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October 5, 1867.

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BANQUET AND TESTIMONIAL TO MR.

BRAND.

On Saturday evening a superb banquet was
given to the Right Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., by
the Liberal members of the• House of Commons, on
the occasion of presenting to him a magnificent
testimonial in gratetul recognition of his long
and devoted services in connexion with the Liberal
party.
The entertainment was given in Willis's Rooms,
St. James's-street, when 237 noblemen and gentle-
men dined together. The Right Hon. W. E.
Gladstone presided, having on his right the guest of
the evening, Mr. Brand's son, and on the left his
brother, Lord Dacre.
Immediately in front of the chair was placed the
testimonial, stated to have cost £2,000, subscribed
by 387 noblemen and gentlemen who are or have
been Liberal members of the House of Commons.
The cloth having been removed,
fhe_CitArßmAN, who was received with loud
cheers, rose and said—NV lords and gentlemen, I
rise to give you the toast which in every gathering
of Britons is ever first in the hearts and upon the

lips of those who are assembled, and nowhere, I will
venture to say, more in the hearts or upon the lips
of guests than within these walls at the present
moment— (cheers)—l mean " The Health of her
Majesty the Queen. (Cheers.)

The toast was drunk with enthusiastic cheers.

The CHAIRMAN, in giving the next toast, " The
Health of the Prince and the Princess of Wales and
the rest of the Royal Family, said—We can wish
nothing more for the Prince of Wales than that he
may be enabled—and, indeed, it is no slight matter
to follow in future years the example of his illus-
trious parents. (Cheers.)

The toast was drunk with all the honours.

The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—My lords
and gentlemen, I rise to propose you that which is
technically and may truly be called the toast of the
evening. (Cheers.) And I think I may encourage
you to dismiss from your minds the apprehension
that it will be accompanied in the same degree as is
usual with what is called the speech of the evening.
(A laugh.) You, my lords and gentlemen have too
much suffered in that respect —(a laugh)—not to
make it the duty of those who for the moment have
your fate in their hands to be very sparing upon
occasions like this ; and there are other reasons
which will compel me to be reserved, and to avoid
saying on this evening much that it would be gra-
tifying to me to say and to you to hear, for none of
us can venture to say, iu the presence of my right
bon. friend Mr. Brand, all that we think and all
we feel on this occasion. (Loud cheers.) One
word, my lords and gentlemen, I may venture to say
—not with respect to Mr. Brand so much as to the
peculiar office he has filled, Now, of that office I ven-
ture to state, without fear of contradiction, that it is
in the strictest sense a British institution. (Cheers
and a laugh.) I doubt whether the like of it has
been reproduced in any other land. Sure lam that
this is the country and that ours is the Parliamen-
tary system to which it owes its origin ; and there-
fore, as lovers of British institutions, you will for-
give me if I endeavour to commend to your notice i
the peculiar character of this British institution.
(Cheers.) It is, my lords and gentlemen, a charge
attended with great power that has been in the
hands of Mr. Brand. It is something in the nature,
I think, on a moderate scale, of a constitutional
monarchy—(a laugh)—for the power is great ; but,
on the other hand, it is subjected to many checks
and limitations. (Cheers.) It has placed him for
a long series of years in the most intimate personal
relations with us all. (Cheers.) He has probably
had opportunities equalled by those of no other man
of reading, one by one, our interior minds and
characters—(cheers)—because, my lords and gentle-
men, we all know what it is—that this is a country
in which every man of spirit makes superhuman
efforts to get into the House of Commons, and when
he has got therehe makes efforts, at least as persever-
ing, if not as violent, to give himself as much liberty
as he can in the matter of attendance--(cheers and
laughter) ;—and upon the gentleman who fills the
office so long worthily held by Mr. Brand depends
in essential and vital respects the whole working
efficiency of, the popular branch of the Legislature
of this country. (Cheers.) May you long be
spared to enjoy not only the sight and possession of
this feeble testimonial of our regard, but the warm
affection and friendship you have earned from every
man now within these walls, and from many who
are beyond them. (Loud cheers.) My lords and
gentlemen, I give you the " Health of Mr. Brand."
The toast was drunk amid loud and prolonged
cheering, and followed by " Auld Lang Syne."
Mr. BRAND, who was received with much applause,
said--Mr. Gladstone, my lords and gentlemen, it is
not possible, in my opinion, for a man to receive a
higher compliment than that which I have now
received at your hands. (Cheers.) The gift
which you have presented to me is indeed magnifi-
cent, and will be highly valued by me as long as I
live ; but that which gives it especial value in my eyes
is the consideration that it is a standing record of

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tion. (Cheers.) I ask you, therefore, to join
with me in drinking most cordially " The Health
of Mr. Gladstone."
The toast was drunk with all the honours.
The CHAIRMAN, who, on rising to acknowledge
the compliment, was received with much applause,
said—My Lords and Gentlemen, I am sure you
will do me the justice to believe that it was my de-
sire, hail it been possible, to have devoted this even-
ing to social feeling and friendship, to have banished
entirely the element of contention, and to have kept
one day at least free from strife. (Cheers.) But it
really appears that the thing cannDt b 3 done. (A.
laugh.) After all we have met here as politicians,
we have met to do honour to a poliiician—(cheers)
—to do honour to one who has helped us to dis-
charge our duties better than without him we could
have done. And therefore, my lords and gentle-
men, I do not shrink from the endeavour to return
my humble but hearty thanks for the manner in
which you have been pleased to receive the men-
tion of my name. (Cheers.) For many long years,
my lords and gentlemen, it has been my conviction
that perhaps the greatest pain that adheres to the
political profession is the pain of a deep conscious-
ness of the utter inadequacy of human strength to
discharge the duties thatare incumbent upon us. And
if I have felt that consciousness at other times, much
more, believe me, do I feel it now, when through
your kindness, sitting in this chair, I hear my
name proposed to you in what may be called a
representative capacity, and at a time which, so
far as I can measure its exigency, is by far
the gravest that we have seen for a quarter
of a century. (Cheers.) My lords and gentlemen,
I have one comfort amid that sense of incapacity
and unworthiness, and it is this,—that in the rela-
tions between you and me there is nothing that re-

fleets upon the honour of England. (Cheers.) The
bond between us is the bond of common conviction
and common aim, and the resolution to walk in one
and the same straightforward path for what we
think the benefit and honour of our country.
(Cheers.) It is not, my lords and gentlemen, you
who have attached yourselves to me ; it is I who
have attached myself to you—(cheers)—and I have
done so because ever since the commencement of a
long public life I have witnessed in others whom I
loved, revered, and followed, and have felt within
my own breast the growing calls and claims of a
sympathy which drew me to a position in common
with yours. (Cheers.) When I look back on the
history of our generation I ask myself by whom
have been achieved the works for which that gene-
ration will, as we trust, be held in honour by pos-
terity ? Certainly, by the Parliament and Consti-
tution of the United Kingdom ; but, within that
Parliament and under the laws of that Constitu-
tion, by the efforts and exertions of the Liberal
party. (Loud cheers.) It is needless, my lords
and gentlemen, to run down the long roll
of your distinguished achievements, and the
achievements of those who have preceded
you. The only question is as the exceptions,
for exceptions there have been. Emancipation of
the Roman Catholics was an exception, but the
noble-minded man who carried that great act
through the House of Commons iu the very mo-
ment of his Parliamentary triumph, placed his
highest pride in this, that he rendered honour where
honour was due—(loud cheers) —passing from his
own head the crown that was well deserved by his
exertions and sacrifices, he gave it to those whose
former efforts had sown the seed, and reared the
grain; though they had not been permitted to reap
the harvest. Then the same man did the same act
of justice on a second occasion, when he set free
from the system of depressing and enervating
monopoly the industry and enterprise of the three
kingdoms. That was the second great exception in
which it was not given to the Liberal party to con-

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duct to the latest issue the labours in which they

had been engaged ; but the honour of these mea-

sures and the public reward of them were given to
them. There also has been a third exception—in

the case of the great question of the repreientation

of the people. (Cheers.) But we have lived in
times when magnanimity has gone out of fashion.
(Cheers and laughter.) But it is not a Par-

liamentary Miniater or orator who will render
justice to the Liberal party ; it is the judg-

merit of the country, it is the verdict of

tory. (Cheers.) The verdict of history it
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twelve months of testing the judgment of the coun-
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who was inclined to murmur that the Liberal party

should have been defrauded, he will have felt, by

the result of the appeals to the public voice, abso-
lutely and completely reassured. (Cheers.) It is

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the good-will and approval of those with whom I
have had the honour to act for many years •in that
highest LegiAative Assembly of the world—•the
[louse of Commons of England. (Cheers.) Be-
lieve me, gentlemen, that my services, such as they
are, to the Liberal party have been rendered with a
willing heart. (Cheers.) During the many anxious
years that I h tve acted with you in close political
relationship I have made many friends; I hope to
retain their friendship. Nor am I aware that I have
made a single enemy. (Cheers.) If I have 1 hereby
beg to be forgiven. (Cheers.) I cannot sit down
without conveying a warm expression of thanks to
the committee who have watched over this move-
ment on my behalf. I know how much I owe to
their friendly offices in promoting this noble recog-
nition of my humble services. The right hon. gen-
tleman resumed his seat amid loud and continued

cheering.
After a short pause,
Mr. BRAND again rose and said—lt has been my
duty in the House of Commons to " tell" rather
than to talk—(a laugh) —and lam somewhat startled
at the novel situation in which I find myself to-day
in making two speeches at one sitting. (Cheers and
laughter.) In thus speaking twice I am, I know,
offending against the rules of our House, but I
intend to place myself in order by concluding with
a motion (a laugh), for I shall invite you to join
with me in drinking the health of our distinguished
chairman. (Loud cheers.) My right hon. friend,
Mr. Gladstone, in proposing my health, covered me
with confusion by
.giving me a higher character
than I deserve.. In so doing I venture to think he
set a bad example, which I do not mean to follow.
(Cheers and a laugh.) The truth is, that the high
qualities of my right hon. friend are known and
patent to us all, and they require no colouring from
me, but among those qualities there is one which at
the present juncture of public affairs forces itself
especially upon my mind. He is conspicuous above
all the men I ever knew for earnestness of purpose.
(Cheers.) This quality is at least well-timed, for
we have some earnest work to do, and we shall re-
quire earnest minds to guide us. (Cheers.) The
work which we as the Liberal party have to under-
take, stated in the shortest words, is to make the
union with Ireland a reality. (Cheers.) The first step
towards that end, and one without which there can be
no complete union with Ireland, is to terminate that
ecclesiastical ascendancy which has been the bane of
Ireland for centuries—(loud cheers)—and which
has beet! too long forced upon an unwilling people
by Kings and Parliaments. (Cheers.) This is no
light undertaking, and its accomplishment calls
from my right hon. friend, as from all of us, for
deep and thorough earnestness of purpose. It will
require a long pull, a strong pull, and, above all, a
pull all together—(loud cheers)—in order to accom-
plish it. If Prelacy were established in Scotland,
or Popery in England, they would be parallel cases ;
but we know that they would be blown to the winds
as Establishments at the first breath of the popular
will, and that we should carry by acclamation iu the

House of Commons a resolution that they should
cease to exist as Establishments. (Cheers.) Until
this question of the Irish Church has been settled,
Ireland will remain in a state of chronic disaffec-

a conundrum, no better issue could be propose,_
don't think, however, ingenuity has yet been able
either to fill up that catalogue,, or even to contribute
a few units by way of a beginning. (Hear.) Until
we learn what those 32 measures are which we
have so bitterly opposed, and on which the pros-
perity and comfort of the country rest, I don't think
we need feel greatly burdened in our consciences on
this subject. (Cheers.) They are not measures
known to the world ; they are all—even their very
Aitles—private and confidential. As far as the
journals of Parliament go, as far as 'the ordinary
channels of public information go, it has been the
Liberal party that has achieved the great legislative
changes that have exercised so vast an Muerte-,
not only in improving the material condition of the
country, but in consolidating the bases of its insti-
tutions. (Loud cheers.) And now, my lords and
gentlemen, with these recollections we have arrived
at a period when every one among us must believe
that the time is come to determine whether he is a
man. (Cheers.) If grave calls have been upon you in
former years, graver still aro those that will be
made. I pretend to no special skill in reading the
signs of the times. I believe I speak of nothing and
refer to nothing but what is evident to every eye
when I say that the political exigency in the midst of
which we stand and into the dense mass of which we
arc advancing every day, will make upon us, Lot
diminished but continually increasing demands on
the exercise of those qualities upon which 'political
greatness depends. Never was there a time when
there was greater call for circumspection, for cau-
tion, for moderation, for' the most studious rMasid
for every feeling and for every innocent prejudice
that you may have to encounter—above all, for
measuring every step you take, and adapting the
action of the day to the means and opportunities
which the circumstances of the day have opened
and defined. But, on the other hand, never was
there greater call for those other qualities of mascu-
line decision--(loud cheers)—which you need in
order to withstand the clamours that will be
raised against you in your endeavours to execute
great works of justice. (Cheers.) My lords
and gentlemen, so far as I am myself concerned, I
own there never has been a time, however tranquil,
when it has not appeared to me that the responsi-
bilities of office, or Parliament without it, were
more than apparent Co any man's mind who would
apply himself to them. Much more do I tremble
now, seeing these increased responsibilities. But
this I know, that when duty is set before a man
strength comes to him along with that duty; and
there never was a time when great exigencies are
sent upon a country, and when there are not also
sent, unless it be our fault and folly to reject
them, courage, prudence, and wisdom to meet
the demands that may be made upon us. My lords
and gentlemen, I will make bold to say that, with
regard to the particular struggle into which we are
about to enter, so far as I am myself concerned,
so far as any of those with whom I have ha 1
the honour and the privilege to communicate are
concerned, it has not b.en entered upon without
mature reflection and consideration—and, having
put our hands to the plough, we shall not look back.
(Cheers.) I have entertained from the first a confi-
dent hope and belief that a long, though arduous
struggle would be crowned with complete success.
(Cheers.) After the notice we have had within the
last two-and-thirty hours of the step‘by which we
are to be opposed, I feel more confident than ever
—(cheers)—of the completeness of the success. I
also feel less apprehensive as to any intolerable
length of conflict. (Cheers.) My lords and gen-
tlemen, these are very grave matters. We can-
not too seriously ponder them. Rely upon it,
that the questions involve I are not those of this
or that Ministry, nor those even, which are
far more important, of this or that party. They are
in the highest degree Imperial questions. (Cheers.)
They go to the very root of our national security
and prospsrity. We must gird up our loins and
address ourselves, not as to a trivial work, but one
dernanAing every exertion we can make, with a firm
determination that, so far as depends on our efforts,
nothing shall be wanting to establish throughout
the civilised world the good name of England, in
her relations to her sister Ireland, and to make these
kingdoms united, not merely by the paper bonds of
law, but by that blessed law of concord which is
written in the hearts of mankind. (Loud cheers.)
The proceedings then terminated.

FEMALE PARISH OFFICERS.—On Saturday the
Aylesbury bench of magistrates, at their annual session for
the appointment of parish officers for the several parishes
in their division, appointed Mrs. Sarah Wooster to tho
offices of overseer of the poor and surveyor of highways

for tho parish of Ilhnire, there being no other " person "
resident there so well qualified to perform the duties. Last
year the same magistrates appointed not fewer than four
women to similar posts in parishes within the Aylesbury
petty sessional division.

STEAM NAVIGATION FOR RUSSIA:—The Russian
merchants aro yearly continuing to develope the internal
resources of that empire by means of steam navigatior.
The Tyne has largely supplied Russia with steam vessels,
and this spring a fair number of orders have been com-
pleted. Messrs. Leslie and Co. have finished a fleet of
steam lighters of considerable tonnage for river service on
the Black Sea; and Messrs. Charles Mitchell and Co. have
completed a steamer of 300 tons for the commissioners for
improving the Don estuaries ; they have also on hand a
paddle steamer for the Volga, and a steamer named the
Alexander, intended for the service between St. Petersburg
and the principal towns on Lake Onega. She is 500 tons,
will have engines of 120 horse-power, will have accommo-
dation for three classes of passengers, and is specially de-
signed for river service and for open water. •

ARMY CHANGES.—The colonelcy of the 63d Regiment
is vacant by the death of General Sir Thomas Kenah. No
step has yet been taken to till it. The death of General
Sir T. Kenah will give a step of rank to Lieutenant Gene-
ral Colvile, Colonel of the 12th Foot, Major General Sir C.
Straubenzee, Colonel of the 39th Foot, Colonel McMurdo,
Brigadier General in Ireland, Major Jennings, 19th Foot,
and Captain Warren, 27th Regiment. Major Butler,
36th Regiment, and Captain Croker. 27th Regiment,
obtain promotion in succession to Lieutenant Uen#ral
Hall, R.E., who died last week. Lieutenant General Stotherd
will, no doubt, become Colonel Commandant of Royal
Engineers, in succession to the late Lieutenant General Hall.
We understand that the army signal question has been finally
decided, and henceforth instruction In signalling will form
part of our military training. Wa believe that a good many
military signal stations will shortly he established in Ireland.
It appears that the Government have been advised to
construct a fort on the western point of Hayling
Island, and extending to the Woolsineers, the
estimate for which, as we understand, was £240,000.
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favour of the construction of a fort on the south-eastern end
of the island, at the juncture of Chichester Harbour with
the Solent, where a suitable fort can be erected for some.
thing like 480,000, and where it will be much more useful,
because it will hold the key of the back door to all the forts
round Portsmouth. The proposition toe purchase
of the frontage land of Hayling
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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1868.

To-night the House of Commons will commence
a debate which is sure to excite general interest and
attention, and form in fact the exciting part of the
session. There was no occasion for this question to
have been brought on at all this year, and the
country must acknowledge that the waste of the
time of the House and the general disturbance of
things are entirely due to the misplaced zeal and
inconsistent course of the framers and proposers of
the motion which Mr. GLADSTONE will submit to
the consideration of hon. members to-night. It is
all very well to go back to first principles, and to
dilate upon the vast importance of the affair,
but the best answer to be given is that no one ex-
pected such an event as we are about to-night to
witness. Seven years the Liberals were in office,
and had ample opportunity to attend to Irish
affairs, all the more so because the question of
Reform was shelved ; but nothing of the kind took
place. Inaction was the order of the day, carried
on with more or less professions according as the
exigencies of the case demanded. No sooner, how-
ever, is a Conservative Government installed in
office than forthwith all is changed, and, presto, all
vexed questions must be settled, and all
awkward and embarrassing subjects be dis-
posed of. First on the list stood Reform,
and that accordingly was taken up, but the
striking success which the Government met with
did not call forth a responsive satisfaction from all
those who declared themselves the warm advocates
of the extension of the franchise. No breathing
time is to be allowed, and hence this last session of
the moribund Parliament is to witness a faction-
fight on Ireland, all got up and carried on con
amore for the purpose of damaging the Ministry in
the eyes of the country, and making them compro-
mise themselves in some way or other before an
appeal to the country can take place. Such con-
duct cannot be justified, and such a course is not a
fair and straightforward one by any means. Yet
the friends of Mr. GLADSTONE endeavour to dis-
guise his policy by calling it progress, and justice,
and so on. We do not expect, however, that the
generality of the assembly who will consider the
question to-night will look upon the matter in this
light. A very little reflection must show all who
are not hopelessly prejudiced that the issue is not
a fair one, for of what avail is it to commit the
House to a policy which the next Parliament may
differ from or totally disavow ? The folly or
absurdity of such a scheme is rendered all
the more glaring by the fact that the
elections which are shortly to take place
will not be ordinary affairs, because extensive
alterations have taken place, and a considerable
addition has been made to the number of the
electors.

We should arrive at a more correct conclusion of
the whole affair, if we were to say that Mr. GLAD-
STONE is burning with eagerness to be at the head
of affairs when the new Parliament assembles ; but
be has no right to be there, and no claim to that
honour, for he did very little towards the completion
of the great work accomplished last year, and at
one time he was very eager in his efforts
to overthrow it altogether. Why, then, should
he persist in obstructing further business for
the sake of his own preferment? for it is idle to
affirm that any result can follow the debate of this
week that can materially affect the nature of the
question itself. Who thinks that the matter of the
Irish Church Establishment will be definitely settled
this week after some hours' debate in the House of
Commons? Before it could be determined on it
must pass the House of Lords and encounter strong
opposition there. Besides, quite apart from the
merits of the case, it is evident that an important
change of this kind cannot appropriately be carried
out in such haste ; and that, above all, it must
not be forced upon people at any cost to
suit the convenience of disappointed statesmen, and
gratify the ambition of aspirants for office. Sup-
posing, for the sake of argument, that the new House
of Commons should assemble and pass measures
for the legislation of Ireland, without doing any-
thing to remedy the evils complained of in the
present system or modify the abuses that exist,
then no one could blame Mr. GLADSTONE nor any
other member of his party for coming forward and
seeking to draw from the House a definite de-
claration on the subject. Just now, how-
ever, it is quite otherwise, and we can-
not regard the affair of to-night as otherwise than
a factious attempt to gain an end and an artful
device to steal a march upon the enemy. The
Liberal party does itself harm by thus persisting
in having recourse to such schemes. There was the
celebrated Cambridge House conspiracy about
Indian affairs, which resulted in so egregious a
failure; and the last, but not least, a second was
the proposition of last year, which was defeated
prematurely by the Tea-Room Party. It seems
strange that more wisdom should not have been
gathered from the experience of the past ; but
one thing is certain, that no good ever accrues
to the country when those who gain office by such
schemes attain their point. The Coalition Govern-
ment rendered themselves odious to the nation by
the conduct of the Crimean War, and the devoted
band of Reformers who took counsel together at
Willis's-rooms did absolutely nothing when they
came into office. Let us not witness another of
these melancholy illustrations, but let the House of
Commons boldly grapple with the questiOn before
it, and decide promptly as to the course it will
take. Of course, some time must be occu-
pied in the discussion of the subject, but that
need not delay hon. members from making up their
minds which way they will vote. The subject of
Ireland was pretty well exhausted the other day in
the long debate which took place upon it, and why,
after so brief an interval, is the question re-opened?
'The answer is not very flattering to the reputation
of certain parties, and it is worthy of note that Mr.
GLADSTONE is forgetting the statesman in the poli-
tician, for nothing can be more unwise than to
persist in bringing forward a second question of
this kind, which is certain to give rise to excitement
and to awaken feelings of jealousy and irritation in
Ireland at this juncture. Even the temptation of
inflicting a deadly wound upon au adversary should
I not be strong enough to override the considerations
which prudence suggests, and never more forcibly
than now. For all that may occur, however, to
disturb still further the peace of Ireland, and to
render the work of progress but partially effectual,
those will be to blame who persist against the
counsel of friends and the experience of the past
in playing out their mad game at all hazards.
Lord STANLEY'S Amendment is the very thing