The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-10-19 00:00:00

the wind is only hushed and is still ready to be sum-
mommoned from the cave of /Bolus, or from the Abbey of
Derrynane. (Loud cheers.) The voice is still among
hte breakers; and although 1 would not for the world ven-
ture to cast any imputation on the wisdom and virtue and
skill of the present pilot and crew, still I hope 1 may, without
offence, venture to express the opinion that the good ship
continues to require the exertions of the Church, and the aid
of the Conservative fiend, to bring her safe to harbour.—
(Cheers.) To you then, gentlemen, and to the influential
class that you represent—and I do not speak in the language
of exaggeration when I say that you represent, at the present
crisis, the most important portion of the British people—to
you we appeal for the defence of our ecclesiastical institu-
tions. (Hear, hear.) Amongst you, in compliance with
your hospitable invitation, I again raise up the voice of
warning; neither will 1 permit our enemies to question
unanswered my right to do so. (Loud cheers.) There
is nothing to be ashamed of, gentlemen, 1 think, in
the objects of our meeting. You are met together to
protect the time-hallowed institutions of your country—
to defend the church, and rescue it front the grasp of spo-
liation, or from the more dangerous patronage of hollow
and pretended friends;—(great cheering)—and why, gentle-
men, should the clergy stand aloof in such a case. (Conti-
nued cheering.) Why should we freeze the the genial cur-
rent of your sympathies, and coldly reject the proffered
hand of friendship ? I know no.reason for such senseless
alienation: I know no precept of the law or gospel that com-
mands us to absent ourselves from your meetings; and gen-
tlemen, so long as you are pleased to invite me to address
you, I will not be absent. (Tremendous cheering, the audi-
ence simultaneously rising and waving their handkerchiefs.)
And, gentlemen, I think it will not be necessary to rest the
defence of the clergy upon this plea alone in this free
country—however much it has to know of its own happi-
ness, free as it is from civil tyranny or slavish super-
stitions, I maintain that the clergy are bound to express
their sentiments on all those points of state policy in which
religion is implicated ' • and if they abstain, they neglect a
very important part of the duty which they owe to God and
their sovereign. (Cheers.) In this country, happily, the
clergy are not a separated class, shut out from the domestic
sympathies of life—(hear)—and secluded from the people,
and half foreigners, because they are forced to swear allegi-
ance to a foreign potentate (cheers); we, gentlemen, are of
the people, and exist for the people. The Church of Eng-
land has been called by a distinguished writer of the present
day, " the most democratic element of the old English con-
stitution—the democratic leaven of our well balanced
monarchy; the means by which the gifts of talents
rise to the highest rank in the community—the connecting
link between the cottage and the throne." The Church of
England, let us not forget, is the people's church ; when they
pillage the church, they rob their own property—they deso-
late the inheritance of their own children.—(Cheers.) It
should not be forgotten that the brother of a London trades-
man is a Bishop of the church; and it is not beyond the
limits of possibility, that the son of a Liverpool tradesman may
be Archbishop of Canterbury. As sons then of the constitu-
tion, we must not surrender our popular right of expressing
our opinion on politics, respectfully, earnestly, and energeti-
cally, but still as free Britons are entitled to do, without the
fear of man before our eyes.—(Hear.) In party politics, we
certainly never must interfere: to adopt the language of a
lordly orator, we need not care for Lord John this, nor Mr.
Spring that—(great cheering)—so that we have honest men
at the helm—men who will not weaken the monarchy to carry
favour with the mob, or betray the church to satisfy a party
that will never be satisfied with any thing but its titter des-
truction, and care not what party is in power. Trojan or
Tyrian, it is all the same to UF. I hope no clergyman will
be found in factious opposition to the Queen's government
(cheers); but as long as we see the House of Commons de-
secrated by men who received with shouts of scorn and
laughter every proposition which was brought forward for
the better observance of the Sabbath, and stigmatized as cant
all mention of national religion sod of the providence of
God; who sneer at any man who says what is the true reli-
gion, and who endeavour to overset that church they are
sworn to defend, and will take, if they possibly can, the na-
tional Bible out of what they are pleased facetiously to call
the national schools, we must not be deterred by what Shake-
spear calls "the common cry of curs," that bark in the kennels
of the Radical press, from calling on the people of England
to purge their house from this pernicious stuff; and so long I
will take the liberty of standing up amongst you, and ex-
horting you to send—as I have exhorted you before—such
men as Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell to parliament,—
(tremendous cheering, and three distinct rounds of ap-
plause,)—men who. fear God and honour the Queen—who
will defend your national Church, which I will take the
liberty of calling the Old English Catholic Church, which was
enslaved in the twelfth century, and emancipated from the
dominion of the Pope in the sixteenth century, and which,
having been reformed from its corruptions in the reign of
one female Sovereign, must not be overthrown in the reign
of another. (Enthusiastic cheering.) But now, gentle-
men, it is perfectly evident, if this Church is to be saved,
it is to be saved by the people of England themselves—
(hear, hear); for the first Minister of the Crown has told
us positively, and advanced in his place in parliament, that
"he does not think it the duty of the executive government
to give encouragement to the established church." I will
not quarrel with him for this opinion; if it was his (Tinton
he was bound to declare it, and I thank him for his candour;
but if he won't give us encouragement, I hope he will not
give us discouragement; if he will not take us up, I hope he
will not knock us down ; if he will not show us any favour,
I hope that he will at least give us "a clear stage." Instead
therefore, gentlemen, let us learn wisdom from the fable—
instead of praying to the Jupiter of Downing,-street, for that
aid which he has told us he won't give, let us put our own
shoulders to the wheel and push the waggon of the church
out of the mire of radicalism. (Tremendous cheering.)
And how is that to be accomplished but by effecting a change
in public opinion. and a change in the constituencies.
In the agricultural districts where the church is let alone,
it is there highly esteemed. In the great towns this influence
is weakened because it is not let alone; its voice is like one
crying in the wilderness and unheard. And how is this in-
fluence to be recovered, and this change to be effected ? Per-
haps yen will answer, with the zeal and diligence of clergy-
men. To this I will not make the slightest objection. Place
us, if you please, in the front of the battle, and compel us
to bear the brunt of its fury, but do not compel us to bear it
alone. Five loaves and two small fishes to supply the spiri-
tual wants of the community are not enough. As our worthy
chairman has told you, we must have more schools, churches,
and clergy, and for that we must really look so the wealthy
laity. (Hear, hear, hear ) There is no use disguising,
and I am sure you would not wish me to disguise
the truth on this subject; there is no use in speaking
on such a subject as this in courtly phrase and silken
garb, if the people of England wish to protect the monarchy
and the Protestant church they must do it by unity and per-
sonal exettion. One Liverpool merchant, to his honour be
it spoken—l don't know why I should hesitate to name him
—John Gladstone. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, he has devoted
£4OOO to the building of a church, and is going to endow it
with £5O a year. I do trust that his example will be followed
to a certain extent, and that Liverpool will do tar church ex-
tension what Glasgow and Manchester have already done.
And, therefore, if you wish your clergy to save your church
you must support them • they cannot do it themselves. You
must stand in the breach or they will be overpowered. And,
before all, von must support them in the question of national
education. (Hear, hear.) It is a vital question at the
present day, on which all social order, and perhaps the
existence of our monarchy depends. And -when I ask
you to support the clergy, do not suppose that I ask you to
support them in an attitude of hostiitty to the executive go-
vernment? Far otherwise : the question is too important to
be interfered with for faction. Education of some sort there
must be; if the children are not taught good, they will be
taught evil; if they are not taught to fear God and honour
the Queen, they will be taught to blaspheme God and tie dis-
loyal to the Queen; and, therefore, I do think it the duty of
the clergy to offer their services to the executive government
to promote the education of the people to the utmost of their
power. But if they will refuse our offer—if they will esta-
blish the so called system of national education—to have the
children taught by masters over whom the clergy have no in-
fluence, to have the schools governed by lay committees,
and into which we are only to be admitted in the humble form
of catechisers, now and then, by leave, and so separate us en-
tirely from thepeople, why then, there is no help for it; we shall
not repel I hope, but we must repair; we must appeal from
Crasser to the people; we must apply to you to supply us with
schools where all may teach the people, and where all who
choose may come to us as the authorised interpreters of the
word of nod. Gentlemen. I have of course a great deal
more to say to you, but I will have mercy on your patience
and not trespass on you. What I have said I have spoken
warmly because I feel it very greatly, but at the same time I
enjoin it in the spirit of christian charity, advocating the ne-
cessity of an established church. 1 assert at the same time
the sacred principle of religious freedom in the full meaning,
of the term, and I assert that these two principles are per-
fectly reconcilable. Believing my own opinions to be
correct, I do not want to press or force them upon other
individuals ; and believing that the ways of the church
are "ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace," 1
would not compel my brethren to walk in them unless they
please; and although I wish in my soul, that all as members
of the same government could be made members of one
church'establishment, I would not have religious assent by
rushing into religious tyranny. (Hear.) I conclude in the
words of your great conservative leader Sir Robert Peel.
(Cheers.) "While we admit perfect equality in respect of
civil rights, while we remove every political 'disability from
every class of religionists, let us not forget that the religion
of the state must be the protestant religion,—(hear, hear)—
and that the property of the church must be secured to the
maintenance of the Protestant religion as established by law.
(Loud cheers.) This (he says) is the best security for the
prevention of religious contests. This is the great principle
settled at the revolution, recognized in the act of union, and
guaranteed by every subsequent promise and assurance that
public faith or private honour could secure. (Cheers.) Gen-
tlemen, 1 will not trespass env further upon your time, but
sit down thanking von most cordially for the reception which
you have given to me. (The reverend gentleman sat down
amidst loud and long continued cheering.)
The musical bells were here played in imitation of the
ringing of a peal of church bells, and their novel and pleas-
ing tone, and their mental aseociation _with the subjectof the
last speaker's address, produced an instant and enthusiastic
burst of applause.
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the next toast, and
gave, "The health of the Lord Lieutenant of the County,
and might his health be improved." (Cheers.)
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can give—that we have given, and I trust that we shall be
able to give again when occasion serves—of the estimation in
which we hold the noble lord on my right and the honourable
and learned gentleman on my left, is, that having once re-
turned them to represent the town of Liverpool in parlia-
ment, we have felt ourselves so satisfied with their invaluable
services that we will use every exertion to send them again.
(Enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.) I will not occupy
vonr time, as I have done before, by making long speeches
of my own, but I shall simply call on you now to do that jus-
tice to the toast which I am about to propose, which I ain sure
it will receive at the bands of every individual present, and
that is, to call on you one and all to drink most cordially,
"The health of the Members for the Borough, Lord Sandon
and Mr. Creswell." (Enthusiastic cheering and clapping
of hands.)
Lord SANDON immediately rose and was greeted with re-
iterated rounds of cheering. He said—Mr. Chairman and
gentlemen, it is long since I have exhausted every form of
expressing gratitude which presents itself to me in returning
thanks for the manner in which you have always received
me, whether in fighting the battle of the constitution at the
hustings, or in celebrating the triumph after the battle was
fought, around the social board. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I
have exhausted, as I said, every expression of gratitude, but
the feeling is not exhausted (hear); it only increases in in-
tensity. On every occasion my feeling is only fresh excited
to whatever exertion it is in my power to offer to your cause.
(Hear, hear, hear.) Gentlemen, when last we met, upon
the last anniversary which called us together, we met to
celebrate a well fought triumph—a triumph earned un-
der the most appalling and difficult circumstances. We
had to fight gg ainst local influence and local prejudices—
(hear)—we ad to fight against intimidation from the powers
that be, (cheers) whether the powers that here exist locally,
or those which exist and do govern the empire. We had to
resist a good deal of popular intimidation; we had to resist
also, that which is, perhaps, the most legitimate influence if
legitimately used, but which on that occasion was most un-
constitutionally employed; the name I mean of our young
and virtuous Queen. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, in spite
of all these adverse influences, enough to have annihilated
the courage of any less bold and determined conservatives
than those of Liverpool, we fought our battle and we
achieved a triumph; such as this town has never witnessed

before. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I am afraid that
you have occasionally been disappointed that the el-
ects of your triumph and. such as you witnessed in
various quarters of the country was not immediately fol-
lowed by similar majorities in the senate of our country.
But, gentlemen, if you have not seen the triumph of your
men, you have seen the triumph of your principles; if you
have not seen the triumph of your party leaders, you have
seen a dearer triumph to you—those interests you fought to
protect, protected in that election. (Hear.) 'Why, gentle-
men, do you think, if the government of the country had
succeeded in forcing such Men as Hume into the representa-
tion of Middlesex, and Roebuck into the representation of
Bath, such men—l mean nothing personal; I speak only of
their political principles—if they had succeeded in forcing
on Liverpool the politics of Mr. Ewart—if this had beets
repeated in town and country, as it was the wish of her
Majesty's ministers, do you think the colour of the last
session would have been such as we have seen it? (Hear.)
Would you have seen the Church respected, and the
coustitutional authority of the House of Lords respected? Do
you think the appropriation clause would have been struck
out of the Irish Church Bill? (" No.") Do you think that
the very measure of Sir Robert Peel, for the proposal of which
he was ousted from office?—would you have seen that very
measure proposed by the ministers?—(Cheers, and cries of
"No.") No, gentlemen, your triumph has not been lost; if
it has not beets the harbinger of party triumphs, it has been
the harbinger of the safety of ou: country.—(Cheers.) But,
gentlemen, when I teach
you this, would I wish' to teach you
to be satisfied with what as been done? Would I wish to
teach you to rest satisfied with the degree of safety which has
been conveyed to the church and constitution, by the exer-
tions of the last election ? So long, gedtletnen, as the pre-
.sent administration remain in power, I would never teach
any man to rest satisfied. (Cheers.) Why, gentlemen,
what class of men has reason to he satisfied with her ma-
jesty's present administration ? Nay, more, 1 would say,
what class of men is satisfied with her Malesty's present
administration ; whether tory or radical, churchmen, or dis-
senter? I defy you to lay your finger on any class of
that is satisfied with her Majesty's present administration.
I would ask you as merchants, manufacturers and trades.
men, are you satisfied with the protection which her Majesty's
administration has given to the commerce •of England in
those places to which is has been carried? Indignant
cries of '• No, no.") Ate you, whose interest is so
bound up with the free navigatiOn of the coasts of South
America, are you satisfied with the easy permission given by
the government to the French government to blockade one
of the ports? (Cheers, and loud cries of " No.") Are you
satisfied with the introduction by France of a new prin-
ciple of blockade, putting it in the power of any nation,
however unimportant on any division, however trifling to
interrupt the whole of your trade ? (Cheers, and loud cries
of "No !") Gentlemen, are you satisfied with the protection
given to our vessels in the Black Sea ? Are you satisfied to
see a British merchant entrapped to open transactions with
a power on that sea, and when the transaction had been
opened, and a venture made, that his vessel should be con-
fiscated and abandoned, and hardly a iremonatrance made?
(Hear, hear.) Are you satisfied with that rery man sent
out so recently to pacify the Canadas ? (Shouts of laughter,
and cries of Ha !" the news of Lord Durham's resigna-
tion only arrived in the afternoon.) Are you satisfied that
the representation of our Queen and the government should
have been in such haste to remove every difficulty on the
part of the Russian government to discover reasous to satisfy
the British government at the present period, with the Bri-
tish commercial injury? 1 would ask, are you satisfied with
the protection given to the British trade on the coast
of Africa ? Are you satisfied with the protection given
to British commercial interests in Spain, in Portugal,
in Naples? In fact. there is hardly a country round the
globe in which British interests have not suffered from gross
neglect and mismanagement. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen,
I myself have been the organ of one representation after
another from this great town, of instances of want of protec-
tion, and, therefore, I don't speak in ignorance, and I have
been the melancholy witness of the inefficiency of the applica-
tion. (Hear.) Gentlemen, as to the Dissenter, has he any
reason to be satisfied? (No) So long as the church-rates
were any convenient topic they were put forward and made
the hobby-horse; but as soon as it appeared that the bobby
was ill chosen, that the church was more powerful, and the
Dissenters less powerful than they before thought, from
that moment the subject was dropped. But have churchmen
reason to be satisfied with her Majesty's government. (No.)
Has the church of Scotland reason to be satisfied ? No.)
Application was made by them for assistance in church ac-
comodation and the deputation was induced to retire from
London with the understanding that an enquiry would be in-
stituted. What was the fact? Commissioners were ap-
pointed to put off that pressing question, and put off the
evil day. That commission was appointed to report from
time to time, that delay might be the result of the petition,
and they were to report of the great towns of Edinburgh
and Glasgow. They did investigate, but they did not re-
port ; and until the investigation of the whole country was
completed, the report of these great towns was withheld;
and when it did appear, to the satisfaction of all men, that
a great degree of spiritual want of instruction did exist in
those towns, what was the answer? "We have considered
that the Highlands shell have assistance, but not the great
towns." Why was this? Because they thought the great towns
were Radical, and it was a pity they should not remain so.
And because they could lose nothing in the country, and
could lose much in the great towns from the extension of the
church.—(Hear.) In the English churches they have asked
nothing from the government in present tunes, hut it was dis-
covered that the English church had resources within herself,
which her majesty's government resolved to seize and appro-
priate—unlawfully seize from the support of the church.
(Hear.) I hope in the languageof two Pn tleinen who have
spoken, that this will be put in the front of the battle of the
conservatives, for I am convinced, that it is our duty to put
forward the extension of the church, as the first and prelimi-
nary of our duties.—(Cheers.) Now, upon this head, I so
fully concur with the statements expressed by your chairman,
and your reverend and respected rector, that I confess I
have nothing more to do than to repeat their expressions,
for the purpose of expressing my own opinion; but as lam
challenged by the chairman to express my opinion on this
great " question of questions," as it is called in the language
of the day,—this church question, I will not shrink from it.
On the contrary, I am most happy to seize the opportunity
of expressing that which is most deeply suitable to my own
opinion. On the very first proposition of the Irish system
of education, I believe I was one of the very few who raised
a feeble voice against it ; and I have had the gratification of
seeing that the sentiments I then expressed, have more and
more become the sentiments of the whole Protestant and,
Conservative portion of the community. ( Hear.) Gentle-
men, I hope to see an extended system of education; but I
hope that the state will not support, any system which shall
not be Protestant in its character, or which will in any
way sever the influence of the established clergy over
their flocks. or their connection with the interests of the
people.. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, if, then, you are not
satisfied with her Majesty's ministers ;—if you are not
satisfied that your interests whether secular or spiritual are
safe in their charge, it is for you, in every way which pre-
sents itself, in your various spheres of action. to exert your-
selves to remove that administration. (Hear.) Gentlemen,
I am not one of those who would recommend any particular
course. The feelings of the people must urge us forward ;
but when the constituencies are ripe for it, then I think you
may be sure that your representatives will not be slow to
listen to their call. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not fur-
ther intrude upon you, I have much to thank you for as I
said before; I know the kindness with which you have always
received any poor endeavours of mine, on your behalf; I
have only to renew the tender of those services, on any oc-
casion local or public, in which those services can be useful
to you. (The noble lord sat down amidst enthusiastic cheer-
ing.)
CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Esq., immediately arose, and
was received with a long-continued round of cheering and
clapping of hands. Before it had subsided
Lord SANDON again rose. He said,—Gentlemen, I have
thanked you for many kindnesses; I have forgotten to thank
you for the greatest kindness you have done me. You have
given me a conservative colleague, and I have found that the
greatest advantage and assistance in every instance of your
public or your private interests. (Great cheering.)
CRESSWELL CRESSWELL, Esq, again rose, amidst renewed
cheering. When it bad subsided, he said,—Mr. President
and gentlemen, I know that the noble lord's last observation
was meant in the most perfect kindness towards me, his
colleague; but at the same time, I can assure him, that op-
pressed as I was by the manner in which you received the
toast of "the members for Liverpool," the comment he has
now thrown upon me oppresses the still more, for I feel the
weight of gratitude now incumbent on me is such that I can
make no adequate return fur it, I will not say now, but
by any services I may be enabled hereafter to perform. If
the noble lord has exhausted his terms of gratitude to you—
if he has done this, after a session in which he has fought
your battles, can it be expected from me to express my
thanks in adequate terms, that have as yet done nothing for
you. Gentlemen, I come before you with no claims for your
applause; I have no high office to adorn me, no royal favour
showers upon me; no patronage to dispose of is given to me
—(great cheering)—and therefore, gentlemen, how can I
nsake you any adequate thanks fur the kindness with which
you have received me? Nay, more, gentlemen, from the
peculiar professional duty in which I am placed I know
that I have not even a claim on you.for any thanks for cour-
tesies. The haste, the rapidity, the fever with which our pro-
fessional business is transacted, leaves us but little time for
courtesies teeny, and as each of you in turn may be the party
against whom toy professional labours may be retained, I
fear that many of you may have left the court thanking me
little indeed for any courtesy I have given you.—(Cheers and
laughter.) And while, therefore, from-my heart I admire
you for toose feelings which you now manifest, and for for-
getting those which might make you visit on the representa-
tive the sins of the advocate, yet I cannot but deeply feel the
kindness you have this day shown to me; and, gentlemen, I
state most freely, .that I rejoice in this reception—rejoice in
it, nut that I consider it as personal to myself, as to one
who merely represents the political opinions which
you entertain, I consider the reception you have given
sue to day, is the greatest possible proof of the un-
dying energy of those conservative opinions which ani-
mated you during the last contest. (Hear, and cheers.)
And when I remember that a noble lord, high in office, with
royal favours shining, or supposed. to shine upon him, has
lately entered this town—(loud laughter)—that he also has
presented himself among the Liverpool people, and has had
the means of 'narking, the extent of their admiration of him
—(laughter and cheers)—when I remember that, and that
the glitter of office and of royal splendour, and the patronage
which he knows so well how to create-and how to dispose,
(cheers)—has not procured for him any share of the applause
that has awaited the humble individual before you, without
as well as within these walls, then, indeed, am 1 most grateful
to think that the spirit of conservatism burns as brightly as
ever—that your energy in the good cause is still undimi-
nished, and your jealousy of those who gorern the country
still as much awake as at any period of our former acquaint-
ance. (Loud cheers.) Do believe me, gentlemen, that
there is full need of such a spirit to counteract that which
depend on it still animates the counCils'of those who have
heretofore so far as served their purposes, patronized all re-
volutionary measures under the specious name of reform.
True, indeed, it is, gentlemen, that the last session of parlia-
ment has in the main beets a conservative session; true it is
that no inroad has been made on your institutions either in
church or in state; but are you indebted to her majesty's mi-
nisters for that. (Cries of "No.") Or are you indebted to the
conservative constituencies of the country. (Cries of" Yes.")
Do you believe that, if the threats formerly uttered against
the House of Peers have dwindled into the peevish wailings
of impotent dislike ; if the schemes for the spoliation of the
church have, for the preient, been abandoned, do you believe
they have learnt to love the peers, or to venerate the church,
or do you believe they have found the conservative party so
strong that they have found it necessary to yield those points
they formerly strived for, or to quit the places they held ?
Yes, gentlemen, that peril alone saved you from the perils
that formerly beset you; and I do rejoice now to find this
spirit of conservatism as much alive as it was at any former
period. (Cheers ) Gentlemen, it is not left to congratula-
tions—we have their own confessions for it ; and although
with us in the profession, it is
.net usual to rely castle coo-
fession of the criminal, particularly if extorted from him--
(laughter)—the confession in this instance is corroborated
by so many circumstances, that little doubt can be enter-
tained of its truth. I have heard, certainly, in the House of
Commons, to which you sent use, more than one of her Ma-
jesty's ministers, in t he debate which took place on the Irish
tithe bill, declare that it was not because they loved the
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hceAl te unmprdcoo, h
sacred
tledtifying, most consoling, most encouraging to
kiss, how much
stronger you. are now 'than you were
formerly ; that they who thought to commit the spolia-
tion, not only as a'robbery, but to advantage. themselves,
now find they are obliged to abandon that sh c ense, for the
a s
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purpose of maintaining that office. But while there is a sub-
ject for congratulation, there is also a subject for fear; for
if your exertions be not increased in proportion as the defences
are weakened, so will the power of the attack be increased.
But, gentlemen, assume that this were otherwise; suppose
that they had not declared their enmity to the church to be
the same in their hearts ; suppose that they had pledged them-
selves hereafter to become good Protestants and to support
the church, could you rely on those professions?—(Loud
cries of " no," and cheers.) Gentlemen, you respond already.
I shall show to you what professions they have made
to their friends who placed them in office, and that their
pledges have been violated. How do you think they will ob-
serve pledges given to you who seek only to expel them ?
Gentlemen, let me read to you a few words of Lord Mel-
bourne, in a speech that he made on the 25th of July, 1836,
in the House of Lords, in reply to a motion made by my
Lord Lyndhurst, the object of which was to exclude Irons
the Irish church bill what was commonly called the Irish
appropriation clause. My Lord Melbourne spoke thus:—
"If the clauses are removed, I shall consider the measure as
virtually destroyed. if the House shall omit those clauses I
small wash my hands of the bill, and shall not persist in the
measure deprived of that principle to which, indeed, I am
pledged. 1 shall tell the noble and learned lord that
I and my colleagues stand upon this principle, and
if we are not longer sustained in the maintenance of
that principle, we are immediately ready for to retire."
(Laughter.) Very ready but they have not done it. (Con-
tinued laughter.) On the 2d of August, 1837, my Lord John
Russell said in the House of Commons :—" With the affir-
mation of opposite principles, with the denial of the princi-
ples which we have professed, of course it would be our
duty to resign—of course it would be our duty no longer to
pretend, no longer to govern the councils of this country.—
In 1838 that principle was repudiated—that principle was
abandoned, and they still "do pretend" to govern the coun-
cils of this nation. (Loud cheers.) I say again, then, that
it these pledges given to their supporters have been so
kept, how do you think any pledges given to you, their
adversaries, will be kept? (Hear, hear, hear.) It is then
to your vigilance alone that the country is indebted for their
safety. But for you and other conservatives who sit in par-
liament, a different path would have awaited all the most
valued institutions of the country. And,gentlemen, is there
any other proof required, that in the majority returned by
the English constituencies your safety has been found ; yes,
for wherever you find theadversaries of your country making
their most vigorous and most embittered attacks, there you
may be sure is placed the great safeguard of our state; kind
it is no question that this preponderating influence on the
part of the majority returned by the British constituency,
that you have now the Irish agitator claiming as one of the
principles on which alone he will cease aitation, that Ireland
shall have representatives in proportion to the number of her
inhabitants, in order that they may outweigh the influence
of the. English constitution, and reduce at once to ruin every
institution of the country. (Cheers.) Our ministers are
tools of ihat man who has stated that Ireland gave to Eng-
land a system of representation which they call reform. He
states that Ireland has given to England Municipal Reform;
that it was not England nor Scotland, -u-or the, two nnitel
that did it, but that it was Ireland. Is it not enough-to have
overthrown our ancient Parliamentary systeM,' and our an-
cient Municipal constitution ? Is that not'enough buuthey
oust have a representation in proportion to the number of
'e Irish Paupers to overthrow the institutions of the country

Such are the terns on which ministers depend on his favour
for existence; and on these terms alone he will allow Ire-
land to be at peace. (Great applause and cheering.) Why,
gentlemen, when we find the ministry leaning on such
a person as that for support—when we find such alliance with
him, and the patronage of this country devoted to him and
his retainers. what reason has one to suppose that they will
deny anything that is necessary for them to maintain the
places which they hold. True it is, that in the last
session we have seen them oppose certain measures
that we thought destructive ; they have opposed the
ballot ; some have opposed the extension of the suf-
frage ; they have opposed the diminution of the duration
of Parliament, but what security have we that they will
continue to do so if they have ceased to maintain those
principles to which at one time they pledged themselves ;
how can we rely that they will continueto oppose others, when
by yielding they can continue in office? (Hean) 'llierefore
it is -on you, on the Conservative interest of this country
to return to parliament those members who, combined with
the House of Peers, shall be able to restrain those who wish
to raise their cwn power in the destruction of all that is va-
luable in the country. (Great applause and cheering.)
Gentlemen. upon this and upon one or two other matters, I
find, and I am not surprised to find, that the Noble Lord
has anticipated me in some of the observations 1 was about
to make. You returned us on our principles. I believe that
the opinions ofconservatives are very nearly alike on almost
every question interesting to the state. It is natural for
your representatives to address you on those matters which
have been most interesting to them at the last session. If
they are returned on one interest, because they hold
sentiments alike, how can it be a matter of surprise
to :you that the noble lord has anticipated me in
some of my intended observations ? But let me draw
your attention for a moment to the foreign policy
of the conntry, which I will do by reading an adtnira-
hie petition of the merchants of Glasgow. It states :
" The consequences of that diplomacy have been to leave us
defenceless in every quarter of the world ; to compromise the
existence of Turkey as an independent sovereign power, and
thereby to destroy the mutual barrier to encroachments on
the East of Europe—to abandon Circassia, the bulwark of our
Indian possessions, to the conquest of Persia—to redunce
Persia to the caudition of a Russian dependency—to exclude
theaßritish merchant entirely from the coasts of the Black
Sea, where a most lucrative trade could be carried on—to
enable the Dutch government to evade the obligations of a
treaty (1824), and to impose illegal duties on our exports to
Java, whereby many of us have been deeply injured—to tole-.
rate the establishment iu Africa, of a French colony, an enter-
prize contrary to a specific treaty—to exlcude our inanufacto-
rers from the European markets, by a high scale of duties, cone
trary to existing treaties—to tolerate encroachments on our
fishing grounds at Newfoundland, and even on the British
coast—to permit the destruction of the ancient nationality of
Poland, and the independence of Cracow—to annihilate the
British claims onGreece. We pass over the difficulties in
which this country is involved as regards our relations with
Spain and Portugal, with the United States of America, with
the empire of Brazil, and the government of Mexico."
And now, gentlemen, what have we gained by all these
sacrifices? 'Prue it is, we are at peace; but are we in amity with
foreign nations. Are we really and truly in friendship with
Russia ? It' we are, how forgiving we must be !are have forgiven
all the insults in the Black Sea; we have shut our eyes at all
the attempts at our Indian possessions. Are we iu an
amity with Prussia ? It must be for shutting out 'our
manufactures from her States. Are we at amity with France ?
It must be for blockading out our manufactures from
the Brazils and Mexico, mind for what ? A blockade, as 1
understood, was a proceeding gf war! Are we in amity with.
Spain, or with what portion of it ? of with Portugal, or with
Holland ? if we are not, what have we gained by this foreign
policy? What have we gained in Canada? (Hear.) But let
me be cautious in speaking on that important subject; it be-
comes us not to embarrass any government. To propose
111eace
puttinga I d
downharmony e were
factions
they unfortunately
have
at
to too
aisetuaclhl concession;otred
1
to ripen into rebellion. But if this is the conduct of the minis-
, tty how is it it still remains in power? How can you account
for the British nation tolerating such things? Can they
be agreeable to the Queen ? Can her Majesty Idve these
faction
ministers and be attached to them? Can the people be at-
tached to them ? Are the people attached to then'? (Ve-
hement cries of "No.") Did they lately show attachment to
one of them when they had him amongst them? (Enthusi-
astic cheering.) But although it may be well to us to wit-
ness the contrivance in office of a ministry distinguished
not by talent but by intrigue; distinguished, not by
the maintenance of principle, but rather by acting without
any principle at all—although this may be well to us, it is
not well in the interpretation of those who' have written on*
the British constitution: and let sue read to vou the exact
words of a noble lord lately visiting a work Pub-
this town, in
fished not many years ago. He is describing the werthleSs
conduct of a minister, by which lie may inaintain'hiniSelf in
power without talent, without patriotism, without the love
or attachment of the crown or of the people, and be then
do:—n:ab ; 'e
dA lttoh osuagyh
tos e
tchhe
ia,
amelilnsisTeoru
awnhda thitshactabmininetistsehraltina6ae'-
Sovereign, ' However pernicious our measures May be, and
however unpopular our persons, you must maintain ue.in
power, for we can command a majority in the House of
Commons, though our conduct and our acts-are offensive
to the country, and disgusting to your Majesty.'" Ile would'
have them remember the condiict of the present adrninistra.
tion, and the manner in which they had created and giVen
away patronage, and whether the whole of Lord .1. Russell's
description did not apply to the ministry and their act in the
present day. Ile exhorted them to persevere in stretigtlfearing
the association for it was by such associations that results
were obtained which were the salvation of the country. fie'
expressed himself strongly in favour of scriptural educa--
tion as the only means of making a man a gond- Cniis-
tian,' a good citizen, and a good subject; and deprecated
that liberalism of the present day, which led the heads of the.
church who were sworn to uphold it, to give their countenance
to Unitarianism. The honourable and learned member sat
down amidst enthusiastic and prolonged cheering.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said, it was
a source of gratification to them that they had not only been
able to send two conservative representatives forthe borough,
but likewise two for the Southern Division of-the County.,
(Cheers.) He would give without further preface " The
Members for the County." (Much applause.) One of those
gentlemen was present, and would, he believed, be.ablelo,.
give them a good reason for the absence of his colleague. -
Mr. WILBRAHAM rose, and tai loudly cheered. 'He'said,
if his noble and his learned friend had found difficulty in ek-
pressing their gratitude, he felt much greater difficulty, inas-
much as it had not been in his power to communicate with
them as frequently as his friends beside him had. But they
might be assured, that as this was the third time he had had
the honour of appearing before them, so he trusted that as
long as that association should continue, he might never be
found backward in showing his respect to them and to their
town by attending its meetings. (Cheers.) '['heir chairman
had told them he regretted the absence of his noble colleague.
No one could regret that circumstance more than he did. It
had been Lord Francis Egertou's full intention to have been
there that evening, and also the next day; but he (Mr. Wil-
braham) had yesterday received a letter informing, him that
his lordship had been obliged to go to town, On account of the
illness of one of his children, whom it had been deemed ad-
visable to send to the Mediterranean. , (llean) It would
be useless for him to go over any of the topics which had
, been ably treated by their respected representatives. In all
that they had said, he most cordially concurred. (Applause.)
' If there were one point on which conservatives of every
shade must unite, it was the subject of national education.
No system should have his approbation and support which
was not founded strictly on the principles of the Protestant
Established Church, and put under the superintendence of
the parochial clergy. (Hear.) With respect to that association
he was delighted to hear that its numbers increased. (Hear.)
They might remember that Sir Robert Peel had told them
there was only one way by which they could gain the victory,
and that was to attend to the registry. (Hear.) In this
town, and in the division of the county which he represented,
this had been most thoroughly- and particularly well attended
to. (Cheers.) Though they had before a great majority,
that majority had been increased. But beyond the regis-
tration, there was another point which they should be called
to attend to. There was, at that particular moment, nothing
to cause excitement, and it was always said of the conserva-
tive party, that they were apt to fall asleep when there was
nothing specially to rouse them. He hoped that was not
the case, in this particular borough or county.. But they
must constantly be on the look-out. Their opponents were
at work, and it would not be long before something would
arise out of their manoeuvres. Watch, he would say, all
they did ; measure all their words; and above all things,
he would advise them to avoid divisions among them-
selves. He did not mean simple differences of opinion,
which must constantly arise, but anything that.would inter-
fere with the great aim and object which they had at heart.
He was glad to hear of the increase of their numbers in this
town, and he could only assure them in conclusion, that any
poor services which he could render, should always be at
their command, and he would ewer be ready to give any as-
sistance in his power to their representatives. (Much ap-
plause.
Lord SAN DON again rose, and said, the toast lie was about
to propose needed title preface. He was happy to say he
had heard of the name of their chairman in many parts of
England remote from Liverpool. The Cimservatism of that
gentleman rested on the surest of all foundations, religions
principle, which would never change,.because its objects,were
immutable. For that reason they might repose in: him with
more than common confidence. (Loud cheers.) Ile gave
them the health of their excellent chairman.
. -The 'toast-was received with tumultuous applause.
The CHAIRMAN, in rising to return thanks, was greeted
with renewed acclamations. He said, NI v lord, and gentle:
men, it has seldom happened that an individual of my Sat,
tion in life has been so frequently called on to present him'

self before his fellow townsmen, has been laid under so many
obligations, and felt it necessary to' evince his gratitude for
such. oft repeated marks of your attachment. I do most
'sincerely thank you, for your applause, which, hhwever, I.
have not willingly sought, but which you have so liberally
awarded, and which I look upon as an acquiescence in those
glorious principles of, order, subordination, and loyalty—
(cheers)—with whiehl have always been identified, and
which will only leave me when I am called from this sphere
of activity and duty. (Cheers.) It is gratifying to me on
an occasion
_like the present to meet.so many of those friends
with whom I have beets associated in the thickest of the com-
bat—(cheers)—not however,, to repose on the laurels we
have won—=(cheers)—but to rein'ind you we are yet in the
camp, that we are yet in the presence of active, and sleep-
less antagoniste;and'iltat :we must hold ourselves ready for
active, and perhaps, not distant exertion. (Hear. hear.)
If the civil and religious liberty we possess be worth enjoy-
ment, it is worth inervatiun, and the man is unworthy such
inestimable privileges who can wrap himself up in luxurious
enjoyment whin those glorious institutions for which our
forefathers bled and died, are assaulted by foes from without,
and 'abandoned by lukewarm friends within. (Loud ap-
plause). For I need hardly. say, that those, who under
colour of reforming our institutious, covertly consign them to
destruction, would be in themselves utterly powerless, were
they not aided by the' cupidity or tnany who call themselves
members of the Church of England. (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) It was to stimulate our tradesmen to exertion, to
beat up.for recruits--to concentrate our forces—to erect that
British standard, under which England has been victorious
from Agincourt to Waterloo, (enthusiastic plaudits) and to
free this great town from a representation of which we dis-
approved; that the association was formed, whose third an-
niversary, we are now met to celebrate Could the most san-
guine haee anticipated' a few year's ago, when the raven was
screaming around the towers of the constitution, when the
hoarse voice of Birmingham mob frighted the isle from its
propriety—when the fires of Nottingham and of Bristol lit
up the peaceful country of our birth—when the venerable Bi-
shops of our church—(loud cheers)—ventured into the public
streets at the peril of their lives, and when the deliberations
of the House' of Leads were overawed by the cries of the attar-
chist—thaewithin so Short aperiod,kindred associations should
springinto existence in 'every county—that the concentrated
loyalty of the land should be invigorated with new spitit—
th-al 300 Conservative members should be returned to parlia-
ment; and that the popular thunder, which soon began to
Mutter in the 'clistance;stiould roll onwards with such tearful
rapidity, and that the Vibrations should shake the mi-
nistry in their seats—(vehement and prolonged applause, the
coMpany rising)-s-which they have only occupied to their
own disgrace, amidst the contempt of Europe, and against
the declared opinions of the people of England ?—(Hear,
hear.) But, gentlemen, our stork is notdone. We have yet
triueh to combat for, ensd everything to preserve. (Hear.)
The House of Lords cannot long maintain its ground, sinless
it be supported by a majority in the Commons. And that
must be the grand object of conservatism. That it will be
obtained I have no doubt, if the noble phalanx in the lower
house will speak out boldly, and refuse their acquiescence in
any measure that may compromise our Protestant. principle.
(Loud cheers.) , Ttie days of expediency are gone, and
unless the middle classes exert themselves, and their repre-
sentatires make a determined stand, the British constitution
is gene also. (Hear, hear.) That constitution presents a
greater measure of liberty to the people than any other on
the globe; and those who hold up the republican institutions
of America as a model for England, are interested or super-
ficial observers of events passing there, where every tieing is
rotten at the core, and where a puff of popular indignation
can blow down the paper constitution, which, judging by
the age of nations, is of mushroom growth, and is just as
likely to be as stable; and where two and a half millions of
slaves, held in the most debasing bondage, is a biting
com-
mentary upon their national declaration, "that all men are
equal " (Hear, and much applause.) And the problem is
easily solved ; for the unchecked power of democracy is ever
capricious and tyrannical; and whilst despotism bridles free
thought and enslaves the intellect, democracy introduces an
anarchy of the passions, whose fierceness is as much to be
deprecated, as its depravity alarms and disgusts. (Loud
Cheering.) But in England, instead of that system of
centralisation established by despotism, which has ever
proved the grave of civil liberty—(hear' hear)--which
grasps
.at every public undertaking with monopolising
avidity—seizing on profit and patronage to consolidate its
powerthe free institutions of Great Britain. Throw open
to talent and enterprise every undertaking fur general bene-
fit, and the projectors of our great national works, fostered,
supported, and•protected by wise and equitable laws, are left
in perfect freedom to reap the fruits of their skill, which
form sure and beneficial investments for the earnings of do.
mystics and at tizans, as well as for the super-abundance of
our capitalists, -and the receipts of our gas and water compa-
nies, our banks, our railways and canals, instead of flowing
directly into the, public exchequer, like a solitary stream
through an arid soil, only to consolidate the power of despo-
tism, here circulate through innumerable channels, and, like
a mighty `river with thousands of tributary streams, irrigates
and 'benefits the Whole community, makes its way to the ex-
tremity of the land, benefits the poor as well as the rich, in-
terests thousands in the preservation of order and of peace,
and forms, in a great measure, the grandeur and security of
the empire. (Hear and cheers.) Content, therefore, with
our national blessings,-we are desirous as any to renovate and
beautify where renovation is necessary; but we are not desir-
ous of pulling down the ancient edifice, replete with useful-
ness, as it stands unrivalled for grandeur, and see one erected
by the political tinkers of Birmingham, which the first storm
will hurl to the ground. (Applause.) We look upon uni-
versal suffrage as the prelude to universal suffering;—upon
vote by ballot as a cowardly, sneaking scheme, more fitted
for -the 'Spanish liandit, or the Italian carbonaro, than
-fur theenanly open-hearted spirit of Englishmen. (Hear.)
We thhik
,annual Parliaments would be an auuual nuisance
—(cheers. and langhter)—a 'hundred times worse than the
white vapour -of Mrispratt. - (Much laughter.) We look
. upon .the proditihns .adrercei of Popery with jealousy, be-
cause, speaking of her as a system, and it is only so that 1
sperskssfiheruse4l44hscan heasept with her. For she keeps
•faith. uhth titreee.eBheJetighs.at the cupidity of liberalism.
,She is liherA in Efigienashe is intolerant in Italy. She is
time assumed friend of -popular education here—she stifles it
there. (Hear, and cheers.).. And when-we consider our be-
loved country as the land of genuine liberty, as the deposi-
thry of s,cripttirat truths--when we look at the moral influence
she pessesses.thrtiughout the world; and when we retnember
our responSibility to Hint who has bestowed upon us such
national blessings: we feel it-imperative upon us to hand
dow-u unimpaired to our posterity the privileges we have our-
selves received, and of which, under God, we are the present
guatdians;—and ave feel that it is our duty to resist to the
utmost every effort of those who are seteking to ,destroy our
national Church, preparatory to the destruction of our esta-
blished form orGovernment. And; if we should ever be
called on -to defend those institutions, it will be our duty to
array ourselves on the side of truth and justice, and either
repel the aggression or nobly perish amidst the ruins of the
Constitution., (Cheers.) And as all nations have their
chatageS, if ever that event should occur to England, on the
ashes of her constitution may be erected fora time the flimsy
structure of anarchy, till- that scourge of guilty nations, a
military despotism— (loud applause) —shall again prepare
the people fur. sound.government; and national wisdom shall
be, taught amidst the convulsive throes of national suffering.
(Loud and continued cheering.) I thank you again for the
very flattering Way in which you have received my name,
and I beg to propose a toast which will better deserve the
zeal and cordiality with. which I know you will drink it. It
is comprised in. two short words—" The Duke." (Drunk
with repeated honours.)
Glee—" The mighty Conqueror."
The CHAIRMAN said, if they were indebted, next to the
Established Church, to one institution more than another,
there was nothing to which, since the days of Itunnemede,
they had been more indebted than to the House of Peers
He therefore. called upon them to drink,—"Lord Lyndhurst,
and the House of Peers, the bulwark of real freedom, and
the antidote to the poison of democracy."
The toast was drunk with mush enthusiasm.
Glee—" Hail, smiling Morn."
Tire CHAIRNIAN.—Sir Robert Peel, and the Conservative
Members of time House of Commons." (Much cheering,")
Sou e by Mr. Petnbertou—" Like a plain-dealing Soldier
has Wellington spoke,"
Lord Sasinow acknowledged the toast, eulogising highly
the abilities, conduct, and principles of Sir Robert Peel.
There was no person who had fought under that talented
leader's homier who -could be insensible to his high merits.
The.Ctia teat/set proposed the health of Mr. West, who
ought;by right,.."th be the representative for Dublin.
:•Mr. WesT,•whb-was hailed with rapturous applause, said,
—I have vetysfrequently received much kindness in conse-
quence.of the peal have taken its contesting the represen-
tation of our firaOsish,city. Among the most, gratifying of
theSe lestiennetata of esteem and approbation, it is impossible
nnt to'litieeSthe distinguished honour conferred upon me,
by the hirritetiriti of the Tradesmen's Conservative Asso-
ciation- to be-`present at this festival. -I feel most deeply
grateful, for the manner, -so highly gratifying to myself, in
whic,ll you have received the mention of my very humble
name. An utter stranger as I am, witnessing such an ex-
hibition of constitutional sentiment, I cannot but feel deeply •
grateful, while 1 cannot help expt essing time Conservative
wish, timat.the example of this town, seemingly destined even
more by her energy and spirit in business, than by her na-
tural position to be the capital of the trading world,—the
example set by the merchants of Liverpool might be fol-
lowed by the merchants of England generally. ( Ilear.)
Yourchuirtime has been pleased to make one observation for
which- I was- not prepared. He has told you that if I had
toy eights. should he member fur Dublin. Permit the to
seistliat is 'an expression wnich has never fallen from me.
• Let my opinion be whet it may, I consider it inure important
Marty veelt:reghlated community, that the barrier should not
. tirtiken down,' which makes it impossible to believe that a
gerftleintstican 'violate his honour,—(hear,)—than that' any
man Miowlelereceire even so proud a reward as that of repre-
sentiogethe:first city in his native land. (Cheers.) It never
should b .principle tv traduce or revile time members of
the' House im`f 'Cornmons, or any gentleman moving in a re-
speCtitfir4 -.1 leave that to ethers. (Applause.) That
sticitilillifirl'iriysell here, an Irish protestant, (cheers,) I
chrisiderthe very greatest compliment ever paid to myself per-
sonally eend if. I might presume to take the manner in which
my name has been received as a proof of the cordiality and
good'lVeling on 'the part of England towards my protest-
ant' felloW'-chuntrymen,—(great cheering)—then the pride
and -gratification I feel would lie infinitely enhanced.
(Cheers.) I must say-, even here, that the great, if not the
only difficulty of fighting the battle of the constitution in
Ireland, is the apathyof the Protestants of England. (Hear.)
Our Protestant people 'believe, whether justly or not, that
they and their interests are not considered by the people of
Etiglatid as they used. to be. - (Ilear.) The Protestants of
Ireland cannot -forget, though I believe it is not always re-
meinbered here, that their ancestors were your countrymen,
sent.fh Ireland, not for their own advantage, but to preserve
to the British Crown an acquisition by nature magnificent.
And they are conscious that the trust committed to them has
not beeri betrayed. It is their wish now, as it ever has
been. to be remembered by their brothers in England as
not having' acted unworthy of the nation from which their
fathers came. (Applause.) A gentleman who sat beside
me. but who is not now present, knows enough of Ire-
land 'Co say what that portion is in which the Protestants
predominate, contrasted with the other parts in which they
are but few. It is a remarkable fact, that in 1821 or 1825,
fact proved before the House of Lords,—that in the
eleven counties, which were the subject of the famous pro-
testant plantation of James 1., never from that time to the
present had it been necessary to apply any species-or firm of
insurrection act. (Loud cheers.) When the Roman Ca-
tholic relief bill, as it was called, passed in 1829, what became
the duty of the Protestants of Ireland ? To hold out the right
hand of fellowship to their Roman Catholic countrymen.
And I. can answer for them, they did so. (Hear.) l'imey
haVe always been ready to do so, 'with all their hearts ; be-
cause we abjure and detest the jesuitical principle and practice
of driving coaches-and-six the ough acts of parliament. (Heat
and a laugh.) Our business is to discover the intention and
spirit of our rulers, and abide by that intention like honest
men. And I will say for my Protestant countrymen, that
learning as they slid, the intention ofthe legislature to place all
classes of persons on terms of civil equality, they cordially
reltriquishect the hostility ae, soon as that. intention became-
law. (Cheers.) With these principles and recollections,
they have thought it herd that their devotion for 2(YJ years
to this country should immure had less weight, within the last
few years, with a people remarkable for its love of justice.
than the assertions of men who detest this country, and
%risme existence depends me the disturbance of public order.
(Hear and cheers.) But I believe the time begins to reveal
thetruttste a generous, people ; and I believe the whole crime
orthe Protestants of Ireland is this, that we will not abandon
our cunuexion with England, so long as you permit us the
happiness of maintaining it. (Cheers.) • And that we will
ehandon our religion, which is the bond of that con-
nexion. (Renewed cheers.) Are you aware that in one
tsm
year. efter the eancipation, Mr. O'Connell made a deliber-
ate attempt to' seduce the protestants of. Ireland into his
scheme -tilTePe,il'? • (Hear.) Are you aware that in Janu-
arylB3l,leaddressed to 'the combined Orangemen a letter,

in which he apostrophises them as his " beloved Orange
countrymen—(laughter)—the most generous and patriotic
body of people any country ever saw." (Laughter and
cheers.) I know not whether you have heard of his cele-
brated exploit at Drogheda, a town on the Boyne, where, in
a bumper of the water of that celebrated river, he pledged
" the glorious and immortal memory of William the
Third!" (Hear and laughter.) And what for? In a letter
written by himself, in 1833, he calls upon the Protestants to
aid him in repealing the union, telling them that they may
as well share the honour of the achievement, because it is
utterly impossible that it should not be repealed, whether
they would Join or no. What was thesresult. How man y des
scendantsof Englishmen joined him? Not one. (Cheers•) He
then resorted to calumny and abuse, which I am sorry to
say has bad too much effect. But in Ireland he failed en-
tirely; and in a letter written in 1835 he abuses the protest-
ants of Ireland, stating that he had thrown away five years of
valuable time endeavouring to conciliate them, but that he
might "just as well have attempted to coax a sucking tiger
or a full-grown lion." (Much laughter and applause.) This
attempt having hopelessly failed, the attack was turned
against the Established Church. It is a fact that can be
proved, that the Protestant population of Ireland amounts to
2,000,000. Are these to be abandoned and given up to all
the demands of Mr. O'Connell? (No, no.) 'Then I will
ask another question. Will any gentleman tell me that the
Protestants ought to remain in that country without a Pro-
testant church and Protestant places of worship? (No, no.)
Mark what has been the conduct pursued towards us. Be-
fore emancipation, it was stated by all the leading members
amongst the Catholics, that relief would not be acceptable to
the entire body unless brought forward in such a way as to be
satisfactory to Protestants. (Hear, hear.) Mr. O'Connell
went further, and stated his anxiety for the maintenance and
protection of the Protestant church. What has been the
event? Will you forgive me if I take one among a thousand
occurrences in my unfortunate country to show the spirit
in which our ancient church is regarded iu Ireland. I take
at random a resolution passed at a meeting in Mayo, at
which between 30,000 and 50,000 people are said to have
been present, including a number of the Roman Catholic
clergy, and laity, and brought together under the immediate
auspices of one of the Archbishops, Dr. M'Hale. 1 quote
from the Freeman's Journal of August 18, 1838:—" Resolved,
That it is only on the Irish people so offensive an experiment
could be made, as to be taxing them fur the support of foreign
mercenaries of an alien creed,"—this is the description of the
Protestant .church of Ireland—(hear, hear,) " under pre-
'epee of providing for their intellectual and religious neces-
That these humbugs have been too long, and too
,atiently endured. But that the intellects of the people are
sow too open—their feelings too sensitive, and their resolu-
tions too strong to suffer such mockery any longer." (Loud
cries of." Hear.") A complete declaration of war against
our church ! And this is not at all exaggerated in its tone,
There are thousands similar; scarcely a radical paper ap-
pears that does not contain some resolutions of the sort
from Roman Catholic clergy, supported by Roman Catholic
laity. You have heard of a letter from Mr. O'Connell to a
gentleman named Landor, in which be talks of "a com-
pound of fraud, knavery, cruelty, and hypocrisy, in England
called the Reformation." (Hear, hear.) The Protestants
of Ireland are determined to stand by the connexion with
England, and to stand by the Protestant Church. (Cheers.)
If you will give us only your sympathies, we fear little from
the blustering swagger of our enemies at home. (Applause.)
Without the assistance of England, we are able to maintain
ourselves and the faith we profess. (Loud cheers.) Against
the power of England we could not maintain ourselves; but
against the power of England, I say it respectfully, we would
maintain our faith. (Cheers.) • I will conclude by giving
you—" The Conservative Electors of the Empire;—may
their numbers daily increase, and may they never forget that
the future welfare of the country depends upon their choice
of present representatives."
Mr. CARSON, at the call of the Chairman, briefly returned
thanks.
The CHAIRMAN then gave, "The Commercial, Manufac-
turing, and Agricultural Interests of the Country; may
they be a Three fold Cord, not easily broken." He would
beg leave to couple with the toast the name of Mr. Roby, of
Rochdale. (Much applause.)
Mr. ROBY, in teturning thanks, dwelt upon the endea-
vours of Ministers to divert attention from their own incom-
petence and mismanagement by exciting a movement
against the Coin Laws; and he showed, that, instead of
being improved by the repeal of the corn laws, the condition
of the labouring classes would be immeasurably worse.
The CHAIRMAN, after referring, in terms of high com-
mendation, to the county magistracy, proposed the health of
Richard Bright Crosse, Esq. late High Sheriff of the county.
Mr. CROSSE said, he wished the part of acknowleging
that toast had devolved upon some individual more compe-
tent to do it justice. To men engaged in the performance of
a public duty, it was at all times gratifying to find that they
possessed the confidence and esteem of the community in the
midst of whom those duties were discharged; and he felt as
sured that the compliment paid by so numerous, so respec-
table, and so influentialrs body as he saw before him, would
be prized as highly by the magistracy generally, as it was by
the humble individual who then in their name and his own,
returned them his heartfelt thanks. The magistrates were
not insensible to the responsibility attaching to them in the
performance of their various duties,— duties, it should be re-
membered, performed gratuitously, involving a sacrifice of
time and personal convenience, and attended with painful
anxieties, but duties which they considered to form the tenure
by which, as citizens, they hold their property and stations.
(Cheers.) Believing as he did that the character and in-
flaence they had acquired, was owing; to their honest impar-
tiality and integrity. and their perfect freedom from party
bias, he might be allowed to express, on their part as well as
his own, a feeling of anxiety and alarm at the declaration of
a high legal authority on a recent occasion—he meant the
Lord Chancellor—who bad stated, that his principle was -to
regulate appointments to the magistracy by the- test of po-
litical opinion. There was a motion before the House of
Lords on the 18th of July, and the attention of the House was
called to this point by Lord Wharncliffe, when the Chancellor
hesitated not to say, that where the bench was composed of
men of one and the same political creed, there could not be
the same confidence amongst the people in appealing to it !
He was supported by another noble lord intimately connect-
ed with the magistracy, the Chancellor of the Duchy, Lord
Holland, who stated, that if he found the magistrates all on
one side, he would appoint men of different sentiments,
to make a balance. This was a new and unconsti-
tutional principle. The great usefulness and efficacy
of the magistrates was based on a conviction in the
minds of the people, of their total freedom from religious and
all other bias. The new system would be as dangerous in
its consequences as it was hostile to the spirit and practice of
the constitution. The magistracy would become a mere
tool in the hands of a weak, unprincipled, and reckless
ministry. (Applause.) In connexion with this subject, a
late distinguished statesman, whose splendid talents and
irreproachable life had shed a lustre on the country, and
whose name, he was sure, should never be mentioned in this
town, without exciting feelings of tender and affectionate
interest—he meant Mr. Canning—had quoted this verse of
one of the most beautiful of our modern poets— •
" Princes and lords may flourish and may fade,
A breath may make them as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
If once destroyed, can never be supplied."
Mr. Canning added, " So say 1 of the unpaid magistracy 0
this country. Ido not regard the threatened inroads on the
constitution of parliament with half the horror that I do the
destruction of the character of the magistracy."—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, reminding the company that there was
still a duty unperformed, .namely, the health of "The Lan-
cashire Witches," remarked, that, delightful as the task
would have been to himself', he would. turn it rivet to the
learned gentleman who sat on his left, as he was still on his
preferment. (Laughter.) And that he might not be at a
loss, he would supply him with a text, and it should be in
poetry, which was better than prose.
The cygnet walks with grace the waters,
So walk on earth Great Britain's daughters.
(Cheers and laughter.)
Mr. CRESSWEI.I. said he was very grateful to their worthy
chairman for allowing him to propose the toast. That
evening, however, was not likely to do much for him, an un-
happy man still on his preferment. He subscribed to every
word of their chairman's poetry ; but when he saw so many
of Great Britain's swan-like daughters, how could he choose
one. (Laughter, and cheering.) Much he congratulated the
assembly on the manner in which their festivities were
graced by the ladies of Lancashire, and much did he hope from
such auxiliaries. For which of you, said the learned gentle-
man, addressing the ladies in the gallery, will be found to
advocate the schemes of ministers who are fordebasing the
marriage ceremony into a mere civil contract ? (Rapturous
applause.) Which of you, as a mother, would accompany
your daughter to the registrar to have the solemn bond en-
tered into that is to last for life? (Hear, hear.) Which of
you, about to be married, would consent to have the contract
signed and sealed in a notary's office,- instead of pledging
your faith before God and the altar? (Loud applause.)
Which of you, having children to educate, would intrust
them to those who exclude religion from their education, and
mit rather trust them to those who would teach them to be
pious, chaste, dutiful, and modest, as well as fair? (Loud
cheers.) I give you, gentlemen, " The Lancashire Witches."
(Drunk with immense applause.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Town and Trade of Li-
verpool," with which he would associate the name of Sir
Thomas Brancker.
Sir Tuomas briefly returned thanks, and proposed " The
Operatives."
The Chairman then left the chair, and the company
iroke up.

PRECISE INFORMATION.—The registrar for the Roseland
district lately called on a poor woman, to demand the neces-
sary information concerning the birth of her child; but all he
could get from her was, that is was born " the day after Uncle
Stephen killed his pig!"—Cornwall Gazelle.
MORE ABSENCE OF MIND.—Mr. , an attorney, re-
siding in New York, being requested to appear as nominal
plaintiff in a matter in which he among others was -interest-
ed, owing to some unaccountabre absence of mind, brought
the action against himself, and never discovered his mistake
till after he had compelled himself to pay damages, issue ex-
ecution against, and actually incarcerate himself for not
paying his own costs.
EFFECTS OF EATING NEW BREAD.—The mischievous
consequences of eating new bread do not arise from its che-
mical composition, but its mechanical agency. It is very
compressible; it is, therefore, rarely well masticated; it is
swallowed quietly, and in large quantity, and then it in-
stantly expands from absorption of the fluid contents of the
stomach, which organ, thus. suddenly and extensively dis-
tended, not only suffers pain on its own part, but compresses
the neighbouring blood-vessels, so as materially to interfere
with the general circulation; hence the train of suffering
consequent on such indulgence.

THE CAPERCALm—We are happy to learn that the caper-
calzi which, as it is known, Lord Bradalbane turned out into
his forests in Scotland tiuring the past and present summer,
have bred in those wilds. There were 41 altogether, about
two-thirds of which were hens, and all were old and sea-
soned birds. This splendid collection was made in Sweden
with vast trouble, and at very great expense, by Mr. Lloyd.
Mr. Thomas Fowell Buxton, the late M.P. for Weymouth,
presented them to his Lordship. Should those magnificent
birds, therefore, Once more become, as in by gone days, com-
mon in the British isles, as it is to be hoped they shortly will,
their introduction will be due to these several parties, all of
whom have had that object much at heart. In addition to
the.caperealzi, now at large in the Highlands, Mr. Lloyd, we
understand, sent at the same time three others to the
Duchess of Atholl, and fifteen to Lorrl Derby. All of these
are, we believe, in the aviaries of Blair and Knowsley.—
John Bull.
- •

A SEVERE Rote -.We have sometimes heard of, but although
getting old in the gentlemanly and exhilarating amusement
of coursing, we never yet witnessed, the remarkable fact of
greyhounds pursuing a hare until the whole lay down within
a tew yards of one another completely exhausted by the
severity of the chase. Friday week, however, we did see
the astonishing fact realized. While Air. Geddes of Glas-
gow, and Dr. Brown of Stewarton, were coursing on the
farm of Todhill, Fenwick, a pair of dogs were slipped at a
hare, which went off in rare style, as if confident in its own
strength and fleetness, and to support itself after its long
rest, or to invite the dogs to greater exertion from their
proximity to their prey. The summer heat of the day was
delightful to the sportsmen, amid such sylvan heauty, but
most distressing to the dogs. After a long and most severe
run, rendered doubly fatiguing by its innumerable turnings
and windings, both 'dogs were found lying completely ex-
hausted within twenty yards of the hare. The dogs had to
be carried back to the joursers, and although every exertion
was used to recover them, Dr. Brown's Sweeper died in the
course of an hour afterward. s full of glory in the deathless
fame of his own true ame. On being opened, his heart
,
was found swelled to double its usual size, and a considerable
g
quantity of blood oozed from t, so that he may be said to
have died Of a broken heart,—Kilmarnock Journal.

SECOND EDITION..

Standard. Office, Three

LIVERPOOL MARKETS.

i CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, OczonEn 19.
The supplies of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal into this port,
coastwise and from Ireland, since the early part of the week,
have been generally rather light. Those of foreign, during
the same period, comprise 4019 quarters of Wheat, with 4187
'barrels of Flour, front Europe and the United States of
America. _ _ .

Stimulated by frequent heavy rains and high winds, which
prevailed from the end of last week until to-day, the Wheat
trade continued to attract the eager attention of buyers, and
between Tuesday and to-day a fair extent of business has
been transacted, at improving prices ; which, although the
weather has become fine, with a more settled aspect, the
value of all descriptions of Wheat haS been again increased
this morning, establishing a rise of 4d. to 6d. per 70lbs. upon
the rates last noted. At this amendment further extensive
sales have been made to speculative buyers, who are now the
principal holders here: but the millers, unwilling to meet the
advance, have bought sparingly to-day. Flour is also Is. to
2s. per sack dearer.
Barley, Beans, and Peas ruled much the same as on
Tuesday.—Malt dull, and Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper.

Oats continuing to command a moderate sale, maintained
our last quotations ; and Oatmeal moved off somewhat more
freely than of late, at an improvement of 6d. per 2-10Ibs.
Bonded Wheats, which for some time past have been nci-,

mina!, begin to meet inquiry, and several parcels have
changed hands; Kubanka hard realizing Bs., and Odessa-:-.,.
soft, of middling quality, is. 6d. per 70 lbs. ii,L4