The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

with loud app'ause. W en silence was restores he said :
Ladies and Gentlemen, I trust you have obed ey the injunctions
n pt.) who stood AIIP.

efficieni

hind me—(hear, hear, from all parts ot ! Ul./111) a LIMIN
when you hear it announced we shall all be agreed that the
toast deserves a'-bumper. (Hear, hear.) I take this opportu-
nity of thanking the Noble Lord on my right—(cheers)—ln the
name, not only of the Birkenhead Pock Commissioners, and
those ialai have taken a particular interest in the prosecution of
'orks,. but I will also thank him in the name
of TILITM.

of the 7Public, for having given tae
to our proceedings—proceedings which are intended to conduce
to the welfare and prosperity of the people at large. (Hear,
hear, and cheers.) His public career has now been of some
duration : his public character is now well known to the entire
people of England : and, therefore, it would be useless for me
to enlarge upon a subject with which all of you must be ac-
quainted. lam informed—although I have not hail the
honour of his private acquaintance—l have been informed by
`hose who were so favoured, that his private worth is in every
ay commensurate with his public worth and reputation.
hear, and cheers.) lam sure, gentlemen, that it will be
'V us as a high privilege—perhaps the highest of our
thus afforded the opportunity of honouring
- - Urnwn to this nation: (Cheers.)

tivill do your utmost to

I know you ; aria Know Loa. J.—- -
make this day at least one of satisfaction to his noble and in-
tellectual mind. (Cheers.) I will now remark that being, as
we are on the shores of the Mersey, the noble lord, who is par-
ticularly our guest to-day, in his career as a public man had
the moral, courage, the straightforward boldness, to travel
out of the beaten track of legislators, who
"legislater on the rela-
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-t men of this eotnintioity have enga

and sanatory comforts and the healthy recreatiOus of all classes
of thir townsmen. (Loud cheers). When last 1 had the op-
portunity of addressing you upon this subject, I- took the li-
berty of referring to the rise of this most extraordinary com-
munity—extraordinary and quite sui generis in the annals of
the British isles. I then compared the present state of the
townships with what it was a few years ago ; and, if we go back

a few years what a contrast does tiie past and present White of
things exhibit ? Six centuries ago this vast 'expanse of Che-
shire was a dense forest. The forest of Wirral' was reserved as
the exclusive right of the Earls of Chester ; and those who then

inhabited the priory of Birkenhead were afforded the opportu-
nity of killing a buck once in the twelve months, to celebrate
the anniversary of St. Werburgh. (Hear, and a laugh.) The
old inhabitants may have been proud of their forests, but the
present generation have better reason to be "road of the adap-
tation of those forests to the habitations of man. They may
boast as they please of their forests of trees, but we shall soon,
I hope, be in a position to boast of our forests of masts; and
the couplet we received from our ancestors may then be handed
down to posterity as a faithful record of the_eminent

duals who`undert-ook the present works, sl

the second line

',From Birkenhead to Hilbree
• A ship may sail from Mersey to Dee."

(Loud laughter and cheers,) I believe these great works wil
progress, and that these who had the courage CO adopt the gifts
of nature to the extension of civilization and commerce, tl

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which much of our wealth k derived, -In acquiring that know- I lavish bestowal of money. on other matters. 1 conciuue uy
edge which all men in his sphere of life should be- possessed ' drinking success to these important works, and by returning
of. The noble lord, instead of receiving his information at my best thanks for the honour done to Thyself and my col-
second hand, went to visit America himself.. He went to see league. (Loud applause.)
how those amicable relations, which are so essential to the wet. The Earl of LINCOLN, on rising to propose the next toast, was
fare of both countries, were likely to be affected by the ques, ' hailed with loud and enthusiastic cheers. He said—Lucre i and