The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-08 00:00:00

CHANGES.

Lady Howard de Walden, at Belvoir Castle, on a visit to
the Duke of Rutland, from Welbeck Priory, Nottinghamshire,
the seat of the Duke of Portland ; Lady de Poer Trench, at
Gloucester, from Cheßenliam ; Viscount Eastnor and the
Hon. Miss Cocks, at Leamington Spa, from Windsor ; Lord
Alvanley, at Crown° Park, on a visit to the Earl of Coventry,
from tho seat of the Duke of Beaufort, near Cirencester,
Gloucestershire ; Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, on a visit to
the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, from their seat in
Norfolk ; Lord and Lady R. Grosvenor, at Eaton Hall, on a
visit to the Marquis and Maichioness of Westminster, from
Leamington Spa; Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby, at
Burghley House, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Exeter, from Grimsthorpe ; the Marquis of Lothian, at St.
Leonard's, from Dover; Sir Charles and Lady Cocketell, at
Croome, near Worcester, on a visit to the Earl of Coventry,
from Sezincote, Gloucestershire ; Lord Forester, at Belvoir
Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, from his seat,
Willie Park, Shropshire; Lord and Lady Rolsroore, at
Kinstown, from Dublin ; Lady Dunstanville, at Bath, from
Devonshire.

It is the intention of her Majesty to institute a new
order of knighthood, which will replace the Hanoverian order,
no longer in the gift of the British Crown. This order is to be
entitled the Knighthood of Merit, and is to consist of two
classes of equal rank, the civil knights and the military knights.
Sir William Woods has had prepared several patterns of the
decorations, which have been sent to his Royal Highness the
nuke of Sussex for his approbation, and the crosses that are
supposed most likely to be selected consist of an enamelled
cross of eight points, having in the circle, on one side, the
word " Merit," and on the other " V. R." the whole cur-
mounted by the Imperial Crown, the distinction for the mili-
tary badge being two swords in saltier, the blades and hilts
beiween the cross.
The Lord Chancellor will give his usual break-
fast on Thursday next, the first day of Mary Tetra, to the
judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., at his reside'nco in Bruton-
street.

Sir David Wilkie has been takin.o. sittings for the
portraits of her Aljesty, the Duke of Sussex,' the Duke of
Wellington, and the Lord Chancellor, in li's grand picture of
the Queen taking the oaths before the Privy Council, on the
morning of her accession. This picture repres:nts the Queen
sitting at the head of the Council-table, surrounded by the
Ministers of State ; at the bottom of the table is the Duke of
Sussex, who is in the act of receiving a pen from the hand of
the Duke of Wellington. The other parts of the picture are
filled with the members of the Privy Council. The moment
chosen for the action of the scene is immediately after the
Queen has signed the Proclamation of her succession, and
the Council are about to attach their signatures to the same
.110.cument. The picture is on a very large scale, the figures
pang nearly of life s,ze. In the present stage of the work,
further remark would be premature.
King William, our late most excellent King, had it
in contemplation to purchase Mrs. Fitzherbert's mansion on
the Steyno, for the purpose (as the on dit would have it) of
gaining additional accommodation for the Nlieistirs, when on
a visit to his Majesty, out qf the Palace. Within one month
of the commencement of his lamented illness, Mr. George
Robins was commanded to go to Brighton, with a view to
form a correct estimate of i:s value. The treaty had com-
nwneed, and would have ended most satisfactorily. Ilis Ma-
jesty's opinion of the value was represented to bo ten thou.
!and pounds. On the 15th inst. we shall see how far his
Judgment in these matters is to be relied on.—Brighten He-
r,-kld, Jan. 6.
TRIAL oF Tllti COTTON-SPINNERS.—In refe-
rence fin this important trial, which commenced on Wednesday
last, the ..g,eutsnian of Saturday last says—" It has since been
continued front day to day ; and such is the mass of evidence
11° Noshrough, that it is doubtful when it will be coucluded.
thisa hoped it woulti be brought to a close this evening, but
impossible, as, out of ninety-one witnesses for the
wn only thirty-five had, up to last night, beets examined—
._4llil then there are, we understand, a large number of exeulpit-
ZYawitnesses to be produced. 'From an injunction of Court,
aver, it
from publishirg the evidence till the trial is
a_eat, it being considered, that as the prisoners might have a
real of evidence to explain away the effect of that pre-
f"
the prosecution, it wag due to them that the one
Ibured.,
aouro not be published without the other. The Court ad-
on Wednesday at half-past seven in the evening ; on
pm luny about ten; and last night about the same hour ; the
ti;.."?dings being resumed about nine o'clock each morning.
1,1.7 Toterest excited by the trial beyond all conception.
'e urt-room ia crowded to excess ; the doors are con.
antly beset by -
in,
o every
iindstray portion of the evidence which reaches them ;
ost every other topic in town is absorbed in the pso,
0,0 of the proceedings in Court,"

DINNER TO SIR JAMES GRAITAAI

( From the Carlisle Patriot of Saturilay.)
On Thursday eveoing the dinner announced to be given to
Sir James Graham by the Conservatives of East Cumber land
took place at the Bush Inn, in Cailisle. The applications for
tickets were very numerals. Unfortunately the room ie
which the dinner was served would not conveniently hold
more than 230 persons. About 270, however, contrived
find scats, and than the stewards were rcluc:antly compello4
to refuse admission to a large number of gentlemen, for whom
no accommodation conid possibly be found ; but, after dinner.
upwards of 600 pergons obtained admission into the principal
room. Edward William Hasell, Esq , was in the chair, ar.d
Richard Ferguson, Esq., acted as vice-chairman, Arnow.:
the company we observed the Hon. Robert Leesoni Thomas
H. Graham, Robt. Brisco, Joseph Pocklington, John Fawcett,
Henry Pattinson, Christopher Parker, Andrew Hudleston,
Wm, Halton, Joseph Gillbanks, Henry Farrer, J. Hill, Ro-
bert Hodgson, Hugh Patrickson, Jos. Ferguson, and George
Cowen, Esqrs., Major Wilson, the Rev. Mr. Duckenfield,
and the Rev. Mr. St. John,
On the removal of the cloth, " Non Nobis Domino" was
sung by the professional singers.
The CHAIRMAN then said, before proceeding to give and:
toasts it was necessary that he should account for the absence
of the gentleman who have
presided on the occasion,
namely, Sir George Musgrave. He was sorry to inform the
meeting that the worthy Baronet was, last Sunday evening,
suddenly called to Brighton by the illness of his mother. Ile
ealled upon the company to drink " The Queen," and, he
would add, "may her reign be long and prosperous, and may
I ealth and happiness ever attend her."
" The toast was drunk with three times three, and followed
by " God save the Queen."
The next toast was, " The Queen Dowager and the rest
of the Royr.l Family."
Glee--" Hail Star of Brunswick."
The CHAIRMAN said the next to which he had to call the
attention of the company was, " The Church in connection
of the State." The toast was drunk with three times three.
The CHAIRMAN—I have already given somee toasts of
great general interest, but I am now about to proose one
which I am sure will, in a particular manner, arrest tfle atten-
tion of the large and respectable assemblage over which I have
the honour to preside. Sir James Graham now stands before
the country as a great statesman—a man who is honoured by
his countrymen for his abilities. I may, perhaps, be allowed
to say a few words with respect to those measures which my
Right Hon. Friend has wisely opposed. I recollect heating
Sir James Graham explain to a respectable body of voters at
Penrith his reasons for opposing the Ballot, Extension of the
Suffrage, and Triennial Parliaments, and I remember that
upon that occasion I heard one of his opponents state that the
Right Hon. Baronet and the party who supported him were
hostile to the Queen's Government. Now, I read with par-
ticular attention the speech of the lla-n• Secretary, Lord John
Russell, at the commencement of the session just sus-
pended, and I found that it was, if not word for word,
in sense and effect, at least, the same as that delivered
by Sir James Graham at Penrith.—( Continued cheers.) Those
who beard my right Hon. Friend's speech, and also read the
reported speech of Lord John Russell in the newspapers,
would be puzzled to point out any difference existing, between
them. Yet we were charged with factiously opposing the
Queen's government in supporting Sir James Graham.---( Loud
cries of " Hear.") I will not longer detain you. Let us driak
our distinguished guest's health with hearty good will, and

am sure you will give him an attentive hearing, which I am
sorry to add, he has not always obtained in his native county.
.--(Great cheering. The toast was then drunk with six times
six, and loud enthusiastic cheers.)
Sir JAMES GRAHAM rose, and was received with another
burst t,f cheering, which having subsided, the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet spoke follows—My Hon. Friend, in proposing the
toast, alluded to my 4.7ent defeat. I will be frank with you.
This is tt meeting of friends, 444 th:re should be no conceal-
ment. That defeat was not half so painful to me as some of
the circumstances ettcuding it. I had hoped, after 4 life of
some duration, spent in this service cf the county of Cumber,
land, that, even if the constitueticy were resolved to dismiss
me, they would, at least, have been pleased to listen to me_
that, if they were resolved to strike, they would, at all cvents,
have first heard me.—(Loud cries of " Hear.") I did not
suppose that I should have been hunted, almost like a
mad dog, through the streets of Carlisle, and that my uncon-
scious son would be knocked down at my feet, and aimort
trampled upon.—(Loud isitprei*ns of indignation.) I re-
gret, for the honour of the county, to be compelled to state
that scenes took place on that occasion which I think. disgrace-
. ful to the free itiatitutions under which we live.—J,oud
cheers.) I must admit, gant/emen, that I have been greatly
traduced, During the last six vstontW the floodgates of Bil-
lingsgate liege been opened upon me—the vw.alinley .)11' Abuse
has been ransaekud to find terms of opprobrium to apply to
me, I have bees called turncoat, bigot, apostate, renegade—
the shout of triumph has been raised in Downing-street, and
echoed in the lowest corners occupied by the retainer; of Go-
vernment, and perhaps there is no corner so low as tea Coun-
cil Chamber of this city.—(Cheers and laughter.) All the
pack of Ministerial retainers have been ii illooed upon my tra es
—I have had to endure the deep mouthed grunta of their quar-
terly, the yelp of their monthly, the bark of their weekly, 4nd
the snarl of their daily journals, —(Laughter.) We heard a
great deal lately about the " Spottitwoode Conspiracy," as it
was called, and of the illegality of the subscriptions raised,
for the purpose of defraying the expense of the Irish peti-
tions ; but what we experience in this very county ? The
Reform Club in London actually advertised fur subscriptions
to prevent me from bean' erected Member for East Cumber-
land. Two bankers were advertised in London to receive the
subscriptions, end, if I am not mistaken, a former colleague of
mine, once a friend—who I might have thought, from past re-
collection of transactions, would have entertained a kind fc,A.
ing towards me, had net his more recent obligati•ois to the
Government as chief tithe Commissioner prevented him--sent
down 5001. to aid in ejecting Sir James Graham.—( Cheers.. )
Then wo bad a flax merchant from Leeds, sending his thou-

sand pounds, and a ragman in Shaddungate contributing his
fire shiLiegs for the kerne purpose.—(Cheers and laughter.)
MI this was done to effict the mighty object of expelling me
from the representation of East Cumberland. I have fought
battles on ray own resources, and with some detriment to my
private fortune, and here I now stand, a plain Cumberland,
country -rrentleman. I ask you, except having won my way
in fair fight on the floor of the House of Commons to the
Privy Council of my Sovereign, which conferred on me a
fleeting mark of temporary distinction, what have I gained ?
What additional hereditary honours have I sought or obtained?
What pecuniary emoluments have been reeeived either by myself
or my relations? I would ask you, Gentlemen, whether, among
your 1.01-flewn patriots—your Earls of Durham—those
questions could be answered in the same way ?—( Loud and
long-continued cheering.) My Honourable Friend, in pro.
posing my health, alluded to my public services in terms much
too Lind. It is not for me to dwell upon that subject. I before
told you that I gained no distinction excepting one of a ile,A-
ing kind; but it was my good fortune when, on principle, I
resigned oflice—an office immediately connected with the ser-
vice in which the Monarch who than reigned over us had been
engaged.-to hear from my Royal Master sentiments expres-
sive of' his eoufidenec, and of the approb :got' with which he
then viewed my official career—expressions which I feel to be
an ample remuneration for all toy labours. I have always
held that the floor of the House of Commons is the fitting
place from which a Member should express his sentiments:
and I have never shrunk from expressing mine.—(Loud
cheers.) That ground, however, is now occupied by our pre-
s,nt Representatiees. With respect to one of those gentlemen,
Mr. James, a severe aceideot which occurred to him, does, in
my mind, afford an ample apology for his absence from Par-
liament during the short session which has just concluded.
I regret that aceidetit, and think it but just to say that Mr.
James's absence is accounted fur; but I agree with my Hon-
ourable Friend, the Chairman, in thinking the Major Agli-
onby's absence is quits unaccountable. I saw Lim in perfect
health ye.sterday, trying with great ability, a prisoner for steal-
ing a calf's skin---( Great laughter)—but when the mighty in-
terests involved in the settlement of the civil List were at
stake—when that great question which permanently affected
both the expenditure of the country, and the dignity of the
Crown was brought under discussion—where was the repre-
sentati%e of East Cumterlxr.d?—(Loud cries of "Hear,
hear.") This division of the county was unrepresented in the
House of Commons, though by a I:eculiar coincidence of cir-
eutuatancts during the late sigma' of I),rliament, an opportu-
nity was &girded Major Aglionby. of mountirg his favourite
hobby. The first division took place on the question of Vote
by Ballot, and, among the faithless, only twenty c..n be found
to support that extraordinary proposition. Oh, th t our
representative lied been present to have added one to that
glorious minority.--( Laughter.) The Learned Chairman
of the Quarter Sessions to,d the eleeters that he meant to
have some talk with Lord Melbourne on the subject of the
Pension List. By another strange coincidence Lord Mel-
bourne granted an inquiry into the Pension List, but he care-
fully excluded the Member who could most efficiently prose-
cute the inquiry. Where was Major Aglionby when Mr.
11 irvey's name was excluded front the Committee ? The
Hon. and Gallant Major also, forgetting the profession of
acme which he mice followed, is all for the reduction of her
Majesty's forces, and the immediate surrender of the colonies
By a coincidence equally strange with those to which I have
already advaneed, the lion. and Gallant Major had an oppor-
tunity of mounting that hobby also. He might have declared,
i t company with Mr. Leader and Mr. Roebuck, that Canada
should be given up without a struggle, and that Government
were not justifi:d in sending out the immense armament which
they contemplate—rightly I think—for the subjugation of
that colony. I hope, Gentlemen, you will
forgive me for
trespassing some time longer on your patience, be-
cause there are several topics to which, at this ire nent, it is
necessary that [should call your attention.—( Loud cheers. )
wish first to deal with the q
my moral character, as well as my
question of apostasy, which touches
character of a gentleman.
I wish to ask you, as sensible men, this question—on what oc-
eas'on dos a man put forward the most popular professions
which his principles will justify? I sav, and I am sure you
will agree with me, it is when be first' appeals to a popular
constituency. —( Ile. r, hear.) I hold in toy hand a copy of
th, addi.6.o which I issued to the county of Cumberland on the
occasion of the des.'til of the late Mr. Curwen. I put it to
you ; can you coeceive It Q;:casion when, from a desire to
otnek an object a just and lawful amliition, I was more likely
peiejlar doctrines ? I will be tried by that address.
now rgw.:4m, as ever have remained, the man I
tolf plu
dot forth
tint
professed to be in 18264 he You may justly brand me wit!t the
title of Aposta. e... My addi.p!
op
freeholders of Cum-
bnoerlaeixitipoisseri atecl pecemherl, 1628 ; and in order that !FOY
myself
aeettsatien of garbling the pa,sage to
wi'rie h
?ablle m
to re
n .particularlysowlnei'perr'oLe
will, though it is rather dis-
eg Loris, trupbjp y 91.1 with the
niet)le o ]the document. his as follows :
n
Gentlemen—The death of Mr, Curwen, who, throughout a

Lang- public life, both merited and enjoyed your fav:;ur, c-;cates
vacancy in Ow ropresent,itiott of ur count.,-, and opens ti,.
highest object of ambition to which a country gentleman cat-.
asp're. From my earliest youth I have veu'nred to here that
due season this honour might be attained by me ; and the de:\
sire not to prove altogether unworthy has long actuated on \
conduct, and has animated every exertion. The present op-
portunity appears fit for an appeal in favour of my pretensions.
You have lost a tried and faithful Member, whose supe-lo;
claims I Rare invariably recognised ; and having acted for tot';
years In strict concert with him, both in the county and in Piir.
liamsot, I IMittrally 4111 led to behove ths.t the public principts
which you approved in Mr. Citrwen will in me tildi receive
your decided sanction and support. I have, thtrefore, re.
signcd my seat for Carlisle, and I throW myself absolutely
on your suffrage; in the hope that I may not be rejected
as unworthy of your confidence. I *ill ;lot insult you by
3.3 y empty professions. My whole life is before you. It
has been Spent on my paternal Inheritance, which binds
me to the county of Cumberland by every tie that can
sway the heart of man ; and perhaps I may be allowed
to appeal to my public conduct as the best test of
my public principles. With warn attachment to civil and re-
li!,ions liberty, tempered by a firm ddernatuition to aphal I Our
establishment in Church and Sta!e, 1 shall endeavour, if chosen
your representative, to discharge my duty faithfully, to transact
your bu.iness diligently, dispassionately to c xere:s.r an inde •
pendent judgme.t, and on all occasions to prefer your wishes
and interests to my own. I shall lose no time in personally
soliciting your votes ; and
" I have the honour to be,
" Your most obedient humble Servant,
J. R. G. GRAHAM.

:riil ed then the conduct which 1
Nieeretheirsbny, DecDc li.
iyaeddress.
a,l pursued, and the conduct which I intended to adopt. I
did transact year business diligently. I did exercise an inde-
pendent judgment. I did prove my attachment to civil and
religious liberty. But I marked also my firm, my invincible
determination to uphold our establishment: in Church and State.
—(Long-continued cheering.) In the address which I have
read I referred to the principles of Mr. Curwen, with whom
I acted in concert for ten years. I have great pleasure in
seeing here several of my old supporters, and not only my
supporters but the old Blue supporters of Mr. Curweti. I
referred to the conduct of Mr. Curwen as conduct which I
would imitate. If I were to mention thelet in Mr. Curwen's
life which savoured most of democratic violence it would be
his junction with " The Friends of the People," (azing the
French revolution. I appeal to you whether lam not put-
tieg the case fairly ?—( Hear, hear.) Who were the friends of
the people? Amongst others, Mr. Byng, the present Mem-
ber for Middlesex ; Mr. Dennison, the present Member for
Surrey ; and Lord Grey, the heed of the Administration
under which I hal the honour of sening. What did the
petition of the " Friends of the People" pray for ? For a
large measure of Parliamentary Reform. Lord Grey pre-
sented that petition. The first time Lord Grey became Prime
Minister, though he held office in 1906, was when I had the
honour of being his colleague; and how did he redeem the
pledge which he had given upon the subject of Pailiameetary
Reform. He introduced a measure of Reform to which lam
a party—he tendered it as a full satisfaction for all the pledges
he had ever given on the subject—he tendered it, as far as he
was concerned, as a final measure affecting the Parliamentary
Representation. Lord Grey so tendered it ;it was so received
by Mr. Byng ; and I ask the old friends of Mr. Curwen,
wham I am glad to see here on this occasion, what act of his
life, what declaration he ever made, could induce them to be-
lieve that, if Mr. Curwen had been alive in 1831, he would
not also have accepted, as Mr. Byng did, the measure which
Laid Grey tendered in full, entire, and final satisfaction of
the pledges which the " Friends of the People" had given ?
(Cheers.) You are all are aware of the circumstances under
which I left the Government of Lord Grey. It was in im
media's connexion with the question of Ireland, hut that
question hag a distinct bearing- upon the policy to be obscrve4
towards the Protestant interest. The qaestion on which I
broke with the Government was a great question of principle,
bearing upon the property of the Church generally, though it
applied to Ireland only in the first instance Let me recal to
to your recollection what was the policy of the present Millis,
ters in regard to that question. I will put aside, for the pre-
sent, all that.has recently taken place in the House of Lords in
the way of aoeuaation and defence of Lard Mulgrave, though
my belief is, that when the matter comes to be inquired into by a
Committeeof the House of Lords, which I trust will be appointed,
it will be discovered that Lord Mulgrave has, in the eaereise
of his high authority, ttAillinfilt4l to judieial zitwiona Ma-
tures of O'Connell, and elected stipendiary magistrates and
assistant barristers, whose influence and power bear di-
Feptly pn the Parliamentary rep7osentoion of that country,
from the meteberseef a priinin4l saenciation, for se ouch I
must ever regard that hot-bed 0r rebellion—the Roman Ca,
tholic Association.---(Loud cheering,) I believe it will be
ele3ely preyed that, whilst he has dismissed honourable
Protestant gentlemen for, perhaps, an overheated vindi-
cation of the opinions they sincerely entertained (aaler
circumstances, however, in Which it is veey or
possessed of hetnan feeling to exeroise great forbearance),
that whilst he has disiOsed from the )magistracy a man like
Colonel Verner, he has put into the magistracy a ma.; like
Mr. O'Conni.ll, after the declaration male by that
which, in his absence, I would not quote if I bad nit already
quoted it iii his pieaerier, ‘i that he would cause a death's
head and cross-bones to be placed over the door of every man
who should dare to vote agsinst his religion." You are aware
that the immediate cause of my separation from Lord Grey's
Government was my'refusll to apply to teenier uses x portion
of ecclesiastical property in !retard. Lord Me'bourne, in a
recent speech, referred to a quotation made by cue font a
speech formerly delivered by him, and he charged me with
ga:bling. It so happens that I entertain a great r spec: far
the judgment and deterininetioe of Lord Melbourne. I
did believe, and I still cling to the hope, that there is in his
breast some reservation with respect to the support which
he will give to Radical and destructive measures. This
being the case, I was anxious to know on what ;;rousted It
could possibly support the appropriation clause, I saw ad_
vertised in the newspaper, as published by Mr. Ridgway,
of London, asd revised by Lord Melbourne himself, a
report of the speech delivered by Lord MAbou ns on intro-
ducieg the Tithe Bill in 1835, containing the aperopriation
clause I naturally sent for this authentic report, in order to
see what were the motives which induced Lord Melbourne to
support a measure of which I so much disapproved, and to my
great amazement I stumbled on the passage which I had 114!
good fortune to be the first to brin4 under the toile° of the
public,. I mean the celebrated passage in which mention is
made of the " heavy blow and great discouragement" pro-
posed to be given to Protestant's:lL You may be aware that
Lord Melbourne has also accused the Bishop of L'xrt:r
of
misquoting the same speech, and if you have real the Bishop's
answer you must be convinced that the Noble Premi,e- has not
gained much honour or advantage in this conflict with the
Lord bo t
or trouble
e
Right Rev. Prelate. I did not think it worth " I t e
the public with a written controversp with Lr
but I will avail myself of this opportunity of setting, the matter
right. In my place in the House of Commens on the 2d of
June, 1836, I read the following passage from Lord Mel-
bourne's speech:—

" At the same time, my Lords, that I propose this measure,
I am fully aware of the effects which it will produce, and of
the objections which may be urged against it. lam deeply
sensible and much concerned at the impression which I feel
that it will make. I cannot conceal from myself that it will
be, in the first instarsce, and for a certain time, a heavy blow
and a great discouragement to Protestantism in Ireland—that
it will be also a great triumph to the adverse party. I ant wll
aware that it is not the manse thing to destroy as never to have
constituted—to Devious's, as never to have built up ; but this
evil, which, I trust, will be but temporary, is FORCED UPON
by the untoward circumstances which I have already described.
I cannot avoid it, and that which I cannot avoid 1 must submit
to with as much patience as I can comma:id, and temper with
as much of temedy and alleviation AS it in in my power to
administer. I admit the great peril and danger which neces-
sarily attend upon and accompa y such mighty and fundamental
changes. The shake and convulsion which they create render
douhtlal the safety not merely if the Establishment, but cf the
Constitution itsey."
The House of Commons could 'welly belisve that I quoted
the passage currently, and I wag met by a cry of Oh, oh I"
upon which I went on to say—
" What I does that Hollow able Gentleman mean to deny
that I correctly quoted the words of the Noble Lord, or does
he fe,2l disposed to reprehend 111 Q for repeating this solemn
admonitioe ? "Fhe shake and the convulsion wick they create
render doubtful the safety not merely of the Establishment
but of the Constitution itself ?' Now, coupling the obser-
vations of the Noble Prsmicr, with regard to certain un•
toward circumstances,' with the phrase used by the Noble
Lord (Secretary for Ireland) of his ' inability to shake off
she question of appropriation,' I 'gle the House to pause,
and deliberate, now that the matter of discussion between the
conflicting parties is brought into narrow limits—and the
point of dispute is small—before it rejects so serious a warn-
ing as that which has been administered by the first servant of
the Crown, and by a servant of the Crown possessing the con-
fidence of Hon. Members opposite," &c. &c. Lord Melbourne
has accused me of garbling the extract. He should have
consulted the'correct authority before he proffered so grave a
charge. I read the whole of the passage, and what idcrence
but one ran be drawn from it? We are accustomed in this
part of she country to see men enter the ring and wrestle for
victory. Suppose upon such an occasion I were to go UP to
one of the combatants and profess for him all filet warmth of
friendship which Lord Melbourne declares he entertains for the
Protestant Church, but just as he was ab tut to grapple his 0P"
ponent I should trip up his heels or knock him down, and then
Soy to him 't this is a heavy blow and great discoteregettsente.---s
(A laugh.) But novnr mind, I have a great respect for You,
and hope you may win the belt."—( Laughter.) Would net
the man and the surrounding multitude, under such circum-
stances, be apt to exclaim, " Heaven save me from InY
feiends."—( Applause.) It is not, however, upon the words
which have so often been quoted relative to the " heavy blow"
that I rely so much as on the remarkable expres.6ee,
this
measure is forced upon me." Forced I By
whom and for
'that ? An attempt was made to force the same on mo.--
(Loud cheers.) Did I yield to that compulsion ? It appears
that the measure is forced on Lord Mslbouree ; he says that
be cannot avoil it—that he must submit to it. He admits
that such great changes must be attended with danger, and
give s, in emphatic words, a warning in which I entirely con-
cur, but which lends me to dissent from the course which
I_,grd Melbourne feels it consistent with honour and duty to
pursu's that " the chafe and convulsion which they create
render deubtrul-the safety, not, merely of the Establishment
bat of the Constitution itself."— ( Cheers.) Oh, gentiPmerb
"
this is piehtncholy• ff Lord Melbourne had not accused me
of garbling his speech 'I tvould have been too generous to
recal it to the recollection of an assembly of my countrymen ;
for, indeed, I blush to read such language proceeding from
a Minister of the Crown, The compteleton to which Lord