'N 2s ; l cillare to- hear the Noble Earl's good-bye. -4 calls -°vie Earl o entered i the door of the hotel, but on ki ll d °f th e for a speech, his Lordship re hand h t ° th,e o utsfTe ace nd the Marshal having obtained ;and en-e; the vravin of his baton, his Lordship in a very : e ePt.' n - b ina Pner, expressed his gratitude for the flattering i r° ad i t ° o -e had obtained from those with whom he was he was now identified as a fellow-citizen. His r .1. "rn Plitnented the citizens on their intelligence u oneoeisPieetabirity. While he sought them not . to give hep 4° P tilO se Principles which identified him with them, 4 „ th a e Y would conduct themselves with thnt respect l a- as t e -".Patriotisin which are the boast of a free state : Nilts ert ai, "e said, that in struggling for those political Yet b„ w "ieh the higher classes would withhold, they would flt they ieto6oll3, and it would be far from him to say that b a atai4"tehre i not to perse vere . His Lordship concluded di y 14 aYed - t a o n Kiilg them for the marks of respect they had s tr ward s him 1 %4 n : aentence which the noble Earl uttered was fol fq a " . Y immense applause, and loud cheering was kept up te-4ellsiderable time after his Lordship had bowed, and keeedelV, the hotel. The trades then dispersed, each body e ' t'Y its own bands and flags. %Li re e Political Union for the Lower Ward of Renfrew kloCeeeloParlied ba deputation of the inhabitants, and by Trades of Greenock, arrived by the Clarence th e r°lll Greenock at half-past 10 o clock, and, headed I nn Greenock instrumentalband, proceeded to the Eagle 1( e11 14 b y, AI cession, and were there joined by Mr. Wallace of 4 `enf re ~"•••, Mr. Bontine ot Ardoc , President of the zie nor Politic I IT ion, and a number ot the coun re 3 and members a fro ° v various parts of the county. The t i l ;;Z e c . ll, ll; e ß a e t f t o e rn t l . er - s, as in th a ey . peced through the city, t -1;4., is . p at . . e n . ion of the spectators. The flags carried sdk Ott band of Reformers chaste , diner of the Renfrewshire Union';c l :st,the beautiful secondly, a Pria te • r ed silk an d b lue-coloured flag, b ear i ng appro _ 1 los ti le eripti on commemorative of the sufferings of :Muir t 144 e h l use , of Reform ; and two other Taos. This party ni s F en uid appearance, being well dressed, and wearing 4 sia., - als of the Unim‘, leaves of the oak tree, and other 4 a ' as of union and ' reform. They arrived at thedlemis,tis 411)e4,eensliderable time before" Earl Durham m i n 1 1 , d; THE DINNER. -"? t iller, like that at Edinburgh, was held in a build- ktt,',, P leially „„ d for it by subscription ; 1,450 persons ,kof u 'd it, and eke comfortably accommodated under its ', vAi l jb As there was a smaller number of guests than at 111 4 :01, greater space was allowed to each person . ; and n a e , j ' r th e b" st anee, accompanied with the better ventilation /t iliel l ...11ilding, prevented that annoyance from the heat kt tA.4t E dinburgh .was almost stifling. The ladies, who I kn ' t i l 4bu rgli were laced in a gallery, at such a . lisance I keq,, e chairmen's table as to hear little or nothing of the ‘hov,', s, were at Glasgow placed in a gallery it. /, immediately r sPer ' was decorated with festoons of evergreens,.. m '"rse se f d with flowers, and when filled, as it was, in the 11. etio ° t he evening, added much to the beauty and at lery, in °f af the scene. Opposite to them was another a o l- f til e si ` t i which tables were placed for guests ; and at one L 4 :ra er :' was another gallery in which the musical n per 'led ~,,- wer e Placed. The appearance of the room when h 3 l 'as Peculiar] splendid. It was lighted by 1 N Q C. ll delier s tsl Jet was havi Y . n g • n with crys early tw t o . thousand jets, n j e e r t s, an ( the stye s th e ,r; hung in the most tasteful ; 'on j'etn, a,":4llPanY, Previously to their admission into the r:ol 'e3e, ii gad themselves in the area of Anderson's ft I,lglit. clay the various stewards, in twenty- o w headed t4tle seats were then balloted for, and each party, fell to t .,7 two stewa.rds, was ushered into the places which ls Ilkster'lrn, under the . direction of Mr. Bell, who acted ..,_ 41 M fo,°,the ceremonies. A private entrance was 1: 1 ?*° \ l e eller a li le reporters, who received from the Committe 4 116, 4 Y , hut inore particularly from Mr. Bell, every at- At 4e,11d acc ommodation which they . could desire. rit,teclit- Shieldhalpl I NA, - re inutes Os stt s s q. o:clock, the Chairman, James M.P. for the city of Glasgow, il l 3 ort, t , l re " 11 1, accompanied by the noble Earl, and was Itarit, r.' en his right by Bailie Gilmour, Charles Ten- Esq., ° A l l. B i4 t. l l° . l . o x, Esq., Bailie Mills, J. S. Buckingham, eft b„ ~ ilalie Lumsden, and Professor Mylne ; ti dei v sli tl le c__.on the , II Arthur Kinnaird, Alexander Speirs, .of 444 ', ' s( l. , raiii, Fleming, W. D. Gillon, of Wall , A . ~N., M.P., Robert Walace, of Kelly, Esq., prbe ,-; Bontine, of Yialaystone, Esq, 4114 bretiPiers were Colin roOlov ofALI ~ eugla s , of , , - • Q Shiers, of rl A 'olero . ss, Esq. Darioch, Esq. ; r ang 41,1 Calcreuch, Esq. They were supported on the right by Provost Hardie, and Bales Hendry and Jaffrey, John Denny, Esq., Dumbarton, and David Hamilton, Esq. On the left by William Stirling Esq., of Ccrdall ; Andrew Mitchell, Esq., of Maulside ; Alexander Denniston, Esq., and Professor Mylne, who said grace and returned thanks ; and we have to remark that here the dinner was not con cluded before it commenced.. The Radicals of Glasgow were not so eager to pounce upon the loaves and fishes as the Whigs of Edinburgh. After the dinner had been regularly concluded, " The King," " The Queen," and " The Princess Victoria,"" The Duke of Sussex, and the rest of the Royal Family," were all given from the Chair without remark, and drunk with the utmost loyalty and enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN—I shall give without preface, for it re quires none, " The People, the only true source of political power." Immense cheering and waving of handkerchiefs. Toast—" The Navy and Army, and may service and merit be the only means of promotion." The CHAIRMAN said that he rose to propose a toast on which he might perhaps make some observation, but the meeting was well aware that he was no speaker, and that he should not detain them long, for they had not assembled that day to hear him speak.—(A laugh.) The toast con tained a sentiment, and as it was better expressed than any thing he could say on the subject, he should, withour fur ther preface, give " Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Mi nisters, and we trust that their practise in power will be in accordance with their principles in opposition." The toast was received with three hearty cheers. • An appropriate song was then sung by the professional gentlemen. • The CHAIR//AN then rose to propose a toast, which he said that he knew that they would receive with enthusiasm, and he might, if he had the power, detain them for some time, in bringing before them the high merits of the Noble Lord whom they had the honour of seeing among them that day.—(Cheering and waving of handkerchiefs.) He might begin by stating to them,tiiat the father of the Noble Lord, their guest, sat as the preses of the meeting of the friends of the people of that town in I792.—(Cheers con tinued.)_He might add, that in no one point had the son de viated from the principles then expreSsed by the father. — (Cheers.) He would not dilate on the public virtues of tl:e Noble Lord, for there were two reasons why he would not detain them long. The first was because he could not do justice to the subject ; and the second was, that the straightforward, manly, and intellectual character of the Noble Lord convinced him that he (Earl Durham) would feel it unpleasant to have his praises sung before him.— (Cheers.) He could only say that in no one instance had the Noble Lord deviated from the principles he had pro fessed in his outset of public life. He had always gone straightforward to his object. He had turned neither to the right nor to the left—(cheers) ; but bad dared to be honest in the worst of times.—(Cheers.) In times of diffi culty and danger he had always been at his pest to .advo cate the cause of the people ; and he (the Chairman) was quite sure that the Noble Lord's conduct henceforward would always correspond with what they had hitherto known of it.—(Cheers.) He might say more ; but, for the rea sons he had already given, he should do nothing more than propose that they drink the health of the Earl of Durham with all honours. . This toast was received with a degree of enthusiasm which nothing could surpass. - The Earl of DURHAM, after the enthusiastic cheering had at length subsided into silence, addressed the meeting in nearly the following terms :—" Mr. Chairman and Gen tlemen, I stand .in need of your utmost indulgence— (Cheers) —I require from you, not merely your belief in the expressions which I am about to utter, but also your con viction in the sincerity of my feelings, which surpass all powers of utterance.—(Cheers.) Worldly honours have been conferred upon me. I have the good fortune to re ceive for my services the approbation of my Sovereign ; I have been listened to with favourable attention in both Houses of Parliament ; but in all those situations, and under all those circumstances, eliciting feelings of just and honourable pride, there has been wanting that animating excitement., that inspiriting enthusiasm, which always fills ' my breast when I am cheered and gratified by the appro bation of my fellow-countrymen, eagerly pursuing the same object with myself, unalloyed by private or public considera tions,—that object being that great public object which ought to be the end and aim of all our exertions—the improve ment and welfare of our common country.--(Cheers.) I am not, therefore, sufficiently master of myself to thank you as I ought ; and yet how warmly ought I to - thank you , for you have placed me in an elevation vainly envied by those infinitely superior to me in talent and ability—(Loud cries of " No, no") ; and yet I will not discredit your choice so much as so say that I have not deserved well of you.— (Cheers.) For more than twenty 'years I have laboured honestly ,zealously, and conscientiously in the public cause. —(Cheers.) I have never deviated,—as my lion. friend your excellent chairman has told you,—at least my con science acquits me of having ever deviated either to the right or to the left.. I have pursued unceasingly the path pointed out to me by my excellent father, to . whom be alluded ; and if I can continue to pursue the same course, I believe and trust that I shall continue to be honoured with your applause.—(Cheers.) But if you are thus kind —I might say if you are thus just to me—there are others who will not mete out to me the same justice.—(Cheers and cries of "Shame.") It may be, perhaps, on account of the two great favour which I find at your hands.— , (Cheers.) Every inducement has been tendered to me since I received your invitation to prevent me from coming to meet you here this day.—(lmmense cheering.) I was told, forsooth, that I should find your principles too vio lent, and that I should commit myself by endeavouring to follow up those opinions which tend to the destruction of all good government.—(Cheers.) My answer to all this was two fold. In the first place, I denied that I should find .any such principles here among the men of Glasgow (Cheers), and I ask you fearlessly whether the events of this day have not proved my anticipations to be correct ? I ask you, who have looked round upon the immense multitudes assembled on the green this day, and who have listened to the sentiments contained in the addresses presented to me— • I ask you whether there is any the slightest foundation for ' such a report ?—(No, no.) But, gentlemen, I must say, in justice, that this injustice meted out to me came only from one quarter of .the country. You are all aware of the quarter to which I allude.—( A scornful laugh of recogni tion.) I set aside for the present our mutual , enemies the Tories,—but among those who profess liberal sentiments, I know of an attack from one quarter only, and that quarter is the capital of this country.—(Cheers.) I ask you, is that attack just, is it fair, is it founded on public principle? Is there any public principle which I have violated ? Why then, if no public principle is concerned, why am I thus turned round upon by these persons, and denounced as a tvrant in private, and as an impostor in public ?—(Great Cheering.) I will not seek to discover their motives, if they be not founded on public reasons. It would be. too pain ful for me to reflect upon the motives by which their attacks may have been prompted. But I will take this opportunity , of doing myself an act of justice before you, my fellow c:tizens of Glasgow, I will avail myself of this opportunity to justify myself, which I will do—(Great c heers), —against these accusations. I will state to you, first; what the accusa tions are. I will not blink any one charge preferred a nniinet me. First of all, it is stated that I wished to pro pose a I4popular plan of reform than that which was givcn to the people by the government.—( Hear.) I distinctly and positively assert to you that that is false.—(Deafening cheers.) The next charge against me is, that I willingly consented to certain mutilations of the Reform Bill. ' I shall prove to you how false that charge is, when I state to you that I was not in England when those mutilations and changes were ingrafted on it.—(Cheers.) I had just suf fered the first of a series of calamities which might have unnerved a man of the steadiest mind, and I had been kindly and considerately permitted by my Sovereign to travel for a time to recruit my health and spirits.—(Cheers.) I was not, I say, inEngland then, and I therefore cannot be considered answerable for the preparations for the second Reform Bill.--(Cheers.) You are all aware, gentlemen, of the public contradiction which I have felt it necessary to give to certain charges affecting my public character. After making that contradiction public, I felt that my first duty was to consult upon the subject a person then filling the Highest station in the country, who had, as I think you will allow, a right to be consulted by me upon it. There is no man living who has a more complete case in vindication 'than I have.—(Cheers.) But I placed myself in his hands , and wished to have permission - from him to state every cir cumstance. I believe the shortest way for me to proceed will be to read the letter which Earl Grey has addressed to me on the subject. It is as follows : " Howick, Oct. 25. " ' My dear Lambton,—ln answer to your desire to know how far you would be justified in stating publicly what occurred in the preparation and discussion of the Reform Bill by the King ' s confidential servants, I can have no hesitation in saying that, in my 0 - pinion, no such disclosure can be made, consist ently with the obligat;ons of private confidence, and of public duty. Were all that has taken place with respect to individual opinions, or the various modifica . tions which almost every mea sure of Government must undergo, before it is finally agreed upon, to be exposed to public view, there must be an end of all security and confidence in his Majesty's Councils. Having stated this opinion confidently and frankly, it may, perhaps, be satisfactory to you to add, that, in all my com munications with you On the subject of the Reform Bill, d nothing occurred to c ast a doubt on the consiste of ur anxious desirency to assist in renderingpri nciples , t or a on safey ourand sincere efficacious iteasuro, " Believe me ever, my dear Lambton, Yours most faithfully and affectionately, "'GREY."' Yon will therefore perceive that j am precluded from Etat inz,the particulars relative to the preparation J v.scond Reform Bill, which tend to the justification of myself from these charges, and you must therefore be content to take THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1834. thing—(Cheers)—and if at length our remonstrances have been made knOwn, it was because we feared that our silence would be misconstrued and perverted.—(Cheers.) Another charge that has been brought against us is, that we wished for crude and undigested measures. Such a desire only exists in the imagination of the orator.—(Cheers.) Why should we wish for crude and undigested measures ? First of all we want measures—next we want measures fully con sidered, and not subject to mutilation and compromise, the ill effects of which I pointed out at another meeting.— (Cheers.) And here let me observe, that when I alluded to the subject of compromise, I meant compromise with an enemy, not that fair concession which may and must occasionally take place with a friend.—(Cheers.) There is no real Reformer but will yield his opinion on minor points to those who are actuated by the same principles with himself ; but what I object to is the system of mutilating and compromising to gain an enemy who can not be conciliated.—(Cheers.) I have already alluded to the difficulties in which- the Government has . been placed, and in which it gained the unflinching support of the House of Commons. There is, however, one diffi culty which I have not yet seen pointed out, and which is at the same time so peculiar that I must be permitted to call your attention to it. We have a liberal Administration, pro fessing liberal principles, supported by an immense liberal majority in the House of Commons, and that majority returned by a liberal constituency ; and yet, with a Government so con stituted, so maintained, and so supported, we have Ministers surrounded in every department by Tory subalterns. The patronage of the army and the church is still exercised by Tories for the benefit of Tories.—( Cheers.) All appoint ments by bishops, judges, magistrates, lord lieutenants, are Tory.—( Cheers.) The diplomacy of the country is composed of nearly the same persons as it was in the time of my Lord Liverpool, and is entirely Tory.—( Cheers.) In short, all the inferior instruments through which the liberal measures of a liberal Government are to be accomplished are anti-liberal. ( Cheers.) How then is it possible that such a system can work harmoniously and beneficially to the best interests of the country ?—( Hear, hear.) Far rather would I have a Tory Government acting with Tory agents, for then we should have our enemies before our faces, and not behind our backs, than a liberal Government, checked, thwarted, and undermined by what ought to be its main sources of efficiency.—( Cheers. ) Am I not right then in saying that this is one of the chief difficulties by which the Government is surrounded? On whom, then, ought Ministers to rely? On the House of Commons, which has always stood by them—on the liberal constituency, which has returned that House of Commons— and, above all, on the people at large, who have, before now, carried them triumphantly through all their difficulties.— ( Cheers.) And it is with a full conviction of the necessity of this reliance, and further, with a full conviction of the grati tude which we owe to those who stood forward in support of the cause of their country, and who vindicated the safety of li berty, that I now come to the consideration of the toast which has been assigned to me, and which I now hold in my hands. I am required by the stewards to propose a sentiment, in which I most cordially concur, and if I have not come to it before, if I have detained you longer than was fitting—( Loud cries of No')—it was because I felt that I was bound to explain, and I trust that the explanation has been satisfactory—( Cheers) — how matters really stood, and to prove that you were justified in honouring me as you have honoured me to-day.—( Cheers.) I have explained the opinions which I entertain on all great public questions, and thanking you for the kind reception you have given me, and feeling the utmost satisfaction in your con currence in my view of public affairs, I now request you to drink this sentiment, which I adopt most gratefully,—' May the recollection of the glorious struggle for Reform during the last half century ever animate Britons in the demand for, and in the maintenance of, their Rights.' "—(Great cheering.) The CHAIRMAN said, that after the very brilliant and argu mentative speech which they had just heard delivered by their Noble Guest, he could not well expect to claim their attention. At the same time, in proposing the toast which he was now about to give, he would take the liberty to offer to their consi deration one or two observations. He conceived that he would not be considered as taxing their patience too much in doing so, when they were aware that the toast he rose to propose was " Earl Grey and the Reform Act."—( Cheers.) The Noble Lord, their Noble Guest, had told them that day, that he claimed no merit to himself for the Reform Bill ; that the merit of it belonged neither to him, nor to any other individual, but that the whole merit of that Act was to be attributed to Earl Grey.—( Hear, hear.) Now, however they might differ from Earl Grey on some points, yet, when they considered that it was to that Noble Lord they were indebted for the Re form Act, a measure that placed the country in a situation to obtain all that it wanted, he was sure that they would agree with him in thinking that they owed a debt of gratitude to Earl Grey which they could scarcely ever repay.—( Cheers.) He would just advert to one or two points in regard to the admi nistration of that Noble Lord. That it achieved a great victory for the country in carrying the Reform Bill, all would admit. That after the passing of the Reform Bill it stood upon the clear principle that the Government should not be, as formerly, one of influence and cor ruption, but a Government of principle, would be as readily granted. He was not, besides, blind to the difficulties which that Government had to contend against. _Their Noble Guest had just alluded to some of thein, - and un fortunately those to which he had referred existed in as much strength to-day as they did three years ago.— ( Hear, hear.) It always appeared to him that one great difficulty pervaded the proceedings of that Government — namely, an indecision as to coming to the point with their adversaries.—(Hear, hear. ) -- Ario - the - r great and self-created difficulty of that Government was, that they compromised with their enemies, knowing, as they must, all the time, that the greatest possible compromises they could make with such a view would not advance them a single step, or gain for them the slightest real support in such quarters.—( Cheers.) There were portions, too, of that Administration, that in themselves constituted substantial difficulties in the way of its effecting useful and general reforms, and whose separation from it well deserved to be a source of public con fidence and c ongratulation. He did not, of course, allude to Earl Grey, but he alluded to those late members of the Ae ministration who had been happily relieved of their public duties—( A laugh)—who always had the profession of reform and of liberal principles on their lips, but who, when the time came for action, at once declared themselves the advocates of Tory p r inciples.—(Hear.) The Government had a happy riddance of such men.---( Cheers.) Another difficulty that had attended Earl Grey's Administration was, that having carried the Reform Act, and having been, in fact, carried into power on the shoulders of the people, it appeared always to dread the confidence of the people.—( Hear, hear.) Now, if \a. Government will but repose trust and confidence in a liberal and enlightened people, it will be respected by them, and no difficulties or dangers of any kind will stand in its way.— ( Cheers.) He hoped and trusted that the late infusion of lib e ral principles into the Cabinet, would justify the reformers in looking forward to better days.--( Cheers.) The new mem bers of the Cabinet were imbued with thoroughly liberal principles, and he hoped that they would see the fruits of their accession to office before many months had elapsed. He agreed with his Noble Friend, that the sure way to make the repre sentatives of the people do their duty was for their constituents to look after them.—( Hear, hear.) He would now give them Earl Grey and the Reform Act."—( Great applause.) Mr. Coals DUNLOP, who acted as croupier, proposed the next toast, " The Repeal of the Septennial Act," but owing to the distance from which he spoke little of what he said reached us. He contended that the Reform Bill should be only regarded as a means to an end—as the means for obtain ing. a ll those various measures of reform and improvement that the wants of the country demanded. There were many re forms which the people called for, and which they must have. They wanted a free trade in corn.--( Cheers.) They wanted a reform of the abuses in the Church.—(Cheers.) They wanted a commutation of taxes, and an adaptation of them to the means of those who paid them. A reform too, in the House of Lords must come soon.—( Great cheering.) He had mentioned to them some out of the long catalogue of reforms that still remained to be accomplished. A Noble and Learned Lord who had lately been making a progress through Scot land, had talked much and often of what had been done in the last and in the preceding Session of Parliament, and th a t Learned Individual, in fact, seemed to intimate, that because so much, according to his account had been done in the two former Sessions, little remained to be done now — (Laughter, and cries of " Hear.") Though the Parliament, since it had been reformed, had done a good deal of worth, a great deal more remained for it to get through.—( Cheers.) If the Lord Chancellor had said that the House of Commons had already done too much, then, indeed, they could under stand what he meant. He (Mr. Dunlop) was afraid that he could not understand that noble Lord's words, except upon this principle, that he had made up his mind that as little Re form should be granted as possible, and that even not until the most distant possible period.—(Loud and general cries of " Hear, hear.") They were assembled that day to express their gratitude to the noble Earl ( Durham) for his eminent services in the cause of the people.—( Cheers.) They were more especially met together to convey the testimony of their approbation to him for the great principle that he had publicly declar e d, a t th e di nner at Edinburgh, that not a single hour passes over his head without regret, that prolongs the existence of recognized and unreformed abuses.—( Cheers. ) They were assembled there, that day, to thank the noble Earl for the assertion of that principle. It was vain and idle for the Lord Chancellor to pretend that the former Sessions of Par liament had done enough. The Government had wasted the time of the House of Commons, without doing that which the wants and necessities of the people reqnired.—( Loud cheers.) Now the true way o make the Government do its duty was to repeal the Septennial Act.—( Cheers.) It was in vain to expect the Government to do its duty unless it was made dependent upon the representatives of the people ; and it was vain to ex pect that they would do their duty if they did not consult the wishes and interests of their constituents, and the only mode to secure that consisted in having Parliaments holden at short in- tervals. The toast was drank with great applause. Mr, Douai,As (who, owing to the same cause, namely, the distance from which he spoke at the lower end of the room, was also indistinctly heard where we sat) proposed the next toast,—" The Liberty of the Press." In doing so the Learned Gentleman expatiated at some length, and in very eloquent terms, upon the mighty influence exercised, and the immense good effected by that powerful instrument of human enlighten. ment and improvement. The liberty c the press, he ob served, vic,;; tile best safeguard for the liberties of the people. In the evil days of boroughmongering domination, the Go vernment, in order, if possible, to keep down the just discon tents of the people, laid cruel laws upon the press, and the money of the people was squandered in hiring literary prosti tutes to reirile and defame those men who had the talent and courage to a s sail the fasthesses of corruvtion.---cCheers.? my asseveration, which I now solemnly make to you, that I am not guilty of the charges preferred against me.— 'Cheers.) I also wish to take this opportunity to state that there is another accusation against me as unfounded as that to which 1 have already alluded. It has been stated as an excuse for the half revelations which have been made on the subject of the Reform Bill, that I was the first to .liselose the secrets of the . Cabinet when addressing my E'rlends at Gateshead. I deny the truth of this charge. I never disclosed any secret. I never stated any Cabinet • transactions, and I will prove to you how impossible it is that I should have done so in this instanee. I refer such of you as take any interest in my public . conduct, to a speech of mine, which now stands as a record, and con tains evidence which those that can may turn against me. All I stated on that occasion at Gateshead was, that Earl Grey had intrusted to me the preparation of the Reform Bill, and that I bad heen assisted in that task by three of my colleagues—was that a secret ? It might not, perhaps, be known to my friends in Durham ; but it was notorious to every man living in the metropolis, where I had been residing ; for all the memorials to the Treasury, and all the deputations to the Prime Minister, were referred by him to me.—(Hear, Hear.) I saw the parties in my own house ; I received there every in formation which I thought likely to elucidate the subject. Did I then disclose any secret at Gateshead ? I say I did not ; and I therefore again deny the charge that in aiiv thing which I uttered at any meeting, I ever said a sylla ble disclosing either what had been done in the Committee, or what was subsequently done in the Cabinet.—(Cheers.). But enough, gentlemen, of myself. Let me rather direct your attention to that great public object, which is the best justification of the honours which you have this day con ferred upon me, and of my acceptance of them. If ever there was a time when mutual co-operation and active com bination among the friends of liberal principles was not only expedient, but absolutely necessary, it. is the present,: We have fought an arduous battle, and won a glorious victory. But our enemy is still in the field and in force, and we must not repose in the security of past triumphs, but must rise to the consciousness of an impending. struggle. I only ask you to look around. See the acti vity and Combination of all parties in the empire —see the stirring bustle of the Tories in all parts of England and of Scotland. From one extremity of the empire to the other—from Ramsgate and Canterbury, up . - even to Perth—(Loud laughter)—from the highest to the lowest —from the uke of Wellington to Lord Stormont—(Bursts of laughter)—all are on the alert. Look again at Ireland. See the activity of the Orangemen and the Repeaters—and are we—we the reformers of England and Scotland—are we alone to remain supine and inactive?—(Cheers.) No, let us be up and stirring.—(Cheers.) Let us show our ene mies that we will not be taken by surprise, and our friends and leaders that we are determined as ever in the pursuit of our acknowledged rights.—(Cheers.) We must not suffer the Reform Bill to become a dead letter, or, what is worse, merely an instrument of party triumph ; but we must make it what it ought to be, and what it shall be— (Cheers) —a great instrument of national regeneration — (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I cannot adequately describe to you the importance which I attach to the present crisis. If the House of Commons in the next session of Parliament do its duty to itself and its constituency, all may be right ; but if, unfortunately, it should shrink from the high task which circumstances impose upon it, . and if it should pursue an uncertain and vacillating course, irretrievable ruin will be the consequence.—(Hear.) Let me ask you, however, one question- 4 . Have you no duty to perform ?'—(Cries of yes.) Ay, you have—you have an important and essential duty to perform—you have to keep a watchful eye over your representatives.—(Great cheering and laughter, in which Mr. Oswald, to whom Lord Durham had pointedly turned, cordially joined.) You must show them that you are not to be trifled with, and you must require from them the reaping of that harvest, the seeds of which you have planted, and the coming of which you have waited for with such exemplary patience.—(Loud cheering.) No doubt many and weighty obstacles, will be in your path, and in the path of your truly honest and independent representa tives ; but all can be overcome with firmness and decision, but not with rashness and violence.(Cheers.) In the spirit of firmness and decision you must act, for we have groat and important objects still to accomplish. We have to require the perfecting of the Reform Act.--a-(Cheers.) We have to require the repeal of the Septennial Act.—(Cheers.) We have to require the purification of the church esta-, blishment of England and Ireland from all acknowledged abuses.—(Long-continued cheering.) We have to require the reform of corporation abuses in England, and the strictest continuance in economy and retrenchment. — (Cheers.) No doubt there are many other measures ema nating from these to which I have alluded, and on which my sentiments are well known. There may be some dif ference of opinion entertained with regard to some of them, but I have only alluded at present to those on which no friend of reform can entertain a doubt. Shall any one tell me that the attainment of these objects cannot but be attended with danger to the institutions of the country? _for that is .._tune ery s -riatiaa .tteassata4l-4-asselea raised against me.—(Cheers.) • I would relieve the Dis senters, and would purify the Church from abuses for the sake of justice and for the advancement of true religion. Is that attended with danger to the institutions of the country?—(' No, no:) I would reform corporations so as to make what they profess and what they ought to be —the correct representatives of local rights. Is that at tended with danger to the , institutions of the country ?--L -(4 No, no.') No—l re-echo your words, and - I assert, that the true result of timely and not too long delayed re form is to preserve all that is valuable by removing a ll th a t is corrupt in our institutions .—( lmmense cheering.) Th ese are my opinions, and these are my principles ; I have never concealed them, and I never will.—(Cheers.) I would not accept the highest office in the gift of the Crown—sl would not even receive the warm and enthusiasti c appro bation of you, my fellow-countrymen, if either were to be gained by the concealment of a single opinion, or by the compromise of a single principle . .—(Cheer9 I more over, determined that my opinio ns and principles shall be ' known and judged from my own representations of them, and not from the false and interested description of them by others. By one party.l am denounced as a dest ruc ti ve —by another as patronizing the impatience of the people, (Cheers and laughter.) Now, my opinions are neither the one nor the other of these. I know too well the a r tifi c i a l and complicated state of society ~i in this country, and the . absolute necessity of public confidence n the perma nence of tranquillity, and the dang er which arises from the interruption of the peaceful working of our co mmerc i a l machinery, to propose any measur e which should impede the peaceful flow of national industry and the regular ope rations Of trade and c ommerce.—(Cheers.) Brit it is be cause I wish to see tranquillity perpetual, industry pro tected, commercial energy encouraged, that I advocate the necessity of an immediate and salutary reform, which will remove discontent before it has time to ripen into turbu lence—(Cheers for some minutes) —and will dissipate on the horizon the dark and hostile clouds which, if suffered to burst in mid heaven, will not only disturb the serenity of the sky, but will also pour down on the earth devastation and ruin.---(Cheers.) Now as to the charge of impatience. —(Laughter.) It has been lately brought against us by one most eminent persone-(Cheers and laughter)--and, if I may judge from the report of a speech which was deli vered in a distant part of the empire, in no very complimen tary terms. But I will not follow the example which he has set us, and nothing shall fall from my lips inconsistent v.-ith his high station and his fbrtner services in the cause of his country.—(Cheers.) Ile has been pleased—for the allusion cannot be misunderstood—to challenge me to meet him in the House of Lords.—(Laughter.) I know well tl..e meaning of the taunt. He is aware of his infinite so pei iority over me in one respect, and so am I.—(Cheers, and cries of ' No, no.' He is a practised orator and a powerful debater. I am not. I speak but seldom in Parliament, and always with reluctance in an assembly where I meet.with no sympathy from an unwilling majority.—(Cheers.) Do not, gentlemen, misunderstand me, when speaking of that majority. I will not condescend either to ridicule those who form it at one time, or to flatter them at another.—(Great cheering.) They differ from me conscientiously. I know that. They have been brought up to believe that all that we ask for is dangerous to the in stitutions of the country. - I know it, and I lament it ; but I will not on that account impute to them improper mo tives.—(Hear.) He knows full well the advantage which he has over me, and he knows too that in any attack which be he may make on me in the House of Lords, he • will w armly and cordially supported by them.—(Cheers . ) With all these manifold advantages, almost overwhelm in g , I fe a r him not—(lmmense cheers)—and I will meet him there, if it be unfortunately necessary to repeat what he was pleas e d ' to term my criticisms , - ( Cheers.) And yet, without beig suspected of fear, may I hope that these criticising may be rendered unncessary ? Many of his colleagues were my in timate associates in office, and many of them are my Pna vete and intimate friends. Lord Melbourne, the Prime I believe to be an honest, straightforward states man, incapable of intrigue and treachery ;—(the peculiar em phasis placed on the three last words by Lord Durham crea ted a burst of feeling which it i s i m p o ssible to describe. — a nd too clear and enlightened not to see the course which events are taking , and how absolutely. ne cessary . t i s tc, comply with the general demand for r eform and improvement. I therefore trij§, that his wisdom, firmness, and discretion will render all criticism unnecessary, and will leave only the grateful task of praise and acquiescence. —(Cheers.) And now to the charge itself. Impatience ! , TiZe a ccusation is abiitirdbeenmay almost sax M Where anZI ;°l'.p"i en has t be exhibited '' Not in the House of Commons surely , where the Government has receive at d an th mor e continued and more constant support than y eestrona, ever preceded it. Not in the country surely—f o F whatever w e may have felt, till the last feW.'Weeks have said no- It was the peculiar province of the press to expose faithless statesmen and unprincipled politicians. The press animated the living to exertion, and did justice to the merits of the dead. In conclusion, he expressed the delight he felt at witnessing such a meeting assembled to do honour to a con sistent patriot and honest politician.—( Cheers. ) The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of the Hon. Mr. Kin naird and the other friends of Lord Durham who had ho noured the meeting with their company. Mr. KINNAIRD returned thanks. It was quite an unexpected honour which the meeting had conferred upon him, as it would be seen from the list of toasts that his brother, Lord Kinnaird, had been expected to be present, who would have expressed, in much better terms than he could, the feelings which such an occasion was calculated to excite. It was an honeur which one so young as he was could hardly have anticipated, to have his name associated with Lord Durham, and to have received such a flattering mark of distinction from so large an assem blage of his couatrymen—of his countrymen who had done themselves so much credit by the reception they had recently given to Earl Grey in Edinburgh, and by the magnificent manner in which they had that day, in an assemblage on the Green, of not less than 150,000, welcomed the Earl of Durham, another honest and consistent statesman, to the city of Glasgow.—( Cheers.) With such an example of rewarded merit before him, it would be his proud ambition to follow in the footsteps of such a man. He regretted that many noble lords of liberal principles were not there.—( Hear, hear.) He regretted still more that some noble lords o the Tory faction were not present, as theywould have learned a lesson that could not be easily forgotten.—( Cheers and laughter.) He would beg to propose " The health of the Chairman," whom he might justly call the offspring of Reform.—( Cheers. ) The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. He had done but little in the cause of reform, but he trusted that upon all occasions they would find him honest in that cause.—( Cheers.) What ever his demerits might be, he hoped they would never have occasion to blame him for want of consistency or honesty. He hoped that the members of the House of Commons in the en suing session would, by their votes, exhibit more sympathy for the people, and a greater determination to promote the gene ral benefit of the country than they had hitherto done.—(Ge neral cries of " Hear, hear.") The CHAIRMAN then proposen the health of " The Countess of Durham," who, in addition to the claims which she had on their respect and regard, as being the wife of Lord Durham, superadded that of being the daughter of Earl Grey. The toast was drank with enthusiasm. The Earl of DURHAM returned thanks. Nothing but severe illness would have prevented the lady, whose health they had so kindly toasted, from being present on that occasion. He had, however, the consolation of thinking, that if the Countess of Durham could not be present, another member of his family was there, to be gratified in beholding the reception he expe rienced from the people of Glasgow ; his daughter was pre sent.—( Great cheering.) Lady Lambton, who was seated in the gallery, here rose and gracefully acknowledged the compliments of the assembly. The Earl of DURHAM, in continuation said, that he was most happy that his daughter had been afforded such an opportunity of making an acquaintance with the ladies of Glasgow. ( A considerable interruption here occurred in consequence of the noisy and riotous conduct of a single individual at one of the extremities of the room. He was finally, after some difficulty, excluded from the room.) The Earl of DURHANl—silence having been obtained— again rose to propose a toast. Before doing so he begged most seriously to call their attention to what was due to the character of their proceedings. It seemed pretty clear to him that the interruption which they had just experienced had .come from the enemy's camp.—( Hear, hear.) They had it in their power, if they chose to defeat it. If such an inter ruption should occur again, let them 1 cep the strictest silence, but point out the individual who occasioned it.—( Cheers.) As one of the youngest burgesses of Glasgow, he had now to pro pose the following toast—" The Lord Provost and Magistrates, and Prosperity to the City of Glasgow." BAILIE GILMOUR, in the absence of the Lord Provost, re turned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Duke of Hamilton, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lanark." Mr. SPIERS, in proposing " the memory of Charles James Fox," said, it has beer, hinted to me that the toast I have the honour of being intrusted with, is not popular with all re formers of the present day. If this be the fact, I can find no good reason for it. I know not of any patriot of modern or even olden times, who has fought more ardently for the cause of freedom, and to whom, of course, we are more deeply in debted, than to the man of the people, C. J. Fox.—( Loud cheers.) Whoever studies the history of those troublous times in which Mr. Fox acted so distinguished a part, will, I am sure, discover ample grounds for admiration.—( Cheers. ) For a long course of years we shall find him ever at his post, assailing, with all the powers of a mighty mind, the indigna tion of an outraged patriot, and the fervid eloquence of truth, those disgraceful and flagitious measures which characterized sae the unfortunate reign of George the Third. D eas Corpus strenuous opposition to the suspension other infringements of Act, the use of special w personal libert• e ' our warmest gratitude ?—( Cheers.) Do we not find him denouncing, on the soundest principles, the unjust war against the infant liberties of France ? (Cheers) —a war undertaken, not for any rational object, but to support despotism on the continent of Europe, and crush li berty at home. Deeply imbued with the truest principles of the rights of man, he advocated religious as well as civil free dom, and afforded his powerful aid to the Irish Catholics.— (Loud cheers.) Not the least of his services I shall par ticularize. Can we, successful reformers, ever forget that he supported Mr. Grey's motion for such a reform in the Commons House as, if successful, would have placed 400 Members in that House elected by the suffrage of householders ?—( Cheers.) But great as the exertions of Mr. Fox in the cause of freedom were, we ought not to measure our gratitude to him by the good he was able to effect ; we ought to be thankful for what he attempted, though in vain. He lived in perilous times ; unmitigated Toryism bore the sway ; a great portion of the nation was deceived by a depre ciation of the currency ; the remainder, coerced by a merce nary and licentious soldiery, did not, as in our days, rise with irresistible power to support the advocates of their rights.-- (Cheers.) The Sovereign was a Tory, and the people unre presented. I have said too little ; I should say the King was a narrow-minded bigot—a bigot in his heart; and the mis named House of Commons was filled by the minions of a greedy and grasping Oligarchy. In those days, had any man done or said as much as I believe every individual in this room has done and said—aye, or the tenth-part of it—he would have been subjected to the tender mercies of packed juries and political judges.—( Cheers.) I own my greatest surprise is, that Fox had the courage to persevere so long as he did, nor would he have continued to hope, almost in spite of convic tion, had lie not, with prescience peculiar to great minds, felt he sowed good seed, which, one day or another, sooner or later, would produce a glorious harvest of happiness and free dom in the land.—( Loud cheers.) Had liberty been extinct in every other breast, it would have been cherished with only the greater care in his. I shall no longer detain you, but trust, as reformers, you will remember that, during the short time he was in power, he abolished that infamous traffic in human flesh—the Slave trade, and was the only Minister of the Crown who ever, at a public meeting, toasted the Sove reignty of the people.—( Tremendous cheering.) Mr. WALLACE, M.P., proposed the next toast—" The Re form of the English and Irish Municipal Corporations." He congratulated them on having obtained a man in whom they could confide, a rallying point, such as the Earl of Durham. That Noble Lord was right in saying that they should look to the conduct of their representatives. It had been said by Mr. Abercromby, at Edinburgh, that the present House of Commons was such as the country had never seen before. He (Mr. Wallace) would say, that it was the most subservient House of Commons that ever existed.—(Some cheers, and some marks of dissent.) If there was a place where persons voted by proxy, without hearing any of the arguments, was it not plain that such a place required reform ?—( Hear, hear. If there was another place where little Parliaments wt acid in in the afternoon, and where men were told in Itect to vote by proxy, though they declared their reles viva voce, did it not require reform ?—(" Yes. ees.") Such were the Houses of Lords and Commons., and both required reform in that re spect. Scotland had done honour to Earl Grey for passing the Reform Bill, and now it was doing honour to Lord Dur ham upon the same high public grounds. Why were England and Ireland backward in such a cause ? Because they had not bad a reform of their municipal corporations. But they, too, were coming forward to join in this great manifestation of public feeling. It was only that day that a deputation arrived trom the great northern capital of Ireland, Belfast, to invite the Noble Lord to a dinner there. The flame had reached England, too, and Newcastle was about to do its duty. The Earl of DURHAM, in proposing the next toast—" The French People, the extension and consolidation of their liber ties, and the increase of their friendly relations with the Bri tish Nation"--said he would request their silent attention for a very few moments. He very much feared that he should not be able for the task after the exertions be had gone through in the course of the day unless they would preserve silence. lie had just a few words to address to them as a preface to the toast that had been placed in his hands. It was a toast that particularly interested them ; indeed he did not know that any toast that had boon given that night was of more importance to the interests, and prosperity of Glasgow, and of Scotland at large, than that which he was now about to' propose. He would just state a few facts in illustration of the sentiments which that toast contained. He had, of late, many opportuni ties of communicating, not merely with the Sovereign and the higher classes in France, but also with the middle classes in that country ; and it was impossible for him to describe the extraordinary change that had taken place in their sen timents respecting the English people. They might all recollect that during the period of the unfortunate war that was waged between the two countries, it was the interest of the great conqueror and despot who then swayed the destinies of France, to excite a feeling against the British people in the minds of the people of France, in order to carry on his operations with success. On the other side too many and successful attempts were made to persuade the peo ple of this country that the French people were naturally, and essentially, as indeed they were at the time, in fact, the ene mies of this country. But the events that had, within the last few years, occurred in France, tending, as they did, to the es tablishment and consolidation of the liberties of Frenchmen, had produced an extraordinary change in the sentiments of the people of' France as regarded this country. Numbers of Frenchmen had expressed to him ( Lord Durham) the strongest sentiments of affection and goodwill towards this country. Many members of the National Guard of France had come to hlii to express the delight with which they viewed the in creased intercourse between the two countries, and their firm conviction, that if England and France remain united, it w ill not he in the rower ot any newer or Powers of Europe to dis , turb the general peace. He ( Lord Durham) fully coincided in that opinion as to the mutual advantages which both coun tries would reap from an intimate and friendly intercourse with each other. If he had not general grounds for maintaining that opinion, he would, even upon the merely selfish principles of commercial advantage, be an advocate for it. How came it that there was so little commerce between England and France ? Let them for a moment look at the disproportion between the commerce of England with France, and the commerce with a distant country, the Brazils; the produce of England ex ported to France amounted to only half a million, while the produce of England exported to the Brazils amounted to 4 500,000/.—( Hear, hear). The one country was 25 miles off, the other was 3,000. The two countries, France and England, were united,—not perhaps exactly united,—but at any rate they had extensive relations in their laws and li berties, and institutions. The dearest object that he (Lord Durham) would have at his heart, if he had any concern in the administration of the affairs of this country—( Cheers, and cries df " You ought,")--would be, to make that intimate de pendence of those two countries so certain that war would be absolutely impossible.—( Cheers.) He regretted to say, that on such a subject they could expect nothing from the French Government, nor indeed from the French Chamber of De puties, a large proportion of the members of which are pro prietors of monopolies. But if they were thus prevented from doing their duty to the people, the people of France will not long endure a system so injurious to their real interests. The whole of the south of " France and of the outports have united together to obtain free trade, and in the next Session of the French Parliament, instead of five or six members only being found to be the advocates for free trade, he was sure that there would be a large number. From an individual actively employed at this moment in obtaining information on the subject—he meant Dr. Bowring—he had lately received the gratifying intelligence that such a party will be raised in France in favour of free commercial inter course, that it will be impossible for the Government to con.. tinue the present system, and to plunder the people of France as it had done.—( Hear, hear.) The people of France had no notion of the extent to which their pockets were taxed to support the present monopoly system. If the sentiments of so humble an individual could by any means reach them, he would just describe to them what they pay for those mono polies. For the support of one monopoly alone, the iron monopoly, they had to pay 1,600,000/., being the difference between what the article cost in France and what it could be purchased for in England. Surely that single fact, if the French people were thoroughly aware of it, should open their eyes to the baneful effects of this system. The fact was, that the people of France had to pay upwards of 16,000,0001. sterling for the support of the present monopoly system. Such facts, if known among them, could not fail to produce a good effect. The system of prohibitions was not of the least use, except to produce smuggling. It was proved that in one article alone, the consumption of which amounted to 1,000,0001., 700,000/. of it was smuggled. The Noble Lord then referred to the evidence of M. St. Cricq, one of the French Ministers, and who was himself an extensive manufac- turer- of pottery, to show that notwithstanding a protecting duty of 100 per cent. the manufacture could not flourish in France. Why then should there not be a free commercial intercourse between the two countries ? lt was obviously for the advan ,. tage of both. If we sent to France the manufactures of Glas gow, we would take from them their wines and other articles of consumption for the growth of which that country would be particularly favourable. He trusted- to see that intercourse established. It would be the sure means of preventing a re currence of the destroying scourge of war between England and France. The two countries had but one common object, and he hoped to see them always united in the closest bonds of intimacy and friendship.—( Cheers. ) Mr. GILLoN, M. P., proposed the next toast—" Ireland, may her liberties be restored and her grievances redressed." He congratulated them on meeting at such a moment a Noble Lord who deeply regretted every moment which passed over .he-head of wrongs unredressed, and who repudiated the clip ling- and compromising of measures which, however it might ;lease the Tories, was only disgusting to real Reformers.— ( Great cheers.) Such meetings as that would show, in the first place, that the Reformed Parliament had not realized the expectations of the people.—( Cheers.) It would teach a great lesson to public men, to those who possessed public honour and political consistency, which alone fitted men to sway the councils of this great empire.—( Hear, hear.) The toast which he had to propose was one that strongly appealed t) their feelings. For centuries Ireland had been misgo verned—for centuries she had been ground down by a selfish faction, that had not shown itself in its proper colours, and had almost hoisted the flag of rebellion—for centuries Ireland had groaned under the domination of a sinecure and anti national Church.—(Cheers.) In the history of the Reformed Parliament, short as it was, could be traced a sample of the misgovernment of Ireland. He trusted, however, that the day was gone by for such a mode of treating Ir e land, and that the time was at length come when iuStice to that fine oountr ;n6ned to be drank when our express r t — dlasgow=at midnight. AMATEUR MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The recent Commemoration of Handel at Westminster Abbey will, in our opinion, form a remarkable feature in the musical literature of this country., It has already given rise to the great meeting at Birmingham, and a festival, in tended to be celebrated at York in the course of the en suing year, on a still more extended scale, may be ascribed to the same cause. Nor has the example been lost on the laudable projectors of the performance now taking place at Exeter Hall. Among the musical societies of the metro polis we were aware of the existence of dilettanti per formers distinguished for practical ability, considerable reading, and a sincere and intelligent love of the art ; yet lye had no conception that the persevering energy of a few private individuals could have assembled such a numerous body of well-disciplined amateurs, as we had the pleasure of hearing at the first grand performance of the Exeter Hall Meeting. We were much struck on our entrance into the, Hall at the general appearance of the scene, although the associations naturally excited in the mind by the pointed arches, lofty roof, and general magnificence of the ancient Collegiate Church of Westminster were wanting ; yet the advantage of an uninterrupted view of the spacious orchestra and its assembled members, and of the undisguised happi ness which shone in the faces of a mur.erous and attentive audience, rendered an effect of nearly equal interest. The. only drawback to the orchestra is the diminutive size of the organ, which contrasted but too strongly with the stu pendous instrument in the Birmingham Hall and its pedal pipes of "forty horse power." The choral performances of yesterday evening were given with great splendour and effect, and with such a marked im, provement on their rehearsal, that we presume some of ;;he leading performers must have been absent on that occasion. We have already given a full report of the selection for the evening ; and we can only add that its performance was worthy of the genius of the composers from whose works it was taken. The chorusses went off with a precision, power, and earnest feeling which astonished and gratified all the hearers, and among them many leading memers of the profession. The glorious imaginations of Handel seemed to be felt by all the performers as " 11 cantar, the nel ammo si sente " , and the audience, free from that cold and retralsive silence with which the finest movements are too often received, tes tified their admiration by their conti ln ought to say that Mr. i e d In mentioning the solo singo:: s we plaudits. Leffler sang " The Lord . truth of coneeptior: worketh Wonders" with much and considerable expression. He has a light and exible voice, and by time and application will bee'.:le a valuable addition to our Oratorio performances. A just opinion seemed to be entertained of Mr. Sapio's style of singing " Lord remember David." His loud into nation of this plaintive melody was unseasonable and out of character. Who Mr. Turner may be, we know not ; but if an amateur, his correct and_sxpressive performance of the Scena from Jephtha " Deelt rand deeper still" reflected great credit on. llis talents and acquirements. On the whole a great superiority over the rehearsal, especially in the cho russes, characterized the performances, which were also much better attended. MANF RED.—The announcement in the play-bills of Wednesday that the music of Lord Byron's Drama is the composition of Bishop is in some degree incorrect. The writers of the notices of Manfred in the Morning Journals have thus been led into the error of awarding to Mr. Bishop the honour of a composition which is due to the immortal Weber. The fact is, that the overture played by the orchestra of Covent Garden on the night of the production of Manfred was composed by Weber for his Ruler of the Spirits, a mag nificent piece of music which is little known in this country, as it has been seldom performed in public. The Florists 'of Wallingford, Reading, Newberry, and Henley, will not be a little astonished at the contents of the Horticultural Journal for the present month. The defence of the individual detected at the Surrey Gardens, figures at full length, but the Editor's reply is such as very few can anti cipate. There is a sarcastic allusion to a senseless attempt to suppress the work in Wallingford. They might as well try to turn the wind—the people's curiosity is increased by such endeavours. ( ADVERTISEMENT.) THE MIRROR OF PARLIAMENT 'V. NORTH CROFT'S PARLIAMENTARY CHRONICLE.—The proprietors of the latter work, when they intimated to the public that the former respectable publication had ceased, " its reflections" were mis taken. They take this opportunity of stating, that the infor mation was communicated through a channel in which they: thought they could place implicit reliance ; and they an nounced the communication as a fact, without any view of ; and as the dis paraging the merits of their elder, and that equally respectable their own, theta publication. Finding, however, that they were wrong, they t m d b i l ff is e h r e e c n l t a f s ro u m sual take the earliest opportunity in their power of stating that the feel that it cannot detract from the merits, but 'llrather 1 wt add: IsllcoiprreoorfoftliPata;.vleiarkmeisntsowmilel somewhat to the reputation of Northeroft's Parliamentary Chronicir candidly to acknowledge that ate former announcement v•aq founded in error. In making this confession, they di , c ' laim the imputation of the term " impudent falsehood," . . ,w'.d assure the public, that as they are influenced solely by a jus tice to acknowledge error, so their intend° Love of their feelings were respectful tw, ( l u ..‘„h 1 . 'was as pure as information which now turns out 4 1 3. , 1 t in communicating ported to thew, '7 "..Ave been wrongly re :: PIE