The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-13 00:00:00

THE DEJEUNE.

The proceedings closed with an entertainment to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, which was laid out in a spa-
cious apartment in the Town Hall, and which was attended
by about 100 gentlemen, including, of course, all those
who were actors in the stirring events of the day. The
mayor presided, having on his right hand the honoured
guest, and on the left the Bishop of Oxford.
The health of her Majesty the Queen haVing been drunk
with great enthusiasm,

The CHAIRMAN rose, and begged to propose "The Health
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer," whose blandness of
manner and kindly sentiments had endeared him to each
and to all of them. (Cheers.) Ho did not think they
should be so unreasonable as to expect any further exer-
tion that day from the right hon. gentleman ; it would be
unfair to ask him to deliver another such speech as they
had been listening to—a speech so comprehensive, and so
suitable to their circumstances as Manchester merchants,
that while they lived they should ever remember it with
feelings of satisfaction and pleasure. (Cheers.) It was
but a small tribute to the right hon. gentleman to propose
his health, but the manner in which it would be received
would convince him that they were all of one mind and
heart with respect to him. (Cheers.) He would, in con-
clusion, propose " The health of the right hon. gentleman
the Chancellor of the Exchequer." (Loud cheers.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER returned thanks.
He said—l receive this as a new favour in addition to the
other favours that you have already conferred on me ; but
on the present occasion, I must confine myself to the
simplest form of reply ; and indeed I should have been
pressed hard if, sir, you had not given me that intimation,
because I already felt to-day the inadequacy of words to
convey all I felt, and it is quite plain that thanks, once in-
adequately
expressed, will become poorer and poorer by
reiteration. (Hear, hear.) I shall say no more on the
subject, feeling that I have already detained you too long
in speaking on a transaction where I have been myself a
prominent person. I have now to propose to you " The
Health of our worthy Chairman ;" and this is a subject on
which I feel myself in a certain degree set free, except so
far as the presence of that respected gentleman restrains
me from saying that which otherwise I would say. (Hear,
hear.) The situation he holds in this great city—and, I
elieve by the repeated choice of those whose duty it is to
elect your chief magistrate—is a sufficient proof of the
estimation in which he is held ' • but I have not passed the
few days since I arrived in Manchester without learning
more than that indication conveyed. (Cheers). I see in
him a person who is deserving of the high public station
ho fills by his virtues, who occupies a high place in your
regard, and who, amongst the large class of persons with
whom he is connected, is recognised as one of the kindest
amongst the many kind and indulgent masters that form
the chief glory of Manchester. (Cheers.) If that be a true
description of your worthy mayor, it would not become
me when I stand before you, who are much better ac-
quainted with his character and merits than I am, to dwell
upon them at greater length, and I shall therefore only en-
treat of you to join with me in drinking the toast I beg to
give, namely, " The Health—with long life and every
blessing—of the Mayor of Manchester, and three times
three." (Loud cheers.)
The MAYOR returned thanks, and proposed " The
Health of the Bishop of Oxford." (Cheers), In doing so
he adverted in complimentary terms to the high position
held by the right reverend prelate.
The Bishop of OXFORD thanked the Mayor most cor-
dially for the kind anti undeserved manner in which he
had proposed his health. He was rejoiced at the oppor-
tunity that was then afforded to him of seeing in their
proper home the great industry, skill, and intellectual
pre-eminence of their country. (Hear, hear). There was
but one drawback to the pleasure he experienced, and that
was, that he should be called upon to trouble them with
any remarks after what they hail heard that day. The
chairman had been pleased to allude to the situation
which he held ; and he could assure them it was im-
possible for any one holding that position to pay ever so
short a visit to Manchester, and exercise ever so small an
observation on what was going on, without feeling most
deeply interested. (Hear.) Perhaps that which above
all other things bad been suggested to him was the in-
creased value of that which he had not been in the habit
of undervaluing—namely, the necessity of educating the
great tease of the people. (Cheers). When he stood on
the Preceding day in the midst of some of their most
wonderful works of machinery, and marked the improve-
ments which within the last year or two had taken place
in some of the subtlest and most efficacious parts of their
machines, and when ho observed how the intellect of man
was devoted, and successfully, at once to increase their '
power—to remove hindrances to their efficiency—to pro-
mote savings in the smallest parts of the subject matter
with which they had to deal—and when from the
machines lie turned to those feeding them, and marked
this great truth, that just so much as they had in-
crossed the power of their machines, they needed two
things—not so much skill in common workmen, but a
greater degree of skill in the higher workmen—it, struck
his mind how essential it must be to so great a commercial
community that they should be enabled to educate their
workmen, and that as they had made such a great progress
in the improvement of material machinery like the present,
a like improvement should be made in the education of the
workmen, who would thus be enabled to manage them.
When he saw such a mass of men as ho had beheld that
day, so eelf-controlled in their great strength, it was an-
other reason, in his mind, why this question should be one
of the first importance. (Cheers.) He felt more deeply
when close to their great city whet even at a distance he
had known—that this great nation must be thoroughly
educates! to make it safe. There was a power within it
that would be most dangerous unless the moral and intel-
lectual nature of the people was so framed and fashioned,
tompereii and constructed, that they should know how to
guide :end direct their gigantic strength. (Cheers.) Ho
would not then enter at large upon the question, nor pro-
nounce an opinion upon it ; but this he would say, that he
felt, confident that, from the experience, anti intellect, and
moral dar;ne of that groat community, with the subject
lerought dairy before them, with its requirements and ne-
cessities, they would—with the strength which God would
give to those who really asked it—solve this question
amongst themselves. (Hear.) God had enabled them to
solve too many difficult questions to doubt that he would .
bring them to a happy conclusion on this ; and the city of
Manchester, which had not thought it too much to lay out
1,230,0001. in bringing pure water from the distant hills,
to supply the physical necessities of the people, should not
withhold its aid when the question was to bring waters of
a higher and purer nature to the countless multitude, and
thus work out the solution of this great question. (Cheers.)
Before the conclusion of the proceedings some other
%oasts were given, and at their close the company separated
with evident feelings of pleasure and gratification at all
they had heard and witnessed.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tuts DAY —Morning 25 min.after 11 1 Evening 0 min.aft. 0
ro.mcaßow —Morning 56 min. after 11 1 Evening 21 min.aft. 12