The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-30 00:00:00

CIVIC BANQUET, TO THE LORDS OF THE
ADMIRALTY AT CORK.

( From the Cork Examiner of Wednesday).

Yesterday evening the entertainment of the corpora-
tion to Sir James Graham and' the Lords of the Admi-
ralty, and the naval and military cfficers at present sta-
tioned in this harbour and garrison, was given at the
Royal Victoria Hotel. The large room of the Chamber
of Commerce, in which the banquet was served, was

most appropriately and tastefully decorated ; over the

centre door was placed a very handsome illuniinated
civic arms, and the walls of the room were becomingly
ornamented with festoons. The company numbered
over 200, among whom were the principal military and
naval officers at present in Cork.
The guests of the evening were—Sir James Graham,
Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty ; Admiral Dundas,
Captain Milne, Bernal Osborne, M.P., Secretary to the
Admiralty ; Sir Baldwin Walker, Captain O'Brien,
Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty; Rear-
Admiral Sir W. F. Carroll, Rear-Admiral A. Corry,
Commodore Henry B. Martin, C. 8., Captain Frederick
Thomas Mitchell, H.M.S. Queen ; Captain Sir Thonias
Maitland, C. 8., H.M.S. Agamemnon ; Captain Hon.
Frederick Thomas Pelham, H.M.S. Blenheim ; Cap-
tain Charles Eden, H.M.S London ; Captain S.
G. Fremantle, H.M.S. Arrogant ; Captain George
Goldsmith, Sidon.; Captain R. B. Watson,
H.M.S. Imperiense ; Captain Frederick Hutton, H.M.S.
Prince Regent ; Captain Hon. S. T. Carnegie, H.M.S.
Tribune ; Captain Claude Buckle, H.M.S. Valorous ;
Captain George Gifford, H.M.S. Leopard; Captain T.
H. H. Glassen, H.M.S. Vulture; Captain W. W. Cham-
bers, H.M.S. Desperate ; Captain John Moore, H.M.S.
Highflyer ; Captain James J. M'Cleverty, H.M.S: Ter-
rible ; Captain Astley Cooper Key, H.M.S. Amphiop ;
Captain Hon. H. Keppel, H.M.S. St. Jean d'Acre ; Com-
mander P. Cracroft. H.M.S. St. Jean d'Acre • Comman-
der W. T. Burrett, H.M.S. Queen ; Commander George
H. Gardner, H.M.S. Blenheim; Commander W. H.
Stewart, H.M.S. Prince Regent; CoyAtuander Octavius
Cumberland, H.M.S, London; Conattancler Henry H.
Hellyar, H.M.S. Agamemnon ; Char'le's Richards, Sec-
retary to the Rear-Admiral ; Lieu tint H. Bacon, Lieu-
tenant Williams, flag-lieutenant,'Admiralty, Queens-
town; Captain of H.M.S. Banshee; Captain of H.M.S.
Black Eagle. The military guests comprised—Major
General Mansel, commanding the Cork district, Cap-
tain Connolly, A.D.C.; Lieut.-Colonel Ferguson, com-
manding B.9th Regiment ; Lieut.-Colonel Wright, com-
manding 39th Regiment ; Maunsell,
Lieut.-Colonel French, Lieut.-Colonel Wynwarri, Royal
Engineers ; Major Stewart, commanding local 43ension-
ers ' • the °Seer commanding 49th depot; Majoharpe,
72dIlighland Regiment ; Lieut.-Colonel Dalton` of the
Royal Artillery • Lieut.-Colonel O'Brien, LieNtictnant-
Colonel Burke, Prospect House ; Adjutant Wilaiva,39th
Regiment ' • Lieut,-Colonel Balders sth Dragoon Guards;
Major Tenley, 39th Regiment. And among the general
guests the. Right Rev. Dr. Delany, the Catholic bishop ;
the Right Hon. the Earl of Bandon, Lord Viscount
Bernard, M.P. • Wm. Fagan, M.P. ;F. B. Beamish,
M.P. ; E. B. Roche, M.P. • Isaac. Butt, M.Y. ; Hon.
Cecil Lawless, M.P ; the Worshipful Thomas Forsyth,
recorder of the city; Archdeacon Kyle, Martin Con-
way, Daniel Meagher, Sub-Inppector Walker, Sir John
Benson, Captain White, a. P., Harbour Master, &c.
The Right Worshipful the Mayor, J. F. Maguire,
Esq., M.P., presided.

Grace having been said by the Right Rev. Dr. Delany,
and, the viands disposed of,

The CHAIRMAN rose exactly at 9 o'clock, and said the
first duty of the assemblage on that most interesting;'
occasion was to express their . feelings of loyalty to the
Sovereign of these realms, her most gracions Majesty
Queen Victoria. (Hear, hear.) It did not always.
happen that an enlightened attachment to the Throne
and Government under which a people lived was
coupled with a true respect for the individual by whom
that form of Government was represented, but
happily for them the monarch who sat upon the Throne
of those realms was herself a model of every domestic
virtue---(hear)—and claimed the respect of her subjects,
not alone by the high office that she filled—great and ex-
alted as _that office may be—but by her own personal
character and virtues. (Hear.) And let it not be said
for a moment that the personal character of a sovereign
was a matter of indifference to her people—(hear, bear)
—or that it was not a matter of the greatest importance
to the interests and honour of the country, for if • they
looked at past history, many gentlemen in .that en-
lightened assembly would see that the vices, and even
the weakness, of monarchs had been attended with,the
most disastrous consequences to the country which they
ruled. (Hear.) They had seen, not only public morals
lowered, but they had seen all classes degraded and cor-
rupted by the influence of the court. They had seen art
debased, literature prostituted, and even religion itself
scoffed at ; but the people of this empire lived under dif-
ferent circumstances at theyresent day, fortheir Monarch
was one who gave an example of every! ciOmestie,virtue,
,is a daughter; as it wife, and as a mother. (Hear.) Her
example puri.ged the Oestionable atmosphere of a, court,
and a rr rei c d e 5 beneficial influence upon !every- Class in'
the community. (Hear.) With the greatest respect for
the public and private virtues of her Majesty, he, there-
fore, gave " The Queen."
The toast was received in the usual loyal manner.
Air.—" God save the Queen."
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said, in proposing the
health of Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal family,
raised to a position only second to that of the Sovereign
herself, the Prince Consort had entitled himself, by his
conduct since he came to this country, to add to the ad-
miration of the country of his adoption ; to him was due
the Great Exhibition of 1851, to which the arts and'
talents of the world contributed. (Hear.) Since that
period he had devoted himself consistently to every
beneficent object, and, therefore, he (the mayor) gave
them "The Health of Prince Albert and the rest of the
Loyal Family."
The toast was received with enthusiastic cheers.
The CHAIRMAN said the next toast on his list was
"The Lord-Lieutenant and Prosperity to Ireland ;" and
in proposing it he said he had some personal experience
of the courtesy and kindly treatment which the Lord-
Lieutenant was ever ready to accord to those who ap-
proached him on matters of public interest. So much
on that branch of the toast ; and, as to the other, the
prosperity of Ireland, near and dear as it was to their
hearts, however much they might differ as to the mode
and manner in which it was brought about, still love of
country was not monopolised by any one class, section,
or creed—it was common to the human family—an in-
stinct
implanted in the human heart—a love of country,
every day becoming more and more strong, which led
them to discard some cherished prejudices, and to unite
in wishing that fraternity and that cordial'union which
(!ould alone bring about the wish they had at heart.
(Cheers.)

Mr. BUTT, M.P. for Youghal, was called on to re-
spond, and on rising was received with loud cheers. He
commenced by stating that the call that they had made
on him to respond to the toast, tcok him by surprise ;
for when he came there, anxious, in the first place, to do
honour to the mayor of the city—to those entrusted with
the administration of the affairs of this great empire,
anxious to do so, from, he said, sincerely and personally
respecting the characters of those whom they had the
honour to meet here upon this interesting occasion—
and anxious, independent of all that, to mark his
humble sense of the value that might result to their
magnificent port, and anxious from old associations,
.which the mayor knew, and which made him (Mr.
Butt) rejoice to see that gentleman occupying the chair
—he had come there for the reason, though he could
not have supposed that that partiality which he knew
the mayor felt for him would have induced that exalted
functionary to call on him (Mr. Butt) to return
thanks. He could not refuse that call, and in a
very few words would discharge his duty. For the
distinguished nobleman who represented her Majesty
in this country he (Mr. Butt) had no claim to speak—
no claim to be called on—except, perhaps, this one—
and if he alluded to political differences for once— it was
for the purpose of making the symbol of political differ-
ences, differing as they did do in party politics—he could
better testify to the impartial sense all, every Irishman,
entertained for the impartiality of that nobleman.
Speaking there among those who knew him, he might
say he had some claims to speak. He rejoiced he
could say that they had prosperity in Ireland. Passing
through years of difficulty and distress, he believed that
the dawn of prosperity was beginning to shed its light
over them. They saw it in the assembly of that even-
ing ; and he said that when men of different opinions
could meet and assemble round the festive board without
a danger of one single word of difference—(cheers)—
meet with the promise that religion or politics would not
disturb their harmony—they had an evidence that the
generosity of Irishmen in many meetings such as the pre-
sent had given a better pledge than any other that could
be given, that they would observe the guarantee given.
(Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He believed he made use
Of the expression on a former occasion, that we were
wasting our energies and injuring ourselves in speaking
against each other, as they had done many times ; and
he believed he had uttered the observation, that when
each party of Irishmen gave a bad character of each
other, there were Englishmen who believed them both.
(Loud cheers.) They had met, not to give a bad cha-
racter to each other—not each party to represent the
other as wholly unworthy of a position in the country,
but to give a good character to each other, and he thought
he might venture to say they had Englishmen present
who would believe them both. (Cheers.) They had met,
not to give a bad character of each other —not each
party to misrepresent the other as unworthy the position
they hold in the country, but to give a good character to
each other ; but he might venture to say, as they had
Englishmen present who would believe both, thatdiffering
as they did, and as lie hoped they always would do—for
true honest difference of opinion was one of the elements
by which honest government would be carried on, they
would not be fools enough to represent they dissented
from as unworthy of any credit, but would say that
there was honour, integrity, and patriotism on both
sides, but yet occasions might arise when, for the com-
mon interests of the country, and of the great country
with which it was their pride to be identified—all that
honesty and all that integrity might be a combination in
1 which they might defy the world. (Loud and protracted