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give up one stone of the citadel of our constitution, let them
stand by that stone. (Cheers.) He would be eternally making
demands and agitating until they should have an ad'iniuistra-
tion honest enough to clip the wings of agitation. They knew
that they could not exist in such a state of agitation.—lreland
might make her demands and hold out her threats, but so long
as England should be true to herself, and shew the same
front in St. Stephen's that she did now, with a majority of Eng-
lish gentlemen, representing English interests in that himse hey
had nothing to fear.—lt had been said that the dying eagle when
he saw the barbed arrow in his bosom plumed with a feather from
his own wing, it embittered the agonies of hisdeath.—So would it
ne with the British constitution.- In her integrity she might
prosper and defy all nations, but let her forget herself and it
would add to her misery when she should see that the arrow
which wounded her was barbed by her own' sons. (Enthusias-
tic cheering.) The learned gentleman sat down, thanking
them for the attention with which they had listened to him, and

wishing them a happy new year.
The CHAIRMAN called upon

JAMES H EA LO. Esq. who rose to propose the toast of" Sir Robert
Peel and the conservative members of the House of Commons."
He had accepted the invitation of his conservative friends to be
present on that interesting occasion with the deepest gratitude,
by whose exertions the character of the borough had been re-
deemed at the late election by the return of their worthy con-
servative member, against the influence of a coalition which

every spirited mind ought to have denounced. If that coalition
had proved successful the brand of tyranny would have placed
its hand on the•horough, and its independent voice would never
have been heard. The government of this country had for

several years past been agitating, and affecting the throne and in-
stitutions of the country, even to the risk of compromising our
glorious constitution which was settled by our forefathers, and
which had stood as our landmark amidst the ocean of polities.
He hoped they would bear in mind the maxim, " Fear God and
honour the King, and meddle not with men who are given to
change." (Cheers.) With regard to the established f hurch
of this country, and the profession of faith which he (Mr. Heald)
adopted : he might say that he was a Wesleyan. He need not
be ashamed of his connexion with the church of Christ, even
as viewed to connexion with the Church of England. He was
there to bear witness to the gratitude that they owed to the
establishment, of late years, for the blessing of toleration, which
was all that they (the •Wesleyans) contended for, and which of
late sears they had enjoyed. By the established religion they
hail been placed in circumstances of comparative security. He
could not conceive how any persons could advocate the received
principles of christianity without making adequate provision for
their propagation. This was one of the most important prin-
ciples upon which the establishment was founded, and upon
whicli he (Mr. Heald) trusted that it would rest secure.
( Hear.) It was the bounden duty of a christian govern-
ment to make adequate provision for the support and propaga-
tion of christianity. The hold which the ektabliShment had
gained on the affections of the country had been the best secu-
rity for the preservation of 'the country at large. Fouilded on
the true principles of christianity. it had been, to a great ,mea.
sure, successful against the opposition which had been directed
against the principles which they advocated, and by Which the
establishment had been preserved in all its efficiency, and its
efforts rendered prosperous. There had been a cry for a system
of national education • but he would warn the meeting, that if
the citadel of the establishment could not. be taken sword in
hand, to take care that a breach was not effected in a place
where the force of the enemy could not be stopped.—(Hear.)

f they would give a system of national education, they must
ake care that it was founded upon the institutions of the coun-

try, of which the established church and its ministers were the
head.—(Cheers.) He was sure the chairman had committed a
breach of order by entrusting into his (Mr. Heald's) hands the
toast which he had to propose, as he was unable to do suffi•
cient justice to the merits of the honourable individuals men-
tioned in the toast. He would give without further preface,
"'['he right hon. Sir It belt Peel, hart., and the conservative
members of the House of Commons." (Loud cheers.)
Song. " England's hope."
The CHAIRMAN said, he had many times great pleasure in
proposing the health of the father of the hon. gentleman whose
name-stood next on the list of toasts. The house of Tattoo

(cheers) had always been dear to him, for he had received such
kindness from that quarter that it would never be effaced from
his mind. In proposing the health of Mr. Tatton Egerton, he
would osserve, that if they lost him, they would " ne'er see his
like again." He begged, however, to propose " the health of W.
T. Egerton. Esq. our admirable conservative representative for
South Cheshire. and may he soon have a colleague of the same
principles." (Loud cheering.)
W. T. EGERTON, Esq. M.P. then rose, and was received with
loud cheering. He said, he scarcely knew how to express his
sentiments at the kind and flattering manner in which the chair-
man had been good enough to propose his health, or to express
his thanks for the very gratifying reception with which the men-
tion of his name had been honoured. He thought it was pretty
well known that he had never shrunk- from the performance of
his duty as an independent member of the House of Commons :
and so long as he had the honour of being a member of that
house, he would never be found seeking for popularity, as' had
been the custom of some parties. He hoped to be enabled to
steer an independent course so long as he continued their re-
presentative; anti so long as the honour of representing the
conservatives of South Cheshire was entrusted to his hands, he
would endeavour to preserve it unspotted as ever; and when-
ever the day of reckoning should come lie should ever be found
ready to give an account of his conduct. (Cheers.) He must
beg to congratulate the meeting on the glorious assemblage
which they had that evening. He must congratulate them on
that assemblage of fair and bright eyes (pointing to the ladies
in the gallery) which were then beaming with delight arid
approbation at their principles. (Long and loud cheering.)
He_must congratulate them moreover on having effaced the
stigma which the appearance of the hon. and learned member
for Dublin, at a late dinner, had cast upon that town. (Cheers.)
He must confess that he did feel deeply grieved, when on his
arrival in town, he was asked by Sir Roaert Peel, how came
Stockport, a town prominently remarkable for its_ loyalty—how
came Stockport, where proofs of attachment to the church and
state had hitherto been-given—how came she to lead out a pro-
'cession, with the mayor and corporation at its head, to meet
Mr. O'Connell? (Shame.) Already had the town of Stock-
port obliterated that stain—right well had she retrieved her
honour. (Cheers.) He could now proudly boast of seeing
before him a band of men in whom the true. old English spirit
n aim hivrmy6 been a town.-.-wi in see before him the
right hon. baronet, whom he might with propriety term, a faith-
ful representative of a true old English gentleman. (Cheers.)
He had seen a loyal and liberal band who were firmly bound
together in opposition to the enemies of the progress of reli-
gion. He did not consider that meeting exactly in the-light of
an electioneering dinner, or as a tribute of respect altogether
to the honourable conservative member of that town, but he
cosidered it as a great demonstration of public opinion and
public feeling—that public opinion which their opponents once
professed to idolize—but which, since it has turned against
km, they are ready to substitute for that weak popularity,
ich they might gain by pandering to passions which they
ought to restrain. He (Mr. Egerton) respected that meeting
as a public demonstration. Why had the operative left his ma-
nufactory? Why had the.tradesman left his counting house?
Why had they felt it necessary to meet together that evening,
at a time and season of the year when they generally accustomed
themselves to enjoy the converse of their friends? Why were
they met together that day? Was it not in order to show that
they had no confidence in the government of the country?
(Cheers.) Look at our foreign and domestic policy,—a topic
which had been.so well insisted upon by his (Mr.Egeiton's)
hon, friend the hon. baronet, who had preceded him. Look at
home and abroad. At home; a government pretending to be
friendly disposed towards the poor, and at she same time hand-
ing them down and trusting them to the tender mercies of the
poor law commissioners,—(loud cheers,)—and who were at-
tempting to thrust the bill down the mouths of the manufactur-
ing population. In showing their principles of non-interven-
tion they had sent troops to a foreign country, and the English
legion had been discornfitted in a land where once the English
name was a towerof strength. Must he refer to the English swept
and conquered from the Spanish coast? Must he look towards
Canada, where the flag of rebellion had been but just unfurled ?
Must he look at home, where our institutions in church and state
had been so long insidiously but now opeulya:tacked, and to that
state of things which had been caused by the vacillating (he might
almost say the political wickedness) of our government. But
the men who, instead of showing a bold front, had heckled to
the scramblers who follow Papineau and O'Connell, in the hope
of gaining another quarter's pay, have brought things to such a
state that they are like drowning men grasping at straws. They
are like men, caring little for anything, and giving everything
to sacrifice the British constitution. (Cheers.) He rejoiced
at that gathering of the conservatives of Stockport. He re-
joiced to she them animated by such a spirit as would show
ministers and their supporters that the conservatives would not
(lie tamely—that they would not give up without a Struggle the
boast of their birth-right, the invaluable blessings of the English
constitution. He trusted that the first day of the new year
which had been ushered in would show more favourable
auspices; and he hoped before long to see a firm, strong, and
compact conservative government. (Cheers.) They had a
strong party out of doors, and with a strong party in the House
of Commons of such men as Sir F Burdett, they might hope to
see better days, Theirs was the cause of order, the church, and
religion, against passion, democracy, and infidelity. They must
trust to the power which orders everything for the best ; but he
would exhort them to be of good cheer. Such principles as
theirs, identified as they were with the English constitution, and
interwoven with the best interests of the British people must ne-
cessarily pm osper. (Loud cheers.)
The CH A I lIM A N called upon Mt. FRANCIS NEWELL, an oper-
ative conservative, who, iu a speech of considerable ability,
proposed as a toast, " Protestant ascendancy.'.' (Cheers.)
The Rev. Mr. NoLAN ruse to respouri to time toast: After ac-
knowledging the deep sense which he felt in being called upon to
acknowledge the toast, proceeded to congratulate them on the
ascendancy of protestant principles-over popery. The wisdom
of their ancestors hail placed the church beyond all legislation
and beyond all law. Had not the act of settlement interwoven
protestautisin withiu the very heart's blood or the nation? They
felt time happy freedom which they enjoyed under protestant
ascendancy, and there could be no wouder at their earnest de-
termination, under God, to transmit it to their children in the
saute degree of excellence in which they had received it. He
trusted the day would never come when that toast would fail to
awaken a lively throb within the bosom of every man who
called himself a Briton. (Cheers.) The darkening moral
evils of popery had been pointed out by au O'Sullivan and
a M`Ghee who had demonstratively proved the relationship of
cause and effect subsisting between the docr-ines a popery, and
the consequent deplorable state of helot d. lie referred to
Den's Theology as a fearful store-house of mm.e seeds of evil, and
he would refer to Ireland as a proof that those seeds had fallen
on a fruitful soil. He referred to facts which he knew were un-
questionable as a proof of it. The last number of the leading
conservative journal of Ireland, the Dublin Evening Mail,
stated the fact that within the week previously to its publica-
tion no less than five actual murders, three attempts at assas-
sination, and 11 offences of a minor nature had been committed.
This exhibited the effect of popery then, and the necessity fur
protestant ascendency to remedy such a system. He in•irtnced
the orderly iudustrious state of time protestant province sf Ulster
as compared with the other three catholic provinces. The
cause of that was, that one was the land of freedom, of protes-
tantisni and the bible, whereas popery, priest-craft, and intimi-
dation reigned over the rest. He denounced the Irish appro-
priation clause as at one fell stroke swamping 900 out of 1,300
parishes in Ireland, and thus insidiously undermining protes-
tantism. He concluded amidst loud and general cheering.
At this juncture (ten o'clock) Sir Francis Burdett and Mr.
Wilkins retired from the room amidst loud cheering.
The CHAIRMAN proposed the •` Army and Nayy."
Captain HoLLiNGWoRTH briefly responded to time toast.
W. TATTON EGERTON Esq., M P., next proposed the health
of Thos. Walinsley, Esq., the chairman, as a townstuau and a
good conservative.
The CHAIRMAN in an approptiate and neat speech responded
to the toast anl concluded with proposing the health of H.
Hellingworrim, Esq., as one of time best conservatives living.
R. Ilollingworth, Esq., briefly acknowledged the toast.
After which the dealths of IVilbrahani Egerton, Esq., and
several other toasts were given. The meeting, then broke up at
a late hour after having enjoyed a very delightful and festive

even►ng.

Earl,flowe's son lately met with an accident whilst he was
romping with a playmate at school, and accidentally received a
cut with a knife immediately over one eye, the sight of which it
is feared is permanently injured, if not altogether lost.

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Re-engagement or Mr. THOMPSON. •
Last Three rights qf St. George and the Dragon.

An arrangement having been made with this Talented Artiste;
an opportunity will be offered the Public of witnessing his truly
Classical Pictures of the GRECIAN STATUES ! of which he
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IlllllS present FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, January sth,
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ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON OF EGYPT r
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NOVELTIES OF THE ARENA. k.
Mr. Ryan will introduce the ARABIAN PACK HOUSE.—
Miss awl Master Ginnett will appear as the FISHERMAN of
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Infant Pulaski as the FOX HUNTER.—To be followed by the
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ENGLISH BROTHERS.—Mr. Powell will introduce his
VOYAGE FROM INDIA, orthe Dangers of a Seaman's Life.
—The laughable Equestrian Act entitled THE MILLERS of
MANSFIELD WAKE, or Keeping up the Wedding after
Fifty Years' Marriage.
Old Grub.... Mr. Ryan I Mrs. Gruh....Mr. Field.
Millers by the whole Company.
In the course of the Evening Madame PAULINE WOOD will
introduce her celebrated PAS DE SCHAL.

The whole to conclude with the new drama, of intense interest,
called the DUMB MAN of MANCHESTER.
The part of Torn the Dumb Mau by
.Mr. T. THOMPSON.
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