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' auctioneer, May 16, at half-past eleven—J. H. Brownlie,
Richmond-street, :Princes street, St. James's, cabinet
maker. and upholsterer, May 16, at eleven—B. Stock,
Margate
argate, Rent, innkeeper, May 16, at twelve—V. F.
Strung and W. Hosking, Dye-house-wharf, Clink-street,
Soutaark, coal merchant, May 16, at eleven—W. Hos-
king, Dye-house-wharf Clink-street, Southwark, coal
merchant. May 16, at half-past eleven—L. Alexander
and W. Bardgett, Old Broad-street, City, May 18, at
two.

In tho Country.
A • Dawson, Huddersfield, fancy cloth manufacturer,
May 19, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—F. Kirby, Leeds,
grocer, May 19, at eleven, at the Court. Leeds—J. Ro-
binson, Bradford, worsted spinner and manufacturer, May
tEaxneetears—hirne,
19, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—G. OAdy, jun., Brad-
ford,
Who.tAel
innkeeper and ropemaker, May 19, at eleven, at
the Court, Leeds— 11. Prince, Exeter, furrier, May 24,
at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—R. Martin, Plymouth,
ale and porter merchant, May 24, at eleven, at the Court.
at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—C. Faint, Blackpool,
keeperi L ixtvearyp olo9l:
twelve,maetrchant M la:
tlh6e,
Court, L•
Liverpool—J. West, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, cot-
ton spu •
nier and manufacturer, May 18, at the Court,
Manchester—J.
Bolton and W. Ireland, Manchester,
check and gingham manufacturers, May 19, at eleven,
at the Court, Manchester—S, Brown, Sunderland, com-
mon brewer, May 18, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—J, S. Rablah, Barnard Castle, Durham, tan-
ner, May 18, at half-past ten, at the Court Newcastle-
upon-Tyne—T. Bowser, Morpeth, linen
Nn '
_a d woollen dra-
per, May 19, at twelve, at the Courntewcastle-upon-
Tyne--J.Wooller, Stockton-on-Tees, draper,
, May 19, at
twelve, at the Court,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W,Atkin,
the grocer, May 16, at half
past ten, at
the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne %V. D. Hay, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, bread and biscuit baker, May 18,
y at
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
J. H.
Hurley, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, draper, May 17,
at half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham—
Lichfield Ma J. Emery, , tailor, y 17; at htilf-past ten, at the Couri Birmingham—T. Reader, Foleshill, Warwickshire,
miller, May 27, at half-past ten, at the Court, Btrming.
draper, ham—R. Hood, Smethwick, Staffordshire. drap
May
27, at half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
D. P. Gamble, Exchange-buildings, Cornhill, electric
telegraph manufacturer, 7s. 6d., on Saturday, April 22,
and two subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two
at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. ,
Boyd and Harmer, Spital-square, silk manufacturers,
9d., on Saturday, April, and two 22 subsequent Satur-
days,r. GMORI,
between eleven and two, at the offoffice of Mr.
Abchurch-lane, City.
H. Butcher, Lamb's Conduit• street, poulterer, 3s. 4d.,
' and two subsequent Saturdays,
on Saturday, April 22,
office between eleven and two, at the of Mr. Groom,
Abchurch-lane, City.
W. A. Mearns, Acre-lane, Clapham, brewer, 4d., on
Saturday, April 22, and two subsequent Saturdays,
between eleven and two, at the office of m —r. Groom,
Abchurch-lane, City.
P. Blackn3ore, Little James-street, Bedford-row,
saddler, 7s. 2d., on Saturday, April 22, and two subse-
quent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City.
W. Sherwood, Belvidere-road, Lambeth, builder,
2s. 6d., on Saturday, April 22, and two subsequent
Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Groom, Abchurch- lane, City.
J. Sedman, Queen-street, Cheapside, oilman, 35., on
Saturday, April 22, and two subsequent Saturdays, be-
tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom,
Abchurch-lane, City.
G. Gale, Winchester, cornchandler, ls. 6id., any
Wednesday between eleven and three, at the office of
Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
J. Lawton, Heywood-within-Heap, Lancashire, grocer
2s. 6d., on Tuesday, May 9, or any subsequent Tuesday
between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.

J. Wright, Wheeltoa, Lancashire, calico printer,
ss. Bd., on Tuesday, May 9, or any subsequent Tuesday,
between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.

J. Gillender, Sunderland, ironmonger, 3s. 10d., Sa•
turday, April 29, or any subsequent Saturday, between
ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne. _ . _

J. Newton, Stockton-On-Tees, ship builder, Bd., on
Saturday, April 29, or any subsequent Saturday. be-
tween ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, New-
castle.upon-Tyne.
J. Cartwright, Shrewsbury, ironfounder, 35., any
Friday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Whitmore, Birmingham.
W. Walker, Birmingham, hosier, 2s. 9d., any Friday,
between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore,
Birmingham.

G. Hoiford, Wolverhampton, jeweller, 3s. 7d., any
Friday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Whitmore, Birmingham.
J. Hansor, Hanley, Staffordshire, hop merchant, 25.,
any Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of
Mr, Valpy, Birmingham.
L. A. Hollander, Winchester-street, City, diamond
merchant, 2s. 5d., on Wednesday, April 26, or any sub-
sequent Wednesay, between twelve and three, at the
office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street,
City.
___

H. Woodhouse and T. T. Woodhouse, Aldermanbury,
City, warehouseman, 6d., on Wednesday, April 26, or
any subsequent Wednesday, between twelve and three,
at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-
street, City.
F. Pinder, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, tanner,
Is. 6d., on Wednesday, April 26, or any subsequent
Wednesday, between twelve and three, at the office of
Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street, City.
J. Gass, Colchester, draper, 25., on Wednesday, April
26, or any subsequent Wednesday, between twelve and
three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court,
Basinghall- street, City.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
T. Taylor, Cowley, Oxfordshire, baker, May 17, at
twelve—E. Moseley, Upper Gloucester-street, Dorset-
square, wine merchant, May 18, at eleven —H. Vertue,
Ipswich, corn and seed factor, May 18, at eleven—H.
Searle, Oxford, tailor, May 17, at eleven—Anne Coley
Hughees Ormsby, Hackney, butcher, May 17, at half-past
v—T. J. T. Ashley, Clerkenwell-close, li-
censed victualler, May 19, at twelve—B. Tip.
per, Maiden-lane, Queen-street, Cheapside, whole-
sale stationer, May 18, at half.past eleven—J.
Woodwardmh builders, and W. Woodward, Walnut- tree-walk,
La, May 18, at half-past one—J. Shep-
ard, jun., Southampton, plumber, glazier, and painter,
May 18, ath one—V. F. Strong and W. Hoskins,
chants
Dyehouse-warf, Clink-street, Southwark, coal mer-
, May •17, at eleven—W. Williams, Brecon,
draper, May 17, at twelve—T. Fardell, High-street,
Poplar, omnibus proprietor, May 19, at twelve.
In the Country.
T. Jacobs, Stapleton-road, Gloucestershire, share-
broker, May 26, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—H.
Power Salford, Somersetshire, innkeeper, May 23, at
eleven, at the Court, Bristol—S. Bennett, Bristol,
teazle dealer, May 23, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—
S. B. Fry, Bristol, warehouseman, May 23, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—J. Packer:, Cheltenham, quarryman,
May 20, at half. past twelve, at the Court, Bristol—D.
Hughes, Tredegar Ironworks, Monmouthshire, grocer,
June 1
O ,at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Wilson, jun.,
gle, Northumberland, timber merchant, May 19, at
one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Sinclair,
Liverpool, tailor and draper, May 16, at eleven, at the
Court, Liverpool—J. Sankey, Birkenhead, Cheshire,
blacksmith, May 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool
Tattersall, Liverpool, corn merchant,
tw May 16, at
elve, at the Court, Liverpool—Ellen Owen and G.
Owen, Holyhead, drapers, May 16, at twelve, at the
Court, Liverpool—T, S. Jones, Wrexham, Denbighshire,
grocer, May 18, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J.
Tucker, Tavistock and Plymouth, attorney, May 18, at
one, at the Court, Exeter—H. Prince, Exeter, farrier,
May 18, at one, at the Court, Exeter—S. B. Serjeant,
Callington, Cornall, attorney at law, May 25, at one, at
the Court, Exeter—J. Emery, Lichfield, tailor, May 17,
at half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham.
At the Court of Review, May 16.
N. Mackenzie, Newgate-street, fringe manufacturer
J. Rubery, Darlaston Staffordshire, lock manufac-
turer-_W. ac -
turer—W. Walford, Bridgwater, Somersetshire, tailor—
'R. Arthur, Wilson-street, Finsbury, leather seller—S.
Rutland, Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, coachmaker—
R.
W. I)ll4.s,Dorking, Surrey, fent-winger.

- PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED,
T. Bingham and J. Bingham, Wigan, Lancashire,
cotton' spinners—M. Anthony and W. Carey, Charlton
Rings and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, surgeons—W.
Worth :and A. Allem, Oxford, smiths—E. W. Thomp-
son and T. Jepson, Glossop, Derbyshire,' attorneys—.
W. Lacey and E. Lacey, Birmingham, glass dealers--J.
Roberts and R. Ashton, Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Len-
cashire, coach builders—T. D. Butler and H. BentleY,
Birkenhead, Cheshire, and Liverpool, land agents—J.
Smartt and T. Graham, Upper Holloway, Islington,
surgeons—J. Giles, T. Stoate, and W. Stoate, Watchett,
Somersetshire—E. Corke and C. Viner, Southborough,
Kent, and Wadhurst, plumbers—W. Corbett and J.
Owens, Birmingham, woollen drapers—J. A. Jee and
M. Jee, Liverpool, general brokers—T. Banks and J.
Noden, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, chartermasters—
J. Richardson and W. E. Dutton, Chesterfield, Derby.
shire, mercers—J. H. Hesketh and T. Hesketh, War-
rington, Lancashire, coach painters—G. Dix and A.
Bristow, High-street, St. James, Clerkenwell, linen
drapers—J. Sutton, H. Thorpe, J. Handford, and G.
Handford, Radford, Nottinghamshire, lace makers—C.
Howard, J. Kidd, and J. Kidd, Stockport and Man-
chester, cotton manufacturers—J. Birt and J. Birt,
Mounton, Monmouthshire, paper makers—R. Brown, E.
F. Magnus, and S. Boyle, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford-
shire, china manufacturers—W. Stone and D. Pozzi,
Rochdale, Lancashire, pork butchers—J. Homersham,
J. Hotnersham, jun., and G. Lepine, Rye, Sussex, wool-
staplers—R. P. Willock, jun., and A. Lambert, Man-
chester, wine merchants—W. Blackman and J. R.
Wilton, Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn, solicitors -R.
Worley and R. G. Erlam, Newga,te-street, salesmen—
H. Hall and T. Bolton, Nova Scotia. Lancashire. cotton
spinners—H. Billiter, son., and IL Bilker, jun , Robert-
street, Grosvenor-square, curriers—W. Garland and G.
Hawkins, Dorchester, grocers—R. Cook and G. R.
Glenie, Bermondsey skin-markett Bermondsey, hide and
akin salesmen.

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. -
George Cannon, Horton Kirby, Kent, common brewer.
Walter Ling, Laker.ham, Norwich, brushinaker.
William Sugden, Rochdale, Lancashire, blackrmith.
James Kirkman, Ainsworth, Lancashire, provision
dealer.
William Fano, Bedford, clerk.
John Adkins, Stock, Essex, baker.
Richard Barrett, Dergie, Essex, blacksmith.
William Douglas, Manchester, grocer.
William Andcrton, Hahne, Lancashire, licensed vic-
tualler.
John Law, Manchester, cotton waste dealer.
William Morgan, Manchester, dairyman.
Frederick Walker, Norwich, clerk.
William Wims, Manchester, dealer in fruit.
Timothy Nichols, Brandon Parva, Norfolk, hi?.gler.
Robert Cocker, jun., Stoney Middleton, Derbyshire,'
publican.
William Slader, Appledore, Devonshire, shoemaker.
Dyler Cooper Sadler, Great Yarmouth, bricklayer.
George Blake, Great Yarmouth, basketmaker.
Richard Gardiner, Reedham, Norfolk, cooper and fish

curer.
Edward Aylward, Lamberburst, Kent, tailor.
John Elphick, Horsmonden, Kent, butcher.
Thomas Radford, Chard, Somersetshire, blacksmith.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

A. M'Martin, Alva, innkeeper, to meet within Camp.
bell's (late Gibb's) Inn, Stirling, April 29 and May 20,
at two.
I. Calmann, Glasgow, merchant, to meet within, the
Star Hotel, Glasgow, April 29 and May 27, at one.
C. G. Sidey, Perth, bookseller, to meet within the Star
Inn, Perth, May 1 and May 22, at two.
A. and B. Rose, Edinburgh, boot and shoemakers, to
meet within the Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh,
May 3 and May 24, at one.
A. Dixon, Greenock, spirit merchant, to meet within
the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, April 28 and May 19,
at two.

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decided interest SHAKSPERE'S BIRTHDAY.
ordinary occatianensec
of the birthday of Shakspere was attempted to be STRATFORD UPON-AVOX,TUESDAY.—The anniversary
cele-
brated in this town with unusual éclat. The, attempt,
demonstration. So
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streets
notwithstanding wertown) were three
which were elevated from places, the (mi-
t in the success of the Shaksperian holi-
esfawere wanting to give effect to the
holi-
day demonstration.
apathy, no app
graphs could effect suchr as announcements and para-
ea s t
h;
s quiet as
apparenton
proof of industry. an object, there was abundant
During the morning a meeting
com-
mittee was held, at which Dr. of the Stratford Dr. Thomson
preliminary proceedings were chiefly presided. Their
or not, they were of very little importance.formal, and, whether
the report that during the last year vut- It appeared by
been made to purchase the house, g,
neroauisi attempts had
have been the birthplace of Shakspere ;
iyhastuptphosed to
pur-
chase, upon certain guarantees, had been completeed buthere was at the present moment a liability on the pant
of the committee, amounting to about 4001. This defi-
ciency it was proposed to meet by extraordinary means.
Messrs. Charles Dickens, Foster, Douglas Jerrold, and
others, proposed to perform as amateurs twice in London
and once in Birmingham and Stratford ; and, in
addition to this, Millie. Jenny Lind would, fur the pur-
pose of promoting the objects of the Shaksperian Club,
give a concert exclusively on that account. Besides
this there is to be a grand ball at Willis's Rooms, and
by these attractious it is thought that riot only will the
deficiency be made up, but that there will be a surplus
revenue for other purposes. Nor is this all. A corre-
spondence read from Mr. Simpson, of Bramby, near '
Guildford, addressed to Dr. Thomson, the Chairman of
the Stratford Committee, and to Lord Morpeth, in the 1
course of which he proposed to send down to Stratford, '
for the purpose of exhibition, on the 24th of April, a '
series of oil paintings (thirty in number), by the late
Mr. Singleton, illustrative of the works of Shakspere.
The paintings had been bequeathed to him by the late
Mr. Singleton, and by the testator valued at about
2,0001. Mr. Simpson proposed to send the oil-paintings
down to Stratford to be exhibited yesterday, and for a
fortnight longer, upon the committee paying 20/. for the
expense of carriage. He further proposed that the
paintings should be generally exhibited, the proceeds to
be applied to the purchase of Shaltspere's house, the '
endowment of a resident, and the balance, after such
proceeds, aided by a subscription, to be paid to him for
the pictures. The committee accepted the temporary
loan of the paintings, but nothing further.
The London Committee, in the course of yesterday
(very unfavourable weather) visited Charlecote; it was,
however, nothing more than a visit of compliment, and
few persohs did themselves the honour to follow their
example. The various places in which relics of the
furniture of Shakspere were kept, and in some of which
his family were said to have dwelt, were visited by per-
haps a dozen persons; but the festival generally excited
the least possible interest. The chief point of attraction
was the dinner at

THE SHAYSPERE HALL.
The attendance there was of the highest respectability.
Lord Brooke, M.P., occupied the chair, supported by
Lord Morpeth, Sir David Dundas, Mr. Mark Philips,
and other distinguished individuals.
The.CHAiamAN (Lord Brooke), after the usual loyal
and constitutional toasts had been propsed, and all of
which were drunk with the greatest enthusiasm, called
upon the company to drink to the " Immortal memory
of William Shakspere." If that poet had excelled
in one point more than another, it was in express-
ing the beauties, excellences, and virtues of the female
sex.—(Great applause.)
Mr. P. COLLIER acknowledged the toast. He proposed,
on the suggestion of a friend, that the toast to the drama,
in consequence of its present depressed state, should be
drunk in silence.

Lord MORPETH then rose amidst loud cheers to pro-
pose " The Poets of Ireland." I find, said his Lord-
ship, that the duty of proposing a toast has been
assigned to me. But before giving that toast perhaps I
may be allowed to preface it with a very few ooservations
respecting the special purpose which has gathered us
together this night.—(Cheers.) In the first place, as
the Chairman of the London Committee, you will allow
me, on behalf of my colleagues, to express the great
gratification we have derived from the proceedings of
the local committee of this town; and I need hardly say
also, that with respect to those who are the habitual
residents of this town and neighbourhood, acid to which
the inspirations and genius of the spot must have become
familiar, that to us, who come from the dingier lati-
tudes, how refreshing we find it to have this opportunity,
of rubbing off some of the metropolitan dust, and re-
freshing
our eyes, our ears, and our memories, among
the sylvan lanes of your own lovely Warwickshire.—
(Cheers.) Will you allow me to say that I have no
sympathy with those who see harm in everything—in
fiction, in poetry, and in plays.—(Loud cheers.) At
the same time we are not to forget that there is hardly
anything to which there is not some risk of danger to
be guarded against. Now, this risk and tendency to
which occasions like the present might be liable was
that of allowing the admiration and the enthusiasm for
genius to mount into idolatry—that for which genius
alone and by itself can advance no legitimate pre-
tences. We may fondly hope—we may fervently believe
—that the life of Shakspere was as comely as his muse
was lofty. This we may hope and believe, but we know
that if we could combine all that his writings contain of
the beautiful and the sublime—if we could concentrate
all the excellencies even of his four superlative plays--
the Macbeth, the Lear, the Hamlet, and the Othello—there
would still be one prayer of humble faith, one governing
act of real self-denial, a beauty and sublimity after all
worthy of our admiration. But taking such feelings as
these for our safeguards, we may pass from the consi-
deration of Shakspere, as a man of whom we know but
little, to the consideration of him as an author, and of
whom in such a character we know much, and some of
those present have enabled us to know more.—(Cheers.)
For me to dwell upon the merits of Shakspere would,
indeed, be gilding refined gold and painting the lily.—
(Cheers.) I have just alluded to my colleagues of the
London Shaksperian House Committee ; let me now
allude, for a moment, to my colleagues in another com-
mittee, sometimes called the Cabinet. They are, as you
are aware, much occupied by pressing and anxious cares,
but I am glad that I have this opportunity of appearing
in this our short time of holiday, as their representative,
to declare how ready they feel to join in the mark of
homage which you are assembled to pay to the foremost
genius of the country. Luckily, on this occasion, we have
nothing to do with the influences of party politics, but
there are scenes in which I think the celebration of this
evening need not be wholly separated from the domain
of the wider and more comprehensive subject that may
be classed under the head of politics; for I will put it
to you—Have not the writings and the genius of Stiaks
England?—
(Cheers.) contributed, in no inconsiderable degree,,
to
aug-
ment the consideration and influence of nelancl?
(Cheers.) I myself teal that I could
I found witnessbearbrethren
to
this when travelling amongst our Transatlantic
that, how-
ever willing any one might be to raise
of the great American Republic; for
the Maine boundary, or to pick a
quarreldispaubt(em about
tilie
Oregon, or tohfottoinldickaesdingthiee Britishers American
with the coup_
New Orleans, yet
who was not eager to claimbrotherhood
phleanndsooufr
justice
fsttiheee
many
trymen of Shakspere.—(Cheers.)howl neverthey
an4meArincdanldothes.
wkhen
he
of you who live in this, town must be cognizant of the
fact that the first thing that
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lands upon_ounrotshtoorersonis
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' lature—not to see the palaces of monarchy,
oinretthroopLoleigsis
or the temples of religion—not to visit the more pic-
turesque and romantic portions of our land, the northern
lakes, or the Scottish islands—hut, sometimes even
before he has been to bed, he rushes to Stratford, and
asks to be shown the birthplace and the -rave of Shalts-
pere, or, in more metrical words than
my own, hies
to—

The dear scene where the Avon runs ever,
The birthplace, the grave, and the t, )me of the bard."
(Cheers.) But this impatience and ardour are not con-
fined even to those who speak the same language, and
who share the same blood. Even our French brethren
have by this time discarded at least those portions of
the heresies of Voltaire. Awl as for our Germau kips-

hands were so fully occupied as they
y were ever busy finding out meanings
the text of Shakspere, which perhaps
thought of.--(Cheers.) But. tio we not
it the ,mo;f. everts of contem-
porary iuterest connect themselves with the associations
of Shakspere ? While the tide of war seems now let
loose upon the plains of Lombardy, and are perhaps at
this moment breaking upon the ramparts of Verona, at
least we may hope that the violence of opposing parties
may spare the tomb of Juliet. And Venice ; perhaps
in this country we do not care very much whether it is
a republic or an imperial fief ; but we should care very
much if we thought that a man could no longer swim in
a gondela • and walk—ay, " many a time and oft, ou the
Rialto."—(Hear, and loud cheers.) And as for the
Dane; although we ourselves have not been always
quite regular with that nation, yet the thought of Hamlet,
the image of the " buried majesty of Denmark,"
dcepehs and enlists our sympathies with that gallant
people, and we should look upon it, almost as a national
insult if armed invaders were to bombard the palace of
Elsinore.— (Cheers ) Am I not right, then, in saying
that there is hardly a mood of the mind or play of the
fancy, in circumstances of past events, which Shakspere
has not anticipated and has not chronicled ?—(Cheers.)
We are now living among acid amidst the tahoek of
dynasties and the crash of empires. Has not Shakspere
portrayed to us signs of such great vicissitudes and
decays?
" Let us sit upon the ground
And tell stories of the fate of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in wail'
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
For within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps death his court; and there the antic sits
Scoffing his state and grinning-at his pomp."
Those whom I have now addresseq, and who have lis-
tened to me with such kind indulgence, I wish one and
all " better fortunes. May you long be where bells call
you to church.,
,and may you .long sit at good men's
feasts."—(Cheers.) I really think that after sitting and
talking of Shakspere, we can hardly-condescend to speak
of other 'names in the fields of national literature. After
the gentleman who has so eloquently submitted
to your notice the poets of England—now, gentlemen, I
am talking of politics again—(Laughter)—I' intend to
insist'upon the maxim, " Justice to Ireland"—(Loud
cheers)—and with reference to the condition of that
country I must state that I am by no means a Repealer,
and therefore I hope that you will consent to no separa-
tion between the poets of England and they poets of
Ireland.—(Cheers.) Mr. Hoskins, in *giving you the
" Poets ofibigitind," headed them with a venerable
name—a name of one upon whose brow the bay leaf is
s ill green—bat, 'gentlemen, let us not forget that we
have *4ll living amongst us the poet Moore, upon whose
myrtle, perhaps, we do not find all the luxuriance of its
,youthful r rime; yet we may join in the hope that it may
be long gilded with the mild and genial radiance of a
protracted sunset.—(Loud cheers.) With this hope I
beg to commend to your cordial acceptance the toast of
" Moore, and the Bards of Erin." (His. Lordship sat
down amidst reiterated cheers.) _

Various other toasts were then drank, and tho meeting
separated between eleven and twelve o'clock.
A sub-festival took place at the Falcon Hotel, most
ably presided over by Mr. Urquhart, of Birmingham.
The toasts were, generally, those drank at the Hall; but
it is questionable whether the intellectuality and sociality
of the company were not superior.