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made on a former occasion at Liverpool.—(Cheers.)
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time was come when it was most important for;
t,,l`.treilaatti:y look to that palladium of British liberty,'
Jury,--: (Loud cheers.) Let them not thinkh
• at, the discontent which prevailed amongst all classes
one h
tne people arose either from the Chartists on the
v and; or the Anti-Corn-law League on the other
'-(Cheers)—but let them, as. they in justice were
• .o,ound, lay the blame, the guilt, and the culpability, at
the ed.t to hor of the House of Commons.—(Loud cheers.)
It
em attribute it to that class legislation which
as neen the cause of misery to so many thousands of
Ifießritish people.—(Loud cheers.) It was for them,
it was fur the British people, to put an end to this ne-
farious system ; but above all things, they were bound
_ot to allow the conduct of the Government, or the
.Charges of the Judge, to warp or prejudice their opi-
. !non, whilst they were sitting upon Juries. Many
members of the Government would say that he now
;vas talking sedition. It was not sedition—(Cheers)—
'lle was only exercising his right as an Englishman,
to di
T 0 , 'cuss public grievances in public .assemblies.
support, strengthen, and maintain that right, he
w begged to propose " The Purity of Trial by
tt.1.3•; —(Cheers.)
`laj,or REvtlx, in proposing the next toast, said
that none but those who had lived at the period when
lie
took place could properly appreciate
lie Moral courage of the Juries who had acquitted
vi,,ardY :end the other patriots of 1794. Public feeling
jeles very different then from what it was at present ;
tr;YaS, now in a comparative state of repose, but in
e. nays, if any one in a coffee-house or public
,reetnilg ventured to utter sentiments favourable to
341, right of men, he was liable to be turned out of the
haera, and if he escaped with a couple of black eyes,
e Might think himself fortunate. He recollected the
Pales which had been taken at that time to pack
• ;furies. He had heard Mr. Thelwall state in that
(.'941 that an Alderman of London had sat up all
•".I.ght with the Solicitor for the Crown in order to
Pack a Jury to hang the accused patriots, and it was
because the names of the Jurymen had been
vn out of a hat instead of taken alphabetically,
- that
a flail Jury had been empannelled, and they
Jere saved. He begged to propose " The three
Tahr,ies who in 1794 acquitted John Home Tooke,
h. Thomas Har, and John Thelwall, of the charge of
'4 Treason'—Drank with all the honours.
r. c
triot cans, in proposing the memory of the pa-
s of 1794, said he felt proud in being thus per-
tr.‘ted to offer his homage to the memory of the illus-
t}:°nts dead who had ventured so much in the cause of
the l'eople, and for the purpose of obtaining that which
frye were all so anxious to obtain-a full, fair, and
lioe„ representation of the peonle in the Commons
use L.
which Parliament. He missed many old faces
he had been wont to see assemble round their
had
le board on these anniversaries. Many of them
Be. gone to their last account; but he was rejoiced to
lin'Amnong them still his old and valued friend—Alex-
er Galloway.—(Loud cheers.) That gentleman
ad
eaTi endured much, and had suffered much for the
e. se in those times—(Continued cheering)—and he
'iced to see him still amongst them.—(Continued
toynfeering, during which Mr. Galloway was so much
aneeted that he shed tears.) He also rejoiced to see
eh„„nlanY yOung men assembling there.—(Loud
rne-ring.) The times demanded that the young
• .11 should show a double portion of spirit.
Tiei had not known Home Tooke, but he had known
elwall well, and had admired and profited by his
eloquence and sense. He had also been honoured with
th
with
friendship of Hardy, a man whose firmness and
,t ue would have adorned any cause.—(Cheers.) Pitt
Panted for their blood, and could he have obtained
tloreform would have been staved off for many genera-
as. But he had been disappointed; they had been
t• quitted. and well did he (Mr. Coates) recollect the
t•
nthusiastic shouts with which thousands had hailed the
announcement of their acquittal. He begged to
fprnP°se " The immortal memory of John Horne
• °°4,:e, Thomas Hardy, John Thelwall, Augustus
Ito
t, mile, Thomas Gibb, Stuart Hodson, Thomas Hol-
eitr,t, Jeremiah Joyce, Thomas Wardle, Matthew
°nun, and John Richter."—The toast was drank in
°Lenin silence.
•Colonel P. THowsort proposed " The memory of
rskine, the gratuitous .and able advocate of the ac-
used Patriots of 1794." If they had on the Bench at
the
present day a Judge who seemed desirousofemu-
etlf the partisan Judges of by-gone tunes,
he
hoped
Bar yet possessed men who, if they
had
not the
• ilNuence, had yet the firmness, honour, and pa-
' I%.°tism, to follow in the footsteps of Erskine, and who
Would Lot shrink from coming forward as the gratui-
-I;si. advoCates of their accused fellow-Countrymen.
th,n.r. RICHARD TAYLOR proposed the Memory of
• .1%%• London COrresponditig Society." The friends of•
jars •
rt,/ were under great obligation to that Society.
taiiniect was to obtain a full, free, and fair represen-
cn- of the people in Parliament.—(Cheers.) It
miBht
forin b said that that had been attained by. the Re-
riiif.:ll_,l—(Cries of "No !")—the Bill, the whole
nothing but the Bill. It was true they had
erenttit"tiling called the Bill, but it was very dif-
r
om the whole Bill as it had been at first pro-
.eforto -eer3.) He had no sympathy with any
the tyre Who
soffra would prevent any man from having
-7f ever% ge. The suffrage was the inalienable right
'-'°ndoo;(l,,nan• There was another principle of the
highest- ‘'orresponding Society on which he set the
• Mee value--he meant Annual Parliaments.—
whiehr' Any body calling itself a Parliament,
usur Was of more than annual duration, was a mere
yearrtion,._
(Cheers.) The people who lived seven
Bent ",ad, no right to tax those living at the pre-
suppor-t•(' He should have been rather surprised when
to hint rig the Reform Bill if any one had announced
prehrs.,,that the intention of the measure was to give a
I„xiiti se Political
to ..ti7o"°erance to the landed interest. That was giving
power who had too much already.
had teal Power ought rather to be given to those who
aeari° Protect themselves against those who already
The 3e'ee.n. grossed the wealth of the country.—(Clieers.)
prepon,„`_'eqnence of giving the landed interest the
barde:erance had been, that they had shifted all the
rid 0f4",,S cul other classes of the people. They had got
by c4,,ne.land-tax, the greater part of which was paid
of hari_uPlere of premises in towns. The consequence
• legalised a Landowners' Parliament was, that they had
e°ontr a system of plunder of all the rest of the
au or Y.--(Cheers.) A Landowners' Parliament was
the rgaaised body for the plunder and oppression of
theirruestiolLthe comtnunity.—(Cheers.) The fruits of
e nad been to reduce one man in every 13 in
48 manufacturing districts to pauperism, while in the
4ultaSueh
was
districts every seventh man was a pauper.
rule. the amount of destitution produced by their
had ais!n Prance thehad no destitution, but they
rio aristocracy—no law of primogeniture—
entail
vided • There theproperty of the father was di-
the equally •
law , among his children, in accordance with
-Chey hsad°i humauity, common sense, and Christianity.
the oth,, consequence, no destitute poor ; but, on
such api "and, they had no dignified aristocracy—no
Ilertferdendid ornaments to society as the Marquis of
ditrose , and Lord Frankfort--(Loud Cheers)—to
ealon refined taste and elevated tone of morals
fore, he the ,
°re, he People.--(Cheers and laughter.) There-
kreat Was afraid that if they wished to get rid of
by losirnnat'Y destitute paupers, they could only do so
soviet g, on the other hand, those bright ornaments of
Y'ss(Ch
eelient, eers and laughter.) Among many other
~vbowere honourable conscientious, and worthy men
e'ety, w members of the London Corresponding So-
‘vhoa, has his excellent friend Alexander Galloway,
tileiner
,e rejoiced to see present. He proposed "The
t •-rqsof the London Corresponding Society."
add ton•:"amax, in proposing the toast, felt inclined
the st‘*--" And the Repeal of the Law suppress-
-t'elety lead cheers.) He believed the
The'telad dune much good.—(Cheers.)
Aast was then drank with three times three.
b'ellse Garzowair rose, and was received with im-
ienerahl cheering, which lasted several minutes. The
he deli: Reformer was evidently deeply affected by
which "stration of respect and enthusiasm with
,What
auhe,was received. After.the cheering had some-
that, i'ided, he spoke as follows :—I did not expect
I ()mon should have to return thanks for the
:ration rresponding Society. It is a proud consi-
ay Etre
sl°r me to see, that the men of the present
1.40ry. of ?, alive to the 'merits and so venerate the me-
(Cheer that Society, of which I was. a member..—
f',lght They were the first body of men who
ireednin.ne people of England the value of political
but ever,.
,„(Cheers.) They were much misrepresented,
. t \Peet tOJ body of men who desire to be useful must
'6„,1 e misrepresented.—(Cheers.) It was rare
ticalodiuell of sufficient nerve to stand up under poll-
so.,lbec.ause they took prin-
(lleers their guide, and by that they were supported.
:hlinildieerfstro.),:.Paotilli:thiecYaldpirdincip es in those days were not
11 us the'
vat, we may thank that Society for teach-
„ of political principles.—(Cheers.)
le ge.ntleman, who was evidently much
'at dog by the kind manner in which he was received,
• , i'4,l,nidst the most vociferous cheering.
rl,oa, jun., had to propose a toast, which,
lid iioll,l, ureetashioliable it might have been a year ago,
pilre proptr,e,ei,ved the sanction of the Premier himself.
c'sPerit' • Preedorn in Trade and Agricultural
fre Y• Sir
th e trade R. Peel had acknowledged the truth
them "nt ; Principles but had been afraid to carry
e "11114 and without developing the resources of
t.llllr niarne.43rei, without opening one fresh market for
0 e agrieni, Lures, he had, by his interfering, alarmed
°tit e t,,_,,ural interest as much as if he fully carried
n.their fre Principles—(Cheers)—and had operated
lords to not to the extent of inducing the land-
.. torn their
their rents, but of inducing the farmers
tpe Inimuhe'r labourers out of employment, and add to
drank with tl" thteimlztti thirtee
e. poor.—The toast was
Mr. three
r,VllllGaeritcotissx.kitx proposed " The Memory of Marge •
rving, Muir, and Palmer, the victims
_v:ls.) and. vindictive Scotch Court, in 1793."
lignorae``.,l at that, period in a state of much greater
ct°llYllPbteir'Qmel'ittiteaan il•,:ngland. In Scotland there was then
liba•ty. Trial
is
Jury was
itcivil
Cases the Courts were arbi-

trary, and the Juries were entirely at the:mercy of the
Court.. There was no free press at that time existing
in Scotland. It was not until 1813 that anything
worthy the name of a newspaper was- established in
Edinburgh; therefore, the memory of those men should
be held in everlasting -.honour who, under such cir-
cumstances, had had the courage to come forward as
Muir and the Scotch patriots of 1793 had done.—
The toast was drank in solemn silence.

Dr. Errs proposed "The Liberty of the Press," and
in so doing animadverted on its licentiousness. He
more particularly censured the proprietors of that
portion of the daily press who, for the sake of lucre,
permitted the columns of their journals to be polluted
by advertisements of a disgusting and immoral ten-
dency.—The toast was drank with three times three.
Colonel I'. THOMPSON proposed " Radical Reform,
a full, fair, and free representation' of the people in
Parliament, and the union of all classes of Reformers
to obtain it."—(Cheers.) He was aware of the neces-
sity of union. He saw around him Reformers of all
classes, from the moderate Whigs, the 1688 men, up
to the kind of people called Chartists.,—(Cheers and
laughter.) He thought he saw some prospect of a
union of all classes of Reformers. He acknowleged
the wealth, and respectability, and power of the mode-
rate section ; he was alive to the importance of their
support; he was willing to sacrifice much for the
sake of union, but he besought them not to insist in
their going on under the leadership of the men who had
on a former occasion upset the coach—(Cheers)—
and that not by driving into a rut which
was .in the road, but by the coachman himself
having actually got off the box and dug the rut
for the purpose of driving into it, and so had upset
the coach.--(Loud cheers.) The Gallant Gentleman
then animadverted in severe terms on the conduct of
the late Ministry. He designated the war in AfT-
ghanistan as a more unjust war than that of Russia
in Circassia, or France in Algeira, and the war in
China as a war for upholding a felony. " If," con-
tinued the Gallant Colonel, " I had bad a son who
had been so disgraced as to have taken part in any
of those unhappy campaigns, I would put him into
quarantine before I would admit him into my house.
—(Cheers.) He should not kiss his sisters until he
had time for the disgrace to blow off him.—(Cheers
and laughter.) Ile begged of them not to suffer the
old men again to take the lead."—(Cheers.)—The
toast was then drank with all the honours.

" The Liberty of the Pres 3," by Dr. Epps—" The
Immortal Memory of Washington, Thomas Paine,
and Franklin, and thb other founders of the United
States "—" Civil and Religious Liberty all over the
world"—were drank with enthusiastic approbation.

Dr. SIMPSON' proposed " Daniel O'Connell, and
Justice to Ireland. He • did not know any reason
why this toast had been placed in his hands, unless it
was the fact of his being a native of Ireland. Mr.
Dunbar, the present Mayor, and lately Member for
Belfast, was in the habit of boasting that he had been
born a Protestant, and that he had sucked in Orangeism
with his mother's milk. Like him he (Dr. S.) had
sucked in Protestantism from his mother's breast, but
thank God, it was mixed with Christian charity and
love towards his neighbour. Unlike Mr. Dunbar,
whose bigotry and hatred of Papists increased with his
years, every day's experience proved to him that there
was as much honesty of purpose and goodness of heart
to be found among Roman Catholics as among Pro-
testants. He therefore felt unmixed pleasure in pro-
posing the toast.
Mr. BUnNAuD, in a speech deservedly complimen-
tary; proposed the " Health of the Chairman,' which
was received with great applause.
The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, took occasion
to allude to his connexion with the borough of Hert-
ford. •He had fought the cause of the people in that
borough against the Marquis of Salisbury, and when
the question of bribery had been brought before the
House of Commons last session, lie had not had the
slightest hesitation in avowing that he had spent a
large sum of money in defending the independence of
that borough against the Marquis of Salisbury. No
doubt a great portion of that money had been spent in
defending the rights of the poor voters—in finding
houses for those who had been ejected from their homes
by the arbitrary tyranny of their oppressor—(Cheers)
and advantage had been taken of that circumstance to
say that he had bribed the borough of Hertford.
Nothing could be more false.—(Loud cheers.) He
had spent a large sum of money, but it was
in defending the rights of the poor voters of the
borough of Hertford.—(Cheers.) The Marquis of
Salisbury had received his reward; he had been made
Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, he had
also got the dirty garter stuck to his knee—(Cheers,
and laughter)—he had also got the blue riband sus-
pended from his degraded person.—(lmmense cheer-
ing.) His (Mr. Duncombe s) return was the confi-
dence of the working classes.—(Loud cheers.) The
Hon. Gentleman concluded a most spirited address, by
thanking the meeting for the manner in which they
had honoured and supported him as their Chairman,
and sat down amidst vociferous cheering.
"The health of the Stewards" was then drank, and
acknowledged by Mr. Green on behalf of the Stewards,
after which the party broke up.

MARRIAGE OF THE MARQUIS OF DOUGLAS.—Th•
preliminaries of a marriage between the Marquis of
Douglas, the eldest son of the Duke of Hamilton, and
a Princess of Baden, have been finally arranged, and
it is expected that the ceremony will take place in the
course of the present or early in the ensuing month.
The noble and illustrious bride elect is about 22 years
Of age, and is possessed of extraordinary beauty and
rare accomplishments. Letters reached the members
or the family of the Duke of Hamilton yesterday
morning, announcing the conclusion of the arrange-
ments relating to the marriage. 'The ceremony will
take place in Germany.
The Marquis of Breadalbane went on Saturday
from Taymouth Castle, Perthshire, to Glasgotv. On
Monday the Noble Marquis was re-installed Lord
Rector of Glasgow University, consequent on his
Lordship's re-election by the students of that Uni-
versity. The Noble Marquis, after taking the cus-
tomary oaths, addressed the Professors and students.
The Affghanistan deer, recently brought from India,
have been presented to the Marquis, and are forthwith
to be removed to the extensive forest surrounding the
chateau of his Lordship, in Perthshire.
THE PAST MAYORALTY.—It is said that Sir John
Pirie intends to withdraw from public life at the close
of the present Mayoralty. Whether such be the fact
or not, few of h:s predecessors in office will have
carried with them into retirement a larger amount of
respect and esteem than the worthy Baronet. With a
total absence of party bias, and of that appetite for
notoriety which characterise some civic functionaries,
the present Chief Magistrate has discharged his vari-
ous important duties in a firm, able, and conscientious,
but perfectly unobtrusive manner; and, whilst reviving
the hospitality of ancient times, Sir John Pirie has
never failed throughout his public career, to manifest
a prompt and open-handed sympathy with the friend-
less and unfortunate, qualities not of daily occur-
rence, and which will be long remembered and appre-
ciated by his fellow-citizens.
THE LATE MR. SERGEANT SPANKIE.—The fol-
lowing anecdote of this late eminent and gifced indi-
vidual may be relied on as authentic :-2.l"he public
has already been made acquainted with the fact, that
Mr. Sergeant Spankie, during the time he was keep-
ing his terms, with a view to be called to the bar, was
employed as a Parliamentary reporter. Young
Spankie (for such he then was) was on duty in the
gallery of the House of Commons at an early hour of
the morning, after a protracted and important debate,
when a division of the House took place, the result of
which was looked for with considerable. anxiety

throughout the country. The avenues to the House
were crowded with strangers, and egress down the
narrow staircase, by which strangers reached the gal-
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lery in the old House of Commons was next to an im-
possibility. The hour of the publication of the jour-
nal to which he was attached was fast approaching,
and Spankie, knowing the importance to his proprie-
tors that the conclusion of the debate and the division
should be early before the public, had recourse to a
feat which surprised and astonished those who wit-
nessed it. He climbed over the balustrade of the
stairs which communicated from the old smoking-room
with the strangers' gallery, and, suspending himself
by his hands therefrom, dropped into the Members'
lobby below (a height of from sixteen to eighteen feet)
amidst a crowd of senators. So suddenly was the
affair accomplished, and so fleet of foot was the per-
former, that he escaped caption by any of the myr-
midons of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and reached the
office in safety and triumph. When Mr. Sergeant
Spankie sat in Parliament for Finsbury, the occur-
rence was frequently related by,the late Mr. Wright,
an old and well-known messenger of the House, who
was an eye-witness of the transaction, and who gene-
' rally pointed out the hero to strangers, whom curiosity
nightly brought to St. Stephen's Chapel.
FEROCITY OF A lIORSE..—MARCII.-011 the 28th
ult. an accident occurred at the Chequers Inn, to a man
who had the care ofa beautiful spotted pony, belonging to
Mr. G innett, the equestrian. Ile was feeding it, when, in
an instant, the animal caught hold of his hand and flung
him over its back to the other side of the stable ;
it then sprang upon his shoulder, and with the
greatest ferocity bit a piece out of his bottom lip,
and would have killed him had not his dreadful
screams brought one of the company to his assistance,
who beat it off him with a fork. The poor fellow
was taken into the house covered with blood, and
dreadfully bruised about his breast and shoulder.
After his wounds were dressed and he was a little
recovered, he was enabled to leave the town in a van
with the company.—Cambridge Advertiser.
THE COUNTY REGISTRATION.—The result of the
late registration is all that the' Reformers could wish.
Objections have been made. 'so successfully in almost
every part of the southern division, that were an
election to take place on the present list, there is little
doubt Lord Francis Egerton and Mr. Wilbraham
would be defeated. The Tories are not so strong as
at the last election; when compared now with the
Liberals, by some 850 votes.—Livezpool Mercury.