The Sun.
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might be, it should be exertett to the preseryettat-EOW-peetSPee4'
—peace at any price, short of dishonour. 4*,,,*bether, as
the Provost kindly wished, he might confriaatk with the
consciousness of having done his duty, ors4sidestined to
lay his bones in a far country or under /the blue sea, he
trusted his future conduct to the end of the chapter would,,
be such as to cause no one present to regret the friendly
and affectionate greeting they had given him that-evening S
(Loud cheers.)
Sir A. ALISON in an eloquent speech, which was much
cheered, proposed the next toast, " The Army and Navy."
He was proud that the city of Glasgow had been the first to
acknowledge the services of the Crimean heroes by a public
banquet, and it was to the honour of Greenock that it had
taken the lead in according similar honours to the navy.
Admiral MoNTGoarattv, on the part of the navy, and
Lieut. J. A. S. NICHOLSON responded for the army.
Mr. R. STEELE gave " The Health of the Member for
the Burgh," who was unavoidably absent.
The Earl of GLASGOW, in a highly eulogistic speech, pro-
posed " The Health of the Member for the County and
Lord of the Manor."
The toast was drunk with all the honours and one cheer
more, and appropriately acknowledged by Sir M. S.
MTEWIRT.
The Duke of ARGYLL gave "The Memory of the Heroes
who fell in the last War." He said—You will see by the
arrangements of this evening that a very difficult task has
been imposed upon me by the Provost. When I say a diffi-
cult task, I mean that it is one in which it is extremely diffi-
cult to do justice to the feelings of others or to one's own.
I am to propose to you the memory of those who have
fallen in the late great war. I need hardly say that every-
thing that has been said as applicable to the living must
.still more come home to our hearts and judgments as ap-
plicable to those who are now dead, and who have fallen
alder the sufferings, the miseries, and the misfortunes of
war. At the same time, although much that I have to say
must necessarily be but a repetition of that which has
been said, and said with infinite power and heart as sailors
always speak, by my gallant friend near me to-night, there
are a few observations which I should be glad to make in
reference to those feelings which arise in connection with
the memory of those who have fallen in the late war. We
are accustomed to speak of the 41 years, or nearly 40 years
which preceded the commencement of this war as if it bad
been a period of profound peace. It has commonly been
sailed the " Forty Years' Peace," and so, undoubtedly, in
one sense it has been. Daring that 40 years there were,
indeed, contests in which the arms of Great Britain were
engaged; but they were, for the most part, upon distant
scenes of action; they did not come home to the under-
standings and feelings of the people so much as the war
now concluded. I remember very well being told by the
late Lord Hardinge that, during the whole campaigns of
the Duke of Wellington, in which he took so distinguished
a part, he bad never seen so tremendous a fire, or the Bri-
tish army placed in a position of greater peril, than in the
tremendous action which took place on the Sutlej in the
Sikh war, when Lord Hardinge was Governor-General of
ludia. You will recollect the strong sensation for a mo-
ment created by that event ; the panic in the country
when the late Sir Charles Napier was sent out to take the
command of the army in India. But it was a passing
danger, the contest of a moment; in a few short weeks
the agitation of that period had subsided, and we were
again accustomed to talk as before of the peace that suc-
ceeded the great revolutionary contest of the last century.
Now some results did ensue from these long years of
peace. You all must remember that not very long Lefore
the commencement of the late war there was a strong party
raised and organised in this country for the purpose of
depreciating the services of the army, and I very well
recollect that a distant association was formed, in which it
was laid down as a rule that at their public dinners the
usual toast of "the army and navy" should be omitted.
New, gentlemen, I believe that these persons were not
actuated by any sort of personal hostility to the army, but
they entertained what I believe to be very extravagant
notions in reference to some coming millennium of peace, a
period that never will come until the nations are very dif-
ferently constituted from what they are at present.
(Cheers.). But still more, gentlemen, that feeling arose
not merely from political and economical errors, but from
a strong tendency to depreciate what are really the noble
virtues of the military character (Applause.) People
had almost come to forget what those virtues are ; they
had come to consider mere courage in the field of action as
almost the only virtue which the military man is called to
exhibit. Now, Ido anticipate as one result of the late
war—as one result of the feelings which must ever gather
round the memory of those who have fallen in it, that
there will be a better and more just appreciation of the
high qualities which constitute the real soldier. (Ap-
plaus.a) My belief is that these virtues are intimately
connected with other virtues which lie at the basis of all
civil as well as of all military reputation, and that without
these virtues there never will be a people which can be
really great. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not attempt to
define to you what these virtues are. You have to look to
the conduct of the man who fell not iu the field of battle,
but under pestilence and famine, during the late memo-
rable contest. You have, above all, but to look to the
character of that great man in whom all those virtues were
summed up and typified as they never have been in the his-
tory of the world before—l mean to the character of Arthur
Wellesley. (Cheers.) Allow me also to associate with his
name the name of one who in those virtues, as well as in
hie scenes of contest, was his close, his inseparable com-
panion—l mean Fitzroy Somerset. (Cheers.) Gentlemen,
I was grateful, I must confess, te my gallant friend for his
well-timed remarks in connection with the services of the
army and of the navy. He recalled to your recollection
the character of the late Lord Raglan. I need not tell you
that, in now mentioning him again, I du not wish for one
single moment to touch upon those questions which have been
matters of controversy in regard to the conduct of this last
war. Suffice it for me to tell you, and I think I can tell
you safely, that the history of that war has not yet been
written, and that it will be for another generation to judg
entirely of the conduct of the late Lord Raglan. As far as
my own means of observation can go, I can sincerely say
that there was no nobler specimen of a British soldier ever
born than the late Lord Raglan. I mention him now not
as a general, because on his capacities in that respect I
neither seek nor do I care to pronounce any opinion what-
ever. I mention him simply as a soldier who fell at his
post of duty ; not, indeed, by the bullet of the enemy, but
by the pestilence that walked at neon day among the gal-
lant ranks of the British army. (Cheers.) And now, I can
only say in conclusion, that I trust throughout every class
there will in future, and for many years to come, be a
juster appreciation of what I have called the nobler virtues
of the military character, that you will remember that in
their devotion to duty, not merely in the very face of dan-
ger, but in devotion to duty under circumstances of infinite
difficulty and trial, they have been and are an example to
civilians in their respective walks of life. (Cheers.) I give
" The memory of the late Lord Raglan."
Drunk in solemn silence.
The Rev. Dr. M'CuLLocti, in a very florid speech, pro-
posed
nurses:, "Thewhichhewaaltsho with of Miss Nightingale
Sir M. R. S. STEWART made an eloquent reply.
The remaining toasts were by Mr. J. H. Maxwell, " Lady
receivedth great applause.and
the lady
IDr. B
ufamily
o;"bryled ; by
Sheriffi Tennent, " The
Clergy,"n
Sir Houston
•
Stewart, "The Chairman," who replied , by Mr. J. A. S.
Io eto Stewarttho Rev. and
" The Ladies ;" by Mr. J. J. Grieve, " The
AgriculturallCic°n
is°'
Interest," Mr. J. H. Maxwell replied ; by
Major Darroch, "The Manufacturing and Commercial
Interests," Mr. J. M'Cunn replied ; by Mr. D. Crawford,
The Croupiers," Rdlie Kincaid replied.

At the Mansion- House on Friday,
Edward Horace
Montefiore was charged with uttering
~ to defraud the London
exchange for 5,3001., with intentn a forged bill of
SHIP ON w"
a fire broke out in the lower
and Westruin-ter B-ink.
remanded fer a week.
FIRE.—LIVERPOOL,I Dec. 19.—Last evening
without in'tu'cahnfduortwhielr'
in the north-east sate of ti ho d of the ship Ida, lying
cotton. The, fire bri ,le Queen's-basin laden with
sione i than that caused oy thegdeato:o'
speedily on the ,p, ads, under Mr Hewitt, were
intre-
pidity of the firemen
their way to the seat' who
at the risk ot suffocation forced
of danger, the flames were extin-
guished;neeo
huda,avrbii
non
gdgyba
eonefdnwi
onacttereaer
which was n
the fire • eeesBsrily thrown into the hold. One of
nn.-
pound fracture rwho
had of the knee, and he, Kith several others
policemen fed into the hold and su,tained a c nil.
been half-suffocated, was taken to the N,rthern
Hospital
the,nt.e of a naked light in the bold.
• The fire is supposed to have originated from
DEFALCATIONS EY PARISH OFFICERS.—It appears
that the board of Guardians of the City of London
Union are now engaged in the invtstigation of the a
ac
counts of two of their officers, who it is estimated re
defaulters to the extent of between 12,000/. and 16,00./,
In the case of C. G. Manini a collector cf poor rates,
deficiencies, up to the 21st of October last, to the extent
of 11,809/. are stated to have been discovered, the sums
being represeuted by the different parishes in which he
officiated in the following proportions :—Allballows,
Barking, 4,138/. ; Allhallows, Stainityg, 1,1591. ; St.
Benet, Gracechurch, 683/. ; St. Ethelberga, 96/..,..... St.
30 o o assertedl .
and to be deft,
Helen's, Bishop :gate, 1,2251. ; St. Leonard, -Leal
,hap, 5281. ; St. Margaret, New Fish-street, 1,2741. i
St. Olave, Hart-street, I,Blol.—making the total
spiusttlattsi
t - b2leetrak, e e ni s
11,380/.
but the entire inquiry has not yet been co 'l
.-
As way naturally be supposed these revelationsmP eted.
ci.-",t in hAisua:c.
have occasioned considerable surprise, especially
accounts are understood to have been regularly as the
audited.
Both parties, it seems, have practised these
lengthened period, and, it is believed, frauds for a
have in some
themselves
degree acted in concert. Having absented
from business, the authorities have
for effecting, if possible, their adopted measures
apprehension.
nexed circular, issued to the churchwardens and over-
rehension. The an•
-eel, of the different parishes,
! confirms the default of
C. G. Manini

" City of London Union! 51, ,-,, ci., Mary-axe, Dec. 17.
Gentlemen,--I am directed by the board of guardians to
inform you that Mr. Cnarles Guerrino Manini, the collec-
tor of pour-rates for your parish, has proved a defaulter to
a large amount, and the said Charles Guerrino Manini has
been suspended from the office of collector. You are there-
fore advised by the board immediately, by handbill to all
the inhabitants, to stop an further collection of rates in
your parish.—
- am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
GEo. HOOPER, pro J. T. RovraLL, Clork.—To the church.
T
wardens and overseers of, Stc."