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FASHION.—The following is an account of a letter
received by Mr. Pickwick's man, Sam Weller, from a fellow-
servant :—" It's wrote on gilt-edged paper," said Sam, as he
unfolded it, " and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door-
key. Now for it." And, with a very grave face, Mr. Weller
slowly read as follows :—" A select company of the Bath foot.
men presents their compliments to Mr. Weller, and requests
the pleasure of his company this evening, to a friendly swarry,
consisting of boiled leg of mutton, with the usual trimmings.
The swarry to he on the table at half-past nine o'clock, punc-
tually." This was inclosed in another note, which ran thus :
" Mr. John Smauker, the gentleman who had the pleasure of
meeting Mr. Weller at the house of their mutual acquaintance,
Mr. Bantman, a few days since, begs to inclose Mr. Weller
the herewith invitation. If Mr. Weller will call on Mr. John
Smauker at nine o'clock, Mr. John. Smauker will have the
pleasure of introducing Mr. Weller. ( Signed) John Smauker."
The envelope was directed to Blank Weller, Esq., at Mr.
Pickwick's ; and in a parenthesis, in the left-hand corner,
were the words " Airy bell," as an instruction to the bearer.
" Vell," said Sam, " this is commin'it rayther powerful, this
is. I never heard a biled leg o' mutton called a swarry afore.
I wonder wot they'd call a roast one 1"
The . whaler Mississippi, having made a voyage
round the world, doubling the Cape of Good Hope, and return-
ing by the way of Cape Horn to Europe, arrived at this port
yesterday, after an absence of twenty-two months, and with a
full cargo of fish. During the short stay of the Mississippi
at New Zealand two of the natives of that island, induced by
the desire of seeing our country, embarked on board of her in
the capacity of volunteers and apprentices. These strangers,
who are of a mild disposition, evinced, during the long pas-
sage which the vessel had to make, the utmost activity and in-
telligence. At the present time they might pass for expe-
rienced sailors, and, on beholding, France for the first time,
they congratulated each other exceedingly upon the deter-
mination which they had taken of quitting their own country
for a time, in order to take a glace at our climate and our
manners.—Journal du Havre, May 17.
At the Mansion House on Saturday, a boy who
had been charged some time ago with stealing from his mas-
ter, but who was discharged by the Lord Mayor, complained
that he had been driven from another place which he had got,
by his former master accusing him of theft to his employer.
He could not tell what to do, but wished to go to sea. The
Lord Mayor gave him five pounds, and recommended him to
a man in the office, who fits out boys for sea, and procures
them places in vessels. This transaction speaks well for Lord
Mayor Kelly. In some of the police-offices the boy would
have met with very different trir.lATfl'L.

Yesterday the inhabitants of Lambeth celebrated the
coming of age of the Princess Victoria at the Horns Ta-
vern, Kennington. The company assembled on the occa-
sion was very numerous and highly respectable, including
all the leading Reformers of Lambeth. Mr. Clay, M.P.,
took the chair. On his right sat Messrs. Tennyson D'Eyn-
court, Palmer, Shiel, Baines, Wason, &c. &c. ; on his left,
Messrs. Hawes, Redhead, Ewart, E. L. Bulwer, Villiers,
Dr. Bowring, Hardy, &c. &c.
The CHAIRMAN said, it was fully expected that Major
Beauclerk would have taken the chair, and it was but a
very short time before they entered that room that a letter
was received from him, stating his great regret that the ill-
ness of Mrs. Beauclerk made it impossible for him to at-
tend. On the receipt of that letter, the kind friends who
were around him (Mr. Clay), did him the honour of—he
might say insisting, that he should take the chair.—
(Cheers.) The first toast he had to propose was, " the
King, may he ever possess the confidence and affection of
the people." He felt confident that his Majesty never
would lose the affection of the people—they could never
cease to feel grateful for the noble part he took in the great
measure of Reform.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentle-
man concluded by proposing the toast, which was drunk
with immense cheering. _ _

The vocalists sung the National Anthem with excellent
effect.

The next toast was " the Queen,"—drunk with all
honour.

F The CHAIRMAN said the toast he had now to propose
was " the People, the only source of legitimate power."—
(Cheers.) The toast was drunk with cheering loud and
long-continued, and one cheer more.
The CHAIRMAN had now the pleasure to propose the
toast which gave expression to the feeling that caused their
meeting together that day. It was the health of the Prin-
cess Victoria.—(Great cheering.) Deeply, almost pain-
fully interesting to Englishmen, was the illustrious Princess
whose health he had to propose. It was difficult to de-
scribe the affection and feelings bound up with the mention
of her name.—(Cheers.) It was impossible to forget the
high destinies to which she would probably eventually be
called, and the homage of such men was most valuable
when they tendered their duty and affection to the first ma-
gistrate of the State, who felt the responsibilities of his si-
tuation, and the determination to discharge his duties in
the best manner, and promote to the utmost of his power
the happiness of the people confided to his care.—(Cheers.)
When in the fullness of time the illustrious Princess should
be called to the Throne of her ancestors, he felt confident
she would regard as her best title to the Crown, the con-
fidence, respect, and affection of the people.—(Cheers.)
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by proposing the health of
the Princess Victoria, the hope of our country.
The toast was drunk with immense applause, long con-
tinued.
The CHAIRMAN announced that Mr. Villiers, the Mem-
ber for Wolverhampton, would propose the next toast.
Mr. VILLIERS said this was a great occasion, and great
men only should appear : but perhaps when they saw old
men going backward—(the effect of this allusion was
electric, and called forth long-continued cheers)—perhaps
when they saw old men going backward, there was no harm
in young men coming forward.—(Renewed cheering.) He
would, therefore, not fear to express the joy he felt at that
bright day, and would propose, as worthy of all honour, an-
other illustrious name, the cause of their celebration of that
day—the illustrious parent of the Princess Victoria, by
whom that illustrious Princess had been taught that the
English Monarchy was upheld for the protection and happi-
ness of the people.—(Cheers.) It was a cheering pros-
pect when they knew that the mind of the young Prin-
cess bad been imbued with those principles, and when
they looked forward to the progress of Reform, this was
an occasion for Reformers to speak out. They lived in
a day when apostacy and corruption were inventing
phrases to cover their own disgrace, and imputing motives
to Reformers which they knew to be false. They sought
to divide the people into two classes—one they said
was attached to our institutions and laws ; the other
sought to destroy both. They said Reformers were not
friendly to an hereditary Monarch. He would ask why
were they assembled there that day?—(Great cheering.)
They were not met to contrive a republic, nor to associate
in lodges to tamper with the army.—(Cheers.) He would
ask, which was most fit to support the Monarchy ?
(Cheers.) It was said Reformers were not friendly to the
Church Establishment, while the single thing they sought
to effect was a more equal distribution of its enormous pro-
perty, and that reward and service should go together, not
that he who worked the roost should get the least.—( Hear,
bear.) What said the new organ of the Tory party ? He
said no impious hand could touch the property of the
Church for any change of distribution without shaking the
foundation of all property. This would be difficult to under-
stand by the people who sent him to Parliament, whose minis
ter had the cure of 35,000 souls, but while he drew thousands
of their money was never seen amongst them, but employed a
substitute, to whom he gave 60/. or 100/. a year. When
the enemies of Reform could oppose Reform measures with
success, then they said their projects were impracticable
and visionary. What did Reformers wish for ? Equal
Government to England and to Ireland.—(lmmense cheer-
ing.)—Civil equality between Churchmen and Dissenters ;
freedom to industry and commerce ; cheap and speedy
justice, and the education of the people. These were
their objects—the people were reasonable, and required
nothing but their just rights.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
It was said even by their opponents that the people are now
more moderate than ever : that proved that the people,
as grievances were redressed, became moderate, and while
they had reason to expect improvement waited with pati-
ence. Why did not those who opposed Reform study their
character? Though the people were patient, a spirit
might be roused that it would be difficult to allay.—(Hear,
hear.) Institutions were never endangered by doing justice
to the people.—(Hear.)He believed the Princess Victoria
was so instructed and enlightened, that she would well re-
turn the confidence and affection of the people.—(Hear,
hear.) He would conclude by proposing " The health of
the Duchess of Kent, may she live to see her maternal
cares rewarded by the affection of her daughter, and the
gratitude of the people."
The toast was drunk with great and long-continued
cheering.
The Chairman said, Dr. Bowring would propose the next
toast.

Dr. BowertsG said, before be proposed the toast he could
not but give expression to the sentiment uppermost in his
heart, and thank the electors of Lambeth for the service
they had rendered to the cause of Reform, by sending to
Parliament the excellent men by whom they were repre-
sented.—(Great cheering.) It was, until within a few days,
the pride, and honour, and glory of the metropolis, that the
whole of its representatives were Reformers, pure and un-
polluted.—(Cheers.) Of late a singular.change had taken
place, which was most disgraceful to the party, but which
would only by contrast increase the dignity of those who lost
one of their number by that defection. It was an instance
of frailty not likely to happen again, for there was not a
more pitiable spectacle than that made by Sir Francis Bur-
dett, when he was hailed with shouts by his new allies, while
his state was deplored by his ancient friends.—( Hear, hear.)
He tried to look in the faces of his friends who had seen his
youth devoted to the cause of freedom ; even that thought
had some consolation—freedom had his youth and intellect
—his new allies have his decline and imbecility.—(Hear.)
While he was worth anything he was ours, now he is worth-
less he is theirs.—(Cheering.) It was melancholy to hear
the old man talk of a tax on the institutions of England ;
he forgot that the time was when he went farther than any
one, and was always found in the advanced post by the
people who gave him their confidence, till they saw he was
not to be found in the arena where he had often pleaded '
their cause.—(Hear.) What happened in the mean time ?
Reform brought forward young men, who with more atten-
tion supported the cause ; and when he saw that he was
lowered and not encouraged by the flattery of the people, he
said he must be flattered come from where it might ; on
that only he could could live, and that he (Dr. B.) felt con-
fident was the cause of the chancre that had taken place.
The occasion of the meeting looked to the future rather than
the past—the past they could not change, but on the future
they could make any impression they pleased. What could
be greater than to make the Sovereign say I am bound to
advance the happiness of this great people, who count sub-
jects in distant regions h - .idreds of millions, and whose
influence extends over the whole world ?—(Hear, hear.)
There was not a sentiment of freedom uttered in England
that did not spread over the world—every conquest of
liberty here favoured the cause of freedom everywhere, and
we could suffer no defeat that all other countries would not
feel.—(Hear, hear.) Having given expression to these
feelings, he should now propose the health of an illustrious
Prince whom they would all delight to honour—" The
health of the Duke of Sussex, and the rest of the Royal
Family." The toast was drunk with great applause.
Glee—" All by the greenwood tree."

The CHAIRMAN had next to propose a toast to which he
was quite sure they would all promptly and enthusiastically
respond—it was, " The health of his Majesty's Ministers."

—(Loud and long-cOntinued cheering.) He was not dis-
appointed. He perceived that they fully participated in
the sentiment. He had closely and anxiously watched the
course of the Cabinet, and he hesitated not to declare that
his Majesty's Ministers were well entitled to the compli-
ment and respect now proposed to be extended to them.—
( Loud cheers.) Let it be remembered that they took office
at a period of no ordinary difficulty—( Hear, hear)—and
also that they took office on the principles of Reform.—
(Hear, hear.) And as far as they bad been able, they had
carried into effect Reform. They therefore had, he submit-
ted, to thank the Ministers not only for the reforms that
they had been instrumental in promoting, but for those re-
forms that they had intended.—(Hear,
.hear.) They had
promoted, or endeavoured to promote, the cause of civil
liberty. They had done so in the Municipal Corporation
Act, a measure in his estimation second only in importance
to the Reform Act itself. They had advanced religious
liberty by the Marriage and Registrations Acts, &c., whereby
Dissenters had been relieved from rites and ceremonies to
which they entertained conscientious scruples. And dur-
ing the present session they had endeavoured, as yet unsuc-
cessfully, farther to relieve those fellow-citizens who sepa-
rated, and conscientiously, he took the liberty of saying,
from the Establishment, to relieve them from the Church-
rate, a tax which, in his opinion, was most unjustly imposed
on all those fellow-citizens so circumstanced. Again, had
not the Government endeavoured to carry out the prin-
ciples of civil liberty in the case of Ireland. They had
sought, in the case of the people of Irelsnd, to give prac-
tical effect to a-principle applied to England, and that was
just and wise in itself. Though it might falLshort of what
some considered justice would warrant, it was an earnest of
the disposition of the Ministers ; but though it had hi-
therto failed of being carried into effect, be believed that it
would succeed, because he also believed that it was the
determination of the people of England that justice
should be done to Ireland.—(Tremendous clieers)—that
they would admit their Irish fellow-citizens to the full parti-
cipation of the rights, privileges, and blessings of the Bri-
tish Constitution.—(Continued cheering.) It was for those
things that they thanked his Majesty's Ministers ; for what
they had attempted, as well as for what they had done.
There had been evinced on the part of the people, he
feared, some little—should he call it—apathy ; an indif-
ference to passing events that was of fatal effect ; but he
hoped that instead of continuing it, they would show them-
selves awake to their own interests, which was the surest
way of stimulating their Members, and strengthening their
votes.—( Hear, hear.) He concluded with proposing "The
health of his Majesty's Ministers," which was received with
immense cheering, and so enthusiastically, that old Eldon's
"one cheer more" was repeated three or four times.
Mr. PALMER rose for the purpose of propoiing " The
health of the Members of Lambeth."—(Tremendous and
long-continued applause.) He had felt assured that it was
only to name the toast to call forth their most enthusiastic
notice. His Right Hon. Friend (Mr. D'Eyncourt) had
not changed, though some old soldiers had deserted from
the cause of Reform—(A laugh); but their Right Hon.
Friend had not changed, and while he maintained his prin-
ciples, and no longer, would the electors of Lambeth sup-
port him. He was glad to say that that Right Hon.
Gentlemen had found able co-operation in Mr. Hawes,
of whose merits he could not speak too highly.—
(Cheers.) He trusted that while they had such good
representatives, the electors of Lambeth would not allow
their efforts to support them to diminish.—{Hear.) He
also most fervently hoped that as Reformers who were
really and honestly desirous of promoting good Govern-
ment, they would not allow any local dissensions to separate
them from the great cause of supporting Reform Mem-
bers.—( Hear, hear.) Let them look at what bad taken
place in Westminster in consequence of the want of union
of purpose at an important crisis, and let them make West-
minster their beacon, as it had heretofore been their guide.
—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT (who was received with
immense enthusiasm) returned thanks, observing that he
could not but consider the greater part of their applause
was intended for his Hon. colleague. The proposer of
their health had alluded to a recent case—that of one of
the representatives of Westminster. He had viewed the
conduct of that individual with indignation and shame—a
shame that he knew not how to express ; for that indivi-
dual had heretofore placed himself on a proud elevation, but
had now shrunk back from that elevated position, and " co-
vered himself with infamy."—(Loud cheers.) no hope
had been expressed that neither he nor his colleague should
be found in the regiment of the renegades. The times
were certainly curious, and assurance seemed to be requi-
site ; but he would give no assurance from his own lips,
for he shrunk with indignation at the bare thought of the
possibility of such infamous change. He, too, trusted that
Westminster would be a beacon to Lamb'eth ; and that
the Hon., if he might so call him, Baronet, might also be an
example to be avoided. He looked upon him now as a dri-
velling and shrunken up old man ; and on viewing him in the
House, be for the moment, inwardly trembled lest by some
disastrous calamity he could by possibility become " equally
base."—( Hear.) He proceeded to observe that by some he
might have appeared languid in their cause, and in that of
the people ; but he hoped that they would not have omitted
to bear in mind the peculiar circumstances in which he had
been placed, as well as others similarly circumstanced.
Regarding the debate and division of the preceding night
for instance, had he pursued. views and a course that he felt
were important and requisite, how might the Ministers have
been embarrassed.—( Hear.) He, therefore, had been com-
pelled to sacrifice private feelings, and to support those Mi-
nisters, who, as far as they could, had carried out their
views. Such were the circumstances that he had been
compelled to hold his' breath:—(Hear.) But the time fur
for speaking out must arrive—a crisis was approaching—
and when it did arrive they would find him quite as promi-
nent in their cause, which he took to be that of the people,
as ever. When it did arrive he twould boldly and bravely
expound their views, and urge as he only remedies for the
present grievances an extension of the suffrage—a shorten-
ing of the duration of Parliament=and vote by ballot.
[This 'is a very brief sketch of the Right Hon. Gentle-
man's able, energetic, and courageous speech.]
Mr. HAWES also returned thanks, declaring that one
great end of his legislatorial labours had been, and was, to
secure that authority and responsibility should go band in
hand. He begged to have the honour of proposing " the
Chairman's health."

It was given, and greeted with loud cheers.
The CHAIRMAN returned his acknowledgments for the
honour conferred upon him.
Mr. HENDERSON then rose and said—Gentlemen, if I
know anything of the sentiments of this great assembly, I
may venture to believe that the toast which I shall have the
honour to propose will meet with your cordial approbation.
It refers to the policy pursued by his Majesty's Ministers
with regard to Ireland—(Hear, hear)—as exhibited in
the measures which they have proposed to Parliament
for effecting a reform in the Municipal Corporations
of Ireland—for rendering the Ecclesiastical Establish-
ment of that country commensurate with the wants
of the Protestant population—the assertion of the
right of the Legislature to appropriate the revenues
of the Church to the instruction of the people, and
the establishment of a compulsory system of relief for
the destitute poor of Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) These are
the cardinal measures which mark the character of Lord
Melbourne's Administration with regard to the affairs of
that country. They have been brought forward with the
view of meeting the wishes of enlightened men in England,
and of satisfying the just expectations of Ireland.—( Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, I feel no ordinary pleasure iu pro-
posing this toast—" The health of Mr. Shcil, and justice
to Ireland."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. SHEIL said that the enthusiasm with which " Jus-
tice to Ireland" was hailed by so large and influential a
portion of the constituency of Lambeth afforded proof of
the feeling by which the great mass of the English people
were animated in regard to Ireland. He had thought it his
duty to attend on this occasion, because he conceived that
assemblages of this kind supplied good opportunities of es-
timating popular sentiment, and, while he saw in the men
around him a manifestation of the sympathy felt in this
country for the grievances under which Ireland continued to
labour, it was matter to him of no ordinary gratification to
be able to state on the part of his countrymen, whose feel-
ings he thought that he understood, that Ireland would
appreciate at its just value these intimations of honourable
solicitude for the redress of her injuries. At any time and
on any occasion such evidences of kindly sentiment towards
the Irish people were to be highly prized ; on this occasion
they were of peculiar usefulness. How pleasureable it must
be to the Irish people to find that justice to them entered
into every discussion in which material political questions
were involved. But it was a topic inseparable from every
gathering of the friends of freedom, and it was put pro-
minently forward, when Englishmen were gathered to cele-
brate an incident with which the best hopes of the country
were associated. This is but one of the many festivals
in which an event hailed with joy by England is comme-
morated. I'o-night there will be in the ancient palace oc-
cupied by the Kings of England a vast concourse of the
splendid Aristocracy of this country, to celebrate the at-
tainment by the Princess Victoria of that age at which the

' Constitutio4lems her entitled to form a judgmett of the
interests arWof the rights of the great people whicle Pro-
vidence may have appointed her to rule. The proud
lily of England will meet around her, and offer her the tri-
bute of their anticipations. 'Tis well and right that tleey
should do this ; and the Royal lady to whom these obi I-
dons of almost premature protestation of devotedness will
be made will know full well how to estimate the sincerity
of those homages of which she will be the object ; but while
she goes through these formalities of the Palace, I rejoice
that she should also be furnished with the proof which such
meetings will give her that she holds a deep place in the
affections of the people ; and that while this auspicious day
is commemorated by courtiers in the saloons of Royalty, it
is also hailed with aes enthusiasm at least as real by the
great body of the people whose affections are of a value :so
infinitely greater than the adulation of the heartless great,
by whom Princes are so often treated either as their idols
or their victims. lie this day a happy one, and of hope for
this noble country let it be the initiation. I think, Sir, that
I can form some estimate of the feelings with which this clay
must have arisen in the mind of the illustrious person 011
whom such vast prospects are opened, and who seems to
have been born to a destiny so glorious. It is some pre-
sumption to picture in imagination the scene which must
this morning have passed between the mother, the exulting
mother, and the tender and grateful child.—(Cheering.)
Do you not think with me—(it is impossible that it should
have been otherwise)—do you not believe with met that
when the Princess met her incomparable mother, and knelt
down to ask the maternal blessing, on a day when such 3
blessing ought to be heard in heaven—do you not believe
that she laid her hands upon the head of her royal girl, aml
that, raising up her eyes to God, she prayed that the Al-
mighty might make that good and gentle 'daughter the
means of felicity to that empire which she is destined to
govern ?—(Great cheers.) And do you not also believe
that, while that prayer was being offered up, the child
looked in the mother's face with tears (for of joy as well as
of sorrow tears are the indication), and that she mingled
her prayers with the maternal orison that she may live to
gladden her mother's heart by becoming a blessing to the
English people ?—(Cheers.) That she does entertain the
high and holy desire to be instrumental in the diffusion of
happiness over the entire of -this magnificent empire I en-
tertain no doubt. What a spectacle must offer itself to
her imagination when she reflects on the great part which
she is ordained to perform ! The vast and stupendous
range of' dominion which she is to exercise must be spread
before her. When she looks to the east, she sees Hindus-
tan with its hundred millions, who have hitherto experienced
little else but British domination, but among whom the
advantages of civilization and of true religion are extending.
She sees Australia in the south, where British colonization
displays, even in its infancy, the evidences of gigantic
power. In the extremest point of Africa she beholds the
promontory, which, in reference to what may be yet
achieved, may well be designated as that of " Hope." In
those " regions of the sun" the incipient liberty to which
she trusts to give accomplishment. This is a glorious and
magnificent prospect ; but how much more ennobled it be-
comes, when, turning her eyes from remoter objects, she
looks to England herself—(great cheering)—glorious and
magnificent England : she may well rest her eyes with ex-
ultation upon her grandeur, her opulence, her boundless
commerce, her mighty navies, her almost illimitable sway le
But while on this your fine island, called by Milton, and
justly so called,
" The noblest and the best of all the main,"
she looks with admiration, let her turn her regards to that
beautiful land beside it—that unfortunate but beautiful
Ireland—(Loud cheers)—and oh ! may she feel, in re-
membering its calamitous history, that, by a detestable
policy, the most precious endowments of nature have been
rendered useless, and the beneficence of God has been frus-
trated, and a soil the most fertile, a climate the most fortu-
nate, a position the most happy, all, in one word, that Pro-
vidence could give us in its partiality, has been made of no
avail ; let her see and feel that the calamities of that fine
country, and the errors and the faults of its people, have
arisen from a fatal and guilty misrule ; and let her learn
that as hitherto the misfortunes of Ireland have arisen from
the unnatural policy which preferred the interests of a fac-
tion to the rights of a nation, the remedy for all these evils
is to he found in the simple expedient of common justice,
by which, to the interests of a faction, the rights of a nation
will be preferred.—( Long continued cheering.) He begged
pardon for having thus detained them, but he hoped he
might be allowed to propose " Prosperity to the Borough of
Lambeth." It, was greeted with loud applause.
Mr. ANDERSON rose to return thanks, on the part of the
borough, to the Hon. Gentleman who had proposed its
prosperity ; and although diffident of being heard, after the
splendid speeches to which the company had listened, he
must, nevertheless, observe that it was a peculiar pleasure
to have the opportunity, on the one hand, of thanking the
Hon. Gentleman, in the name of the electors of Lambeth,
and on the other, to assure him that they were not unde-
serving of the good wishes which he had expressed to-
wards them.—(Hear, hear.) The toast to which the Hon.
Member had responded, had its birth and origin in Lam-
beth—it was the people of Lambeth who were foremost
in the field for " justice to Ireland"—it was the people of
Lambeth who spread the fire of national association
throughout the United Kingdom—and he trusted he did
not prophecy in vain, when he begged to assure the Hon.
Member, that having " nailed their flag to the mast" of
Reform, they would be the last to strike it.—(Tremendous
and continued cheers.) lam most happy (said he) to see
the Hon. Gentleman present upon this occasion, and I would
also have been most happy to have seen the representative
of all Ireland also present, to witness the feeling with
which Englishmen and Scotchmen respond to the call
for justice to Ireland ; but I doubt not, notwithstanding
the absence of that Hon. Member, that the Hon. Mem-
ber for Tipperary will not only tell his constituents, but
the people of Ireland generally, how deeply we sympa-
thise with their distresses—how anxious we are to pro-
cure a speedy redress of their grievances—how deter-
mined we are to have justice done to them.—(Cheers.)
The majority of last night may have discouraged some.
It has not discouraged me, nor ought it to discourage
any true Reformer. The Ministry is safe. The Tories
cannot and dare not attempt to oust it. With Ireland and
,all her grievances and oppressions, and all the talent and
eloquence of her representatives, of which they had had
a splendid specimen this evening, on one hand—and the
Dissenters from an overgrown and unequalized Church
Establishment, on the other, who was tliere.to attempt their
downfall ?—(Cheere.) No one. There was the will, but
there was not the power—there was the wish to cut short
the progress of Reform, but there existed no means of
crushing it. The people are not now what they once were
—they appreciated their rights and. privileges, and they de-
sired that every one should participate in them, both civil
and ecclesiastical. In conclusion, he begged, in the name
of the electors of Lambeth, to return his best thanks to the
Member for Tipperary, fur his kind wishes towards them,
and to assure him, that if deficient in the eloquence with
which he was gifted, and which he had so ably used for the
benefit, not of Ireland only, but of society at large, their
hearts were as warm as his, and their determination as
honest and as strong. In Lord Melbourne the people of
Lambeth placed their utmost confidence, and in mentioning
his name, every one present would feel that it was coupled
with justice to Ireland.
Mr. NORTIIITOUSE being called upon by the Chairman,
said the toast with which lie bad been honoured was one
calculated to awaken the warmest enthusiasm—it was the
health of a gentleman at the head of the literature- of his
country.—(Cheers.) ' He differed from an opinion that had
been expressed as to the apathy or negligende of the people ;
he believed the great mass of the people were honest and
hearty in the cause, as far as they knew; but be *was afraid
they had much yet to• learn before they could see through
the designs of all their enemies, or understand the theories
of all their friends. A short review of the last few years
would prove this : all must remember the struggles for the
Reform Bill—the refusal of the Tories to concede the
smallest particle of Reform—the determination that East
and West Looe, Gatton, and Old Sarum, should continue
to tax Birmingham, ManchLster, and the large towns of the
kingdom, and apprdpriate such taxation to the connection
of their nominal representatives—in•paying Captains with-
out ships—Colonels without regiments—Admirals without
fleets—all remembered how this system was pronounced
by a Noble Duke to be the perfection of human wisdom,
and that "no Reform at all was wanted"—that any, the
slightest change, had in it the seeds of revolution,
anarchy, and destruction ; and when the Reform Bill
itself was brought forward, Pandora's box was at once
opened without even hope at the bottom. The horrors
of the French Revolution, were paraded in terrific array
before us. We were threatened with Marats, Robespierre's,
and Danton's without number, as the certain and inevitable
consequence of its becoming law ; yet shortly after this
dreadful Bill passed, and the Tories were again in office,
then a mental and political miracle took place—the whole
Cabinet became converts to Reform—determined, as they
declared, to carry out this criminal and horrible measure—
to be the guardians, if you could only paint them, of this'
most precious boon to the people!--(Laughter.) Could
there be any greater miracle than this? Yet, that mee,
calling themselves intelligent, could be found to believe
them.—(Cheers.)
" The Tories now were wiser than of yore.
And tempt, not offering less, but offering more."
A dexterous cry had been set up of " mcasu.es and not.
men," which was a most mischic‘ous fallacy. " Measures
without men," says the immortal Bacon, " are dead
images ," and that gre-It constitutional writer whose vizor
is yet down (the celebrated Junius), calls the cry a trick of
knaves to '',nil fools ; yet this trick succeeded in his day,
and it has been but tea successful in curs. The toast he
had to propose was applicable to the correction of this error
by the diffusion of knowledge, and also to the correction of
dangerous errors on one side, for some-of us were disposed