The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

GRAND CONSERVATIVE
DEMONSTRATION.

OR Friday night the first anniversary of the Conser-
vative Registration Association was celebrated by a
public dinner at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's..
The chair was filled by the. Right Hon. the Earl of
Shrewsbury and Talbot, C. 8., president of the society.
Upwards of 400 gentlemen were present on the occasion,
and upon the whole there has never been witnessed a
more significant or successful demonstration of Conser-
vative feeling in the metropolis.
Amongst the noblemen and gentlemen in the room
we observed, besides the noble chairman, the Right
Hon. J. S. Pakington, ALP., the Right Hon. Lord John
Manners, M.P., the Earl of Darnley, the Right Hon. J.
Whiteside, M.P., the Right Hon. General Peel, Vis-
count Ranelagh, Sir Laurence Palk, Bart., M.P.,
Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., J. C. Cobbold, Esq.,
M.P., Sir Henry Stracey, Bart., M.P., G. Potts, Esq.,
M.P., Sir W. Brook Bridges, Bart., M.P., Lord Trede-
gar, Hon. Butler Johnstone, M.P., T. B: Horsfall, Esq.,
M.P., Sir W. Verner, M.P., Colonel North, M.P.,
Captain Jervis, M.P., the Earl of Bective, M.P., J. T.
Hopwood Esq., M.P., Admiral Walcott, .M.P,, A. B.
Cochrane, Esq., M.P., J. Banks Stanhope, Esq., M.P.,
W. Bovill, Esq., M.P., J. Somes, Esq., MY., W. W.
Wynn, Esq., M.r., R. S.
_Gard, .Esq., M.P., W. H.
Hornby, Esq., M.P., Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart, M.P.,
G. H: Money; Esq., M.P., J. W. P.-Watlington, Esq.,
M.P., Hon. Wilbrahain Egerton, M.P.; J. Farrer, Esq.,
M.P., Sir M. "Farquhar; Bart., M.P., Lord Burghley,
M.P., Hon. W. E. Duncombc, M.P., Major Edwards,
M.P., Viscount Elmley, M.P., C. Ducane, Esq., M.P.,
Colonel Taylor, M.P., Lord R. Cecil, M.P., Mervyn
Archdall, Esq., M.P., J. R. Walker, Esq., M.P., Lord
Braybrooke, Robert Brooks, Esq., ALP.I- Major Hamil-
ton, M.P., Hon. Colonel Hanbury, M.P., Captain Glad=
stone, G. S. Beecroft, Esq., M.P., Hon. H. A. Cole,
M.P., Hon. R. Hill, M.P., G. W. Hunt, Esq., m.p.,
Right Hon. Sir W. Jolliffe, M.P., Captain Jolliffe, M.P.,
F. W. Knight, Esq., M.P., Lord R. Montagu, M.P.,
Hon. Colonel Rowley, M.P., A. Steuart, Esq., M.P.,
Lord H. Thynne, M.P., Hon. C. R. Trefusis, M.P.,
Viscount Valletort, M.P., W. Vansittart, Esq., M.P.,
W. E. Welby, Esq., M.P., H. Whitmore, Esq., M.P.,
Hon. Captain Wyndham, M.P., Major Windsor Parker,
M.P., S. Cave, Esq., M.P., Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray,
M.P., Sir S. Northcote, M.P., Sir W. W. Wynn, Bait,
M.P., Hon. M. Rolle, Lord Lifford, T. J. Miller, Esq.,
Colonel Dickson, UT., M. Connolly, Esq., M.P., Cap-
tain Talbot, M.P., Lord Elmley, ALF., Colonel Wilson
Patten, M.P., &c.

The following gentlemen also attended as represen-
tatives of provincial registration associations :—The
Mayor of Lincoln, the Mayor of Boston, J. Lewis
Pytche. Esq., Sir H. Willmott, John Shaw, Esq., and
J. Lewis, Esq., 'Derby ; C. Pemberton Cartor, Esq.,
East Kent ; C. E. Lewis, Esq., West Kent ; J. W.
Blagg, Esq., St. Albans ; —Passinghatu, Esq., Hitchin;
W. Rawlins, Esq., Winchester; Rev. C. R. Davy and
R. Stafford, Rig., Bath ; M. D. Scott, Esq., and C.
Flint, Esq., Brighton ; J. Little and Bowman, Esq.,
Rochdale; W. Thompson, Esq.,. and Dr. Andrew
brown, Weymouth; T. Bishop, Esq., and R. Colby,
Esq., Norwich ; Sir E. Lechmere and Messrs. Concher,
Hughes, Bird, Birdbeck, and Parry, from the Worcester
Registration Association. Messrs. Kennard, Fowler,
Masterman, Goss, and Bannister, represented the City
of London Registration Association.
Grace having been said by the Hon. and lev. A.
Talbot,
The Chairman rose, amidst cheers, to propose "The
health of that illustrious lady who so worthily occupies'
the throne of these realms." He was quite certain that
they would all heartily respond to that toast. (Hear,
hear.) Her Majesty had on so recent a day as last
Saturday appeared in a most interesting position at the
head of a united people. (Cheers.) He was convinced
that she felt prouder on that occasion than on any other
day since she had ascended the throne of the United
Kingdom, feeling as she did that she ruled over a united
and a loyal people, attached to the laws and constitution
of their country, and that she reigned paramount in the
hearts of her subjects. (Cheers.) He gave them, with
all the honours, "The Health of her Most Gracious
Majesty the Queen."
This toast was enthusiastically honoured by the com-
pany.

- The Chairman, in proposing the next toast, " The
Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, of
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and of the rest
of the Royal Family," bore testimony to the admirable
manner in which the Prince Consort had: discharged
the duties of his exalted position, and directed the atten-
tion of the company to the noble and useful qualities
which the country had every reason to expect would
adorn the career of the young heir to the throne of these
realms.

This toast also was received with all the usual demon-
strations of enthusiastic loyalty.
Lord John Manners then rose, amidst considerable
chpo.rinrr. tv nrrir"- +b. tna.gt •e " -••1
State." That toast seemed to him to symbolise in a
special manner the great cause which had -occasioned
their magnificent gathering that evening (hear, hear) ;
and it symbolised at the same time, if he might say so
without irreverence, all the blessings which we enjoyed
here below, and all those which we might humbly hope
to enjoy hereafter. (Cheers.) In those few but, as
their enthusiastic reception of the toast had shown,
magic words, " the Church and State," was to be found
the mainspring of the action of that great historic party
to which it was their pride and happiness to belong.
(Cheers.) From the first dawn of English party in this
country to the present hour an illustrious line of states-
men, of warriors, of philosophers, of poets even, could be
conjured up_ by that simple formula. (Cheers.) They
could trace the historic roll from Strafford and Claren-
don, from Montrose of Scotland, and Ormond of Ireland,
to Wyndham and Shippen of England, to Warburton and
Samuel Johnson, and Burke, and Pitt, and Canning,
and Peel, until they came at last to Derby and Disraeli
(loud and long continued cheers), all of whom, together
with countless others had found in that magic
formula their inspiration and their incentive to political
action. Could it be said, then, that that was some
worn-out Shibboleth of other times, not exercising any
influence over the minds of men in these days ? (Hear,
hear.)- He ventured to think that it was far otherwise ;
and he would appeal to all who had witnessed the
conduct of public business during the present session of
Parliament, to bear him out when he said that upon no
occasion had so united and so enthusiastic a front been
presented in either house of Parliament as when a rash
hand had endeavoured to sever one link from that chain
which hound the Church to the State. (Loud cheers.)
Indeed, if he wished to refute the shallow observation
which they sometimes heard, that in• these days there
was no difference between the two great parties of this
country, he should be content to point to the simple
words of the toast he had then the honour to propose.
.(Hear, hear.) Ile would take one instance of what he
meant. There was nq man alive who had written works
of the same ability, of the same research, of the same
learning, on the relations of the Church to the State as
the eloquent but erratic member for the University of
Oxford ; (hear, hear,) but he (Lord John Manners)
Would venture to ask, whether that right honourable
gentleman, in the pleutitude of his eloquent supre-
macy, would ever presume at any meeting of his present
political supporters to give the fount which it was at
that moment his privilege tq propose to the present corn;
pony. Gear, hear.) Ip that toast, therefore, he saw a
proof of shallowness of the observation that there
was no great difference between ihe politics of the two
great contending parties in the State, It was more, how-
ever, in their character of Znglishmen and Conserva-
tives than in that even of Churchmen, that he ventured
to commend that toast to the favour of the company.
The Church, as a spiritual corporation, might continue to
flourish without any connection with the. State, but in
his humble judgment woe must overtake that State
which should in its old age cast off its connection with
the Church. (Cheers.) It had been; and it was still,
the pride and glory of England that Christianity laid at
the roots, and was inseparably interwoven with all the
Secular p3oit.,ftiorla of the qotintry—:piear, hear) i—and
ill would' it he fill'. 4nglancl if; in rushbc,ntr, that con-
nection whieh had Meulde4 414441W,14v;e4 all her laws
and usuages with the teachings of religion should be
severed. (Hear, hear.) Distant, then, he should say—
and ho was sure they would agree with him—distant be
the day which shollici 134 an end to that connection, or
which should impair, even in the slightest degree, the
relations that had hitherto subsisted between the Oliurch
and the State of England. (Hear, hear.) He did not
hew that he could conclude the observations with

which he 144 thought it right to preface that toast in
happier. or 'more apyrOpriato phraseoli4y thaii that
Which he 'found in the viell-known old Fory song—
" Here's a heilth to Old Englitriai the Queen, and the Church ;
May, all Plotting contrivers be left in the Itlrck!".
(Cheers.) begged hate to 'give them, with three
times three,' "The Church" and'state," 49,d'fo 041 e
With the oast the' name of his eriend the IH_ 014. and liev.
,Arthur Talbot,

Tne toast was drank amidst load and protracted
cheering

The Ron. and Rev. A. Talbot briefly responded to
the toast

Sir Stafford Northcote, • 111.11, then rose, and in giving
as the next toast, "The Army and Navy," said that
there was not an Englishman who did not feel that with
those two gallatit services were identilled the greatness
Ad fie glory of the land. In no assembly of his
Countrymen, especially of late years; had this 'toast been
proposed without exciting in evei'i bosom the warmest
feelings of sympathy and enthusiasm. (Cheers.) In the
army had a link betFeen the' different
classes
an
of
Itßunity, from the highest to the
lowest ; and on the present occasion the two services
were represented--the--thednavy
t he e o they
navy'by, his honourable and gal-
lant iriend Admiral Walcott (cheers), who yet remained
a;in6niit us to show that tho4e NTho had me thi:oligh
the severest trials that glad roital7 strength had
ever experienced still preserved their vigour and intellect
to a green old age ; and the army by his right lion. and
gallant friend. General Peel (renewed cheers), who had

proved that active service iu the field was not a bad
preparation for administrative ability and capacity.
(Cheers.) If, of late years, the toast had excited
greater enthusiasm than formerly, he was sure that
it was not because we were less alive to the bless-
ings of peace or to the miseries of war, but because
we valued the bleasitigs of peace and dreaded the horrors
of war; and therefore we clung the more closely to
those institutions which constituted our especial security.
(Loud cheerg.) We also valued our army and navy
because we knew that they could never be turned
into an instrument for destroying our civil liberties at
ihome or of promoting aggression abroad. What Eng-
lishmen desired above all things was peace abroad and
freedom and security at home ; but the State which
desired to be free and peaceful in troublous times must
take care that it was strong. (Hear, hear.) That was
not worthy the name of peace which was a mere staving
off of the material miseries of war by surrendering the
rights and the dignity of the country, or by silencing
the liberty of speech and stifling the expression of our
free convictions. Nothing was worthy to be termed
true peace which did not depend upon a consciousness
of our strength among our neighbours, and not upon
anything that approached forbearance. Such a peace
was only to be preserved and maintained upon these
conditions : that we were strong, that we knew we
were strong, and that we showed we were strong.
(Hear.) We should then have a peace such as Eng-
land desired and would be grateful for, and we might
then adopt the motto of the Manchester men, and say
that we were in favour of a peace of that sort
"at any price." (Hear, and laughter.) But the bless-
ings of peace were not to be obtained for nothing. We
must pay for them either in purse or in person ; but he
thought the events of this year, showed that neither in
purse nor in person were Englishmen reluctant to meet
the charge. He would not enter into the question of
the estimates which the House of Commons had so
cheerfully voted, or into the votes which they were pre-
pared to give if the government would make up its mind
to ask for them. All they asked was—not what will
this cost, or what burden will it lay upon the people;
but will what you propose effect its object ? At the same
time taking care that not one shilling of the public
money was spent without necessity, and that the govern-
ment were put to the proof that what they wanted was
absolutely requisite and would be well expended.
(Cheers.) But the safety of the country, after all,
depended not so much upon its readiness to spend money
as to undertake personal trouble and responsibility ; and
he thought that the readiness with which our country-
men had sanctioned the estimates, and come forward
and submitted themselves to all the labour and discipline
of acting as volunteers, showed a resolute determination
on their part that England should not recede from the
position she occupied, and that neither by lathes nor by
negligence should she in our time, if by their exertions
they could prevent it, fall below the status in which our
forefathers had placed her. (The right hon. gentleman
resumed his seat amidst loud and prolonged cheering.)
General Peel, M.P., and Admiral Walcott, M.P.,
returned thanks for the respective services.
Mr. Mowbray, in giving " The Volunteers," alluded
to the magnificent gathering of Saturday last in terms
of admiration, and observed that it was not less remark-
able for the perfection of drill and accuracy of evolution,
than for the patriotic spirit by which the men were
animated, and the great moral effect which the sublime
spectacle was calculated to produce upon foreign nations.
(Hear, hear.) They were told that that corps, although
only twelve months old, already numbered upwards of
130,000 men, comprising members of all classes in the
country; and not less than 20,000 of that body bad
been reviewed by her Majesty on Saturday last. With-
out wishing to detract from the merits of Mr. Sidney
Herbert and Lord De Grey in reference to that subject,
he believed that a considerable portion of the success of
that movement was to be attributed to his right hon.
and gallant friend who had so ably filled the office of
Secretary for War in the administration of Lord Derby.
(Cheers.) He would couple with the toast the name of
a noble lord, the colonel of a very distinguished volun-
teer regiment, whose gallant bearing they had all
witnessed at the recent review—a regiment which he
was sure might fairly inscribe upon its banners the
motto Nulli Secunday. (Hear, hear.) Lord Ranelagh,
as they all icnew, was no holiday campaigner. He had
seen active service as a volunteer in other regions, and
he had been, if he (Mr. Mowbray) was not mistaken,
the first person to suggest the present volunteer move-
ment in this country. Under those circumstances he
begged leave to give them "The Health of the Volun-
teers," and to connect with the toast the name of Lord
Ranelagh.
The toast was cordially honoured.
Lord Ranelagh gladly returned thanks for the kind
and enthusiastic manner in which that toast had been
proposed by his hon. friend, and received by the com-
pany. He appeared before them not only as a voluu-
teer, but as a man who was in heart and soul a Conser-
vative. (Cheers.) He believed that the volunteers
who had been reviewed by her Majesty on Saturday
last were—to use an agricultural phrase—but a sample
out of the sack ; and no one could doubt that if this
country should ever be invaded its people would unite
as one man for the defence of their liberties, their pro-
perty, and their homes. (Cheers.)
Mr. Perry Wallington, M.P., proposed " The health
of the members of Lord Derby's Cabinet." (Cheers.)
It was the duty of every political body to support the
chiefs under whom it was organised ; and he could not
refrain from expressing upon that occasion his admira-
tion of the conduct of Lord Derby as the leader of
the Conservative party. (Cheers.) The noble earl had
come forward from a feeling of pure patriotism to place
himself at their head at a great political crisis, and it
was to his exertions and the exertions of his colleagues
that they were in a great degree entitled to the honour-
able and influential position which they at present
occupied. He was sure, therefore, that Ahey would
cordially respond to that toast, with which he begged
leave to couple the name of Sir John Pakington.
(Cheers.)
The toast was very warmly received by the company.
Sir J. Pakington, who was received with considerable
cheering, acknowledged the compliment as follows :
My Lord Shrewsbury, my lords and gentlemen, I beg
to thank you most heartily and most sincerely for the
enthusiastic manner in which you have done my late
colleagues and myself the honour to receive this toast.
I deeply regret that the whole of those colleagues are
not present to witness the enthusiastic manner in which
you have received the mention of their names. (Hear,
hear.) I feel assured that there is not ono of them who
would not be here this evening if unavoidable business
had not prevented their attendance. My hon friend, in
proposing the toast, has alluded to the responsibilities of
men entrusted with the lead of a great political party,
and I hope I may infer from the manner in which you
received our healths that your confidence is undimi-
nished in that truly high-minded and able statesman,
Lord Derby—(loud cheers)—the leader of the Conserva-
tive party, and also in that great and distinguished man,
Mr. Disraeli. (Enthusiastic cheers, again and again
renewed.) I cannet help thanking you for the manner
in which you have expressed your sense of the able
conduct of Mr. Disraeli, as the representative of the
Conservative party in the House of Commons ; and I
hope it is no presumption in me to add that
I believe you do not consider the other mem-
bers of Lord Derby's cabinet unworthy to have been
associated with those two distinguished men. (Cheers.)
A year has passed by since we were driven from office.
That year has beep marked by political events of no
ordinary interest, and I trust you will agree with me
that I am justified upon this occasion in congratulating
you upon the position of the Conservative party, (hear,
hear,) and upon the increasing influence of Conservative
principles. This, I am suit I may say for my col-
leagues, as I say it sincerely for myself, that though it
is the fate of the Conservative party now to occupy the
seat of opposition, we would rather remain on those
seats for ever than occupy place and power upon such
conditions, and under such circumstances as place and
power are now filled by the present Government. (Loud
and prolonged cheering.) For signal and remarkable
has been the retribution which has followed that
factious combination (*era) by which the government
of Lord Der'hy was overthrown. (Hear, hear.) We are
told that we were to be ejected from office because a good
reform bill was essential for the country. (Hear, hear, and
laughter.) And not only so, but that the production of a
reform bill must be quick. (Hear, hear.) Lord John Rus-
gell told as a year ago that he would not wait until Feb-
ruary to see what sort of a reform bill the Conservative
Government might bring in. We must have one in
November. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) Well, gentle-
men, the majorify of thirteen, to use a phrase of Lord John
Russell's, always' anxious to walk in the path of the
Constitution;rendered it necessary for us to resign our
seats, But froth that moment all hurry about reform
was at an end. Nevertheless,' we didtexpect that after
all these' preparations and announcements the great
master of 'reform' would at least introduce a measure
whieh reight be worthy of praise and of his own great
flame. (Hear, hear.) What followed ? I will not
detain you now by entering into the history of that
unhappy abortive:little bill. (Laughter.) I will only
remind you of this brief succession of facts. That bill
was born in March. It was utterly condemned and
tepildiated in April. 'And it was abandoned in June.

(Cheers and loud laughter.) ' So mash for the Reform
Bill i and I will only add, find I add it with pain, and
I conreSs that I tliirik no eminent statesman of this
Country ever stood in'a polition more humiliating with
regard to any great measure than Unit which Lord
John Russell nod'
QCAO'es with regard to the question
of reform. (Immense cheering.) This was not the.
only reason alleged for- turning Lord Verby out of
ottCe• We' we're told that' it vas essential alai' tliLe
foreign aqairs of England sb,oulcli >ie Ipler condtileted
and that Ole influence o amongst the
nations bc'' 'greater tha4 it cotll4 be in the
4pds of Lord Malnieslawy. What has followed upon
this ? The influence of England has been exerted, and
it has failed; failed because it was exercised too late
(hear, hear); failed because it was exerted without the
slighest vigour or wisdom (great cheers); and we are

THE. DAILY TIMES, MONijAir,-JITLY 2, 1860.