The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-04 00:00:00

THE REGISTRIES IN IRELAND.

" We are requested," says the Standard, " by an Irish cot,.
respondent, to state that the account of the registries given in
the Roman Catholic newspapers, is universally incorrect."
The Register of this morning attempts to rebut this assertion,—
but, of our experience, we can maintain the correctness of the
statement put forward by our admirable British cotemporary.
The Irish Roman Catholic newspapers state their successes,—
such as they may be,—but they carefully repress their defeats.
The few votes they succeed. iu registering they make the most
of; but the many in which they fail, they cushion altogether.
'I heir notices of registration are a kind of tentative process : if
they succeed in enrolling one vote of a hundred, they clap their
wings and triumph : but they say nothing at all about the ninety
and nine fraudulent candidates whom the vigilance of Couserva-
tive agents deprives of a fraudulent franchise. Thus, at the
late registration in Galway, four hundred and forty-nine Radi-
cal notices were served,—six only Wels registered; and two of
these belong not to the triumphant party, fur which they ale
too independent.

In seine late observations of ours on this subject, we pointed
out two methods by which the Conservatives could aid the con-
stitutional cause: the first, positive, by the direct registration of
Conservative votes,—and the second, negative, by the defeat of
fictitious claims to the franchise. We are happy to say, that in
both ways our recommendation has been attended to,—and been
likewise productive of the best effects. Wherever the landed
gents}' and their agents have watched the course of registration,
treanutdryhas been detected and imposture prevented. To this may
be attributed the result of the Galway registry, and many such
other cases which have recently occurred. There has also been
a spirit of animation and constitutional energy has
a considerable stir in serving notices for the ensuing sessions;
and such
been excited, that our recent tone of alarm must be exchanged
for that of congratulation. Let the Protestants of Ireland but
do their duty, and it will matter little whether "the accounts
given of the registries by the Roman Catholic Journals," be true
or false.—Dublin Ecening Mail.

THE VAUXHALL BALLOON.—This splendid balloon will
ascend, from Vauxhall the first mornin& the wind may be fa-
vourable for crossing the Channel, and it is the determ►nation
of Mr. Green and his adventurous companions to reach the
the French capital, or as near it as possible, should the wind
enable them, in which event the Parisians will, in all probe-
blility, be gratified by an ascent from the Champ de Mars.

HALIFAX CONSERVATIVE DINNER TO THE
HON. JAMES S. WORTLEY, M.P.

On Monday last this town displayed a manifestation of loyal
and constitutional feeling which reflects high honour on the in-
habitants. It was on the occasion of a public dinner given to
the hon. member for the borough, James Stuart Wortley, Esq.,
by his constituents, the great body of whom are members of the
Halifax Constitutional Conservative Association. The dinner
was held in the Assembly-room, which was handsomely fitted
up and decorated. Tables were laid the whole length of the
spacious apartments capable of dining between four and five
hundred versons, and about that number of " staunch blues" sat
down. 'I he suite of rooms was brilliantly lighted by five richly
cut chandeliers, ead the walls and orchestra were elegantly or-
natnented with blue and red drapery formed into rosettes and
otherwise tastefully arranged. The orchestra contained the
glee-singers, and at each end was a flag, the union-jack, and
another, bearing the inscription " Wortley and Independence."
At the cross table in the centre of the room, elevated above the
rest of the company, were the distinguished guests of the asso-
ciation supporting the chairman, W. Norris, Esq., above whose
head proudly waved the loyal ensign of the society, on which
was inscribed "The Halifax Conservative Association." Among
the company we noticed Lord Wharncliffe, the Hon. James
Stuart Wortley, the Hon. John Stuart Wortley, Lord Sandon,
the member for Liverpool, the Hon. W. S. Lascelles, Sir Chas.
Ibetson, the Hon. Capt, Wortley, Colonel Ramsden, J. Lees,
Esq., M.P. Henry Hall, Esq., of Leeds, James Roby, Esq..
of ochdale, John Entwistle, Esq., of Foxholes, Thomas G.
Dyson, Esq., Samuel Rawson Esq., J. E. Norris, Esq., and
Mr. Baldrey.
The company having partaken of a luxuriant 'banquet, pre-
pared by the worthy host nt the Swan, the glee singers gave—
" Mon nobis Domino" in an effective style, and at the conclu-
sion—

The Chairman rose and wished that a bumper should be filled
to the first loyal toast, which being dune, he gave" His Majesty
the King," with four times four, the company standing and
chee ring.
The national anthem was then sung by the glee singers, the
assembly joining in the chorus. The lines'' Confound their
politics," "Frustrate their knavish tricks," were rapturously
applauded.
The next toast was "The Queen." The company rose and
greeted it with four times four loud huzzas and one more cheer.
Glee—" Here's a health to the King and the Queen."
Toast—" The Princess Victoria and the rest of the Branches
of the Royal Vamily."—(Cheers.)
Glee—" Hail Star of Brunswick."

The meeting was then addressed in succession by the chair-
man, the Hon. Capt. Wortley, the Hon. James Stuart Wortley,
Lord Wharncliffe, J. Waterhouse, Esq., Lord Sandon, the
Hon. John Stuart Wortley, W. F. Holroyde, Esq., Robv,
Esq., Stavelev, Esq., J. E. Norris, Es.q., the Hon. W.
Lascelles, J. E. Dyson, Esq., J. Entwisle, Esq., 111. P., &c. &c.
We have only space for the speech of our noble representative.
LORD SANDON on rising was loudly cheered. He said that
the manner in which his name, as a total stranger amidst so
large and distinguished an assembly, had been received, was
hithly gratifying to him, as such a compliment must be to
every Englishman. It was particularly so to him as the repre-
sentative of a great commercial town with which they were so
intimately connected. (Cheers.) There was no circumstance
in his life, connected as he was with the aristocracy of the
country, on which he more prided himself, than on being en-
trusted by his constituents as the representative of their com-
mercial interests. He held it to be a wonder that excited the
astonishment of foreigners, that the commercial interests of such
towns as Liverpool and Halifax should be confided to the hands
of one more connected with the landed than the commercial
interests. The fact was an earnest that one branch of the
interests of the two counties was not acting in collision with
the other. (Hear, hear.) In the situation that he stood as
their guest he felt peculiar satisfaction at the manner in which
he had been received by so large and influential an assembly,
and as it would ill become him to travel over the same
ground with tho gentlemen who had preceded him, he should
not detain them with any lengthened observations of his own.
He would, however, take leave to say that he fully agreed with
the sentiments expressed by the gentlemen who had previously
addressed them. (Cheers.) He joined with them in particular
that each man should consider it his paramount duty to support
the House of Lords under existing circumstances. He felt
assured that there would be no tyranny so bad as an elective
assembly of that house. (Hear, hear.) The House of Peers
was found fault with because they differed in opinion with the
Commons, and in the opinion of that part of the legislature they
ought not to be au uncontrolled power. ( fear, hear.) He
would ask, would they submit to yield up those advantages
which they had gained from that house, and those institutions
which characterized this country as its most firm and enlighten-
ed bulwarks ? Would they run headlong into the principles
of republicanism, of which they saw so many melancholy in-
stances in the United Stales? (Hear.) The least observer of
his country would see that by abolishing the house of Lords it
would crush all independence of opinion. (Hear, hear.) He
did not intend to intrude on their assembly, as he had said be-
fore, but he wished to testify the high esteem in which he held
the talents of their worthy representative, who, as well as the
noble lord his father, had given to a commercial town at his
(Lord Sandon's) request, so much assistance, both in relation
to its commerce and conservative cause. (Hear, hear, hear.)
It was not the cause of the House of Lords that they wore called
upon to support alone, for that cause was identified with their
own. (Hear, hear.) Hit was only a partial interest it could
not stand at all. They had, however, been told that if they
gave every man a £2O vote, and the peers were elective, they
would have a more aristocratic house than an hereditary suc-
cession could make it (Hear, hear.) The Whigs and the ra-
dicals appeared determined on destructive measures. The at-
tack on the House of Peers was not exclusively intended for
that body, but a blow intended to be aimed at the best interests-
of others. He was happy to find that their opponents were in
a minority in that county, and ho hoped they would long, very
long remain se. (Cheers.) From his long acquaintance with
the export trade he had heard a good deal of the manufactures
of Halifax? and before ho left them he hoped to have the plea-
sure of seeing some of those goods, the source of their wealth,
that he had so frequently seen exported from the port of Liver-
pool; and he hoped that would not he the last opportunity.
(The noble lord concluded amid loud cheers.)