The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-23 00:00:00

GENERAL HOSIERY AND GLOVE WAREHOUSE 58, BOLD-STEEET, NEARLY OPPOSITE NEWINGTGN. vY JOHN LANGDALE most respectfully ann o unce s to the LADIES. GENTLEMEN, and FAMILIES pur chasing WINTER HOSIERY, that his STOCK is now replete with eery KNOWN MAKE and SIZE in ME RINO, ANGOLA, CASHMERE, THIBET, REAL SCOTCH LAMBS' WOOL, SHETLAN D, and WELSH KNIT HOSE, SOCKS, Sr.r. J. L. invites UNIV . kniSAL attention to a very SUPE RIOR MAKE in SCOTCH LAMBS' WOOL, T HIBET, and MERINO DRAWERS. SHIRTS, &c., WAR RANTED NOT to SHRINK in WASHING, which have given such GENERAL SATISFACTION. In the GLOVE D'partinent will he fauna every descrip tion of PARIS and ENGLISH KID, BUCK, NORWAY, DOE, DOGSKIN, THREAD, SILK, and every descrip tion of WINTER GLOVES. OPERA STOCKS, SILK HOSIERY, BANDAN NOES, TRAVELLING SHAWLS, &c. BANKRUPTS' STOCK. OF al`NO TY, GftAHA .IM, ,S• CO., EDINBURGH. r •tHE remaining. part of the above VALUABLE STOCK is ❑ow SELLING OFF at an IMMENSE SAcamcE, at the SHAW L WAREHOUSE, CHURCH-STREET, opposite Parker-street; also the whole of the STOCKS of two eminent Shawl-Manufacturers at Paisley, which has been purchased under peculiarly advantageous circum stances. The Stock consists of the greatest Variety, and some of the most SPLENDID SPECIMENS of British manufactured Lon! , and Square SHAWLS, HANDKER CHIEFS, CLOAKIN GS, &c. &c. ever offered to the notice of the Public:— E. s. d. Long Shawls. - •1 1 0 Rich Dark Shawlets..o 3 6 Extra Rich Indiana do 22 0 Large Chinele Shawls.o 10 0 Chinele Shawlets 0 1 9 A splendid Lot at ...,0 15 0 lii h Square tilted Edinbro' Shawls, from 3s. 6d. to 70s. Mousliu s de Laine and Sony Cloth Dresses, &c. &c. A great variety of Ladies' Travelling and Fancy Cloaks, and Cloakings, Blanket Shawls, &v. &c., very cheap. Shawl Handkerchiefs in great variety, 41d. each. Captains of Vessels, Linen Drapers, and Wholesale Buyers generally, will find this Stock Well worth their atten tion. CLOSE OF TENTH ANNUAL VISIT ON THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER NEXT. 3ArONSIEUR MALIAN, SURGEON-DENTIST , OF _1 THE FIRM OF MESSRS. J. M. AND S. MAL LAN, No. 10, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON, AND 03, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL, NEXT TO THE SAVINGS' BANK. WHERE HE MAY BE CON SULTED DAILY UNTIL THE 7TH OF NOVEMBER NEXT, WHEN, UN ACCOUNT OF HIS PRIOR EN GAGEMENTS HE WILL CLOSE THIS HIS TENTH ANNUAL VISIT. MONSIEUR MALLA.N CONTINUES TO FILL DECAYED TEETH WITH HIS CELEBRATED MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM ; HE ALSO RE PLACES ARTIFICIAL TEETH, FROM ONE TO A COMPLETE SET, WITHOUT WIRES OR LIGA TURES; ALSO, HIS INCORRODIBLE MINE RAL, OR NATURAL TEETH. MATCHING IN FORM AND COLOUR THE REMAINING TEETH, SO AS TO DEFY THE MOST MINUTE: OBSERVER DETECTING THEIR BEING ARTIFICIAL, GUA RANTEED TO ANSWER EVERY PURPOSE OF MASTICATION AND ARTICULATION ; HE ALSO FASTENS LOOSE TEETH, ARISING FROM ANY CAUSE. CURES THE SCURVY IN THE GUMS EFFECTUALLY. -MAY BE CONSULTED FROM 10 TILL 5 DAILY. 9.3, Bold-street, next to the Savings' Bank. T)ROESSOR SEDOT:it'S YGEIAN HERB F W H PILLS, for the effectual extirpation of every species and symptom of the SYPHILITIC DISEASE, and the disorders arising from improper treatment. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietor, at No. 42, SEEL-STREET, LIVERPOOL. In boxes at 2s. Od. and 4s. Gd. each. Warranted not to contain COPAIIiA, CUBEBS, or any deleterious inzredierit. *** With each Box is given a Treatise on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases, with observations on seminal weak ness &c. &c.. containing, hints worth knowing by those who are, nr have bed❑ sufferers to this dreadful and devastating malady. Dr:DAVI ESON continues to direct his attention to those disorders arising from the too free and indiscriminate in dulgence of the passions, which not only occasion a numer ous tiain of nervous Affections, but also entails on its votaries all the enervating imbecilities of old-age. In that distressing state of debility and deficiency, whether the consequence of baneful habits, excessive drinking, or any other cause by which the powers of the constitution become enfeebled, he offers a firm, safe, and speedy restoration to sound and vigor ous health. It is a melancholy fact that thousands fall yictinis to the venereal disease, owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men, who, by the use of that deadly poison, Mercury, ruin the con stitution. When the great Doctor Swedour became Pro fessor at Leyden University, he conferred an invaluable be nefit upon mankind by the - discovery of his grand Panacea, for the cure of this denlorable complaint. Never did a dis covery excite a (Treater sensation, it was sought after with avidity, and used with undeviating success in the most minute and intricate cases of the delicate complaint. for the cure of which they have been so long celebrated. The tame of these Pills throughout Germany, caused their speedy in troduction into almost every country. The certainty with. which they were continually administered can be attested by many thousands. In fact, during the long continental war they were the inseparable companion and safeguard of the soldier, in all cases where the slightest suspicion of infection was entertained. What medicine can be more appropriate than that which has given such general satisfaction ? The Hvgeian Herb Pills root out every particle of insidious poison,. purifying in their progress the whole mass of fluids. They not only remove the disease, but renovate by their action the different functions of the body expelling the grosser hu mours, and in a incliner so mild and imperceptible as to convince the most sceptical of their astonishing and un equalled powers. They neither contain mercury norany other mineral, and may be taken without the slightest suspicion of discovery—they - require nu restraint of diet, loss of time, or hindrance of business, but effect a complete cure, without the least exposure to the patient. At any period when the slightest suspicion may exist, it will be well to have recourse to the Hygeian Herb Pills, for when taken before the disease has made its appearance it acts as a certain preventive, by moving the complaint effectually and secretly. The deplor able state in which many persons have been when Visiting the proprietor, from the use of mercury, renders it impera tively necessary to caution the public against that dangerous mineral when injudiciously administered. These Pills should form a portion of all Medicine Chests, by sea and land, and ought never to be omitted by any person going a long voyage or journey, their properties are such that neither heat nor cold will injure their quality, or pre vent the due effects on the constitution. Dr. Davieson will attend daily at his residence, from Eight in the morning until Ten at night, (on Sunday, from Nina till Two,) where he gives advice to all applicants taking any ofhis preparations, W ITHOUT A yztt. Letters (post-paid) enclosing a remittance, answered by return, and Medicines punctually transmitted to any ad dress either he initials or nama, _ _ No. 42. SEET—i;TREET, LIVERPOOL. DEPARTURE OF THE LIVERPOOL FOR * NEW YORK. On Saturday, according to announcement, the steam-snip Liverpool started on her first voyage across the Atlantic. From the time of her arrival from her successful trial trip to Dublin, the greatest curiosity was excited to view the splen did cabins, engines &c. of this floating world of timber and metal, and thousands visited her in steam-boats while she lay, during the week, in the Sloyne, completing her equipments and taking in goods, passengers, and a plentiful supply of provisions, including live-stock and even growing vegetables. The visitors were admitted by ticket, but they became,. to wards the end of the week, so numerous that tile workmen on board were interrupted by their crewdieg the decks, and it was found necessary reluctantly to hurry some of them from the ship, and to refuse admission to many boat-loads of ladies and gentlemen. Several handsome entertainments were given on board, in the course of the week, by the Company, Captain Fayrer; and it is scarcely and by the commander, necessary to add, that ail were highly gratified by the beauty of the vessel and the hospitality with which they were re ceived. The intended hour of departure was mid-day, but the quan tity of goods, luggage, and stores that came at "the eleventh hour" was so great that about an hour's delay was occasioned. The curiosity excited to witness her starting was greater than that of any former occasion of the sailing of a ship front the waters of the Mersey. The whole line of quays, from the Queen's to the Clarence Docks, a distance of about two miles, was filled up by a continuous crowd of human beings of all classes, who, in their generally dark apparel, formed, as seen from the river, a long black streak on the tops of the marine walls that skirt the town. Many steam-boats on the rivers were also crowded with parties anxious to obtain a nearer view; and such was the hurrying down to the quays. from every street, that the town was, for some time, in a complete bustle. Yachts, boats, and other vessels were also moving; rapidly to and fro, and, the day being particularly fine and sunny, the scene was highly animated and interesting. The Liverpool, shortly before noon, steamed down from the Sloyne, whe she had been anchored, to nearly opposite Wallasey Pool, on the Cheshire shore, where she received, from successive steam-boats, those of her passengers who had not before gone on board, and a quantity of stores, spare spars. provisions, &c. She was made fast to the Shamrock, one of the City of Dublin Company's t iver boats, and the tide had began to ebb before in the unavoidable hurry, ail was to readiness. The letters sent out by her loaded a cart, and were con tained in immense canvas bags, some of them so heavy that one man could with difficulty carry them. The packages of newspapers anti parcels were also numerous. There were fifty-one passengers (exclusive of servants and children.) Amongst them were the following:—J. Van Buren, Esq.. son of the Presidentof the United States; Rev. F. Machin and family; Messrs. It. Jones, W. Barber, jun., H. A. Vandamme, W. Day, Smith, and servant, J. Mur doch, W. J. Smith, and servant, o;ford, Jennings, Isaac Gage, Brown, H. Norris, W. Marie, Hoppe, John Henry, Lamb, Williams, Richard Charles, Crowder, Atkinson, A. H. Behan and family, illontgomerv, Falguerittos, Dr. Mor rison, Mr and Mrs. Kerr, J. H. Davies, Mackintosh, Gor don, Thatcher, A. Lang, Rion, F. Homer, and Dawson. The ship had on board about 150 tons of dry goods, for which the sum of £5 5s per ton was paid, 469 tons of coal, and 9-I tons of Mr. Williams's turf stone, or compressed fuel. Her consumption of coal is estimated at 26 cwt. for every ten miles ; and, calculating upon a fair average passage, she will have a surplus of 147 tons of coal on reaching New York. Precisely at one o'clock the Liverpool was put in motion, her head being then to the south. -She was steered round at moderate speed, several vessels being in the way, all those gentlemen who are not to proceed with her to America (in cluding Mr. Shaw) having just left her, with three times three hearty cheers. From the crowded decks of the other steamers near her, the seine compliment was heartily paid, and a gam was discharged at intervals from the Shamrock. The crowd was dense on George's Pier, and the Prince's Dock sea-wall held its thousands. The vessel being kept, however, nearly in midehannei, the distance from her ()tithe spectators was too great to admit of a cheer, which, we doubt not, would, under other circumstan.ces, have been most heartily given. Her speed, for some time, was not unusual, as she did not, at first, gather way. She was gazed upon by many thousands as she passed down the river, gradually in creasing in speed until her hull began to lessen to the eve. One steamer, loaded with passengers, proceeded out with her, or rather behind her; to the Lightship; another, equally crowded, to the Rock Lighthouse. About 16i minutes past one (the hour of starting) sh e passed the Rock on her westward course. Her speed had then, evidently, much increased, perhaps to about tw&ve knots an hour; and, in a few moments more, just as the pas sengers in the steamer in which we had left her side landed at the Egremont slip, she became lost to view behind the sand-hills, not to be again seen by Liverpool eyes until her return from her transatlantic voyage. She is expected to reach New York about the 5i h of next month. ii)he carries with her the best wishes of the town from which she derives her name, a town which owes its rise to sailing navig ation, and to which increasing p ros perity and wealth will, doubt less, arise from ocean navigation by steam. The Liverpool may be expected back from New York about the end of November; aim it is arranged that she shall depart on her tettind voyageto that city on the first of Janu try, 1839. atm Vessels spu- I . I Wind. Lat Lon Dis. iteuldrks ' O 1 ken with. • ! ---- 1° '1 ° ' M l s.l 1 5 WSW—W 40! 22170 14 17i ! 3 Fre i shhreezes ' Clear P.M. \ 1 1 e , ori erate ar. d hazy. 61 W—S 1 40 43' 1 65 31 206 'Cairn. Moderate and tine. 1 Mod. & fine. A ship fro m i „I i S ' 41 43 1 60 27 237 Newcastle, supposed the Bolivar. • 8 S—SE 142 4751 55 250 Moderate and hazy. 9 SE - 44 1451) 18 224 Fresh breezes and hazy. 10 SE 45 49 45 3 2391M0r1.& hazy. A head sea., 11 SE i 47 21 39 48 239 'Light breezes and fine. 12 Variable (48 27 34 34 231 f 5 Lt. breezes & hazy. Fre. i ( bark, Croix do Sad. 13 N\V ; ( Mod.&cloudy. 12th.brig IS 58;28 10 2551 -Z Funchal. of CZ:giro:v. fr. 13 NW 14, NNW WNW in 40i21 34 „ 1 , 5 WNW 1 I "It NW 5 '5O 1214 59 ; 7 'y Ws 50 50 N Sb 1 18 22 3 Mod.BZeloudv. 12th. brig Funchal, of - Glasgow, fr. St. John's to Oporto. 5 Showers. Fresh breezes & cloudy. 5 Nly. swell. Squally, rain 0 at times. Nly. swell. Sr , . Fresh gales and rain. . _ On her outward voyage, the Great Western left Bristol on the evening of the Bch ult. arriving at New York on the evening of the 24th, having► experienced very rough and had weather, with head winds for thirteen days out of the sixteen. An American paper states that she took out 13-1 passengers, and that berths for 30 or4o more were applied fur, but neces sarily refused. Ai an instance of the superiority of steaming over sailing, we may mention that the Great Western, leaving New York on the afternoon of the 4th inst. arrived at Bristol on ,the morning of the 17th; while the Sheridan liner, which sa i lled from New York o❑ the 25th ult., after a favourable voyage. with westerly winds, arrived at Liverpool yesterday, the 19th. The steamer leaves the same port nine days after the liner, and brings the news so much later, and yet arrives in Eng land full two days before her less rapid competitor. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY MARKET. SATURDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—A letter from Buenos ; Ayres, of the 24th of July, three days later than the previous arrival, states that the French blockade still.continued, with out any probability of it being raised. The writer adds, " I am confident that if a French minister was to come here, in a spirit ofigood will, the present dispUte would be amicably adjusted. You may obtain anything from these people by kindness. Admiral Le Blanc, in Isis order of the day, threat ens them with the fate or Algiers. Th e F renc h may , bombard and take the city, but they are too wise to think of attempt ing to colonise this country." The Royal William steamer was spoken with on the 6th October in long. 55, lat. 42 ; sailed from Liverpool on the 20th September—out 16 days. The next packet expected from New York is the George Washington, of the ith ult. It appears from the quarterly average of the weekly liabi lities and assets of the Bank of England, from the 24th of July, 1818, to the 16th of Oct., 1838, inclusive, that in circulation there is less by £306,000., in deposits less by £713,000. in se curities less by £ 831,000 .. and in bullion_l ess by .E178:000. . . Consols. which closed Yesterday at 93,1 for'tile Account, opened this morning at 9 3 .% 91 for the Account; Money, 93. i. The market! has-a firm appear,,nce at present. Exchequer Bills, 6365; India Bonds, 6264; Bank Stock, 2031, 102041; India Steck, 262 263. Spanish remains ut 174 lBg ; Portu guese, 324 ' ; Three per Cents., 264; Brazilian, 782 79; Mexican, 22 23; Colombian, 2334, 24; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 531 i; Five per Cents., WI 2. HALF-POST oNk.—Little business has been doing this morning. Consols may be quoted for Account 931, and have been done at 93% for Money; for the Account 93% 94. Ex chequer Bill. 66 67; India Bonds 67; Bank Stack 203%; India Stock 260, rather lower; Spanish Active 17?-, with pons; PortugueLe, 324, lower; Three per Cents. 20X a ; Colombian 231 ; Danish 75 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 54; in the Five per Cents. nothing doing. QUA IZTER - PAST THREE.—Consols for the Account, 934 BRITISH FUNDS THIS Bank Stock, 2034 3 per Ct. Red., 93f t 2g 34 3 per Ct. Con., 93% 31 per Ct. Aunt:. 1818, 3Y 2 per Ct. Red., 100% New per CentS. 10170 4 Long Ans. 1860, •15 34 1-16 Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, AY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Stock, 260 1 60 India Bonds, 67 6 pm Bank Stock for Acct. 2031 Consols for 27th Nov., 93g 4 India Stock for Opg., £lOOO Ex. Bills, 66 7 pm £5OO do. 66 7 pin Small do. 66 7 pus Ditto Commercial, It ES. al price, without reference to discouni.) London & Croydon New Scrip, 1 2 )g Northern and Eastern, Anti-Dryrot Company, M 'National Provincial Bank of • England; New, London and Southampton, Southampton, New, London Caoutchouc Compy., Lille, 30 }'rs. 1860; SHA] (The quotations give the aetth premium. or British Iron, 91 Candonga, Eastern Counties, Bristol and Exeter, Great Western, London & Brighton, London & Blackwell, 7h A London and Birmingham, London and Croydon Trunk, PROFITS OF THE GREAT WESTERN. (From the New York Daily Express.) As it is now well settled that steam navigation over the ocean is practicable, we take it for granted, that, as soon as it is demonstrated to be profitable, our enterprising country men will set about the business with all speed. " Fulton," a writer in the National Gazette, has made a calculation of the profits of the trips of the Great Western. in the list of the crew, given from recollection, he says, there may be an error; but, if so, rather exceeding than falling short of the real number. From the 25th of June to the 25th September, a period of ninety-two days, the Great Western made four trips across the Atlantic—one of twelve and a half, one of fifteen, one of thirteen and a halt, uud one of eighteen days, in all tilt v-nine days at sea _ Cost of the Great Western, including hull, spars, tackling sails, machinery, cabin, furniture, &e., £55,000, or 276,750 00 dollars. _Estimate of expenses for ninety-two days. _ • DOLLARS. Ten per cent. interest on cost for wear and tear 6,997 83 Pay of commander at :3,000 dollars per annum 756 00 Pay df Ist mate at 800 per annum 2Ol 6.1 - Do. 2d mate at 600 do l5l 23 Do. 3d mate at 400 do lOO 82 Do. Ist engineer at 1500 do 370 00 . Do. St do at 1000 do 252 00 Do. 3d do. at 1000 do 252 (Xi Do. 12 firemen at 30 each per mouth l,OBB 88 Do. 12 coal heavers at 20 do 725 Do. 10 seamen at 15 do 453 60• Do. 15 ordinary seamen at 10 do 453 60 Fare of 455 passengers at one dollar each per day. for 59 days Rations for 61 persons, including five apprentices, at 20 cents each ration, for 92 (lays Coal consumed, averaged from 24 to 33 tons per day, taking an average of 30 tons per day, for 59 days, 1,700 toils, at 14s. sterling, or three dollars 70 cents 46,573 06 C R. 455 passengers at an average of 30 guineas each, allowing the odd five guineas for children and servants 22,000 letters at 2.5 cents. each 5,500 00 400 tons merchandise (100 tons cacti trip) at 40s 3,880 00 Proceeds for 92 days Expenses fur 92 ddys Profit fur 92 days Thus clearing at the rate of 129,000 dollars per annum, after deducting 10 per cent, for wear and tear. NV ell made machinery will last fifty years. L The pay of the surgeon and pursuer has not been in cluded hi this calculation,' but the amount is unimportant, and will little vary the result. 2. The port charges are not also included, but they can be easily ascertained hy,any one residing in a city. The directors of the Great Western Steam Ship Company may well refuse to increase the number of stockholders. -3. In the -first'of the four trips, there were 87 passengers; n the 2d, 134; 3d, 91; and 4th, 143—in all 455 FuLTON THE "GREAT WESTERN" STEAM-SHIP. The Great Western steam-ship arrived at B ristol on Wed nesday morning last, after an uuprecedentedly rapid voyage of twelve datpr and nine hours. In a letter, dated Bristol, October 17, her gallant and able commander says, "1 have the pleasure to communicate to you, that the Great Western left New York on the 4th inst., at four o'clock [p. in.], and arrived here this day, at half-past eight o'clock" [a. in.] — After giving some extracts from the log, which will be found below, Capt. Hosken adds, •‘ Going out, the Great Western met with a very severe gale of wind. If some of her coals had not turned out bad, she would have been home one day sooner." The Great Western steamer arrived nearly 12 hours earlier than was expected, even by the most sanguine parties who were interested in her arrival, and the average speed attained has been very considerably greater than on either of the lire. vious voyages. During the latter part of the voyage, the weather has been remarkably tempestuous; but it has been battled with in a manner hardly . possible by any other vessel tban the Great Western. She has brought over 126 cabin passengers, and it would be no common task to mention one-tenth portion of the expressions of satisfaction which all the passengers express, both with regard to the delightful accommodations of the ship, and the pleasing manners and e xtraordinary attainments ot ! Capt. Husken, both as regards his extensive and perfect knowledge of steam navigation, and also his truly seaman-like acquirements. Amongst the passengers are W. H. F. Cavendish, aid-de-camp to Lord Durham ; and Judge Robinson, chief justice of Upper Ca nada, and lady and five children. The: following extract from the log of the Great Western will show the extraordinary - speed which, under - the able . superintendence of her talented and seaman. like commander, the Great Western has averaged on this her fourth voyage from New York:— STATE OF TRADE. LF.Ens.—Upon the whole the busi ness d one i n t h e Cloth Halls has been good since our last. There is not so large a supply of goods in stock as usual. Th e operatives , we-are glad to state, are generally pretty well employed. BRADFORD, THURSDAY, OCT. IB.—l n th e woo l market business was much in the same state as last week. P r i ces stationary, and staplers were rather firm. The d eman d f or yarn is good, large quantities being required for export, with no variation in price. There was no improvement in the piece market, and prices gave way a little. INDIGO.—At the public sales of East India ye s t er d ay, Caine buyers forward with increased spirit, and only 200 out of 1036 chests which passed the chair were bought in; the prices obtained are rather above those of last week for con. stinting descriptions, and fully equal for export kinds. To. day at public sale the demand was very brisk, both for h ome consumption and export; the prices established yesterday were Hilly supported; 152 chests passed, of which 800 were sold. Up to the present time 6581 chests have - passed the sale, out of which 5081 have been actually sold; prices ale generally now 2d above those of the July sale. The total deliveries of indigo for borne consumption from the warehouses for the week ending Oct. 13. were 36,8701b5. of East India, and 1058Ihs, of Spanish.—Price Current, Oct. 17. NCASTIt_CLIKESE. FA/C„—A quantitiy o f cluiese was pitched, and readily taken; the prices varying from 50a. to 60s. per cwt., and a few prime dairies fetched 635. to 645. At the close of the day the fair was almost cleared. On Thursday morning a labourer, employed on a mine near Horra-bridge, was struck by a small stone thrown f:om the firing of a rock, under the ear, which cut the juglar vein, and the man died in a few minutes.—Western Luminary, STIRLING, Ocr. 11.—On Tuesday, last a woman, of the name of Ann Stirling, of rather weak intellect, while wan dering in the glen of Kippenrait, had incautiously ventured too near that fearful chasm called the Byke, and fell over the precipice, seventy feet in height, upon the rocks into the foaming burn at the bottom, by which she was killed. A number of men bad to be let down by ropes from the top of the precipice, and by this means got the poor woman up, and bad her conveyed on a cart belonging to a neighbouring far mer to her house in Dunblane. ANNXVLIISARY DINNEn OF THE LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. On Friday evening the members of this association held their third annual meeting in the Music Hall, Bold-street, where the members of the Tradesmen's Association held their annual festival the evening be fore. The same arrangements and decorations which characterised that splendid dinner were retained, and the room in every respect had the same splendid ap pearance. If anything there was a more goodly array of the gentry of the town and neighbourhood than at the tradesmen's dinner; and most of the gentry seemed anxious to show their respect and estimation of this loyal association and valuable conservative aid. The gallery set apart for the ladies was filled with the, delighted wives and sisters of the operatives, and the dinner, which was substantial and excellent, was again provided by Mr. Lawton, of the Rainbow Hotel. The wines were exceedingly good. The arrival at the dinner hour (5 o'clock) of Lord Sandon, Mr. Cress well, and the principal guests, was greeted with en thusiastic applause. Mr. Horsman, a member of the association, was in the chair. On his right was Lord Sandon, M.P., the Rev. Rector Brooks, the lion. Richard Bootle Wilbraham, M.P., Sir Thos. Brancker, Henry Lawrence, Esq., Charles Henderson, -Esq., John Nelson Wood, Esq., Charles Cardwell, Esq., and Major Brooks. On his left were Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., M.P. the Rev. Rector Campb e ll, John Roby, Esq., of IMP., James Aspinall, Fl., Samuel Holme, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Esq.. George Hall Lawrence, Esq., John Arthur Tinne, Esq., John Shaw Leigh, Esq., J. B. West, Esq., of Dublin, and Peter Greenall, Esq., of St. Helen's. At the centre table were Wilfred Troutbeck, Esq., Thomas Carson, Esq., Peter Wright, Esq., George Green, jun., Esq., John Wilkinson, Esq., John Shephard, Esq., George Har riou, E s q., of orinskirk, Captain Armstrong, &c. The vice-presidents were George Gordon, Esq., and John Kilshaw, Esq. The cloth having been drawn, and " Non nobis Do [nide" sung, The CHAIRMAN, with a brief preface, gave— " Her Majesty the Queen—Duchess of Lancaster,"—four times four. The. national anthem was sung with the same fervour as on the previous evening, and with similar evidences of attach ment to the principles of our limited monarchy. The com pany at the close rose and gave three times three hearty .chess. The CHAIRMAN hoped that the same justice would be done to the next toast as had been rendered to the last. " Tne Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Family," three times three and one cheer more. Glee :—" Here in cool grot and mossy cell." The CHAIRMAN then called upon the company to fill a bumber and drink the next toast with nine times nine at least. " The Constitution of our Country in Church and State ; may the purity of an Established Church continue the surest protection of our ancient and revered institutions in the State." (Drank as requested.) The Rev. REcTott BROOKS rose to reply to the toast, and was received with enthusiastic and lung continued cheering. lie said, Gentlemen, your chairman has deputed to me the office of responding to the toast. which you have just heard from the chair—that of the Church and State. And 1 can honestly assurd you, however little I am in the habit of speaking at public meetings, or attending suer meetings as these, yet, still 1 consider it as a very great privilege, and a very pleasing task to be put upon me on this occasion. (Hear.) Gentlemen, the enthusiastic manner in which you have been pleased to receive this toast, convinces me that you strongly approve of the principle that is embodied in it; and that you are still true to the great objects which first induced you to associate together for the preservation of the ancient, and invaluable institutions of this great country. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, when you did so associate together, you did not come into the field in the character of aggressors; you did not at tempt to invade the rights of others; the armour which you put on was purely defensive; you were determined that you would not see every thing that was dear and valuable to you laid desolate and in ruins. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen; of all those institutions which we ought so highly to value in this country, there is none that, has been assailed with greater virulence than that of the Established Church ; it has been made the main object of attack; and those persons who could never consent to agree upon any other point have firmly united together to endeavour for her overthrow. Now, gentle men, it is natural enough first to ask the question, why . is this? Where are we to seek for the reason that should bring this about ? Is it because the tenets of the established church are not scriptural? Gentlemen, that it cannot be. I defy [bent to prove that there is any one of the doctrines of the esta blished church that is not based in the warranty of scripture. (Loud cheers.) Nay, her very articles declare that she will not Italie believed any doctrine that has not such warranty. ([lean, hear.) Is it, gentlemen, because they consider that her discipline is not apostolic? That, again, I will take-the liberty to deny; and I again call them - to the proof to show from scripture where any other kind of church government, is established during the primitive and pure ages of Chris tianity, than that which we enjoy in the different orders of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. (Cheers.) Is it, Gentle men, that she is intolerant in her principles? • That again I deny; and I am bold to adieu that there never was a church that showed so great a regard, and so fully acknowledged the rights—the sacred rights of conscience. Well, then, gentle men, if we cannot find it any of these, and these are ostensi ble, and one would think legitimate reasons, if they were true ones—but if we cannot find it any of 'these, we must look for it elsewhere; and it is - not very difficult to discover that reli gion has nothing to do with it at ell. The grand reason why these oppose theinseives to• the established church is purely political. (Hear.) The church is an established institution; those who oppose the church oppose all established institu tions;—(hear, hear)—through the church they would attack the state—they would attack the throne,—(hear) —they would attack the House of Lords, and they would attack every thing that is permanent. And, gentlemen, they make no secret of this; at all events they are open enemies; they tell you to be upon your guard, and to take care of yourselves, for that their object, though they may take it by instalments and piece -meal, yet their object is destruction. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, there is an old latin adage, which in plain English amounts to this, that. "it is no bad thing to take •a lesson from an adversary." You have done that. They have told you to take care of yourselves; you deter mined that you would take care of yourselves—when the citadel was attacked yuu flew to defend the ramparts, and the display of conservative feeling which then burst forth • from one end of the county to the other—which has 'since that time every year increased, and which I am happy to find is still increasing—(cheers)— has, in my opiniou, been the salvation of your country. (Renewed cheers.) But, gentle men, you must still persevere; you mist not sleep upon your posts; because your adversaries have been checked in their career, pod in their advances, you must not think, therefore, they have been determined upon retreat. No, gentlemen, they are a very different elassof people. They were always, and still are, busy and active, and you must combine to de fend what they are combined to destroy. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, it is not to be expected, or fitting, that you should, in times like these, leave the defence of pure religion to the clergy alone. • (Hear, hear.) You are as touch interested in it as they are. The weapons which they could use are not the only weapons that are now necessary. The clergy of our established church have for ages defended religion by their writings; and iv would be no difficult matter to bring forward a list of imperishable names who have thus fought the battle of the church, and have in every contest conic off triumphant. k Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, that is not exactly the species of warfare that would be available in the present day; the battle is now to be fought on different grounds;—(bear, hear)—it is to be fought in the court of registration ; it is to be fought at the hus tings;—(hear)—it is to be fought .by sending those who are to be yotir representatives in the senate, who are of the same opinions and entertain the same sentiments as your selves—(cheers)—who you are assuied will defend those institutions which you so much value, and will never allow principle to give way to expediency—(cheers)—nor league with the great enemies of the institutions of the country for the purpose of obtaining political power—(cheers) —men, gentlemen, who will nut allow a separation to take place between the altar and the throne, under whose combined influence Great Britain has arrived at a degree of prosperity and of glory which has seldom been equalled, and never sur passed. (Great cheering.) Then, gentlemen, if it is not to be lett to the clergy, the clergy are most happy to call you in as assistants—they are ready to put you in front of the battle, and they will fight with you in any post which you may assign them. (Cheers.) It is to you, and to such as you, gentle men, to such a meeting as was held in this room last night, aud to such a meeting as I have the gratification and plea sure, as I have, to see now—it is to such as you' that 1, for one, am wilting to confide the defence of the established church. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, this country has been called "the palace of the world in wealth, and the eve of the world in knowledge." (Cheers.) Now, I would express my earnest hope that you could never cease to remember that that knowledge would be worthless, and that wealth nnsanc tilled, when the country forgets that she is Christian; when she allows her altars to be desecrated and her religion to be trampled under foot. (Great cheering.) With that impres sion, gentlemen, and with a.perfect conviction that you will never live to see such.a state of things tak-e place,. ,I have the pleasure once mere of offering my acknou lade-melds to the chair for , the toast of." Church and state," which was given front it. (The rev. lector sat down amidst vehement cheer ing, the audience rising and waving their hats.) 'the CHAIRMAN then gave "'The Army and Navy," with three times three. Glee—" To all you ladies now on land." "The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese," with three times three. The Rev. Rector CAMPBRLL, being loudly called for, rose amidst great cheering. He said,—Mr. Chairman and brother operatives—(cheers)—as I make it a general rule, whenever I can, to give place to my betters, I therefore seldom make a speech when my better half, the senior rector, is present.—. (Applause.) And, gentlemeu, as there is a remarkable har mony of opinion between us—so remarkable, that I assure you, (aud I do it with a very great pleasure,) that there has not beets the slightest interruption of that narmony during the course of the nine years that we have been joint rectors together ;—I was going to say that 1 hoped all the married men in the company could say the sante. (Great cheering and laughter.) Therefore, gentlemen, it is less necessary fur isle to make a speech when he is present; because we generally have to say the same thing, and he can say it very much better than I. As your respected chairman has called upou me to respond to this toast, of course I feel it my duty to obey ; and as in such au immense parish as this, containing 200,000 souls, wehave not very many opportunities of meeting together, and you seldom, most of you, conics to hear my speeches, therefore I must say something as a sub s tit u t e f or t h g e e r n operative,tienien' that I take the a sermon, and I promise you a shall not b e a very long one. liberty( Lou (Loud applause.) ef calling myselfA.) n 1 hope you will not think me unworthy of. that name, because I am n o t merely what was called a " productive labourer." (Ch eers .) d a n o b ‘ r v o , It strikes me that the moral distinction between th e pro ductive and the non-productive classes, and the ill-na tured inference that is drawn from it, that every nuns is idle that does not produce something from the labour of his hands, are weak inventions of the enemy to disunite the several classes from each other, and profit from the dis order that will result from such disunion. (Cheers.) lam sure you will not for a moment think me capable of under valuing the rights of labour, or decrying the worth of pro d-lit:five industry- far from it. Gentlemen, God forbid that I should do so. I value the interests of the labouring classes as highly as they ought to be valued; but as a minister and a . servant of that great God in whose sight all men are equal, and who, so far as spiritual things ate concerned, regards with equal favour the labourer in his cottage and the monarch on his throne (cheers), I wish—and it should be the wish of every good Christian and of every honest man—that labour should have its full reconspeuce, and productive industry its full reward. But let not that, gentlemen, blind us to the conviction that there are other labourers in the social field fully as prufitable to the community as you who,work with your hands. There are some who work with their heads, and some who work with their hands; and in many instances those who work with their heads work. the hardest oft.he two, producing benefits not duly to the . communtty in general, but to the productive class of labourers to whom some of you may belong. It has been calculated by an American writer, that the number of men put in occupation in different coun tries, such as paper.makers, bookbinders, and printers, by the works of Sir 'Walter Scott alone, would, if collected I together, form a society sufficient for a large town. There- ; fore, if the works of a novelist, poet, and historian, like Sir Walter Scott, have such an effect, let it not be said that the unproductive and the working . classes are disassociated; r they are connected together in inseparable union. The in terests of all classes, if properly understood, are the same. But now, gentlemen, to apply my observations principally to I that object which I perhaps ought to have in view in re sponding to this toast—" the Bishop and Clergy of the dio cese." I beseech you not to let your enemies, and our ens wits, persuade you that the clergy are not profitable labourers in the social field. (Great cheering.) What is our office in as utilitarian point of view ? It is to inculcate respect to the laws of God and man.; it is to teach you and your children to do justly, and to live morally, and to walk humbly with your God. It is to teach you that there is a great God that rules above, who sees the earth, who knows every thought and bears every word, who must punish the evil and will reward the good. And who can say that such a class of men as this, whose office it is at least to do this, are not profitable labourers? They are profitable labourers in every sense of the word, and their influence is exercised - most beneficially : • amongst the operative classes : for, gentlemen, let it never , be forgotten, that labour cannot receive its (Inc remuneration except in a country where the laws of God are respected; • and therefore, I say, instead of calumniating and persecuting and robbing the clergy-, as is the - fashion in some quarters in the present day. it is the duty of every good government, and of every good Christian, to encourage them by every means in their power; to encourage them, 1 say, if they do their duty properly, and to consign them to I care not what depth of con tempt ifthey neglect to do their duty. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have professed not to give you a lung sermon, and therefore I had better, perhaps, bring my observations to a close. But now, having endeavoured to show you how the productive 'and unproductive labourers are both profitab:e labourers in the social field, I will conclude by very briefly sheaving how we, oho are profitable labourers and Conservatives, may also be Reformers at the same time. I. of course, do not mean Reformers in the modern sense of the term. Ido not mean Reformers in the sense of those conceited gentlemen, who think that nothing can be well done unless they do it them- • selves (cheers); who think no pie can be well made unless they have a finger in it (laughter and cheers) ; and whose notions of reform, so far as I can understand, principally con-, sist in getting their opponents out of power, and themselves in. (Great cheering.) Of course, I do not mean that we should be Reformers ins that sense of the word; but that we should be Retormers by reforming ourselves. If every man will undertake to reform himself and his owns household, in- stead - of attempting. to reform the constitution, I think the world will go on much better, and the constitution not much worse. (Cheers.) ,Go on, therefore, Inv friends, I care not how fast, in the course of social improvement and moral re form. Secure your own independence by temperance and sobriety, and diligence and hone Sty, and the acquisition oft useful knowledge; meaning by 'useful knowledge a know ledge that will qualify you for the state of life into which it has pleased God to call you, and make .you wise also unto• salvation. Secure your independence by these honest means, • and then I think you may command that remuneration for labour, which in every well ordered community results from . the security of property, and the indemnity to industry secured in their just relations to each other by just and equal laws. (The Rev. Rector sat down amidst very loud and continued cheering.) The COAIDNIAN next proposed " The worthy representa tives of our good old town, Lord Viscount Sandon and Cres well Creswell, Esq, ; may they long continue firm supporters• of our glorious constitution." - (Vehement applause.) Lord SAN DON terse amidst enthusiastic chem. Ile said, Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen, the manner—the kind, and coidial manner, in which you have received the toast which your chairman has just been so kind es to propose to your acceptance, gives me not only great reason for gratitude as a -personal ohligatieu to myself, but gives me a still greater , reason for congratulation to the country fur the sentiment upon which, I am sure, this applause has beets founded. I am glad to see in the applause with which you have received the names of your conservative representatives, that you are still the good conservatives which I left you last year (cheers)—that you have not repented since I saw yen last year of those evil doings—of those evil inclinations which led you to prefer a conservative to the reform member;-(cheers) —that you heave not been seduced by all the charms of " the people's charter"—(loud laughter)—as displayed in the Old Infirmary yard—(Great laughter, and cheering, and hisses)—to forget your old friends, and your old principles. Gentlemen, I am glad to see that you have not been seduced by the tempting charms of " Annual Parliaments" " Uni• versa! Suffrage," and " V o te by B a ll ot " ; that you have not been seduced by them, nor by th e s till more p l eas i ng propo sition for the purpose of givingto each of your represenza-. tives a handeomeliberalall owance, of £5OO a-year. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, to those first abstract prupesitions, to which have alluded, I have a most decided objection ; to the last; if you are so inclined, I confess my objection is not so great; - and if ever you do think fit, in your liberality to follow the unwoi thy example of your liberal opponents, I shall not be inclined to consider that the worst proposition which we have reason to borrow from their instructions. (Cheers.) But, gentlemen, seriously speaking, if you were conservatives last year, have 'you had reason to repebt it since ? (Lend cries of " No.") Have the exhibitions which have taken place, whether in parliament, or out of parliament, of whig con duct, or of reform conduct, been such as to make you in love with that happy unioq commonly called " The Whig Radical alliance?" . Whether you:look at the conduct of the whigs in parliament, or at those-meetings which have been attempted in most parts of the country, but which have in most parts proved failures, and in this place a perfect disgrace to those parties woo attempted to get it up such a meeting—whether you look at the conduct of that patty in parliament or out of parliament, I think you have no reason to repent of the strong, and decided hold you have obtained in honest con servative opinions. (Loud cries of " Bravo.") Gentlemen, you have seen the government its parliament, when they had once the supeort of - the reformers in the general election, turning sharp towed upon them, and with an insulting; mockery dismissing the propositions to which those reformers we re most strotsgly attached ;,but not till the general elections was over, and not till they had mutually lent each other every assistance hetheir power. (Cheers.) Well, than, the govern ment was shortly compelled t o ab an d on t h ose projects, and Wire& fur ilea assist a n ce f rom the conservat i ve s in parlie- . went which they had endeavoured t o ma k e it impossible, by the course they pursued in tine electious, for those conserve tives to offer them in the House of COMMODS. II avin2 en deayoured to exclude .every . conservative from the House of Commons, when it came actually to the discussion of measures, they were obliged, in almost all their measures to look to Use con ere:elves to carry Owns out. (Loud cheers.). Weil, but gentlemen, if the government has not excited your respect, has the conduct of the reformers been. moracalcus • latod to produce that result on your minds? Why, after you have beard many of those, the most flaming patriots of the day, expressing their abhorrence at the apostacy of the -go vernment which induced them to recoil from those liberal opinions they have professed, have we not seen these very reformers—having grumbled a Julie, and teazel little— drop into time quiet, warm, snug berth, which their kind, - and was going to sa y, so disinterestedly disposed friends have to off er to one or t h e other. (Cheers.) One has been made an am b assa d or; a commissioner, true—" another ;". 1 cou ld nu t vomit another i t l h ie a r t hasw would llideenn not ma b rl e e those who have been made commissioners; ( c h eers ) anot h er has been made inspector of hackney coach es, —( c h eers, an d laughter); thus, after all, these flaming pat r i o t s h ive a b use d the government at the top of their breath, they have found that nothing was so- covenient as to sink into the obscure,: atul warm berths, which this government WAS DiellUed to offer them. And, gentlemen, I think the proceedings of the last session of parliament were like that in the Infirmary yard , they began with a great deal of flaming advantages to he conferred on you, but they ended with the - reaLgist, namely, the advantage to be conferred upon themselves. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, these parties constantly found fault with us, for expressing our apprehensions in regard to the monarch and the church. They say we area parcel Of foolish old women, full of idle app'rehensions. It is vets •singular, certainly, that they should not allow its to allude to their own declaration : but day after day they come , to tell us they come to pull down the church, and when we . meet their cry by the statement of " the (florets is in danger," they say we are a parcel of credulous old fools. , Rut there are times wren they do bate their breatle--.:winen they do talk of kindness—when their projects are net for de struction but only for reform aunt amendment, and when they thus prefessingly act for support of the menarche' and the church. They find themselves supported by those who are most attached to both. Of these things, however, we cannot but express a little doubt of their intention. It is generally allowed to be a fair maxim for common guidance, to look a • little at the company a man keeps; and when these men ' sociate.with those who make ter disguise of th e ir enmity to the church, it is not any very unlikely thing to doubt those men who keep such company. ( Hear). I happened this mertsing to be reading a new publication, and turned over a page which seemed so exceedingly apt, that if you null allow me, I will read a short extract. The work I happened to get hold of, was, "The Life of General Monk." You ell k iee se gentlemen, that he was the person who restored our monarchy, but, in restoring it, made a way through a course of subter fuge and dissinimulation, which did no credit to the cause had in hand, lie was surrounded by republicans and eeperi mentalists—be was surrounded by men ou all sides with were anxious to asceitain his motives, and for a time, he held the whole trembling•balance of the destiny of this country. This is the quotation which I will read.. , "-The republicans could shut their eyes no longer; they had seen so many indications at last that they could not doubt that it was his intention to restore the monarchy. Martin, a distinguished r eg i c id e , asked, him, one day, what he was going to establish? A Commonwealth' said he, I have always desired it and de sire it still.' I have always believed your excellency' said Martin, but will you give the leave to tell you a story; a city tailor was met one evening in the country, with the im plements of husbandry in his hands: he was asked what he was going to do? 'to lake a measure for a new suit' said he. 'What? with ir spade and a pick axe in your hands?' Yes,' said he, 'these aTe the meastires now in fashion' (loud laugh ter and cheers.) Now gentlemen, this struck me as no. bad illustration of the present state of things - . We meet a gen tleman with a spade and a pick axe in his hand—instruments generally used in upturning the soil ; we ask him what he is going to do? he says he is only going to make a new suit— he is only going to reform ! . What? going to make a new suit with a spade and a pick axe'? Yes, these are the suits now in fashion.' (Great cheering.) I believe we have at last as much penetration has Martins had, and we are nut to be led astray by one who tells us he is only going to make a new suit whets we find him with a spade and a pick axe in his hand. (continned cheering) One pelt of the story is not quite so apt ; the end of it was, with the assurance that " these were the measures most in fashion;" but these measures are no longer in fashion, thanks unto Providence and to you, the conservatives. (Cheers.) If the spade and the pick-axe are still in fashion, it is not for the purpose of destruction, and for the purpose of uprooting, but for the purpose of obtaining a wholesome ground, and increas ing the fertility of the soil. (Great cheering.} Gentlemen, last night, when I had the honour or addressing a similar • party in this room, I took the opportunity- of asserting several circumstances in which I thought her majesty's ministers had not acted to eosure the confidence of the community;. butrthere is one point which I omitted, which I think so im portant that 1 should be sorry if it should be entirely omitted. I am sure you must all remember very shortly before the ter mination of the last session, the solemn warning which that enlightened, illustrious, and not easily deceived noble man, the Duke of Wellington, gave to her majesty's minis ters, that they had not maintained the nave of this country in a situation fit for the emergencies of the times. And would have you to weigh this deeply; it is one of the gravest negligences of which a ministry caa be guilty; but it is else of which there certainly cannot be a doubt that the. British navy has been neglected, and that at this moment we are unable to fit out that fleet which we ought at all times to be able to do. I believe, at this moment, our commerce is not protected as it ought to be, because we have not the navy to give that protection. (Cries of "Shame.") Gentlemen, I call this to your attention, because I think it is a subject to which the public attention should be called; and at this very moment when there are rumours of war in which this country may be engaged, the attention of her majesty's government should be called to it by the public voice, and they should be told that they will be subjected to the reproaches of the pens ple of England if they suffered this great arm of our.pidtec tion to be neglected. Gentlemen, I believe if you look through every branch of the public administration you-will find that the country is not in that state in which ought to be placed, and I believe, until you have firmer hands at the helm—until you have not firmer hands, but firmer heads, and sounder hearis,—(cheers)--that you will not be able to enjoy that security which Englishmen have hitherto enjoyed, and to which the sacrifices they have made for the public welfare fully entitles theinson all occasions (Hear.) Gentlemen, not wishing to repeat those sentiments which I have so lately expressed on those topics of deep attachment to our institu tions, andeleep attachment to what I consider the mein prin ciple of our constitution, the close connexion between the church and the state---between the Protestant aura 'mid (;be Protestant state. I shall not further intrude upon your attention, but content myself with thanking you most cordi ally for the manner in which.you have received my health, and for every other expression of kindness and cordiality which 1 have received at your hands. (The noble lord ,sat down amidst tremendous cheering.) Celisswat.i. CEES WELL, Esq. immediately rose and was greeted with a burst of enthusiastic cheering. When silence had been obtained, he said :—lf the frequent repetition of acts of kindness on your patt towards me could ever render me insensible to their value, I 'should be in great danger of soon forgetting the position in which I am placed towards you, and the debt of gratitude which I owe, and never can repay. For gentlemen, if to receive an act of kindness, mid to fotget it, be a proof of ingratitude, how great would mine he it 1 could forget those repeated acts of kindness which you show to me whenever. I have the happiness of corning amongst you. lie assured, gentlemen, that nothing could be so grateful to me as to receive these tributes of your re spect and your kindness, whether they are offered to ins as personal to myself or to the cause in which 1 have embarked as a public man. Bute for-the sake of my country, I had ten thousand times rather hear one cheer front you fur the sake of the conservative cause. (Enthusiaetic cheering.) And it is because I feel that such meetings as these must animate you in the good cause in which you are combined—that the elergy of each will inspire the energy of his neighbour—that the zeal of each will prevent the zeal of his neighbour from flagging, that I trust such anniversaries as these will be con titfued long and long after your exertions shall have placed our constitution in ssfety. (Great applause.) And gentle men, I love these meatings for another reason, that it affords one of the strongest practical arguments that can be brought forward against one of those specious nostrums—one of those quack medicines, offered to the community, but hitherto, God be thanked, rejected with disgust, I mean it offers One of the strongest possible arguments - against the ballot. (Cheers.) For what would be required of you if the ballot were adopted? The ballot is to be tie means by which every man may keep his political opinions secret ; and in order to be available to some it must be•imposel on all; and. it you are to have the ballot as an effective instrument of political power, then in deed every man must by law be forbidden tomake his politics known—(hear, hear) then you could no longer assemble to meet sour repre.sentaliues to show by your presence your opinion of their conduct—to show that you approved of their conservative doctrines, or to show that you disapproved of any course of conduct they had pursued. (Cheers.) And remember what must then be the degrading state to which you must be reduced by the ballot; uo man must be allowed to speak to hie neighbour on political subjects; every titan must think solitarily and to himself; every man must think to himself otherwise his opinions would be made known, and to make them known must by law be an offence, or else the ballot must be as absurd as we think it. (Much cheering.) believe—it is in truth-that the impossibility of ever using the ballot in this country as 'the means of keeping political votes secret, is well understood ; nor do 1 believe that any- party would mate' such a clamour for it, did they nut understand, that with the ballot, they must inevitably intro duce universal suffrage also, and with universal suffilige anarchy to every and any extent iu the land. And therefore gentlemen,•it is, that against that measure I will ever oppose my exertions to the utmost, and I do approve of all such meetings—for Englishmen to come forward and boldly state their sentiments, instead of slinking, and sneaking with the • aspect of slaves, no man daring to declare openly what his feelings are, no man daring to have that exultation which arises from the performance of duty, even at personal peril— that every man Joust be driven to the degrading excuse of acting under the dominion of tear, or it is to he made the means of enabling every one of you to deceive his neigh bour by promising one thing, and the next day doing another. ((tear, hear.) Gentlemen, there is another reason why I am delighted with each meetings as these, because, in the course of our parliamentary life, many circumstances must occur—certain rules .and regulations exist in the House of Parliament which are not undeistood in the country at large—private regulations for carrying on the business, and which,- if not understood by the constituency, may be the means of creating a-sine feelings of dissatisfaction between theneand their representatives. You all know that formerly, Within the last two or three years, when you sent petitions to parliament, it was the constant course of the members who presented them to make speeches on the subject, and for thew colleagues to get up and make use of some arguments, perhaps, as it has been satirically said, going over the same grounds, weakening them as tie went along, which, probably might be the case, if I followed my Lordl Smitten. The rules of the Ileuse prevent that now. In order to facilitate the despatch of business, no member is allowed to speak in prisenting a petitiOn ; you are allowed merely to state the subject of it; and, therefore, when you ask your representa tives in their places to support a petition, that is asking what the rules'of the House forbid him. to do. This is just Sine of these instances, where, meeting you in a body, we are enabled to explain the parliamentary rules, which enables them to preventyou thinking they are neglecting your duty, when they are not allowed to say a word on a petition which you may get up. Haviug said this much for the various reasons I have for rejoicing in such meetings as these, there is ano ther, which makes me rejoice most heartily in this meeting: it is, that 1 have the pride and satisfaction of congratulating you en the triumph of the conservative party in time house in the last session—it is to congratulate you as a sample of the con servatives of the empire, on the success of the exertions you made, that you then returned a body of members to parlia ment so powerful that you were enabled to stem the consii• tutional torrent, and to inaintain the walls of the constitution hitherto unimpaired. (Cheers.). True it is, that during a period of political excitement—l might say, of political mad nesssoine years before, certain fatal disastrous measures were adopted—certain inroads made on your constitution, but thank God, the torrent has been staid, and at present-we appear tolie in a state of comparative security; but let us not be lulled into comparative security; let us still he ener getic and combined, and with the blessings of God on our efforts, our enemies shall gain no further advantage, Nay, gentlemen, I believe our enemies are so conscioos at the positien;iu which they stand, that no direct etrort will be unamle ; it will be ail indirect one; it will not be by endea vouring byfoice to overthrow the efforts of the existing con sere:titer, getteration, but to poison the minds of the rising, generation, in order-01ot they may become the fitting tools f those who are enemies of our church. It is, we have yea sAt to tear, that by seine mischievous plan of education (great cheeriog);.--that education may be given exclusive of religion,—that aney s tnay be taught to think that a matter of ' , indiff;srence thettt,neo if uneducated in th e p rece p ts o f t h e gospel, they, can )gm little attached to the church— aud if not ,attached.to it, that they will not defend it: and if they do nut defend it, it must be overthrown; and if the church falls, what will stand in the country ,We hate clu instance of a col established 'London on the express i‘rinciple of ex o- oliag religien from among the students—(hear); but, what a glorieult eenicmplat ion ! with all the efforts to support that cstablishment,—with all the wealth of the radicals—with the chatter granted by the crown to support its claims, that institution is. 1 believe, at this moment on the eve of disso lution. (L nil cheering.) . We have had tt system of edu ' catiou imposed tome Ireland, of a different (ammeter, but hardly less mischievous : all religion is not excluded, but an ataempt has been trade, that every species of religion should be confounded—that no distinction should be maintaioed— 'that speimple 'should be taught to think protestautism and popery a Matter of indifference, as equally good and equally 'true. I - leave it to those who live in that country, to say how that system has worked. Gentlemen, some of you may know how the attempt to introduce that system into this country has failed -e(ehtiers)-Lbut I do trust, that amongst metier schemes for preserving time constitution, we shall ever be most vigilant in this, never to agree to a system of educe nun founded' upon a basis—never to consent to assist in dis seminating-principles which we do nut believe to be tree — never to consent to make it a matter of indifference whether the people of this country are educated in the popish'or the protestant creed. (Cheers.) I think we shall hear no more of schools founded on the principle of excluding religious instruction altogether, for from a short statement of what passed at a dinner in this town, it would seem that the Seere. lacy of State for the Home Department had expressed - hint eelf.much gratified by - witnessing the religious instruction imparted at the corporation schools iu this borough. (Hear.) -'Thus far it is good; that noble lord having expressed bus delight at witnessing this religious instruction going on, can never afterwards sanction an education an. education from which religious instruction is altogether excluded. So far .we are agreed; on that point we are one; the remaining point remains to be considered, what sort of religious in structien shall be provided? I wish the noble lord had been it little-more eaplicit on the subject; probably the nature of the occasion on which he spoke pievented it, otherwise we might have had some nne - description of the instruction whieir was imparted in his presence to the - children; we Might have learnt whether it was of one faith or the other; but though his lordship lies not stated that, we state it for , out selves; we wish the children of this country to be edu cated in the Protestant faith, for which their forefathers bled, —(enthusiastic cowering, time audience rising and waving their hats)—and.py a. steady attention to that importaut matter—by a sit enueus effort to procure for the people a sound, religious, ttnd moral eduCation under the superintend ence of our pastoi.s of the Protestant church I trus t th a t a generation wilFarfse :mit worse than their fathers, and that nutter them, -as''nider your protecting and fostering, iu fluenceathe-BritiA Constitution may flourish as heretofore. (Cheers.) • Gentlemee, I trust on future occasions we shall have again theesaine subjects of congratulation—again to rejoice , ahedefehted efforts of our enemies—again to rejoice at the - inereasing strength of our friends; so that nititnately Wenaav florlthlitthose attempts of our enemies will fall away to be as chnt•lniliiibleto them as they are to others. (Cheers) Allow me to thank you for your kindness, and to assure you that no exertions for your interests which I can make will be tots great on my part. '(The honourable and learned meni ber sat down amidst loud and prolonged cheering.) • The CHAIRMAN next gave —" The Members for the County." (Drank with all the honours.) The Hon. RICHARD RODTLIi WILBRAHAM, M.P., was cor dially received. He said •he only regretted that it had not fallen into the hands of his noble colleague to return thanks for himself on this•occasion; but as he had stated yesterday, • Lord Francis Egerton had deputed him to make an apology to therm for not being present at-their anniversary, as he had intended to be. His lordship had been taken up to town by -.the illness :of • one of his children, whom he was obliged to send to the Mediterranean for the change of climate and the benefit of lairs' health. (Hear, hear.) That alone was the reasonavliy.he- was not-here, with those powers of eloquence with which' ite - was gifted, to return- thanks" for the toast. (Cheers.) ..• He (Mr. Richard Bootle Wilbraham) begged to say for himself', that nothing could give him greater satisfac tion than attending meetings such as these; he was proud to add that that -was the third anniversary of the Liverpool Operative. Conservative Association at which he had had the honour of being present ;' he hoped to accept their invitation as long as they thought proper to request his company, and that lie should continue to see them increasing in numbers and prosperity. (Cheers.) Ills noble friend, Lord Sandon, had alluded to the late meeting of radicals in this town, and had been pleased 10 say that he disapproved of all their reso bilious except one. (L a u g htet,) Ile (Mr. .ilbraham) • cordially agreed with him in the abstract; he should h ave no objection whatever t0.E 500 . a - y ear additional coming into from the conduct of some per his pockets; but he thoug ht, sons, that such. a sum would almost make one d ou bt one ' s own honesty, seeing that pay, and pay alon e , was the object and aim of the ministry. He was afraid that £5OO. a-year given to him would maks hint put a double value on hi s poor services, and make h im h url think that he was worth much , more than f he money -• winch the country paid hint, and that he ouaht to look out for mine ather inducements. (Cheers.) Though he had no objection to receive £5OO, he sh ou ld de cline to be paid a' a rep esentative, or in any public capacity. (L ou d c h eers .) Another hon. friend, Mr. Cresswell, had ex d his opinions at come length on the ballot, an d w ith • presse him also he agreed cord ally. His only wish was, that if that measure were cariied— and its supporters thought it could, - for they boasted that th , v increased their numbers five and ten every year—the sustain should be carried into the House of Commons as well, . a that it' the representatives were elected by secret votin t. they also 'should vote in secret. (" We won't have the [allot at all.") It was unnecessary for hint to repeat the c anions which he had expressed last night as to the system of national education that.wassought to be introduced ; he beleved they'ivere pretty well known; and he should only add, that having seen the enthusiastic reception given to the rc vereud rectors this everting, lie had another reason why he slould wish - the moral and religious edecation of the youth o the country to be , entrusted to the parochial clergy. (Cheers.) He again congratulated the society on the increase of its numbers, and trusted that the children would be brought up and grow in conservative principles, and that threughout the country those principles would increase and prosper. ( Loud cheers.) Mr. Ilona, by permission of the chairman, rose to give the meeting a toast,- which was—"-Prosperity to the Liseerpool Operative Couservaseve Association: may every attempt to delude the - operative-classes, throughout the kingdom, meet with the like - demonstration of constitutional principle as in . our loyal .borough." ((treat applause.) He found that he , had tonched a Chord which vibrated iu every bosom. Yes, "may - every- attempt. t, delude the operative classes meet with as.signal a fail-are us it did in this town, and may every l oyal heart cry 'Amen.' " (Loud cheers.) He Might safely say that that was the best speech which had been delivered that evening. It had been well said on the preceding night, "-brother conservatives," and he now addressed them by the title of "brother operatives," for they were all operatives in one good cause. Ah, they must work; for they were now attacked an the sapping and mining system—(hear, hear)— that was the relic of the past year—but they were Coldly as sailed by men who had sworn before their altar and their God that they would carry out their purposes. He wished Lord John Russell were there, to witness the enthusiasm which was displayed. He could never despair of the consti tution when he beheld so many good old English hearts of oak about him. (Cheers.) The whig-radical press said that the operatives are too deeply imbued with revolutionary sen timents ever to have any sympathy or conneeion with con servatism. Now, that meeting gave them the lie. He had heard of persons who had repeated their own lies so often, that at last they believed them; and again, of persons whose wish was father to the thought, and the whig-radicals stood in one, if nut both of these predicatneuts. It was the father of many lies—of a progeny as numerous as—(there was a simile somewhere, a very appropriate one)-011, as numerous as Lord Grey's relations. (Loud cheers.) He believed it had been calculated to a mathematical nicety that, to the 176th or 178th cousin, they were all feeding and fattening on the public purse. Reform and retrenchment had been a golden shower to them—another Jupiter, for it had poured gold into their laps, and perhaps for a purpose somewhat similar to that for which Jupiter came down to visit Daiwa. (Laughter.) He shoe!d like to see the ministry leave their offices, but they would never do so unless they were treated as the father of the present Sir Andrew Agnew once treated an intolerable bore that used to infest and fasten upon him and his neigh bours—namely, informed him very roundly that it he did not depart forthwith he would be thrown out at the window. They had had Lord John Russell here in the "Queen's Artns"—(laughter) —but bow had he been received by the people? That answer could be answered by any one. Then there is as O'Connell had passed through also. Had his " hurrah for repeal" wakened the echoes of Downing-street ? Most probably it had. At any rate, ministers had now played the queen; did they intend to play the knave also? (Laughter and cheers.) Let O'Connell and them play together, and he would he bound that Dan would beat them hollow at beggar me-neighbour. (Renewed laughter.) lie had just been reflecting at what game it was probable that they would beat him (O'Connell), and he had found it out—it was at thimble rig or blind-hookey. If they be false cheats and swindlers —he did trot say they were, for if he should do so, he would have to swallow a dose of Liverpool Jfercure--(laughter)— he hoped they might all hang together, and each one might interpret the saying in his own way. He believed that the ministers intended to throw another tub to the whale—to the radicals next session, which was to be iu the shape of ale peal of the corn-laws and of national education. After some few remarks upon those questions the speaker concluded amidst much applause. .Mr. CA R DWELL was then called upon by the chairman. He begged, in the first place, to return them his thanks fur having enrolled his name on the books of their society, and to assure them that he -drank the toast of " Success to their Association" with very g reat pleasure. The natne Lord John Russell had been frequently brought before the meet ing; but was it surprising that, in addressing such a body, they should allude to his visit ? It was the visit of a man who called the demonstrations of conservatism the whisper of a faction. He had been entertained here at a select, but never. as he (Mr. Cardwell) hail heard, a numerous party; and there tie noble lord had expounded political privileges, one of which was, that men had a right to meet for the expres sion of their opiniona. But if' he had been present there, he would net have thought that it was a right. If he had been at the Amphitheatre, when the conservatives filled it three times in one week, he would not have thought so • and he (the speaker) believed that the home s ecr et ar y would nut he very forward in telling his radical friends to meet. But the whigs, the most insignificant of all parties, were to have the unchecked right of meeting whenever and fur whatever they cuoose, lie called them an insignificant party, and they were so. The radical had his thousands, and the conserva tive his tens of thousands; but where were the whigs? And what should be•said of the whisper of faction now ? What must be thought of the government of which Lord John Russell was a chief, when he, that mighty statesman, as he was termed, with Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear the weight of mightiest monarchies, was not received here by a single plaudit? He (the speaker) thought that the epithets which had been applied by the whigs to the conservatives were much more applicable to themselves; and it might to he asked how it is that that _miserable monopolizing minority can hope to continue in office? Lord Melbourne had de clared, in the House of Peers, that so long as the people of England supported hint, he would never resign. Why, strip him of the rotten boroughs retained by the whig party, and you deprive him of more than the number of members com posing his majority in the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) After showing that the whig government hail made the nation as contemptible in the eves of foreign nations as they themselves are in the eyes of 2uglishmen, the speakee called on the conservatives to be up and doing—to show to other nations that Britons could still vindicate their rights, and to make known what a free people, with full scope, could do for their free institutions. lie would have them to coin bine. together in associations such as that, and to show the whig government that the conservative democracy of this mighty empire has rallied round the altar and the throne. (the speaker was highly applauded throughout, and sat down amidst loud cheers.) Lord SAN DON then rose for the purpose of proposing the health of a gentlemen well known and appreciated by all pre sent. It might, he said, perhaps seem surprising That the toast had not been given before; but he - could assure them that tire 'delay had entirely arisen from the modesty of the individual. lie begged to give the health - of their worthy chairman, a man admired for the honesty of his purpose, and the staunchness of his conservatism. The CHAIRMAN briefly retuned thanks, and before sitting down gave the following toast:—" The Duke of Wellingson and the House of Peers." ( Enthusiastic applause.) • Glee —" The mighty conqueror." J. B. , Weses Esq.,: was then called upon, and briefly but eloquently addressed the meeting. He said that he had been' called upon by the learned gentleman, who he was proud to call his friend (Mr. Cresswell) to give his opinion respecting the system of educatien which had been introduced into Ire land, and he would beg leave to give them the most eloquent definition of that system he had ever seen or heard, and which had been given by o ne of the m os t distinguished clergymen : in Ireland. He said—" We may speak of this system in the words of Mary at the sepulchre—a They have taken away my Lord, and 1 know not where they have put him." (Loud cheering.) The speaker concluded by proposing the health Of Sir Robert Peel, whom he warmly eubigised. The toast was drunk with the usual honours. Song.--" Like a plain-dealing soldier has Wellington spoke." Lord SAN DO N then gave—" The Merchants of Liverpool." Glee.—" Ye Gentlemen of England." • Mr. J. 11. Lewneece said he should consider it a reproaeh • to himself and the merchants of Liverpool were he to allow this coat to pass by without acknowledgement. Ile thanked the company in their mime, for the compliment, and begged to assure them that he should be always ready to come for ward in the support of the great cause in which they were esigheed. (Cheers.) Mr. CRI,SSWELL, at the request of the chairman, rose to propose as toast, esteeming the honour conferred upon him to he a great privilege. It was trot the last upon the list, nor the least, and one that ought to be drank with three times three. His eloquent friend on the left (Mr. Roby) hail the privilege of giving " The Operative Association and the Operative Classes : and he was about to propose the health of a set of . men, who, though inclining to the operative plusses, were mot altogether included in them. They were operatives in the complete sense of the word ; for they had earned the political - privileges which they enjoyed, and they had shown by their conduct that they deserved these privileges—inasmuch as they had exercised them, almost invariably, in suppoit of the constitution of the country—he meant the freemen of Liver pool. (Tremendous cheering.) To speak as a lawyer ' he had two distin c t s p ec i es o f evidence of the i r b e i ng friends to the consitution ; one was, that they almost invariably re corded their votes in favour of the conservative candidates ; and the other was, that a destructive administration never ceased its attacks upon their liberties. (Loud and continued cheering.) One day such an administration would tell them that they were anxious to extend the suffrage, in order that every one might have a rightto vote; and then, because a particular class exercised their franchise with independence, it would exclude such a class from the suffrage. (Cheers.) He should have regretted it had they left the room without bearing testimony - in favour of the independence of time free men, and expressing their hope that 'every independent Member of parliament would protect their interests. They had earned their franchise in the towns in which they had lived, and which under their care bad grown and flourished for centuries. He Wes glad to see the cordial co-operation between them and the other inhabitants, and he trusted their union would continue, and that there would never be found wanting friends to protect their interests. (Cheers.) Lord SA N DON Said it was impossible for him, who had mM long hail the favour of the freemen of Liverpool, and who in a great measure owed his success in four fields to their ever to hear the toast proposed without a word to show his hearty concurrence therein. (Cheers.) They . had earned their freedom by apprenticeship; and he hail just been reminded that this day seven years he entered his apprenticeship in the service of the people of Liverpool. (Cheers.) - if honour was to be gained by honest industry continued during a pe riod of seven years, he hoped they would not judge him un worthy of the title of an honest freeman. (Cheers.) When ever he heard the tinhonr of the class alluded to impeached in parliament, he always endeavoured from his seat to defeud them. (Cheers.) "The Independent and Honest Freemen of Liverpool." (Three times three and one cheer more.) Mr. A SPI NAIL was loudly called for, and acceded. He said he never could find the ieason why he was so honoured as to be called upon invariably to return thanks for the free men of Liverpool, exee it that be was the - largest amongst them. (The honnitrable gentleman's dimensions are some thing like those of the Prinee of °tide.) lie had a pride even greater than that, and whirl' was always, and ever would be, in his breast, that he was the last 'Mayor of Livernool who had been elected by the freemen generally, instead 'of a close corporate body. ( Hear, hear.) Why the practice had been taken, by the whig 'ministers, from the people, he did not know, except that, being mostly conservatives, they could not support that ministry in their wicked designs. (Cheers.) He was proud to he it fieeman; he had ever been so; and he would remain so; he had never recorded his vote in any other way, but always refused to give it as a householder. He claimedit as his birthright; and the whigs had attempted to rob him of it; they had succeeded witli others ; but his franchise was left to him, and he would exercise it only for the people's advantage, in the support of •conservative prin ciples, and for the benefit of the country. (Cheers.) He begged to thank Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell bathe kind manner in which they had introduced the toast, and the com pany flit the way in which they had receiv e d it. (Cheers.). Mr. Rowlands sung the snug; —• Ohl England is the land we love." " The 'Tradesmen's Conservative Association,"—three tames three. Mr. S. Flossie. said it would ill become him at so late a period of the evening, to occupy the attention of the meeting for any length of time; but as the assuciation• of which he had the honour to be chairman was the subject of the toast just drank, and was in a great measure, if not altogether, identified wills that eociety concernin g which they had niet, he could not help saying a few• -words. It was not for him to say much as to the principles ou which these associations were founded, as his sentiments on that subject were well known, • tie felt that both societies had hitherto discharged their duties with honour—they were something like the Siamese twins; there was a band of union between them that could not he separated without. danger to the existence of both of them ; If that ligature were severed both must fall. (Hear, hear, hear.) He directed the .attentiou of the meeting to the inscription or, one of the banners. Which informed them that they were associated to protect the church of their fathers, to give stability to the throne, to stand by the Queen—God bless her!—(arisen)—and to secure to our childrareasettalosse of our poorer blethrea_ae edueetioe that shuuld he founded on the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible: (Cheers.) While he did not under value the arts and sciences, and had not thought at improper in himself, as a tradesman, to devolg a few leisure hours oc casionally to the pursuits of literature, be would rather see his countrymen Christians than philosophers. He had no sympathy with those who looked upon man as a mere moral machine, who had no need of instruction from the pages of holy writ. The call on the tradesmen of Liverpool the operatives to repudiate these. notions had been ably an swered, and he had no doubt that if, by the turn of circum stances,• an appeal should be necessary, it would be as promptly responded to. (Cheers.) tie would remind them that there would. ere long, 1;e introduced into Parliament a system which he detested and abhorred, because it was founded on false philosophy and Popery ; and against this it would he their duty to present petitions, to raise their voices, and to make one united stand, and say such a bill should never pass. (Cheers.) As the working classes were the bens and muscle of the land, he would have them educated so as to form a trait of the great moral structure that could alone give stability t property, and happiness to those who possessed it. (Cheers.) Much had been said in the course of the evening about her Majesty's ministers, and he would read a very graphic des cription of them from a newspaper published i n this town, and conducted, he must say, with no little talent. It was as follows: " It is sufficient felicity, or ought to be, for the millions of the British nation to know that Lord Melbourne dines seven days a-week with her Majesty; that Spring Rice's son is a commissioner of the Customs; that he and Lord Lansdowne divide the clerical patronage of the country between .them ; that Lord John Russell knows to a day when his quarter's salary is due; that as soon as the session of parliament was over, Mr. Fox Maule departed to Scotland, and Mr. Stanley • into Cheshire, the one to shoot grouse, the.other partridges ; and that Lord Glenelg and Mr. Poulett Thompson ore sup posed to have fallen asleep somewhere. • The liberal patty' may say, as did King . James'ssoldiers.'alter the battle of the Boyne, " Change leader's with us, and we will beat the breath out of you in a twinkling." Now there was much truth in these passages, and he would ask what paper did they think the extract was taken.fiom ? •(" The Mail. ' ) What did it signify to the conservatives that Lord Melbourne had not bought a joint of .meat at his butcher's for the last seven months? What did it . signify.to them that Lord Palmerston had served an apprenticeship of seven years in writing protocols? What consequence was it to them that Lord Glenelg was in the arms of Somnus, and that Lord John Russell had been to a late publie , prk , ate dinner with the mayor of Liverpool? (Cheers and laughter.) Now, as there m . ght be some curiosity to see the paper whence the extract was taken, he thought it right that the meeting should be allowed to judge fur itself. It was neither the Liverpool Courier, the Standard, nor the Mail, but the —[Acre Mr. Holme held up to public view the Albion of September 10, on referring to which we found the passages above quoted. The exhibition was greeted with uproarious . laughter, in the midst of which the speaker resumed his seat.' Mr. CUESSWELL,' in.a neat speech, proposed "The Lan cashire Witches,"—three times three. Glee—" Here's a health to all good lassep.". Sir Trios. BRANCKER, by request, responded to the toast... The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Town and Trade of Li verpool,"—three times three, and one cheer more. The principal guests left the table at ten o'cltick, when the meeting broke up, having greatly enjoyed the festivities of the evening. A peal from the hand bells, below the stairf, - . saluted the company as they departed. We do not know when we have attended a more delightful amid spirit-stirring. meeting, and where the arrangements were altogether wore excellent and effective.' THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, (From the Railway Times.) The prevailing opinion among those who interest them selves in railway matters, with respect to the last Great West- . ern Meeting, is, that the gentlemen of the north were notfae enough swills for those of the, south; that is, in a word, that they were sadly bamboozled and outwitted. We do not share in this opinion. We think the Liverpool delegates knew very well what they were about; and that, however weak or in consistent their conduct may appear - to the generality of lookers-on, the could give, if they chose, very plausible,' if not sufficient, reasons for it. The gentle Men of the north are, from all we can learn, quite as much dissatisfied as ever with the past conduct and management of this great under taking ; they see clearly enough that the whole affair is " out of joint'—Direction as well as Engineering; but they 'ima gine, at the same time, that "they (alone) were burn tO'set them right." The only radical cure is, in their judgments, a little infusion of Lancashire blood into the direction. 'Bet to accomplish this infusion, without the consent and cencur rence of the present directors, they apprehend to be nciT..kasy matter: and henee it has seemed to them good pOliq to'CO'n-• ciliate Mr. Chairman Sims and his colleagues by every means in their power. Divide el impera is the motto on their ban ner. Censure for Mr. Brunel, but all manner of cemplirnent to Mr. Brunel's masters; among whom •they' hope, very shortly, to see two or three of their own party playing a pro minent part. Witness the fulsome praise bestowed, by some of the Lancashire speakers at the meeting, on the directors; though, if there be one. word of truth its the fault found- by them with the proceedings of the engineer, the directors, who have sanctioned these proceedings, and persist, up to the present moment, in defending them, Fare quite as much to blame as Mr. Brunel. Having a good end in view—nothing less than the salvation of the concern—they think that jti-sti fies the adoption deny means, however questionable, to effect it. Once before—not, indeed, very long agti—Abey adopted a different course, but got, as we have heard, : only jibes and jeers for their pains. They began with declaring that the Great Western Directors had entirely forfeited the-confi dence; not only of the Lancashire propretary, but of .the pub lic at large; and thereupon they proceeded to redimmend that some halt-dozen of them should make way for an equal number of infallible and sturdy Lancastrians. The answer to this modest requisition was a poser—` It it-betrtte,- as. you state, that we have forfeited the confidence of the propeie taty and of the public, how can you, Gentlemen of Lancashire, propose to youselves to act with. any number of men who have so disgraced themselves—far less with a majority of su trustless a set; for, as yet, your proposition extends no fur ther than to admit a few of your -party into the -direttiau." And so it happened that the mouths of the Lancashire geri, 7 tlemen being stopped by this answer, they found themselves in an exceedingly false and ridiculous position—not far wrong us to the forfeiture of confidence incurred,-but wholly wrong as to the mode by which they proposed to impart new life and energy to the concern; and lot the moment, therefore, altogether powerless either for good or evil. Indecd, so much stronger did the Great Western Railway Directors feel in consequence of this erroneous move of their though a vacancy occurred smut after, in their body, through the resignation of Mr. Tite (Why, by the bye, did Mr. 'rite resign ?—he was the ablest, by tar, of the whole Board at the time,) they refused to let even one Lancastrian in to supply his place; and filled. it up with a Mr, Nobody, whose name and additions at the present moment we fu'get. To recover the ground thus lost, they Lancastire gentlemen have this time gone upon quite an opposite tack. Now they are as full of confidence in, and respect fat, the directors, as before - of distrust and contempt. Most upright and gentlemanly .per son s the directors all are; and uo pleasure to be imagined so great as that of acting cordially along 'With them for the com mon good! The directors, seeing the pleasing change, (pleasing to them,) which has come over the spirit of sheer opponents, have not been slow inttirnitig it . to as good account as they previously did their blundering rudeness.i_ "If you refuse to pass this our report," say the directors, " we shall take it as a personal insult." " Nothing," reply the Liverpool gentlemen," is further from our intention—we wish to 'lever sonally ou the best terms possible with you all—but our duty , to ourselves and our brother proprietors requires-7' "This only, that you should satisfy yourselves that the engi neering of the line isall right, to which we, the directors,- cart hive nu objection; but it does not require that you should persist in refusing to pass our half-yearly account - of receipts and disbursements, for every penny of which we have good and sufficient vouchers. ' It is 00 joke, we can assure you. to be left under such a cloud of suspicion as your last refusal has thrown upon us. Only think what our•feelings as gentle men insist be—think of what your own would be, were you in our situations." "Ali, to be sure," " And do not forget that there is at this moment a seat at our Board •vacant.. Through the loss of our late dearly-beloved colleague, I\ll. Hopkins , which we cannot fill up—though most anxious ate we to do so, with some gentleman of judgment - and experience , ing significantly hard towards the Liverpool squad)—until yen have certified, by your sweet voices, that the post is one • which a gentleman may fill without dishonour.' " Not wend more, Mr. Ghairman—(Heyworth 40(110 —we feel all the delicacy of your situation ; we have no 'wish to ern harass you—far Irma it--we have the highest epimon of your integrity, and only impute to you a want of that railway ex perience which wegeutlemen of the north possess in such abundance—and 'in order that you, the directors, may be, placed quite at your ease, and enabled to fill up the place of Mr. Hopkins—which ought, by all means, to be dune home' diately—we will withdraw our resolution eif censure, in reg!tra to the engineering, for the present, and agree to the adoptio° of the report." We have given what we believe -tO be a tolerably exact version of the course of policy pursued by the Liverpool gen, tlemen on the present .occasion; but we beg we may not be considered as at all approving of it. We think the mutt' duction of two or three intelligent men of business from th e north, into the Great Western Direction, would be one of the, best things that could happen for the concern ; but we would have this brought about in an open and straight-forward note: nor; we would have them borne its upon the force of publg opinion, and not by virtue of a paltry intrigue. We ca nnot imagine that any good can come, in the long-run, of see n , crooked :ways and hollow professions as our pen has traced. No end, however goeid, Can in our humble judg ment, sanctify such unworthy means: The respectability.Of the opposition to the Great Wester!! Railway Management has, we make no doubt, already t"" fered greatly in the public estimatieri, from the palpable at!' xiety for place displayed by those wlio,have taken the lead 1.1 it. The Great Western Directors will not, 'we think, a • wisely, if they omit the oppOrtunitY which they now hate of strengthening their hands by the addition of sortie Liver pool pool gentleman to their body; by ceitaiu it is, ueverthele s that if • they should take it into their heads to p ass a - secoc ' d _ e affront upon their northern friesids , by supplying the of Mr. Hopkins from souse other quarter, all the world will o' disposed rather to latigh with, than blame them. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. Thii railway hav• • to 0 tested, bot h as havi ng now been fa irly• clutaiiility, and also with .respect to the tra ff ic experieoe't Ilium it, it is fairly due to our townsmen who projected O a ,- line, end also to the able engineers who executed it, to be sl ,. ° l . , ', upon them such a meed of praise as they are unquestion au ,:‘, all entitled to; particularly as it is universally admitted, L'L all who have travelled upon it lately, to be freer rival any unpleasant moti o n th a n a ny o ther railway in the country• ra , The Grand Junction ' Railway, after having been in ol' e twit twelvemonths, afrpaying*ten per cent. to its pror•icte . ear , • for that period, is beginning to'develope, in the second ) ioo i an increase of traffic, *hicir.warrants the higheA expectat.oer ever formed of it ; and althotlgh the traffic from Man ei nhe and BirminehaM, up te the present time, does not lust;': i . , o nt results anticipated 11.4 n-that riortion of it, yet the traffic fo e Liverpool to Birmingham , for the first three months % J r, present year, being full fifty per cent. above the former t o fairly promises, before the exphation of the second ye'_ ,l by exceed' the most sanguine calculations - ever entertain „ are the projectors of this line. And the arra ngement s whiel.o, : o it now in progress, both for expediting and faciliating the tr:o of passengers and goods direct from Liverpool an d t he chester to London, under the' cordial co-operation Directors of the Grand Junction and too London Ingham Companies; are such as will not only give satisr l ‘ os e to the ouhlic, but must also tend very materially to inlet:lca the traffic upon those lines, by securing to them a Pr et over every other mode of conveyance. • e• w inter It is con fi dently expected, that , after the ensuot, oior is over, and the embankments on the London and 13:_r!oreelt ham line are well settled down, first class trains 1 ",,, 0 ra Liverpool and Manchester and London will not occoll is hedt than nine hours in the journey. This being acconlV, 00 0 what further improvements could be desired betiseen.;,:ed hY, and Lancashire? The . advantages that will be de l 6 . or ded every branch et the community, from the means ttl e them of an increased intercourse so cheap and so rat quite incalculable. „,,, err` To the -merchant, whose communications with thc''' polis ore so frequent, it must prove invaluable. btai ti et! To the tradesinan, who is constantly obliged t o supplies - from London, to suit •the continually varltide; of his customers, the convenience will he inestimi, „ri,ctirir the consumer will fi nd his advantage in being able l ' c i t or 3 in a few hours, from the grand Mart of luxury, at a Lively small expense, every article he may desire., ,L , se t wo • Liverp M 00l and anchester ear, by m eans o j f "u s , o f lines of railway, be brought within taw dizr' Paris. -0 ho urs Edinburgh will be brought within a journey of t hii from Dublin. ou roL London may bt reached in twenty four hours from Such are the facilities which the public will en3"Yr2 and 0; „.. which had their primary origin in Liverpool, by f o ly tors of the Grand Junction Railway, which has subsegneLand been follower . ' up by the London and Birmingham to when this great aster of communication, from 11 0 - h a d.. south, is brought to - maturity, to which it is now rapidly • u .„ wincing . , no doubt can possibly exist but that, by We •t al dicions management of the Directors of the Grand J 0 net and London and Birmingham Railway, these great lines In ` Y , be made so advantageous to the public, and so perfect.ali. fromtherelves, as to defy all rivalry or opposition, fro ever quarter it may be threatened. And our towns•mer;‘T and projected the first, may justly feel proud of their worhr their fame must be handed down to posterity. • ho The Earl of flar.lowby and Lord , and Lacly W .antlon -tin e been on a visit to Lord Fran c i s Ege.rtLn at or - 4 1 7 1 `" qY 9 near Manchester. ' -