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greatly insufficient in accommodation.

The gallery over the entrance doors was appropriated to
the ladies, for whom 300 seats were provided. The Chair-
man's table was placed upon the elevated platform at the
other, or top end of the room, from which speakers usually
address meetings, when held in the Music flail : the body
of the hall was taken up with five long tables, the whole
length of the hall, which were to accommodate 400 gen-
tlemen.

The highly respected president of the association, Samuel
Holme, Esq., occupied the chair, and .John Wilkinson and
Joseph Cooper, Esqrs., acted as vice-chairmen. To the
chairman's right were seated Lord Viscount Sandon, M.P.
for the Borough, the Hon. R. B. Wilbraham, M.P. for the
Southern Division of the County, Joseph Bailey, Esq., M.P.
for East Worcester, Sir Thomas Brancker, Jas. Aspinall,
Esq. Ex-Mayor; Duncan Gihb, Esq„ T. B. Horsfall, Esq.,
John Roby, Esq., of Rochdale; P. Greenall, Esq., of St.
Helen's; Nicholas Robinson, Esq., G. H. Lawrence, Esq.,
and J. A. Tinne, Esq. To the chairman's left sat C. Cress-
well, Esq., M.P. for the Borough ; J. B. West, Esq., late
M.P. for Dublin; Rev. Rector A. Campbell, AM., Thos.
Bright Cross, Esq., late High Sheriff; C. Lawrence, Esq.,
Thomas Moss, Esq., William Smith, Esq., R. Gladstone,
Esq., Alexander Smith, Jun., Esq., and T. M Gladstone,
Esq.; and numerous other gentlemen of some note in the
neighbourhood, sat in other parts of the Halt.
The tickets for the dinner were a guinea each; and the
dinner, which was very magnificently got up, was provided
by Mr. Lawton, of the Rainbow Tavern, on whom it re-
flected great credit. The tables were very splendidly deco-
rated, and ornamented with numerous large and costly mo-
dels of churches, temples, houses, domes, &c., loaded with
sweetmeats. We especially remarked two models of Grecian
temples on the chairman's table, the aides of which were of
looking glass, and surmounted by an elegant dome, supported
by pillars in imitation of marble. On the top of one of these,
was a very beautiful full-sized imperial crown of velvet, with
the jewels represented by confectionary, and tinder the dome,
a small carved full-length likeness of the Queen. At the
other end of the table, was a similar temple, surmounted by
the implements of war, in white sugar, and underneath, a
full-length carved figure of the Duke of Wellington.
On one of the tables at the side of the hall, was a very
splendid large model of the fort and lighthouse, surrounded
by an imitation of the green waves of the sea; and coming
round the rock, a very beautiful model of a full-rigged ship.
The whole most elegantly finished. Some idea may he
formed of this by the height of the tower of the lighthouse,
which was about three feet from the summit to the table. On
the other side of the hall, on the side-table opposite to this
model, was a model of a water•mtll at full work, the wheel

being turned by water, which by some contrivance, was
made to revolve, and keep up the supply. This was also
finished with great taste, and was a perfect picture.
The chair was a curiously carved old masonic chair, behind
which was the Liverpool arms. This was surmounted by
Mr. Holme's crest. Above this, against the wall, was the
motto—" Church, Queen, and Country," which was illumined
by the Royal cipher, and a large crown in jet gas, which
looked very beautiful. To the right and left of the chairman
were hung some beautiful prints, in handsome frames, of
distinguished statesmen. There was also a full-length and
splendid print of her Majesty, from the recent painting for
which her Majesty sat, taken for the people of the United
States of America. The other prints were of the Duke of
Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Sandon, Lord Francis
Egerton, Lord Sidmouth, Lord Lyndhurst, Sir W. Follett,
Load Wharncliffe, the Duke of Newcastle, &c.
The wall to the right of the chairman was covered with the
very beautiful flag of the Tradesmen's Conservative Associa-
tion, and to the left by the splendid banner of the South
Lancashire Conservative Association. The centre of the
side walls of the hall were hung with the splendid new ban-
ners of Abercrombv and St. Paul's Municipal Wards. The
banner of Abercromby Ward had a very beautiful full-sized
portrait of her Majesty painted on the silk; and that of St.
Paul's Ward, a small painting of St. Paul's Church ;—both
wore finished in very costly style. Every inch of the other
parts of the walls was covered with the silk banners of
Everton, Kirkdale, Pitt-street, Lime-street, West Derby,
St. Anne's, and other Wards; and union-jacks and royal
standards in abundance. Against the wall at the bottom of
tin Hall, in large characters, were written the words " San-
don and Cresswell," and "47186" and "4632," the number
of electors that polled for each respectively at the last elec-
tion.

Au excellent company of glee singers were in attendance.

The gentlemen of the press were accommodated at the top
of one of the centre tables, and we have to tender our thanks
for the attention shown to us in the fulfilment of our arduuus
task.

The whole of the room was brilliantly lighted with gas,
and when all the seats were occupied by gentlemen, and the
gallery adorned by the gay presence of the ladies, with the
brilliant lights and profuse garniture and ornaments, it pre-
sented a rich and magnificent spectacle.
Dinner was on the table at five o'clock, half an hour be-
fore which time the ladies were admitted, and then com-
menced the busy din of knives and forks, and the other con-
comitants of the masticatory process.
Grace having been sung, and dinner eaten, the cloth was
removed. After which " Non nobis domino" had been sung,
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the first toast. Lle
said, gentlemen, when I remember that the female who now
graces the British throne, I think I might appeal to your
gallantry, as well as to your loyalty, to receive the first toast,
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which it not more my duty than my privilege ta give; and
I am satisfied that there is not an individual in this room
who will not cordially respond to the sentiment which I
have on my list as the first toast. I beg to propose to you
" the Queen, the Duchess of Lancaster, (as we drink her in
this county) and may her throne be established in the af-
fections of a free people." The toast was given amidst
almost interminable rounds of cheering. Anthem—" God
save the Queen," which was loudly applauded at its political
allusions.
The CHAIRMAN again rose. I have now, gentlemen, to
propose for your acceptance the health of another illustrious
lady; and I trust that her sojourn in the Mediterranean may
conduce to the re-establishment of her health. (Hear.) It
cannot be too well known, that such was the attachment of
this illustrious lady to our country, that although, for the re-
establishment of her health, she was advised to sojourn at the
island of Madeira, she came to the resolution, although nut
so beneficial to herself, to go to the island of Malta, because
it was a British settlement (cheers), and that the money she
received from Great Britain might be expended in one of
Great Britain's settlements. I beg, therefore, to propose to
von the health of " her Majesty the Queen Dowager ; ' and
I will include with it " the rest of the Royal Fatuity." The
toast was given with three times three cheers.
Glee.—" My dear Mistress."
The CHAIRMAN—"The army and navy."
Glee—" Britain's best bulwarks."
The CHAIRMAN.—I am quite sure gentlemen, that the
next sentiment which appears upon my list is one tl.at will
meet a hearty response in the breast of every individual pre-
sent; it is "The British Constitution in Church and State."
(The company unanimously rose and gave three cheers ) I
wish, gentlemen, to dwell strongly upon the fact, that the
stability of the national institutions depends in a great mea-
sure upon the efficiency of our national church. (Cheers.)
And when I remember that the increase of our population
has not been met by a corresponding increase in the number
of churches, so as to provide for the spit itual destitution of
the people, I feel satisfied that the time has arrived when it
is necessary that we should put our shoulders to the wheel,
and that we should remedy such a serious and such a la-
mentable defect. I shall never consider the constitution of
our country perfect until I see—what I hope 1 may live to
see—a resident minister of the Church of England to at least
every 4,000 of our population —(cheers)—and until I see a
school attached to such churches, tinder the care and super-
intendance of the minister, in which the young of our coun-
try may be educated upon the only principle which may be
said to be a sound principle—a principle which is founded on
the invaluable word of God.—(Cheers.) I believe, gentle-
men, that if the system of education which is intended to be
brought into parliament by Mr. Wyse and others, be permit-
ted to be carried into effect, that it will have the effect of aiding
much the opponents of the Church of England. Now, they
cannot injure her openly, but, I believe, that they can on the
sapping and mining system. But, I trust, that our represen-
tatives will speak out on that question—(tremendous cheer-
ing)—because, I believe, that a scriptural church, and a
scriptural church alone, will prove to be what it has
been, and what, I hope, it ever will be, the sheet anchor
of our British constitution. I hope that every facility
will be afforded by the British legislature to those
benevolent individuals, who are anxious and ready to
sacrifice their property for the purpose of obtaining such a
great and glorious consummation; and I hope that every re-
striction—for it is churchmen, and not dissenters, that have
to complain of restrictions—(hear)—will be removed from
the security of the church establishment, and that individuals
so minded, but unable to erect churches where churches are
wanted, will be enabled to do so. This will be beginning at
the right end; and then, and not till then, shall we have the
British constitution, in church and state, what I wish to see
it, and I am sure what every one here wishes to see it—per-
fect. I will likewise couple with this toast the name of a
gentleman who stands deservedly high. and needs no com-
ment from me. I need hardly say that I mean " the health
of our excellent Rector Campbell." (The company rose,
and gave three enthusiastic cheers )
The Rev. RECTOR CA MPBEELL rose amidst enthusiastic
cheering.—He said, Mr. Chairman, and brother conserva-
tives—(cheers)--in rising to respond to this toast, it becomes
me in the first instance to express the becoming, the deep
humility, anti gratification which I feel, at the manner in
which you have received my name ; in particular, I have to
return my most grateful thanks to Mr. Holme, the chair-
man, for the manner in which he was pleased to introduce it,
and to you for the manner in which you are pleased to re-
ceive it. And, having done this, I now feel it my privilege
to congratulate you confidently on the improved prospects of
the conservatives since our last meeting. (Cheers.) And,
while I feel it my privilege to congratulate you, I also feel it my
duty to thank you for thegreat, and influential share which you
have had to effect that improvement. It is by the combined
exertions of you, and of men like you, that a voice has been
raised in the great and populous towns, proclaiming in lan-
guage not to be misunderstood, that the people of England,
though really alive for every salutary change, are not yet
tired of their monarchical government—(cheers)—and are not
prepared to surrender the national church to a selfish factious,
or to sacrifice the time-honoured institutions of our country
to the insatiate idol of revolutionary innovation. (Cheers.)
And therefore, gentlemen, it is, that the intended sacrifice
has been deferred. But I believe that it has only been de-
ferred; and while we congratulate each other on the im-
provement of our prospects, we must not for a single instant
cease from further exertions, or imagine that the danger is
past and gone. The storm, no doubt, for the present is
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the wind is only hushed and is still ready to he sum-
mommoned from the cave.of Eolus, or ft= the Abbey of
Derrynane. (Loud cheers.) The voice is still among
the 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 I 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 hind, 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 allies' 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
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is nothing to 'be ashamed of. gentlemen, I 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 from 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—(bear)—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 Ene-
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 t.. the highest rank in the community—the connecting
link between the cottage and the throne." The Church of
leugland, let us not forget, is the people's church ; wildn they
grillage the church, they rub their own property—the/ deso-
late the inheritance of their own children.—(Cheerf.) 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 ao, 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 satisf parity
that will never be satisfied with any thing but its tater des-
truction, and care not what party is iu power. Trojan or
Tyrian, it is all the same to UP. 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 ascent
all mention of national religion and of the providence of
God; wbo 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 lo 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,)—unen who fear God and honour the Queen—who
will defend your national Church, which I will take the
liberty of calling the Old Euglish 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 be the people of England themselves:—
(hear, hear); for the first Minister of the Crown has told
tie positively, and advanced in his place in parliament, that
"he does nut 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 opinion
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 inohe Itilderness and unheard. And how is this in-
fluence to be recovered, and this change to be effected ? Per-
haps you 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 to the wealthy
laity. (Hear, bear, 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 exertion. 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 ha's devoted
£4OOO to the building of a church, and is going to endow it
with £3O a year. I do trust that his example will be followed
to a certain extent, and that Liverpool will do fur 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, you 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 hostility 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 be 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 the people, why then, there is no help for it; we shall
not repel I hope, but we must repair; we must appeal from
Ciasar 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 God. 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 charily, advocating the ne-
cessity of an established church. I 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 sante 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, I will not trespass any further upon your time, but
sit down thanking you 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 association with the subject of the
last speaker's address, produced an instant and enthusiastic
burst of applause.
The CHAIR: gar; 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.)
Glee—" Here in cool grot."
The CHAIRMAN again rose. He said—Gentlemen, it is
no part of the character of the British tradesman to offer fill-
some adulation to any man or to any set of men ; and I reel
satisfied, gentlemen, that in simply proposing the next toast
upon my list it will not be necessary to do more than to name
that toast at this present meeting. The best proof that we
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-
tinned 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
yonr 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 am sure
it will receive at the hands 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. Cresswell." (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
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(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 against local influence and local prejudices—
(bear)—we had 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 t't;
resist a good deal of popular iutimidation; 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 vou 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 been
repeated in town and country, as it was the wish of her
,Alaieety's ministers,. do you think the colour of the last
session would have been such as we have seen-sf?
Would you have seen the Church respected, and the
constitutional 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 been the harbinger of party triumphs, it has been
the harbinger of the safety of oil: country.—(Cheers.) But,
gentlemen, when I teach you this, would I wish to teach you
to be satistied'vrith what has been dune? 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 ? Su long, gentlemen, as the pre-
sent administration reinain in power, I would never teach
any man to rest satisfied. (Cheers.) Why, gentlemen,
what class of men has reason to be satisfied with her ma-
jesty's present administration ? Nay, more, 1 would say,
what class of men is satisfied with her Malesr.v's present
administration; whether tory or radical, churchmen, or dis-
senter? I defy you to lay your finger on any class of men
that is satisfied with her Majesty's present trdministration.
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 i: has been carried? lndiguant
cries of " No, no.") Are 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.
vinle 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 'sou 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 he con-
fiscated and abandoned, and hardly a semonstrance made?
(Hear, hear.) Are you satisfied with that very 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 reasons to satisfy
the British government at the present period, with the Bri-
tish commercial injury? I 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 hobby
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 he 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 amilDinted 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 times, but 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 language of two gentlemen who have
spoken, that this will be put in tire 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 prelitni-
nary of our duties.—(Cheers.) Now, upon this head, I so
fully concur with the statements expressed by your chairman.
and by your reverend and respected rector, thati confess 1
have nothing more to do than to repeat their expressions,
for the purpose of expressing my own opinion; but as I am
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-
oven, 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 utge us forward;
but when the constituencies are ripe for it, then I think you
may be sure that your representatives will not he slow to
listen to their call. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I will not fur-
ther intrude upon you, I have much to thank von for as I
said before; I know the kindness with which you have always
received any pour endeavours of urine, 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 CiIESSIVELT, Esq., immediately arose, and
was received with a long-continued round of cheering and
clappEug of hands. Betore 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 tune, 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 me still more, for I feel the
weight of gratitude now incumbent on me is such that I can
make no adequate return for it, I will not say now, but
by any services I may he 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 front me to express my
thanks in adequate terms, that have as yet done nothing for
you. Gentlemen, I conic 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
make you any adequate thanks for 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 to any, and as each of vou in turn may be the party
against whom my professional labrurs may be retained, I
fear that many of you may have left the court thanking me
little indeed for any courtesy I have given }on.—(Cheers and
laughter.) And while, therefore, from my heart I admire
you for those feelings which you now manifest, and for for-
getting those which might make you visit on the representa-
tive the sins of the advocate, yett' cannot but deeply feel the
kindness you have this day shown to me; and, gentlemen, I
state inost freely, that I rejoice in this reception—rejoice in
it, not 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
me 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•suppnsed" to shine upon him, has
lately entered this town—(loucl laughter)—that he also has
presented himself among the Liverpool people, and has had
the means of marking 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 hint 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 govern 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 been 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 "'ISM.") 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 present, been abandoned, do you believe
they have learnt to love the peers, or to venerate the church,
or Jo 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 not usual to rely on the con-
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 rue, more than one of her Ma-
jesty's ministers, in the debate which took place on the Irish
tithe bill, declare that it was not because they loved the
church, it was not because they considered the church enti-
tled to support, because they considered the property sacred
that they spared it, but because they had not the power to
take it from her. (" Hear," and laughter.) And, there-
fore, while that on the one hand ought to . be most gra-
tifying, most consoling, most encouraging to you, as show-
ing how much stronger you are now than you , were
fortnerly ; 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 scheme, for the

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 tbey 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 v►olated._ 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 Me:-
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 from
'the- Irish- church-bill what was- camtnanly_ealled..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
shall wash my hands of- the bill, and shall not persist in the
measure deprived of that principle to which, indeed, I am
pledged. I 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."
(Laug,htei.) Very ready but they have not. done it. (Con-
tinued laughter.) On the 2tl 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
if 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
seety. 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. Anil, gentlemen, is there
any other proof required, that in the majority returned by
the English constituencies your safety has been found ; yes,
for wherever yeti 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; and
it is no question that this preponderating influence on the
part of the majority returned by the British constituency,
that you haye now the Irish agitator claiming as one of the
principles on which alone he will cease agitation, that Ireland
shall have representatives in proportign to the number of her
inhabitants, in order that they may ,utweigh the influence
of the English Is.= ti utior, 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 En,g-
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, nor-the two [suited,
that did it, but that it was Ireland. • la it.not enough to have
overthrown our ancient Parliamentary system, and our an-
cient Municipal constitution ? Is that not enough but they
must have a representation in proportion to the number of
the Irish Paupers to overthrow the institutions of the country?
Such are the terms 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 acs thing 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? (Hear.) Therefore
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 own 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 I was about
to make. You returned us on our principles. I believe that
the opinions of conservatives 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 country, which I will do by reading an admira-
ble 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.art independent sovereign power, and.
thereby to destroy the mutual harrier to encroachments on
the East of Europe—to abandonCircassia, the bulwark of our
Indian possessions, to the conquest of Persia—to redunce,-.
Persia to the condition of a Russian dependency-to. exclude
the British ..merchant entirely from the coasts of the Black
Sea, where a most lucrative trade could 'be carried on-40.
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 in Africa, of a French colony, an enter
prize contrary to a specific treaty—to exlcude otir manufactu-
rers from the European markets, by a high scale of duties, con-
trary to existing treaties—to tolerate encroachments on our-
fishing ,rounds 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 tb-s country is involved as regards our relations with
Spain and Portugal, withthe 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 ? True it is, we are at peace or in an amity with
foreign nations. Are we really and truly in friendship with
Russia ? If we are, how forgiving we must be ! we have forgiven
all the insults in the Black Sea; we have shut our eyes at all
:he, att anpts at our Indian poss ssions. Are we in an
amity with Pruisia ? It must Is'e for shutting out our
manufactures from her Sol-es. Are neat amity with France?
It must be for blockading out our manufactures from
the Brazils and Mexico, and for what ? A blockade; -as I
understood, was a proceeding of war! Are we at peace 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. 'ro propose,
peace and hartnpay were unfortunately too much concession ;
in putting down the factions they have at last allowed faction
to ripen into rebellion. But if this is the conduct of the minis-
try how is it it still remains in power? How can-you account
fur the British nation tolerating such things? Can they
be agreeable to the Queen ? Can her Majesty love these
ministers and be attached to• them? Can the people be at-
tached to them ? Are Se people attached to them ? ( Ve-
hement cries of `•No, ffil.") Did they show attachment to
her when they had her amongst them? (Loud and 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 me read to you the exact
words of a noble lord lately visiting this town, in a work pub-
lished not many years ago. He is describing the worthless
conduct of a minister, by which he may maintain himself in
power without talent, without patriotism, withouthe love
or attachment of the crown or of the people, ,and he then
tells you what that minister may -do Although such a
minister and his cabinet shall be enabled to say to their
Sovereign, However pernicious our measures inay be,- and
however unpopular our persons, you must maintain ns.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,'" He would
have them remember the-conduct of the present administra-
tion, and the manner in which they had created and- given
away patronage, and whether the whole of Lord J. Russell's
description did not apply to the ministry and their acts in the
present day. He exhorted them to persevere in;st rangt herring .
the association for it was by such associations that results
were obtained which were the salvation of the country. lie
expressed himself strongly in favour of scriptural educa-
tion as the only means of making a man a good Chris-
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 beer
able to send two conservative representatives for the 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 able fo
give them a good reason for the absence of his colleague.
Mr. WILBRAHAM rose, and was loudly cheered.. .He said,
if his noble rind his learned friend bad foiled difficulty. in ex-
pressing their gratitude, he felt much greater difficulty, inns
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.ne.ver be
found backward in showing his respect to them and to their
town by attending its meetings. (Cheers.) Their 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 Egerton'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. (Hear.) 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 alit to fall asleep when there was
nothing specially to rouse them. He hoped that was ma.
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. Ile 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 trig could only assure them in conclusion, that any
poor services which he could render, should always be at
their command, and he would ever 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 litle preface. He was happy to say he
had heard of the oatne of their chairman iu many parts of
England remote from Liverpool. The Conservatism of that
gentleman rested on the surest of all foundations, religious
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,) Ild gave
them the health of their excellent chairman.
The toast was received with tumultuous applause.
The CHAIRMAN, in rising- to- return thanks, waireeted
with renewed acclamations. He said, illy lord,s-a
, and gentle-
men, it has seldom happened that an individual of me sta-
tion iu life has been so frequently called onto 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, havrever, I
have nor 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
(cheers)—with which 1 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 been associated in the thickest of the com-
bat—(cheers)—out however, to repose on the laurels we
have won—(cheers)—but to remind you we are yet in the
camp, that we are yet in the presence of active, and sleep-
less antagonists, unit that we-must hold ourselves ready for
active, and perhaps, not distant exertion. (Hear. hear.)
Lf the civil and religious liberty we possess be worth enjoy-
ment, itsis worst isseguation, and the man is unworthy such
inestimable privileges who can wrap himself up in-luxurious
enjoyment when 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 institutions, covertly consign them to
destruction, would be in themselves utterly powerless, were
they not aided by the cupidity of many 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 recruitss-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 have anticipated' a few years ago, when the raven was
screaming around the towers of the constitution, when the
hoarse voice of a Birmingham mob friehted the isle from its
propriety—when the fires•ot 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 Lords were overawed by the cries of the anar-
chist—that within Se short a period,kindred associations should
spring into existence in every•county—that the concentrated
leyalty of the hind should be invigorated with new spirit—
that3oo Conservative members should he returned to parlia-
ment, and that the popular thunder, which soon began to
mutter in the distance' should 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)-e-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 work is not done. We have yet
much to combat for, and everything to. preserve. (Fleur.)
The flouse of Lords cannot lung maintain its ground, unless
it be supported by sa majority in the Commons.. And that
must be the grand-,object of conservatism. That it will he
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.) The days of expediency are gone, and
unless the middle classes exert themselves, and their repre-
sentatives make a determined stand, the British constitution
is gone 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 thing is
rotten at the cure, • 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
power—the free institutions of Great Britain. Throw open
to talent and enterprise every undertaking fur general bene-
fit, and time-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 sore end beneficial investments for the earnings of do.
. mesticsaindailizans,, as well as for the super-abundance of
our capitalists, and the receipts of our gas and water compa-
nies, our :hanks' our railways and canals, instead of flowing
directly into time 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 fisruiss 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-
sous of pulling doWn the ancient edifice, replete with useful-
ness, as it stands unrivalled for grandeur, and see one erected
-by the political tinkers Pf•Birminghatn, which the first storm
will burl 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 bandit, or the Italian carbonaro, than
for the manly open-hearted spirit of. Englishmen. (Hear.)
:We thirds annual Parliaments would be an anuual nuisance
-(cheers and, laughter)—a hundred times worse than the
white vapour 'of Muspratt.. (Much laughter.) We look
. upon the prodigious advances of Popery with jealousy, be-
cause, Spt;aking of her as a system, and it is only so that I
. speak of her, no faith can be kept. with her. For she keeps
faith with none. She, laughs at the cupidity of liberalism.
She is liberal in England—she is intolerant in Italy. She is
the 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-
tary of scriptural truth—when we look at the moral influence
she possesses throughout the world; and when we remember
our responsibility to ilium who has tbestowed upon us such
national blessings: weesfeel it imperative
.upon us to hand
down unimpaired to our posterity the privileges we have our-
selves received, and of which, under God, we are the present
guardians; —and we feel that it is our duty to resist to the
utmost every effort of those -who are seeking to destroy our
national Church, preparatory to the destruction of our esta-
blished form of Government.. And, if we should ever be
called on to defend tho Se. 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
changes, 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 for suund 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,
anti I beg to propose a toast which will better deierve the
zeal and cordiality- with warich 1 know you will drink it. It
is comprised in two short words—" The Duke." (Drunk
with repeated honours.)
Glee—" The niighty Conqueror."
Tile CHAIIIMANI said, if they were indebted, next to the
Established Church, to one institution mitre than another,
there was nothing to which, since the days of Runnemede,
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."
The CIIA liimArc—Sir Robert Peel, and the Conservative
Members of the House of Commons." (Much cheering.")
Song by Mr. Pemberton—" Like a plain-dealing Soldier
has Wellington spoke,"
Lord SANDON 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 banner who could be insensible to his high merits.
he CueirissiaN • proposed the health of Mr. West, who
ought, by right, to ,he the representative for Dublin.
Witar,eivlio was hailed With rapturous applause, said,
'haves very frequently received much kindness in conse-
quence of 'the' part I have taken in contesting the represen-
tation of our first Irish city. Among the most gratifying of
these testimonials of esteem and approbation, it is impossible
not, to place the distinguished honour conferred upon me,
by the invitation of the Tradesmen's Conservative Asso-
ciation to be present at this festival. I feel .most deeply
erateful for the manner, so highly gratifying to myself, in
which you have received the mention of Iny 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 cannel help expressing the Conservative
wish, that the example of this town, seemingly destined even
mare by her energy and spirit in business, than by her na-
tural position, to be the capital of the trailing world,—the
example set by the merchants of Liverpool might be fol-
lowed la the..merchants of England generally. (Hear.)
Your chairman has (teen pleased to make one observation for
which I Was not prepared. He has told you that if I had
my rigfits 1 should be member fur Dublin. Permit me to
say, that is- an expression wnich has never fallen from me.
Let my opinion be what. it may, I consider it more impoitant
• to any well-regulated community, that the barrier should nut
be lira en down, 'which makes it impossible to believe that a
gentlemaim can -violate his honour,—(hear,)—than that any
-ristrire'sliould receive even so proud a reward as that of repre-
senting the first city in his native land. (Cheers.) It never
should be his principle to traduce or revile the members of
time ,Ilouse of Commons, or any gentleman moving in a re-
spectable rank. 1 leave that to others. (Applause.) That
should find myself here, an Irish protestant, (cheers,) I
confider the very greatest compliment ever paid to myself per.
sonally; and if I might presume to take time manner in which
my name has
,been received as a proof of the cordiality and
good feeling on the part of England towards my protest-
ant fellow-countrymen,—(great cheering)—then the pride
and' gratification I feel would be infinitely enhanced.
(Cheers.) I must say, even here, that the great, if not the
only difficulty of fighting the battle of the constitution in
I. eland, is t he apathy of 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
England as they used to be. ( Hear.) The Protestants of
Ireland cannot forget, though l believe it is not always re-
membered here, that their ancestors were your countrymen,
sent to 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 been 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 to 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,
—a 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 fellow Ship to their Roman Catholic countrymen.
And I can answer for them, they did so. ( Hear.) 'They
have always been ready to do so, with all their hearts ; be-
cause we abjureand detest the jesuitical principle and practice
Cf driving coaches-and-six through 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
melt. And I will say for my Protestant countrymen, that
learning as they did, the intention of the legislature to place all
classes of persons on terms ollikcivil equality, they cordially
relinquished the hostility as soon as that intention became
law. (Cheers.) With these principles and recollections,
they have thought it hard that their, devotion fur 200 years
to this country should have , had less weight, within the last
few years, with a people remarkable for its love of justice.
than time assertions of men who detest this country, and
whose existence depends on the disturbance of public order.
(Hear and cheers.) -But I believe the time begins to reveal
the truth to a generous people; and I believe the whole crime
of the Protestants of Ireland isthis, that rye will not abandon
our connexion with Eugland, so long as you permit its the
happiness of maintaining it. ((.sheens.) And that we will
not abandon our religion, which is the bond of that con-
nexion,. (Renewed cheers.) Are vim aware that in one
year after the emancipation, Mr. O'Connell made a deliber-
ate attempt, to seduce .the protestants of Ireland into his
scheme- of repeal ? (Hear.) Are you aware that in Janu-
ary 1831, he addressed 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 thssr,!sult. How man y de-
scendantsof Englishmen joined him ? Not one. (Cheers •) He
then resorted to calumny and abuse, which 1 am sorry to
say has had too much effect. But in Ireland he failed en-
tirely • and in a letter written in 1835 he abuses the protest-
ants Of Irelaud, stating that he had thrown assay 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 in 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. I 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 for the support of foreign
mercenaries of au alien creed,"—this is the description cf the
l'rotestant church of Ireland—(hear, hear,) " under pre-
tence of providing for their intellectual and religious neces-
sities. That these humbugs have been too long, and too
patiently endured. But that the intellects of the people are
now 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 "he talks of "a coin-
pound of fraud, knavery, cruelty, and hypocrisy, in England
called the Reformation." (Hear, hear.) The Protestants
of Ireland are determined so 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. CA itsoN, at the call of the Chairman, briefly returned
thanks.

The CHAIRMAN then gave, "The Commercial, Manufac-
tilling, 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. Ronsi, 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 nigh 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 influential a 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, involvin., 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-
flimuce 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 out), a feeling of anxiety and alarm at the declaration of
a high legal authority on a recent occasion—he meant the
Lord Chancellor—who had stated, that his principle was to
regulate appointments to the magistracy by the test of po-
litical opinion. There was a motion before the 1-louse of
Lords on the 18th of July, and the attention of the House was
called to this point by Lord Who rncliffe, 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
Ilollantl, who :Wiled, 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. (A pplause.) In connexion with this subject, a
late distiuguished 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 o
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 inagistracy."—(Cheers.)
The CH A IRMA N,'reminding the company that there Was
still a duty unperformed, namely, the health of 0 The Lan-
cashire Witches," remarked, that, delightful as the task
would have been to himself, he would turn it ovet to the
learned gentleman who sat on his left, as he was still on his
preferment. (Laughter.) And that he might nut 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. CRESWELL 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. El e 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 festiv►ties were
graced by the ladies of Lancashire, and much did he hope from
suct► 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 for debasing 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
not rather trust them to those who would teach them to be
pious, chaste, dutiful, and modest, as well as fair? (Loud
cheers.) 1 give you, gentlemen, " The Lancashire Witches."
(Drunk with immen,e applause.)
The Cu:tramAN then gave "The Town and Trade of Li-
verpool," with which he would associate the name of Sir
Thomas Braucker.

Sir THOM S briefly returned thanks, and proposed " The
Operatives."

The Chairman then left the chair, and the company
broke up.

PRECISE INFORMATION.—The registrar for the Roseland
district late 4 called on a poor woman, to demand the neces-
sary information concerning the birth of her child; bnt all he
could get from her was, that is was horn •‘ the day after Uncle
Stephen killed his pig!"—Cornwall Gazette.

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 unaecountab'e 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 nut
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 intei fere
with the general circulation ; hence the train of suffering
consequent on such indulgence.

THE CAPERCAL zi.--We are happy to learn that the caper-
calzi which, as it is known, Lord Bradalbane turned out into
his forests in Scotland during the past and present summer,
have bred in thoie wilds. There were 41 altogether, about
two-thirds of which were hens, and all were - old and sea-
soned birds. This splendid collection teas 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 capercalzi, now at large in the Highlands. Mr. Lloyd, we
understand, sent at the saute time three others t 4 the
Duchess of Athol!, and fifteen to Lord Derby. All of these
are, we believe, in the aviaries of Blair and Knowsley.—
John Bull.

A SlilyEßß RUN --We have sometitnes 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 few yards of one another completely exhausted by the
severity of the chase. Friday week, however, we did see
the astonishing fact realized. While Mr. Geddes of Glas-
gow, and Dr. Brown of Stewarton, were coursing on the
farm of Todhill, Fenwick, a pair a 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 beauty, 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 coursers, • and although every exertion
was used to recover them, Dr. Brown's Sweeper died in the
course of an hour afterwards, full of glory in the deathless
fame of his own true game. On being opened, his heart
was found swelled to double its usual size, and a considerable
quantity of blood oozed from it; so that be may be said 'to
have died of a broken heart.—Kilmarnock Journal.