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Mr. Cresswell met a large body of his constituents in Liverpool on Friday last week. He congratulated them on the result of the session just concluded. He thought that the Conservatives had ample cause for congratulation—
After a long, a laborious session, no inroads had been made on the constitutioa
by its avowed or concealed enemies, or both combined. Yet they bad Rens blinistry composed of what were called .• squerzable" materials. They bad seen them acted upon by Radical squeezers, and they had seen them wincing mu der that operation; but, thanks to the Conservative party in that flimse, their institutions were unimpaired ; and though the friends and supporters of the Administration, they—without whom the Administration could not exist—wen now exciting agitation bordering on 'amnion through the empire, he naiad the same means to preserve the constitution would be adopted, and that at the end of another session they should have the same subject of congiatulatioa. Let him point out to them a short description of the state of parties, from paper which was extremely clever but not very favourable to the Conservative party, and if that paper admitted the Conservative strength, they might well congratulate the country. That paper (the Spectator) said, " The summary of Plarliamentary performances and omissions, lecording the manner in which each question had been treated, suggests reflections on the state of parties and of public feeling, lo an often remembeteil anti once gtievously vituperated paper of ours, now a twelvemonth old,"--and th.rt was written about the time of the last election, when Conservatism triutnphed here,—" it was predicted that the session which has just emoted would exhibit Conservatistn in the ascendant. We warned the reader that there would be a Government of Tory prin. ciples and practice, whatever the profess' itriy Ire—a Government, of whit. ever men composed, decidedly Conservative of the present franchie—nf the present plan of open voting under bribery and intimidation—of the Peer. age as it la, and the Church as it is. The prediction has been but too tom. pletely verified." Yes. he was proud to say, it had been gloriously vet ified. And it had been happily verified. Yes, thanks to the admirable and talented leaden of their own party, the Conservatives had been kept 1111114 unanimously together, and they had succeeded in repelling the attneks on the Parliamentary franchise by the wild schemes of the universal surf' age advoeates and the abominable proposal of vote by ballot, which would make Englishmen shriek firm' avowing their own sentiments—which would make their lives a lie; Ina they had succeeded in maintaining their plivileges in all their integrity. if their enemies admitted that they had thus succeeded, it should animate the British electors to support their representatives in defending the institutions of the country, that the same success might be continued. But were Ministers to be thanked for what they had done ? By nc means— What had been their career throughout the session ? Why, they had scarcely settled the revenue of their gracious Queen before the news arrived, that in the Canadair the weakness of the Government had encouraged agitation until it bad burst into rebellion ; and the first public act of the tweeion was, to serpentl the constitution of that country, and to send out a dictator. And how did the see slim close? With a bill of indemnity to that dictator for the excesses he had committed beyond the law. Such was their love of liberty. But bow Lad they dealt with tithes? How had they dealt with the Church? After obtain. ing office by pledges they made as to the settlement of the Irish Church spew lion, involving the spoliation of the Chtuch, to keep their places, they la"' cloned the principle, and east it out of their bill. And on the other hand, the squeeze being applied to them by the eneinie• of the Church who had not ob- tained the plunder beeause they could not get it, they now, to retain some of their old supportets, gave them civil speeches, sat ing, " We think we ought to give you this Church property, but we cannot get it for you." They had ogrtsl to adopt measures lest their rejection should compel them to leave suffice; an • to gratify the Radicals, they pledged theinselves to plunder the Church tbe first opportunity. The Conservatives, then, had succeedril in preseryang the Irish Church ; and though there were no thanks to the Ministry for it, itWa by a Ministerial bill that that result was obtained.
More speeches were delivered at this meeting, but do not requir. notice.
The o operative Conservatives of West Bromwich" celebrated the 141--y of Lord Lewisham, eldest son of Lord Dartmouth, on Mon- :daft dining together in a large vacant piece of ground, called the "4-"aillr i" Acres," walled in by Lord Dartmouth, and given by his Lord. 1-ah a place of amusement to the working classes of the community. ship 500 operatives were present ; and the chair was taken by Mr. Thomas Williams, a large iron-master. The chief speaker was Mr. sawler, &young man in the employ of Messrs. Bagnall. He talked in ,ad set terms about Magna Cbarta, the patriotic Barons, and their ;ally patriotic descendants who flourish at the present day. He sailed at Radical Dissenters, who in former times had murdered Arch- bisaops, and are ready now to pull down the Church. Democrats ejected seven thousand clergymen from the livings, and had killed Charles tbe First ; and they were now ready to introduce Popish darkness in the place of the ever blessed light of the Gospel. All this eloquence was vociferously applauded by the assembly. After dinner, there was a tea drinking party. The festivities are described by the Birmingham Advertiser.... " At five o'clock, the wives and daughters of the operatives were entertained a tea upon the green ; and afterwards, and indeed during the whole time, &gag, in various parties, was kept up with great spirit. No distinctions were made, bat all appeared of one family.: master and man—mistress and servaat—lasses and lads, of all ranks and station were mixed in the same dance. At one period of the iestivities, a balloon was discharged from the gt ound ; and made a very pretty decent, taking the ditection of Aston. These and other Nudes of rejoicing were kept up until dark ; when the whole party, at the con- clusion of a most agreeable day, retired to their respective homes in quiet and goal order." According to Tory accounts, an attempt made on Monday by Messrs. Salt, Douglas, and another gentleman from Birmingham, to get up a demonstration at Kidderminster in favour of the National Petition, utterly failed ; ns the Tories mustered in superior force, and passed counter-resolutions. The Birmingham Advertiser says that the Mayor threatened to order the Birminghatn agitators into custody, if they per- aisted in making speeches to the people.
An attempt to impose a Church-rate on the inhabitants of Wolver- hampton has been defeated, by an overwhelming majority of 2,300 to 500. The opponents of the rate had good ground for their resistance, inasmuch as the whole town of Wolverhampton is injured by the Church property, which interferes with improvements ; while thou- sands are annually abstracted from it to pay a Dean and dignitaries, who never put foot in the place. This abuse has existed for two cell. tunes, but it is only now that the people have begun to resent it.
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