The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

ness for hasirg(c.Zneete.ct,rfiV health with the toast so
kindly given, and which has ,:cen r7o e'c..'.dially received.
Among the honorary members of this Cc2:._;r•-'r--ff'3ll we
meet with men of all political opinions and all
parties. lam happy to find myself at this moment re-
turning thanks for my noble friend at the head of her
Majesty's OaveTriment, and I think that you rightly on
these occasithis make rid distinction between political
partiei, b'ecaVse, if NThich all
parties wilt be Milted, ft Will tk fti tVc aid cordial
interest that' tieel in those gieat public filatteig OVer
whl:‘11 yoit exercise to' a certain deg,atee so important a
control, and with whfch nor very existence as a corp Or-
ation is so closely bound up. Gentlemed, 14 T 11.4 be true that
at the present moment the public attention is more directed
to the warlike than to the peaceful duties that have to

be performed; and it can hardly be matter of surprise
that oor feelings should turn in that direction, when we
have witnessed* to-day thp result of that very short
period of training which has '6"...'•,14.14g1iti at it were from
the ground, a native army amounting, as l Royal
Highness has told you, to 130,000 men; and who, with
the very short period of training they have had, have
exhibited an amount of discipline, steadiness, and good
condnct vAtiL'h ieuld do credit to many of her Majesty's
regular forces, (Fiear, Ikt:tr.) The scene which we
have witnessed to-day is one which 14itit lerturo to say
must have made the heart of our SoVereiga thrill' v&ith
joy and pride at the testimony of spentuneoas allegiance,
and loyalty, and active, and cordial affection of so large
a body of her silbjerts, (toad cheers.) But, gentle-
men, I am convinced it is not aa;oiig the land civilians
alone that this spirit of cordial and active loyalty' coasts ;
for if, upon the suspicion of some remote danger, this
energetic burst of public feeling has been elicited on
the part of the land civilians, so if there were the
slightest chance of any immediate threat to our
supremacy at en!, 1 ant satisfied we should find the
seamen of our commercial niarir(e e!oming forward
with no less energy and activity in support, of the
royal navy than we find in the land civilians coming
forward in support of the army. (Cheers.) Indeed,
the interests of those two great branches of the service,
the commercial and military marine, arc inseparably and
closely connected teether. (Cheers.) lam quite sure
that on any occasion on which the e4.;:gerteies of this
country may require it, we shall see the royal navy aid
the commercial marine of this country joining heart and
hand, and vieing with each other which can best prove
their loyalty to their country, and which is of the
greatest service to the public interest. (Cheers.) But,
although the interest of the military view of the
question is at the present moment preponderating, I
do riot tee that the pttblie ate, by arty means indif-
ferent to the other branch, Which is Mote Imme-
diately connected with, and analogous to, the duties
which devolves on this corporation, and I am
not sure that her Majesty's ministers would not be dis-
posed, looking to a recent vote, rather to give to the
House of Commons the advice which a gallant friend
of mine has given with regard to the volunteers, not to
hiVe sd much zeal but some little moderation in the
eititiethibj of the t.4.6titfity 4ith whiCh they approach
interests very closely corinectki Viith this 6Orp6ration.
will not say whether greater efforts thaii and new
making in the practical objects of that vote, can tie
made properly with regard to the exigencies of the other
public service, but of this I am quite sure, that the
safety of mir coasts, the protection of the lives of our
stamen, 4hother df the ecmirdercial-marine or of the
royal navy, can never be an object dt indifteterice to any
Government ; and the present Government, as
every other, must have their attention seriously
bent on that question, and must be determined to
neglect no means they can use with safety and •
prudence to promote an object so closely affecting the
vital interests of the country. (Hear, hear.) Sir, I beg
td teturd to yotir 11(iyal Highness and the company, on
the part of the honorary lien-07;4s of thi? bdcly and
myself, our cordial thanks for the honour you have con-
ferred upon us, and to express the deep gratification we
feel in having on this occasion the honour of meeting
the more legitimate members of the Corporation. (Loud
cheers.)

, Sit Charles Wood In obedience to the request I
ha.e re6eitect ftdcii yodr I ojtdt I igheess, i rise td pro-
pose "The prosperity of British Seamen and British
Shipping "—(cheers)—connected with the name of the
Right Hon. Stephen Lushington. (Loud cheers.)
Dr. Lushington—May it please your Royal Highness,
or rather I should say, I hope it will not please your
Royal Highness, because I received an intimation some
rdfr do, die fioni the Pepitty-Master, that I should
liaVe the ilotietir Of ieodding to this toast, cchicli Was
to he proposed by my right hon. friend the Chancellor
of the Exchequer. lam disappointed. I had prepared
an excellent exordium. (Laughter.) It is all gone. I
meant to haveslightly touched upon the eloquence which
he has displayed recently, and upon those masterly orato-
rical powers which he possesses, and to have thanked him
in my best, but yet I had hoped an acceptable manner.
(great , That los all gone to the winds i and
*hat iii the World have I td lay of fir Cttafled Wood
(Renewed laughter.) He is an old and beloved friend of
mine; but I have made no preparation for him, and I
trust that you will have pity and compassion on me.
As I am driven to this extremity, and must go with-
out an exordium, there is one quality in which I
hope to excel, and that is brevity. May it please your
Royal Highness, we have had mention of the volunteers
of former days. I should like to ace ?111 gentleman here
who seas preseutoii those occasions; I was. dheCti3.l) I
remember the time, in 1804, when I had the honour to
be a captain in a Rifle company, and which company
consisted one half of gamekeepers and one half of
poachers. (Laughter.) I ask you who would have dared
to encounter a company of gamekeepers and poachers,
headed by a lawyer ? (Roars of laughter.) But I never
resigned-4 have never been cashiered ; and it is a
matter of surpriAe to It, that het Majesty has iiever
asked for my services on the present occasion. (teneNied
laughter.) However, I am not likely to take that ill,
and I have sent two sons of mine to be volunteers, and
they happon both to be twenty-six years of age, as
they are twins ; and I hope they will perfoim some
good service. (Cheers.) Now, with respect to the toast
which has just been given, unfortunately I must go
back again to past times. It is a toast that I have
heard given at a dinner, in the presence of William Pitt,
*heh Prime Minister. f renieniter when that same
toast Used to be given aiid ieceiVed ~vitii the same
fervour with which it is now. Let us consider what
the state of things was then. Why, the dominions of
the crown were hardly one-half of what they are at
present. A moiety of the East Indies, no firm posses-
sion of the Cape of Good Hope, or Ceylon, or British
Guiana. All those have. been added, and jewels they
are to the Crown. (Cheers.) Our shipping has doubled,
our commerce has more than quadrupled. What do
we want more ? It is impossible to initnite to the
people this hoil_ntijo h desiiq to aciitiiie more. All
the'y want is security for the present. (Cheers.)
Security is indispensable to the existence of commerce,
and to the happiness, and welfare, and conifort, and, I
will add one thing more, to the honour of the people of
this country ; for, if we were not affected in our happi-
ness—if the apprehension of evil did not do us infinite
harm,. .I should be • ashamed to stand up here for one
single moment under the idea that fear could penetrate
into the heart of an tnglishMan: (Cheers.) We thight
tO be go Placed that there should be no room for fear ;
and I trust that no regard for pecuniary expenditure, or
regard for any other consideration whatever, will pre-
vent this country being put into that proud attitude
which one of our eminent authors has said is the attri-
bute of an Englishman—the defiance of his enemies.
(Loud cheers.)
The Prince Consort—Brethren of the Trinity House,—
Let us before separating thank our guests tor the honour
they have done us, and the pleasure they have given us,
by their presence at our annual dinner, and let us drink
to their health and happiness. I beg to couple this
toast with the name of the Duke of Newcastle.
(Cheers.)
The Duke of Newcastle, in responding, said—lt is
impossible to have sat at this table this °Veiling without
remarking' how teen's minds are turned at this Mt-nent
(I hope only for it-shert tithe) from the peaceful duties
Ivbieli are attended to by this corporation to duties and
considerations of a very different character. We have
not heard much this evening with respect to buoys, and
lights, and harbours of refuge—those have been only.
incidentally spoken of. We have been speaking of
armed battalions. I am not sure whether we have
touched on improved artillery, but I am quite sure
our thoughts have been in-that direction, and iii dockyard
fortifications. lam about, by bet Majesty's and your
Royal Highness's commands, to attend the illustrious
pi, ince who i 3 about shortly to visit one of the most
important colonial possessions of her Majesty. I am
confident that that illustrious prince, when by the blessing
of God he returns here, will bring back to his illustri-
ous mother and to your Royal Highness the information
that that spirit which .has been evinced in Hyde Park
to-day, and which is shown throughout the whole of
this country, is equally strong on the other side of the
water. He will see, no doubt, in miniature, the
same efforts which have been made in London to-day,—
he will convey to this country the information, that, as
in the arts of peace of which this corporation is a par-
taker, so in the arts of war, for the purpose of self-
defence (though for the purpose of self-defence alone),
they are equally ready to come forward and to maintain,
in its integrity that great empire which is reigned over
by her Majesty ; and I hope, by God's providence, will
tend to produce the greatest blessings of peace and hap-
piness to the community of the whole world. (Cheers.)

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN TEXAS. - The Hopkins
Monitor has a lengthened account of the doings of the
negroes in Grayson county. Near Kentucky town a
man named Kincade whipped his negro boy. The
same night the negro, while all else were asleep, killed
the entire family with an axe—first his master, then
his mistress, then an orphan boy and a little babe. The
negro confessed his guilt, was tried and hung. Several
white men were implicated, but nothing definite known.
A few days after three more negroes were hung as
implicated in the murder. The bodies of the negroes
were not suffered to be removed from the trees, brit will
hang there to n4pinga to others.