The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-16 00:00:00

The Dolphin Society assembled for the first time
at the Victoria-rooms, under the presidency of Mr.
P. F. Aiken, of Stuckey's Banking Company.
Another novelty was the_ admission of ladies after
the dinner.
In the course of the evening "The health..of the
Duke of Beaufort," as Lord High Steward of Bris-
tol, was given in highly eulogistic terms by the
chairman.
His Grace the Duke of BEAUEORT said, it was
with no ordinary feelings he rose-to return thanks
for the very kind and enthusiastic way in which
they had received the toast so kindly proposed by
the President. He hoped they would believe him
when he said that he was vervproud of the position
he held as Lord High Steward of the city of Bristol.
He saw around him many of those gentlemen who
did him the honour to elect him as . High Steward,
and he was perfectly aware that he owed the dis-
tinction to no merits of his Own, but that it was
entirely from regard to those who had gone before
him that he was. called upon to serve the office.
(Hear, hear.) All he. hoped. was, that when he
departed he should leave as good a name behind
him as those who had gone before him. (Cheers.)
Were they to bring a stranger into the city of
Bristol that day and take him round to the dif-
ferent dinners, he would be much astonished to see
so many people, all differing in their ways and
opinions, joining to celebrate the 'memory and to
emtitate in a small way by their charities the ex-
ample that had been previously set them by the
great Edward Colston. (Cheers.) He supposed
that in consequence of the position he held in this
city (in connection with which he wasp resumed not
to meddle with politics), as Lord High Steward, he
had received invitations from each of the three so-
cieties to dine with them that night. (Laughter.)
Now, considering• his antecedents, he thought he
had made the right choice—(cheers)--but if he had
any doubt on his mind, the reception which they
had been pleased to give. to the learned gentleman
(Sir F. W. Slade) quite sufficiently convinced him
that he had not got into the wrong box. (Cheers.):
It was a gratifying thing to see so-large a,gather-
ing met to celebrate that anniversary, ana it was.
equally gratifying to see so many on, he would
venture to say the side of conservatism—(cheers)
but he was sorry to say thAt at tkis moment the
city was not represented by one member of that
party. (Hear, hear, and cries of ." We will be.")
From the strong feeling however shown towards
Conservatism, he did not think it would be very
long before they had a representative. (Cheers.) .
All he hoped was that if the eloquent baronet get.
another opportunity, and they exerted themselves
as they had done hitherto, they would have a good
prospect of success. (Cheers.)
The CrtatuatXN gave "The Health of Sir F. W.
Slade, Q.C., the Conservative candidate for Bristol
at the last general election." (loud applause.)
Sir F. W. SLADE, Bart., Q.G., in responding to
thetoast said—How shall I answer such a reception
as warm as it is undeserved ? (No, no !) Do bear
with me a moment ;. I Shave addressed assemblies
in Bristol larger than_ this and somewhat more
riotous. (Laughter.) I was about to say how shall I
find words or language in which to express my
overflow of feeling at what I may justly term an
ovation ?. (Cheers.) It is true that on a former occa-
sion when I had the honour of coming forward to
fight your battle we were defeated, but that defeat,
as has been truly said by your President, heralds
a future triumph, and, whether it may be in my
person or the person of a far more worthy candidate
for the honour of representing you in Parliament,
I foresee, as clearly as I see the sun in the heavens
at noonday, that the triumph of the Blue party in
Bristol is inevitable. (Cheers.) Since I met you
last on that celebrated occasion when the poll was
declared on the . spot where the hustings were
erected—upon that. celebrated occasion when the
celebrated bnndle of sticks was handed round, and
when, you remember, my right hon. opponent—
who gaiued his election probably' by having re-
course to a similar plan to that adopted with refer-
ence to the hogshead of sugar alluded to by the
President—did not venture to meet the electors
of Bristol on that occasion, as perhaps some of the
sugar was still sticking to his fingers' ends—(hear,
hear, and laughter)—since' that time, I say, great
political events have taken place. The party then
in power had been turned out by a narrow ma-
jority, attained by the usual arts had recourse to
by their opponents—enormous lying and enormous
bribery. (Cheers and laughter.) I had, fortu-
nately the duty cast on me of exposing some of
that lying and some of that bribery. I have not
been idle during the time that has elapsed since
meeting you in the Corn-Exchange. I have ex-
posed much of the system of falsehood and bribery
which charaet..)riscs the opposite party, and I have
at least succeeded in this—l have stripped from them
the mask of purity by which they deluded the
country—(cheers)—.and th3y now stand before the
public, and before the world, and before, I hope
and trust, their own deluded followers in their own
simple nakedness. (Cheers.) Now,
.gentlemen, it.
was something to unmask the brothers-in-law of John
Bright; it was something to show that the apostle
of purity could not get his two brothers-in-law into
Parliament without having recourse to soft sugar.
—(cheers and laughter)---and I think it comes with
an exceedingly awkward grace from the man who
has the hardihood and the impudence to say that
the aristocracy of this country are living on the