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is- r at measure o f P ar li amentary Reform to which I am sens ibl e owe th e marks of approbation and confidence which I have thate t with on thi s occasion. Gentlemen, I beg you to be assured Of i feel, not in p roport i on to t h e i na d equate power I h ave thanking you, but that I entertain a lasting sense of the lb hono ur which is done me—the greatest which any public n_ can recei ve , f or the service which he has endeavoured to rende r to his country. My Lord Prlvost, you have been teased t o say that in th e s pl en did g ift by w hi c h this honour Edinburgh, it i s th e w i s h o f yourse lf an d th e C o u n cil of nb urgh, that i t s h ou ld rema i n as an h e i r -l oom i n th e , Ils e of Howick ; you may be well assured that it will be so "eu• and that I shall transmit it to my descendents their eond t olle of the proudest proofs of the estimation in which mem father was held, and as one of the best incentives to Nobl e L e the themselyes in such a manne!— ord stopped from emotion, and was much cheered)— as to merit the approbation of their country, which I know attachment Onl y be satisfactorily obtained by sincere and undeviating thForreedom ehment to civil and religious liberty, and to the support of e se great principles by which, under our mixed constitution, and independence of the people are best established. the am sure that here there is no disposition, and I can say row', after of every place through which I have passed, to endea r_ u ' r, after having effected a great and efficacious reform in the tempresentation of the people, to found upon that further at -11,,t to carry into execution extensive and dangerous changes, that the liberty itself might perish. Be assured, gentlemen, the th e liberty itself of liberty is peace and good order, and which ensures of a regular Government, founded upon that basis, of r e .ensure s to the people of the country the full enjoyment 1 . 0.. alr juSt rights.—( Great cheers.) It is utterly impossible f or Just to do justice to my feelings on this occasion, or to make ~137 adequate return for the honour which has been done me. 15erniinels.t therefore beg you to take the will for the deed, and to e that I feel from the bottom of my heart the value of struatietlerent gentlemen' a l . ! great mark of public esteem and admiration, and that I shall `,'S the remembrance of it to the last moment of my life. principally provosts and chief mis -48 heading deputations, presented addresses from the prin cipalhe`°lvns in Scotland. It was then intimated, that if fur addresses were to be presented, Earl Grey would appoint a n d + l ll r to-morro w , w i t h t h e L or d P rovos t, to receive them ; to t h`" e Noble Earl having in one short speech returned thanks sh_ mts of a e respcclamaective deputations, they withdrew amid universal `. Th e d . THE DINNER. fi ee Inner took place in the splendid though temporary edi- Ito% which hadbeen erected for the purpose in the area of the VI, 0 0, and of which we have already given a descrip ste,,v The most perfect arrangements had been made by the aerds for the admission and accommodation of the immense C a n r l d b rs for whom dinner was provided in the apartment (up . - l lio n ° f 1,550), w hi le those w h o cou ld no t di ne in the Pavi -BehPwards of 6 00 ) , di ne d i n t h e l arge roo m of the High rento°',_,and were ad m i t t e d i mme di a t e ly after the dinner was The entireeund bef ore a s i ng l e toast was g iven from the chair. assembly at that moment amounted to upwards of tvausuo, exclusive of the gallery provided for the ladies . , which tr eno Twded with the beauty and fashion of the Scottish me eek„ls' At four o'clock the admission to the Pavilion, ac wag t o previous arrangement, commenced, and by five that ey erY table in the apartment, with the exception of euPl , ntedended f or t h e Ch a i rman an d t h e guests , was fully oc , It si gned is only justice to the stewards to add, that the places as- L e m on t ° the pr ess , and particularly to that portion of it (the than the Press), who might be supposed to be less favoured the eTilra ; o : d o a c t a io lj n o . urna_l s , were the best in the room, and that 4 ITIOSt kind and gentlemanly attention was paid to their the taeb,eninner being a cold one, and therefore already laid on Perm I s, it seemed to offer an irresistible temptation to the i f i o zn i t t l i : admitted, for no sooner were they seated, and long be most e a PPearance of the chairman, than there arose an al universal clatter of knives and forks, and a general demo indec_of the eatables was vigorously commenced. This rather f rom "d?t proceeding elicited some disapprobation. Hisses calar having ascended one of the tables entreated the company place m t r ,frem mastication until the chairman had taken his bi s am , nut his appeal was fruitless, at least to the majority of th e ti ' l t°rs ; on went the work of demolition, and, in fact, by rnenc ale the chair was taken and the dinner regularly com tiene ed, the eating was really over. %hose who had the pa a ge e p wait till the signal to comment e were rewarded by Thud ° , appetite ; but as far as we could observe, they had not of the else as the result of their forbearance. The appearance wa s ye ro ont when the whole company had taken their places great r guest Posing. On the platform we noticed besides the th e E of the festival, Lord Brougham, Lord Rosebery, b or h a arl of Errol, Lord Lynedoch, Lord Bellhaven, Lord lieito N ni d Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Mr. Professor Arago, the So- L or d st enteral, Sir J. Abercromby, the Marquis of Breadalbane, We give them not according to their rank, but rsaoollitealr'r'acteo'rding to the order in which we got their names. many other the distinguished personages above named, and "etail, had" of distinction whom we had not time to name in , l a, the their places at the chief table on the plat the I ',Y a s a Pause for a short time in order to wait for /flaki ng the Rev. H. Grey, who found some dif f iculty in The delay ay to his place. chair in th eab was explained by Lord Roseb . ery who took the Pos(d, gene° of the Duke of Hamilton ' , who is indis he no r b eo Lord-Advocate was croupier, supported by Lord Di and,,,, the Attorney -General. peu l s b_ e arrivalof the Rev. Gentleman put an end to further sus dinneer' and having invoked a blessing on their proceedings the was recommenced in a more regular manner.. The noise made by the rattling of some 1,800 knives and as Ina nY forks produced a din singular in its effect, and loud dou gh almo s t to ren d er i nau dible the band which occasionally Played during the dinner. , Soon aft e r the commencement of the dinner, the galleryre ?rveti for ladies was opened, and in a few minutes presented • brilliant display of beauty and elegance, such as has sel dom been equalled in the Scotch metropolis. We should hav e, noticed that the entrance of Lord Grey was marked by the most enthusiastic cheering, which lasted for a considerable time. His Lordship appeared to feel g ee P l Y and warmly this mark of approbation. Lord e - 2 .° llehara, who was close at the heels of the ex - Premier, ( I T e in, or at least looked as if he had fairly come in, for his 4 " share of the passing popularity. As soon as the cloth was r emoved, the arrangement ' which had been promised of admi tting all those who had tickets, but who could not find to di ne in the great hall, was carried into effect, and con idr_ering the great addition thus made to the immense body • :'adY assembled was conducted with a decorum and a dispo h:hon to accommodate which reflected great credit on the tl'ari3ements of the stewards and on the social and neigh "utierly ::.selings of the country. After dinner the Rev. Mr. returned thanks. 4von Nobis wc then sung in good style by several musical gentlemen. rj h e entranCe of Countess Grey and the Ladies Grey was " bbserved by the assembly, who hailed it with many long ( Z i ts as they did also the entrance of the wives and eel's of several other distinguished individuals. Whol'"3re the toasts of the evening were commenced, . the piae _e_ of those who had dined out of the Pavilion had obtained iner 's, and when seated, we might say, that we never . saw a ate e t e entpact mass of human beings stowed in a dining-hall. se CHAIRMAN asked whether all the gentlemen were Whil e Land bein g answere d i n th e negative, a glee was ordered "is h " o eY were t a ki ng t h e i r sea ts. f Rowing glee was then sung : "THE KING OF MERRY ENGLAND. (Tune, " _Le Petit Tambour.") BY ROBERT GILFILLAN. " 0 ! the King of merry Engand_ What king so loved as he ? A gallant band he may command, In all his kingdoms three ; And there the smile of beauty Still falls upon the free. 0 ! the Kirg of merry England, What king so loved as he ? 0 ! the King of merry England, &c. " C: ) ! the King of merry England— The„ rose upon its stem, "lan twine with Erin's shamrock _Around his diadem ; While the thistle of Scotland Shall ne'er forgotten be, 0 ! the King of merry England, What king so loved as he ? 0! the King of merry England, Sm. " 0 ! the King of merry England— When wine-cups sparkle brim, The first the foremost pledge is given In bumper health to him ! Hurrah ! hurrah ! the toast is, The Father of the Free ! 0 ! the King of merry England, What kin g so loved as he? 0 ! the King of merry England, &c.' 44 0 ! the King of merry England,_ .When 'auk the battle d rum, With hearts Of fire, and swords of flame, A thousand wa:Tiors come ; To drive from land his fuemen, Or sweep them from the sea. 0 ! the King of merry England, What king so loved as he? ' 0 ! the King of merry England, &e. roe,arl of R oseneßv —Gentlemen, I propose the health p ro s al aiesty the King. I must add on this occasion, lievain wh t tn e heartP"e th e Ki ng, t h at h e i s a monarch who Sov er s e ad affections of his subjects, more th , a ,l n a T n h y e o t t o h as er t was d r ,, l gn,_ in Euroe.—( Cries of " He does. QO,l -14 - with the , greatest enthusiasm, and was followed by joined e s h a n ve the King," in which the whole company 44 2' and with very good effect. ",e, `LIIRMAN—I be to . proose the health of " The ,urunk with three times three, and loud applause. The The K . p e e, l mg loves the Queen, so do we. r l aces s 1;! 11,11 aN—I propose to you the health of " The with Ictor' The applau la se t7d the rest of the Royal Family. pos e to - " k la "—Drunk mAN—The next toast I have the honour to pro the frie n J ,r ,3f is that . of a Prince of the House of Brunswick, at ever , religious and civil liberty, as sincerely as any existed within these realms—the Duke of Sussex. " 1 - 1 i lk with , s, three times three, and loud applause. Air— 'ar of Brunswick." v -i neer s. P e xt toasts ivere" ‘ _-1 Loud Air„ The Army and Navy. 'Th British Grenadiers and Hearts of Oak. ,, e nobl e -on tlme_, C HAI RMAN, in proposi n g th e next toast, sale ,— how ,Nhou;ltobefore proceeding to name the toast which I am i'oth avi P r ePose to you, I must bespeak your kind indul wthily been placed in the situation which I now un 4'"" °f " No, no," and loud cheers) by the un avoidable absence of my noble friend the Duke of Hamilton, who was to have presided on this memorable occasion. Gen tlemen, my consolation under these circumstances is, that next to the indulgenee which I am sure I shall experience at your hands—there is the conviction that no display of eloquence_ no force of argument, need be required when I propose to you the health of my noble friend on my right hand. (Immense cheering, which was continued for many minutes.) Gentlemen, allow me to say that I consider this a most important meeting, nyt merely as a manifestation of the general feeling which prevails in this country with respect to my noble friend for the services he has performed ; it is also of great public import ance on other grounds. It is indeed of great importance, in • asmuch as it is to do honour to the public character of Lord Grey—to his great talents—to his inflexible integrity (cheers), to his rare political consistency (cheers), and to his splendid services to his country during the short period of his extraor dinary administration. But, gentlemen, in doing that honour which we are desirous of showing to Lord Grey on this occa sion, I consider that we are at the same time holding out an incentive to other great men to imitate his fair fame, and to fol low his bright example.—( Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, if the amendment of the representation of the people of England, where it was so long sought, was at length by the energy, the perseverance, and the manly firmness of my noble friend, embo died into an act of parliament,—if in that country there were so many local abuses and great defects, it was felt that the question of reform could be no longer delayed. I would ask my country men what was the just ground of complaint which we had to make in this part of the kingdom—( Cheers)---lithere I may say that the whole system of representation was unsound or illusory—where the rights of property were overlooked or dis regarded, or, what was worse, perverted—(Cheers)—where men of intelligence were excluded from any share in the choice of their representatives, and where even men of property were deprived of that fair influence which ought to belong to per sons in their station,—where, I mry say, we were under an oligarchical domination of those who profited by that domina tion—(Cheers)—but now that we know, and what is more when we feel, that all these evils have been removed under the direction and guidance of my Noble Friend, acting as the first Minister of the Crown, I would ask was it possible for us to do otherwise than to give vent to our feelings by an enter tainment unparalleled, I believe, in all its relations, and under circumstances the most disinterested and spontaneous, and with emotions as warm and generous as spontaneous, to my Noble Friend, who has done us the honour to be our guest on this occasion ?—( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I feel that lam in adequate to do justice to the subject which I have introduced to you, but I hope that your cordiality of feeling will do justice to my inadequacy, and that you will all join with heartfelt warmth in doing justice to the toast which I now propose, in the health of Earl Grey. The toast was received with one immense burst of applause, which was continued for a considerable time, accompanied by waving of hats and handkerchiefs. When silence was restored, Earl GREY rose, evidently labouring under very strong emotions. He was standing for some time before the univer sal cheers of the assembly allowed him to proceed. The No ble Earl spoke as follows :—My Lord and Gentlemen, I beg you to believe that it is not the mere usual phrase and the or dinary and common-place introduction to a speech upon an oc casion like the present, when I say that I feel myself entirely and completely inadequate to express all the feelings of satis faction, of gratitude, and, let me add, of pride for the honour you have done me.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, the circum stances of this meeting are indeed so overpowering as to leave it almost impossible for a person so intimately and so deeply affected by them as I am, to do justice to the feelings which I must entertain, but which I find it impossible adequately to ex press.—( Cheers.) My Noble Friend has told you that this meeting is an unparalleled one. I believe, indeed ; that there is no -example of anything of the kind to be found, when we consider the occasion which has produced this great assembly —when we consider the numerous and intelligent persons of which it is composed—when we consider the place in which it is held, the metropolis of the ancient kingdom of Scotland— ( Cheers)—no less famed for its generous love of liberty, than for its general intelligence—for its cultivation of the arts of peace—for its distinction in literature and science_ and, above all, for that superior, cautious, and reflective sense, which, without at all diminishing the ener gies of the popular feeling, directs it in a course of pru dent and peaceable measures, to the attainment of useful and legitimate objects.--( Cheers.) Gentlemen, this assembly is further calculated to make a deep impression for the reason stated by my Noble Friend—that though brought together here more immediately to do me honour, to a degree of which I wish I could I was worthy--(Cheers)—it is to be consi dered as much more valuable as having assembled here per sons actuated by one common feeling to support that liberal line of policy, and that system of government, which is calcu lated at once to secure to the pe )ple their just rights, and to all the branches of the Executive its necessary authority.— (Loud cheers.) There is, gentlemen, another reflection pe culiarly affecting myself, which presents itself to me on this proud occasion—namely, that this most gratifying of all honours is not paid to a Minister newly raised to power, in the vigour of his age, with a long career of active and useful services before him, and holding out an expectation to others of official benefits, not yet conferred—( Hear, hear)—no, gen tlemen, this proud mark of distinction has given to a Minister who has descended, I will not say has fallen, from power— ( Loud cheers)--whose•official life has ended, whose long Par liamentary career is hastening to a final close.—( General cries of " No, no.")—to one when the balance has been struck between his promises and his performances to one when the past is before his country for its judgment, and the future, as far as he is concerned, presents no object either for hope or for fear. ( Cheers.) Surely I may be allowed to indulge in a just and reasonable pride, approaching, I think, in no degree to vanity or presumption, when I find upon this occasion, pronounced in an assembly such as I see before me, that I have deserved well of my country.—( Loud cheering.) My Noble Friend has alluded to the great question of Parliamentary Reform, and even if he had not adverted to it, it is so intimately connected with the object of this day's meeting, that it would be absolutely impos sible for me not to advert to it shortly.—( Hear, hear.) I cer tainly concurred with him in thinking that to no part of the United Kingdom so much as to Scotland was Parliamentary Reform necessary.—( Cheers. ) In England, though with de fects which required correction, and for the correction of which the public called in a voice that could not be misun derstood or resisted—in England, I say, though with defects that required correction, still there was a representation in some degree popular, and not altogether inaccessible to the influence of public opinion ; but in Scotland the name of a representation was a mere mockery and an insult.—( Loud cheers.) The representation that had existed in Scotand was no real representation ; it had no connexion with popular in fluence or opinion, and the periodical elections that then took place, though they were pretended to be an exercise on the part of the people of their rights and influence, were in substance and effect an utter denial of their rights, enjoyed to no useful purpose, and imparting none of that influence to the popular branch of the community, which was so essentially necessary for the purposes of good government or representation.—(Loud cheers.) If, gentlemen, by any efforts of mine, begun at an early period of my life—(Cheers) —suspended when I saw no hope of suc cess, and when by pressing them I thought I might rather in jure the cause of Reform—if, gentlemen, I have been at last the humble instrument in the hands of Providence, and sup ported first by the confidence of a gracious Sovereign, to whom the people owe a debt of gratitude which they never can pay, but by that general tribute of affectionate loyalty to which he is so fully entitled ; if, I say, I was enabled first by the con fidence of a gracious Prince, and next by the support of a peo ple, to accomplish the attainment of that great cause, I desire that no better remembrance of me should descend to posterity, and that no better inscription should be engraved on my tomb, than that I assisted in restoring to the people of England and Scotland the fair and just exercise of their rights in the elec tion of their Representatives.—( Loud cheers.) In no part of the kingdom was that support, which enabled me to carry that great work through, more effectually or cordially given than in Scotland, and in no part of Scotland was there greater firmness, zeal, and moderation, more beneficially and usefully exerted, than in the city in which we are now assembled.— ( Loud cheers.) Proceeding on the same principles as those on which Parliamentary Reform was founded, namely—the principles of strengthening and preserving the settled insti tutions of the State,—proceeding, I say, upon those princi ples, we shall have the power of effecting such further im provements as the necessities of the times may render expedient, and in doing that I am sure that I need not say to such a meeting as this that we should care fully abstain from pressing any extreme or violent changes.— ( Loud cheers.) I have the assurance that we shall not do so, from the response made by you to the expression of that senti ment—( Cheers)—and from everything I have seen and heard in my progress to attend an invitation sent in so flattering a manner to me to meet you here this day—throughout that progress I have found, here and everywhere else I have passed through in Scotland, not only a zealous attachment to the cause of liberty, but also a firm attachment to the true princi ples of our mixed government.—( Cheers.) I have found everywhere, in my progress through Scotland, men " who know their rights, and knowing dare maintain them"— ( Cheers)—men who prize liberty above all things, and who in its defence, if need were, would " do or die"—( Cheers) — but who, at the same time, are impressed with this great truth, that for the sake of liberty itself the peace and order of 'society and the authority of the laws must be sustained, and the just powers of a regular and beneficial Government duly supported.--( Cheers.) lam sure those sentiments prevail in the great body who supported and assisted in the great work of reform.--( Cheers.) Those sentiments, I hope, will always animate the hearts of those who at that time assisted me in ac complishing that which I thought the interests of the p eo p le required. We have lived in extraordinary times, we have ac complished that which will secure the just rights of the people, but in the accomplishment of that great work strong passions were on all sides excited, which could not be expected all at once to subside. eh a nt og O oe On the heedlesst ha than one n e ca handes desirestnecessity th required, o eimpatiencee greatera n d o perhaps f moreto inspired p eu xs push withe h a l a u n t d a , r t y h r e e r reform rm were w i t t h h o as those withan ge whomrous power precipitation. long possessed, On n the manyt e n s er v s e o v th e now lost or curtailed, had left feelings of bitterness behind, producing opposition to the most generally expressed wishes of the people.—( Cheers.) I trust that the passions which n s, e succeededry, through on the one er. p have been pipited on bot h sides wil l speedily subside, and I rejoice in the hope to goo those feeling hand by the good sense of t h e people; controling excesses or v h i a o p l s enc a e, la a t n e d , c o o n nvi t c h t e io o n th a e s r tho theand , a necessityec of inquiring into, and ultimately as to the a ne d ce t s h si e ty in e c f re c a o s rr e e d ct i i n n t t u s ig u e ch ne a e bu o s f es th a e s th 4 t That ilav i e s of the wants of tht3 age: n times, require to be reniovgd:— cheers.)( passeda hope I will cherish, notwithstanding many things late—notwithstanding the frantic declarations that we have re cently heard made, not only on the other side of the Irish THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1834. Channel, but even in this country, from men whe would drive us to a destructive and fatal conflict—from men " who know not what they do”—( Cheers)—from men who do not see that even a temporary success on their part (a thing that would be utterly impossible), would not fail to entail consequences ulti mately fatal both to themselves and to the constitution.— ( Cheers.) On what hope is this desperate courage, if courage it can be called, founded ? lam told that a reaction has taken place. It is pretended by those persons that a change is at hand ; and indeed many of them will tell you that such a change has already taken place in the public opinion—( Laugh ter)—that those who had engaged in the cause of reform see reason now to repent their error, that they have renounced their former opinions, and that they are ready to regret those reforms which have already occurred.—( Much laughter.) " Reaction !" Vain and deluded men !—( Cheers.) In what, let me ask, is it that they see symptoms of such a state of things ? Is it in the approbation which has followed me, and which has been so generously extended to me by my coun trymen since my retirement from office 7—( Cheers.) Is it to be found in those expressions of regard and attachment which I have met with in every step on my way to this place ? —( Cheers.) Is it to be found, lastly, in the meeting of this day, which, whatever the vain imaginations of some men may: suggest to them as to a pretended reaction in the public mind, would never have taken place if it was not the result of a general feeling in favour of reform ?—( Great cheering.) No, gentlemen, of the good sense and moderation of the people of England and of Scotland—.of their attachment to a King who so well deserves all their love—of their sincere conviction of the wholesomeness of that form of government, the work of a thousand years, by which a larger share of liberty is now secured to them than was ever known by any other na tion in the world--of a peaceable and orderly disposition amongst the people—of all these thing Ate may find symptoms enough everywhere evident to all, except to those persons to whom I have been alluding, and who are not, or will not be con vinced of any thing that runs counter to their prejudices; but of a " reaction" of the advent of that millennium so ardently desired by them—of the restoration of that happy state of things when corruption flourished, and when liberty was op pressed—of a reaction of that nature lam sure that if those persons will look at any part of the country, and take any meeting, great or small, as a sample, they will find no symp toms that any rational man would regard as a proof of a re action in the public mind.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, Ido con gratulate myself and the country on the happy termination of that contest which has given to the people of England and Scotland the means of all useful improvements, and relying upon which I am persuaded they never will be misled or driven into any violent courses.—( Cheers.) There are many topics which, upon an occasion of this kind, it would give me pleasure to enter, but it cannot be necessary in an enlightened assembly like this, for me to suggest what must be anticipated by all, . and I feel that I have already trespassed upon your attention longer than the occasion warranted—(" No, no,") — and certaintly quite as long as my strength will permit. I take my leave of you, gentlemen, again offering to you the expression of the deep and lasting gratitude which shall ever be impressed upon my mind from the reception which I ex perienced this day in entering your city, and from the recep tion I have met with from this assembly, far exceeding any thing that I have ever seen or heard of before.--( Cheers. ) As I have already stated, any merits that I can advance, any just pretensions that I can'ut forward to entitle me to the distinguished honour which you have conferred upon me, and for which a deep sense of gratitude shall remain indelibly im pressed upon my mind, consist in my having been the instru ment, supported by you all, in carrying a measure which will be sure to accomplish all that is necessary to the complete en joyment of that free system of Government, the essentials of which you had already possessed. I must offer to my Noble Friend, who so worthily fills the chair on this occasion, my best thanks for the too partial manner in which he has introduced the toast ; and, gentlemen, before I sit down, I beg leave, in his presence and in yours, to propose a toast peculiarly appro priate to this occasion, connected as it is with the creation, and the beneficial exercise of those powers, which the consti tuency of Scotland has gained. I beg to propose to you to drink—" The new constituency of Scotland."—( Cheers.) The toast was drunk with enthusiasm. The Noble PRESIDENT then said,—Gentlemen, the next toast which I bee to submit to the company is the health of the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.—( Immense cheering and waving of handkerchiefs.) The toast, I say, which I have next to submit to the company, is the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain and his Majesty's other Ministers.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, in giving the toast of my Noble Friend on my left hand, I am sure that every one who now hears me will think that it is utterly unnecessary for me to expatiate on his vast genius, his comprehensive mind, and his great and unremitting exertions and industry, all devoted, and I may say during the whole course of his public life, to improving the condition of the people,—( Great cheers)—and to advancing their moral and intellectual knowledge, thinking, I believe, as I think he does justly, that those qualities are the best basis of their pro sperity and happiness. ( Cheers.) Gentlemen, in coupling the health of my Noble Friend with his Majesty's other Mi nisters, I not only do so on account of the great situation he holds in his Majesty's Councils, but because I feel the most san guine hope—nay, more, I have the most confident expectation that both he and the other Ministers of the King will think, that in adopting Lord Grey's public principles and character, --(cheers)—and following the same course of public conduct, they have received their best inheritance in the Government —(cheers)—and that by doing so they are taking the most certain means for securing and perpetuating the confidence both in their Sovereign and their countrymen.—( Much cheer ing,. and the toast drunk with great enthusiasm. ) The LORD CHANCELLOR, Sir J. C. HORHOCSE, and Mr. ELLICE stood up to acknowledge this compliment, but the Lord Chancellor only returned thanks. He spoke nearly a s follows : My Lord Roseberry and gentlemen, I am sure that shall best express my own feelings in beginning to address you by repeating what my noble friend prefaced his speech with namely, that I do not use a common phrase, when I tell you to y that I want words to express the feelings with which your ki n d reception overpowers me at the present moment.—( Cheer s .) I know, however, and that consideration may well stifle w i t hi n me any feeling of personal pride or arrogance on this o ccas i on, —I know that I owe this expression from you not so m uc h b y any manner of means to any personal merits of my own, as the accidental eircumstance,—but to me the most h onourable circumstance, of my having the pride and gratificatio n t o serve that gracious Prince who lives in the hearts of his peopl e —. (cheers) who, for all his services to his country, for his honest, straightforward, undeviating, unflinching, patronage of the best rights and interests of the country, has well earned that unparalleled praise bestowed so justly and without any exaggeration on that monarch b y m y noble friend in the chair—namely, that none other of his p rede cessors has so well deserved the affection and gratitude of his sub jects—( Cheers. ) But, gentlemen, I feel that I also owe y our ki nd reception of this day to my noble friend having j udiciousl y cou pled my name with those of the rest •f my resp ected collea g ue s -- His ma_ j a e n s d t y's others,who a Ministers, esomenot present,of svh will m are hea here f t p h r e e s e mannernt_ Cheers) 1,1 Which you have dealt with them, and for all of whom I answer that they will be penetrated with the same gratitude that I n ow feel—(Cheers) ----and that they will be influenced by that feel ing to promote your wishes and advance your interests, n o t looking backwards, save with one exception, and that i s , t o take advantage of he example of that colleague whose irrepa rable loss we have lately sustained, and to whose unparalleled services this most splendid and unparalleled testimonial of na tional approbation is this day so appropriately paid—( Cheers) —but, looking forward in all other respects, they will be ani mated to exert themselves still more in the service of the people, and, supported by that confidence on the part of the Crown, which is only to be earned by their own endeavours, and by that confidence on the part of the people, which, I trust, they have never forfeited, will continue to merit the approbation of the country.—( Cheers.) I have not had before the present occasion the satisfaction of appearing before you, my fellow citizens of Edinburgh, since I had the honour of being clothed with the attributes of office.—( Cheers.) I have before met you in great numbers on an occasion when liberal men were not in elevated stations. From the heights of the state no en couraging smiles of royal favour were half so discernible as were the frowns, the perennial frowns—( Cheers)—under whose mortifying but harmless shade we then persevered in our exertions for the people, and flourished notwithstanding— ( Cheers and laughter)—and I remind you of this, gentlemen, in order to satisfy those who may look with an eye of envy on the members of this meeting, and who may attribute them to the favour which men in office now show to the principles which you profess.—( Cheers.) I remind you, I say, for their satisfaction, of that occasion when no such misconstruction could be put upon your motives, celebrated as our meeting then was under the shade of opposition to those principles which you are now exulting in the triumph of, in the sun-shine of success, and under the patronage of power.—(Loud cheers.) What I then said to you, when out of office, and with littleto prospect then of ever being in office, I am prou d to repeat haveo you now, when nine years have passed away , of which I taking served four in office. , 4 My fellow-citizens of Edinburg h, these hands are pure."--( Loud and reiterated cheering.) In office, in holding office, in retaining office, I have sacrificed in no feeling of a public nature, I have deserted no friend, have I have abandoned no painciple, I have forfeited no pledge, done no job, I have promoted no unworthy man, to the best of my knowledge ; I have stood in the way of no man's fair claim to promotion, I have not abused the ear of my Royal master, I have not deceived or deserted the people ; and because I am one of those Ministers, my Noble Priend near me is another, who never feared the people, I rejoice and glory and exult, and am beyond all measure delighted at every opportunity of meeting the people to give an account to them of my steward ship, and to tell them face to face what I think, even when I think differently from them. For be you well assured, that that statesman only knows half his duty, and has only learned half of what belongs to the place of him who would wisely rule man kind, if he has only learned to fight for the people against the frowns of power, and cannot also, when he t the people ill-advised, make up his mind to do them good, even in spite of the people themselves.—( Cheers.) Such would be my opinions, and such would be the course of my public conduct if unfortunately it happened, but I have never yet seen the day in which it did happen, that the people and myself should seriously differ in opinion.—( Cheers.) I entirely, and in every point, agree in all those wise and statesmanlike principles, which were so impressively , so clearly, and I may say so convincingly., expounded to you by my Noble Friend. Let the Government of the country, strong in the support of the Crown and of the people, proceed steadily, firmly, and unflinchingly to discharge their duty by promoting the progress of liberal opinions—( Cheers) —but let them not be hurried out of their course, either to the right or to the left, or onwards, either faster Or further than sound reflection, mature deliberation, and statesmanlike prudence entitle them to go.—( Cheers.) There are some men, I know _nay, a great number,—honest and conscientious men I have no doubt,—men generally speaking of sound opinions, . but somewhat unreflecting, who think action and execution everything, and all the time that is spent in deliberation as time thrown away.—( Cheers.) These men blamed my Noble Friend late at the head of the Government for having done nothing during the session preceding the last, when one twentieth part of any one of those nothings that were then effected would have made the fortune of any other Adminis tration.--( Cheers.) Might I beg, as a particular favour to myself--for my Noble Friend and myself have had great fatigue this day in encountering your kindness and hospitality, and I am about to address to you a few more, and but a few more, observations—might I beg as a particular favour, that you would restrain your plaudits, which, though they are gratifying, most gratifying to me, render it impossible for me to address you as pointedly and consecutively as I could wish. I do not mean,because you do not require it,and the pre sence of my noble friend would even prevent me,if you did—l do not mean to enter into a minute investigation of every par ticular act of that session of Parliament, which is said to have done nothing for the country. I only refer to it to show that those who now assert, and pretend to think, that we went too slow and did too little in the last session of Parliament, as serted and thought that we went too slow and did too little in the session which preceeded it. In that session we opened the trade to China—we emancipated the commerce of India— we gave a liberal government to an empire which we hold over 70,000,000 of our fellow creatures.--( Cheers.) We also emancipated the slaves in our colonial dependencies, and by so doing gave freedom to 800,000 of human beings, an experi ment on a scale of magnitude almost frightful to contemplate, and which would not have been required to be made to that extent if our former rulers had taken gradual steps to accom plish it,—an, experiment on the entire success of which I fully reckon, as all the accounts received from our colonies, with one solitary exception, confirm and justify the calculations on which we proceeded, but of which, if it be attended with fai lure, which I do not anticipate, instead of that success which I fondly predicate, I am ready to take on my own head the sole and undivided responsibility incurred in making the slave free.— ( Cheers.) I hope—l confidently hope, that his free dom will be attended with no mischief either to himself or others ; but whether it be so or otherwise, his freedom was with us no longer a matter of choice.—(Cheers.) Then:we reformed what was always deemed a great nest of abuses ; but that seems to be forgotten, for it some how or other always happens that when a nest of abuses is cleared out, men's tongues are as silent about it as if the abuses had never existed at all.---( A laugh.) I allude, as I believe you all know, to that great court of equity over which I have the honour to preside---(Cheers)—and that I may not weary you with details, after effecting a very substantial reform in the Church of Ireland—and it was no fault of ours that another reform still more substantial was not effected also—we closed the session with a measure as extensive and beneficial as ever any Parliament passed, save only that great measure of Parlia mentary ieform of which it was the legitimate offspring—l mean the bill for a general reform in the constitution of all the Scottish burghs. All this, however, now-a-days, is said to be nothing !—( Cheers and laughter.) I have mentioned only five out of ten of these nothings, and such being the case, I do not marvel exceedingly when I hear that *during the last session we have done nothing also. We could not indeed make the slaves more free than we had already made them. We could not make' the. China trade more open than we had already made it. The door cannot well be more open than when it is flung back against the wall.—( A laugh.) We could not make the Scotch burghs more open ; and yet all the re forms which we then made, and which I have recounted to you —all this, I say, is overlooked by our detractors.—(Cheers.) All this then is nothing, and is to be placed in the same line of ciphers with another of our measures—l mean that for the abolition of all the abuses in the English system of poor laws —which you in this country, fortunately for yourselves, know nothing about ; but which *very person at all connected with England knows to be productive of the greatest practical evils —of mischief to the richer proprietors—of mischief to the middling classes, and of absolute ruin and misery to the poor, for whose protection they were supposed, by some strange fic tion, to exist-4 Cheers.) We shall go on, however, in our course, heedless of the attacks of these hasty spurts ; for they come from men of much honesty, of hasty zeal, but of no re flection at all.—( Laughter.) They would travel to the ob ject which they have in view, but they are in such a hurry to get at the goal three minutes before me, that they will not wait to see whether the linchpin is in the wheel.—( A laugh.) They would hurry their vessel into the wished-for harbour by the nearest, and not by the regularly . frequented channel— but they do not inquire whether there is a compass on board, and so they run their vessel into the breakers.—( Cheers and laughter.) They raise a scaffold, they build a house, they rear a massive pile ; all they care for is the look and appear ance of the edifice, and they do not stop to see whether there are partitions for rooms to live in.—( Laughter.) They will not use the plummet and the line, and therefore it is possible that the first story may tumble some fine morning about their ears.--( Laughter.) I wholly respect the good intentions of these men, 1 acquit them entirely of all blame of that de scription. I make to them my most respectful obeisance ; but when they ask me to get into their carriage, I must decline to accompany them,—when they ask me to sail in their vessel, I must insist on staying on shore ' • when they ask me to enter into any building of theirs, I shall not only not enter, but shall also stand at a respectful distance from it, for fear it should make an experiment, which I do not wish to see tried either on their heads or mine, I mean, an ex periment as to the relative resistance of the two bodies.— (Cheers and laughter.) These, then, are not wise counsellors I to listen to—these are not safe guides to follow—these are not fair judges on the merits of any British Statesman.--(Cheers.) I would go on more deliberately than they would—l would have my vessel more ready and better provided for its voyage —I would use the plummet and the square—l would build ac cording to rule and compass, and I would not run up that sort of edifice which at best can never be more than a shell, if it does not tumble even whilst building about their heads ; and I twoihuldgo wassafe eelyhaendsssaury to enablerelytowor untilmk,eto build with f Ihad providseaty. deevery hg that If I differ with these persons, not doubting their honesty, but dis trusting their zeal, I only differ with them as to the pace at t r ag v r e e l e ; . b u t T as her t e o the d e i r t e h c e t r i so,n however a r e t with iwwnhi:cicwmhewlmedtatitrffueeartlloyeve a n as to direction. They would travel to the South, when I would go n o r t h. W i th th em I h ave an i rreco ncilable if I may not even say a radical difference.— ( men are the most unsafe guides of all )—for, in point of fact, they lead nowhere.— Though they are not unfriendly to improve ment,provement which they would accomplish is so far nowhere.— (Laughter.) their eyes, nor the eyes of their children, a s was once said at a meeting in this town, ahCuetghhe v rhaet e shtt : hope to see it. Reform, indeed, is always on their lips ; their v h er u b t, " Reform" assumes a shape unknown to the gram marians, for it is an imperfect verb which has only got a future tense.—( Cheers and laughter.) They say that all things ought to be done gradually and slowly ; and to make sure of it, they move in such a way and at such a pace that even the minutest eye cannot discern that they change place at all.— (Laughter.) There is one kind of movement, however, which they do not dislike any how. They are ready to move into mischief, and to advance—backwards—( A laugh)—and . I never heard with greater suprise in my, life the statement,—for I have not seen the newspaper myself, —that language of the most frightful, and I may say the most incredible kind, has been used by those who call themselves the friends of order, the haters of anarchy, the abhorrers of change, and who cry out revolution, when any bills introduced into Parliament to correct any abuse, however flagrant, and however generally recognized. These men, who seem so anxious to testify their abhorence of change, their hatred of anarchy, and their love of order, only testify their lust of power and pelf,—that power and that pelf which the faction has already lost in Ireland, and which its brethren in England will not be satisfied until they have made a blood-thirsty attempt to regain.—( Cheers. ) The power tlie for ym their mean is ownthe power of e m n i e s e g rs ov o ernin l g no t e h d e King's subjects not add, that all their speculations about the unpopularity of the Reform Bill, and about the approaching reaction in favour of the Tories, and about the repentence for their imprudence, which the people have made some progress already, are too absurd to require refutation. I can only say, that besides the irrefragable answer to the doctrine of reaction and repentance which this assembly presents to-day, I have not seen one solitary specimen of that reaction all over Scot land, and I have traversed it lately to within 40 miles of John o'Groat's-house ; and in all the directions which I have gone, east, north, and west, among all classes, agricultural, manu facturing, and commercial, I have not seen one single sample of this re-action and this repentance.--( Cheers.) If it exists at all, it hides its head so closely that I have never seen so much as even a single penitent.—( Cheers and laughter.) The truth is, you may guess from the rage of those short-sighted, and I should now add ill-conditioned and ill-disposed and dis loyal subjects, that their discontent and spite arise from dis appointed ambition, from the thirst of place, which they can now no lo nger s l a k e at the public fountain, and that if reform is not popular, they cannot find out where the great undivided stock of popularity is to be found ; for they, it is clear, do not possess one fraction of it.—(Cheers) We shall go on, I repeat, in our course, firm, uncompromising, unhesitating, and unflinching.—( Cheers.) We will not be hurried on at any other pace than that which we deem expedient for the public and safe for the measures which we introduce. We shall not be induced to take another course by any clamour proceeding from the quarter to which I have been adverting, but delibe rately devising what we deem to be just, necessary, safe, and expedient measures, we shall defy all opposition from the other and the worse class of our enemies, who are opposed to every species of reform, and who, if left to themselves, would renew over the people the reign of terror, and restore the empire of midnight darkness.--( Loud and long-continued cheering.) The LORD CHANCELLOR again came forward, and said that a most pleasing duty now devolved upon him, namely, that of rendering to their Noble Chairman that tribute of admiration which was now due to him from the company. The unavoida ble and lamented absence of the Duke of Hamilton, in conse quence of ill health, had suddenly and unexpectedly, at a quar ter of an hour's notice, rendered it necessary for the Earl of Rosebery to supply his place as chairman, and he (the Lord Chancellor) called on the meeting to say whether they had ever known the duties of chairman better performed after longer preparation. (Cheers.) The Learned Lord conclu ded by proposing " The health of the Chairman, the Earl of Rosebery.”_( Cheers.) The toast was drank with great enthusiasm. The Noble CHAIRMAN returned thanks. He begged to as sure the company that at no public meeting, whether political or otherwise, had he ever experienced the same degree of per sonal gratification as in presiding over the meeting of that day, nor had he ever felt greater pride, as well as pleasure and sa tisfaction, in finding his health drunk in such a manner by such an assembly. To have his name connected in any manner with the proceedings of that day, would be, in his mind, the highest honour; but to have been, in the first instance, unso licited o n hi s part, se l ecte d as t h e i r Vi ce -P re sident, and then in the absence of the Noble Duke, to have been, equally un- solicited on his part, selected as their Chairman, constituted . the proudest distinction to which he could possibly aspire.— (Cheers.) He att r ib ute d t h e c i rcums t ance t o th e humble but steady support which he had always given to the cause and principles of his Noble Friend.__( Cheers.) No form of expression could adequately convey the warm and sincere feel ings with which he returned thanks for the honour they had done him.—( Cheers. ) The LORD ADVOCATE proposed—" The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council, and Prosperity to the City of Edinburgh." In doing so the learned lord forcibly contrasted the former close borough magisterial government of Edin burgh with its present magistracy, elected by the popular voice, and in whom the popular c on fid ence was r ep ose d. Th e city f Edinburgh, he said, had prospered in spite of its former close government, and that there had been a manifest increase in its prosperity in the last and in the former year, since their just rights had been granted to the people. The LORD PROVOST returned thanks, and concluded by giving, " The City of Glasgow and the Commerce of Scotland." The LORD PROVOST of Glasgow returned thanks, and gave the healths of " the Marquis of Breadalbane, and the liberal Peers of Scotland." _ _ _ The Marquis of BREADALBANE returned thanks. He thanked them for the compliment they had paid to that portion of the peerage of Scotland who, in their public conduct, had acted upon liberal principles. It was the portion of the peer i peerage of . Scotland that acted most in accordance with the pub he opi nion of the day, with the circumstances of the times n which they lived, and that was most inclined to satisfy the wants and wishes of the people.--(Cheers.) He had only to regret that they were so few in numbers.—( Hear.) In fact, that room, with a few exceptions. contained the whole of them. He looked forward, however, to better things. Would it be be lies ed, that of the 16 representative peers of Scotland, only one (Lord Elphinetone) was present here that day ?—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") He was happy, however, to see many Scotch peers who sat in the House of British Peers were there.--( Cheers.) The noble Marquis. after pronouncing a touching eulogy upon the private and domestic virtues of the great man they had that day assembled to honour, proposed the health of the " Countess Grey." The toast was drunk amidst rapturous cheers. Earl GREY briefly returned thanks. In thus receiving the the name of a person, the dearest to his affections, the com pany had added to the mark of public approbation which they had already bestowed upon him a testimony of private esteem, which must have arisen out of a feeling of kindness to him and his, which he never could too highly appreciate. He was sure that the party to whom this compliment was paid would feel grateful for it, and, on her part, he now tendered them thanks. He then begged leave to propose a toast, which he was sure would be received with universal enthusiasm. He proposed the health of the worthy repre sentative of the county of Edinburgh, Sir John Dalrymple ( Cheers)—one of the most distinguished and effective sup porters of Parliamentary reforms--(Cheers)—and the steady advocate on all occasions ofthe measures best calculated to pro mote civil and religious liberty.—( Cheers.) With his name would be connected the names of the liberal members of Scot land, who showed by irrefragable proof the falsehood of the prediction that persons would be returned to Parliament by the reformed constituency, unworthy of that high distinction. —( Cheers.) Many distinguished persons had been returned to the House of Commons by that new constituency, which had done itself great honour by returning persons who had so ho nestly, ably, and effectively performed that duty.--( Cheers. ) Sir 1011 N DALRYMPLE, in returning thanks in the name of the liberal members for Scotland, passed a high eulogy on Earl Grey for having granted to Scotland a magna charta which would enable her representatives not only to maintain their own liberties, but also to maintain those of their fellow subjects in England.—( Cheers.) He concluded by proposing the health of the Lord Advocate.—( Cheers. ) The LORD ADVOCATE returned thanks, and briefly proposed the health of the Earl of Durham and the Reformers of Eng land.—( Immense cheering.) He asked, when had there ever been a case of grievance or oppression, in which the voice and aid of •that Noble Earl had not been raised in support of the aggrieved and oppressed ? In him the people had a firm, a true, an independent, and a fearless advocate.—( Cheers.) No frown of power had ever prevented him from espousing the cause of the oppressed ; no consideration had ever led him to swerve from the strict course of public duty ; and when the question of reform was started, was there any man more un compromising in supporting the rights and interests of the people ?—( Cheers.) The Earl of DURBAN! came forward amid the most raptu rous cheering. "It is impossible for me," he said, "to ex press adequately the gratification which I have derived, the heartfelt pleasure which I have experienced, from witnessing the splendid, indeed I must say, the most splendid, scene of to-day.--( Cheers.) It was a noble tribute to my illustrious relative—(cheers)--one of which he may be justly proud, but on which I need say,nothing more, for he has acknowledged it in terms which do honour to his heart, and justice to his re putation for eloquence.--( Cheers.) But highly as I estimate this great act of national justice rendered to an illustrious statesman, much as my feelings have been excited by my near connexion with him, I still agree in thinking that this meeting is .more valuable to us all on public grounds.—( Cheers.) How often have we been told by our Tory opponents—for you must allow me to use an expression which they are ashamed of, and have therefore dropped—how often have we been told by our Tory opponents that the spirit of reform was dying away, that liberal feelings were no longer predominant, and that the day was fast approaching when the people of England would return like repentant sinners to their Tory homes to be re ceived with forgivenness by their Tory masters.---( Cheers and laughter.) Do the proceedings of to-day indicate any such absurd and wanton abandonment of your hardly won and in estimable privileges ? (Cheers.)—No, no ; the gathering of this day—to use a Scottish phrase (cheers)—the gathering of this day, at which are the wisest, the best, and the most influential persons in Scotland, proves the contrary. We may not have a majority of the Nobility of the country—invitations were, I understand, sent to them, and, perhaps, if their tickets had not been countermanded at Dunbar, they might have come. ( Cheers and laughter, and cries of " Give it to Lauderdale.")—Much as we may regret their absence, and that of their veteran leader, we must console ourselves for it by reflecting that we have here present the Provosts and Magistrates of all the large towns in Scotland. ( Cheers.) — That tells a different tale from that trumpeted forth by our Tory adversaries ; and m y m i n d i s th ere f or e full of happy anticipations for the free and independent, the liberal and patriotic. ( Cheers. )—As it is here, so it would be in every part of the empire, if an occasion were afforded for such a display. (Cheers.)—lt is true that we no longer make the same exertions which we did when we were struggling for the Reform Bill ; but no one will tell me that the feelings which actuate us are not the same now as they were then. How foolish, then, is it to tell me that the tide of improvement, irresistible as it has recently proved itself to be, is now at last arrested !—( Cheers.) The obstacles which impeded its course and created its rage have been removed, and its waves now flow with a more tranquil surface, and a smoother cur rent. The tumult has ceased, but the all-conquering energy still remains, exhibiting itself more rarely and more quietly, but if raised into action, equally omnipotent.-- (Cheers.) Such an indication as the present of your dormant strength, and of your continued steadiness of purpose, I hold to be most valuable, and to be most certainly productive of good. And now, gentlemen, I ought to apologize for having intruded on your attention so long.—(Loud cries of " No," and " Go on.") I beg you to accept my best thanks for the cordial reception which you have given me this day, and for the honour which you have done me in connecting my name with that of the Reformers of England. I have no such claim upon your at tention as my two illustrious friends have. Their great and glorious talents give them a claim to be heard wherever they appear. I acknowledge their immeasurable superiority over me in eloquence and genius; but in one respect I will not yield to them one inch—l mean in my attachment to the liberties of my country, and in my firm and uncompromising determination ever to support them. My learned friend (the Lord Advo cate) has been kind enough to refer, in very flattering terms, to my public services. I have now been 20 years in public life, and during that time I have felt it both my duty and my pleasure to act with my noble relative, differing from him, occasionally, as all men of independence must occasionally differ from one another, but following him steadily and firmly in all the great objects of his political life—(cheers)—and I now tell you what I believe him to be—an unflinching but safe and practical reformer—a determined corrector of all abuses, upholding the legitimate influence of the Crown and the due privileges of the nobility, but at the same time advocating the extension of the liberties of the people, and their adaptation to the increased and increasing intelligence of the age. I know very well that there are some conscientious men who differ from me on this point ; but these are, in my opinion, the only measures by which can be attained safety to the property of the rich, expansion to the industrious energies of the poor, and security for those institutions of the country which are all essential to good government—( Cheers.) I know that there are many persons who think that there is ground of apprehension from the increased privileges recently given to those who did not previously possess them. lam not one who entertains any such distrust. They have proportionally as much at stake as we have—they are equally interested in the preservation of order ; and when I look to their industry and intelligence, I am confident that the privileges with which they are now invested will not be abused.—( Cheers.) Be that, however, as it may, it was necessary that th e expe riment should be made. First of all, Government went on with the people, next it went on in spite of th e p eop l e , an d now the experiment must be tried whether it cannot go on with the people.—(Great cheers.) I sincerely and honestly believe that it can so go on, and that you may depend on the co-operation of the people in supp or t o f a ll t h e insti tutions of the country which you deem most valuable. (Cheers. ) One word more, and I have done.--( Cries of ' No, no,' `Goon.') on. My Noble and Learned Friend ( Lord Brougham) has been pleased to give some advice, which I have no doubt he deems very sound to some classes of persons—l know none such—who evince too strong a desire to get rid of ancient abuses, and fretful impatience in awaiting the remedies of them. Now I frankly c on f ess th a t l am one o f t h ose persons who see with regret every hour which passes over the exist ence of recogniz e d an d unre f orme d a b uses . —( I mmense cheering.) I am, h owever , p er f ec tly w illi ng t o acce pt th e cor rection of them as d e lib era t e ly as our r u lers, and m y N o bl e Friend among them, can wish ; but on one condition, and on on one condition alone—that every measure should be pro posed in conformity with those principles for which we all contend.--( Cheers.) I object to the compromise of opinions, not to the deliberation of what they should be.—( Cheers.) I object to the clipping, and paring, and mutilating which must inevitably follow any attempt to conciliate enemies who are not to be conciliated—(cheers) —and who thus obtain an ad vantage, by pointing out the inconsistencies of which you are _.. guilty in abandoning your friends and your veinciples, and s tribute the discontent felt on tti4 WON to deep.; or dearth of liberal principles.—( Cheers.) Against such policy, I, for. one, enter my protest, as pregnant with mischief—as) creating discontent where enthusiasm would otherwise exist—as ex citing vague hopes in the bosoms of our adversaries which can never be realized, and as placing weapons in the hands of those who use them to the destruction of our best interests. _....( Cheers.) With this candid explanation, with this free exposition of my principles, which I have never concealed in any position in which I have been placed, I am ready to grant the utmost extent of deliberation to my Noble and Learned Friend which he has called for this night, and which, when given under such conditions, will calm the discontent which has recently prevailed."—( Cheers.) The Noble Earl then proceeded to state, that in accidentally looking that morning at the list of toasts which he then held in his band, he found that the committee had assigned to him a toast of such vast importance, that he felt it quite impossible to treat it in the manner it deserved at a few hours' notice, especially when the excitement was considered under which that country generally laboured. Ireland was at present the great question of the day. On it hinged the Administration of the day. When that point was mentioned, he hoped that they would allow him to give the toast with which he intended to conclude, without speaking further upon it. There was no Irishman more anxious than himself to see peace and prosperity restored to that country. Feelincr the unfitness of the present time for such a discussion, he should propose to them, without further preface, to drink with the enthusiasm which they had extended that day, and which proved that to the warm hearts of Irish men they added the sound judgment of Scotchmen —" Peace and prosperity to Ireland." The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. The com pany had not broken up at 12 o'clock on Monday night, at which our express left Edinburgh. DONCASTER RACES.--(BY EXPRESS.) DONCASTER, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. The St. Leger Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. ; three year old colts, Bst. 61b. ; fillies, Bst. 31b. St. Leger Course. 71 subscribers. Lord Westminster's Touchstone (Calaway) 1 Lord Sligo's Bran, by Humphrey Clinker Sir J. Boswell's General Chasse, by Actaeon 3 Duke of Cleveland's Shilelah, by St. Patrick 4 Won by a length and half. The following also started : Mr. Watts 's Bubastes, by Blacklock Mr. Heseltine's Worlaby Baylock, by Blackloek Mr. W. Richardson's Lady Le Gros—Jenny Mills Mr. Batson's Plenipotentiary, by Emilius—Harriet Mr. Chisholme's Careful filly Duke of Leeds's Valparaiso Mr. Marson's Louden, by Chateau Margaux Plenipo was last but one. The Two-Year-Old Produce Stakes of 100 soya. each, h. ft. Red House in. Duke of Cleveland's c. by Velocipede, 2 yrs 1 Duke of Leeds's ch. f. by Malek, 2 yrs Mr. Houldsworth's Caliph, brother to Circassian, 2 yrs 3 Two others started. The Doncaster Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 20 added. Two miles. 9 subs. Duke of Cleveland's Muley Moloch, by Maley, 4 yrs 1 Mr. Houldsworth's Despot, by Sultan, 4 yrs 2 Mr. Gascoigne's Zohrab, by Lottery, 3 yrs PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 16. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The funeral of Donna Francisca, the wife of Don Carlos, or as she is styled on her coffin, the " Queen of Spain," took place this morning. As much as the undertaker could effect was displayed on the occasion ; her hearse was drawn by eight horses, one mourning coach with six horses, and fourteen mourning coaches with four horses each were in the procession. Her initials with an "R" at the end as Regina of Spain was displayed on every hammerclotb, sur mounted with the Spanish crown ; and the heraldic streamers, which floated amid the sable plumes, were not deficient of the same assumption ; her coffin was a sumptuous piece of workmanship. Three guards of honour attended the cere mony, one accompanied the procession with the Royal Marine Band, another saluted the body on emerging from her late residence, and a third received it at the Catholic Chapel. The streets of Gosport, from the Bury Road gate to the place of interment, were lined with troops, and though thousands upon thousands of spectators attended the spectacle the greatest order prevailed, and the predo minant feeling was commisseration for the misfortunes of the deceased. The batteries and ships fired minute-guns during the progress of the cortege, and every ship or flag staff displayed the British ensign or Spanish standard, hoisted half-mast high only. Yet one thing appeared re markable, which was, that though the funeral partook of a public character and of more than a half-military cast, not a single officer, from the Lieutenant-Governor to the town adjutant, or from the Port-Admiral to the mate of his tender, was present to testify their respect. The young Princes, the sons of the deceased, were removed early in the morning from Gosport to Titchfield, a few miles off, to avoid the sight, and out of hearing of the guns. They will quit the neighbourhood to-morrow early, in the company of their aunt, the Princess de Beira. This morning the young Prince of the Netherlands left the George Inn on a visit for a few days to Windsor Castle, on the special invitation of the King and Queen. DOVER, SEPT. 16. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of such of the un fortunate crew of the Cameleon cutter as have been brought on shore, has been finally closed here to-day, and a very respectable Jury, after a diligent investigation of the cir cumstances, agreed unanimously on the following special verdict : " That the said William Dix, deceased, being on the high seas off the coast of Kent, on board a certain vessel, called the Canieleon, belonging to his Majesty, it so happened that the said vessel was then and there acciden tally struck and sunk by his Majesty's frigate Castor, in consequence whereof he the said 'William Dix became im mersed in the sea there, and in the waters thereof, was then and there suffocated and drowned. And that the said William Dix was on the second of September, in the year aforesaid, brought into the parish of Saint Mary the Virgin, in Dover aforesaid, in the county aforesaid ; and so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do say that the said William Dix, in manner and by the means afore said, came by his death. And that the said frigate Castor was the occasion of the death of the said William Dix, and is the property of his Majesty ; and that a proper look-out was mi i t kept either on board the said frigate Castor, or the said cutter Cameleon." Much interest has been attached to the inquiry, and the tenor of the verdict is generally considered here to relieve Mr. M'Cleverty from a portion of the blame with which he stood charged, as it establishes the point that there was not a proper look-out kept on board the cutter. WINDSOR, SEPT. 16. Lady Sophia Sydney left yesterday for Bolton-row, Picca dilly, and Lady Augusta Kennedy Erskine for her villa near St. Margaret's, Isleworth. Colonel and Lady Isabella Wemyss arrived at the Castle yesterday, on a visit to their Majesties. Their Majesties drove out together yesterday for some boars in an open carriage in the Great Park. Sir Andrew Barnard left yesterday for his residence in Wil ton-crescent. Viscount and Viscountess Falkland are expected to leave to morrow for town, on their way to their seat in Durham. The King took an early drive in his pony phaeton this morn ing, accompanied by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville. In the afternoon his Majesty drove out again with the Queen in an open ba rouche. Her Royal Highness Princess Augusta paid a visit to their Majesties this morning in the course of her drive, and after wards returned to her residence at Frogmore. To-morrow morning (this day), at eleven, the King will leave the Castle for St. James's Palace, but is expected to re turn in the evening in time for dinner. We are happy to state their Majesties are both in the en joyment of good health. The Court will leave Windsor on the Ist of November, for the Royal Pavillion, Brighton, an& will remain there until the commencement of February. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. =There is this week a good arrival of Wheat, bat not much Other grain reported. The \%heat trade remains dull at the terms of Monday, Barley continues as last reported, Beans and Pease are unvaried. Oats meet a fair sale at the last quotations. In the Flour trade transactions are limited. ARRIVALS Wheat. Barley. I O a ts. Flour, English Irish - 900 ..—. 850 Foreign Chatsworth is now very gay; visitants are arriving daily ; before the end of the present week the chateau will b e full. The sports of the field and the wonders of the Peak oc cupy the mornings ; cards and music the evening. T HE D A RTMOUTH FAMILY.---The Earl and Countess arc on a tour; the Dowager and the Ladies Legge leave Dartmouth House, Blackheath, today for Brighton. Lord Feversham has returned to town to complete so me family arrangements, and next week hi s L or d s hi p goes to buncombe Park, SAVINGS* B.A.:NKs.----Th e sum paid into the Irish Savings' Bards last year amounted to 1,100,9991. Bs. 9d., and the paid out in the same time was 588,591/. 2s. 3d. The 1 total deposits in the Savings' Banks amount now to 14,402,0001. —Freeman's Journal.