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17,155.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING SUN, SEPTEMBER 15, 1847.

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NATI ON A L LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament.
Thin Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
.vith respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
Ls, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
citure of the policy, two•thirds of the premiums paid (see Table);
Liso the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
t Tests to meet other convenioncies or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors
a the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1847, to declare a fifth
,onus, varying from 35 to 85 per coat. on the premiums paid on each
oolicy effected on the profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

, Perma- ISuna the
...c; Annual (Policy Bonus In) neat Re- i Assured
.go. a,' Pre- taken addition , Bonus In duction of may bor-
,2 v, mium. out In Assured. 1 Cask. Annual row on
I
X s. 4.1 X 8 d. X s. d. 4 a. d.
r 1837 243 9 3'112 8 5 18 4 6 494 8 10
1 £ xs.d.l 1838 218 4 8; 99 8 10 15 13 5 1445 0 0
60 1000 74 344 1839 192 1 101 86 9 3 13 4 9 395 11 1
, 1840 143 b 10' 66 8 4 919 1 346 2 3
I 1841 138 14 2 61 17 6 9 9 2 1296 13 4
1 1842 111 6 8j 49 10 0, 7 10 4 !247 4 6

The Annual Report, with tables of rates, Sr,c.,
.iffice, or any of its branches in the country ; 01
be forwarded post free.

may be had at the
', ou application, will

F. FERGUSON CA

'ROUX, Secretary.

DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED.

MEDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE
OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON ; 22, NASSAU-
STREET, DUBLIN ; GROSSE GALLENGASSE, FRANKFORT
and BORSEN PAS4AGE, HAMBURG.

_
Subscribed Capital, 500,000/.
This office was established in 1841, and possesses tables formed on
a scientific basis for the assurance of diseased lives.
Policies of twelve months standing are not affected by suicide,
duelling, &c., and Assigned Policies are valid from the date thereof,
should death ensue from any of these causes.
Pacies issued by this Society give the Person whose life is assured
permission to go at any time beyond the limits of Europe, on the
payment of certain, but small and fixed, rates of premium, which are
indorsed on the Policy at the time when first issued.
HEALTHY LIVES, both at Home and in Foreign Climates, are
Assured with as much facility and at lower rates than at most other
offices; and a capital of Ilalf-a-Million sterling fully subscribed
affords a complete guarantee for the fulfilment of the Company's
engagements. _ _

Prospectuses and Forms of Proposal will be forwarded, postage
free, on application to any of the Society's Agents, or to FRANCIS
G. P. NEISON, Ac.itary, 25, Pall-mall, London.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
No. 18, KING WILLIAM-STREET, CITY.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
At the first Septennial Meeting of this Company, held on the II th
March last, a BONUS, averaging 23 per cent. on the amount of
premiums paid, was declared on Policies entitled to participate fn
Profits.
Four fifths, or 80 per cent. of the entire Profits of Ite Company,
will at future divisions be appropriated to all Assurers entitled to
share therein.
Every advantage is offered by this Company to Assurers.
On Policies taken out for the whole term of life, one-half of the An-
nual Premiums thereon may remain unpaid for five years.
Parties Assured with the Company are allowed to reside in many
of the Colonies without additional charge, and the Premium required
for the East or West Indies, and other extra risks, is more than
usually moderate.
By a plan originating with this Company, great security is offered
to parties Assuring the Lives of others.
Advances continue to be made to Assurers on Assignable Property
or Income, and also on the guarantee of most undoubted personal
sureties.
Detailed Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, by
application at the Office, or by letter addressed to the Actuary.
WILLIAM RATRAY. Actuary and Secretary.

ETNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
kj COMPANY.— 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London; 97,
George-street, Edinburgh, i 2, St Vincent-place, Glasgow.

DIRECTORS.

JAMES STUART, Esq.. Chairman.
HANANEL DE CASTRO, Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. I D. Q. Henriques, Esq.
Hamilton Blair Avarne, Esq. F. C. Maitland. Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Resident. i William Railton, Esq.
Charles Downes, Esq. John Ritchie, Esq.
Charles Graham, Esq. I F. H. I homson, Esq.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
perfect security in a large paid. up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834—ITS ANNUAL
INCOME BEING UPWARDS OF 92,1001.
In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 2/. per cent. per annum on
the sum insured to all policies of the participating class from the
time they were effected.

The bonus added o policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of De•
comber, 1840, is 83 follows:

Sum Assured.
£5000..... ..... 6
5000..........6
5000.. •• •..... 4
5000.• .....'l

Time Assured Bum added to Policy.
years 10 months • • • • ....£683 Gs. Bd.
years ........ 600 Os. Od.
years ........ 400 Os. Od.
years ........ 200 Os. Od.

The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first five years, where the In-
surance is for Life. Parties wishing to secure the benefit of the next
division of profits, in 1848, should make Immediate application.
No Entrance Money or charge except the Policy Stamp.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Direetor, 5, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

RUTHIN FESTIVITIES in HONOUR
OF JOHN WILMA. ‘IS, ESQ., BRYNWYLFA,
M.P. FUR MACCLESFIELD.

(Abridged from the Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald.)
Our readers have been informed that Wednesday
last was set apart at Ruthin, to commemorate the
election of Mr. Williams, of Brynwylfa, as represen-
tative of the town of Macclesfield.
On arriving at Ruthin from St. Asaph, on the
morning of Wednesday last, we were joined by several
carriages containing visitors from Rhyl, Denbigh,
Holywell, St. Asaph, Abergele, and other places, the
determination to do honour to Mr. Williams, as the
man of the people, being widely diffused and en-
thusiastic.
Several triumphal arches, of laurels and other ever-
greens, interspersed with flowers, ribbons, &c., and
crowned with massy bouquets, from which flags and
banners were suspended, spanned the main street,
many of which bore the Welsh motto of Mr. Williams,
of which the following is a translation :
" A free world and the mountain for me."
On first entering the town, a stranger would have
been struck by indications of holiday on a large and
unusual scale. Pink rosettes and ribbons, the election
colour of Mr. Williams, were to be seen in every di-
rection. The shops were closed. A maypole bearing
near its summit a pair of new shoes, a new hat, and
a leg of mutton, was erected in the market-place.
Bands were playing on the Rhyl and the Chester
coaches, which kept parading the streets, and a most
inveterate determination to enjoy a happy day was as
obvious in the face of every one as the good humour
of the " skyey influences" was to be seen and felt
around. In fact, the day could not have been better
suited to the holiday.
It was understood that at about four o'clock the
Town Council would present an address to Mr. Wil-
liams, declaratory of their attachment and respect ;
and that, subsequently, two public dinners, in honour
of that gentleman, would be served up at the County
and Town-halls respectively ; but the tradesmen of
the town, knowing that these banquets would be in-
accessible to the less favoured classes of the people,
kindly made a purse, a very liberal purse—in order
to provide popular entertainments, in the interim, for
their poorer neighbours; and we must say that we
never witnessed rural sports conducted with better

spirit.
But the maypole was the centre of attraction, and
deservedly so. The prizes it offered were ably con-
tested, and caused the exhibition of immense muscu-
lar strength, combined with activity and skill.
It was now near three o'clock, and preparations
were being made by the committee to arrange a pro-
cession to meet Mr. Williams and friends on their
route from Bronwylfa, when that gentleman unex-
pectedly arrived in the vicinity.
The Honourable Member, accompanied by Mr.
Williams and a party of friends, arrived in an open
carriage, and gracefully acknowledged the greetings
of his fellow-townsmen.
His arrival at the hotel was announced by the
ascent of a fire balloon.
About four o'clock the Honourable Member for
Macclesfield, John Williams, Esq., of Brynwylfa, was
waited upon, at the Lion Hotel, by the Mayor of the
Borough, Chapman, Esq., the Aldermen and Town
Council, Archdeacon Newcombe, several of the clergy,
and a number of personal friends, among whom were
his proposer and seconder, when an address was read
and presented to him by his worshipe on behalf of the
meeting, preceded by a few prefatory remarks declara-
tive of the great pleasure he (Mr. Chapman) felt in
being called upon to present it, and his most cordial
approbation of the sentiments of regard and esteem
which it embodies. The address was as follows :

TO JOHN WILLIAMS, ESQUIRE, MEMBER OF PARLIA-
MENT FOR MACCLESFIELD.
" We, the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the
borough of Ruthin, in the county of Denbigh, in
general council assembled at the Council Chamber,
Town-hall, Ruthin, on Wednesday, the Bth day of
September, 1847, most frankly offer you our sincere
and cordial congratulations on the recent auspicious
event, which has afforded us the pleasing opportunity
of addressing you upon the present occasion, and of
expressing our united sentiments, that with feelings
of uniningled pleasure and delight, we hail and wel-
come your arrival amcng us this day, and heartily
greet you as a friend, a townsman, and a truly pa-
triotic Welshman. Your generous acts of liberality,
your uniform kindness and urbanity of manners,
your untiring efforts to relieve those distressed and
destitute fellow-countrymen who resorted to you in
the season of trouble and affliction, are strong and
characteristic features of your amiable disposition,
and justly claim our admiration. We may
well congratulate ourselves that we have the
valuable blessing of living under the benign
sway of the British sceptre, in the full enjoyment of
a free and glorious Constitution in Church and State;
in which the various avenues leading to the brightest
honours and choicest distinctions are equally open
to all. In this matchless constitution the humble
citizen of an unsullied character is enabled, by the
exercise of his own natural talents, unwearied as-
siduity, and untiring perseverance, to attain the
highest and proudest objects of his laudable ambition.
That such is the case, your present honourable posi-
tion, sir, as a Member of the British Senate, affords
a powerful and striking demonstration.
In conclusion, we add our fervent prayers and
affectionate wishes that the blessing of Divine Pro-
vidence may attend your labours, strengthen your
hands, and long preserve your life in the enjoyment
of health and happiness.
Given under the Common Seal of the said Bo-
rough, the Bth of September, 1847."
Mr. WILLIAMS, in a feeling and impressive manner,
delivered the following reply :
Mr. Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses,—You will
not expect that I should attempt to give utterance
to my feelings, on the receipt of this, your kind
and flattering address. I feel as a Welshman the
cordial reception you have given me, but I am not so
eloquent as to give those feelings words. Accept my
thanks, and allow me to express my gratitude to
Almighty God, that my conduct, during so many
years of absence, has now received the approbation of
my fellow•townsmen. He has never permitted me to
forget that I am a Welshman ; and when he has
enabled me to render any service to a Welshman, I
have been thankful. There is not among you, one
who admires the principles of the British Constitu-
tion more than I do. I will endeavour to prove my
attachment to it, by removing every obstacle to its
unfettered action, and adapting its principles to the
present state of our improved circumstances. I shall
thereby aid in rendering it more available to indivi-
dual advancement; and cause it to give more security
to the pro-perity of every rank and class. I thank
you for your affectionate wishes, and for your fervent
prayer. I believe that the blessing of Divine Pro-
vidence can alone enable me to be useful in that state
of life to which he has called me; I rely on his aid;
and while I am especially required to watch over the
interests of an English town, my native town, and
the principality, shall never be forgotten by me.
Permit me before I sit down to implore the blessing
of Almighty God on all you my friends, and to
assure you that this token of your friendship is en-
graven on my heart, and will ever stimulate me to
pursue that course which has now met with your
approval. Again, my friends and fellow-townsmen, I
thank you, and God bless you all. During the thirty
years that I have been absent from Wales I have
never lost sight of its interests, its well-being has
been near my heart, and may I cease to live when-
ever I cease to remember my native land. The Hon.
Gentleman concluded amidst loud cheers.
Immediately after the presentation of the address
Mr. Williams was escorted by the Mayor, the mem-
bers of the Town Council, and a considerable number
of his friends and well-wishers, to the County Hall,
the whole interior of which, including the table
adbawniqt h
banquet
boxes,
a
sumptuous s p r e
usually devoted to law purposes, and even the adja-
cent
ett,heprmepualtriefdariuouudser mate-
rialtheosuperintendence of the Messrs. Smart. Two hun-
dred and twenty tickets were returned at table, but
the guests considerably exceeded that amount, as
several persons paid cash in lieu of taking tickets.
repast The number of those who shared in the is
estimated at two hundred and fifty. A liberal su
ply of venison had been sent by Lords Dinorben and
Mostyn, Myddleton Biddulph,:Esq• , and we believe
some other local gentry, and the repast was done
ample justice to by all the guests.
The Mayor presided. At his right sat the distin-
guished guest of the meeting, John Williams, Esq.,
M.P. Archdeacon Newcombe supported the Chair-
man on the left, and in immediate proximity on
either side were the mover and seconder of Mr.
Williams, when he offered himself as a candidate for
Macclesfield, Messrs. Potts and Woodward, together
with Dr. Lloyd, Dr. Bland, Captain Cogan, and
several clergymen of the Establishment.
The duties of the Vice-Chair were ably sustained
by the Clerk of the Peace, Joseph Peers, Esq., sup-
ported
on his right by Mr. Jones, Record-street, and
on his left by other zealous friends of the honourable
guest.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the toast which so
constantly evinces the loyal feeling that animates the
festive board in Britain, observed that in no part of
her Majesty's dominions was she more beloved and
respected than in Wales.

The toast, as were all the loyal and personal tri-
butes of the evening, was drank with enthusiasm.
" His Royal Highness Prince Albert."
" Our own beloved Prince : and may he be spared
by a benignant Providence to realise the wishes of his
parents, and to become the brightest gem in the
British crown."
" The Queen Dowager, and the rest of the Royal
Family."
Mr. 'WILLIAMS here noticed at the lower end of the
table a blind and aged relative (uncle, we believe),
Mr. John Evans, whom he immediately led to the
seat beside himself, amidst the deafening cheers of
the meeting ; who recognised with ready sympathy
the kind heart of their guest—a heart,
we verily be-
lieve, alike incapable of being hardened by prosperity
or of being subdued by adversity. It is needless to
say that Mr. Evans' personal wants and comforts were
sedulously ministered to by his younger relative during
the entire evening.
Another peal of deafening cheers attracted our at-
tention to the fact that Mrs. Williams, accompanied
by a long and lovely train of the fair dames and girls
of Ruthin and Macclesfield, had entered the hall
from the judge's door, and possessed themselves of the
entire range of gallery, forming an array of grace
and beauty that deeply enhanced the interest of the
scene.

The next toast proposed by the CHAIRMAN, and
honoured by the company, was the "Bishop and
Clergy of the Diocese, with the health of the Vene-
rable Archdeacon Newcombe."
The ARCHDEACON returned thanks on behalf of
the bishop, the clergy, and himself. With respect
to their honourable guest, the Member for Maccles-
field, he felt assured that all the honour which had
been conferred on him was fully deserved.—(Loud
cheers.) His charity, his benevolence, were well
known, and had been for many years. It was now
thirty years since he left the town, but his visits
were so frequent that he (Mr. Newcombe) still
looked upon him as a parishioner; and was sure to
see him, on those occasions, in that place where he
liked to see him best.—(Renewed cheers.) It was
pleasing to see Ruthin and Macc:esfield thus shaking
hands as it were in approbation and respect towards
the gentleman who now honoured the meeting as
their guest.—(Loud cheers.)
"The Duke of Wellington and the Army."
"The Wooden Walls of Old &gland."
Captain HARKER, in brief bu: appropriatesterms,
returned thanks on behalf of the army.
Captain COGAN did the same oa behalf of the other
service.

In rising to propose the toast of the evening, the
CHAIRMAN entreated their indulgence, as he felt his
inadequacy
ghave duty that devolved upon
That
been placed in better
him. to the
sphloeulsdin
hands ; but he would yield to no one in willingness to
perform it. Unbroken as had been the harmony of
the day's proceedings, and zealous as had been the
friendship universally evinced, he would yield to no
one in attachment and respect for the guest whose
well directed and well sustained ambition had been
rewarded by a seat in the House of Commons.—
(Tremendous cheers.) His election was the result
of that liberty which was the great boast and charac-
teristic of our country. In tussla a man was at
liberty to think but net to speak, else he might soon
find himself in Siberia, a homeless miserable exile. A
slave had held the cap of liberty as the banner of ano-
ther state ; but in highly favoured Britain, liberty
was something more than a name. It was a fact, a
reality, and an important one ; one conducive alike to
the alvantage of the individual, the well-being of the
community, and the happiness of all. A man had full
liberty to use all his powers, natural and acquired, for
his own advantage, and for the advantage of his coun-
try. The Church, the Army, the Navy, the profes-
sions of law and medicine, the schools of art and
science, the arena of literature, the business of a mer-
chant, or the craft of an artisan, were equally open to
him, according to his ability and inclination. His
piety, his learning, his courage, his taste, his energy,
his perseverance would determine the result. , The
loftiest aims of his ambition were within his reach,
unless placed beyond his reach by causes over which
human institutions could have no control. All that
constitutional liberty could secure was secured to
the subjects of these realms.—(Renewed cheers.)
He did not make these remarks as a mere generality.
That would be idle. They had a striking applica-
tion in the case of their honoured guest—(lmmense
cheers)—but when he (the Chairman) began to apply
them to that case, he
,also began to find that words
were wanting to him. 116 heart was too full, and
language did not present itself adequate to the ex-
pression of that fulness. He must leave them to
make the application.—(Renewed cheers.) He
should content himself by observing that a man can,
in this happy country select his own path; and if a
little boy who happened to stand behind a counter
was too small to be seen by the customers, he was at
liberty to use a stool ; and if he aspired after some
unknown benefit that change of scene night produce
he was at liberty to seek his fortune in London. The
eloquent speaker then drew a pleasing picture of the
progress which Mr. Williams had really made, from
a boy, such as described, to a gentleman holding a
high position in society, and able to fulfil his juvenile
wish, by returning to his native town in his own car-
riage. As a brother, a son , a patriot, and a friend,
his career had been more than blameless, it had been
truly praiseworthy, and the electors of Macclesfield,
when he made use of his liberty to solicit their seat,
had made use of their liberty in conferring' that seat on
him. Politics, gentlemen, said the speaker, are excluded
from this meeting, else could I show that the electors
of Macclesfield have bestowed the honour of their
choice on a good man, and have elected a high-
minded, a respectable, and a truly responsible senator,
fit to represent the interests of their borough in the
legislative assembly of the first and most mighty
nation of the earth. I beg, sir (turning to Mr.
Williams), to express to you, on behalf of this most
numerous and most respectable assemblage, how glad
we all are to see you here this day—(Loud cheers)—
and we all express through me an ardent hope that
your life may long be spared to represent in Parlia-
ment the interests of the town of Macclesfield.—
(Cheers enthusiastic and long sustained.)
Mr. WILLIAMS, M P., rose amidst loud cheers, to
acknowledge the kind reception given to him by the
meeting. He said that in him it would be great
affectation to say that he was unaccustomed to public
speaking, for, during the last three months, he had
had considerable practice and experience, of which he
should avail himself if ever the exigencies of public
business should require it ; but if his kind friends,
Captain Cogan and the Mayor, had felt that flow of
feeling which overpowered expression, how much
more strongly must he feel the inability of language
to express the grateful emotions to which their kind-
ness had given birth ? No man could feel more truly
proud of the position in which he stood than he did
that day. A monarch could not feel more confident
and assured in his position, for whilst he possessed
the generous confidence of his constituency, his
heart had lost none of that regard which every right
minded man must feel for his native country.—(Loud
cheers.) It was thirty years since he had left the
corner shop, into which he entered at an age so
early that he was obliged to stand on a stool in order
to be useful to the customers. How would Mr.
David Jones, his then patron, participate in the joy
he now felt, had he been spared! lie now saw
around him the companions of those early days; and
his heart rejoiced that they should so cordially wel-
come him in his expanded sphere of duties and re-
sponsibilities as the representative of one of the most

intellectual of the constituencies of England. how
could he discharge the debt of gratitude he owed
them ? Thirty years ago he had left Ruthin, a poor
boy vibrat;ng between hopes and fears, but deter-
mined to visit London in order to do something for
his mother.—(Loud cheers.) It was to the truthful-
ness and energy of that feeling that he attributed his
subsequent prosperity. The sentiment of gratitude
to his parent had influenced his prayers ; and under
that influence, night and morning, he had determined
to become valuable to his employer, that he might be
useful to his mother. Providence had blessed
his humble but sincere endeavours, and it
was the proudest moment of his life when
he found himself _ able to contribute aid

to his parent. Had she been spared, she
would have gloried in this day ; for in one of her
latest benedictions she had said, placing her hand on
his head, " God bless you, for no mother has had a
better boy."— (Cheers.) He was far from ashamed
at referring to these facts, for they tended to act
beneficially as an example. Some persons, indeed,
had objected to him at Macclesfield, because he had
sold silks behind a counter, but' he had plainly told
them that it was no disgrace to be the first of his
family, and to have better claims on public confidence
than the merits of ancestry.—(Enthusiastic cheers.)
his position, as a merchant, gave him an opportunity
of benefiting his countrymen in London. He had
done many of them good, and should always be happy
to do so, for there were amongst them men capable of
discharging the duties of any station in society.
Political honesty and moral worth were not the

creatures of place. They flourished alike in the land
of the mountain and vale, and the crowded streets of

Lon€on. There was no disgrace in being a mer-
chant; to merchants the great city had been indebted
for the Royal Exchange and for the New River ;
nor was there any inferiority in
,the Welsh people,

as Sir William Jones, and many other Cambrians,
in their vast stores of literature, science, and art,
could testify.—(Continued cheers) The breed
of good and able men was not exhausted—others
were in embryo—for the old saying was true that
" there is yet in the sea as good fish as ever were
caught." The Queen had Welsh blood in her veins,
and the portion derived from Owen Tudor was as
bright as the stream that came from her Norman and
Saxon sires—(Immense cheering)—and it was to be
hoped that she would allow the Prince to learn some-
thing of the language of the land whence he derived
his title.—(Renewed cheers.) He had said that he
did not feel ashamed to refer to the lowliness of his
lot ; neither did he make it a theme for boasting ; but
he thought that his friends, and they were all his
friends and the companions of his youth, would admit
that a case where simple honesty and straightforward-
ness had been marked with success, would operate
beneficially upon the young. It was with that view
that he chiefly referred to the past. For himself he
felt grateful, and wished to commit them all to the
blessing of Him who had favoured his own individual
endeavours.—(The Honourable Member sat down
amidst loud cheers, and shortly afterwards retired to
address a few words to the other party of his friends
who were dining in the Town-hall.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave consecutively—" The
Lord-Lieutenant of the county, Colonel Biddulph ;"
" The Members for the county ; ' and " The Member
for the boroughs ;" all of which were drank with
enthusiasm.
Next followed " The Town and Trade of Maccles-
field," with thanks to the gentlemen of that town
who have honoured the meeting with their at-
tendance.
Mr. POTTS returned thanks. He expressed his
hearty approbation of the appropriate and elegant ad-
dress with which Mr. Williams had been presented by
the civic authorities of the town, and said that he felt
as much emotion on its being presented as he could
have done had he been the recipient—a feeling in
which he had no doubt his friends from Macclesfield
concurred.—(Tokens of assent.) He thought with
Mr. Williams, that the fact of a poor lad having
worked his way from the counter to the senate
was not a thing to be ashamed of, but calculated to
cheer the young and operate as an example. He felt
hoefr
ca
s
cna
lsoetspfiareonl udodb; nobler
nfMedl Tot.
hwlely; ioll
ebalerntsfs ouaursne dt htihenya
that
eit
knew of him the more they would admire him.
dheowiTnnore they
He felt proud of having had to propose him to
the constituency, and was never better pleased
nor better rewarded. The whole town took to him
at once: and if any of the electors were lukewarm
they were brought up to the mark by the ladies.—
(Loud cheers). The election was effected on the
teetotal principle, and their motto was " Work and
win." They did win by a majority of 72, although
the other party had had the advantage of a previous
canvass.---(Loud cheers).
Three extra rounds of cheers were then proposed
for, and given to, the ladies of Macclesfield.
Dr. BLAND, of Macclesfield, returned thanks on
their behalf.
" The Lady of the Manor, Miss Myddleton."
"That venerable and aged nobleman, whose virtues
were so well known to them, the Hon. Lord Bagot."
Mr. WILLIAMS begged to propose the next toast.
It was happy for them all that they did not live in
Russia, where that freedom which could not be taken
from thought was denied to utterance. It was well
for them that they lived within the pale of a constitu-
tion so expansive in itself that it could effect much
good without any organic changes. One of the great
advantages of that constitution was that the governing
power was not entirely centralized, but diffused
in proper proportions and modes throughout
the social fabric. Of this fact corporate bodies af-
forded a valuable proof ; and in proposing the health of
the chief magistrate of the town he should fill a
bumper with pleasure. Few have done more good
to the locality than he, and none are deserving of
more honour. To him they were mainly indebted
for all the local improvements that had been effected,
and those connected with their market-place were
peculiarly important. It was much to be regretted
that he had it in contemplation to leave them, but it
was to be hoped they would yet have more of his
company. He (Mr. Williams) had never received
aught but courtesy and hospitality at his hands, and
valued and esteemed him highly.—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN feelingly, and in appropriate terms,
responded to the kindness they had shown him.
Several other toasts, including the health of Mrs.
Williams, having been drunk.
Mr. LODGE (St. Asaph) called the attention of the
meeting,/ during Mr. Williams' temporary absence,
to a fact of which he was individually cognisant, and
which proved that the general observations which the
Archdeacon, the Chairman, and others had made with
respect to Mr. Williams' kindness to his poor fellow-
countrymen were not exaggerated, or without ade-
quate foundation. His mother was left a widow in
circumstances of much distress, especially as she had
children unprovided for ; but his poor brother
had found that there was a friend to the fatherless
in a quarter where he could prefer no claim
either on the ground of service, consanguinity, or
any other conceivable tie—save that of mere human
brotherhood and feeling for a fellow. countryman.
There were others that might have deemed it a duty
to aid the dying man ; but there were feelings more
kind and generous and prompt than those of duty,
and such feelings had prompted Mr. Williams to be-
friend him, who had no father and no friends. He
procured him a situation ; and he (the speaker) would
be less than a man if he had not availed himself of the
present occasion to acknowledge the gratitude he and
his family felt for so marked a kindness.—(Cheers).
Mr. WILLIAMS proposed the health of a gentleman
who for seven years had added greatly to the con-
vivial enjoyments of the town, and contributed

largely to its advantages ; one whose amiable manners
had won him many friends, and whose moral courage
rendered him a most useful member of society. He
proposed the health of "John Maurice, Esq." He
had in him a combination of talents and qualities that
would greatly benefit the town. As a friend to the
education of the people he tended to advance the
character of all ; for the prestige of education did not
rest with the emigrant but returned back to the
country of his birth. If those who leave Wales are
uneducated, all Welshmen are regarded as necessarily
uninformed. They, therefore, added to the reputation
of their country when they gave to the poor the ad-
vantages of education.

(Tile health of Mr. Maurice was honoured with
deafening rounds of cheers.)
Mr. J. MAURICE, in returning thanks, said—
I thank you very much, sir, for the honour you do
me in proposing my health, and gentlemen around
you that they so kindly respond to the toast, though
I need no such assurance of kindnEss at the hands of
my Welsh friends, who, I am delighted to see, have
to-day put aside the common cares of life, and have
met together in gladness to congratulate a fellow-
townsman on the honour to which he has attained.
You are here, I say, gentlemen, for no expression of
political sentiment, but to mark with pleasure, aye,
and with profit too, the cause of one who left you in
early life to fight the world's hard fight ; and you
may well rejoice that he, who but a few years since,
went out from amongst you to mingle with countless
thousands in the greatest city of the universe, hath
so stood out from the crowd that he this day returns
to your arms the selected of Macclesfield. I envy
not the mind whose political biases deny it this
pleasure. My respect for the Honourable Gen-
.

tleman rests not on the fact that he is the
Member for Macclesfield ; that circumstance raises
him not one iota in my esteem, which is simply
founded on the character that has won for him the
honourable distinction of his laudable ambition. And
if I know anything of the good people of Ruthin, and
I think I do know something of them, this joy is not
in the honour conferred on the man, but that the cha-
racter of their fellow-townsman hath won for him the
honour. They love more to trace him in his early
course than in the consummation of his wishes, for
they remember how when far away his heart was in
the land of his fathers, and they prize more the filial
solicitude that when wrung from his necessities, that
giving of what the giver needed for himself, than all
the gifts of his subsequently acquired wealth. Gen-
tleman, Mr. Williams stands before you on his own
fame of
he
ancestors.fuon dsn o iet ebetloo n
gyso our
gehsttfeuelmi y
at his alliance with that brotherhood, and valuable
onto the
great fraternity of working men, and he shames not
e

and valued indeed is the constitution which is

open to such, and which makes the past character
of the man its surety for the future.—(Cheers.)
Sir, it is no unmeaning compliment that we this day
pay to the Hon. Gentleman, and we desire that the
rumour of it may go forth through the width and the

breadth of this land—a beacon to light—an example
to cheer all whom narrow circumstances may here-
after compel to quit the confines of their native land,
seeking fortunes in richer soils, that they may know
that there ever remains for the sons of Cambria, who
are worthy of it, honour in the land of their fathers.
With the sincere desire that the fruits of to-day may
thus profit, and with my best wishes for the future
welfare of the Hon. Gentleman, I again thank you for
the honour you have done me.
The Chairman now left the room, and the toasts
became of a personal and discursive character; but

BA =MA Mb RIG MI aßli•
!_the conyivial spirit of the meeting was sustained for
some time without any symptoms of excess ; and we
feel assured that the morning did not chide the even-
ing's enjoyments.
DINNED N
AT THE •TOWN HALL.
The repast at the Town Hall was very excellent.
Upwards of a hundred sat down.
After the cloth had been removed, the Queen and
the customary loyal toasts were duly responded to.
The health of Mr. Williams, was given, and
drank with the greatest enthusiasm.
A brilliant display of fireworks took place in the
evening.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS or THIS DAY.
TIMES.—It must have been long evident to at-
tentive observers of Italian politics that the current
of events in that country would not wait for the im-
pending adjustment of our diplomatic relations with
the Court of Rome, but that circumstances would
compel us to anticipate, in some fashion, the obvious
decision of so important a question. The wisdom of
our ancestors had bequeathed us a position of consi-
derable embarrassment, and some little delicacy was
requisite to reconcile the necessities of the case with
the proscription of the law ; but our readers will
probably be of opinion that by the arrangements we
now announce, her Majesty's Ministers have contrived
rather happily to escape the dilemma in which the
imperative demands of policy and the inevitable penal-
ties of a preemunire had conspired to place them.
The Earl of Minto, who is now on his road to Turin,
will extend his tour to Rome, and, though not accredited
by any official introduction, or invested with any formal
representative character, will be enabled by his presence
at the Pontifical Court to facilitate the circuitous inter-
course between two states which have so sensibly
persisted in blocking up the ordinary channels of a
necessary communication. The position and con-
nexions of his Lordship will be an immediate and
sufficient guarantee of his responsibility, and will
confer upon him much of that authority which it is
as yet forbidden more directly to delegate, while his
known qualifications for such a mission supply a
complete assurance that the interests and honour of
England will be safe in his hands. In this way it is
expected that Ministers may be enabled to commu-
nicate with a friendly state at a very critical pesiod
of its fortunes, without rendering themselves liable
to the accumulated penalties which our ingenious
ancestors devised for treason. As soon as Par-
liament meets the letter of the law may be brought
into accordance with the spirit of the age,
and, after we have graciously recognised the poli-
tical existence of a power which at present com—
mands the earnest and practical sympathies
of half the population of the island, Lord
Minto may be boldly invested with a title befitting
the functions he must necessarily discharge. The
extremities to which two Governments of Europe
have been reduced in their attempts to establish some
communication with each other are highly instructive,
and will not be lost sight of, we hope, by those who
occasionally advocate the retention f obsolete and
impracticable statutes as the safest course for a Le-
gislature to pursue. The diplomatic intercourse be-
tween England and Rome is managed after a fashion
very much resembling the commercial intercourse
between Holland and Japan. The real character of
an honest and necessary transaction is cloaked by
some barbarous and clumsy fiction, and the negotia-
tions of two independent Powers are conducted with
the clandestine tricks of a contraband and discredit-
able traffic. We resolutely persist in theoretically ig-
noring a Government, in the success and well-doing
of which we practically confess the highest interest.
In every point of view, except the most important of
all, the relations of '.ngland and Rome have been
settled long ago. There remains no principle what-
ever for discussion, and but little room for informa-
tion and enlightenment. There are scarcely two
opinions of Pius IX. and his policy, and yet, in those
decrees which presumptuously embody the conclu-
sions and express the wisdom of a nation, we proclaim
him to be a formidable and ferocious potentate, who
stunts our growth, and menaces our existence by
attainting the national blood, and who must be
shunned by all people who would keep their inde-
pendence secure from his subtle and insidious ap-
proaches. This is not the only instance in which the
contradiction between our opinions and expressions
has been recently exposed, but the shifts to which we
have been actually driven by the practical conflict be-
tween necessity and law have certainly displayed such
policy in a light more than usually conspicuous. It
would have been a curious ie.sesset
patched a fleet to the succour of a monarch to whom
we dared not send an ambassador. The truth is,
that there is hardly a single Court of Europe with
which it is of greater importance that we should be
in regular and legitimate communication than this.
The Pontifical dominions promise to be the birthplace
of that enlightened and liberal policy which is to re-
trieve the long degradation of the Italian Peninsula,
and which it is the interest of all philanthropists to
promote. Nor is the influence of their Sovereign
confined to his own territories. As the spiritual
head of a vast number of British subjects, he exer-
cises a certain controlling power within these realms
which it might indeed be thought very desirable to
transfer to more amenable hands, but which it is the
height of childishness to ignore. The influence, such
as it is, actually exists, not in force sufficient, as ex-
perience has often proved, to be weighed for a mo-
ment against the suggestions of loyalty or patriotism,
but with quite enough reality to deserve attention.
And yet, for the sake of a statute already condemned
by the conclusions of sense and reason, we have been
contented to forego all the benefit which might be de-
rived from amicable relations with a Sovereign whose
voice on certain points would be respectfully listened to
by some millions of British subjects. It would have
been rather more creditable to us if we had revised
our obsolete ordinances before we had been driven to
the measure by sheer force of circumstances, and,
certainly, the sooner we terminate the present expo-
sure of our predicament the better it will be for our
reputation. In the eyes of Europe we are practi-
cally convicted of retaining an interdict against a
measure which we nevertheless confess to be abso-
lutely necessary, and the demands of national policy
are only satisfied by the arts of equivocation and
evasion. 'We had the option of preserving our pre-
judices or promoting our interests, and might have
very consistently adopted either line of conduct, but
the difficulty of reconciling the two has just been
unpleasantly ascertained. As we have preferred,
however, the more sensible course, no time should be
lost in candidly confessing our convictions and
openly recording our decision, nor is there much
ground for apprehension that the Court of Rome will
be backward in meeting overtures of such a friendly
spirit by a reciprocal obliteration of discreditable and
pernicious memorials.
CHRONICLE.—The tantalizing freaks which
chance and rumour play with us, remote spectators of
the vicissitudes of the Mexican war, we can compare
to nothing so readily as to the trials to which Dickens
puts the curiosity of his readers during the inter-
mitted publication of one of his novels. Neither with
one nor with the other of the great purveyors of
public excitement can we feel sure of ourselves for a
moment. 'We never know where we are, or what we
are next to expect. Our most sagacious conjectures
are set at nought by the arrival of a new monthly
part, or of a Boston packet. Polk and Pecksniff,
Santa Anna and Mr. Pickwick, Paredes and Martin
Chuzzlewit, Scott and Newman Noggs, Taylor and
Sam Weller, disappoint and surprise us equally, and
toand
keep us from mouth to month, and from mail
mail, in a state of delicious perplexity. How
often, as we turn the last page
or scan the enigmatical contents of
is to bringf a monthly
part,
some
atele-
graphic dispatch, of which
the particulars, do we not
summon up our conjec-
tural fortitude, and swear that neither fate nor Charles
Dickens shall baffle us this time. But no ; the next
I turn of events finds us as much at fault as ever, and
proves our inability to cope with the caprice, the in-
consistency, and the disregard of the ordinary rules
of human action which prevail alike in the plots of
the novelist and in the councils and countermarches
of the Mexican belligerents. The advices received
by the Cambria are advantageously distinguished
from several of their immediate predecessors, by their
consisting of something more than mere rumours or
fictitious telegraphings, as to the transactions in the
scene of war. It would appear to be a positive fact
that the first division of General Scott's army left
Puebla for Mexico on the 7th of August. The other
divisions were under orders for departure on succes-
sive days, and General Scott himself was to leave
with the main body on the 1 1 th. The Mexicans
likewise were reported to be in motion. Their
chances of a successful resistance to the advance
of the invaders may be looked upon as con-
siderably increased by the arrival of a large
body of troops under Valencia. The next mail
will in all probability bring us the particulars
of a desperate battle having been fought at Rio Frio
or El Penon. For now that the negotiations for
peace are broken off, and the war party in the capital
is strengthened by the arrival of Valencia and the
return of Paredes, we cannot believe that the city of
Mexico will be surrendered to the enemy without a
sanguinary struggle. Much will depend on the ma-
teriel of which Santa Anna's force, as recently re-
cruited and augmented by arrivals from distant guar-