The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-13 00:00:00

EVENING 14.1DITION.
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liberty—(Cheers)—and I have certainly been greatly dis-
appointed in not being able to tell to the Marquis of Nor-
manby that wbich I know would be truly gratifying to
himself—that his own election has been made upon a con-
--e--- viction of his possessing in an eminent degree those dia-
The readers of 2he Sun arc already aware that the tinguished qualities which were the ornaments of their
.amented demise of the late Earl of Durham caused a characters and the bond of union between them and use__
vacancy in the office of Lord High Steward of the borough (Loud cheers.) Ia conclusion, I must state that I think
of Hull. This office is an honorary one ; the possessor of the town of Hull could not have made a better choice.
it must necessarily be a Privy Councillor, he having to it only requires on our part a constant following up of
represent the interests of the borough before the Sore- those good intentions which his Lordship has shown to us,
reign. On the melancholy event to which we have alluded to derive those mutual advantages so desirable to have,
occurring, the Town Council fixed their choice as his sue- and which it is in our power to obtain. I have great
cessor upon the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby, pleasure in proposing " The health of the Marquis of Nor..
on account of his uniform advocacy of the people's rights, manby, the Lord High Steward of the Borough." The
and as a mark of the sense entertained of his upright and toast was drank with four times four, followed by tunntitu-
honest administration in Ireland. The appointment was ous plaudits.
promptly accepted by the Noble Marquis, and confirmed Colonel YORK, the Private Secretary of the Marquis,
by the Crown. The Musical Festival last week held in was received with prolonged cheering. He said that fill-
Hull was deemed a fitting occasion to invite his Lordship ing a situation in the confidence of Lord Normatrlay, he
to visit the town, and, although at some inconvenience, might be permitted to offer his acknovsledgmeet for the
the Noble Marquis, kindly accepted the invitation, and manner in which they had received the mention of his
arrived on Thursday afternoon. He was the guest of Sir name, and the commendations bestowed upun him by their
W. Lowthrop, the hospitable and patriotic Mayor of the excellent Chairman. It was not for him to presume to
Borough, and en that evening attended the concert, and give expression to the feelings of the Marquis on the
on Friday morning the performance of " The Messiah" at honour which had been conferred on him by the Municipal
the Holy Trinity Church. Advantage was taken of his Body, by selecting him, unsolicited, as the object of their
intended visit by the Town Council to invite him to a choice for the high office which he now fills. But be bad
public dinner, which he immediately consented to attend, a duty to perform which had been confided to him, that of
and Saturday was fixed for it ; the presence of several assuring them of Lis regret and disappointment that be
other distinguished Reformers was anticipated. Unfortu- was not then amongst them. The Gallant Colonel
nately, on Friday noon an express arrived for the Marquis then explained that the Marquis had been most anxious to
to proceed immediately to London on important public attend that meeting and it was with the greatest regret
business—the necessity of holding a Cabinet Council re. he received the summons which called him to town. It
lativc to M. Thicrs' ultimatum being the supposed reason. would not have been any affairs of a private nature, nor
The Marquis left the same afternoon by the railway, business of an ordinary description, which would have in-
greatly to his own disappointment and the regret of those duced him to forego the pleasure of that evening, but the
who had anticipated the honour of entertaining him. The public: duties that required his presence to London he
arrangements for the dinner, however, proceeded, and at felt paramount to all other considerations.—(Loud cheers.)
five o'clock on Saturday afternoon upwards of two hundred He Lad therefore no choice, and could only trust that that
gentlemen sat down to a sumptuous entertainment at the explanation furnished a suglcient excuse to all the gentle-
Victoria Public Rooms. We noticed amongst the corn- men he had hoped to hare the pleasure of meeting, and
pany the leading Reformers of Hull and the East Riding, that all would believe in the sincerity of the regret which
with many from Somersetshire and other places. The this disappointment had occasioned. —(Loud cheers.)
spacious room was most splendidly decorated by Messrs. \Vst. KENNEDY, Esq., editor of the Hull Advertiser,
Huggitt and Son. A profusion of banners, fisgs, &c., and late one of the Municipal Commissioners in Canada
with appropriate devices surrounded the guests ; among ' under Earl Durham, said, I am called upon by the Mayor
them was one of green silk, having a harp emblazoned in to give a toast which it would ill become me to decline,
silver, encircled with festoons of roses and myrtle with the although fully sensible of my inability to discharge it as it
inscription, " Normanby, the Pacificator of Ireland." On ought to be discharged. It must necessarily be at such a
another banner were emblazoned the arms of the Noble moment a trying task for me to dwell upon the temente
Marquis with his motto, •• Virtutc Quics." At the cx- brance of the lamented predecessor of the enlightened and
tremity of the room were the Royal Arms, with those of estimable Nobleman who now so worthily fills the office of
Prince Albert, copied from the Coronation Medal, con- High Steward of this borough—to speak of the virtues and
fleeted by the Torch of Hymen, and surrounded with the services of the late Earl of Durham. It would, I feel,
Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle. There were also numerous be presumptuous in me, and it is not requisite that I should
banners with crests upon them, among them those of Mr. expatiate upon those virtues, or attempt an elaborate esti-
Hutt, Sir W. Lowthrop, Mr. O'Connell, B. M. J .hand, mate of those services—they are registered in the hearts
James Clay, Esq., Hon. C. Langdale, George Cork man, of all who had the good fortune to know the de-
Esq., Lord Worsley, and Col. Thompson. The chair parted Statesman—they are recorded in the annals of
was taken by Sir W. Lowthrop, the mayor, On his right that country which was the constant object of his solici-
were \V. Hutt, Esq., M.P., the popular, able, and rode- woe and love.—( Hear, hear.) I may, however, be per-
fatigable Member for the Borough ; Col. York, Private mitted to say, With the simplicity of perfect truth, that no
Secretary to the Marquis of Normanby ; B. M. Jalland, man ever toiled with a more generous ardour for the ad-
Esq., a Magistrate of the Board, and late Mayor; W. B. vancement of his fellow-creatures than that elevated and
Carrick, Esq., a Borough Magistrate ; W. E. Jalland, fearless spirit which was spared to us long enough to secure
Esq. ;—Foster, Esq. ; W. Holmes, Esq , the Sheriff. On a lasting and untarnished fame, but was removed far too
the Chairman's left were the Right Hon. C. Tennyson early for the interests and honour of his native land, and
D'Eyncourt, M.P. ; John Grimston, Esq., the Chairman the holy cause of humanity.—(Cheers.) Ia the political
of the East Riding Reformers ; Major Sykes, the oldest firmament he was, indeed, a bright and particular star—
representative of an ancient and honourable family, long shining with no faint, reflected, or wandering light. In
revered in Hull ; J. Sykes, Esq. ; J. T. Foord, Esq. ; his domestic relations, the more he was fairly understood
J. Todd, Esq. ; John Smith, Esq. Dr. Chalmers was the more closely he rivetted affection. Not insensible to
the Vice-President, supported by Jas. Jones, Esq., and the charms of political distinction, he was incapable of
John Lovett, Esq. The gallery was filled with ladies, equivocating with a principle, if, by so doing, he Told
among them Lady Lowthrop, who was most enthusiast- have ensured the possession of a throne.—( Hear, ISO
tally received. The excellent dinner provided by Messrs. I once heard the remark of a distinguished American, who
Cortcs and Glover having had justice done it, and the represented the United States in this country at a period
dessert placed on the table, the interesting proceedings of of some difficulty, that Lord Durham was too honest to
the evening commenced. attain his proper sphere amidst the corruption of party.—
The MAYOR was loudly cheered on rising. He pre- (Loud cheers.) Without pausing to canvass the justice of
faced the first toast by saying—He was certain that in that this sentiment, I appeal to you—could there have been a
assembly it would be received with enthusiasm. If ever more noble eulogy upon the character of a public man ?
Monarch deserved to reign in the affections of the people, The Noble Marquis, whose absence upon this gratifying
it was our beloved Queen Victoria.—(Loud cheering.) occasion we regret, and my respected friend, your valued
Gifted with all the softer qualities that adorn the female, and invaluable representative, shared the regards of Earl
she combines with them an extraordinary decision of cha- Durham, and feel the deeper the magnitude of our loss.
t actor, which enables her to act upon and carry out the In the last great labour of his political life, the effects of
convictions of an enlightened mind and a generous heart. which will probably extend to the remotest possessions,
—( Loud cheers.) 111,5 God bless our Queen i____( Amen.) under the British Crown, I had the honour of being asso-
And may he long preserve to us her valuable life. " The ciatcd with Lord Durham ; and calling to mind the kind-
health of the Queen," three times three, and immense ness that cheered, the confidence that sustained me, I feel
cheering. incapable to pursue the theme. However, assembled to
The MAYOR, in giving " The health of Prince Albert,' testily our respect for living worth, we owe it to the occa-
said, the amiable qualities of his Royal Highness had se- sion, -we owe it to the great principles of which we are the
cured the domestic happiness of the Queen, and procured advocates, to acknowledge reverentially the claims of the
for himself the universal admiration and affection of the illustrious dead, who, by the beauty of their example,
British people. stimulate others to follow them in their high and pure
The toast was drunk with three times three.
The next toasts were, " The Queen Dowager;" "The lc.
oai rne er
with.--. me
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a)
silent
pledge
lee d
Duchess of Kent ;" " The Duke of Sussex, and the rest -Durham, the late High Steward of this borough.
ythoaft
rho
eu
Earlvkill
ngoewtototheremrieumesotr
of the Royal Family resident in England," drank with The toast was drunk by the company upstanding, in
all the honours. solemn silence, and with great feeling.
The Right Hon. C. T. D'EYNCOURT acknowledged the JAMES BOWDEN, Esq., an Alderman and Magistrate of
toast on the part of the Doke of Sussex, to whom he is the borough, said, under the less they had sustained in
Equerry,and from whom he has it in command on such oc- that illustrious friend of his country, whose memory they
casions to express his Royal Highness's sense of the corn- had just pledged, they had the consolation that his undy-
pliment paid him. The Right Hon. Gentleman, amidst ing political principles survived.—( Cheers)—and had been
loud cheers, briefly expressed his opinion that so long as bequeathed by him to his country with an enlarged recep-
that life so precious to all of us was spared, the energies tion, a fuller development, and ,a stronger hold on the
of his Royal Highness would be devoted to promote the public mind, than they:had attained before his time. It
liberties and happiness of the people. was to du honour to these principles, ee
held by the exist-
The MAYOR gave the " Army and Navy," to which ing Government, and to their administrathen of the nation's
Colonel YORK responded. affairs in the spirit of those principles,
that he had to call
The CHAIRMAN said, before he proceeded to give the upon them to drink the health of her hlajest)'s Ministers.
principal toast of the evening, he would observe that —(Great cheering.) It would not be nechisarY for him
he had several letters from distinguished noble- to go into any lengthened enumeration of the
acts of the
men, stating reasons why they were not able to attend present Administration—of the Reform measui•es which
on that occasion, and expressing every good feeling in they had carried—and of the measures which they had in
connection with the object of their regard—the Marquis vain attempted to carry, the history of whose defeat o:de-,
of Normanby.—( Hear.) Among them were letters lay is to be read in the acts of the Obstructives.—(Le'ul
from Earl Carlisle, Lord Nugent, Lord Wenlock, Lord cheers ) Suffice it to say, that in their advocacy of Civi.
Worsley, and Sir Do Lacy Evans. The Mayor then and Religious Liberty, in their introduction and carrying
said-Since I have known anything of the town of Hull, I through Municipal Reform in Great Britain, and lately,
have not known a more felicitous movement in its public though but imperfectly, in Ireland—(Cbeers).--in ,tbeir
affaire than that which has led to the appointment of that abolition of the Taxes on Knowledge-in their ready adopt
distinguished statesman, the Most Noble the Marquis of tion of Rowland Hill's plan of Post-offica Reform—(,Loud
Normanby, to the office of Lord High Steward of the Ito- cheers)—in their attempts to make law cheap and acces-
rough.--(Great cheering.) I congratulate the Council aible—in their amelioration of the penal code, and above
and the town upon this appointment—(Cheers)—and I all in their noble efforts for the promotion of national edu-
had hoped to congratulate this assembly on having the ho- cation—(Cheers)—in the whole course of their legislation
nour conferred upon them of entertaining the Marquis as there is evident a soundness of principle, an honest reliance
their guest. I can but, in common with you, regret that on the good feelings and good sense of the peohale of Eng-
imperious circumstances called him up to town; these are land, that is the best guarantee for a good and up-
incidents to which his high official station render him right Administration.—(Cheers.") He might he pardoned
liable. I shall now proceed to read you a letter which he if, in illustration of the liberal principles of the present
has left for me.—[The letter of the Noble Marquis was Government, he adverted to their administration in Ire-
in effect as follows :—" Anxious as I was to explain to land, because there is not in the whole field of political
those friends who were to meet me the extent of my disap- action a point which furnishes a greater and sounder text
pointment at the sudden call which has occasioned my of honesty and liberality, and a statesman's principles,
most unwilling absence, I must still trust that the favour- whether Whig or Tory. When the rights of the people are
able opinion of those who had prepared for me a reception injured and borne down, will he assert and vindicate ahem ;
which must have been every way so gratifying, will induce when wrong is rampant, and it may be paramount, wil! he
a feeling that nothing but an imperious sense of public arrest it and strive to put it down ? if be be of Liberal
duty, which occasions my presence in London to-morrow, principles, this will be his course, because genuine libera-
would have frustrated my intentions. I trust an early lity consists of love, of right, and hatred of wrong wherever
opportunity will be allowed me to make my personal apo- they may be found.—( Loud cheers.) The short admin.
fogies, and to express at the same time the gratitude I feel istratiou of Earl Fitzwilliam in Ireland in 1795, was one
to the municipal body of your important and improving continued struggle against overgrown abuses which bad
town for having so unexpectedly proposed me to fill a arisen during centuries of oppression and misrule, and no
distinguished and eminent office.—( Rapturous cheers.) wonder they had grown too strong for his hand, at that
Although deferring to another occasion the expression of period of our history, to overthrow. It is consolitary to re-
those feelings, with the interest I must ever take in the mark the advance of truth, of right, and of public princi-
prosperity of the borough, I cannot even thus allude to plc in Ireland. In the half century that has intervened
the honour conferred upon myself without adding from Earl Fitzwilliam's time, we have seen Catholic
one word as to the cause of the late vacancy in the office. Emancipation achieved by the Irish people, wrung from
It is not merely by those who, during a long and unbroken the leader of Toryism, who fell by that tardy act of
intimacy, entertained for my departed friend constant es- justice,under the indignation of their own party.—(Cheers.)
teem and affectionate regard, that his loss is deplored—his And happily Ireland fell into the hands of the Marquis of
country can ill spare a defender of those principles of which Angleoca, crippled as he was with a Tory secretary—but
he was ever the consistent advocate.—( Great cheering.) single hearted—into hands of Normanb), of Ebrington, and
I trust you will assure the Members of the Town Council Morpeth—(Cheers)—for by them have the principles of
who do me the honour to invite me,as well as all those whom the Catholic Relief Bill been carried out for the benefit of
I hoped to have had the pleasure of meeting, that so far the people of Ireland, a new alliance has been formed,
as time is at my own disposal, I shall wish to consult cx- might goes hand in hand with right, and so long as that
elusively their convenience that a period may be fixed when union ash unrepealed, the Repeal of the Union may be
with certainty I may make amends for this sudden disap- adjourned sine die.-(Great cheering.) If ever there
pointment."—(The reading of the letter was followed by was a moment when it was of vital importance that the
cnnthusiastic and repeated cheers.) three countries should be united as one man, it was the
The MAYOR proceeded—Under the circumstances, Gen. present. If contemplating the pacification of Ireland ac-
tlemen, I must say lam highly gratified to see so dis- complished by Liberal means—let them reflect what must
tinguished and respectable an assembly, and I feel proud he the effect if the Tories carried out their avowed policy—
that 1 am surrounded by the friends of freedom.— Ireland must be reconquercd by the sword—haand,usitf so,be
(Cheers.) If any cause more than another was required now thereofarferetiredatenine,ol fro
them
onweiPtretileowuntrty /m Let us
and depended upon union and cc-operation, it is the cause the state
of freedom.—( Cheers.)
e
Its friends are apt to slumber, b. thankful that atn this time we have a pacific Administra_
whilst its enemies are always vigilant and alertf.
of Tllsee his- pledgedmeans.
(Cheers ) From the skill and foresight exhi-
fory of mankind furnishes a melancholy.tinpsrtoruomen :loft:n-
-o bited in the management of our foreign affairs, he could
dency of men to convert_phoewer ineso
oafnour own hioor fuhT confide in them for the future. But let them not forget
prcssion.— (Chchrs.) T
hted • but lose sght of the measures yet requisite for carrying out,
nish the same evidence, and provepag to us that in all ages that they had their home affairs to attend to—let them not
freedom is a plant of slow growth and soonblig
the Reform Bill ; the anomalies of the
happily for us, there is here and. there a bright page Of our for the benefit of the country, the designs of the framers of
registration system
must be abolished, and the rights of the voter must be
is cured to
above all, there must be se
history which serves to sttoimtuhliastedayo,urweenfidnedavtliuersp,rinto.
strengthen our hopes, and, b
t never as rem .e ,I d cured to the people the blessings of • I-
universe education,
imperishable.—( Great cheering.) I
ciple of liberty in the human reast,_ thoughbdormaht,
let weretll
em Willing
show
wt o
that b e candid
tbey
coulda s to
relyth e
and it never will perish. Its achievements are as yet but the best test for an extended franchise.—( Loud cheers.)
esathmatislteadketotiiite?
in embryo. 1 hold it to be the duty of every man, and it Whilst they at all times showed to the Government that
unimpaired to u
principle, and hand it down
be,
.
ought to be the ambition of every Briton,.d to cfutlatirveataegtchge, undermotiv
t now is, the glory cf upon them whilst in
a right course, and let them not be
that freedom may continue to as a
our land.—(Cheers.) There have been many brilliant in- afraid of that judicious timely pressing upon their notice
f sacrifice and suffer- the claims
:Wien in the history of our country o
' _ they had upon them, for the people had claims
f bl b. 1
of our liberties. Many o no e int upon them tor far more than they had got; and if they
ing in the defence
and ower which, when obtained, were prudent the • ld ey wou get more.—( Cheer .s ) Let
have sought influence p.
butused them •
to their own gratification, adopt, in a kindly and judicious way, that " pressure
they have not converted
d m rejoiced to see atthe rc from • h wit out which the Tories dread as being to them at
to forward the general goo .
and noble enlisted inP h-
sent day so many of the Brea`'hthi under the same bannt e pressure to death 3`a peine fort dure, but which. anklLoiezr
same glorious cause, and
ihg g m obistration would be ready to receive. h
1 fl refer with es ccial pride
1 dlseaonsition to
--(Cheers.) But, Gent emeh the
Marquis h
of
.what t ey had given, and confiding in their
of
her _a_
and satisfaction to the Most Noble. - gise more, he begged to propose the health
Lord High Steward of the borough, ••t•' • M •
Ma-
manby, the present Jos y S Ministers.
the have a champion of liberty.-- • s three, and pro-
feeling that in him t The toast was drank with three time
(Cheers.) I know of no man more entirely deserving the longed cheering.
esteem and conf Mr Hutt
' fidence of his country. The whole of 11;s JOHN SMITH, Esq., proposed the health o •H.
has been one onward, straightforward (Thu Member's name was the sig.
political career
the whole com-
and liberalpolicy,in •
of enlightened - nal for a burst of enthusiastic cheering,
courseminutes. Mr Smith
cution and opposition that would have discouraged and pany rising, which continued some m
borne down almost any but himself. In Jamaica we re. said, in looking round the loom be
sawta in the course of
testimonials which
cognise him as the friend of the oppressed slave—( Loud had been earned by their representative
at the mottoes
cheers)—and we also recognise him as the precursor of his connection with them. I
. 1 looking
Ws name with everything
emancipation.—(Cheers.) In Ireland we have the Nor- around him, be could ideni beforer him was "No sine.
manby policy. —(Great cheering for some time.) His is good in them. Immediatcd
Yno sinecure in the representa-
the policy laid down as the model for all future Govern- cures." Mr. Hutt bad
i cheers.) On the other side,
rnents of that country.—( Cheers.) And why ? Because tion of this town.—(Loud
"! s,.••_( flitithusiastic cheers.) It was
his Lordship brought to bear upon that people a kindly he •saw e tee ‘..,orn-
faall that Mr. Hutt was now furnishing
and generous and liberal influences, which was found to ! ia the knowiedge
n too cause these laws to be mitigated,
be eroductive of the happiest effects, and that upon a pec- 1 4cti" exertions
(which had a crest on it, Mr, smith
plc always open to kindness, but upon whom the experi• Anotherbe that of the Sykes family, but which is Colonel
mint had never before been tried.—(Cheers.) I there- tOOk. to
~
) bore a Latin inscription, which was rendered
fore rejoice, Gentlemen, to sec the town of Hull identified Thompsoh s
M
slave to no man," and r. Hutt deserved to
in this interesting relation with a Nobleman so justly and '" I ainhaat motto —(Cheers.) lie need
Vl' Ca r tnot go into de-
eminently distinguished as a friend of freedom and hu-
II '- rvic 3W 1 h-sf
tail—Mr. utt sse c e e s ore them. Mr. Smith
inanity.—(Long continued cheering.) But I must be
alluded to the successful exertions made by
allowed just in passing to glance at a sub act which is ,
1 atter entering Parliament to procure for t-h*Mr. Hutt soon
painful and mournful—an allusion to the late Earl I silege of shipping bonded stores duty fis partbefore the pro,
of Durham. We, in common with the rest of the country,
exclus:vely enjoyed by London Also hisree' • then
having secured
feel deeply sensible of the loss we have sustained in.
.him,
the hl • chant Seamen's .
to "
Earl Fitzwilliam.fund the sixpences, before then
as well as irs his predecessor, the late .
irtues, and we paid to Greenwich Hospital. The services rendered is
They were both endeared to us by many virtues,
religiousthe last Seaton M
f civil and the Matter of the Stade duties was rtp -
knew them especially as rho friends o

GREAT REFORM DINNER AT
HULL IN HONOUR OF THE MARQUIS OF
NORMANBY.