The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-09 00:00:00

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I tic; wh cal 1 ts ,I DU al )U CO tei Di les :e ,c al is is C .11 w tb e ra e r; II lding• .o pro iglisb- health I with Lccout - e was, II sup - Given •incesd Given thiJ,— . ;et the lought t g lory s of s° is have ns, n ot t) —but )._that re, and navy• , i se for ;aptain indness 11°' CO eto J d i. than Orr an /` rhed Bsta. le said, C, sinc e , son v vh t °l a s e toa s ity ottlln ti- at rdinar; 1 heer s 'i o• • tO [l5- ar iga dings trO N l 5 alSOteuk OW L a be f o re ) ast e, 1 110cv ul t . or A o re , 1 , r' n bto l . ) e s t his no tice d ill lid) 1 T ; 's, o n to sPe',i, s ea in Po, to an d rato vate, )rt th erri n iir t ire, g e 'rned row feeln/h b a t ch il t r h o ,pg to • SEPT* 9, 1836 church, I avow myself a conservative. (Cheers.) Thatcharch on high principle holds out to all who differ from us the hand hfpersonal friendship though' we hate their polities. . (Cheers.) We most rigidly adhere to our own principles although we ex tend the utmost toleration towards those who conscientiously differ from us. (Cheers.) If, then, the feelings and the scab silents which should fall unguardedly from me this day shorild be caused by the enthusiasm.which now surrounds us to make an avowal: which may seem contrary to' the' character of those feelings, I must beg of those gentlemen who re port for the public press to state, that I have nothing on My heart which can induce me, either as on advocate in the case of the Church or on my political principles, to hate one individual More who may differ with me from conviction. (Loud cheers,)- I know that it is urged, and urged by individuals from—whose sentiments I feel it almost a disgrace to.differ, fur I know that they argue upon high principle, and with .the highest talent, that associations, like the present, are uncalled for, unnecessary; if not dangerous. I cannot understand the principle,•or I would Most heartily say, Amen! But what is the principle of any war fare? That, if we have acknowledged. nemies, we must be on• the 100k -out, and prepared, when they shall muster their forces, to oppose them. (Cheers.) We hive, thank Godt few such • turbulent spirits to oppose as exist in • the sister' country. (Cheers.) 'Who is this enslaver to be dreaded; aye, indeed, worse than French or foe Of any kind? (Cheers.) When we see Englishmen overselling the principles of the English Con stitution and Monarchy, and attacking the Church, from party motives, are not such associations needed? (Cheers.) Pnit they say, that such associations are not needed till a greater amount of danger faces us. I have heard military men talk, and I have heard them talk of masking the batteries to open the fires, is it not more prudent by prevention to cure rather than wait until the attack comes, and find ourselves able to make but a feeble resistance. (Cheers.) These are feelings which haye beeh forced upon me, but which I have no husiness with, they belong to politicians. But I have also heard it urged, and by those persons for whose private feelings I have the greatest respect, that you, on these occasions, ought notho be supported by gen tlemen of my profession. I have dealt fairly with their- objec tions in my heart and in my conscience, and.if I could feel that there was reason in them, most heartily-would I say, amen ; for certainly, most certainly, would I flee from any such exhi bition of spy own sentiments as that which I am at present forcibly called upon to make. Bnt, what is the struggle that is now hanging over our heads ? It is a political struggle, and Englishmen should stand up to defend their rights. (Cheers.) I say, my lord, thank God, British valour trusts not man alone. (Cheers.) -But, our enemies meet mein that argument, and say, h-Where is your danger,. we wantsto reform, and von want reforming, 'leave us alone, we will-not interfere 'vita ion; we will only make you better than you are, and the, you will be better beloved." (Loud laughter.) I see be your laugh that they are. not to. be. trusted. (Cheers.) On the . other side of the • channel they say, " We are to be' reformed." By whom ? By the paid leader of those who, if, they are eons scientious; must destroy our church. (Cheers.) I , say this, gentlemen; mark me, and- I say it without- any uncharitable• feeling towards any man who differs from me, if they do differ from Me, and hold themselves conseieriticiusly bound to support theih political opinions ; I only ask them to give nie the •liberty of supporting mine. (Cheers.) Lsay, then, these are the dan gers which threaten the established church of Ireland, Cti it fleeted as it is with our own by a• baud which, God forbid ! should ever be rent asunder. Bute what are ,those who hurry forward dangerous measures ? I must say it is a legislature that is, not prepared to goyera. ,England on sound religiOns principles. (Great applause.) But they will saY,*Perhaps,how prove you that? If, for instance, we are to take as an index he who leads that legislature, he in his place in parliament tells us he scarcely knows the difference between the catholic acid the protestanthreligion. He has . told us that the establishment of the church is scarcely necessary; that it. would be far more.expe dient to Make it a poor church instead of a rich one, and in order' to make her churches as pure as possible, he scuds to teach the' ministers of our. church a man who holds opposing doctrines. will not occupy your time much longer ; but facts; as'we learn,' are stubborn things. I will allude to what has gecently taken place in Ireland, it maybe fresh in the memory of those who hear me, for it is of late occurrence : —A.bible reader of Roman_ Catholic principles, originally wasimpressed by a conviction of the truths of protestantism, and endeavoured .to impress hiS eons viction upon others. In consequence, the Archbishop of the Irish church applied to the Archbishop of the 'English church to demand that he would take away the living from the curate over the reader. The rector Of the parish' told him that he could not dismiss the curate conscientiously, but the poor reader was at once dismissed, and is.at.this - Momeht,employed in the town of Glasgow. It should be known that a 'clergyman of the Established Church had been induced to concede this POint. It could only be said that the reader had done his duty. (Loud cheers.). I have already said that I hold the protestant -faiths to be a pure faith, and on that groundl will maintain it as' long as I live; but I beseech you as a clergyman, in the most earnest manner to support the church, not by the weapons of her enemies ; never admit, and never take up a principle whicih you admit to be wrong; and, upon these grounds, I would tell them to. their faces, they are corrupt and Wrong. (Cheers,) If we would have God on our side, we must be ourselves religious: (Hear.) If we would support our church, you, as laymen, must supportyour churchmen. (Hear.) They who conscientiously come forward to advocate your politics., and to'move in common with you, give them the hand of fellowship, support them- in their pastorial course, and let us see if you love your church, not at a conservative :limier in the town of Newton only, but in your parishes, your houses, and your home.S. (Great cheering.) I give this advice as.a. clergyman ; I felt myself entitled to give it, and, 1 say, at the close of my address to you, may. the esta-: blished church of England and Ireland-remain tirin to the con.' stitution and principles which she advocates ; and, Wheneiert there is occasion, be it public or private, let the clergymen and laymen be found hand in hand together, without reference to politics. With religion and politics hand in hand, resting on' the crown with the Bible and sceptre, we must have God's peace. (Great cheering.) . - The CHAIRMAN again rose.—Before he proposed the tohst which stood next on the list, he• thought it but right, in' justice to a noble lord who was absent, as well as in justice to - himself, to state the reasons why he, .for a second time, after so . shott •an interval, found himself. again the chairman of their meeting; The noble lord to whom he alluded—the Marqhis of Salisburi—L had been applied to by the committee to.presole. (Hear, hear.) In this wish of the committee ho immediately acquiesced.; but by some mistake, for which he (the chairman) was trot able to account, he mistook the time of meeting*, believing it to hive been'the Bth of October next instead of the, Bth of September. As soon as he discovered his mistake tie came to him (the noble chairman) and oneor two,other gentlemen connected with Abe county, to express his regret that he n;und business orgreat im portance in the county of Hertfordshire would preclude fttic possibility of his attendance, and he (the noble chairman) bad been requested to convey those feelings. of .regret to the meet ing. (Cheers.) Under these circumstances he had himself been applied to, and, though he felt great reluctance at appear ing again so ' soon in so prominent a situation, (cheers,) ?yet, fearing the embarrassment that might be occasioned to the goal mittee, he did not hesitate; for one moment, in coining forward. (Cheer's.) And it was with feelings of very great satisfaction he had again the opportunity of congratulating the meeting on the proud display of numbers that their anniversary had again called forth. (Loud and repeated cheers.) It was as correct that the spirit in which the association- had originated still con• tinued to animate the hearts and to stimulate the actions of the conservatives of this and the neighbourisils, counties. (4iud cheers.) It was this feeling that pervaded the great body of the conservatives throughout the country which bad occasioned the great results that had been witnessed at-so many elections, which had occurred since they last had met—(loud chegrs)— and it was that feeling which, with God's blessing,,Would eventually, restore to them the benefits which their free consti .tution still retained for them, accompanied with • their fill share of that real, practical liberty, which was She birth-right o every Englishman. (Loud cheers.) Talk of - libertY'and free dom! Were there ever terms that had been more misused? (" Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) And . yet, with oppression and ipjustice in their hearts, these woofs were- ever in the mouths of their rulers and those who dictated to them.: (Loud cheers.) But the 'bulk were only a stalking horse to deceive the minds, enslave the hearts, and coerce •the will of this great nation and people. , (Cheers.) It would be useless . to enlarge on subjects of this nature, for, thank God, the eyesof thel)eople of England were at last opened to this appalling fact, that his Majesty's present advisers had not in one single instance brought forward a measure on its own isolated, intrinsic merits, but solely for the purpose of conciliating those who voted with them; andof endeavouriug to hold together the incongruous materials 'of which that party was composed, (immense cheering,)- and, what with them was a stronger feeling, to retain their places and their power., at the expense of honour, Of justice, nod of re ligion. 'nese proceedings reminded him of the monster Chimera, of old, who was represented as having the head and shoulders of a lion, the middle part of a goat; and the loper and baser parts those of the serpent. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) • What then followed ? When the -House of, Lords.coased to • ' exist to, rescue the independence of-the people, what but fine and imprisonment at .the fiat of a democratic oligarchY, and death to all who attempted to resist their claims. (Loud cheers.) It was to avert evils of this nature, that associations such as the present had been. established. (Cheers.) It was to save the country from the rule of an irresponsible oligarchy, at that very moment striving to coerce the wills of the peers and the people, that he called upon them to rally round-the standard of that as sociation. (Cheers.) They would not, then, refuse to employ every lawful mean's in their power to assist them in that, the hour of their utmost need. (Enthusiastic applause, and cries of "We will not refuse.") He called upon them to remember that each in his individual capacity formed a link of that great social chain by which the institutions of this country were held together, and, which if broken 'either by internal dissension or from "the pressure from without," this great country Would be thrown down from that proud pedestal amongst surf - ow:ding, nations upon which her constitution had placedherS (Much • applause.) It was on these grounds that he now called upon them with one heart and one feeling to drink the toast he was about to propose to them—hit was'" Success to the South Lan cashire Conservative Association, and may its efforts in future be as triumphant as they have hitherto proved." • Glee.—" The Jolly Tinkers.th . The CHAIRMAN then said, he confessed he felt more than an . • . ordinary pleasure in proposing the toast he was aboot to give ; • it• was associated in his mind, and he was satisfied it was associated also in the minds of all who heard him with all that was intelligent—all that was disinterested—all that was noble, and all that was brave. To whom could those terms apply, but to the Duke of Wellington. (Thunders of applause.) To that great man who had united the talent of the ,states Man and the warrior, to those more private qualities of the heart, which endeared him to all . who lived within the sphere of -his acquaintance. He proposed the health of the Duke of 'Wel linton. 'the cheering which followed this announcement equalled, if it did not surpass, anything which accompanied any other of the toasts of the evening, Glee.-" The Mighty Conqueror:" Band.—" See the Conquering Hero Comes." . • :JOHN, IRELAND BLACKBURNE, Esq , M.P., then •rose.—He wished it had fallen to the lot of some one better qualified ban himself to do justice to it,•to propose the toast which was next • to be-submitted to the company. But after the able speeches • which they had heard, it would not be necessary to trespato upon their time for many moments, for he could not -suppose. • . that any efforts of his could add to the favourable impression which those speeches must have made upon them all.—(Cheers) In proposing to them the health of Lord Lyndhurst (loud and ra pturous applause, the company rising and-giving several dis tinct rounds of cheers,). he should not enter into the proceed ings of the late session of Parliament, for those insist be fresh in their recollection, far less should he attempt a vindication of the conduct of the House 'of Peers, (hear, hear,) wioinstead calumniesof receiving the opprobio us calumnies heaped against • them, ought to receive the praises and acknowledgments of every En. glishman.—(Loud cheers.) Their conduct, he must be allowed to say, had received the sanction of those constituencies who had had it in their power to declare their opinion upon it.— (Hear, hear.) He could not; however, help attending to t h e often told speech of the Premier of his Majesty's, present go imminent on the receipt of the Irish tithe bill in the House o f Lords, that income he said was inimical to the church establish ment, but it could not be avoided, —(I - Iear, hear, and cheers.) Was it surprising that the Peers, who, thank God, had an im . - partial and large majority, after having declared,. that the Church Establishment was essential to the British:Conetitution; and.that the property of that Church could not he alienated to secular purposes; was it Surprissog that the House of'Peers Should not consent to a bill brought up under such auspices at sew! lie Woillel7eitYdc".tpimTg 4-ha.l44eht.Al4l4i; i pal Corporation Bill. .11 Corpor.ation i - 4u‘TemiliefirC, in lre!and. :Itestant, (0.7,1:110 couutry, witen•i-heybe(!i'oan,,,,exc'osiyo.-V-Catll,,ii.' 7 ,) Lords bad irea:qtro 1.1 aft' betutecivtliC; 41,1m141),-Y!itllioli4s If that m.'7..s.ore hePn ;Wowed tole 1:.-% were :r,-ti,' vim ) appoint coranlission. , ls to t.;AiliaPt. ttie teil Corporations: I louse of 1,04, hich v nit)* nn4l i talatti—thelr , a I H but we, to Play •!, y rlatiraggfie might ioularity; he sat.l ,the_ 1-f.,Ouse Qf Lords r)lippet ,, :,! t deed, 1110 th the firmness, _the 'patriotism, that body hail. shoWn cliiting the late hirn,"and,`lie trusted, vs'oulci assure had c ußt )et arrived. (Loud not•trespxsson in conclusion, 'flake one would do their duty, 'would ao their's—(Cries of to Parliament, both `for.boyouglis them all,. that ;hatlstate,.9l cheers.) As II.: tieg...tr. by so remark: ile•believed , the house but, the. Lords expected that they .10. WOO vet be - , c towitli I establi kirrd reeepl and so feel knew ',the c. had b e en situated they had not done facts p ties, la \V I assist them in , averting the storm which wa§' Vortikern,.a'nd which, he—was firmly persuaded, ciPe.d. lie begged to proouse Ahe he sith of Lord the- Ilo.use pf icers. This toast;:as responded 7Tasnovi:thothird time since the that he had ih6 , honour of re , „--,i6f his nohle: friend and Himself for the a of'that toast, whieh,had been g,i.4n. :so properly !lv.by a,s, a mentl)er or ftartiament, t, :aid: lopVtlie flOuse of Peers !ntrk ii,:all:pcessary to go into a_Lords had dune, and all that KELtILIZSDALL Ti, - icy had ,t'a( and no t tort aming those tn Were now matters o: his tory. They had all the dau, rs, ;Dore payticuliirly the con servatiye, which had stated the broad features of the case, and they had the . pei irraieal rua'gezineP,,,srurievof whielt had roost ably stated the.questiou, between the Lords and the country; and last. not least, they had that brilliairte4cisititin of toe eenduct, of the Lords as contrasted with that eflhe• VOtnnions, and mi nister,4, giVenllunri bur Lord Lyndliurst. -,,(Lend chpers.) He was gladt to find brit the noide lord's speech hadbeen circulated shape and' dt to bring. it. ;2-,one raly uefure th,'l public ,He would' say little ahout what the I,srds had done, but, in name of himself, as an -hunt 'hie individual in the carne of his noble 'rriend , and in feet of all the .Conservative peers,- he would . §ay tfiatin no one in .stance any one measure been treated Merely -- 1 Y Om party views or private prejudice. (Much applause,) They baj all been considered anddlisenssed.npintheir.own merits. Where it - appeared .4hati. the pviviple ina4 unexceptionable. but the details Were ea . pable.iii aiteriv.iou alidleVrenenient, those Ol terations andlinpittdtrents:hati been.wade r and the bills sent dirAtn to the-,oqta!ript.) , 4 3 ita tit*, amended 'state, to'be adopted or rejected .as . the eiAe nicg' id be. "On' tie. then when the b tge :de re cti rd; they 41g ,pqt-coiniiowift tc labe— hold'ut mi:sehief) but threw out , the 6111. c-orMg quences . ,of the nnioquy that might rest upon ttunn'f , iii so'dkeiti4 (lj.oUlPPlan 4 :)' 'They felt thatthdy WAgoybefore t i qe eourikry. The people considered them ,respArisible, and decoy , - re) spOnsiolp they t ire ficitwithstandhir tiita , uriklit be3etti& to The contrary. (I,iind . ailikthat, were other •• bills Nvitici!„ha:t been rejected by the rfoilse Lords for a•differentreasdn=di tioeotrtit9tif tlid"CYtremelate , - .. • the `session le to p their due consideration hear 4, . ha believed, and he did not me ii tolaT.the hl itue on ffid C; verumeut, that 'sent lvittiqqt sFghtest hope; assed.- [We-regret that vice are " ,to omit the conclusion or Lord Skelmersclal , .•_ 'Otrih , -,to the er•ha"yhig beeP delayectan bur : ' haittitlyosol,ippojtite:l. time, it .dis arrahgeir all our .tiny' ,atrantY.erne,nts, the necessity of , reafaoti imiverai , hpArs its waiting- fur an , -r oirlittinf.h. pert of the s T eech, which w 4 have clic.-- ast.tc ted to lead to less ilisappointinet, The CiiatniaN h, p ,;:.2: . Peel, and the conservative members ut. • ,e Sir: .Tna'mAs Fto : to the toast. The canservatiees • • a ,obert , , ',noir leader, and well and nobly itai,thc: cho,:en. !i c h;:ppy to say that. the-conservative members of 'opposed the fac tious innovations of the ministry, wiiich were not in consonance with the feelings of the,-,peope of England. 'lf ;thy Measures were siintup for-the good of the' people, they attended to' than with readiness; but if, on tha - contraVy,lbe:mensure4introcluced m I te . not calculated for the benefit of the liation, then' they 're jected them, batyjth an opposition not facti - otiS. — 'As - zi'preOf of the attentiveness of the 'conservative of,,the.douse of. Commons; be need,only to say that .a days before Par liament .was prorogued, their - attekdnio.,. •• so 'niethodic: , .t, that he• couid have told at an whbre any ace of the members • might ha ' fauna. ;)ect to Sir Robert Peel, his name had been associa fitly in the' toast just qhmad,Vi. would. saY that the assemble might be justly .prc,ud.of - the fact of that worthy _coin-110pp. havilg been born 4rnongst themsely es a Lancashire *man, ounce would "say for. himself nnd lir:di - Cr . conseivitiye.memberN , that so, long as Sir'Rnhert Peel-11 - en-Mined at the head- of their party they wouid : never , be known to give utterance' to a thought of which they would he-ashamed., Sir Roheit Peal's fortune - bad been niacle.latnongst theinin the business in which istau.y Of that ;is , sembly were .employecl,and they then sent him forth s Inc g est and most c ,„te StiteStnfin that ever tvlorned an With' negard • Ilidse:•,of 'Lords he would say, it They wantedswdefero hat, they' required none,) they had an ex cellent one in nuble friend L6ril'SkelmOrgdale. But,where, 116 - 'Wnold'ask.,- were the.. .public meeting alled in every. part of the country for the ;purpose .of coinplaining against the evil of .. 7T „?' T . beq . Clie'ved" - thar the'gooct 1141i1Pg , tr liouse:oL sense of 'the . pcolila England would not allow them to he . gu'llud by the oppoOte faction to such a degre e . Were they, he would ask, to have a Moose of Lords, Or was that noble. assem 7 fiTy t r b'e annihilatKt for the sake of pleasing a few insigniticzint. demagogues ? (Cries of No, no.) But the great question at the present motaent,zvas, upon what principle Ireland should governed. That que3tion ginwhich the presont g,overninenereokild stand or fall. (Bear, hear.) Their op puneuts said, that Ireland required justice, that. the mi nistry were inclined to grout it to 'them, but that the tories wished to withhold: justice from Ireland; Now he Would ask what was meant by the word ,justice to Irefamf ? if by justice to Irelan4:*us-rnetint the manner in which O'Connell and his satellites. wanted it tole understood, then, indeed the people. of I'.:ngland were riu prepared to do justiee'tO Ireland. If by Jus tice to Ireland' was' meant the extraction from their proper and sacred purptisesithe - revenue 011ie church ; and putting it into the pockets : 9f the iarlholders, then indeed the pc , ople - of 'Eng land wciuhLWlthhoid justice from Ireland. The lion. baronet Dili: red ftether riliserVationr, : then in continuation, and said lhete could _hoc 119 doub' --,scont moeting at such a time must 'earrAt krOt in IV that the 1] th .it, and - would act 'as a stimuttts to. the couseTvatives to come forward and exert aselves. bogged to.thapl: theta fur the henour they had tone him in giving him their patient attention, and he trusted o see`them'agrain assembled.as.humetous and happy, as he saw ieyn . tbat. day . ;-: (Cheers.) The .Cu A ifinAN 'Legged to liroPose " the health of the Vice-- Ttsidepts ; and many thanks to . thein for their exertions on this occasion." • • Wm. CRO-f;SI.F.Y, Esq., of Manchester, acknowledged t he toast on behalf of the Vice-Presidents. He believed ii de volvedon him,:un worthy as he was, to•acknowledge the honour which: hint been done them in this toast; He need scarcely say: that they enjoyed it high i;r.iti(ic stints in contributing their humble rtinEls in filliog thcirrespecliVe situatierison that festiiie occasion—in that festive hail where conservative feeling:has collected its forces from every part of ;-:onth Lancashire— (cheers)—frous the hills of Saddle, orth to the Irish sea. Ile fore iestimed seat h would cat- a•few words on two topics on which he would offer bC criagratitlations to the ,pre sent assembly. , ' The iii:st had tel to thetirogress of Coll servatAve societies, - snore parthm.arly since the period of the last anniversary meeting held in the conservative hall. (Cheers.) With respect-to the first it gay.o him ;rent pleasure' to state that this%society had been rapidly,advanciug in numbers, in power, and,insiulluence, in every, portion of thii division of Lanca shire, auxiliary:and :collateral.SoCiethis had been foUnd; some mnong the -middle., classes, ~aha others amongst the working classes. the great and staple strength pf England—(cheers)— and this strength, which was might, he relied on in, the hour of seed. .of the hiAliest and noblest. names of the neigh ourhood had also been cnr67led anitingst' it Members. With spent tsi the' other point it must ever be considered as'most 'uable and :imporiant—tho. r in 'Of the lists of the • It.,gaVo. him the t pleasure to say, that' exertions had been -tided With' happier results min•they had anticipated. (Cheers.) Might the seed sown their opponents peeing oul of filo, earth. in ,Tulyonlyclis so to expire by the frost of NOvenilier. (LOud cheering.) He congratulated the assembly that they had still .a king possess ing the bestattributes of royalty. lie congratulated them that they had still a house of lords. ,(Clieers.) He congratulated them that they had:Still a church, holy and apostolical. He congratulated -them that they had still a conservative aristo cracy, whose splendid triumphs swelled on the •breeze, and he congratulted thoM that the liberal and learned professions Mill ranged theingelves on the of the constitution. Mr. liosslev;- after a few inure remark's,' concluded amidst loud cheerin7. The Cl-tAitIMAN lirT i ;ctFed “Ihe helth of the count} mcm hers for tike sfi c ith dMsion.'' (C1;:por*:) - „ . . . Lord SKE.r.lntrzsgA La said it was his duty to account',for the ahietiee - ef-tifie of the-members { Bootte . Wilbratain,) and at the Fame' time - to-return them his (Lord Skelmersdale's) thanks for thh - hononr they hat been, so kind' as to confer upon him. It h'iut been their pleasure' ,two years a'go to erect hini,-as. one of their representative., in a most flattering manner. They el"cted'ifiln- Without his expetiting it,' but grateful he ' R-es for the IfOrNtr hey lout done him. (Ilear.) But, theugh they had ' . platibtl him:- in a sittion of, honour; they had not place him in fi sinecure situation. He attended: durixo; the . first meetings of parliainent constantly at his post; he hadheen„ there'mormtig; noon f and night, until:at ti_tst hi's health was,be.- ghiping'tiv be ‘impairett by his dare applicatiOl').; 'and he (Lord Skelmersdale) expressed a wish that he. should _iv') and see a relation on the continent for; -the puppse "of renovatiug - his health ; and'he (Lord Skelmersdale), told him that he would' take ur n responsihility:of his absence from ,this thertiri;:. If tliere was any blame, his 9r(!shiplie'gged it m i g ht fall upon his. and not upon. the hen. me;:ttr.sr's f , linulde'rs'. No nor mold be more serisilyle• than he was of the duty of d- rn o n ,_ her to give an . account of his stewardship, and they would allow him to say that,. when-those constituents were not only consti tuent=, but aIA-kind friends and supporters, it ceased to be a duty, Litd heehims •satisfaction, Ile trusted that when the hon. `member returned 'to England, which would be in the coure of :s few weeks, that he would return like a giant, re fr:,•llJ , l fur tholint session, ready to obey .their. cum. Mand , . ' (Lobel cheering.) - The .(7 eS , AN then pru - i ' P' • bar?' sed the health of "'The Earl of ion and the'corsci vat.. Cu to WILK s, rose to reply to the toast, and spoke fellow:'. tort and-Gentlemen.—The occasion on which we ate ass.enibicd is too important, the objects Which this meet , ing c_6l4yen Ito further- to'ci vast, do• allow of a moment?. s, at tcution to individual concornS; orTshould preface my response to.the toast with* scum knowiedgment 'of .gratitude for the proud statAing ,(zsiven me aiuougst you, by calling on me to ,re present an individual and abody of-men of such real consequence to scleiety As is; it seems tome, that every senti ment, every a , utration, tittered to-day, should be national; that each successive cheer should be regarded, not as the noisy ebul lition of conVivialists, not as the Matter-of-course compliments of individuals to individuals, but as a rational expression of ,aqection yi men and institutions, as instruments of national good, and an earnest of' determinatien to protect and support them. On ordinary occasions, my lord; we hail-you as the man ; •we.ltonour eheMilder Virtiiiieof the father, the husband, and the friend, we- cciro'the benizeus of the numerous tenantry who experience ybur"generositv ,and forbearance—we-admire the condescension and affability that inspire confidence and affee-. tiou iii your hninbleineifthhourst , butto-day„we applatid those virtues, because they g,iVe lustre to our cause, and , strength to our arguments; we quote' you as a-living page in the history of our peerage, In the Fanielight, I apprehend, am: I to regard THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. the toast to which I am called on to reply, as an efficient means to a great end. Of Lord Eldon's political sentiments, let the note which has just been read in your hearing . bear testimony; te ascertain what pewerS of mind, what unremitting study, - what deep research, produeed those sentiments, you must read the • history of a long, latiprious, unostentatious life. His was the steady light of the planet, derived from the glorious orb of truth; it was not the flickering deceptive glare of the iynisfatuus, that of later years has dazzled the eye, dancing over the mo lasses of doubt and speculation, and alluring the unwary to follow its fantastic course. Theology taught him religion—that religion which sheds its influence on every department of life, from the throne to the cottage; his philosophy was more moral than Usechitnical--Minerva had greater charms for him than Mercury.. Let the contrast light where and on whom it will :as ' a councillor, he was invaluable.to his king—a proud ornament to the - peerage— . .the honest friend, not the cajoles or flatterer of the people; and as a lawyer, the flower of the British bar. In the calm twilight'of life's evening, the turmoils of the day gone by, the highest object of earthly ambition left far behind, we find him delivering, as his act and deed, his firm adherence to those sentiments which he so •ablv and courageously defended in the days of his giant vissour. This declaration of his will be a pre cious legacy, to that body of men whom you have honoured by coupling, them with his name, who, I am happy to say, consti tute two-thirds of the bar; and.surely, taking into account the efforts of the two -patronage ministry to bribe them into subser vience to Whig trickery, this may be urged as something like an argument in favour of their integrity.—(Cheers.) 'They are and feel themselves to be the servants of the state, the expounders and upholders of our excellent laws, and when you contemplate the vastness, the importance, and value of the ob jects which those laws were created to protect, you will surely feel it your interest to keep the channels through which they flow as pure and efficient as human art can make them-- (Cheers.) Thus much, my lord, on the toast just proposed; • and now,. with your permission, I will comment on a few of the leading topics of the day. The organs of. sedition and disorga 'niza.tiOn are. se .sedulous in the diffusion of their sentiments, so Ingenious in thqr appeals to the meanest motives of human ac tion, so cunning in their sophiams, that refutation and exposure have become our ,daily duty. Demands on the side of demo cracy; however unreasonable, are urged as if their justice were undeniable, and if refused are made the sources of reprobation and contempt of the legislator, intelligent enough to deliberate, and courageous enough to refuse. , The miseries of Ireland, the inevitable result of her own improvidence and profligacy, have excited a pity on the part of the unthinking which has put dis ' cretiOn to flight,. and wicked men taking advantage of English sympathy, - hale perverted it to the purposes of agitation and cusadection, and now every selfish argument of the agitators comes in the iniposing demand of justice to Ireland.—(Loud ,-gheeys.) And here, my lord let us ask what is meant by justice j ro L lreland ? • Isssgic has been properly defined a science about 'woos s, fist it', v,.e . arenotagreed in our terms, if we typofy.diffet cut idiCaf by:the!Shine , symhols, it follows that we differ in our preMises, and eau never arrive at a satisfactory inference.—ls, it meant, by thus unceasingly clamouring fot justice to Ireland, to_derfiart Ci her likerlaws and privileges with England ? If vol' - ta r keissneAsVonthat point at once—before I admit the im , nlietljninstice 7 if your demand, you must first show me that Ire land higthaanVEliVibilitiesd appreciating those laws, and of tiSin%thbeptivileget-s i t.here are various gradations of national as Welk s as , ,ind s kyilualcapaCity ; laws and privileges mtisieiptind' with_ the adeasedniind of the people. • 'flie,trial by ; ordeal and theriv ti6Tvikivqrstit ion swayed the national mind, produced it e t : desired effect, namely, obedience. Popular privileges in 4016th century were limited and measured by popular intel lel; in the 19th century the peasantry possess greater political , Oncver than princes at an earlier date; but will any man so stul tify himself as : to assert, that there was injustice in withholding that poWer when science passed for witchcraft, and was rewarded by the faggot? Before Ireland complains of the superior privi leges of England, . she must shew that she started in the Isiee of civilization with is + ngland, that nothing has impeded her pro greaFi; and that she has kept pace with her competition ; should she' fail in this, her anger is but the peevish querulousness of ,ehildhcod after the possessions of manhood. Ireland is eon fesSAll)i an•integral part of the British empire, and to carry out justice to the extent of that empire, care must be taken to legislate for the whole, that is to apportion the political power of each to the safety of the whole.—(Cheers.) If it can be, demonstrated, as I shall presently proceed to do, out of the mouths of those who use this expression as the watch word of their parts', that Ireland is too ignorant, too cruel, too wicked, to be . entrusted with power, it cannot be then denied, that to comply with her demands would be gross injus tice to the'empire. ' You, my lord, and all who hear me, will, no doubt, remember, that at the beginning of the Year 1833, the Whig administration, of which Lord Grey was the head, and Lords :',lelbOurne and Russell component parts, deemed it ne cessary to ask parliament' for increased powers, by which to keep, rebellious Ireland in subjection to .the laws. (Cheers.) Al'thattirue agitation wanted words to vent its hate. upon the. Yery. - nseti whom now it affects to adulate. Cursing and bles sing frequently flow from the same cause. The same selfish ness that in 1833 exhibited itself in hatred and bitterness to wards the whigs,:in 1836, in terms as unmeasured, in encomium 't).s unqualified, proclaimed to Ireland the honesty of the agita aor, and the consistency of the objects of his attack and adula tion. The saine• selfishness that in 1833 exhibited Daniel O'Connell in the King's speech as the common enemy of man kind, in 1836 makes use of the very qualities that it then de ' pietated,- of the .very agitation that it then bewailed, for the preservation of office. (Cheers.) Let us see what were the opinions then exprdssed of Ireland—what was the crying ne cessity proved for a coercive statute. Lord John Russell on Wednesday, February Gth, 1833, in reply to Messrs. O'Connell acid Shier, spoke as follows: " I will ask, are not 'the means of terror already in existence ? iu what hands . ? .Why the terror was not in the hands of educated and reSponsible'Men, but-in thiise of the midnight ruffian and lawless as sasio; whiise pasSions were under no control, and whose acts, if he chose to detail some of them,' most recent, would fill the minds of men - With horror he min hkeit,e many indisputable authorities for de taiis of, Some of those outrages, many of them committed in the open day, end wIl - 6sapifig"with impunity; but he would content himself with quoting Only,one, that of the hon. and learned member for Dub lin, in a recent letter addresSed by .him to the people of Ireland. What seas . the lion, and learned gentleman's own description of the state of outrage Which prevailed in Ireland?' Thus seduced, the in 'surgents4--liere beodmitted the existence of insurrection by the term insurgents—the insurgents afterwards proceed to other nocturnal out •ragist. They compel' farmers to give up their holdings; they destroy houses and property • they flog or otherwise torture the inhabitants of - those honses;andthey veryfreqUently commit the horrible, the detestable, the damnable crime of murder. Such is the general career of the White-boys;"Terryalts; Itockites, Whitefeet'and-otber pee, sons of a similar description. They begin with smaller offences, they uniformly end in all the horrid guilt of blood and murder.' " Farther on Lord John says, "should the subject be consi dered of less importance at the present moment, when an at tenipt was made to separate the two countries, to confiscate all English property 'in Ireland, to overturn the Protestant govern inent of that country, and to substitute in its place some kind of gOvernment or parliament, in which the hon. and learned mem ber-for Dublin could become the leader or chief." Here, my lord, ,we have from the mouth of Lord John Russell himself, a host of reason in vindication of the Coercive Bill, much more cogent as Arguments in favour of the line of policy pursued by thepeers. He declares the crimes of Ireland, only three short years ago,so appalling; that he cannot repeat them without fill ing.the minds.of his hearers with horror, so above law, that it exhibits its horrid deformities without shame iu the open day ; he proves that there is every material with which to work the designs of ambition, and concludes by stating, in pretty plain terms, that the hon. and learned member for Dublin has no disinclination to turn these events to his own purpose: Lord Melbourne:Mr. Macauly, Mr. Spring Rice, in short every member of the then administration speak to the same effect.— But the speech of Earl Grey is so striking, that I cannot pass some passages over without emphasis. Here the learned gen tleman quoted the following passage from a speech delivered by EartGrey,on Friday, February 15th, 1833:- - " Could it fie wonderetat when there was a violent disapprobation of tithes, in a State of .society so inflammable and disorganised as Ire land, that it should he increased by the efforts of this association, and that we should find, not only a passive resistance to tithes, but that the Owners, and all employed in carrying into effect the law which it had been thought necessary to enforce, should become subject to open denunciations, to violent attacks on • their persons and property, an d often to the infliction of death? Was it to be wondered at, if the goverhment were represented as a universal grievance to the people Tif'the people were told they were injured, insulted, and oppressed followit to I T won dered Here by their rulers—that the laws were made to oppre s s them,--was it to be wondered at, that these circumstances there should be a ge neral dispositien to resist the law? I f the po lice f o rc e were de should n o unc e: a lt t s h c a r t n arbitrary;ealtth,ek attacks on th a e n p d oleea i, d unconstitutional, dea thi things appeared to have a very close and intimate connexion ; and if they were not cause and effect, at least they were so linked together that they could dot he dissociated in a consideration of the state of Ireland. He asked their lordships whether it was not the object of the - association of volunteers to lend their aid to a repeal of the union ? Whether it was one of the recommendations offered to the voters at the last election by the association, to oppose to the uttermost all candidates who were mot repeaters ? No doubt, like those pernicious writers who addressed themselves to the inflammable passions of youth, and, having excited their feelings, affected by a cold moral to quench the flames they had kindled,—doubtless, like them, the agi tators, after working on the passions of the multitude, might offer a cool'exbortation to the men they had maddened, to pursue their oh jeets by legal means ; but he did not give the agitators credit for so little sagacity and knowledge of human nature, as to believe that their Cokl recommendation to oey the law would quench the flame they had excited. He, (Earl Grey,) found, in the course of the last year, from January, 1832, to December, 1832, a most frightful catalogue of crimes perpetrated in Ireland :—homicides, 172 ; robberies, 465 ; bur glarics, 558.; honghing of cattle, 455 ; illegal notices, 2,095: illegal meetings, 425 ; malicious injuries to property, 796; attacks on houses. 763 ; tiring of ,hpuses, 280 ; serious assaults, 3,156. The aggregate of crimes of every description connected ,with the disturbed state of the country during the past year amounted to upwards of 9,000 ; and lie was sorry to add, that crime in Ireland appeared to be in a state of progressive increase." This-is the state of Ireland as described by the very men who are now'either so wicked or demented as to hold up the most august deliberative assemhlage in the known world to derision and• hatred, becauSe they will not give to prejudice power, be cause their withhold from the bigot the scourge of intolerance, beealtselfiey will . .not give the sword to the murderer. That such. a man as,Joseph Hume, - whose education and mind pre-emi nently fit him - for a book4ceeper to a waggon office, should, on every.)ccasion_thatpresented itself. exhibit his vulgar hatred to the peerage, is as necessary and natural a result as the stinging of the piStaire,'Or the'croaking of the grasshopper; there are some animals that seem to be created . only as provocatives to cleanliness, their very 'Site provokes their destruction; this is an insect of that kind, and will eventually meet his fate—but , thaUstiCh men ht Melbourne and Russell should lend themselves .. to ri stirh dishonesty, . hat they, who three years ago were held iifi;a4tloody-mindecl, cruel, and tyrannical, by the very man Who tio - w trumpets : forth thpir.fame for furthering his designs, tag which they_cannot plead ignorance—that they should now be thin friends of 'agitation proves, that with them patriotisin means phite, , and that.refOrm• is much more limited mu its advantages than, by their declamation, their dupes have been led to believe. But let me do their justice : Lord Morpeth; at Leeds, in one of th-e most illogical speeches that ever met the eve, told the 123 • indiyidaals,_whomhe foolishly affected to believe the representa tives ot the sober and enlightened feeling of the West Riding orYorkshire„ that the - ministry were making efforts to settle the '4 fierce ecclesiastical dissensions which have too long distracted our unhappy sister country, upon a basis that can be acquiesced in by the people of that country at4arge, and that supports, and willce al fer the blessings of. religious p eace . C urran h as some where said; that error it in its nature 'flippant and compendious, it hops'with alacrity over argument and proof, and perches on assertioxi, 'which it calls conclusion. My Lord Morpeth's mag niloquent sentences, uttered with-a solemnity, and composed of words but ill-suiting with the occasion, may he tacked to this aphorism by -way of illustration. That fierce dissension does exist. in Ireland, no one can d en y ; but before we apply the remedy, let us ascertain the. seat of disease; every quack can describe appearances, but the physician alone can .treat those appearances as symptoms. Lord Grey has already glowingly, but - aSlrtily, described the -agitating causes of Ireland's discon contentlie has' told the country what every man knows to be too title who has-visited that besotted land, it is the very business of agitation to misrepresent. These is a numerous priesthood in Ireland, Who necessarily hate a protestant establishment— (cheers)-thafhatredas necesssarily induces slander and unre mitting opposition; to •render that opposition effectual, every -uuworthy appeal is made to the superstition and prejudice of their - devotees . ; our clergy are described as wolves in the catholic fold, 'Our doctrines as heresies, our tithes as plunder. (Cheers,) 'The agitator knowing the unlimited ascendency of the confes sor:over his disciples, calls the anathema to his aid, and covers his a mbition under the garb of religion. (Cheers.) Ile calls the idle, the profligate, and needy together ; he affects coin , miseiation for their. woe;' he goads them to hatred, and urges it to active ,rehellion; he wounds their national pride, by term ling:them .`qiereditary bondsmen"' and then pretty plainly hints " who would be free themselves must strike the blow." (Cheers.) Is then Lord Morpeth, and are his coadjutors, anxious to " settle the fierce dissension that has long distracted our unhappy sister country ?" Have they made any efforts to counteract the baneful efforts of agitating missionaries? Have they even been neutral in the contlet ? 1-lave they not rather in pailia meat, at public meetings, through a hireling press, sanctioned the very fallacies and infamous doctrines which, but two years ago, they held up to execration ? Have they nut created hopes and expectations which never can be realized but by the viola tion of every principle of honesty and justice ? Anxious to pacify, indeed!—was their anxiety proved by their irrational rejection of the lords' amendments to their tithe measure ? is the demand for tithe, as described by them, the fruitful source of strife and blood-shed ? Then, with their anxiety to pacify, why not remove the cause? Is Ireland's peace, Ireland's im provement, Ireland's blood, to be sacrificed to Whig pride, or radical madness ? Had their darling clause been left in the bill, practically it could not have benefited Ireland, in the remotest degree, for years to conic. They why not accept a real good, an immediate benefit, and trust to future efforts for an increase, as in the case of the prisoner's council bill? The reason is plain enough ; the prisoner's council bill was too weak ground ou which to erect a battery against the peers. In Ireland, where juries sit trembling in the box before the the cri minals on whom they are to pass their verdict, the prisoner's counsel bill is a matter of indifference; it was not a subject on which the passions and prejudices of the " finest pisantry in the world" could be brought to play. The priest can sing mass, though a good Catholic should hang; and can chaunt a re quiem with as much indifference as he exercises in grant ing absolution for the persecution of a heretic (cheers,) — but the church bill had spoliation for its object, it was, to use Lord Morpeth's own words, " to settle ecclesiastical dissension upon a basis that can be acquiesced iu by the people of that country at large, and that supports and will confer the blessings of religious peace." And could Lord Morpeth, when the 120 individuals who surrounded him at Leeds applauded such bom bast as this, could he believe that he was addressiug the in tellect of the West Riding of Yorkshire ? Acquiesced in by the people at large ! What, then, has protestantism become so contemptible in the eyes of this young nobleman that its in terests, its wishes, its rights, arc unworthy of notice ? The peo ple at large? Does he think that those who pay nineteen twentieths of the tithes in Ireland, the church of England pro testants, can acquiesce in the appropriation of these tithes to catholic purposes ? That they will purchase what he terms the blessings of religious peace by so base a compromise? Does Lord Morpeth know that the experiment of to-day becomes the precedent of to-morrow—that the same plea which to-day robs an ecclesiastical corporation of its unalienable rights may to morrow cut of his inheritance and estop him by his own argu ments? Is it because Lord Lyndhurst opposed such tamper ing, truckling legislation, that he is, to amuse the sober in tellect of the 'West Riding of Yorkshire, to be placed on the couch of the tyrant Gloucester on the eve of the battle of Bos worth-field? What! shall he who in the same speech declared that gradations of. opinion ought to exist, " as all opinions on matters of such pressing interest to the public weal ought to be well sifted in a sieve together, in order that the soundest and most valuable of them may be retained, and those which are use less, because mischievous, may be cast away ?—shall he deny to the peers what he so readily accorded to the radicals of Leeds ? Shall none but he and his friends be allowed the use of the sieve ? Shall the intellect of the aristocracy be pared down to the Procrustian dimensions of Joseph Hume? Shall Lynd hurst bring down his lofty mind to the standard of Derrynane ? Shall the House of Peers hold its prerogative by the tenure of suit and service to the Commons ? *ill you so stultify yourselves as to destroy an institution, to annihilate a compo nent part of the constitution for answering the very end and scope of its existence ? Why were not the Peers and the Com mons incorporated, if it was desired that they should always ac cord ? The very separateness of their existence, the distinct negative and active power given to each proves the object of their being, and to destroy them for accomplishing that object, would, no doubt, very much further Mr. O'Connell's interests, and fur once more excite the cast-iron countenance ofJos. Hume to a sardonic grin. But the Commons have no right to enter tain such a proposal for a moment, and the wretch who suggests it, should be the subject of immediate impeachment. Parlia ment is not omnipotent, as has been often very justly declared —parliament are the trustees of the national estate, they may invigorate, they may improve, but to destroy it is treason. (Loud cheering.) But, my lord, with some men treason means patriotism, rebellion—courage, destruction—reform, with such I will not condescend to remonstrate; they have no reason but their will, no argument but passion ; but to the assemblage of wealth, intellect, and character, who have done me the honour to listen with patience to my remarks, to them I will presume to offer a few inducements to diligence and activity in our cause. You know, your cheers prove, that you appreciate our glorious constitution—a constitution the plan of which the master mind of Cicero, who had seen that republicanism had produced a Cataline, that monarchy engendered a Caesar, drew out as the most perfect that could be devised ; so perfect that Tacitus declared it to be the beautiful chimera of a poetic imagination ; the test of ages has proved its practicability and virtue. A constitution based upon christianity, rendering honour to whom honour is due, tribute to whom tribute is due ; extending its views to immortality, it has dedicated its noblest apartment to the worship of our God; it has selected the Bible, the whole unmutilated Bible, as its text book it has adopted every proper precaution to insure a priesthood as capable as education, rank, and character can make them, without laying claim to infallibility; deriving its authority from the law and the testimony, it prescribes the li wits of its own powers ; it makes the priest the living commen. tary of revelation, not revelation the commentary of the priest It is a constitution that can offend no just man. 'Tis true ii promises no reward to indolence—it holds out no inducemen to vice—it closes the door against the brawler and the agitator; hence we may account for the patriotism of Derrynane ant Middlesex. They cry for change for the same reason that Satan, " With ambitious aim Against the throne and monarchy of God, Rais'd impious war in heaven,"—viz., " To set himseg in glory 'bove his peers." You will then, I am suit, my lord, to preserve this gift of God to man—to preserve unmutilated and unalloyed the ethics of our church, the blessings of -our faith, the purity of that stream that is to quench the fever of disease and resuscitate in the fainting of death—to keep untarnished the lustre of your co ronet—to maintain inviolate the dignity of the throne and the quietude of the cottage—you will echo with me the truly inspir ing motto of one of our greatest heroes— " England expects every man to do his duty." The Gna tint AN said, though they were met there to uphold the constitution of the country and with it the Protestant re- ligion, yet he was satisfied Ural there was no person there pre sent that would not most willingly hold out the hand of friend ship to all those who differed from them conscientiously in points of religious principle. (Hear.) And there were so many individuals in the country professing the Catholic faith, who were so distinguished for their intelligence and their honour able feelings, and, above all, for their attachment to the con stitution of the country, that he was sure he should be held ex cused if he proposed to them " the health of the Catholic Con servative Gentlemen of the County." (Loud cheers.) The toast was given with three times three. TRAFFOItD TRAFFORD, Esq., of Trafford Park, shortly re turned thanks. The CHAIRMAN had now to propose "the Operative Con servative Associations throughout the Kingdom." Given with three times three cheers. Glee—" With a jolly full bottle." Mr. BA awisE, of Craven-street, Strand, London, rose to re spond to the toast. He said, it might appear presumptuous in him to rise to reply to the toast, but he had taken the liberty, in the absence of any one to acknowledge it, to respond to the toast. He felt a very strong interest in the furtherance of the Conservative cause amongst the operatives, for this reason, he had been instrumental in the promotion of three operative as sociations, and he was perfectly convinced, that, if Conserva tive Associations were established in their boroughs, they would find sufficient constitutional opposition to overturn the attempts of the Radicals. (Cheers.) With this conviction before his mind, he did not like the toast to pass over without a few obser vations. They were all aware of the industry of their opponents in the distribution of tracts of various descriptions, containing anything but the truth; and it was by the formation of societies amongst the operatives, and placing in their hands works and pamphlets containing the truths which were necessary for them to know before their opinions could be altered. and by which means they could attain the objects they had in view. ( Hear.) There had been many Operative Conservative Societies formed, all of which he was happy to say were increasing in their num bers; and as they increased, so must the community at large feel the powerful effect they must produce. It was not only the moral character of the individual members which would improve by these societies, but they brought them into connexion with the class immediately above them in the sphere of society, and it showed to them that those above them in station were wishful to give them the same advantages which they themselves pos sessed. He prided himself on being one who had emanated from that class; and it was a pride which led him to watch over their welfare as well as his own, and he was convinced that if those whom he was addressing, and others in a similar sphere, were to make the same exertions, they should completely coun teract all the efforts of O'Connell and his party, and the glo rious constitution of Great Britain would be considered as the price of every man that lived in the country. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN called on Mr. Roby to propose a toast. Mr. Roe/ rose and said,—The toast I have been requested to propose it would be absurd and impertinent to attempt em bellishing. It would, indeed, be an attempt " To gild refined gold ; to paint the rainbow." Doubtless, I have had some experience amongst the Lancashire Witches, but I know not that it is from any peculiar aptitude in this respect. Suffice it to say, they have this evening been com mitted to my care, lind I must do mine, as I hope every one that hears me will do Isis duty. It wonld be very easy, my lord, to be somewhat jocose on this subject, but I conceive we have here much graver duties to perform. I would earnestly remind you and them, that not only to the Lancashire Witches, but to the Witches of our beloved country, in general, our destinies, as a nation, are entrusted. I know not whether O'Connell ever had a mother, but, if he had, she has much to answer for. She has not brought up her pretty darling in the way he should go. And I would urge this example on the Witches of our country earnestly, beseeching they would early instil right and proper principles into the the minds of their c hildren. Lead them, from the first, the straight path of truth and honesty. Teach them to be obedient, liberal in the highest and proper sense of the term. Not that fiendish imitation, that spurious liberality which is a libel on the name, and a disgrace to the nature it in herits. Why, the very name of Liberal implies something malignant and unsavoury, a byeword, and a loathing, fitted only for the contempt and execration of mankind. 1 would repeat, that to the wives and daughters of the present era are committed our destinies as a nation, for weal or for woe, and, as they fulfil or neglect their duty, so will Britain rise or fall amongst the nations. Let ou r off s p r ing be taught and guided in the right way; let them be early instructed to fear God and honour the King; let loyalty and religion be inculcated, and I have no fears for the result. Every mother's sou of them will become true Conservatives, and a blessing to their country. I deeply regret that the filthy name of O'Connell should have been forced into connexion with this pleasant subject,—a miscreant whose libels and slanders are heaped upon all that is good and virtu ous, all that is noble and elevated in the land, who has had the audacity to brand with the character of strumpets nil?? -tenth of the femal es , the Protestant females of Britain ! an d il;~ baser cowardice to deny indelibly fixing But then it is on record, and luckily re ported in one o f his own party newspapers, fixing , fixing him as the foul-mouthed slanderer who has dared toipl lute even our L ancas hi re Witches with this accusation. That. miserable thi ng o f s h re d s an d patches, called, hysome„curious and absurd fi gure o f s p eec h, " His Majesty's Ministry. I wish them joy of t h e i r mos t filthy b arg ain. Depend upon it his pre sent hypocritical adulation, slavering over the deformities of "the base, bloody, and brutal Whigs," as it was once his good pleasure to call them, is but like the great Indian serpent, gloiz ing and licking his victims ere they are devoured. Sooner or later it must come to this ; and, without taking to myself much credit for vaticination,ig will I will en t l ue to predict, that, ere l ong, the very name o f Whig; perhaps be something to frighten children to ob e di enc e, something synonymous with degradation and disgrace. They have sold themselves for a mess of pot tage, and they have already forfeited their birthright, the respect and confidence of every honest Briton ! They are already on the very verge of the gulph, one push more, anot h er pressure from behind, and they perish for ever ! It has often been said, Why abuse O'Connell?—Why fight him with hi own weapons ?—and I well remember my Lord Holland was particularly shocked that in the House of Lords anybody should attack this person. Now lam free to confess, that I know not any other mode by which such an outlaw from, and transgressor against, all the amenities—all the decencies of society can be punished. When you fight a chimney sweeper, you must wear a black coat. Let him be gibbetted, not inhumed !—held up as a warning to all,—dangling and writhing to the just execration of mankind. I recollect a story somewhat apt on this point. An individual, who may fairly represent the Melbourne-Russell Company, had a large and savage dog who kept the neighbours and passers-by in constant terror and annoyance. When any complaints were made, the owner always professed great sorrow —couldn't help it, and so forth—a sad dog—too old to mend, and the like, laughing all the while in his sleeve at their alarms. Somehow or another this sad dog kept on his career unchecked, and, not without a shrewd suspicion that he was aided and encouraged therein by his keeper. At length this quarrelsome brute attacked an old soldier who happened to be passing with a fixed bayonet before him. This trusty weapon soon settled the business, and the dog lay sprawl ing in the dust. Whereupon his master, who had all along been watching with an eye of malicious encouragement, set up a loud and grievous outcry. It was barbarous, cruel, unmanly, and so on. The soldier pleaded the ferocious attack of the beast. "Then you might have beaten him off with the butt-end." "So I would," replied the hero of a hundred battles, "If he had attacked me with his tail !" One parting word with the Lancashire Witches, of whom we may justly be proud. Look at the present assembly, and say i f there is not a noble army of matrons who hare done their duty, and thousands yet unborn will, I doubt not, be rained op in the paths of loyalty and re ligion—a proud phalanx that will, ere long, crush the reptiles who have crawled to the high places once occupied by their betters. A Lancashire Witch, if I mistake not, was the mother of Sir Robert Peel—a Lancashire Witch is the wife of our no ble chairman. Need 1 say more to incite you to drink the toast, " The Lancashire Witches," with an enthusiasm equal to any other that has been given this evening. The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The North Lancashire Con servative Association, and success to it." Sir ROBERT BARRY acknowledged the toast, but was at such a distance that we were unable distinctly to distinguish what he said. The CHAIRMAN then gave "the health of the stewards, and many thanks to them for their services on this occasion." Mr. ELIA s CHADWICK, of Swinton Hall, shortly acknow ledged the toast, but in a tone perfectly inaudible to the re porters. The CH AIRMAN then proposed "their next meeting." That being the last toast he wished them all good night. His lord ship then vacated the chair, and the company broke up at a little before 12 o'clock, the greatest order having prevailed. CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS. The followinc , testimony to the importance of the ceremony performed on Monday, we extract from a London Morning Paper : In another column will be found an account of the ceremony of laying the first stone of the intended buildings for Church of England Schools in the town of Liverpool. Those who are attached to the great principles of the Reformation, will read this r.ccount with unmixed satisfaction ; nor will their satisfac- tion be diminished when they reflect that the ceremony to which their. attention is solicited arose out of a virtuous and successful resistance to the project of the new Cor poration for introducing what is called the `• Irish Sys tem," into that English and Protestant town. The Irish system, as 'our readers know, is a compromise of religion to education. It was introduced into the country, the name of which it bear -3, under the auspices of Government, for the purpose of inducing Catholic priests to allow Catholic chil dren to be taught in schools where Protestant children are also educated. For this purpose it was deemed necessary that the scriptures, as a whole, should be excluded, and cer tain extracts only allowed to be taught. But, whatever may be ►aid of such a compromise with respect to Ireland—and we were always opposed to it ourselves as a bad lesson to begin with—the case was materially altered when it was attempted to be introduced into England, because the circum stances of the two countries in respect to their religion were materially different. Acting upon this impression, the clergy and people of Liverpool, with a spirit which does them honour, and which has already done honour to itself by the achievement of a victory, resisted the attempt of the corporation. An ap peal was made to the sense of the community; and the answer to that appeal was a subscription of more than £10,030, in the short space of seven weeks, for the erection of schools where the whale Bible may be taught, and not a leaf picked out here and there, for fear they should have too much of it. If ever a cor poration received a rebuke, the new corporation of Liverpool have begun business with a strong one. Nothing can be more decisive of the opinion of the people of Liverpool, as to the introduction of the Irish system into English towns, than the alacrity and zeal with which they came forward and subscribed their money to prevent it. But we will no longer detain our readers from the perusal of the report itself, where they will find the triumph commemorated in speeches which display con siderable talent, and breathe a spirit of devotion well worthy of the cause in which it was exercised—the cause of religion, and of the institutions which under PROVIDENCE.' protect it.— Morning Herald. _ ? TRADE, COMMERCE, &c. [From the Morning Herald. Our attention has been drawn to the crown duties on wines and other articles as iniported, under the 4th of Geo. 111., into the provinces of British North America. But for the impolicy of the present duties there is no doubt but an important trade would arise with the Mediterranean in low wines, fruits, corn, oil, &c. As it is, the carrying trade is thrown into the hands of the United States, where an alteration of the duties on wines to merely a nominal amount is already contemplated. A pipe of 120 gallons, costing sterling in the Mediterranean, shipped to the United States, brought into these colonies, pays only 71 per cent. ad valorem, being 7s 6d; whilst, if the same was imported direct by a British vessel, it would have to pay £3 10s. It is high time, therefore, that representations should be made to our do-nothing government in the way of utility to the effect of this ill-judged measure. We are enabled to state, with some degree of confidence, that it is the intention of the joint-stock hanks in Lancashire to call a meeting of their various directors for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of declining to receive Bank of England notes, and of taking the notes only of such banks as oppose the measures of the Bank of England, with a view of putting an end to that constant tampering with the currency by the bank direction, under which the property of every manufacturer and merchant is placed in constant jeopardy. The natural consequence of this important measure will be, the complete extrication of the manufacturing, commercial, and agricultural interests from the thraldom by which they have so long been oppressed; in fact, it becomes daily more evident to every practised mind, that, however adequate the Bank of Eng land may have been to give a circulation to the country fifty or sixty years ago, it is now no longer able to meet the increased wants of the empire; more especially . when two-thirds of its capital is foolishly lent to government, instead of being applied to the commercial purposes for which the Bank of England was originally intended. We conclude these remarks without stat ing that we are fully aware that the notes of the Bank of Eng land have become a legal tender; but a determined demand fur gold will soon remedy that point, and create a feeling in favour of a provincial circulation; and we only regret that an estab lishment which under wholesome monetary laws might be the foster parent of many other useful banking establishments, and confer a benefit upon the country, should, from the ignorance and perverseness of its directors, resolve itself into a nationa' pest. ( From the Times.) There has been a suspicion all along that the motive for the visit of the deputation of Liverpool bankers to London to con fer with the Bank Directors has not been fully explained, and we are now enabled, by the courtesy of a party who is not likely to be very wrong in the matter, to throw some further light upon it. It has struck every one who has bestowed any reflection on the subject as very strange that the casual rejection of a few bills, however good, at the discount office of the Bank, which is no very uncommon event, should have brought up to London three gentlemen among the first in wealth and consequence in Liverpool. The fact is that they had received an impression that the Bank Directors intended to place under an ab solute stigma, as to credit, some of the most eminent honses in London, no possible motive for which could at the time present itself to their minds. It arose in this way The bank directors, on the day when they created such general consternation in the commercial world by throwing out the bills of the houses in question, naturally reflected that they had branch establishments in Liverpool and i❑ Manchester, where the same bills might possibly be presented, and if they were, that they would certainly be discounted. Letters were, there fore, despatched to the managers of those branches with instruc tions not to discount any bills on which the names of any of those firms appeared which they had already placed under an interdict in London. How the secret oozed out it is difficult to say. Probably the astonishment of the managers at a denun ciation which the) conceived to be the forerunner of a terrible commercial crisis i❑ London overcame their discretion. Some say that they talked of it in their sleep. However that may be, the secret got wind, and a deputation to London was resolved upon as the only means, without exciting a general alarm among the trading interest, of getting at the truth of what the bank directors really meant by this step. They have contrived, as we knew, to come to some sort of compact; were told, and discreetly resolved, to say as little as they could about it; a cid are now gone back to those who sent them. 'We the undersigned cabin passengers on American Hotel, New ii b rk o , ai J .d al t y h 2 e 7 ; h l l. B ; 3 l l ) l. ia. our sincere mond (now in this port) feel called upon expressti ' dship, for his unre mitting to Captain Toole, master of tl hiniself attention to b e a thorought o us, seaman whileonboaanrdditie at n s a t h capablee sh a o s u a ld sa s i a l y ol, more, anu s a m e timeo of showing command ing the first captains ididn everyw-e no t o k t hneorwthat respect Captainstands .To highol ' s l. o P b ° t7. l. G. Gordon, Esq. Miss Gordon among' f. Y character NV e sailinjgohbnetAwermenstNroenwg,lu'o.rqk and Liverpool. Alex. 11. Dobbs, Esq., William Gordon, Esq. William L. Crofton, Esq. Miss Coffy. Mrs. Wm. Croft on express their gra t e f u l thanks for The steeragewpeasshseonuglde_rasls(o222 in number) have particularly requested that the captain's conductlintoe:s.aratdtihneribeiirialklyeepprionvgidilniigs them in provisions when _....., Ihe New Strand Theatre, London, closes a THEATiOCAI,B. . successful season in a fortnight. It has, we understand, perfect state ofclereaqn,uired., , very been taken on a long lease by its present proprietors. W. J. H am mond visits Doncaster forthwith, with several of his present corps . He has refused London en g a gements, reserv i ng h i mself for the New Strand at ,aster• next.—Don caster Ch ron i c l e . Novas. EXPORTATION.--Mr. Cook, the proprietor of the large circus at the foot of the Saltmarket, Glasgow, has chartered the ship Stewart, to tra ns p or t hi s esta b l i s h ment to New York, with toge i the intention i i of exhibiting the feats of himself and com pany in the principal towns in the United States. The vessel is being fitted up for the reception of this novel cargo, which will consist of 3.5 splendid horses with the requisite provender, about 70 performers and their children, and eight or ten grooms. The whole party are expected to be on board on Wednesday, and the vessel will sail immediately thereafter.--Greenock Ad vertiser: The whole of the crew of the ship Republic, which recently arrived at New York from Liverpool, were arrested on Friday evening, on charge of having attempted, during her passage, to create a revolt in the ship. No violence was committed by them, although the safety of the ship was placed in jeopardy. They are committed to Bellevue for further examination. —Ne w York Advertiser. We have great pleasure in informing our readers, that the Earl of Derby has given the munificent suul of 1:1,000 towards building two uew churches in the town of Bury.—Bolton Chronicle. THE WILLIAM TORN.—GREENOCK, AUG. 27.—The Antilles arrived here to-day from Venice and Trieste, sailed from the latter port on the 25th of June, and got down the Adriatic in four days ; had afterwards much calm weather in the Mediter ranean, and passed Gibraltar four weeks ago. On the 17th ultimo, in 1at..46 deg. 11rn N., long. 170 ago. O n W., picked up a large oil cask, branded "William Tom" supposed to be long to the missing whaler.—Hull Packet, Sept. 1. MISCELLANEOUS. A man residing in Claddagh, Galway;:had his aSth child baptised ou Monday! WEST RIDING VOTERS. — The numbei , .ef( - iabjections served by the Conservatives to the West Riding . :voters claiming pro pert) . in the township of Leeds is 206, anctlP - O - ffier toWnships.ot the borough about 67. The number of—Whig 7 ltatital tions will probably be greater than thiuOis tecjed to many persons against whom* Cavinbt..24Y i e the; shadow of an objection they will not sue "eoliazreint?ylrfdso many votes from the list as the Couservativ yencer. - • The Earl of Hillsborough has been returned for the county of Down without opposition ; the uainisterialists dared not shew fight. The traffic by the Antwerp Railway continues to surpass all previous calculation : the general daily average is about 4,000, and on fete days this is carried to 10 and 12,000. An extraordinary crop of peas has been grown in Beeding : the piece of land measures six acres and a half, and there were twenty-six loads and a half of pea haulm carried off. In consequence of the advance of potter's materials, the York shire manufacturers have resolved upon an advance in the price of earthenware. AN Excuse SOMEWHAT Novci...—Lord Templemore, au Irish Lord, though an English Peer, being invited to a dinner given to Lord Al ulzrave at Wexford, sent the following excuse : " I regret exceedingly that I cannot get over to Ireland in time to dine with his Excellency. I say I regret this exceedingly. However, lest it might be in my power, let me know your day as soon as it is fixed." A MERMAID.—A correspondent informs us—" The mermaid in the bay of Dingle is nothing but a northern seal, being larger and more silver• in its colour than those on this coast. I have seen it repeatedly. Probably the creature is weak, which may be the cause of its being so much out of its latitude. Of course the superstitious called it a mermaid, and the priest encouraged the idea, saying it was sent to frighten off the fish from the coast as a punishment for their fishing on Sundays."—Limerick Paper. EMBALMING.—Making a flesh statue—eternalising a corpse —perpetuating the perishable with more pains than we take to save that which is immortal. DEATH OF DR. HENRY.—It is with feelings of the most poignant regret that we announce the death Of one of the most distinguished of our fellow townsmen—one of those ardent and successful votaries of science whose labours have shed lustre on the town of Manchester, and rendered it conspicuous not merely in England, but throughout the civilised world. Our regret, too, is much increased by the painful circumstances under which this melancholy event has taken place:--Dr. Henry, whose name must be familiar to our readers, died by his own hand yes lerday morning, at his residence in Pendlebury,- near this town. For some time past, we understand, he has been in a very in different state of health, and had occasionally laboured under great nervous irritability. His indisposition seems to have been considerably increased by the excitement consequent upon his attendance last week at the meeting of the British Scientific Association at Bristol. from which he returned with a conside rable aggravation of the symptoms he had previously exhibited, and we understand that he suffered under an almost total priva tion of sleep, which appears to have finally overpowered his faculties. Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, he left his bed and went into his dressing-room, which, in the first instance, on account of his previous habits, did not excite any surprise; but about seven o'clock it was found that he had left his dressing room, without having put on his clothes, in consequence of which immediate search was made, and he was at length found in the private chapel attached to his house, quite dead, having shot himself with a pistol, the report of which had not been heard by any of the family. An inquest will be held upon the body this morning. We lament the pain which the publication of the above details may inflict upon the relatives and friends of the deceased; but the circumstances attending upon the death of a man like Dr. Henry neither can be nor ought to be concealed. His death is a matter of public concern, and it would be mere affectation to attempt to clothe it with mystery.—Manchester Guardian. Lord Yarborough has sold his beautiful yacht, the Falcon, to Mr. Wade, a city merchant, who intends her for the opium trade. Some idea of the quantity of metal used for sheeting ships may be had from the fact, that a single ship, the Neptune, of 120 guns, launched at Portsmouth in 1832, was cased with 4,738 sheets of copper, weighing altogether 17 tons 19 cwt. A very large lot of Stock amounting to upwards of £300,000, was recently bought in the English funds, on account of M. Mu• noz, the favourite of the Queen of Spain. An interesting discovery has lately been made by the keeper of the Regalia in the Tower of London. In clearing out some secret places in the Jewel-office, a Royal Sceptre was found, equalling in splendour and in value the others which are there exhibited. The celebrated " Wandering Piper" has been exercising his vocation at Dunbar; the money he collected was given to the poor. A contemporary has happily designated Colonel Evans as the English Dugald Dalgetty. Sir Walter Scott never drew a more faithful picture than this prince of mercenaries in his legend of Montrose. Dugald, however, was inferior to Evans, as he never fought without " pay and provant." At the Surrey Zoological Gardens, a few days ago, a ludicrous circumstance occured. One of the Giraffes, attracted by the ar tificial flowers displayed in a lady's bonnet, watching its oppor tunity, seized the covetted "bouquet," which, being firmly at tached, resisted the tug given by the animal. The consequence was, the strings gave way, and up soared the bonnet fifteen feet in the air, to the infinite amusement of the bystanders, as well as the suffering lady herself, who laughed heartily at the whim sical occurence. Richard Carlile, longknown as a notorious infidel, is at Brigh .on, and has, in some letters addressed to the commissioners and the public prints, announced himself a convert to christianity. He has, in consequence, applied for the use of the commis sioners' rooms to lecture upon the subject, but that body have refused permission, on account of his previous doings. Blacking-men and hill-stickers have at length been expelled from the walls of Kensington-gardens, which they have too tong been permitted to deface. A Welsh gentleman at Oxford, known as " Leg Wynn,'' possessed such extraordinary strength, that he was repeatedly known to take up an ordinary sized table with his teeth, and carry it round the room. RADICAL MANNERS.--Poor Mr. Bulwer must have felt much flattered by being invited to the late dinner of some of his con stituents, merely that these well-bred gentry might have an op portunity of abusing him. The homceopathics are said to be performing great cures in cases of cholera at Vienna, by means of their veratrsim. This remedy, if employed in time, it is said, never fails of its effect. Railroads are not unknown in Russia. One has just been completed, and will be opened in October next, from St. Peters burgh to Zarkejeselo, and Pawiosk ; and in the spring two others are to be commenced from the capital to the imperial residences of Peterhoff and Oranienbaum. M. Gerstner, the engineer of these works, who has been to England to improve himself in these matters, thinks that it will be an improvement to attach some sort of brush or scraper to the front of the engine, so as to clear the rails from any accidental dust, small stones, or other obstructions. The same suggestion, it will be recollected, was made, without any concert with the German engineer, by Professor Lardner in his recent Lecture at Bristol. At all the post-offices a scrutinizing search is making to see what newspapers have ink marks upon them; and on those which contain such, a very heavy charge is made. The preva lence of this practice imposes an increased duty on the clerks in the office, and the object of the sender is almost always defeated, and with the certainty-. if detected, of having to pay a heavy penalty.—arford Journal. The Cornubian mentions the arrival at Falmouth of the Dryad. Captain Hearn, from Sydney. She landed Major Mudie and Mr. Benjamin Burdekin. She has had a very dangerous passage, having had to run through 800 miles of icebergs, some of them calculated to be a mile in length and 300 feet high. She has been within her length of them, and whilst in this precarious state experienced sometimes blowing weather, and at other times calms, and so near was she to these icebergs that at times during calms it was necessary to man the boats in readiness to tow the vessel a-head. The culture of the vine is introduced to a considerable extent in jersey, and is still on the increase. There has been for some years past 60 pipes annually produced, and which has been mis taken by good judges for old sherry; the produce of th e i s l an d has the privilege of entering English ports duty free.—Channel Island Gazette. The Junta of Grenada has levied an extraordinary contribu tion on the property possessed by the Duke of Wellington lin the neighbourhood of that city, his lordship having been inclu ded by that assembly in a list of reputed Carlists, from whotn the contributions were to be exacted.—French Paper. The Mr . Johnll/ 'Ad o a ofr charitable Liverpool, w irpmerchant, also lwholeft o bequeathed oa late to ehtedlegatees so olargea fund in his will, o f w hi ch £5OOO each goes to Mr. i u o James M'Gill, of Wexford, his brother, and two sisters. There are said to be upwards of 20,000 English in Paris at ministers i n t own hold meetings nearly every day at Hollan present. d i e House, Kensington. The amount of the law bill alone of the town-clerk of the new corporation, in the short time since his appointment, is nearly £ 3OO .—Stockport Advertiser. The Belgian papers state that the Jesuits who had established a boarding-scho o l at a place near Antwerp have wholly and suddenly abandoned it without any notice. A lawyer in New York once wrote " Rascal " in the hat of a brother lawyer, who, on discovering it, entered a complaint in Open court against the trespasser, who, he said, had not only taken his hat, but had written his own name in it. The prison of Bayonne is nearly filled with deserters from the British legion under the command of Gen. Evans. They offered their services to Don Carlos, who refused to employ them, and the wretched men are nearly naked and in great destitution, having sold their clothes to procure bread. One of the earliest newspapers in the southern part of the kingdom was printed by a man named Mogridge, who used to insert the intelligence from Yorkshire under the head " Foreign News." cheap with his lordship's corrections, has been published in Lord Lyndhurst's matchless speech on the close of theasession, form, and already reached a twelfth edition. a largo. EXTRAORDINARY SALMON.—Lastful salmon was taken in the Forth. Itwa weighing 451b5., than any previously caught at the same fishery, bybeiltt)tilhtsi-. bse,..ero.f excellent e h s ea a . n v d iea a rnd half. It 1 quality, and was and measuring in length three feet ten e t i n e e n h of ap o u beautiful n d proportions, ji mO or woman residing in the CONSIDERATR RESOLDTIoN•7-c, toe being i a few days ago ac \s'o.alsd a at fi ltd. neighbourhood of Preston o l v ia ta tr i,:en some silver from a public cused of having improperly an end to her existence by drown , house, determined on pauittpiasf. passing i her door from Lancaster to ing herself in the ~,i if canal into the water for that purpose, and Kendal. Ha ' n -returned home, saying, she would take the finding it cold , e, sh ot making away with herself when the water first opportunity should b foun d more agreeable t —Lancast e r G azette. sOF FEAR.—A . short time ago an E FFE cr- attempt was made to rob the apartment of a journeyman jeweller in the Rue St. Martin, which had such an effect on the nerves of his wife that she was under a constant alarm of thieves breaking in. One night last week the poor woman suddenly awoke her husband, assuring him with cries and other signs of the utmost terror, that a man had got into the room, and had attempted to cut her throat. The husband sprang from the bed, seized a knife, and, in moving about in the dark, at length fancied he had found the intruder, to whom he gave two strokes with the knife, and then shouted for the guard, which soon came with lights, when it was discovered that the person he had stabbed, in his confusion from fright and darkness, was no other than his own wife, who was senseless and bleeding from a wound in her arm and ano ther in the chest. Upon the representation of the neighbours, the almost distracted man was not arrested, and, a surgeon being called in, declared that the wounds he had given, though revere, Were not dangerous.—Paris paper.. „ INN MINIM ;e -ck he 01 hat ich lye ,;ia m's, Esq., )00l ; H all, and Esq., len's, Loch- i n ner clock o find es ra snag-