The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-20 00:00:00

elan which nothing could be more unjust end oppressive --if not engaged in war on the side of Spain and its legiti mate monarch, at least the reluctant witness of an inde pendence she would not acknowledge; and if at the eleventh hour the cries of the country had com pelled its Rulers reluctantly to acknowledge the inde pendence of those Colonies front Spain, it would h ave been at so late a period in her history as to have been of no service to her interests.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Our children's children might have reaped the fruits of it, but it would not have been till all the other nations of the World had first recognized the independence of Spanish America, and had entered into treaties of alliance with its different states, whereby British interests would have been c onipromised, if not absolutely destroyed.—(Cheers.) In stead of this, England, under new auspices, and a better and a morc‘. enlightened system, had obtained the proud and immortal glory of being the first to acknowledge their free dom and independence.—(Great cheering.) He could not help adverting on this occasion to another important public question, which, though it was of a very delicate nature, and one on which he should not say a word to an unen lightened multitude, he felt that he might safely notice t here. There was the same difference of policy observable in the conduct of the former men and of the present, with respect to the laws affecting corn—laws which affect not only the trade of the country, but also the interest and the subsistence, and the sacred rights of every individual among which involve in th e i r very t he poorer ni in it—laws, first principle the great and important question, whether the poor man shall have bread for his st:stenance at a rea sonably cheap price, and whether be shall be allowed to live on the bounty of Providence without paying more for it in the sweat of his brow than either his strength would endure, or his patience permit him to pay.—(Great cheeri ng .) He could not help feeling that those States• men who wished to act liberally by England and by Europe, and who had freely acknowledged the inde pendence of Spanish America, rejoicing and partici pating in the felicity which they dispensed around them—he could not help feeling that those very States men must have been the men who had introduced the present measure to amend the Corn Laws. He shrewdly suspected that those of their former colleagues, who, now that they were out of office, would not lend their support to the Bill which they had pledged themselves whilst in office to carry through Parliament, were not the authors of hear.)—He thought that the members of the late Administration now in office were alone the parents of it ; for if their late colleagues shared the parentage of it, they could not be considered as acting that kind part to it which parents generally showed to their own offspring.— (A laugh.)—He w' as now speaking on the anniversary of a day wh en it becam e him to express the utmost gratitude which be felt to the illustrious warrior, who, twelve years ago, had led the military relations of the poorer classes to the most glorious victory recorded in our annals.—(Great cheer ing- )—He wished to express the sincere gratitude which he felt towards that distinguished captain for all the manifold services which he had rendered to his country, and for which, though it had paid him largely, it could never pay hi m t oo we ll.—(H e a r , hear.)—Still h e cou ld nu t help, feeling as he did for the NoLle Duke's fame and cha racter, which he now looked upon as public property,—he 'ould not help, he said, expressing a wish, but with all feel ings of kindness and respect, that his Grace had found some other antagonist than the one he had been recently con tending with, for he seemed to have determined, on the re cent discussions on the Corn Bill, that none but himself should be his conqueror.—(Laughter and cheers. )—Gallant Captains and venerable Ex-Secretaries " Virtue Ecipiadum et mitie .apientia Lceli."—(A laugh.) all were combined to overthrow it. The gallantry of that great captain shone eonepicuous in defeating that which nothing but himself could have defeated, namely, his own project, and the mildness of the ex-secretary in humiliat ;ll the m easure w hi c h h e was once d es ti ne d hi mse lf t o i n • r°d n ce•—(A laugh.)—He could have wished that they ha d in their profound wisdom discovered a more useful el croias of th e i r many an d rare en d owmen t s , than that Which they had recently displayed before their astonished countrymen. At all events, those of their former rol -1 a ., fr , e esee who continued in the government, whether they ve up the Bill for the present in despair, or whether they Pursued the wiser and the more philosophical part; to take "hat they could get, even to the frustration of their own I.arling object, keeping it as they could so as not to lose that : t tle mite which the lords of the secession, in their infi •gte bounty, were willing to grant to their poorer country :llene-whichever course they took, he thought tke meet 'lig must admit, that those statesmen who were the best and steadiest friends of their country who first advocated, a nd the n strenuously persisted in supporting, in spite of all ... ° PPosition, a sounder system for the regulation of the " 1 4 in corn.—(Cheers.)—Now, would the meeting Permit him, after the long statement which he had al tsadY made to them, to ask whether, if upon all ques "l of foreign, domestic, and colonial policy, and upon the grand question of improving the civil and cri -14,,1nal jurisprudence of England—to say nothing of an infi -,,ite variety o f minor points, on which, after the multitude ° t i figures which he had already ventured to introduce upon th e canvass, he was unwilling to say a word — wou ld e teeeting permit him to ask any man of common can tour, wh et h er th e men w h o , upon all the great questions ° Which he had been just alluding, had been voting toge ther for the last four or five years—who bad been night after„, night fighting on the same side, and against the sa me e" utical enem ies, the old Ministers—who had known no fir mer allies than the present new Ministers, and known n ° other enemies than the old Ministers—who had given .10, and received from, the new Ministers efficient assistance and support,—would the meeting allow him, lie said, to Whether any thing could be more natural than that ! l ucre sh ou ld a t l en gth be made, between those two parties, t 'at coalition which had astonished none but the most in attentive ob servers obse r v e r s of the events of the last three or four 1 4 " ?—(Cheers.)—Fie called on the meeting to observe the situation into which his Majesty and Mr. Canning, With the few colleagues who adhered to him, were re cently thrown. A secession took place ; all the Lords of the Secession, being six or seven in number, simul taneously, by some accident or other, threw up their of kes in disgust. What was the reason of their conduct it became him not, neither was it necessary for his argument, In inquire. They had left office—the Ministry was thus half vacant—it was, in point of fact, broken up, and it became ne cessary to remodel and reconstruct it. The question then was 1 - how sh ou ld it be remodelled and reconstructed ? Now, ' ht was not one of those who ventured to abuse those no ir, b leu who had quitted their plac es. He was glad that ey had done so, and would not question the right of any i h t ,set in a similar manner, if he so thought fit. He t a the great and singular !satisfaction of hearing in the ,IL: l.o uses of Parliament to which the illustrious indivi rr Pectively belonged, the explanation of their motives for gangsriies; office, which had been given by the most dis tm° members of the late Administration—he alluded to the late 11; --ght Hon. Secretary for the Home Depart ment, and to the most Noble the late Master-General of the Ordnan ce and the Commauder- i n- Chi e f o f hi s Majesty's forees. He never in his life,—and he spoke it not merely a politician but as a critic—as a person who had now had some slight experience in public speaking—who bad hea r d most of the great masters of eloquence in modern t ins, and read and studied the great masters of it in former times, and who had attended not a little to what "instituted excellence in orators and oratory—he never in his life heard a more plain, manly, frank, and soldierly ex _ Planation of public conduct than he had had the satisfa e _ t i,°° of hea r i ng f rom t h e D u k e o f W e llington.—(G reat !'eers•)--Ile completely dispersed all the cloud which had bung ' over Ms resignation—he took away at once and for ever the film which appeared to dim the splendour of his public character -4, • • • judiced man that ho satisfied ever ev , ery impartial and unpre and that he was above em right to act as he did, Filovink any and unjustifiable excuse to d h ) —He did not agree mean, paltry, With Iv hir ns elf.—(C eels. policy, i Grace in the__ view which he took of our foreign egreS with him upon the Went out -h* meant the Catholic qu n e : i 3r e , ti neither o h d e ist , h i he question. w He re joiced that he had gone out, be es ", he believed ?* that it would be for the good of the country ; but a t mo tives which he had stated for resigning hi, a to the colour which he had given to the transit:6°osta , and the Brougham) had never heard any thing more aatl:fahete (Mr.y (Cheers.)—He would make the same declaration with . me sped to the explanation that was given in the Hou se of Commons by the late Secretary for the Home Department, with whom he didnot differ in opinion on one question in fifty ; a Gentleman who had already conferred great benefit on his country ; who, if he were in error on one particular point, had kept a steady, and consistent, and conscientious course in adhering to it, and who had never flinched from the duty of his situation, difficult as it was for him to perform it, being as ha was the Champion of the Hi g h Church T ory P arty, and the chosen representat i ve , of the University of Oxford.—(Great cheering.)—He thought that that Right Hon. Gentleman had already rendered great and important services to his country ; on the jnris. prudeoce of the country he was an improver—he had al most said a reformor_(He,ar, hesr.)—lf he had been longer in office, he believed that he would have been even more so. He hoped that be (Mr. Peel) would live long enough to come block to office, improved by being out of office ; for, as some precious liquors gained in value by be ing exposed to the sun of an Indian voyage, so other li quor! , of equal price, of which there Was some slight knowledge entertained in Liverpool were said to gain in flavour by the bleak exposure of an Arctic region.—(A laugh.)—He trusted that the Right Hon. Gentleman would not have visited 'the Polar regions of Opposition in vain, and that he would come back to office the determined improver of our domestic system of jurisprudence. His explanation was as satisfactory as that of the other noble personage whom be had alluded to, and he had pleasure in snaking that public avowal of his opinion. —(Cheers.)—With respect to the other noble personages of the secession, they had not condescended to make any ex planation at all ; he was, however, willing to pardon them the rash act which they had committed, in consequence of the results which had emanated from it.—(Hear.) —lf he might be considered as a juror, sitting on their inquest, and as speaking with such charity as generally distinguish jurors on such occasions, he would say that there was no felonious intention on their part, but only a temporary alie nation of that excellent judgment of what was for their own personal interest, which, during all the former period of their lives, had regulated and inspired their public conduct. —(Laughter and cheers.)—He must say of one of the Members of that secession,—he meant that individual who was a great light to the profession to which he (Mr. Brougham) belonged, the late Lord Chancellor,—that he believed that his Lordship did not intend to hold the office long. He believed that his Lordship intended to resign at the period which he had stated—(a laugh) ;—and he Mr. B. should be an ungrateful man to say one word against him now that he was out of power, since no one had better means of knowing and feeling the kind disposition of the Lord Chan cellor to him, personally and professionally.—(Laughter.) —He could assure them of the truth of what he was just saying.—(Laughter continued.)—He assured them that he spoke seriously, and was serious in the assertion which he had just made.—(A laugh, and " Hear.")—He saw that a great error prevailed among the company, and he was most anxious to correct it. He was saying seriously, that as a professional man, he did not owe any thing but obli gation to the late Lord Chancellor, and that those who said to the contrary knew nothing whatever of the fact. The best proof that lie could give the meeting that he was se rious in what he now said, was his solemn declaration, that it would be most unjust to the late Lord Chancellor to let the error which prevailed among them go forth to the world uncontradicted.—(Hear.)—He had had an opportu nity, before the recent Ministerial changes took place, of having a silk gown, and he had declined, from personal considerations, accepting it. It had been said by p eop l e who knew 'lathing of the profession, that he wail to get 6,0001. a year by his late elevation to a silk gown. That was not the fact, nor any thing in the slightest degree like it—it would rather be a loss to him, from making several of his juniors at once his competitors. On the late Mi nisterial changer he had again had a silk gown offered to him, and had again declined it, because lie felt that by ac cepting it immediately after the resignation of the late Lord Chancellor, he should be giving currency to the report that his Lordship stood in the way of his professional promo tion. The answer which he had then received from the present Lord Chancellor was, that the case was quite dif ferent from what it was formerly—that Mr. Scarlett, from being appointed Attorney-General, could no longer go the Northern Circuit—that the Northern Circuit could no longer be left without King's Counsel—and his Lordship concluded by asking him, whether he would allow aim of his juniors to be placed above his head at one step, wh en he had it in his power to prevent it. Under such circum stances, he had consented to accept a silk gown, though he should positively lose by the change; for instead of succeeding to the notorious and undisputed lead of the Northern Circuit, such as Mr. Scarlett had it, he should succeed to it along with six other competitors. He re peated that it was no fault of the late Lord Chancellor that he had not had a Bilk gown. He had formerly refused it from circumstances of a personal nature, and he had now accepted it to prevent his falling below his due rank in his profession, owing to the great number of King's Counsel who had been recently made out of men, of some of whom the profession were absolutely asking who they were.—(Hear, hear.)—Having in the course of his political life been a great political antagonist of the Lord Chancellor, lie could not allow the error which he saw prevailed among them pass any longer without contradic tion and refutation. He would now return to the subject, on which he had been speaking before he had ventured on his late digression. He could speak as a near observer of all the proceedings of the late coalition. He thought that nobody knew the history of that event better than he did. He thought that not one of the illustrious persons who were even parties to it knew it better than he did from its first unfolding to its final consummation ; and it was but justice that he was rendering to the distinguished parties on either side, if he, speaking as a witness, and as every witness ought to speak, with the entire absence of all bias from his mind, moving him either to the one side or the other—it was a mere act of justice for him to say, that on the one hand never did lie see any one move in so straight forward a path to his main object, without swerving either to the right or to the left for any inferior consideration— never did he see any man show himself more frank, more candid, or more honest in every stage of the negociation, behaving towards Isis former adversaries and his new allies with the greatest fairness, liberality, and concession, and towards his old colleagues who had deserted the King's Councils, with the utmost propriety, consistency, and honour, desiring to keep by them if be could, and anxious not to dissever Idris& from them if he could avoid such a separation without any sacrifice of his public principles—never did lie see any man more solicitous to accomplish an amalgamation of all party feelings in the general benefit of the State, than their late Repre sentative the present Chancellor of the Exchequer—(loud cheering) ;—and that, on the other hand, speaking as a witness on behalf of the Right Hon. Gentleman's new allies, never did lie see any set of men so unwilling to ac cede as members to the Governinent, as they were.— (Cheers. )—They only who had been engaged as parties in - - . the affair could be aware of the difficulty which there was to get those Noble Lords and Hon. Gentlemen to listen to any propositions which were made to them about their own accession to office.—(Hear, hear.)—At last a provisional arrangement was made between them and Mr. Canning, that they would give their support to the Government, but would themselves continue out of place. The absurdity of this scheme, the ridicule with which the adversaries of Ministers immediately overwhelmed it, the impossibility of Government going on regularly when there was no recog nised leaders of it, when the members of it were not all sailing in the same boat, when some were going forward while others were standing still, when there was no sym pathy of motion between the leaders and the led—All these strange and striking anomalies soon put an end to the pro visional arrangement, of the success of which he had doubted from its very outset, and which he had ridiculed rom its very beginning as most unwise, being the novel plan of supporting Government without taking office. Still, one of the most distinguished leaders of the liberal party was left out of office ; but he hoped that the last re mains of that provisional arrangement would soon be at an end—that it would only be mentioned in future to be re gretted as ever having existed at all, and for the purpose of demonstrating the extreme reluctance of those distinguished wen, who were the new allies of the Government, to take office at all.--(Hear.)—He thought that when the meet ing looked to the division of power which had been esta blished between the parties, to the balance of office and emolument which had been struck among their adherents, to the small number of the new allies of Government, who filled high stations with much patronage attached to them, and to the very moderate proportion of Mr. Canning's personal friends who had obtained any patronage at all, they would see that there never yet had been a junction between two great parties, in which the indi viduals who belonged to them took so little, and in which the individuals who belonged to neither, and had little power or influence in the State, were allowed to take so much.—(Cheers.)—He had entered into this ex planation, which he had purposely made minute, de tailed—tiresdme, if they would so have it—(Loud cries of " No, go on,")......b eeause, in addressing the present meeting he almost looked upon himself as rendering an ac count of his public conduct to his own constituents.—(lm mense cheering.)—Aseidents h a d severed them for years ; but he should never cease to resiernber their kindness to him upon former occasions; nor to feel that, when he came before them, it was his most sacred deity to account to them for his past conduct, just as much as if he was ac counting to them for a trust which by delegation they had conferred upon him.—(lmmense cheering. )--It was no fault of theirs that he had not been their representative—it was his own fault._.(Cries of " No, no, great 6heering, and exclamations of " Try again.")—He knew that he might have had the high honour of being their represen tative in 1812, it on that Sunday morning he had listened to what had been proposed to him—his friends had refused the proposition of polling one and one, which would undoubtedly have made him the colleague of their late Right Honourable representative in 1812 ; they had preferred trying to win the two seats to the se curing one, and in their attempt to grasp at more than was practicable had failed, as the Whigs would have failed in the present instance had they acted on the Liverpool principle of 1812, and had strived to secure office for them selves to the exclusion of their present friends and allies.— . (Hear, hear.)--Had the Whigs been so absurd as to act upon that principle, instead of having a Government con sisting of men of knowledge and liberal principles, going along with the light, and intellect, and improvement of the age, they would, by grasping at impossibilities, and by straining at what could not be obtained, have let into office men of no light, of no intellect, of noimprov . ement, of no liberality at all.--(Great cheering.)—ln casting his eye back on the scene through which we bad passed in the few last months, and of which he had been a nearer spec tator than any of those who nosy heard him, he felt that if he had acted on any other principle than those which had directed his recent conduct, he should have sacrificed his duty to himself, to his country, and to mankind. —(Cheers. ) —Yes, he should have sacrificed his character as a lover of freedom if he had allowed one moment's space for the action of any mean, paltry, personal feelings, and had refused his sanction to the measure which had placed their late distinguished representative at the head of the Government, merely because it was giving a great, signal, and illustrious triumph to an individual who was considered as his personal rival.—(Great cheering.) —He did not look upon power as a thing to be envied by any wise or good man. Power in itself, mere power, was any thing, he feared, rather than a friend to vir tue or a test of merit. It was enjoyed by right of birth, by bloated despots ; it was purchased through blood and slaughter by ferocious usurpers and pestilential con querors ; it was held by a tenure which rested on those defects in human nature which reduced man below his ordinary level, and rendered him as much a slave to the will of others as are the miserable inmates of an eastern seraglio. But the power to be of use to mankind —the power to do good to a man's country—the power to scatter blessings over the land of your birth or of your adoption-- the power to root up ignorance, to diffuse knowledge, to advance the progress of mind, to break the chains of the enslaved man of every country, or colour, or cast, or sect —the power to benefit your kind, and illustrate your country, and ennoble your age, and mend your race--that power is a possession which a man, nay, as an angel, may stoop from his height to take up and enjoy.—(lmmense cheering.)—He devoutly believed—yes, from the bottom of his heart he was convinced—that in lending his humble and disinterested aid to establish power in the hands of the Minister who now wielded it, he had enabled many per sons to hold it for those sacred purposes ; and he cared not whether he held it in his own hands, or whether he joined in strengthening the possession of it for those others, who would devote it to such noble and le gitimate ends.—(lmmense cheering.) They might he assured that he, who so felt and acted, would enjoy, while his life was spared to bins to do good to his fellow-creatures to the best of his power, a deep and heartfelt satisfaction, which would be ill exchan ged for any transient honour that he might derive either from judicial appointments, or from foreign missions, cgr from the command of all the resources of this mighty em pire. He would, indeed, dearly purchase those glitteri ng objects of human ambition, if he gave up for them that deep and heart-felt satisfaction which made a man feel that he was doing good in his generation, by cultivating his mind, and by living a life of integrity, whilst ke was spared to his friends, pure from all factious bias on the one band and from all interested motives on the other, enabling him to bequeath a name, when he was called hence, to the gra titude of countless ages as one of the noblest, though it might be also one of the humblest benefactors of mankind. ( Mr. Brougham here sat down, and the whole company instantly rose, and saluted him with rapturous cheering. and with waving of handkerchiefs, for several minutes. The next toast given was— " A full, free, and fair representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament." Which was drunk with three times three cheers and much applause. Mr. BaouctrArr then rose and begged to be allowed to propose a toast, which, he was sure, they must all have been impatient at not having heard already. He meant the health of their worthy Chairman. He had often heard it said, that as good wine needs no bush, proverbially, so a good toast neads no preface ; and he was sure the corn pany would agree with him that there never was a toast to which a preface was less needed than the one he had just mentioned. They would recollect that their worthy Chairman had told them he was inexperienced in the duties of his present station, and had thrown himself upon their indulgence for pardon of his defects, and for their assist ance in supplying what in him should be found wanting. For this service, all they could be entitled to claim—for the office was very much in the nature of a r.inecure, that is N say, in the enjoyment of it with no duty to perform, though it was true that it was also free from any emoln meut•,—all their reward—their whole salary for this sine cure, was the gratification which they should feel in testi fying to the worthy Chairman their cordial eatisfaction with the very efficient manner in which he presided over that day's entertainment, and their high respect and esteem for his general character.—(Applause.) " Our worthy Chairman, F. Jordan, Esq."—Three times three. The CHAIRMAN rose and salt! he was just golf % that he was born a Whig—(laughter)—he was born, as they were well aware, in the sister island, and he was near committing that blunder. However he could say truly and correctly he had been bred a Whig almost from his birth, and he gloried in the title.—(Applause.)—To many of the gentlemen who now surrounded him, he was very little known, except by name; but to those friends of his, of whom there were many present, who had known him for a period of nearly thirty years, he appealed, whether in the whole course of that period, he had ever swerved from his principles, or committed a single act to sully the name of Whigs, or to tarnish the honour of his country.—(Ap plause.)—For the period which he had named he had lived in this good old town of Liverpool. On his first arrival here, discord prevailed ; the Whigs were few in number, while their adversaries the Tories were numerous and do mineering ; but among that few were to be found the names of Roscoe, and of Currie, of Rathbone and of Shepherd, of Earle and of Birch ;—men qualified to keep alive the sacred flame of liberty and transmit it pure and untainted to their successors, of whoom he was proud to see so many living proofs here to-day. Guided by such men, the cause had held its course steady and undeviating, and they were now assembled to celebrate its trinmph in the presence of the Champion of the order.—(Great applause.) —They must, however, never forget that they owed that triumph to the spreading of education among the people, and it should be their glorious task to diffuse that bles sing through every grade of society. The Tories of the present day, he was happy to say, differed materially from those of a former period to which he had already alluded. The stamp of education had been set upon upon them, and many among them were now to be found men of honour able candour and high and liberal feeling, and sorry he was not to sce a greater sprinkling of them among the cone as sembled on the present occasion, for, as had been shown lately by a most enlightened senator (Sir J. Mackintosh) the difference between the two parties at the present day was much smaller than either of them, generally speaking, imagined, and he therefore hoped soon soon to sae a union of their ranks.—(Applause.)—He thankep the company for the honour they had been pleased to pay him, and as it had never before fallen to his lot to address a company in his present capacity, except at his own table, and felt conscious of his incapacity; he once more requested that any deficiency on his part might be laid to tha account of his inexperience. —( Applause. ) " His Majesty's Ministers, and may their measures con tinue to entitle them to the confidence of the nation."— ( A pplause. ) " The cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world."—Three times three and great applause. 6 6 Our able representative, the Right Hon. Wm. Flus kisson, and sound principles of Free Trade." Three times three and much applause. The ContastAN then said he had now to propose the health of a gentleman who he was sorry to say was not in Liverpool at present, having gone to London on business of i m portance relating to thiti port. The gentleman to whom he alluded was a striking instance of modesty, allied to dis tinguished merit and ability, and by his excellent tempering of seal and firmness with discretion in the discharge of his magisterial duties, was entitled to rank with the most dis tinguished of his predecessors. " The Worshipful the Mayor, and Town and Trade of Liverpool."—(Three times three, and long-continued ap plause.) Song, by Mr. Ryley, the author of " The Itinerant," composed for the occasion of this day's festivity. " Lord Holland and Lord John Russell, and the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts."—Three times three and great applause. " The Lord Lieutenant of the county." The Ctraiamart said lie had next to propose the health of a staunch Whig, " The Earl of Sefton, and may th e h ouse o f M o ly n eux ever follow his example. Great applause. Sweet Home !" i‘ A f i r r . . — l3 U n c o ti nle Al:i said the Chairman had again given him leave to trespass on the indulgence of the company for one moment, and it would certainly require no longer to give a toast which demanded little comment. He greatly pitied a large p ar t o f the company who, from bei ng sea t e d under the gallery, we not able to see half the g race an d beauty that ador ne d thi s a ssembly. He and those about him hap pily were so s it ua t e d as to enjoy the sight o f a b ou t three fourths, while some ingenious friends of his had contrived so to place themselves as to command a sort of corner view of the four-fifths, the whole constituent beauty of that fair assemblage. It was impossible, however, for any one who could see even but one-tenth part of it, to refuse him their attention for a moment, for the Purpose of enabling them to tons- the fair pa r t o f t h e C ommu n i ty of the town o f Li verpool, who had shed so honourable a dietinction over that happy meeting, in gracing it with the honour of their presence and protection. He Called upon the company to join him in a bumper to " the Ladies of Liverpool."— )Long continued applause.) The CHAIRMAN said he need scarcely recall to the re collection of the company the business of the 18th of June, —the commemoration of the Battle of Waterloo,—that battle which he could safely say, from his recollection of the day when the account of it arrived and the effects it produced, added at least 20 per cent. in value to the capital of the country. He would therefore give— " The health of the Duke of Wellington, and the Heroes of Waterloo." Mixed applause, hisses, and hooting ; the disapprobation evidently preponderating. The band began to play " Britons strike Home," but the sound of the instruments was quickly overpowered by the increased tumult of disapprobation. A pause at length occurred, when one of the Company rose up and gave— " The Heroes of Waterloo," which was followed by several rounds of enthusiastic cheering. Air—" Britons strike Home." Comic Song—" The Battle of Waterloo," by Mr. Reilly. The CHAIRMAN then gave— The Vice-Presidents : —Mr. William Wallace Currie and Mr. Hardman Earle." Three times three and much applause. Mr. W. W. CURRIE and Mr. IL EARLE respectively returned thanks. The latter said that having disposed of the subject which was the cause of his rising to address the meeting, he would beg leave to give a toast arising from a recent event which had caused a very considerable sensation in the commercial world, and threatened the most serious evil to the country at large, he meant the late decision of the House of Lords upon the Corn Rill,—a decision which, it could not be denied, had given great dissatisfaction to the country. Undoubtedly their Lordships had a right to make that decision ; but there was as little question that it had been brought about by a union of faction and self-in terest, and that it was marked by gross and selfish indiffer ence to the wants of the people, and by the greatest igno rance of the real interence of the country. He concluded by proposing :—" The 122hvirtuous and patriotic Peers who voted in the minority against the Amendment moved by the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn Bill."—(lm mense cheering and applause.) The CHAIRMAN next gave— " The Duke of Sussex, and the London University, and may the system of Education keep pace with the improved spirit of the age, and be extended to all classes of the Com munity." Mr. BROUGHAM shortly returned thanks, and paid a high and well-merited compliment to the Duke of Sussex. He then proceded to advert to the notice which bad been taken of the House of Lords. Humbly venturing, he said, to differ with their Lordships as to the vote upon that parti cular question, he yet viewed with much satisfaction the increased activity to business which had been manifest in that Noble Assembly during the present Session. He never remembered so regular and so full an attendance of their Lordships ; they met as regularly as did the Commons ; which was not so qefore, and they had in consequence be come quite as busy and as factious, and had taken not merely one, but all the leaves out of their book.---(Much laughter. )—He was glad of this, because a continued regu larity of attention to public business on their parts, meeting daily, numerously, and in open house, with the press to watck and .eport their proceedings, would tend more than any thing that he knew of to restore the true and proper balance of the Constitution. " Our uenerlble and enlightened townsman, William Roscoe, Esq." Mr. W. ROSCOE, jun. returned thanks for his respected father, whose ill health prevented him from attending the Meeting. " The memory of our townsman, the late Mr. Rushton." Mr. E. RUSHTON returned thanks. " Our respected townsman, Thomas Booth, Esq." Mr. H. BOOTM returned thanks. Mr. BROUGHAM then rose to propose the Liberty of the Press, and took the • opportunity of stating that he had been erroneously reported to have said, that in speaking of Mr. Hume's motion for the repeal of a tax imposed upon pamphlets by one of the Acts commonly called the Six Acts, that he saw no harm in the Act which made tran portation the punishment for a second conviction of libel— He never could have said so, inasmuch as he had been pre paring, and was in hopes of effecting his object, to try to promote the repeal of that very Act, and indeed he knew and no one could know it better than he did, through his professional connections, that that Act had a most mis chievous effect upon a portion of the public press, by its operation in deterring persons from embarking their capi tal in some newspaper concerns. What he had . said on the occasion to which he alluded was, that be was asto nished to see that gentleman take up a trifling matter,which iLL compar;cm, svaa not worth three straws, ittel , ,d of attaching the Act wbich mede it punishable lavi.an'lsl.l - to he twice convicted of libel. He conclided by giving, " the Liberty of the Press," which was drunk with three times three. Mr. W. W. CURRIE gave " The health of Mr. Rush ton and success to him in the legal profession upon which be i 8 about to enter." Mr. E. RosnTow returned thanks, and said that he should never want a stimulus to exertion so long as he retained the recollection of the highly honoutble recep tion which had been given to the distinguished ornament of that profession whom they had the pleasure of seeing among them that day. He concluded with proposing a sentiment which he had beard often hinted at but not as yet openly pronounced !—" May our distinguished guest, if he should be again defeated in the contest for West moreland, become a candidate for the representation of this town—and may he be returned as the colleague of the Rsght Hon. Gentlemen who has liberalized the commerce of the country." Mr. BROUGHAM said he felt honoured by the compli ment just paid him, but he must at once repudiate the cffer to become a candidate for Liverpool, lest he should be charged with infidelity to his affianced bride of Westmore land, or suspected by his friend Mr. Crump of bigamous inclinations, which would no less subject him to the cen sure of his friends at Appleby. But although he could not become a candidate, if they felt inclined at any time to make any demand upon his services, as they got matters over here before they began in Wesmoreland, he should have o n- objection to come over and lend them a helping hand for some other friend.--(Applause.) The following toasts were afterwards given : c: O u r best allies, the li!)eral spirits of Europe, and may the victims of despotism ever find an asylum in this country." 44 Catholic Emancipation." ,‘ George Williams, Esq. and the reform of all County Abuses.' _ _ " Thomas Wybe rg , Esq. and the Independent Free holders of Westmoreland." " The Rev. W. Shepherd."— ,, Sir F. Burdett." J ose ph Birch, Esq. and the Electors of Nottingham." " The Hon. E. G. Stanley and John Wood, Esq. and the Electors of Preston." . ", The Towns of Manchester and Birmingham, and may they soon enjoy a share in the representation of the people." 4 , Prosperity to Ireland." ,t Lord Cochrane, and success to the cause of the Creeks." 4 , The United States of America, and may our frindlv relations with that country be perpetual." ~ The Independent States of South America." 44 The Lancashire Witches." Mr. %tonal-lAm retired about a quarter-past twelve, and vas Soon afterwards followed by the Chairman and a n umber of Other Gentlemen. COLOMBIAN BONDS. him, rel a ti ve to the payment The followi ng i s th e rep l y o f B o li var , th ro ugh the medium of J. R . R av i nga , t h e S ecre t ary o f St a t e to Messrs. Fowles, G ra h am, an d H err i ng , t o th e a pplication made to Colombi an L oans, an d i s gener ally considered more favour ablement of Dividends due on the than expected relative to their securities : (Translation.) H ea d-q uar t ers , in Caraccas, May 4, 1827-17. Sirs,—l h ave l a id Mere the Liberator your letter, dated the 22d Feb. last, addressed to him, soliciting that ,the Colombian Government would take measure,' for applying to the exc l us i ve paym ents of the foreign debt the funds mortga ge d r ior that purP ose. m ews. J. D. pew i es , Wm. Graham, and errin necessity The C. Ilg. lateof providing dissentious in these departments h ave ca ll e d a remedy for the m ; on which upon th e Lib erator to direct his attention princip a lly t o th e ac count, although his Excellency has not now the reins of the Colombian Government under his charge, I have the pleasure to inform you by his order, that the law which was passed in May of last year, with a view to the support of public credit, has already provided for the very object for which you apply. By the same the funds set apart for the national debt can only be applied to that object, and more over a special commission has bz:en tbrmed for their ma nagement ; some deviations from their dispositions did take place in these departments during the late dissentious, but with the presence of the Liberator the laws have again re sumed their a uthority.—l am, Gentlemen, &c. &c. (Signed) J. R. RAVINGA. Mr. J. P. GRANT, __ formerly of the Northern Circuit and late Member for Tavistock, has been appointed one of the Judges of the Supre me Court at Bombay. n .N " , 4 . 44 , 3 ' LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2A. 1897. The French Papers of Sunday, and the Etoile dated Monday, have been received, but their con tents arc uninteresting. By the arrival of his Majesty's packet the Duke of Kent, which left Lisbon on the 10th inst., we have received papers to that date, but they are almost wholly filled with extracts from English, French, and other foreign journals. The Gazette of the Ist June contains an official article from the Foreign Department, stating that orders had been given by the Court of Madrid to General SaasriELD to fall back with the Spanish Army of Observation from the Frontiers of Portugal to the positions which they had previously occupied. But, however conciliatory the conduct of FERDINAND may appear, little confidence is placed in his friendly disposition to Portugal, and that feeling will be still more em bittered by the knowledge of the recent changes which have taken place in the administration of that country. Though the Gazettes make no mention of this change, yet, we understand, through the Correspondent of a Morning Paper, that a very im portant change has taken place, not unlike the memorable secession in our own Cabinet, when the lovers of darkness withdrew their sage countenance from the friends of freedom and enlightened principles. Probably the Portuguese Ministers took advantage of such a noble example by their illustrious proto types, and happily with equal benefit for the best interests of their country. The cause of this change is said to have been the want of cordiality on the part of the other Ministers in seconding the views of SALDANIIA for paying the troops. The Minister at War then adopted the singular resolution of ordering the Governors of the different provinces to apply the taxes and customs of their respective places to the maintenance and pay of the troops. This order they disobeyed, and SALDHANA then presented a memorial to the PRINCESS REGENT, stating the condition of the Government, and his wish to resign. This resignation was not accepted, but in a Cabinet Council held subsequently, he renewed his wish to the other Ministers, who felt indignant at his pre sumption, and in their mighty dudgeon, immediately sent in their resignations The following is a list of the New Ministry : Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Marquis of Palmella. Minister of the Marine, A. Manoel de Noronha. Minister of War, J. Carlos de Saldhana de Oliveira and Daun. Minister of the Deportment, Viscount de Santarem. Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, the Bishop of Algarves. Minister of Finance, Count de Lousa. The accession of the Marquis PALMELLA Will be of the greatest importance to the Constitution. Of the other members we cannot speak in decided terms, but there is no doubt that Portugal will profit by the change. OFFICIAL. DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. LISBON, JUNE I. By dispatches received from the Charge d'Affaires of Portugal, at Madrid, it appears that orders were sent to General Sarsfield to make the army under his command to fall back to the positions which it before occupied. Official information has also been received that the rebels, the Marquis de Chaves, and Viscount Canellas, who were, by the Government of his Catholic Majesty, to quit the Spanish territory, hare arrived at Bayonne, in France. Jumt 2.--The Gazette contains a netice to 'the effect that on account of the many holidays occurring in the time fixed for concluding the loan of 1,000 contos of rest, affirmed by the decree of the 19th May, her Highness, the Infanta Royal, is pleased to order thatpersons willing to taJce a part in it may make application to the Commissioners till the 9th of June, when the books shall be finally closed. Jamaica Papers to the 7th ult. inclusive have been received at the North and South American Coffee- house : The following are extracts : " The Aurora frigate, Capt. Austin, was at La Guayra when the Britomart left (24th April). She was to sail shortly after for Carthagena, having on board Mr. Cock burn, the British Minister to Colombia, and General Boli var, who had resigned the Presidency of the Republic. A private letter from St. Jago de Cuba, dated the 30th April, states, that by the Havannah mail accounts had been re ceived of the second officer of Commodore Porter having been captured by Admiral Laborde's squadron, while re connoitring them off Key West, and that he and his men had been sent to the Havannali. The Commodore was still blockaded by the Spanish fleet. Considerable excite ment had been expressed in the island, by the publication and result of an action, Barton v. the Bishop of Jamaica, in which the plaintiff was nonsuited. The proceedings are given at full length, and copies of the same have been sent to England. Since writing the above, we find that private let ters, by another conveyance, have been received from La Guayra, of the 14th ult., which do not make mention of BOLIVAR intending to proceed to Carthagena. Some reports are circulated, that BoLwAß ' s resignation had been accepted at Bogota, whilst others state that the Government had refused their acquiescence in this measure of the Liberator. The Papers received from this capital are to the 20th of April, arid do not supply its with the least information on the subject, or, indeed, any news of the least political importance. The following is an extract of a letter from Ja maica, of the 7th ult.:— . Gen. Bolivar was toleave La Guayra on the 3d inst., in the Aurora frigate, Captain Austin, for Carthngena, he having virtually resigned the Presidentship of the Re public,. His Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, of 28 guns, Captain Lath, was to sail in a few days, for England, having his Grace the Duke of Manchester, on hoard. His Majesty's packet Camden, from Falmouth, arrived at the Island on the 30th of April." We received Malta Government Gazettes to the 29th March, but they contain no late news. The following is rather a curious specimen of national respect :-- The merchant brig Mary Ann, Edward Vickerman, from London for Alexandria, which touched at this Island in December last, was taken possession of by a Greek cruiser, the Achilles, when about 100 miles from Alex andria. She was carried to Napoli di Romania, where her cargo, consisting of a great quantity of shot and shells, guns of various calibre, and amongst the rest four 6S pounders, was condemned as a good prize. There was a quantity of manufactures and other merchandise also on board, partly shipped at London, and partly in Malta, the whole of which was included in the condemnation ; but the vessel was liberated, " out of veneration and profound respect for his Britannic Majesty and the British Nation," as the sentence expresses it.—Malta, March 28, 1827. Lima Papers, of the 30th January have been re ceived ; they contain, under date of th e 28 t h J an. the copy of a decree issued by Gen. S ANTA C RUZ, convoking an extraordinary Congress to meet on the Ist of May, for the purpose of ascertaining the na tional feeling as to the mode of Government they should adopt, and to elect a President and Vice- President to regulate their proceedings, some doubts having been entertained that the public col leges, who had examined the Constitution of BOLI VAR, presented to them by the Liberator, were not possessed of proper powers to authorise the accept ance of the same as binding on the people. These Papers contain the resi gnat i on o f severa l C o l om bi ans who were high in power, among others, the Mini ster of War and Marine, and the appointment of their successors, who are native Peruvians. There is a sort of malicious satisfaction in finding one's expectations realised as to the conduct of an individual against whom a prejudice exists, and to this charge we must almost plead guilty in the case of Lord GREY. We do not suppose that it will oc casion much distress to the Noble Lord to hear that we haYeal ways viewed him as a dangew citim flow the era of the French Revolution; but stiilt is the case, and it is high) to observe the real harmony of his apparently inconsistent conduct, sur rounded, as we see him, one day by Whigs and making court to Radicals, and, within a week, voting with the good Lord ELDON, and the liberal and enlightened Earl of WESTMORLAND. In all such cases the advice of POPB is to be carefully fol lowed. That melodious Philosopher tells us— " Seek, then, the ruling passion—there alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known." And in the case of Lord Gully, we have little difficulty in pronouncing " the ruling passion" to be a determined and never ceasing desire to depreciate all whom equal talents, or higher principles, present to his imagination in the light of rivals. " This slue once found unravels all the rest, " The prospect clears, and Wharton stands confect." It accounts for his being alternately a friend of the people, and of " the order to which he belongs , " for his supporting Mr. Fox i n one century , and Lord BATHURST in the next, and for his acting in concert with men, from whom we hare his own authority for saying that " he differs, as far as the poles are asunder." We have given at great length, in another part of our paper, Mr. BROUGHAM'S Speech at Liverpool, and we recommend it to the perusal of our Readers, as a splendid specimen of oratory. His observations respecting the Duke of WELLINGTON will be read with much interest, as also his confutation of the general opinion that the late Lord ELDON was per sonally hostile to the Learned Gentleman. Frankfort Papers and the Allgemeine Zeitung to the 14th instant have been received this morning, from which we extract the following CONSTANTINOPLr, MAT 26. For some days past the capital has been full of news of victory. All the Turkish reports speak of a complete victory gained by Redschid Paths over Cochrane, (whose boastful proclamation of lath April is fresh in our memory), And over General Church and Ka raiskaki. However, as the trophies received here, and exposed before the Seraglio, consist, acceording to the statement of the Turks themselves only of 1000 or 1200= ears, the heads of 7 Greek Captains, 8 cannon, and standard. The Greeks here still suppose the Turkish ac counts to be exaggerated. Indeed, according to some consular reports, the Greek lose does not really exceed 1,500 men, and that of the Turks is said to be nearly as great in proportion. Our Greeks hope, therefor e , that the battles of the sth and 6th of May were not co m pletely decisive, and allege, as a confirmation of their. opinion, that the Acropolis continued to reject all proposah to capitulate.—As for the diplomatic negotiations, they Are in the arme state as before. VIENNA, duNa B.—Metalliques, 90 5-1 d; Bank Shares, 10921. MALTA, MAY 23.—His Majesty'eship Plai/omeT has just brought in a pirate Bombard, with 30 men, By ad vices from Smyrna, Lord Cocurcauix has sent five ships, with selected captains and crews, to put down piracy, and it is expected they will do more good than our cruisers, being better acquainted with the pirates' haunts. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 2 minutes after 10. I Evening ...S2 minutes after 10. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, Twelve o' Consols opened at sat buyers, with little business, and no particular feature in them, a trifling re-action then took place, and they went to 86, but are now 86ik ; the Com missioned for the reductio n o f th e National Debt were sup plied with their purchases in Reduced, with difficulty, at Ssf ; India Bonds and Exchequer Bills maintain yester day's premium, the former beingB4 6, and the latter 50 1 ; In the Foreign Funds, Colombian Bonds have been subject to great fluctuation, arising from the arrival of a Jamaica Mail, the contents of which, in the first instance, were read with desponding feelings; the intelligence that Bolivar was going to proceed to Catthagena from La Guayra, in the Aurora frigate, iu company with our Minister, Mr. Cock burn, was translated into the news that Bolivar was going to leave that country altogether to its fate, and the Bonds fell to 261, but upon reflection some of the dealers receu ,idered this information, and as konly confirmed the news received some days sines, that was inserted in our Paper, it became immediately after as mush in their favour ae it had been the contrary, and they recovered to their old price of •tBi 9 ; Mexican suffered by the depression on Colombian, is long as it lasted, and were, at one time, 69/ they are now 701 j; Russian, 90 Brazilian, 58i 9i, a price deemed by many, in the present state of the Brazilian Go vernment, as much above their intrinsic value. Shares continue without enquiry. Three per Cent. Consols, shut ; Ditto for Account,. sq. ; India Bonds, 84 6pm.; Exchequer Bills, BO 1 pm.. FOREIGN.--Brazilian, 681 91; Buenos Ayres, 60 1 ; Chilian, 25 7 ; Colombian, 1824, 29 ; Danish, 621 ; Greek, 151 18; Mexican 6 per Cent. 701 ; Peruvian, 22 4 ; Portuguese, 761 6 ; Russian, Si ; 111_12. MINES. —Anglo Mexican, 47 24 dis.; Brazilian, 1 die. par ; Colombian, 10 12 per Share ; Real del Monte, 60 40 die. ; Tlalpuxahua, 60 40 dig. ; United Afexican, 19 le ; Bolanos, 100 80 die. Two o' Clocit. Consols are again on the advance, and have bees 86 buyere, present quotation 861 i; Three per Cents. Re !need 85i ; Four per Cents. 1926, 101/; Colombian Bonds have been done at 904, this advance is caused by the favourable reply of Bolivar to the letter addressed to him on the subject of the unpaid dividends of that country. THREE 0' CL 0 CR', Consols for Account, 861 ; ColombiP.n 6 per Cent. Bonds have been 33, are now 31*; Mexican, 701 FOUR O'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols Danish Bonds 621 Do. for Ac. 861 Greek Do. 1825, 15i Brazilian Bonds 591 Mexican Do. 1825 70,i Buenos Avres Do. Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. Russian Do. 93 Columbian, 1824, 31 Spanish Do. 12 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS. DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Juice 19.—Wind S.W.—Arlved the Levant packet, from the ftfediteranean. Arrived from London the Sylvia, Hayes, for Demerara ; Margaret, Patterson, for ditto ; Topaz, Stroyan, for Mauritius ; Emily , Godfrey, for New York ; and Cleveland, Havelock, for Bahia. The Topaz, Margaret, Marquis of Wellington, Parmelia, Sir W. I W la aliP jes :a t c y e+ s ma s u l °d i u ip rEl l i t i f i'z ecli jauh na xasv . e fr ls o 9a rn .Lied . M W— al in ta thde a W n res i B G t r;rianded his the Haydon transport, from ditto ; both under quarantine. Passed the Rose, Marquis, from Calcutta --sailed from ce cutta, Jan. 24, and from St. Helena May 6. The Corn wall and Hibberts were at St. Helena. The latter, with the Medina, sailed the same day as the Ihise. The Juliana was spoken off St. Helena. FALMOUTH, JUNE '5....4 1 NA W. to N.N.W.—Off Port the Levant packet, Candy, from Gibraltar ; Gal? - finch packet, Walker, from Carthagena—sailed from Car thagena April 20, from Jamaica May 8, and Crooked Island May 13. Also arrived the Sandwich packet, from Lisbon, sailed Bth instant, and Duchess of Kent packet, from Lisbon, sailed the ipth instant. Sailed the Bramble cutter, with the Mail for Lisbon. DOVER, Jurrs 12.—The Sylvia, Hayes, from London to Demerara, which was on shore in Dungeness West Bay„ has got off, and gone for the Downs. °Brox, Juin 1 9.The JolMTDuncan, of Inverne ss , lately arrived here from . Memel, has bee n se i ze d b y t h e Customs, having a quantity of foreign cordage and foreign spirits on board. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.: CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies fresh up since last Saturday evening are small l b. N ew Corn Bill in the House of Commtms has rendered the Y. and though there is scarcely any li th t° e .d.-- pij etse m be considered nominally is heavy at Monday's price.. There le aim a dull trade for Flour_ ARRIVAL are unaltered . The Oat trade 1ig4.0 qrs. SO qrs LAO axle for t here yvvrhl eevyAe,tr Beans, n Wheat, pie 6u Be rley. English Irish Foreign Oats. I Flour. 20gra. I.l4oacki. 0,040 Lord NoßntinY receives an Irish Earldom, with remainder to his second son, and a pension o f 4,5001. a-year. He was anxious for a British , but did not obtain it, Th e new t i t l e is P E e a e rl rage of NORBURT ; that first decided on was Earl of ICNOCKALTON, but hi s L or d s hi p subse uently changed laic ; , ~—,Freentares Antrnai. tn.n.. a