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London, England, 1835-01-30 00:00:00

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dined together in that town on a. .47vening last.
The dinner, which was a very good one, took place at the
Swan Inn, and there were about 200 persons present. The

object of the dinner was to celebrate the return of three
Conservative members for the county—viz., that of the
Marquis of Chandos, Sir William Lawrence Young, and
Mr. Praed, all of whom were present. Among the gentle-
men present were—Sir Robert Gunning, Colonel Chester,
Captain Swabey, Mr. Watts, Mr. W. Barton, Mr. J. A.
Boswell, the Rev. Mr. Whintield, Messrs. Smith, sen. and
jun., the Rev. Mr. Pinfold, the Rev. Mr. H. Srall, the
Rev. Dr. Robertson, the Rev. J. Fisher, Rev. Mr. Lang-
ley, and several other clergymen and gentlemen whose
names we did not know. The rest of the company was
composed of the most substantial farmers of the county.
At the cross-table, opposite to the chairman and the candi-
dates, were some 20 little fellows, from 12 to 14,years of
age, sons of gentlemen present, and who entered into. the
spirit of the meeting with all the glee of boyhood.
Colonel CHESTER took the chair.
The first toast proposed was " Church and King "
drunk with tremendous cheering. Then "The Queen,"
which was druilk with the same enthusiasm, " The Princess
Victoria and the Royal Family," and The Navy and
Army of Great Britairt,"---(Cheering.)
Captain GILPIN begged in the absence of any senior offi-
cer, to return thanks for the manaer in which the last toast
was proposed.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said, Gentlemen, I propose to you the
health of the Conservative members, and I propose to you
that it shall be drunk in the fullest bumper, and with three
times-three.—(Loud cries of " Nine-times-nine," The
cheering after this toast lasted for several minutes.)
The Marquis of CHANDOS, on rising, was received with
loud and general applause. By electing three Conserva-
tive representatives, the county of Buckingham had set au
example to the country ; they had shown that their princi-
ples were Conservative, and they had given an inviolable
pledge to their Sovereign to maintain the institutions of
the country.—( Cheers.) That return was made at a mo-
ment of great crisis, when all the faculties should be called
into action to support the prerogative of the Sovereign.—
(Hear, hear.) That return was made at a moment when
political feelings were deeper than they ever were be-
fore, and when their seats in Parliament were opposed
by persons reckless of the welfare of their fellow-coun-
trymen, but determined at all hazards to carry their own
views.—(Hear, hear.) It was not necessary for him to
enter into any details respecting the present Administra-
tion and the new Parliament ; but at any rate the coun,

try owed no debt of gratitude to the late Ministers, or to
the last Parliament. The late Administration had not
given any one act for which the country should be grateful,
nor done for the agricultural interest anything that would
make the farmers recollect who was at the head of the Go-
vernment during the period .of their Ministry. He saw
them at one time well supported in the Cabinet, but
he would defy any man to show how any one of them
could be handed down to posterity as a great states-
man.—(Hear, hear.) On one day they cringed to one
party—on another they stooped to O'Connell—on a
third they truckled to and asked the aid of, that small
but true band of Conservatives, when they lost the as-
sistance of O'Connell.—( Hear.) So many difficulties
arose, and those difficulties became so great, after the
death of Earl Spencer, that his Majesty was obliged to send
for and charge his Right Hon. Friend who now filled the
offices of Prime Minister arid Chancellor of the Exchequer
to form an Administration. 1-1„e would not join his Right
Hon. Friend ; he had told the cototy openly his opinion
upon one subject, and as be had done so, he thought it
would be neither consistent towards himself, nor towards
the farmers, to enter into his Majesty's cout2cils.—(Hear,
hear.) He preferred fighting the battle of i..he English
farmer to the highest honour that the Crown couLl confer
upon him.—(Great cheering.) He did not say this, that
he had made any sacrifice for them ; but the part he had
performed proved that he was as attached to them as any
one man's heart could be to his country'.--(Cheers.)
Though he differed from his Right Hon. Friend Sir Robert
Peel on the question of the malt-tax, he thought that he
might indulge in the hope that he should be able by steady
perseverance to induce his Right Hon. Friend to repeal
that tax, provided it could in any way be replaced.—
(Hear, hear.) He thought that his Majesty's Ministers
might grant to the farmers this great boon without forcing
him to do what with God's blessing he would do --(Cheers.)
He regretted that on one subject he was obliged to oppose
those who on other points professed his principles. But
if they did not concede this boon,--he meant the repeal
of the malt-tax—to the farmers, it would be his duty
at the earliest opportunity to give the representatives
of the country an occasion to prove whether they
had really the interest of the farmers at heart.—(Loud
cheers.) He hoped soon to be able to lay at the feet of ,
the British farmers an Act to repeal that tax, which he con-
sidered would be a great benefit to them.--(Cheering.)
They had been told by the Hon. Member for High Wy-
combe that the repeal of the malt-tax would not be a boon to
the farmer. Now, he contended, that to almost every far-
mer, whether they rented pasture or arable land, the repeal
of the malt-tax would be a saving of from 101. to 90/. a year,
according to the size of the farm, and it would, besides,
cause the agricultural labourer to avoid the contamination
of the beer-shops.—( Hear, hear.) A farmer occupying
1,000 acres of land would save 301. a year by the repeal of
the malt-tax. The Noble Marquis then went on to prove
that country towns depended for their prosperity on that
of the farmers, and he hoped that the tradesmen and arti-
sans would go on and support the farmers in their demand
for the repeal of the malt-tax. He would never be quiet in
his seat till he obtained that repeal, and they must not blame
him, but those men who bad deceived them in their pro-
mises, if it was not speedily repealed. With respect to the
great. question of the Church, though brought, up in its
doctrines, and attached to its institutions, be was not blind
to the defects time had worked in it. He would, there-
fore, join with the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the
Administration in his measures not to destroy the Church,
bat to strengthen it by useful reforms—(hear)—and he
was convinced that in the Right Hon. Baronet's hands the
Church would be relieved of its defects, and those who dif-
fered from him would be satisfied with his efforts. . If the
Church was to be destroyed—if the mad cry raised against
it was to be followed up—not only would the Church go to
ruin, but every man's property would be destroyed.—(Hear.)
If they were true to their Church and King, they might
show that it defied all storms from without, and•that they
in its defence could' never be beaten down. The noble
Marquis here alluded to the intimidation that had been
made use of by the opposite party during . the 'elections.
He called upon them to look to the elections of Ireland,
many of which were carried by the threats and machina-
tions of the priesthood, and by the most open bribery ; but
many of the persons were returned only to be ousted by the
Parliament. He had been told that many Irish members
were returned not only through intimidation, but he was
told that at many elections blood was shed, and that many
electors did not live to return home and tell their wives for
whom they voted, but that they had left the polling-books
and the booths stained with their blood—(Hear, hear.)
He hoped that he should never live to see such scenes in
this country—( Hear, hear.)
Sir W. L. Youxo, M.P., said, that in the last Parlia-
ment no interests were more neglected than the interests
of agriculture, but be was resolved that not a single session
should go by without his endeavouring to do something for
the-farmers, and he believed the most effectual relie to
them would be the repeal of the malt-tax. Much injury had
been done to their interest by smuggling corn through the
Channel Isles. The matter had been represented to Mr. Pou-
lett Thomson, but the present President of the Board of Trade
had promptly inquired into the subject, and discovered that the
smuggling of corn through those islands was by no means
slight—(Hear.) Some party said he was a High Tory and ,
churchman. If to say that the doctrines of the church were the
best, and that its ministers were the purest of all others, was
to be a churchman, he acknowledged that .he was one,
(Cheers.) He was aware, however, that the Church should
be adapted to the wants of the people. The population of
the kingdom was now 15,000,000, but the Church was in-
stituted when it contained only 5,000,000, and that alone
was sufficient that some ,alterations should be made in the
establishment.—( Hear.) He acknowledged that he was
an ultra-Tory under the same circumstances. He would
give the present Government his general support, but upon
one or two questions he had not made up his mind. The
one was the repeal of the malt tax, and the other the ques-
tion of municipal corporations. But in all that related to
the opposing the destruction of the Church—in all they did
to oppose the Democrat and the Republican, he would give
them his most unflinching support.—( Loud cheers.)
Mr. PRAED, M.P., returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN here, on account of indisposition, was
obliged to vacate the Chair, and Captain Swabey was voted
into it.

The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of Sir Robert
Peel and the present Ministry, as the framers of the con-
stitutional tree of England.—(Drunk with immense cheer-
ing.)
Several other toasts were given and speeches made, for
which we have not room.

The Marquis of CHANDOS, on leaving the room, said that
when he next met them, at their usual market dinner, he
hoped that they would be enabled to drink the healths of
those who had repealed the malt tax.—{Cheers.)
The Chairman and the principal members of. the com-
pany about ten o'clock left the room, but a great manyra-
mained and kept up to a late hour the harmonyt
prevailed during the whole of the evening. ,