The Sun. — London, England, 1851-04-03 00:00:00

triPror. ►, 3 5 rs. ly of fresh 1110 at& tyi► 723; little 11 de' arceU deo! eine' es 0 IS/ I CONTRACTS for CANVAS S. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, omerset-plce, 31, . T he Commission ers for executing the Office March of Lord lBsl iligh Admiral ; , 1 the I Tril led Kingdom of G re at Britain and Irelanctdo hereby give ._OTICI?i, that en TuE snay . th e 29th o f Ap r il next, at One o'clock , lberwill ha ready to t rea t w ith suc h persons as may be willing to Contrac t for supplying her Majesty's Dockyards at Deptford, Ports mouth, and Devonport, with 9,550 BOLTS OF CANVASS (Ine lii—f u ng 1,550 Bolts o f 18 in c he s w ide), to to delivered by the 31st of D eceit ber next. Tender.' And no may be made f or any quantity not less than 1,000 Bolts , -e nder will be re ce i ve d unless made on the printed form, properly 1)&11:12116a:1" up, which, together with " Instructions for making r any noticed, nor Tender will be obtainod on application to this office. he received alter One o'clock on the day of treaty, Unless the party a ttends, or an agent•for him duly authorised in N;Titill. Every Tender must be addrassed to the Secretary of the Admiralty. l _ m c d i bear in the l eft hand corner the words " Tender for Canvass," Lag must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a t signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound ijritletho person tendering, in the sum of 251. per. cent. on the value , due performance of the Contract. E A STERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Notice is her e b y given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET of of the S hareholders of this Company will be held at the London sta ve nt ru L ß ,l a hoPegate•stre e t, on THURSDAY, the 17th day of April iu rue the'me o'clock precisely, to consider, and it approved, to autho- Directors to carry into full effect, an agreement with the teriarket -- -ay Company for the working by thin Company of upone r r te allwa And it i r s m ah s and eolliunction with that of the Newmarke . , Company, conditions which will be laid before the meeting. bi rectors Proposed to consider, and if approved, to authorise the Y for the ^O pant earrY in to effect, an agreement with the Eastern Union - ..angtree to Harwich,c°nst of the Branch Line of Railway from Meeting. upon terms which will be stated to the DAVID WADDINGTON, Chairman. By order, Blab C. p• RONEY, Secretary. °Psgate Stu" A '1 151 pri 2, 8 . .NEWMARKET on sund a , A CRAVEN MEETING. ket, 0 --. t -.Pril 6, a TRAIN will leave Chesterford for Newman. (litn I.l_arriral of the 1 30 p.m. from London. un Monday day and Tuesday, 7th and Bth April, a SPECIAL TRAIN callinAs) gwroillxboleavee,Lotnisdhoonpsfosrtols; el at 6 p . m . e tf w o m rd a , rket at 8 h. 45 tn. cm . ~ and Chesterford, returning meeting 9 th and 10th April a TRAIN will leave N ewmar k e t at 7 p. m ., " 4 !lng at Chesterford the Train due in London at 10 p.m. ar , :lth of A } ~.... ni t a SPECIAL TRAIN (Ist class) will leave New 'r London h a lf an hour after th e l a st race. RACES. E . A• T NORTHERN RAILWAY. _ The London a n d N orth -W es t ern and Midland Railways hay ug log a lar ge re d uct i on i n F ares , by their circuitous routes oetween London and York, Wakefield, Harrogate, Doncaster, Hull, Sheffield, Bradford, Lincoln, and Leeds, On and after the sth April, 1851, Peterborough, „,, his to give notice, th a t t h e CHARGES of the Great Northern R thole Company f or PA SSENGER FARES w i ll i n no case excee d a e le by the London and North-Western and Midland Route. By order, SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager. Xing's-trots, Marsh 31, 1851. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. NEW STATION AT BIRMINGHAM. The Directors are desirous to receive Tenders for the Erection of a Range of OFFICES, WAITING-ROOMS, and other Accommoda tion, in conformity with plans and Specifications, to be furnished by Mr. Baker, the Company's Engineer. The Directors are also ready to receive Designs and Tenders for an'IRON and GLASS ROOF over the said Station, under conditions to be, furnished by the Company's Engineer. Parties proposing to Tender for the Station Works and Roof, are requested to meet at Mr. Baker's Office, 24, Waterloo-street, Bir mingham. at One o'clock. on MONDAY, the 14th of April instant, to inspect the Drawings and Specification, and to appoint a person to take out the quantities with the Architect employed for that purpose by the Railway Company. Sealed Tenders, addressed to the Secretary of the Company, must be delivered at the Euston Station, London. on or before THURSDAY, the Bth of May next. For further particulars, apply at the Company's Office, in Bir mingham ; or at the Secretaries' Offices in London or Liverpool. By order, H. BOOTH, C. E. STEWART, 1 Secretaries. Birmingham, April 2, 1851. EPSOM .SPRING RACES. GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES. TO-MORROW (Friday), April 4, a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave London-bridge Station at TWO P.st, FR Brighton Railway Terminus, London,EDERICK SLIGHT, Secretary. April 3, 1851. LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, Licensed by of Par. ARGYLL ROOMS,Act GREAT liament WINDMILL , STREET, ST. JA MES ' S. (Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, Jan., 57, Brompton-square.) OPEN EVERY EVENING With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED , BAND. Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulcourt. Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commence at Nine and terminate at 1 141 f-past Eleven o'clock precisely. Adssion, One Shilling. • MEcurs TABLE CUTLERY has long been famed for its admirable qualities, combined with cheapness. His manufactory is at 4, Leadenhall-street, four doors from Cornhill. Balanced b -- Miles, in sets of 50 pieces, roots, p ate nt sharpeners, 21. 10s., 31. 10s., 41. 10s. ; 011 kit c h en, per dozen, 10s., 125., 16s. 6d., 215., 255. Table cases of dessert knives, Sheffield plated Is• u litc hri penknives ar e exce ll en t a nd e conomical, from kiwt PCoen Titrds. His peculiar steel razors and magic strop and paste comfort to many a suffering shaver, and the ladies pro sors to be unequalled. _____...,... i F lF il :" . e_ ecte THOUSAND CURES have been tka ity . d without Medicine, Inconvenience, or Expense, by DU a i M y ~... _ls_ Delicious R EVALENTA ARABICAiFOOD, whick save t unit a i s "7 4 its cost in.other remedies. A few out of 50,000 testi . " 1 e ' ll s- t) By. -. It ebilitv r - --- -Jeers' n ervousness, constipation, indigestion, and 41 l I " ' -ri 'M which I b 0,,._. c ne,e(mild remove 0 ad suffered great misery, and which no me r relieve, have been effectually cured by Du ...“.1' S health-re st9l-ingWood in - very short time. i "Ei ght In. y ears , d W. R. ''` R • REEVES, Pool Anthony, Tiverton. ' - r`sFus, and naus YilPepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps. of m u ad vi e ea, for which my servant had consulted the v c health-rY' hav n e been effectually removed by Du Barry's delicious 4ins..... esto r i , food in a very short time. I shall be happy to " er an,' Inquiries ~.." Rev, ou,, ' , " I nree .. 4 ,,,- -- ` - " W. FLAVELL, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." left arm, ~-...,--...' excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and e, hn-Ts general debility, which rendered my life very oaring Similar been rathem, —7 removed by Du Barry's health-restoring Similar t ALEx STUART,BarIow, Daestininnlals from Lord Stuart de Decies ; Mr. Samuel rlinm- •". u Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen." ft at:llene rilairtlai College, Carnbridg en, a cure of twenty years' dyspepsia, constipation, Ring , s _r. and irritability ; William Hunt, Esq., barrister-at-law, ParalYsis, has Mae u e, who, after suffering sixty years from regained the use of his limbs in a very short Bucks, Pa" this excellent food ; the Rev. Charles Kerr, of Winslow, iiiserssmiduy;, recording the cure of a lady ... _ e cure of f unctional disorders ; Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, I - Diss. l i n : n g Pregnancy ; Mrs. Mafia Jolly Wortham, of Ling, near from constipation and sick tesesia t r oinitin ne Volk, a cure of fifty years' indescribable agony from dys- Me mess, asthma, cough, flatulency, spasms, nausea, and mu. r iF: ; Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham therinion.rt,. a cure of extreme nervousness, indigestion, and g r a e - Of ten ye'a Iss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool, acu *cure rs dyspepsia and nervous irritability ; Mr. W. Grantham, 'eta "gout ; Mr. Joseph Walters, Broadwell Colliery, Oldbury, Zeta B irmingham, a cure of ang i na pec t or i s; Mr. Hugh EvoY. •Ib _ atarve rd, cured when give n np as teo far gene ; D oc t o rs Ure and Berk y ; James Sh oreland, Esq., No. 3, Sydney-terrace, Rea di ng, s, late s urgeon in the 96th liniment, a cure of dropsy; James 'Omer, E N., Athol-street, Perth, a cure of thirteen years' cough, ey th geneßarralry debility. A copious extract of 50,000 cures sent gratis Du and Co. _ Sold in canisters, with full instructions. Fb., 4s. 6d. weighing lib., 2s. 9d. ; ; 51b., 118. ; 121 b., 225.; super-refined quality, 101 b., 338.; e lb., 225. Da Barry and Co., 127, New Bond-street, London ; and through all Grocers, Chemists, and Booksellers. CAUTION.—The health of many p rsons having been seriously inred by " Arabian Revalenta," " Ervalenta," " Lentil Powder," r"Patent Flour of Lentils," " Arabica Food," and other spurious com entids under imitation of name, or called similar by their unscrupn ,,?es compounders, it will be necessary to note Messrs. Du Barry and ,-o.'s name on each canister, in order to avoid being imposed upon by neartiess knavery. DUBARRY'S PULMONIC BON-BONS , a n i ce , sa f e , an d effec tual remedy for coughs, colds, asthma, and all affections of the lungs, throat, and voice, are of unrivalled excellence. In boxes, Is. 134 d., 2 8. 9d,, 4s. 6d.; or, post free, Is. 4d., 3s. 3d., ss. 2d. DU BARRY and CO., 127 , New Bond-street, London; Fortnum, ) stason, and Co.; Hedges and Butler ; Abbiss, 60, Gracechurch-street; Skelton, 49, Bishopsgate-street Within ; also at 4, Cheapside ; 451 and 109, Strand ; and tkrough all respectable Chemists, Grocers, and linoksellerS. THE POWER OF MONEY. Some men hoard their wealth, and do nobody good, While by others it's foolishly spent ; But MOSES, who long by the public have stood, Remember why money was sent ; BY Commanding the markets, they buy a large stock Of the best, when the prices are cheap, And they always take care that the public who flock To their mart, shall the benefit reap. Thus the wealth that to some folks would be of no use, Is employed for the good of mankind, For MOSES and SON in their buying profuse, To deal fairly are always inclined. What they buy is the best, and its made up in style, And they pay for a thing when it's done ; The smallest of profits content them the while, They sell fifty to any shop's one. See the price at which MOSES will sell a good coat, Or a vest, or a hat, or a shawl, Or trowsers, or boots, or a habit, and note, They are cheape SON, may and better than all. Then MOSES and y they long keep their health, And of money the benefit reap, For they share with the public the nse of their wealth, And supply them with clothes, good and cheap. handsome Almanac, for the year 1851, can be had gratis, on • The new edition of " application. of Everybody's Book, containing a fall report the late important 1 , 4-i l etter, - may be had gratis, on application, or by post free. MOSES and SON' have no connexion with any other house in tir out of London, except the following ..I.ondon City Establishnaent, 154, 155,156, and 157, Minories, 83, `st.lls, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. and., don West-end Branch, 506, 507, 50, 1 1 ". Rart-street, all communicating. New Oxford-street, 1,2, ~,'..dford 6. yorkshire" Branch, 19 , Bridge-street. 7.. 0 %141 Branch, 36, Fargate. ra t ur„._ e rli, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Parriers, Boot and Shoe tr. and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. turd. ° 4 stablishments are closed 'tom sunset Friday to sunset Se .l. When business is maimed till Twelve O'clock. parle Francaise. Qui at parla Italiano. Hier spricht man Deutsch. Aqui se habla Espanol. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEw the author , WORKS. 117 ri To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster ; carratho; Inks - street ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or direct from one Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. Co it....._"llealth, Recreation, and rational Ilse of Time... %r--..wrs;—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Morningo.-r a . Irei, B ! , about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, ni ,, , /li ps - , nods, High-roads, and other pleasant places—co untry _•••••116;: n d R ambles —The Sea—London at Night — E venin g . at Home atuit —° " - The Dram Lion, &c. a—On Eatin . g, Drinking, Sleeping. Bathing, Air . . P aise. Occupa, &o_ ri IL — MENTS FROM TECE MOUNTAENS. Two Vole. vi spr Volt. THE LArirS; SRETCH'OF EDLNEURCIII , Vol. IL l' 4l cEl OF KILLARNEY • REMINISCENCES OT DUBLIN, &c. WHAT TO EAT DRINK, AND AVOID. T hat three score years and ten our course may run." r. Vea s i v :Rular review of almost every form (cause and cure) es the .....r.iuebilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses of ne bittAr2g. besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and e 1 1tioz vAd of every-daY age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical mu- Iv. THE PASSIONS. Mt Passions hurt the body—what impFoVe. Otinu„,...tnitbs as refined as Athens over heard." e7,;: - .1,' per • -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent anenk'Z'rfts• Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of 1 42 "au and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, tive. Advocacy of early marriages THE MARRIAGE STATE. Ta ft ,' To be o r no t to be, that is tho question. " 4 1% 4 „7 5 "..alEst—La ws and obligations of nature, society, and re- Vlote 4 — , „Whig, Marriage, to be observed by e ith e r s ex . Time and QttUrt, t:mooth sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and itiem,'"'cure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. sea, 40 mess and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. tiy . 14/4i: 41."1:ILVERWEIA L.R.A. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L..A. 10 4 % 1 . - . "117- five years Medical and Porenaic Referee in these arm n hours Ar daily till Ilya. Evening*, um till nine. Rwient-eett . • • ac-A-7-t, K 2 ~ . - . , . . . ~ , . . 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D 't - i ' i . -. -- . l r , v l7; • 2 ' •• : :: I ;,,,:• ' ''''''. l .3l ' ': .' .., 4 5 r"- ° .7" , • '1,2 , ."1, - ,: . 4' ..• 2 : 1' .4.0 ' ' m.o.". c:5 ; 11 '' ' '''' 14 : 41--- , ' ~ . ..-c• - "ct.."-Ts " v,„,,, •.- ...,- -ear • - ..1 - - ••,,,,,,, • ~, .v..-4,..-. • .-t. ~., 1-,.. :. ~.•;. • I -• 4Pk..• . , , I _ 1:tr• K : '' W 41111-I:''' ^ --: ',.• ..;- 3 :.-• + upon, as the Hon. Gentleman has told you—as an old soldier and an old servant of nty Sovereign ;, b u t I l ay c l a i m to nothing beyond the proud 'position of bei ng an 'English country gentleman ; and I must say that the House of Lords feels deeply grateful to the Right Hon. Gentleman for the manner in which he has proposed the toast to you—for the way in which you have received .it.—(Cheers.) Permit me to say for myself and my brother Peers here, that we feel much obliged to the Members of the House of Commons who are here present, and who I believe truly represent the feelings and opinions of thel.people of England, for having permitted us to join with you in paying honour where honour is due.—( Hear.) We have forgotten, in the House of Lords, that Lord Stanley resigned the high and responsible situation of one of his Alajestes principal Secretaries of State because he refused to abandonthose principles which had led that Cabinet to;office.- : (Cheers° Gentlemen, you have already heard his splendid eloquencd,:yand you have also seen that Lord Stanley has carri e d on- with . energy and skill —with energy purpose - and straigtorwardness of conduct— his opposition to theaneaanreir r Majesty's Government.-- ( 4Ald cheers ) J,l.anLone * oftlltrose who think we require something more Win spleirdWabilities—we require that the individual who holds officellrtnuld be faultless in his private character. I have ever felt ttet honesty and good intentions go far towards the good government of mankind. The de voted husband, the affectionate father, the true friend and the liberal landlord, the kind and considerate neighbour, are in my mind worth a dozen men who have pored over innu • merable blue books and studied political economy.—(Cheers and laughter.) There are here present many Peers cif Great Britain and Ireland whose ancestors gained their rrink and privileges in many a well-fought battle-field, antic whose heroic achievements were equalled only by the trw..scendant talent displayed by others at the bar and in the senate. He asked, did any one of them gain thei- well-merited honours by submitting to pressure from without, or truckling to po pular clamo ur 2 ( Loud cries of " No.") No, -they might depend upon it that it was the duty of the Hour of Lords to check rash legislation and hasty and unwise , decisions—it duty to give the people of England tim e c al m ly t o es brought forward. He knew their hatred to anything like', acts of injustice, and he felt satisfied that they could not with entirely to destroy the agricul tural interests of that ' co untry — to cr i pple many of the operatives engaged in manufactures—to injure their shipping interest and destroy their colonial possessions. Give the people only time to reflect, and he believed they would find that if, it was seen legisl a ti on had been directed to such objects, they would soon insist on h av i ng i t amende d . They looked forward with confidence to th e t i me w h en t h e i r Cwoursisider their the du as Noble Friend at the head of a strong Government would be called upon to advise her Majesty in these d thgerms times. —(Loud cheers.) He did not think his Noble Friend would ever be placed in the position to appoint some colonel orether to defend the metropolis, who would be ready t o ,d ec i are that be would rather have a foreign fee in Pnese*on of the city of London than that `proteetien shoAlLt. e_re atored.—(Great-laughter.) All he could' et *1111; , Wt only possible chance there was of seeing a foreign army in that country was when some Government would be foolish enough to trust that colonel with the command of troops.— (Great laughter.) He would only. in conclusion, say that he thought they ought firmly to resolve to place their entire and full confidence in his Noble Friend Lord Stanley.—(Cheers.) He knew that there were minor differences of opinion among them, but he recommended to all to merge their differences, and be united as one man under one leader—without that they were nothing—with it they would be powerful and strong.—(Loud cheers.) He was sure they would all , con tinue loyal to their Sovereign, devoted to the person of their gracious Queen, determined at all risks and hazards to maintain the Protestant constitution and Protestant institu tions of the country, and never let the House of Lords for get that there was no greater poltroon in the world than the man who hesitated to perform his duty because his motives might be misrepresented, and that no man was a greater coward in the globe than the man who hesitated to vote ac cording to his honest and conscientious convictions, be the danger what it might, whether emanating from nursery ghost stories or the timidity of Ministers.—(Hear, hear.) He for one should be happy to continue to serve under his Noble Friend, with the motto inscribed on his banner—of " Fair Protection to British Industry.''—(Great cheering.) Lord STANLEY said—My Lords and gentlemen, Ism about to give you " The real Depositary of Power in this Country —the House of Commons."—(Cheers.) That is the founda tion of the liberties of the people, the legitimate represents.. tive of public feeling, and I believe it combines within its walls more talent, and, I believe, more sound patriotism and more real capabilities, than any other assembly in the world. —(Loud cheers.) For a period of twenty-two years I•hacl the honour of being a M em b er o f that House. I found many valuable friends, and I am proud to say I retain most of them to the present moment. Although for some years separate& from that House, in consequence of the position in which your kindness has placed me, opportunities have been af forded me of keeping up a personal acquaintance and com munication, and I look upon nothing with greater pleasure than that full and free communication and intercourse which has resulted from it.—(Cheers.) It gives me the greatest pleasure to take this opportunity of returning thanks to my Hon. Friend on my left (Mr. Disraeli) for the distinguished' talent and courage with which he has fought the battles of his country on many a well-fought field, and for the wit and general ability and talent which he has displayed, and which have been the admiration of his friends, and the terror of his enemies. —(Great cheering and laughter.) I propose to you, gentlemen, " The House 'of Commons and Mr. Disraeli." • The toast was responded to with the utmost cordiality and heartiness. Mr. Dassetws, on presenting himself , was loudly and re peatedly eheexed. He said—As one of the rank arid file of the House of Commons I rise to express my sense of the honour you have done us in drinking our healths. I can truly say that—l will not say the triumphant—but the considerable position which our party have obtained in the House of Commons has not been owing to any individual whom acci4nt and not merit has placed in a prominent position; but it is owing to the moral qualities of the trcops —(Hear, hear.) Those only who are acquainted with public life—those only who are experienced in our political history, can appreciate the achievements of a party placed as the Protectionist party was in that House. For when we lost the inspiration and counsels of that great man to whom the Noble Lord who has proposed the health of the Members of the House of Commons made so feeling an appeal, we were left entirely to our own resources and to the spirit of good fellowship which kept us together, and which has really been our guide in all the exigencies we have had to encounter. We had no traditionary discipline, no com pleted organisation—we had not in that House the influence of leaders who, from official experience or political position, might be expected to wield an influence over that body; but we were guided by the feelings of gentlemen, and by the courage and determination of freemen—(Loud cheers)—by a , courage which did not shrink from meeting the foe we had to encounter, and by a kindness that knew always how to forgive the imperfect efforts with which friends might have tried to assist us. If I might, indeed, more specifically allude to details, I might refer to two causes that have led to the position we now occupy in that House ; which, though it does not command a majority, is yet a great division, and at least, counts numbers superior to that of any other section.—(Hear, hear.) I may presume to attribute this to two causes. First, because under all our difficulties we have been sustained by a prin ciple; and, secondly, because in the counsels that we have ventured to cffer for public adoption, we have always been careful that the application of that principle should be temperately urged. We have not at any time wished to uphold the interests of any particular class, or any particular interest; and here I may notice that it is often and in vidiously asserted that we have too frequently advocated the interests of one particular class. True, it has been our duty to maintain the interest of a particular class, but it has been because that class is the only one in the country that has been oppressed.—(Loud and general cheering.) Except under these circumstances, the policy that we have always urged has been a due consideration of the legitimate claims er roneous system which, under the specious plea of terminating of all classes in the state. We have indeed opposed iend t: tr a ac t tlhasr class legislation, has succeeded in allaying clas: ne ag el a l —(Hear, hear.) Instead of this, we have C (Cheer&)T t hia e d s h ou ld a b e w h i ch is would substitute b e s rde ti tut e e t for such revolu atiosnyastryeina and erroneouspolipol i cy w h ich w theories a genuine u g i r u e e a e te h s a t r o a f ete t r h i e eti ß e e o f m t a h n e e s e t u lt ru esx r n ri .s .t ti . t_e might indeed be the motto o u f u o d ur ee p e a n r d y u , riti o g r , w a h s a t t h h e a y s a m ri a e d ty e us so great, and so po werful, of the elements of which we are c o mposed ? It i s b ecause the nation is made up o f a variety of classes —because rights, and privileges, and duties, have been divided and distributed and disseminataeumdcsioaolurnffenotadhnr/ofasblaeriveavvriheticyhosfhcallalsnseost,bealeqeutalhe un consciousbe fore the eye of the law —i t a i od f p o fu r al ta t ar h l i eb s ffue v res e tt r ss y o on rea son that we s hi o laavve t e h p e r t d prod u ce d t a h cv e ei ydc vic ti m have reduced the political f a formula pa s s ion th ern t o wthrii the egc h' fanatical excesses of liberalism in the stern repression of the despot.— (Hear, hear.) We are always prepared to de fend the institutions of the country—institutions embody ing the great principles of power and protection, of justice and order, of liberty and religion.—(Hear, hem.) It is these institutions, supported by these classes, that has made this country great, aed kept it great.—(Cheers.) It is these institutions, now openly criticised and attacked by the new schcol of politicians, who appear to have gathered up their principles and ideas of Government from some imaginary and insignificant republic. It is these in stitutions we mean to support ; and I have always be lieved that the chief duty of the party of which we are Members in the House of Commons, supported as the i r are by the great bulk of the community without its walk? it is our great duty to support and maintain those institutions (Loud cheers)—to support those institutions because t h ey embody those principles, and because upon those principles v sy_ e m m p a a d t e h E ies ng o - f the social fabric of our country has hitvrehnice,htrht.hokea, been bui lt. I apprehend that is our principal duty ; and so, stan ding before the country as the champions of that ancient f orm . of govern ment, I am believe to be ment, with all those alterations which im provements, we shall, I doubtnot,o Ark b w tai 2h the great body of the community. sure— if we be mistaken in our views—Fire n d . no longer in Eng land that sympathy with i nst itutions h we have met this day. Every land great, we shall fail in one o f th egreatest causes that ever enlisted the sympathies of an d d we succee d we shall fulfil one of the great dug s t!s tliaS yet devolved on the subjects of any state. (, cannot but refer to the we are indebted to the Noble Lord who circumstances under which Member of the House of Commons must almost personally has propose be aware ho d w e m ur u h c ee h uhs, for the counsel which has never been rejected, the encouragement which was always ready, s pirit which ani mate d us i n our most try i ng moments, the adviser and guide ia our most difficult circumstances, perfect sympathy which has been su s tained between the Noble Lord and ourselves, has lent pleasure and interest e t e private lif e, and lent an i mation to our public and for the (Cheers.) l am sure t h ere i s no one w h o h as acte d vb e who do es not feel as much private gratification, as e wi l l, as a subje c t of t h e state, f ee l pu bli c grat i tu d e to t h e ii ca reer. — (Cheers.) circumstances which have brought about results that will contribute to the greatness of the country, and confirm all those institutions which we have been led to believe to be necessary to the greatness of this land.—(Cheers.) I beg to thank you in the name of the House of Commons for the higher reward you could have bestowed upon them for the faithful discharge of their duty.—(Cheers.) The health of the chairman was then proposed by Lord STA N LEY, and Mr. linitiNG briefly returned thanks. of London," which was acknowledged by Mr. Alderman The Earl of EGLINTOUN proposed " Prosperity to the Ci t y TirosirsosT, and the patty separated at twelve o'clock. UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT.—One of those unfortu nate accidents that sometimes frustrate labour at the point of success occurred on Saturday, to one of the intending exhi bitors in May next. Mr. *Lachlan, the decorator in St. James's-street, had just finished a fine specimen of his art in arabesque colours, chiefly on glass, to show the effect with which painted g l ass might bo used for the purp oses of inte rior decoration, and had placed it on a van to convey it to Hyde-park, but before any cord could be put upon it, a strong gust of wind, sweeping along Jermyn-street, lifted the deco limeticihnto had a occupiedhnndred deco rated specimen quite off the van, though it was a weight to require the strength of four men to lift it, and dashed it en , composition, which the pavement, face undermost. The consequence was, that p ti a fu niztl: on w i l ila s u the exhibitor's attention and labour for the past p oneipieces, es o f , the and large a v very m g , almost hopelessly destroyed. n i n e mouth t,. N ° .18,261.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING S 7 APRIL 3, 185 NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. DIRECTORS. t*T. LAIIIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. *W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *John Rawson, Esq. *Hugh Croft, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. tElliotson, M.D„ F.R.S. t*Edmund S. Symos, Esq. *Ralph Gough, Esq. t*Clement Tabor, Esq. *M. C. Maher, Esq. f Joseph Thompson, Esq. *John Moss, Esq. t*Augustus Vigne, Esq• AUDITOR. trrofessor Wheatstone, F.R.S. PHYSICIAN. 11. Elliotson, M.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street. SURSEON. t*E. S. Byrnes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square. ACTUARY. t . W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S,, &C. SECRETARY. *D. T. Lyons Clanehy, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT. *W. A. Hawkins, Esq. BANKERS. t•Meurs. Glyn, Hall!fax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS, tMessrs. Sutton, &wens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, BasingballL street. •W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. CAPITAL-500,0001. The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As. Mired the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that can be conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance, to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums, without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue the Policy, on its surrender one-half of the annual payments will be returned by the Society. Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health and payment of arrears of Premium without Interest. Notices of Assigmnent of Policies registered and acknowledged, so as to make them available as securities in the hands of third parties. No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp. The present nutlet income of the Society from Premiums is 63,0001.; the amount covered by the Policies of the Socsfety is 1,781,5801.; and the reserved profit, applicable to future bonus to the Assured, amounts to 82,4541. Ss. 6d. At the last annual inves tigation, reported in May, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent. on their Premiums in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original sum assured by each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent. EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED. 14 I Perma -1.4 .6 Annual Polley Bonus in , Age.; E Pre- taken addition Bonne in &l ßant Be-. otion of 12 g minas. Gut in to Sum Cash. Annual ....--I_ —,--__l Assured. Premium. 1837 2 1 2 8 6 . a s . If 9 1 0 6 d i ----- A I ° 3 d l . 9 1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8 £4 s.d. 1840 193 12 6 60 1000 74 3 4 1 1 8 84 2 1 162 189 16 12 8 6 93 16 8 14 010 89 5 10 13 8 11 76 18 4 11 8 3 1843 115 10 10 5 5 10 10 8 110 1844 77 19 2 3 8 15 10 1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 19 19 7 4 5 9 11 4 10 1 Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates. EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital-500,0 001 . (Incorporated under 7 and S Viet., cap. 110.) The leading principles of this Office era—Moderate and equitable Rates of Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits. The difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion Premium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Fire has been so great, that the rates at present charged are more the result of guess than calculation. It has been found by experience, that the total annual losses of the different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the amount of annual Premiums received by each. It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers, that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu rance Company is established. The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap ?roached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto been sufficiently acted on, or systematically applied. Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as security against loss for so great a calamity as fire, and the Insurer is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classifica tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk. The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own experience, ftom time to tiff e, adopt such rates of Premium as the nature of the risk may justify, and will decline to enter into arrange ments as regards tariffs with other offices. With this view an annual investigation will be made into each class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fifty per cent. of the nett excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have Veen in force for three years. Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected by this Company upon every description of Property on moderate terms. Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause. Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents. t National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. * Equitable Fire. t* Both Offices. CATHOLIC LAW AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, NEW COVENTRY-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE, LONDON. The FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie tors of this Company took place on the 25th instant, at the Head Office, at One o'clock precisely. The following is extracted from the report, which is too lengthy for publication:— During the past year no claims have arisen from deaths in Englanl: and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2eol.—making together 7001., which have been paid. This is far below the expected mortality, and is especially favourable, when it is remembered how severely the life offices generally suffered from the epidemic of last year. The number of lives assured between the Ist of June, 11149, and the 31st of May, 1850, was more than double the number issued in the twelve months preceding. Proposals were made for 138 Policies, amounting to 52,9631.25. 6d.: of these 123, comprising 106 lives, were accepted for 45,1251. 6s. iixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 3s. was received by the Company in the shape of premiums. Since the commencement of the Company to the Ist of June last, assurances were effected to the extent of 110,9721. 12s. 6d., pro ducing in annual premiums 3,7321. I ls. 6d. Of these 54 lapsed, amounting to 23,9901. 16s. 6d., of which the annual premiums were 7411. Is., leaving the yearly income on the Ist of June last equal to 2,991/. 15s. 11d. Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001., bat 1,183/. 1 Is. 10d. only was advanced. The Directors were also highly gratified to report that within the last four months they had considerably extended their business on the Continent, having appointed, as Head Agent in France, Monsieur de l'Etang, a gentleman of high standing in Paris, distinguished for his integrity and ability in financial and in all assurance matters, who. under the sanction and patronage of the Archbishop of Paris, the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, and Monseigneur Parisie, Eveque de Langres, has already within the last three months effected a con siderable amount of business, not only in Life Assurances, but in An nuities both Immediate and Deferred. After various resolutions, approving of the Report, and returning thanks to the Right Reverend, Chairman, Bishop Morris, the Vice- Chairman, Actuary, Secretary, and Medical Officers of the establish ment, the meeting separated, highly gratified at its present results and future prospects. L A W LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Fleet-street, next St. Dunstan's Church, March 14, 1851. Notice is hereby given, that the Books for Transferring Shares in this Society will be Closed on Thursday, the 20th instant, and will be Re-opened on Thursday, the 10th day of April next. The Dividends for the year 1850 will be Payable on Monday, the ith day of April next, and on any subsequent day (Taesdays excepted) between the hoars of Ten and Three o'clock. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. N.B. Policies for the whole term of life effected during the present year will participate in the profits to be declared to the end of 1854. DR. LA'MERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTII AND MATURITY. With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cnre. FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS OW STEEL. /net published, in French, English, German, Datch, Spanish, and Italian, in a Seated Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two Stamps, SSELF-PRESERVATION; a Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, usually acquired at an early period of life, whieh destroy the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical Observations on the certain Prevention and successful Treatment of Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from India cretion, as adopted by Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent mem bers of the faculty in France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the &natomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Re productive Organs, explaining their strnctures, uses, and functions, and the various injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D., 87, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society. Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member of the Hunterian Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c., &c. This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana tomy and pill slology of the reproductive organs, and of their relative conditions in health and disease. The author, who has taken the highest medical honours, as evidenced by the diplomas and testimo nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to the treatment of these complaints. He may be consulted Ns ith ad vantage by all those whose constitutions may have become debili tated through , secret practices acquired ix youth, or by the exceseei of later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of tin/ ceasing misery and regret. Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater.; noster-row ; Ilannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Titchborne-street; Haymarket; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Mann, 23, Cornhill; or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, who may be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter ,daily; wool ten till two. and from six till eight IN SIX LANGUAGES-FORTIETH EDITION. CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR THE PREVENTION OP DISEASE. Ilustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Eagravings on 15 teei. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. 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PART I. treats or the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive g A e ß n T ee l , L an tr d eate the o ir f the lam coenntasebleueneffeeesetsreosnultthinge exc essive s y stem , producing Organs, and is integrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. da P l proucingin mental and bodily weakness. nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the DriraarY or sooonderrform, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured Eng! av ngs. i PA RT IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a s'mple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. This important part the Work should Rot escape the reader's notice. PART V. is devoted to the considerati on of marriage, and its du flee. The ca uses of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. 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E X HIBITIO N, 1851.—Home Everywhere. TENTS for the MILLION, At BENJAMIN EDGINGTON'S Marquee, Tent, Flag, and Rick Cloth Manufactory, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. A Warehouse, 208, Piccadilly. The following Second-hand Marquees to be sold reasonable;-250 feet by 28-180 feet by 40-120 feet by 33—and 150 feet by 28. Netting, Enntin, and Scrims, for Fruit Trees. Emigrant Tents fitted up complete. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. DINNER TO LORD STANLEY. Last night Lord Stanley was entertained at a dinner by a large number of his Parliamentary and political friends and admirers, at Merchant Taylors' Hall, Threadneedle-street. The invitation to the Noble Lord received the signatures of more than 110 Peers, and upwards of 200 Members of the House of Commons, and the use of the hall was eanted for the occasion by the masters and wardens of the Merchant Taylors' Company. The object of the entertainment, as authoritatively announced a few days since by one of the daily organs of the Protectionists, was "to afford the leader of the Country Party an opportunity of putting an end to all the quibbles to which political schismatics have subjected the open-hearted policy of Lord Stanley." The hall was decorated with banners emblazoned with the royal arms, and the armprial bearings of officers of the Cutlers' Company. The dinner was provided by Messrs. Bathe and Co., of the London Tavern, and was of the most recherché description. Mr. Higgs officiated as toastmaster. Lord Stanley entered the room soon after 7 o'clock, ac companied by the Chairman, Mr. T. Baring, M.P. for Huntingdon, and several of his leading friends, and was received with loud manifestati o ns o f a pplause. mong the noblemen and gentlemen present we observed—Lord Stanley, Sir E. Sugden, the Marquis of Exeter, Mr. Herries, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Wilton, the Earl of Eglin totin, Colonel Powell, the Earl of Delawarr, Sir C. Knightley, Viscount Combermere, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, the Duke of Richmond, Mr. Disraeli, 'the Duke of Northumberlind, the Earl of Lonsdale ' Mr. Croker, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Henley, the Master of the Merchant Taylors' Com pany, Lord Redesdale, Mr. Walpole, Lord Willoughby D'Eresby, Mr. C. C. Bruce, the Earl of Malmesbury, Mr. Mackenzie, Earl Nelson, Mr. Beresford, Viscount Lewisham, Viscount Strangford, Mr. H. Baillie, Earl Somers, Lord Southampton, Mr. J. Stuart, Viscount Hereford, Lord Sandys, Mr. Grogan, the Earl of March, the Marquis of Waterford, Mr. Christopher, Lord Naas, the Earl of Verulam, Lord Burghley, Colonel Bruen, Mr. Ker Seymer, Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. R. C. Hildyard, Colonel Low ther, Captain Vyse, the Marquis of Chandos, Colonel Chat terton, Lord G. Manners, Lord Castlemaine, Lord Bayning, the Earl of Sheffield, Mr. G. F. YoungrLord J. Manners, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Win chilsea, the Earl of Caledon, Mr. Spooner, Hon. General Lygon, Viscount Bernard, Mr. W. Miles, Lord Sinclair, the Earl of Selkirk, Hon. F. Scott, Lord E. Hill, Mr. Wadding ton, Captain H. Wpm, the Earl of Kinnoul, the Earl of Ayles ford, Lord Sondes, Mr. P. Miles, Mr. Newdegate, Viscount Mandeville, Lord Clarina, Viscount Barrington, the Hon. G. Noel, Captain Somerset, the Earl of Sandwich, Sir W. Jolliffe, the Hon. H. Cole, Lord Walsingham, Lord Saltoun, the Hon. A. Duncombe, r. Dick, Captain Rushout, Mr. Stafford, M r . Adderley, Lord Colchester, Mr. Napier, the Hon. E. Stanley, Sir J. Tyrell, Mr. T. Hildyard, Viscount Newport, Lord A. Lennox, Sir G. Tyler, the Earl of Bandon, Lord Braybrooke, the Hon. J. P. Maxwell, Sir R. Pigott, Colonel Gilpin, Lord Tenterden, the Hon. W. Begot, the Earl of Glengall, the Earl of Bradford, Lord Douglas, Lord Sherborne, the Earl of Erne, the Marquis of Drogheda, the Earl of Macclesfield, I the Earl of Longford, Lord C. Hamilton, Lord Feversham, Sir R. G. Borth, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Kilmaine, Sir W.LW, Wynn, Sir E. 'Filmer, Captain Boldero, the Marquis of Blandford, the Earl of Beauchamp, Sir J. Trollope, the Marquis of Worcester, Colonel Knox, Sir W. Verner, Lord Downes, Alderman Thompson, Sir A. Brooke, Lord Rayleigh, Lord Templemore, Colonel Dunne, the Earl of Cadogan, Lord Dunsany, Viscount Galway, Mr. Bankes, Captain Lowther, Mr. Lane Fox, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Lord Lanesborough, Mr. Stanley (Cumberland), Lord J. Chichester, Sir R. Lopes, Sir John Buller, the Earl of Tyrconnell, Lord Airlie, Sir E. Kerri Son, Captain Jones, Lord C. Manners, Lord Ranelagh, Hon. J. Knox, the Earl of Lucan, Hon. Captain Harris, Mr. Hudson, the Earl of Stamford, Sir J. Duckworth, Hon. 0. Duncombe, the Earl of Mountcashell, Colonel Hall, Captain Archdall, Lord Rodney, Hon. Captain Cotton, Lord Grantley, the Earl of Desert, Lord Forester, Viscount Canterbury, the Earl of Pomfret, the Earl of Roden, Sir W. Codrington, Lord Ossulston, Lord H. Lennox, Sir E. Macnaghten, Sir J. Pakington, the Earl of Beverley, Hon. G. Rice Trevor, the Earl of Stradbroke, the Earl of Enniskillen, Viscount Exmouth, the Earl of Chester field, Sir H. lifeux, the Hon. Colonel Forester, Mr. Bagge, the Earl of Egmont, and the Hon. E. Yorke. The cloth having been drawn, and grace said by the Rev. Lord Hereford, the usual loyal toasts were proposed by the Chairman, and where duly honoured. The CHAIRMAN then proposed "the Church," which was acknowledged by the Rev. Lord Hereford, who observed that he was not stating anything beyond the fact when he said that the majority of the Church looked most anxiously to the expressions of feeling which might be conveyed to the public after the meeting of that evening.— (Cheers.) The toast of the "Army and Navy" was responded to by Lord C. Manners on behalf of the military, and by the Earl of Hardwicko for the naval service. The CHAIRMAN said he had now the honour to propose the health of their distinguished guest, Lord Stanley.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) That burst of applause he was sa tisfied would be re-echoed by numberless meetings through. out the kingdom— (Renewed cheers)—and would convey to the Noble Lord the feelings of admiration, respect, and con fidence which were entertained towards him by multitudes of his fellow-countrymen.--(Cheers.) His fellow-country men looked to him not merely with admiration, as a man placed by Providence in an elevated position, who had earned for himself the high rank of a patriot and a statesman, but they also looked to him with that confidence with which Englismen ever regarded a person who had never sacrificed principle for power—(Loud cheers)—but who, abiding by the Stanley motto " Sans changer," had followed a straight forward course of public consistency and political honour. It would be presumptuous in him to dwell upon the talents, acquirements, and eloquence of the Noble Lord, or upon that wisdom which combined the power of mature age with the vigour and freshness of youth.—(Cheers.) When the Sove reign of this country had called upon the Noble Lord, a short time since, to undertake the task of forming a Mi nistry, the Noble Lord had shown that he was not actuated by any desire to grasp at office or power; and he felt that one of the strongest claims of the Noble Lord on the confi dence of the country was that he had refused to assume the reins of government unless he bad the confident and delibe rate assurance that he should have the means of stamping the Administration of which he was to be the head with the undoubted evidence of stability and permanence. They be lieved the continued suffering and continued discontent of one class could never be compatible with the general and permanent prosperity of the community. They asked for no exclusive legislation for any particular class. They wished for an extension of commerce; and no one had shown more than the Noble Lord on his right that he was anxious to grant prudent relaxations in the restrictions on trade. But if it were the deliberate, the confirmed, and the rati fied opinion of the constituency of that country that no mitigation, no change should be made in the sudden ap plication of a system of untaxed imports, he and those who thought with him, while they bowed with submission to the verdict of the country, would look with increased apprehen sion to the state of the nation, unless other remedies were provided for the future relief of the agricultural interest. They desired to correct the errors of hasty legislation, and to mitigate the pressure of sudden and great changes. If it should happen that any attempt was made to disturb ,the just proportion in the representation of this country — (Cheers),--of property and population, of city and town, from any party motive—(Loud cheers) —to crush any incon venient minority, or to bolster up any tottering policy by a packed constituency, they relied upon the wisdom and guidance of the Noble Lord to arrest such act of a temporary majority (Loud cheers)—and he could assure the Noble Lord that in such a course he might expect from all who were assembled the most sincere and cordial support. He called upon them to drink, as an earnest prayer for a 'na tional blessing —" Health, long life, and happiness to Lord Stanley."—( rhe toast was received with enthusiastic cheering, which was renewed and continued for some minutes.) Lord STANLEY, on rising, was received with loud and pro longed 'cheering. He said—My Lords and gentlemen, to say that I am deeply grateful for the distinguished honour you have this day conferred upon me, by the presence of this great assembly, by the eloquent and touching speech of my Hon. Friend near me, by the enthusiastic reception which you have given to that speech, were indeed feebly to 'express those feelings by which I am at the present moment excited, oppressed—well nigh overwhelmed.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, to few public men—to still fewer holding no official station —has it occurred to meet with such a testimony, from such an assembly, of political confidence—nay, I venture to add, too, to the language of your chairman, such an expression of personal regard and esteem.—(Cheers.) And, gentlemen, if anything could enhance the deep feeling with which I receive this high mark of honour—if anything could increase the value of the compliment paid me by the presence of this as sembly, it would be the time which you have chosen, the place you have selected, and the auspices under which this assembly is convened. I come before you now, gentle men—l appear as your guest—not in a moment of tri umph not flushed with victory—not crowned with suc cess—not having led you to place, and power, and emi nence in station,—l come before you atter a temporary failure, after a failure which I know may have inflicted upon many of those I am addressing not only dis appointment upon personal, but disappointment upon public grounds. I know that I bave dashed many a: san guine and ardent hope of immediate success. I know that I may have disappointed many who believed our final vic tory and triumph were close at hand. That you should have selected this moment for expressing to me in the manner in which you have done your undiminished confidence at once in my sincerity, and in the exercise of my discretion, is most gratifying.— (Cheers.) I must not, however, regard this great meeting as a mere mark of personal honour and per sonal attachment. I must take it as a mark, and a most dis tinguished mark, of your adherence together with me— of your continued adherence—to those principle (Loud cheers) —which, I believe, even in moments of despondency, but still with continually rising hopes, we have continued to entertain. and of the final triumph of which at the present moment I am as sanguine as I ever was. When we re member that one of the leading principles of that great party which honours me with its confidence was, as my Hon. Friend has said, to extend and encourage, no doubt by judicious relaxations, commerce and industry, and especially the industry of our fellow•countrymen—then, I say, it is one of the principles of the party, above all other things, to en courage and support that great interest which has been most pressed down by impolitic, and, as I think, unjust taxation— ( Hear)—it is one of our principles to support and encourage the struggling agriculturist in the difficulties in which he has been placed.—(Bear, hear.) I rejoice that this meeting is not held in some purely agricultural district, among those who are individually an d persona ll y smarting under the difficulties that the agricultural interest has to sustain. I rejoice that this meeting is held for the support and encouragement of our domestic interests and of the agriculture of the United Kingdom, here in the centre of the greatest commercial city in the empire —(Cheers)—here, and in this hall, by the favour of one of the eldest and wealthiest of the mercantile corporations of this great me tropolis—( Hear, hear) ti the presidency, too, of one who well illustrates in his own person the ancient honour and unblemished character which have on all occasions attached to the merchant princes of England.—(Cheers .) But, gen. tlemen, when upon this occasion we meet in this place, it is difficult for memory not to turn back to a former instance and to a. similar assembly.— (Hear, hear.) It is diffi cult for its n ot to pause over the lapse of thirteen years which have already paued by since, from the place where I stand, we heard in language far more powerful and more emphatic than f can use the soundest lessons of national policy—(Cheers)—thc soundest doctrines of tttzch7 ment to our Protestant lustitutiana and to our Pro testast Church, and the most able vindication of our Protec tionist policy, from the lips of Sir Robert Peel.—(Cheers.) The circumstances, in some respects, are similar. In some they are widely different. On that occasion, as upon this, we were contending with a united and powerful minority, and against a weak and tottering Administration—(Cheers)—yet not one absolutely so powerless as that which now Lemmas to administer the affairs of this country.—(Cheers.) We were then looking forward, as we are now looking forward, to no remote triumph of our principles.—(Cheers.) We were then relying, as we rely now, on the sound sense of the country, whenever an appeal could be made to the judg ment of the country ; and yet in these circumstances, with 313 Members of the House of Commons in a minority, that Government remained in office, if not in power, for a period of no less than three years after that time.— (Hear, hear.) It remained in office, but not in power, and it was not till after the general election of 1841, when the country nobly responded to the call, as I am satisfied it will nobly respond to a similar call now— (Cheers)—and in favour of a consti tutional Conservative Protectionist policy returned to Par liament a majority of 91, that that Ministry resigned office.— (Hear.) Gentlemen, it was my pride and satisfaction for four years after that period to co-operate with Sir It. Peel in the, as I think, wise and judicious relaxation of our commer cial code which he proposed. He did away with the prohi bitions, but he maintained the principle of f a i r p ro t ec ti on . — (Hear) He did not undervalue the stimulus of competition, and he admitted the importance of that competition to call forth the energies of our native industry. But he laid down then the sound and reasonable principle, whatever might be the difficulty of practically applying it in each particular case, that, for a fair and genuine competition, the parties entering into that competition must, start on equal terms—(Cheers) — and that to burden one of the competitors with a weight and a load from which the other was free was under the name of free trade and under the name of competition to establish a virtual, a practical monopoly. I say that I joined cordially in that liberal commercial policy up to the fatal period of 1845 and 1846. I draw a veil over what took place at that unhappy period. I will not allow to fall from my lips one word which would wound the memory of the dead, or hurt the feelings of the survivors; but I cannot conceal from myself the fatal effects on - tha. well-being of the country of the measures adopted at that unhappy era, not only in refe rence to the policy which was then adopted, but to the shock which was given to confidence' n all public men, and to the general dislocation of parties, and the separation, I fear the final separation of that great Conservative party, which for years it had been the policy of Sir R. Peel to build up, and which unhappily his own hand shattered to pieces. Those, getlemen, were the days of despondency and gloom. Men looked at each other and knew not whom to trust, and then I arose one whose life unhappily was too soon deceased—one whose noble and generous nature was insensible to fear, ex cept the fel- of shame and dishonour— (Hear)—one in whom were combined high resolve, feeling strong, dauntless energy, anctlaborious assiduity, but, above all, a steadfast and earnest, and disinterested integrity of purpose—(Cheers)-- divested of all factitious advantages of political experience and party tactics.—(Cheers.) To say that he had failings, to say that he has committed errors, is to say no more than that he was a mortal man. But those failings were failings on virtue's side, and those errors were the too vehement ebullitions of a generous but indignant spirit, which could not curb the language of indignation. Gentlemen, that noble heart has long ceased to beat. The untutored elo quence of those manly lips is heard no more. He is gone from among us; but he left no unprofitable example. He has shown how obstacles may be surmounted, how difficulties may be overcome, how honour may be won, how parties may be consolidated by the presence of one who brings to the task only devoted energy, unconquerable assiduity, and per fect integrity of purpose.—(Loud cheers.) He is gone, gen tlemen, but he carried with him to his early grave the re spect of the world, the affection of his friends, the deep re• gret and grateful recollection of the people of this country; and, as long as true English feeling shall continue to ani mate our people—as long as they shall be able to appre ciate integrity, disinterestedness, and principle, so long in the hearts of Englishmen shall be inscribed the noble name of Bentinck.— (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I pay this humble tribute to m y d e p ar t e d f r i en d, b ecause I feel that to him was mainly owing the first recovery from the panic into which his friends were thrown. He has not lived to reap the reward of his labours; but it was owing to his courage and energy, in the first instance, that this great party took a new departure, from the midst of alarm, and apprehensions, and has grown by no slow degrees, but has advanced mainly by a stedfast but temperate maintenance of their own principles of policy, to that position in which it is admitted by its opponents that it is a minority at least dangerous to the Ministry.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, from the past I look to the present and future, and I confess I look to both with confidence in the soundness of the country, but with a due appreciation of the dangers to be,encountered, and with no little anxiety as to the trials to which we may be sub- jetted. Gentlemen, my Hon. Friend has given me credit for that for which I deserve no credit—for that for which I am quite sere there is no man in this room who would not equally deserve the same amount of credit. He has given me credit for not continuing to hold office at the sacrifice of prin ciple. I am convinced that there is no man in this room who would not make the sacrifice of office, or far more than office, rather than violate the principles by which he regulated his political conduct. I confess the great sacrifice to me would be, not the resignation, but the acceptance of office and its re sponsibilities.—(Hear.) The first question which I conceive a public man ought to ask himself is not—" Will the forma tion of this Government tend to my own ease and comfort, to my own credit or reputation ? or will it tend even to the advancement of niy own political views.? " he ought to ask, "Is it for the good of the country that such an administra tion should be formed ?" (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It is not for the good of any country that a weak and unstable Ad ministration should exist, and the great object in which poli ticians of all classes ought at this time to join, is to answer the question, which with prophetic foresight was years ago put by the Duke of Wellington—How is the Queen's Govern ment to be carried on ? You to whom I now address my self know full well the state of parties. You know full well that at this moment in the House of Commons we are in a large minority. There is no doubt a very considerable ma jority against us in the existing House of Commons, and I con fess that, constituted as the present House of Commons is, I see no escape from the position in which we are now placed ; for, whoever may hold the reins of office, there will be a weak Government at the mercy of a majority who cannot combine for any useful purpose, but who can always corn - bine for the purpose of destroying any Government. Gen tlemen, I know no position more dangerous to the public welfare than such a position as that which I have described ; when the Government of the day is obliged to catch at support here, and at a stray vote there—to concede this point and to abandon that measure—( Loud cheers)—and then to promise some distant scheme—(Cheers and laughter)—and hope to stave off the adverse motion of a sci-disant supporter by vague promises of something to be done at a future time, or, at the spur of the moment, can issue an illegal commis sion to inquire into the universities for the purpose of getting rid of an awkward motion which it dares not support. This is the situation in which a weak Government is placed now, and always will be placed ; and it is the situation is which, I fear, with the present House of Commons, any Govern ment attempting to hold the reins of power must for a con siderable space of time be placed. Gentlemen, it is for the country to remedy this great national evil. It is for the country not to halt between two opinions. It is for the country to say in whom they have confidence, and in whom they have not. It is for the country to say what policy they will support; and without the support of the country your exertions and mine will be fruitless.— (Hear, hear.) With the support of the country I do not fear any combina tion which can be raised against a constitutional Govern ment —(Cheers.) But I say, independently of the position of parties in the House of Commons, the state of the country at this moment is such as to cause great and well-founded anxiety.—(Hear.) It is said the country is prosperous; I wish I could believe the fact; but I do not believe it.— (Hear.) I know that there is one great interest deeply de pressed, daily sinking deeper and deeper in distress and in penury, exhausting the funds which go to the supply of labour, making exertions beyond its means, and living for the purpose of employing the labourers, not by annual in comes, but upon the accumulated capital of years.—( Hear.) It may be gentlemen, a mark of the prosperity of the country when tens of thousands of industrious men, women, and children are getting together the wreck of their fortunes, flying from penury and distress at home, and carrying with them what they can save out of their diminished capital, and going to enrich not even the possessions of the British Crown, but carrying to foreign and rival countries their in-, dustry and capital, and, in too many cases it may be feared, their blighted affections too.—(Cheers.) It may be a symptom of great commercial prosperity, and a proof of great domestic industry, when you find, with regard to the shipping of this country, that in the course of last year there is a falling off in British ports of 113,000 tons of British vessels, accompanied by an increase of 63,000 tons of foreign vessels.—(Hear, hear.) It may be a proof of national prosperity, but it, at all events, looks more like a decline of national prosperity. But, though there may be, and though there are shown to be by figures, a large increase of the foreign trade, a large increase of our exports, and a large increase of imports of all denominations—th oug h I don't deny that there is increasing activity—l am not quite sure how the question may be as to the profit to be derived from this trade ; and I am not quite sure there are not symptoms now that overtrading has taken place to a great extent, and that, in a very short period, there may be a formidable reaction in the amount of that foreign commerce now relied upon as the main safeguard of this country. Why, if there is one branch of commerce, one trade, which has enjoyed a monopoly of Government favour, to which all other trades have been sa crificed' to which all other interests have been made subser vient, it is that most important branch of our commerce, the cotton trade of this country. Since 1846 what an immense increase has:there been in our cotton trade ! How largely, with all the advantages of free trade, have cotton manufac turers and cotton producers increased their consumption and the amount of their trade? Shall we say 25 per cent? that be too large an increase in the amount of the cotton trade since 1846? Shall we say 1 0 per cen t ? There must startling as it surely be five per cent? No ! the 1350 cl the consumption of is, it is an undoubted fact, that in . 5 cotton, the amount of cotton taken into consumption and to ount of consumption in the year 1816 by 100,000 bales, would be giveequivalent to the most forinidahle fea ture better idea of the amount by wh at ut if the matter were traced 260,000,000 yards of calico. B same with regard to other ture in this case—and I believe h out it would be found equally we shall find that the been at least equalled, trades—is that in the . c o o t t t r o t a n d e e t r h a a d s e great increase of the foreign if not exceeded, by the op d o i o ni t i h n o ut d io im n theionfuti consuming power on of capital. One at home, consequent other symptom of our properity I may mention. Between 1814 and 1843 the amount chargeable under the income-tax as the profits of trade and commerce had increased from 34,000,( t o 60,000,000/. That was i n t h e days of pro tection—when commerce was kept d own — when commerce was fettered by obnoxious restrictions —before its prison doors were broken open, and perfect freedom was given it to take its fl i g ht with indefinite liberty-. But what had been the increase in trades and professions in the days cf free trade, from 1846 to 1800? There has not only been no increase, but there has een a decrease of above 1,000,0031. t his year. Bet b ween 1847 and 1850 the annual amount of profit on trades and professions has fallen from EO,, 00,0001, to 54,800,0001. I say, then, that I greatly fear there are symptoms which prove that even our apparent prosperity is hollow and deceitful, and that in the midst of this seeming prosperity, and this great exten sion of commerce, we are slowly eating into the capital and strength of the nation.—(Hear.) We are diminishing the means from which our annual burdens are to be borne. You are in the vain pursuit of cheapness, and nothing but cheap , ness ; and you forget that just in proportion as you make:all articles cheap, and diminish the value of all articles to the producers at large, 80 you benefit QUO class and One class only MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN OF IRELAND The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at Dublin; Mr. J. Ennis in the chair. The report stated that there was a progressive increase, both in the railway and canal traffic, showing a surplus profit of 6431. over the corresponding period of 'last year. The directors have recently , made arrangements with the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company for the extension of their inland establishment to the Upper Shannon, in connexion with the railway and the transfer of their trade boats to the Royal Canal. The new contract for working the line was commenced on the 18th of March, which will effect a further reduc tion in the future expenses of this department. The works on the extension to Galway are in a very for ward state, and the directors look forward with con fidence to the opening of the entire line for traffic on the Ist of August next. A third instalment has been received from the Exchequer Loan Commissioners; and it is satisfactory to the di rectors to bo able to state that the sum granted will be fully sufficient to complete the railway from Athlone to Galway. The board entertain a confident expectation that the geographical position of Galway, together with its suitable harbour and other accommodation, afford a combination of advantages which must ultimately se cure its adoption for a packet-station. The net income for the half-year is more than sufficient to pay a divi dend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The direc tors have declared forfeited 970 shares. The revenue account showed that 32,0031. had been received on the railway and canal, and 11,1671. expended, leaving a profit of 20,8361. The capital account stated that 841,4331. had been received on shares, and 445,5101. on loans; and 119,0321. capital accrued from traffic to the 30th of June, 1850, together 1,405,9751. and 1,403,4041. expended, leaving a balance of 2,5711. The report of Mr. Tiernan, the engineer, stated that a most satisfactory contract had been entered into for working the line to Galway for a period of five years, with an experienced contractor, in which contract a de preciation fund for the maintenance of the plant is fully provided for. The working stock is in a very efficient order. The new stock constructing for the additional service to Galway consists of 13 locomotive engines, 17 carriages, and 110 trucks, waggons, &c. The perma. nent way will, in about three weeks, be laid to the banks of the Shannon, a distance of 27 miles. In the county of Galway 25 miles are laid. The great swivel bridge at Louth Athalia, the largest of its kind ever built, is al most complete; the moving mass of nearly 200 tons will be turned by a simple hand•gearing. The bridge over the Shannon will be about 600 feet in length, consisting of iron girder openings 165 feet span, with a swivel bridge for navigation in the-centre. The whole rests upon 12 cast-iron pillars sunk in the river, and filled with ma sonry, which are now nearly ready to receive the super structure. The amount of the estimate submitted to Government will amply suffice to complete the line, with all necessary appliances. The CmunmArt, on moving the adoption of the re ports, said he thought they might be considered satis factory. Their great difficulty was that the affairs of the country were not in such a prosperous state as to yield them that legitimate amount of profit which they had reason to contemplate. He believed that the worst was now passed, and that every half-year would show some improvement. After some discussion, resolutions were passed adopt ing the reports and accounts, re-electing Mr. Parker, the retiring auditor, and con fi rming the forfeiture of 970 shares. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, APRIL 2. STocic EXCHANGZ.—The market has been active to-day, and prices improved. The transactions were as follow : Bristol and Exeter, 82—Great Western, 86: 3 4—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 59. LIVERPOOL, Aram 2. STOCX MECHAM:M.—The business to-day has been very limited, and the market closed flat and heavily. The transactions were: as follow : Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 20% c.—Caledonian, 131 Chester and Holyhead, Preference, guaranteed 5 1 / per cen., 16 1 ,E—East Lancashire, 16%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 57N —Ditto, Fifths, 6% dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 17.46 — London and North- Western, 127—Ditto, New Quarters, 4 5 4 p.—Midlaud, 59 1 4—Ditto, Halves, 14% dis.—North British, 9%—North Staffordshire, 7 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 26 1 4—York and North Midland, 26. MANCHESTER, APRIL 2. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol low :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 7% dis.—Eastern Counties 7% c.—East'Lancashire, 16 % Lancashire and Yorkshire, 573—Ditto Fifths, 6% die.— Leeds and Thirsk, 16 1 4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, 331—South-Eastern and Dover, 26 1 4. BIRMINGHAM, Arun. 2. &roc% EXCHANGE.—The share market was very quiet to-day, and prices of stock were generally about the same as last quotations. The only transactions of any importance were in Midland Stock, which declined, and were done at EWA per share. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of Traffic for the week ending March 30 : Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £22,713 4 2 Merchandise ... ... 18,012 19 9 Cattle ... ... 739 12 0 Total ... £41,465 15 11 Corresponding week last year 89,690 7 0 Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the traffic of the 'Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY..— (Miles open, 173)—Traffic for the week ending March 29 : Passengers ... £5,549 18 1 Goods ... ... ... 1,986 17 11 Total ... £7,536 16 0 Corresponding week last year... 8,262 7 9 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY..-.• Gross traffic receipts for the week ending March 29: Passengers ... .£6,894 9 2 Carrying account .. .., 2,037 8 7 Total ... £5,931 17 9 Corresponding week last year ... 9,695 7 6 NOaTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles open, 112.) — Return of traffic for the week ending March 23 : Railway and canal ... £4,766 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,324 0 0 Note. —The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles open.)—Traffic for week ending Mar. 30...£14,770 2 7 Corresponding week in last year, (219 miles open) ....£12,171 11 4 LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.— Amount of revenue for the week ending March 30:— Passengers £795 11 9 Goods 22 0 0 Total ... ...£Bl7 11 9 Corresponding week last year ... 709 14 5 CHESTER, AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.-..Traffic for the week ending March 30:— MAIN LINE. Passengers ... £796 10 3 Parcels, H. C. and D. ... 72 7 4 Goods, cattle, &c. 428 3 5 Mails ..• ... 575 0 0 Total .. ....£1,872 1 0 Df OLD. Passengers ... £37 5 0 Parcels, H. C. and D. ••• 0 14 2 Goods, cattle, &c. ... 113 511 Total ... ... £l5l 5 1 STICA3I-BOATS. Passengers ... ... ... £lO9 7 2 Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ... 11 17 4 Total £l2l 4 6 SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY.—(Open 29 mile&)—Traffic for the week ending March 30 : Passengers, parcels, &c. £297 12 10 Goods and live stock , 211 1 7 Total £5OB 14 5 Corresponding week last year ... 422 10 (1 —those consumers who are not producers in their turn. You advantage those who are in the Possession of fixed money in comes, but by diminishing the value of everything else you raise the value of money and enhance the growing burden of that, national debt, which no other country could support, and increase the pressure of taxes, which, h owever, they are themselves diminished, are borne with increasing difficulty by the people, whose capital is constantly decreasing. I de precate hasty and ill-considered and violent changes, and in this course of downward progress in which we are involved, though true prudence and true statesmanship point, I think, not to the hasty reversal of all that has been done, I would at all events cry " halt" in that downward course. a would say watch the progress that has already taken place—modify the effect of measures, if they have had a greater effect than even their proposers con templated, and prudently, discreetly, but firmly and determinedly, apply on sound principles legis lative relief to those classes which your legislative action has made to suffer.—(Hear, hear.) how that relief may be at forded this is not the time to consider. My lion. Friend, e chairman, has complimented me on having frankly, as I felt it my duty t o d o , state d i n my place in Parliament the general course of policy which I thought the Government in the present state of affairs ought to adopt. To that expla nation I have little to add. lily own views, undoubtedly, are that there is no course so simple and effective for remov ing agricultural distress, and at the same time for returning to a sounder system, as, by the imposition of moderate duties on foreign imports, at once to afford a certain, though mode rate, check to the unlimited influx of those foreign articles (when they are not required in thiscountry), and at thesame time to obtain from the foreigner, in imitation of all other nations, a contribution towards the revenue of the State— (Cheers)—and to enable us to take off other taxes which press more heavily and immediately on the springs of our do mestic and national industry.—(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, however unwarrantably long I have detained yon, there is one other topic to which I may call your attention— because it is a topic which even more than our financial policy, even more than our agricultural distress, even more than the commercial difficulties which I fear may be im pending over us, has taken hold, and justly taken hold, of the hearts and affections of the people of this country. I' re fer, 1 need not say, to that unwarrantable, and as many I admit to be in manner, that insolent and offensive aggres sion —(Hear, hear, and loud cheers)—which has taken place under the authority of a foreign prelate upon the independence and national liberties of thise„country.— (Continued cheers.) Gentlemen, with respect to that ag gression, I will not go so far as to characterise it as insidious, and I think that of the two parties I am bound to say, en tertaining no great affection either for the one or the other, that the Pope has greater cause to complain of the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers— (Cheers and liughter)—than her Majesty's Ministers have to complain of the conduct of the Pepe—(Renewed laughter)—because, if by tacit consent, if by even active encouragement, it was possible to do any teing to persuade the Pontiff that this country was willing to submit to aggression, to submit even to any humiliation at his hands, I must say that the course which, in mere than one instance, has been pursued by Lord Grey, by Lord John Russell himself, and more especially by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland—(Load and continued cheering)—has been such as to impress the councillors of the Pope with an unreasonable opinion that no objection would be made in the first instance to any encroachment he might wish to attempt; and, in the second, that, if any objections were made, the matter would be:passed over with a little empty bluster and with no very substantial resistance.—(Hear, hear.) I do not know that the events of the last few weeks have tended, as far as the Government are concerned, very much to alter the complexion of the case. If the Government had in tended from the first to take the course which to all classes of her Majesty's subjects would be at once the most irritating and the most ineffective, that course would have been the one which, from the period of that too celebrated letter written by the Premier to the Bishop of Durham down to the time at which I now speak, her Majesty's Government have actually pursued.—( Hear, hear.) In that letter—as I can hardly believe that it was written hastily and incon siderately—expressions were used which naturally gave great cause of offence to a large portion of her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects. A stated determination to resist aggression need not have been accompanied by a sneer at the religion of the Roman Catholics. There is no man in this room, or in this country. who is more determined than I am to secure to every class of my fellow-subjects, Pro testant or Catholic, whatever be their creed, the fullest exercise of all their religious liberties.—(Cheers.) But I draw a broad distinction between the free exercise of reli gion by all classes of her Majesty's subjects and the inva sion of our civil rights by the institution of an ecclesiastical establishment, subject to a foreign potentate. When Par liament met, I stated—and I think the expression I made use of has been, in some degree, misconceived,— I stated, that if I had been called upon to decide in the first instance what course should be pursued, I should have proceeded either by resolution or address, or by a declaratory Act directed against that particular instance of aggression —the Papal rescript, which was at once an aggression and as in sult to this country. But I added, further, that the course which had been taken upon the rescript should be much more deeply looked into. It required that the whole rela tions of the Roman Catholic subjects of this country towards the British Crown and the Papal see should be carefully and diligently investigated ; and I stated that upon so large a branch of the subject, upon one involving such delicate and difficult considerations, it was desirable to attempt no• thing which it might not be practical to accomplish, for nothing could be so inexpedient as to threaten when you were not able to execute, and to show resentment where you were not able to repress.--(Hear, hear.) Upon that large question I should desire to have no hasty or in considerate legislation, but an immediate, indisputable, and peremptory reply by Parliament to the actual insult, and subsequently an inquiry as to the legislation which might ba necessary for the purpose of placing the Roman Catholic sub jects of the Queen in a position which would at once secure their own civil and religious rights; nay, which might even extend them, and at the same time secure the people of this country, whether Protestants or Roman Catholics, from an interference with their temporal concerns, and from the con trol of an ecclesiastical hierarchy appointed by a foreign power.— (Hear.) Some people have erroneously supposed that I proposed to hang up all legislation for a period of two years. The expression I used was that such inquiry must take time ; but, even if it occupied a whole session, or even if it occupied two sessions, I considered that loss of time to be less dangerous than a hasty and ineffectual measure.— (Cheers. ) Gentlemen, I know not whate course the Government may now intend to pursue. The Noble Lord at the head of the Government had laid the basis of a measure which involved notonly a repeal of the Act of 1829, but a revival of the whole penal code, and then upon that mighty substratum he built a superstructure of such microscopic dimensions as produced only ridicule and contempt—contempt not unmingled with the irritation which the sting of an insect, however small, may produce, though the bite of the insect is not dangerous. It produced irritation, and nothing but irritation beyond a feeling of contempt; and this little microscopic measure has since that time dwindled to more microscopic dimensions still.—(A laugh.) Indeed, the observation was made to me by a friend of the Government, as to the second reading of that Bill, that he never recollected an occasion on which there was so large a majority brought down to support so little a measure.—(Laughter.) But I do not consider that majority insignificant though the measure was ridiculous, be cause it was a declaration on the part of the Parliament of this country, and it would be felt at Rome as a declaration on the part of the Parliament of this country, that in principle we abjured, as our forefathers had done, encroachments and invasions upon the temporal power by the See of Rome. ( Hear, hear.) It may be well to say that the authority of Rome is a spiritual authority. I don't call that a spiritual authority which acts on the tender consciences of infant girls—(Loud cheers)—and the superstitions fears of the death-bed, for the purpose of robbing heirs and relations. —(Loud and continued cheering.) Still lees do I eon sider it to be an authority essential to the free exercise of religion to prohibit acts in themselves legal, or enjoin acts if not illegal, at all events in violation of the express and determined will of the Legislature under those awful penalties which the Roman Catholic Church holds over and has power to exercise over the minds of those of its persua sion. I say, then, that the majority upon that principle was not unimportant. But, I say further that I consider it the duty of Parliament, and I trust I shall consider it my duty, while I do not press for a more extensive application of measures than those which the Government themselves have Government Parliament, so far as I can, that that which tha t e thought fit to institute, in the first instance to take care in h power to professes to check we really shall give h be too not see that that which the Government professes make check.—(Cheers.) I certainly shall not them m satisfied if I d effectual shall be really and substantially effectual.— (Ch eers. ) I feel how long I have detained you—( hear) — and how un grateful a return I have made for the flattering and:highly complimentary manner in which you have received my health. But my desire was that, here as elsewhere, no mis conception should prevail as to my opinions. I have felt it my duty, especially to you who have reposed such confidence in me, that I should place m y sel f in your hands with the fullest by the communion and i n t erc h ange of llest and frankest unmet-ye; for, b e li eve me, i t i s only feel ings and opinions, by :an assurance that the members of a general principle—(Cheers)— 3 onec'sinor ought to be guided. A party mu st feel itself bound togetherparty either by by the strong links of prin. that part y an a a c r t y are ty ciple, and individuals of that party must not be deter mined to adhere to some petty crotchets and opinions of their own. For my part, with regard to those with whom I have had the honour of acting, I have always in details sacrificed my own opinion to the opinions of the ma jority of my political friends. But they will forgive me for saying —and they would despise me if I did not declare it—that to no body of meu would I sacrifice that which I felt imperatively called upon to maintain by my duty to my country. —(Hear, hear, and cheers.) I have said that .1 look with anxiety to the present state of this country. I look also with anxiety to the future ; but the degree to which that anxiety may be removed depends upon you in your places in Parliament; it depends upon you in your respective neighbourhoods throughout this country; it depends upon the constituencies of this country, and in their hands, whenever a general election shall come—and all the signs of the times show that that election cannot be far distant—(Hear, heir)—in their hands will be the destinies of this country for good, or for evil for length of time which it is impossible to predict.—(Hear.) My belief is, that if the great constitutional party s hoal" prevail— if they should be strong enough to administe , r t th n _ affairs of the country by a steady maintenance of our it es - tions in Church and State, by maintaining the Prot est ant fidustry tablishmtnt, by maintaining the great branches o relief in this country, by watching to see in what directionterests strug may be safely and beneficially afforded to the interests I believe gling with difficulties not of their own creation; of well- considered that going steadfastly forward in the path _ deter Me( improvement, by offering steady, firm, and great country op position to revolutionary changes, this t is now maY escape from the difficulties by which .. r t._surrounded, - s and satis.ac ioa of seeing, and we may have the happiness under a Conservative Administrati on, i ncreased stability given to the Throne, increased security to our Protestant es tablishments and national institutions, and increased happi ness to all those various classes which, in the aggregate, form the different members of cheering.) great body p o liti c o f thi s country.—(Loud and prolonged beefing.) 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