The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-20 00:00:00

for referencs. and

a penny magazine, are two publications on the forcing
system ; according to which, modern babyhood is changed
into useless senility.—The Bulwark, or Reformation
Journal, No. X., discusses several Protestant topics of
passing and of permanent interest.

THE LORD

IAYOR OF LONDON'S

EASTER BANQUET.

THE EARL OF DERBY'S SPEECH

This annual festivity took place at the Mansion
House on Monday last, when a brilliant and dis-
tinguished company honoured his lordship with
their presence. The Earl of Derby and most of the
Cabinet Ministers were present. In returning
thanks for the health of her Majesty's Ministers the
Premier said :—"I am not insensible to the diffi-
culties under which we have assumed our present

position, at the commenceme
session, and with little le-

nt of a Parliati

measures to be su

;tire to mature or to prepare
I to that Parliament (loud
); but I believe that friends

cries of

hear, hear

and opponents alike give us credit for this—for
having performed our duty in not shrinking from
the responsibility which we encountered, nor incur-
ring the greater responsibility of a protracted
Ministerial interregnum at the commencement of a
session of Parliament (hear, hear). Ido not pre-
sume to speak of any political course of action ; but
this I say, that I hope I see indications not to be
mistaken, in this metropolis, that we are. not looked
upon as a set of reckless or careless men, likely to
endanger the credit of the country and its great
commercial and mercantile interests, or to neglect
the great religious, moral, and social obli.4ations
which must rest upon us (cheers). A change of
Government so total as has taken place could in
some countries have been considered only next to a
revolution; here we happily see that such changes
can take place, not only without disturbance to the
ordinary course of public affairs—without ruffling
in the slightest degree the serene aspect of society,
and without disturbing (I say it with still greater
happiness) for a single moment the personal friend-
ship of political opponents (cheers). And to what

is this

Co be attrit

buted? Is it to any merit in the
men who are called upon to administer the affairs
of this great country ? No; but it is to the insti-
tutions of the country itself—it is to the confidence
that every man in this country feels that, be the
Minister who he may, in the light of the constitu—
tion he must walk, by the light of the co stitution
he must be guided, within the limits of the consti-
tution his course must be directed (cheers). Well
is it known that no Minister can direct the affairs
of this country permanently or for any lengthened
period unless he enjoy the confidence and support
of his fellow-countrymen (hear, hear). Whether
we do enjoy that confidence as a Government no
distant time will clearly and undeniably prove (hear,
hear). If we do not possess that confidence, I, for
one, can say with perfect sincerity that I shall re-
sign office, and with it the labours and anxieties
of public life, with far more of readiness and far
^lf than I have undertaken

more of comfi
the arduous

ort to my

and painfu

responsibilitie,

if we shot

men w

country
words

t of cheering drowr

ed), then I know I

ery one of my co

as I say without 14

itation

r myself, that no sacri-

nce of time, of comfort,
be deemed too much to prove
-htest degree worthy of the favour of

h, of life itself, will

rse►ves even in the

eroign, and of t:

pport of the peo

ghty interests

'omnaitted

to our cha
the hall).

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ten the vessels wer
ceeded slowly doo
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with cap in hand

deck, a

THE ORANGE-VENDORS AND THE POLICE.—A nurner-
ons meeting of the fruit-sellers holding stalls in St. John's
Market was held on Tuesday evening, in order to consider
the propriety of memorialising the magistrates in favour
of the street orange and fruit sellers, who, it is alleged, are
harshly treated by the police, the latter frequently driving
them from -he streets altogether, though the law allows
them to remain, if they do not intrude on the foot-paths,
so long as they " keep moving." Mr. Feeney, of the
Merchants' Dining-rooms, has taken up this subject very
warmly, and is, we believe, the originator of the present
movement. The memorial was numerously signed at the
meeting, and an adjournment was made in order that the
question might be more fully agitated, and signatures
which a
obtained.
r). But ,-,
DOCK COMMIT

No present