28 JANUARY 1837, Page 6

At Winchester, yesterday, the Hampshire Tories dined. From the report

of the proceedings received "by express," and published in the Peat this morning, we should imagine that it was a miserably dull affair. For some days past a paragraph has been going the round of the Tory papers, that "110 fewer than one hundred and eight noblemen were to be stewards of the Winchester dinner; " but, after all, Lord Ashburton, the youngest Tory Peer, as the old gentleman described him- self, was the only one present to return thanks for the House of Lords. The Marquis of Douro was. the great gun of the evening ; but he seems to be of rather small calibre, and not over-abundantly charged. One of the toasts—a doleful one—was "the Conservative minority in the House of Commons."