The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-27 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE DINNER.
On Friday evening the electors of Devonport sod Stone-
house, entertained at dinner the Right Hon. George Robert
Dawson, late candidate for the representation of that borough.
The dinner_took place at the Town Hall, and was announced
for five o'clock, but long before that hour the room became
completely crowded. The Chairman was J. RAMSES, Esq.
The cloth having been removed grace was said by Dr. Jacob.
The CHAIRMAN proposed " The King."—( Applause, which
lasted for many minutes.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Queen, and the rest of the
Royal Family."—( Cheers. )
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " Church and State."__
(Loud and enthusiastic cheers. )
Dr. JACOBS returned thanks. •
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Right lion. George
Robert Dawson, and at the next election may he become one
of our Representatives in Parliament."—( Cheers.)
Mr. Dawsos; returned thanks. He said—Tyranny has been
for centuries unknown in England ; but I tell you there is now
progressing, under the, gorse of liberty, a tyranny which, un-
less checked by you, and that speedily, will in the course of
a few years lead your country into endless and inexhaustible
confusion.—( Cheers.) Whence does this tyranny arise ?
will tell you. It arises from the encroachments of en' ot the
component parts of our system of constitution ; it arises from
the preponderance of democracy over the King and the aria-
toeraey.—( Hear, hear.) The tyranny to which I allude is
making rapid strides in every part chi our system ; it advances
..with overwhelming force; and, it will never retrograde until
Englishmen unite together to give it a spirited resistance.
Already has the prerogative of the Crown been assailed, and
it requires very little .encouragement. to " cry havoc, and let
slip the dons of war" upon the privileges of the aristocracy.
The patronage of the Crown is already attacked. The King
is not even permitted to select his own representative at a
foreign c0urt.....( Hear, }tear,) Within the last four or five
years We have bad no less than five changes in the Govern-
Mont of the country, Every thing has been unsettled,
every thing 14 at aea. No man, whether in commoree, trade,
or profession, could calculate to-day what might turn up
to-morrow. The tradesman has been in dismay—the
merchant in constant terror of change and alteration.
O,RN cry you are going to anticipate me in what I am going
to say. It is, of course, the degrading, the disgraceful coali-
tion between Lord Melbourne and the O'Connell faction that
lam going to envie to—=a coalition which it was utterly im-
possible am' man could have forseen or predicted. I know it
will be said that Lord Melbourne denies the existence eg
such
a coalition ; but is it possible for me, is it possi.l:;,o for any
man who has read the proceedings in Parl.'s-ament, to believe
that cc:n*o4)l4m Ido not meant imptign the veracity of
Lord Melbeurne—far be it fro:. me to impute to him the wil-
ful utterance of a fms:alsel
.al--but Ido impute to him the com-
mon failing of ma.-.l.ind. I believe him to be the dupe of his
w n
of " Hear, hear.") We all recollect
Le:„, they's fulminations against 'Mr. O'Connell on a particu-
lar evening in his place in the House of Lords, and saying,
among other things, that as an English Nobleman and as a
Gentleman he would consider himself disgraced by the pollu-
tion of even contact with such a man; and we all also recol-
lect that on that very same evening that Lord Grey denounced
him es a demon of discord arid mischief, there was made in the
House of Commons an exposure of one of the most disgrace-
ful correspondences that could well be conceived having been
carried on with this man by some of his own colleagues—
( Cheers.) Now, I would ask you, is it not probable Lord
Melbourne is precisely labouring under the same infatuation as
Lord Grey did ? Are not the very persons who betrayed Lord
Grey in their correspondence with this man io the situations they
held under his Government? Have they not the same means of
carrying on in the same manner the same negotiation with this
individual—this political pest—this political swindler(—Loud
cheers.) Let me ask you, as men of common sense, not to be
blinded and deluded by this humbugging denial of coalition.—
(Cheers.)—The coalition has been made—( hear, hear)—and
it will be carried on until such time as it suits Mr. O'Connell
to break it. When it does suit hini he will break it, and he
will do so to the dismay and annihilation of the Melbourne
Government. But what are we to believe is the nature of
this coalition ? Fire and water do not usually agree together
—the wolf and the lamb don't usually resort to the same cave
—(cheeps)—Mr. O'Connell and the Lamb--I mean the Mel-
bourne—(a laugh)—never can pull together.—( Hear, hear.)
What was the description Mr. O'Connell gave of his present
colleagues only a few months ago? Did he not in a letter to
his friend Lord Duncannon, one of the present Ministers, de-
nounce Lord Melbourne, Lord Lansdowne' Lord Wellesley,
Mr. Littleton, Lord Grey, and Lord John Russell, and even
his friend Lord Duncannon himself, as so many incompetents,
dolts, malignants, drivellers, and impostors ?—( Loud cheers.)
These were the very words. which this demagogue, this mis-
chief-maker, this firebrand uttered against the very members
of that Cabinet with which he has now coalesced. And yet we
find them fools enough, weak enoughamad enough, to ava;l
themselves of such a man's assistance. You know not, you can-
not know, the fearful ascendancy which this man possesses in
Ireland through the influence of the Roman Catholic religion.
What is the condition, let me ask you, of the people of that
country ? Why, so degraded is it, that this man has suc-
ceeded in obtaining a degree of power over them such as no
'individual in this country ever possessed before, and which
In the end may tend to the total annihilation of all its most
cherished institutions. Are you aware of the means used to
increase his power ? He denounces Death's head and cross-
bones against all who resist his sway---.(Loud groans.) Do
you know what Death's head and cross-bones means in the
Catholic religion ? Death, nothing less than horrid death, to
all against whom it is denounced.—(Renewed groaning.)
Can there be anything more atrocious than this ?—( Hear,
hear.) You heard of the solemn denial which he made in
Parliament of his ever having threatened to put up a Death's
head and bloody-bones over the door of a respectable farmer
in Ireland, who refused to vote as he wished him. Now, gen-
tlemen, it has been my fortune to have seen in the hands of
Mr. Shaw, the Representative of the University of Dublin, a
solemn affidavit made by the individual against whom this de-
claration was uttered, confirming in every particular Mr.
Shaw's statement. This has not as yet been produced before
Parliament, but it will be, and in the meantime I pledge my-
self as to its existence. . And this is the man—this is the arch
demagogue at whose mercy you Englishmen are to be placed
—this is the man who is to have the controul of master over
you.—( Loud cries of " Never, never ; we'll fight for it first ;"
and hear.) In the House of Commons he is supreme—every
division is decided by his tail—(Groans.) I have gone to the
trouble of making a calculation of the number of English
members that voted upon each division, and I find upon each
occasion the majority of the English members has been
swamped and converted into a minority by the Irish tail.
Englishmen, look to this--look to your Church. Deny it
who may, the English Church is intimately connected with
that of Ireland, and the vote which goes to the subversion of
the latter will ere long be applied to that of the former.--( Loud
cries of " Never, never.") The cry now is, " Attack the
Church." I tell you, if that cry is responded to, it will soon
be, " Attack the King," " Attack the Lords," " Attack the
property of the country:"—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon.
Gentleman resumed his seat amid loud cheering.
Captain FANSHAW, 11. N., proposed " Mr. Parker, the Con-
servate candidate for the county, and may success attend him."
—( Loud and enthusiastic cheering.)
Mr. PARKER said he had been asked, or it had been asked
of him, who he was that had the audacity to oppose ono of
the present Ministers of the Crown—who he was that should
dare give a factious opposition to a Minister before his mea-
sures were ascertained he was not known, he regretted to
say, to that portion of the county in which Devonport stood,
but he was not unknown to the county of Devon..—( Hear.)
He was no alien—he was a free and independent country gen-
tleman, born and bred in the southern division of the county,
and every atom of property he possessed in the world was
within its bounds.—(Cheers.) He would never, he was de-
termined, put himself forward, with any thing like the ap-
pearance of faction, but this he would say, that, feeling op-
posed as he did to the principles of the present Administra-
tion, he would do the best of his endeavour to thwart and
oppose the re-election of Lord J. Russell, who was one of its
component parts.—(Cheers.) He begged, in conclusion, to
assure the meeting that the reception he had hitherto met with,
and the successful accounts he had received from all quarters,
inspired him with the most lively prospects as to the result of
his canvass.—(Cheers.) It was net in any one particular
district alone that he had heard a re-action had taken place.
In all quarters he held his own, and in many places he had
gained considerably oser his opponent.—( Cheers.) In fact,
from all he had heard and seen, it was his opinion he should
be carried through with success.—( Cheers. )
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " Sir Robert Peel and his
Majesty's late Ministers."—( Loud applause.)
Mr. DAWSON returned thanks

Scv,.ral other toasts having been drank, at nearly twelve
o'clock the Chairman vacated the Chair, and shortly afterwards
the company separated.

Fifteen workmen were killed by an explosion of
fire-damp, at a coal mine near Chateauleneau, in Hainault,
on the 18th inst.

LOCOMOTIVE FACULTY OF PLANTS.—If a wet
sponge be placed near a cucumber which is growing in a parti-
cular direction, it will change this directiop and grow towards the
sponge. A plane-tree, growing on the top of a wall, directed
its roots down the side till they reached the ground, a distance
of ten feet, in order to obtain the requisite nourishment of which
it was deprived in its elevated situation. Thus plants appear,
like wise and intelligent agents, to move towards their good,
and to turn aside from those soils that are injurious, or afford
but a scanty nutriment.—Analyst.