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Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, March 31, 1851. The Commissioners for executing the Offica of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give NOTICE, that on TIIEBDAY, the 29th et April next, at One o'clock, they win be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract far 'applying her Majesty's Dockyards at Deptford, Ports mouth, and Davenport, with upon, ""--- ."--- 11611,N9 t soldier and ono 'lig / country gei feels deeply manner in way in whi '"7" ---- - to say for nit Of eti i 9,550 BOLTS OF CA.NV..&SS (including 1,550 Bolts of 18 inches wide), to be delivered by the 31st of December next. Tenders may be made for any quantity not less than 1,000 Bolts , pro and no Tender will be received unless made on the printed form, the perly Can filled U 1 which, together with " Instructions f or makin g filled may be obtainod on application to this office. No Tender will be received atter One o'clock on the day of treaty, aor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty. and biar in the left hand corner the words " Tender for Canvass," and must al so b e delivered at Sotaerset-place, accompan i e d b y a letter signed by two responsible p er sens. engaging to become bound feir withtlt°6 person tendering, in the sum of 251 . per. cent. on the value , O due p er formance o the Contract. N ° .18,261.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SITN 7 APRIL 3, 1851. [PRICE SD. '.'4 . NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES 26, CORNHILL, LONDON. TAXATION ON IMPARTIAL AND PATRIOTIC PRINCIPLES. Now ready, in BTo., 2s. 6d., TAX A T I ITS NATURE AND PROPERTIES ; 0 N : With Remarks on the Expediency of the Repeal of the Income Tax. By ALEXANDER GIBBON, Esq. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. DINNER TO LORD STANLEY. rithiS good, Id ba naleta DIRECTORS. t*T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. *W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *Hugh Croft, Esq. tElltotson, M.D„ F.R.S. *Ralph Gough, Esq. •M. C. Maher, Esq. *John Moss, Esq. *Joh' Rawson, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq. t*Edmund S. Symcs, Esq. i*Clement Tabor, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq. t*Augustus Vigne, EBq• JEASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET ING of the Shareholders of this Company will be held at the London Tavern, Bi shopsgate-street on THURSDAY, the 17th day of April in stant, at One o'clock precisely, to consider, .and it approved, to autho tNnhseee,,:mbearDkeirtecuthaursw to carry into lull effect, an agreement with the a w ay in co a t, j y u C n c o t T o p n a C ompany tlfio that te ofw o u r , l e rd n x g e N b mi y this ark et Company eom ln y o f urnt a}terms and conditions which will be I aid before the meetin g . And is also proposed to consider, and if al (proved, to authorise the Directors to carry into effect, an agreement with the Eastern Union company for the c onstruction of the Branc:b Line of R ailwa y from meet ing. nu iZtree to Ha rw i ch, uponterms which will be stated to the THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXVI., rill be published Next Week. a boa t the tRN Act' eaffor id AUDITOR. /Professor Wheatttone, F.R.S. pnysictan. tJ. Elliotson, 111.1)„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street. uR /OE, S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, s6E°N Grosvenor-square. CONTENTS: T. Poultry Literature. TI. Women in France—Madame de Maintenon. I [I. Julius Cmsar—Merivalc's Roman History. IV. The Republic in the King's Coaches. V. Sanitary Movement—Centralization. VI. Lives of Calvin. By Dyer, Sze. VII. Lord Holland's Reminiscences. VIII. Lord John Russell. John Murray, Albemarle-street. -- ACTUARY. I*W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., SECRETARY. I'D. T. Lyons C/anchy, Esq. SUPERINTENDENT. ■W. A. Hawkins, Esq. BANKERS. t*Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. ) vio OFFICIAL EXHIBITION CATALOGUES. Advertisements will continue to be received for insertion in the Official Catalogues during the whole time the Exhibition remains open ; but as the Contractors are bound to pay a penalty of 501. a day if they do not deliver the First Edition to the Royal Commission by the 28th of April, those Advertisements intended for the first live seriee of 20,000 each of the Small Catalogue, and for the First Editions of the Illustrated, and French, and German Catalogues, must be sent to the Contractors by the 15th of April. SPICER BROTHERS. Wholesale Stationers) Joint Contractors to the W. CLOWES and SONS, Printers, Royal Commission. Official Catalogue Office, 29, New Bridge-street, Illackfriars. ndeP lerge' DAVID WADDINGTON, Chalimin. By order 131iihopii 'gate Statio n A C. P. RONEY, Secretary . Pril 2, 1851. 3 E WMARKET RACES. MEETING CEN . On Sunday A pril 6 R% a T 4 R N AIN will leave Chesterford for Newmar ket, on arrival of the 1 30 p.m. from London. o. o n . ~fronday and Tu es d ay, 7th and Bth April, a SPECIAL T RAIN as)calling at will le ave London for Newmarket at S h• 45 In." at 6 Orom bourne, Bishops Stortford, and Ches terford, returning Cin B th and 111 th April a TRAIN will leave Newmar ket at 7 p .m., meets at Chesterford the Train due in London at 10 P.m On Ith of April a SPECIAL TRAIN (Ist class) will leave New market for London half an hour after the last race. SOLICITORS, Messrs. Staten, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall- street. *W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE. CAPITAL-500,0001. 0 the nt of nd Tovi' The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As sured 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-ball 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, en 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 Assignment of Policies registered and acknowledged, so as to make them available u securities in the hands of third parties. , A • 7 4,4 neat. into 11 LO O R CL OTH S. Beat Quality Warranted - - 2s. 6d. per square yard. Persian and Turkey pattern - 2s. 9d. do. do. Common Floor Cloth - - 2s. Od. do. do. Japanned Folding-screens from 30s. Cocoa-fibre Mats and Matting.—lndia Matting, Plain and Figured. JOWETT, Manufacturer, 532, New Oxford-street. as it Dielit jje roue • for f the pro , post•_ maul E X II IBITIO 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;-230 feet by 28-180 feet by 40-120 feet by 33—and 150 feet by 28. Netting, Buntin, and Scrims, for Fruit Trees. Emigrant Tents fitted up complete. FEAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. ,The London a n d N orth-Wes t ern and Midland Railways hav r., ,e itteed S. large reduction in Fares, 143 , their circuitous routes oetirden London and t York, Wakefield, Harrogate, Doncaster, • }lull, Sheffield, Bradford, Lincoln, and Irt et and aft er the sth AP/11, 18151; t-erb"°. u4ll' . This R au IS to give notice that the CHARGES of the Great Northern those by the London and North-Western and Midland Route. By order, King's-e ros SEYMOUR CLARKE, General Manager. s, Marsh 31, 1851. Ns Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp. The present ?usual income of the Society from Premiums is 63,0001.; the amount cowered by the Policies of the Society 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 sam assured by each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent. EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED. LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN l'' I I Perma- RAILWAY. ~ 1 d Annual ;Policy) Bonus in neat Re- NEW STATION AT BIRMINGHAM. Age. p i . Pre- taken ; addition Bonus in duction of The Directors are desirous to receive Tenders for the Erection of ; Milan, ant in , to Sum Cash. Annual a tinge of OFFICES, WAITING-ROOMS, and otker Accommoda tion, in conf orm it y w i t h p l ans an d Specifications, to be famished by ....... __Assured. Premium. Mr. Baker, the Company's Engineer. --, ----- The Directors are also ready to receive Designs and Tenders for 1 $ a. .1. Xs d. Xs. d. an IRON and GLASS ROOF over the said Station, under conditions 1837 i 292 6 9 139 16 9 1 88 8 43 3 02 8 ! 267 11 4 126 17 2 22 13 1 19 19 7 to be furnished by the Company's Engineer. 60 X X s.d. 212431 12 18 6 6 113 17 7 17 8 8 Parties proposing to Tender for the station Works and Roof, are requested to meet at Mr. Baker's Office, 24, Waterloo-street, Bir-93 16 8 14 010 Mingliatn, at One o'clock. on MONDAY, the 14th of April instant, to lOOO 74 3 4 1841 189 12 6 89 510 13 tll inspect the Drawings and Specification , and to appoint a person to 1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 1 1 8 3 take out the quantities with the Architect employed for that purpose 1843 11l 10 10 55 10 10 8 1 1 110 by the Railway Company. 1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 9 Sealed Tenders, addressed to the Secretary of the Compa n y, mus t 1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 410 1 be delivered at the Euston Station, London, on or before Tuunsrav, Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium the Bth of May next. kfivi.,.... ay..we. T... , ...e. I nrn far Tenet Armee in Tropical Climates. Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climate!. EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE. Capital-500,0 001 . (Incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.) The leading principles of this Office are.—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 tree rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap goached 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 °face will, by a constant analysis of its own experience, from time to time, 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 fitty per cent. of the nett excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have been in force for three years. Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected by this Company upon every description of Pronerty 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. 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, Secretaries. C. E. STEWART, Birinimgham, April 2, 1851. EPSOM SPRING RACES. GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES. TO-MORROW (Friday), April 4, a SPECIAL TRALN will leave London-bridge Station at TWO P.R. FREDERICK SLIGHT, Secretary. Brighton Railway Terminus, London, April 3, 1361. • LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, Licensed ARGYLL ROOM by S, Act GREAT of Parliament. WINDMILL STREET, ST. JAMES'S. (Role Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., b 7, Brompton-square.) OPEN EVERY EVENING, With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND. Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulcourt. Doors open at Ralf-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commence at Nine and terminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely. Admission, One Shilling. x[Ectirs TABLE CUTLERY has long been famed for its admirable qualities, combined with cheapness. llistnanufactory is at 4, Leadenhall-street, four doors from Cornhill. :n ßalance d - handles, in sets of 50 pieces, 21. 105., 31. 10s., 41. 10s. ; inon kitchen, per dozen, 105., 125 ., 16s. 6d., 218., 255 . Table g l ' o ` txt el ' Patent !sharpeners, cases of dessert knives. Sheffield plated 21 Mochis penknives are excellent and economical, from Z___llPwards. His peculiar steel razors and magic strop and paste sivt_ren comfort to many a suffering shaver, and the ladies pro his scissors to be unequalled. Fl '''Fir T HOUSAND CURES have been Bkn*'n es cted Mithout M edicine, Inconvenience, or Expense, by DU nft;tl 8 Delic io us REVALENTA AItABICAIFOOD, which save I mon. , ala its cost in other remedies. : Tivent e e A few out of 50,000 testi debrnty, f - 'wee years' n ervousness constipation, indigestion, and Eleine eourldleirewnahoivehe olrhaelreliseavffe er d ' great misery, and which no me i/3 ar r y ' s health -restoring Food in have short time. been effectually cured by Du very if v.. x,ight years' dyspepsia, r ass, debility, with cramps, REEVES, Pool Anthony, Tiverton." "m aitY ha answer en nausea, foir:hich ie my re s al er a vant had consulted , the advice , ve nee, effectually removed by Du Barry s delicious answer any inquiries. ... a very short time. I shall be happy to 4 Rev. , _ . JOIIN NV. FLAVELL, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." 1 Three years' f , left arrn -.. --cessivo nervousness, with pains in my neck and miser -I "R. general debility, which rendered my life very able, .11 bed.. as been radically removed by Du Barry's health-restoring t National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. * Equitable Fire. t• Both Offices. Similar ALEX. STUART, Archdeacon of Ross, Skibbereen." Barlow, Dileatinionials from Lord Stuart de Decies ; Mr. Samuel flatulency, D a rlington, a cure of twenty years' dyspepsia, constipation, King,t College, Cambridge, irritability ;, William Hunt, Esq., barrister-at-law, t p i a m rt e ial u Cambridge, p e araly s i, , who, after suffering sixty years from has regained the use of his limbs in a very short Bucke,Pan this excellent food ; the Rev. Charles Kerr, of Winslow, I.l l6 ___ I ~ recording the cure of a lady Bromley, cure of functional disorders ; Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, duringDias. Norfolk, Pregnan cy ; from constipation and sick- Mrs. Maria Jolly Worthen), of Ling, near t . h ., " [ Mk, a cure of fifty years' indescribable agony from dys ,,ol2ll,uneryous,...., . ..,; 6, asthma, cough, flatulency, spasms, nausea, and e roas g' , Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham ,' Herta, a cure of extreme nervousness. indigestion, and ga therings;ofte o years' dvspepsia and nervous irritability ; M. . W. Grantham. eanears, of gout ; Mr. Joseph Walters, Broadwell Colliery, Oldbury, Earl, Ilirintrighain, a cure ef angina pectoris Mr. Hugh Evoy, f.: ard, cured when given up as too far gon e ; Doctors Ure and !L e arvey ;' James Shortland. Esq ,INo. 3, Sydney-terrace, Reading, ; late surgeon in the 96th Regiment, a cure or dropsy; James Di7,, rkster, Esq-, Athol -st ree t , Perth, a cure of th i rteen years ' coug h, " g e neral debility. A. copious extract of 50,000 cures sent gratis Da Barry and Co. _Sold in canisters, with full instructions, weighing lib . , 2 s. 9d. ; - i t ) , 4 s. 6cl._; 51b., I Is ; 121 b., 225. • super-refined quality, 101 b., 33 s. ; b., 2ps. De Barry ' and Co., 1 27, New Bond-street, London; and through all Grocers Chemists, and Booksellers. CAU TION.—Th e health of man v p-rsons having been seriously ..lured by .. Arabian Itevalenta," -.. E rva l e nta, ,, .. Lentil Powder." r 'Pa tent Flour of L en til s, " " Arabica Food, " an d ot her spurious corn- Cands under imitation of name, or called similar by their unscrupu ocomPounders, it will be ne c essary to note Messrs. Du Barry and , near itless name on each canister, in order to avoid being imposed upon by knavery. DIY BARRY'S PULMONIC BON-BONS, a nice, safe, and effec tual remedy for coughs, colds, asthma, and all affections of the lungs, throat, and voice, are of unrivalled excellence. In boxes, Is. 1 d., 28 . 9d„ 4s. 6d.; or, post free, Is. 4d., 3s. 3d., ss. 2d. ~..Dll BARRY and CO., 127, N ew B on d- s t ree t, L on d on; F o rt n um, sltson, and Co.; Hedges and Butler ; Abbiss, 60, Gracechurch-street ; S kelton, 49, Bishopsgate-street Within ; also at 4, Cheapside ; 451 ~ ellalld 109, Strand; and th rough all respectable Chemists, Grocers, and z ooks era. VIE POWER OF MONEY. Some men hoard their wealth, and do nobody good, While by others it's foolishly spent ; Bnt MOSES, who long by the public have stood, Remember why money was sent ; JiY commanding the markets, they buy a large stock Of the best, when the prices are cheap, And they alw%ys 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 prefuse, . To deal fairly are always inelined. 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 wh le, • 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 cheaper and better than all. Then MOSES and SON, may they long keep their health, And of money the benefit reap, For they share with the public the use of their wealth, And supply them with clothes, good and cheap. A handsome Almanac, for the year 1851, can be had gratis, on .. T .he new edition of application. " Everybody's Book, containing a full report -late important trial, may be had gratis, on application, or by post free. Upon AIOSES and SON have no connexion with any other house in t of London, except the following t4tondon City Establishmext, 151, 155, 156, and 157, Minories, 83, 4 6 , and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. 2 44 ,Z 0 West-end Branch, — Ms 007, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2, kiart.treet, all communicating. hilklford "Yorkshire " Branch, 19, Bridge-street. T h t el L e ht Branch, 36, Fargate. Inaj o ," l .. Clothiers, Hatters, 110 sters. Furriers Boot and Shoe -.%and General Outfitters for Ladles and Gentlemen. turd„ e _ E stabllehmenta are closed from sunset Friday to sunset "J. when business is restireed till Twelve o'clock. lei Pon parle Francaise. Qui si parla Italian. later spricht man Deutsch. Aqui ae habla Espanol, b it • CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS . E. be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-ro w ; carr a ih n; Rut on e maim, 39, Cornhill ; or direct trout the author , ll° Shi lling each by post, Is, 6d. ENJOYMENT OF LIFE. do "Realth, Recreation, and rational Use of Time." itt ret worrs;__E arly Rising —s pr ing and Summer Morninge_ Ex . /Ports's a bout the Environs of London—The P arks, L anes. gills l 'r l Paii,,, P l el ds, High-roads, and other Pleasant places—country s 'ituir" "arables—The Sea—London at Night —Evening. at it e " —T heDranaa—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Ai r ; O ccupation, toc., tit443l "/TTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Vols. ra rr Vol I. TO TIM LAwirS; SwiIITCH,OF EDLNBURGII, &a. Tax Vol.II. "AIMS or XELLARNEY REMINISCENCE) Or DUBLIN, ace. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. t.,...at three score years and ten our course may run." Votr, 4 , l ar review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner the )','„.„...."301111tated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses bitt.,,, , b ee ts s the man o f pl easure , b us i ness , or s t u dy, a n d em -07 Mk% . With tables and rules tbr the diet and physical regu eNsrlfa TV. " THE PASSIONS. What passions hurt the body—what improve, I hrbon.. Vr ztka as refined as Ath ens ever h ear d . " 444 -Llfe's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent __Nentii:Z°Z3. Chs.stity and ita infringements. The casualties of vAild re%3 and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, 1414thqs• Adv ocacy of early marriages., TUE, MARRIAGE STATE. 1,1101:0 be or not to be, that is the question." ream' — Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re ng , 1,„ marriage , to be observed by either sea. Time and Virf, '^na sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and % I r healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. .. s fs, 14.-7.om:was and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. SWELL, 14;a. crrn vx 43, WELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.R.A. CZE:Ave years Medical and Fcretude Referee in these 4 tyll.by;7l l l hours daily till flvs. Vvtnings, WWI tn. , nine. `-"". AegbUtelll(let, 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 England, and but two in Ireland—one for 5001. and the other for 2601.—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, 1949, and the 31st of Slay, 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. hiixteen Policies lapsed, representing 6,0481., upon which 3201. 3e. 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. lie. 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 I st of June last e q ual t o 2,9911. 15s. 11d. Since last meeting loans were applied for to the extent of 17,7001., but 1,1831. 119. 10e1. 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 Parisis, 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 bath 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 7th day of April next, and on any subsequent day (Tuesdays excepted) between the hours 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. OR. LAISIERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH _ A.ND MA TURTTY. With Plain Directions for their Prevention, and Cure. FIFTY COLOURED FACGIEtAvTNGS ON STEEL. /wit published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian, in a meaiect Envelopo, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Authoi, for forty-two Stamps, SELF-PRESERVATION; I a Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity, lsnollY acquired at an early period of life., which destroy the physical and 'mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Maishoo4 • with Practical observations on the certain Prevention and successfl Treatment of Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from India ration, as adopted by Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent mem bers of the faculty in France. With Fifty coloured Engravings, illustrating the knatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Re productive Organs, amplaining their strnettn es, uses, and ftmetiens, and the various Injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, end infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MEHT, M.D., 3T, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Nan 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 physiology 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 he consulted with ad vantage by all those whose constitutions may have become debili tated through secret practices acquired is youth, or by the excesses of later years, whereby the pleasures of life are marred, the objects of marriage frustrated, and existence itself rendered a term of un ceasing misery and regret. Published by the Atithor, and may be had of .T. Gilbert, 49, Pater noster-row; Hannay, 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, tram ten till two. and from six till eight IN SIX LANGUAGES —FORTIETH EDITION. CONTAINING THE REMDISEDYEASE FOR THE PREVENTION OF Ilustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings on 01 PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. A Sow and Improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, price 21. 6d. by post, direct front the Establishment. 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, All Communications being strictly conftdential, the Authors have discontinued the publishing of Cases. T" SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the exhaustion and physical decay of the system, produced by excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abase of mercury, with explicit directions for the use of the preventive lotion, followed by observations en the Married State, and the disqualifica- Ilona which prevent it. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By organs,• and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-street, Oxtord-street, Lon don, Published by the Authors ; and sold by strange , 21, Pater noster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford - street; and Gor don,i I. tr eats of the ana t omy 4 6. Leade n h a ll- s t ree t London. PART and physiology of the re-productive 1. s illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PARAL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing Ren tal and b°4ll 3' weakness nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. Illustrat e d by ylO Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from imection, either in the primary or secondary fe ria. and contains explicit directions for th e ir treatment. This sectio n illustrated by 62 Coloured Engrav is lags. PART IV. contains a Remedy for he Prevention notesca p o e f th Disease erea by y e r , a s s'mple application, by which the h a nged of infection is obviated. This important part the Work notice. PAnT V. is devoted for he eonsideration f m , irr i xrn whole subject critically and philosophically i r r" ties. The causes of unpductive o considered, and the union aree,------_, and its du ties. CORDIAL BALI( OF SFRIACOM 18 exr ir us d in" , Its. and 335. treating nervous and sexual debility, impote nce, v 2ly employe d in par bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an age, habits, and remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I is. 335. per bottle, Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 43. 6d ' per box, a certain remedy for gonorrho3a, Met, striuctuu;:l.etlantlegrd: ~ an d minute inflam c l it i. ronl A c m d a e r ml on o o f f tthhee,casblad2diserr.egaired: Consultation fee , posi tion in society. 51. PaCketa, with advice , to be had at the ,t. -ls'islextent only by which the fee, 11., is saved. Messrs. Perry, Sirgeons, are in attendance daily at 19, Tienaers-street. Oxford.: Street, London, from Eleven till Two, and Five to Zight ; en s un _ apt from &Ism to Ono. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE . 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 bas been received from the Exchequer Loan Commissioners; and it is satisfactory to the di rectors to be 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 be en 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. Reman, 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 fur. 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 Athalis ' 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 bo 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 CHAIRMAN, on moving the adoption of the re ports, said he thought they might be considered satis factory. Their great difficulty was that the affairs cf the country were not in such a prosperous state as to yield them that legitimate amount of profit which they had reason to contemplate. Re believed that the worst 'as 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 confirming the forfeiture of 970 shares. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, APRIL 2. STOCK EjECIIANGII.—The market has been active to-day, and prices improved. The transactions were as follow:-- Bristol and Exeter, 82—Great Western, 86%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, b 9. ' LIVERPOOL, APRIL 2. . STOCK EXCHANGII.—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. an! B.), 20% e.—Caledonian, 13% Chester and Holyhead, Preference, guaranteed 5 1 ,E per cen., 16 1 4—East Lancashire, 16%—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 57%—Ditto, Fifths, 634 dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 171— London anti North- Western, 127—Ditto, New Quarters, 4 3 4 p.—Midland. 594—Ditto, Halves. 14% dis.—North British, 934—North Staffordshire, 7 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 26—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, 1646 — Lancashire and Yorkshire, 5734—Ditto, Fifths, 6% die.— Leeds and Thiisk 16%—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire, 33%—South-Eastern and Dover. 264. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 2. STOCK 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 CO V I per share. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND NOATII-WESTERN RAILWAT.—Return Ol 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 39,690 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, 1731)—Traffic for the week ending March 29: Passengers ... ... ... A:5,549 18 1 Goods ... ... ... ... 1,986 17 11 Total ... Z 7,536 16 0 Corresponding week last year... 5,262 7 9 SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. Gross traffic receipt's 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 ... 9,605 7 6 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.—(MiIes open,ll2.) 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) .. 11 4 LONDON AND BLACRWALL RAILWAY.—Amount of revenue for the week ending March 30:— £795 11 9 Passengers Goods 22 0 0 Total ...£Bl7 11 9 Corresponding week last year ... 709 14 5 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.Traffie 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 MOLD. Passengers ••• £37 5 0 Parcels, H. C. and D. ••• 0 14 2 Goods, cattle, &c. 118 5 11 Total £l5l 5 1 STEADS-BOATS. Passengers ... £lO9 7 2 Parcels, H. C. and D. ... II 17 4 Total ... £l2l 4 6 SrutorsmaE UNION RAILWAY.—(Open 29 miles.)_Traffic for the weekending March 30 rcels : Passengers, pa &c. ....£297 12 10 Goods and lime stock 1. 7 Total „.. £5OB 14 5 Corresponding week last year ... 422 10 ei 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 granted 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 thb royal arms, and the armorial bearings of officers of the Cutlers' Company. The dinner was lirovided by Messrs. Bathe and Co., of the London Tavern, and was of the most recherche 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, air] several of his leading friends, and was received with loud manifestations of applause. Among 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 toun, Colonel Powell, the Earl of Delawarr, Sir C. Knightley, Viscount Combermere, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, the Duke of Richmond, Mr. Disraeli, the Duke of Northumberland, the Earl of Lonadale, Mr. Croker, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Henley, the Master of the Merchant Taylors' Com pany, Lord Redesdale, Mr. Walpole, 14rd Willoughby D'Eresby, Mr. C. C. Bruce, the Earl of lialmesbury, Mr. Mackenzie, Earl Nelson, Mr. Beresford, Viscount Lewisham, Viscount Strangford, Mr. Millie, Earl Somers, Lord Southampton, Mr. J. Stuart, Viscount Hereford, Lord Sandy's, Mr. Grogan, the Eirl 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 Chandoa, Colonel Chat terton, Lord G. Manners, Lord Castlemaine, Lord Bayning, the Earl of Sheffield, Mr. G. F. Young, Lord"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, lion. F. Scott, Lord E. Hill, Mr. Wadding ton, Captain H. Wynn, 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, Mr. 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, the Earl of Longford, Lord C. Hamilton, Lord Feversham, Sir R. G. Booth, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Kilmaine, Sir W.:.W ,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. Kerrison, 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 Desart, 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 cf Enniskillen, Viscount Exmouth, the Earl of Chester. field, Sir H. hl eux, 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 CHAIRMAX tben 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 Hardwicke 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 alto looked to him with that confidence with which Englisinen ever regarded a person who had never sacrificed principle for power—(Loud cheers) but who, abiding by the Stanley motto "Sans changer," had followei 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 undertike the task of forming a Mi nistry, the Noble Lord hadlhown that he was not actuated by any desire to grasp at office or power; and be 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 had 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."—( the 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 yeti 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 after 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 have 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 f 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 whieh 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.—(Hear, hear.) I rejoice that this meeting is not held in some purely agricultural district, among those who are individually and personally 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)—under 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 simlar assembly.— (Hear, hear.) It is diffi cult for us not to pause over the lapse of thirteen years which have already passed by since, from the place where I stand, we heard in language far more powerful and more emphatic than I can use the soundest lessons of natimial policy—(Cheers)—the soundest doctrines of attach ment to our Protestant institutions and to our Pro testast Church, and the most able vindication of our Protec tionist policy, from the lips of Sir Robert Peel.—(Cheere.) 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 assumes 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 R. 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 fair protection.- (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 the 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 in 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 H. 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 arose one whose life unhappily was too soon deceased-one whose noble and generous nature was insensible to fear, ex cept the fear of shame and dishonour- (Hear)-one in whom were combined high resolve, feeling strong, dauntless energy, and laborious 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 my departed friend, because 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 sore 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 my own political views? " he ought to ask, " Is it for the good of the country that such an administra tion shoul 1 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 com • 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 in 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 -though though I don't deny that there is increasing activity-I 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 its our cotton trade! How largely, f with all the advantages , of free trade, have cotton inftnouganc7 d turers and cotton producers increased their consumptti?o the amount of their trade? Shall we say 25 per Will that be too large an increase in the amount of e the There m cotton t trade since 1846? Shall we say 10 per cent ? surely be five per cent? No 1 the fact-and startling as it is, it is an undoubted fact, that in 1860 the consumption of cotton, the amount of cotton taken int o consumption and to the foreign market falls short of the amount of consumption in the year 1846 by 100,00 0 bales , or 40,000, 000 lb., or, what equivalent to the w ould be give most formidable fea turea better idea of the amount by t 200,000,000 yards of calico. 13 u t with sihgrellg findard to thatr a t t c h t e h e d r e in this case-and I believet the same the matter Were otlt it would be found equally trades- is that in the co ttonh trade same we it great increase of the foreign trade has been at least equalled, if not exceeded, by the diminution of the consuming power at home, consequent up on the diminution of capital. O ne other symptom of ou r prosperity I may mention. Between 1814 and 1843 the amount chargeable under the in come -t ax as the profits of trade and commerce had increased from • 34,000,000/. to 60,000,000/. That was in the days of pro . tection-when commerce was kept down-when commerce was fettered by obnoxious restrictions-before its prison doors were broken °Per', and perfect freed om was g i ven i t to ta k e i ts flight with indefinite liberty. But what had been the increase in trades and professions in the days of free trade, from 1846 to 1850? There has not only been no increase, but there has been a decrease of above 1,000,000/. th i s year. Between 1847 and 1850 the annual amount of profit on trades and professions has fallen from 00,700,000/, 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, go you benefit Qua clag and one only —those consumers who are not producers in their turn. Toil 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. 1 de precate hasty and ill-considered and violent changes, and in this course of downward progress in which we are i nvolved, 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. I would say watch the progress that has already t a k e , 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 af forded this is not the time to consider. My Hon. Friend, t' - e chairman, has complimented me on having frankly, as I felt it my duty to do, stated in 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. My 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 this country), and at the same 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 m a y 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 admit to be in manner, that insolent and offensive aggres ssion—(Hear, hear, and loud cheers)—which has taken place under the authority of a foreign prelate upon the independence and national liberties of this 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 laughter)—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—(Loud 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 an 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 1 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 be 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 au insect, however small, may produce, though the bite of the insect is net 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 daclaration 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 superstitious fears of the death-bed, for the purpose of robbing heirs and relations. —(Loud and continued cheering.) Still less do I con sider it to be an authority essential to the free exercise of religion to prohibit acts in themselves legal, or enjoin acts it 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 ms duty, while I do not press for a more extensive application measures - measures than those which the Government themselves h thought fit to institute, in the first instance to t ake care in Parliament, so far as I can, that that which the Go v Government e do check —(Cheers) w e I really shall certainly not see that that which the Government professes to make shal g l not ve effectual shall be really and substantially effectual. — (Cheers. ) I feel how long I have detained your-(hear) — a n d how un grateful a return t b h e e satisfiedm th e if 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 myself in your hands with the fullest and frankest unreserve; for, believe me, it is only by the communion and interchange of feel ings and opinions, by :an assurance that the members of a are actuatedby one party that any party either can or ought to be guided. A party must feel itself bound together by the strong links of prin 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 nie for saying —and they would despise me if I did not declare it—that to no body of men 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 I 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, hear)—in their hands will be the destinies of this country for good or for evil for a length of time which it is impossible to predict.—(Hear.) My belief is, that if the great constitutional party should prevail— if they should be strong enough to administer the affairs of the country by a steady maintenance of our institu tions in Church and State, by maintaining the Protestant es tablishment, by maintaining the great branches of industry in this country, by watching to see in what direcrelief may be safely and beneficially afforded to the interests strug gling with difficulties not of their own creawtioen. i . I believe f nconsidered that going steadfastly forward in the patlino ddeformed op improvement, by offering steady, firm , a position to revolutionary changes, this grea t country m ay 5 now surround e d, escape from the difficulties by which it and we may have the happiness and satisfaction of seeing, under stability under a Conservative Administration increased security to our'. roteetant es given to the Throne, increased.s t as and increased (.1 increased tablishments and national institu h happi ness to all those various classes which, in t e aggregate, great body politi c o f thi s o f the form the different members country.—(Loud and prolo n g ed cheering.) M r. ALVO LE proposed, the Duke of Richmond and the House of Lords.' The toast was d ru nk with great enthusiasm. The Duke of Rwsiatoscn y Lords and Gentlemen, I rise under f ee lings of the greatest difficulty Vendeavour to re turn you thanks fo r the cordial manner in which you have drunk he House of Lords. Io so because I am well aware that there are m any Members of that House here present who could much more adequately convey their thanks than the humble jaiTiCh l4l Wig) Id now addreeeliag ycu, I am called the Hon. Gentleman haVtold you-+as an old ' an old servant of my Sovereign ; but I lay claim beyond the proud position of b e i ng an English istleman ; and I must say that the House of Lords v grateful to the Right Hon. Gentleman for the which he has proposed the toast to you—for the dch you have received it.—(Cheers.) Permit me 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 the people of England, for having permitted us to join with you in paying honour where honour is due.—( Hear.) We have not forgotten, in the House of Lords, that Lord Stanley resigned the high and responsible situation of one of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of State because he refused to abandon those principles which had led that Cabinet to:office.— (Cheers.) Gentlemen,you havealready heard his splendid eloquence, and you have also seen that Lord Stanley has carried on with energy and skill-with energy of purpose and straightforwardness of conduct- his opposition to the measures of her Majesty's Government.— (Loud cheers) lam one of those who think we require something more than splendid abilities—we require 'that the individual who holds office should be faultless in his private character. I have ever felt that 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 hunts ' merable blue books and studied political economy.—(Ch eers and laughter.) There are here present many P eers o f G rea t Britain and Ireland whose ancestors gained th e i r ran k an d privileges in many a well-fought battle-field, a n d w h os e heroic ac hi evements were equalled only by the transcendent talent displayed by others at the bar and in the senate. He asked, did any one of them gain their well-merited honours by submitting to pressure from without, or truckling to po pular clamour ? (Loud cries of "No.") No, they might depend upon it that it was the duty of the House of Lords to check rash legislation and hasty and unwise decisions—it was their duty to give the people of England time calmly to consider the measures brought forward. He knew their anythinglik e wishacts of injustice, and he felt satisfied h tlaa tr t e entirely to destroy the agricul tural interest: , of that country—to cripple many of the operatives er ''ed t d h t e o y c could not -la manufactures—to injure their shipping interest 'stroar their colonial possessions. Give the people only time to reflect, and he believed they would find that if it was seen legislation had been directed t to such objects, they would soon insist on having it amended. They looked forward with confidence to the time when their ' Noble Friend at the head of a strong Government would be ' - called upon to advise her Majesty in these d angerous times. ,c —(Loud cheers.) He did not think his Noble Friend would ever be placed in the position to appoint some colonel or ether to defend the metropolis, who would be ready t o declare that ho would rather have a foreign foe in possession of the city of London than that protection should be re stored.—(Great laughter.) All be m id say was, that the only possible chance there was of seeing a foreign army in that eountry 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 be 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, I am 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 representa 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 had the honour of being a Member of 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 separated 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.) [ propose to you, gentlemen, " The House of Commons and Mr. Disraeli." The toast was responded to with the utmost cordiality and heartiness. Mr. DISRAELI, on presenting himself, was loudly and re peatedly cheered. He said—As one of the rank and 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 accident and not merit has placed in a prominent position; but it is owing to the moral qualities of the troops —(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 Jean 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 coms pleted organisation—we had not in that House the influence of leaders who, from official experience or political pc:wait:a, 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 etTorts 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.—(Llear, 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 offer :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 of all classes in the sate. We have indeed opposed that-ere roneous system which, under the specious plea of terminating class legislation, has succeeded in ars eying class a gainst class. —(Hear, hear.) Instead of this, we have counselled rather for what , reason rai m tg h a s ‘ d t. ,s e e, t i la s e b 7 ca ri u et s y 3 a system of policy which would substitute.t fdo(rchshouoerucahelrici.asr.:vae•hTotiltheniite-is gttiheoennugairrnyeea characteristic erroneous theories that ordo et e con sest o f t h the Roman 'D o f m t a h n e c o statesmenm e - ) ea s s ' t esi s . t ta '. might of fs letlnation ea great,tei indeed loenm ei sno andmtf elements of the tods, t eofe hiuweap:n:o_cfoht a powerful,tt ~,,o v es o raf f i onne o rrtd, u e. r si. , ocoh p fo iesmsnr classes—because composed? ou very rei divided and distributed andtabnr t e l th disseminated e privileges, dei, ee d and such fearful ao u nr t fg i u e duties, and . varietyhave fa b tea been o n e f i mcts e classes,n all equal De ed a sound fabric which shall not become the have produced t h e y have reduced the political formula to the un conscious victim of those popular bursts of passion which other countries, have pro f'aonattliicaatl excesses of liberalism in the stern repression of hear.) We are a l ways prepared to de of the country—institutions embody ingftehne de fend the th e goit.— institutions principles uiteioTn of power and protection, of justice and order, of liberty and religion.—(Hear, hear.) It is these institutions, supported by these classes, that has made this country great, and 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 before Members in the House of Co - nmons, supported as they are by the great bulk of the community without its walls, it is our great duty to support and maintain those institutions (Loud cheers)—to support these institutions because they embody those principles, and because upon those prin ciples this I am the social fabric of our country has hitherto been built. I apprehend that is our principal duty; and so, standing the country as the champions of that ancient form of govern. ment, with all those alterations which we believe to be ins. find no longer in Eng provements, we shall, I doubt not, obtain the sympathies of the greatest. causes that m an; and if we succeed we the great body of the community. And of sure— if we be mistaken in our views—if we that_has yet devolved on the Eng land that sympathy with institutions whi ch have made Eng land great, we shall fail in one of ever enlisted the sympathies of C o mmons must almost personally shall fulfil one of the great duties subjects of any state.—(Cheering.) I cannot but refer to the circumstances under which we have met this day. Every for the counsel which has never Member of the House of be aware how much we are indebted to the Noble Lord who gu ide in our most difficult cireumstances, beenhas reproposedjected rejected, ent which was always ready, and for the spirit which animated us in our most trying the adviser and t h e perfect sympathy which has been sustained moments, between the heaths, gem private life, and lent animation to our public Noble Lord and ourselves, has lent pleasure and career.--( I am sure there is no one who has acted with interest h i m who does not feel as much private gratification, as he will , as a subject of the state, feel public gratitude to the circumstances which have brought about results that will tnoectehsasnakryyt:ut in n e contribute to the greatness of the country, and confirm all to bers.) those institutions which we have been led to believe to be greatness of this land.—(Cheers.) I beg the name of the house of Commons for the highest reward you could have bestowed upon them fur the faithful discharge of their duty.—(Cheers.) The health of the chairman was then proposed by Lord STANLEY, and Mr. BARING briefly returned thanks. The Earl of EGLINTOUN proposed " Prosperity to the City Moan-sow, and the party separated at twelve o'clock. of London," which was acknowledged by M r. Alderman 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. M`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 glass might be used for the purposes of inte rior decoration, and bad placed it on a van to convey it to ligu3s•dt of wind,e-park,but before any cor d could be p ut u p on it, a strong sweeping along Jerinyn-street, lifted the 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 on the pavement, face undermost. The consequence was, that ono of the large glass panels was sashed into a hundred " . g. pieces, and a ve ry beautiful composition, which had occupied, t h e exhibitor's attention and labour for the past nine months, - a l mo st bopelessly destroyed. $o• I 0 the lould Is t the iende post CIO lar,i o nd. lsy. , ntied, retW t he its 0 ' d b 8 ler 0 ' 10 de: 100' ad of ,red 0 0 1. rhici s jd t°' de efor. 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