The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

CLOSING

On Tuesday last the members of the.. Royal Dee Yacht
Club celebrated the close of their fist season under
" Royal" sanction; by a dinner, at the Mostyn Arms"

Hotel, Parkgate ; and, though the eari part Of the day
was uninviting,. heavy rain having fallen, the attendance
was numerous, including membersandguests from Chester,
Liverpool, and-oven more distant localities. At six o'clock
the company sat down to an excellentiand sumptuous
repast, accompanied by the choicest wires. _

The respectedieomModore of the Club, Edward Watson
Lloyd, Esq., of =Fort Ileswall, presided ; and the vice-
chair was occupied by William Ayrton, Esq., of Chester,
the secretary. Atnongst those present were Sir Edward
Walker, Chairman of the Committee for the Improvement
of the River Dee ;: John Simpson, Esq. ; Thomas Bir-
chall, Esq., (owner of the beautiful and hislily successful
yacht, " The Vision ;!' Captain Fyfe, Capt. Garratt, Mr.
Piper, Mr. Wemys., Mr. Eastace, and ancrtLier gentleman
(whose name we did not ascertain), all of the 46th Regi-
ment, now stationed at Chester ; R. Pedder,. Esq., of
Preston, and others':.
After the banquet,. the usual loyal toasts
sively given, and drunk with the greatest
Capt. FYFE ably responded to the toast of " Th(

in the option of the Roman Catholic priesthood, whether
to give-or withhold! "the rites of the clittrch" in any indi-
vidual instance ; and that an" interdict'flom these rights
_ . is used as an engine of coercion in political and other tem-
wh.:ch w. a coupled. ,with the gal!ant 46th'; Regiment, poral matters. To any man in whom he -perceives symp-
and Capt. GARRATT with, equal felicity and feeling tothat toms of political independence, the priest may say, (or
of "The Navy." what is much more common, he mayt.'very clecrly and
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Royal Money Yacht practically' convey, without committin-,hirnself by say-
Club," coupled with.the name of Thos. Littlizdale, Esq.. ing) "your child shall not be baptized, nor your wife
churched, unless you vote for the friend, of your ,1,,,,,1,
to whom he paid a-high compliment as Commodore of 1.

rere succes-

ittstasm.
tirthy,"

nce of yachting,

to his gallant concluet in
in the wreck of the Ocean

t) at the

saving many cf the person
Monarch. He regretted that circumstances had

Tstitions.

,f their churc

the happ

le next

that day-amongst those then assembled, assured as Ce
(the chairman) fell that his presence would have much
enhanced the enjoyment of the evening. (Cheers,) _ _

Uf cot

ministration of those rights i

the priests'

Mr. J. SCOTT 'WALKER (a member Of both. Clubs)
briefly responded for the R.M..Y.C., stating that he had

therefore, yc

tion to thc

tre people rprop...
slaves. 1 -4, theretat,,
administer.the sacraments. &(

cerity,-are the

an coerce the

i endowment
one step
religious

the authority of several- of the officers and
whom he had seen .before leaving Liverpool
their cordial wisheA.that the Royal Dee Club

in advance Towards
liberty of the peopl

night snit

,eir efforts erownedArk ever

aim at,

'ssible success,

The CHAIRMAN: then proposed the health of ti
ther member, Thomas Birehill,. Esq., as own
Vision, and also as the worshipful the

r bro-
of the

,yor a Preston,
elf aft. ft skilful

who, in or

Lcrificed his valuable time, which he was aim
pon to devote to more important official avocat

thanks in very elo.
He remz

4tnt, ap-