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London, England, 1844-12-23 00:00:00

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nour of their attention to himself,—especially in re-
ference
to this magnificent and distinguished enter-
tainment.—(Applause.) He most cordially and sin-
cerely drank health and happiness to the Corpora-
tion.--(Applause.)
The MATOR returned thanks. After some other
toasts,
JOHN M`Geeeoe, Esq., of the Board of Trade,
gave, " The Town and Trade of Manchester, and the
industry of the district ;" in doing which he spoke at
some length, but was almost inaudible to the rem
porters. He was understood to say that the toast of
itself constituted a text, involving the gravest, as well
as the most interesting, considerations for the study of
the statesman, of the legislator, and of all who knew
and cared for the well-being and the happiness of their
fellow-men. All experience and all knowledge proved
the fact, that the growth and prosperity of great cities
had been accompanied by the prosperity of the sur-
rounding country, and the well-being of the inha-
bitants.---(Applause.) It would be idle and pre-
sumptuous in him to dilate on the fact, that the
growth and progress of the several districts of
Lancashire and Cheshire, particularly in the value
of property, and in the consequent better employs
ment and well-being of the people, which accompanied
the rise and progress of this great town, and of the
great industrious district of which it was the focus.
If they would bear with him, he would offer a few
observations on the condition of one or two countries,
in which great industrious cities had flourished, but
which had ceased to flourish. He then referred to
the cities of Venice and Augsburg. A Vs netian
Duke, whom he had the honour of knowing in 1838,
inherited, from a long line of ancestors some of the
finest lands on the banks of the Brenta, represen-
ted to him that the rents of those lands, during the
prosperous trading days of the republic, enabled his
ancestors to build the splendid palaces on the banks
of the grand canal of Venice, and the large one near
the Brenta, a few rooms of which only the noble
owner had been able to keep habitable, in conss-
quence of the fall of Venice and the greatly de-
clined value of the lands which once supplied
that city. On the banks of the Danube was once
an imperial city and also a great entrepot r
trade, and a seat of manufactures, the city of Augs-
burg. At that period, so greatly did the prosperity
of Augsburg cause the increased value of property in
Suabia, that the landlords built some of the most mag-
nificent palaces of the age in the imperial city. Po-
litical and other causes drove the trade and manufac-
tures from the city; and, on the departure of industry
and trade, the population decreased more rapidly than
in any her city of the empire.—(Hear, hear.) At
present, unless it were by Prince Wallenstein, none
of the great palaces were inhabited there by the de-
scendants of their ancient possessors. They had,
from their accommodation, been converted by the
Sovereigns of Bavaria into barracks and hospitals--
one of them into, as he was Informed, a madhouse,
and one or two into posthouse inns. He did not
allude to the historical fate of those cities as invidi-
ously prophetic of the fate of Manchester ; for the
intelligence of the inhabitants of the latter and of its
industrious district would provide long, and he hoped-
always, against the calamity of decline ; but he
urged it with the view so happily exhibited this
evening on doing honour to their highly distinguished
guest, that deserving officer and public servant—that
was the view of establishing goodwill, confidence,
and harmony, for their mutual welfare and happiness,
between the manufacturing and the rural districts of
Lancashire and Cheshire.—(Cheers.) He said that
the people of a great manufacturing town could not be
otherwise than an intelligent people; the skill, the
ingenuity, the knowledge necessary to invent and
make their machinery, and to produce their manufac-
tures, and to know home and foreign markets, ren-
dered intelligence absolutely necessary to them. The
institutions of Manchester proved that they were so.
They wei e well known to be generous and charitable.
He had had some experience in negotiating treaties,
and he eulogised the treaty negotiated by Sir Henry
Pottine,,er, and extolled the advantages of extending
our commercial relations with all other countries ;
and sat down, after proposing " The Town and Trade
of Manchester, and the industry of the District."
The toast having been drunk with all the honours,
it was acknowledged by
JOHN POTTER, Esq., who said, that, though he
could have wished that the response had devolved on
some one more able than himself, still he could not
but feel he should be deficient in duty to the town, if
he did not express his acknowledgments. When he
knew that the toast was proposed by one who had
rendered more services to the commercial statistics of
this country than any man now living, he trusted in-
dulgence would be shown to him, and he hoped they
would not forget the importance f the community in
which they lived. When he knew that nothing was
wanted but employment for the industry of the dis-
trict, he felt that the illustrious guest of the evening
had conferred great honour upon them, and, through
them, upon the manufacturing industry of the coun-
try. He trusted that the same liberality which had
characterised Sir Henry Pottinger's treaty with the
Chinese would characterise all our treaties with
foreign countries.—(Applause.)
" The Members of Parliament for the county and
borough."

WILSON PATTEN, Esq., M.P., acknowledged the
toast, and said that for many years he had been so
unconnected politically with this part of the country,
that he felt the honour the more. He had recently
expressed his sentiments towards their distinguished
guest; and he should not have attended if he did not
believe it would be gratifying to his manufacturing
constituents to unite in paying this compliment to
him. The gratitude of the county of Lancaster was
not limited to the great boroughs of Liverpool and
Manchester, but was felt in every valley of the county.
WILLIAM ENTWISLE, Esq., M.P., said it had but
seldom fallen to his lot to meet so large an assemblage
of all classes of political opinions in his native town,
on an occasion of such unanimity as had distin-
guished the present meeting. He gladly availed
himself of the opportunity to testify his admiration
of the principles of the guest of the evening, and ho
would do his utmost to forward the principles of the
Pottinger treaty.—(Great applause.) That the ab•
stract doctrines of free trade had been adopted in
high quarters he considered as generally known ; and
he would allude to an observation of Lord Stanley, in
Liverpool, on that clause which includes all other
nations in the same clause as ourselves; and his Lord-
ship had said no clause would tend more to improve
our condition with the Chinese.—(Applause.)
The company separated a few minutes after twelve
o'clock.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Limerick Chronicle of Dec. 13.)
Three hundred and fifty rank and file from this garri-
son and Templemore are to be distributed at Castle
Connell, O'Brien's Bridge, Cappaghmore, Newport,
Toomevara, Borrisokane, Borrisoleigh, and Silvenntnes.
Troops are ordered to occupy the following stations,
viz.:-o'l3rien's Bridge, Newport, :Castle Connell, Bor.
risokane, Moneygall, Silvermines, Cappaghmore, C lough-
jordn, and Bornsoleigh ; also Mohill and Ballinamore,
county Leitrim, to assist the civil power in repressing
disturbances at these stations.
Colonel Pennefather shortly returns from Dublin, to
command his gallant regiment, the 22d, again ordered on
service in Sinde. lie is not yet perfectly recovered
from his wounds.
The isead-quarter division of the 67th under Colonel
Bunbury, arrived this day in Dublin.
Sir Edwary Blakeney has not yet filled up the vacancy
on his staff of A.D. C., caused by the promotion of Cap-
tain Forester.
The steam-vessel Rhadamanthus arrived at Kingstown
from Liverpool, with the first division, five companies
and a field officer, of the 67th Regiment. Strength as
follows :-13 officers, 375 non-commissioned officer;
drummers, and privates ; 24 women, 51 children, and
proceeded by railway to Dublin, where they occupy
Richmond barracks.
Brevet Major Hooper's company, 69th, has relieved
Captain 011alloran's company at Cashel.
Royal Marine Artillery—Head quarters, Spike Ifaiand,
Cove of Cork ; a detachment of two sergeants and seven
gunners are under orders to embark, per steam-vessel,
for the forts on the lower Shannon ; a similar detach-
ment of the same corps is ordered to join head quarters_
The Spanish Government offer to pay four per cent to
the Anglo-Spanish legionary claimants, who hold °esti.
ficates of service.
The new barracks at Newport, South Wales, will not
be taken up by the 75th until next spring.
Captain Stewart, of the 92d, is appoiDted staff officer
of pensioners of Roscommon.
Lieut. Shakspear, 2d European Infantry, killed at the
capture of Samaughur, in the Mahrattas, was Goa of
Capt. Shakspoar, formerly of the 10th Hussars.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TILE RIVER.—On Friday
afternoon, one of the coal porters in the employ of Mr.
Stephen Davies, of Somerset Wharf, Bankside, slipped
off the barge Mary Anne, and was drowned. It seems
that, from the great pressure of business now consequent
on the inclement weather, it has been found necessary to
rig up the lights along shore, oommonly known as "devils,"
circular grates filled with burning coal. It was in shiP..
ing one of these that the unfortunate man lost hi!, life.
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Mr. Guildersloave, the wharf clerk, made every effort to
ssve the unhappy man, but unavailingly, Mr. Davie. hu
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4. THE IMPROVgAIRNTS IN WESTMINSTER. -- 04
Friday the long-talked of improvements which
ure to be effected from Westminster Abbey to
Buckingham iltdace, were in reality commenced,
several men being employed to pull down the
houses on one side of Little Tothill-street. It is
contemplated to remove those sinks of infamy--the
Almonry, Orchard-street, Duck-lane—and to form one
wide tn 4 spikcious street from the west door of West-
minster Abbey to the Buckingham Palace end of Pim-
lico. Orchard-street contains the remains of some of the
oldest houses in Westminster, and a part of one of
Oliver Cromwell's palaces still stands there.

Sir James Graham left town on Saturday afternoon
for Brighton,

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