Star.
London, England, 1830-09-15 00:00:00

PUBLIC DINNER At MANCHESTER.

The Duke of Wellington arrived at Manchester on Saturday night,
about six o'clock. He merely changed horses in the town, and then
proceeded to Heaton-house, the seat of the Earl of Wilton. He returned
to Manchester on Monday morning, about twelve o'clock, when be pro-
ceeded to visit the factory of Means. Sharp and Co. engiceers, and of
'Messrs. Birlcy, spinners, and paraded slowly through the town in an
open carriage. He was well received by the multitude.
The dinner given in honour of his Orate was held in the Theatre of
Ithe town. The pit was boarded over and rendered level with the stage,
and the whole buildings, boxes, roof, and all, were tastefully canopied
over with festoons of white and pink calico. At the extreme end of the
stage, behind the table assigned for the Duke of Wellington and his il-
liustrieus companions, was a grand display of silver plate, said to have
been procured trom London at a great expense, surmounted by a long
range of mirrors, which were fringed with wreaths of laurel, interspersed
with white and red roses. The coup d'ail was enchanting.
At half-past four o'clock the gentlemen who had obtained tickets, for
which the demand was enormous, were admitted into the theatre. In,
a few minutes it was nearly filled. The tickets issued were more than
700, and there is no doubt that, had room permitted, two or three
hundred more tickets would have been issued and disposed oL As it
was, tickets were sold on Alonday at 61. Go. apiece !
At six o'clock the Duke of Wellington was ushered into the room by
the Boroughretve and the other local authorities. He was received with
the most enthusiastic cheering, the music playing See the Conquer.
ing Hero con.cs." Among the guests at the end of the table were, on
the left of the Boronghreeve, Bulkeley Price Esq. the Earl of Wilton
Lord laveaon Uower, Lord Skelmersdale, Hon. G. Amon, M. P.
S. W. Patten. Eaq M. P. Key. Edward Stanley, Lieutenant-Colonel
Shaw, at. On the right were the Duke of Wellington, Lord Dela-
mere, Lord Stanley, the lion. Hugh Cholmondeley, the Warden of
Manchester and several other gentlemen of respectability.
After the dinner, which consisted of every luxury of the season, had
been despatched, Non nobis, Dotsthic, was sung by the professional
gentlemen.
The Cuanza,' then proposed the health of " His Majesty, the
Duke of Lancaster," with three times three. It wu drunk with inde-
scribable enthusiasm.

The CHAIRMAN-It is now many years since we have had the plea-
sure of drinking the health of a Queen of England, I therefore propose
that we now drink the health of " The Queen, and the rest of the
Royal Family." (Three cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed a toast which he was sure would be
received with the respect to which it was so much entitled—" The re-
vered memory of our late beloved Monarch tleorge IV." (Dead si.
lance.) Tuns—" The Downfal of Paris."
Toe Cumulate said that the oast toast to which be elsonld candid:
attention was one which be was sorry thathe could not is tether's
in an adequate manner, and he therefore regretted that it had not been
placed in nand, which could•de it that justice to whicb it was so much
entitled. That toast was the health of their distinguished Tighe,' who.
had :bat day honoured theta with his poser= (diems)—whose whole
life had been devoted to the service of his sountry (asses,) mud who had
by hisconduet upon all occasions entitled himself to the gratitude of his
Mow-subjects. (Cheers.) He had therefore the greatest gratification