The political dinners of the Parliamentary recess have begun at
Sheffield, with a very miscellaneous gathering to honour the Master Cutler's inauguration. The company was of all sorts, from the Duke of Newcastle to Mr. Ward. Two great "prin- ciples" were enunciated. Mr. Ward claimed credit for the present Ministry as spending money gloriously on the construc- tion of defensive naval works, and as saving money with equal glory : the fact being, that they do neither, except so far as is necessary for appearEncs. The other principle was that of fraternal amity betwcen the several classes of society, enun- ciated by the Earl of Yarborough and Lord Edward Howard : Lord Yarborough boasted that intercourse between the several classes of society is closer in this country than it is abroad ; and he imputed the convulsed state of Europe to the neglect of follow- ing our example: the fact being, that social classes are more wide- ly separated here, more constrained and cold towards each other, than in any country South of the Vistula or %Vest of the Adriatic. Lord Yarborough means well; but he must take a fresh start if he would win the race with other countries in social amity—that is not the forte of England.
