The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-11-01 00:00:00

GRAND CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRA-
TION AT LIVERPOOL

On HaturJay evening the ronAervatives of Liverpool
entertained the Earl of Derby and his e dleagussi in the
kb e Mini-try at a ,linner in 11. Vaillsaras tttt
(*.Y. r+ were laid for about am p,rsous, and 4. vcry seat
was ocetipissi.
l'revious to the co:lmeneemetit of the dinner an
tin to, •,.:rvae.ves of Lie, rms.i was pro.
a, meal to Lord hen y, enclosed in :111 elegart easki t if
silver, ornaioetil,l with gold suoul.ling, Mich LI
Derby acknoiviedvd, stating that lie should have dur-
ing the evening an Ala r opportunity of addressing them
on pubiic
.*.ftcr the customary loyal toasts,
he 0, SIMIAN rose, and proposed the " 'irtny cub
N., hick toast was enthuitiastically met ived by the
company.
The Earl of iIARDWICKI, in the absence of General
Peel, replied on ',Marlf of both services.

The CHAIRMAN next proposed •• The health of the
High Sheriff for the county," which was received with
great applause, and the toast was acknowledged in are
priers tenus by Sir Robert Gerard.
The CHAIRMAN then rue to propose the toast of the
evening, "The health of the Right Hon. the Earl of
Derby" (great cheering) our great Conservative leader.
(Great cheering.)
The Earl of Helier, on rising to acknowledge the
tout, was received with enthusiasm and prolonged cheer-
ing. After warmly expressing his thanks for the over-
whehning reception which he and his colleagues had ex-
perienwel, he said.—You have received us as a bodily
impersonation of those Conservative principles vrhich
you all cherish in your hearts. (('heers.) It is true,
gentlemen, we do not meet upon the present occasion
for the purpose of celebrating the full and entire tri-
umph of those principles. They have been overborne by
the decision of the present Parliauseet, but we do meet
here—and this I take to be the real meaning of your in-
vitation to me—to testify and declare our alliereuce to
the principles and doctrines of true Conservatism.
(Cheers.) I do not mean of l'onservatisin falsely so-
called, which would übstrect all useful changes, but I
speak of that Conservatism which is not obstructive, but
which is the best promoter of safe and gradual social iui-
provements—of that Conservation which, strenuously
adhering to the old suachinery of the constitution, adapts
from time to time the various parts of its mechanism to
the real acquirements' and capacities of the age in which
we live—of that Conservatism which would give to all
orders and degree* of men within these realms their due
weight, authority, and preponderance—of that Conser-
vation which levee the interests of the people at large,
but will not be led away by the noisy denunciations of
violent and blustering demagogues either to shrink at
the voice of menace or timidly to concede rights and pri'
vileges to large bodies of non for the purpose of obtain-
log amount of temperary popularity, whets in our
hearts we believe that the concession of those very
coveted boons would he injurious rather lien: Leneficial
to the elapses wheals it is sought to benefit. (('heers.)
Such, gentlemen, is the Conservatism to which you
pledge yourselves by your attendance this day.
Gentlemen, I have watched with the deepest anxiety
and I have seen with the highest gratification the pro-
greseive imprevesuent in strength, in unity, in every-
thing which marks political power, of the Conservative
party during the last II yeart. Upon the failure of
Lord John Itusselre endeavour to form a Covernment
wrote confidentially to the most eminent man in the
country, the late Duke of Wellington, a warm end cor-
dial admirer and supporter of Sir Itobert Peel, a man
who stood for many peon the foreumat man in the
world in the eyes of his countrymen. I wrote to consult
bins as to the ((minion of the Conservative party, and
the best IrntallY of restoring that unity which had been
so lamentably destroyed. I received a long letter from
the Duke of Wellington, whirl I need hardly say I have
kept and deeply value, in which lie explained to me that
having accepted under the abortive attempt of Lord
John Russell to form a Government the duties of the
neutral position of Commander-in-Chief, be considered
he had for ever broken off his political connexion with
any party. Ile intimate.! however, his concurrence in
the opinion which I had ventured to express that the
alienation of the Conservative party from Sir Robert
;'eel was net a lucre temporary feeling, but that it was
impossible he should ever again place himself at their
head with any prospect of success, and the Duke of
Wellington, I will not say entreated, but exhorted me,
as a inetter of duty to ley Sovereign, awl to my country,
to throw aside all doubts and all hesitations, and to as-
{Mlle at once the leadership of that great Conservative
party whose existent* and whose power he deemed to
be essential to the wellbeing of the cometry in all its
institutions, and he advised use if Her Majosty should
at any time lay her eumnouids upon me to attempt to
ferns an admini:traCon not ri he di vouraged by a .y
difficulty, e mept such as might he absolotely insuperable,
but to eacritice e cry •dlier feeling too desire or serving
lily Sove-eLn and my country. (Cheers.) Golden., ii,
for I I year. I hova Auleaveueed to :,ct in the spirie of
that wi e situ pie advice, coming from m
av:,en, and I base beets rewarded by seeing theConser-
va q: party fixiii,; their root* in the feelings and hearts
of the country, and, as our opponents are compelled to
acknoeledge, though in doing so their fears rather
magnify our strength, funning at the present moment
an absolute majority in Parliament. (Cheers.)
Moreover, gentlemen, it appears to me that the policy
which is dictated by a due consideration of the interests
of the country at large is also recommended by the in-
termits, well-considered, of the party to which I have
the honour to belong. It cannot be for the advantage of
that party that for the third time it should be prema-
turely called upon to form a Government without ulli-
cient strength to maintain itself against all attacks and
against all combination. (Hear, hear.) What is re-
quired is the determination of the country itself, or, at
all events, of the Conservative strength of the country',
to prepare for future events. Let every man consider
that he has a duty to perform, and a cause to sustain.
Itememher that by the combination of small efforte great
results are pro-Weed, and do not compel me or any one
who may represent the Conservative party to accept
office when I can not be confident of holding it, at least
so long as I honestly endeavour to discharge the duty
which I owe to my Sovereign and my country. (Cheers.)
Gentlemen, your worthy chairman hiss spoken of the
period of difficulty and of anxiety at which we acceded
to office. I believe that in some respects the difficulties
and anxieties of the present Govennuent are fully as
great as those to which we were exposed, I know
nothing beyond what I learn from the public organs of
intelligence ; but I aui much mistaken if our foreign re-
lations at the present moment are upon as satisfactory a
footing, or WO as generally amicable as they were a few
months ago. The present Government have diffiLulties
to contend with in what is coummnoimly called the Italian
question, with respect to which I hope and trust they
will be steady in their purpose not to entangle themselves
in the negociations of any Congress that way be pro-
posed. (Cheers.) They have difficulties in
They have difficulties upon the coast of Africa—difficul-
ties which way seriously threaten us unless a decided
tone be taken, and unless this country is diepored to
maintain rights which are absolutely essential to its
welfare. They have difficulties in the North Pacific
where our Transatlantic brethren appear, if I they use '
a familar expression, to be "trying it on." (A laugh.)
They are contending with difficulties in various quarters,
but they are not difficulties which may not be but-
' mouuted by a mixture of firiunetta and good temper, and
at the same time by • determination to maintain
the rights and the honour of England. (Cheers.)
Above all, gentlemen, the present Government had this
great advantage over their predecessors, that they will
not have to contend with tin Opposition which will
descend to any factitious combination, nor need they
fear thst we eliall seek to eject theus from office without
rerd to the interests of the country or to the probs.
bjW iii being able to succeed them. (L'hoon.) It may

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AN IZ PIO PTS.
(From :lam Lou. oir ()gazette of Tneeday.)
W. H. Naylor, Wiabeanh, Cambri4eshire, builder.
C. Gem.ile, Crosby-aluare, Bishopegate-street, City,
merchant.

Dray, Famingham, Kent, farmer and agricultural
implemem, tar.l:er
. Kerden, Sevgate-street, City, importer of fancy
goods.
. H. Dena, High-street, l'oplar, carrier and leather

. Wheeler. Coveniry.
Bourne, Itte of Scin4, Clifton, Nottinghamshire, DOW
of Sui,:on-upod-Trelt. grocer sue draper.
. F. Townsend, Drybrook, Ea.: Dean, Gloucestershire,
grocer and draper.
From the Lawton Ofurfte of Friday.
Freeman, and Henry Bentley Wrixrci, Men.heim-street Oxford-street, lead merchant'.
Samuel Davidson and Adolph Kanter, St. Mary-axe,
inworters of foreign merchandise.
William Gray, It .vich, grocer.
Thomas Jackson, eannou-street, city, contractor.
William Arthur, Leicester, draper.
William Moore. Leicester and Ansty, shoe manatee-
hirer.
John Henry and William Bandall Smith, Bridal. Pub-
licans.
William John Scribbin, PI , butabsr.
kiebert Brown, Grose legislate, bawls.

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