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who kneW how to think, or how to act correctly, and in an
especial manner dear to every, patriot, to every lover of his
country, and of his countrymen.. The Church of .England
was connected with this glorious Constitution by ties equally
dear,—and long, long, he cordially hOped, might that conne)c-
ion continue unimpaired tremendous burst -of applause
here interrupted the speaker, the company rising from their
seats and responding to his wish with the most ardent demon-
strations of kindred sentiment; when the, applause had
in some measure subsided, we caught the following in couti-
nuation)—it being emphatically.the Church, which was found-
ed on the doctrines ,of, the scripture. It was this which had
combined it with the State in ties which they had received
from their forefathers, in their unsullied purity, as a blessing.
which they had hitherto known how to value, and it was his
sincere hope that they would be enabled to transmit them
with undiminished grandeur to their posterity, as the best
blessing which they had it in their power to leave them.
(Great cheering.) The worthy chairman concluded by pro-
posing "The British Constitution in Church and State." The
toast was received with enthusiastic cheers, the usual nine
times nine being far exceeded. Glee, " A jolly full bottle."
(Which was loudly cheered in the parts were political allu-
sions were made.)
The CHAIRMAN said, the next duty which devolved upon
him was to.propose the " Army and Navy," which he was sure
would be yeceived with that fervour with which English-
men always acknowledged obligations. The members ,of the
Army and Navy were gentletnen who were always in the habit
of speaking for themselves, and he was, therefore, certain
that on, such a subject there could he no want of response.
—(Loud and continued cheering.) Medley, " Hearts of
Oak," " Rule Britannia," &c.— As the last named anthem
was sung, the company joined in the air, and a very singular '
and pleasing effect was produced by them beating time to
each division of the music with their hands and feet.
The CHAIRMAN called for a bumper toast. It now be-
came his pleasing duty to propose the health of their noble
representative in Parliament.—(Deafening cheers.) Might
he not with propriety say, their representative had faithfully
supported them, and had energetically performed his duty in
advocating and forwarding those principles which they pro-
fessed, and which they had confided to him. He owned his
principles, and he was proud to say, that they coincided with
theirs, and theirs with the true and •Just principles of the
British constitution.—(Cheers.) Glad were they to see him
once again amongst them, to greet him as one of themselves,
and to see him sitting at the same board in, the full enjoy-
ment of health and strength, after fighting the battles of the
'constitution in bis place in Parliament. • He bad achieved
for himself a name, and a high meed of respect amongst them,
which could not be characterised or looked upon as the mere
breath of common or evanescent popularity. It was a
popularity which followed him. He was sure he possessed
the affection and esteem of those who were able to draw a
line between real and sterling merit and presumption.—(Loud
cheering.) The noble lord was present amongst them, there-
fore he (the Chairman) would not detain them with any
further remarks, though it was a subject upon which he could
untiringly enlarge, but he would at once propose his health,
and that it be drunk with • three times three.—" Our highly
respected representative, Lord Viscount Sandon." The com-
pany started up as one man. To say that this toast was
drunk with three times three, or nine times nine, would be to
speak merely according to custom. The cheers seemed to be
reiterated'to an almost endless extent, and with unbounded
enthusiasm. .

Lord SANDoN then rose, and was again greeted with three
distinct rounds of cheering. Order having been restored, he
proceeded to address the assembly. He could not say that
the kindnesS with which they bad been pleased to receive the
toast which their worthy chairman had just proposed for their
acceptance, was to him unexpected. He should indeed belie
the recollections so deeply impressed upon his heart if he
could forget the manner in which he had always been received
on everroccasion when he had had an opportunity of meeting
his friends in Liverpool.—(Cheers.) He ought indeed to be
hardened to it—to be grown callous, by the frequency of the
repetition : but such was not his nature. He could not re-
main unmoved under such a marked manifestation of their
kindness and approbation. He only wished that it had left
it more completely in his power to return thanks as he ought.
—(Hear, and cheers.) Their worthy chairman had just pro-
posed to them "'The British constitution in Church and
State." That was the chief toast of the evening ; for that
was the principle which had called them together. He called
this union the bulwarks of the constitution. It was no.longer
the outworks of. that constitution that were now attacked.
They could no longer blind themselves, even if such were
their wish, and think that though the outworks were destroyed
yet the citadel might still remain unimpared.—(Long con-
tinued applause.) The very citadel was now assailed, as
every man who had eyes to see, and ears to hear must be well
aware; and it behoved every man who wished to preserve any
portion' of the fabric, to come forward manfully in its defence.
—(Loud applause.) They had no longer to argue from in-
ferences that there was in this country a great and powerful
faction, determined to' make revolutionary changes in the
British constitution : they had no longer to argue on this fact
from cold and distant inferences. It was a fact that the fac-
tion themselves avowed, under the mild and gentle name of
an organic change, which they were endeavouring to bring the
minds of the whole people to consent to.—(Hear.) They
would not be deceived by such obscure and vague terms.
They knew what an organic change meant. It meant- an
abandonment of -the ancient British constitution, and an
endeavour to discover something newer and better in its
place.—(Loud and continued cheering.) He did not think
this crusade against the constitution would succeed. He
did not think so meanly of the principles and the good
sense of his fellow countrymen, as to suppose they would em-
bark in search of this new and undiscovered constitution, and
abandon that which had so long been their shelter and prci-
tection.—(Lond and repeated 'cheers.) He could not think
they would embark across the Atlantic, and look for it in the
United States of America.—(Cheers and laughter.) He did
not think they would sail across the Bay of Biscay, and look
for it in the new constitution of the Cortes.—( Renewed cheer-
ing.) He did not think that they would be prepared to reap
the fruits of the three glorious days of July, and find them-
selves in possession of that remarkable increase of liberty,
that their French neighbours had been so.happy as to secure.
—(Much laughter And cheers.) The real and avowed pur-
poses of the party to which he had alluded was to concentrate
all power in the hands of one representative assembly. Let
them disguise it as they please—let them call it a mere re-
form of the peerage-an assimilating of the House of Lords to
the-improved spirit of the age—look at it as they might, the
real aim was to concentrate all power in the hands of one
single body.—(Hear, and cheers.) Such power ought not to
be entrusted to man : it ought not to be entrusted to any
single body of men,—whether to a Monarch, or an aristocracy,
or to the multitude at large.=(Hear, and cheers.) It had
always been considered the peculiar pride of our constitution,
that while it gave to the industry and intelligence of the
country all the activity and scope derived from the democra-
tic principle, it gave us also all the stability and wisdom, and
protection for the continuance of our blessings, that was de-
rived from reliance on a more permanent and a more. stable
body.—(Hear, and cheers.) But for what purpose were they
called on to abandon their ancient constitution—for what
purpose were they called on to overthrow that system under
which they had so long thrived and flourished—for the pur-
pose of overbearing and trampling upon the opinion of a
- majority of their own representatives—of the representatives
of England—for the purpose of giving a preponderance to
the representatives of the sister country, a body of gentlemen,
-of whom he wished to speak no ill : but he would say this—
that they were the representatives of a body of men much less
enlightened at least than those of Great Britain.—(Cheers.)
For the sake of giving a preponderance to this party, over
the majority of the representatives of the whole island, includ-
ing Scotland, they were called upon to consent to the demo-
lition of the House 'Of Lords.—(Hear, hear.) As he under-
stood it, the two main heads of charge brought against that
body were, the refusal of- municipal institutions to Ireland
similar to those enjoyed by themselVes, and the refusal to
inflict what Lord Melbourne had called "a heavy blow and
great discouragement to Protestantism."—(Loud and reite-
rated cheers.) With regard to the first charge, he, knew it
was a hard, an ungracious thing, to deal with any one branch
of the three kingdoms, in a different manner from that in
which they ,dealt wi;h the two others. It was a hard and an
ungracious task : it could not be agreea.b!e: to any man to
propose or to follow such a 'cii>tirSe. But :they must not be
led away by names, they must recollect that all good govern-
ments were given, not merely for their own sakes, but as a
means of extending blessings to the people over whom they
were placed. If it were to be a blessing, it must be adapted
to the condition of that people, lest that which was similar in
name should be found most dissimilar and pernicious in prrscs
tice.—(Hear, bear, and cheers.) That was a principle which
had been recognised by all the Whig party themselves. What
was it that had induced them to support that suspension of
the constitution called the Coercion Bill ?—(Hear, hear.) What
was it that induced Mr. O'Connell to support that provi-
sion of the Prevention Act now in force in the sister country,
by which persons were not allowed to issue from their houses
at night;- and were thirS deprived of :the benefit's of, the
English constitution?—(Hear.) What was it that had in-
duced the goverment itself. to call for the establishment of the
armed police over the whole country, which was, in fact,
subjecting almost the whole country to martial law?
(Cheers.) What what was it in fact but an admission that
Ireland was in a very different state from England, and that
the same institutions which would be a blessing to one country
would be a curse to the other?--(Loud cheers.) Perhaps
they had learned from some experience among. themselves
that the' benefits of an annual municipal election were not
altogether worth risking a, revoltition for. (Applause.) The
other charge, he believed, was, that the;House of Lords would
not consent, and neither would they,' the representatives of
the people, consent to inflict that, " heavy blow and great
discouragement to protestantism " which was involved in the
passing of the Appropriation Act. —(Great cheering.) It
would ill become him to dilate on this question, as if he were
debating in the House of Cornmons'—as it, point by paint, be
had to argue on the merits of these questions. They whom
he saw before him had, undoubtedly, long since firmly made
up their minds. He would only ask them again, whether, for
the sake of inflicting this "heavy blow " on the Protestantism
of the sister country, they would call on the people of this
country. .tovverthrow and abandon their ancient constitution.
(Loud cheers.) : He assured theM. he had the greatest

pleasure in meeting such an association as he saw before
hiin.—( Loud cheers.) He felt no scruple as to the propriety
of such associations.—(Hear.) He felt indeed that it:would
be desirable if every man could live under the shade of his
own fig-tree, and gather the fruit of- his .own vine, without
being called so oftn into public life a.s..the present' state of
public affairs, obliged them to be. But he believed it was a
necessity-7-nay more than a necessity;—it was.an imperious
duty, (hear) to stand forward at the present juncture. :He
believed that by the constitution as it now stood, everyman
was called upon to come forward on every occasion, and unite
himself with those of similar opinions, and, not to
,allow a
faction, as he believed it to be, to Usurp the name of a majo-
rity owing to the supineness and tranquillity of those by whom
the constitution ought to be defended.—( Loud cheers.) They
had no secret meetings, and every thing was open to the
public eye. They had no condemnations against the law—
I hey had no standing rival parliament, for the purpose of com-
bining against the law and for the purpose of rewarding the
victims of justice.—(Hear, hear.) Their association was open
to the general eye. Theirs was the common, and natural, and
beneficial. object of communicating their mutual sentiments,
and strengthening each other by the consciousness of the
numbers who entertained the same sentiments.—(Loud ap-
plause.) With such feelings, and with such views, he had the
greatest satisfaction in seeing such associations rising round
hint in all directions—in seeing not only associations among
the richer and wealthier, but seeing associations springing up
among every class, as they had, he could say with .confidence
and pride, when he looked before and around him—as they
had amongst that particular class which formed the very bone
and marrow of society.—( Loud and continued cheering,) He
had long felt that the peoPle of this great, country were to be
relied on, if they only called them together ,and addressed
them—if they only gave them the opportunity of,hearing,:each
other's sentiments, and hearing public matters diseosse4they
would be able to form just and sound opinions, .and every
branch of the constitution might rely on them for support.
The tradesmen were conscious that they were as:deeply in-.
terested as any other class of men in the good order and.pr4er
regulation of society. As Shakspeare had said,

Untune that string, and mark what discord followS!
—(Cheers.) They knew that the British constitution offered
to every man an opening, to the highest station—that by good
sense and industry they might rise to take their places in that
very House of Peers which was held up to their abhorrence as
being so exclusive and aristocratic.—(Much applause.) If
they only pursued the path of honour to which their talents
and their high principles led them, they might even become
the leaders of that, great assembly.—( Renewed cheering%)
He would not further intrude upon their time. He would
only thank them for the kind manner in which they had always
received him, and beg them to accept the humble services he
might be able to render.—(Cheers.) . lie would conclude by
calling upon them to. drink " Prosperity to the Liverpool
Tradesmen's Conservative Association," and along with that
the health of their respected chairman.,--.(The toast was drunk
standing, amidst tumultuous applause.) Band, " Behold
how brightly breaks the morning."
The CHAIRMAN said, " As President of the Tradesmen's
Conservative Association, he felt himself called upon to re-
spond to the sentiment just submitted to them ; and in doing
so he should not occupy their time by any laboured apology
for the few observations, he felt it his duty to make.. About!
twelve mouths ago, as they well knew, a number of, trades- •
men, in common with many others, feeling alarmed at the
spirit of innovation which threateoed the institutions of Great-
Britain—feeling that reform was merely a stepping-stone to
something undefined and untried—seeing the mendicant
agitator of Ireland, —(groans)—under the tacit sanction of
His Majesty's degraded ministers, was making a missionary
tour of agitation—raising the war-whoop of destruction
against the House of Lords, and, under the semblance of.
justice to Ireland, breathing ruin to Protestant institutions
in that beautiful and integral portion of the empire,—(loud
cheers)-seeing this, they were resolved to form an associa-
tion which should embrace a number of those who, since the
passing of the Reform Bill, formed the chief strength of the
constituency, and to endeavour to present a phalanx which
should become a rallying point on every occasion.when the
country's good demanded their services.—(Loud cheers.)
They met in a small room in Lord-street, about forty in
number: they felt that the time had arrived when a firm
stand should be made in defence of the British Constitution ;
they resolved to call a preparatory meeting,. and to found a
Conservative Association. They did so: their second was
attended by about seventy persons; and on every succeeding
meeting their ranks swelled, until they now numbered nearly
1100— (Repeated rounds of enthusiastic cheers.) With very
few exceptions, the whole were voters; and one remarkable
feature of their association was, that it embraced a great
number of tradesmen who had formerly voted against Lord
Sandon (loud cheers) but who had come and joined them
under the conviction that His Majety's government had
gone further that: prudence dictated , and the splendid scene
which he saw before and around him was one:of the results
of their formation.,—(Cheers.) But let him remind them
that they were not associated for the mere purposes of con-
viviality ; they were not associated for the mere purposes of
display; nor were they, he trusted, actuated by mere factious
or personal motives.—Loud and continued cheers.)—No:
they.had a higher, a sterner, a holier purpose in view. They
anticipated danger to the institutions of the country, and
they were united as one man, with one heart and one soul,
that they might be the better prepared to meet and to repel
that danger.— (Rapturous applause.) They saw that vene-
rable and apostolic Church, where their fathers had worship-
ped, and round whose hallowed fane their earliest and deares
associations clung with fondness,—they saw her attacked by
latitudinarians, sceptics, and Papists, and, he said it to their
shame, by Dissenters, who were merely political Dissenters ;
they saw her also deserted' by many who called themselves
her friends: and they were resolved to stand or fall by her.—
(Cheers.) He believed she was interwoven with the British
Constitution ; and fallen and degraded would Britain become
when, as a state, she should have repudiated her connexion,
with a scriptural establishment, and forgotten that it was.
" righteousness that exalted a nation."—(Loud cheers.) They
had been born under a limited monarchy, and under that
most parental form of government they hoped to die. Their
attachment to the monarch was the result of principle, and
they should ever be found the, supporters of the crown.—
(Loud cheers.) They had read in their earliest -years, that
the English barons were the first champions of liberty. Against
a tyrannical despot,—(hear and cheers,)—and they had re-
solved, as far as their influence and example would extend,
that they should still remain the unshackled arbiters between
kingly despotism on the one hand, and republican tyranny
on the other.—(Here the company simultaneously .rose, and
gave several rounds of hearty cheers.) Were their liberties
really invaded by the peerage? Were the avenues torhonotir
closed against them by the peers ? No: the danger taßritish
liberty sprung, not from the power of the nobility, but from
(Loud :ap-
the unrestrained licentiousness of the populace.--
plause.) The coronet might, and the coronet did, encircle
many a patriot brow, while tyranny, and dissatisfaction,
and insubordination, frequently lurked, under the plain
round hat of the republican, who clamoured 'against British
institutions and British laws (much applause,) because
they protected the honest and the loyal, but gave 110
countenance to treason and disloyalty.— (Loud cheering.)
Would he, in making this remark, say that they ought to
crouch to any man, or any set of men ? • No: they would do
no such thing. But they would render honour where honour
.tha
was due ; and they felt that it was due to 'the iseaVe peera
os
stand d they England—theha had recentlypil ars
madeof
tution.—(Renewed cheering.) They considered the Souse'of
theiisltsaiteeftneelloefethrsWri,4o6ll
Peers to be in the present day more than ever necessary.; and
the, best proof 'of its necessity, to his mind, .was the virulence
with which it had been attacked by those " whose praise-was
censure and whose censure praise."--(LOud applanse4l Vbiey
saw more danger. from the tyranny of an 'OnclikkeittilliON,elor
Commons than from the' body of the Britilbe4tr.Their
privileges— which privileges they held fiAc
_
which he looked upon as trusts exercised for the-ellAtre of the
nation—were interwoven :with the British constitution, and
as
the titles they. possessed they held for the advantage of others'
—of the people at large, with whose interests they
much, or perhaps more identifiej, than any other class, were
and
not as mere ornaments and appendages to be dispensed with
at pleasure.—(Hear, hear.) If they deprived the peers of their
privileges, they would soon be deprived of • their own. He
trusted that that house would longexist as an hereditary branch
of the legislature. if they made the House of Lords elective,
they rendered it worse than iiSeless, and though many indi-
viduals might,be honest when. they talked of reforming the
House of Lords, the great bulk Of them were not honest; they
did not speak out : if they would declare the holiest convic-
tions of their minds., it would be—not the reform of the House
of Lords, but its destruction.---(Hear, and loud cheers.) This
they had not yet the honesty openly and publicly to assert.—
(Cheers.) He begged to say once more, in reference to this
part of the subject—and he spoke more at length because this
was a point of attack in the present day :—he said, he looked
upon their liberties as essentially identified wish theirs ; and
let him tell his Majesty's degraded Ministers, that, though'
they might submit to be kicked and trampled upon by him
whose character was a libel upon human nature—(reiterated
cheers)—who fattened upon corruption, and gloated over the
misery of his fellow-subjects—let those Ministers know from.
an assembly
,of British tradesmen, that the statesman who
should attempt to plant the standard of victory over the ruins
of the upper ,House of Parliament, must be prepared to pay
an awful price.—( Hear.) He solemnly believed, and he stated:
it from a wide acquaintance, not merely with the middle classes,
but from extended intercourse with the lower too--and he,said;
that the statesman who should attempt to plant the standard
of victory over the House of Peers must be prepared to do, it
over the bodies of hundreds and thousands' of honest trades-
men.-- (Loudeheers, the company again rising in a mass and
the ladies signifying their approval of the sentiment by wav-
ing their handkerchiefs.) They wished to see men in the
House of Commons of Conservative principles. (H ear.)
They did not object to a cheap or an economical government.
Far from it: but they detested the cheapness and the economy
that exhibited itself in sending shoals of commissioners, like
so many locusts, throughout the land.—(Laud cheers.) They
deprecated that economy which would despoil the Protestant
church of Ireland of its revenues fur the purpose of promoting
Popery.—(ApplauSe.) And while he was speaking of the
House of Commons, one special object of their formation—
why should he conceal it?—he avowed it.publicly—and a wish

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1836.

dear to his own heart, was, that they should rid themselves of
that incubus that at present misrepresented them in Parlik
ineut.H(The company once more rose, and remained cheer-
ing. for several minutes.) He hung about the neck of Liver,
pool like . the old mail in the story of Sinbad the sailor; but
he trusted, since there was no height to which his presumption
would not prompt him to climb, so he feared that there would be
no depth of political degradation to which he might not eventu-
ally sink—he trusted that the intoxicating draughts he was daily
Swallowing would cause his legs at last to be loosened from the
people of Liverpool, that they might replace him with a better
man.—(ln uttering these words, Mr. Holmes turned and looked
• significantly at Mr. Canning, who sat beside him. The company
caught the idea, and burst into a tumult of cheering, mingled
with calls for " Mr. Canning! Mr. Canning!") They wished,.
continued the chairman, to see in their municipal councils
men who were not ashamed to avow their reverence for the
word of God.—(Cheers.) They wished to see men sent there who
were actuated by some better principle than the mere paltry
principle of political expediency.—(Cheers.) They wished to
see scriptural edticution promoted, but not the spurious educa-
tion of the
.present day, which would, they believed, prove a
curse instead of a blessing. Would they attempt to arrest it?
No: as well might.they attempt to grasp the lightning; but they
wished to see it, based on scriptural principles, not on the low
standard which looked on man merely as an intellectual being.
—(Hear.) He was not ashamed to avow that he thought they
should look on man as au immortal being ; and that, while
they attempted to make him wiser, it was their duty to use all
the means Providence had placed at their disposal to make
,him better also.-7(Con tinned cheering.) In this would lie the
future greatness of Britain —( Hear.) He would not under-
value our fleets; he would not undervalue our armies; he
would not undervalue our splendid colonial possessions and
our national wealth : but lie believed that it was by moral
greatness ;—it was the exercise of moral virtue more than
mere animal courage that had enabled Great Britain to take
the stand she had done among the nations of the earth.—

(Loud cheers.) And if they would have that greatness handed
down to their posterity, it was their bounden duty to educate
the rising generation on scriptural principles, and sow that seed
in early life which they expected to blossom and bear fruit in
maturer years.—(Applatise.) He would not now detain them
much longer; it was not a pleasant thing to leave their do-
mestic firesides and social intercourse, and embark in the busy
turmoil of political life: Nothing but an imperative sense of
duty would prevail upon him to make the sacrifice; but exer-
cising as he did, and feeling himself under a deep responsi-
bility in the exercise of it—exercising, he said, some influence
among his fellow-townsmen, he called upon them not to shrink
from the performance of their duty.---(Hear, hear.) But so
long as they saw the British lion prostrate, helples, and bleed-
ing before the rapacity of the Irish vulture--(loud cheers)—
he hoped their Conservative Association would continue to
stand at its post.--(Cheers.) So long as they saw crude theo-
ries afloat, and upstart philosophers carry away the multitude
with the impression that they could pull down the glorious
fabric of our constitution, and out of its scattered, fragments
erect another of equal durability and grandeur—so long, he
hoped, they would remain.—(Loud cheers.) He could not sit
down without declaring his conviction, from an extensive in-

tercourse with. society, that the principles of Conservatism
were steadily advancing.(Cheers.) They had emerged out
of the fog. of the valley they were now ascending to the
higher ground —they were breathing a purer atmosphere—they
were enjoying more brilliant and noble prospects.—(Tremen.
dons cheering.) He begged to sit down, expressing his firm
persuasion, that the example they had set in Liverpool would
be followed by Conservative tradesmen in other towns, and
that if a determined stand were made—a bold front shown,

founded on moral principle, by the middle ranks of this great
country, they would set at defiance the power of those whose
principles were the principles of error; for he firmly believed
that all principles founded on error would, in the long run,
never prosper. [The conclusion of Mr. Hohne's speech was
followed by loud and unanimous plaudits.)
The Band—March in Masaniello.
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and requested that a bumper
might be filled for the next toast. He had now, he said, to
propose the health of the son of an illustrious sire,,—(Hear,
hear.) The son of one whose name was imperishably con-
nected with the institutions of Liverpool,—whose conduct had
shed a lustre 'over the brightest e'ra of British history,—whose
name had shed a lustre over the town of Liverpool, which he
had long represented.—(Hear, hear.) Of him it might be
said, what would be an honour to any great man, that although
he once wielded the destinies of this great empire, he, like his
' compatriot Pitt, had died' comparatively poor. He trusted
the mantle of the illustrious Sire had fallen upon the son ; and
also that the day vas not far distant when Liverpool would
hail that Son as her rekesentatiVe.—(Hear, hear, with loud
and continued cheering.) He would then propose them the
health of their guest, the HOnourahle Charles John Can-
ning, M. P., the 'son of their late illustrious representative,
the Right Honourable George "Canning.—(The announce-
ment._ was received with loud applause.) _ _ .

Mr. CANNING then rose, amid the most deafening cheers,
and when they had subsidek said, the cordial greeting which
they had giVen him was an assurance that he might rely on.
their indulgence in any incapacity he might feel in expressing
his thanks to them as well as his feelings would permit him.
Although there, were but few persons in that room whose
personal acquaintance he could claim, yet be had the feeling
that in it he was not an
,entire stranger in their town. The
name of Liverpool was associated with his earliest recollec-
tions. Every step he took in it reminded him that the name
he bore was once an honoured name among them.—(Cheers.)
The kindness and the warmth with which they had welcothed
the humble individual who now bore that name, was a more
grateful acknowledgment of those services which had been
rendered theta
,y his father, than all the marble statues
or stately devices which in the pride of their wealth they
could raise to it.—(Cheers.) He accepted it as such; and as
the son of the man who hid served them, he thanked them for
it. He thanked thein also for it as a private individual in
thus giving hiM so glorious an opportunity as the present, at
' the commencement of an acquaintance which he hoped, as
their worthy chairman .had done him the honour to hope,
might not come to a speedy close.—(Great cheering.) He
also thanked them for it as a young member of Parliament;
because he felt that to one who had just taken his first political
step, it was a gratifying thing to be met at the threshold of
his political life with the cheers and approbation of men
whose judgment 'no man could despise; and with a feeling
which was a warrant to him that the cause which he had
espoused was not the worthless one which their opponents in
politics were so studious in telling them.—(Load ch6ering.)
.It,really was a.eurioas thing to witness the pains they took to
instil it into them that their cause was hopeless—how often
they sounded• it in their• ears that they were an expiring
faction, till their'day was past. They would hear of no such
thing as their progress—they would allow of no reaction. No
~word was so hateful in their ears as reaction. Every progress
'which the'friends of the constitution, made was attributed to
',any thing htiVieaction ; be it high or low—whether a large
county shall ,kave elected 'Conservative ,Members 'of Par-
liament, a suntilltown shall have rejected the claims of
a RaillP4i, Parishh7beadle— (great cheetino) —the cry was
always: the;same. . The opposite party told theM," We were
Aunlucky .this time—the conservatives stole this march upon
14s—their' bribery was Ilisgraceful—it was only a dying effort,
rand we shall' riextrfitOe‘he victorious." ( Laughter and
cheers.).. That waqlifit: they heard on all sides, and with
themselves, trusting that they
~tvh6attli•
dibbeenl,Vvgits. ein3ill'otearttd
the
same time this had not had the
effect of making him disbelieve: the evidence of his senses,
Asa be. looked around him and saw a body of men who had
no ostensible union except as being fellow citizens who bad a
fair share and interest in their country's weal, .bracing their
energies, Mid coming forward with the vigor and determine-
r tion which they had. When he saw this energy amongst
them, withodt any ostensible union amongst them but that
kintl'Of- freemasonry which ought .to exist amongst them as
itraiTes'men Of a large commercial town—what, he would ask,
;was the extraordinary cause which had called them forth and
wtsaictiliittoaiaottelisk)lrsiel a:0,1;ff:
their
'They %irsl What, ,
;paused each man amongst them to seek out his brother-,-
to
or if an lacity teas wanted attack tthheremat,evneeidilyan, and
thatn t tthhee rs tni :
side blow was to strike them away ; or, if that failed, they
were to be dwindled away under the specious pretext of an
honest reform.—(Great cheering.) If he were to descend to
particulars, he should be right in ascribing this motive to the
late municipal reform, which, thanks to the ministers, had
taken effect in the town council of Liverpool.—(Hear, hear,
and loud cheering.) That in reality bad been the chief mea-
sure which had urged' on them the necessity of uniting toge-
ther as.they now werethat measure meant, as he could not
but think it was in part, to tie, a mill-stone about the neck of
Liverpool and ofTe.very other municipal town.—(Cheers.) He
was happy to say it had failed.—(Continued cheering.) He
was happy,. to see around him 800 substantial reasons for
believing that its effects-had not been proportionate to the
anticipations.--( Immense eheeriug.) Again, what had been
their answer to those who would have suppressed the Bible in
their setniOli? 'lt had been the noblest answer and the best.
Out of-their own means they had provided for what their
meanness bad 'refused —they, had given out of their own
means 'for thcir children what they in their enlightentnelt
forbid.—(Great cheering.) This then was the spirit
which they had answered all the attacks which had been
maele
on tbein in succession,-and;on all they loved.— (Cheers.) .11
was- sure there was abundance of that spirit remaining g
ready to answer b
in the same way whenever it should be called
to
That
theret+old that re-action? ,
Wereat
eat were they
they were an expiriag faction?—(Cheers.) were many
other instances from which lie ioold draw omens of their fate,
lie would allude-to ,no popular elections, for in a popular
election there must be always a degree of party spirit and hot
blood; success would often depend on casualties. and a trifle
iaiw after ei
to• allb et thisoid
might turn it; but the case was widely different when they
saw a number of men, of sober and thinking minds, assembled,
whose habits of business gave them no reason to suppose that
they would be prematurely and hastily mustered—when he
saw such men as he now saw around him spending their time,
,eXerting' their influence, and spending their money in their
cause, then -indeed the case was widely' different—there could
be ":no mistake" about that—(Loud and enthusiastic cheer-
ing, and cries of " no; no," and " no mistake.")—then the
cause was neither a worthless nor an expiring one. They bad
the hondur and the honesty of these supporters as pledges of
•

its worth—they had their fOresight as an assurance of its sin.
cess. They would fight the good fight cheerfully, and he for
one would take their spirit and their actions as the grounds
on which to build his hopes of. prosperity for the future.—
(Great cheering.) He would detain them no longer, bat
would wish them, in conclusion, many, many happy returns
of this auspicious day.—(The honorable gentleman,' on re-
suming his seato was greeted with a round of cheering which
lasted several minutes.)
The CHAIRMAN again rose and said,—One proof—one radi-
cal proof that the Conservatives were an expiring faction was
given at the last county election,' when they had saved Lord
Molyneux and Mr. _Wood the trouble of representing the
southern portion of the county. In the words of that gen-
tlemen who had moved that the bishops should be relieved
fro'n their attendance in the- House of Peers, they had re-
lieced Lord Molyneux_ and Mr. Wood from the necessity of
attending in the House of Commons, and they had supplied
their place very much better. H.e should give them abundant
proof of that fact by proposing " the health of the members
of the County." Drank with much *cheering.
The Ill6nottrable R. B. WILBRAHAM then rose, and was
received with enthusiastic cheers. He said that he only re-
gretted that it had. fallen to his' lot, in the absence of his most
talented colleague, to return their united thanks for the honour
they had conferred upon them in so cordially drinking the toast
which had been proposed to them. But though he was aware
that he was detained abroad by circumstances which every
one must necessarily deplore, namely, the dangerous illness
of one of his children, yet he was convinced that his heart
was with them, and he (the speaker) was only sorry that he
had not that How of eloquence which his colleague had, to ex-
pressto them his feelings, as well as his colleague's, on having
the honour of meeting so splendid an assembly that day.—
(cheers) With respect to himself he was not going to enter
into any detail of the course of conduct hehad pursued during
the last session of Parliament, because he took it as a 'soffi-
cient proof that that course had been satisfactory to them
from the manner in which they had received his health.—
(Cheers.) They would allow him to state that be had been
unprepared:for, the magnificent spectacle which he had that
day witnessed. To him it had been the source of the highest
gratification to sit near their respected chairman, who had so
well fulfilled his.duties and so ably expressed his sentiments,
in words which he confessed he had not the ability to express,
but which he most cordially felt from the' bottom of his heart.
Although the duties that his constituents of South Lancashire
had imposed upon' him in Parliament were arduous, and
which he was not at the onset ambitious of undertaking, ex-
cepting when it became their wish that he should, he cheer-
fully performed them, and no greater pride could a member
of parliament feel than in finding that those, whose opinions.
were valuable, approved of them. At first, when he entered
the arena of political life, he was less determined than at
'resent, but he felt that as he grew older as a member of the
'lommons' House of Parliament, he became more aware of the
Cecessity of paying a close and deep attention to the duties.
These were times when every man should exert himself to the
utmost to uphold the venerable and revered institutions of the
country, and he hoped that he should never be found froth
his Post, to act according to his conscience, and openly avow
his sentiments. Every man was called on now not to shrink
from, an avowal of his political sentiments. The best interests
of the country were at stake, and he who did not act decidedly
and openly, was an enemy to himself and his fellow-country-
men. He would not trespass longer upon their time, as he
was aware there was nothing he could say would add to the
universal concert of opinion that appeared to prevail in the
meeting. He would conclude by expressing in heartfelt sin-
cerity the thanks of himself and colleagues in the House of
Commons for the honour conferred, and also in drinking the
healths of all present, in proposing prosperity to the Liver-
pool Tradesmen's Conservative Association, and he trusted
that henceforward he might be considered a member. —Loud
cheers.) Glee, " Glorious Apollo."
The CHAIRMAN having requested the company to fill a
bumper, said, that the next toast he bad to propose had an
especial reference to the House of Peers.—( Loud cheers.) And
the illustrious individual's name whom he should connect
with the toast, he should instance as a living example that the
Peers did not trespass, neither were they inclined to do so,
upon ,the rights and privileges of the Commoners, nor occupy
all 06 avenues to promotion. Lord Lyndhurst (cheers) was
an example that an hereditary peerage was not blind to the
talent of others in the community, but that where it was to be
found, in whatever ranks, promotion went hand in hand with
ita-(Cheers.) He would give them "Lord Lyndhurst and
the House of Peers, and may that house maintain its inde-
pendence, and form a bulwark between kingly despotism on
the one hand, and popular encroachments on the other."
The toast was drank with three times three enthusiastic cheers.
Glee, " Hail happy Albion:"
The CHAIRMAN again rose and said, that some time ago,
on passing through the town of Dumfries, he visited the tomb
of the immortal Burns, and was struck with the beauty•atid
simplicity of the inscription thereon to his memory : all that
was incribed on the tomb was the word " Burns." He felt
assured, when he saw it, that the English language could not
furnish a more sublime or appropriate epitaph,—and he was
convinced that the gentleman; whoever he was, that proposed
the toasts on this occasion, must be actuated by a similar
feeling to the writer of Burns' epitaph, for he found, on refer-
ring to the list of toasts, that the Duke of Wellington was
mentioned simply as "The Duke." He was aware that that
'illustrious name required particularizing no more, and he
therefore gave them "The hero of a hundred fights—The
Duke," leaving it to them to supply the deficiency. Im-
mense cheering ;—the band playing the " Conquering Hero,"
and the company joining in the air, and clapping their hands
in imitation of the firing of a feu de joie.) Glee, " Mighty
Conqaeror.
The CHAIRMAN said, that he was now about to propose to
their acceptance the health of a statesman of great ability,
and well known to them all ; he knew that it would be well
received, as it ought to be by a Liverpool assembly—(cheers)
and he was sure, when he named him, they would all agree
with him in this opinion. He was a colleague of the leading
star of Conservatism, one on whom the eyes of the whole
country were anxiously fixed. On a calm day, the sailor did
not look with anxiety to the skill of a pilot, for all went on
smoothly and pleasantly, and they set every inch of canvas
to the gale; but when the storm raged, and the surges rose,
the pilot and the most skilful mariner was sought to save them
from destruction. This might be a fair illustration of the
present
stormy state of the country, and he need not say that
it was to Sir Robert Peel he alluded as the pilot to save them:
(Three cheers, and' one cheer more.) In declaring his con-
viction, that the time was not far distant When the helm of
the state would be again plaCed in his hands, he believed he
was not far wrong.--(Cheers ) The disgraceful compact en-
tered into at Lichfield House,' he believed, would hasten on
the time when the country would again reap the benefit of.
this distinguished man's services.--;( Loud cheers.) He was
happy in - his belief, too, that there was one there that night
who would also, at no distant peritl, prove himself a beacon
to the country in a new administration.--(Loud cheers.)
He was one who had the honour of being a member of that
never-to-be-forgotten administration, when Sir Robert Peel
teak the reins of government, with the intent of saviag the
country from the hands of a faction, and he, the chairman,
was proud to say that gentleman was their fellow towasman.—
(Cheers ) Much should he (the chairman) be deceived if
that gentleman did not live to fill some other higher offices in
the British ministry, under that distinguished leader, when
Sir Robert Peel again had the opportunity of giving the
country, as the head of his Majesty's government, the benefit
of his
.valued services. He concluded by proposing "the
health of Sir Robert Peel, the Conservative leader of the
House of Commons, and the late administration."-- (Loud
and reiterated cheering.)
Mr. WM. 14:WART GLADSTONE then rose—He said, trifling
as was his'individual share in the honours with which they had
been pleased to receive the laSt toast given from the chair,
and devoid as he was of any claim, whether dire tly, or in-
directly, to speak on behalf of any person but himself, and
much less those distinguished persons to whom that toast had
referred, he was not the less grateful and thankful to them for
the warmth with which it had been received. Though he was
convinced that he was the last person among them who ought
to have acknowledged the toast, yet, connected with the toast
as matter of form, and as the duty had devolved upon him, he
would not shrink in discharging it. He only wished he might
be enabled to catch the spirit of enthusiasm which had chara.c=
terisLA•the whole of their proceedings that evening, and not of
this evening aloue.—(Cheers.) He must be a very able, or a
very rash tnan, who would undertake to delineate before an
intelligent audience, a character so richly endowed by nature,
and so eminently matured by experience, as was Sir Robert
Peel —(Cheers.) He was not presumptuous enough for the
task, but this he would say of him and his opinions, that there
were those who laboured under the weight of his character,
and under the force of his arguments, and who would en-
deavour to sow dissensions in the party which he headed, and
amongst the chiefs of that party, and who would sow the
belief that they were statesmen from expediency alone, and
waited for the pressure of circumstances, and then yielded to
that pressure. He 'would express his belief that this mistake
would be speedily detected ; and this he would say, that their
town would sooner be removed from its secure foundation, or
the waves would wash away its noble piers, than Sir Robert'
Peel and his friends would desert with their hearts and their
lives their cause and the principles which they advocated
through motives of expediency.—(Tremendous cheering.)
When they considered that Sir Robert Peel was a beaten
minister,. it might seem a bold undertaking to draw a com-
parison between the vanquished and the victor—between he
who once served the king, and those who now serve him ; but
would they shrink from the undertaking? When they saw
the whole conduct of Sir Robert Peel whilst in office,—and
the cause for a hich he relinquished office, which was an
honour, than 'which no brighter one had ever fallen to the lot
of man.—(Cheers.) It was no personal, it was no political
squabble,—it was not even a question of civil liberty, the
prinCiples of which he would be ever ready to uphold ; it was
a question .higher than these—it was the integrity of the
EstabliShed.Church --(Loud and long continued cheering.)
—an institution which they loved as a political institution,t
because it conduced more than any other to the stability of
the country, to its peace and to its prosperity: but a hich also
they regarded in a more sacred light, as theappointedtruth dis-
penser and as the most faithful stewardetsso t theeven
—(Loud cheers ) Amid was hehneostojthtsatippi justified
d in
as to end saying that it
ergo
rarely fell to the lot of man to
defeat in such a cause as this.—(Loud cheering.) What was

the cause for ich Sir Robert Peel left office ? The integrity
of the Ch ch estAlishment 'of Ireland, which had 'been
defended by the people of thi4 country, and bad been viewed
by them as embodying the greatest bulwark of -the'Protestant
religion. The integrity of the established Chtirehlapnened
to be the question upon which alone the mighty arguments of
those who composed the r opposition to his Weriiinent were
founded.—(Cheers.) On that question he was beaten and
left office. But as the present Government came into office
by that question; so did they continue to hold it by that
question: When Sir Robert Peel was minister they had pressed
it-forward-day by day in the House of Commons : what had
become of their marvellous impatience since they had come
into office?—(Loud cheering.) This very question of Church
appropriation had been the one which they had used
every effort 'to keep in the background. There had
.
been no public however secondary in importance,
to which they had not given precedence in point of
time over the Irish Church' Bill. (Great cheering.)
Did he mention this merely as matter of form. or matter of
fact? No; but as an indication of the feelings, and opinions,
and determination of the people of England, and as an
evidence even of the truth that the governmeht were not blind
to that feeling and determination. They found the minds of
the people of this country were' absolutely set upon the este,.
blishment, and that there was no eacrifice that wield not be
made, rather than a stone of its essential eubstance should be
touched.—( Loud cheers.) It was this reason—haring come
into office by that question —they chose to abide in office on_
that question, rather than on any other.---(Elear, bear, and
cheers.) He did not mean to say, when he charged them as
a body with the love of office—he did not attribute to them,
as gentlemen, the mere vulgar anxiety of receiving the sala-
ries of office. He gave' them the credit of holding the
principles on this subject which generally reigned in others;
but what he complained of was this—of professing, and pro-
posing to themselves, an end which, if they believed to be
honest, they are not at -all scrupulous in the choice of their.
means in bringing abOuteee.(Cheers:) They first set up the'.
question of English corporations ; they set the church question
in the back ground, because it might receive popular gloses,
but in which they were disappointed. The English corpora-
tion bill passed, and he believed 'a bitterer disappointment ,
never actuated a ministry than they' felt on its passing. They
were now trying the same game with the Irish corporations.
—(Cheere.). His friend had urged that England and Ireland
must be treated on different principles. This was not a position
'peculiar to them ; it was a position recognised on the very
bill which the present ministry meant to give to-Ireland. In
this country, had not their corporations the disposal of the
police?• Had they not considerable power and management
in the execution of justice? Did they suppose that these pri:-
vileges were to be given by the 'government corporation bill
to the - people of Ireland ? No such thing: they said they
were not fit to be trusted with them. They themselves said,
the corporations were to be perverted to pOlitical purposes.
They brought forward a bill essentially different from the one
for England, and the most they had to charge them with was
with being only the upholders of the essential-principles of
the English bill—(cheers)—that a distinction must he made
between the modes of treatment of the people- of countries
differing in condition. But what was the real state of the
the question ? This municipal reform was- merely urged as au
excuse. He spoke what he knew, and they Would see, when
Parliament met, that the same excuses would 'be resorted to
again—the church question would not be put forward."—
(Cheers.) -:-The government knew that the church question
was a mill-stone about their necks :—(cheers)—and what was
this question ? It was a question simply of names. The
Conservatives said this—that there ought not to he distributed
throughout Ireland—a country under the dominion of agita-
tion that there ought not to be, in a country so circum-
stanced, any local Parliaments to sow dissension throughout'
the land.—discussing every public question of interest as it
arose, and forming an organized means throughout the country
for the ultimate suppression of her institutions.— (Enthusi-
astic cheering.) There might be a few among them who were
acquainted with the name of Mr. Sharman Crawford, one of
the' repeal members of Ireland, but who happened to be a
man Who- did not understand political tactics and party dis-
cipline, and who .had happened to say that this was not a
question of paving and watching—it was not a simple muni-
cipal question, but it was a question whether the people
should or should not have schools of wholesome agitation.—
(Loud cheering.) They then who were naturally, enong,h the
agitators of Ireland should support municipal corporations;
and they did support them, and they supported them because
the system proposed to be established was directly in the line
of these' agitators ; and why did the government support them ?
Because they did not 'think there was agitation in Ireland ?
No such thing. Because they were the considerations in the
bargains—because they were the means of securing their sup-
porters—because they , thought they might make them the
means •of excluding the Conservatives from 'Office. They
could go-to the people and make it a question of words, and
not of things, and persuade the people that they..(the.Con-
servatives) really endeavoured to withhold from-the people
of Ireland substantial privileges which were given to the
people of England, and which in reality was not the case.
—(Tremendous cheering.) So much for these measures to
benefit Ireland, • and so much for the position of the govern.
ment who, having made the church question the ladder of
power, would now kick it from under theM if they might.
But they cannot—to the principle of appropriation they are
irretrievably pledged. It is true this question brought them
into office, but was it too bold a prophecy to say it would
throw thernout of office ?—(Cheers.) What was the position
of the government with reference to English politics? It
happened that they had at present few immediate points of
difference with the Conservatives ; had they in English policy
matters to legislate on which were material, they would play
the. same game as they did in Ireland, and throw into the
back ground the points at which they were at variance with
their acknowledged supporters. Last year they had done
this.. They did this with the' Dissenters. They cared for the
Marriage Bill, and still more for the church rates, which was a
part of their bargain should cease. What did the government
do? They knew that on the subject of church rates many of
themselves and their opponents thought alike. But they were
pledged to maintain the principle of chinch establishments.
They were pledged to this much, that they would support an
establishment which would enable every man in the country
freely to obtain the privileges of Christian public worship.
They were all unanimous on this subject; but on the question
of:registration they were not. What did they do? . They did
not hurry into the church rate question during the session; but
they hurried on the Registration and Marriage Bill. 'They
had acted with regard to England as they had done to Ireland,. •
such had been the paltry • shuffling by which the present
government had been prolonged. But that system of expe-
diency must have its end ; the time was coming when their
trickery, great as it was, must be exhausted. The Dissenters
supported them in England, and expected church rates to be
'abolished; and in Scotland they received complaints against
the appropaiation of public funds for the building of churches
in that country, and wishing the system to be uniform in the
three kingdoms. In Scotland the church cared for no enemy,
and the question might be tried whether there was a want or
not of increased religious accommodation. 'What &share go.
verntnent do? They appOitted a commission.—(Laughter.)
And this comtnission might stand on the special report of the
-decisions of Parliament—might be dealt with individually; it
was to report upon the subject to Parliament from time to-time,
and was to, gather particulars from each town in succession as
speedily-as possible ; and that then the question was to be
brought to issue. But the government saw that as the case
proceeded, there was a great want of church-room, and that
they would be brought to issue with their friends, the Die-
senters. But in order to prevent this issue, the commis-
sioners Sat fifteen months, and there had been no report
made vet.—(Tremendons cheers.) They would agree with
him, that fifteen months was a long time to ascertain the
religions condition of a few•parishes, in reference to the ac-
commodation. atibrded in churches to the parishioners. BUt
the fifteeu months could not be extendedindefinitelV ; so that
here their expedients, as in England,'were run dhy. They must
come to issue with the Dissenters of Scotland and of England, •
whether church rates Were to "be aholished, and the principle
of estab:ishinents were or were not:to be mnintained.—(Loud
cheering.) Hut has this all?, No. such thing. ' They had
ills
into
t‘l:ll:ttitdiostt:si:sp,tslslyi s'o
uo l:n;seCaltiotsi tmxle.ei
3d• Parliament)reastil tof during
the
year from the
revenues of the Cathedral churches for the purpose of better
parochial religious administration, and to remove the defects
now existing in the establishment, and the smallness
.of re-
numeration given to the clergy in many places.—(Cheers.)
There were four bills introduced; one of these bills had
arrived at its third reading, when the radicals found out its
nature; but when they had applied their minds tnthis subject,
they stopped them from proceeding, when they found that
the reforms were not so in every sense of the word, that was,
not revolutionary.—(Cheers.) They had meetings alter
meetings at the Foreign-office, to receive reports, and he knew
not what; and at last the issue was, that though the ministers
were members of the commission from which-these four bills
emanated which related to the Church establishment, yet
three of them were stopped and suffered to be left over to the
next session. Great complaints were raised, when a majority
of the House of Lords stopped a measure, which, in its good.
sense, it rejected. Who had stopped this measure ? Was it
a majority in the House of Lords? No. er in the House of
Commoos ? No. It was a minority of that house. They
knew this was a measure of wholesome reform, and it bad
:been stilled by their own partisans in the House of Commons.
--,(Loud and reiterated, cheering.) There was no mart
amongst these men, who would deny that the sum of X 130,000
per whim, for the purposes of parochial administration
'throughout the country, was an excellent application of the
overg,rewn cathedral revenues.. No man was ignorant of what
the' restriction . of pluralities meant, and. the extension of
wase-aasurerea:
religious worship. No man would deny that this
reform. 'Why was it stifled ?. They heard mtich of mock
reforms; and if the Tories supported any impotelitm
which they had brought forward, they were told they were
harg;:n.and, said, that
mere mock reforms. He reiterated the c
wnenever
they chose
Rt
fothrmr7.lh(e:inesaeZt-jstis;ioi
s.a)tpepr-ilynf
these were the mock reforins—(Cheers.)
,t,haasn tl
applied m u
,cvha
sa abused
say d reform was brought forward,
measure of real and
they
, a wanted
revolutionarytoknow
und"bt".„ its way. To this he wonld
who• call them-
say they wanted a bette.rr.h",:oc:- ;tier•.
term of "
eitt.7esse who called reformers
other hand,
ato the conduct of those
eally
the government
wwhheatthietrpartoiyiemssee.
dasttoitrletb.
hem
en they mights) ,dreipend on it it themselveswas not a
refuse
et f
fuosii.e‘tivslt,
othen,'
iss:lliPlieg::redtre.ebbdray::tidt:::Bol;tipir,iinebieplhersott?
measure, let t
forward, to
a7m(eCuhte,—trio.
wotinchsuthpepyorwteerrce
hold to the -measures which on
the on,
trtioeoaisittiriet
tohfis' repco,r,nlitc.
.on the other band, the Tories, he hoped,
would
be able
to answer for the measures to be
brought forward.—(Cheers.)
What he said he spoke in no narrow sense. He spoke of the
great body of the.
legislature, and of the great body of the
people whonyhe stew then •so numerously before Min. They
had misted these me • asures andthe help of God they
wouldTresist them again.-(Greatby •
cheering.) This, then, was
the condition' of • •
the government in fre erence to, these mea-
sures. But what was their condition in reference to: their sup-
porters? There was a majority on one side of the house,
and what was the, opinion this majority had of one.another?

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