The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-25 00:00:00

THE DINNER.

A public dinner, in commemoration of the important
proceedings of the day, took place in the evening at the
Star Hotel, which was attended by the Earl of Yarborough,
Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, C. 8., the Worshipful Mayor,
and several of the Aldermen and Town Council, the Rev.
W. H. Brookfield, Captain Ward, R.N., the Chairman,
and several of the Directors of the Dock Company, and
about 150 of the principal inhabitants of the town. The
dinner provided by Shepherd was excellent, and the wines,
including an abundance of champagne, of first rate quality.
Joseph Ligr,girs, Esq., presided. After ample justice had
been done to the good things provided, and grace said,

The CHAIRMAN rose and said—Gentlemen, in proposing
to you the first toast, and thereby giving you an opportu-
nity of expressing
your loyalty to your Sovereign, and your
attachment to the Throne, 1 cannot refrain from reminding
you that the stupendous work we have this day commenced,
is the first work of the kind ever begun in this country dur.
ing the reign of a Queen.—(Hear, hear.) It is, more-
over, the first work. of any mt gnitude commenced at so
early an age of the Sovereign of these realms. As these
our Docks are now in a state of infancy, and her Majesty,
I hope, in the enjoyment of the bloom of youth, let us hope
that both will advmee together in peace and prosperity to
a happy old age.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.)
" The Queen."—Drank with nine times nine.
The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, there is another illustri-
ous lady, who, by her virtuous and exemplary conduct, has
endeared herself to the heart of every British subject.
The bereavement she has sustained has excited, I believe I
may venture to affirm, the regret and sympathy of every
British bosom.—(Hear, hear.) She has recently left odr
shores, to search in a distant land for the restoration of
that health, which in her own clime has been denied to her,
and let us hope that she may not be disappointed.--
( Hear, hear.) There are other members of the Royaltt
Family to whom I need not allude further than ?
they are branches of that illustrious house
which
eover these
so many years happily and prosperously reign
realms. 'o silts for
The Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Va-
mily," three times three.
The CHAIRMAN said, in rising
to do honour to the
it was an easy and a
recollections the victories
Hampshire.—(Cheers.) The
achievements of a Wellington, who
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had been replaced by others of a better description, that
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the service would be again brought into that high state of
efficiency, which would enable it, whenever the day again
returned, to vindicate the banner of their country—to assert
its supremacy on the compel all opponents to re-