The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-20 00:00:00

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB.

On visiting the School a few days ago we were shown the
Exercise Books of several of the pupils, in which they wi ite,
occasionally, in their own words, their thoughts on what they
see or read. Several of these specimens are well expressed,
'and certainly would nut discredit children of a similar age who
can hear and speak. .
The following, written by one of the pupils, Richard Wil-
liams, 13 years of age, and who has been but two years in
School. we copy from his book verbatim et literatim. He is en-
deavouring to give the substance of the scripture narrative con-
tained in the first twelve verses of the 14th Chapter of St. Mat-
thew, and it will be perceived on examination that he has
scarcely omitted any one incident in the narrative.
" April 9, 1838.
"Last Friday I read in the Bible about John the Baptist,
that he was preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and Herod,
the king, heard of it, and took him, and put him into prison,
and bound him. When Herod's birth-day came he saw a little
girl dance, and he was pleased. Then he asked her what he
should give her for a present, and she went to her mother, and
asked her to advise what to ask ;—and her mother told her to
ask for John the Baptist's head ; and the little girl went, and
asked the king for John the Baptist's head, and the king
ordered him to be hebeaded in the prison, and his head was
given to her in a charger. The disciples came to the prison,
and they carried the dead hod) away and buried it, and then
went and told Jesus Christ.

It was very wicked to kill John the Baptist, who was a very
good man, hut his soul is gone to heaven, and he•is happy with
God, and Jesus Christ, and the holy angels.".

LONDON AND CHESTER NI All..—'lhe old London and Chester
Mad to Liverpool by Woodside is discontinued, to the great-re
gret of many of its old patrons. It has long kept bad time, but
still was very much patronised by the Liverpool gentlemen, and
had it met with its due proportion of patronage from those gen-
men resident in Chester, who have so frequently to travel to
London, it is very possible the spirited proprietors .wbiild'have
still continued to run it.

• RuNcoRN NEW Cuutien.—The sum of .£2SOO, we understand
will complete this beautiful and sacred edifice, &c.; aud,vre
hope to hear- of some good friend to religion, and our venerable
church establishment, enrolling his name among the best bene-
factors of mankind by endowing the elegant gothic structure
which is rising into view, to adorn and bless the enterprising
little town of Runcorn, with its 8000 inhabitants. The church
is expected to be ready for consecration in the course of lice
months.

. • •
A great additional accommodation has been granted to the
towns of•Easthani and Neston and the neighbourhood of these
places within t heir POstoffice.cleli aeries, a horse post leaves Ches-
ter Postoffiee daily, Hs soon as the London nlnil by•railway is
sorted with hags for Eastham and Neston. The horse post re-
turns from Neston every morning at ten o'clock, via Eastham,
and brings up-the bags for the two o'clock London mail train,
The old Holyhead and Liverpool mail still take letter-hags, as
heretofore, foi Eathatn rod Neston.
• -

. .
NESTON.—We have much pleasure in finding that the high
estimation in which the Rev. John Husband is held by the in-
habitants of Nestor), in the county of Chester, where he has
officiated as curate for the last nineteen years, has induced them'
to present the rev. gentleman with a handsome piece of plate, of
the value of £6O and upwards, On his retiring from that curacy.
The folllowina is a copy of an inscription engraved upon a Inas-
sive salver of silver, which, with a: magnificent epergne, have
been presented to him. "To the Reverend John Husband, M.A. ,
this salver, with a silver epergne, was respectfully presented Cy
the parishioners of Nestor), on his leaving the parish, as a
memorial of their regard and esteem for his public and private
worth.-1838.

The execution of William Hill, for the murder of Beth'
Minshull, at Warrington, is appointed to take place to-morrow,
THE GALE.—On Saturday night and Sunday, we had a
stron!, gale from the westward, wlis.ch continued with great
violence till Monday last, accompamedwithoccasional shnwer3

if hail and snow. It will be saes on reference to our ship news
hat several vessels have been driven on shore.
WsEctuns.—On Saturday, five men were brOnvht before

the Rev. Miles Formby and Mr. Rawson, inagistr-ats of the
county, charged with having plundered the sihooher 'Tyro,
recently wrecked off Foi why, of part-of her cargo. They Wi!re
committed to the House of Correction- fer two mouths, the
magistrates expressing their determination to punish -all such'
offenders with the utmost severity.

Zbe liticrpool

FRIDAY .'MORNING. APRIL 20, 1838.

ccr The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this mom
lug at 5 o'clock.

THE CONSERVATIVE FESTIVALS.—We this day pre-
sent our readers with full reports of the interesting
proceedings at the Salford and Manchester conservative
dinners. We should have been glad to insert a con-
densed report of the proceedings at Leeds; but we are
precluded from doing so by want of space. The festival
at Leeds is described as magnificent in the extreme. It
to place in a spleouen pavilion, ,4-ooto4 for the pur-
pose, and fitted up in a stile of grandeur only surpassed
by that of the pavilion at Salford. ,At Leeds twelve
hundred gentlemen Sand operatives sat down to dinner,
At Salford there were seventeen' hundred gentlemen and
operatives at table, and in Manchester there were eight
hundred present. The speeches will be perused with
much interest, especially the manly declarations and
sound conservative sentiments of Sir Francis Burdett.

The dinner at Liverpool will, of course, be on a much
smaller scale. To the shame of our otherwise spirited
" good old town" there is not a single public room in
Liverpool sufficently large to accommodate such assem-
blies as those of the Leeds and Salford conservatives.

CHURCH EXTENSION IN SCOTLAND.—Church exten-
sion has been for a considerable time past, and is at the
,present moment, the all-absorbing question in Scotland,.
and is agitating it from one end to the other. Another
reformation is unquestionably begun, and is going for-
;Ward In that land of moral interest; and, as in former
days, so now, every shade of religious opinion and of
secular interest is moving according as it is more or
less likely to be affected by the mighty impulse at work.
The main points at issue or involved in the question,
are the efficiency of voluntary compared with endowed
churches in providing for the moral and religious des-
titution of the community, and the actual extent of the
religious destitution stated as existing; out of which
arises the question, that were churches to be built to the
extent proposed, are they likely to be filled without un-
peopling the churches already in existence ?
On the one side we have the church herself taking up
the matter, and pursuing her object. with a zeal and
energy equal to her earlier and best days—adopting no
new principle—following no new standard—but cleaving
with characteristic earnestness to those principles and
rules which guided her great forefathers in both the first
and second Reformation. On the other side there is a
body as firmly opposed to the church on the endowment
question, and preferring what is called the voluntary
principle, and saying not only that the destitution is not
so great as is pretended, but that though churches were
built they would not be filled. This we believe to be a
fair statement of the case; and, with the desire to do,
justice to both,parties, we would test theni for a moment
by the principle of business and of common sense.

That churches in which divine truth are taught are a
public gocid:few will have the hardihood to deny ; and
.whatever may be the amount of destitution, if the vo.
luntary principle be held as adequate to meet the wants
of the population in regard to public religious instruc-
tion, then as the greatest amount of destitution, so far as
religious instruction is concerned, is allowed to exist
among the poorer classes of society, simply because they
have not the means of purchasing it, it would require to
be shown that voluntary churches are better calculated
titan endowed churches to meet the wants of the poor.
In other words, that a church the whole annual expenses
of which, including the minister's stipend, are to be
raised by the charge.niacie.for church sittings, is as likely
to be accepted by the poor in its neighbourhood as a
church burdened with no such expenses, and conse-
quently, free to admit the poor without charge.
Again—respecting the extent of religious destitution
actually existing, we have on the one side the declara-
tion of men who have gone from house to house in order
to ascertain the fact, and acting upon a principle deriv-
ing its birth from a period long anterior to the present,
founded upon an intimate knowledge of human nature,
and confirthed by everyday experience from the earliest
records of truth on such subjects down to the very day
in u hid] we live, and which has, moreover, been admit-,
ted as fair by a commission expressly appointed by Go-
vernment, and composed of men the majority of whom
are generally allowed to be inimical rather than favour_
able to the principle of endowments. And on the other
we have as the most clamorous those whose existence as
a religious body is but recent—who acknowledge them-
selves to have been forced insO. existence by accident—
whose own declarations before the commission forth a
principal evidence against their claim—whose churches
are burdened with such a debt as is acknowledged to be

an.evil that completely retards their progress, and must,
in the very nature of• things, for ever prevent them from
opening their doors to those unable to pay for .instru2c-
tion—those whom the vet.y principle on which they move
effectually obliges to eschew with all their ingenuity
those sections of every large town principally occupied
by the poor, as is the case in our own north end at the
present moment, as well as all the poor or thinly popit-
hated parts of the country, either leaving them to their
• destitution, or consigning them, as they actually plead
for, to the care of an unpaid male or female visitor, a
teacher, or to some indifferently paid and, consequently,
second-rate substitute for a duly qualified instructor—
those, moreover, who are at this very moment, and, in.
consequence of the reviving energy of the church, are,
in reality, though most mistakingly, trembling for what
they call the " vested rights" of their chapels, and are,
thereby, altogether unfitted to give a free or independ-
ent opinion on the subject, and which has actually driven
them to the adoption of a new and before unheard-of
rate of computation, in order, if possible, to reduce the
actual and proVed amount of spiritual instruction.
Finally—With respect to whether the churches built
in order to accommodate the destitute, and anything but
the church-going portion of the community, are likely-
to be filled without drawing sitters away from the already
existing church, the simple . fact that ten new churches
have been built within the last year in Glasgow, and are
now well filled with_rich and poor, without in the slight-
est known degree affecting . any church already built,
proves, if proof were wanting, that the assertion is a
mere theory of the imagination, and has no foundation
in fact.

SALFORD OPERATIVE CONSERVATIVE DINNER,
AND DINNER TO MR. GAftNETT.

On Tuesday, the anniversary dinner of the Salford Operative
Conservative Association was held in a temporary pavillion,
erected for the purpose, in the borough of Salford. It was de-
termined by Mr. Garnett's committee, they intending to give a
public dinner to Mr. Garnett, to endeavour to effect a junction
in the two dinners, and an arrangement to that effect was come
to, and the result was, one of the most splendid and numerously
attended conservative festivals we ever beheld. A large tem-
porary pavillion was erected, the cost of which was said to be
£2,000, and this was fitted up to seat no less than 1,700 persons,
that number of tickets being sold. The building was in the
form of a large square, containing an area of about £1,600
square yards, having a long avenue leading into it. Down this
this avenue, tables were set to accommodate 300 persons. The
tables in the pavillion, ten in number, were set the whole length
of it, there being no cross tables, and each table seating about
130 persons. At the upper end of the room was a circular table
at which sat the chairman and the principal guests. This table
was surmounted by a large canopy of pink and white calico,
with which material the whole, building was lined with great
taste. The roof was supported by two rows of light pillars,
dividing the interior, as it were, into avenues. The pillars at
the top were joined by an arch, covered with calico, and taste-
fully ornamented with evergreens. In various parts of the
building were hung up very splendid flags. In front of the
canopy was a very splendid basso selievo coat of arms, silvered
and gilt. In the interior of the canopy, at the back, were two
very large mirrors, joined together, which reflected the splendid
and animating scene before it. The interior was lit by about
twenty very splendid glass chandeliers. At the opposite end of
the pavillion to the chairman's table was the royal cipher, and
in the centre was a crown in brilliant gas jets. The whole
formed a coup d'ceil of splendour and magnificence it is not easy
to conceive.

Dinner was announced for four o'clock, but, owing to the
immense number dining, the company were not all seated and
arranged until nearly six o'clock, and it was seven before the
before the cloth was removed and the business pact of the even-

ing commenced.
Shortly before six o'clock. the chairman, William Hill, Esq.,
entered the room, followed by J),IT. Garnett, in whose honour
the dinner was partly given. They were received with the
most deafening plaudits. Soon after, Viscount Maidstone
arrived, and took his seat to the right of the chair. He was
similarly enthusiastically received. Before dinner was over,
Sir Francis Burdett, accompanied by Sir George Sinclair,
entered the room and took their seats to the left of the chair-
They were received with long-continued and vehement
cheering.

" Non nobis Domino" having been sung by a company of glee
sinters,

The CHAIRMAN proceeded to give the usual preliminary
toasts:—" Her Majesty the Queen, Duchess of Lancaster, and
may her reign be long, glorious, and happy," with three times
three Cheers.
Anthem
—" Gnat save the Queen." " The
Queen Dowager and all the Royal Family," with three times
three. " Our Glorious Constitution in Church and State."
(Enthusiastic cheering.) Glee.—" With a jolly full bottle."
"The Army and Navy," with three times three. Song.
" The Death of Nelson." " The great Duke." Glee.
.

The CHAIRMAN then said the next toast he should have the
honour to propose was the main object of the evening's meeting;
it was to drink the health of their guest, Wm. Garnett, Esq.. It
was said, at the last election, that his friend was to have a bold
front made against him, and that the whole fight was to be
taken out of the man.„ (Laughter.) But suppose the fight had
been taken out of Mr. Garnett, would they have been able to
take the fight out of the conservative electors ? (Great cheering.)
Because they lost the battle, was the spit it of conservatism to
be destroyed ? ( Loud cries of " No.") He ventured to say,
that conservatism was an indestructable spirit which should last
as long as time should endure. (Cries of " Bravo ") In the
recent election committee, Mr. Brotherton's learned counsel,
Mr. Austin, had been instructed to say, that Mr. Garnett was
not and never would be the member for Salford. He had not
the least doubt but that Mr. Garuett would he elected as their
member on the first opportunity, for he was in the warm esteem
of full two thirds of the electors. (Great cheering.) It depend-
ed upon the electors whether Salford should not be the first
amongst boroughs. If the election appeal were now to be made
instead of when it had been, instead of 888 votes, Mr. Garnett
would have half as many more. (Great cheering.) He had the
honour of seeing many around him, who formerly were advo-
cates of the other side, but who now rendered them all the addi-
tional weight of their influence. He concluded with proposing
"The health of William Garnett, Esq." (Rapturous cheering.)
An operative, named CLA RK E, then, in the name of the Oper-
ative Conservative Association, presented Mr. Garnett with a
very handsome gold cup, as a token of esteem and respect from
the operative conservatives of Salford, and, also, with a very
handsomely silver-mounted horse-whip, from a respectable sad-
dler in the neighbourhood, with which he hoped Mr. Garnett
would whip the whigs out of the borough. Mr. Clarke, in pre-
senting the cup, made some eulogistic and appropriate remarks,
and concluded with trusting that theiliporioured guest might long
live to enjoy the presents made to him.
Mr. GARNETT rose to respond to the toast amidst almost
deafening cheering. He had had so many instances of kind-
nesses shown to him, not only on the present but on all other
occasions, that it had had such an effect on his feelings as to
preclude the possibility of his adequately expressing his sense of
gratitude and the emotion which he felt. (Hear.) He was
aware, that the attention shown to him was not done so from
personal motives, but from the cause he advocated, and which
he should continue to advocate as long as he lived. (Cheers.)
That meeting, which was the third anniversary of the Salford
Operative Association, was a proof of the loyal and constitu-
tional feeling which existed in the borough of Salford. (Cheers.)
The numbers around him exhibited the sincere desire of the
conservatives of Salford to show their respect to the noble lord
and to his honourable friend, Sir Francis Burdett. (Great
cheering. The splendid scene before him was an earnest of his
(Mr. Garnett's) future success, when the time for exertion
should again arrive. (Great cheering.) Would it be said that
there was no reaction iu Sal ford after witnessing that assembly ?
But that splendid assembly was not a solitary instance of con)
servative feeling. His noble and honourable friends had come
from Leeds, where the day before there had been a conservative
dinner; he would visit Manchester the following day, where
there was to be another numerous assembly of conservatives;
and, on Monday next, he would visit Liverpool, where a consi-
derable number of gentlemen would meet, -who maintained
those opinions and feelings which ought to exist in the breasts
of every Englishman. (Cheers.)
" Breath'd there the man, with soul-so dead,
Who never to himself hash said,
This is my own, my native land.?"
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ed and preserved the blessings Englishmen enjoyed? (Great
cheering.) Why did they witness these various assemblages, in
Yorkshire and in Lancashire, and in other parts of England?
Why, because they saw that the British constitution was endan-
gered,
and that its time-honoured institutions were in jeopardy,
and because they saw that Ireland was given up to serve the
purposes of a
vile. faction (Cheers.) They were not blind to
the measures that had been endeavoured to be thrust upon them;
there seemed to be no end to intended legislation. 'The object,
hitherto liad not been to legislate for the benefit of the country,
but for party purposes, and to secure to the ministers their
places. (Chem so It. could not be denied that a great portion
of the conduct ~f ministers had reference to that principle.
They flattered the people, .cajoled and deceived them. Under
the mask of hypocrisy they enslaved the people and played the
tyrant. (Cries of " bravo.") Mr. Garnett then at considera-
ble length alluded to seine local disputes between the conserva-
tive and the radical parties, and animadverted severely on the
conduct of the latter. The radicals had refused to allow a paltry
pittance of some £l2 or £l,l fur ringing the bells of one of the
churches of Salford, which church had been erected at the sole
expense of one individual, to supply the spiritual wants of the
poor. (Shame.) They had refused to light the illuminated
clock to effect the paltry saving of 50s. a year. The only
end and aim of the party was the downfall of the chutch and the
destruction of the monarchy. He would not waste their tune
with Minding to annual parliaments and universal suffrage, two
of the standard topics of the opposite party, but would advert
for a moment to the question of vote by ballot—a measure which
it was atteinpted to introduce, and one the most discreditable
the most un-English—the most 'uncalled for proceedink that
ever was invented by man. It would tend to bribery and cor-
ruption if adopted, to a frightful extent, and none but men with
the longest purses and the most ambition would get into parlia-
ment. The effect Would be to lettuce the electors to combine
in bodies, and he represented by presidents, with whom the
candidates would bargain beforehand:—" If I am elected I will
give you and your club £3OO, if I am not I wall not give you a
farthing." The result would be,,t hat large combined bodies of
electors would vote to a man accordingly as they were brihed
beforehand. Besides, if the ballot were worth any thing, why
not carry it out—why not have ballot voting in the House of
Comanons, and have every thin r snugly done in the dark. Why
rail upon tuep to vote opeuls i r parliament, and secretly out of
it. Why it was an absurdity in itself; it was contrary to the
British character, and never ought to be submitted to. ( Hear.)
His petition had been lost on the Salford election committee;
not on a fair hearing, but .on a legal quibble. They had been

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oned have bowed to the niniority
stopped se ti,niee at the outset. If it had been fairly shown thatiai
he was in a minority he st t
their cause hail not had justice done to it, H nil they had
been
deprived of their rights. (Hsar.) He heard they weie shortly
to have another struggle, when he should be at his post. 1-1 e
„.
had heard that Mr. Brotherton was going to take office, a 2
that the rejected of Liverpool was to be endeavoured: to ne
..
thrust upon them, hut he was confident, from what he saw
his friends, that any future opponent had not the least prospecti.
of
of, success against him. He trusted that their cause would co
gnus, to triumph, and triumph to the end. (Mr. Garnett s'di,
(limo amidst great cheering.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of Sir Francis Bar-,
dett and the other distinguished guests who had hollowed the
company with their presence ou that occasion.
The toast was received with tremendous cheering.
Sir FRANCIS BURDI: rT rose before thecheeriug had subsided.
and, when silence had been obtained, lie was understood to say
that he had attended a conservative meeting on the previous
day at Leeds, and there were other meetings in other towns of
the county to which he wished to pay his respects, especially
when he saw them acting in a manner so highly redounding to
their honour and the honour of the country—especially as they
were met on the present occasion to expiess their determination
to maintain all those great and valuable institutions which this
country has obtained. He was surprised at hearing much
respecting the politics of the borough and of the conduct of the
parties which were connected with the struggle in question, and
in which, it appeared to him, (Sir F. Burdett,) that their exer-
tions ought to have been crowned with success. He was sorry
to say that there did appear something so very extraordinary in
that decision of the House of Commous, just explained by their
worthy and excellent ft lend and, he trusted, future rept esenta-
live (Mr. Garnett.) It did appear to him so childish (in point
of distinction without a diffeietsce) that they (the committee,)
being swot n under the act of parliament to try the merits of the
election, could, on so silly a pretence, he might almost say, be
misled by so gross a misconception of their duty ; for it appear-
ed that they came to a decision upon a fault which appeared to
be no fault at all; but that by it they should exclude the possi-
bility of Irving the merits of the petition. The trying of this
election almost had been to think that it was without any other
equal in the decisions of the committees of the House of Com-
mons. The old system was one of which they all complained.
and in some degree it might go forth to justify these complaints;
but it did not justify the gross imputations thrown over the
members of the House of Commons by that parson to whom
their worthy chairman had alluded, but one who he (Sir F.
Burdett) never scrupled to name as one Mr. Daniel O'Connell.
(Cheers.) But he spoke now not merely of the gross vulgarity
of the imputationsbut as it happened that that gentleman—he
begged pardon, Mr. Daniel O'Cohnell—had said, and be (Sir
F. Burdett) believed it would be admitted and believed, there
was not any body but was converted to the opinion that What-
ever they might have thought formerly of the Grenville act,
which was looked upon at the time ofies passing as a reform in
parliament, it had lost much of its weight and credit, and.
twenty years ago, such was considered to be the operation of the
Grenville act by the voters of the House of Commons, that.
until the house hail its present j.aunclicetl appearance, the com-
mittees were considered the only tribunals which were com-
petent to do justice-between the parties under the circumstance.
But Mr. Daniel O'Connell thought that what he stated was -all
true, and they all acknowledged that, if it was possiule, a remedy
should be found, so that the rights of the electors of the country
might be protected, instead of being baled and defeated by
such a mode of proceeding as had been recently adopted, which
had made the tribunal ten times more sty because under the
new act of parliament all these questions hail been in some de-
gree so unsettled by the frequent decisions of the committees in
such a manner that there was no law existing for the guidance
of parties as to the law of elections, as the decisions of former
committees were now of no use. But though Mr. Daniel
O'Connell spoke truth, he could not speak the truth altogether.;
because he imputed, in his gross way, that one part of the house
exercised partiality, he (Sir F. Burdett) would call it—but Mr-
O'Connell gave it a grosser name; but he imputed this merely•
to the tories, meaning the conservatives—that they could not,
in fact, give a correct judgment on cases of elections thus-
leaving out from the imputation all the other parties•in.tho.
house, with whom he acted—leaving out the whigs, whom he
held up as patterns of purity in all matters of this kind. (Hear. t
-But with respect to the conduct of the conservatives, he (Sir F•
Burdett) would declare, that he would indeed be a bold man
who would say, that in their decisions they had been influenced
by party motives, or upon any grounds except upon the fear of
being charged with being biassed by party. But every man of
sense might say that, however be might be sneered at by such
a man as Mr. Daniel O'Connell, with respect to the state of.
Ireland, too,—he whom they call the patriot of Ireland, the
liberal of Ireland, this paid patriot. That was a strange coun-,
try, Ireland, of any in the world; and he had heard, that Dean
Swift boasted, some years ago, that that which was true any
where else was not true in Ireland. He held himself up as a
protector of the institutions in all the country, and, first of all,.
that he was a person who was making great sacrifices for thes
county. In otner countries, men who were paid were not called
patriots, for patriotism and pay could not exist together. But..
it was otherwise in Ireland. What a happy country was Irei
land where patriotism and pay go together! where the joys or
martyrdom go together—where the reward of vice and virtue'
may be found in the same person. Unfortunately for this counee
try, these persons possessed an influence in the (louse of Come?'
mons which never was possessed before, nut only by goveripi
ment, but also by those individuals whose right to place weat-
hers in the House of Commons we used to condemn, and many
of us reformers complained of. It was indeed trifling in com-
parison with the power of the popish priests in Ireland, and Mr.
Daniel O'Connell; for he was nothing more than the creature
supported by, and the coadjutor of, the popish priests of Ireland.
But the circumstance to which he had alluded (the power of the.
nomination to boroughs,) it had never injured any body, and
though it was an infringement of the British constitution, yet
in fact it had not a detrimental influence upon the country at
large. For, if one person- put in a member for one place, ano-
ther person placed another member in the house for another;
and thus the parties were balanced, and these persons were put.
in-by persons, who from their station in society, had the interest
of the country at heart. But there were the popish priests of
Ireland, who, with the assistance of Mr. Daniel O'Copuell, had
carried about GO or 70-seats, and had put members into parlia-
ment tinder the influence of one man representing tbe popish
priests of Ireland, to uphold the interest of democracy and de-
stroy protestantism, and the interests of our protestant state.—
(Cheers.) He (Sir Francis) had always been the advocate for
giving men their proper rights, but he could not think of allow-
ing popery to raise its head again, with its systems of
tion, in Ireland. (Cheers.) 'they might now consider what wee
the power of this description of people, when Mr. Daniel O'Con-
nell, the great man of Ireland, was not ashamed of himself when-
be fell down on his knees in the dirt at the feet of a priest.
They were doing all in their power to destroy the superiority of
the church' which this country had so generously and so devot,
edly maintained; and he (Sir Francis) feared they would find
they would still be much abused. He, however, was not afraid
of him (Mr. O'Connell) for he saw the good sense of the coun-
try coming forward to prevent the country from being bandied
as they had been. It would bring to light what was the real
state of the country, as many honest Englishmen would say,
let us know Ireland like England, and many honest English.
men would say, " let there be no distinction." But they would
find themselves deceived when they looked at the state of the
people of Ireland; end when he spike of the people of Ireland,
he meant the protestant people of Ireland, men who had the
interest of the country at heart—men who, (like those compos-
ing the meeting) were men distinguishedfor their attachment
to the safety, prosperity, and glory of the country. But he (Sir
Francis Burdett) bad seen in a paper that day, that a gentle-,
man had gone from this part of the world with the view (he him-
self being quite a liberal in politics) of going over on the pro-
position of the' people of Ireland, for the popish people of Ire-
land—and he did not mean to say anything against them fur-
ther than that they had qualities that might be cultivated to ad-
vantage • but they were nothing more than the miserable instru-
ments of priests, who had hopes of raising the head of popery
again. But he was going to mention, that a gentleman
went from that part (Manchester) to establish sinKe mode of
industry in the mauufacturing line in Ireland, and he set up a
large manufactory, and found that it was impossible for him to
go on ; for he found there was no law in the country—that the
people, instigated most likely by the priests—in short, that his
premises were destroyed : his,life was nut longer safe—it was
resolved that he should be put todeath—that it was deliberately
resolved upon, at a consultation by a large number of people.
His house was burnt, his premises were burnt, and every thing
that he had engaged to do for Ireland, was, by these miserable
people, destroyed- -This isthe reason fora refotmer changing his
opinion with- respect to the people of Ireland. He was a Man-
chester gentleman, and it appeared that he went out for the
purpose which had been stated. He was a Manchester gentle-
man, but his name was not affixed to the pamphlet; but it
seemed to him (Sir F. Burdett) to be a very important publi-
cation, and he would recommend every person to go and read
it, and they would find that this was a practical illustration of
what was the state of society in that country,—and what was
the state of the law which made such a state of society in that
country. (Cheers) The worthy chairman had said little on the
general politics of the country, but no person could more agree
with the chairman than he (Sir F. Burdett) did; and with re-
. i
spect to the present mbecile administration, a greater evil,
could happen to no country, than for the government to be._
placed In such hands. Weakness in government was worse
'than 'any thing. Who would bear to be told by those who dif-
fered from them in opinion, that they only support them, not..
because they had any confidence in them—not because they
consider them men of talent and men fit for their situations--
not—to tell them to their faces that they shall not turn their
backs upon them—not because they thought them weak men
but "squeezable,"—(laughter)—he thought was the word, and
lead them to the brink of destruction ; and, when every thing
in this country—supposing it to result from their conduct,
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ple that he is quite disgusted with the whigs,-1' the base and
bloody whigs" as he used to call them,—he tries the trick of
the party, and tells the ad ic al gentlemen that he is disgusted
with the whigs—that he used to be a whig-radical, but now be •
is become a radical. He afterwards goes to the House of Com--
mons and says that they, are well tnet, all companions together,.
they are hand and glove together, and have removed all ill -
feeling. (Cheers.) They must support protestantism in Ire-
land, and support the union of church and state between. these
two countries. The wrest pare of ministers was that their
principle was a sort of no principle; and he (Sir Francis .
Burdett) apprehended that they really believed that this'. •
country was to be governed by what was called public opinion;
like a feather in the wind, little caring which way they go—
they little care so that they keep in. (Cheers.) This carrying 7
on the government on no principle was the reason why they
did nothing. How long had they been in office? and out of the
numberless things to which they have put their hands, how
many had proved abortive? He did not know anything which
they had touched without doing great mischief. They say
"reform the church." He did not think that any good would
result from what they were doing; and with respect to the
Irish church, it was said that it did much mischief, end that
they would greatly strengthen the establishment by throwing
away the surplus wealth which was stated-to be 54 millions of
revenue, and they were to make some plan by 'which the sur,
plus was to be turned away from the -church and appropriated
to some other purpose. This was five years since it took place,
and now they heard nothing of the appropriation clause. That
great arithmetician, late member fur Middlesex, now member
for Kilkenny, made it out that this surplus was 55 millions, but
now it turned out to be six hundred thousand pounds. It ap-
pears they must press the "principle" of their Irish measures
if it was only to the amount of a birthing, and''they must have
the principle. But he (Sir F. Burdett) knew front experience
that if the people of England allowed the fox to get his head
into the hole, his shoulders would follow very quickly. Sir
Francis then contrasted the mean and paltry savings coutem-
plated by the whigs, with their expensive mission of Lord
Durham to the Canadas, to the neglect of such men as 'Sir F. .
Head, Sir John Colbourn, arid Col. Wetherell. He also re-
p
ferred to their conduct in respect to the Poor Law Amendment
Bill, now that the comtnittee had delivered their 18th report;
and be contended that all. the measures emauuting 'solely from
the whigs were abortions. He expressed a hope_ for the tine,
when a government might be, formed, comprising the vain" of
Sir It. Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir F. Pollock, Sir Win. Follett%
Mr. Pemberton, and Sir E. Sugden,-; and concluded by' thank-
ing the meeting for the honour he had received at their hands.-
-The hon. hart. then sat down amidat.lnusi, cheers.

A pit z

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The CH A rum A N proposed the members for the county.
.1 (Great cheering.) •
• The toast was responded to on theirbehalf by MAAS- CHARN-.
wIcK, Esq.'
C. WILK Isis, Esq. then rose to propose-the next toast. ' After
premising that he was not duly prepared for the task assigned to
. him, having, until that moment, been engaged-in the duties of
his profession. said the toast he had to propose was, "Sir Robt.
• Peel and the conservative members of the House of Commons."
. (Cheers.) The enthusiasm of their- cheers conveyed to his
• mind proof positive that they revised no rhetoric on his part to
do ample justice to the toast. lheir cheers proved to him that
they had diligently pursued the course adopted by those high-
' minded and honourable men whom they might look upon as
• the, best friends of the Country. When they looked upon the
character of him who was placed at the head of this honourable
phalank; when. they looked at his firm and manly bearing;
• when they looked at his masterly judgment; whets they looked
tat him and found its him the lung-tried statesman and the true
christian, they • would not wonder that he should feel himself
highly honoured in being the Medium' of presentiog the toast
which he-had given to their notice. (Cheers.) Mr. Wilkins
then proceeded with much eloquence to eulogize the conduct of
Sir Robert reel as a statesman, and the talent with which Lord
Maidstone had vindicated the character of the House of Coot-.
• • moss. Descended to him the .name of Winehelsea was nut
• likely to expire. (Cheers.) Mr. Wilkins then proceeded to
• take a review of the conduct of the whigs; their only endeavour
was to throw down the church. and upset the bulwarks of the
constitution. It was useless to oppose reason and_argument to.
them, as Curran had 'once said, they flippantly hopped over
reasons, and hopped over arguments and arrived at conclusions,
and called it logic. (Cheers.) He alluded to the reaction
which had taken place in the cutm; ry, and pointed to Westmin-
ster, to Southwark, and Other places; would the 'ministers point
to Finsbury to preve that there was no reaction? the facetious
• medical. member 'of which place Issul fixed a character to theta
which would be a sticking plaster, which would stick to them as
long as they existed. (Cheers and Laughter.). Where would
they point for proof of the countries' confidence in them ? To
• , the - miserable member for Salford, who liadfiv lung been the
clock of tile House of Contusions ? ( Lrutigliter.) He. could not
" say. that the House of commons had an illuminated clock.
gGreat Laughter.) It struck hint that ere long they would
ear a voice of Salford, which would convince them that they
.had been crying. ease, ease, where no ease wits. (Great cheer-
ing.) He would ask them if ministers had not broken every
promise- that they had made to the British people? Did they
not commence their administration with the words retrenchment
—on their lips, and was it 'not notorious that the national debt
was increased four-Millions, since they had come into office,
and that the secret service motley was greater tu surmount than
it was ever. before? Flail theynot talked about economy, whilst
they .had found that-their extravagances were most lavish; as
.for instance, the sending out of Lord Durham to Canada, at an
• enormous expenditure, not because he 'Wits the fittest, man, but
becituse he was the must, troublesome?' Economy! Where
should they find. it ?.. He' alluded to Mr..o'eonuell,and-his
patriutiton; t' r' he 'received so much precniuni. They
might depend upon it, to use the Irish expression. that
Pat-rietisin was' a roaring trade. • (Cheers and'Laughter.) He
alte.Nd to the appoilitmeuts of ministers made without regard to
• -titres's for office; 'the last of these was that of Mr. Shiel, as a
trustee of Greenwich Hospital—a man whose large acquaintance
. with naval affairs; had been acquired- on his journey between
•Kingston and Liverpool. (Cheers and laughter.) He con-
eluded a speech of great eloquence, during tbe delivery of which
•he was loudly applauded, by proposing the toast.
Sir GRuitGE So:cf.:me rose to propose the next toast, and
Wat greeted Un rising with loud cheering. He begged to return
them his sincere thanks for the kindness with which they had
'invited him: to attend that meeting, and for' their reception of
him. •He had prevailed on his excellent friend Sir Francis
Burdett, who was rather frightened by the fatigue .of attending
three meetings on
.codsecutive nights, to .attend that meeting,
because they • met under feeliugs of disappointment, and the
absence of his friend would be therefore more felt. He trusted
that he who was their member de jure, would soon be so de
floe; lie highly complimented Mr. Wilkins for the eloquence
with which he had just addressed them. • He felt .delighted to
- dwell on the merits of Sir Robert Peel, his old school-fellow,
-add even when opposed to him in politics, he had ever admired
him for his sincerity, hisnhility, and his straightforwardness.
-They: 'were new fmund in honour -to fight his battles. The
great object of their ambition ought to he, that such a man
should be placed at the head of public affairs, and that he should
possess the confideoCe of the sovereign in the same degree as
Ire possessed the confidence and respect of the nation. Per-
sons were called apostates because they would not go along with
ministers iu some of their measures; but, as had been observed,
a great many words were changing their tom-tuning, and they
must soon have a new revision of Johnson; for now-a-days, if
'any- man practised exclusive dealing, and was harsh and a
tyrant, he-way called a liberal; if any sue assisted the popish
• priests against the church, he was called a whig, ; whilst con-
sistency meant putting yotir hand into the public purse—in
keeping; office as smite of the present ministers have done; and,
wills respect to the term renegade, it was now applied to those
who sacrificed and suppressed every personal feeling and private
'interest for the entitle good. (Hear, hear.) He concluded
• with proposing " The .BSS electors of Salford, who voted for
Or. Garnett at the last eleCtion; might their numbers be in-
4ereased, their zeal undiminished, and their exertions in future
..:I,Se'crowneol with success." (Loud cheers.)
N. Mr. J. B. WANK Lys, as one of the electors, responded to
'the toast.
At this juncture- Sir Francis Burdett retired, and was again
greeted with enthusias' ic applause.
' Mr. GaI:NETT then proposed " the health of Lord Maid-
•stime." (Ittlitiense cheering.)
Lord MaTtqi-SuN's: then trise and was received with tremen-
douscheering. fle•said, he need not tell them how happy he
•was•that it-Bard fallen to his let, the first time that he should
'borne north of the Treht; tiibegin at Leeds, to go on to Salford,
to go on to Manchester,: and to go on to Liverpool, and to be
present-as ha had 'beets at two, and as he hoped to be at other
two, Orlik'gkirirois Conservative festivals, as he would say in the
'tentorfof man had ever been presented to the public of Great
itain.T At that late period of the evening he would not enter
into the topics of the day; such as the imbecility of ministers
•end their unfitness' for filiicethese topics had been fully
treated on and had been received as they deserved. As he had
the opportunity of knowing something about the Salford elec-
tion committee, he wouhrtnention for a few mofnents what he
had-seen with his own eyes and heard with his own ears in that
committee room (hear). He would say that the petitiou against
the return of the silting member far Salford was not one of your

petitions got up without rhyme or reason ; it was not even like
one of those found fault with of the Irish petitions got up for the
puipose of being a petition —it was not one of those Coppock
bottom petitions; it hAI truth for its foundation, and if gone
into must have gone against Mr. Bretherton. Mr. Bretherton
told them he courted inquiry;. Mr. Garnett courted inquiry;
the electors did so, and the I-louse of Commons desired them
to make the inquiry. What had they done? He liked their
proceedings all very well, but he did not like those legal quibbles,
had said to the committee " Do you anything about law ?
don't know anything about legal quibbles, and the common
Sense of this inquiry is got over on a legal quibble which we
don't understand ; and it becomes us to investigate this, and
we are not doing our duty if we allow Mr. Garnett to go away
unsatisfied that his case has been heard (great cheering) with
that justice which should characterize. the British senate." He
Said should characterize, for really in that day there were faults
tube found with the committees, and he hoped to see the pre-
sent system altered. Mr. O'Connell had taken it for granted
that their party were interested in keeping up the present con-
stitution of committees.? He would say that no party was less
interested, or who were less likely to have sway in those com-
mittees because they, had a less number of members to choose
out of. Supposing that the House of Commons would allow
that, which he hoped they would not, to vote merely by-party
bias, then it would go against the Conservatives, because there
were more members of the opposite party to choose on commit-
tees. Then why should the Conservatives have the odium cast
•on them-of keeping this system of committees, in which notouly
the whole house but the whole- country admitted that there was
'ornething deficient. lie (lid say that from what he bad seen of
t-his Salford committee-,-whatever they might bring forward at
the other side to couuter-balance, that the present system of
committees ought not to be continued, and they must have
sutne change. One lawyer was telling them one thing, and
another another, and that they did not know what they voted
for. They did not take a common sense straightforwaid view
of the case. They ought not to be led away by legal quibbles
and by the strict meaning .of words, but ought to look at
the pith and marrow of things. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.)
There -was nothing nuw straight furward in these committees;
. nothing pleased a committee better than upsetting a foundation
which had been considered firmly settled before. This was to
be considered the spirit of the age. lie wished lie could see a
little 'more common sense iu it. It was a hocus-pocus conjuro-
eus, and there they were. There was, however, one good
thing: if they must have a future member hey must have Mr.
Garnett. (Cries of "We will.") He• knew Mr. Brotherton
would find a place in Mr. O'Connell's tail. Whether or not he
would go out as legal adviser of Lord Durham he could not say;
that
was a situation of 11500 alear not yet filled up. He would
do any thing to get him out of the country, and let them have
a good member in his place. It had been his fortune to plunge
head over heels into public life. He had not first gone ancle
deep in the stream, and.then up to the knees; he had taken a
regular header into the midst of political turmoil. (Cheers.)
Certainly no man in this world had had a better opportuniq.
The case which he had any charity school-boy might have
Groughtthrough successfully and triumphantly. (No.) In the
House of Commons Mr. O'Connell's ungentlemanly language
had beCorrie habitual, and his lies also, and he would tell him
so to his face only he had put himself out of the pale of a gen-
tleman. (Cheers.) He had gained the victory from not com-
ing down from the vantage hill of truth on which he was placed
into the hogs and swamps of the duplicity of the ministerial'
Party. O'Connell never met a question fairly; he went off to
the right hand orlo the left; he went off with "will you do ins
ttce to fre/and'r, Laughter.) But really it was impossible to
tneet hint fairly on any question, for of all the buffoons he ever
sew in a public assembly he was the greatest. He beat Astley's
411 to nothing. He only hoited that some of them might live to
lee the end of his political career; and he trusted that there
Were better things in store for England to do. He trusted that
tl!ie spiritof Englishmen was gradually arising. (Hear.) Eng-
.
tuthnien•Viere so stout they took,souae time turning—(a laugh t—
iler could not make them whisk round like a Frenchman. But
i:dtin once the spirit of aa Englishman was aroused it could not
skipped. Suppose they bad guns to the extremity which
they might have done, and have committed Mr. O'Connell to
the,, tower, instead of his getting there amidst the acclamation
';‘ all the inhabitants of London, as it was said b.e would, with
wu,o)o Irishmen' lining each side of the streets, he was sure he
ould have had More cats, and dirty beastly cabbages, and all
harts of nuisanees in his route, than those he-would meet with in
4,,5_ Passage in the House of Commons. His popularity was
42e. 'Ew foever, he was a. man nut to be despised; be was a
trn of great talents, and had agitated. and agitated and put
to
.into such a state of confusion, that it avouldrequire years
war_-soire them to a healthy state,.and to cool the fever which
41,17_eonanining• their vitals. Let them go on on their side agi-
heritt! agitating, agitating, and he would be bound to say that
torsre it was very)ong ty should see these squeezable minis-
tion their master. Daniel O'Connell, under whose protec-
histoTeY came %to officn, erased from the very page of English
pendlY. and from the reniembrance of all the true and inde-
,4l,l pence
hearti Of this great empire. (Great cheering.) The
e lord shire witches, concluded with proposing a o
s a tast, "The Lance-
iihd the ladies of the borough of Salford."
(wire.yeral.iither toasts were given. after we left the room, at a
the ter-pant twelve o'clock; and the-evening passed off with
greatest order, decorum, and good feeling.

-• , • heplanet Jupiter now appears in the evenings, when the
fht,-°Phte is clear, remarkabl briht nd resplendent, pre.
a nitts•t attractive and interesting object
LATti ADAM DUGDALE, ESQ.—On .Wednesday last, the
15tt4te nht of the remains Of the late Mr. flugdale, of Dovecot,
jol'' of Manchester, took place- in the family vault, at St.
004'8 Church, Knotty- Ash. On leaving the residence of the
et;ilered, the funeral prqcession was met by upwards of 100
ren belonging to pt-he virls' and infants' school, erected
,i_re at the sole..expense, of the late lamented gentleman, who
Amsi, alp) tnost munificent- contribwor -to the-,church at Knotty
ilis
" loss will he long and sincerely regretted by his
Y frietills, but especially in. a neighbonthood which, through
(;,:::has received such ia-ealcithible benefit f.,1,111 his affording
!et poor the richest treasure titer Could have-- the very means
aining a religious education 'for th4r children.
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