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PORTRAIT OF JAMES MONTGOMERY.---A portrait of
this distinguished poet, and most estimabie man, has men
recently painted by Mr. Thomas H. Illidge, of Liverpool ;
an artist with whoie •works we are familiar, and who, we
have no doubt, has done justice to the importance of his
subject—that of transmitting to posterity a copy of the form
and features of a man who has given so much enjoyment
and instruction to his generation—
" Blessings be with them, and eternal praise—the poets."
[Our correspondent writes in very high terms of Mr. Illidge's
work ; the portrait he describes as a very striking likeness ;
the character of intellect being happily retained ; and a
degree of refinement being given to the features without im-
pairing the vraisemblance. As a production of art, too,
it merits the most marked commendation. We should like
to see it engraved ; for, although we have already two or
three prints of James Montgomery—big and little—there is
not one of them worth a straw. Mr. Illidge has also, we
understand, lately painted a full-length portrait of Lord
Stanley, for the Liverpool Collegate Institution.—Art Union,
Ist Feb., 1812.]

A QUOTATION IN ANTICIPATION.—We were somewhat
amazed to find in the London Record of Thursday evening
the following paragraph :—" Colonel Torrens has offered
himself as a candidate for the representation of Liverpool.—
Liverpool Mercury." On Thursday morning, for the first
time, the address of the worthy Colonel appeared in the
London Times, and we believe a little startled the public
of Liverpool; and yet on the evening of the same day the
Record quotes this paragraph from the Liverpool Mercury,
in which it never appeared, and which in its first edition of
Friday did not contain a line tp intimate any knowledge that
the Colonel was disposed to honour us with an offer of his
services. How is this ? Can it be that the Colonel's address
has, after all, been intended as a feeler of the liberal pulse in
Liverpool. Certainly it would appear that the Mercury has
been playing some tricks in the matter ; and that an intention
has existed in some quarter to come upon us by surprise with
Colonel Torrens as the liberal candidate. Perhaps our con-
temporary has favoured some other portion of the London
press with a.slip,-in anticipation. By the bye, we notice oc-
casionally another of our contemporaries quoted somewhat
in the same way.

SUICIDE.—On Saturday night last a decent-looking man,
of the name of George Groom, shot himself with a pistol
beneath one of the sheds of the George's Dock. He had
a number of small stones and two-pence-halfpenny in copper
iu his pocket. The deceased was sixty-five years of age, and
had been in a low desponding way for some time, and from
the evidence adduced at the inquest yesterday, the jury
brought in a verdict of " temporary insanity."
Our paper of Friday last contained a short paragraph an-
nouncing an insurrection in the Brazils, and the murder of
the vice-president, From private letters we are led no doubt
the truth of thes.. statements in some measure. The follow-
ing is an extract from a communication received• by a gentle-
man in this town on the 27th ult., and from the information
contained in it, it would seem as if some confusion existed
as to the facts communicated. in all probability the " head
of the custom-house" will :prove to be the person alluded to
in the intelligence brought by the Rosalie, which arrived here
on Thursday. No information of any insurrection in Ceara
is given in this letter :—Extract dated Ceara, 11th Decem-
ber, 1841, received via Maranham, 27th January, ptr
Emma :—" The Tinamaia tailed on the 7th, and we have
had rains ever since, which is so far satisfactory—but are
sorry to inform you that loao Facundo Castro Menezes head
of our custom-house, was murdered in his own house on the
night of the Sth instant, supposed by persons of the domi-
naneparty. He was a man of some consideration, had figured
several times as president of government, and being of a very
numerous family, spread all over the province, it is to be
feared sooner or later they will have their revenge ! "
SHOCKING DEATH.--On Sunday morning, a gentleman
from Belfast threw himself, in a fit of delirium, out of the
window of his lodgings, in Duke-street, and was so injured
by the fall that he died in about two hours. At the inquest
yesterday, Mr. Dick, M.D. and surgeon said, that on Friday
morning, between nine and ten o'clock, he was called to the
deceased, on board the steam-packet Reindeer, then lying in
the river, near George's Pier-head. He was labouring under
delirium tremens, and not fit to be then removed. Means
were applied, and he became a little better. He was taken to
lodgings in Duke-street. The following morning he was
much better when witness visited him, and he got up and
wished to go out. Witness remained with him all night, in
order to administer his medicines. Ailittle after five yester-
day morning (Sunday) he left him in bed, calm and com-
posed, and he said he felt drowsy. I told him not to be
afraid, as I would he in the next room. In about half an
hour after witness heard him calling out very loud, " Mur-
der, murder," and a noise as if he were trying to open the
window. Witness ran into his room directly, and found him
standing on the bed, trying to get down the window rod.
Witness called out to him, and asked him what was the
matter, and he replied, " Don't you see those two fellows!
You can't prevent them murdering me." Witness endea-
voured to pacify him, but he jumped off the bed, and rushed
towards a dressing-room adjoining, and pulled down the
blind and roller, and began to deal blows around him, and
called out "Police ! Police ! Is brave
name, which we suppress at the request of his relatives,) to
be murdered this way?'' He then began to break the window
of the room. Witness immediately ran to the head of the
stairs, and called out for help, and in a moment heard the
window raised. I ran to the deceased immediately, and
found him in the act of leaping from the window, and I had
just time to get hold of his shirt, but not sufficiently to pre-
vent him falling. He fell into the street, and never moved
afterwards. Witness got down as soon as possible, and
called the police, and had him taken into the house. %1 it-
ness immediately procured the assistance of two surgeons
who lived opposite, and means ware used to restore him, but
without avail. He died in about two hours after. He had
received a very extensive compound commonated fracture of
the skull, which was the cause of death. Some other evi-
dence was then adduced, and the jury brought in a verdict of
" temporary insanity."

LIVERPOOL QUARTER SESSIONS

The general court of quarter sessions of the peace for the
borough of Liverpool commenced yesterday, iu the Sessions
House, before JAMES CLARKE, Esq., recorder.
The following gentlemen were sworn the grand jury :
JOSEPII KING, Esq., of Roscommon-street, share-broker,

Thomas Bouch, Everton:valfei,iiroker.
James Gibson Carter, Nethertield-road, distiller.
Henry Cleaver Chapman, Slaw-street, merchant.
Robert Horsfall, Netherfield-road, broker.
George Holt, India-buildings, cotton-broker.
James Harvey, jun., Catherine-street, gentleman.
Thos. Duckworth Hedlam, Exchange-st., insurance-broker
Richard Johnson, Catherine-place, coal-proprietor.
William Livesey, Roscommon-street, share-broker.
James Lister, Great Mersey•street, banker.
Thomas M`Gill, Percy-street, merchant.
John Miller, Netherfield-road, merchant.
John Woolford Molyneux, Brougham-terrace, rectifier.
George Quayle, Shaw-street, merchant.
Joseph Elias Mozley, Lord-street, banker.
William Laycock, Fazakerley-street, merchant.
James Gilfillan, Oldhall-street, merchant.

Mr. James Duncan, of India-buildings • Mr. Chas. Lor-
rimer, of Everton ; Mr. William Oxley, of Rumford-place ;
Mr. James Holbrook Smith, of Rodney-street; and Mr.
James Foster, of Rodney-street, were summoned on the
grand jury, but they did not answer to their names.
The RECORDER, on being informed of the names of these
gentlemen, said that the administration of the law mainly
depending upon the attendance of the grand jury, it was of
the utmost consequence that they should appear in court.
The gentlemen who had not appeared must be fined £5 each.
The CLERK of the PEACE then read the proclamation
against vice, profaneness, and immorality ; after which
The RECORDER delivered his charge to the Grand Jury.
On taking into consideration how lately it was that they bad
assembled in that court for the administration of the laws, he
could not but consider that the present calendar was very
heavy and serious. It was scarcely eight weeks since they
had assembled in that place for the administration of the law.
Many of the cases were of a very serious nature, and would
require from the hands of the grand jury a good deal of care-
ful' investigation. There were two cases which he was very
sorry to see in the calendar ; one was No. 58,59,60, and 61,
and the amount of property stolen appeared to him to have
been very large. The parties were charged with having
stolen three £5O, one £lO, two £lO, and five £5 Bank of
England notes, the property of William Douglas, from his
person. When he read the depositions in this case, he was
very sorry to see, that great as had been the loss to the party,
it had arisen altogether from his own improvidence. Going
as he had into a house of improper character with all this
amount of money upon him, the natural consequence was,
that when he left he might expect to find himself stripped of
it. Four persons, he observed, were included in the indict-
ment; and they would have an opportunity of collecting
from the prosecutor in what state he was in at the time the
robbery took place. He (the Recorder) was assured the
man was at that time under the influence of liquor, and
whether, under these circumstances they could be able safely
to bring the charge home against all the prisoners was a mat-
ter of some doubt, because, when a party went into such
places with his mind and intelligence almost gone, it fell upon
the jury carefully to investigate the circumstances, so that
persons were not included in the indictment who were not
connected with the charge. They would find the bill only
against those who were involved in the crime of robbing
this man. There was another case of the same descrip-
tion, Nos. 78 and 79 in the calendar. There the parties
were charged with stealing one £2O and three £5 Bank of
England notes and three sovereigns, the property of George
Pennell. He believed that this person was not under the
influence of liquor, but very improperly went into a place of
the same description, and was there robbed in the same kind
of way. Now, all these sort of robberies arose from the im-
providence of the parties themselves, but although they
suffered, no doubt severely, from the loss of their property,
yet, let the grand jury look how much the country suffered.
The encouragement thus given to crime by improvident per-
sons was almost illimitable; and it was in vain to talk about
improving the morals of the people when persons themselves
were so careless and improvident. Indeed, they encouraged
the very crime into which the grand jury were now called
upon to enquire whether it had been committed or not; they
themselves begot the crime, and not only that, but they fas-
tened the community with the very heavy charge of prose-
cuting parties when the crime. had altogether arisen from
their own folly. He was happy to sec that there were fewer
cases of burglary in the calendar than in any he had lately
known. He did not find a single case of robbery in a ware-
house, a circumstance which was a matter of high gratifica-
tion to him. And he might as well tell the grand jury, be-
cause it struck him very forcibly, that if merchants wished
their property in warehouses to be untouched, they must
themselves exercise the greatest vigilance and care over it.
They must go in from time to time and examine their pro-
perty, with this particular object, and also they must be very
vigilant and careful about the character of the warehousemen
whom they employed, because warehousemen were setting
up—and he told the grand jury of it honestly, because the
fact had come within his own knowledge—a kind of system
and rule, that they might take any kind of goods out of the
warehouse, and dispose of them as they thought proper for
their own benetit. This had got to such a length that
the parties who received the goods from them were alleging,
by way of extenuation, that the merchants themselves allowed
their warehousemen to take the property, and that when it was
brought to them they thought they were at liberty to receive
it from them. It was high time that this practice should be
checked; and as far as these kind of cases came within his
observation, he would do every thing in his power to prevent
them ; but at the same time, the merchants must exercise
care, vigilance, and caution, for no plan could be a substitute
for their want of diligence. The police were very good, but
the
last could not supply that care and vigilance which were
necessary on the part of the owners of property. At
last sessions he was under the painful necessity of
g a grocer for feloniously receiving goods, and he
_set up
this kind of plea, that the warehouseman was a highly re-
spectable man, arill that he was the real bona fide owner of
the property. The learned recorder then recited the circum-
stances of this case, and urged the jury from them to con-
sider the necessity of caution and vigilance on the part of
warehouse-owners being constantly practised. After a few
remarks upon one or two other cases of slight importance
the recorder dismissed the grand jury to their labours.
The traverse jury was then impannelled, and the trials.
commenced shortly afterwards ; but none that occurred
during the day were of the slightest general interest.

The calender contains the names of 121 persons charged
with felony, and 16 with misdemeanours and assaults,—
total, 137.

REPRESENTATION OF LIVERPOOL.

MEETING OF ABERCROMBIE, RODNEY-STREET,
AND ST. PETER'S WARD.
On Friday evening the conservative electors of the above
wards assembled in the Music-hall for the purpose of afford-
ing an opportunity to Sir Howard Douglas of explaining his
political sentiments. The Hall was crowded to excess, and
the greatest enthusiasm and unanimity prevailed throughout.
The chair was occupied by SAMUEL HOLME, Esq., who
opened the proceedings in an able and eloquent speech.
Mr. Councillor RAE proposed the first resolution, to the
effect, that, fully cognisant as the meeting was of the princi-
ples of Sir Howard, they felt pride and pleasure in returning
him for the borough of Liverpool to parliament.
Mr. Alderman CROOKE seconded the motion, which was
passed nem. con.
Mr. Councillor WOOD proposed the second resolution—
viz., that the meeting pledged itself to use all legal and con-
stitutional means to secure his return.
Mr. EDWARD FORD seconded the motion,- which was also
carried unanimously.
Mr. Councillor BIRKETT proposed, and Mr. HUTCHINSON
seconded, the third resolution, appointing a deputation to
introduce Sir Howard to the meeting.
The deputation then retired; and in a few minutes the en-
thusiastic cheers of the audience stationed near the doors,
which were speedily re-echoed by the whole meeting, an-
nounced Sir Howard's approach. 'When the gallant general
had made his appearance on the platform.
The CHAIRMAN read to him the resolutions which had
been passed, prefacing each of them with suitable and com-
plimentary observations.
Sir HOWARD then presented himself to the meeting, and
was received with vehement and protracted cheering. When
silence had been restored, he spoke nearly as follows :—He
said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, you will first permit me
to express the great gratification I have in receiving this
communication from the hands of my excellent friend Mr.
Holme. (Hear, hear.) This is the first time he and I have
met since I came to Liverpool on the present occasion ' • and
the very great respect I entertain for your chairman leads
me sincerely to congratulate myself that he presides at this
meeting. (Cheers.) Since last I had the pleasure of seeing
my distinguished friend—l am sure he will permit me to
call him so—l have seen some battles and services ; but I
will say in all sincerity, and I am sure you will believe me
when 1 tell you, that on no occasion of my life, spent as it
has been between the field, the council, and elsewhere, did I
receive so much gratification as on my return now to Liver-
pool, after an absence of seven years in the service of my
country. (Loud cheers.) It is quite impossible for me to
express the gratification I feel—to express what I feel per-
sonally—at revisiting many kind friends, who ten years ago
received me with such kindness, when I was a stranger
among them. When I look back to that period, lam forced
to acknowledge that presenting myself here for the first time
without any acquaintance was a very great assumption on my
part ; but it afforded me the gratification of beginning a battle
which was then hopeless. I knew it, would be so, and you
may recollect that I told you so at the time. But I also
knew that it would mature our forces—that it would kindle
a spirit throughout the land, and that from this place an
example would be given which would bring orth abundant
fruit in due time. (Cheers.) I came again a second time,
and then fought against less fearful odds. None of us com-
mitted any fault ; we never shrunk from any difficulty ; and
the party with whom I act had well nigh placed me in
the representation of Liverpool; but on both occasions—
and you will remember that that was my primary object—
you secured the return of that noble and excellent lord,
whose colleague I hope soon to be ; and that was my
greatest gratification, for it is well known to you all that
my anxious wish was to be his second, and never anything
beyond. (Hear, hear.) I have no regret on public grounds
that I did not succeed the second time, because you have had
the services of a most valuable and excellent member since
in Mr. Cresswell—(cheers)—and when we remember all the
circumstances together—of my having been called to serve
in another part of the world, and of my having now, after a
"service for a considerable period abroad, been called upon to
serve in the situation which your late member filled so ho-
nourably and so well, I cannot but congratulate you, which
I do with all my heart and soul, on the progress which con-
servatism has made since we last assembled—on the victories
you have achieved, not only with respect to your parliamen-
tary but your municipal representation, and on the victories
you have secured for the church, that great bulwark of
Christianity. (Thunders of applause.) I think I often told
you when here before that the menaces coming on the church
had not then developed themselves, but that the government
would soon begin to attack even the church itself, and that
when that attack should have been made, a spirit would he
roused which would rescue the church, and what might
remain of the constitution, from their merciless fangs.
(Hear, hear.) You have done that. (Cheers.) 1 have done
nothing to achieve it, having been out of the country nearly
all the time; but, if returned as your representative, I pro-
mise you that I will hold on. (Great cheers.) I will never
be a party to the promotion of every measure which may
tamper with our glorious constitution. We cannot go back
to what has been already done, and it would perhaps be vain
to wish we could ; but we shall make the best of what re-
mains, and we shall go forward. (Cheers.) Upon the
church we shall make our stand ; and here I pledge myself
to you with as strong a protestant feeling, and as firm a
protestant determination as any man, to defend the church
from all assaults, and to listen to nothing but what comes
from her friends, and to defy everything which shall
come from her foes. (" Hear, hear,l and great cheer-
ing.) 1 shall be associated in the House of Commons
with known protectors of the church. I shall have my per-
sonal friend, Sir Robert Inglis, there ; and, though I do not
promise to second all his exertions, yet I have no hesitation
in engaging to do ail that can be done for the best interests
of the country. (Cheers.) Much has been said of church
extension. How that is to be carried out may be matter for
consideration, but that the question of church extension
should be carried I do most certainly think. (Great cheers.)
Some persons say that churches make congregations, others
that congregations make churches. If churches make con-
gregations—Protestant congregations of the Church of Eng-
land—let hundreds of them be reared. If congregations
make churches, why then Protestant congregations exist.
They call for churches, and therefore churches should be
raised. (Vehement applause.) There may be many diffi-
culties in carrying out the various services of the country •,
and the first difficulty which the administration that I shall
have the honour to support will have to deal, is an exhausted
treasury—the result of all the professions of peace and eco-
nomy, many ruinous little wars, and a revenue utterly defi-
cient to meet the exigencies of the state. (Hear.) This is
after ten years of whig administration, and this is the happy
inheritance they have left us to begin with. (Laughter and
cheers.) And how is this to be met? There will be some
difficulty in doing so, but something must certainly be done.
(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") You have said that you
are satisfied with my principles, and that you consider me a
fit and proper person to be the representative of this im-
portant borough in parliament. If you are satisfied of my
principles I shall not take up a moment of your time in
repeating them. I avow a strict conformity with my prin-
ciples, arid an adherence to the engagements I make that
I shall abide by them faithfully. (Hear, hear.) In sup-
port of this assertion, you may take the assurances of a long
life devoted to honourable pursuits, and unstained with any
actions that can give me remorse. (Cheers.) I hope you
may take this assurance that I will observe my promises and
act in conformity with the confidence you have reposed in
me. I know not that I have any thing more to say, except
with regard to the corn question, one of the most important
that now occupies the public mind. (Hear, hear.) When
speaking of the principle of protection I am fond of scientific
figures. I think they are exceedingly powerful in the eluci-
dation of any subject. I remember, when speaking of the
corn-laws upon one occasion, and the folly of withdrawing all
protection from agriculture, I was asked what I thought on
the subject. I said I thought it would be like the conduct
of some hydraulic engineer who would open a communication
between two vast bodies of fluids without providing safety-
valves from the superior to the lower levels. In such a case
the rush of water would be such as to drown all the low land,
and to swamp the whole country under its influence. So
would it be if the principle of protection were altogether
withdrawn. (Hear, hear.) Through all the corn countries
abroad wages would be raised, land would be' raised, the
prices of corn would be raised, but what would be the case
at home ? Wages would fail, agriculturists would be out of
employment, land would be out of cultivation, and a great
part of the uncultivated land would be entirely destroyed ;
and then how are the people to be provided for ? " Oh,"
say the economists, "they would become manufacturers."
But who would buy your manufactures ? " The foreigners."
say they ; but I apprehend it would not be so. You will
recollect that I am only slightly touching on this subject ; but
in my opinion it is high time forus to look at home—to protect
our own interests—to take care we do not compromise our
own independence with respect to the article of food on such
foolish theories as these and to take care, with respect to
our navigation, that we do not compromise this country.
(Cheers.) Recollect that we have stood triumphant against
the world in arms; and he must be blind, indeed, who does
not see symptoms of rivalry on the land. and nations prepar-
ing for rivalling us upon the sea. God forbid it may be so, but
we must be prepared for it. This is the policy for British
seamen to adopt—this the course from which this country
will never be prevented, and this will be my course, if re-
turned to parliament, steadily and firmly to pursue. (Hear.)
I have congratulated this association, as a conservative asso-
ciation, on the great progress that conservatism has made. I
speak collectively ; but as this conservative association is
made up of a great many other industrious associations, I
see a great many faces here which, if I mistake not, I have
seen before in their distinct places of meeting. I speak, I
think, to the good worthy freemen of Liverpool. (Cheers.)
I recognise many faces here who voted for me before ; and if I
go the scratch I am certain I shall see those faces where they
ought to be. (Renewed cheers. I think I see others here
also, perhaps a brother chip—(a laugh)—for I am a ship-
wright of Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) I was voted so by accla-
mation ten years ago at a special meeting.—Sir Howard, in
conclusion, called upon the meeting to act forbearingly to-
wards their enemies ; and assured them that before many
days their good ship would be brought in full sail into the
port of conservatism, with the royal standard of England
floating at the main. He concluded amidst the most enthu-
siastic cheering.
Major DOUGLAS, Sir Howard's son, then addressed the
meeting in support of conservative principles; after which,
thanks were returned to the chairman, and the meeting sepa-
rated.

LIME-STREET AND ST. ANNE'S WARDS.
The same evening the electors of Lime-street and St.
Anne's Wards met Sir Howard in the large room of the
York Hotel, which was completely filled.
JAMES PARKER, Esq., one of the councillors of St.
Anne's Wards, was unanimously called to the chair, and the
several resolutions were moved and seconded by Mr. J. B.
Lloyd, Mr. John Kilshaw, Dr. Gouthwaite, and Mr. Hol.
den. All of them were unanimously carried.
Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS having been introduced to the
meeting, spoke nearly as follows :—Gentlemen, I am deeply
sensible and inexpressibly gratified at the terms in which
your chairman has presented me to you on this occasion, be-
cause he has introduced me as your old and tried friend.
(Cheers.) I look back with inexpressible gratification to
the time when we first became acquainted. It is now ten
years since those struggles commenced— at least those
struggles with which I was connected, by your solicitation,
for the safety of the protestant monarchy, and the glorious
constitution in this country in church and state. (Cheers.)
And I engaged in that struggle with the greatest prompti-
tude, because I knew that I was connecting myself with
spirits that would never desert the cause. I knew that I was
connecting myself with a strong political phalanx that would
yet achieve a victory over those who attacked the political
constitution. I knew that there was a protestant feeling
here which would raise a tone and produce a spirit through-
out every part of protestant England where the church would
be attacked, as attacked 1 knew it would be, for the attempts
were insidious. At first the attacks were levelled at the po-
litical constitution, and I allied myself with the conservatives
of this place because I was perfectly certain that, though the
struggle might be long, the victory would be signal. (Hear)
And it was that that gave me a consistency of purpose from
which I never deviated, and which you carried on to the
most glorious and triumphant results: (Hear, hear.) I came
forward a second time at the solicitation of the conservatives
of this place, and then I saw that the spirit was kindling and
diffusing itself widely throughout the land, and I was sure
that the constitution, with the exception of the few inroads
which have been made, and that the church—the glorious
and protestant church—was safe from all dangers. (Great
applause.) I have since then been employed for nearly seven
years out of the country in the service of my sovereign; but
I hope there is no mistake here Parties who look to me and
are pleased to repose in me their confidence, should be well
informed my of every part of life, of every thought, and of
every action, to be sure that I never deviated from the course
I took in their service. The service I took on me I took

under a conservative ministry. I went abroad under them, '
and when that ministry was changed, I did-not desire to re-
main.
I felt all the difficulty of the position in which I was
placed, lest, that serving under a whig government, I might
give ground for some surmise that it was got by some defec-
tion or tampering upon my part ; but I am bound to say that
that government listened to my recommendations, and that
they adopted the policy I recommended for the government
of the colony over which I was placed. (Hear, hear.) It
is due to them to say that they supported me throughout in
the principles upon which I had set out, that I acted through-
out consistently, and that I came home, having acquired for
my services the thanks of the whig government, and having
gained the confidence of the government thatappointed me, for
having acted without committing myself; for I need scarcely
say, that had I made the least trip, it might have afforded a pre-
text to the late government for putting a whig in my place.
I was, therefore cautious—l was careful—l took my own
views—l propounded them—the will government believed
me to be an honest tnan, and here i'am, agreed, certainly,
with the late government in lonian policy, for that was my
own, but prepared to attack them on every other part of their
policy whatever it may be. (" Hear, hear," and long con-
tinued cheering.) Your resolutions proceed on a conviction
of what my principies are—that you are satisfied with them,
and that the declarations I made on my former visits here
render any further declaration of them unnecessary. I shall
not, therefore, speak of them, but simply say that my con-
duct shall be most strictly observed, and that I shall zealous-
ly devote myself to the interests, local and general, of this
great emporium of the British empire, and to the promotion
of all the branches of industry by which the gentlemen I see
in their various professional avocations are engaged, and by
which they live. (Cheers.) I would particularly mention
the interests of this great port. The agricultural interests
of the empire I will certainly protect by applying the prin-
ciple of protection in such a way as is due to that great in-
terest, the independence of the country, and so essential an
article of consumption as its food. (Hear, hear, hear.) I
hope that that principle of protection may be combined
with such a revision of the degrees of protection as
will afford safety and security to all without inflicting an
injury on the empire, but consulting all the interests of the
state, whether they be the agricultural, the commercial, or the
trading interests, and then applying such protection as may be
sufficient to maintain a good principle for each severally, but
not to carry that so far as not to be generally advantageous to
the whole. I have nothing further to add. I have repeated
my discourse so frequently that I have to apologise for de-
taining you so long. (No, no.) Besides, I must confess, that
having spent seven years in a pure, fine atmosphere, I do not
find the climate of England so pure as I once did, and for that
reason, I may shorten my discourse. Allow me to say in
conclusion, that it will be my pleasure; my greatest desire, to
cooperate with the noble lord whom I hope soon to call my
colleague—he, my leader, and I, his second. (Cheers.) I
feel that I am most peculiarly fortunate in being placed in
the House of Commons as the second of such a man, from
whom I may acquire some portion at least of that unwearied
zeal, that great ability, that statesmanlike sagacity which he
applies to all the business be conducts for you in that house.
(Great cheers.) And I pray that God will make as remote as
possible that event which must come at some time, and which
will deprive you of his services ; and I hope should
I live to such a period, that I shall then be in a state
more capable to take a lead in your business. (Hear.) I
feel, also, all the disadvantage of coming into the representa•
tion of Liverpool as the successor of that learned gentleman
whose elevation to the bench has caused the present vacancy.
I shall endeavour to make up for the loss you have sustained
in Mr. Cresswell as far as I can; but there is one part of
the loss which in my person will be irreparable—l allude to
the legal knowledge he possesses, and which no doubt must
have been often useful to his noble colleague. (Hear.) Hav-
ing said thus much I beg leave to close this discourse, again
offering you my sincere and cordial congratulations on the
glorious triumph conservatism has achieved both in your
municipal and parliamentary representation, and exhorting
you to remember that you brought yourselves to yourpresent
position by union. (Hear.) Permit me to express my
prayer that that united phalanx at the head of which I
hope soon to see myself placed, and which will have an over-
whelming majority, should any one be rash enough to oppose
me, will keep united if they mean to be strong, and that that
union may be consolidated here and elsewhere throughout
the empire! (Cheers.) I hope we shall have no opposition;
I hope we shall do nothing to provoke it by anything indis-
creet in expression or bearing. (Hear, hear.) I hope we
shall carry our triumphs gracefully and moderately ; but I
hope that whenever any opposition may come, you will do,
as I know by experience you can do, and that you will be-
lieve that I shall be prepared to do all that depends on me
as I have done in other quarters of the world. The gallant
general resumed his seat amid great applause.
The meeting then separated.