The Tories had a " manifestation " at Devonport on
the 4th instant. Mr. Dawson (" Peel and Dawson crew" Dawson) was the great man of the day. He arrived on the 2d, and spent the intervening period in canvassing the electors, and preparing for what we have no doubt will be another defeat at the next general election. Friday last was chosen because it was the anniversary of the landing of William the third, and not of course by way of reminding Mr. Dawson of his apostacy from Orangeism, which the "Derry Boys" have not forgotten. Lord Eliot, Lord Valletort, Mr. E. M. Parker, and Sir John Yarde Bul- ler, delivered stupid speeches at the Dawson dinner : and we cannot say much for the performance of the hero himself. He seemed parti- cularly anxious to assure the company that the Tories would not repeal the Catholic or Reform Act-- They must expect that the members of associations would be assailed through- out the country; their enemies would use falsehood to misrepresent them ; but by the declarations of intelligent men contained in a few words, with deter- mined spirit, the Association might answer calumnies by saying they had no design of undoing what had been done. No whisper had been heard among them of any design to wrest from them their new franchises—grants made to them by the King, Lords, and Commons; Roman Catholics need not fear any loss of their privileges; Dissenters bad no reason to be alarmed for their newly- granted rights; nor the new boroughs to dread any change from the Conserva- tives, now their charters had become the law of the land. Great changes had been made in the government of the country within a few years ; but it be- longed to another and a higher power to say whether the change was for good or evil. Ile thought it the duty of a wise man to bow to the wisdom of the Legislature, and he defied any person to show that they had ever attempted to undo what had been done.
The union between Whigs and Radicals must proance revolution— I Look at that union : the Whigs love place, the Radicals love change ; aud • it will last as long as the Radicals allow the wretched Whigs to continue in office. Thus the Radicals may make the Whigs overturn every part of our Constitution. The Whigs must identify themselves whit the Radicals, or go out of office. These were the declared terms of O'Connell for the support of the Melbourne Ministry—Universal Suffrage, Repeal of the Septennial Act, and
an organic change in the House of Lords. In vain the Whigs say, we cannot perform what you wish. O'Connell consigns them to death ; but he does not destroy the Constitution at one blow—he stretches his victim upon the wheel, and tears it piecemeal. Let us ask, if the country were delivered up to the agi- tators, what would be the consequence? Protestant property would he confis- cated ; England would be given up to political dissensions there would be an universal licence in religion ; and the country, sunk in discordant' anarchy, would be as low in her adversity as she has been high in the brightest scene of her prosperity. There were about five hundred persons present at the dinner.
A large party of Cheshire and Welsh Whigs attended Mr. E. L. Mostyn's dinner at Holywell on the 31st ultimo. The speeches were of a very Whiggish description, especially that of Mr. George Wil- braham, Member for South Cheshire.
Mr. Carteret Ellis, of Albion Street, Hyde Park, has offered him- self as a candidate for West Cornwall. He professes Radical principles. There was a " Protestant" meeting at Liverpool on Tuesday, at which Mortimer O'Sullivan and Mr. M'Neill abused the Catholics, in the usual strain. O'Sullivan laboured to do away with the effect of the M'Ghee forgery, which is a constant nettle in their path, stinging them wherever they go.
Each of the stewards of the late Worcester music meeting, it seems, incurred a loss of 621., the gross expenditure having exceeded the receipts by nearly 10001.
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