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amount of the fundS raised. If they were large, there
was one object to which a portion of them might.
perhaps, be properly applied. For one whole year
he (Sir B. Hall) was afflicted with blindness,
and the whole duties of the representation devolved
upon Lord Dudley Stuart. Directly he recovered,
blindness fell upon the noble lord, and then he (Sir B.
Hall) had to discharge all the duties. That was a sine
gular circumstance in their lives, and the noble lord had
often mentioned that, if he ever had the means at his
disposal, he should like to raise, or assist in raising, a
hospital or dispensary for the relief of those who suffered
from blindness. He looked forward to the time when
he should be able to found a new institution, or to add a
wing to one at present in existence; but that object he
Was never able to carry out. The right hon. baronet
concluded by saying that as the noble lord was knows
not only to that borough, but to Great Britain, aid in
deed to the whole of Europe, he trusted that large num-
bers of persons who admired him would come forward
and assist in carrying out those wishes which in his life
he so ardently expressed (Loud cheers.)
Mr. FARBEB, churchwarden of St. Pancras, moved the
first resolution, which was as follows :--" That the in-
habitants of the borough cf 31;irylebone in this public
meeting assembled are desirous of recording their deep
reeret Lr the loss of Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart, who
for more than seven years discharged the duties of re-
presentative for this borough in Parliament with the
utmost assiduity, independence, and fidelity." It would
not be necessary, he said, for him to dwell upon the
manner in which the noble lord performed his duties, fur
that was a subject with which all present were well ac-
quainted. In other countries it had been more the habit
than in this to raise monuments to public men. He
trusted that now a fitting memorial would be raised in
Lonion to a man who would never be forgotten.
Mr. JOSF.PHS, 'in seconding the resolution, remarked
that in 1847, on the occasion of the election, he moved a
resolution which called forth Lord Dudley Stuart as a
candidate for their suffrages. The noble lord was quite
up with that advanced constituency, and whatever he
did was entitled to their highe, t admiraton.
Lord EBRiNGTON, M.P., said' that before he came into
that borough he was not aware of the expansive gene•
rosity and liberality of Lord Dudley Stuart's character,
not only manifested towards the Poles, with whose
thec.e nsehis memory was so closely identified, but towards
cause of suffering, oppression, or distress wherever
he found it. It had been. said of Wilberforce that he
manylov e d a
selfish neg r o
personsw hom
lhoev
eh
da dannoytt
hsi enegn
omn utchhe bf eat:: ro thanf the
earth. And so it was with Lord Dudley Stuart. He
made sacrifices for persons whom he did not know,
otuhledm.m a
(kraeonfao_r
cheers.)
)WhHoewwereas
heaviernearest
eine rae en 5;
two
a thoroughly disinterested man, and that came from con-
sulting his duty rather than his interests, as the guide of
his conduct. (Hear, hoer.)
M. ZABA, a Pole, supported the resolution. The
noble lord's whole life was a tissue of anxiety and exer-
tion to promote the progress of improvement and to re-
lieve the sufferings of the distressed. (Hear, hear.) His
loss was not merely local, but concerned the wide range
of humanity itself. For upwards of 20 years he inCeB.
santly defended the rights of the oppressed ; but the
counsels of man seemed to turn a deaf ear to his plead.
ings, and at this time, when he was most wanted, an
over-ruling Providence had called him to a- higher
sphere of light, as if to indicate that the purity of his
life and sentiments disqualified him for a longer struggle
with the selfishness of the world. (Loud cheers.)
The resolution was put to the meeting, and unani-
mously adopted.
Mr. MITCHELL proposed the next resolution, which
was as follows :—" That the courageous and unflinch-
ing advocacy of Lord Dudley Stuart, ever extended to
the feeble and oppressed, whether victims of domestic
injustice or of foreign tyranny, as well as the incessant
:abeurs and judicious liberality which he constantly
I employed in ameliorating the condition .of the poorer
classes, have not merely endeared his recollection to
our memory, bus have contributed to raise the character
of the order to which he belonged, to strengthen the
faith of the people in public men, and to maintain the
institutions of this country." He dwelt at some length
on the noble lord's private worth and unrestricted libe-
rality, and characterised him as an enlightened statesman
and an unswerving ratriot.
Mr. NIOOLAY, in seconding the resolution, said he bad
been for many years associated with the noble lord, and
had been the constant witness of his generosity, kindness,
and many virtues. He was no common lord. Born an
aristocrat, he left , his order and associated himself with
the people. The working classes found-him a friend,
and the poor a generous patron.
M. KOSSUTH rose to support the resolution, and was
greeted with loud applause. He said that the patriotism
of Lord Dudley Stuart and the benefits he had conferred
upon this country had been adverted to by some. of the
speakers who had preceded him, but it would not be
proper on his part to pursue that subject. But there was
one part of the resolution which bad a close reference
to himself, and to that he would briefly address
himself. They had seen that an animal, by natural in-
stinct, very often perceived a physical danger which no
human philosophy could see. diist so mankind was en-
dowed by the Creator with natural instinct of a higher
order, and some men marked out from the rest saw the
results of oppression and dangerous Goveraments more
clearly and more wisely than all the wisdom of wily poli-
' ic:ans and all the secrecy of cunning diplomatists enabled
them to detect. This latter class- were sometimes dis-
posed to think that events directly affecting the freedom
tational existence et a particular people did not ne-
ce:.eearily influence the condition of other rations, and
when they saw Poland struck out from the list of the
Hungary proc•trate by a lawless combination of
despots and by the bottie-holders of despot?, fair Italy re-
limed to a mere geographical name, or Germany in the
nondition of ministering to princesses—they
thought that these and similar matters did not affect the
oolidition and the security either of England, France, or
thereat. These miserable votiries of a mikerable expediency
shrugged their shoulders with indifference, being under
the influence of a self-conceited conscience, exclaiming
•' What are these things to us ? We are not our brother's
keeper." (Hear.) There was a community in nations,
and liberty was the common good of the great human
family. Whenever that received any detriment, a shock
was given to every member of that family, and the liberty
of every one became less in amount, or deficient in
socutity. (Hear, hear.) However isolated nations might
appear, there were always two principles struggling in
every political storm—namely, freedom and oppression
—and what was gained by one principle was lost by
the other. Hence they saw that whenever a gallant
people had fallen down victims to oppression, the agony
of their falling brethren struck like a thunderbolt at
the heart of good men. D'rectly a nation fell, a shout
of indignation arose from the best part of "humanity, a
yell of horror from the noblest of human hearts, be-
cause a sense of the imminent danger was brought
home to the instinct of self-preservation. There was a
universal cry of sympathy and horror at the tidings of
the fall of Poland and Hungary ; for the dangerresulting
therefrom was not one of ordinary dimensions. There
was an agglomeration of slumbering lava in the womb
of that volcano—(hear, hear)—and the cry that had
been raised at the fall of those nations was a cry attested
by inspired prophecy. How slow was the progress of
the logic of events ? The steps of history completely
baffled the expectations of the measurers by the yard.
Poland and Hungary fell, and because the heavens
did not break down instantly because the stars
did not fall from their accustomed spheres, and be-
cause the earth continued to go round, the horror sub-
sided and universal sympathy went away. Be did not
complain of that, for such was the nature of man. Those
who fell under the weight of great national misfortunes
were pitied for a while, then were looked upon with
indifference and forgotten soon ; sometimes more
than forgotten, shunned like a burden and avoided as
a nuisance. (Cheers.) But whilst such an experience
attested the general weakness of human nature, a Ilona-
tiful Providence chose some special instruments, and the
men so selected were raised above the ordinary level of
man's nobility. In those few exalted characters we saw
our nature redeemed—our nature consolidated with the
noblest principles. In such men there would be no
weariness from watchince, no relaxation on account of
disappointments, no exhaustion in consequence of frus-
trated hopes. With those few characters success did not
excuse crime. (Hear.) They had not two sets of mea.
sures—one for ragged robbers in the highway, and an•
other for robbers set over them in purple—one punish
ment f a briber at a borough election, and another for
a royal robber who might obtain the'sympathy of a na-
tion. Those few characters knew that morality was not
excluded from politics ; they had compassion for the un-_
f -rtunate, sympathy for the suffering, and a sentiment of
fraternity towards all who were oppressed. (Hear.) Wed
such characters those were not passing emotion.s _ee:
by sudden emergencies, but principles ofo then'
lives. In them, to use the words of St Paflt to
o noblest
and moved, and had their being. trio:" iv" in e-
_ar°a virtues lthan
virtues
-
and purest of those characters was. to honour. No
oo: nobly blended with
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us sae mo s b i.a in whom pub
lie Lordand Dudley
private
Stuart.tuvai
virtues
Tl4beeere
have a better. The gentle-
d2,':ooteeestious tencerity. Re
unpretending modesty of ,0a- excellent chairman (Sir
had been the colleagncoea:i
B. Hall), and never.
bad
Leen his constituents, and
men of Marlletlfidenee been bheattaerapilace.d. (Hear,
leanntthropic exertions.snelateci w All
never had theirr
and weighty claims upon
TESTIMONIAL TO LORD D. STUART. ‘,„ f those present
hhiemari.n) bysarn,:tsandocteies
wereand high
ear
the to honour nemory—high and weighty claims
to evince towards him their public and pri-
rooting his
Yesterday evening a general meeting of inhabitants those circum
of the borough of Maryleboue wag held in thes Arofesptrrya:
hall, to take into consideration the best medaine
Coats rate gratitude. Alas ! that all that was left to
them now
t ,stimonial to the late Lord Du j"
..
that borough in was to pay veneration to
his memory. He would unite
Stuart, who for seven years represented his feeble means to any exertion that might be made
the House of Commons. do horn
and
wao„ppol to ur to his name ; but, • his humble • •
Sir B. Hall, Bart., M.P., presided,
___Osan
tie 3lie • t.-ere was a better means upon them
inopinion,
Louis se. of doing honour to his memory
by Lord Ebrington, M.P., M, e than by g
gentlemen. said—The , statues work the like. 01 him they might
D. Cooper, and other
the proceedinge,
to do say with the in et—
The CHAIRMAN, in opening
they bad assembled
noble lord to whose memory bone that it would Exegi monument= sere perennius.
in 3 ary le
bone
was so well knowno i‘iin to say anythii,g in In his opiMon the
best means of doing honour to his =-
be almost unneca-sary r
) had been seven years mot). w- -to ' •
(the obairman imitate his example. He might be equalled,
his praise. He h bin,. When in town th, y but he cou' I
ited it
the m Ner be surpassed. He was present at a
closely wive.'
day, and when cou
each other every I try mec-ting having a timilar object in view a few days ago.
saw
passed without Rome written corn- lie claimed to be excused for confes-ing frankly that the
two days never p. •
• between them. The noble lord had very ma- sai isfaction he derived on that occasion had not been
muilication
assisted him in the representation of the borough;without •ofsorrowfullt forced itself
serially a tinge
regarded the relations of private life, it miob be .ho united in
and as rt/, t upon his mind that few at that meeting
was more amiable said of him that no man • • the memory
eble or thoroughly paying a tribute of prai,e and admiration t
estimable. (Hear.) A meeting on the same lie dead were found muted with
subject as of the man when wasle
that then under consideration was held in Westminster him h when living, be .pur-
e few days ago, when gentlemenof who desired to pay a
all classes and sued. (Hear hear.) If all those .
every
description of politics attended, for the ofand d • fon to the memory of Lord
purpose of tribute respect a mira
uniting to raise some testimonial to sole
had supported him in his exertions,
the memory of the Dudley Stuarttua p
deceased lord. That meeting hisp efforts to throw the weight of
mee had been so successful and had assisted him in . . .
that it was thought right to have into the scale of nationa justice, how different
!cone to extend a meeting in Maryle- England
E e would have b
its views and objects. For himself, he the condition of tiros,been now—how
felt certain that the borough the condition of England itself would have
of Marylebone, which was dbiffeereantt
ender such deep obligationsthis moment ! (Cheers.) Those events which
not be behind in the to the noble lord, would
casten a
fflooin terribleg over thousands of British
world ,good work. (Hear, hear.) What
_re a evidence that his untiring libilw-
u9ll mud 01 come depend upon the hearts we _

r PRIcK sn.

during dinner. Her Majesty had afterwards an evening
party, to which the following had the honour of receiv-
ing invitations :—The Right Hon. Sir G. C. and Lady
Theresa Lewis, Earl and Countess Granville, Viscount
Canning, Viscountess Hardinge, le Contre-Ainiral Vi-
-comte de Chabannes, the Earl and Countess of Bess-
borough,. Lord and Lady Eri.est Bruce, Lord and Lady
Foley, the Hon. Adelaide Foley, Lady Adeliza Howard,
Mr. Gibbs, Lady Alfred Paget, Miss Phipps, the Earl
and Countess of Desalt, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Ely, Lord and Lady Churchill, Miss Barrington,
Countess Somers, Lord and Lady Camoys and two Hon.
Misses Stonor, Lady Rivers, Lady Bo water, Mr. and
Lady Emily Cavendish, Miss Clive, Lady Charles
Fitzroy, the Marchioness of Abercorn and Lady
Louisa Hamilton, Captain the Hon. Dudley and Lady
E:iz Abeth de Ros, Captain Du Plat, Lady George Len-
nox, Sir George, Lady, and Miss Couper, Mr. Barring-
ton, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Earl and Coun-
tess Bruce, the Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon, R. and
\lrs. Bruce, Lord and Lady Berriedale, Lord Bingham,
Lord and Lady Burghley, Lord and Lady Colville, the
Hon. and Rev. H. and Lady A. M. Oust and Miss
Cue, the Earl of Dalkeith, the Earl and Countess of
Derby and Lady Emma Stanley, Lord Dunkellin, Vis-
count and Viscountess Emlyn, Viscount and Viscountess
Enfield and the Hon. Agnes Byng, the Earl of Euston,
Lord Frederick Fitzroy, Baroness Keith and Nairne,
Hon. Miss Elphinstone de Flahault, the Earl of Gifford,
Sir James, Lady, and two Misses Graham ; the Marquis
of Granby-, Lord and Lady Francis Gordon and Miss
Gordon, Viscount Grey de Wilton, Earl and Lady Con-
stance Grosvenor, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Arthur
Hardinge, Viscount and Viscountess Mandeville, Sir
Henry and Lady St. John Mildmay, Lord Seymour and
the Hon; Uiries, St. Maur, Admiral Sir George and
Lady Seymour and two Misses Seymour, and the Earl
and Countess of Shelburne.
For the accommodation of the Queen's visitors, a
special train on the Great Western Railway was pro-
vided, which left PadBington at half-past 8 o'clock, and
was in readiness at 12 o'clock to convey her Majesty's
guests back to towns

THE PROCEEDINGS AFLOAT-THE AUSTER-
LITZ ASHORE.
DOVER ROADS, TUESDAY.

It is impossible to conceive the disappointment of the
thousands who were afloat to welcome to the shores of
England the illustrious personages for whom every pre-
paration had been made on land and sea. At daylight
yesterday the weather looked hazy and thick, and as the
morning broke a dense fog set in, the like of which has
not been witnessed on this side of the Channel for many
a long year. A most imposing spectacle would have
been presented to an anxious multitude, but the inauspi-
cious, state of the weather on this side the Channel baffled
ail human calculation, and set judgment at defiance.
At an early hour the officers and crews were on the
alert. Everything was in right trim on board, and at
eight a.m. the gay bunting was displayed from stem to
stern. All lived in hope that the fog -vould break away
by ten o'clock, but it became more dense, and although
the ships were moored in two lines, and within three
cables' length of each other, they were quite invisible.
All now was anxious listening and suspense, when the
hour of eleven was struck on board the respective ships,
and this anxiety was increased by the report of several
guns fired to leeward—fiat by single guns and then in
salvos. We regret that no notice was taken of this, as it
struck us forcibly something was amiss. Twelve and one
told upon the ear, but there was no arrival of the vessel
conveying the Royal visitors. At length the Vivid hove
in sight through the mist, and hailed that the vessel with
the French Emperor was some three miles to leeward,
and steaming up along shore. This proved to be the
case, for soon after one a royal salute from the shore an-
nounced the landing. As soon as this was heard the
royal salute commenced from the whole of the squadron;
and although it could not be seen, yet the booming of
the guns, and the reverberation from the shore, pro-
duced a thrilling sensation upon the countless multitude.
At 2.30 the fog dispersed, and then broke upon the
sight a scene never to be forgotten by those afloat. The
fog lifted as a veil, disclosing a picture of grandeur
scarcely to be conceived ; so sudden was it that the
effect was magical. The excitement, however, bad passed
away, and the attention of the squadron was directed to
a more serious matter.
Reports reached us that the Austerlitz, French line-
of-battle ship, was ashore off the South Foreland, and
instant orders were issued for the Orion, Pylades,
Cruiser, Olin, Falcon, Harrier, Centaur, and Phoenix
to proceed to the assistance cf the ship in distress. They
instantly got up steam and were quickly under weigh.
On reaching her she was found to be high on a ledg, ,
near St. Margaret's Bay, about three-quatters of a nnle
from a place known as the " Old Stairs," and about five
miles to the north-east of Dover Castle, and under the
cld north-east of the South Foreland.

The Spr'ghtly, paillie-tenter, was ordered to take a
' 24-inch hemp cable from the INT:ptune, whilst the com-
mander-in-chief, Sir Thomas Cochrane, went himself t
the scene of disaster in Vie Fire Queen, The Sprightly
got alongside soon after 8 o'clock, and found the Auster-
litz was fast in 16 feet water, with a list to starboar
in shore, and with only about 10 feet wate, ar.e.”.l
The French corvettes were busily engaged in laying out
warps and hawsers, so that on the rise of the tide, at
half-past 11 p.m., they should all heave with a will. We
feel much pleasure in sta'ing that she came off easily,
and anchored ins defy about a mile fr,on the shore. Tile,
gallant crew instantly set to work, got topmasts and
topgallants on end, set up their rigging, and by 9 a.m.
the ship was again ready for sea,
At 8 o'clock this morning a French frigate, which had
arrived in the night, fired a salute of 15 guns, which was
instantly returned from the flag-ship.
Our attention was drawn ti the high state of efficiency
observable on board the Austerlitz. They are not a
whit behind our own gallant tars in activity aloft. The
French sailor of the present day is not the sailor of 30
years since—a rigid state of discipline has been enforced,
and, but for the knowledge we had of their being French,
we should have supposed ono of our own highly-disci-
plined ships to have been only equal to the task.
The commander-in-chief went off in the Fire Queen
Soon after five this morning, and, on returning, ordered
Sprightly to proceed to Sheerness, where she arrived at
6 p.m. with supernumeraries belonging the Trafalgar,
Poictiers, and Hawke.

ADDRESSES TO THE EMPEROR OF THE
FRENd
LIVERPOOL.

A special meeting of the Liverpool town•council was
held in the town-hall yesterday afternoon, for the purpose
of considering the desirability of adopting a congratula,
tory address to his Majesty Napoleon 111. There was
a full attendance, and the feeling which prompted the
Mayor (Mr. J. A. Tobin) to convene the meeting was
cordially and unanimously reciprocated.
The form of the congratulatory address having been
unanimously agreed to, it was resolved that the mayor
and the mover and seconder of the address (Mr. Horn
by and Mr. C. Turner) be a deputation to convey it to
his Imperial Majesty, and that the members for the
borough, Mr. T. B. Horsfall and Mr. J. C. Ewart, be
requested to attend the deputation.