The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-07 00:00:00

THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.

as measured in commodities, and in the command over la-
boar, might ppssibly furnish something like a standard.
But it is perfectly notorious that the. value of the funds,
as measured in commodities and labour, has fluctuated
exceedingly. At one time the market price of £lOO, in
three per cent. consols was as low as £57, even in a cur-
rency depreciated some 20 or 25 per eent. At another
time, it was worth a hundred golden sovereigns. In one
case, the proposed standard would have given us a pound
worth less than ten shillings ; in the other, it would have
given a pound worth fully twenty shillings. A very pretty
standard that would have been, certainly."

Our contemporary appears wishful to alarm us
by quoting the extreme and violent oscilations
which form a part of the bullionists' system, but he
need not have gone so far back for his illustration,
as so recently as October last year exchequer bills
were not convertible ; it rests with him to prove
whether this arose from a depreciation in the go-
vernment securities, or from an appreciation of the
gold. WE HOLD THAT IT WAS AN APPRECIA-
TION OF THE GOLD.

The object of the association is to obtain a steady
value for money by a uniform rate of interest, and,
at the same time, a safe and adequate supply of the
medium of exchange; and this, they contend, may
be secured by making consols convertible into,
legal tender at par, or at such rate as may be con-
sidered the least disturbing to existing prices.
The only difficulty under which the Guardian
seems to labour with respect to a currency based
upon the value of the national debt, as applicable to
our qrdinary transactions with foreign countries, is
its liability to fluctuation with the price of Consols.
We have already said enough, however, to show
that no such fluctuation would take place. But we
had better let him put his own case :

"A Liverpool merchant," he says, " who has credit at
New York, or who can procure an undertaking from
others who have credit., to accept his bill drawn in that
city, goes into the market there to buy corn, or flour, or
cotton, and proposes to pay for it with his bill on London.
Before any man will part with his merchandise on such
terms, he will be satisfied what it will eventually produce
him. At the present time, he knows that it will yield
him, for each sterling pound expressed in it, a golden so-
vereign of a given weight and fineness, with the value of
which he is very well acquainted; and therefore, if the
price of his cotton, corn, or flour is satisfactory, he feels
no hesitation about the value of the proceeds of the bill
when paid. But let the Liverpool merchant go into the
New York market with a bill payable in three-per-cent.
consols,—or what is precisely the same thing, in a cur-
rency the value of which is determined by the value of
the three-per-cents,—and what will the owner of the
merchandise say to him ? He would very likely say,--` I
have no confidence in your funds. I have recently wit-
nessed the most violent fluctuations in the value of French
rentes and of Austrian metalliques ; and I know that
English three-per-cents have been sometimes worth less
than ten shillings in the pound. Bring megold or silver,
or give me a bill payable in gold or silver, and then 1 will
sell you my merchandise; but I will not sell it for a bill
the real value of which is uncertain.' It would be quite
useless to tell him in reply that he would receive so many
paper ` pounds.' He would require to know what each
pound would net at New York : and feeling no confidence
on that head, he would either refuse to sell, or demand
such terms as, in his judgment, woull indemnify him for
the risk he incurred."

We are still of opinion that if we can only esta-
blish a well regulated system of domestic exchanges,
we may safely leave the foreign exchanges to take
care of themselves ; and we feel sure that they
would fluctuate much less than they do at present.
But, should the Guardian still disagree with us on
this point,we would ask him whether Brazil, Buenos
Ayres, and other countries circumstanced as those
are, have ever experienced any difficulty in obtain-
ing every description of merchandise from every'
part of the world, though their paper money is
totally inconvertible ? Nay, did Great Britain her-
self, find it difficult to obtain all the supplies of
produce, and all the food she required, during the
period of the Bank Restriction Act, merely because
the hank-notes were then inconvertible ? The
reasoning of the Guardian clearly implies that,
whenever bank-notes cease to command gold, fo-
reigners will cease to trade with us, though the
instances just mentioned are evidences to the con-
trary. The fact is, that his error, and that of the
bullionists in general, arises from the vulgar preju-
dice that gold is the only thing that possesses value;
but the association are desirous to bring this pre-
cious metal down to its place as a commodity, and
a commodity only. Feeling satisfied of its total
unfitness as a measure of value, because of the
instability of its own value, which depends upon
the quantity that may happen, at any given time,
to he in the country, they think it a very great evil
that the national commerce and industry should he
paralised, merely by the accidental circumstance of
a few boxes of bullion being, at a particular time,
on the wrong side of the Atlantic. This part of the
argument the Guardian shirks ; he says much as
to the possible depreciation in the value of Consols,
but is silent upon the actually extreme fluctuations
which are constantly taking place in the value of
gold.
Our contemporary repeats his allusions to the
depreciation of French assignats—that respecting
the paper money of. Buenos Ayres he seems to give
up as untenable ;—and in reply to our remark that
these were inconvertible, exclaims, " What ! no solid '
basis of convertibility in the French assignats ?
Why, everybody knows that they were issued on
the security of church lands, and of the confiscated
estates of the emigrant nobles."
We are rather surprised that the Guardian should
be so badly informed upon the point as to reiterate
with evident self-complacency what "every body
knows," or should know, to be incorrect. The case
is, that the first issue of assignats by the consti-
tuted assembly, in 1790, of about £2,500,000, was
based upon public lands, but these assignats were
received back by the government in taxes, and in
payment of the confiscated estates. It was the sub-
sequent and excessive issues, without any basis, or
provision for their withdrawal, that became depre-
ciated and worthless. The ignorance of these facts
may be the chief cause of the bullionists prejudice
against a paper currency. It should be borne in
mind that all depreciated money has originated in
the fraudulent expedients resorted to by Govern-
ments in their necessities, and that n paper money
based upon sound principle, has never yet been
adopted by any nation.
There is one thing of which we have to complain
in the mode in which the Guardian argues this
question. He persists in assuming facts, as proved,
which he has never even attempted to prove ; treats,
as certain to occur under the proposed scheme,
conditions which have constantly occurred under,
and are the most mischievous characteristics of our
present system. We really wish that he would deal,
a little less in such assumptions, and give us a little
more of proof and argument.

WHEN we first heard the announcement that
Mr. Eyre Evans, confident of his ejection from the
Council Chamber, was about to give to the world
his notions on dock matters, in the form of a letter
or a parriphlet, we trembled for the Dock Chair-
man, the committee, and all concerned. We are
enabled once more to breathe freely. The pro-
mised document has appeared in the form of a
letter in the Albion; and there has been no explo-
sion. The Custom-house, the Docks, and the
Dock Warehouses, stand precisely where they
were ; and the Mersey shows no symptoms of being
on fire. In fact, we have read over the production
half a dozen times, only to ask ourselves the ques-
tion every time we reached its conclusion, what on
earth could have induced the worthy gentleman to
think that there existed any necessity for his trou-
bling himself to write a letter at all.
Mr. Eyre Evans seems to labour under the delu-
sion that our Dock affairs cannot possibly go on
without his interference. He states it to be "a
duty owing to the community, from whom he is
officially about to part company" to offer them a
few observations; and reminds his readers of the
way in which " he and several others, the latter
amongst the most distinguished citizens of the
town, exerted themselves for the last thirteen years
in both official and private capacities." We could
have spared him the exertions in question, and the
trouble of reminding us of them. Their result has
been two of the most complete failures ever perpe-
trated either in the Dock Committee or the Coun-
cil; the erection of those extravagant structures,
the Dock warehouses, which Mr. Evans assured us
were to pay ten to twelve and a half per cent., and
which return a miserable fraction upon the outlay,
which we are afraid to mention, and the Gill-street
Market, which pays nothing at all. We shall some
of these days, no doubt, have a proper debtor and
creditor account of the result of these pet schemes
of Nlr. Evans and his friends " the most distin-
guished citizens of this town," which we imagine
will reconcile us to the official parting of company
which he seems to regard as so calamitous.
The burthen of the letter before us is a complaint
with respect to the agreement come to by the Dock
Committee and the Earl of Derby, for the land on
the North Shore, which he conceives to be an
improvident one, and the terms of which ought to
have been left to be settled by a jury ; and another,

that the Dock Committee have acted unwisely in
providing to such an extent for the increase of
traffic, which they expect to accrue to the port.
Under the bargain referred to, he states that " the
lion's share of the property" is conceded to the
Earl; and, from the increase of dock accommoda-
tion which the committee are providing, he sees
nothing, he anticipates nothing, but ruin and bank-
ruptcy to the estate. Unfortunately for his consis-
tency and truth, however, this bargain is by no
means one from which the Earl is to reap the lion's
share ; and his complaint, that the price of the
shore has not been left to a jury, and the Earl
included amongst the parties embraced by the
compulsory clauses of the act, is neutralised by the
fact that a similar purchase of a thousand lineal
yards of strand was made by himself from the same
nobleman, without even the insertion of his name in
the Act of Parliament. The Dock Committee, in
this purchase, wisely departed from the established
rule of past years—viz., that of making the land
first, and buying it afterwards, at from 20s. to 255.
per yard. They required the site for the purpose
of depositing upon it the soil from the docks now
in course of formation ; and they will get, as the
result of the plan they have adopted, a magnificent
reach of land, for dock purposes, at a rate cheaper
than that of any former addition made to the estate.
With respect to his fear that the committee are
going too fast, he affords us an admission which
complet, 1.7 upsets his whole case. The interest on
the debt and expenses, he says, will, when the pro-
posed works be completed, reach £250,000 to
£300,000 per annum, " an appalling sum to those
of us who remember the gross income of the Dock
Estate being under £50,000 per annum." When
we remember, however, that the income in question
has already reached £250,000 per annum, and has
increased in even tho present year of depression,
we need be under little alarm that the further
increase, during the eighteen years that we have
allowed for completing the entire docks proposed,
will not be amply sufficient to meet all the charges
upon them, and allow of room for reduction of the
rates as well.

WE publish the following letter with the very
greatest pleasure. not because we suppose that the
malicious and shameful libels on the Irish clergy
will be felt by that excellent and laborious body of
men, but because we are glad to find that more
than one English clergyman has been bold enough
to protest publicly against the unfounded allega-
tions levelled in such a wholesale manner against
their Irish brethren. The character of Mr. Parry
will add much to his earnest protest, and without
further preface we present his letter to our readers.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Six,—Unaccustomed and unwilling as I am to obtrude
myself on the public attention in the columns of a news-
paper, I cannot refrain from entering my earnest protest,
as an English clergyman, against the ungenerous, the
unjust, the unworthy treatment, to which my Irish breth-
ren in the ministry in this town have been recently sub-
jected. lam filled with feelings of sorrow and of shame
when I reflect that the men thus assailed are men of
whom, if we regard their mental endowments and attain-
ments, any town, any country, any church, might be
justly proud, and for whom, if we consider their piety,
their zeal, and their devotedness in their Master's work
and service, any town, any country, any church, might
well be thankful.

Were my beloved brethren mere men of the world, they
might be in some danger of self-complacency from this
source, if the language of the poet be the language of
truth,—
" Envy does merit, as its shade, pursue,
But, like the shadow, proves the substance true."
Were they men of the worll, they might regard with
contempt the unsparing and unmerited hostility of which
they are the objects. But they are Christian men, and
they will, therefore, pity and " pray for those who des-
pitefully use them," consoled, in some measure, by the
reflection that there are many amongst their English
b-ethren, who, like myself, deeply and affectionately sym.
pathise with them ;—consoled in a far higher degree by
the recollection that their blessed Master went " through
evil" as well as " good report" before them, and that
" the disciple is not above his Master, nor the servant
above his Lord." I am, Sir, faithfully yours,
FREDERICK PARRY.
20, Falkner-square, Nov. 4, 1848.

In connection with this subject, we may allude
here to a reply we have made to a correspondent,
and mention that in this and the three adjoining
parishe; there are eighty-seven officiating clergy-
men, and of these only seventeen belong to the
Irish Church.

WE hear of same difficulties, which are said to
stand in the way of a harmonious action amongst
the Conservative body in the Council, upon the
subject of the approaching election for the mayor-
alty. It was by a majority, not only of the Con-
servatives, but of all classes in the town, fully
understood that, after the postponement of his
claims last year, in favor of those of our present
respected Chief Magistrate, the election of Mr.
Bramley-Moore on the present occasion was almost
a matter of course. Up to within a very few days
past we heard of no settled purpose to disturb
that arrangement by any opposition; and hoped
that time sufficient had elapsed to allow of the
subsidence of party heats, and of a candid ac-
knowledgement being accorded to services of a
very high order, conferred by Mr. Bramley-Moore,
at the expense of great personal exertion, upon the
Commerce and the Institutions of the Town.

In this anticipation, we fear we are doomed to be
disappointed ; and that a section of the Conserva-
tive party are disposed to push their views, as to
the rating question, to the extreme point of mak-
ing it the turning point of fitness for the civic
chair, putting out of sight all those other import-
ant questions of constitutional principle, upon
which they have for years gone hand in hand
with the Dock Chairman, and are even regardless
on the score of personal fitness. It is to be re-
gretted that such a course should be pursued—a
course which must tend greatly to bring us back
beneath that Whig domination, from the effects of
which, its extravagance and jobbing, its Georges's
Halls and Albert Warehouses, .we are now paying
so fearful a penalty. It is an instance of that same.
fatal spirit, which broke up the great political party
in our own town, and in the country : which ended
in handing over a share in the representation of once
Conservative Liverpool to a Liberal, and in fasten—
ing, as an incubus on the country's energies,,a
Russell Administration. _ _

We would entreat of our Conservative friends to
reflect upon the course which they are about to
pursue, and to regard with jealousy and suspicion
the seductive voice with which they are tempted—
the voice of a party which never fawned upon and
flattered loyal constitutional men, except to draw
them under their feet, and trample upon and deride
them. Let them remember the fable of the horse,
who submitted to be bridled and mounted, in order
to be revenged upon an enemy, and has remained
that rider's slave ever since.

The report of an account having been received at
Lloyd's of the lose of the emigrant ship Thetis is incor-
rect.
ROBBERY IN DIIBLIN.—At the Police-court yesterday,
a young man named James Biffin charged another named
James Wilkinson with having recently robbed him, at
his lodgings in Dublin, of £3O in cash, a watch, and a
quantity of clothes, with which he came to England. He
was ordered to be sent to Dublin, to be de 11t with by the
authorities there.
STEALING BUTTER FROM A MARKET WOMAN.—A
woman named Catherine Nicholson, was yesterday
charged at the police-court with having stolen from the
stall, in St. John's Market, of Catharine Howard (of
Ormskirk), 12 pounds of butter, value, Is. per pound.
She was observed, pursued and captured in Market-street
by a police-officer. The prisoner was sent for trial at the
sessions.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CAR-DRIVER.—At the police-
court yesterday, a car-driver named Thomas Robinson,
was charged with having retained from his employer the
sum of 10s. 6d., which he had received for a fare on Sun-
day evening. The prisoner said he was so drunk that he
knew not what had become of the money, which he must
either have lost or was robbed of. He was remanded for
further enquiry.
BONFIRES.—AII or most of our readers know the origin
of bonfires. But though bonfires are sometimes dangerous,
they have, on many occasions, been of great service in
preserving life and property, as in the following instance :
It is now forty-two years since the ship Bellona, Captain
W. Lace, bound to this port from Africa, with a valuable
cargo, was overtaken by a storm on making the land,
which increased as night came on, accompanied with sleet
and rain. It soon became as dark as pitch. The pilot
would not listen to the remonstrances of the captain, and
the consequence was the ship struck, and soon became a
wreck, on one of the banks near the village of Wallasey.
At this time, they could not see the Bidston light, but
occasionally seeing the reflection of the bonfires on Bid-
ston-hill, the captain and crew took to the boats, and
pulled in that direction for several hours. The sailors
became so exhausted that they were about to lay down
their oars in despair, but the captain assuring them he
could then distinctly see the bonfires, animated the crew,
and another hour's tug brought them to the shore. The
men, on reaching terra firma, near the Magazines, could
scarcely be restrained, and vowed they would every sth of
November have a bonfire that would blaze as high as the
mainmast of their unfortunate ship, as they must have all
perished but for the Cheshire boys commemorating the
memorable day. The pilot was discharged for his head-
strong conduct,

RECONCILIATION BETWEEN DR. M'NEILE
AND ME REV. W. W. EWBANK. -ADDI-
TIONAL CORRESPONDENCE.

We are rejoiced to find that through the kind exertions
of Mr. Inman, a cordial reconciliation has taken place be-
tween these reverend gentlemen, who, on Saturday, had a
most affectionate personal meeting. The following cor-
respondence is extremely gratifying, and' we publish it
with much pleasure :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Everton, Nov. 6, 1848.

DEAR SlR,—Will you be good enough to insert the
enclosed correspondence in your next paper ?—I am, dear
sir, your faithful servant,
W, WITHERS EWBANK.

DINNER ON CLOSING THE SEASON, AND PRESENTATION :
OF PLATE TO THE COMMODORE.
Yesterday evening, a number of the members of our i
Royal Mersey Yacht Club, assembled at the Club-rooms,
Duke-street, to partake of a dinner as a conclusion to
the season of this year, and, more especially, to present
to their esteemed Commodore a testimonial of their
respect for his gallant and humane conduct in saving, by
the admirable working of his yacht " The Ocean Queen,"
the lives of many of the unfortunate parties on board of
the Ocean Monarch, recently destroyed by fire on the
coast of Wales.
The large Club-room was splendidly decorated with
appropriate national and other flags, and nautical em-
blems, and enriched by a variety of beautiful models as
well as of ships, paintings, yachts, and craft of every
degree. The apartment, (which is spacious and elegant,)
was splendidly lighted with gas from the central dome,
and the appearance of the whole was most lively and
unique. There was present an excellent company of
Glee Singers, who sang appropriate songs on each toast
being given, and contributed largely to the enjoyment of
the evening. On the right side of the room were fixed on
the wall Marryatt's flags, designated " In honour of the
Commodore." Over the fire-place was placed Mr.
Melling's original painting of the Queen of the Ocean
sailing to the rescue of the burning Ocean Monarch.
Surmounted by the British Jack, and over the Royal
Arms in carving, were the Union Jack and the Cross of
St. George. On one side of these was the Blue Ensign of
the R.M.Y.C., with its device. At the bottom of the room
was a huge flag, " The Royal Arms of England." The
tables consisted of two long lengths, with a cross table at
the top. They were handsomely decorated with fancy
confectionery—ornamented swith nautical and national
flags ; and a number of valuable pieces of plate, which had
been prizes of the club, were also displayed.
Between sixty and seventy gentlemen sat down at the
festive board, including many of the most respectable
gentlemen of the mercantile, shipping, trading, and
agricultural interests of this port and its neigbour-
hood. The dinner and wines were provided by
Mr. Lynn, of the Waterloo Hotel, a veritable king
of caterers, who on this occasion outdid all his for-
mer exertions to gratify even the most fastidious
palates. The viands were, in fine, varied and delicious,
the dessert superb, and the wines, &c., of the finest pos-
sible potency and flavour.
The Earl of Sefton was unanimously called to the chair,
and performed the duties of the somewhat onerous office
with the greatest felicity and effect. He was supported
on his right by T. Littledale, Esq., the Commodore, Edw.
Cardwell, Esq., M.P., Admiral Grenfell, Captain Froes,
Captain Lisboa, J. Bramley-Moore, Esq., &c. On his
left, by Wm. Brown, Esq., M.P., Sir Thos. Birch, M.P.,
Captain Ward, Edward Watson Lloyd, Esq., Commodore
of the Royal Dee Yacht Club, and others. The Vice-
chairs were occupied by Fletcher, Esq., Capt. Beaver,
of the Club, and H. Melling, Esq., the Hon. Secretary.
Amongst those present were Messrs. Councillors Par-
ker, Aspinall, Tobin, Alderman Molyneux, H. Littledale,
W. W. Perry, W. Nevitt, Edward Littledale, N. D. Bold,
ft. A. Mould, S. P. Hope, Benjamin H. Jones, Thomas
Birchall, James Holme, John Woodhouse, H. Bridston,
George Folliott, (of Chester,) Frederick Peel, R. M'Lean,
Samuel Bright, Esqrs., &e., &c.
The present for the Commodore consisted of a beautiful
and massive gold snuff-box, 41 inches in length by 3A
inches in width, and upwards of 1 inch in depth. In the
centre of the lid, engraved on the gold, is a representation,
copied from the much-admired oil painting, by H. Mel-
ling, Esq., of the burning of the Ocean Monarch, at the
time of her greatest danger, with the gallant little yacht
making up to her succour under a heavy press of canvas,
and bounding over the then stormy sea. This scene is
enclosed, or surrounded, by deeply-embossed scrollwork,
raised in alto-relievo, and in foliated devices. Within an
embayment, or recess, at the top of the picture, is en-
graved the crest of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club—the
Crown and Anchor, surmounted by the Liver. On the
bottom, and in the centre, is engraved a striking likeness
of a " prow," or ancient sailing ship, also surrounded by
scroll-work, and protected by a raised rim or edge of gold,
upon which the box rests when placed upon or moved
along a table. The sides of the box are sectionally of an
ogee form, and are enriched with engraving and scroll-
work. In the centre of the front there is beautifully en-
graved the coat of arms of T. Littledale, Esq. The inside
of the lid bears the following inscription, beautifully en-
graved in Roman capitals.
" PRESENTED BY THE MEMBERS OF
THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB
TO THEIR COMMODORE,
THOMAS LITTLEDALE, ESQ.,
AS A MEIVDDRIAL OF THEIR ADMIRATION
OF THE GALLANTRY AND HUMANITY HE DISPLAYED
ON BOARD HIS YACHT 'QUEEN OF THE OCEAN,'
IN SAVING, UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES OF GREAT DIFFICULTY,
THE LIVES OF THIRTY-TWO OF THE CREW AND
PASSENGERS
OF THE EMIGRANT SHIP 'OCEAN MONARCH,' OF BOSTON,
DESTROYED BY FIRE IN ABERGELE BAY,
ON THURSDAY, THE. XXIV. OF AUGUST, MDCCCXL37III."
On the cloth being removed, the toasts proceeded as
follows :
The CHAIRMAN rose and said,—l call upon all
loyal men to drink the health of " Her most gracious
Majesty the Queen, Duchess of Lancaster, our Royal
Patroness." (Drunk with all loyal honours.)
Air—" The National Anthem."
The CHAIRMAN again rose and said,—Gentlemen, T
will make another appeal to your loyalty on behalf of a
lady who is illustrious as much for her birth as for her
charity, generosity, and benevolence to all who belong to
this world. Gentlemen, I give you—" Our Queen Dow-
ager, and may God bless her." (Cheers.)
Air—" Sleep, gentle lady."
When silence was restored, the CHAIRMAN rose and
gave—" Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the
rest of the Royal Family." (Applause.)
Glee—" What shall he have that killed the deer ?"
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemen the
next toast is the "Army and Navy." (Cheers.) Without
the army and navy I don't know what we should do, ev( n
with the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. (Cheers.) But w'silst
we have an army and navy in which we may feel an honest
and justly-placed pride, still I feel that we are as much
honoured in ranking amongst our members, and amongst
our guests to night, men who have done the " state some
service," and who have been an honour to that same army
and navy—gentlemen, I allude to Captain Warre and
Lieutenant Lord, R.N.—(Loud cheers.)—Air, " Rula
Britannia."
Capt. VV ARRE then rose to return thanks for the
honour conferred upon him and his brother of the navy.
He did not fear of the army and navy doing its duty—as
longs as they hal such examples :before them, and that of
their worthy Commodore, who in a small vessel saved the
lives of so many of his fellow beings. (Loud cheer 3.)
Lieutenant LORD also returned thanks for the honour
which had been conferred upon him. He could only re-
echo the sentiments which had been uttered by Captain
Warre. with regard to their Commodore. It was one of
the most humane and most heroic acts which he had ever
known to be performed by a seaman possessed of so small
a craft. (Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN again rose and said he would propose
the health of " The Members of the Southern Division of
of the County." He looked upon the Royal Mersey
Yacht Club as one of the institutions of the country,
and' the institutions of this-country derived their pros-
perity from the laws by which it was governed. Con-
nected with the laws were their representatives whom
they trusted in the assemblage of the country. There-
fore it was that he proposed for their consideration the
health of the Legislature of England, and more par-
ticularly that of the members for this county—(cheers)—
one of whom, who was present, was a townsmanarif Li-
verpool, and whom he (the Chairman) trusted would
always long remain amongst them as their representative
in the Imperial Parliament. (Loud cheers.)
Air—" As the moments roll."
Mr. W. BROWN, M.P., then rose to respond, and said,
that as a member for this large and influential county,
he felt proud in being called upon to respond to such
a toast as that which had been proposed by their honored
and noble chairman. He also felt proud in having his
name connected with such a sentiment as that which had
been given from the chair, connected as it was with all
that was good and great, rich and intellectual in this great
and influential county—(cheers)—many of whom he had
the honour of addressing that evening. It must be acknow-
ledged that the voice of the people should be heard in
the great council of the nation, and in accordance with
that voice, he had the honour of being elected to the high
office which he then held. He, however, was more than
gratified—he was delighted—in being able- to Join their
noble chairman in presenting this tribute of respect to
their gallant Commodore—a tribute of respect and ad-
miration which be assuredly deserved. (Hear, hear,
and applause.) He (Mr. Brown) was not a nautical
man, but he understood from all with whom he had
conversed, that it was mainly owing to the formation,
discipline, and order of such a club as the Riyl Mersey
Yacht Club, that the gallant crew of i IL, - t : t • •!1 of the
Ocean," under their more than gallant coil modore, were
so well able to do their duty, and thereby save the unfor-
tunate sufferers, which they did. (Cheers.) Again thank-
ing them for the honour conferred upon him and his
colleague, he begged to retire.
The CHAIRMAN again rose and said that after the very
flattering manner in which the health of the County
Members was received, he was induced to propose to their
notice another toast of the same nature, which was the
health of the Members of the Borough. (Cheers.) They
(the electors) were fortunate enough in having both their
worthy members selected, he might say, from amongst
themselves—they were both natives of the town ; and,
therefore, would, no doubt, take a greater interest in the
affairs of the town than if they were strangers. (Cheers.)
He would, without further preface, give them the health
of "Our Borough Members." (Drunk with applause.)
Song—" Our ship's in port, our anchor s cast."
SIR THOS. BIRCH then rose and said that in acknow-
ledging the compliment he felt the necessity of not tres-
passing upon their time one moment longer than would
suffice to return his sincere thanks for the honour which
had been conferred upon himself and colleague. He
could assure them that on no occasion could that com-
pliment have been more acceptable to him than on the
present. When they called to their remembrance the
event which this evening was intended to commemorate,
they could not but feel that great exertions had been
made to save the lives of a number of human beings who
must otherwise have perished, and such being the case,
they must feel with him that this indeed was one of the
noblest moments of a Christian's life. (Loud cheers.)
H ) did feel a peculiar ph' a ure in the position which he had
the honour to hold amongst amongst them ; and he hoped
that the close connexion which he then held with them
would never be dissevered. He should cease now were it
not that he was happy to have the opportunity of congra-
tulating their gallant Commodore on the events which had
called the present happy meeting together. He did not,
however, mean to congratulate him on the melancholy
loss of the Ocean Monarch •, tut he did congratulate both
him and the members of the Mersey Yacht Club on the
fact, that although the commodore was merely out for