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About 270 Tories of Cumberland gave Sir James Graham a dinner, at Carlisle, on Thursday week. Sir James entertained the company with a long speech on the subject of his own wrongs. To take his account, Sir James is the worst-used of living men. Discarded by both Whigs and Radicals,—hunted, as he says, like a mad dog, through the streets of Carlisle,—his only refuge is in the bosom of the Lowther party in Cumbi rland. Never did disappointed politician cut a more pitiable figure than Sir James Graham. He should take a lesson from Lord Stanley, who disdains to complaint of his disappointment, or to reproach his former friends, save in the excitement of hot de- bate. The difference between Stanley and Graham is this,—Stanley speaks like a man who has got rid of the Whigs, and exults at the separation ; whilst Graham whimpers and whines, and exclaims in tone half spiteful half lackadaisical, " It was too bad in you to kick me down stairs." Sir James, however, bad some fair hits at the Whigs : and from this part of his speech we can make an extract. "I know that without Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, and Mr. Sheil, the Government could not make head against its opponents. Yet these are the men who advocate those changes which now, at the eleventh hour, Lord John Russell declares his intention to oppose. Mr. Wakley, the friend of the Minister', says he supports them because they are squeezable ;' whilst Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey says there is no straw, however paltry and filthy, at which they will not catch. Let me illustrate this gentleman's meaning. We know how much has been said about the • Spottiswoode gang.' It was dangerous conspiracy, which was to be put down by the Government with a rigour beyond the law. An honourable gentleman, believing that Ministers sap- meant to do what they intimated. and that he would therefore obtain their port, made a strong motion on the subject. They advised him to withdraw ix; but a difficulty in point of form having presented itself to the adoption of this course, the House of Commons actually with( ascii the spectacle of Lord John Russell the Secretary of State for the Dome Department, Lord Howick the Secretary of War, Lord Morpeth the Secretary fur Ireland, endeavouring to run out of the House, to escape a division ; and positively they were brought back by the Sergeant.at•Arms, and compelled by the rules of the Dome to pro- nuance an opinion on the eubiect. And. God save the mark, they fellowed Sir 'Wien Peel out of the House, and voted against the unfortunate gentleman whom they had induced to bring forward the motion! If I had not lived tone the contrary, I would have said that such slippery trickery conduct could not be supported fur one hour by the Representatives of the British People. There may have been more wicked Governments—there may have been more powerful and dangerous Cover nmenta—but I defy any one to produce from the history of
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our country a more shabby Government than the present. may it with regret, duplicity is its characteristic; and the historian who hands down its deeds to future time will tell posterity, that it was worthy only of the contempt of a great people—that, whilst clinging to office with a tenacity unexampled, it had neither the head, the heart, nor the courage to govern with property. I shall be told, forsooth, ' You are denouncing your old colleague!.'— Oh ! I owe these old colleagues a large debt of gratitude. It will be said, • This is the Gov-rn- meat of Lord Grey, or at least it is carrying out the principle of Lord Grey's Administration.' Luid Grey's Administration! NVI t•re is Lord Grey." Where is the Duke of Richmond? Where is Lord Durham ? Where is Lord Ripon? Where is Lord Althorp ? Where is lair I Ilroughaia ? Ay, echo answers, • Where?' Ills Lurd-hip is sunk in the sic ry dregs of Domeeracy—is mingled with the hal of White Conduit House. 1 saw him once the Lord Chalesllor of England—the keeper of the King's conscience—the first I tw retvi-er of the Crown : I saw him standing at the foot of the Throne, when Ilia Rival truster, by advice in which Lord Brougham participated, lito led detl,mee at him whom his Lordship justly designated as • the mendicant agitator id have seen this same Lord Brougham, who boasted of his daily entitespondense with Royalty, writing a letter—a must obsequious letter—to some chairman of a meeting at the Crown and Anchor 'favern, apologizing for his absence, and regretting that he was not present when that very Mr. O'Connell proposed at that same meeting the establishment in England of an association, to be formed on the model of that association which Lord Brougham concurred with his col- leagues in endeavouring to put down by statuary tuactnients beyond the reach of the common law."
At this dinner. Sir James Graham proposed the health of Lord Lowther, in a "flowing bumper ! "
Sir Francis Burdett figured at a Tory dinner in Derby on Tuesday last, A meeting of Liberals was to be held in Liverpool on Thursday, to petition Parliament for the Ballot and Suffrage.extension.
The Working Men's Association of Leeds assembled, to the number of 1,500 persons, on Monday evening, at the Commercial Buildings of that town, to protest against the conduct of Ministers towards Canada, and the New Poor-law. The principal speakers were Mr. Sharman Crawford, Dr. Taylor of Glasgow, Mr. Augustus Beaumont of New- castle, and Mr. Feargus O'Connor.
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