The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-27 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE MEETINGS

BELFAST.—The fourth anniversary dinner of the Belfast So-
ciety took place on Tuesday. Abuve the chairman was placed.
the Royal Arms, supported by the banner of the 13.-11'1st Society
and the Union Flag of Britain, and opposite were placed the
Belfast arms. The ball was brilliantly lighted by six splendid
chandeliers, each containing 75 lights, throwing a beautiful
glare on the magnificent scene beneath. At six o'clock the
chair was taken by James Emerson Tennent, Esq., M.P:, with
Geo. Dunbar, Esq.. M.P., Vice-President, when upwards of
1000 persons sat down to dinner. Mr. E. Tennent was sup-
ported on his right by Lord Dufferin ,• Lord Roden; Lord
Powerscourti Lord Jocelyn;_ Sir E. Hayes, M.P.; Hon. R.
Plunkett, M:P.; Hon. T. Knox ; Geo. A. Hamilton, Esq.,
M.P.; Col. Conoily, M.P. ; E. Lucas, Esq., M.P.; Colonel
Wingfield; Sir A. 0. Bellingham; Col. Nugent; J. W. Max-
well, Esq.; Rev. M. O'Sullivan; R. Hall, Esq. ; the Very
Rev. Dean Carter ; M. Anketel, Esq.; Sir Robert Batesou,
Bart, M.P.; and on the left by Lord Rathdowne; Lord Cas-
tlereagh; Lord Cole; Lord H. F. Chichester; the Hon. Ma-
jor-General O'Neile, M.P. ; Colonel Pakenham • Col. Forde ;
J. D. Jackson, Esq., M.P.; R. Litton, Esq., 'K.C.; David.
Kerr, Esq., M.P.; Calonel Blacker; the Very Rev. Archdea-
con S aurin ; the Very Rev. Dean Stannus; A. M'Neile, Esq.;
Hon. and Rev. W. Illackwood; R. Gascoyne, Esq.; Doctor
Longfield; the Very Rev. Archdeacon Mant; W. . Reilly,
Esq.; and J. M'Neile, Esq. At seven o'clock the spacious
galleries were opened for the reception of the ladies, and in a
few minutes they were filled by the greater part of the beauty
and fashion of the town and neighbourhood. The fine baud of
the 51st regiment attended, and materially added to the enjoy-
ent and festivity. Such is an outline of the mere appearance
o this great conservative banquet. The speeches were worthy
o the high and talented individuals who delivered them.
CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION OF ASHBY-DR.LA-ZOCCII.—
The anniversary of the formation of the Conservative Associa-
tion of Ashby-cle-la-Zouch and its neighbourhood was held on
Tuesday last in the Assembly-room of the Ivanhoe Baths, at
the Royal .Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Upwards of 300 of the
most wealthy, influential, and respectable gentlemen of this
town and its vicinity sat down to a most sumptuous dinner. Sir
G. H. W. Beaumont, Bart., filled the chair, and was supported
by the Marquis of Granby, Lord Charles Manners, M.P., Mr.
H. Halford, M.P., Mr. W..W. Abney, Mr. J. It. B. Cave, Kr.
R. G. Cresswell, Colonel Cotton, and several other most influ-
ential gentlemen.
CROMPTON CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATTON.—A meeting of the
Conservatives of Crompton was held on Wednesday se'unight,
at the White Lion Inn, Shaw, Mr. Abraham Crompton, jun.,
in the chair, when a series of resolutions were passed expressive
of attachment to the constitution in church and state, and of
the necessity for forming an association, having for its object
the promotion of Conservative principles. The meeting was
attended by the principal inhabitants of the township, and an
association was formed which will no doubt have a beneficial
effect in protecting and advocating Conservative principles in
the neighbourhood.
Gt.ssdow PEEL CLUB.—We have great pleasure in an-
nouncing that the enlightened and patriotic students of our
University, who have conferred the highest, the most honoura-
ble, and the most precious mark of their confidence and affection
on Sir Robert Peel, by electing that illustrious statesman Lord
Rector, are about to form a Conservative club ; and after the
splendid triumph which they have achieved, we need hardly say
that they intend to inscribe on their banners the immortal name
of Peel. That this information will be gall and wormwood to
the present ministry we can have no doubt, for, notwithstanding
'all the blustering of their hireling scribes, they cannot conceal
their mortification at the signal defeat of Sir John Campbell.
We hope the spirited conduct of the students of our University
will rouse those of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and St. Andrew's
from the lethargy in which they seem at present to be sunk ;
and that the students of the Scottish Universities will use their
united efforts in preserving, in all their integrity, the various
and complicated interests of our ancient sanctuaries of religion
and learning, now threatened with subversion and spoliation by
the rude and grasping hand of democracy.—Glasgow Cons:itu-
aortal.

CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT GLOUCESTER.—The third annual
Conservative dinner took place at the New Inn, on Wednesday
last. It was very numerously attended, the room being crowded
with nearly 300 persons, and a considerable number more would
have been present had it been possible to find accommodation.
This circumstance is a cheering proof of the progress of Con-
servatism in this city. A large majority of the party were
operatives; and these annual meetings, tending as they do to
promote an interchange of friendly feelings—to draw closer the
bands by which society is held together—to remind each class
of its mutual dependence on the other—are deserving of our
warmest commendation. We trust tkey will lead at an early
day to the establishment of an efficient Operative Association,
on the plan of those societies which have effected so much good
elsewhere—an object that we have frequently advocated, and
which shall receive our zealous co-operation.—Gloucestershire
Chronicle.

DINNER OP THE BATH CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.—
The annual dinner of this association took place in the great
room at the Assembly-rooms, on Tuesday last, Captain Muffle-
bury in the chair. The company amounted to about 500, com-
posed of the gentry, and respectable trading and other inhabi-
tants of Bath, the larger proportion being members of the asso-
ciation.

THE KING'S THEATRE.—In the ballet department, Laporte
has this season been unusually fortunate; the engagement of
Carlotta Grisi, in whose praise our opinion has often been re
corded, atoned for the absence of " Beniowsky,"
infinitely the best ballet produced since Massaniello, has de-
lighted the frequenters of the opera by the exceeding beauty of
its music, the novelty of its dances, and the gorgeousness of its
scenery; to the last bar of the music have the boxes remained
crowded with attentive listeners, enraptured by the enchanting
strains of " The Krakoviak," the " Pas Galop," the " Ma-
zourka," and the grandeur of The state march.' The dances,
from their novelty, from their intrinsic beauty, and from the
excellence of the music, are, and will he for many seasons to
come, the raga of the ball-room. Bochsa's orchestral music is
exquisite,..and, as we understand, be has with his accustomed
skill already arranged the pianoforte, the harp, and as duets for
the harp and piano-forte ; they will be as popular in the draw-
ing-room. and the boudoir, as the dances are general iu the
assemblies.

THE LATE ROBBERY AT THE BANK OF FRANCE.—The per-
son who attempted to rob the Bank of France, who afterwards
destroyed himself, and whose body lay several days at the Mor-
gue, where crowds went to see it, has at length been identified.
A young woman recognised it as a person who came frequently
to see her, and who was called Francis Martin, and was known
under the name of the Baron de—. The other robber, who
has hitherto escaped, is said, like the suicide, to belong to a
rich and powerful family. He is now likely to be apprehended,
in consequence of the information supplied by the woman.