The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-16 00:00:00

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with little prospect of eing lieveC fo a.‘ as }}et the
military have behaved well toward foreigners but on the first
day of the revolution, they attacked the militia and killed four
,or live and wounded as many more. The lowa is nearly de4ert
by the inhabitants—il is surrounded by 850 of the constitutional
troops. The military have only 210 men under arms, and eighty
'Prisoners, criminals, &c. whom they have armed, but they are
in daily expectation of assistance from Can:Lana, Ste."—Com-
mercial Adcertiser.

REVOLUTION AT PARA, AND MASSACRE OF THE INHABITANTS.
We learn from Captain Tuttle, from Para, arrived Yesterday
afternoon, that the Tepuliana (natives) made an attack on Para
on the night of the 14th August, succeeded in taking it on the
2.3 d, and made a general massacre of all the white inhabitants
they could get at, the majority of which had taken boats, and
went to the shipping on the first alarm. The American consul
got on board the brig Mercator, which sailed 7 days before for
this city, having lost all his effects and happy to escape with his
life. The brig was compelled to leave all her papers. Corn.
Mot ris, of Brazilian navy, having in command two frigates, two
corvettes, one brig, and one schooner of war, together with a
Portuguese vessel of war and one English vessel of war, assisted
the President in repelling the natives, but without success, and
dropped down to Cape Antonia on the 24th, having on board
three thousand inhabitants who had escaped.
Lauding the females and children at the Island of Mirago,
under the care of a guard, the meu he had organized for the
purpose of re-taking the place if possible. Coin. Taylor had
declared the city of Para under blockade. The brig Mercator,
wit. the American consul, C. J. Smith, Esq., peassenger on
board, has arrived since we received the account of the revolu-
tion at Para by Captain Tuttle. We learn from her the follow-
ing additional particulars. The President having taken no
precautionary measures against this attack, which was daily ex-
pected, and of which be had been repeatedly advised both by
deserters and by letters, by the chief of the rebels, Antonio
Vinagre, who hail threatened to fall upon the city, onleis his
brother Pedro, who was then a prisoner on board the Mexican
ships of war, was released. The foreigners and native resi-
dents had confided in the strength and wisdom of the provincial
government, and of the efficiency of the marine department for
protection, that they postponed embarking until absolutely sur-
reunded by the natives, not allowing themselves time to save
their clothing or valuable effects, and some not even a shift of
clothing. Our countryman, Mr. Upton, had barely time to flee
on board, leaving his books in his counting house, which were
thrown into the street and destroyed.
The Indians were seen firing from the windows of the Ameri-
can consul's house at the En dish marines stationed at Mr.
Campbell's opposite, and the United States flag was torn up.
It was supposed the slaughter must have been immense as the
blotto of the Indians had been "extermination of the whites,"
and a more complete sack of any city probably never took place
than in this instance.
• The brigs Malta and George were bound for Maranham full
of passengers The British sloop of war Race florae with all
the English. merchante on board was bound for the same place
in,a few days.

The Indians had about 150 to 200 armed ►aen. The Presi-
dent had 300 men under him ready for service, and several
forces of artillery which were left unspiked, and were fired from
by the natives at the whites in their retreat. The British and
Portuguese vessels of war each landed from 90 to 100 men to
assist the authorities, but seeing their pusillanimity, they em-
barked again for their vessels.

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GRAND MUSICAL ATTRACTION.
Vi R. MORI Las the honour to inforni the Nobility and
.1.7.1. Gentry of Liverpool and its vicinity, that he will give
TWO EVENING CONCERTS,
At the TEMPLARS' HALL, GREAT GEORGE-STREET, on
MONDAY next, October 19th, and on Tuuson Y, Oct. 20th, 1835.
commeneeHat Eight o'clock precisely, on which occasions
will be performed entirely different selections of the moat fa-
shionable Pieces, including some of the Music from the highly-
popular Operas 1. PUR ITA NI and MARINO FA LIERO, which
have created so great a sensation in London.

TILE FOLLOWING EMINENT PERFORMERS WILL APPEAR :-
MADAME STOCKHAUSEN,
Who will sing several of her most popular It. ian, French,
English. and Swiss Airs, including the popular olacea front I.
Puritaui, the admired Barcarole from Marie Faliero, and the
Bolero by Dessaner.
MD'LLE. BILDSTE
(Niece of Madame Stockhausen) seve al popular Pieces.
MRS. ST. AL
Will Play a FANTA [SIR 011 tit )lAKO-FORTE,
MONSIEUR STOCKI AUSEN,
A SOLO on the Harp. and a DUETT.
Mr. MURI,
A new FANTAISIE from I Puritani, a Concerto on the Violin,
and several Concertante Pieces. .
Mr. LAVENU will preside at the Piano-forte.
s•* For programmes, see small bills at the Music Shops,
Booksellers and Libraries.

Single Tickets for the Body of the Room, 6s. each; and
Tickets, to admit Pour, 215.; for the Gallery, 4s. each ; to be
_had at the Music Warehouses of Mr. W. G. WEiss. and
Messrs. Hass and SON. and Principal Shops. Pupils at Aca-
demies admitted at Half-price.

U,iberpool h_Z-tanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1835.

We have received New York papers to the 25th Sep-
tember, some interesting extracts from which will be
found elsewhere.

It will be seen by the crowded state of our columns,
that a very large portion of our time and attention has
been devoted to the proceedings of the grand conserva-
tive meeting at Newton yesterday. The report of the
speeches and proceedings will -repay an, attentive
perusal. It was,- We venture to say, one.of the proudest
days ever seen in this part of the country. We go far-
ther, and say, that in no part of the empire was ever be-
held, in respect of numbers, intelligence, wealth, and in-
fluence, such an assembly of loyal and enthusiastic men.
We solemnly declare that we never witnessed such a
meeting. There were upwards of a thousand gentlemen,
who sat down to dinner, in the new Conservative Hall,
the first in England which has been built and dedicated
to conservative principles. The noble hearts there as-
sembled, the chivalrous voices there raised, and the pha-
lanx of strength there displayed. proved how miserably
the enemies of England would fare, or the wretched pa-
pists would quail, if they should ever rush upon the rash
adventure of measuring swords with our protestant coun-
trytnen. No, we have nothing to fear. What was shown
yesterday at Newton told a tale which the insulting
levellers, and the united band of papists and infidels, will
read with deep mortification, for its manifestations were
decisive as to the complete subjection and signal pros.
tration in disgrace and infam3 which inevitably awaits
them. The eloquence of the noble chairman, Lord
FRANCIS EGERTON, and the commanding good sense and
true conservative views of Lord WILTON—the powerful
address of Sir EDWARD B4aNEs—and the elt-.ctric appeal
of the Rev. Mr. PARKINSON, made a deep impression on
the assembly. But without detracting from the talents
of the distinguished persons we have named, we feel con-
fident they will coincide with us, that the best and most
attractive speech of the evening was that of Mr. THOMAS
BERRY HORSFALL. We have neither time nor space to
dwell upon or point out its merits, but we earnestly call
attention to it as an animated dissection of the grievances,
and the misgovernment, and the unhallowed alliance
under which the country at present groans. .

The effects of democrat y,; enfranchisement in municipal
corporations may be seen in great perfection by an occa-
sional glance at. the Glasgow papers. It is indeed worth
any honest radical's time and money, no matter how little
he has of either to spare, to take a steam trip to that an-
cient city, in order to see with his own eyes and hear
with his own ears the workings of a system which is
bringing into play the most expressive epithets of the
vulgar tongue, and making the town councils of Scotland,
not bear gardens, for bear gardens are respectable by
comparison, but something like' the drinking booths of
Donybrook fair, the keepers of which are supposed to be
blackguards and their customers thieves. Talk of the'
cogers of St. Bride's, London, the lumber-troop, in
Fleet-street, or any pethouse in the Holy Land or Rag
Fair !—these are sober, discreet, temperate, and respect-
able places, when contrasted with the periodical ebulli-
tions of disgusting brutality, low scurrility, and foul-.
mouthed abuse, which, since the passing of the Scottish
municipal reform bill,, have marked and disgraced the
town council of Glasgow.
Under the old system the magistracy and town coun-
cil of Glasgow were composed of the highest order of
intelligent merchants and manufacturers, who, acting
with the better class of master tradesmen elected into the
council by the various incorporated companies of artificers
and handicraftsmen, had conducted the affairs of the city
for many centuries with great credit to themselves, with-
out any factious contests or divisions, and to the advan-
tage of the inhabitants at large. In proof of this it is
only necessary to look at the beauty of the public build-
ings of Glasgow, the regularity of its streets, the cele-
brity of its charitable institutions, the improvements' on
the Clyde, of its bridges, and of every thing appertain-
ing to the health, comfort, and recreation of the people.
Another proof, if proof were wanting, is in the eminent
piety and distinguished talent of its clergy, the best and
ablest of whom received their appointment from the old
and condemned corporation. Its university too, its
grammar school, and other similar institutions—need we
say a word in praise of them ? Lord BROUGHAM has
praised them, and so has THOMAS CAMPBELL, the poet,
and so has Sir WALTER. SCOTT. They have been the ad-
miration of every person of noble birth, or splendid
fame, or of rare learning, who has taken the trouble to
make himself acquainted with the nature of their foun-
dations. The only fault we ever could find with the uni-
versity was the excessive leaning of its rules and forms
to democracy. But this attached no blame to the old
corporation of Glasgow in the exercise of its patronage.
They did not wish to trench upon the popular rights of
its matriculates. This surely can be no offence in the
eyes of liberals. 'We, as tories, might contest the wis-
dom of such unnatural adhesiveness to laws sanctioned
by time, and consecrated by the 'approbation of their
pious ancestors; but liberal and enlightened persons—
we mean modern patriots, the schoolmasters, and philo-
sophers of our' day—have' no right to question the pu-
rity of their motives in adhering to popular institutions.
We take the opposite side, and if any blame be imputa-
ble to the old corporation of Glasgow it is on the ground
that they paid too much regard ,to the popular doctrines
of their times. If they had, thirty years ago, applied
for a new charter, and deprived the younger collegians
under a certain age from having any vote or voice in the
election of lord rectors, they would have placed.a whole-
some curb upon the silly and gingerbread abstractions of
juvenile democracy—they would have kept raw lads out
of the arena of party politics—they would have taken
the affairs of state out of the hands of simple vouths
struggling between the attractions of maternal affection
and the Greek Lexicon, and confined them strictly to the
Humanities; but instead of this they indulged them in
every kind of popular absurdity, and allowed certain
professors to creep in—whig reptiles—saakes of a dan-
gerous venom—immense lovers of BONAPARTY, and re-
publicanism, and infidelity—sly and captious expounders
of the gospel they disparaged or disbelieved—they al-
lowed all this, and they therefore, unintentionally we
believe, gave a twist to the loyal and protestant feelings
and principles of the rising generation.
These are our impressions. But still, with all their
faults, the old corporation of Glasgow had redeeming
excellencies, of which the city itself and all its noble
buildings and benevolent institutions bear witness. Its
civic affairs were conducted honestly and discreetly, and
we believe much more advantageously and economically,
than under the new system. Whatever they did they
never allowed the credit of the corporation to be called
in question. The proceedings of the Common Council
were conducted with decorum, dignity, and reciprocal
good feeling. There were no pothuuse scenes;—no dog .

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fights—no tearing and scratching, like two drunken hags
in a fish-market—no personalities, which an insulted
coal-porter with three sheets in the wind would be
ashamed of—no suspected persons--no dealers in stolen,
goods sitting on the bench of justice—no needy bank-
rupts entrusted with a voice in the application of the cor-
poration funds. No; the merchants of Glasgow, in the
old corporation, were honourable and independent men,
above suspicion.

But what do we see now ? We ask the question in
order to answer it, as a warning, and for the instruction
of the reflecting and intelligent inhabitants who con-
stitute the burgesses of Liverpool. But for their bene-
fit we should not have noticed Glasgow or its radical
cormatien at al It is painful and heart-sickening to
allude to such a set of men ; but as our turn is next—as
municipal reform holds us also in its _democratic em-
brace—and as the road to revolution has been opened by
the present levellers of the House of Commons—by the
most ignorant, debased, and unprincipled representatives
that ever sat in the lower house—lower at least iu mem-
bers and by character since the last was burnt—we have
thought it our duty to bring under their consideration
the effects of democratic reform in a northern borough,
in the hope that it will inspirit them to assume the offen-
sive, which is the defensive, in time, and put forth their
whole powers,, exertions, and influences to prevent any
such calamity and disgrace from falling upon the good
old town of Liverpool.
We have shown what the corpotation of Glasgow was;
it is now our province to show what it is. In that coin-
mon*council, composed as it is of, perhaps the popular,
but, at the same time, the most virulent and disloyal
scamps of the town—composed as it is of the most un-
ruly and most republican dissenters—men who never,
even by accident, have entered into the society of gen-
tlemen—who are strangers to the forms of courtesy-j
who are not under the restraints of good manners, and
whip neither know when to offer, acknowledge, or resent
an insult—who under the mask of hypocritical profes-
sions give no satisfaction for either the moral or the per-
sonal outrages they commit, and who continue to insult,
like O'CONNELL, because some vow—the vamped-up
apology of a scoundrel who has bien kicked—is averred
to be binding upon a convenient conscience. We'llope
there are few such men in English society. We trust
their number is small in Scotland. But experience
proves that there are a vast number of turnspits in both
countries, and not a few in Ireland, who bark, and growl,
but who do not fight. The new and reformed corpora-
tion of Glasgow, the model of ours which is to be, con-
tains at least one member who calls another a " liar
and slanderer." Indeed the word " liar" is buffeted
about in the council room of that town exactly in the
style in which people play battledore and shuttlecock.
The
." lie" is as common as rain, and as little valued as
waste water. The members of the new council, accord-
ing to their natural propensities, throw overboard all
the rules of civilised life, and terms are used that in
other associations would lead to immediate murder.
The Glasgow Courier informs us that a common-coun-
cillor, of the name of M‘GAvot,—a low bred dipper or
dissenter of some obscure and pragmatical order—had
applied the terms we have been dwelling upon, namely,
" liar and slanderer," to another member of the council
who happens to possess the rare qualities of a gentleman.
Mr. Convener M'LELLAN, so designated and insulted by
this foul-mouthed and unwashed brute, resorts to the only
alternative left him. He calls upon him to retract or
fight. The fellow does neither. Why ? because he is
equally devoid of courage and a sense of justice. He
hands over the challenge to a magistrate, and seeks the
protection of the law of the land, without any regard for
the laws of decency and honour which he had himself
violated. Prevented from seeking redress in one county,
Mr. APLELLAN crosses into an adjoining one, and again
calls upon his raffish antagonist to meet him, in the fol-
lowing letter, which would rouse the resentment ofa cow
or a hog : .

Kirkintilloch, half-past 6 A.M.
Monday, 12th Oct., 1835.
Robert M'Gavin, Esq.
Sit,— From the extraordinary course you have adopted, a
course which no gentleman, who has any regard for his cha-
racter, would have adopted, in putting into the hands of the
judicial authorities toy two letters of date Friday last, requiring
from you a retractation of, and apology for, the opprobrious, in-
sulting, and highly injurious epithets applied by you to me in
my absence, or that satisfaction which one gentleman, Whose
feelings have been grossly outraged, is entitled at the very least
to expect, and demand from auy one having the slightest pre-
tensious to move in society as a gentleman, and a man of
honour—any further notice of you on my part may well appear
Quixotic, and were it not for the situation in which you are
placed, as a member of the city council, I certainly should not
have given myself any further trouble about you; but finding
you there, and seeing you permitted to exercise so much in-
fluence in the city's affairs, and that you are put forward in the
council either as the demagogue leader of the ruling faction, or
their most approved Punchinello, I cannot permit you to escape
with' that impunity which you may think you have secured to
yourself, by the cowardly course you, in the fear of deserved
chastisement, have pursued. In the belief, however, that you,
have acted merely as the tool of the leading faction alluded to,
in adopting this course, so dishonourable to yourself, and unjust
and injurious to me, I shall give you yet another opportunity of
setting yourself right in public opinion, by meeting with me to-
day, at eleven o'clock, at Gartshore Western Gate, nine miles
from Glasgow, on the old Edinburgh road, by Kirkintilloch,
where I shall be attended by my friend.
Since you have tacitly refused to retract ycur foul and in-
famous aspersions on toy character, you surely cannot refuse
either to stand by these aspersions as a man, or to acknowledge
them as malicious lies, by a dastardly refusal to vindicate them
in the manner I again require you to do.
Like the other agitators of the day, you may have registered
a vow in heaven that you will never fight a duel; but, sir, if you
have registered such a convenient vow' you ought at the same
time to have coupled it with the vow, tll'at you never on any oc-
casion would utter falsehoods, injure the feelings, or assassinate
the chat acter of your neighbour.
I have now just to say, that I will wait for you at the place
and time mentioned for one half hour, viz., front eleven till half-
past eleven, A.M. Should you.fail to appear, I then am entitled
to consider you as the most despicable coward, " liar and
slanderer," that ever ventured to hold up his countenance
among honest and upright men.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
• (Signed) Aitcno. M•Lxt.t. AN.

As may be expected, Mr. M‘GrAviti did not think pro-
per to keep the appointment, and thus the matter stands
at present. .

CONCF.KT AT THE MUSIC-HALL, B^1.1)-STHEET.—Mr. Eyton
gave his annual concert at the Music-hall, on Wednesday night,
to au audience sufficiently numerous to fill that spacious room.
As we have neither time nor space to give a detailed notice, it
must suffice to say that the performances were well received, and
that they were concluded with " God save the King."
The following gentlemen have been appointed magistrates
for this island, by the King, on the 17th of August last, accord-
ing to the late act of 'Tynwald, and are, we understand, to be
sworn into office this day before his excellency the governor :
Sir William Hillary, Bart., Fort Ann; Sir Geu. Thinkwater,
Kut., Kirby; Alexander John Guldie, Esq., Nunnery; Richd.
Murray. Esq., Mount Murray; John C. Crcllin, Esq., Castle-
town; William L. Drinkwater, Esq., Douglas; Thos. Carran,
Esq., Peel; John Anderson. Esq., Cooley Lodge; William
Farrant, Esq., Ballamoar; William Christian, Esq., Claugh-
bane ; Godfrey Tait, Esq., Ballamenaugli.-2tfame Sun, Oct. 9.
Wor.yEans sirro N.—A gold Sn u uo x has been presented to
Captain Manning, and a silver cigiv-case to Lieutenant Bau-
der, by some of the inhabitants of olverhainpton, in testimony
of their approbation of the conduct of these officers during the
recent riots in that town.

The Admiralty have recommended Captain Back to his Ma-
jesty for promotion, and he has been promoted accordingly by
an order in council, as he has served the requisite tima as a
commander to enable the board to du it in any other way.—
Even fag paper.

FASHIONABLE NeRIVALS.—At the Adelphi Hotel, the Rt.
Hon. the Earl of Leitrim and Countess; the Bishop of Bangor;
the ltight Hon. the Earl and Countessof Burlington ; the Rt.
Hon. Lord Lilford ; General Halket, and fancily; Galloway
Bey, and party; Col. MacGregor; - Wilbraham, Esq. of
Itood flall; Le barons Bianchi; W. Stanley, Esq.; Mr. and
Mrs. Hughes, of the Bache; Capt. Courtney, R.N.; Madame
Scherar, and family; Peter de Domek, Esq.; Palmer More-
wood, Esq., of Leamington; Col. Ferguson ; M. Bleucuw, of
Lynn, Norfolk.

On Wednesday last the Rev. J. B. Winstanley, A. 8., mi-
nister of St. Mathias's Church, was duly licensed by the Lord
Bishop of Chester, according to the respective acts of parlia-
ment, to the separate chaplaincies of St. James's Cemetery
and the Borough or Common Gaol of this town.

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BLACKBURN.—The churchwardens of Blackburn have with-
drawn a motion for a church-rate in that town, in deference to
the opinion of the inhabitants; and the expenses of the church
are to be defrayed by voluntary contributions, as in several other
towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

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The multiplication of railway in the neighbourhood of New-
castle is remarkable. There are not less than four at this mo-
ment actually in progress; namely, the Newcastle and Carlisle
Railway, the Hepburn and Blayaon Railway, the Sunderland
and'Durham Railway, and the Durham Junction Railway, and
there are four more in contemplation.
Tna ROYAL VISIT TO CILICI.SEA HOSPITAf..-Thirty covers
were laid for the party. The gallant veteran, Sir Samuel Hulse,
addressed the King—" May it please your Majesty, I have swad
before tu'u Kings since I have been governor here, and should
have been happy to have stood before a third." (Sir Samuel
was wheeled into the room,) " Enough, enough," exclaimed his
Majesty, and took the old soldier by the hand. Ile is in his
90th year.
Mr. John Mackay Wilson, the talented author of "Tales of
the Border," and for several years editor of the Berwick Adrer-
tiser, died at Berwick-on-Tweed, on Friday morning. About a
fortnight before this unfortunate result, Mr. Wilson burst a
blood vessel, and from that period gradually sunk under the ef-
fects of this accident, although his medical attendants and
friends by no means imagined his end to be so near.
A Soaaa I'u e.—Why are the Temperance Societies a bar to
friendship ?—Because they prevent the shaking of hands !

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ANNUAL DINNER OF THE SOUTH LANC'
SHIRE CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.

The little town of Newton-in-the-Willows, although. it 18
longer possesses the privilege of sending two members to pr
liament, has lost none of its importance, as it is become
permanent head-quarters of the South Lancashire Conservsef!
Association, the parent of all the other similar societies svbic!
are now established in every district and almost in every too.
of any importance in the United Kingdom. The South Ls%
cashire Conservative Association hastescarcely been found!:
three years, and yet during that short period it has enrolled "f
members all the talent, wealth, and influence of that portion,')
the palatinate from whence it takes its name. To perttetY,'l
the society .a building for the accotnmodat ion of its members
been erected since the last anniversary dinner, which is at olf,
the most prominent object in the town of Newton, and we try
will be a lasting monument of the good old English feelmg _lacy
raised it. The Conservative Hall is situate at the back of I":
Legit Arms Hotel. The principal front has a bold Doric
tics, in the centre, with fluted columns, surmounted by a r„
meet. The windows are raised upon a rustic basement, awl;
royal arms in alto-relievo are to be placed over each entrap
door. The other fronts are similar, with the exteption of 17 i 7;
tars being substituted for columns. The interior
is divides
three compartments by sixteen light cast iron columns, Kttb i
frieze and.cornice above, supporting the roofs. The ceiling!
the centre roof is circular, and a few feet loftier than the sid..",
and there are four recesses in which galleries may be hereafter
i;
erected. The external dimensions of the hall
are 121 feet;
length and 8f; in breadth. The interior therefore is sufficient.)
capacious to admit of eight tables, each 90feet long, with a 0.11
table at the end of the room for the president of 54 feet in length'
These tables will accommodate about 1000 persons; and. .
addition..there is en anti-room which, by throwing open thi.'
folding-doors, will afford space to dine 900 persons more. T"'a
building. still in an unfinished state, was planned by Mr. Rich°
Lane, of Manchester, under whose superintendence it In'
erected.

The Hall was first opened yesterday to celebrate the third,
anniversary of the association fur whose convenience it
raised, and for that occasion was tastaf.w and elegantly ,n
up by Mr. Doveton, of Manchester. 1-'lle-mvalls were hung el',
blue and white glazed calico, fluted and ornamented with 69'5
drapery and rosettes made of the same materials which exterwe
round the cornice of the room. ,
On the centre of the wall along which the cross or presideal's
table was placed, was suspended the banner of the South Lail;
cashire Conservative Association. the Imperial Crown of Great
Britain, richly emblazoned, the Union Jack and the fullorieD
inscription its gold letters, "The Conservatives of South 1411 r,
cashire: may their principles awl numbers grow with thei,
rowth and stiengthen with their strength." Beneath t'„
nethipti was the followiug motto :—" King and Constitution,,lß
arch and state." On the right of the banner was hung a 'ld
length portrait, painted in oil colours, of our late "good, °„" r
King,". George the Third, and me the left, another or oat
present monarch, William the Fourth. These are copies of the
pictures in the Town-hall of Liverpool.
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When lighted up the Hall presented a scene at once gred
ed
and imposing. Eleven elegant chandeliers, with grow
glasses, were suspended from the ceiling. In addition tothese'°
two projecting lamps were affixed to each of the eighteen cs-t
iron supporters of the roof. The management of this door'
ment was confided to Mr. John Molineux, of St. Ann strati
Manchester, to whom great credit is due for the excellence t'
his arrangements. A commodious orchestra on one side ofitr,;
room was filled by the Manchester band, and another golle';
above the vice-chairman'3 seat was appropriated to the accrf
modation of ladies, who were admitted by tickets granted 141°
Committee of Management.
To prevent the confusion that might arise from the admissiel
of so large an assemblage of guests the eight tables were divide'
by tablets indicating the towns and districts appropriated to the
members coming from those places—namely, Liverpool, 1‘,.1,4°.
cheater, Warrington, Bolton, Wigan, St. Helen's, Ortnee"'
Tyldsley, Oldham, Staley-bridge, Ashton, Bury, Bold, Widnes'
Prescot, &c.
At balf-past three o'clock the trains arrived from Manchestr
and Liverpool, when the company began to assemble, and II;
rolling in of equipages of every description from different parts
of the county gave to the town an unusually animated aPPei,.er
ance. At five o'clock the company assembled at the dine,
provided by Mr. May, of the Legh Arms. Each of the loci
tables bad a vice-preenlent, namely,
No. 1. Edward Kearslev, Es . Ivy Cottage, near Wigan.
2. Thomas Kidd, gsq., Farnworth.
3. Thomas Ridgmvav, Esq., Walsuchea
4. Robert Sharp, gsq., Manchester.
5. Sir Thomas Bran eker, Liverpool,
6. Peter Greenall, Esq., St. Helen's.
7. George Harriett, Esq., Ormskirk.
8. John Clare, Esq., Warrington.
At about a quarter-past four o'clock Lord Francis Egerfl'„rt
arrived by the mail carriage of the first-class train from 3At:,
cheater. 'He alighted in company with the Earl of Wilton,
Harry Mainwaring, Crnie, of Manchester, and sot
other gentlemen, and was received with loud cheers by the gr 7&
number of persons assembled in front of the hotel. Immediate
after this the last carriages bripgiug the gentlemen Irene Liver'
pool arrived,
On his lordship taking the chair he was again received %liht!!
a round of applause. On his right was Lord Wilton, and to
left Lord Skelmersdale. The other noblemen and
gentler,,t
who sat at the president's table were Lord Cole, Hou.
Bootle Wilbraham, M.P., Sir John Gerard, William Howse,
Esq., of Hutton Park, John Eutwiste. Eeq.,
of Foxholes, Dibu
Kearsley, Esq., M.P., John Ireland Bhsckbuine, Esq.. A 1•1.1.:
If. Formby Parker, Esq., Sir Edward &oases, Sir R. Brooke,
Colonel Pliunhe Tempest, Sir H. Maiiiwaring, etc. At:flogs:l
the other distinguished gent;einen resent,p we also noticed be'.
Lindeay, son of Earl 13alcarres, Lord, Esq., Mayor of Sc'igel"
Aldennan Sir Thomas Brancker, Wiiiiraban, Egerton, 12;sq;
Tattoo Park, Joseph Ridgway, Esq., of Ridginont, Copt*"
Clarke, of Hyde, John Sidebothlim,,Esq., of Hyde, E. L. Si.ur
hotham, of Shepley Hall, It. Onsey, Req., Ashton-under-Line'
Peter Greenall, Esq., St. Helen's, Charles Cholinondelv,_Es,.q:'
Aldermen John Wright, John and Peter Bourne, and.N. r
binson ; Thames Tobin, T. B. Horsfall, Nathan Litberland'
RichairlDawson, Boileau. Myers, Duncan Gibb, Hobert
Alexander, H. Gasket), of Wig', _.ltnhy, of Rochdale, and
W. S. Rutter, coroner of Manchester, Esqrs.; the Rev. Mes‘irt,
Prince, Blackburn, vicar of Eccles, Badnalt, Ileeketh, Cr
Prescott, rector of Stockport. and C. D. Wray, of Manchester,
and Daniel Grant, Esq., of Manchester. Upwards of oue the'„
sand persons sat down to dinner.
After the dinner " Non nobis Domine" was most effectieell
sung by the professional gentlemen present. • ;
Lord Firs NCIS EGERTON then ruse, and Was received -n the
,
most enthusiastic manner. After the
cheering had se-1)54100:i
gave, " His Majesty the King, Duke of Lancaster." (lie
cheers.)
Ilere there was a general cry for the national anthem. Oil,
was well sung by the glee singers, accotupanied by the bee'
and was received with loud applause.
the
Lord FRANCIS EGERTON then gave, " Her Majeelf
Queen, the ornament of the throne, and the liberal supeer''t
of time charitable institutions of our country."
Glee—" My dear Mistress."
The next toast proposed was, " The Princess Victoria and the
other branches of the Royal Family." (Three times three.)
Glee—" Hail, Star of Brunswick."
This was followed b)' " The House of Brunswick, and 012:,
they never forget the principles that seated them on the thrown.
This toast was received with " three times three."
Mr. Davis's overture haudthen played the air, " When order
in our land commenced," which elicited considerable applaustt
Lord PRAtsCtS EGERTON then rose and said that then eke,
toast he hail to propose was " The army and the navy," and
intended to profit by the opportunity, in coupling with it itt,
name of a distinguiased officer, now present among them.
need only mention his name to have the toast drank with ee;
thusiasm; inure he would nut say, than that lee had been th
companion of the Duke of Wellington, when this noble eee3,,
mender was fighting in support of his country's rights. since
that period he had fought in his countey's service under thj
burning sun of India. He meant Sir Edward Barnes.
Sir EDWARD BaRNES then rose amidst the loud cheerief;
and said, My Lords and gentlemen, it has not unfrequee,t,4
fallen to my lot to have the honour of returning thanks fur "'s
high honour which you have just bestowed upon the arm
feel it one of the proudest days of my life, one which affords
the highest possible gratification Su having the honour of ad.
dressing such a numerous, such a respectable, and such a itia
body. (Cheers ) It will, I am sure, afford the army at lu'
great gratification to know that they have bean renienmbeted
this moment; and I am sure that they will agree with me
ticipating 'the most favourable remits from this meetate'
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, etre of the most important duties h
the army has beets called to perform is to assist-the magistrate!,
in the preservation of peace, and of the lives, the liberty, tui
the property of the subjects. (Cheers.) I need not tell yeu,„
gentlemen, that this, amongst their various duties, is the rne',
unpleasant and the most distressing to their feelings that the.
can possibly be called upon to perform. lel uthiug can be more
repugnant to loyel feelings than to be compelled to thaw their
swords.upon their fellow countrimen. (Cheers ) Gentleinee
return
,
.„
I must repeat how much gratified I
am- its risingto toy hearty thanks for the honour done me, when I see the be',
proof in this assembly, and it? those loyal assemblies which ha'
taken place in other parts of the country, that the army win ue,
be called upon for the performance of such a ditty as fbave ad
tended to. (Cheers.) The example here set to the people, al,
the influence which your example must have upon the peel's,
at large, must call forth their best energies in the support
well as defence of church and state and the constitutiope,
(Cheers.) And, gentlemen, whilst these great tneetiugs eo.
courage all those who are of the same opinion with them, t"
will also strike a strong terror into the hearts of those who er,
disposed to distuib the public peace. (Cheers.) As a hod)*
know well that thenny must not enter into politics; but .I°l
cannot suppose us tope so dull, so stupid to passing evente,te;,
we do not look with pleasure to these meetings as the best 5
curity that we shall not be called upon to aid the magietratdeo
in the preservation of the peace, but that you yourselves will
it with your own influence, with your own power, and with y°'ir
own authority. (Cheers ) (sentlemen, having had sat'
share in the ionisation of conservative associatious, I feel ni);
self most particularly,, and, indeed, most highly honoured ti
being permitted to beat this table, and, as may he supposed,...A
MR most proud to see so large a body of gentlemen assenibt.e;
before me. (Cheers.) Any body who attempts to reconerl,
all parties of politics will find that he has engaged in a fruiti!;
attempt, (cheers,) and, like the fable of the boy and the ass, oa,
will himself be compared to the latter. (Laughter ) Still thou,.
are grades in politics which I would wish to see reconciled, e;
as to have one great object in view, and that is, to keep doTi,
the radicals. (Loud and continued cheering.) Nay, geet •
amen, you know that some of these gentlemen would throw doa-rm
te,
the throne, while others would pull down the church; °died()
again, would destroy the House of Lords. (Hear.) ,They
not say so openly: they cloak anal disguise their wicked in,tice
tions so as to keep within the law. (Hear and cheers.) 5
first class say, " Let us have cheap government," What ilea,
that mean, in plain language, but ' Let us have a republic ?
I Hear.) Cheap governnient recollect that radical, the late
Mr. Hunt, said he wuuid have a king at £5OO a veer, (laut' a
ter;) he, however, repented before his death, amid becaine,a
good conservative. (Laughter.) He used to say , that he wool
make a good king for £5OO a year; but I will say, that, if "a
t
reign had continued fora month, we should have bad a kiog e.
the end of that time for half that price. (Laughter.) Those weva •
speak of cheap government would lead one to suppose
but themselves desired a cheap government. We ail want e.
goverument, but we do not wish to have a cheap and nasty one'
that Ire a
(Laughter and cheers.) We all wish for a government b' .
spected at home, and which, if not feared, will, at least, be 7)
noured and treated with reverential awe abroad. (Cheels
Well, then, there -is another species of radical who would puso
down the church. He does not say at once " down
church," but we will have no tithes. But, if there is noth',4
left to support the clergymen, we may as well pull down 7,44.
church at once. (Cheers.) Some of these persons are
..;',O
pulling down the House of Lords; others for giving it a lotlio
washing by turning a river into it; others, again, would also
lir
the peerage, and probably destroy the first link of the In 13
chy. (Hear.) Now, gentlemen, 1 would only like to se
come e
ne
of these barkers, ace, the greatest of them all invited to
into the House of Lords, and only see how he would cringcl,
fawn, and look like a fool. At first he would, through n',°ke
modesty, stick himself behind the throne, and only be seen, "
Halleyss comet, without his tail. (Loud laughter and clieerinth;
Only wait-a tittle, and see how he will come forth and ape
lord, as if ttie blood of all the Howards flowed through his rcin

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Well, then, this noble lord discovers that the House of Liras,
which he had previously termed an Aegean s able, is per-
fectly clean, and it only requires a few Corinthian columns (of
brass of course) (laughter) like-himself to make it perfect.
(Cheers.) 1-lowdifferent his language will be; instead of the
House of Lords being stigmatised as a useless house, he dis-
covers that it is the great bond of union between the re:twists
and the eetiorse. ! 'ibis, gentlemen, would be the state of
things it' such gentlemen were admitted into that honourable
assembly. (Cheers.) But let such curses as alighted on Ma-
diah'e head, alight On such ministers as may introduce such •
individuals into the II oustr'ef Lords. (Loud cheering.) Then
it would not only.regairsia river,, but whole oceans to cleanse
it. (Cheers.) -Vie whiile army will feel the compliment which
has been paid them; but as to that which has been paid our-
selves, I sirell thank his lordship and yourselves for the manner
in which it has been bestowed. But nothing wilt contribute so
much to the peace and tranquillity of the country as the esta-
blishment. throughout the empire of conservative societies, and
their annual assembly here and elsewhere in the maintenance
of our liberties and laws. (Loud cheering.) . •
Lord FRANCIS kleuterote said that he again rose to propose
a toast. which it was impossible to pass by without accom patty-
ing..it with a few observations. (Hear, hear.) The toast which
he inteuded-ttepropose to cad forth an expression of their senti-
ments. was otrestehich was paramotiut above all others. The
• institutions which:'.it was the object of this meeting to support,
were, in his opinion, secondary to others as time was to
eternity. He knew that the audience before him feltsentiments
similar to. his own, for the gentlemen of South. Lancashire had
generally cc-operated to support the church of England and
Ireland. They had seen the ministers of that church perform
their holy office not with langour arising from possession, but
struggling with dissent, he and they had seen them administer-
ing laboriously to the wants in the rise-and progress of a newly
created population. The ministers of the church had perform-
ed their duty in a manner that it would be difficult to equal in
any other profession. (Cheers.) A triteute, had recently been
paid to them, which was exceedingly plea Sing to witness, by the
operative conservative association, to which he should hereafter
recur. Never was gratitude more cheerfully. expressed by per-
-sorts in that class of life, whomore particearly experienced the
benefits of the clergy, than was on the occasion to which he
alluded. Much good he knew was effected by individual exer-
tions,and none were more conspicuous in individual exertion than •
the-clergy. He would ask gentlemen of-any profession, even as
neighbours or magistrates, if the clergy were nut the most use-
ful, consoling, and charitable in society ? To sum up after all,
he would ask whether eveu in the course of a lung and active
life, the magistrate had been able to compete with the exertions
of his honourable rival in the clerical profession? (Cheers.)
Whether he hail been enabled to disseminate, to the saute ex-,
tent, comfort, counsel, and consolation among his poorer neigh-
bours, and he ( Lord Francis) believed if .they cast their ac-
counts aright, whatever their means or their endeavours might
have been,. they would have to say at the last that in compa-
rison with-them they had been.unprofitable servants. (Cheers.)
If he recollected rightly, it was a clergyman of another estas
blished church, 'dud one of its greatest ornaments, he meant.
Dr. Chalmers, who had said that no nobleman of this country,
whatever his munificence or his generosity, gave 'a propor-
tionate quantity of his income to charitable purposes with that,
which his neighbour in the House of Lords, the spiriteal peer,
habitually bestowed. (Cheers,) This was the fact, and it
showed that the system of charitable support and assistance to
poorer neighbours pervaded every part of that church, froth the
highest to the lowest. On this topic he would say no more
than that these, were the men whom they were called upon to
despoil. Tliis.was the institution in whose ruin,. by the intro,
duction of the voluntary principle, they were called upon to
assist, whose temporal ruin he meant, of other ruin he did not.
suppose the church susceptible, for in ruin and desolation that
church would survive, it was beyond the reach of the assaults
of man. (Cheers.) Do what they might, they could not beat
it to the dust. The ruin of her temporal interests they might
effects and of that ruin they were called upon to be, •if not the
active assistants, the willing and consenting spectators.
(Cheers.) This toast demanded from him no further com-
ment, as the institution to which it referred could hardly profit
by auy eulogy of his. He begged to propose " The Esta-
blished Church of England and Ireland.''
The Rev. Mr. PARKINSON, in rising to acknowledge this
toast, observed, that nothing could exceed the gratification lee
felt in the announcement which hail been so eloquently pro-
posed and so enthusiastically received, except it might be. the
Joy he experienced in being able to congratulate them upon
the honour of their recent triumph.—(Cheers.) When they
were last assembled together, they formed, be believed, a body
of 700 men, not the least influential, not the worst informed
members of South Lancashire, yet totally unrepresented in the
British senate.—(Cheers.) They now stood together nearly
1,000 strong, as well if not better represented than any other
portion.—(Much applause.) In this there was much matter of
congratulation, but there was also, as they had foretold, a dark
aide to the picture. When they last assembled they knew
that clouds were hanging over the church, but they did not
knOw that they were to burst with such fury, and from such
a quarter as they had done. (Hear, hear.) They did not
calculate that those who were conservatives by their oath and
office should join for the purpose.of destroying one of the-hest
institutions of the country. (Cheers.) They did not expect to
see an unholy alliance between the very lowest individuals and
the head of the empire to give to one party place and to the
other power. (Great applause.) Yet such a contract had
been made, and the destruction of the Irish church was the bond
-of peace, thenceforth to unite together these two political
Siamese twins. (Laughter and cheers.) It was desirable to
know the ground of union on the part of the enemy, in order
to know what ought to be the bond of union amongst them-
selves, and surely ',tithing could be a better or more clearly de-
fined union than that for defending the church of England and
Ireland. (Loud cheers.) There were many points on which
-conservatives might differ without division. Some might be.
anxious about a corn law--some might be desirable of support-
ing the commercial, some the manufacturing, and some the
trading interests, but we all should unite in defending the Irish
church from spoliation and s destruction. .(Cheers.) It was
quite certain that their opponents were united—on this point
and on no other. Linking at- the government papers, they
would bee efforts making to reconcile the public mind to the
idea of the destruction of the elan-eh in Ireland, and they all
looked to some of the reasons 'urged in favour of such sa step ;
flimsy they were indeed, but as the best, he would mention one
or tune (Hear, bear.) As one of those, they wished to per-
suade-them-the-tate church in Ea:stand-an& the church iu Ire-
land stood on altogether different grounds, and therefore that
the arguments for the destruction of the one-did not bear .at all
WI the other; While,oneWas a nuisance the other was a blessing,
and thus the church of England could be in no danger by the divi-
sion orthe annihilation in the other country. He begged to say
that if they were to leave the high ground of duty and right and
argue the question on the simple principle of expediency, the
church of Ireland stoud on ten-fold better grounds than that
of England. The church of England was so firmly established
iu the hearts of the people,, its followers so numerous and so
wealthy, that he verily believed, as their noble chairman bedsits
served, that if the establishment were to he destroyed the next
day, its ministers would be adequately paid and' its followers
as numerous, and perhaps more zealous than ever. But could
they say the same of the church in Ireland ? How could they
support two thousand_ ministers of-the gospel as sheep among
the wolves—as light among darkness—as gentlemen among sa-
vages? (Vehement applause.) Let them pull down the estab-
lishment au Ireland, and they would soon destroy that of Eng-
land. The battle of the church of England was to be fought on
Irish ground. (Hear, hear.) Another reason—if it could be
called reason—a kind of discovery, for there-were discoveries
now-a-days in morality as well as in railroads—(a laugh)—
another reason was, that it was not necessary for a statesman
to inquire as to what ought to be the established church, or to
search into its truth. He was to count heads, not examine creeds.
(Cheers.) And as soon as he discovered that church which
had a numerical majority, that was to be the established church
of such particular district. (cheat cheering.) If this' argu-
ment were worth anything, suppose the Irish to turn Turks,
Lord John Russell and Mr. O'Connell wonel have to issue out
from the Saracen's Head, of course across the channel, and de-
elare as Bonaparte had done before "there is no God but God,
and Itlakeurnet is his prophet." (Chesni and latighter.) But
they must use more- serious arguments. if expediency were
right, then Jeroboam-was right in setting up the golden calves
to prevent national defection.—(hear, hear, hear, and cheers.)
Theta Ahab Was right in establishing the worship of Baal, when
they were only left seven thousand of the Lord in lsrael.--e
(Applause.) --But away with such cant, such flimsy sophistry,
begotten on the abortion of ambition and infidelity.—(Cheers.)
We trusted the day would never come when au English states-
man Would leave the truth out of his calculation, or when he
slid so he might depend that the God of truth would soon desert
him.—(Tutuultuous cheers.) But he had no tears for the safety
of the church. Must of them 'night remember a passage iu the
admirable novel of the Antiquary, " Bravo, Edie
there can be no d tiger when the boy is ready to fight for
his dish as the Lord is -for his land. And he said that
the establishment was in no danger so long as the poorest
peasant and the -Meatiest mechanic are ready to defend
-theon.—(Applause.) lie believed that their opponents had
played a- false card and hurled a stone whist would descend on
their heads. (Cheers and a laugh.) The country was not. yet
ripe fur the obstruction of an hereditary peerage, or her ancient
and epititual faith. (Renewed cheers.) She knew how to value
the'blessiug of an established religion, of a standard of scriptus
rel troth, and seriptut al morality of faith without fanaticism, and
liberty without licentiousness, and'nothing earthly" would induce
tier to sacrifice that religion on the altar of political 'exPedieney.
(Loud and protracted. cheering.) He looked foi ward (Ur
brighter days for the church, and he 'relieved moreover that the
torch which- hadibeen lighted throughout the laud by the faggots.
that consumed the martyred bones of Cranmer, 'Ridley, and
Latimer would; according to their own prophecy, never be ex-
tinguished, (Renewed cheering.) She thanlieel them once
More iu the-name of th 6 united chart); of England aud.lreland
for the honour that had been done to him and his rev. biethren.
Lord. EGERTON then gave the "Lord-Lieutenant of the
county," which was drank with loud cheers,
Glee—" With a jolly full bottle." ..•
Lird. FliAacts EGEETON' again ruse. In proposing the least
which stood next upon his list, he felt it necessary, iu justice to
the occasion which tied brought them together—in justice to
those who heard him—and in justice to himself, to accompany
it with some observations The toast he had to propose was
" Success to the South Lancashire Conservative Association."
(Rapturous applause.) Of the end and objects of that iustitu-
. tion he deemed it unnecessary to say a word. That end was
maintenance of the constitution they had inherited from their
thiefathers, and the liberty Which it secured to them. (Cheers.)
But he knew that good objects might be sought by objectionable
meat's; and with regard to the Means which they had adopted,
for the defence of all they held dear, he, held them to be a Icei-
tiniate object for discussion. He was one of those who thought
that political association required political justification, and
the generation of power—for that, after all, is the object of po-
litical association—is not rashly to be adventured in politics
any more than in physics. (Hear. hear) 1 'say they are not
In be adventured rashly, or without due guarantees for the li-
mits within which they'shall work. So far, I agree with a no-
ble friend of mine, whose opinion on any subject I consider
with the respect due to his acknowledged talents, and to my
own appreciation, obtained by long private and public 'acquain-
tances of the integrity and principle which I believe to gavern
everv'motion, public or otherwise, of Lord Stanley. (Cheers.)
And it I differ from that noble friend of mine—if, indeed, I still
'do differ from him, it is in. this: that I do not look in vain for
the justification of our welfares, (I-Tear, hear.) I find it in
all the successive events of the few eventful years lately passed,
and in every shifting scene of that drama, in which since the
curtain drew up for the appearance of Lord Grey upon the stage,
that noble lord has acted, as his talents enabled him to act, so
Much more conspicuous than the part that has fallen to the
lot of most of bis fellows. On this subject, willing to make
large concessions for the sake of my argument. and that alone,
Willing to attribute to those who acted with him that integrity
which he knight say he knew governed his actious,—williug, to
admie that no-base motive of political ambition, or vengeance
tor long political exclusion, mingled in the connsels of the fram-
-Bearsand-promoters of the reform bill—willing, for the sake of his
argument, that that measure, whatever its merits, was neres-
ry—that its necessity was furred, if they would, by too long
eitistence, infatuated opposition, or any other cause to which
they might attribute it—still, on the practical operation of that
measure, and the events succeeding it, lie founded the justitiei-
lion of that society, and his own conduct, in meeting there the
Members of the South Lancashire Conservative Assoeiatied.
(,Enthusiastic elteering.) •• Lie had said he wou:d'uot stop to
t uusider the merits of that great measure of ella-ng-::--or; as

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some called it, of revolution which had passed. It would be but
an idle selijeet' of irquirv, whether lie, or those who thought
with him were just;tied in iinsoking every sneer, submitting to
every sacrifice, ratifor than join in promoting it, and sharing in
the temporary popularity which was ra he obtained by junction
with those which supported it. (Cheers.) This, at7least, ap-
peared to be now certain, that the tune •was passed when any of
those who had advocated that measure could attribute to it that
character of finality which he, in his place in parliament, heard
Lord Althorp ascribe to it. 110 had ventured, indeed, at that
moment, to doubt the.noble lord's power tai stamp it with that
character, (a laugh,) and when that noble lord had sail he was
prepared to stop where he then had placed himself, he certainly
ventured to think that thei noble lord Was acting like tho mo-
narch who, in derision of his fawning courtiers, placed himself
in front of the flowing tide, and said, "Thus far shalt thou go
and no further,". (Lend cheers.) This, however. might safely
he said; that a process was going on, the object of which was to
familiarize, to debauch the public mind, (great applause,) to
prepare the waylor the separation of every link of long attach-
ment existing iu the national mind towards its institution—to
debauch it from its attachment to those privilNses and liberties
which they'had inherited from their ancestorsto
he repeated, the public mind with charges so extensive that a
few years ago would have been considered as the contemplatipus
.of insanity, and the ravings of adiseased imagination (Cheers.)
If they wanted proof of this, k he reserred them to the list of
inotioce,Ahe bill of fare prep4reci for the declaration,-and the
amusement of the House of Commons, which was shortly to
meet. (Much cheering and laughter.) They would find there
measures proposed—not, he knew, with the view of their being
carried the next session —but with the view of familiarising the
minds of the people with the atrocious principles which they
involved. (Wear, hear, and much applause.) The object was
that those motions, and those which he lacked the time, as
they, he was sure, most lack the
.patience, to enumerate.
(Cheers.) This was the process going on; by this system
they were assailed, and against this danger they were standing
upon their defence. (Great applause.) Were they to look to
the prerogatives of a limited monarchy, or to the virtues or
other qualities of him who sat upon the throne? The'abstract
theory of our constitution had told them that the king could do
no wrong. They had learnt, from recent experience, the
sterner lesson, that the king could do no right, if the support
of some adventitioes- aid were not afforded to those foundations
uppn which the throne was based. (Loud cheers.) Were
they, then, to look to the House of Peers? If they could look
to -the. wisdom, the courage,' the virtae, and the fidelity of
others,.they might well look to the House of Peers. (Cheers.)
But the fact was—they could not deny it—that the House of
Peers must look to them for existence. (Hear, hear, and
sheers.) Some there.
_were in that assembly who were con-
nected With:the peers; but the mass of those who were there
were the coimnons of England. (Much applause.) They were
the English commons, and in the house which represented
those commons they must seek to have their feelings, their opi-
nions, and their attachments—he was ashamed to say at pre-
sent they,hail none of them duly.represented. (Cheers.) This
was the means of defence they were called upon to adopt. They
felt bound by every tie which bound them to their common
country so to do. Let them .remember that_when the posses-
sion of privilege was concerned, however rightful that possession,
the tendency of long Confirmed usage and security was natu-
rally to inddee over confidence. (Hear.) All this must be
thrown off. Mutual exertion alone could ensure success; they
must struggle shoulder to shoulder—they must -know the ele-
ments of their strength—they must know its anieunt, and when
they knew that it was too weak for the contest, it might then be
time for the reign of anarchy to begin. (Immense applause.)
Perhaps, 'the greatest man this country ever produced—he
meant in the disquisitions of philosophy, quoted in a work re-
cently published; and which recommends itself to perusal, al-
though the memorials of one calling himself a whig—he meant
the" Lite of Sir James Mackintosh "—a work worthy the study
of every gentleman there—and every gentleman there, he knew,
loved his country,—(lond cheers)—this worthy man, to a friend,
observed—" On this theatre of life, God and angels alone are
permitted to be lookers on." If ever there was a time which
illustrated the truth of that maxim, it was the time in which he
then stood before them. Loucicheers.) •If, indeed, the con-
test which he averred to be then raging were one such as the
history of this country and most civilized countries sometimes
knew—struggles whether the official power and honours of the
crown should abide in one succession of great names rathlir
than another—the white rose, and the red ribbons, and the
yellow keys should devolve to one great family or be
stuck on the pockets of another—(loud cheers and laughter)
—he, for one, confessed he should be tempted, by every
consideration of his propensities, his tastes, and his domestic
affections, to usurp the prerogative of the angel, and be a looker-
on: (Cheers and laughter.) He fur one now felt that that was
not permitted him. (Cheers.) Oa the general merits of the
reform bill he had said he should not speak, and he would keep
his word.. But on one particular clause of that bill he would
rest the justificatton of the efforts of that society. (Hear, aud
applause.) The object of ,that bill might be a great one. He
trusted it would be found as conducive to the prosperity of the
kingdom-as it had been promised to be; but at least" this he
knew, that if peace were an evil,: that clause had given them
the blessing of perennial and national strife. (Much cheer-
ing.) If a blister—a periodical blister, not unaccompanied
with blood-letting, be a trifort, a blessing, an emollient, the
registration clauses of that bill supplied it. (Reiterated ap-
plause.) They were reeking froM the strife; they knew it by
experience—he knew it but by theory; their hearts were heat-
ing from the conflict, the sweat of battle was upon their brow,
and they could consequently understand him when lie said that
those clauses of the' bill deserved the thanks of the community
and of that society, upon one condition, which the poet had:put
into the month of a sorcerer in the case of a spell to summon a
reluctant demon—

Si bene de vobis cirilia bella mereatur.

—Wear, hear, and loud applause.) If that were so of
civil war and shire, and if those who used their strenuous ex-
ertions to bring about so happy a state deserved well of their
country, then did the framets of those registration clauses de-
serve their warmest thanks and acquiescence. (Loud cheers.)
.But be they what they might, they were the law, and be was
speaking-to those who obeyed the raw. (Renewed cheers.) It
was this alone which made it impossible for them to fight the
battle of their dear, their own 1)6 vileg,es, without combination,
without constant communication. Every man should know
with whom he had cononuimication. (Cheers.) ft was nonsense •
to disguise-it : men must tic open; they liSust n'ot leave it to the
isuleted exertions of individuals to protect their own interests.
Wears hear.) For himself; he could confidently say, though
he was one whom they might consider had interests to protect,
he shoot() neglect those interests. did he not know that others
would join to the strife in which he, as a unit, would be worse
than useless. (Cheers.) These were the reasons which made
conservative associations necessary. There was no use abusing
them-s-there was [louse arguing against them—(cheer's)—they
were the inevitable consequence of that very measure to which
he had alluded. (Cheers.). They could nut have avoided theta
Haley -had been so disposed. ( Hear, hear.) They were the
necessary fruits of that measure in which his noble friend had as-
sistec4 because, as he knew he felt convinced, the country would
profit by it. (Loud applause.) He had taken the liberty to
say that with all their loyalty, and with all timely sense of the
conduct and character or the peers, they must nut look to them
for 'assistance against what they had to dread. ( Hear, hear.)
Would any one tell him to look to the sworn assurance of the
crown for the national happiness, honour, and security?
(Cheers, and shouts of " No, no.") The House of Peers was
one of the principal objects of attack. bile knew many mem-
bers of the government were connected with that house, and he
might be asked, as, in fact, he had been asked, " Do you think
that the son of the Duke of Bedford will assist in the demolition
of the House of Peers !" And still more cogently he might be
asked, whether the Lord Melbourne of 1625, a man whom
he had followed unequally in debate against the reform bill
in .all its parts—for whom he had a great regard, as every
one must have by spending only five minutes in his company
—the most atractive man, in short, that ever he knew
—he might be-asked, would a man like that, coupled with the
fulluwers of a statesman whom many there present might have
beard en the Exchange of Liverpool—he meant Mr. Canning
—muscat to such a treasure? Would they not attend to the
call for protection and support? He did not know, if they ap-
plied to his personal friends, as many of them were, what would
be the answer; but he believed that if they lived in the palace
of truth, and everybody was obliged to return a true answer to
everything that might be asked of him—he believed the re-
sponse would be something to the following effect :—" We see
the danger to which you advert; it concerns ourselves; and we
would gladly avert it: but we see another of much greater nag-
nitude and importance. In our opinion, we are the only peo-
ple fit to govern this country, (some of them, he verily believed,
conscientiously thought so,) and the first duty we have to per-
form is to prolong the tenure of our official duties by every
moans in our power. (Roars of laughter.) Now we cannot
protract that tenure by the realization of all our promises,
or one-tenth, or even one-hundredth part .of the promises we
came under when talking irresponsibly and in a friendly man-
ner to the country while in oppusition. (Cheers.) It is impos-
sible: we are obliged to rely .not on popular improvements;
those we should have had great pleasure of affording, if we.
could—(he gave them full credit for their sincerity of inten-
tion)—but we cannot do it: we must do it by popular expedi-
ents; and if you wish our support—if you want a coalition—
you must obtain the advantage of the popularity we have ac-
quired—(be would not say hovv)—Lyou must contribute to the
popular stock of these expedients—not come and oppose the
little defects of our measures; you must nqt turn the criticising
eyes of another house upon our designs, per dispel the Oran,
toms we have toiled to create: Wo to them that do so! We
will not protect them from the consequences of the commotion
which their conduct, will inevitably produce. (Cheers.) For
example, whet labour has it• cost us—what toil, what favour,
what money, whet .eommissions—(cheers and laughter)—for
some burnt edit of corporations have existed, dud many defects
of time, and the small abuses consequent to exclusive privileges
had crept in among them; but what labour we had to convince
and excite,an iguorant and unfeeling public to a sense of the
_grievances they ought to have suffered. (Great cheering.)—
But then come the peers, and our measures—(be would not say
how far calculated to remove the soil)—are rejected, and so that
one great object, to which all measures ought to have reference
and are accordingly directedthe securings of our official ex-
istence—are defeated." (Much cheering and laughter.) Arid
by whom was this down ?. By a body of men famous since the
revolution—he presumed of 1.688i-stor ignorance and habitual
dependence! (Hear, hear, and ironical cheers.) That cha-
racter had been stamped upon them to all,posteritv—stamped
on them by the judgment of one of whom he would speak
with unabated respect for his advanced age, and the great ser-
vices he had rendered as a landlord and cultivator of a large
property in the county of Norfolk. To him the country would
be ever grateful for having turned to another subject that
intellect and experienee theretofore limited to- the estimating
cattle—(a laugh)—and proceeded with all the abilities so ac-
quired to gauge` the independence and estimate the virtue of the
House of Isisds—(loud cheers)—and the result of his thirty
long years' experience was the verdict that no man otherwise
than dependent bad been admitted to that body. (Much
laughter.) Till he heard that, from such authority- he had cer-
tainly not been aware of it, and it must follow that those whd
had been added to that assembly by the present government
were neither more nor less than component parts of that mass
of servility. (Reiterated cheering and laughter.) "To that
busty," said they, " so ignorant and. dependent as you see, we
will give support yet a while—if we cap; but upon one condi-
tion: you roust emerge from that cloud of darkness and ig-
norence into which you have hitherto walked—yeti must quit'
the trammels of ,selisgovernment, the fetters of free discussion
—.you must think as we think, walk were we bid you, and you
ll never want A champion and protector as long as whig
ministry remains in power." (Roars of laughter and applause.)
Now, he believed they were not prepared to give up what they
considered an integral part of the constitution. (" No, no,
never l") He advised them, then, not to rely on the aid of his
Majesty's ministers. (Laughter and exclamations of "Oh,
no !") If they could get it, well and good ; but let them nat
leave it—let them not trust it. Let them trust to their efforts
—let them associatethemselves—let them register their votes.
(Loud cheers:)
,tteAd not say, register for this administration
9,r that—not to bripg yr' pre maim and oust another—not for any
jchser,eriy presiitlst if intSfitting by the assistance'of those who
were. in nower-7not, %.,14c-Ct Lord John Russell or to bring in
Sir llohest Pt pel,',..fitif„,lO support the. constitutional monarchy
which th4,.lied;inherited froni their fathers, and were bound to
leave toilioi,i.Oildreri--(rapturous applause)—to resist the in-
troduction•.tiii searly introduction., bra pure and unmixed de-
the rain of the altar and the throue.