The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

S V APRIL 26, MA

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16, at half-past elcren—J. 11. Brownlie,
Richmond-street, :Princes street, St. James's, cabinet
maker and upholsterer, May 16, at eleven—B. Stock,
Margate, Kent, innkeeper, May 16, at twelve—V. F.
Strong and W. flosking, Dye-house-wharf, Clink-street,
Southwark, coal merchant, May 16, at eleven—W. Hos-
king, Dye-house-wharf, Clink-street, Southwark, coal
merchant, May
and W. Bardgett, Old Broad-street, City, May 18, at
two. 16, at half-past eleven—L. Alexander
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In tho Country.
A. Dawson, Huddersfield, fancy cloth manufacturer,
May 19, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—F. Kirby, Leeds,
fgorroeirn,
nAkleaepyelr9,
anda t e lreovpeenraa k
, at
Qt the Court.ay 19, Leeds—J. Ro-
binson,
Bradford, worsted spinner and manufacturer, May
19, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—G. Oddy, jun., Brad-
the Court, Leeds— H. Prince, Exeter, furriaetr,elMelaeyl42a4t,
at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—R. Martin, Plymouth,
ale and porter merchant, May 24, at eleven, at the Court,
Exeter—R. W. Appleton, Liverpool, merchant, May 16,
at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—C, Faint, Blackpool,
Lancashire, hotel keeper, May 19, at twelve, at the
Court, Liverpool—J.West, Rawtenstall, Lancashire, cot-
ton spinner 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 and woollen dra-
per, May 19, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—J.Wooller, Stockton-on-Tees, draper, May 19, at
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W, Atkin,
Stockton- on-Tees, grocer, May 16, at half. past ten, at
the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. D. ew
Hay N-
castle-upon-Tyne, bread and biscuit baker, Ma y, 18, at
thew ic h,
Court, Staffordshire,Bßirmingham—J,
hdarma draper, . May
Emery,l7
twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. 11.
Lichfield, tailor, May 17, at half-past ten, at the Court,
miller,half-past May 27, at ten, at the Birming-
ham—R. Hoo, Smethwick, Staffordshire,.. draper, May
at the Court, Birmingham.
Birmingham—T. Header, Foleshill, Warwickshire,
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
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Yf-9plaVstestetnß,raotm
27, at half-past ten,

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 22, and two subsequent Satur-
days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom,
Abchurch-lane, City.
H. Butcher, Lamb's Conduit•street, poulterer, 3s. 4d.,
on Saturday, April 22, and two subsequent Saturdays,
between eleven and two, at the office 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 Mr. Groom,
Abchurch-lane, City.
P. Blackmore, Little James-street, Bedford-row,
saddler, 78. 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, Is. 64d., any
Wednesday between eleven and three, at the office of
Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street.
J. Lawton, Heywood-within-Heap, Lancashire, grocer
2s. 6d., oa Tuesday, May 9, or any subsequent Tuesday
between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser,
Manchester.

J. Wright, Wheelton, Lancashire, calico printer,
Zs. Ed., 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 aay subsequent Saturday, be-
tween tea 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. Holford, Wolverhampton, jeweller, 3s. 7d., any
Friday, lAtwaen 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 Wednesday, between twelve and three, at the
office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street,
City.

R. Woodhouse and T. T. Woodhouse, Aldermanbury,
City, warehouseman, 6id., 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 -11. Vertue,
Ipswich, corn and seed factor, May 18, at eleven-H.
Searle, Oxford, tailor, May 17, at eleven-Anne Coley
Hughes Ormsby, Hackney-, butcher, May 17, at half.past
twelve-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.
Woodward and W. Woodward, Walnut- tree-walk,
Lambeth, builders, May 18, at half-past one-J. Shep-
ard, jun., Southampton, plumber, glazier, and painter,
May 18, at one-V. F. Strong and W. Hoskins,
Dyehouse-wharf, Clink-street, South wark, coal mer-
chants, 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.
broker
T. Jacobs, Stapleton-road, Gloucestershire, share-
pow, May 26, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-11.
eili, Salford, Somersetshire, innkeeper, May 23, at
eleven; at the Court, Bristol-S. Bennett, Bristol,
teazle dealer, May 23, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-
y, a Fry, Bristol, warehouseman, May 23, at eleven, at
e Court, Bristol-J, Packer, Cheltenham, quarryman,
May 20, at half- past twelve, at the
Hughes, Tredegar Ironworks Court, Bristol-D.
Monmouthshire, gocer,
June 1, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol-J. Wilson,r jun.,
Ogle, 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
t a
bl Coukr, Liverpool-J. Sankey, Birkenhead, Cheshire,
csmith, May 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool
----T. Tattersall, Liverpool, corn merchant, May 16, at
twelve, 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
oiae, at the Court, Exeter-11. Prince, Exeter, farrier,
Callen 8, at one, at the Court, Exeter-S. B. Serjeant,
gton, Cornell, attorney at law, May 25, at one, at
the Court, Exeter-J. Emery, y
Lichfield, tailor, Ma 17,
at balf-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham.
At the Court of Review, May 16.
N. Mackenzie, Newgate-street, fringe manufacturer
Hubert', Darlaston, Staffordshire, lock manufac-
turer-W. Walford, Bridgwater, Somersetshire, tailor-
R. Arthur Wilson-street Finsbury, leather seller-S.
Rutnd, Hogstherpe, Lincolnshire, coachmaker-R.
W. Phips, Dorking, Surrey, fellmonger.
PARTNERSHIPS- DISSOLVED,
T. Bingham and J. Bingham, Wigan, Lancashire,
cotton spinners-M. Anthony and W. Carey, Charlton
Kings and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, surgeons-W.
Worth :and A. Allam, 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, Charlton-upon-Medlock, Lan-
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,
Sonaersetshire-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, Kingswinlord, Staffordshire, chartermasters-
J. Richardson and W. E. Dutton, Chesterfield, Derby-
shire, mercers-J. 11. Hesketh and T. Hesketh, War-
rington, Lancashire, coach painters-G. Dix and A.
Bristow, High-street, St. James. Clerkenwell, linen
drapers-J. Sutton, 11. Thorpe, t, 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 maru4,l;acturers-W. Stone and D. Pozzi,
Rochdale, Lancaihire, pork butchers-J. Homersham,
Homersham; jnn., and G. Lepine, Rye, Sussex, wool-
staplers-II„ P. Willock, jun., and A. Lambert,
J.
Man-
chester, wine merchants-W. Blackman and U.
Wilton, Raymond-buildings, Gray's Inn,
Worley and .R. -G. -Erlam, New gate-street,
solicuiteos,rmsei;-11.;
Robert-
H. Hall and T. Bolton,-Nova Scotia, Lancrruhsuir,e, cotton
Billiter, sea. , and H. Billiter,
street, Gr9svenox-aquare,
R %Cook 'and G. R.
curriers- V Garland and G.
Hawkins, Dorc:hester; rovers-R, ti hide and
Glenie, Bermondsey skin-market, Berra= $eY,
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INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
George Cannon, Horton Kirby, Kent, common brewer.
Walter Ling, Lakenham, Norwich, brushmaker.
William Sugden, Rochdale, Lancashire, blacksmith.
James Kirkman, Ainsworth, Lancashire, provision
dealer.
William Fane, Bedford, clerk.
John Adkins, Stock, Essex, baker.
Richard Barrett, Dengie, Essex, blacksmith. ,; •
William Douglas, Manchester, grocer.
William Anderton, Hulme, 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, higgler.
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, Lamberhurst, 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 Stai
Inn, Perth, May 1 and May .22, at two.
A. and B. Ross, Edinburgh, boot and shoemakers, tc
meet within the Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh
May 3 and May. 24, at one.
A. Dixon, Greenock, spirit merchant, to meet withir
the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, April 28 and May 19
at two.

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been made to purchase the house, generally supposedPts
hadto
have been the birthplace of Shakspere ; that the pur-
chase, upon certain guarantees, had been completed, but
there was at the present moment a liability on the part
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, Mdlle. Jenny Lind would, for 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 attractions it is thought that not 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
course of which he proposed to send down to Stratford,
for the purpose of exhibition, on the 24th of April, a
series of oil painting► (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/. fol. the
expense of carriage. He further proposed that the
paintings should be generally exhibited, the proceeds to
be applied to the purchase of Shakspere'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
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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 CHAIRMAN (Lord Brooke), after the usual loyal
and constitutional toasts had been proposed, 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 observations
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, and 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—inAl
fiction, in poetry, and in plays.—(Loud cheers.)
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 Shaktiperian 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 he wholly separated from the domain
of this 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 Shaks-
pere contributed, in no inconsiderable degree,torg-
ment the consideration and influence of lini,ln
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and romantic portions of our land, the northern
turesqut.
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or the
before he has been to bed, ho rushes to Stratford, and
asks to be shown the birthplace and the grave of Shaks-
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 home of the bard."...
(Cheers.) Bet thia,iinpatience knd ardour arcinot.co3-.
fined even to those who seaJi.' the same hingunge-rand
who share the same blood. Eveti our French brethren
have by this time di!Faood. at least those portions of
the hereiiieB OVolitute. And as for our Gomm

men, before their hat were so fully Oo lcupied aasthey
• at present, they were ever busy findin g out meanings
mysteries in the text of Shakspere, .which perhaps
himself never thought of.—(Cheers.) Butt& we not
feel every day that the most thrilling events4A...nolitem-
porary interest connect themselves with the lissociitions
of Shakspere T While the tide of war-seemsluow 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 Arties
may spare the tomb of Juliet. And Venice pepaps
iiathis 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 eoAd'xiq longer swim in
a gondola and ..wallt—iiY; ".maity-,a.time and oft, on the
Rialto."—(Hear,
_and loud cheers.)- 1-Aud as for the
Danes, although we oUrSelves, have- in 4 been always
quite regular with that nation4et the theught of Hamlet,
the image of the " buried majesty. off Denmark,"
deepens and enlists our symPathies
*vigil that gallant
people, and we should look upon it ahnost 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-minder playrotthe
fancy, in circumstances of past events, which Shakspere
has not anticipated and has not chronicled.?—(Cheers.)
We are now living among and amidst :the shock of
dynasties and the crash of empires.- Hasnot Shakspere
portrayed to us signs of such great riCissitudes and
decays?
" Let us sit upon the ground 4
And tell stories of the .fate of kings; •;:
How some have been deposedr some slain in war;
Some haunted by the ghostY(they hi ed'deposed;
For within the hollow crow s'-- •' ,
That rounds the mortal. temples, tang
Keeps death his court; :and there "the -antic sits
Scoffing his state and grit:Ming id his pOmp."
Those whom I have nv uctili4§sed,44 ,who have lis-
tened to me with such- kind_intlulgenee; I .wish one and
all " better-fortunes.: -•Pday you long be Where bells call
you to church,• and may you long sit atgood..men's
feasts."—(Cheers.) I really think thittafter sitting and
talking of Shakspere, we can hardlyentidescend to speak
of other names in thelields of national literature. After
the _gentlemen who has soy:eleven-pp submitted
to your notice the poets of EnglandH;now, gePtlemen., I
am talking of politics again-Laughter)—I intend, to
insist upon the maxim, t‘ Justice to Irelancri--F,(Loud
cheers)—and with' reference to 'the .'cOnditiet •ef that
country I must state that I am by 'IIQ meaus.a.Repealer,
and 'therefore I hope. that you.wili.consent to no separa-
tion between - the 'poets- .of _-.England and the poets of
Ireland.—(Cheers.) . Mr: 'lleskins, la giving you: the
" Poets of England," beaded. them with- a venerable
name—a name of one upon whose brow the bay leaf is
still green—but, gentlemen,' /et us not „forget that w e
have still living amonget,tis the poet MOore, upon who: to
myrtle, perhaps, we do not find all the luxuriance of. its
youthful prime; yet we may join in the hope that ty
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 the meeting
separated between. eleven and twelve o'clock.
A sub festival took place at the Falcon Hotel, ximat
ably presided over by Mr. Urquhart,. of Birmingham.
The toasts were, generally, those drank atthe Hall,, ' but
it is questionable whether the intellectuality and sociality
of the company were not superior.
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