The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

DINNER TO SIR ALLAN MACNAB

At the entertainment given by the British American Asso-
ciation to Colonel Sir A. Macnab, at the Thatched-house
Tavern, St. James's-street, London, on Friday evening,
covers were laid for nearly 100 gentlemen.
The Duke of Richmond, who filled the chair, was sup-
ported on the right by Sir A. Macnab, Sir F. Burdett, Bart.,
M.P. ; the Right Hon. Sir G. Murray, Sir D. Macdougall,
Sir John Osborn, Bart. ; Sir R. Barclay, Bart. ' • Sir J. Duke,
M.P. ; Mr. Masterman, M.P. ; and on the left by Lord
Aylmer, the Earl of Dunmore, Lord Dunboyne, Sir P. Mait-
land, W. Ogilvie, Bart. ; Sir Francis B. Head, Bart. ; Sir
J. Hay, Bart. ; Sir G. Jackson, and James Holford, Esq.
Sir R. Broun officiated as vice-president.

Among the other distinguished persons present were—
Lord Winterton, Mr. Malcomb, Mr. Sheriff, Mr. Andrews,
Mr. Robertson, Mr. Archibald, Mr. Tulloch, Mr. Urquhart,
Mr. Ross ; Drs. Bell, lfill, Mortimer, and Chisholrne ; Cap-
tain Randolph, R.N. ; Captain Moorsom, Captain Kerr, Mr.
Bukerfield, Mr. Dodd, M.P. •, Mr. 0. Gore, M.P. ; Mr.
Baldwin, M.P. : Mr. Ogden, Attorney-General for Eastern
Canada ; General Alexander ; Captain Drew, R.N. ; Dr.
Rolph, Mr. Walter, Mr. H. Hughes, &c.
Letters were announced from the Marquis of Huntley, the
Marquis of Bute, the Earl of Gosford, Lords Macdonald,
Prudhoe, and Seaton, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir H. Douglas, Sir
J. Macdonnell, Sir J. Kempt, and Sir A. Maclaine, ex-
pressing their regret that absence from town on previous
engagements prevented them from being present.
The dinner, with all its adjuncts, displayed great taste and
magnificence.
The Rev. Dr. Worthing said grace.

After the cloth had been removed,
The noble Chairman gave in succession the usual loyal
toasts :—" Her Majesty the Queea," "The Queen Dowager,
" His Royal Highness Prince Albert," and " Albert, Prince
of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," which were
drunk with three times three.
" The Army and Navy" were then given with the usual
enthusiasm, and
The noble Chairman next rose to propose the health of
that gallant and distinguished individual who sat on his right
hand. He felt that they owed him a debt of gratitude which
it was not easy for this country to repay. (Cheers.) In
times of no ordinary difficulty and danger he came forward
with all the influence of his personal character—an influence
which could not have been gained if his neighbours bad not
well known that he eminently deserved it,—be came forward,
resisted and overthrew the unfortunate outbreak which took
place in Canada. (Cheers.) He called it outbreak, because
he thought they would all agree with him, that in meeting
upon such an occasion as the present to do honour to Sir
Allan Macnab they ought not to say anything in that room
which could arouse any feeling of hostility on the part of
any individual. (Cheers.) He must, however, say, that he
thought he had some right to complain of the course which
had been taken by his gallant friend Sir George Murray,
who, profiting by his experience in the Peninsula, and avail-
ing himself of the secret advantage the British always took
of the French by breaking ground, had said a great deal of
what should have been left for him in proposing this toast.
(A laugh.) But it had been received in a manner which
showed that nothing was required from him, either to
heighten the compliment which had been paid, or add to the
enthusiasm with which Englishmen upon such an occasion
would always welcome the gallant and brave defenders of
their country. (Cheers.) Having for the last three days
been engaged attending and speaking at very large meetings,
he really felt himself little competent satisfactorily to dis-
charge the duties of the office he had undertaken ; but he
felt the utmost satisfaction in proposing the health of their
distinguished guest, and he hoped when he returned to
Canada he would assure the loyal inhabitants there, that
Englishmen looked upon them as fellow-subjects, fellow-
countrymen, and brothers, whose paramount duty it was to
cultivate warm feelings of good-will towards each other—
(cheers,)—that Englishmen telt they were one and all in the
same boat ; and whatever enemy might arise to threaten or
to assail them, Englishmen would maintain their cause—
Englishmen would protect and defend them—Englishmen
would compliment and reward those who did their Canadian
brethren service ; for in so doing they supported the flag of
England, under which Nelson triumphed and Wellington
conquered. (Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk with three times three, and one cheer
more.

Sir A. MACNAB, in rising to respond to the toast, was re-
ceived with loud and reiterated cheering. The gallant officer
spoke as follows :—My lord duke and gentlemen, the flatter-
ing manner in which you have proposed my health, and the
enthusiasm with which it has been received by so distin-
guished a company as the present, demand my warmest gra-
titude. I hope, however, no man will believe that I am
vain enough to suppose, that any services which I may have
rendered either to the colony from which I came, or the
empire of which it forms a part, could possibly entitle me
to this highly flattering mark of your regard. I therefore
merely consider myself on the present occasion as the for-
tunate individual in whose person a well-merited compliment
is intended to be paid to the loyalty and devotion of the
people of Canada. (Cheers.) It certainly will be most
cheering and gratifying to the inhabitants of that country to
find that five of their former governors not only continue to
take a lively interest in their welfare, but are at all times
ready and willing to do them any service in their power.
In common with the people of Canada I was much gratified
by the publication of a despatch from the noble lord, then
Colonial Secretary, to the late Governor-General of Canada,
in which be was pleased to assure the people of that country
that " their loyalty should be encouraged and rewarded :"
my reason for alluding to this promise is, that I see near me
a gallant and distinguished officer who for many years
had settled with his family in Canada, and who, on the
breaking out of the insurrection, leaving his family in the
woods, immediately joined the volunteers under my command,
although a sailor, marched with me from the home district
to the western section of the country, then back again to the
Niagara frontier, and never quitted the field so long as there
was a rebel to be found in the country. (Loud cheers.) I
have now the gratification of publicly declaring in Eng-
land that no service could have been more difficult, more
dangerous, or more gallantly performed than the destruction
of a vessel employed to succour and sustain those who were
in arms against her Majesty • and I well know that I express
the sentiments of the people of Canada when I state, that
they look forward with intense anxiety to see the loyalty and
gallantry of Capt. Drew generously rewarded. (Loud cheers.)
They feel that he, in an hour of grave emergency, rendered
them a great and important service, which, as loyal and ho-
nest men, they never can forget or too highly appreciate.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, Upper Canada is a country that
requires nothing but a healthy population to make it one of
the finest countries in the world. We have long felt the
want of population, and there is no portion of the world
whence we so naturally or earnestly desire to receive that
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circumstance to him, that his gallant friend Sir A. Macnab,
whom, for years past, he had earnestly urged to visit Great ,
Britain, had been received with so much respect on his arri-
val, and with such warm demonstrations of regard on his de.
parture. On his own return to Canada, on each successive
occasion, during the last three years, he had earnestly endea_
voured to convince the warm-hearted inhabitants of that
splendid colony, that the great bulk of the people of the
United Kingdom felt the deepest interest in their welfare and

prosperity, It was true, and much to he deploi ad, that at •
the period when, under misguided impulses, an attempt was
made to bring about a separation from Great Britain, there
were not wanting individuals in this country to justify that
insane and treasonable effort, who even wished the British
soldiery defeated, and anticipated with delight the dismem-
berment of the empire. Happily they were but few in
number, insignificant in character, and contemptible in
influence. The great body of the British people felt, that
if England lost her colonies, or was prepared to abandon
them, she would be, what she would then certainly deserve
to be, but a colony herself. ("Hear, hear," and cheers.)
Better prospects, however, have since dawned on Canada :
she had come out of a severe and trying ordeal not only un-
scathed, but triumphant. So cheering, indeed, had her
altered prospects become, that not only did those of our
fellow-countrymen wno now left the shores of Great Britain
for the American continent give Canada the preference, but
those who had taken up their abode in the United States
were returning by thousands to the peaceful sway of their
beloved monarch, again to live under the protecting influence
of the British flag. (Loud cheers.) During the present
year it had come to his personal knowledge, that larger
numbers of wealthy settlers and a greater amount of British
capital had proceeded to Canada than during any year since
the standard of old England had been planted on the heights
of Abraham by the gallant and immortal Wolfe. The pre-
sent compliment, so justly due, and so handsomely conferred
on thcir guest, Sir Allan Macnab, would prove most grateful
and agreeable to the inhabitants of Canada generally. They
would view it, as indeed it should be viewed, as a marked
compliment paid to themselves. They would consider it a
guarantee that the defence of Canada was highly acceptable
to the British people, and an earnest that they generally
desired to see it an incorp6rated, integral portion of the
British empire. (Loud cheers.) Another excellent result
would follow from this gratifying scene. A just discrimina-
tion would henceforth be made between that portion of the
American continent under the British sway, which had
always honourably maintained its faith, performed all its
obligations, preserved its credit, established its probity,
and sustained its character, from those portions of the
same continent where the dishonest doctrines of repu-
diation had been boldly proclaimed. (Loud cheers.)
Every loan hitherto raised in Great Britain, for whatever
part of America, had been confounded under the common
name of American security; and Canada had not only just
cause of complaint for this mistake, but had suffered most
severely from the delinquencies of others, and from a sup-
posed participation in the principles of repudiation, which
she utterly denounced and abhorred. (Cheers.) It was,
therefore, fervently to be hoped, that as the current of
emigration had been fully restored to Canada' the free in-
vestment of British capital would as certainly follow. The
special object of his mission to England was the promotion
of emigration to the magnificent province of Canada. It was
certainly a source of unbounded gratification to know that he
had secured the support and co-operation of so large a
portion of the British nobility and people to aid in this great
undertaking. It had always appeared to him, and it had been
greatly deplored in Canada, that hitherto emigration had been
voluntary and unaided, and that no scheme of colonization
bad ever been attempted. A combination comprehending
the extensive landowners in Canada—those deeply interested
in the removal of the surplus population from their densly
peopled estates in this kingdom—with the aid of a portion of
the unemployed capital of the mercantile and commercial
classes, would supply very great and most important deside-
rata. In the hope that such a combination could be advan-
tageously effected, it had afforded him much pleasure to find
that a powerful association had been formed on these princi-
ples, and contemplating these objects, and trusting that their
well-directed exertions might prove serviceable to the mother
country and the colony, he looked with intense anxiety to its
success. The noble lord the Secretary for the Colonies, in one
of his lucid and pnwerful despatches to the Governor of New
Brunswick, equally applicable to Canada, had thus happily
expressed himself Fully agreeing with you, that the esta-
blishment of a class of landowners possessed of capital,
applicable to the cultivation of the land and to the employ-
ment of labour, would conduce to the rapid growth and to
the solid prosperty of the colony, I yet think that the ob-
ject is ose not likely to be effected by the direct interference
of her Majesty's Government. All which it appears to me
that the Government can do towards promoting the coloni-
zation of New Brunswick is by placing a moderate price
upon the public lands, and rendering their acquisition easy,
by circulating also correct information concerning the
colony, so that parties may judge of the means which it
affords for the profitable employment of capital ; and as re-
gards the lower orders, by regulating their conveyance to
the colony without the undue enhancement of its cost. The
rest must be left to the inducements which the natural re-
sources and advantages of the colony may present ; in short,
to the operation of private interest." On these just and
natural principles it did appear to him that an extensive
scheme of colonization could be effectively and most profitably
carried out. (Cheers.)

" Westward the tide of empire holds its sway,
"The first four acts already past,
" The fifth shall close the drama and the day,
"Time's noblest offspring is his last."—(Cheers.)

THE WEATHER.

THE WEATHER.—Since Monday, we have had a continua.
tion of fine summer weather, and a good breadth of grass has
been cut down in this neighbourhood, and hay making is
progressing very rapidly. The rains which fell during the
week, and on Sunday night and Monday last, must have
proved very acceptable to the farmers. There is every ap-
pearance that we shall have an early, and, we believe, an
abundant harvest. The potatoes and young turnips have
greatly benefitted by the rain, followed as it has been by a
succession of fine warm days.—Leeds Intelligencer.
THE HAY HARVEST.—Fine weather having set in, the
hay harvest goes on bravely in our neighbourhood. Our
Hawkshead correspondent informs us that in the Lake dis-
tricts a good deal of seed grass remained uncut, and at the
time of writing what was cut remained unstacked. We trust
that these districts have by this time participated in the fine
weather we are enjoying here, and that the harvest is, as with
us, going on well.—Lancaster Gazette.
From a gentleman who has recently been through a con-
siderable part of Sussex we learn that the wheat crops look
well, in some places they are luxuriant. The straw is unusu-
ally high, the ears large, and the grain good. ,We wish they
may turn out equally well generally.—Brighton Herald.
The crops in our immediate neighbourhood are looking
remarkably well; the fructifying showers and genial weather
with which we have been favoured in this part of the country
have put the corn into such a state as to induce the hope of
a bountiful harvest being realised.—Hants Independent.
The first field of Talavera wheat in Sussex, and we believe,
Hall Esq., of Southwick, on
in England, was cut by N.
Wednesday se'nnight, which will be fit for the miller on
Monday next. The harvest will commence generally in a
few days. The wheat is full in the ear, and will weigh heavy.
The barley and oats will be light crops.—Brighton Herald.
The crops in the neighbourhood of Chesterfield promise
a luxuriant harvest. We understand that there has scarcely
ever been known such an abundant wheat crop. The hay
crop is generally in course of cuttirer in the district, and
appears to be an average, All through the country the crops
generally look and promise well. Derbyshire Chroniele.
The grass is light generally, and so is the wheat, which is
very thin, but what there is of it is of good quality. Barley
and oats are more plentiful. The corn crops generally will,
if the weather prove favourable, be of an average quantity,
but not more than that.--Leicester Chronicle.

A marked improvement in appearance is observable in
crops of all kinds, And nothing has as yet occurred to alter
the opinion generally believed in, that we shall have a good,
probably an abundant, harvest.—Carlisle Journal.
Our correspondents—east, west, north, and south—write
on this subject nearly in the same words. Take this as a
specimen :—" The country looks most charming. Potatoes
and wheat never promised more, and but rarely such abun-
dant crops. The hay, though light, is good, and in places
has been well saved. A few dry days will enable the hay-
makers to complete their part of the harvest, and the far-
mers are everywhere looking forward to its completion with
the most cheering prospects and thankfulness.—Dubtzn
Evening Packet.

THE FRENCH HARVEST.—The Courrier du Haut lain
says—" The harvest will be a very fine one, and consequently
the fall in our markets continues. The ear is full, and pro-
mises to produce abundance of flower. The straw will be
short, but this storage is still at a low price. On the other
hand, the trefoils and other seeds are very scanty. The
vines have suffered severely from the heat and drought.
The blossom of the vine has been attacked by the parale to
such an extent that the whole of the vine-growers from
Ribeauville to Guebwiller will lose all hope of a gathering,
unless they have some rain very shortly. In the Bas Rhin,
on the contrary, the vines, which are almost always a fort-
night behind ours, are in a most flourishing state. Even
there, however, the want of rain is severely felt."
Now that the crops are beginning to get into form, a better
idea may in general be penned concerning them. The hay is
now all in hand, and upon the whole the crop is decidedly a
light one, although in some places, as always happens, there
is a very good crop which will yield well. A farmer who
lately travelled through the whole length of the arable dis-
trict of Stirlingshire informs us that he did not see above
Three or four fields carrying really heavy crops. Wheat in
general is thin upon the ground, with such exceptions as are
to be found in the hay crop, and it is also much shorter in
the straw than usual, which, we believe, is not counted a
fault here, where it generally grows tall, and is therefore
more easily lodged. This accident has not occurred to it this
season yet, so far as our knowledge extends, and therefore it
is hoped it will prove a true crop, telling well on the barn
floor which is more than it has done for the last six years.
Beans are well and thickly planted, and the blossom is ex-
ceedingly abundant, but the prevailing high winds are doing
damage here, which at present renders it impossible to say
what may be the yield. The straw is also short like the
wheat, but yet, with fine weather, there is sufficient room to
carry the fruit. Barley seems to be generally a good crop,
with a sufficient length of straw ; but even here there is an
irregularity in the growth—in consequence of some parts of
the same fields not springing at the same time as others—so
that the barley fields have lately, and still have to some ex-
tent, a piebald appearance, some parts being fully shot while
others are scarcely in the shot blade, which must cause un-
equal ripening. Oats in general are not so far advanced as
to enable a correct estimate to be penned. The straw, how-
ever, is mostly short, although close enough upon the ground,
and the appearance of this crop will yet greatly improve:
we expect it will turn out well. Potatoes now throughout
the country do not promise so well as they did early in
the season. Turnips are fully braided, and have come up
well.—. Edinburgh Observer.

AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The first prize of £3O for a
short-horned bull was awarded last week, at Bristol, to Mr.
John Parkinson, of Ley Fields, near Newark, and the first
prize of £3O for a cart stallion was given to Mr. Neeld, M.P.
AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A very distressing and a very dis-
gusting case, arising out of a disputed property in a pew, in
the Cathedral Church in Derry, occupied the attention of the
court of petty sessions in that city, on the 6th instant. This
question, involving a civil right, had been the subject of more
than one riot and desecration of a place of worship, during
the time of divine service, to the scandal of religion, and the
great annoyance of the assembled congregation. In the pro-
gress of the inquiry before the magistrates, Mr. Boyd, the
recorder, who was presiding, observed, "that there was so
much temper mixed up in the transaction that he could
scarcely decide upon what witnesses should be subjected to
examination or what should not." After the case had been
dismissed, Sir George Hill accosted Mr. Boyd in the street
in a very violent manner, and asked, " Whether, he, Mr.
Boyd, had the concurrence of the other magistrates in the
observation he made in reference to temper? Mr. Boyd re-
plied that " he did not think Sir George had any right to put
such a question to him." Sir George then said—" I wish to
know whether you alluded to me ?" "My observation was a
general one and intended to apply to all the parties in
the case," was Mr. Boyd's temperate answer. An obser-
vation was then made, which induced Mr. Boyd at once
to commit himself to the hands of a friend—Mr. Fletcher,
who was the bearer of a message to Sir George Hill, by
whom he was referred ly Mr. Dwyer, of the 14th Regiment.
The latter proposed that Mr. Boyd should repeat the nature
of the conversation that had occurred between him and Sir
George Hill, which the former having declined to do, a meet-
ing was fixed for the following morning. In the interim,
an inquiry was made by the friends from a gentleman pre-
sent, as to the nature of the conversation between the
principals, when, upon a representation made by Mr. Dwyer,
Sir George Hillretracted the offensive 1' very properly obser-
vations complained of—the fact being, as it was alleged, that
he did not hear, or accurately comprehend what had fallen
fr°ll2 Mr. Boyd—and thus the affair happily terminated.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o'clock.
LIVERPOOL CORN .EXCHANGE,—This DA

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

We have upwards of 2000 qrs. of Wheat from the United
States, which, with the arrivals from Canada and the conti-
nent of Europe, make above 10,000 qrs. since this day week ;
the supply of States and Canadian Flour is also pretty libe-
ral, but the general imports fresh in from all other quarters
are exceedingly light.
We had a good attendance of millers at this day's market,
but the continued fair weather and the depression i❑ London
yesterday made it difficult to proceed with sales ; and though
Wheats of all descriptions were offered at a decline of 4d to
6d per 701bs from the currency of this day se'nnight, only a
very moderate business was practicable. Flour must be
quoted is per sack, and is to is 6d per barrel cheaper, with
a slow sale.

Grinding Barley was inquired for in retail, and supported
late prices. Beans ls. per qr. lower. The best mealing
Oats met a somewhat better, though still a limited demand,
at an abatement of ld. per bushel; but Oatmeal remained
difficult of disposal, and we quote 275. Gd. the top price of
choice Irish manufacture.

United States Flour was offered at 28s. to 295. per barrel,
in bond ; but no sales were reported to-day, nor has there
been any inquiry whatever for Wheat under lock.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 12th to the 18th July, 1832, inclusive

DESCUIPTIO