The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-02 00:00:00

DOWER TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY

AT THE MANSION•HOIIBS

Yesterday the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress
entertained, with a certain specialty, the Earl of Derby and
• large number of the conservative party. Something beyond
250 noblemen, ladies and gentlemen, were present at a ban-
quit which worthily sustained the reputation of the Man-
sion-house for liberal and tasteful hospitality. Amongst
the principal guests were the following :
The Right Hon. the Earl and Countess of Derby, the
Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the Marquis and Mar
chioness of Salisbury, the Marquis of Bath, Marquis of
Aberoorn, Marquis of Exeter, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of
Shrewsbury and Talbot, Earl of Hardwick., Berl of Loam,
Earl of Malmeabury, Feel of Wilton, Lord sad lady John
Manaus, M.P. ; Viscount Ingest., M.P. ; Lord Stanley,
M.P. ' • Lord Robert Cecil, M.P. ; lord sod Lady Colville,
Lordiind Lady Begot, Lord Dynevor, Lard Redesdala, Mr.
Disraeli, M.P. • Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, M.P. ; Right
Hoe. J. Hanley, M.P. ; Sir B. /Sewer Lyttoo, Bart., M.P. ;
Mr. Moloney, M.P. ; Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P. ; Sir Hugh
Calms, M.P. ; Mr. Whiteside, M.P. ; Mr. Thos. Baring,
M.P.; Mr. Bovill, M.P., kc.
At the coaclesion of the dinner the LORD MAYOR pro-
posed the health& of her Majesty, of the Prince and Princess
of Wales, and the rest of the royal family.
His LORDSHIP, in proposing the " Army, Navy, and
Voltuitesta,” took ousaion to claim for Lord Derby's go.
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for that eacouragentent of the patriotic forte, the volun-
teers, which had sprung from the ranks of the people,
without which they could not have become what they were,
• reliable supplementary force to the regular army.
The Earl el HaaoWlC6a returned thanks for the navy ;
the Earl of Local; for the army ; and Lord CoLvurri,
hoot-colonel of the Artillery Company, for the volunteers.
The LORD Natoli then begged to introduce to the com-
pany the toast of the riveting. (Cheers.) He was bewared
by the presence of the Earl of Derby, and the august as-
sembly which be saw before hint had also done him the
honour to be preempt to twist him in giving a welcome to
that mobile earl as the head of the gnat comervative party.
(laud cheers.) In the toaits which be bad already given
he had stated that it was daring Lord Derby's tenure of
office that the navy had teen reorganiscd, and that impor-
tant body, the Naval Reserve, established, and that under
that government the volunteers had been organised and be-
come a reality ; but at the same time that government had
interposed between the tendencies of certain politicians to
alter oar glorious constitution, and to reconstruct it on
some fancy model of their own, which was to remedy all
the 'apposed evils which attached to it. The aoaservalive
party, with Lord Derby at their head, had resisted the
tendency towards these principles, of the value of which
we had had of late practical illustrations, which
caused him to be glad that they had bleu tend in soother
country and not in our own. It would be out of place and
duitesteful to the noble earl if he was to eater upon any
eulogy on that distinguished statesman, and he could
only my that he was glad to me the noble lord there,
and to see him surrounded by so distinguished a company.
He believed that it was due to the noble lord and the cos-
sweetiee party that the country had begun to see the value
of our constitution, and to understand that it was that
constitution which had made us what we were.

The Earl of DEIST, who was loudly cheered on rising to
respond to the toast, rid—My Lord Mayor, my lords, ladies,
and gentlemen, it would be difficult, I may say impossible, for
me adequately to express the deep senile which I entertain of
the very high and very flattering honour which has been
paid to me by your lordship and by this distinguished
assembly. (Hem, hear.) For the too flattering terms in
which his lordship has been planed to speak of any services
which I have been able to render during the very limited
period of my administration I beg to thank him, and I also
beg to return thetas to you for the Cunene, the more than
kindness, with which you have welcomed the toast. (Loud
cheers.) My lord, I an well aware that under ordinary
circumstance, such is the cosmopolitan hospitality of the
Mansion lions, we must not draw any pohtkal inference from
the tarn which is given or the way in which it is received.
Every loan who holdangh cellos, eveiyona in thevariouspro-
ferrous who is performiug each in his several vocation his duty
to his Queen sod his country, is always cordially welcomed
here and received by the munificent hospitality of the City.
(Cuenca) Your lordship received in the course of the
present year with as distinguished hospitality the members
of her Majesty's governmeut, of which, 1 am happy to say,
you are not a supporter. (Loud sheen aad laughter.) 1 be-
lieve if that chair which your lordship occupies were filled
by the must rabid dissenter, due respect would be paid to
the bishops sad the clergy of the established church, end
if a Quaker were in it, 1 have no doubt he would pay due
honour to the Navy, the Army, and the Volunteers. (Loud
cheers and laughter.) But ors the prawn omen not only
from the manner in which your lordship has introduced the
toast, but from the manner in which you have brought
forward the name of one who holds no nepoosi-
bility or official office—who has no public duty
except • self-imposed one, who has only the con-
sciousness of ha, log acted rightly for his reward, from the
company with which I am surrounded —Hum meeting to-
night many of those members of the douse of Commons
who have acted in busy times with us inlcordial coucert, but
whom in these quiet times I sea too rarely, and from the
fact that the toast has bees proposed not only by the Lord
Mayor of Loudon, but by the conservative representative of
Southainpton,in whom person the conservatives have achieved
one among the many glorious triumphs of the season—l
may attar some political rummer* to it, and in rainy 1 beg
to thank your lordship heartily for benne associated my
name with the great and nobleconservative party with which
I have been so long connected. (Loud cheers.) I can enure
your lordship that I am more flattered by this anociation of
my name with the conservative party than by ray other per- '
sonal compliment you could have paid me. (Loud theses.)
I venture to say that there is no language which can ado-
quately do justice, or at all event* which can in a
proper form represent the firm bearing, the patient, self.
denying, patriotic conduct which has been pursued by that
great party for the last four years. (Loud cheers.) I ask
to be forgiven foe calling to the recollection of this com-
pany the position in which that party has been placed
during the last four years. It is that length of time since
that party, numerically far superior to any of the many
sections into which the party called by courtesy the liberal
party is divided—(loud cheers and great laughter)—
numerically but little inferior to all of them united—
(loud cheers)—found itself ejected from office rine
what I may without offence call a pretext—(clmere)—
which, as eon as it had served its purpose, was at min
thrown over. (Loud cheers.) What was the course of the
conservative party under such circumstances. Did they give
way to idle vituperation, to ge, to retaliation g Did
they immediately employ themselves by forming coalition
and combinations to overthrow the government which had
succeeded them, and by whom they had been ousted
(Cheers.) They did nothing of the kind—far from
that, the course which they have been punning
dining the last four years has been that of ad.
tiering steadfastly to their principles, and of even sup-
porting against the more violent of their own body
that very government which is still in exineoce. (Loud
and renewed cheering.) It is with parties very much as it
Is with troops : it is nut in the active cauipaign, it is out in
the heat of the engagement, that the reed mettle of the
troops is tried ; but it to the lung, weary inaction—it is the
lying exposed, with the enemy in the front without attack-
mg—it is the waiting patiently, under adverse =cum-
shuns, until victory tiny be certainly achieved—that is the
trial of the real temper, the forbenauce. acid reel courage of
the soldier, as it is also the trial of the temper, the forbear-
ance, sod the real patriotism of a party. (Loud cheers.)
Such had been the course pursued by the conservative party
to the last four years. Feeling fully that they were able
at any moment, if they chose to stoop to such combinations
as they had been charged with having sought, to overthrow
the governmein, they have yet abstained from tiding any
step toward, that object; a step that might have resulted
in throwing the country into coefusion— but they have re.
maiaed aniseed with obtaining their own objects from time
to time, regardless of who might be the minister who
secured for there those objects. I acknowledge that it
must have been vexatious to • great party to see for four
years all the great offices and all the [Klim.r offices in the
country—which depend on the patronage of the go...ri-
m/et—appropriated by their political opponents, and to
know that they themselves were depiived of that legitimate
baleen. derived from the pcentesiou of that patronage, and I
do not believe that wry party except the conservative party
could have passed through that period of inaction without
its numbers io a greater or less degree falling off. licit so
far from that being the case, lam proud to say that we Seaman NATIONAL MENOitIAL TO THE LATE
now reckon a greater number of members in the House of Paling CoasOltr.—We understand that her Majesty the
Como on than we did at the time when I had to claim the Queen has aiguified her approval of • design prepared by
widens of members of that party as fist inhibitor of the Mr. Noel l'eton for the Scotti-1 National Memorial to the
crown. My right hon. friend Mr. Disraeli. at a diner late Prince Consort. sued that the committee who have the
which took place a few days asp, at which I was DOS charge of its erection are at pre-en engaged in ascertaining
myself present, delivered a speech which I believe received the probable expense of Mr. Paton's design. The
the universal approval of those who heard it. (Hear. ; design embraces both sculpture and architecture,
hear.) In that speech he clearly marked out the a combination which in the hands of a max
breadline of distinction which is to be drawn between iof genies seem. the most suitable for such a
those who profess conseevative principles and what is called memorial. The design has been described te
the advaand liberal party. He mined out with great us as most elegant and appropriate. It may be and to
force that the pnuciples which guide those parties present the apprentice of a rich Gothic ems surmounted
are diametrically opposed. It may be asked if by a moulded cope and plinth, bearing a full-length statue of
the &cleaned liberal party were the ostensible the prince iu the robes of the tinier of the Garter. Under
supporters of the present government ; how is it that the the trefoil arch on each of the four aides of the cross is •
conservative party Were" a goverortich, which use owe- seated figure emblematic of mimics and the arts which the
? The answer is very simple. The mower ts this— prince loved so well. The whole is supported on a moulded
groneeed the so-called liberal goverment has been in offioe the pedestal and eight of steps taking the form of a crow The
advanced liberal party have allowed their main principles to front of the pedestal, tinder each of the figures, bears an
lie dormant* "'eerie " regards attacks on the entablubed elaboree bas-relief. The height of the whole treaties is,
church, which have been succeadully repelled—(heir, hear) we believe, about 50 feet. and it is designed to be placed on
—and always will be repelled—(hmar, hear)—and their the terrace is West Princes-street-gardens, opposite ?rode-
most favourite projects have been faintly supported , elch.steget.—scenwarg

The Earl Zot DIJLIA pt.posed "The Health of the Lord
llnyi.r," to which Ids lordship responded.
Several other tout. followed, skull the company separated.
The dinner was provided by Messrs. Staples with their
mod excellence. Yr. Harker was the teastinester.