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THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE
LATE MR. COBBETT.

The Cobbett Club held thrir Annual Public Dinner on yester-
day evening at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, in celebra.
Lion of the birth of the late Mr. William Cobbett, M.P. About
fifty gentlemen sat down to dinner, and among the company was
Mr. O'Connell, M.P. Mr. Fielden, M.P., filled the Chair.
Thu cloth having been removed, ' '

The CHAIRMAN rose and said, that they had met that evening to
celebrate the anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest cha.
meters this country had ever produced.—(Hear, hear.) Mr.
Cobbett was a man who raised himself from humble life by his
own exertions, and not at the expense of the poor, for he was truly
and literally the poor man's friend —(Hear, hear.) Now lie (the
Chairman) believed that the man who stood foremost in advocating
the rights of the poor was the the best member of society—he be-
lieved that whoever endeavoured to uphold the rights of the poor was
taking the best course to secure the rights and well-being of the rich.
He need not enlarge upon the merits of Mr. Cobbett. He was
sure that his writings were well known to every one whom he had
the honour to address. They knew the difficulties he had to en.
counter through life; they knew the battles which he fought in sup-
port of the principles which he so manfully and ably maintained.—
(Cheers.) His was a life of trial, more, perhaps, than that of
any other individual of his age ; but, always undaunted, he was
ever ready to stigmatise those of whose conduct he saw reason to

disapprove. Mr. Cobbett was not deserving of his regard merely
fix his public services while living, but because he had left behind
him lessons which might guide posterity. If ever there was a
politician in this country whose writings were worthy of being per.
petually read, it was Mr. Cobbett. His productions were ever
new, for lie possessed the happy power of imparting, by the truth
and novelty of his illustrations, an interest to the driest details,
while lie rendered the most intricate subject so intelligible to
every capacity, that he who ran might read. Whatever was the
confusion which this country might fall, we would find in the
writ!ngs of Mr. Cobbett, a something to fall back upon ; he had
taught us that by clinging to the valuable institutions handed down
to us for goner ations, we might at any time be saved from the
crimes which had stained the first revolution in France. Such
wzs the man whose memory he proposed to them that evening as
a toast.

The memory of Mr. Cobbett was then drank by the company
standing, and in silence.

Mr: SANKIE proposed the toast of "Trial by Jury," which was

duly honoured.
Mr. MARTIN proposed the toast of " Universal Suffrage, Vote
by Ballot, and Annual Parliaments."

The next toast, w hich vi as spoken to by Mr. M'Ror, was ""1 he

pe,ple, and may they take no part in the present struggle between
land and the loom, except inasmuch as it may tend to forward the
rights of popular rapresentation."

Mr. NVELLs in proposing the toast of" Our faithful ally, the Na-
tional Debt," adverted to the dangerous and precarious state of thP
finances of the country. He be:ieved that Government could not
have carried on of late the business of the country, if they had not
been living upon the Savings'.Banks money—(Hear. hear)—and
he would recommend to the Members of the House of Commons,
whom he saw then present, to place upon the books a motion to re.
peal the 9th of Gco. 4, which enabled the Government to play with
tha Savings'.Banks deposits.

Mr. O'CONNELL, who rose to address the company amidst loud
cheers, said that the recommendation of the gentleman who had
preceded him, reminded him of a counsel who, addresSing a judge,
Laid to him, " My Lord, I shall gut this point upon the record ;" to
which his Lordship's reply was, "and a pretty figure it will make
there."—(Laughter.) He could assute the Hon. Gentleman, that
. _ .

if he were to bring forward such a motion, however much
he might approve of it himself, it would have not hance of meeting
with a fair consideration from the present House of Commons.
He could expect no remedy for the evil complained of from tl:e
House. He would tell them more, that a worse House he had
nova seen. He had sat in several Parliaments, but he had never
known one from which the people had so little to expect as that
of the present day.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman
the❑ proceeded to say that he had come there that evening to testify
his high respect for the character of that wonderful man, William
Cobbett.—(Hear, hear.) He had had the pleasure of his ac-
quaintance, and he had read his works for some thirty.six yews
with renewed and increasing pleasure. He was a truly astonishing
man—he thought him one of the greatest men this country or
Europe had produced for centuries. Ey the force of his own talents
and his unaided energies, he had raised himself from an humble rank
to the highest position which could be attained in this country.
He had worked his way through all difficulties, and he who had
begun his life as a cottage boy, ended it as the representative of the
English people in the English House of • Commons.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. O'Connell then proceeded to advert to the present condition of
the country, and after 'recommending a union among the middle
and labouring classes as the only means of attaining justice for
either, concluded by proposing the toast of " Civil and Religious
Liberty all over the World."

The toast was acknowledged, and several others were afterwards
drank, which we are sorry to find we are unable to notice from the
press of other intelligence. The company separated at a late hour,
after having spent the evening in the greatest conviviality.

THE NEWS FROM AFFGHANISTAN.—The exciting
intelligence just received relative to the struggle carried on
in the.town and neighbourhood of Cabul, to which all eyes
are at present so anxiously directed, invests this part of the
cold with an unusual interest. The publication of Captain
Fate's t‘ Five Years in India wilt go far to gratify the public
cui iosity as to the singular ten itory and localities in question.
Be ides giving a highly interesting description of those remark-
able spots which at present form the th, atre of war between
the luitish and the Affghans, the gallant writer has furnished
rom his own pencil, the following, among many other spirited
illustrations :—'l he City and Valley of Cabul ; Bala Hi3sar, or
Shah's Palace at Cabul; Candahar ; Fortre.s and 'form of
Gbuzne ; Forts of Jumro,rd, Alice Musid, &c., besides some
highly interest,ng I articulars relative to the traitor Mohammed
Akhbar Khan (the assassin of Sir W. Macnaghten); a view of
his residence, &c.
posT MAiiOMED.—AII. sorts of rumours have,
the progress of the late unhappy events, gained currency
reverence to the ex-Ameer. El ost Mal:ar oed Khan is at
idt
ruiti: eluting t
at Saharunpoor. He is strictly watched and guarded.
out otherwise under no particular restraint. He is, on the
whole, cheerful and coosh enctiith. So from from having been
detected in correspondence with his former subjects, or sus-
pected of exciting them against us, he seems to be severely and
annoyed at the conduct of his son.
deeply