The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-19 00:00:00

,~ ~t I ~' P r • .if ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE TRADESMEN'S CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. Last evening the anniversary dinner of the members of this association was held in the Music Hall, Bold-street. It has been customary to keep these festivals in the more spa cious building of the Amphitheatre, but owing to its being let to other parties it was found impossible on this occasion to obtain it, and the Music Hall, being the only other public building in Liverpool fit or spacious enough for such a festive ._celikkeAtiox.thrrapaiillss . y,ilze compelled to take it, though greatly insufficient in accommodation. The gallery over the entrance doors was appropriated to the ladies, for whom 300 seats were provided. The Chair man's table was placed upon the elevated platform at the other, or top end of the room, from which speakers usually address meetings, when held in the Music flail : the body of the hall was taken up with five long tables, the whole length of the hall, which were to accommodate 400 gen tlemen. The highly respected president of the association, Samuel Holme, Esq., occupied the chair, and .John Wilkinson and Joseph Cooper, Esqrs., acted as vice-chairmen. To the chairman's right were seated Lord Viscount Sandon, M.P. for the Borough, the Hon. R. B. Wilbraham, M.P. for the Southern Division of the County, Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P. for East Worcester, Sir Thomas Brancker, Jas. Aspinall, Esq. Ex-Mayor; Duncan Gihb, Esq„ T. B. Horsfall, Esq., John Roby, Esq., of Rochdale; P. Greenall, Esq., of St. Helen's; Nicholas Robinson, Esq., G. H. Lawrence, Esq., and J. A. Tinne, Esq. To the chairman's left sat C. Cress well, Esq., M.P. for the Borough ; J. B. West, Esq., late M.P. for Dublin; Rev. Rector A. Campbell, AM., Thos. Bright Cross, Esq., late High Sheriff; C. Lawrence, Esq., Thomas Moss, Esq., William Smith, Esq., R. Gladstone, Esq., Alexander Smith, Jun., Esq., and T. M Gladstone, Esq.; and numerous other gentlemen of some note in the neighbourhood, sat in other parts of the Halt. The tickets for the dinner were a guinea each; and the dinner, which was very magnificently got up, was provided by Mr. Lawton, of the Rainbow Tavern, on whom it re flected great credit. The tables were very splendidly deco rated, and ornamented with numerous large and costly mo dels of churches, temples, houses, domes, &c., loaded with sweetmeats. We especially remarked two models of Grecian temples on the chairman's table, the aides of which were of looking glass, and surmounted by an elegant dome, supported by pillars in imitation of marble. On the top of one of these, was a very beautiful full-sized imperial crown of velvet, with the jewels represented by confectionary, and tinder the dome, a small carved full-length likeness of the Queen. At the other end of the table, was a similar temple, surmounted by the implements of war, in white sugar, and underneath, a full-length carved figure of the Duke of Wellington. On one of the tables at the side of the hall, was a very splendid large model of the fort and lighthouse, surrounded by an imitation of the green waves of the sea; and coming round the rock, a very beautiful model of a full-rigged ship. The whole most elegantly finished. Some idea may he formed of this by the height of the tower of the lighthouse, which was about three feet from the summit to the table. On the other side of the hall, on the side-table opposite to this model, was a model of a water•mtll at full work, the wheel being turned by water, which by some contrivance, was made to revolve, and keep up the supply. This was also finished with great taste, and was a perfect picture. The chair was a curiously carved old masonic chair, behind which was the Liverpool arms. This was surmounted by Mr. Holme's crest. Above this, against the wall, was the motto—" Church, Queen, and Country," which was illumined by the Royal cipher, and a large crown in jet gas, which looked very beautiful. To the right and left of the chairman were hung some beautiful prints, in handsome frames, of distinguished statesmen. There was also a full-length and splendid print of her Majesty, from the recent painting for which her Majesty sat, taken for the people of the United States of America. The other prints were of the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Sandon, Lord Francis Egerton, Lord Sidmouth, Lord Lyndhurst, Sir W. Follett, Load Wharncliffe, the Duke of Newcastle, &c. The wall to the right of the chairman was covered with the very beautiful flag of the Tradesmen's Conservative Associa tion, and to the left by the splendid banner of the South Lancashire Conservative Association. The centre of the side walls of the hall were hung with the splendid new ban ners of Abercrombv and St. Paul's Municipal Wards. The banner of Abercromby Ward had a very beautiful full-sized portrait of her Majesty painted on the silk; and that of St. Paul's Ward, a small painting of St. Paul's Church ;—both wore finished in very costly style. Every inch of the other parts of the walls was covered with the silk banners of Everton, Kirkdale, Pitt -street, Lime-street, West Derby, St. Anne's, and other Wards; and union-jacks and royal standards in abundance. Against the wall at the bottom of tin Hall, in large characters, were written the words " San don and Cresswell," and "47186" and "4632," the number of electors that polled for each respectively at the last elec tion. Au excellent company of glee singers were in attendance. The gentlemen of the press were accommodated at the top of one of the centre tables, and we have to tender our thanks for the attention shown to us in the fulfilment of our arduuus task. The whole of the room was brilliantly lighted with gas, and when all the seats were occupied by gentlemen, and the gallery adorned by the gay presence of the ladies, with the brilliant lights and profuse garniture and ornaments, it pre sented a rich and magnificent spectacle. Dinner was on the table at five o'clock, half an hour be fore which time the ladies were admitted, and then com menced the busy din of knives and forks, and the other con comitants of the masticatory process. Grace having been sung, and dinner eaten, the cloth was removed. After which " Non nobis domino" had been sung, The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the first toast. Lle said, gentlemen, when I remember that the female who now graces the British throne, I think I might appeal to your gallantry, as well as to your l oya l ty, to rece i ve t h e fi rst toast, is which it not more my duty than my privilege ta give; and I am satisfied that there is not an individual in this room who will not cordially respond to the sentiment which I have on my list as the first toast. I beg to propose to you " the Queen, the Duchess of Lancaster, (as we drink her in this county) and may her throne be established in the af fections of a free people." The toast was given amidst almost interminable rounds of cheering. Anthem—" God save the Queen," which was loudly applauded at its political allusions. The CHAIRMAN again rose. I have now, gentlemen, to propose for your acceptance the health of another illustrious lady; and I trust that her sojourn in the Mediterranean may conduce to the re-establishment of her health. (Hear.) It cannot be too well known, that such was the attachment of this illustrious lady to our country, that although, for the re establishment of her health, she was advised to sojourn at the island of Madeira, she came to the resolution, although nut so beneficial to herself, to go to the island of Malta, because it was a British settlement (cheers), and that the money she received from Great Britain might be expended in one of Great Britain's settlements. I beg, therefore, to propose to von the health of " her Majesty the Queen Dowager ; ' and I will include with it " the rest of the Royal Fatuity." The toast was given with three times three cheers. Glee.—" My dear Mistress." The CHAIRMAN—"The army and navy." Glee—" Britain's best bulwarks." The CHAIRMAN.—I am quite sure gentlemen, that the next sentiment which appears upon my list is one tl.at will meet a hearty response in the breast of every individual pre sent; it is "The British Constitution in Church and State." (The company unanimously rose and gave three cheers ) I wish, gentlemen, to dwell strongly upon the fact, that the stability of the national institutions depends in a great mea sure upon the efficiency of our national church. (Cheers.) And when I remember that the increase of our population has not been met by a corresponding increase in the number of churches, so as to provide for the spit itual destitution of the people, I feel satisfied that the time has arrived when it is necessary that we should put our shoulders to the wheel, and that we should remedy such a serious and such a la mentable defect. I shall never consider the constitution of our country perfect until I see—what I hope 1 may live to see—a resident minister of the Church of England to at least every 4,000 of our population —(cheers)—and until I see a school attached to such churches, tinder the care and super intendance of the minister, in which the young of our coun try may be educated upon the only principle which may be said to be a sound principle—a principle which is founded on the invaluable word of God.—(Cheers.) I believe, gentle men, that if the system of education which is intended to be brought into parliament by Mr. Wyse and others, be permit ted to be carried into effect, that it will have the effect of aiding much the opponents of the Church of England. Now, they cannot injure her openly, but, I believe, that they can on the sapping and mining system. But, I trust, that our represen tatives will speak out on that question—(tremendous cheer ing)—because, I believe, that a scriptural church, and a scriptural church alone, will prove to be what it has been, and what, I hope, it ever will be, the sheet anchor of our British constitution. I hope that every facility will be afforded by the British legislature to those benevolent individuals, who are anxious and ready to sacrifice their property for the purpose of obtaining such a great and glorious consummation; and I hope that every re striction—for it is churchmen, and not dissenters, that have to complain of restrictions—(hear)—will be removed from the security of the church establishment, and that individuals so minded, but unable to erect churches where churches are wanted, will be enabled to do so. This will be beginning at the right end; and then, and not till then, shall we have the British constitution, in church and state, what I wish to see it, and I am sure what every one here wishes to see it—per fect. I will likewise couple with this toast the name of a gentleman who stands deservedly high. and needs no com ment from me. I need hardly say that I mean " the health of our excellent Rector Campbell." (The company rose, and gave three enthusiastic cheers ) The Rev. RECTOR CA MPBEELL rose amidst enthusiastic cheering.—He said, Mr. Chairman, and brother conserva tives—(cheers)--in rising to respond to this toast, it becomes me in the first instance to express the becoming, the deep humility, anti gratification which I feel, at the manner in which you have received my name ; in particular, I have to return my most grateful thanks to Mr. Holme, the chair man, for the manner in which he was pleased to introduce it, and to you for the manner in which you are pleased to re ceive it. And, having done this, I now feel it my privilege to congratulate you confidently on the improved prospects of the conservatives since our last meeting. (Cheers.) And, while I feel it my privilege to congratulate you, I also feel it my duty to thank you for thegreat, and influential share which you have had to effect that improvement. It is by the combined exertions of you, and of men like you, that a voice has been raised in the great and populous towns, proclaiming in lan guage not to be misunderstood, that the people of England, though really alive for every salutary change, are not yet tired of their monarchical government—(cheers)—and are not prepared to surrender the national church to a selfish factious, or to sacrifice the time-honoured institutions of our country to the insatiate idol of revolutionary innovation. (Cheers.) And therefore, g entlemen, it is, that th e i n t e nd e d sacr ifi ce has been deferre d. But I believe that it has only been de ferred; and while we congratulate each other on the im provement of our prospects, we must not for a single instant cease from further exertions, or imagine that the danger is past and gone. The storm, no doubt, for the present is „Wied :Tana - the/rainbow hope is pictured in the sky. but /rWekcpriV, co* agitation are still hovering around us ( 7 .. 4 ,, b •:4 .! ;" ~,, . 1114 N •J. • A c , ...‘, , 6 -, I , 4.,.._*.4 i , , ...-‹ 1 r% 0 4 . ~.d • ~-:....... r•-f : ./,. ...', or. -4, 4 ),VkAi:;‘ - -4 V ( 41 . ;'• - ri ~... 0----- -- -4:—<;—: •A. t he wind is only hushed and is still ready to he sum mommoned from the cave.of Eolus, or ft= the Abbey of Derrynane. (Loud cheers.) The voice is still among the breakers; and although 1 would not for the world ven ture to cast any imputation on the wisdom and virtue and skill of the present pilot and crew, still I hope I may, without offence, venture to express the opinion that the good ship continues to require the exertions of the Church, and the aid of the Conservative hind, to bring her safe to harbour.— (Cheers.) To you then, gentlemen, and to the influential class that you represent—and I do not speak in the language of exaggeration when I say that you represent, at the present crisis, the most important portion of the British people—to you we allies' for the defence of our ecclesiastical institu tions. (Hear, hear.) Amongst you, in compliance with !your hospitable invitation, I again raise up the voice of warning; neither will 1 permit our enemies to question -vrrererrieeteli-ley-4404_40_cia, (Ln,uL cheers.l There is nothing to 'be ashamed of. gentlemen, I think, in the objects of our meeting. You are met together to protect the time-hallowed institutions of your country — to defend the church, and rescue it from the grasp of spo liation, or from the more dangerous patronage of hollow and pretended friends;—(great cheering)—and why, gentle men, should the clergy stand aloof in such a case. (Conti nued cheering.) Why should we freeze the the genial cur rent of your sympathies, and coldly reject the proffered hand of friendship ? I know no reason for such senseless alienation : I know no precept of the law or gospel that com mands us to absent ourselves from your meetings; and gen tlemen, so long as you are pleased to invite me to address you, I will not be absent. (Tremendous cheering, the audi ence simultaneously rising and waving their handkerchiefs.) And, gentlemen, I think it will not be necessary to rest the defence of the clergy upon this plea alone in this free country—however much it has to know of its own happi ness, free as it is from civil tyranny or slavish super stitions, I maintain that the clergy are bound to express their sentiments on all those points of state policy in which religion is implicated ; and if they abstain, they neglect a very important part of the duty which they owe to God and their sovereign. (Cheers.) In this country, happily, the clergy are not a separated class, shut out from the domestic sympathies of life—(bear)—and secluded from the people, and half foreigners, because they are forced to swear allegi ance to a foreign potentate (cheers); we, gentlemen, are of the people, and exist for the people. The Church of Ene land has been called by a distinguished writer of the present day, " the most democratic element of the old English con stitution—the democratic leaven of our well balanced monarchy; the means by which the gifts of talents rise t.. the highest rank in the community—the connecting link between the cottage and the throne." The Church of leugland, let us not forget, is the people's church ; wildn they grillage the church, they rub their own property—the/ deso late the inheritance of their own child re n.—(Che er f.) It should not be forgotten that the brother of a London trades man is a Bishop of the church; and it is not beyond the limits of possibility. that the son of a Liverpool tradesman may be Archbishop of Canterbury. As sons then of the constitu tion, we must not surrender our popular right of expressing our opinion on politics, respectfully, earnestly, and energeti cally, but still as free Britons are entitled to ao, without the fear of man before our eyes.— (Hear.) In party politics, we certainly never must interfere: to adopt the language of a lordly orator, we need not care for Lord John this, nor Mr. Spring that—(great cheering)—so that we have honest men at the helm—men who will not weaken the monarchy to carry favour with the mob, or betray the church to satisf parity that will never be satisfied with any thing but its tater des truction, and care not what party is iu power. Trojan or Tyrian, it is all the same to UP. I hope no clergyman will be found in factious opposition to the Queen's government (cheers); but as long as we see the House of Commons de secrated by men who received with shouts of scorn and laughter every proposition which was brought forward for the better observance of the Sabbath, and stigmatized ascent all mention of national religion and of the providence of God; wbo sneer at any man who says what is the true reli gion, and who endeavour to overset that church they are sworn to defend, and will take, if they possibly can, the na tional Bible out of what they are pleased facetiously to call the national schools, we must not be deterred by what Shake spear calls "the common cry of curs," that bark in the kennels of the Radical press, from calling on the people of England to purge their house from this pernicious stuff; and so long I will take the liberty of standing up amongst you, and ex horting you lo send—as I have exhorted you before—such men as Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell to parliament,— (tremendous cheering, and three distinct rounds of ap plause,)—unen who fear God and honour the Queen—who will defend your national Church, which I will take the liberty of calling the Old Euglish Catholic Church, which was enslaved in the twelfth century, and emancipated from the dominion of the Pope in the sixteenth century, and which, having been reformed from its corruptions in the reign of one female Sovereign, must not be overthrown in the reign of another. (Enthusiastic cheerin g .) But now, gentle men, it is perfectly evident, if this Church is to be saved, it is to be saved be the people of England themselves: — (hear, hear); for the first Minister of the Crown has told tie positively, and advanced in his place in parliament, that "he does nut think it the duty of the executive government to give encouragement to the established church.' I will not quarrel with him for this opinion; if it was his opinion he was bound to declare it, and I thank him for his candour; but if he won't give us encouragement, I hope he will not give us discouragement; if he will not take us up, I hope he will not knock us down ; if he will not show us any favour, I hope that he will at least give us "a clear stage." Instead therefore, gentlemen, let us learn wisdom from the fable— instead of praying to the Jupiter of Downing-street, for that aid which he has told us he won't give, let us put our own shoulders to the wheel and push the waggon of the church out of the mire of radicalism. (Tremendous cheering.) And how is that to be accomplished but by effecting a change in public opinion, and a change in the constituencies. In the agricultural districts where the church is let alone, it is there highly esteemed. In the great towns this influence is weakened because it is not let alone; its voice is like one crying inohe Itilderness and unheard. And how is this in fluence to be recovered, and this change to be effected ? Per haps you will answer, with the zeal and diligence of clergy men. To this I will not make the slightest objection. Place us, if you please, in the front of the battle, and compel us to bear the brunt of its fury, but do not compel us to bear it alone. Five loaves and two small fishes to supply the spiri tual wants of the community are not enough. As our worthy chairman has told you, we must have more schools, churches, and clergy, and for that we must really look to the wealthy laity. (Hear, bear, hear ) There is no use disguising, and I am sure you would not wish me to disguise the truth on this subject] there is no use in speaking on such a subject as this in courtly phrase and silken: garb, if the people of England wish to protect the monarchy and the Protestant church they must do it by unity and per sonal exertion. One Liverpool merchant, to his honour be it spoken—l don't know why I should hesitate to name him —John Gladstone. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, he ha's devoted £4OOO to the building of a church, and is going to endow it with £3O a year. I do trust that his example will be followed to a certain extent, and that Liverpool will do fur church ex tension what Glasgow and Manchester have already done. And, therefore, if you wish your clergy to save your church you must support them; they cannot do it themselves. You must stand in the breach or they will be overpowered. And, before all, you must support them in the question of national education. (Hear, hear.) It is a vital question at the present day, on which all social order, and perhaps the existence of our monarchy depends. And when I ask you to support the clergy, do not suppose . that I ask you to support them in an attitude of hostility to the executive go vernment? Far otherwise : the question is too important to be interfered with for faction. Education of some sort there must be; if the children are not taught good, they will be taught evil; if they are not taught to fear God and honour the Queen, they will be taught to blaspheme God and be dis loyal to the Queen ; and, therefore, I do think it the duty of the clergy to offer their services to the executive government to promote the education of the people to the utmost of their power. But if they will refuse our offer—if they will esta blish the so called system of national education—to have the children taught by masters over whom the clergy have no in fluence, to have the schools governed by lay committees, and into which we are only to be admitted in the humble form of catechisers, now and then, by leave, and so separate us en tirely from the people, why then, there is no help for it; we shall not repel I hope, but we must repair; we must appeal from Ciasar to the people; we must apply to you to supply us with schools where all may teach the people, and where all who choose may come to us as the authorised interpreters of the word of God. Gentlemen, I have of course a great deal more to say to you, but I will have mercy on your patience and not trespass on you. What I have said I have spoken Warmly because I feel it very greatly, but at the same time I enjoin it in the spirit, of christian charily, advocating the ne cessity of an established church. I assert at the same time the sacred principle of religious freedom in the full meaning of the term, and I assert that these two principles are per fectly reconcilable. Believing my own opinions to be correct, I do not want to press or force them upon other individuals ; and believing that the ways of the church are "ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace," 1 would not compel my brethren to walk in them unless they please; and although I wish in my soul, that all as members of the sante government could be made members of one church establishment, I would not have religious assent by rushing into religious tyranny. (Hear.) I conclude in the words of your great conservative leader Sir Robert Peel. (Cheers.) "While we admit perfect equality in respect of civil rights, while we remove every political disability from every class of religionists, let us not forget that the religion of the state must be the protestant religion,—(hear, hear) — and that the property of the church must be secured to the maintenance of the Protestant religion as established by law. (Loud cheers.) This (he says) is the best security for the prevention of religious contests. This is the great principle settled at the revolution, recognized in the act of union, and guaranteed by every subsequent promise and assurance that public faith•Or private honour could secure. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, I will not trespass any further upon your time, but sit down thanking you most cordially for the reception which you have given to me. (The reverend gentleman sat down amidst loud and long continued cheering.) The musical bells were here played in imitation of the ringing of a peal of church bells, and their novel and pleas ing tone ' and their mental association with the su bj ec t o f th e last speaker's address, produced an instant and enthusiastic burst of applause. The CHAIR: gar; then rose to propose the next toast, and gave, "The health of the Lord Lieutenant of the County, and might his health be improved." (Cheers.) Glee—" Here in cool grot." The CHAIRMAN again rose. He said—Gentlemen, it is no part of the character of the British tradesman to offer fill some adulation to any man or to any set of men ; and I reel satisfied, gentlemen, that in simply proposing the next toast upon my list it will not be necessary to do more than to name that toast at this present meeting. The best proof that we can give —that we have given, and I trust that we shall be able to give again when occasion serves—of the estimation in which we hold the noble lord on my right and the honourable and learned gentleman on my left, is, that having once re tinned them to represent the town of Liverpool in parlia ment, we have felt ourselves so satisfied with their invaluable services that we will use every exertion to send them again. (Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.) I will not occupy yonr time, as I have done before, by making long speeches of my own, but I shall simply call on you now to do that jus tice to the toast which I am about to propose, which I am sure it will receive at the hands of every individual present, and that is, to call on yo u one and all to drink most cordially, "The health of the Members for the Borough, Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell." (Enthusiastic cheering and clapping of hands.) Lord SANDON immediately rose and was greeted with re iterated rounds of cheering. He said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, it is long since I have exhausted every form of expressing gratitude which presents itself to me in returning thanks for the manner in which you have always received gt ihntg. s whether rooru in i n n d et fighting ehieeb aroact iina t i• battletriumph (o (Cheers.) the he after tse.)rt h e Gentlemen, at w the is mhf fought, theht eanvsefieteeyxl. feeling is eendvo,etarsy, exhausted said, he ac ua sb ti occasion every expression e a x r p ression of gratitude, but feeling it i s on l o y n only f - increasesres h e x i c n i tiend to whatever exertion it is in my power to offer to Y oar cause. (Hear, hear, hear.) G en tl emen, when last we met, upon the last anniversary which called us together, we met to celebrate a well fought triumph —a triumph earned un der the most appalling and difficult circumstances. We had to fight against local influence and local prejudices— (bear) —we had to fight against intimidation from the powers that be, (cheers) whether the powers that here exist locally, or those which exist and do govern the empi re . W e had t't; resist a good deal of popular iutimidation; we had to resist also, that which is, perhaps, the most legitimate influence if legitimately used, but which on that occasion was most un constitutionally employed, the name I mean of our young and virtuous Queen. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, in spite of all these adverse influences, enough to have annihilated the courage of any less bold and determined conservatives than those of Liverpool, we fought our battle and we achieved a triumph, such as this town has never witnessed before. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I am afraid that you have occasionally been disappointed • that the el ects of your triumph and such as you witnessed in various quarters of the country was not immediately fol lowed by similar majorities in the senate of our country. But, gentlemen, if you have not seen the triumph of your men, you have seen the triumph of your principles; if you have not seen the triumph of your party leaders, you have seen a dearer triumph to you—those interests vou fought to protect, protected in that election. (Hear.) 'Why, gentle men, do you think, if the government of the country had - succeeded in forcing such men as Hume into the representa tion of Middlesex, and Roebuck into the representation of Bath, such men—l mean nothing personal; I speak only of their political principles—if they had succeeded in forcing on •Liverpool the politics of Mr. Ewart—if this had been repeated in town and country, as it was the wish of her ,Alaieety's ministers,. do you think the colour of the last session would have been such as we have seen - sf? Would you have seen the Church respected, and the constitutional authority of the House of Lords respected ? Do you think the appropriation clause would have been struck out of the Irish Church Bill? ("No.") Do you think that the very measure of Sir Robert Peel, for the proposal of which he was ousted from office ?—would you have seen that very measure proposed by the ministers?—(Cheers, and cries of "No.") No, gentlemen, your triumph has not been lost; if it has not been the harbinger of party triumphs, it has been the harbinger of the safety of oil: country.—(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, when I teach you this, would I wish to teach you to be satistied'vrith what has been dune? Would I wish to teach you to rest satisfied with the degree of safety which has been conveyed to the church and constitution, by the exer tions of the last election ? Su long, gentlemen, as the pre sent administration reinain in power, I would never teach any man to rest satisfied. (Cheers.) Why, gentlemen, what class of men has reason to be satisfied with her ma jesty's present administration ? Nay, more, 1 would say, what class of men is satisfied with her Malesr . v's present administration; whether tory or radical, churchmen, or dis senter? I defy you to lay your finger on any class of men that is satisfied with her Majesty's present trdministration. I would ask you as merchants, manufacturers and trades men, are you satisfied with the protection which her Majesty's administration has given to the commerce of England in those places to which i: has been carried? lndiguant cries of " No, no.") Are you, whose interest is so bound up with the free navigation of the coasts of South America, are you satisfied with the easy permission given by the government to the French government to blockade one of the ports? (Cheers, and loud cries of " No.") Are you satisfied with the introduction by France of a new prin. vinle of blockade, putting it in the power of any nation, however unimportant on any division, however trifling to interrupt the whole of your trade ? (Cheers, and loud cries of " No!") Gentlemen, are 'sou satisfied with the protection given to our vessels in the Black Sea ? Are you satisfied to see a British merchant entrapped to open transactions with a power on that sea, and when the transaction had been opened, and a venture made, that his vessel should he con fiscated and abandoned, and hardly a semonstrance made? (Hear, hear.) Are you satisfied with that very man sent out so recently to pacify the Canadas ? (Shouts of laughter, and cries of "Ha !" The news of Lord Durham's resigna tion only arrived in the afternoon.) Are you satisfied that the representation of our Queen and the government should have been in such haste to remove every difficulty on the part of the Russian government to discover reasons to satisfy the British government at the present period, with the Bri tish commercial injury? I would ask, are you satisfied with the protection given to the British trade on the coast of Africa ? Are you satisfied with the protection given to British commercial interests in Spain, in Portugal, in Naples? In fact, there is hardly a country round the globe in which British interests have not suffered from gross neglect and mismanagement. .( Hear, hear.), Gentlemen, I myself have been the organ of one representation after another from this great town, of instances of want of protec tion, and, therefore, I don't speak in ignorance, and I have been the melancholy witness of the inefficiency of the applica tion. (Hear.) Gentlemen, as to the Dissenter, has he any reason to be satisfied? (No) So long as the church-rates were any convenient topic they were put forward and made the hobby-horse; but as soon as it appeared that the hobby was ill chosen, that the church was more powerful, and the Dissenters less powerful than they before thought, from that moment the subject was dropped. But have churchmen reason to he satisfied with her Majesty's government. (No.) Has the church of Scotland reason to be satisfied ? No.) Application was made by them for assistance in church ac comodation, and the deputation was induced to retire from London with the understanding that an enquiry would be in stituted. What was the fact? Commissioners were ap pointed to put off that pressing question, and put off the evil day. That commission was amilDinted to report from time to time, that delay might be the result of the petition, and they were to report of the great towns of Edinburgh and Glasgow. They did investigate, but they did not re port ; and until the investigation of the whole country was completed, the report of these great towns was withheld; and when it did appear, to the satisfaction of all men, that a great degree of spiritual want of instruction did exist in those towns, what was the answer? "We have considered that the Highlands shell have assistance, but not the great' towns." Why was this? Because they thought the great towns were Radical, and it was a pity they should not remain so. And because they could lose nothing in the country, and could lose much in the great towns from the extension of the church.—(Hear.) In the English churches they have asked nothing from the government in present times, but it was dis covered that the English church had resources within herself, which her majesty's government resolved to seize and appro priate—unlawfully seize from the support of the church. (Hear.) I hope in the language of two gentlemen who have spoken, that this will be put in tire front of the battle of the conservatives, for I am convinced, that it is our duty to put forward the extension of the church, as the first and prelitni nary of our duties.—(Cheers.) Now, upon this head, I so fully concur with the statements expressed by your chairman. and by your reverend and respected rector, thati confess 1 have nothing more to do than to repeat their expressions, for the purpose of expressing my own opinion; but as I am challenged by the chairman to express my opinion on this great " question of questions," as it is called in the language of the day,—this church question, I will not shrink from it. On the contrary, I am most happy to seize the opportunity of expressing that which is most deeply suitable to my own opinion. On the very first proposition of the Irish system of education, I believe I was one of the very few who raised a feeble voice against it; and I have had the gratification of seeing that the sentiments I then expressed, have more and more become the sentiments of the whole Protestant and Conservative portion of the community. (Hear.) Gentle oven, I hope to see an extended system of education; but I hope that the state will not support any system which shall not be Protestant in' its character, or which will in any way sever the influence of the established clergy over their flocks, or their connection with the interests of the people. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, if, then, you are not •satisfied with her Majesty's ministers;—if you are not satisfied that your interests whether secular or spiritual are safe in their charge, it is for you, in every way which pre sents itself, in your various spheres of action. to exert your selves to remove that administration. (Hear.) Gentlemen, I am not one of those who would recommend any particular course. The feelings of the people must utge us forward; but when the constituencies are ripe for it, then I think you may be sure that your representatives will not he slow to listen to their call. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not fur ther intrude upon you, I have much to thank von for as I said before; I know the kindness with which you have always received any pour endeavours of urine, on your behalf; I have only to renew the tender of those services, on any oc casion local or public, in which those services can be useful to you. (The noble lord sat down amidst enthusiastic cheer ing.) CRESSWELL CiIESSIVELT, Esq., immediately arose, and was received with a long-continued round of cheering and clappEug of hands. Betore it had subsided Lord SANDON again rose. He said,—Gentlemen, I have thanked you for many kindnesses; I have forgotten to thank you for the greatest kindness you have done me. You have given me a conservative colleague, and I have found that the, greatest advantage and as s i s t ance i n every i nstance o f y our public or your private interests. (Great cheering.) CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Esq, again rose, amidst renewed cheering. When it bad subsided, he said,—Mr. President and gentlemen, I know that the noble lord's last observation was meant in the most perfect kindness towards me, his colleague; but at the same tune, I can assure him, that op pressed as I was by the manner in which you received the toast of "the members for Liverpool," the comment he has now thrown upon me oppresses me still more, for I feel the weight of gratitude now incumbent on me is such that I can make no adequate return for it, I will not say now, but by any services I may he enabled hereafter to perform. If the noble lord has exhausted his terms of gratitude to you— if he has done this, after a session in which he has fought your battles, can it be expected front me to express my thanks in adequate terms, that have as yet done nothing for you. Gentlemen, I conic before you with no claims for your applause; I have no high office to adorn me, no royal favour showers upon me; no patronage to dispose of is given to me —(great cheering)—and therefore, gentlemen, how can I make you any adequate thanks for the kindness with which you have received me? Nay, more, gentlemen, from the peculiar professional duty in which I am placed I know that I have not even a claim on you for any thanks for cour tesies. The haste, the rapidity, the fever with which our pro fessional business is transacted, leaves us but little time for courtesies to any, and as each of vou in turn may be the party against whom my professional labrurs may be retained, I fear that many of you may have left the court thanking me little indeed for any courtesy I have given }on.—(Cheers and laughter.) And while, therefore, from my heart I admire you for those feelings which you now manifest, and for for getting those which might make you visit on the representa tive the sins of the advocate, yett' cannot but deeply feel the kindness you have this day shown to me; and, gentlemen, I state inost freely, that I rejoice in this reception—rejoice in it, not that I consider it as personal to myself, as to one who merely represents the political opinions which you entertain, I consider the reception you have given me to day, is the greatest possible proof' of the un dying energy. of those conservative opinions which ani mated you during the last contest. (Hear, and cheers.) And when I remember that a noble lord, high in office, with royal-favours- shining, or•suppnsed" to shine upon him, has lately entered this town—(loucl laughter)—that he also has presented himself among the Liverpool people, and has had the means of marking the extent of their admiration of him —(laughter and cheers)—when I remember that, and that the glitter of office and of royal splendour, and the patronage which he knows so well how to create and how to dispose, (cheers)—has not procured for hint any share of the applause that has awaited the humble individual before you, without as well as within these walls, then, indeed, am 1 most grateful to think that the spirit of conservatism burns as brightly as ever—that your energy in the good cause is still undimi nished, and your jealousy of those who govern the country still as much awake as at any period of our former acquaint ance. (Loud cheers.) Do believe me, gentlemen, that there is full need of such a spirit to counteract that which depend on it still animates the councils of those who have heretofore so far as served their purposes, patronized all re volutionary measures under the specious name of reform. True, indeed, it is, gentlemen, that the last session of parlia ment has in the main been a conservative session; true it is that no inroad has been made on your institutions either in church or in state; but are you indebted to her majesty's mi nisters for that. (Cries of "'ISM.") Or are you indebted to the conservative constituencies of the country. (Cries of " Yes.") Do you believe that, if the threats formerly uttered against the House of Peers have dwindled into the peevish wailings of impotent dislike ; if the schemes for the spoliation of the church have, for the present, been abandoned, do you believe they have learnt to love the peers, or to venerate the church, or Jo you believe they have found the conservative party so strong that they have found it necessary to yield those points they formerly strived for, or to quit the places they held ? Yes, gentlemen, that peril alone saved you from the perils that formerly beset you; and I do rejoice now to find this spirit of conservatism as much alive as it was at any former period. (Cheers ) Gentlemen, it is not left to congratula tions—we have their own confessions for it; and although with us in the profession, it is not usual to rely on the con fession of the criminal, particularly if extorted from him— (laughter)—the confession in this instance .is corroborated by so many circumstances, that little doubt can be enter tained of its truth. I have heard, certainly, in the House of Commons, to which you sent rue, more than one of her Ma jesty's ministers, in the debate which took place on the Irish tithe bill, declare that it was not because they loved the church, it was not because they considered the church enti tled to support, because they considered the property sacred that they spared it, but because they had not the power to take it from her. (" Hear," and laughter.) And, there fore, while that on the one hand ought to . be most gra tifying, most consoling, most encouraging to you, as show ing how much stronger you are now than you , were fortnerly ; that they who thought to commit the spolia tion, not only as a robbery, but to advantage themselves, now find they are obliged to abandon that scheme, for the purpose of maintaining that office. But while there is a sub ject for congratulation, there is also a subject for fear; for if your exertions be not increased in proportion as the defences are weakened, so will the power of the attack be increased. But, gentlemen, assume that this were otherwise; suppose that tbey had not declared their enmity to the church to be the same in their hearts; suppose that they had pledged them selves hereafter to become good Protestants and to support the church, could you rely on those professions?—(Loud cries of "no," and cheers.) Gentlemen, you respond already. I shall show to you what professions they have made to their friends who placed them in office, and that their pledges have been v►olated. _ How do you think they will ob serve pledges given to you who seek only to expel them? Gentlemen, let me read to you a few words of Lord Me:- bourne, in a speech that he made on the 25th of July, 1836, in the House of Lords, in reply to a motion made by my Lord Lyndhurst, the object of which was to exclude from 'the - Irish- church-bill what was- camtnanly_ealled..The Irish appropriation clause. My Lord Melbourne spoke thus:— " If the clauses are removed. I shall consider the measure as virtually destroyed. If the House shall omit those clauses I shall wash my hands of- the bill, and shall not persist in the measure deprived of that principle to which, indeed, I am pledged. I shall tell the noble and learned lord that I and my colleagues stand upon this principle, and if we . are , not longer sustained in the maintenance of that principle, we are immediately ready for to retire." (Laug,htei.) Very ready but they have not. done it. (Con tinued laughter.) On the 2tl of August, 1837, my Lord John Russell said in the House of Commons :—" With the affir mation of opposite principles, with the denial of the princi ples which we have professed, of course it would be our duty to resign —of course it would be our duty no longer to pretend, no longer to govern the councils of this country."— In 1838 that principle was repudiated—that principle was abandoned, and they still "do pretend" to govern the coun cils of this nation. (Loud cheers.) I say again, then, that if these pledges given to their supporters have been so kept, how do you think any pledges given to you, their adversaries, will be kept? (Hear, hear, hear.) It is then to your vigilance alone that the country is indebted for their seety. But for you and other conservatives who sit in par liament, a different path would have awaited all the most valued institutions of the country. Anil, gentlemen, is there any other proof required, that in the majority returned by the English constituencies your safety has been found ; yes, for wherever yeti find theadversaries of your country making their most vigorous and most embittered attacks; - there you may be sure is placed the great safeguard of our state; and it is no question that this preponderating influence on the part of the majority returned by the British constituency, that you haye now the Irish agitator claiming as one of the principles on which alone he will cease agitation, that Ireland shall have representatives in proportign to the number of her inhabitants, in order that they may ,utweigh the influence of the English Is.= ti utior, and reduce at once to ruin every institution of the country. (Cheers.) Our ministers are tools of ihat man who has stated that Ireland gave to En,g land a system of representation which they call reform. He states that Ireland has given . to England Municipal Reform; that it was not England, nor Scotland, nor-the two [suited, that did it, but that it was Ireland. • la it.not enough to have overthrown our ancient Parliamentary system, and our an cient Municipal constitution ? Is that not enough but they must have a representation in proportion to the number of the Irish Paupers to overthrow the institutions of the country? Such are the terms on which ministers depend on his favour for existence; and on these terms alone he will allow Ire land to be at peace. (Great applause and cheering.) Why, gentlemen, when we find the ministry leaning on such a person as that for support—when we find such alliance with him, and the patronage of this country devoted to him and his retainers, what reason has one to suppose that they will deny acs thing that is necessary for them to maintain the places which they hold. True it is, that in the last session we have seen them oppose certain measures that we thought destructive ; they have opposed the ballot ; some have opposed the extension of the suf frage; they have opposed the diminution of the duration of Parliament, but what security have we that they will continue to do so if they have ceased to maintain those principles to which at one time they pledged themselves; how can we rely that they will continueto oppose others, when by . yielding they can continue in office? (Hear.) Therefore it i s on you, on the Conservative interest of this country to return to parliament those members who, combined with the House of Peers, shall be able to restrain those who wish to raise their own power in the destruction of all that is va luable in the country. (Great applause and cheering.) Gentlemen, upon this and upon one or two other matters, I find, and I am not surprised to find, that the Noble Lord has anticipated me in some of the observations I was about to make. You returned us on our principles. I believe that the opinions of conservatives are very nearly alike on almost every question interesting to the state. It is natural for your representatives to address you on those matters which have been most interesting to them at the' last session. If they are returned on one interest, because they hold sentiments alike, how can it be a matter of surprise to you that the • noble lord has anticipated me in. some of my intended observations ? But let me draw your attention for a moment to the foreign policy of the country, which I will do by reading an admira ble petition of the merchants of Glasgow. It states : " The consequences of that diplomacy have been to leave us - defenceless in every quarter of the world ; to compromise the existence of Turkey as.art independent sovereign power, and . thereby to destroy the mutual harrier to encroachments on the East of Europe—to abandonCircassia, the bulwark of our Indian possessions, to the conquest of Persia—to redunce, -. Persia to the condition of a Russian dependency-to . exclude the British . .merchant entirely from the coasts of the Black Sea, where a most lucrative trade could 'be carried on-40. enable the Dutch government to evade the obligations of a treaty (1824), and to impose illegal duties on our exports to Java, whereby many of us have been deeply injured—to tole- - rate the establishment in Africa, of a French colony, an enter prize contrary to a specific treaty—to exlcude otir manufactu rers from the European markets, by a high scale of duties, con trary to existing treaties—to tolerate encroachments on our fishing ,rounds at Newfoundland, and even on the British. coast—to permit the destruction of the ancient nationality of Poland, and the independence of Cracow—to annihilate the British claims onGreece. We pass over the difficulties in which tb-s country is involved as regards our relations with Spain and Portugal, withthe United States of America, with the empire of Brazil, and the government of Mexico." And now, gentlemen, what have we gained by all - these sacrifices ? True it is, we are at peace or in an amity with foreign nations. Are we really and truly in friendship with Russia ? If we are, how forgiving we must be ! we have forgiven all the insults in the Black Sea; we have shut our eyes at all :he , att anpts at our Indian poss ssions. Are we in an amity with Pruisia ? It must I s 'e for shutting out our manufactures from her Sol - es. Are neat amity with France? It must be for blockading out our manufactures from the Brazils and Mexico, and for what ? A blockade; -as I understood, was a proceeding of war! Are we at peace with Spain, or with what portion of it ? of with Portugal, or with Holland ? If we are not, what have We gained by this foreign policy? What have we gained in Canada ? (Hear.) But let me be cautious in speaking on that important subject; it be comes us not to embarrass any government. 'ro propose, peace and hartnpay were unfortunately too much concession ; in putting down the factions they have at last allowed faction to ripen into rebellion. But if this is the conduct of the minis try how is it it still remains in power? How can-you account fur the British nation tolerating such things? Can they be agreeable to the Queen ? Can her Majesty love these ministers and be attached to• them? Can the people be at tached to them ? Are Se peopl e a tta c hed to them ? ( Ve hement cries of `•No, ffil.") Did they show attachment to her when they had her amongst them? (Loud and enthusi astic cheering.) But although it may be well to us to wit ness the contrivance in office of a ministry distinguished not by talent but by intrigue; distinguished, not by the maintenance of principle, but rather by acting without any principle at all—although this may be well to us, it is not well in the interpretation of those who have written on the British constitution: and let me read to you the exact words of a noble lord lately visiting this town, in a work pub lished not many years ago. He is describing the worthless conduct of a minister, by which he may ma i nt a i n hi mse lf i n power without talent, without patriotism, withouthe love or attachment of the crown or of the people, ,and h e th en tells you what that minister may -do Although such a minister and his cabinet shall be enabled to say to their Sovereign, However pernicious our measures inay be, - and however unpopular our persons, you must maintain ns . in power, for we can command a majority in the House of. Commons, though our conduct and our acts are offensive to the country, and disgusting to your Majesty,'" He would have them remember the - conduct of the present administra tion, and the manner in which they had created and - given away patronage, and whether the whole of Lord J. Russell's description did not apply to the ministry and their acts in the present day. He exhorted them to persevere in ; st rangt herring . the association for it was by such associations that results were obtained which were the salvation of the country. lie expressed himself strongly in fav our o f scriptural educa tion as the only means of making a man a good Chris tian, a good citizen, and a good subject; and deprecated that liberalism of the present day, which led the heads of the church who were sworn to uphold it, to give their countenance •to Unitarianism. The honourable and learned member: sat down amidst enthusiastic and prolonged cheering, The CHAIRMAN, in proposing th e next toast, said, it was a source of gratification to them that they had not only beer able to send two conservative representatives for the borough, . but likewise two for the Southern Division of the County. (Cheers.) He would give without further-preface " The Members for the County." (Much applause.) • One of-those gentlemen was present, and would, he- believed,-be able fo give them a good reason for the absence of his colleague. Mr. WILBRAHAM rose, and was loudly cheered.. .He said, if his noble rind his learned friend bad foiled difficulty. in ex pressing their gratitude, he felt much greater difficulty, inns much as it had not been in his powe r to commun i cate w ith them as 'frequently as his friends beside him had.. But they: might be assured, that as this was the third time he had had, the honour of appearing before them, so he trusted that as long as that association should continue, he might.ne.ver be found backward in showing his respect to them and to their town by attending its meetings. (Cheers.) Their chairman had told them he regretted the absence of his noble colleague. No one could regret that circumstance more than he did. It had been Lord Francis Egerton's full intention to have been there that evening, and also the , next day; but he (Mr,•Wil braham) had yesterday received a letter informing him that his lordship had been obliged to go to town, on account of the illness of one of his children, whom it had been deemed. ad- • visable to send to the Mediterranean. (Hear.) It would be useless for him to go over any of the topics which had been ably treated by their respected representatives. In all that they had said, he most cordially concurred. (Applause.) If there were one point on which conservatives of every shade must unite, it was the subject of national education. No system should have his approbation and support which was not founded strictly on the principles of the Protestant Established Church, and put under the superintendence of the parochial clergy. ( Hear.) With respect to that association he was delighted to hear that its numbers increased. (Hear.) They might remember that Sir Robert Peel had told them there was only one way by which they could gain the victory, and that was to attend to the registry. (Hear.) In this town, and in the division of the county which he represented, this had been most thoroughly and particularly well attended to. (Cheers.) Though they had before a great majority, that majority had been increased. But beyond the regis tration, there was another point which they should be called to attend to. There was, at that particular moment, nothing to cause excitement, and it was always said of the conserva tive party, that they were alit to fall asleep when there was nothing specially to rouse them. He hoped that was ma. the case, in this particular borough or county. But they must constantly be on the look-out. Their opponents were at work, and it would not be long before something would arise out of their manoeuvres. Watch, he would say, all they did ; measure all their words; and above all things, he would advise them to avoid divisions among them selves. Ile did not mean simple differences of opinion, which must constantly arise, but anything that would inter fere with the great aim and object which they had at heart. He was glad to hear of the increase of their numbers in this town, and trig could only assure them in conclusion, that any poor services which he could render, should always be at their command, and he would ever be ready to give any as sistance in his power to their representatives. (Much ap plause. Lord SAN DON again rose, and said, the toast lie was about to propose needed litle preface. He was happy to say he had heard of the oatne of their chairman iu many parts of England remote from Liverpool. The Conservatism of that gentleman rested on the surest of all foundations, religious principle, which would never change,because its objects were immutable. For that reason they might repose in him with more than common confidence. (Loud cheers,) Ild gave them the health of their excellent chairman. The toast was received with tumultuous applause. The CHAIRMAN, in rising- to- return thanks, waireeted with renewed acclamati ons. He said, illy lord,s-a , and gentle men, it has seldom happened that an individual of me sta tion iu life has been so frequently called onto present him self before his fellow townsmen, has been laid under so many obligations, and felt it necessary to evince, his gratitude for such oft repeated marks of your attachment.. I do most sincerely thank you,. -for your applause, which, havrever, I have nor willingly sought, but which you have so liberally awarded, and which I look upon as an acquiescence in those glorious principles of order, subordination, and (cheers)—with which 1 have always been identified, and which will only leave me when I am called from this sphere of activity and duty. (Cheers.) It is gratifying to me on an occasion like the present to meet so many of those friends with whom I have been associated in the thickest of the com bat—(cheers)—out however, to repose on the laurels we have won—(cheers)—but to remind you we are yet in the camp, that we are yet in the presence of active, and sleep less antagonists, unit that we-must hold ourselves ready for active, and perhaps, not distant exertion. (Hear. hear.) Lf the civil and religious liberty we possess be worth enjoy ment, it s is worst i s seguation, and the man is unworthy such inestimable privileges who can wrap himself up in - luxurious enjoyment when those glorious institutions for which our forefathers bled and died, are assaulted by foes,from without, and abandoned by lukewarm friends within. (Loud ap plause). For I need hardly say, that those, who under colour of reforming our institutions, covertly consign them to destruction, would be in themselves utterly powerless, were they not aided by the cupidity of many who call themselves members of the Church' of England. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was to stimulate our tradesmen to exertion, to beat up for recruitss-to concentrate our forces—to erect that British standard, under which England has been victorious from Agincourt to Waterloo, (enthusiastic plaudits) and to free this great town from a representation of which we dis approved; that the association was formed, whose third an niversary we are now met to celebrate Could the most san guine have anticipated' a few years ago, when the raven was screaming around the towers of the constitution, when the hoarse voice of a Birmingham mob friehted the isle from its propriety—when the fires•ot Nottingham and of Bristol lit up the peaceful country of our birth—when the venerable Bi shops of our church—(loud cheers)—ventured into the public streets at the peril of their lives, and when the deliberations of the House of Lords were overawed by the cries of the anar chist—that within Se short a period,kindred associations should spring into existence in every•county—that the concentrated leyalty of the hind should be invigorated with new spirit— that3oo Conservative members should he returned to parlia ment, and that the popular thunder, which soon began to mutter in the distance ' should roll onwards with such tearful rapidity, and that the vibrations should shake the mi nistry in their seats—(vehement and prolonged applause, the. company rising)- e -which they have only occupied to their own disgrace, amidst the contempt of Europe, and against • the declared opinions of the people of England ?—(Hear, hear.)' ' But, gentlemen, our work is not done. We have yet much to combat for, and everything to. preserve. (Fleur.) The flouse of Lords cannot lung maintain its ground, unless it be supported by sa majority in the Commons.. And that must be the grand - ,object of conservatism. That it will he obtained I have no doubt, if the noble phalanx in the lower house will speak out boldly, and refuse their acquiescence in any measure that may compromise our Protestant principle. (Loud, cheers.) The days of expediency are gone, and unless the middle classes exert themselves, and their repre sentatives make a determined stand, the British constitution is gone also. (Hear, hear.) That constitution presents a greater measure of liberty to the people than any other on the globe; and those who hold up the republican institutions of America as a model for England, are interested or super ficial observers of events passing there, where every thing is rotten at the cure, • and.where a puff of popular indignation can blow down the paper• constitution, which, judging by the age of nations. is of mushroom growth, and is just as likely to be as stable; and where two and a half millions of slaves, held in the most debasing bondage, is a biting com mentary upon their national declaration, "that all men are equal " (Hear, and much applause.) And the problem is easily solved ; for the unchecked power of democracy is ever capricious and tyrannical; and whilst despotism bridles free thought and enslaves the intellect, democracy introduces an anarchy of the passions, whose fierceness. is as much to be deprecated,, as its depravity alarms and disgusts. (Loud cheering,.) But in England, instead of that system of centralisation established by despotism, which has ever proved the grave of civil liberty—(hear, hear)--which grasps at every public . undertaking with monopolising avidity—seizing on profit and patronage to consolidate its power—the free institutions of Great Britain. Throw open to talent and enterprise every undertaking fur general bene fit, and time-projectors of our great national works, fostered, supported, and protected by. wise and equitable laws, are left in perfect freedom to reap the fruits of their skill, which form sore end beneficial investments for the earnings of do. . mesticsaindailizans,, as well as for the super-abundance of our capitalists, and the receipts of our gas and water compa nies, our : hanks ' our railways and canals, instead of flowing directly into time public exchequer, like a solitary stream through an arid soil, Only to - consolidate the power of despo tism, here circulate through innumerable channels, and, like a mighty river with thousands .of tributary streams, irrigates and benefits the whole community, makes its way to the ex tremity of the land, benefits the poor as well as the rich, in terests thousands in the preservation of order and of peace, and fisruis s in a great measure, the grandeur and security of the empire.- (Hear and cheers.) Content, therefore, with our national blessings, we are desirous as any to renovate and beautify where renovation is necessary; but we are not desir sous of pulling doWn the ancient edifice, replete with useful ness, as it stands unrivalled for grandeur, and see one erected -by the political tinkers Pf • Birminghatn, which the first storm will burl to the ground. (Applause.) We look upon uni versal suffrage as • the prelude to universal suffering ;—upon vote by ballot .as a cowardly, sneaking scheme, more fitted for the .Spanish bandit, or the Italian carbonaro, than for the manly open-hearted spirit of. Englishmen. (Hear.) :We thirds annual Parliaments would be an anuual nuisance -(cheers and, laughter)—a hundred times worse than the white vapour 'of Muspratt.. (Much laughter.) We look . upon the prodigious advances of Popery with jealousy, be cause, Spt;aking of her as a system, and it is only so that I . speak of her, no faith can be kept. with her. For she keeps faith with none. She, laughs at the cupidity of liberalism. She is liberal in England—she is intolerant in Italy. She is the assumed friend of popular education here—she stifles it there. (Hear, and cheers.) And when we consider our be loved country as the land of genuine liberty, as the deposi tary of scriptural truth—when we look at the moral influence she possesses throughout the world; and when we remember our responsibility to ilium who has tbestowed upon us such national blessings: wee s feel it imperative . upon us to hand down unimpaired to our posterity the privileges we have our selves received, and of which, under God, we are the present guardians; —and we feel that it is our duty to resist to the utmost every effort of those -who are seeking to destroy our national Church, preparatory to the destruction of our esta blished form of Government.. And, if we should ever be called on to defend tho Se. institutions,' it will be our duty to array ourselves 'on the side of 'truth and justice, and either repel the aggression •or nobly perish amidst the ruins of the Constitution. (Cheers.) And as all nations have their changes, if ever that. event should' occur to England, on the ashes of her constitution may be erected fora time the flimsy structure of anarchy, till that scourge of guilty nations, a military despotism— (loud applause) —shall again prepare the people for suund government; and national wisdom shall be taught amidst the convulsive throes of national suffering. (Loud and continued cheering.) I thank you again for the very flattering way in which you have received my name, anti I beg to prop o s e a t oas t w hi c h w ill b etter d e i erve th e zeal and cordiality- with warich 1 know you will drink it. It is comprised in two short words—" The Duke." (Drunk with repeated honours.) Glee—" The niighty Conqueror." Tile CHAIIIMANI said, if they were indebted, next to the Established Church, to one institution mitre than another, there was nothing to which, since the days of Runnemede, they had been more indebted than to the House of Peers He therefore called upon them to drink,—"Lord Lyndhurst, and the House of Peers, the bulwark of real freedom, and the antidote to the poison of democracy." The toast was drunk with mush enthusiasm. Glee—" Hail, smiling Morn." The CIIA liimArc—Sir Robert Peel, and the Conservative Members of the House of Commons." (Much cheering.") Song by Mr. Pemberton—" Like a plain-dealing Soldier has Wellington spoke," Lord SANDON acknowledged the toast, eulogising highly the abilities, conduct, and principles of Sir Robert Peel. There was no person who had fought under that talented leader's banner who could be insensible to his high merits. he CueirissiaN • proposed the health of Mr. West, who ought, by right, to ,he the representative for Dublin. Witar,eivlio was hailed With rapturous applause, said, 'haves very frequently received much kindness in conse quence of 'the' part I have taken in contesting the represen tation of our first Irish city. Among the most gratifying of these testimonials of esteem and approbation, it is impossible not, to place the distinguished honour conferred upon me, by the invitation of the Tradesmen's Conservative Asso ciation to be present at this festival. I feel .most deeply erateful for the manner, so highly gratifying to myself, in which you have received the mention of Iny very humble name. An utter stranger as I am, witnessing such an ex hibition .of constitutional sentiment, I cannot but feel deeply grateful; while 1 cannel help expressing the Conservative wish, that the example of this town, seemingly destined even mare by her energy and spirit in business, than by her na tural position, to be the capital of the trailing world,—the example set by the merchants of Liverpool might be fol lowed la the . .merchants of England generally. (Hear.) Your chairman has (teen pleased to make one observation for which I Was not prepared. He has told you that if I had my rigfits 1 should be member fur Dublin. Permit me to say, that is- an expression wnich has never fallen from me. Let my opinion be what. it may, I consider it more impoitant • to any well-regulated community, that the barrier should nut be lira en down, 'which makes it impossible to believe that a gentlemaim can - violate his honour,—(hear,)—than that any -ristrire'sliould receive even so proud a reward as that of repre senting the first city in his native land. (Cheers.) It never should be his principle to traduce or revile the members of time , Ilouse of Commons, or any gentleman moving in a re spectable rank. 1 leave that to others. (Applause.) That should find myself here, an Irish protestant, (cheers,) I confider the very greatest compliment ever paid to myself per. sonally; and if I might presume to take time manner in which my name has ,been received as a proof of the cordiality and good feeling on the part of England towards my protest ant fellow-countrymen,—(great cheering)—then the pride and' gratification I feel would be infinitely enhanced. (Cheers.) I must say, even here, that the great, if not the only difficulty of fighting the battle of the constitution in I. eland, is t he apathy of the PrOtestants of England. ( Hear.) • Our Protestant people believe, whether justly or not, that they and their interests are not considered by the people of England as they used to be. ( Hear.) The Protestants of Ireland cannot forget, though l believe it is not always re membered here, that their ancestors were your countrymen, sent to Ireland, not for their own advantage, but to preserve to the British Crown an acquisition by nature magnificent. And they are conscious that the trust committed to them has not been betrayed. It is their wish now, as it ever has been, to be remembered by their brothers in England as not having acted unworthy of the nation from which their fathers came. (Applause.) A gentleman who sat beside me, _ but Who is not now present, knows enough of Ire land to say what that portion is in which the Protestants predominate, contrasted with the other parts in which they are but few. It is a remarkable fact, that in 1821 or 1825, —a fact proved before the House of Lords,—that in the eleven counties, which were the subject of the famous pro testant plantation of James 1., never from that time to the present had it been necessary to apply any species or firm of insurrection act. (Loud cheers.) When the Roman Ca tholic relief bill, as it was called, passed in 1829, what became the duty of the Protestants of Ireland ? To hold out the right hand of fellow Ship to their Roman Catholic countrymen. And I can answer for them, they did so. ( Hear.) 'They have always been ready to do so, with all their hearts ; be- cause we abjureand detest the jesuitical principle and practice Cf driving coaches-and-six through acts of parliament. ( Heat and a laugh.) Our business is to discover the intention and spirit of our rulers, and abide by that intention like honest melt. And I will say for my Protestant countrymen, that learning as they did, the intention of the legislature to place all classes of persons on terms ollikcivil equality, they cordially relinquished the hostility as soon as that intention became law. (Cheers.) With these principles and recollections, they have thought it hard that their , devotion fur 200 years to this country should have , had less weight, within the last few years, with a people remarkable for its love of justice. than time assertions of men who detest this country, and whose existence depends on the disturbance of public order. (Hear and cheers.) -But I believe the time begins to reveal the truth to a generous people; and I believe the whole crime of the Protestants of Ireland isthis, that rye will not abandon our connexion with Eugland, so long as you permit its the happiness of maintaining it. ((.sheens.) And that we will not abandon our religion, which is the bond of that con nexion,. (Renewed cheers.) Are vim aware that in one year after the emancipation, Mr. O'Connell made a deliber ate attempt, to seduce .the protestants of Ireland into his scheme - of repeal ? (Hear.) Are you aware that in Janu ary 1831, he addressed to the combined Orangemen a letter, in which he apostrophises them as his " beloved Orange countrymen—(laughter)—the most generous and patriotic body of people any country ever saw." (Laughter and cheers.) I know not whether you have heard of his cele brated exploit at Drogheda, a town on the Boyne, where, in a bumper of the water of that celebrated river, he pledged "the glorious and immortal memory of William the Third!" (Hear and laughter.) And what for ? In a letter written by himself, in 1833, he calls upon the Protestants to, aid him in repealing the union, telling them that they may as well share the honour of the achievement, because it is utterly impossible that it should not be repealed, whether they would join or no. What was thssr,!sult. How man y de scendantsof Englishmen joined him ? Not one. (Cheers •) He then resorted to calumny and abuse, which 1 am sorry to say has had too much effect. But in Ireland he failed en tirely • and in a letter written in 1835 he abuses the protest ants Of Irelaud, stating that he had thrown assay five years of valuable time endeavouring to conciliate them, but that he might "just as well have attempted to coax a sucking tiger or a full-grown lion." (Much laughter and applause.) This attempt having hopelessly failed, the attack was turned against the Established Church. It is a fact that can be proved, that the Protestant population of Ireland amounts to 2,000,000. Are these to be abandoned and given up to all the demands of Mr. ,O'Connell? (No, no.) Then I will ask another question. Will any gentleman tell me that the Protestants ought to remain in that country without a Pro. testant church and Protestant places of worship? (No, no.) Mark what has been the conduct pursued towards us. Be fore emancipation, it was stated by all the leading members amongst the Catholics ' that relief would not be acceptable to the entire body unless brought forward in such a way as to be satisfactory to Protestants. (Hear, hear.) Mr. O'Connell went further, and stated his anxiety for the maintenance and protection of the Protestant church. What has been the event? Will you forgive me if I take one among a thousand occurrences in my unfortunate country to show the spirit in which our ancient church is regarded in Ireland. I take at random a resolution passed at a meeting in Mayo, at which between 30,000 and 50,000 people are said to have been present, including a number of the Roman Catholic clergy, and laity, and brought together under the immediate auspices of one of the Archbishops, Dr. M'Hale. I quote from the Freeman's Journal of August 18, 1838:—" Resolved, That it is only on the Irish people so offensive an experiment could be made, as to be taxing them for the support of foreign mercenaries of au alien creed,"—this is the description cf the l'rotestant church of Ireland—(hear, hear,) " under pre tence of providing for their intellectual and religious neces sities. That these humbugs have been too long, and too patiently endured. But that the intellects of the people are now too open—their feelings too sensitive, and their resolu tions too strong to suffer such mockery any longer." (Loud cries of " Hear.") A complete declaration of war against our church! And this is not at all exaggerated in its tone. There are thousands similar; scarcely a radical paper ap pears that does not contain some resolutions of the sort from Roman Catholic clergy, supported by Roman Catholic laity. You have heard of a letter from Mr,. O'Connell to a gentleman named Landor, in which "he talks of "a coin pound of fraud, knavery, cruelty, and hypocrisy, in England called the Reformation." (Hear, hear.) The Protestants of Ireland are determined so stand by the connexion with England, and to stand by the Protestant Church. (Cheers,) If you will give us only- your sympathies, we fear little from the blustering swagger of our enemies at home. (Applause.) Without the assistance of England, we are able to maintain ourselves and the faith we profess. (Loud cheers.) Against the power of England we could not maintain ourselves ; but against the power of England, I say it respectfully, we would maintain our faith. (Cheers.) I will conclude by giving you—" The Conservative Electors of the Empire;—may their numbers daily increase, and may they never forget that the future welfare of the country depends upon their choice of present representatives." Mr. CA itsoN, at the call of the Chairman, briefly returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then gave, "The Commercial, Manufac tilling, and Agricultural Interests of the Country; may they be a Three fold Cord, not easily broken." He would beg leave to couple with the toast the name of Mr. Roby, of Rochdale. (Much applause.) Mr. Ronsi, in teturning thanks, dwelt upon the endea vours of Ministers to divert attention from their own incom petence and mismanagement by exciting a movement against the Coin Laws; and he showed, that, instead of being improved by the repeal of the corn laws, the condition of the labouring classes would be immeasurably worse. The CHAIRMAN, after referring, in terms of high com mendation, to the county magistracy, proposed the health of Richard Bright Crosse, Esq. late nigh Sheriff of the county. Mr. CROSSE said, he wished the part of acknowleging that toast had devolved upon some individual more compe tent to do it justice. To men engaged in the performance of a public duty, it was at all times gratifying to find that they possessed the confidence and .esteem of the community in the midst of whom those duties were discharged; and he felt as sured that the compliment paid by so numerous, so respec table, and so influential a body as he saw before him, would be prized as highly by the magistracy generally, as it was by the humble individual who then in their name and his own, returned them his heartfelt thanks. The magistrates were not insensible to the responsibility attaching to them in the performance of their various duties,— duties, it should be re membered, performed gratuitously, involvin. , a sacrifice of time and personal convenience, and attended with painful anxieties, but duties which they considered to form the tenure by which, as citizens, they hold their property and stations. (Cheers.) Believing as he did that the character and in flimuce they had acquired, was owing to their honest impar tiality and integrity and their perfect freedom from party bias, he might be allowed to express, on their part as well as his out), a feeling of anxiety and alarm at the declaration of a high legal authority on a recent occasion—he meant the Lord Chancellor—who had stated, that his principle was to regulate appointments to the magistracy by the test of po litical opinion. There was a motion before the 1 - louse of Lords on the 18th of July, and the attention of the House was called to this point by Lord Who rncliffe, when the Chancellor hesitated not to say, that where the bench was composed of men of one and the same political creed, there could not be the same confidence amongst the people in appealing to it ! He was supported by another noble lord intimately connect ed with the magistracy, the Chancellor of the Duchy, Lord Ilollantl, who :Wiled, that if he' found the magistrates all on one side, he would appoint men of different sentiments, to make a balance. This was a new and unconsti tutional principle. The great usefulness and efficacy of -the magistrates was based on a conviction in the minds of the people, of their total freedom from religious and all other bias. The new system would be as dangerous in its consequences as it was hostile to the spirit and practice of the constitution. The magistracy would become a mere tool in the hands of a weak, unprincipled, and reckless ministry. (A pplause.) In connexion with this subject, a late distiuguished statesman, whose splendid talents and irreproachable life had shed a- lustre on the country, and whose name, he was sure, should never be mentioned in this town, without exciting feelings of tender and affectionate interest—he meant Mr. Canning—had quoted this verse of one of the most beautiful of our modern poets— " Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath may make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." Mr. Canning added, " So say 1 of the unpaid magistracy o this country. Ido not regard the threatened inroads.on the constitution of parliament with half the horror that. I do the destruction of the character of the inagistracy."—(Cheers.) The CH A IRMA N,'reminding the company that there Was still a duty unperformed, namely, the health of 0 The Lan cashire Witches," remarked, that, delightful as the task would have been to himself, he would turn it ovet to the learned gentleman who sat on his left, as he was still on his preferment. (Laughter.) And that he might nut be at a loss, he would supply him with a text, and it should be in poetry, which was better than prose. The cygnet walks with grace the waters, So walk on earth Great Britain's daughters. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. CRESWELL said he was very grateful to their worthy chairman for allowing him to propose the toast. That evening, however, was not likely to do much for him, an un happy man still on his preferment. El e subscribed to every word of their chairman's poetry ; but when he saw so many of Great Britain's swan-like daughters, how could he choose one. (Laughter, and cheering.) Much he congratulated - the assembly on the manner in which their festiv►ties were graced by the ladies of Lancashire, and much did he hope from suct► auxiliaries. For which of you, said the learned gentle man, addressing the ladies in the gallery, will be found to advocate the schemes of ministers Who are for debasing the marriage ceremony into a mere civil contract ? (Rapturous applause.) Which of you, as a mother, would accompany your daughter to the registrar to have the solemn bond en tered into that is to last for life? (Hear, hear.) Which of you. about to be married, Would consent to have the contract signed and sealed in a notary's office, instead of pledging your faith before God and the altar? (Loud applause.) Which of you, having children to educate, would intrust them to those who exclude religion from their education, and not rather trust them to those who would teach them to be pious, chaste, dutiful, and modest, as well as fair? (Loud cheers.) 1 give you, gentlemen, " The Lancashire Witches." (Drunk with immen,e applause.) The Cu:tramAN then gave "The Town and Trade of Li verpool," with which he would associate the name of Sir Thomas Braucker. Sir THOM S briefly returned thanks, and proposed " The Operatives." The Chairman then left the chair, and the company broke up. PRECISE INFORMATION.—The registrar for the Roseland district late 4 called on a poor woman, to demand th e neces sary information concerning the birth of her child; bnt all he could get from her was, that is was horn •‘ the day after Uncle Stephen killed his pig !"—Cornwall Gazette. MORE ABSENCE OF MIND.—Mr. an attorney, re siding in New York, being requested to appear as nominal plaintiff in a matter in which he among others was interest ed, owing to some unaecountab'e absence of mind, brought the action against himself. and never discovered his mistake till after he had compelled himself to pay damages, issue ex ecution against, and actually incarcerate himself for nut paying his own costs. EFFECTS OF EATING NEW BREAD.—The mischievous consequences of eating new bread do not arise from its che mical composition, but its mechanical agency. It is very compressible; it is, therefore, rarely well masticated; it is swallowed quietly, and in large quantity, and then it in stantly expands from absorption of the fluid contents of the stomach, which organ, thus suddenly and extensively dis tended, not only suffers pain on its own part, but compresses the neighbouring blood-vessels, so as materially to intei fere with the general circulation ; hence the train of suffering consequent on such indulgence. THE CAPERCAL zi.--We are happy to learn that the caper calzi which, as it is known, Lord Bradalbane turned out into his forests in Scotland during the past and present summer, have bred in thoie wilds. There were 41 altogether, about two-thirds of which were hens, and all were - old and sea soned birds. This splendid collection teas made in Sweden with vast trouble, and at very great expense, by Mr. Lloyd. Mr. Thomas Fowell Buxton, the late M.P. for Weymouth, presented them to his Lordship. Should those magnificent birds, therefore, once more become, as in by gone days, com mon in the British isles, as it is to be hoped they shortly will, their introduction will be due to these several parties, all of whom have had that object much at heart. In addition to the capercalzi, now at large in the Highlands. Mr. Lloyd, we understand, sent at the saute time three others t 4 the Duchess of Athol!, and fifteen to Lord Derby. All of these are, we believe, in the aviaries of Blair and Knowsley.— John Bull. A SlilyEßß RUN --We have sometitnes heard of, but although getting old in the gentlemanly and exhilarating amusement of coursing, we never yet witnessed, the remarkable fact of greyhounds pursuing a hare until the whole lay down within a few yards of one another completely exhausted by the severity of the chase. Friday week, however, we did see the astonishing fact realized. While Mr. Geddes of Glas gow, and Dr. Brown of Stewarton, were coursing on the farm of Todhill, Fenwick, a pai r a dogs were slipped at a h are, w hi c h we nt off in rare style. as if confident in its own strength and fleetness, and to support itself after its long rest, or to invite the dogs to greater exertion from their proximity to their prey. The summer heat of the day was delightful to the sportsmen, amid such sylvan beauty, but most distressing to the dogs. After a long and most severe run, rendered doubly fatiguing by its innumerable turningS and windings, both dogs were found lying completely ex hausted within twenty yards of the hare. The dogs had to be carried back to the coursers, • and although every exertion was used to recover them, Dr. Brown's Sweeper died in the course of an hour afterwards, full of glory in the deathless fame of his own true game. On being opened, his heart was found swelled to double its usual size, and a considerable quantity of blood oozed from it; so that be may be said 'to have died of a broken heart.—Kilmarnock Journal. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. CASE OF RUNNING FOUL ON TILE ItIVElt.-011 Tuesday, James Dennis, commander of the Woodside steamer, King fisher, appeared before Mr. Hall, having been summoned under an information from - Lloyd, commander• of the Monk's Ferry steamer Dolphin. The information laid under the statute charged the defendant with having, on the 10th instant, "wilfully, negligently, and carelessly" run the King fisher against the Dolphin, and damaged her; and, further, that he had refusid to pay the amount of the injury. - Mr. Askew, the harbour master, sat on the bench with Mr. Hall, giving the latter the benefit of his nautical experience, according to the usual custom in cases of this nature. Mr. Davenport appeared in support of the information, and Mr. Mallaby attended for the defendants. The master of the Dolphin, Captain Lloyd, stated, that on Tuesday, the 10th instant, about four o'clock P.M., he was bringing his vessel from Monk's Ferry to Liverpool. Whe❑ he was about three-fourths of the way across the river he saw the Kingfisher, Woodside packet, coining towards MM. He immediately called out to them to alter their course, at the same time stopping and reversing the Wheels of his own engine. The Dolphin was going N.E., and the Kingfisher S.W., whence, instead of turning to S., she altered her course to W.N.W., and ran into them. They (the Dolphin) were struck in the fore-gangway, on the starboard side, by the Kingfisher. _ Mr. Mallaby said, if it should really come to a question of damage, he had no objection to leave it to the estimate of Mr. Askew. He had no observation to make further than that his witnesses would swear just the reverse of what the wit nesses from the Dolphin had sworn. Mr. Mallaby called . James M'Larren, an engineer, belonging to the steam-ship Liverpool. Witnsss stated that at the time mentioned by the witnesses, the Kingfisher was conveying him and others on board the Liverpool; which was lying a little to the north ward of Woodside. They (the Kingfisher) had been running up in slack water, and had just turned across towards the Liverpool, when he saw the Dolphin coming bows on to them. The captain of the Kingfisher called out to them to put their helm a-starboard, and to reverse. He observed that the Dot , phin, instead of reversing, made one turn a-head and then stopped. The engineer of the Kingfisher stopped his engine and then reversed. The Dolphin first steered to port and then to starboard. The Kingfisher's helm was pot hard a-starboard. The head of the Kingfisher was west and by south. Several other witnesses were examined on both sides.' Mr. Hall, in deciding, said, the testimony of the parties on board the Dolphin agreed in every material point. It .was perfectly well known that, when two vessels met, it was pro per for each to starboard the helm, and that if either of them put it port they did wrong. When he looked at the evidence of those on board the Kingfisher, there was no agreement in it. One said she was steering W. and by N.; another, that she was steering W.N.W.; and a third, that she was steer ing W.S.W. One stated that she had no steerage way, and did not answer her helm; another stated, that she turned her head to the S.: and the first witness spoke to that which was impossible, that when the helm was put starboard she turned her bows to the W. The last witness had stated that, if the Dolphin had put her helm to port, she would have gone clear; while the other witnesses said if she had put h'er helm to starboard she would have gone clear. Under these circum stances' they were of opinion that the damage must be paid. Mr. Davenport was agreeable that the amount of the damage should be referred to Mr. Askew; and Mr. Hall ordered it .to be paid, according to the. amount which he should estimate. ASSAULT AT SEA.—Allan Campbell, master of the brig Water Lily, appeared ou Wednesday before Messrs. Hall and Maxwell, having been summoned.by James Itenten, a seaman on board the above vessel. The complainant stated that on Sunday, the 16th Sept., the Water Lily left St. John's, Newfoundland, on her homeward voyage for Liverpool. To wards evening he sent a man aloft to perform some duty at the sails. When the individual descended to the deck, an altercation ensued between him and the captain, which ended in the captain striking him. Complainant was looking on, when the captain, with an oath, asked him if he intended to take the man's part. Without further provocation the cap tain immediately struck him (complainant.)- At ten o'clock the same night the captain was again quarrelling with one of his men, when complainant, who had just gone on deck, ex claimed, "What's the matter?" The captain'again accused . him of taking part with the man whom he was contending with. The complainant denied this, upon which the captain took up a billet of fire wood and, swearing at hint (complain ant) struck him several violent blows. He next seized a handspike, and running after the complainant, knocked him down the fore-scuttle. He pursued him below, and 'r.eneat edly stnick him with the handspike. Several seamen•corrii borated the above statement. Captain Campbell said be shipped the complainant on the day when they left Newlnuail-, laud. The moment the man entered the ship he began:to quarrel with one of his messmates. He was ordered' to be quiet, but he persisted in using abusing language and threats. The captain told him that he saw what sort of troublesome person he was,- and he repeated his order that the quarrelling should cease. At twelve o'clock at night they were setting the lower studding—ails. He (the captain) ordered one of the men to go aloft and perform some particular duty, which wasdone so awkwardly that he remonstrated.. When Ihe man came down he began to abuse the captain, tolling him he knew how to do his duty as well as anybody. The ceintdain-, ant interfered, as he (the captain) had expected, and joined the other man in abusing him. Not content with this, he seized him (the captain) by the throat, and twisting his,hand kerchief tightly about his neck, said, •‘ there you there's a squeeze for you." He (the captain) upon this t oo k up a small piece of fire-wood and struck the complainant a few blows. He denied having used a handspike al all, and said he flad commanded a vessel ten years and had .never had a complaint made against him by a man, nor had his trig been otherwise than peaceable and orderly till the complainant en tered her. The mate and steward of the Water Lily were called on behalf of the captain, but they were unable to. prove any thing material, as they had not seen the whole of the transaction. Mr. Hall said he was persuaded th e r e W as no necessity for so much violence on the pact of masters: of ves sels. It seemed that when such persons got put slightly out of temper, they conceived they were to seize upon the-first impleinent that came to hand and inflict blows with it. It was unfortunate that when men had power they so frequently abused it. The defendant was fined £l. Ws. and costs. . RUSSIAN WooL. —The Russian government has made con siderable advances to native purchasers, so that 40 vessel:, English and French, from Leghorn, wet e necessitated to re turn empty. Russia hopes to glut Chinese and Persian mar kets with her own cloth.—Leeds Mercury. A covenant has been entered into between her Majesty's Ministers and the O'Connell faction, that her Majesty shall pay a visit to. Dublin. If it should - fail, -- tne - disappoii,tine.t may cause another and a wider breach between the pat ties, and perhaps woefully demonstrate on how weak a reed the Whig Ministry depend for power. A centipede of nine inches in length was found on Monday last in a log of teak, while being split by one of the ship wrights of Woolwich Dock-yard, and is now in the possession of Lieutenant Pearce, R.N., one of the principal officers of that establishment. It was in a very lively state at the period of its emancipation. BAMBUI/Gli.—The bodies of the sufferers on board the unfortunate Forfarshire are now beginning to be Nast on shore. This week no fewer than four have been found. ' Ou Sunday, the body of William Douthy or Doiethy, a fireman, was found Gating within three hundred yatds of the placaof the wreck. The others are—one at Cresswell ; one at Newton, and another at Beaduell. On the person of one was found a gold watch and chain, his linen is marked "I'. L. G.," and it is supposed to be the body of a Mr. Grant. Os/yarns:tr.—We regret to see this town infested: with a regular succession of lectures on the pernicious doctrines of Robert Owen and his disciples, who, by means of ridiculing the Scriptures, and the professors of religion generally, dealing out plausible theories of Socialism, exhibiting Oen tasmagorial pictures of happiness, holding social tea-parties, and getting up dances, contrive to inveigle thoughtless young persons of both sexes into those meshes of infidelity, which the older and more heartless minions of mischief are but too glad to assist in weaving. It is still more to he lamented that these disgraceful and demoralising lectures are allowed to outrage public decency and religious piety during the morning uud evening c , every Sabbath-day.-Bhdfield Mercury. PRINTING FOR THE BstNs.—A sight of the most inter esting description that can well he imagined was yesterday exhibited in the High Church. All the young inmates, male and female, of the 131 ind Asylum, appeared together at the service—for the first time in this part of the country—with their own newly printed raised letter Psalm Books. When the psalm was given out, they seemed generally to find the place with as much facility as their next •neighbours were blessed with vision; and it was -gratifying. to observe that they could follow the line with perfect.precisien. The feelings of their benevolent friend, Mr. Alston, Who was pre sent, might well have been envied. His constant and de voted labours on b e h a lf o f t hi s mus t i nterest i ng port i on or his fellow creatures were here crowued with complete sec' cess.—Scottislt Guardian. • POPERY IN ENGLAND.—The first stone of a new popish church was laid with great form and ceremony at Uttoxeter , on Monday, amidst a vast concourse of people.—Cheste r Chrunicle.—On Wednesday last the new popish church at Ipswich was ronseerated with great pomp by the popish arch bishop, Dr. Walsh, and a large number of dignitaries an d priests of that faith. After the ceremony of consecr ation was over, a numerous choir, assisted by the band of the 4 t h dragoon guards in full regimentals, who were sent by thei r Colonel (Colonel Chatterton) for this occasion, performe r ' Mozart's Mass in C. The archbishop concluded the service of the day by an eloquent sermon, in which ire made an tip' peal in favour of the popish faith to these.protestauts wfd were present, asking them to examine into its tenets, ail:, not to condemn it until they had seen the beauty and trot" -of the doctrines it inculcates. He . declared that more Cow verts had been made by the unmerited abuse of the reliaie d than by the exertions of its professers.—Suffulk Chrouida• NORMANBY TR A NQUILLITY.—The provincial papers b e ceived since our I.tst, furnish a l o ng a rra y of crimes of t „ deepest and darkest die. Three murders ! —the suffere r ,: being, Ist, the son of a Dr. O'Reilly, of Athy, Que er ;:, County; 2d, a boy, trained Handlan, be/tinging to 1 3 ' , '„:1 cumber, in the saute-county; 11 e-county; and 3d, a young woman, 0 " ' Cahill, of Cashel, in "sweet Tipperary." In the latter e" . the deed of blood was preceded by the - crime of violat ieti f The remainder of the catalogue consists of out r a g es, soine_. ° 4 them of the very worst description; c o nspiracies to re' il l ‘j . the payment of rent, to prevent dealing with Protestants , a , sii se otherwise to resist the law and trample under foot everN guard to life and property. We turn away front th(i . det ai r , in these papers with pain and utter loathing.—Newry put t COMMENCEMENT OF TH E SOUTHAMPTON COALMERC",,i DocKs.—On Friday last the fir s t s t one o f t hi s ex t e nsive ai , re important undertaking of above 15,000 persons —a sufficient proof, no doubt, of was laid. in presence of an assernblaip great interest which the people of Ham shire take in .s work. The provincial „sranil lodge, and the other la' otit, and visiters of the Freeinam,ns, assembled, together with mayor, Joseph ',ebb, Esq., the aldermen, and town.cou )1. cil, Inc chairman, di rec t ors , o ffi cers , an d proprietors_:l, the dock company, an d a l arge num b er o f t h e resP e in g able inhabitants of the town and vicinity ; sod hav All o formed in procession, with banners, eze., proceeded „ t ol Saints Church, where, after the service, an impressive appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. W. 11.1 3 r ° 0 ( yo field, M.A. The procession then advanced to the cl , u w i l is to the platform, which was very tastefully decorator wig o flags and banners; the foundation.stime, which was.' to block of granite, being suspended . over the spot receive it. The chairman of the dock company Oil-. vanced, and requested the provincial grand master, A(150',,.',0. Sir Lucius Curtis, to lay the stone, and, presenting thr the lant o ffi cer at the same time with a silver trowel, Tr a n,,, arms of the company engraved thereon. • There wa: brass tablet epared, with a suitable inscription et a r_W es upon it, in cemmemoration of this event, with the ir.'" , ,,0 r l the mayor, directors, engineers, &c. The provincial le nt chaplain (Rev. W. H. Brookfield) then made au c• 1 ) ,,„0 •prayer, invoking the blessing of ALNii , ;tITY goodner destlal, their work. The provincial grand treasurer the " sited a bottle, with the various coins of the la c "' go o' present reign. The cement lowered to its place ; the pi( , jested it with the level, plumb-rule, and square. °. 7in t c h i e al n . a . e d ; then gave three knocks with the mallet, and praye d GREAT th at ARCHITECT of the universe would enabl d i et: te their work.. The provincial grand crimple master oti scattered corn and poured oil and wine upon the sto In i s . " May the bountiful ha c i o u r i n, of wi ii i :s a y n iT or e . s:er J ( ithe i with a" ea 'artis of life." Sir Lucius 0 _ Fo i o na r , cnieitrestsravrsiveisthaanbduncril jawurto!ertssif reascended the platform, and announced to the . G . ,_ e that the stone had been duly laid, and he trusted 1 " At the would be carried on to a happy termination, & e : ere close of this address three loud and hearty c heers w oo llbl . _ e ec by the brethren, and se-echoed by the tbunsan n , s irbr ° to witness th is auimating scene, which was favo ure d light of a splendid sunshine.