The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

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come to heroes, because she. has sent forth many to every your glories. In the wine-cup in which we pledge you now, mere politicel partisan. I look forward with the deepest
grade in your ranks. (Loud cheers.) BUG Irish hospitality accept the earnest thanks of. year equntrymen. '(Loud interest and gratification to these occasions, when we meet
is not stinted to her own children—as it was not asked, cheers). .
' together without reference to political. principles, political
when the cheer arose loudest in your charge, whether it had A non=commissioned officer of the artillery, cavalry, and passions, or political bodies, united together by our com-
most of the English, Scotch, or Irish accent—as it was not infantry, and a petty officer of the navy, and a non-corn- mon sympathies, oar common interests, our common county.
asked, when- the red blood flowed in the field or in the missioned officer of the royal marines having returned I can say most sincerely-eand it was not my intention to
trench, whether the warm tide gushed from English, Scotch,' thanks in the happiest and most appropriate terms, have referred in the most indirect manner to political sub-
or Irish veins—(lo(ld cheers) —and here to-day you are Lord Seet•on rcise and said he had the honour of proposing jects—that although Mr. Cavendish and myself sit on dif-
seated side by side at the same board, and you need no the " Health of the Lord Mayor," the ardent promoter of tilts ferent sides of the House of Commons, still, whenever ther
other passport but the bright medal which glows upon your splendid • acanowledement of the services rendered by the interests of the county of Buckingham are at stake, there.
manly breasts. (Loud and repeated cheering.) It is, Crimean army to the Queen and country. (Loud cheers,)
indeed, a deep cause of thankfulness to see you here thus— Lord Talbot de Malahide, in proposing the next toast, has never been the slightest difference of opinion between(
us, and on.all such occasions I have received from him cor-
you, who have breasted the steep slopes of the Alma—you " The Memory of the Fallen," dwelt upon the pride it gave dial and invariable suort, and I have been guided and
who have dashed along the fatal pass of Balaklava—you him to participate in a demonstration which'acknowledged benefit- pp
dby his advice and cenns?l. Gentlemen, I would
who have held the blood-red heights of Inkermann—you the services which had been rendered by the army of the now, with your permission, sit down. bat that a question was
who have survived the midnight trench, the thundering Crimea in upholding the honour of the country. Butewhilst asked me down stairs, to which I said, perhaps rashly, that
rampart and the deadly hospital. (Hear, hear, and cheers) they did honour to the living, they' should not forget the I would reply after dinner. I was asked just now, by one
It is a matter of deep gratitude to see you thus under a roof fallen ; they should not forget those who, as proud and of the most influential
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of peace, and before aboard of plenty. (Hear, hear, and gallant as any he saw before him, Went forth in all " the my orini,,..
loud cheers.) I know well, my friends, that your strength pride and cirumstance of war," and fought and bled, and -
and your blood would be again given to your country, if whose sorrowful lot it we
your country should require them of you again, • (Cheers.) day. (Applauae)
But I humbly trust that it will be so ordered that those Mr. A. C. O'Dwyer, in
,proposiue
faces I now see lighted up with such an honest glow, tiuguished ladies who nobly ministered to the sick and never be said ot
will never again be darkened by a frown upon an wounded in the Crimea, was received with loud and con- that he or I. am an er
enemy—(hear, hear, and cheers)—but may ever beam with tinned cheers. The speaker referred to the first time the mation. and correct in
good will towards your fellow-men, and gratitude to your news of the battle of the Alma arrived, when a numerous true and teal legislatic
God. (Cheers.) I have now only to add that in my belief, baud of ladies of high distinction volunteered their services agriculture' intar,st, nor
neither a Lord Licuterialit, roe any other person, ever had to wait upon and render sPrvice to the wounded soldiers at tent county, would eve c,
his health drunk by such a body of men, and I have only SCrltari and the Crimea. These were ladies of no ordinary that is likely to turns,- -r' -
now to say, which Ido from my very heart, to one and all stamp, they were persons of education and refinement, and this 'subject of you, may God bless you. (Lohd and deafening cheering, in the diseharge of their self-iniposed duties at Scutari and agitation exists, on wu.
amid which his Excellency resumed his seat.) elsewhere, performed and did not shrink from the duties which parliament - has I
Lord Gough then rose amidst tremendous cheering, the that are ordinarily discharged by hospital nurses. (Cheers.)
being permitted .'
entire assembly standing, and said.: My Lord Mayor, your The learned gentleman, in eloquent terms, then referred to minister--
Excellency, my lords and gentlemen, . and, I will add, one the various services rendered by the pious nurses in the
form more dear from early associations, brother soldiers. Crimea, and concluded amid loud cheering.
(Loud cheering.) I feel the present one of the happiest His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, in proposing the
moments of a long life of military vicissitudes. (Loud neit toast, " The Committee," said : The time has come
cheers) To be associated with my countrymen in this to 'close these happy proceedings, we ought
not to break up known, and even tie,
This information exists
public demonstration of a nation's gratitude for military without offering our thankslo those who have contributed the awards under in in t
,
deeds, well deserve a nation's praise and best feelings, to the splendid success, the noblemen' and gentlemen who
chial assessments. Ido not ,_
I see before me a brilliant display of those brave troops—a have served upon the committee. (Loud cheering.) Many may not be necessary to obtain more accurate or wider infor-
deputation, in some measure, from those quartered in Ire. of yoh'must be well aware how important a thing it is to mation. But when I hear it maintained that we are
land, who have so nobly fulfilled their duty absolutely in the dark as to this important article of
to their have a good committee. (Hear, hear.) Well, I trust that
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sovereign and to their country in the field of battle, and there has been no stint of your rations to-day. (Loud produce, and the means by which it is
produced, I
who, lam well convinced that, in times of peace, gained by cheers and laughter.) sI doubt not you have heard a hope- it will not be`considered impertinent
or irrelevant
their indomitable gallantry, will equally act a soldier's part generous citizen of Dublin supplied the wine at his own on my part, as your member, to remind ynu that there
in upholding the laws of their country. (Cheers.) We cost; and those who eaw this place in which we are now are already existing in the country these remaakably fun
have paid due respect to that gracious sovereign under whom assembled ten days since, will know how much has been means of ascertaining these results. It may be that
done to effect so splendid a transforination. (Cheers.
we act; we have equally paid homage to the illustrious
it to be obtained ? Suppose an inspector had been sent
) fuller and more accura%e information is required, but how if
Prince Consort, and the other members of the royal family. So altogether, I hope, when in days to cornea it shall be
individual We have paid- willing respect to that honoured mentioned how our men fought- in the Crimea, it will be round, before last harvest, to ascertain the probable
who now happily presides over Ireland, the added how they feasted in Dublin. (lieu, hear, and results of the harvest; and to forward to the govern-
representative of her Majesty, and who so graciously fol. cheers.) I think, therefore, we who bound to express our went 'the fruits of his research • could anything be more
lowed the steps of that sovereign by his kindly client). gratitude to those whose spirit—se good taste and bar- decepiive than such returns ? 'Would they not have re-
salon, by his princely hospitality, and by his
,mony—have done so much ,to contribute to the anee,... er . - _
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kindness to every one of those who by the vicissitudes of
war were wounded or disabled. (Cheers.) I have now to
propose to you the health of our gallant allies, who so glo-
riously participated in all our distresses and in all our
glories. (Prolonged cheering.) It is known to you, br
soldiers, the noble part tat

gamed to be dtmtntsbf
u promised ? The deo
give you, then,
.our
,with three more Irish only genera) re alts cAL. iegis-
, lation, and in this country there exists, at present, means of
obtaining these results which no miilister of any country Dos-

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this Irish gathering. (Cheers.)
thanks to the committee, bac
(Loud cheers.)
P. O'Brien, M.P., returned thanks

cheers,

and in the

deliver

y that

great monarch now happily pres;ding over Tu..
France; how nobly he has supported the British gt,.
went—how nobly his armies noted in conjunction with
British soldiers—(cheers)—how happily, by their united
energies, they brought a war.fearful almost to extermination,
to a happy peace. (Cheers.) We feel a debt of gratitude
to that chivalrous monarch who, situated in the midst of
governments, rather lukewarm or fearful to throw themselves

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into the struggle, sent his grew.
but great in discipline and courage, to buvp...—
fight. The Turkish troops had not opportunity of actin.

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(cheers); and the defence of Silist
never be blotted out. (Great cl:

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fulfilled my duty of

the country to build