The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-16 00:00:00

Mendelssohn, and his excellent leader, M. David, played.
ffeettiiiven's Grand Sonata in A, with a violin accompaniment,
(dedicated to Kreutzer,) both without having rehearsed it, and
without the music thus imparting to this difficult composition
the tire and freedom of an improvisation.
The room was again crowded as it had been on the two nights
of the feetival, and on the two great rehearsals.
It may be interesting to state the price of admission :—A
ticket for both nights of the festival, cost 3 Thalers, or 95., for
one single night, 2 Th. or 65.; for the morning concert, 35.;
and fOr each rehearsal Is.
The neat town of Dusseldorf was full of bustle anti animation
during the three days. The hotels were overflowing, and their
tables-d'hutes,,spread over a long range of rooms, could hardly.
contain all the gaeSts. Few private houses were without their
visitors from neighbouring places. A. ball and public dinner
cOncludedthiS ga:y season of a week.
The whole arrangements for'ihe festival were under the ma-
nagement of a 'committee of resident gentlemen, who gave
general and deserved satisfaction. :though, by unforseen im-
pediments, an unusually short time hail remained for their
preparations, yet everything went off with the most perfect
order and the greatest decorum. Of their zeal for music of the
highest order, and their competent judgment, the circumstance
of their iNviting 31eridelsSohn to become their conductor, and
their selecting.two such compositions. as the oratorio.and the
choral symphony, afford the most convincing proof. .It is a
leading principle with them that each festi'val must contain a
nets feature.

GRAND CONSERVATIV FESTIVAL IN ESSEX.
On Tuesday evening a grand conservative festival-was given
at Chipping Ongar, Essex, to T. IVArarriston and G. Palmer,
Esqrs., the members for the southern 'division of the county.
The festival took place under-a superb marquee in the grounds
of Mr. Potter. John Round, Esq , presided. About three
hundred electors were present, and among those present we
obserVed Mr. Bramston, M.F., Mr. Palmer, M.P., Quintin
Dick,-M.P., Horace Twiss, M:P., Sir • Ralph Palmer, and a
great number of the most influential landed proprietors and
gentry of the county.
The usual' loyal toasts having been drunk with enthusiasm, .
The Chairman gave " The Army and Navy,'/ in a brief and
excellent speech.—Drunk with loud cheers.
I'he Chairman, in rising to propose the next toast, said he
was proud of the:opportunity of being placed in a situation to
testify his cordial respect for the ministers of the established
church. ( Hear, hear.) He would propose to them to testify
their respectful feeling towards the church by drinking to " the
health.ofthe Bishop and the Clergy of the diocese," who bad
this day honoured them with their presence. (Cheers.)
Dr.. Barrett, in rising to speak to the toast, begged to thank
the rueetin;r, for .the powerful testimony they had just given-of
the efficient duties of the clergy of the church of England. It
was their happiness to belong to a church that was the glory of
their country, and the foundation orits constitution. Wear
and cheers.)
" The health of the Lord Lieutenant" having been given,

The Chairman rose to propose the health of " the Members
for the Southern Division of the County of Essex." (Cheering,
which lasted for several minutes.) He was well aware, be
sail, how warmly.such a toast would be received; and he felt
hots; inadequate his talents were to pay a proper tribute of
respect to those gentlemen to whom they (the electors) had de-
legated the most important of national trusts, and who had
fulfilled the duties of that trust honourably and most satisfac-
torily. (Cheers.)
Mr. Brainston rose to return thanks, and was some time
before he could be heard in the deafening plaudits with which
he was received. Would to God, he said, he was gifted with that
extraordinary talent which was rarely bestowed but on favoured
individuals; to address them in language adequate to the occa-
sion, and also of the grateful feelings that he now entertained—
of his extreme and devoted gratitude for the manner in which
they had beets pleased to receive the notice of his health as one
of their representatives. (Cheers.) He should only beg that
gentlemen would be pleased not to estimate the depth of his
gratitude from the feeble manner in which he was able to ex-
press himseif. (Hear.) However aware of his deficiencies in
his conduct as one of their representatives, still the warmth with
which his health had been received showed him that, to a cer-
tain degree, they were satisfied with the manner in which he
had attempted to fulfil the trust they had reposed in him. The
electors Sent him, as the chairman had told them, to the
House-of Commons to support—as well he might—the mi-
nisters who then directed the energies of this mighty empire.
He endeavoured, as far as he could, by his voice and by his vote,
to advance the interests of that administration; but, from a va-
riety of circumstances which no man could ever have imagined
-;—by a combination of parties whom none would have ever sup-
posed would have coalesced—(Hear, hear,) the destruction of
'that administration was effected—( Hear, hear.) He could not
say that the confidence which he had reposed iu that ministry he
had continued to its successors—( cheers) ;—for though he could
Conscientiously state that it had been his endeavour, as it had
alWays been his object, during. the time be had had the honour
of being one of the representatives of this part of the county, to
afford no factious opposition to the measures of government; so
on the other hand, he should feel it his duty, and would let no
delicaby prevent him giving his steady and uncompromising op-
position to measures that he considered to be destructive to the
institutions of the country—(Great cheering.) But if at the.
commencement of their (the present government's) reign—if
at the time they assumed the reins of government, he was unable
to consider them as worthy of confidence, he would say that he
did not consider 'that either foreign or domestic policy since
that period had entitled them to his support—(cheers);—and
he must say that he was more particularly inclined to Mistrust
them when he saw under whose miserable protection its exist-
ence is prolonged—(Great cheeting.) In lookiOg back upon
the measures brought into the House of Commons by the minis-
try during the' last and present session, he could not help
obserVing with regret, that when' there had been a promise of
good held out to the country, there had alWayi been engrafted
oh it some unfortunate principle of evil, of which, While ;
they admitted the' good, they could not admit the whole—
( 'cheers. ) However palatable the preparation and profes-
sion might appear in the first instance, yet, before they
get to the bottom, they found they could not drain' the cup
of its dregs without feeling that there was something poi-
sonous—something destructive remaining—(Great cheering.)
Mr. Bramston then entered into a luminous examination of the
Irish municipal reform bill and the Irish chtirch question, and,
after dwelling upon the manner in which they had been ineffec-
tually resisted in the House of Commons, he observed that he
congratulated the meeting that, though the efforts of the con-
servatives in the lower house had been of no avail, tbere was
still, fortunately for the friends of the church and the well-being
of the country, another house to whkh.there was an appeal—.
(immense Cheering)—a house Of independentmenhonourable,
firm, wise' and eloquent statesmen—(renewed cheers)—meu
who were not to be daunted or controlled by such threats or by.
such policy as influenced seine of those in the other house—
men who heeded not the taunts.of their, enemies and the Cotin-
lry's enemies, but considered them as the passing wind or the
stubble cackling—(immense cheeri, in which the conclusion
Of the'sentence was loit)—men who felt that they possessed va-
luable and idiportant privileges--,privileges out for their own
interest, but to be exercised for 'the good. of the countp—
(cheers) —privileges that they had most beneficially exercised,
and which, God giant, they might continue to exercise—(loud
cheers)--privileges which enabled them to stand between the
inroads of monarchy and the trampling under foot by democra-
tid power. (Renewed cheets4 Before he sat down perhaps
they would allow him to" congratulate them upon the distin-
gui;hed.meeting which this town and the neighbourhood had
this'evening shown to' the conservatives of England. (Cheers)
They had heard in the House of Commons and else Where much
of the establishment of Normal schoolS for purposes of which
there was no doubt; but let the principles and politics of these
Normal schools be diffused as widely as they could be, and as
numerous as their professors desired' to make them, be feared
them not while he saw the conservatives assembling, intelligent,
wealthy, influential, and numerous as the present, throughout
the country, and evincing their veneration of that constitution
under which Great Britain had so long enjoyed peace and
prosperity. (Loud and long-continued cheering.)
Mr. Palmer also rose to return thanks. After expressing his
gratitude for the great warmth 'with which his name had been
received, he observed that it would not be irrelevant, notwith-
standing the eloquent speech of his honourable colleague, if he
alluded to some leading acts of the present ministry—destruc-
tive acts, the results Of which there could be no doubt if that
ministry should be permitted to continue much longer in power;
and he would say that the result would not Only be the destruc-
tion of the constitution of the country, with church and state,
lint the deStruction of the very people themselves. (Loud cries
of "Hear.")

Several other toasts,including the Duke of Wellington, Lord
Lyndhurst, Sir Robert Peel, &c., were enthusiastically drunk,
and several excellent speeches were delivered, but which, from
the great press of inatter, we are obliged to omit.
' The company did, not separate until a late hour.