The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-27 00:00:00

ROYAL VISIT TO THE DUKE AND DUCHESS

OF BEDFORD

(Abridged from the Observer.)

Wonurt ABBEY, SATURDAY.—For the la-st fortnight the
most cost costly preparations have been making here to do
honour to the reception of her Majesty, Prince Albert, and
numerous suite, consisting of the principal noblemen and
ladies of the royal household : so magnificent an entertain-
ment to royalty, as this is likely to be, has not been given
during the present reign, or long antecedent.
The royal party (which we learn may probably include the
Queen of the Belgians, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess
Augusta) is expected to arrive on Monday afternoon, and
sojourn in this ducal mansion until Wednesday, when the
royal cortege is expected to proceed to Pansanger, the resi-
dence of Earl and Countess Cowper, and to Viscount Mel-
bourne, at Brocket Hall, in the neighbouring county of Herts..
The cabinet ministers, Prince Esterhazy, and the foreign
ambassadors and ministers, with their ladies, and a select
party of the principal nobility, have been invited to meet her
Majesty. We have seen a list of the invitations, but as se-
veral of the distinguished guests may be prevented being
present, it would be premature to publish it.

From what we have witnessed of the grand preparation,
we should feel perfectly safe in asserting that no fete of equal
splendour and magnificence has been given to a British
Queen, since the pompous times of Qneen Elizabeth. We
therefore feel justified in giving, in anticipation of this inter-
esting event, those details which have come within our obser-
vation and knowledge, at greater length than we otherwise
should have done upon a more ordinary occasion.

The magnificent and extensive pile of buildings, this an-
cient seat of the Russell family, known as " Woburn Abbey,"
has real claim to that title ; for on the site of the present
mansion there existed in the early part of the 11th century a
monastery, founded by Hugh de Bolabec, a wealthy baron,
and which was intended for monks of the Cistercian order.
The monastery and its revenues, in the middle of the 16th
century, on the suppression of religious houses, were, by Ed-
ward VI., granted to John Lord Russell, who was soon after
created Earl of Bedford, and it has remained in the possession
of the descendants of that family ever since.

The following are expected to form part of the royal suite,
viz. :—The Lord Chamberlain, the Earl of Uxbridge, the
Marquis of Headfort, Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Barring-
ton, Countess of Uxbridge, Lady Lyttleton, Sir Frederick
Stovin, the Maid of Honour in Waiting, the Queen and
Prince's equerries in attendance.
A squadron of the Bedfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry will
forma guard of honour during her Majesty's stay.

It is now considered almost certain that the Queen will not
visit the Marquis of Westminster at Moor Park for the pre-
sent ; nor will her Majesty pay any other visit during the
tour of the ensuing week, than to Eat and Countess Cowper,
and to Lord Melbourne.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal suite are ex-
pected to return to Windsor Castle by Friday or Saturday
afternoon.

CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT COLERAINE-
SPEECH OF THE REV. FIELDING OULD.

At a dinner of the conservative electors of Coleraine, to
commemorate the return of Mr. Litton for that borough, the
Rev. Fielding Ould delivered the following eloquent and
animated speech in responding to the toast of " The mem-
bers and conservative electors of the town of Liverpool."
The Rev. FIELDING OULD said he had much pleasure in
responding to the call made on him to return thanks for
the members and conservative electors of Liverpool. It would
be admitted by all present that they have done their duty at
the late election. A few years ago Liverpool was one of the
most radical towns in the empire. (Hear, hear.) At the
election in 1837 two conservative members were returned by
a majority of four hundred. This was considered a great
achievement at the time ; and when they looked back a little
further and compared it to the time when Lord Brougham
and Mr. Ewart represented it, there is no doubt that it was.
At the last election a great effort was made to bring in two
radical members—one of them a minister of the crown, the
other an eminent merchant of Liverpool—and what was the
result ? The conservatives were returned by a majority of
1,500 votes. (Cheers.) They would ask to what this pleasing
change was attributable? To that he would give the answer
given by Lord Sandon at the hustings—to the legitimately ex-
ercised influence of the clergy. (Cheers.) He said legiti-
mate influence, because there was an influence that was not
legitimate ; the clergy of the church of England were not ac-
customed like the Romish priests, to employ the influence of
the horsewhip—they did not deliver their anathemas from
the altar. They never forgot, and never would, he trusted,
forget, that their weapons were not carnal, but mighty,
through God, to the pulling down of strongholds. (Cheers.)
The instrumentality they employed was that cf protestant
societies. They taught the middle and working classes their
religious and political duty, and when that was done, they
could safely trust them at the hustings. It was owing to this
that Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell were elected by a majo-
rity so large that it would prevent any radical from contesting
the representation for many a year to come. (Loud cheers.)
And why it may be asked do the clergy interfere in these
matters ? Simply because the questions that have lately oc-
cupied the attention of the legislature are of a religious cha-
racter. The whole matter has resolved itself into this,—
whether protestant ascendancy, with all its blessings, is to be
put down, and the nation is to be trampled under foot by
the papacy, and to be rough-ridden by the Man of Sin.
(Loud cheers.) When they saw her Majesty's ministers
pursuing a system of national education hostile to the prin-
ciples of the Church of England—when ten of its bishoprics
were extinguished at one fell swoop—when they saw Papists
promoted, and permitted to creep like locusts even into
the Queen's palace—when they saw Maynooth supported
by a public grant, and Romish priests and bishops endowed
in the colonies, they thought the time was come when it was
their duty to show the people the difference between
protestantism and popery, and to discourage by every means
in their power the one, and support the other. (Cheers.)
And to what does England owe her glory ? Is it to the con-
quests at Copenhagen, the Nile, and Trafalgar ? Is it to that
splendid series of victories, that followed in rapid succession,
from the moment when Wellington entrenched his army be-
hind the lines of Torres Vedras, to the crowning victory of
Waterloo ? He said, no—the glory of England is in her
protestantisrn,—(hear, hear, and loud cheers)—in the blood-
bought right of every man to read God's word—in the right
of private judgment—in her civil and religious liberty.
(Loud and continued cheering.) These are her glory and her
crown ; but when has popery supported liberty? lie would
mention an anecdote to show how little she regards it at the
present day. A friend of his was lately travelling on the
continent, and, on entering what is called the States of the
Church—the territory over which the Pope possesses uncon-
trolled dominion—a bible was discovered in his luggage. I t
was taken from him, and he was told that as long as he re-
mained he could not be allowed to read it—to read the Word
of God ! It was given to a Cardinal ; and on his leaving the
country, at the end of three months, it was restored to him,
with the observation from his holiness, that he hoped he
would make good use of it. Now, if one of the custom-
house officers of Queen Victoria were, on searching the
luggage of a Romish priest coming into this country—(hear,
hear, hear)—to find a Breviary, which was filled, not with
the words of Divine revelation, but with old wives' fables
and blasphemous conceits, and to take it from him, what an
outcry would be immediately raised about the violence done
to civil and religious liberty. (Loud cheers.) It must be
evident to all, that the contentions of the ministry are
directed to the overthrow of the sister churches of these
countries—the Church of England, and the Church of Scot-
land. (Hear, hear.) They knew that where the Churches
of the Reformation are established, popery can never make
way. The Regent Murray established protestantism in Scot-
land, and popery has not made many advances there since.
The Eighth Henry established it in England, and popery has
not advanced there. The Elector of Saxony established it in
Prussia, and Prussia is protestant still. The glorious
Prince of Orange established it in Holland, and Hol-
land is protestant still. Gustavus Vasa established it in
Sweden, and Sweden is protestant still. (Loud cheers. And
what was the language of O'Connell to the priests, but this—
" Give me political power, and I will, in return, overthrow
for you the church." So long as these attacks were confined
to the outposts—while the cry was confined to franchises and
the like, the clergy stood neutral; hut, when the citadel of
Protestantism itself was besieged, then they formed their
Protestant Associations, and when a Protestant Association
was formed in every town in England, then Popery will be
effectually beaten back. (Cheers.) It was a remarkable
fact, that Protestantism has been four times already impe-
rilled in England. First, in the reign of bloody Queen
Mary, when the fires of Smithfield were lighted to drink up
the blood of the reformers—next, in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, when the Spanish Armada visited this northern
coast of ours, and was repelled by the kind providence of our
God, and the gallantry of the navy. The next was in the
reign of King James the First, when the gunpowder plot was
formed ; and, lastly, when the nation rose up to vindicate
their outraged Protestantism, and invited that Prince of
Glorious Memory—(thunders of applause)—to assume the
reigns of power—when, on the banks of the Boyne, and at
the gates of Londonderry—(tremendous cheering)—the fate
of Popery was sealed for two centuries, and England, aye
and Ireland too, declared that they would never bow down
to the Man of Sin. (Enthusiastic and long-continued ap-
plause.) Now, one of the strongest claims that our repre-
sentative has upon you—l speak of him as mine (said the
rev. gentleman) because I stand in my own native town—is,
that he is the champion of the church. He (Mr. Ould) saw
good in other churches as well as his own. He was the friend
of the Church of Scotland also, and in the struggle which must
take place in the next session of parliament respecting the po-
sition of that church, he knew that she would find a faithful
and sympathizing man in Mr. Litton. And none was more
anxious for the success of the Church of Scotland, in her
present efforts to get rid of the incubus of patronage, than
he (Mr. 0.) was. He was the friend of all orthodox churches
—of all who, though they differ on minor matters, love the
head. (Ifear, hear, arid loud cheers.) There might be unity
without conformity. The union of Protestants was a union
of sound doctrine, of life, and of freedom. The union of Po-
pery is the union of the grave--a union of rottenness, cor-
ruption, and death. (Loud cheers.) He would illustrate
their present position by an anecdote. It was recorded in
history of a brave and devoted soldier, who, with his little
band, was surprised by the enemy in superior force. A
council of war was held to determine what course it was best
to pursue. The greater number were for a retreat, seeing
the disproportion between the two bodies. His answer was
" never, no surrender"—(loud cheers)—" let us march on-
ward," said he, " to the fight—some of them we will kill, of
some we will make prisoners, and some will rtin away.
This (said Mr. Ould) is the position of our enemies. They
boast of their numbers—what then ? Shall we sound a re-
treat ? No, we must hold our ground, and our motto must,
I say again and again, be—no surrender. (Great cheering.)
We must march onward for mu- altar and our homes—for our
freely circulated Bible—(continued cheering)—for our civil
and religious liberty ; for some of them we shall assuredly
kill, as an Irishman ever should wish to kill—with kindness ;
some we shall make prisoners—prisoners of hope—a hope
full of immortality ; and, if any fly away, we will say to them,
`• turn ye, turn ye, why will ye die." (The rev. gentleman
sat down amidst rapturous applause.)

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE WRECKS OF
THE HOPE AND ATHLONE, AND THE PREMIER.

Q., SECRETARY AT LLOYD'S.
" Foreign Office, July 14.
" Siu,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to trans-
mit to you for the information of the Committee at Lloyd's
the copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Stock-
holm respecting the wrecks of the British vessels Hope and
Athlone, and Premier.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
LEVESON."

" T. W. DOBSON, E

But, for the name of Lord Palmerston, we might suppose
that the above had reference to the Ministry, and that the
" further particulars" might be learned from the Election
Lists as well as from the " Foreign Office," How admirably
it answers ! Hope is gone. Athlone is gone, the Premier
is gone—nought, in fact, but the "wreck" remains, and, be
the weather fair or foul, in a few weeks even that will be
broken up. The planks, too, are useless—from stern to
stern they are unsound ; the sale of the whole concern would
not pay the auctioneer. It was rather a losing " specula-
tion" for Mr. Bull. He is safe, however, himself ; and when
next he takes a trip, he will not trust himself to crazy craft
of that kind.—Cork Constitution.

CAuLow.—Captain Brownlow Villiars Layard, elected
for the borough of Carlow, without, opposition, is the eldest
son of the Rev. B. V. Layard, of Uffington, and he is neither
radical nor repealer ; although all his family are tories, he
has ever been a conservative whig.—Boston Herald.