The Standard, to-night, with great pomp, announces a Conservative Festival
at Birmingham, yesterday—the " most numerously attended of the year." The Standard, enlarging on the report of its Birming- ham correspondent, (which states the number at nearly three thousand), says that four thousand persons, "animated with the noblest enthu- siasm," were present at the dinner—or rather dinners ; for, being shut out of the Town-hall, which is undergoing repairs, the Tories dined separately in several public-houses. The principal persons at this scattered feed were Lord BRADFORD, a very distinguished nobleman, as all must allow, though few know who he is or where he lives, and Messrs. WHATELEY arid GEM, respectable attornies. The account of the proceedings at the multiplied dinners occupies, in the columns of the Standard, just the same space as the report of an entertainment to Irish Solicitor-General, Mr. WOULFE, at Cashel; for which bo- ugh Mr. WOULFE is sure of his return, while it would puzzle any Tories to get a seat for Birmingham. It is quite droll to observe the Standard's speculations as to the desperate state of ATTWO0D and BCHOLEF1ELD, in consequence of this Tory "blow out," or, as our contemporary calls it, "manifestation "of the Tories in Birmingham.
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