The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

Tux SHOW

THE DINNER

The annual dinner of the members and friends of the So-
ciety took place in the evening, within Lucas's Repository,
Great Charlotte-street. Upwards of 400 individuals sat
down. Amongst the principal individuals present we noticed
the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., Sir Joshua Walrnsley,
Knt., Mayor of Liverpool, J. I. Blackburne, Esq., M.P.,
John Formby, Esq., Blackburne, jun. Esq., T. B. Crosse,
Esq., the Hon. Captain Stanley, Grenadier Guards, Captain
Phipps Hornby, Mr. Hilyard, &c. &c. Lord Stanley took
the chair ; and the cloth having been withdrawn,
The noble PRESIDENT rose amidst load cheers to propose
the first toast. It was the health of her majesty the Queen,
with every wish for her prosperity and happiness in every re-
lation of life, as sovereign, as a wife, and he trusted shortly
as a mother.—Three times three.
The PRESIDENT, in proposing the next toast said, that
having drank prosperity and happiness, to her majesty the
Queen in every relation of life, they must not forget that
within a very recent period she had contracted an alliance,
which in every relation of life, public and private, must pro-
duce the greatest effect for good or for evil, upon her happi-
ness and prosperity. (Hear.) He believed that no man
would deny to his royal highness Prince Albert (cheers) the
credit, and not the small credit to be claimed by a young
man having just come of age, of having undertaken to till that
most difficult, most delicate and responsible situation ; that
he as a stranger had the singular merit of having obtained
the good will ct all classes and the reprobation of none.
(Hear.) With every wish that her Majesty's union with his
royal highness Prince Albert might tend to her own happi-
ness and the welfare of her people, he begged to propose the
health of his royal highness Prince Albert, with three times
three. (Loud cheers.)

The PRESIDENT then said, that if he deemed it necessary
to say a single word in proposing the last toast, as that of a
prince, who, whatever might be his merits, was but newly
acquainted with this country ; he felt it was not necessary in
proposing the next toast—(cheers)—which will be received
with the respect he knew they all felt for her private virtues
and public character. He begged, therefore, to give the
health of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the rest of
the Royal Family. (Cheers,) •
The PRESIDENT said, that when he last addressed them
from that place there were more prospects of the preservation
of peace than he was afraid there were now. There was then
very little prospect of the two branches' of the service of our
country being called into exercise ; but whilst we entertained
the most fervent hope, and whilst he entertained a firm belief
in the prospect of the maintenance of the peace of the world,
it was satisfactory to believe that the spirit of the army and
navy was such as it had ever been upon former occasions;
and that should we have to call for their services, they would
not fail us in the hour of danger. By a recent lamentable
catastrophe some loss had been inflicted upon the naval ser-
vice ; and among other losses sustained, was the destruction
of three of those relics, which, although valueless in them-
selves, possessed great interest as having been attached to
ships which had victoriously carried the British flag from
One end of the world to the other. But if those relics were
destroyed by fire, he was happy to say that the spirit of the
navy remained such as it had been ; that it required no visible
memento to keep it alive, and that when we had to call upon
their services, we might call with confidence that they would
do their duty as England expected every man to do. He
knew not whether there were any distinguished members of
the army in the room. If so, lie must apologise for calling
upon a veteran in the navy who had seen some service, having
fought in one or two battles, but who was now comfortably
sheltered as superintendent of Woolwich Dock-yard.
(Laughter.) He (the superintendent) thought, no doubt„he
had a good birth, but he (Lord Stanley) Was sure he would
not be found wanting in his duty if the interest of the
country required his services. The noble chairman concluded
by proposing in connexion with the toast, the health of
Capt. phippy Hornby, which was received with loud cheers.
Capt. Plum's Hottmar on rising to 'acknowledge the toast
said, it would be vanity after the personal allusion the chair-
man had been pleased to make to his services, if he refused
to return thanks for the honor they had done him in coupling
his name with that. of the service to which he had the hoqor
to belong. He felt proud to belong to that service because
he knew it to be a noble service. He trusted and believed