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Navy," in a style which betokened unusually strong
feeling upon the subject. The hon. baronet's animation
eai especially marked while he was referring to the
navy. He said they were proud of the prosperity which
followed the manufacturing and commercial enterprise
of the people of these realms ; they were proud of the
institutions of old England, and of her power, and of the
position she maintained among the nations of the world
—(cheers)—but let them never forget that the safety of
our shores, and the repose of the country mainly de-
pended upon the united efforts, the gallantry, discipline,
and valour of the two services, the army and the navy.
(Great cheering.) Heartily drink, then, he would say,
to the gallant yeoman whom he was then addressing,
the toast of "The Army and Navy." (Cheers.) The
gallant deeds of the army and navy had, he might say,
been pencilled in blood in the undying annals of our
country- (applause)—and if they searched through his-
tory they would find what had been done by them in
times gone by ; but, how glorious soever the records of
the past might be, he was sure they would find nothing
to equal the noble daring, the enduring courage, the
brave magnanimity, which bad distinguished our soldiers
during the last two years' campaign in the Crimea.
(Great cheering.) Let them for a moment take the
services of the army, and consider what must be the
Self-denial and devotedness of the soldiers in the per-
formance of their arduous duties. They themselves, it
was true, wore the uniform of their country ; but they
remained in peace at home. enjoying the comforts of the
social board—let them, then, for a while give a thought
l'to the soldier. Ho was far away from home, uncheered by
I its comforts.and endearments, yet he bore his trials not
only uncomplainingly, but with a magnanimity worthy
of the noble cause in which ho was engaged, sustained by
the knowledge that he was fighting for his own home and
.the interests of his own country, as well as the interests
'of the civilised world. The soldier fought and bled, and
it might be that he fell • but he knew t hat he fell and
bled in the interests of his country—interests as dear
ta_bim individually as they. were, to any of those who
were sitting at home at ease. (Applaule.) what;
thought they, was the feeling that rose dominant in the
breast of the soldier when facing the foe ? He
was speaking in the presence of those who could
testify from experience what those feelings were,
and he was sure he should express them when he said
that the honour of his regiment was his pride, as the
glory of victorty would be his praise and reward. (Great
cheering.) There was a soldier then present connected
with a most distinguished regiment, and he would
appeal to him if these were not the feelings which ani-
mated the soldier when engaged in serious conflict on
the battle- fiell. (Cheers.) It had been well said—
" For gold the merchant ploughs the mail,
The farmer plough the manor ;
But glory is the soldier's prize,
The soldier's wealth his honour."
(Applause.) Did not those lines well describe what the
feelings of the soldier were when fighting for others,
as our soldiers were now fighting in the Crimea. Many
fell ; it might be amid the shouts of victory while in the
unflinching discharge of their duty; and we in England
might well afford to lot fall a tear of sympathy fur the
homes of the families who were never to welcome them
back again. (Hear.) The tears of sympathy must drop,
but if they were any consolation in the aftiction which
has thus come upon those homes, by the fall of the be-
loved away in the Crimea, it was the reflection that they
had fallen with a halo of victory to encircle their graves.
(Applause.) Well, he would now take the navy. He
felt that the navy had made us Englishmen the lords
and arbiters of the sea, and he would say to any man
who insinuated a slur against the navy that he knew not
how to appreciate the character of the mariners of Eng-
land. He well remembered, indeed, that happening to
propose the toast of the navy on a recent occasion in
virtue of the office he bad the honour to hold, it was
alleged against him that ho availed himself of his posi-
tion to insinuate a slur against the navy. He asked
them if they thought it possible he could have done so ?
No ; they knew him better. They (his friends and com-
rades) knew him better than to suppose him guilty of such
an act as that. He would rather lose the utterance of his
lips—the power of speech God had given him—than in-
sinuate a slur he had not the courage to avow. If they
would believe him he had not the courage to avow the
insinuati in of a slur, because his heart did not acknow-
ledge it. He never insinuated anything against that ser-
vice, but, nevertheless, he-must say, that when a man
served a government, to his mind he should first of all
serve his country, and put his country above every other
consi aeration. (Cheers.) He would say, then, that in
proposing the toast they had so cordially received, he
trusted they clearly appreciated the feelings with
which he gave it. He knew perfectly well that
he could hold his own against the rest, and all he
would say in answer to those who had made the alle-
gations to which he had alluded was, that if every
British heart beat as his did, he would warrant
that there would be no lack of spirit or
loyalty within the sea-girt cliffs of old England.
(Immense applause.) In returning thanks for the toast
of his health, which had been proposed by Mr. Bass,
M.P., a lieutenant in the same troop, Sir Robert added
—Hie hon. friend Mr. Bass, in speaking of the yeo-
manry as the police of the country as the armies were
the police of the world, had naturally intraduced the
all-absorbing topic of the war in which they were at the
present time engaged, and indeed there were few meet-
ings at which the subject was not mentioned. Of course
it would ill become him to make any political allusion
to what was passing in the East, but a few reflections
might not be out of place. We had gained great vic-
tories, hut at the cost of many men, and now at the end
of the year we heard rumours of a peace which was to
be brought about by the intervention of Austria. (Hear,
hear.) Now, this was a subject very interesting to them
all, as it came home to their breasts, and affected the
interests of each individual. Ih-re were, thee, some
ideas of peace. The funds were rising, and the hopes of
the public were raised at the idea of a peace which was
to be brought about through the intervention of Austria.
Now, they all anxiously desired peace ; but the danger
was that that very desire led them hastily to attach im-
portance to prospects not unfrequently based on shallow
foundations. (Hear, hear.) His idea was that there
was little importance to be attached to these rumours of
peace. ([fear, hear.) lie admitted the importance of
peace, and, with every one else, would be glad to see it
re-established ; and to this end he would say, so long as
the honour of the allies was secured, that it mattered
not through whose intervention it was secured— that of
Austria or of a friendly Power. (Hear.) He knew
and they all knew as well as he did, that Austria was
no friend of ours. (Hear, hear.) Austria, under a
professed lukewarm friendship, had only cloaked an
ill-disguised hostility—(hear, hear)—and what he would
say was, that if they did have negotiations for peace,
they must be cautious how they dealt with proposals
that came from Austria. (Cheers ) He wished to put the
case fairly before them. lie wanted peace as much as
nny man, but if the negotiations for peace were to come
from Austria, he should be exceedingly cautious about
them. He could not forget the past—he could not for-
get the hesitation and vacillation of Austria during the
recent proceedings, and he could not close his eyes to
the treacherous conduct of Austria in the Danubian
Principalities. Austria entered the Principalities as our
friend, but her conduct had been nothing else than that
of the ally of Russia. If they were to have a peace,
the cause the allies had espoused, and which had been
hallowed, he might isay, by the blood of our country-
men, absolutely demanded that it must be satisfactory
to the country, and such as the sacrifices it had made
demanded. (Cheers.) The country had cheerfully ac-
cepted, because the war was just, all the hardships and
burdens war imposed. From the highest to the lowest
there had been breathed a spirit of patriotism, as witness
of which be might mention the noble contributions to the
Patriotic and other funds—(cheers)—and these burdens
were accepted in a spirit of magnanimity as great as any
nation had ever shown ; as we were fighting for a Tins
tion whose safety was threatened, and her very people
enthralled with a slavery more despotic than any which
had ever threatened Greece or Rome. (Cheers.) But,
independently of all this, there was the horour of our
our own country to be held sacred, and therefore he said
they must not be satisfied with the Four Points. The
Crimea was no longer an integral part of Russia, and it
never must be, and, he would add, it never should be.
(Great cheering.) Let there think of the carcasses of
their countrymen by which the Crimea was hallowed in
the eyes of Englishmen, and then say whether they
were to be satisfied with any false peace which might be
offered through the medium of a Power which had proved
itself anything but friendly towards them. C
ought, perhaps, to apologise for taking up
(Cheers.) Ile
at
the social board with this topic, but it was the all-ab-
sorbing question of the day, and feeling deeply upon it,
as he believed they did, he was anxious to express his
views respecting it. As they t"
should continue ill a
had accepted the respon-
sibilities of the contest, they
glorious end had been achievedtbat of
a
safe, honour-
able, and enduring peace. (Loud applause.)

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MADLLE. JIILIS.—We regret to find that this lady is
suffering severely from the late accident at the Plymouth
Theatre, and that her friends have bad occasion to be
extremely anxious as to the result. Her recovery, how-
ever, is not despaired of.
A CASE or DISTRESS.—Mr. Joseph Guy, the author
of the "English School Grammar," and of more than 20
other school books, has at the age of 72 no other resource
for his maintenance than what the sympathy of the pub.
lie may afford him. Under the impression that he had
~ done the State some service" by his efforts, however
humble, to smooth the path of knowledge to the rising
generation, he sent in a petition to the Earl of Aber.
deen, when Prime Minister, in the hope of participating
in the fund set apart by the nation for the benefit of
distressed authors ; but no answer was returned. He
has recently petitioned Lord Palmerston to lay his case
before her Majesty. His lordship, however, gives him
no hope, owing to the number of candidates for pensions
and the limited amount of the fund at his disposal. Mr.
Guy has for the last four years kept a school at No. 2,
Hollis-place, but the income from the few scholars that
attend it does not now
even
' pay the rent • and a die
ti aint is onthreatened his -
goods, and which must take
y
place in a few days if if the rent cannot be made up.
Nevertheless, with as little pecuniary assistance, he could
still continue his school, which might serve him for the
few yearn at most that he might require it. This talented
but lnfortunate man resides at No. 2, Holles-place,
Camden New-toWn.