The North Staffordshire Conservatives had a grand muster at Stone

on Tuesday. A handsome pavilion, capable of holding 500 persons, and which had been erected for the occasion, was completely filled. Lnrd Ingestrie tonic the chair. The principal speakers were his Lord. ship. Mr. W'. Bingham Baring, Lord St. Vincent, and the Reverend Mr. Hatfield. The conduct of Ministers during the last sessiou was the chief topic of animadversion. Mr. Baring touched upon free-trade and the " agricultural interest "— The Administration of the day wished to ruin the farmer by the wholerale adoption of free-trade: now let him ask if it were possible or honest to suppose that the Euglish agriculturist, and the English manufacturer, who bad heavy and great taxes to pay, could compete with those of foreign countries who were called upon for no such payments, or at least, if at ill, to an extent which wai but trifling compared midi the taxes required to be paid in England. Thee let any num reflect, and say if it were possible they could coexist ; and the answer would be at once sufficient to do away the fanciful and theoretical idea, for such it was, of free-trade.

[Pretty well this for a Bingham and a Baring.]

The members of the Macclesfield Conservative Association held their annual meeting on Monday last. Many of the leading Cheshire Tories were present ; and the absence of Sir Francis Burdett, who had been

expected, was " deplored." The orators at this meeting spoke with bitter contempt of the Queen's Ministers. Mr. Tatton Egerton, DIP., said— It was impossible fur him to look around him without seeing just cause of alarm. In this state of things, he would ask them, to whom could they look

for rescue from impending danger ? Could they look to their Sovereign? lie

denied that lie, that meeting, or the Conservative party, had the slightest par- ticle of disloyelty„in their bosoms: they had just enthusiastically sung " Gal

save the Queen ; but they had good reason to know that the Queen was surrounded by evil counsellors, and he feared that she knew not, nor was she allowed to know, the wishes or wants of her people. He would ask them,

could they look to her Majesty's Ministers for rescue ? (" No1") Bid not Lord Melbourne, in the House of Lords, on the Jamaica question, with hii majority of five, candidly admit that they were incapable of carryine.on the

government for the benefit of the country ? After this confession oemeapa. city, had they not seen them resign office, and again take it, under circum- stances more disgraceful than lute' before recorded in British history ? Since then they had attempted nothing forthe good. of the country, nor effected any

thing beet the drawing of their quarter's salary. They had passed no measure, nor had they (meow-belted one desirable object, but through the aid of the

Conservatives. Notwithstanding all this, they shirk to their places like bar- necks on a ship's bottom, which never left the vessel while a plank remained. These were the men into whose hands the destinies of England were intrusted:

Mr. Grimsditch, M.P. for Macclesfield, alluded to Mr. Shell's appoint- ment to the Board of Trade— He lead perceived that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at a dinner at Portsmonth, designated the present as a new Government. Now, Mr. Grime- ditch was at a loss to know what he meant by a 71C10 GOITIRRIellt. There cer- tainly was a new feature in it, for they had taken into the ranks two Roman Catholics, who had been added to the Privy Council. °Ile of the new fea- tures was exceedingly astonishing ; it was that of putting an Irish barrister to look after the athure of trade olthis great cointnercial kingdom. The Mac- clesfield manufacturer must consider it an insult to his understanding if told that Mr. Shell knew any Wog of the silk trade, and the sauce with any other branch, The new appointments had these new features ; and again he was convinced, they would prove " another heavy bluw and great discouragement to Protestantism."

At a recent Tory naceting in Canterbury, Mr. Bradshaw, M.P. for that city, delivered a speech which has excited much attention. The following are some of the most remarkable passages— "Thee Queen thinks that if the monarchy lasts her time, it is enough: but thee people of England will never consent that the crown should be degraded and debased for the inglorious ease of any created being. We have not for- gotten the forced abdication of the Second James ; nor are we ignorant that the titheto the throne of these realms is that derived from a Protestant Prin- cess. Look at the appointments that these men and women have lately made. There is not one of them that is not a direct insult to the nation. See the Irish Papists preferred to place, to power, and to patronage. I shall take leave, on thus referring to them, to contrast the solemn oath aurora by her Ma- jesty at her coronation with her subsequent aqui eacence in these acts. (Cheers.) The Prime Minister tells us with rare effrontery, that it is his duty to get sup- port wherever lie can. Nothing is too low or too foul for his purpose. The stewe of the Tower Hamlets and the bogs of Ireland are ransacked for recruits; and thus he crawls on, having cast behind him every feeline of honour and high principle. But his Ministry, his sheet-anchor' is thee hotlyof Irish Papists and Rapparees whom the priests return to the House of Commons. These are the men who represent the bigoted savi■gee, hardly more civilized than the natives of New Zealand, but animated with a fierce, undying hatred of Eng. land. I repeat then, deliberately, that the Papiets of Wand, priest and lop

num, peer and peasant, are alike our enemies—aliens are they in blood, langunge,.and religion. Their hatred of this country is as undisguised as it is inextinguishable, and they have become only more rampant and hostile by the concessions so unadvisedly made to them. Yet on these men are bestowed the countenance and support of the Queen of Protestant England. But, alas her Majesty is Queen only ofa faction, and is as much of a partisan as the Lord Chancellor himself.

But shall we quail at this impending danger, and meanly submit without a straggle? No; we will present the same bold front as did our fathers of old; am! God defend the right. We will resist to the death ill government, and un- justly usurped authority. We will no longer submit to be governed by a

profligate Court. It is in your hand i s, my friends—it s in the hands of the people of England—that her destilies are placed for good or for evil. Upon you then be the responsibility. You have the power, see that you make worthy use of it ; but if you will not be true to yourselves, dare not ever again to in- voke the sacred name of liberty, and renounce the proud name of freemen of England."

Another great Tory meeting was held at Bridgewater, on Monday. Mr. Escott, one of the principal speakers, lamented the want of an efficient leader of the Conservative party— He would say to the Conservatives around him, that they were engaged in no slight work. What they wanted was action ; what they wanted was energy; what they wanted was some man to lead on time on,i,nt spirit of Rog- land. They had such men betbre, and he trusted that they might see seek again. He did not know suck a man ; he tatred he did not now exist amongst than; but the times gave energies to those who never possessed them hetbre. They wanted such a man, born in a proper station, endowed Iv notary with seilicient talent and courage to lead the nation's mind in defimve of the ancient hisiitutions of the land.

[How you like that, Sir Robert Peel Between two and three kindred Conservatives of Asliton-uuder- Lyne, had a public dinner on Wednesday.