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the toast to which I am called on to reply, as an efficient means
to a great end. Of Lord Eldon's political sentiments, let the
note which has just been read in your hearing
.bear testimony;
te ascertain what pewerS of mind, what unremitting study, -what
deep research, produeed those sentiments, you must read the •
history of a long, latiprious, unostentatious life. His was the
steady light of the planet, derived from the glorious orb of
truth; it was not the flickering deceptive glare of the iynisfatuus,
that of later years has dazzled the eye, dancing over the mo-
lasses of doubt and speculation, and alluring the unwary to
follow its fantastic course. Theology taught him religion—that
religion which sheds its influence on every department of life,
from the throne to the cottage; his philosophy was more moral
than Usechitnical--Minerva had greater charms for him than
Mercury.. Let the contrast light where and on whom it will :as '
a councillor, he was invaluable.to his king—a proud ornament to
the-peerage—..the honest friend, not the cajoles or flatterer of the
people; and as a lawyer, the flower of the British bar. In the
calm twilight'of life's evening, the turmoils of the day gone by,
the highest object of earthly ambition left far behind, we find
him delivering, as his act and deed, his firm adherence to those
sentiments which he so •ablv and courageously defended in the
days of his giant vissour. This declaration of his will be a pre-
cious legacy, to that body of men whom you have honoured by
coupling, them with his name, who, I am happy to say, consti-
tute two-thirds of the bar; and.surely, taking into account the
efforts of the two-patronage ministry to bribe them into subser-
vience to Whig trickery, this may be urged as something
like an argument in favour of their integrity.—(Cheers.)
'They are and feel themselves to be the servants of the state, the
expounders and upholders of our excellent laws, and when you
contemplate the vastness, the importance, and value of the ob-
jects which those laws were created to protect, you will surely
feel it your interest to keep the channels through which they
flow as pure and efficient as human art can make them--
(Cheers.) Thus much, my lord, on the toast just proposed;
• and now,. with your permission, I will comment on a few of the
leading topics of the day. The organs of. sedition and disorga-
'niza.tiOn are. se .sedulous in the diffusion of their sentiments, so
Ingenious in thqr appeals to the meanest motives of human ac-
tion, so cunning in their sophiams, that refutation and exposure
have become our ,daily duty. Demands on the side of demo-
cracy; however unreasonable, are urged as if their justice were
undeniable, and if refused are made the sources of reprobation
and contempt of the legislator, intelligent enough to deliberate,
and courageous enough to refuse., The miseries of Ireland, the
inevitable result of her own improvidence and profligacy, have
excited a pity on the part of the unthinking which has put dis-
' cretiOn to flight,. and wicked men taking advantage of English
sympathy, - hale perverted it to the purposes of agitation and
cusadection, and now every selfish argument of the agitators
comes in the iniposing demand of justice to Ireland.—(Loud
,-gheeys.) And here, my lord let us ask what is meant by justice
jroLlreland ? • Isssgic has been properly defined a science about
'woos s, fist it', v,.e. arenotagreed in our terms, if we typofy.diffet-
cut idiCaf by:the!Shine,symhols, it follows that we differ in our
preMises, and eau never arrive at a satisfactory inference.—ls,
it meant, by thus unceasingly clamouring fot justice to Ireland,
to_derfiart Ci her likerlaws and privileges with England ? If
vol'-tarkeissneAsVonthat point at once—before I admit the im-
, nlietljninstice7if your demand, you must first show me that Ire-
land
higthaanVEliVibilitiesd appreciating those laws, and of
tiSin%thbeptivileget-sit.here are various gradations of national
as Welksas,,indskyilualcapaCity ; laws and privileges mtisieiptind'
with_ the adeasedniind of the people. • 'flie,trial by ;ordeal and
theriv ti6Tvikivqrstit ion swayed the national mind, produced
it
et
: desired effect, namely, obedience. Popular privileges in
4016th century were limited and measured by popular intel-
lel; in the 19th century the peasantry possess greater political
,Oncver than princes at an earlier date; but will any man so stul-
tify himself as:to assert, that there was injustice in withholding-
that poWer when science passed for witchcraft, and was rewarded
by the faggot? Before Ireland complains of the superior privi
leges of England, . she must shew that she started in the Isiee of
civilization with is+ngland, that nothing has impeded her pro-
greaFi; and that she has kept pace with her competition ; should
she' fail in this, her anger is but the peevish querulousness of
,ehildhcod after the possessions of manhood. Ireland is eon-
fesSAll)i an•integral part of the British empire, and to carry
out justice to the extent of that empire, care must be taken
to legislate for the whole, that is to apportion the political
power of each to the safety of the whole.—(Cheers.) If it
can be, demonstrated, as I shall presently proceed to do, out
of the mouths of those who use this expression as the watch-
word of their parts', that Ireland is too ignorant, too cruel,
too wicked, to be. entrusted with power, it cannot be then
denied, that to comply with her demands would be gross injus-
tice to the'empire. ' You, my lord, and all who hear me, will,
no doubt, remember, that at the beginning of the Year 1833, the
Whig administration, of which Lord Grey was the head, and
Lords :',lelbOurne and Russell component parts, deemed it ne-
cessary to ask parliament' for increased powers, by which to
keep, rebellious Ireland in subjection to .the laws. (Cheers.)
Al'thattirue agitation wanted words to vent its hate. upon the.
Yery.-nseti whom now it affects to adulate. Cursing and bles-
sing frequently flow from the same cause. The same selfish-
ness that in 1833 exhibited itself in hatred and bitterness to-
wards the whigs,:in 1836, in terms as unmeasured, in encomium
't).s unqualified, proclaimed to Ireland the honesty of the agita-
aor, and the consistency of the objects of his attack and adula-
tion. The saine• selfishness that in 1833 exhibited Daniel
O'Connell in the King's speech as the common enemy of man-
kind, in 1836 makes use of the very qualities that it then de-
' pietated,- of the .very agitation that it then bewailed, for the
preservation of office. (Cheers.) Let us see what were the
opinions then exprdssed of Ireland—what was the crying ne-
cessity proved for a coercive statute. Lord John Russell on
Wednesday, February Gth, 1833, in reply to Messrs. O'Connell
acid Shier, spoke as follows:

" I will ask, are not 'the means of terror already in existence ?
iu what hands.? .Why the terror was not in the hands of educated and
reSponsible'Men, but-in thiise of the midnight ruffian and lawless as-
sasio; whiise pasSions were under no control, and whose acts, if he
chose to detail some of them,' most recent, would fill the minds of
men-With horror he min hkeit,e many indisputable authorities for de-
taiis of, Some of those outrages, many of them committed in the open
day, end wIl-6sapifig"with impunity; but he would content himself
with quoting Only,one, that of the hon. and learned member for Dub-
lin, in a recent letter addresSed by .him to the people of Ireland.
What seas . the lion, and learned gentleman's own description of the
state of outrage Which prevailed in Ireland?' Thus seduced, the in-
'surgents4--liere beodmitted the existence of insurrection by the term
insurgents—the insurgents afterwards proceed to other nocturnal out-
•ragist. They compel' farmers to give up their holdings; they destroy
houses and property • they flog or otherwise torture the inhabitants
of -those honses;andthey veryfreqUently commit the horrible, the
detestable, the damnable crime of murder. Such is the general career
of the White-boys;"Terryalts; Itockites, Whitefeet'and-otber pee,
sons of a similar description. They begin with smaller offences, they
uniformly end in all the horrid guilt of blood and murder.' "
Farther on Lord John says, "should the subject be consi-
dered of less importance at the present moment, when an at-
tenipt was made to separate the two countries, to confiscate all
English property 'in Ireland, to overturn the Protestant govern-
inent of that country, and to substitute in its place some kind of
gOvernment or parliament, in which the hon. and learned mem-
ber-for Dublin could become the leader or chief." Here, my
lord, ,we have from the mouth of Lord John Russell himself, a
host of reason in vindication of the Coercive Bill, much more
cogent as Arguments in favour of the line of policy pursued by
thepeers. He declares the crimes of Ireland, only three short
years ago,so appalling; that he cannot repeat them without fill-
ing.the minds.of his hearers with horror, so above law, that it
exhibits its horrid deformities without shame iu the open day ;
he proves that there is every material with which to work the
designs of ambition, and concludes by stating, in pretty plain
terms, that the hon. and learned member for Dublin has no
disinclination to turn these events to his own purpose: Lord
Melbourne:Mr. Macauly, Mr. Spring Rice, in short every
member of the then administration speak to the same effect.—
But the speech of Earl Grey is so striking, that I cannot pass
some passages over without emphasis. Here the learned gen-
tleman quoted the following passage from a speech delivered
by EartGrey,on Friday, February 15th, 1833:-
- " Could it fie wonderetat when there was a violent disapprobation
of tithes, in a State of .society so inflammable and disorganised as Ire-
land, that it should he increased by the efforts of this association, and
that we should find, not only a passive resistance to tithes, but that
the Owners, and all employed in carrying into effect the law which it
had been thought necessary to enforce, should become subject to open
denunciations, to violent attacks on• their persons and property, and
often to the infliction of death? Was it to be wondered at, if the
goverhment were represented as a universal grievance to the people
Tif'the people were told they were injured, insulted, and oppressed
followit to I T won-
dered
Here
by their rulers—that the laws were made to oppress them,--was it to
be wondered at, that these circumstances there should be a ge-
neral dispositien to resist the law? If the police force were de-
should n o unc e: alt tshcartn arbitrary;ealtth,ek attacks
on thaen
pd
oleea
i,
d unconstitutional,dea thi
things appeared to have a very close and intimate connexion ; and if
they were not cause and effect, at least they were so linked together
that they could dot he dissociated in a consideration of the state of
Ireland. He asked their lordships whether it was not the object of
the -association of volunteers to lend their aid to a repeal of the union ?
Whether it was one of the recommendations offered to the voters at
the last election by the association, to oppose to the uttermost all
candidates who were mot repeaters ? No doubt, like those pernicious
writers who addressed themselves to the inflammable passions of
youth, and, having excited their feelings, affected by a cold moral to
quench the flames they had kindled,—doubtless, like them, the agi-
tators, after working on the passions of the multitude, might offer a
cool'exbortation to the men they had maddened, to pursue their oh-
jeets by legal means ; but he did not give the agitators credit for so
little sagacity and knowledge of human nature, as to believe that their
Cokl recommendation to oey the law would quench the flame they
had excited. He, (Earl Grey,) found, in the course of the last year,
from January, 1832, to December, 1832, a most frightful catalogue of
crimes perpetrated in Ireland :—homicides, 172 ; robberies, 465 ; bur-
glarics, 558.; honghing of cattle, 455 ; illegal notices, 2,095: illegal
meetings, 425 ; malicious injuries to property, 796; attacks on houses.
763 ; tiring of
,hpuses, 280 ; serious assaults, 3,156. The aggregate of
crimes of every description connected ,with the disturbed state of
the country during the past year amounted to upwards of 9,000 ; and
lie was sorry to add, that crime in Ireland appeared to be in a state of
progressive increase."
This-is the state of Ireland as described by the very men who
are now'either so wicked or demented as to hold up the most
august deliberative assemhlage in the known world to derision
and• hatred, becauSe they will not give to prejudice power, be-
cause their withhold from the bigot the scourge of intolerance,
beealtselfiey will..not give the sword to the murderer. That
such. a man as,Joseph Hume,-whose education and mind pre-emi-
nently fit him-for a book4ceeper to a waggon office, should, on
every.)ccasion_thatpresented itself. exhibit his vulgar hatred to
the peerage, is as necessary and natural a result as the stinging
of the piStaire,'Or the'croaking of the grasshopper; there are
some animals that seem to be created
.only as provocatives to
cleanliness, their very 'Site provokes their destruction; this is
an insect of that kind, and will eventually meet his fate—but
,thaUstiCh men ht Melbourne and Russell should lend themselves
..toristirh dishonesty, . hat they, who three years ago were held
iifi;a4tloody-mindecl, cruel, and tyrannical, by the very man
Who tio-w trumpets:forth thpir.fame for furthering his designs,
tag which they_cannot plead ignorance—that they should now be
thin friends of 'agitation proves, that with them patriotisin means
phite,, and that.refOrm• is much more limited mu its advantages
than, by their declamation, their dupes have been led to believe.
But let me do their justice : Lord Morpeth; at Leeds, in one of
th-e most illogical speeches that ever met the eve, told the 123
• indiyidaals,_whomhe foolishly affected to believe the representa-
tives ot the sober and enlightened feeling of the West Riding
orYorkshire„ that the-ministry were making efforts to settle the
'4 fierce ecclesiastical dissensions which have too long distracted
our unhappy sister country, upon a basis that can be acquiesced
in by the people of that country at4arge, and that supports, and
willcealfer the blessings of. religious peace. Curran has some-
where said; that error it in its nature 'flippant and compendious,
it hops'with alacrity over argument and proof, and perches on
assertioxi, 'which it calls conclusion. My Lord Morpeth's mag-
niloquent sentences, uttered with-a solemnity, and composed of
words but ill-suiting with the occasion, may he tacked to this
aphorism by -way of illustration. That fierce dissension does
exist. in Ireland, no one can deny; but before we apply the
remedy, let us ascertain the. seat of disease; every quack can
describe appearances, but the physician alone can .treat those
appearances as symptoms. Lord Grey has already glowingly,
but-aSlrtily, described the -agitating causes of Ireland's discon-
contentlie has' told the country what every man knows to be
too title who has-visited that besotted land, it is the very business
of agitation to misrepresent. These is a numerous priesthood in
Ireland, Who necessarily hate a protestant establishment—
(cheers)-thafhatredas necesssarily induces slander and unre-
mitting opposition; to •render that opposition effectual, every
-uuworthy appeal is made to the superstition and prejudice of
their-devotees.; our clergy are described as wolves in the catholic
fold, 'Our doctrines as heresies, our tithes as plunder. (Cheers,)
'The agitator knowing the unlimited ascendency of the confes-
sor:over his disciples, calls the anathema to his aid, and covers
his ambition under the garb of religion. (Cheers.) Ile calls
the idle, the profligate, and needy together ; he affects coin-
, miseiation for their. woe;' he goads them to hatred, and urges
it to active ,rehellion; he wounds their national pride, by term-
ling:them .`qiereditary bondsmen"' and then pretty plainly hints

" who would be free themselves must strike the blow." (Cheers.)
Is then Lord Morpeth, and are his coadjutors, anxious to
" settle the fierce dissension that has long distracted our unhappy
sister country ?" Have they made any efforts to counteract
the baneful efforts of agitating missionaries? Have they even
been neutral in the contlet ? 1-lave they not rather in pailia-
meat, at public meetings, through a hireling press, sanctioned
the very fallacies and infamous doctrines which, but two years
ago, they held up to execration ? Have they nut created hopes
and expectations which never can be realized but by the viola-
tion of every principle of honesty and justice ? Anxious to
pacify, indeed!—was their anxiety proved by their irrational
rejection of the lords' amendments to their tithe measure ? is
the demand for tithe, as described by them, the fruitful source
of strife and blood-shed ? Then, with their anxiety to pacify,
why not remove the cause? Is Ireland's peace, Ireland's im-
provement, Ireland's blood, to be sacrificed to Whig pride, or
radical madness ? Had their darling clause been left in the
bill, practically it could not have benefited Ireland, in the
remotest degree, for years to conic. They why not accept a
real good, an immediate benefit, and trust to future efforts for
an increase, as in the case of the prisoner's council bill? The
reason is plain enough ; the prisoner's council bill was too
weak ground ou which to erect a battery against the peers. In
Ireland, where juries sit trembling in the box before the the cri-
minals on whom they are to pass their verdict, the prisoner's
counsel bill is a matter of indifference; it was not a subject on
which the passions and prejudices of the " finest pisantry in the
world" could be brought to play. The priest can sing mass,
though a good Catholic should hang; and can chaunt a re-
quiem with as much indifference as he exercises in grant-
ing absolution for the persecution of a heretic (cheers,)—
but the church bill had spoliation for its object, it was, to use
Lord Morpeth's own words, " to settle ecclesiastical dissension
upon a basis that can be acquiesced iu by the people of that
country at large, and that supports and will confer the blessings
of religious peace." And could Lord Morpeth, when the 120
individuals who surrounded him at Leeds applauded such bom-
bast as this, could he believe that he was addressiug the in-
tellect of the West Riding of Yorkshire ? Acquiesced in by
the people at large ! What, then, has protestantism become so
contemptible in the eyes of this young nobleman that its in-
terests, its wishes, its rights, arc unworthy of notice ? The peo-
ple at large? Does he think that those who pay nineteen-
twentieths of the tithes in Ireland, the church of England pro-
testants, can acquiesce in the appropriation of these tithes to
catholic purposes ? That they will purchase what he terms the
blessings of religious peace by so base a compromise? Does
Lord Morpeth know that the experiment of to-day becomes the
precedent of to-morrow—that the same plea which to-day robs
an ecclesiastical corporation of its unalienable rights may to-
morrow cut of his inheritance and estop him by his own argu-
ments? Is it because Lord Lyndhurst opposed such tamper-
ing, truckling legislation, that he is, to amuse the sober in-
tellect of the 'West Riding of Yorkshire, to be placed on the
couch of the tyrant Gloucester on the eve of the battle of Bos-
worth-field? What! shall he who in the same speech declared
that gradations of. opinion ought to exist, " as all opinions on
matters of such pressing interest to the public weal ought to be
well sifted in a sieve together, in order that the soundest and
most valuable of them may be retained, and those which are use-
less, because mischievous, may be cast away ?—shall he deny to
the peers what he so readily accorded to the radicals of Leeds ?
Shall none but he and his friends be allowed the use of the
sieve ? Shall the intellect of the aristocracy be pared down to
the Procrustian dimensions of Joseph Hume? Shall Lynd-
hurst bring down his lofty mind to the standard of Derrynane ?
Shall the House of Peers hold its prerogative by the tenure
of suit and service to the Commons ? *ill you so stultify
yourselves as to destroy an institution, to annihilate a compo-
nent part of the constitution for answering the very end and
scope of its existence ? Why were not the Peers and the Com-
mons incorporated, if it was desired that they should always ac-
cord ? The very separateness of their existence, the distinct
negative and active power given to each proves the object of
their being, and to destroy them for accomplishing that object,
would, no doubt, very much further Mr. O'Connell's interests,
and fur once more excite the cast-iron countenance ofJos. Hume
to a sardonic grin. But the Commons have no right to enter-
tain such a proposal for a moment, and the wretch who suggests
it, should be the subject of immediate impeachment. Parlia-
ment is not omnipotent, as has been often very justly declared
—parliament are the trustees of the national estate, they may
invigorate, they may improve, but to destroy it is treason. (Loud
cheering.) But, my lord, with some men treason means
patriotism, rebellion—courage, destruction—reform, with such
I will not condescend to remonstrate; they have no reason but
their will, no argument but passion ; but to the assemblage of
wealth, intellect, and character, who have done me the honour
to listen with patience to my remarks, to them I will presume to
offer a few inducements to diligence and activity in our cause.
You know, your cheers prove, that you appreciate our glorious
constitution—a constitution the plan of which the master mind of
Cicero, who had seen that republicanism had produced a Cataline,
that monarchy engendered a Caesar, drew out as the most perfect
that could be devised ; so perfect that Tacitus declared it to be
the beautiful chimera of a poetic imagination ; the test of ages
has proved its practicability and virtue. A constitution based upon
christianity, rendering honour to whom honour is due, tribute
to whom tribute is due ; extending its views to immortality, it
has dedicated its noblest apartment to the worship of our God;
it has selected the Bible, the whole unmutilated Bible, as its
text book it has adopted every proper precaution to insure a
priesthood as capable as education, rank, and character can
make them, without laying claim to infallibility; deriving its
authority from the law and the testimony, it prescribes the li
wits of its own powers ; it makes the priest the living commen.
tary of revelation, not revelation the commentary of the priest
It is a constitution that can offend no just man. 'Tis true ii
promises no reward to indolence—it holds out no inducemen
to vice—it closes the door against the brawler and the agitator;
hence we may account for the patriotism of Derrynane ant
Middlesex. They cry for change for the same reason that
Satan,

" With ambitious aim
Against the throne and monarchy of God,
Rais'd impious war in heaven,"—viz.,
" To set himseg in glory 'bove his peers."
You will then, I am suit, my lord, to preserve this gift of God
to man—to preserve unmutilated and unalloyed the ethics of
our church, the blessings of -our faith, the purity of that stream
that is to quench the fever of disease and resuscitate in the
fainting of death—to keep untarnished the lustre of your co-
ronet—to maintain inviolate the dignity of the throne and the
quietude of the cottage—you will echo with me the truly inspir-
ing motto of one of our greatest heroes—
" England expects every man to do his duty."
The Gna tint AN said, though they were met there to uphold
the constitution of the country and with it the Protestant re-

ligion, yet he was satisfied Ural there was no person there pre-
sent that would not most willingly hold out the hand of friend-
ship to all those who differed from them conscientiously in
points of religious principle. (Hear.) And there were so many
individuals in the country professing the Catholic faith, who
were so distinguished for their intelligence and their honour-
able feelings, and, above all, for their attachment to the con-
stitution of the country, that he was sure he should be held ex-
cused if he proposed to them " the health of the Catholic Con-
servative Gentlemen of the County." (Loud cheers.) The
toast was given with three times three.
TRAFFOItD TRAFFORD, Esq., of Trafford Park, shortly re
turned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN had now to propose "the Operative Con-
servative Associations throughout the Kingdom." Given with
three times three cheers.
Glee—" With a jolly full bottle."
Mr. BA awisE, of Craven-street, Strand, London, rose to re-
spond to the toast. He said, it might appear presumptuous in
him to rise to reply to the toast, but he had taken the liberty, in
the absence of any one to acknowledge it, to respond to the
toast. He felt a very strong interest in the furtherance of the
Conservative cause amongst the operatives, for this reason, he
had been instrumental in the promotion of three operative as-
sociations, and he was perfectly convinced, that, if Conserva-
tive Associations were established in their boroughs, they would
find sufficient constitutional opposition to overturn the attempts
of the Radicals. (Cheers.) With this conviction before his
mind, he did not like the toast to pass over without a few obser-
vations. They were all aware of the industry of their opponents
in the distribution of tracts of various descriptions, containing
anything but the truth; and it was by the formation of societies
amongst the operatives, and placing in their hands works and
pamphlets containing the truths which were necessary for them
to know before their opinions could be altered. and by which
means they could attain the objects they had in view. ( Hear.)
There had been many Operative Conservative Societies formed,
all of which he was happy to say were increasing in their num-
bers; and as they increased, so must the community at large
feel the powerful effect they must produce. It was not only the
moral character of the individual members which would improve
by these societies, but they brought them into connexion with
the class immediately above them in the sphere of society, and
it showed to them that those above them in station were wishful
to give them the same advantages which they themselves pos-
sessed. He prided himself on being one who had emanated
from that class; and it was a pride which led him to watch over
their welfare as well as his own, and he was convinced that if
those whom he was addressing, and others in a similar sphere,
were to make the same exertions, they should completely coun-
teract all the efforts of O'Connell and his party, and the glo-
rious constitution of Great Britain would be considered as the
price of every man that lived in the country. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN called on Mr. Roby to propose a toast.
Mr. Roe/ rose and said,—The toast I have been requested
to propose it would be absurd and impertinent to attempt em-
bellishing. It would, indeed, be an attempt
" To gild refined gold ; to paint the rainbow."

Doubtless, I have had some experience amongst the Lancashire
Witches, but I know not that it is from any peculiar aptitude in
this respect. Suffice it to say, they have this evening been com-
mitted to my care, lind I must do mine, as I hope every one that
hears me will do Isis duty. It wonld be very easy, my lord, to be
somewhat jocose on this subject, but I conceive we have here
much graver duties to perform. I would earnestly remind you
and them, that not only to the Lancashire Witches, but to the
Witches of our beloved country, in general, our destinies, as a
nation, are entrusted. I know not whether O'Connell ever had
a mother, but, if he had, she has much to answer for. She has
not brought up her pretty darling in the way he should go.
And I would urge this example on the Witches of our country
earnestly, beseeching they would early instil right and proper
principles
into the
the minds of their children. Lead them, from
the first, the straight path of truth and honesty. Teach
them to be obedient, liberal in the highest and proper sense of
the term. Not that fiendish imitation, that spurious liberality
which is a libel on the name, and a disgrace to the nature it in-
herits. Why, the very name of Liberal implies something
malignant and unsavoury, a byeword, and a loathing, fitted only
for the contempt and execration of mankind. 1 would repeat,
that to the wives and daughters of the present era are committed
our destinies as a nation, for weal or for woe, and, as they fulfil
or neglect their duty, so will Britain rise or fall amongst the
nations. Let our offspring be taught and guided in the right
way; let them be early instructed to fear God and honour the
King; let loyalty and religion be inculcated, and I have no
fears for the result. Every mother's sou of them will become
true Conservatives, and a blessing to their country. I deeply
regret that the filthy name of O'Connell should have been forced
into connexion with this pleasant subject,—a miscreant whose
libels and slanders are heaped upon all that is good and virtu-
ous, all that is noble and elevated in the land, who has had the
audacity to brand with the character of strumpets nil??-tenth
of the females, the Protestant females of Britain ! and
il;~ baser
cowardice to deny indelibly
fixing But then it is on record, and luckily re-
ported in one of his own party newspapers, fixing,
fixing him as the foul-mouthed slanderer who has dared toipl-
lute even our Lancashire Witches with this accusation. That.
miserable thing of shreds and patches, called, hysome„curious
and absurd figure of speech, " His Majesty's Ministry. I wish
them joy of their most filthy bargain. Depend upon it his pre-
sent hypocritical adulation, slavering over the deformities of
"the base, bloody, and brutal Whigs," as it was once his good
pleasure to call them, is but like the great Indian serpent, gloiz-
ing and licking his victims ere they are devoured. Sooner or
later it must come to this ; and, without taking to myself much
credit for vaticination,ig will I will entlue to predict, that, ere long,
the very name of Whig;
perhaps be something to frighten
children to obedience, something synonymous with degradation
and disgrace. They have sold themselves for a mess of pot-
tage, and they have already forfeited their birthright, the
respect and confidence of every honest Briton ! They are
already on the very verge of the gulph, one push more, another
pressure from behind, and they perish for ever ! It has often
been said, Why abuse O'Connell?—Why fight him with hi

own weapons ?—and I well remember my Lord Holland was
particularly shocked that in the House of Lords anybody should
attack this person. Now lam free to confess, that I know not
any other mode by which such an outlaw from, and transgressor
against, all the amenities—all the decencies of society can be
punished. When you fight a chimney sweeper, you must wear
a black coat. Let him be gibbetted, not inhumed !—held up as
a warning to all,—dangling and writhing to the just execration
of mankind. I recollect a story somewhat apt on this point.
An individual, who may fairly represent the Melbourne-Russell
Company, had a large and savage dog who kept the neighbours
and passers-by in constant terror and annoyance. When any
complaints were made, the owner always professed great sorrow
—couldn't help it, and so forth—a sad dog—too old to mend,
and the like, laughing all the while in his sleeve at their
alarms. Somehow or another this sad dog kept on his
career unchecked, and, not without a shrewd suspicion
that he was aided and encouraged therein by his keeper.
At length this quarrelsome brute attacked an old soldier who
happened to be passing with a fixed bayonet before him. This
trusty weapon soon settled the business, and the dog lay sprawl-
ing in the dust. Whereupon his master, who had all along
been watching with an eye of malicious encouragement, set up
a loud and grievous outcry. It was barbarous, cruel, unmanly,
and so on. The soldier pleaded the ferocious attack of the
beast. "Then you might have beaten him off with the butt-end."
"So I would," replied the hero of a hundred battles, "If he
had attacked me with his tail !" One parting word with the
Lancashire Witches, of whom we may justly be proud. Look
at the present assembly, and say i f there is not a noble army
of matrons who hare done their duty, and thousands yet unborn
will, I doubt not, be rained op in the paths of loyalty and re-
ligion—a proud phalanx that will, ere long, crush the reptiles
who have crawled to the high places once occupied by their
betters. A Lancashire Witch, if I mistake not, was the mother
of Sir Robert Peel—a Lancashire Witch is the wife of our no-
ble chairman. Need 1 say more to incite you to drink the toast,
" The Lancashire Witches," with an enthusiasm equal to any
other that has been given this evening.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The North Lancashire Con-
servative Association, and success to it."
Sir ROBERT BARRY acknowledged the toast, but was at such
a distance that we were unable distinctly to distinguish what he
said.

The CHAIRMAN then gave "the health of the stewards, and
many thanks to them for their services on this occasion."
Mr. ELIA s CHADWICK, of Swinton Hall, shortly acknow-
ledged the toast, but in a tone perfectly inaudible to the re-
porters.
The CH AIRMAN then proposed "their next meeting." That
being the last toast he wished them all good night. His lord-
ship then vacated the chair, and the company broke up at a
little before 12 o'clock, the greatest order having prevailed.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.

The followinc, testimony to the importance of the ceremony
performed on Monday, we extract from a London Morning
Paper :
In another column will be found an account of the ceremony
of laying the first stone of the intended buildings for Church of
England Schools in the town of Liverpool. Those who are
attached to the great principles of the Reformation, will read
this r.ccount with unmixed satisfaction ; nor will their satisfac-

tion be diminished when they reflect that the ceremony to
which their. attention is solicited arose out of a virtuous
and successful resistance to the project of the new Cor-
poration for introducing what is called the `• Irish Sys-
tem," into that English and Protestant town. The Irish
system, as 'our readers know, is a compromise of religion
to education. It was introduced into the country, the name
of which it bear-3, under the auspices of Government, for
the purpose of inducing Catholic priests to allow Catholic chil-
dren to be taught in schools where Protestant children are
also educated. For this purpose it was deemed necessary
that the scriptures, as a whole, should be excluded, and cer-
tain extracts only allowed to be taught. But, whatever may
be ►aid of such a compromise with respect to Ireland—and
we were always opposed to it ourselves as a bad lesson
to begin with—the case was materially altered when it was
attempted to be introduced into England, because the circum-
stances of the two countries in respect to their religion were
materially different. Acting upon this impression, the clergy
and people of Liverpool, with a spirit which does them honour,
and which has already done honour to itself by the achievement
of a victory, resisted the attempt of the corporation. An ap-
peal was made to the sense of the community; and the answer
to that appeal was a subscription of more than £10,030, in the
short space of seven weeks, for the erection of schools where
the whale Bible may be taught, and not a leaf picked out here
and there, for fear they should have too much of it. If ever a cor-
poration received a rebuke, the new corporation of Liverpool
have begun business with a strong one. Nothing can be more
decisive of the opinion of the people of Liverpool, as to the
introduction of the Irish system into English towns, than the
alacrity and zeal with which they came forward and subscribed
their money to prevent it. But we will no longer detain our
readers from the perusal of the report itself, where they will
find the triumph commemorated in speeches which display con-
siderable talent, and breathe a spirit of devotion well worthy of
the cause in which it was exercised—the cause of religion, and
of the institutions which under PROVIDENCE.' protect it.—
Morning Herald.