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NEWCASTLE UPON-TYNE, THURSDAY.
POLITICAL BANQUET at NEWCASTLE.
-- Yesterday
evening from two to three hundred of the nobility, gen-
try, and merchants of this town and neighbourhood met
in the Great Assembly Room here, at a public banquet
given by them to Mr. Wm. Ord, of Whitfield, Northum-
berland, one of the late representatives of this borough,
" on his retirement from Parliament, as a testimony of
tho high esteem entertained for his character, as well as
of approbation of his independent, upright, and con-
sistent conduct as a Member of the House of Commons,
and his unswerving attachment to the cause of civil
and religious liberty, during the long period of half a
century.
The Mayor of Newcastle-npon-Tyne (Mr. J. Hodg-
son) presided; and wag supported on his right anti left
by Earl Grey, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Durham,
Mr. W. Urd, Mr. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Headlam, M.P., Mr.
Bonham Carter, M.P., Mr. Ingham, ALP., Mr.
Blackest, M.P., Mr. Beaumont, M.P., the Hon.
Captain Howard, M.P., Sir Walter Trevelyan, Dr.
Headlam, Captain F. Grey, Mr. Alderman Losh, Mr.
J. L. Bell, sheriff of Newcastle. Colonel Beckwith, Mr.
Philip Howard, Mr. G. Ridley, Mr. Bewicke, Mr. Lamb,
and Colonel Bigge. A number of ladies occupied seats
running along each side of the room. The occasion
was interesting from the speeches it elicited from Earl
Grey and the Earl of Carlisle.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast of the evening,
the health of Mr. Ord, read letters whic'e had been re-
ceived from Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Sir James Graham, and Lord Panmure, in
answer to invitations addressed to them to attend the
banquet, who individually expressed their regret at
their inability to be present on the occasion, but bear-
ing, at the same time, one and all of them, their willing
Ord,testimuound to
y to
ng support he had
given to measures of a liberal and progressive tendency
during the long time he had sat in Parliament. He then
the steady steady and unvarying public and private worth of Mr.
traced the history of civil and religions liberty and of
Parliamentary reform in this country, from the out-
break of the first French revolution down to the present
time, identifying with their advancement the services
rendered by Mr. Ord during the fifty years he sat in the
House of Commons.
The toast was drank with acclamation.
Mr. ORD, after thanking the company for the compli-
ment
for
yhahlf a adbneeenntpulreyashede thoapdayhad him, said it was true
that the
honour of a
seat in Parliament, and that during that long
period measures of the greatest importance to the
happiness and prosperity of the people and to
the general good government of the country had
met with the sanction of the Legislature; and if he had
contributed in the humblest way to the progress of those
measures he owed it entirely to having attached himself
in early life to that party and those men whose constant
and steady perseverance in the good cause had resulted
in such signal success. When he considered the perse-
vering opposition by which one and all of those mea-
sures were resisted by a great and powerful party in the
country, and when he looked back to the prospect which
Reformers had before them fifty years ago, he owned he
beenfel t
om
quiteac as
isnur thatpri ise natserval.
l,he Hon. satisfaction at what had
Gentle-
man then, in some detail, reviewed the progress of
civil, religious, and commercial freedom during his poli-
cplmishueedh
tical life, especially commenting on the ameliorations
which the penal laws had undergone in his remem-
brance; adding that, notwithstanding the advances that
had been made in these respects, and the predictions
made at one time by a party in the country, that the
Throne and the House of Lords would be thereby en-
dangered, the crown now rested as safely on the head of
her present Majesty as ever it did on the brow of any
of her royal predecessors; and their Lordships sat as
securely on their scarlet benches as 4' t
any previous
period of our history.—(Cheers.)
Earl GREY, in responding to the toast of his health,
proposed by Dr. Headlam, said—Gentlemen, I am alto-
gether at
a loss adequately to express the gratitude I
feel to my worthy friend Dr. Headlam fur the flatter-
ing terms in which he has proposed, and to you for
the kind manner in which you have received, the toast
which you have just heard. I feel it to be no small ho-
nour to have this signal compliment paid to me by such a
company as that which I now see around me, and which
has been drawn together on this most interesting occa-
sion to pay to Mr. Ord a tribute of respect and esteem
to which he is so wall entitled.—(Cheers.) I assure you I
feel much gratified in having been permitted to join with
you in paying this tribute; and there is only one draw-
back to the gratification I feel—namely, that we are
met to pay this tribute to Mr. Ord upon the occasion of
his ceasing to be a representative of Newcastle. I
lament that his connexion with you as your representa-
tive, which has lasted so long with equal honour to him
end to yourselves, is now brought to a termination.
But it has been brought to a termination iu a
manner as honourublo as that in which the
connexion itself was formed. Mr. Ord having re-
signed from a just sense of public daty beesitnation the
duties of which he felt ho could no longir adequately
perform. Gentlemen, lam indeed most happy to have
this opportunity of meeting him and you upon-this occa-
sion. I cannot help remembering that both from Mr.
Ord and irons many whom I See around me I have
from the very commencement of my political l
' need both in public and in private'
experie s , kindnesses
which I must indeed be insensible to forget. lcannot but I
remember
that at the very outset of my political life
made in this very room almost my first anPearanco at a
dinner given to me on the occasion of that very contest
to which Dr. Headlam has just referred, and that
Ord theonthat
occasion, as subsequently, I received from Mr.
greatest kindness and the most useful services, and
not only kindness, not only the most handsome sup
port, but I received—what is more rare to receive—much
more excellent and most judicious advice, which I will
t uite
not hesitate now to say, I deeply deplore seasd noou
y and
on every occasion followed. Mr. Ord has
i old
-meeting
[ think it was a just observation, that this - .11 ofof higher importance than the mere gratifiestion
per-
sonal feelings. He has said it was an occasion on
or ted
which those who have for many years s
"mtiPPortant
certain opinions on many of the most
mindsi can
questions on which men's
opinions and
clare in
be divided, are met together to
to those
the face of the public their adherence
conviction,
opinions, and their settled and deliberate dt
that by them they have promoted the puha° ed°
ILI that he
oountry.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Ord has
adopted6^-
o i-
has followed consistently the party who but Pwe
nions winch he sincerely believed to be rigid; the
monsopi-
must aof that pa
add
party ; that Mr. Othough itrd nois the faston ad°Pte say that
to I
think
party spirit deadens men's sense of what is right,
his
Mr. Ord is a proof of the reverse, for throughoutrty
man
long career, while there was no more
steady party
than Mr. Ord, there never lived a man who roughoutal or
has shown that he was actuated by
an
p° rs
p onersonal
selfish feelings. He never had, I belie"' a
t
oleject in any act of his public conduct,
but
üblic go hroughout
od
he looked to the public good, and to the
P allowed,
elone.—(Cheers.) New I think that we
are
e of
wit bout any undue ostentation or any undue vaunti
one by, and
ourselves, to look back at the times that are a
..
to see what has been the result of maintain those tg
opi-
nions which we have ever professed. °l..iatt O
ys that arrd and oure
chairman have told you something of O
th
Acuities which
gone by, and pointed out to you the
donviction of re-
tormerly beset those who adopted the e
e ask, is there
form and general improvement. Now
lets
mcountry some
not in the present state of this gran-
orted, and
proof that the opinions which they not lightly
the measures which they advocated, weep Mr. Ord has
or injudiciously taken up?—(Cheers)
s
told you, and told you most justly,
thatten in,
which
time
every, even
even I can remember to a certain ex
and for many
the smallest, reform was objected tot:
that
it endan-
years successfully resisted, on the Plee - be
d has asked
gered the stability of the Throne ;a.y.
t on the brow
you whether the Crown sits less firm I will
.)
of our gracious Queen.—(Greet " sheering
o back to those
go somewhat further. I will not g
disastrous times at the beginning
re
the Francis revo-
lution to which the chairman h" war, when it was he-
even
look back to the time of the
a great deal from
tural that the country should sufferhitt Therewill look back to
the consequences of that war; but are a good
the first sew years after the "' enough to remember
many in this town who are old.l
filled by myself, of
who held the office now unworthi y
and when that noble-
lord-lieutenant of this countirt. 0
h House of Lords,
man declared in his place
between the Tyne and the
that there were 100,000 men insurrection against the
Wear willing to take up arms in
0, the suspension of the
Government. We remember, to
dangerous spirit of insubor-
Habeas Corpus Act, and the
Know also in those days
dination which prevailed.
oVfiethroughout the country,
how much distress prem-e
ulation was grievously
and how how frequently h
t- e 13°P country was oppressed
fering—how much the whole
with taxation d
and how very ifferent a state of things
was that from ,
now. Insteady
of that what do we see
en ready to take up arms in
now? Instead of 100,000 018
that between the Tyne and
insurrection, I firmly believe
other part of the country,
the Wear, as between evheo,
if his services are really
there is not one man, wye them, not to pull down the
wanted, is not ready , s
to
give
the country, but to maintain
throne or the institutions
them.—(Loud cheers.) _0
w see around us in every
direction the indications of progress and improvement;
so much so that the OE4
1 complaint I now hear in the
really not hands enough to
country is, that there soars
tis. Now, to what are -
carry on agricultural op.e_g
~,.„ e? No doubt, in the firs
to attribute this great cu
rably to acknowledge with the
place, it becomes us
debt
we owe to Providence in cast-
deepest gratitude the times. But all the purposes
ing our lot in these WO' . b_
worked on' Jsecular means, and
of Providence are
hich have brought this country to
among those means
:ondition we must reckon those great
its present improved - been
referred to. It is because
measures which have
of the people have been redressed
the political grievances
—that the enal laws against Roman Catholics and
Dissenters have been rP
which ee
oaled; it js because by that
great measure, after so seveke a struggle, was ul-
timately,an the Reform Bill—(Cheers)—
which, though never professing to be a perfect measure,
no man can deny has placed in
the hands of the people of England the real power of
deciding on their own laws and their own government.
—(Cncers.) Imperfect it may be called, but no man
can doubt that since the 1, ,s 4orm Bill passed the House of
I
what it ear WOO before--tin instru-
Corallions is now ei n_

meet which answers to the roallyßexpressed opinion of
measure which is now demanded(
in-
telligent and educated men can b
measure which they object to has ea
chanceng
the intelligence of the country.—(Renewed
by the
cheers.)
of N o
majority d
Parlia-
ment has the means of accomplishing t e ends to which
it is directed. There have been otherofrefused.f and no
car-
ried.—(Tremendous cheers.) By that
o being a
h reform
reformsthe still, mored
directed to improving the condition
among them are certainly none of more impoPrtatlee9thaban
those commercial has
referred. reforms to which Dr. Headlam
referred. And in adverting to them I cannot but re-
mind you that Mr. Ord was one of the very earliest f
tease who advocated sound opinions on this subject. I
well remember that in the very first ..ession that I had
the honour of a seat in the House of Commons I had the
pleasure of voting with Mr. Ord, and also with Lord
Carlisle, in a minority which I believe did not num-
ber more than 16 or 17 to some 200 or 300 against the
principle of the now defunct sliding scale.—(Cheers.)
When we look back to the past we cannot but remem-
ber, as Mr. Ord has justly said, that all those measures
which have proved to be so beneficial, which have turned
out by positive experience not to be of that dangerous
character which was imputed to them—that no one of
them was carried without a long and protracted struggle,
in which Mr. Ord always bore an honourable part.—
(Cheers.) Having bad the pleasure of sitting so long
with him in the House of Commons, I cannot help
saying that among the members of that House there
was none whose opinion carried with it greater weight
and influence with hie colleagues than that of Mr. Ord.
—(Cheers.) I have now a very few words to say, and
these are rather of the town of Newcastle. I think that
town is honourably distinguished from many other
places by the manner in which it has appreciated the
services of Mr. Ord, and in which it returned him
to Parliament on the strictest principles of purity of
election. The town of Newcastle has indeed always been
distinguished for its devotion to civil, religious, and com-
mercial liberty—(Cheers)—and though you have lost
the services of Mr. Ord, I rejoice that you have still two
Members of the same opinions; and I cannot better con-
clude what I have now to say than by
i giving " Pros-
sperity to the town of Newcastle, may t long continue
to send Members to Parliament worthy to succeed Mr.
Ord, and to maintain its character by supporting those
principles which we this day commemorate."—(Cheers.)
The Earl of CARLISLE, in acknowledging the toast of
" Lord John Russell and the members of the late Ad-
migistration," given by Mr. Alderman Leah, said—Mr.
Mayor and gentlemen, as my Noble Friend and late col-
league has already addressed you, and as I have had
the very high honour of having my name coupled with
the toast, it devolves upon me to return thanks to you
for the manner is which you have been pleased to re-
ceive it.—(Cheers.) And though, perhaps, I should
not now be warranted in returning thanks for her Ma-
jesty's late Administration in a corporate capacity, and
though they are probably scattered over every corner of
the land—(A laugh)—yet, all scattered though they be,l
can answer for every member of that Government,
sell,with its distinguished chief, Lord John Rua-
el, whose letter we have heard read to-night—(Cheers:
—that they all as ono man thoroughly sympathise with
the purposes of this meeting, and will cordially appre-
ciate the honour which has been done to them collec-
tively in connexion with it.—(Cheers.) Indeed, I may
say, that both as a member of the late Government, and
in my own individual capacity, I feel it a singular grati-
fication to have bad the opportunity of being present on
this occasion. The excellent and appropriate remarks
chief magistrate, as well as
have all but
as the very able
ospeechesyour worthy
of those who have followed h:
exhausted what belongs to the purport of our meeting,
am ex-representatives—
(Cheers)—end rgelparde. s etnot a. taieve? —t
indeed nothing to say, if I did not remember that, as
appearing
connected with the ancient borough. of Morpeth, and
and, with respect to Mr. Ord, would have left me little,
—tor it was as his col-
(Cheers)
o
speak on behalf of others who are. here likewise pre-
sent, we may at Morpeth appropriate some share of
league, as Member for Morpeth, that I began my
_ahnedrebeiansg oanbele,ofasitls
own political life.--(Cheers.) After the passing of
the Reform Bill, as we have already heard, he was
interest in Mr. Ord—(Cheers)
transferred to a larger and busier constituency, that of
this ancient and famous capital—(Cheers)—and if he
had still been bent upon promotion—if he had not con-
sulted his own nice susceptible delicacy rather than the
wishes of others—l am not sure
even whether a niche
might not have been found for him even in the county of
Northumberland.—(Cheers.) But I wish, gentlemen, to
mention but two points more without engrossing too
much of the time which I feel ought not to be substract-
ed from the main purpose and the chief hero of the
present meeting. The first point is, what are the quali-
ties which in a community and in a country like this
appear best calculated to ensure abiding and permanent
regard? lam sure that Mr. Ord would be the first to
reprove us if we grounded any main portion of the sin-
cere approval with which wo regard his long political
career on the frequency of his own oratorical displays.
Speak well and speak sensibly, and to the point, you must
know from experience, no less than from what we have
heard to-night, he could always do Nevertheless, he
did not err on the side of over-redundancy in his ora-
torical exertions, and if wo couple this fact with the cir-
cumstances and the composition of the present meeting,
could we have a better proof that the good will and appro-
bation which we should most desire to attain do not
attach themselves so surely to the fleeting glare of mere
display, or to the showy arts which sometimes captivate
unthinking multitudes, as to the more steady, sober qua-
lities of plain good sense brought to bear on subjects of
high public moment, and exercised with undeviating
consistency and unassailable integrity.—(Cheers.) The
only other point I would mention connects itself more
immediately with the toast you have just heard adopted.
I think we may view in Mr. Ord a model and an expo-
nent of sound, good Whig principles—(Cheers)—and
they are the same principles of which the late Adminis-
tration made it their constant boast to be the represen-
tatives.—(Renewed cheers.) How far they succeeded
—how far they always pleased everybody, a more
difficult matter—is another question. But this I will
say for them, as I most sincerely believe it, that on
all main, essential points, they were true to their own
honest convictions, and that they maintained that
great principle of commercial freedom which they re-
ceived from their illustrious predecessor, not only with-
out suffering it to recede, but showing that it could
advance and make progress in their keeping.—(Loud
cheers.) Well, gentlemen, in my own political experience,
which now extends over a considerable time, though not
over so long a period quite as that of Mr. Ord, I have
heard it oft en said, and he must have heard it still
oftener, and said, too, with much positiveness and con-
fidence, that the Whigs, as a political party, were ex-
tinguished, annihilated, done for, smashed—(Great
laughter)—and that Whiggism, as a political creed, was
repudiated, spit upon, dead, and buried.—(Laughter.)
All I can say, if this is true, is, that I have seen mar-
vellous instance of political resurrection and political re-
juvenescence.—(Cheers and laughter.) Nay, more, even
now, when the Whig leaders, the subject of your late
toast, have been removed from office, when we are en-
during the sway of a Tory and Protectionist, and, per-
haps, more in will than in power, a reactionary Adini-
nistration—(A laugh)—l feel convinced in my own micd
that the old Whig principle is still full of youthful sap
and 'vigour, and that, like the oak on Mount Algidos,
it will continue to gather resources and vigour
from each descending stroke.—(Loud cheers.) The
party may be out of place, their chieftains may be
out of power, they may no longer be on the sunny
tide of the street, if men choose to think it so—(A laugh)
—but I do feel in my own mind assured that their opi-
nions and principles will still pervade the conduct of
public affairs, marshalling tho march of Imperial Go-
vernment.—(Tremendous cheering.) I say this, not I
trust from any bias or blindness with respect to their
claims on their countrymen, but because I believe the
opinions and principles they express to be moving in a
middle course between opposite extremes, fenced in on
the ono side by respect to property, by the sovereignty
of the national law, by the supremacy of the universal
Gospel—(Cheers)—and guarded on the other side to the
greatest extent by the privilege and the widest commu-
nity of enjoyment which can be conceded to all alike,
consistently with those pre-eminent obligations.—(Loud
cheers.) I have, gentlemen, on this occasion to add t h
at
to-night has shown that by the light of those principles
a man can guide his public course consistently
.and
honourably for upwards of half a century, and to-n.ight
has also shown that the public approval will cordially
recognise and appreciate the honoured close of such a
career as that which we now ratify.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. J. L. BELL gave " The health and future happi-
ness of the Right Hon. the Erl
a of Durham.
The Earl of DURHAM,. who was received with the
most enthusiastic plaudits, said—Gentlemen, I beg to
thank you for the very undeserved honour you have
conferred on me in drinking my health, and Mr. Bell
especially for the mention he bets been pleased to make
of my father. At the same time I wish to express the
great pleasure I feel in having had this opportunity of
showing my respect to an old friend of my father, and
also to those liberal principles which he advocated
during his life.—(Loud cheers.) After the able speeches
you have already heard, I will not detain you any
longer, except again to thank you for your very kind at-
tention to me.—(Cheers.)
Several other toasts appropriate to the occasion were
drunk and responded to, and the company separated
shortly after ten o'clock.
we

STATUE AT BURY.—The
THE PEEL
of Bury have raisedßobert
Peel a statue in
uncovered
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bronze at a cost / was first
andof 2 500 ~
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was publicly inaugurate'd on Wednesday.
site on which it is erected •
occasion.d
centre of the town, and almostis'mmeediatdy in front of the
parish church. A large compani y assemed at Chamber
Hall, about half a miledistant, the whiche is said to
be that in which Sir Robert was born. It is now the resi-
dnce of Mr. Edmund Hardman. Among the principal gen-
tlemen present ware Mr Frederick Peel, -MT., son, and the
quotations from Vienna show mrket squina:ae,biineanthese
Very Rev, the Dean of. Worcester and Mr. Lawrence eel,
brothers of the lamented statesman ; Mr. W. Brown,
Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., and great number of the local
becomev e were delleisyseurendfauvpo
gentry and leading inhabitants of Bury. There were also
a lodge of Freemasons present, and several lodges of Od
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