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I have the honour to be your obedient servantf

GEORGE O'MALLEY IRWIN'

The Sheffield Cutlers' Feast.

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The royal and patriotic toasts having been proposed by
the MASTER-CUTLER, Alderman JOHN BROWN proposed
the "Health of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk and the
House of Howard,"
Lord EDWARD HOWARD responded, and spoke chiefly
on personal and local matters. He sympathised with the
people of Sheffield in their sufferings caused by the recent
flood, and then proceeded to congratulate the audience on
the prosperity of the trade and manufactures of the town.
He also trusted that the time would tome when Sheffield
would be made the chie residence of the Duke of Norfolk.
He should use his efforts to bring about that result.
The health of " His Grace the Duke of Rutland" and that
of " His Grace the Duke of Devonshire" were proposed by
Mr Henry Colley; Mr T. Dunn proposed the health of
" Earl Fitzwilliam ;" and Mr J. J. Smith proposed the
health of " Lord Wharncliffe and the House of Wortley,"
and the Hon. J. F. Wortley responded.
Mr Henry Harrison proposed the health of "the Right
Hon. Lord Denman."

In his reply Lord DENMAN spoke with some warmth
against the conduct of the Government in the Dano• Ger-
man question; he gave his reason for voting against the
Government on the occasion of the discussion on the Vote
of Censure, and defended the giving of proxies by those
who were not present, stating that the correspondence on
the subject was so full that persons who read it were as
capable of giving their vote as those who were present at
the debate. His Lordship quoted from speeches made by
Lord Wodehouse in 1815 and his own father in 1823 to shcw
that the course adopted by Government in the Dano-German
affair was highly censurable, and concluded by saying that
if Parliament did not meet earlyand prevent the aggressions
of Prussia he did not know where the matter would end.
(His Lordship was listened to with marked impatience, and
was frequently interrupted by ironical cheering.)
In reply to the health of the "Enough Members,"
Mr ROEBUCK, who was received with protracted cheers,
said :—Master-Cutier,—l have to thank Master Hunter,
Sir, for the very kind manner in which he has proposed my
health and that of my hon, colleague, and I have to shank
you, gentlemen, for the kind manner in which you have re-
ceived the toast. The health of my colleague brings to my
mind the fact of his absence, and that we all deplore the
cause of it more than his mere absence. (Hear, hear.) I am
sure that if he had been here he would have returned thanks
in terms tar more eloquent than I am able to employ.
(No. no.) Sir, in looking back along the long vista of the
years in which I have been member of Parliament, at the
end of it I see myself proposing myself to be a member of
Parliament ; and now, when I have grown an old man, I
wonder, Sir, at my own temerity—l may say my audacity
—upon that occasion, for when I recollect what a man has
to consider who represents England in the House of Com-
mons lam startled and frightened at the result. The
House of Commons forms the greatest part, the most im-
portant portion, of the Government of England—(hear,
hear) —and that important portion influences not only the
interior Government of the country to which we all
belong, but it goes far abroad. Wherever the news of
England is heard—and where is it not heard ?—(hear, hear)
—the influence of the English House of Commons prevails
—wherever men are working for liberty, there the Eng-
lish House of Commons is cited ; and wherever they are
endeavouring to free themselves from the fetters which
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English House of Commons is heard. All the influence of
the House of Commons influences mankind from beginning
to end, and I say, sir, I am startled with the temerity which
guided me upon that occasion as a man who proposed him.
self as a representative of the people of England, for you
will recollect that the commerce of England pervades every
portion of the universe, and that wherever the commerce of
England goes there ought to go—there does go—the pre-
vailing power of the people of England to protect her sone.
Well, then, there have arisen from time to time difficulties
which have been submitted to the House of Commons, and
I, as a member of the Houk, of Commons, have had to de-
cide upon those great and important questions. Well, sir,
I say I am now startled at the recollection of what I then
Undertook. The commerce, the name of England, as I have
said, pervades the whole world, her name goes to the verge
of civilisation and beyond, and her laws—the laws that are
propounded in the House of Commons—go with the name
of England. Well, sir, I have been taught to believe and I
think I am right in believing that the business of a legisla-
tor is a matter to be learned—that law making is a subject
which requires an apprenticeship. Why not ? The lawyer
goes through certain forms, e. member of the Church of
England goes through certain forms, but it would seem a
legislator is what I have heard of the gig driver—it comes
by instinct. Every man believes that he is in the position
to make laws for the country to which he belongs. Well,
sir, I think very differently. When I put before myself the
point at which I aimed—that of being a representative of
the people of England in the House of Common—what I
did was to consider everything which I thought would con-
duce to make an efficient member of the House of Com..
mons. There were three things which I found requisite as
a member of the house—first,appropriate knowledge; next,
honesty; and thirdly, courage--and any one of these three
being absent I found would nullify the other two. I found
that you could have perfect knowledge ; that ;you could
have a desire to do well, but that if you had not courage to
face the difficulties the thing fell before you—(hear, hear)—
and you don't know, sir, the difficulties a member of the
House of Commons—but there is one present, sir, who will
tell you (alluding to Sir F. Crossley) that I speak truly--
has to encounter. There is cajolery of every sort, there is
temptation of every description--but the grand thing is that
the man should say to himself, " Now I am here repre-
senting the people of England," for though I ara returned
for the borough of Sheffield, still I am also representing
the people of England, (Applause.) Mind that. There
is no mistake. Though I read in the papers that I am
mistaken, still that is the fact—l am representing the
people of England, And in this great capacity you don't
know, sir, the difficulties we have to go through. Why, I
will only state one class of those difficulties. Do what I
will, sir, I feel very much like the drummer-boy ; who said,
" Hit him where you will, you cannot please him,"
(Laughter.) I feel, sir, that say what I like there are
people determined to oppose it. I feel, sir, that there are
buzzing flies, not simply bred in dirt, but nurtured in dirt.
Their only object is to be uncomfortable to cleanly people.
(Laughter.) Now, that is really the thing we have to go
through. Do what we will—and lam only answering the
toast of " The Members for Sheffield"—do what we will,
We cannot please everybody. Now, I believe we have before
us—and I speak in the name of my colleagues as well as in
the name of myself—difficulties as great as have ever fallen
to the lot of the representatives of the people of England.
Great indeed are now our difficulties. A Tory of the old-
fashioned stamp you cannot find now—we are all Libe-
rals, every man of us. I want to know now where is
the man who is opposed to free trade? Where
is the man who will say the difficulties have happened
which he predicted before the Reformed Parliament ?
I would admire any man who could catch a real old-
fashioned Tory. 1 should advise him to put him
under a glass shade and send him to a geological society as
an antiquated specimen. (Laughter.) Sir, these are my
views. Now, I have been representing the people of Eng-
land for some two and thirty years—l wish it were a shorter
time, sir, for then I should be a younger man ; but the fact
is so—but I will tell any man who wishes to represent the
people of England that he had better prepare himself for
that great work by learning the great business of life, that
the world is before him, and that the people of England
influence the world. Sir, I thank you. (Cheers,)
Sir FRANCIS CROSSLEY, in returning thanks for the mem-
bers of the West Riding, said—Master Cutler, my Lords,
and Gentlemen—Many have been the invitations which I
have rec ived from you and the members of the corporation,
but this is the first time I have had the pleasure of accepting
the hospitality of the Master Culler. I am glad of this
opportunity, as one of the West Riding members, of address-
ing the constituency of the southern, and by far the largest
of the ridings of Yorkshire. Parliament in its wisdom has
seen fit to divide the representation of Yorkshire into twe,
and, as Sheffield is one of the largest, I am glad of this oppor-
tunity to say a word at parting. I must speak a little politics,
for I feel that England has meddled in the affairs of other na-
tions, for £800,000,000 is too large a sum to expend, and there
were the lives that were sacrificed in entering into war. I
think that this country acted quite right in not interfering
with the struggles at prese

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judicial tribunals cf the country, or for " bearing false wit-
ness against a neighbour," and who glory in the love and
observance of law, truth, and justice, will not only prevent
the House of Commons from being misled by flippant un-
founded insinuations, ambiguities, and fallacious statements,
but for ever more will seure to 11,3 r Majesty's subjects
their undoubted rights and liberties, and carry an address
to :he Sovereign, that there is an obligati non her Ma-
jesty, in her sacred character as dispenser of justice, to
grant her fiat to my petition of right.

SHEFFIELD, Sept. 1.
The annual bar quet known as the Cutlers' Feast took
place in the Cutlers'-hall, Sheffield, to-night, and passed off
with the greatest eclat.
The Master-Cutler is Mr Charles Atkinson, and among
those who honoured him with their company were the
Mayor (Mr Thomas Joseph), Lord E. Howard, Lord Den-
man, the Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, Mr Roebuck,
M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., &c.
The dinner was of the choicest possible description, and
the display of plate of the most profuse and attractive
kint