The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1835.

A. GRAND DINNER TO MINISTERS

AT FISHMONGERS' HALL.

A grand court dinner of this Company took place on Satur-
day evening last, at their new and splendid Hall. Invitations
had been sent to all the principal members of the present Mi-
nistry, and but few disappointments were encountered beyond
that occasioned by the absence of Lord Melbourne, who was
necessarily compelled to attend in the House of Lords. At
about six o'clock the other noblemen and gentlemen who were
enabled to avail themselves of their respective invitations ar-
rived, and were loudly cheered by a numerous concourse of
people who had assembled in the street.. Shortly afterwards
the guests were ushered through the magnificent suite of apart-
ments, which have been recently completed, to the Hall, where
a sumptuous entertainment was provided. The Prime War-
den of the Company, Mr. Alderman Wood, was in the Chair.
On his right was Lord Brougham, and on his left, the Mar-
quis of Lansdowne. Among the company at the principal
table we noticed Lord John Russell, Lord Albemarle, Lord
Plunkett; the Right Hon. Thomas Spring Rice, M. P. ;
Sir John Hobhouse, M. P. ; Poulett Thomson, Esq., M. P. ;
Lord Glenelg, Lord Howick, the Attorney-General, Joseph
Hume, Esq., 01. P. ; Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P. ;
George Grote, Esq., M. P. ; William Crawford, Esq., M. P. ;
Dennison, Esq., M. P. ; John Boeham Carter, Esq.,
M. P. ; William Humphreys; Esq., M. P. ; Edward Bernard,
Esq., M. P. ; J. Ramsbottom, Esq., M.P., &c. &c.
The cloth having been removed, and non nobis domine ex-
tremely well sung,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the usual loyal toasts, after which,
The CHAIRMAN rose to propose " His Majesty's Mi-
nisters."—(Great cheering.) He was well assured that all
present shared in the feeling of disappointment he now ex-
pressed at the unavoidable absence of Lord Melbourne.—
( Loud cheers.) That Noble Lord was, however, engaged in
his capacity of Prime Minister in his place in the House of
Lords, advocating a measure of paramount importance, but
which he feared was not, under all the circumstances, quite
as safe as it might be.—( Cheers and laughter.) Up to the
last moment the Noble Lord had intended to join them, but a
rather unexpected discussion had prevented his attending.
On a former occasion they had expected the honour of seeing,
his Majesty's present Ministers in their old hall. It hap-
pened, however, that some.change took place both in the hall
and the Ministry.---( Laughter.) The hall had been restored
since that time; it was now just what they wanted—con-
venient, and, he hoped, durable and permanent. The
nistry had been altered, too, and he hoped the alteration was
one of a similar •chaeaCter.=(Cheds.-) He - n-o begged' to
ask them to join him in drinking the health of Viscount Mel-
bourne and his Majesty's Ministers, and- thanks to them for
their perseverance in those measures which, combining un-
compromising firmness with sincere liberality of principle, can
alone preserve the liberties and happiness of the nation.—
( Tremendous cheering.)
The Marquis of LtstsnowNE rose to return thanks, and
was most cordially received. Ile said, " Mr. Prime War-
den and Gentlemen, In rising to return you many thanks for the
honour you have conferred upon myself in common with the
rest of his Majesty's Ministers, I must first express the regret
I feel that my Noble Friend, the Noble Viscount at the head
of his Majesty's councils, is not here, to return you those
thanks which I know he -would have returned in person, most
cordially and most sincerely had he been present. An event,
however, of an unexpected nature, which has occurred else-
.where this afternoon, and which has been so well adverted
to by your Prime Warden, has obliged him, in the discharge
of that duty from which he never flinches—(Cheers)—to
remain in that place in the House of Lords, where I know he
will always be found when the public interests require his pre-
sence.—( Loud cheers.) On his behalf, and on our behalf, ho-
noured as we have
,heen this day as his Majesty's Ministers,
I can only say, what I am sure my colleagues feel no less than
myself, that we desire to appear before you in that capacity,
only as long as, in addition to the confidence of our Sovereign,
we retain the confidence of the people.—( Great cheering.)
Allow me to add, that it affords us all the greatest and most
heartfelt satisfaction to meet with this mark of your approba-
tion in this splendid hall, restored on those antient founda-
tions, which have been so long and so justly considered as the
repository of the principles we have ever professed—of that
consistency to which I humbly hope we may lay claim, and as
one of the numerous but most efficient organs of that public
opinion to which we have always bowed.--(Tremendous
cheers.) I return you, once again, my and our most sincere
thanks for the honour you have done us in drinking our.
bealths, and beg, in return, to drink all yours."—( Cheers. )
The CHAIRMAN rose to propose the health of Lord
Brougham—( Cheers)—a name intimately associated with
the cause of civil and religious liberty, and with that great cause
which he had endeavoured to promote and carry out to its ut-
most extent—he meant the cause of education all over the '
world.—( Loud cheers.) Their best thanks wire due to
that Noble Lord, for the exertions he had made from a very
early period of his life, in the cause of civil and religious li.
berty—exertions which had been continued up to the present •
moment—exertions which he trusted and believed would bs
prolonged to the last hour of' his active, useful, and brilliant •
career.—(Great cheering.) He begged to call upon them to
join with him in drinking, with the greatest possible satis-
faction, " The Health of the Right lion. Lord Brougham
and Vaux."

The toast was drunk with every demonstration of applause.
Lord BROUGHAM rose amidst loud cheering ; when it had,
subsided the Noble and Learned Lord said :—" I beg. to re-
torts •you my- most siOcere thanks for the honesur whie!) you
have done me in drinking my health on this occasion. Your
worthy Prime Warden has stated With perfect truth that I
have long been among the friends of civil and religious liberty.
I may add that I have been long, though not so long, among
the members of this great and flourishing corporation. I have
the great, and to me the invaluable, honour of being a citizen
of this great metropolis of London, and I have also the honour
of being one of the members assembled together on this occa-
sion at Fishmongers' Ilal!—(Cheers)—and if on the one hand
I never can look to the city of London and its corporations,
without feeling that it is a pride and glory for any man to be
connected with it, inasmuch as it has been the very cradle of
English liberty—inasmuch as it is the place where some of the
martyrs of English liberty were tortured and tried—inasmuci
as I know that if bad times and evil men were again to arise,'
the same standard would be unfurled in this city of Loudon,
and the same men would come forward again to suffer martyr-
dom in the cause—so on the other, I confess that I feel a pe-
culiar satisfaction in looking back to the scenes which made iie
free of the city of London, and a member of this corporation. I
allude to a passage the most utterly disgraceful in the history
of this country. I allude to an occasion which ought to make
every Englishman hang his head when he looks back upon it.
I allude to a period when tyranny appeared here as black asd
as foul as it ever showed itself under any eastern despotism. I
allude to that tyranny which sought to oppress—aye, even to
take the life of—the Queen of England. Gentlemen, those
times have happily passed away ; but I never come among my
fellow-citizens, that I do not make it a point to look back to
them ; to refer to those easier and lighter times of tyranny
and persecution, and to remind them of the strife and storms
through which we then passed. I do this, not from any pur-
pose of self-congratulation, for God knows that I do not,
and never have, cared one straw about it ; I do so, because
it conveys a great moral lesson. We have happily lived to
see a great difference, and to witness an extensive alteration.
—(Cheers.) In the present day, liberal principles do riot en-
tail persecution upon those who profess to be the friends of
liberty. In these times, to be the advocates of good govern-
ment at home and free government abroad, is to establish a
claim to power—almost to wealth—in this country. But in
the times to which I look back, which, as I say, I never come
into the City without taking leave to refer to—in those days
it was quite enough for a man to be a friend to liberty—to be
the advocate of Reform—to profess liberal opinions at home,
and to wish well to those struggling for freedom abroad—it
was quite enough to do these things—aye, or any one of them,
that he should be marked in his generation, that he should
be proscribed among his tribe, that he should be sought to be
put down among his compeers, that he should be trampled
upon among political men, that he should be sought to be
oppressed—and, I speak from the authority of my own ex-
perience when I say, that he should be for years and years
persecuted and kept down hi his own profession—(Great
cheering)—kept down in his profession, simply and solely
because he professed those principles and entertained those
opinions which are now professed and entertained, I rejoice to?
say, by the honest men who are his Majesty's Ministers, and
by all who would make their way into place and office and
emoluments undei them.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I owe this
short retrospect to these present times P • I owe it not to mye
self certainly, who no longer suffer under that persecution—
no longer suffer under what for twenty years of my life I was
exposed to. I owe it to the many great and gallant spirits
who are still struggling, and who, I hope and trust, will
have no further impediment interposed in their way, in this
day of prosperity, for the principles for which they once en-
dured so much—l owe it also to the memory of those best
and truest spirits this country ever bore—the memory of those
most enlightened, most honest, and self-denying men who
devoted their lives to that cause which only produced pain
suffering to them, which produces freedom and liberty for us.
It is a very poor tribute to their memory, but it is one in
which I am persuaded you all concur; for I should think
much less than I do of the company whom I have now
the honour—most respectfully, God knows—of addressing, if
I thought they differed in the slightest tittle from the senti-
ments `I have expressed. Since I had the honour of first
meeting my brethren in this Company, many years have
elapsed,' as your excellent Prime Warden can testify, and in
that time many and great changes have been brought about.
Of all those changes, the first triumph of your principles in
establishing the liberty of election—that primary and most
important of all the rights you enjoy—is the main and
foremost one. You are now beginning to reap the fruits of
that most important measure : my belief and expectation is,
that those fruits will be speedily gathered in, and that they
will be precious to the taste.—(Cheers.) I am firmly per-
suaded that, as soon as his Majesty's Ministers shall have the
power_ to betake themselves to the task of making the Tree of
Reform, which as yet has not had time to produce any of its
choicest fruits, yield an abundant and a ready supply,
the
people of this country will find that, far from being the bar-
ren stock its enemies have thought fit to represent, it is a
go3dly and prolific source. And cheap government being at
length obtaineclr the expenses of the Government being re-
duced to the lowest possible pita; consistent tbe existence
of the Government of this country on a scale which will pre-
serve safety at home and safety and honour abroad—this great
reform, this very valuable and estimable reform, and reward
all your exertions, being once obtained, you may laugh at all
the predictions of those silly soothsayers who thought fit,
four years ago, to tell you that whether reform were carried
or rejected, mattered not one farthing to the real and effe-
tual comforts of the people.—( Cheers.) I beg ance more
to thank you for the honour you have done, and the attention
1 you firer bestowed tasica. tale ; lastapose The healfh` (if

ybur worthy Prime Warden"—(Cheers)--one of the most
useful, the most steady, .and most excellent supporters of those
snund and excellent principles to which I have adverted,
who, through good report and through evil report, not
only now, when it is holiday work to be a Reformer, sup-
ports them, but did the same when their advocacy entailed
prsecution and loss.—( Cheers.) I beg leave, it that capa-
city, as well as in his capacity as Prime Warden of this
company, and a representative of this metropolis, to propose
his health.—( Loud cheers.)
:The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and proposed " Lord
Plunkett."

Lord PLUNKETT briefly returned thanks, but not one syllAble
that fell from the Noble and Learned Lord's lips reached our
ears ; nor, we should think, judging from the tone in which he
spoke, anybody else's.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Right Honourable
Lord John Russell, the leader of that House of Commons whose
reform was promoted by his zealous and successful exertions."
--(Loud cheers. )
Lord JOHN Russur. was received with tremendous cheering.
The Noble Lord returned thanks in the following terms:—
" In returning you my most grateful thanks for the honour
you have done me, I beg to assure you that I am sensible now,
as I have been at all times, that the honours which have been
paid me, if they be due to me at all arc not due to me as an in-
dividual, but because I have the good fortune to be placed in a
situation which enables me to promote what has always been
my first object—the advancement of measures which are dear
to the feelings and to the interests of the people of this country.
( Cheers.) .1 can never conceal from myself, and Ido not pretend
now to deny that if I were to rest solely upon the qualifications
which I individually possess, I should indeed fall short of the 1

necessary pretensions to those rewards which were bestowed
ca public men. If it has been my good fortune to be associ-
ated with men, and to be associated with measures also,
which, because they suited the interests, because they suited
the opinions of the time, have carried to a successful termina-
tion. • I say if I can claim any merit on this account, it is, that
having formed an opinion of my own, having entertained the
conviction that certain measures other persons had proposed
were right and proper, I have not shrunk from expressing that
opinion, and proposing those measures in the Commons House
of Parliament.—(Load cheers.) Gentlemen, when I had the
honour of proposing the repeal of the Corporation and Test
Acts, it was supposed that the opposition offered at the time
was sufficient to stay the progress of that measure.---( Cheers. )
When I had the honour to propose a Reform of Parliament,
Osatinwhen I ventured, to say that conceding it was the only.
vcv-atolarevent more violent alterations and more changes, an
lion. and Learned Gentleman, who was then a Member of the
Comnions' House of Parliament, and also as you are aware,
has lately_ been in attendance in another House,—(Cheers
and laughter)—derided the idea, and (as we understood the
Noble Lord) denied that reform wad required, or that the
people of England were in favour of it. This was the way,
Gentlemen, in which the first Reform Bill was met ; but
being Convinced, in that case, that the unjust and oppressive
impediments in the _way of a fair representation of the people
ought to be removed ; being convinced in the other, to which
I have just adverted, that the grievous and partial penalties
which then existed, ought to exist ne longer; and knowing in
both, that conviction was shared by many who had shown the
utmost disinterestedness of purpose in maintaining it, I felt
convinced in my own mind that I ought to proceed forwards,
and allow nothing to prevent me from proposing to the House
of Commons that which I was convinced the great and
creasing intelligence of the people of England would ulti-
mately claim.—( Cheers.) And, gentlemen, allow me to say,
that if at a late period it has fallen to my fortune to be asked
to lead a majority of the House of Commons, it has been owing
to similar circumstances. I thought I was bound, and I do
think I am bound, to advance the principles of justice and
liberality, and to consider from time to time how they can be
best promoted—whether they arc agree agreeable to the popu-
lar feeling or not.—( Loud cheers.) I have no fears, gentle-
men, for the result—l have no fears with respect to the state
of England. We are all here conversant with what is going
on; and if we have feared or do fear making way, for a year or
for two years, with measures proposed, we may rest satisfied
that the cause of liberality will shortly triumph, and that abuses
will speedily be exterminated.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I in-
troduced the Reform Bill into the Commons House of Parlia-
ment, and that Reform Bill was carried. Was I to stop there ?
Was Ito stop while the people of England saw grievances—
great and crying abuses—to be redressed elsewhere, which,
though they did- not immediately affect themselves, impera-
tively demanded redress at their hands ? Was I—a represen-
tative of the United Kingdom—to deny justice to Ireland ?
( Loud cheers.) I felt in my conscience that I could not—
( Cneers.) I felt bound, whether that cause were successful
or not—whether it were approved of by a majority of the
House of Commons, or by a minority—whether it were ap-
proved of by the general sense of the people of England, or
whether there were a fear of its being opposed to that general
sense—to say, that as we had felt for and redressed the
grievances of the people of England among our own imme-
diate constituency (grievances less in amount, because the
greater grievances had been looked to remedied by our fore-
fathers), we must, in the same spirit, look to the crying
grievances of Ireland.—(Cheers.) I felt that we could not
shut our eyes to, that we were not prepared to decide, those
grievances, the very existence of which some pretended to
deny, but that we were bound, as men representing the
United Kingdom, to take those grievances into our imme-
diate consideration, and to apply to them-the best remedy we
nioold prevail upon the Legislature to grant.—( Loud cheers.)
I' trust, gentlemen, 'then, that I have not been unmindful of
those great principles we have met this day to celebrate—the
free, the liberal, the independent principles which placed the
House of Hanover upon the throne. Those who maintained
those principles, those who maintained the title of the House
of Hanover, those who defended it against the squirearchy of
that day, against the country gentlemen of that day, against
the magistracy of that day, and against a vast portion of the
Aristocracy then arrayed against them, delayed for a time
that which was the cause of good and free Government ;
and looking back to what had existed before refused to profit
by increased wisdom and experience as they were ultimately
compelled to do, and as they would have done well to have
do'ne at once. These who built the Hall in which I last met
this Company, of which I have the honour to be a Member,
built it according to the best principles of architecture of their
day ; but those who reared the present magnificent edifice,
have constructed it according to the increased knowledge and
enlightened taste of the time—according, I may say, to the
spirit of the age.--(Loud cheers.) The same tribute that we
render to those who constructed the old Hall, that they built
it according to the knowledge and skill of the time—we yen-
(kir to those who established the Revolution of 1688, and in-
traduced the House of Hanover to the throne of this king-
slain ; we act according to the principles and knowledge of
our day, but according to the increased liberality of the times,
and in that spirit we contend that- we have a right to intro-
duce increased rights and improved advantages, that we
have a right to expect that those rights will be maintained,
and that we are justified in calling upon Parliament to con-
cede them.—( Loud and continued cheering,) Gentlemen, be-
lieving, these will be your opinions, feeling assured that these
are the principles On which you act, I hope that those secta-
rian and exclusive and violent sentiments which have lately
been propagated, with no inconsiderable industry, in various
quarters, will meet with no response in your breasts: but that
meeting here as we do, with Members of the Church of Eng-
land, with Members of the Roman Catholic Church, and with
Protestant Dissenters, we shall advocate the great principles
_of justice and toleration ; leaving to our own hearts and con-
sciences the solution of those points of fath on which we differ
—uniting in one bond of universal charity and benevolence,
acknowledging one Supreme Being, and adopting one precept
of general good will.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, I am
perfectlyaware that, in giving utterance to these sentiments,
I am rather going beyond the proper business of the evening.
—(No, -no.) It has been my good fortune to take a part in
carrying a great measure, which has, as I think, tended to im-
prove the condition of the people. I hope I may be enabled,
assisted by a majority of the House of Commons, to effect a
still further improvement in their condition ; and I know no bet-
ter way of attempting to dose than by associating with the name
of the Church, mercy, usefulness, Christian charity, and bene-
volence.—(Loud cheers.) For our Church, and for our insti-
tutions, our ancestors suffered martyrdom and death ; these
iostitutions we are bound to respect and revere.; but we are
.baaind also to_ make such corrections in them as the spirit, of
the age demands ; such corrections as are consistent at once
with the peace and harmony of the country, and the improve-
ment of its institutions. And having well ascertained how
these corrections can best be made, our duty is to go calmly,
steadily, and resolutely forward, fearing not any obstacles that
may be interposed in oar way.—( Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Right Hon. Earl
Grey, the father of Reform, who throughout his whole political
life, has employed the influence of his station and talent in
supporting public liberty, and exposing and removing abuses."
—( The toast was drank with enthusiastic applause.)
Lord HOWICK-1n endeavouring to return you thanks in
the name of my father for the high honour you have just
conferred upon him, I must be permitted to say how deeply
I regret that he is not himself present on this occasion to
convey to you those thanks which Ifeel so unequal to return in
his name, for the very proud and highly distinguished' manner
in which you have received the toast proposed by your worthy
President. Gentlemen, I cannot but feel somewhat over-
come on this occasion.—(Cheers.) I do feel proud—l hope I
am not wrong in doing so—of nay relationship to one whose
name has been received in the manner in which you have re-
ceived this toast.—(Clibers.) I feel proud of nay relation-
ship to that individual. Not because he was Midster of this
country for near four years, and was the head of the Govern-
ment by which the great measure of reform was carried into
a law,,but because, for forty years, he was the unshriniting
advocate of those principles, and the constant defender of
those rights, which, when he first entered into public life,
were seldom recognized except perhaps to be scouted with dis-
dain.--( Great cheering.) I cannot but feel proud of my re.
Igiunship to one who, during that long series of years, not-
Withstanding the frowns of power, notwithstanding the obloquy
poured upon him by those who did not then know how deeply
they were interested in the subject, endeavoured, in conjunc-
tion with Mr. Fox to resist the follies—the worse than folhe
--alf those who opposed them.—(Cheers.) geoalemen, it is
quite impossible for me to asynnesre npcni the present occa-
sion. I will, theecfono, merely thank you once more, and
again exprosa my regret that my father's absence from the
country prevents him again meeting this company, of which
he has the honour to be a member.—(Cheers. )
The winner of the match for Doggett's coat and badge,
which was rowed for in the morning, and the men who came
in second and third, here entered the room to receive the re-
ward of their exertions, which was bestowed by the Chairman.
The CHAIIiNIAN next proposed the " Marty„ is c 1 L4O-
- and the Marquis of Lansdowne aotuaonet thanks:'
The citAW'N., 44403 'Right Hon. Thornas
spring Ritie,*Chtnaceiter of the Es:chequer, aril may he con- ,

tinue to adhere to a strict observance of public faith and na-
tional economy."—( Loud cheers).
Mr. SPRING- Rica returned thanks. He trusted that in
no situation in which he was ever placed, need he be re-
minded of the necessity of observing the two principles recog-
nised- in the toast—the observance of a strict economy, and
the maintenance of public faith. There was no economy
which could be devised that was inconsistent with public
faith ; there was no public faith, well understood, which
ought to be a bar to a wise economy.—( Cheers.) He felt
highly gratified the( they should hare been kind enough to
propose that toast as connected with the office he had the
honour to hold. It was a dangerous attempt to return
thanks, for if there were one individual more than another
who might be pretty fairly considered every man's enemy, it
was the taxing man. He haunted them in all their steps ;
met them at the threshold of their doors ; if they went
abroad, on horseback or a-foot, they met him; they met him
in every shop, in the shape of some taxed commodity; the
very bed on which they reposed at night was but another item
of his claims.—( Cheers and laughter.) If the office became
to a certain extent popular in the city of London, where its
duties were well understood, it was because its duties were
so intimately connected with the great principle cf *the
maintenance of national faith and national honour.—( Cheers.)
If the health of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were well
received, he was not vain enough to lose sight of the proba-
bility that it was because the title had so intimately connected
itself with a name which, whenever it was utt'red, awakened
feelings of esteem, respect, and attachment—he meant the
name of Lord Althorp. As an.individual connected with his
Majesty's Government, he begged to thank the company for
• the manner in which they had received the toast. As an
Irishman, he felt that that portion of the empire owed them a
debt of gratitude for the management of their estates in the
sister kingdom, and for the mode in which they discharged
their duty as landlords. lie hoped they would not consider
him an unworthy Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he took
the liberty of drinking all their healths in .the fullest bumper
of an exciseable liquid he could obtain, thereby at once show.
ing his respect for them, expressing his own gratitude, and
contributing to his Majesty's Exchequer.—( Loud cheers
and laughter.)
The CHAIRMAN begged to propose "The Right ion. Sir
John Cam Hoblmuse, and prosperity to his administration of
the affitirs of India."—(Cheers.
Sir JOHN 110BHOUSE returned thanks. In the sentiments
his Noble .Friend (Lord John Russell) had expressed, he fully
and entirely concurred. He had nothing to disguise upon the
subject ; nothing to conceal, and by those sentiments he
would abide until the last mciniekle of hls life, as he trusted as
he had done from the commencement of his eareer.—( Cheers. )
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Right. Honourable Charles
Poulett Thomson, President of the Board "of Trade, and suc-
cess to the plans of Government for its advancement and pros-
perity."

M. CHARLES POULETT THOMSON briefly returned thanks in
a tone which rendered him .sharpy inaudible where we sat. He
thanked them for the honour they had done him as a member
of a Government professing principles such as his Noble and
Learned Friend ( Lord Brougham) had.said were the hitch road
to power. He begged to say, however, that it was not on that
account that he had joined the present Government, but. be-
cause he was deeply impressed with a sense of the rectitude
and propriety of the principles on which they acted. —( Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Attorney-General and
the English bar."—( Cheers. )
'Fire ATTORNEY-GF.NERAL returned thaeks— " Within
a few hours," said the Honourable and Learned Gentleman,
" standing below the bar of a certain assembly, I heard a very
eminent member of the legal profession exclaim, Where is
Mr. Attorney-General ?—( cheers.) Let him show himself
if he dare : let him defend if he can this unjust, infamous, ty-
rannical, treasonable, and revolutionary Bill, which has been
sent up to your Lordships from the House of Commons.'—
( Cheers and laughter.) It was represented that Mr. At-
torney-General never could chew his face in public again :
that in future lie must be an outcast from all society ; and
yet here is Mr. Attorney-General to acknowledge the high
satisfaction he feels at having had his health in conjunction
with the bar of England so favorably received.—(Loud cheers
and laughter.) Gentlemen, although it was tires represented
that I had deserted the duties I owed to the Crown, I openly
avow my conviction, that I best discharge those duties as its
sworn servant by doing all in my power to correct the abuses
which deface the institutions of this kingdom, and to restore
them to their pristine vigour and utility.—(Loud cheers.) It
seems to me that he takes but a poor view of what is due to
the Crown who thinks his duty is to protect abuses, or sup-
poses the Crown is endangered by salutary and wise reforma-
tion.-.--(Cheers.) I am at once the servant of the Crown and
the Representative of one of the greatest and most intelligent
communities in this country, and I am rejoiced to think that I
cannot perform my duties in the double capacity of Represen-
tative of that great community and Attorney General of his
Majesty, by doing all in my power to protect the just preroga-
tives of the Crown and the best privileges of the people."._
[The Hon. and Learned Gentleman resumed his seat amidst
loud cheers.]
The CHAIRMAN proposed, as the next toast, " Mr. O'Con-
nell and the Irish Bar."—( Great applause.)
Mr. O'CONNELL—I do not.know any presumption, gentle-
men, so great as making a long speech at this hour of the
night ; and yet it would be impossible to express, in a short
one, the gratification I feel at all I have heard, all I have seen,
and all I have felt to night.—(Cheers.) I like to mix, when-
'ever the..opportunitv..proeute itself, withtthe gojede sense wad ,
intelligence of the knglA people, and to hear them express
their honest and hearty wish to extend the benefits of their
liberal institutions to their brethren in Ireland.—(Cheers.)
If it were at an earlier period of the regt t, I might be
permitted to dwell upon some of the injuries and oppressions
that the British Government has inflicted upon Ireland,
the refusal to identify the interest of the two countries, to
strengthen this portion of the empire by the affections of Ire-
land, and to make Ireland happy by conferring on her a com-
munity of benefits with this country.—( Cheers.) It is a
consolation, however, to perceive now that there is a dawning
of light surrounding the throne o! the two countries, for the
security of that throne itself, by basing it upon the affections
of a generous and loyal people, determning to blot out the re-
collection of former misgovernment, by a general concession
of all we can justly and fairly require.—( Cheers.) For we
do desire to stand upon a footing of equality with England.
We never would be content with less ; if we were, we should
deserve to obtain less. I trust, whatever projects may have
actuated my mind or the minds of others, with respect to having
at home a government of a more kindred and fostering nature,
that we may be early convinced such projects were erroneous,
by seeing the people of England
_rally round the present
advisers of his Majesty in every part of the British empire,
and giving them their unqualified support, in order that
they might be enabled to do good to Ireland, and to extend
the benefits of their administration to every part of my
country."—(Cheers.)

It being .now past eleven o'clock. the principal guests
retired, and the remainder of the company immediately fol-
lowed their example. There were several other toasts on
the list, but owing to the lateness of the hour they were not
proposed.

STEAM CONVEYANCE
TO THE LAKES, BY SOUTFIFORT, BLACKPOOL,
POULTON RING, LANCASTER, AND ULVERSTONE.

The public are much indebted to that high -spirited and re-
spectable individual Mr. Winder, who has contributed so much
to their comfort in the arrangement now made, for the. speedy
and economical conveyance to the aboVe places. The steam-
packet Win& mere, a vessel lately built by Mr..Mottershead
for the purpose, and admirably adapted for the trip, left
George's 'Pier on Monday morning, at half-past four o'clock,
with about 150 ladies and gentlemen who were invited on the
occasion, and for the first time performed her trip to Ulver-
stone in about seven hours and a half, passing Southport and
Blackpcol, and calling at Poulton Ring, she returned to Liver-
pool at about ten minutes before eight o'clock in the evening,
after landing the company at Ulverstone Quay, and staying
there for about half an hour.

The vessel made her way in beautiful and gallant style, to
the delight and admiration of all on board, and much to the
satisfaction of Mr. Winder, and three gntlemcn who have con.
tributed their skill in building her. Mr. Bail's condensier:-ap-
paratus has been called into play in this case, ansi hac.: so far an-
swered the most sanguine expectation Of hie criend and him-
self. It is an invention, we are informed, that is likely to be
made available to the public in the improvement in steam na-
vigation, and we hope to hear of its being, universally adopted.
Upon the vessel approaching. to Ulverstone, a vast assem-
blage of persons who had arrived from all parts of the country
were seen upon the quay and the surrounding hills, who joy-
fully greeted her with every token of respect, and this was
politely' returned with a salute and buzzas by her company.
The day being remarkably fine, the brilliancy of the assem-
blage was much heightened by great numbers of elegant and
wen-dressed females, who were alike anxious to show their
joy and approbation of a scheme so likely to increase their
comforts, in affording them in a few hours a safe and delight•
ful transit to Liverpool.
In contrast with the brilliancy of the effects on the shore, it
is impossible to describe the grandeur of the back ground; the
picture wus truly complete. Never could those magnificent
ridge of hills, dividing the counties of Lancaster and Cum-
berland, have been seen to greater advantage, or produced an
effect more sublime—from their grey arid. tops to their sombre
bases, the diversified tints were beautifully amalgamated, and
afforded a fine study for an artist ; Turner or Fielding would
hero have gleaned materials for a splendid picture.
Mr. Winder has, no doubt, now laid the foundation for one-
of the most delightful bathing-places and summer visits in the
kingdom ; and it is to be hoped that the attention of some
spirited individual, or a company, will be directed to its com-
pletion, and that in a short time easy accommodation will he
afforded to the public in neat and appropriate dwellings, why,
it is almost certain, in return will give it every support.
three days
ort. -
The Windermere is intended to islvt'rPo"l
in the Week, and tc return the attornato.d=!:;„ The partien'
Jars of which will, 1,-,awe.ver, be pror",:rly published by the esta-
blislxleot.—Liverpool courier.

The Rev. Marl; Drury, who died at Brussels on.
the 22d ult., was formerly master of Harrow, and his con-
T zion with it, and Lord Byron, will secure him literary im-
mortality,

CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE, SATURDAY.
—The Committee met at eleven o'clock, when Mr. Harrison
applied to the Committee wider the 4'2d Geo. 111., for a
commission to exarniuo ivitneises in Ireland. The Committee
rcrklc34 to Cranj a commission, and several witnesses were ex-
aMined to prove the deficiency of value of land on which a
man named Curran was registered, and polled foc Messrs.
Vigors and Raphael. The Committee adjourned till eleven on
Monday'.