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Lord Brougham has been "showing 61T" at Liverpool, being engaged to perform on the occasion of laying the foundation of a new Me- chanics Institution. His Lordship arrived at Manchester on Sunday evening, and proceeded to the house of Mr. Heywood, the banker, at Pendleton. On AIonday he started in a private carriage on the Rail.. way for Liverpool, accompanied by Mr. Ileywood and other gentle- men. On leaving the Railway at Liverpool, he entered Mr. W. Brown's carriage; and a piocessmou of gentlemen was formed behind him. On their arrival at Mount Street, the stone was laid by Lord Brougham, in the usual manner ; and his Lordship then ascended a raised platform and addressed the assembly. He enlarged on the great benefit conferred on mankind by the improvement of mechanical science, and referred to the speed of his journey on the Railway as an illustration of the remark-

" During the last hour and a half I have travelled from 'Manchester to Liverpool, the only thought that presented itself at every step of the was, and indeed about the only subject which the immense velocity or our motion left one time to think about, was to Mann and to what (to we owe that extraordinary power, that mighty revolution of man's position on the globe, in their distances from and their intercourse with each other, so that Manchester is. as if by magic, brought within 011, fifth of the distance it was ten 'ears ago, and within one-tenth part of what it was 3 century before. What i3 it that has made this extraordinary resolution, which has given to man the wings of the dove, and which enables Mtn to perform his various public and private duties, and to participate in the pleasures. the amusements, and the eujoytnents of lite, a dozen times in the course of a single day, and at distances so far asunder as would have taken him in hinnyr times a week to accomplish? what is it that makes the distance between Manchester and Liverpool seem as nothing, and which will soon make the distance be- tween Liverpool and Brummagem and Brummagem and Lamm: take little more than the short spice of ten hours to travel? NVIutt is that is Lich annihilates the space between different communities of men, and, walking on the waves themselves 'like a thing of lire,' brings countries buried in the heart of America in prirdmity with the coasts of that mighty cmtineut, and civilizes nations of savages by bringing them in close and regu- lar intercourse with nations of civilized Wren? Alloy, it is to steam, which, generated by the power of nature, lass been subjected to the uses of man, and made as docile, and it thousand times more powerful. than any domestic attimal, instead of being a sen ace of tenor and dismay by its explosion. And alit subjected it to the use of man? A com- mon working mechanic—James Watt, whose name ought to live, trot merely in the his- tory of his country, but or maul:init." The company next•procceded to Mr. Thornely's house, where about six hundred persons sat down to a collation. Several routine toasts were drunk ; and then Mr. James 1.3raneker, the Chairman, proposed the health of Lord Brougham, who, he said, was "honoured, beloved, and respected by his King, as he was by the whole country." Lord Brougham returned thanks. He alluded first to the establishment of Mechanics Institutions in London ; then referred to time blessings which might be expected to flow from the diffusion of education, and time proper mode of extending national wealth, of which the Manchester Railway afforded an example. lie spoke of the astonishing progress of Liverpool in wealth and importance, and then went on to the ever- present topic of himseff- He did not feel that he was doing wrong in coming forward and meeting 11:s fellow couutryinem Ile knew the incident which occurred when he attend:41a ri/noier that was given Oil his account at Aberdeen. when the most ridiculous and absurdi nett,* wee raised that he had plotted with Lord Althorp to hire Lord Grey ottt of office. To die. prove the report, he obtaiued two letters under Lord Grey's hand, in which his Lord. Ship expressed his disbelief of the report; but, notwithstanding that. his enemies believed it-believed that lie and Lord Althorp entered into a 11114 10 cut their own throats by milting Lord Grey's,. Ile thought if he did not meet Lord Grey at the elinuer to which he WAS him ilea at Edinburgh. it would he said that there was some ',truth in the report ; therefore lie did nut remain away. Ile accordingly attended at the Edinburgh feetie al ; and then the cry was raised-" Whit I a Lord Chancellor attend a public dinner-a Lord Chaucellor go to a dinner at Aberdeen. and afterwards do dine.at Edinburgh ! " It seemed to create so nitwit itatooishment that lie, as Lord Chancellor, should attend dinners. that he began to think he must change his determi- nation of going to dinners. amt that lie WAS bound to stand upon his "order." Ile would tell them, that such a man as II itekissou never flinched from meeting his coati tryinen on such occasions; and Mr. Canning vas Nattily ready to attend meetings bulk in the morning. ire the day, and at night. Mr Cattning'e principles he approved of. and gave him his support, but he refused to hold office under It'm. On the charge or attending public MON lugs. lie was bound also to defend Mr. Pitt, though be differed with him ii politics. Mr. Pitt was a great orator. and a man of great public virtue ; yet he saeriliced men to his ambition and his love of plerie and cousented to hold ,flice without the power :Ind patronage which a Minieter of the Crown ought to hate. NI r. Pin at:ended public meetings; and oil one occasion, when Bonaparte. who made him. self King of France and Italy, had issued a manifesto againSt our ships, colonies. and commerce. Mr. Pitt :itteuittel a dinner of his fellow citizens, and in his usual sarcastic after ;dialling to the manifesto, gave as a toast. e Our ships. colonies. :mil com- merce." NI r. Pitt he defended font the charge of attending dinners ; hid it might be said that he oas only Chancellor of the Exchequer. and nut Lord Chancellor. Ile would then take the example of Lord Eldon, and defend him from the foul charge of daring to meet his countrymen. Now. that w as the constant habit of Lord Eldon year after y ear. Ile attended diume after dinner with \1 r. Pitt, and sometimes with• end bine and since his death an delivers a speech to celebrate the day of Mr. Pitt's birth. )Was it improper, theretere, with these examples before them, for a Chan- cellor. to attend dinnere? Some of them, at least a Chancellor might :Men I; but he s•epp°seil it w auhl he said by and by that a man, because be is a Chancellor. shan't dine at Ile mai:dallied that it was at all times the privilege of public men to meet the people on all ticeasions; and it was the duty of public men to come from time to time a tnene the people without that ceremony. without that nonsense, w it hout that hauteur. which distinguished some of the great men of the present day. With the she* of curtailing the reepeetabili:y of the People, and with the view of making the People more easily led awl misled. it was the policy of certain persons to say that public men bad no busineee to attend public dinners. Ile knew that it had been also said, and very latch said, that he hint not held the same doctrines, and pursued the same course in Mike beet lie did out ; and that he took the opportunity of coining there that day to raise the People by raising their power; whereas, while he was in office he shinnied the People. and del not runguify them. and hold out those hopes of Reform, but relaxed the hace at which Reform should go on. Never was a charge more ridiculous. Ile said est summer a hat he said now, that floating a as more ludicrous than the charge agaiust the late Mirdetry of not havitig done enoiigh. Here he went into the usual enumeration of measures carried by the Ministry of which he was-4 -member, and declared his determination in future to stand by the People— From his poli:ical habits and resolution to stand by the People. and not to relax or that: one vitae nor to sleep by night or rest by day, until a cheap government was se- cured Mr the People-he knew that tied one word " cheap " government was abhorred by certain courtiers, auil they knew that he pleaded guilty mu the charge-he owed. what he tem.:Weed nut a tilielleenne, but a deliverance-Ids now being out of office. And tslio is theme quit s place, misname(' power, that dews not surrender ignoble pier°• gative for sweet mei Anient ? To be answerable for things done liteothers, and to he ;mew enable for thin gs wiiiek ought to be done and are nut dour-to be compelled to trust p .routes whoa :I prudent man would consider to be untrustworthy-to be com- plied to refuse implied conti tercet to persons is hen cotnmon confideuce cannot be placed in them, your course or policy to be judged of by the most ignorant of mankind. and to beer the aspersions they may throw of your character and conduct-who is there. he would ash. could approve tit the enviable privileges which piece confers on man? It was a far mere pleasing thine tow a man to be raised to such an eminence from chance, front whence he ceald look upon nentliind and see into the various passions of the }minim heart, than be placed email :111 eminence exposed to the bese arts and the bad passions ot men. and to find, that after lie hail done all that it was in his paver to do, a petty wrung tats raised by those who had the rower in their hands. and his appoint- ment was came:led. and he received the lilackest ingratitude fur his services. Ile was in office Mar yea; s. except ette day ; and, like other men wpm governed the country, he was expected to surrender every thing to his official situation. All this he must have been disposed to endure, to feel the relief of the burden; but there was nothing more pleasing to him than to he relieved from it. like a mate who was about to be released from the fetters and trammels with which he had been confitted. No man could be considered to cutter the house of peace, when be entered the house as a Minister tit the Crown. Judge then of what must have been his feelings when he burst from these cerements, and took his natural position with his countrymen. From all these tram- mels he was now free; end it must be a strong and honourable Government, that would promise meth and were able to accomplish much for the People, to iuducc him to give up his independence. null flutist with any Ministry whatever.

[ We are glad that Lord Brougham is so well pleased to be released from office : as he is satisfied, no one is mortified or sorry. In refer- ence to the remarks on his Scotch dinners and journey, which are merely a repetition of what he has said in other places on the stone subject, we may tell him, that his hurried mountebank exhibitions in the North, were very different from Lord Eldon's annual attendance at the dinner in honour of the memory of his old friend Pitt. But it was not his dining out that was objected to, so much as the sort of stuff he talked so profusely after dinner—his nonsense, repeated ?ague ad nauseam, about " the revered Monarch who lives in the hearts of his people," his writing letters to the King by that night's post, his announcement of the Do-little policy of the Melbourne Ministry, &c.— these were the really offensive passages in Lord Brougham's itinerary last year ; and it is very impudent in him to attempt to give the thing a different twist now.1