The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTEIAIGENCE.

TUESDAY, DEC. 13.—Noon, Wind S.W.—Moderate.
(High Water 2h 47m p.m.)
ARRIVED—The Tam O'Shanter, Sitmpton from Quebec—The Asia,
---, from Dalhousie—Constitution, Wilson. from eh ,rl•2ston
Sultana, M'Auley, from Quebec—Mona, Rowlatid, from Antwerp—
Ann, —, ti-om St Peterilaurg. •
ALSO ARRIVED—The Commerce, (steamer) troth Dublin.

The Amelia, Lyall, sailed yesterday for St Thomas, has put book.
Wellsiford, Andrews, from London, at St Andrew 6.
Colonist, 111• Master, froui St. Andrew's for Dublin. off Cove, in 21
da
ye.
SAVANNAH, Nov. 3.—The British Ring. from Liverpool, in comini
in on the 27th ult. struck the bar, andentered the river leaky, an
will require to be hove down.

BUCKS CONSERVATIVE FESTIVAL.

(Abridged from the Times.)
On Friday, the most numerously attended dinner that ever
occurred in the county of Buck inghatn, or perhaps in any other,
took place at Aylesbury. Those present were chiefly the yeo-
manry of the county, but the meeting comprised a great portion
of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and freeholders of Buckingham-
*shire. The object, however, of the stewards, in which they
signally succeeded, was to convene a festive meeting of the great
body or the farmers of this county.
The Earl of Orkney presided. 'f he list of stewards comprised
the following among other names :--
The Earl of Orkuey, his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and
Chaos. the Earl of Abingdon, the Marquis of Chandos, M.P.
the Hon. T. Grenville, Sir J. Chetwode, Bart., Sir W. L. Young,
Bart', M.P., Sir. G. Nugent, Bart. Sir. T. F. Freemantle,
Bart., M.P. Mr. J. B. Freed, M.P.' 'Lieutenant-Colonel Han-
mer, M.P.elqr. W. M. Prised, M.P., &e. &c.
Leifbrs regretting their absence were received from Lord
Lake, and Lord C. Churchill.
The following distmguished individuals were also present :
Lord Alford, Lord Norreys, the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, Mr. J. R.
Prettyman, the Rev. J. Prettyman, the Rev. W. Smith, and
Capt. Hoare.
The dinner took plaeb in the County hall, which was commo-
diously and tastefully fitted up for the occasion. There could
not have been fewer than 900 present, and tables were laid at
the White Hart and the George Inns for those who, unable to
find room at the principal dining-place, added their numbers
after dinner to the great assemblage at which, of course, all the
speeehes were delivered. As early as 1 o'clock in the forenoon
the yeomanry of the cennty began to arrive, and from that hour
till half-past 2 there was a constant influx from the country to
the several inns of the town. From the whole of the proceed-
ings, as well as from the view which the meeting presented, it
was evident that the assembly comprised almost all persons of
influence in the county, amongst whom perfect cordiality seemed
to prevail, and who appeared resolved, by a meeting of an im-
posing and splendid character, to afford to the nation an evi-
dence of the increased and increasing prevalence of conserva-
tive principles in Buckinghamshire. The hall was decorated
with flowers and laurel, and amongst the vat ions inscriptions
were•the following :—" King and Constitution" at either side of
the chair, with a crown in the centre. At the left of the plat-
form, "Chandos, the stanch supporter of Farmers' Interests ;"
on the right, " The King. Constitutional Reform, and Chandos."
Amongst those in other parts of the hall were the following:—
" Praed, and Prosperits, to the County of Buckingham ;"
" Young, Church, and King," " Orkney" (opposite to the
chair;) " Hamner, King, and Constitution ;" " Prised, Church,
and ;" "The Lord Lieutenant;" " The High Sheriff;"
"Lyndhurst, Peel, Eldon;" "Church-and State ;" "Success
to the-Conservative Cause," &c. Several professional vocalists
attended
Dr. Hawtrey said grace.
After the dinner was over, and "Non nobis" chanted, the
ball became crowded to excess, from 1,100 to 1,200 persons
being present.
The Chairman, in rising to propose the health of "The
King," said he hoped it would be received there, as it had ever
been received elsewhere throughout the nation, iu a moaner
requiring no eulogy from the individual proposing it to an as-
sembly of Englisheen. (Great applause.) The toast was
drunk wittlithe greatest enthusiasm.
The Chairman then gave the health of " The Queen," ob-
serving that devotion to the fair sex had ever been amongst the
prime and leadiug qualities of Englishmen. In proposing the
health of the first lady in the land, he did hope that it would be
received with all the respect which it deserved. (Loud cheers.)
The next toast was " The Princess Victoria and the rest of
the Royal Family."
The Chairman then gave " The army and navy."
Sir G. Nugent, as the senior officer present, returned thanks.
The Chairman then gave " The High-sheriff of the county."
The High-sheriff returned thanks.
The Chairman, in proposing the health of " The lord-lieu-
tenant of the county, said he was exceedingly sorry for their
sakes that the chair had not been tilled that day by the person
who ought to have fitted it, and who would have filled it but for
events over which he had no control. It was his duty to pro-
pose to them the health of their good, hospitable, and worthy
Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and
he was sorry to say that the state of his health prevented his
attendance there that day. (Cheese.)
The Marquis of Chandos in rising to return thanks for
his father, was received with several distinct rounds of•ap-
plause. He said that on many occasions he had been brought
forward by their kindness to return in his name and in that of
his father his grateful thanks for the honour they hail done his
father by drinking his health. But on no occasion did he ever
feel greater satisfaction, and never was he more penetrated with -
a more grateful sense of their kindness than that day. when be
returned thanks before more than 1,000 conservatives. (Loud
cheers.)
The Chairman then gave "The health of the three conserva-
tive members for the county." Three times three.
The Marquis of Chandos, on rising to return thanks, was
again greeted with loud cheers. As one of their county. mem-
bers, he took the liberty of rising to acknowledge on his own
part his grateful sense of the compliment they had paid him,
and never did he rise with a deeper feeling of proud and grate-
ful satisfaction than be did now. Never bad it been his lot to
address so many of his constituency as had now assembled to
express their sentiments in favour of the rights of the crown and
the constitutional liberties- of the people. Many things had
made him sensible of the importance of those meetings, and from
the moment they had placed him in therveud situation which he
now filled, he had felt it his duty on all occasions.-to come for-
ward when his constituents assembled together. Setting aside
every object of personal ambition, his only aim had been to:for-
ward their interests and the interests of the country at large.
He now addressed them on the eve of one of the most important
crisis that ever occurred. They had met there that day to uphold
the prerogatives of the Sovereign, the privileges of the House of-
Peerseand the rights and privileges :Of the people. They had:
showed that they were determined not to be put down by a fac-,
tion, nor to be trampled upon tee, the advocates of revolutionary
principles. They were resolved to supportdhe throne, and to
declare that the county of Bucks would rise as one man in sup-
port of the regal prerogative and of the institutions of the coun-
try. 'We lived in times when it was necessary for all parties
who valued the safety of the Crown and the rights of private
property to 'rally round them, and to declare to those who were
attempting to undermine the Protestant religion and the consti-
tution of the country that they would not look tamely on -and
permit it. He for one would not submit to such measures. He
knew that the eovernment of the country had taken their stand
on the pledge of maintaining the institutions of the country ;
but he would ask what these men had done to carry their pledge
into execution,'and whether they were not obedient to the beck
and call of a certain party whose aveered object was ultimately
to destroy every one of those institutions? He would ask the
noble lord at the head of the government, why he did not rule in
the manner in which he professed to govern ? Ile would ask
him and his cabinet associates why he truckled for place and
office to others ? And he defied film to show that he had acted
in a manner that proved he had at heart the interests of the
country. When the administration of Sir R. Peel was displaced,
and the present government came into office, they said they
would take their stand on one great principle, but he submitted
that they would find it very difficult to show that they had acted
on any principle at all. (A laugh.) They had luffed up to
every breeze of wind that blew, and trimmed their sails to catch
the following gale, instead of steering a straightforward and
statesmanlike course. ( Hear, hear.) lie saw it stated some
time ago in a public print, that the principle which would some
time ago have satisfied the gioo ernment would not satisfy them
now and that it was a phantom and a shadow. What ! was it
a phantom and a shadow which Lord Melbourne had been so
long pursuing ? (Loud cheers.) Where was to be the end of
the journey of a statesman who followed phantoms ? ( Hear,
hear.) They at least would not follow phantoms. (Loud cheer-
ing.) They would look to the established constitution of the
country—to King, Lords, and Commons—for which their an-
cestors had bled, again and again, but which was now placed in
extreme jeopardy by the unprincipled attempts of a band of
reckless and profligate adventurers. Butwben he looked on the
vast multitude assembled there, he had no fear whatever for the
ultimate result. (Cheers.) He felt that out balancedgonstitution
of King, Lords, and Commons would be manfully and honoura-
bly supported by the people. When people talked of doing away
with the House of Lords, they forgot that the greatest tyranny
. which. this country had ever experienced was when we,had
au
uncontrolled House of Commons; and he would ask, when that
took place, how long afterwards did tne sovereign retain his
throne? Before he sat down he would beg to be permitted to ex-
press in his own name his grateful sense of the honour they bad
done him that day. Ile had enjoyed on many former occasions the
high privilege of addressing them on political topics, and had
never shrunk from expressing freely and openly his own Opi-
nion—(Loud cheers,)—nor, so long as God gave him life, would
as shrink frem coming forward to his Sovereign's support,
and the maintenance of the constitution of these realms • for,
whatever situation he might hereafter be placed in, whether it
was to be his lot to enter the House of Lords or not, be'
should always stand up, and to the best of his ability exert
himself in defence of the rights of the crown, the privileges of
the House of Lords, and the liberties of the people. (Loud
cheers.)
Sir W. Young presented himself, and was received with load
applause. He begged to return his most sincere thanks for the
honour they bail done him in drinking his health, and for the
warm and gratifying manner in which the toast had been re-
ceived. From the reception which that toast hail met with, he
trusted he might without presumption hope that his conduct dur-
ing.the last two sessions of Parliament had been such as to Vin
their approbation. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. J. B. Praed then ruse to return thanks, but the few
words which he addressed to the meeting were delivered in so
low a tune that none of them were audible beyond the ',latterly).
The Chairman then announced, that the next toast woald be
proposed by one possessing much more exalted powers of intel-
lect and depletive than he could pretend to, and, proud as he
was of seeing him on the present occasion, he was sure they
would receive hies with that cordiality of feeling which he so
well deserved.
Mr. B. D'lsraeli then presented himself, and was received by
the vast assemblage with the utmost enthusiasm. The cheerio;;
having subsided, lie spoke to the following effect S—Al v Lord's
and Gentlemen, although this is not the first occasion that I
have had thy honour of addressing an assembled county in their
hall., and even on subjects that have much engaged our atten-
thine I feel eonvinced I never yet threw myself upon your in-
dulgence on a subject of so much interest and of so much im-
portance as the cause which assembles us here this day,—
(cheers,)—fer that cause has been well described by my Hon.
friend in a single sentence. (Here a temporary interruption
took
,place in consequence of a chair breaking down in the
I ftitther corner of the room ; after silence had been restored the
speaker proceeded.) I pity that unhappy gentleman whose
chair is broken all to pieces; but so long as we succeed in pre-
venting the constitution from being equally battered. the great
object of our lunion this day shall he secured. ( Loud cheers.)
The reason of that union, I take it, gentlemen, is simply this—
wehave met here to express our determination to uphold that
political constitution, to which, among other blessings, we are
nidebted for the glorious privilege of meeting like freeinen to
coMminaicate our thoughts with frankness and to express our
opinions without fear, (Loud and long continued cheering.)—
My Lords and gentlemen, I think there is one characteristic of
that liberty of which as Englishmen we are so proud which
distinguishes it from every species or degree of freedom that has
been yet enjoyed by men in any other country, and the glorious
Yieality of English freedom to which I allude is this—that it
lasts. (Loud cheers.) And that proud quality, this endurance
of English freedom, may he ascribed, I believe to our political
institutions (loud cheers.); for it may be an easy task to make
a nation free, but the great difficulty is to keep a people free.
(Loud and continued cheering.)l • A man of genius may eman-
cipate a people,
(hhteppro 'beat institutiens can alone preserve
, public liberty. •s) Indeed, if I may venture upon an
illustratVn •homely in truth, hut. one nevertheless that appeals
to our feci.ngs, I should say a country without institutions I
is something like
ripen,
buildines. (Cheers.) The I golden harvest may rise and
agricultural skill with the utmCrne; You may combine the finest
preserve., of human industry,
hut if you have no granariee
the industry to produce, nee„iplen,,,,,the:sir,irasvrl,viiettl•heastthyeousreilfaarnarli
(Loudt And continued
will soon be found a ruinous
cheering.) Amongst those iestoutions
perhaps nut the !east benefiehd itri)l.liii=e,utirpheolantt,3hntaivr7eoPexiaerlesiilreed-. gress, is one which will this day
more speakers probably than myself—l tepee i7V,Viloriice by
Lords. (Long continued cheering.) I need not -"Ase
rennet, you I