The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-20 00:00:00

A pit z . • -. The CH A rum A N proposed the members for the county. . 1 (Great cheering.) • • The toast was responded to on theirbehalf by MAAS - CHARN- . wIcK, Esq.' C. WILK Isis, Esq. then rose to propose-the next toast. ' After premising that he was not duly prepared for the task assigned to . him, having, until that moment, been engaged - in the duties of his profession. said the toast he had to propose was, "Sir Robt. • Peel and the conservative members of the House of Commons." . (Cheers.) The enthusiasm of their - cheers conveyed to his • mind proof positive that they revised no rhetoric on his part to do ample justice to the toast. lheir cheers proved to him that they had diligently pursued the course adopted by those high ' minded and honourable men whom they might look upon as • the, best friends of the Country. When they looked upon the character of him who was placed at the head of this honourable phalank; when. they looked at his firm and manly bearing; • when they looked at his masterly judgment; whets they looked tat him and found its him the lung-tried statesman and the true christian, they • would not wonder that he should feel himself highly honoured in being the Medium' of presentiog the toast which he-had given to their notice. (Cheers.) Mr. Wilkins then proceeded with much eloquence to eulogize the conduct of Sir Robert reel as a statesman, and the talent with which Lord Maidstone had vindicated the character of the House of Coot-. • • moss. Descended to him the .name of Winehelsea was nut • likely to expire. (Cheers.) Mr. Wilkins then proceeded to • take a review of the conduct of the whigs; their only endeavour was to throw down the church. and upset the bulwarks of the constitution. It was useless to oppose reason and_argument to. them, as Curran had 'once said, they flippantly hopped over reasons, and hopped over arguments and arrived at conclusions, and called it logic. (Cheers.) He alluded to the reaction which had taken place in the cutm; ry, and pointed to Westmin ster, to Southwark, and Other places; would the 'ministers point to Finsbury to preve that there was no reaction? the facetious • medical . member 'of which place Issul fixed a character to theta which would be a sticking plaster, which would stick to them as long as they existed. (Cheers and Laughter.). Where would they point for proof of the countries' confidence in them ? To • , the - miserable member for Salford, who liadfiv lung been the clock of tile House of Contusions ? ( Lrutigliter.) He. could not " say. that the House of commons had an illuminated clock. gGreat Laughter.) It struck hint that ere long they would ear a voice of Salford, which would convince them that they .had been crying. ease, ease, where no ease wits. (Great cheer ing.) He would ask them if ministers had not broken every promise - that they had made to the British people? Did they not commence their administration with the words retrenchment —on their lips, and was it 'not notorious that the national debt was increased four - Millions, since they had come into office, and that the secret service motley was greater tu surmount than it was ever. before? Flail theynot talked about economy, whilst they .had found that-their extravagances were most lavish; as .for instance, the sending out of Lord Durham to Canada, at an • enormous expenditure, not because he 'Wits the fittest, man, but becituse he was the must, troublesome?' Economy! Where should they find. it ?.. He' alluded to Mr..o'eonuell,and-his patriutiton; t' r' he 'received so much precniuni. They might depend upon it, to use the Irish expression. that Pat-rietisin was' a roaring trade. • (Cheers and'Laughter.) He alte.Nd to the appoilitmeuts of ministers made without regard to • - titres's for office; 'the last of these was that of Mr. Shiel, as a trustee of Greenwich Hospital—a man whose large acquaintance . with naval affairs; had been acquired- on his journey between •Kingston and Liverpool. (Cheers and laughter.) He con eluded a speech of great eloquence, during tbe delivery of which •he was loudly applauded, by proposing the toast. Sir GRuitGE So:cf.:me rose to propose the next toast, and Wat greeted Un rising with loud cheering. He begged to return them his sincere thanks for the kindness with which they had 'invited him: to attend that meeting, and for' their reception of him. •He had prevailed on his excellent friend Sir Francis Burdett, who was rather frightened by the fatigue .of attending three meetings on .codsecutive nights, to .attend that meeting, because they • met under feeliugs of disappointment, and the absence of his friend would be therefore more felt. He trusted that he who was their member de jure, would soon be so de floe; lie highly complimented Mr. Wilkins for the eloquence with which he had just addressed them. • He felt .delighted to - dwell on the merits of Sir Robert Peel, his old school-fellow, - add even when opposed to him in politics, he had ever admired him for his sincerity, hisnhility, and his straightforwardness. - They: 'were new fmund in honour -to fight his battles. The great object of their ambition ought to he, that such a man should be placed at the head of public affairs, and that he should possess the confideoCe of the sovereign in the same degree as Ire possessed the confidence and respect of the nation. Per sons were called apostates because they would not go along with ministers iu some of their measures; but, as had been observed, a great many words were changing their tom-tuning, and they must soon have a new revision of Johnson; for now-a-days, if 'any- man practised exclusive dealing, and was harsh and a tyrant, he - way called a liberal; if any sue assisted the popish • priests against the church, he was called a whig, ; whilst con sistency meant putting yotir hand into the public purse—in keeping; office as smite of the present ministers have done; and, wills respect to the term renegade, it was now applied to those who sacrificed and suppressed every personal feeling and private 'interest for the entitle good. (Hear, hear.) He concluded • with proposing " The .BSS electors of Salford, who voted for Or. Garnett at the last eleCtion; might their numbers be in 4ereased, their zeal undiminished, and their exertions in future ..:I , Se'crowneol with success." (Loud cheers.) N. Mr. J. B. WANK Lys, as one of the ele c tors, respond e d t o 'the toast. At this juncture - Sir Francis Burdett retired, and was again greeted with enthusias' ic applause. ' Mr. GaI:NETT then proposed " the health of Lord Maid •stime." (Ittlitiense cheering.) Lord MaTtqi-SuN's: then trise and was received with tremen douscheering. fle•said, he need not tell them how happy he •was•that it - Bard fallen to his let, the first time that he should 'borne north of the Treht; tiibegin at Leeds, to go on to Salford, to go on to Manchester,: and to go on to Liverpool, and to be present-as ha had 'beets at two, and as he hoped to be at other two, Orlik'gkirirois Conservative festivals, as he would say in the 'tentorfof man had ever been presented to the public of Great itain. T At that late period of the evening he would not enter into the topics of the day; such as the imbecility of ministers •end their unfitness' for filiicethese topics had been fully treated on and had been received as they deserved. As he had the opportunity of knowing something about the Salford elec tion committee, he wouhrtnention for a few mofnents what he had - seen with his own eyes and heard with his own ears in that committee room (hear). He would say that the petitiou against the return of the silting member far Salford was not one of your petitions got up without rhyme or reason ; it was not even like one of those found fault with of the Irish petitions got up for the puipose of being a petition —it was not one of those Coppock bottom petitions; it hAI truth for its foundation, and if gone into must have gone against Mr. Bretherton. Mr. Bretherton told them he courted inquiry;. Mr. Garnett courted inquiry; the electors did so, and the I - louse of Commons desired them to make the inquiry. What had they done? He liked their proceedings all very well, but he did not like those legal quibbles, had said to the committee " Do you anything about law ? don't know anything about legal quibbles, and the common Sense of thi s i n q u i ry i s got over on a legal quibble which we don't understand ; and it becomes u s t o inv e sti ga t e thi s , an d we are not doing our duty if we allow Mr. Garnett to go a way unsatisfied that his case has been heard (great cheering) with that justice which should characterize . the British senate." He Said should characterize, for really in that day there were faults tube found with the committees, and he hoped to see the pre sent system altered. Mr. O'Connell had taken it for granted that their party were interested in keeping up the present con stitution of committees . ? He would say that no party was less interested, or who were less likely to have sway in th o se com mittees because they, had a less number of members to choose out of. Supposing that the House of Commons would allow that, which he hoped they would not, to vote merely by - party bias, then it would go against the Conservatives, because there were more members of the opposite party to choose on commit tees. Then why should the Conservatives have the odium cast •on them - of keeping this system of committees, in which notouly the whole house but the whole- country admitted that there was 'ornething deficient. lie (lid say that from what he bad seen of t -his Salford committee-,-whatever they might bring forward at the other side to couuter-balance, that the present system of committees ought not to be continued, and they must have sutne change. One lawyer was telling them one thing, and another another, and that they did not know what they voted for. They did not take a common sense straightforwaid view of the case. They ought not to be led away by legal quibbles and by the strict meaning .of words, but ought to look at the pith and marrow of things. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) There - was nothing nuw straight furward in these committees; . nothing pleased a committee better than upsetting a foundation which had been considered firmly settled before. This was to be considered the spirit of the age. lie wished lie could see a little 'more common sense iu it. It was a hocus-pocus conjuro eus, and there they were. There was, however, one good thing: if they must have a future member hey must have Mr. Garnett. (Cries of "We will.") He• knew Mr. Brotherton would find a place in Mr. O'Connell's tail. Whether or not he would go out as legal adviser of Lord Durham he could not say; that was a situation of 11500 alear not yet filled up. He would d o any thing to get him out of the country, and let them have a good member in his place. It had been his fortune to plunge head over heels into public life. He had not first gone ancle deep in the stream, and.then up to the knees; he had taken a regular header into the midst of political turmoil. (Cheers.) Certainly no man in this world had had a better opportuniq. The case which he had any charity school-boy might have Groughtthrough successfully and triumphantly. (No.) In the House of Commons Mr. O'Connell's ungentlemanly language had beCorrie habitual, and his lies also, and he would tell him so to his face only he had put himself out of the pale of a gen tleman. (Cheers.) He had gained the victory from not com ing down from the vantage hill of truth on which he was placed into the hogs and swamps of the duplicity of the ministerial' Party. O'Connell never met a question fairly; he went off to the right hand orlo the left; he went off with "will you do ins ttc e to fre/and'r, Laughter.) But really it was impossible to tneet hint fairly on any question, for of all the buffoons he ever sew in a public assembly he was the greatest. He beat Astley's 41 1 to nothing. He only hoited that some of them might live to l ee the end of his political career; and he trusted that there Were better things in store for England to do. He trusted that t l !ie spirit o f En g li s h men was gra d ua ll y arising. (Hear.) Eng . t uthnien•Viere so stout they took,souae time turning—(a laugh t— iler could not make them whisk round like a Frenchman. But i:dtin once the spirit of aa Englishman was aroused it could not skipped. Suppose they bad guns to the extremity which the y might have done, and hav e comm i t t e d M r. O'C onne ll to t he,, tower, instead of his getting there amidst the acclam a ti on ';‘ all the inhabitants o f Lond on , as i t was sa id b .e wou ld , w i t h w u,o )o Irishmen' lining each side of the streets, he was sure he ould have had More cats, and dirty beastly cabbages, and all harts of nuisanees in his route, than those he - would meet with in 4,, 5_ Passage in the House of Commons. His popularity was 4 2e. 'Ew foever, he was a. man nut to be d es pi se d ; b e was a t rn of great talents, and had agitated. and agitated and put to .into such a state of confusion, that it avouldrequire years wa r _-soire them to a healthy state,.and to cool the fever which 4 1,1 7_eonanining• their vitals. Let them go on on their side agi heritt! agitating, agitating, and he would be bound to say that t ors re it was very)ong ty should see these squ e ez a bl e minis tion their master. Daniel O'Connell, under whos e protec histoTeY came %to officn, erased from the very pag e o f E ng li s h p end l Y. and from the reniembrance of all the true and inde ,4l,l pence hearti Of thi s g r ea t emp i re . (G reat c h eer i ng.) T he e lord shir e witches, concluded with proposing a o s a tast, "The Lance iihd the ladies of the borough of Salford." (w ir e . y eral . iither toasts we r e gi ve n . a f ter we l e f t t h e room, at a th e te r - pant twelve o'clock; and the-evening passed off with greatest order, decorum, and good feeling. -• , • heplanet Jupiter now appears in the evenin gs , w h en th e f ht , -° Phte is clear, remarkabl briht nd resplendent, pre. a nitt s •t attra ctive and interesting object LATti AD AM DUGDALE, ESQ.—On . Wednesday last, the 1 5t t4te n ht of th e rema i ns O f the late Mr. flugdale, o f D oveco t, j ol '' of Mancheste r , t oo k place- in the family vault, at St. 00 4'8 Church, Knotty- Ash. On leaving the residence of the et;i l e red, the funeral prqcession was met by upwards of 100 ren belonging to p t-he virls' and infants' school, erected , i _ re at the sole..expense, of the late lamented gentleman, who Am s i, alp) tnost munificent- contribwor -to the-,church at Knotty ilis " loss w ill h e long and sincerely regrett e d by hi s Y f rietills, but especially in. a neighbonthood which, through (;,:::has received such ia - ealcithible benefit f ., 1,111 his affording !e t poor the richest treasure titer Could have-- the very means aining a religious education 'for th4r children. • ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE MANCHESTER OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATIQN. On Wednesday last this Association held its third Anniver sary in the large rontn at the Corn Exchange. Though dinner of great magnitude, it was not to compare either in magnificence, or in the number of its guests, with the dinner at Salford; of the preceding evening. The large . room, capable of seating. 1,000 persons, was very neatly ornamented with blue and white calico. At the upper end was an elevated table, at which sat the invited *pests. From this were nine cross tables, the whole length of the room, each capable of admitting about 70 people, which, with some short cross tables; made ac commodation for 800 persons, exclusive of the guests, which number of tickets, we underitand, were sold. Mr. John Rid ley, the president of the association, occupied the chair, and on his right and left sat the Marquis of Salisbury. Lord Maid stone, Sir Francis Burdett, Sir George Sinclair,. Wm. Garnett Esq., the Rev. Oswald Serjeant, M.A. F.C.C., &c. &c., and other gentlemen of distinction. Over the chairman's head was hung a portrait of the Duke of York. (t either side of the chairman's table were the splendid, flags of the South Lanca shire Conservative Association, and. the Ashton-under-Line Conservative Association. It ou nd the room' were hung flags, bearing various inscrifitions, as " Lord Maidstone, the de fender of honour and justice," " The Duke of Wellington, the preserver of Europe;" " When. bad men .combine, good men must unite ;" "W. E. Gladstone;" " Mtinchester Operative Conservative Associati o n, established 1835;" Queen and Con stitution ;'' " A Conservative founds-his principles on his duty to his neighbour, his country, and ' the King;" "With Peel for our pilot' we'll weather the storm," and a number of other flags. On the arrival of the distinguished guests, they were each enthusiastically received. The dinner, which was provided by Mr. Rutter, of the Prim rose Tavern, was plain and substantial. ' A most excellent company of glee singers were in attendance: As soon as the dolt' La l 'been removed, " Nun Nobis Domine" was sung by the company' standing. . The CHA LIMAN. then briefly proposed the first toast, " The health of the Duchess of Lancaster 47 with three times three. Anthenr—" God save the Queen,' which was enthusiastically sung. " The Queen Dowager and th e r e st of the Royal Family,"' with three times three cheers.—Glee—" Hail Star of Brunswick." " Our glorious Constitution in Church and State, awl may they never be severed," with three times three enthusiastic cheers. •' The Army and,Navv," with three times three.' The' Chairman announced, that at six o'clock that evening he 'had received a note from Sir George Murray, stating, that-lie was so indisposed from an attack of influenza, that he was unable to attend their festival that evening; conse quently they should be deprived of the power of his eloquence. The CHAIRMAN said the next toast he had to propose was, " The Warden and Fellows of Manchester," a more worthy body of men could not exist. They were men who had ever supported the conservative cause, and were ever ready to co operate and assist in any work which tended to the welfare of their fellow men. (Cheers.) The toast was 'teen with three times three. • The Rev. OSWALD SERJEANT, one of the fellows, rose to respond to the toast. He said, on behalf of the wardens and clergy of Manchester, he begged leave to offer them his un feigned thanks for the truly gratifying mark of their esteem • they had just received. Their favourable reception of their names formed, he assured them, a most gratifying contrast to those prevalent and malicious attacks upon their motives, character, and conduct, with which modern times had rendered them, together with the rest of their brethren, painfully familiar. (Cheers.) It encouraged them to bear up with be coming fortitude, under the now admitted principle, of no en couragement to the protestant church and clergy—(hear and cheers)—which he was sorry to say actuated . the sworn pro tectors of their rights and privileges. (Great cheering.) They were not to b- encouraged, because they were opposed to cer tain schemes of the government. And why were they opposed to these schemes? but because they regarded them as fraught with consequences most detrimental to the - interests and in tegrity, and the stability of that venerable establishment which they were solemnly engaged to defend, and whose welfare they belteved to be essential'to the welfare of the community. (Loud cheers.) The s clergy of the Established Church were by no means the advocates for the • continuance of any recognised ahuses—(hear, hear)—they wouhl gl'Adly hail such improve ment in the church as might be safely and honestly carried into effect, with the single view to an increase of its efficiency —( hear, hear)—but they must entirely deprecate any reckless and intemperate changes. They must, if they have any regard for their own character, not meddle with those who were given to such changes as would endanger the existence of the church, and would tend to the confiscation of church' property, and alter that to the unscrupulous approp•riaittn of every Other species of property. (Cheers.) lie trusted he should not for feit their approbation, if he ventured to declare, in the name of the clergy, that they were not prepared to relinquish the defence of their church, neither to leave it to the tender mercies of whig legislation—(loud and enthusiastic cheering)—to secure the encouraging smiles of a government forgetful of duty, but tena cious of office,—(cheers) —willing to receive their confidence— he would not say with the intention, but, considering the means which they exercised, proceeding from their tortuous course— with the moral certainty of betraying it. (Cheers.) He was fully sensible that the clergy incurred the censure of some by taking part in the proceedings of meetings like the present; but were they therefore blameable? • (Loud cries of "no.") Were they not, he would ask, solemnly bound to inculcate the great d,ity of fearing God and honouring the Queen? (Great cheer ing.) And on seeing when that sacred duty was. widely and utrhlushingly violated, were they justly blameable for making c eximon cause with their brother operatives—(loud cries of "No")—who were willing, he believed, if need were, to spend and be spent in defence of the altar and the throne? (Loud cheers.) He could have wished that the necessities of the tortes had not required. the clergy to step, even for a brief sea Sou, from the'quiet and unobtrusive pursuits of their ordinary ministerial administrations; but it did appear to him, that the interests of their revered establishments, at that critical juncture, would not he consulted by timid coMproinises—(cheers)—or by un-. hallowed concessions, but by a manly indePendent discharge of their official duties, and by a fearless, yet temperate, defence of their • acknowledged rights and privileges. (Cheers.) He would fain hope that the cloud which had so tong dimmed their ecclesiastical horizon, was how gradually passing away. He would fain believe that they had already irraved the most inju rious storms of popular delusion ; that men were beginning to take a dispassionate arid impartial estimate of the value of the church establishment. (Hear, hear.) Judging by what he saw around him, 'he - thought he' should not be chargeable with any overweening presumption if . he ventured to entertain the , eonviction„that the great majority of thinking.people of Eng land might yet, under God's blessing, return to their first love, and might again. resolve, at the hazard of life and fortune, to fulfil the sacred duty they owed to themselves,to their children, to generations yet unknown, for the memory of past services to maintain and inviolate the church of their forefathers. (Enthu siastic and prolonged cheering.) He would not longer detain their. - (Loud cries of "go on.") Whatever might be the ulti mate destiny of the Church of England, he trusted that her bishops and clergy would not disappoint the expectations of her friends in any conflict she might yet be doomed to undergo. (Hear. hear ) . He trusted they might. steadily pursue their career of duty, whether for honour or diShonour, through evil report or good report, regardless of she taunts of their enemies, and dispersing the base rewards that might he held out to cleri cal apostacy. They would at least be stimulated and supported in such a course by the glorious example of their predecessors in days gone by—of those truly, Christian men who broke the iron grasp of papal tyranny—(cheers)—and sowed the first .seeds of civil and religious freedom only to water them with their, blood. (Cheers.) Of others, who, at a subsequent pe rind, withstood the tyranny of the second James, when both parlia ment and people had submitted to his tyrannical mandates; and thus stood unprotected that glorious constitution under whose wings they were now „protected—no thanks to the whi gs . (Cheers.) They would be further-stimulated to pursue the on ward path of duty from the recollection that their conduct was constantly watched by unrelenting adversaries, eager to. take advantage of any oversight ; by the affection . and anxiety of friends such as he then saw arourid . bins ; and above all, from the all-seeing eye of that God who alone could direct a favour able issue. iu the contest in which they were then engaged. (Hear. hear.) He begged leave to thank them for the honour they had done the warden and clergy, and to drink their very good healths.' The reverend gentleman sat down amidst most enthusiastic cheering. The CusramaN next proposed . " the Duke of Wellington, the preserver of Europe," with three times three, enthusiastic cheers, -and one cheer more. Sir Fes Nets BuRDETT rose, and was received with tremend ous cheering. He said—Gentlemen, I waited what I consider ed to be a reasonable time, under the expectation, that,, in all 'probability, there would be some gallant son of the army or navy, whose health we have just drunk—some compliment worthy of the Duke of Wellington, of which all his army was wurtby, from the drum-boy to the general commanding the re giinents, with whom thegreat genjus'of that great man, not only the greatest man of this great country, but the greatest man of the age in which we live,• —might possibly have been here, and might have had the satisfaction of gratifying his own feelings in drinking this sentiment with respect to the Duke of Welling . - ton, which we all equally feel, although we are nut all equally capable tif appreciating. It 'appears to me, that I see such a body of. Englishmen before me, exhibiting such true English spirit and feeling as I have had - the satisfaction of seeing on no public occasion • and L should not think that I did my duty as an Englishman; if I did permit this toast to pass without such little remark as the occasion of the moment might inspire me with. {Cheers.) True, the task in one respect, is not difficult, since we have only to express our common feelings on the subject. At the same time; it is an insurmountable difficulty-if anything is to be expected from any man which can add to the honour, of the Doke. of Wellingt o n (Cheers.) H owe ver, it happens, that the great merits of the Duke of Wellington at the few ex hibitions of those great qualities with which he has been endow ed and displayed, and •with a devotion to his country so disin terested and so pure, that I will challenge all history to produce a man, (let it even be. in the ancient times, or the much-vaunted time of Greece .and Roman virtue, or in the no less truly de serving times of our own historical accounts,) that 1 defy the world to produce, ancient or modern, so st raight forward, single minded, disinterested-a patriot, great in inteNect, as well as clear in mind, exhibiting such disinterested qualities of firm ness as well as honesty of purpose., (Cheers.) - At the same time this has been done with a degree of unpresurning modesty, that one scarcely knows how to conceive possible, with the ne cessary consciousness of the immense powers, moral and intel lectual, which he must have-felt himself to have possessed, and which no difficulties or dangers for an instant ever altered or'' embarraSsed. (Cheers.) But so it is, that the Duke of Wel lington seems to have been almost the only being living that was not aware of his own transcendent merits. (Cheers.) For tunately and happily from the zeal and attachment of an officer, Colonel Gurwond, who had done himself almost as much honour as it is possible for man to derive, by the able instinct. and in dustry he has displayed in collecting Those. invaluable docuthents that are called, " The despatches of the Duke of Wellington," and which embody for the instruction of all men that are called. upon, and are destined-to serve their country not only such ex amples of wisdom and conduct, but of • pure disinterestedness, regardlessnesa of himself, • and devotion' to, the service of his country, that; in my mind - Places bins transcendently above all the great men of whom history gives us any 'record.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, that book ought to be made a book to be studied by you in all the schools in England; for it is worth all the classics. I- wish extremely it may become a classic in - the schools of those youth who .are destined to serve their country. They have only to - study it well, to turn over its pages by day, and:to meditate:by night, to see traced before them the true path of glory, and the-true means 'of: serving their country. That book should be inscribed with the memento to youth— " From henceforward learn that virtue through labour, is the road to honour:to-true patriotism, to the good of your country, to.everlasting, renown."; I could tow avoid obtruding myself for sonic little time. I have only the satisfaction, the-proud sa tisfaction to. feel,' what..you, as a satople:erfall (cheers)—all those chords that have been touched upon, and which I trust will i t) tissolahly noire Its altogether in ,every rank and degree in defence ;.t• that great country which the Duke of Weliingtf,it lois 'served. and to render immortal that establish trent in cuorrh and constitution, which his effirts have pre.erv e.i t,i is. The honourable baronet sat down amidst the most rapturous cheering.' •- The CHAIRMAN said, the next toast on his list was " Lord Lyndhurst and the douse of Peers." The toast was given with three times three. The Marquis of SALisßUi:y rose to respond to the toast, and was relived with much cheering. 'He -should—humble indi vidual as he was in that house, the name of which they had just received with so much enthusiasm, he telt great difficulty in pro perly returning them his thanks for the honour they had done him. He most sincerely wi s hed th a t t h e toas t had - fallen into abler hands. ("No.") It was some consolation to bon to think that he was addressing an assembly, who by their pre sence there that night, and by the manner in which they had received that toast, at once denied the calumnies which had. been heaped on that body of men of whom he formed so insigni ficant a part. They had been accused of beinssutterly unworthy of the age in .which they lived—of being utterly opposed to all improvement—of having separated themselves front the rest or the country; and they had been threatened in po measured terms of being deprived of their hereditary privileges. If those hereditary privileges which they enjoyed, were nut exercised to the best of their judgement for the benefit of their country, they should deserve to be deprived of them. (Cheers.) And let it be recollected that they were utterly powerless unlesS supported by the people. - (Continued cheerio;; .) It was --true that the v had the power for a•titne, to suspend any measure which they inightdeein injurious to the country; exercised it and should continue to exercise it. (GheersS) They would believe hint that if there had been on any occasion errors - in their conduct, they had been errors of judgement, and not errors of the heart. Their interests were intimately connected with the interests 'of the rest of their fellow subjects; , their habits were the same: . they enjoyed the souse blessings as did their fellow subjects, and probably, if by some distinguished Merits of their ancestors they had been raised to the proud situation which they held, that situation, thank God, in this country was open to every man let hint but be distinguished; in whatever career of life he was, he would surely rise and receive that !need of honour which he de served. ((Cheers ; ) It was not 'for him to make comparisons; but he did sincerely believe that they had neither deserved the aspersions that had been cast upon them. 'nor had they by ahv part of the thinking people of England been deetned guilty of the faults imputed to them. They. trusted 'were looked upon with confidence, and he hoped in general—he might say almost uaiversally they represented the feelings of the thinking part of the population of England perhaps better than some of those who were mistermed their represent,' • tives. (Loud cheering.) He passed' no imputations upon any • one, but it was a notorious fact that if the -voice of the majority of the representatives, of that part at least of the united kingdom, were attended to, their institutions would' not be threatened with the (Joi t er which now overhangs them, It was notorious that even in the present oarliainent there existed such a majority of the English members favourable to all just reforms, but at the same adverse'. to all innovations upon' the constitution, that. they should•not now be compelled by the. exertions which he was happy to see those around-him-use to defend themselves from the dangers which beset them, if it de pended on the English members alone to preserve that-copsti t'ution inviolate. (Cheers.) He had said, that that majority existed only with the people . uf.England: why did it not exist elsewhere? Not be believed because the feeling in the sister kingdom amongst those persons whose good opinion it must be desirable to have—woo 'were the fittest judges of what was fitted for the country whose interests connected it with the British empire — not that their feeling as a nation differed from that of England, but because they lived under a state of intimidation which deprived them of the power of choosing their representa tives, which the people of England still happily enjoy. They were the abject slaves of a facttion that run not only their country but also the 1-tiuistry and government of this country to a road of ruin. (Cries of shame.') And why had they that power? Because that government had been sufficiently profli gate to throw its weight, and the power and authority entrusted to it to preserve the peace, in favour of the friends of anarchy and confusion. (Cheers.) If it were necessary to give in stances of the state of intimidation in the sister kingdom, he . need only refer them to the horrible cruelties practised against those individuals who had dared to snake that independent ex ercise of the vote which they were entrusted with. He wald allude to the fact, horrible on the minds of any Englishmair, • of two individuals,' Mr. M‘Kenzie and another, returning from voting for an adverse faction, tieing bound and left in a secluded spot to die the most horrible death, that of starvation. He felt that he had already detained them too lung, and ought to apo logize to them, but he coudnot refrain from saying a few words as to the effect of this unnatural coalition between the govern ment and . a faction anxious to overthrow the monarchy (hear.) lie could nut but allude so the effect it had on the house or their representatives. Every institution had been assailed in its turn. A ministry who compromised the best interests of the country for the sake of the preservation of an office which they degraded—(laughter)—had in almost all instances given what the popish faction were supposed to consider, and which he (the Marquis of Salisbury) stated that they did consider, as an instal ment. The faction stated openly that they would drive home the wedge of which the point had been inserted. This was_init the oulv effect that would be produced. He regretted that tlia effect on the majority or the House of Coinmons had -been in a peat measure to.ditniuish their respect for themselves. Itle re gretted much to find that they no tpnger entertained that high feeling which would make them consider the imputatiohof per jury in the exercise of their legal duties, a reproach. They had on the present occasion the presence, of a Young, nebleinan— (tremendous cheering)—who had distinguisbedbiniself by the stand against the vitupetatien with which the house suffered itself to be overwhelmed. He had . beep successful in bringing that man to be reprimanded by the house for the language he had used against it. He was . told • that that yoong nobleman would emulate the good qualities of his father. Unfortunately 'he coutse he had phrsued had not on all occasions been fol. lowed.uo. The House of Commons had submitted to the tation that their deeisious were grounded on perjury. They o k u u l i d i oa respect s fe p e e l c , t t that a a p erson tvl hi.s h lo st lu r e e h s e e c g t re fo tt l e i Cl im to s s e •S it y ; o na th u e st rs au s l v was the course that the present House of Commons was follow ing. (Hear, hear, hear.) This was one of the most awful signs of the times, when the guardians of public. .liberty Lost the respect of those who, entrusted their liberties to their care. He feared that the - libel ty which they enjoyed was in very great danger; - and he very much feared that if this system of disregarding the imputations that were cast upon them were suffered to cotkl.inue that shortly they ,would : cease to r egar d that body—thr great bulwark of English liberty —as worthy of their confidence. , (Cheers.) This was a point in which - the lords could do nothing. They. might stop malicious measuree, and might give an onpottunity of appealing to them whether they had been right ui wrong ; but this was the people's bast e, and they must fight it. He did assure them that it was with the greatest pleasure that he saw that night an assembly composed like that determined to withstand the attempt that was made against their constitution ; and he could only say, on the pal t of the' - house, on whose part he was then addressing them. that be was convinced that nothing would be wanting on their part. But the House 'of Lords looked to the people to do their duty (cheers.;) and whenever it became their duty again to choose their representatives, let them chOose then such as to put down that faction which, he contended. had brought the dangers upon the country which now attacked it. He must apologise for having detained them 'so long, and 'begged to drink all their good healths. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said the next toast he had to propose he was sure they would all drink with enthusiasm. He would give them " Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative Members of the House of Commons." (Great cheering.) • Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR rose to respond to the toast, and was received with great cheering. He said his venerable friend Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Maidstone, and himself had, in th e course of the last few days been going what might he called the northern circuit. (A laugh.). They had been to Leeds, to Salford, and to Manchester; they had appeared before remota, gated multitudes of their respected and respectable fellow countrymen, and had considered them in the light of SO many grand juries, whotrad been considering and meditating on the charges of apostacy and truth, giving assumptions which had been brought against them by the factious; and they had the happiness to believe that these grand juries had thrown . out the bills, and that a verdict of acquittal stood against them—th a t , they did not accuse them of a departure front Initiciple,beetitiie they had ceased to support those men who had abandoned those principles which they (Sir F. Burdett, Lord Maidstone, and himself) maintained. It was impossible to exhibit and difficult to ackniavledge in adequate terns the enthusiastic reception which his revered and noble friends had ever received, and for which they felt the deepest gratitude. He remembered it was said in a German tale, which had struck him for its ab surdity. ".A sudden thought strikes me—let us form an eternal friendship;" yet, in the places they had visited, this, though absurd, was absolutely realised in a thousand instalnces, for a variety of friendships had been cemented in every place they. had gone to. 'They read in ancient 'story of a person whose name was Briareus, who was represented as having one hundred hands, and if his friend Sir Francis Burdett had had all these hands he would at least have found ten persons ready to take each. if he might venture to make another allusion to the customs of courts of law, he should take the liberty to say that the kindness they had experienced, which would serve as a kind of retaining j'ee. ( Hear.) Anxious as they had at all times been they should now be m e , solicitous than ever to devote their time, either in or out of parliament, to promote the interests and the trade of the manufacturing and popular classes of this great country. (Cheers ) It was, iu pis opinion, impossible to exaggerate the impot lance of such meetings as these, and the benefit which must accrue from them to theMselves and the country at large. These meetings had the happy effect of amalgamating all classes of society with each other, of enabling them to appreciate each others worth, and of removing each others prejudices—to tell the rich and the poor that all ,had the same rights, the same duties—that all had the same interest in time—that they had all the same prospects of eternity. (Hear.) And they would allow him to say that this most desirable bond of union had not been cemented in the degree in which it might have been wiiheci-, and he felt that the reason why it had not been so was chiefly to be attributed to the class to which he .be longed. (Hear.) . H e ' must con f ess — at l east i t was hi s o pinion —that they had been in' the habit of keeping too much aloof, they had not as sume d t h at pos i t i o n , amongst t h e o p e rative classes to which they were entitled, andthe consequence had been that demagogues and agitators. and persons to whom the people' would have turned a deaf ear if they bad beeteaddressed byothers, of a different deseriptiOn, had assu med that-place in their,, esteem . which they might' have earned, and possessed themSeives et that confidence which they might •have easily shared. .( Hear, hear.) lie feared that there were many who had not done justice to the working classes of the country; they had not appreciated their merits and their virtues; and he must say that so tar as they knew, and experience and obser vation went, there was ne class so susceptible of good feeling as the working classes:, none exhibited more of gratitude, none who more readily appreciated the humblest endeavours to serve them. Upon theirs' a good word was never lost (hear, hear;) upon them a kind look was never thrown away, (Loud ; cheers.) lie might here advert to a system which was very frequently resorted to by their insidious opponents. by which they often contrived to inveigle and delude the unwary, who were net aware of their designs—he meant the habit of using certain general terms to which very different meanings • might be attached. For instance, some came and said, "all we want is geed government " Well, his answer was, " Pray, who wants bad government?" But what din they mean by " good government ?" for it might be applied by different per. sons to very different thinks. The Emperor of Russia would say it was "good government" to be despotic, and destroy the nationality of the Poles. 'ln America they %Could say "good government" consists in eiving the highest degree of licentious ness to the white; and the most degrading slavery to the black. (Cheers.) . He, too, was for geed government ; so: were they. He was for the .government of Queen, Lords, and Commons. (Cheers.) He was for ecclesiastical government ; and, though he was a Presbyterian, and gloried in being connected with the, Church of Scotland—(cheers)—he might venture to say, dear as his own elitireh was to him, it was net dearer than the Chureh of England. (Continued cheering.) . But there wits another general term—" I ens all for education." Who was against education ? Who worth! stand forward and say that ,"ignorance is bliss ?'' He never heart such' a Sentiment advanced in an .enlightened assemble. But slid they divine what they meant, by education? If they spoke the, troth they would tell them, " - any thing but the one thing needful; any thing but the gos- . pal ;Z:..,iirssi .Icvo vir: t he.arcience of mineralogy, or i .,if they pleased; all sciences, but to leave them to pick up religion wkere they TH E . 14.1/Fil P(1()1.,,.....5:_(..A.:NDA kii. '.. . , could. (Cheers.) Then there was a third generality for "edu canon teeinected wi:h Christianity." That was sinnething, but push a little ferther. What >lid they mean by "Christianity?" They wiselst then he a little pushed, and say, it was not liberal to be 'so pestle-mar - in - . asking questions. (Cheers, and laughter.) But if they wo u ld tell him what they meant by "education," he would tell them what .he meant.. He meant by "edusation:" education conducted- upon the principles of the established Church,„not,upon ine Christianity iif the Papist,—(hear)—de based hy'irSuelt that wes human; and not the Christianity of the Sectutaie—(cheers)—bereft of every thing that was divine. Well, this would never do.' Perhaps his friends would say, "I am always fir the. greatest happiness to the greatest number." They all wished. all mankind to be as happy as possible there Was no doubt. But there were those who were not at that meet ing who were very sorry they were there. When they began - to ask in what " happiness" was to consist they would find it very different indeed. • They ir ust tell theta what they (the con servatives) thought it consisted in : to cultivate the glory of God in the highest. and on earth peace and good•will towards men. (hear ) Well, let them try another of these, generali ties. .His friends, the ministers, carne forward and said, "We are all true reformers." Now, was there any man there who was not a true reformer?. He never heard a man say he was an advocate for the continuation of abuses But the question was, what reinstituted "Reform." lie had begun by trying to "reform," himself, in 1811, when -" reform" was at a discount. He remembered, in 1812. voting in a small minority on a ques tion of reform, but he had got now at least 40 per cent. more thin he would heyeasked for then,—(hear, hear, and cheers). — end he was called unstable because he would not ask WO per cent. (Continued cheering.) Well, he meant to retire on what he had e gained, lest he should l ose all th a t which he had struggled to get before. (Cheers.) He would tell them of a kind of reform, which the less they . had of it the better—that was, reform of the House of Lords, of which they had that day seeu . and heard so respected and valuable a specimen. He only wished that he had been able to speak of the House of Commons as lie was sure his right honourable friend would permit him to speak of the House of Lords. But they (the electors) must all do the best they could to amend them. They must all turn " re formers," and they must all try and reform the representation of Manchester. (Tremendous cheering.) He was sorry that Sir George !Murray was -not present. He was sure no con stituency could reflect greater honour on themselves, or do greater gtmd, to, the: conservative cause, than by placing him again in drat situation from which every conservative must re gret he was excluded. He could not help making a few - remarks, which would make it necessrry for him to detain them a little longer. Being a public man, in the House of Cotninons he saw more of her Majesty's ministers than they did, and perhaps more than he liked. (A laugh.) But he did not think he should be quite so hard upon theta as his respected friend Sir Francis Burdett had been at Salford, for he wished them all to be hung up by the heels. All he (Sir George Sinclair) wished was to get them out of their places. He should be very happy to double their salaries it' that coeld be accomplished; nay, they should litise4stheir salaries converted into annuities for life if they would only retirc es ieskmake way for sir Robert Peel. (Cheers.) Be cause he no( nnly regretted all the mischief which they did, but he lamented all the good they prevented being done. (Hear.) 13e t wondered if ministers should 'be friends to the voluntary i VIOnt ? They did not say th a t they were; but they would fe. very sorry to have the voluntary system extended to their e ttdistries. (A laugh.) Ministers said they (the people) had 'no tienefit front the church. What be ne fit h a d th ey f rom t h e m i s 'nisters? . (Cheers.) Some said they were friends of the church because they wished to take away its revenues. They seethed to say of the s church "he who - steals thy purse steals trash," but never applied -the principle to themselves.. , If there was any attempt to lay a'tax on themselves—Oh, then they changed their note altogether. This led him to notice what he ought to have done before. He had stated a little time ago, that he had two' reasons why he wanted ministers to he got out ; the first was• because of the harm they did; the next was because of the nood they prevented. Now he had had on two former meetings like that to speak of the merits of Sir Robert Peel. Some people would say it would be very hard to speak on the same subject again ? Oh; net at all,' for the merits of Sir Robert Peel were inexhaustible. If he were to return thinks in his name to that day week, he should find something new to say in his praise, lie was a school•fellow of Sir Robert Peel's, and was a friend of his venerable father, notwithstanding they were opposed fur some time in politics. But he must say it-had afforded him a happiness he had seldom enjoyed, when he was enabled, consistently with his principles, to give his support to the administration of that old and valued friend. (Cheers:) He thought he had read some very old Greek story, though he did not know whether he ought to allude to it—he thought he had read that upon one occasion 10 general officers were assembled, and there was a sort of vote by ballot at that time—each to put into an urn a paper marked whom they thought the best and second best officer, when, on examination, it was found that each had put himself down first and some other officer after him. Now if all the conservative party were to put down their uatnes hi that way, Sir Hubert Peel would not be second ou any list, because he would he first on them all. (Cheers.) He did not believe that there was a single individual who did not more highly appreciate the talents of Sir Robert Peel than he did himself. He (Sir Geo. Sinclair) had observed in him an acuteness of intellect, by which every thing was comprehended; a retentiveness of memory by which nothing was forgotten. Ile had once heard him make a long speech on tea, and one would have thought he had been a partner in Twining's house —(a laugh) —all his life. The other day a question had arisen on Scotch prisons, and several Scotch members spoke upon it, and thought the subject quite exhausted, having fully prepared themselves fel. the discussion.; but when Sir Robert Peel got up and spoke on it they found it was not even entered upon; he threw so much light upon the subject that all the Scotch mentbers were astonished and delighted with him for the light he cast on the question. (Cheers.) He would speak of another greet statesman--need he mention Lord Stanley ? (cheers)' He knew they would indulge his heart by giving a cheer for him, (The audience started up and gave 3 cheers ) And would they -refuse the same compliment to his friend Sir Jas. Graham? (Continued cheering) Let them point out to him two men who ever made sacrifices at the shrine of-public duty, and who, in the assurance of this sacrifice.had'' been more mauled and misrepresented? (Hear, and cheers.) But the cheers of such an assembly as that outweighed whole columns of abuse in the Chronicle of the , party. He rejoiced that they had before them two most admirable samples of what he wished the ma jority of the House of Commons was; and he was sure they would agree. with him, it was not - what it ought tp be. In the first place he could not help adverting to the deep gratitude and - deep emotion he felt towards his noble friend near him. He 'had sometimes heard young men 'spoken of as promising, but in the case of his noble friend performance had preceded promises. No man knew, what he would become . till he was enabled to . show what he w as .. H e h a d risen at once by his manly courage and chivalrous bearing and by his eloquence. He had at once risen to a height of popularity from which he was sure he would never des cend. (Cheers.) if he were to attempt to do justice to his feelings of friendship and affection in alluding to their other dis tinguished guest, be should . detain them too long if he endea voured to say of hint what he thought. He thought that it was the part of one great mind, to. appreciate, and value the merits of another great mind. They had heard the glowing and itn premeditated eloquence with Which • Sir Francis Burdett had eulogized the 'Duke of Wellington, supposing the case had been reversed ; suppoehig that Sir Francis Burdett's health had been given 'as a toast, and the'Duke of Wellington were there, and on Sir Francis Burdett's health being given, no one had risen to respond to the toast, the Duke of Wellington would have risen as Sir Francis Burdett himself hail done, and would have delighted in dwelling on his public services.. his exertions in the House of Commons, his censistency and his straightforward ness—as great as his own. (Cheers.) Alt ! those who knew Sir Francis Burdett, even through the mediutn of that portion of the press which respected and eulogized him us he deserved knew little of his character to what he (Sir Geo. Sinclair) did who had the happiness-of listening to his conversation, and lis tening to his principlei in the unobserved conduct of private life. (Cheers ) He believed they were aware that he was in some measure connected with the Westminster election. He would ask them if ever there was such an instance of chivalrous en thusiasm. At the requisition of it few individuals whom he might have treated with contempt, and would have been praised in doing so, lie had thrown up his seat,' and relied in the strength of his cause. He knew that this feeling of enthusiasm would be found in the breasts of the people of Westmiuster, and in that he Was deceived; but his confidence must have been great, and as great as his want of pteparatieu; for whom he had con fided it, he had not before dreamt of doing such a thing. But his name had been sufficient to rally thousands of his country -11:1;etsyIe :vahoatatigeh:ts.o r espected l, e was friend disabled men around him, and 'natty an honest Enelishinan said " he has r i f .e o a r t s in ir an n i a n t . l n e s i v s. d ,! ay , — rh l e c c a a n u ' s t e g d o i r t i t ti u n ini st h )h im a — na (c h l e te m e n r u s s .) t making his u to ❑othing b p itt pearauce. But this was not all; at that time his-respected friend was labouring under the most cruel of all disorders, the gout, to o b w y e t d h the i g s o " f i r n o P in h which he was frequently subject, but when the election was over, he was recommended by his physisians to his seat, at Ashby de la Zouch for his health, and he took his departure. Two or three sail he would walk in and wait for him; then said the servan t, a d t a t s um 7 i r e t , er he the es c e a r l y led at Sir antsaidh e Fr: ,a n s cs's not i a lio tu re iw a ( p s d asked irGe : ). i s f in h c e la ssa io s yuu will have to wait a long time for he is on his way to Ashby de la Zouch. But there was an important question coining On, on the interests of the church, and he wrote a letter to him in forming him of it, and when within a few miles of the termie nation of his journey, the letter was put into his hands; and the moment he found that this important question was coming on, to the astonishment of a friend in the carriage with him, he said "turn round and go to such a place." So that absolutely when he (Sir Geo. Sinclair) called a couple of deire afterwards at his house, he found he was actually arrived before he could expect him. Still he was labouring under this cruel disorder, and his to • mily entreated him not to go to the House of Commons and re main there till three o'clock in the morning, He (Sir Geo. Sin clair) had teasels to believe that directions were given by the oppo. site party to those men of their party who were the most sick and infirm, on no account to pair off with Sir -Francis Burdett. He must say of a radical—the e radical s he was inclin e d t o thi n k much honester than the Whigs—who inquired of him (Sir Geo. Sinelait) why Sir Francis Burdett.did nut pair off? Why, said he, " I cannot get. him a pair, orders are given by the whigs that none of their party shall pair with hint." " Have -they indeed given such orders," said the radical, " then 1 will pair off with him myself." There was an honest radical; there were so few of them that he dare say they would guess his name. H e (Sir G eo . Si nc l a i r) told hint that they was much obliged to him,.but he would not accept his offer, for fear he should injure himself with hi s cons tit uents. Sir Fr ancis Burdett scent to the houSe on his crutches, and voted, and told him afterwards that he would not have been absent from the division for £5OOO, he was so delighted. (Cheers.) It only remained for him (Sir Geo. Sinclair) to express the deep sense of gratitude which he personally felt for the kindness they had testified to him in in viting hint to be present on such an occasion as that. He had Only to add, that on all future occasions he should be very much at their service> (Cheers.) He was aware that that was a vela , selfish insinuation, but he was sure it was cordially participated in by every other guest. There were three days in July called the three glorious days, because on those days Frenchmen had assembled fur the purpose of averting the efforts of despotism to overthrow the principles of the French constitetion ; now, the last Monday, Tuesdlty, and Wednesday had been the three glo rious days of Sir Francis Burdett, Lord Maidstone, and himself. (Cheers.) .They had enjoyed a degree of happiness and conso lation which it was impossible for him to describe, and to the latest moments of their lives he was sure they should retain the most vivid. remembrance. He trusted he need not address to them the language of exhortation, that he need not tell them of what he was reminded by the inscription at the end of their room, " When bad men combine good men must unite"—that they would practise what : their reverend brother . preached. They, as good men, had united in the great cause of couserva tistn. and he trusted they would strengthen that cause by adding to the number of the conservative members in the next parlia ment. They .reenembered the speech of Lord Nelson, " England expects every man to do his duty. But that was not all; Ett eland expected. every advocate to do his duty; England .ex peeled every member of parliament to do his duty, and England expected every elector to do his duty. Whatever might be the result of the present House of Commons, for he could not say that it would have a long life, lie trusted that the parliament hereafter to be returnetl e would be the means of calling to the helm Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues, and enable him to do that good to his country which lie alone would• be-able to effect and establish.- Sir George Sinclair sat down amidst loud and , general eheering Glee.—" Hail smiling morn." The Caa titmaN said the next toast on his list was " the mem bers fir the Southern Di visien of the county—Lctiel Francis Egerton and the 1-100. Itiehard Wilbrauaio." The toast was given with 3 times 3 cheers. CHAIRMA N then announced that he had received a let ter from Lord Francis Heertoti, expressing his regret that a se vere attack of the gout prevented his attending the anniversary of that association. After some prep 'runny eulogistic remarks he proposed as a toast " Sir Francis Burdett." The announce ment of Sir Francis Burdett's name was received with the most tumultuous cheering. Sir FRANCIS Bime-re then rose, and it was long before his enthusiastic reception allowed him to proceed. He said he must confess that the chairman had imposed upon him, by. the honour he had done him, the most difficult task that could be imposed on man; - for hew could any man speak of himself with any credit to himself? He most leave it to others to estimate his actions and judge of his conduct. The meeting had already testified to him their feelings; but however gratifying it might be to his-kind fri e nds, it was utter l y i mposs ib le for h i m to utter more words on the subject than to say that he thanked them for the kind feelings they had expressed, and his strong opinion that they felt. as warmly to him as they did on account of that great cause which inseparably melted them together—the good of the country. (Cheers.) The genius and talent of his lion. friend (Sir George Sinclair) had already more than sufficiently and justly noticed the theme that in his mind he had contem plated with apprehension.. He could not pretend to speak of his (Sir George Sinclair's) judinent which he had formed; which he (Sir F. Burdett) knowing the honesty and integrity as well as the sagacity of his understanding; the stores of hie mind, the g ood feelings and genet ous an d warm feelings of his heart, and estimating, as he (Sir P. Burdett) ought to do, his know ledge of the world and the eauntrv ' and his p atr i ot i c c h aracter , when his fruitf u l j u d gment which his friendship dictated was confirmed by so long and so respectable and important a portion of his fellow-subjects, he ( Sir Francis) could not but express his feelings of gratification, and thought that he should overstep the boundaries either of discretion or prudence and modesty. if he did 'mote than say he was proud of their approbation; and be trusted and hoped that as he. had run so long a career of public duly, and be would say without the least motive except the public in:eiest, what he now believed and most highly esti mated, was that neither king nor any power under heaven could de'prive one of the consciousness of one's own rectitude of conduct,—that reward which heaven had given (next to that conduct)—which was alive all mortal considerations. He would end that theme,—a difficult one to him—though at the same tim e it was gratifying, as it was not di staste f u l . ( R ear.) He would conclude this subject with the saying of a true hearted Englishman—in the words of Nelson and other great men, if he could do anything for the service •of his country he was willing to render them ; and he hoped most sincerely to than* them for the honour th e y h a d done him. (Loud c h eers.) Sir FRANCIS BeebeTT having sat down, a pp aren tly un d er strong emotion, again •iminediately rose and said, he would turn from that theme to which he had lately alluded, to another subject—to that of his fellow-countryinen, of the most import ant station—or at least as important as any station could lie in this great, industrious, and commercial town ; he turned from himself with great satisfaction to the consideration of those whom he saw around him—the operative conservatives ot' Man chester—(loud cheers)—which was in his mind as a barren waste to a fruitful soil, full of the healthy and thriving plants, and ready from a degree of the most successful cultivation, and which could be expatiated upon by au Englishman proud of his countrymen; and he firmly believed there was uo set of meta to be produced in any part of the world ; and lie looked to the gentlemen of America, who were supposed to be the saute as Englishmen, though at a great interval from their own country, to see if they could produce a specimen of superiority in any rank of life, and he turned to the operative classes in England, where England was concerned, and be firmly beiieved no people in the world could produce such a display amoral qualities and religious principle (,beers) as those whom he had the honour and pleasure of seeing. It was to him (Sir F. Burdett) a far preferable consideration to be invited there by the high opinion of those operatives amongst his fellow-cluntrymen, com prised within the industrious classes—the operatives of which class were, perhaps, the most intelligent and most likely to judge well, and uut easily to be biassed by false patriots—by sham patriots, or by any other description of persons; and, therefore it was that he felt the weight of the the tribute, and the g reat public feeling of affection which they had sh o w n , an d he fe lt tile affection which they had done him the pleasure as well as the honour they had that day testified. He was nut surprised at this under the circumstances, from his own opinion of the "native stuff" of which Englishmen were composed. He always relied on the country, and he expected that the country would rally in support of all honest law in England; and let the time come when come it might, and he would perish as an atom, and without regret— his only regret would be, that if it could be shown that their countrymen had belied the character which, for so many ages and centuries gone by. to the remotest time, if they should at last fall under the maladministration of the weakest men that ever presumed to rule this great country, the first in the world for religion and for undaunted courage—the first of all men of every description —the first in science—the first in literature,. ancient and modern—the first in religious belief—but which was in accordance with the principles of the established church of England in which he was bred. He (Sir Francis) knew the liberality of his boo. friend's mind—he knew his enlightened understanding, and, at the same time, the justice of his heart, that he could indeed " spy desert in a bishop." There was no firmer man in the church of England than his noble friend; but if they wanted a firmer friend to the church establishment, they would have to go to that limb of the church which had attended there that day, and who had spoken like a true protestant Eng lishman; who was determined to support that glorious and be neficial establiShinent which there were some few vain, shallow pretenders—some shallow, cold philosophers —some presump tuous men would not only submit, but would be totally at &loss if called on to place something in its room. His had - been abroad, but his reason had confirmed him in his firm attach- Ment to the church of England. He loved the clergy as the I most enlightened, as the least, interfering (he ought to .say, " no-interfering") but, at the same time, read) at all times, and With greatest ability, to promote the welfare and spiritual com fort of the people at large. (Cheers.) They would not disgrace themselves—they wouid not injure or desert the establishment; their integrity was too honest; they would not betray the best interests of the country; and though, in general, thev . withdrew from political contamination (if it might be so called) w hi c h h e (Sir F. Burdett) doubted; for be confessed, that if the society of of high moral talent, of great understanding —if the so ciety of men of great talent, of liberal principles and unsuper stitious religiou—(cheers)—if this be thought to be in any way discreditable to them and disserviceable to their fellow (mune tryineu,—then be confessed himself one of the most mistaken of mankind. (Cheers.) He was delighted with the learned and pious gentleman who had addressed them early that even ing. He was a man of whom he was proud, and he thought he dare meet the whole world in comparing churchmen belonging to the establishment as enlightened persons in all the great paths - of learning and science, wheth er as instructors of the public mind; whether as directors of those who were ',tared under their care; whether as friends and enlightened and good advisers of those who are in the highest stations in life, or as administrators for the salvation of those who are lost. He looked on them as men striving f l or the h a p p i ness o f t h e cou p- try. (Cheers.) They were not like the popish priests—They were not ambitious seekers of power (Cheers.) They did not. basely intermeddle, intruding themselves on the titivate affairs of persons. All they du, was their duty, awl they did not make themselves intrusive; but if called upon were ready to perform it, and were ready to do good to whomsoever has the wisdom to, demand it from them. Somebody said at the Salford meeting that every thing seemed to be thought culpable in an English clergyman; but nothing seemed to be culpable (if even of the most atrocious kind) in a popish priest. lie was sorry to be lieve that this was a sentiment quite consistent with the prac tice of the present ministers. ISmr Francis again animadverted upon the conduct of Lord Melbourne for what he Naid in the House of Lords respecting the effects of Whig legislation upon the Irish church.]—He (Sir Francis) was, therefore, an irre coneileable foe to such-a system of government. He had long been connected with the ministry, and had had a lung and strong connection with them, which he put au end to with great pain to his own feelings. lie always considered the interest of his country as next to his God. tie trusted in the mercy of .divine Providence that his life would never be prolonged until he should be insensible of these feelings, or forget these prin ciples, and thus be weak enough to change his line of conduct. was now a matter of policy to see the importance that all should unite in support of the great cause which could not but he now triumphant, in spite of the miserable popish priests. They were driven and not led. They dared nut say their souls were their own ; and in spite of agitation to boot,—in spite of all those persous whci seemed determined to do away with all moral feeling, and who did not seek the interest of the country, they would preserve the institutions of the country. Having again adverted to Dean Swift's saying respecting the differ( nee in doing things in Ireland and elsewhere, Sir Francis pro phesied that .O'Connell would fall like Lucifer, and he com pared O'Connell's transactions with ministers to the quarrel betwen Peachetn and Lockett, when one said to the other, " Brother. brother, we are both in the wrong." This was the L'eachein and Lockett administration, for he believed that no-- body doubted the existence of an alliance between the parties in %stmt. Mr. Shell called the compact of Lichfield-house, and O'Connell was offended if any one called it a conspiracy • lout he (Sir F. Bu r d e tt) wou ld ca ll it t h e conspiracy of Lit:a:field house. O'Connell preteuded that he had no influence with the government. "Oh, no," says he, " don't ask me for tiny thing." He was a perfect master of his heart, and pretendeo, when people came to hint for his interest in obtaining situa tions under goveihment, that he conld render no service, as he had no influence. Sir Francis then adverted to O'Connell's conduct in the Raphael business, and the payment by the latter of £I,OOO for a seat in parliament, which he lust, and the subse• quent offer of a baronetcy by O'Connell. lie- thought no farther proof of the Lichfield-house conspiracy was necessary after the circumstance ofthe Raphael affair; and in this matter the government was standing naturally, like f kangaroo, upon its tail. He again animadverted upon the conduct of the ad ministration with respect to the Irish church and their expensive commissions, which cost more than the money they saved. They seemed to think the Irish church was affected with ple thora, which was to be removed-only by a vast deal of bleeding. They should take the government from those bands which were too puny to direct it, and from persons whose minds were too vacillating to have any firmness of opinion—whose under standings appeared nut to be ennobled by any fixed principles or convictions. The hon. baronet concluded, amidst loud cheers, with giving "The Operative Conservatives of Alanches ter, and may they live long and prosper." The toast was drank amidst hearty cheering. Mr. LETTAY, a member of the Manchester Conservative Operative Association, rose to acknowledge the toast, and spoke with m uc h ability. He adverted to the increase and spread of the association since its commencement, and spoke strongly of the utility of spreading conservative principles amongst the working classes. The CHAIRMAN next proposed "the health of Lord Maid stone, the defender of honour and justice." Lord MAIDSTONE, on rising to respond to the toast, was greeted with prolonged cheering. He said he should begin the very few remarks which he should make to them that evening, by prefacing them in the sante way as be had done at a similar meeting at Leeds the other day, by telling them the honour they had conferred upon him by drinking bis health, was ilt deserved—that he was not the asserter of the integrity of the House of Commons—that he was not the defender of their rights, but the person who'had given the members of that house the opportunity of defending their own rights.' 'Had. it not been for the confidence he reposed in them, knowing that they were all Englishmen of honour anti straightforward mew, and and that they would not sit down tamely under such an imputa tion as that of perjury, he should wit have acted as he had done. For what was perjury? It was his crime,who lied to God his Maker, in order that he might deceive man, his fellow-creature. Here was an imputation - for one man to cast upon another's condition. He (Lord Maidstone) was ashamed and quite me lancholy and sorrow struck when the observation" was made, as he sat in his place in the House of Commons. Nu punishnieut of the individual could indemnify them, and nothing could re deem their honour, but the united voice of the nation, saying— ( hear)—" You are not the men awe took you for when we sent you to parliament, if you would so allow party prejudice atid feeling hi bias you, that you would do an intesitional injustice . on your oaths, ;o your fellow-coeutrpnen, when) those who differfrein you have sentio -represent their interests inclepeu- 1 aently iu the great British senate." It was these feelingt which . , induced him to step forward, unacquainted as he was wit!: the forms of the House of . CointoonS; out he knew they were men of. common seuse, and that if he were unacquainted with such forms, they would , lay them aside while they ex amined int o th e ease , on i ts .own mertisi He had not been deceived in the result, and he was, happy also to perceive that the country was not del...rived in their estimate of it. When he had the honour to come into this part of the world, for witniu the last few days it was the first time he had set his foot north of the Trent,—t we hope it is out the list)—he had been invited to four cense vdtive. dinners. He had deter mined therefore not to say all he had to say at one, but to divide his subject into several chapters, one, two,, three. This was chapter the third. At Leeds on Monday, and at Salford on Tuesday, he had disi a to the best of his abilities of Mr. O'Connell. (Laughter.) Now he wished to say a few wordi with reference to the 'conduct of that distinguished gentleman's adherents, he meant with regirid to hii public reprimand io the House of Continents. What did these gentlemen do? They all got up with one accord—he believed the tail numbered about forty, and he believed there was pretty neatly as many on their legs at once, and all talking at once. He fecollected perfectly well when sitting, on his seat and shrugging. up ,his shoulders, saying, bore is the fruit of the tree of reform, all hanging on the branches of the tree itself. Sir Robert reel told, them that that would be the case—that there would be no order in the as sembly—that no speaker, or any 20, could keep them in order. He must trespass on their attention with one, inure observation before he concluded, and he thought they would find that it,put the compact of this gentleman and that tail in a dear point of view, and also fully justified the conservatives iu the conduct they had thought right to pursue—they, -the majordy .of ,the House of Commoiss, consulting their4,7u dignity. The tration he should burrow was front a noted wet k—from the novel of Don Quixote, and he would have given the world, to, have stated it at the time, but the rules of debate would not allow him to speak twice. When the house appeared entirely, at a loss what conduct to pursue, and were chiming in with the words and sentiments of M r. O'Connell, the judgment of Squire Sancho, when be was made judge .of a certain island, came into his recolleotion. I t was as follows. Sonic of the inhabitants estate tnSancho, sorely puzzled what course to pursue; they thus stated thei r case—we have a bridge i u our t own, and there is a gate at one end and a gallows at the other. Now, the mau who goes through 'that gate, if he does not give a correct account of what he is to du at the other side of the bridge is to be hung on the gallows. Here is a very difficult question, sir, and we want your advice; for there is a luau come to us who says, when we ask him what he is going to de, " I am going to be hanged." If we hang him we should be doing injustice, for he has told us the truth, and if we do not we shall not fulfil the laws. " Oh," said Judge Sancho, " if be is so very anxious• to be hung, we shall punish him qu i te enoug h b y di sappoint i ng him this time. (Cheers and laughter.) And as these gentlemen were so very anxious to go to Newgate, and seemed to wish toprescribe fur themselves, and to direct the sergeant -at-arms, he thought they (the conservatives) were justified in not satisfying their whim at the moment. He did not th ink they would put the conservatives in a dilemma, for he never heard of a where the culprit suggested to the judge the particulars. Enough per, haps of Mr. O'Connell. Ile would now address to them a few words on some Whet subject. The next subject of inquiry that suggested itself from a conservative assembly, was the much talked-of imbecility of ministers, He would give them a little bit of advice in the words of Shakspea re, when he said, " Thou wear the lion's skiu ? Doff it for shame, and hang a calf skin on those recreant limbs." (Cheers.) What business had they with the lion's skin ? What business had they to dictate the confinement of the British lion ? If imbecility from home and absurdity abroad; the confidence of the country lust at borne; this point disputed in the eyes of foreign nations.-if this could give fitness fir advisers, then he admitted that they were by far the fittest; but ir that was nut the case, turn them to time right about. Per his own part, he would almost sooner see a radical administration than such a set of whits Let him say one word about Lord Dui ham, who was a luminary of no ordinary bright ness. What was he like ? He was like a comet. and his at tributes • were made unlike two of the planets, and he would tell theist how. First of all, he went to Canada like the planet Jupiter, encir cled with the belt of his own character and his own amiability of temper; and then like &tutu he went attended with a whole tribe of satellites, many of whelp he must deem and call super, nutneraries. Now who that knew Lord Durham and his charac ter would ever suppose that he would - condescend to take advice of a legal adviser valued at £l5OO. a year ? He (Lord Maid stone) did not believe that his spirit would allow him to take that advice; and he did not believe without that advice he was capable of legislating. Now here was something for the Cana dians, and he wished the country joy of it. After wine feW fur ther observations, his lordship tonciuded wit!' giving "success to the honest and industrious operatives," Mr. G. Kars voN responded to the toast. ' The MARQUIS of Sausacevpropii.ied the health of the chair. man, which was drank with .3 tunes 3. • The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks, and proposed the health of wm. Ewart Gladstone, which was given with 3 times 3, Mr. CIvOSSLEY responded to the toast. A number of other toasts were given, amongst the test "The Conservative Press," which was ably responded.to by Mr. R. Sowler, of the Manchester Courier. The meeting then broke up at a late hour, the greatest order and regularity having prevailed throughout. The regiment of King's Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry will assemble at Liverpool, for six days' permanent duty, on the 26th of May, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel braham Egerton. The different detachments will march on Friday, the 25th, to Warrington, Latchford, Wilderspool, and Sankey. BAPTISM OF CONVERTED JEWS.—We understand that a Jew and his wife, persons of high respectability in this town, having been convinced of the truth of Christianity by ihe' arguments of the Rev. H. M'Nede, are to be baptized in St. Jude's Church on Sunday morning next; and that a young woman of-a re spectable Baptist family, is to be admitted within the paiem4he church at the same tithe. t NEW MAGts.rwsTEs.On Wednesday week, at the Preston quarter sessions, James Nowell Farington, Esq. of Shawe Hall, Leyland ; William Birley, Esq. of Kirkham; and John Master, Esq. of Crofton ; and on Thursday last, a t t h e S a l ford quarter' sessions, James Taylor, Esq. of Todmorden Hull, qualified and took the oaths, as magistrates of the county palatine of Lancaster. ' • We understand, that Colonel Willi a ms Opposed the giant, ing of a church-rate in Childwall . parish on Tuesday, by moving a postponement ; hot only to hands wre held up in favour of his amendment—that of himself and his se e conder—and the rates was consequently carried. AMPHITHEATRE.—AIL Bates has engaged the valuable ser vices and handsome stud of Mr. Batty, and seems detertniutd that on his part there shall be no want of energy or exertion tik win the public fa vo u r —" go ld en opinions front all sorts o men." Amongst the new performers is a Moos. Marrimi, %Alb we may safely style a wonder ,of the world. He is the mosi , extraordinary e q ues t r i an we h ave ever s e en, his feats on itOrse back are almost impossibilities. We recommend a visit to this handsome theatre; a few hour's very pleasant amusement may be derived. Rati.way To SdtJTHPORT AND PRETON.—Weunderstan4 that it is in contemplation to make a railway from this town to Southport, and to continue it afterwards from that watering place direct to Preston. We believe surveys were made last week of the projected line between this town and Southport: It is intended to pass through Waterloo, Crosby, and Formby. WHITE!' A lA, At att. 10.—The Lord Chancellorlias appointed Henry Christian, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent.; and Thomas Taylor, of Manchester, in the county of Lancester, Gent., to be masters extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Holyhead and Shrewsbury mail will discontinue running from the sth of July next, when the present contract ceases. ' PANORAMA.—During this holiday-making time, those who' ate iu pursuit o f am usemen t an d novelty cannot do better they pay a visit to this most agreeable, novel, and instructive exhi bition. The views ate excellent and foil of interest, and the low rate of admittance places it in every one's power to view them. 1. At the annual vestry meeting of the parish of Walton the Hill, heir' on Easter Tuesday, Thomas Eve rar d C artwr i g h t, ' Esq., and M r. Pryce Davies were elected churchwardens for the . Near ensuing. A pa l ish rate of threepence in the pound was - allowed, and the business passed cff in perfect good feeling. Ltvuit THEATRE.—Mr. Collins's benefit will take place this evening at the Liver. We trust that he will have a good house. lie is exceedingly talented, not only as a singer, but as an ac. - tor. The entertainments are "'Paul Clifford," "an Inconve nient Distance," and " a Dev' and a Knight." In the latter,' Mr. Collins personates live different characters. It was written expressly for hint, and contains some good and laughable situ ations. • • W e perceive that Mr. Whiteman, late of the AdelP jti Shades, has taken th e B runswick Hotel, in Hanover•streef, which be has fitted up in a very superior style. From 111 r. Whiteman's previous character, we have no doubt that the ac commodations will be found of the best order. • THE " DISTINCTIVE DlK!"—The Plymouth Journal says —•' Handbills have been printed on stamps, and we have several witnesses to the fact. On this plan superiority of circulation' may be obtained; and even conscience need nut blush too deep, when it is attested that such and such a number of stamps have been purchased, been printed on—no matter whether us baud bills or newspapers —and sold 1" MELTON HouNos.—We have authority for'stating that the Melton hounds wal, in future, be solely under the management of Lord Suffield, but not, as we hare recently been informed, conjointly with Lord Gardner. His lordship has taken Quorn kennels and stables.— Leiceter Journal. A. *wallow, the first seen this season, was shot in the neigh bourhood of Lancaster two or three days since. The Rev. James Tate, M.A., master of the grammar *chool, Richmond, has been presented to, the vicarage of Easby, near Richmond, vacant by the death of the Rev. Caleb Readsbaw. —Patron the Queen. Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bart., G.C.8., Governor of the north western provinces of British India, and pro tern. Governor-Ge neral, after the departure of Lord William Bent ilia, is on his passage home from Calcutta, after a lengtheted service in India. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, APRIL 10.—The; market to-day has been exceedingly flat ; very little business has been done, and those who have sold have obtained very low prices for their goods. The wool market has beets dull; • but the last week's prices have been maintained. The young Duke of Roxburgh receives a large addition to his rent-roll by the demise of his relative, Mary Dowager Duchess of Roxburgh, relict of William, the fourth duke, who settled a large jointure on her grace, charged on the family estates in Roxburghshire, and which now reverts to the noble duke as next heir male. 1 , NOVEL ARTICLE OF COMMERCE.—A French merchant is' now sojourning at Annesley, in Nottinghamshire, tor,the par.; pose of procuring a freight of donkeys for the contineut. Don caster Gazette. r ,1 SOLAR LIGHT.—The splendour of solar light is more than : three hundred thousand times that of the fell nuion'. In other,. words, if the firmament were paved with three hundiedthouraind` full moons, their united splendour would be inferior to that of the sun. Now the day light of then - lost distant planet, ,Herschel, is only four hundred times less than outs; and therefoie it must be uearly a thousand times brighter than the light afforded by our full moon.—Moiahly Chronicle. • ' LEICESTER TR A DR.—We are sorry we cannot report any improvement in the dema n d f ur goo d s .—T ra d e st ill continues , : extremely dull. A reduction of Id. p er lb. h as t a ken place in worsted Yarns during the week. In wood little or nothing is , doing. Prices without 'alteration, but entirely nominal. , Nowrii UN lON RA I LVY A Y.—The spirited contractors' on +hie. , line of railway, wh os e lab o ur s h ave b e e n so Much' itulo:ded by' the protracted frost or the winter, are 'straining every treive 1r effect an opening of the line into Preston, in August. that they may be successful in the attempt, as we understaud a . preinionr is dependent upon its realization. Naw BRANCH OF COMMERCE.—A salesman from Spitalfields . market is now in Guernsey purchasing brocoli toserol t o L„o -don'.., He has, we are informed, Already tioitottil nplkards of B;ooo . lteadi, at from is..9d. to 28.2 d. p,erdso An inhabitant Of Guernsey has also embaiked in asNsdar speculation, and' is on the point of going to London with - several - thousand heads' df the above-teentiosied aegetable,/wkich were this day shipped on beard the tEolus.—Guernsey Star. ~ ate. ~''.. "v