THE Tories are getting up political dinners is sll parts

of the

country, and filling the columns of their newspap .ts with their vinous eloquence. We hope that the cookery is better than the oratory, and the wine preferable to the wit displayed at their bois- tenons reunions, else we may pity the guests. To give any thing like a regular account of the proceedings at these Tory festivals, would be wearisome, but a few choice bits from the speeches will serve to amuse our readers.

Earl JERMYN presided on the 9th at a dinner of the West

Suffolk Conservative Association, at Bury St. Edmund's. Hero is

a specimen of his Lordship's oratorical powers—

" Ile was unable to fathom the misery and confusion which not only this country, but the whole world would be thrown into, if the venerable fabrics of

anlbables—to discuss the question, and to think of the means by our civil and religious institutions were suffered to be desecrated by the daring

which the thing itself may be either promoted or prevented. footsteps of modern innovation, or assaulted with the parricidal are of self-

measure ? Mr. HUTT has been understood to say that he will How like you that, Sir ROBERT PEEL, who declared for your not vote with Ministers next session unless they make Peer- party, that in future the Government of this country must be eon- age Reform a Cabinet question. Neither he nor any other con- ducted on the principles of the Reform Act ? But the Tories have siderate Reformer has said any such thing. As what he did say thrown oft' that mask. Thus, at the Bury dinner, Mr. BEVAN accurately represents the Radical view of this subject, it deserves said—

attentive consideration. "In the late aspirings of the lower orders for power and privileges, the L•rds

purse—

course of the late session, been saved to the country ! Need I, then, A: who are the true economists?"

" stately ships " and " useless hulks," "tapering beauty " and "mocking waters," " appalling decadence of Whig-Radica!ism," and " Radically-embittered places." In the following passage,

Warwick ? What, conic the opportunity when it may—save, by the by, in

those the

'sounds of fear.

Unpleasing to a Whiggish ear'

We save beard nothing this last seasion of the march of the Manchester and Birmingham masses to overawe the House of Peers. No ! The game is up in that quarter. The cry which bids fair to be most popular there now, is, 'Thank God, we have a House of Peers :' and if Ministers will only oblige our reuse by remaining in office twelve months Ifiger, stranger things have come to pass than that before the expiration of that time the hacknied pledges of free trade, vote by ballot, extended franchise, and other

Gurgons and hydras, and chimeras dire. will be superseded by the constitutional question embodied in our own declara- tion, ' Will you support the privileges of the House of Lords as an independent .branch of the Legislature?'

Here is a man for rousing the masses ! What an inspiriting rally-cry to the hustings is his—" Will you support the privileges of the House of Lords as an independent branch of the Legisla- ture ?"—The Bill, the whole Bill. and nothing but the WI," in 1831, and "Down with the Tories," in 1835, were nothing to it.

Mr. Funerals concluded the (reported) speechification of the evening with a piece of congenial oratory, worthy of a place next

tO IVIr. MACINTYRE'S-

" The fever of Reform has passed away : less than five short years have suf- ficed to lay its noble leaders, whose name; were once ' familiar in our mouths an household words,' in their political graves, front whence no power on earth can raise them. Believe me, gentlemen, the time is fast approaching when the Whig-Radical Ministry will be ((need to the brink of that political preci- pice, a general election ; and then, with the great Irish boa constrictor and his enormous tail, hanging like a millstone round their necks—( Cheers and laugh- ter)--crushing them in his envenomed folds—(Laughter and cheers)—their fall will be like that of Lucifer, never to rise again.' The Conservatives of

England will then hare the matter in their own hands : and I adjure you, as men—not as men only, but as Englishmen—not as Englishmen, but as patriots

—not as patriots, but as fathers—not as fathers, but as Christians—contend earnestly for that pure Protestant faith once delivered to the saints, and to purchase which for you, the mingled blood of martyrs awl of heroes cannot blue been shed in vain."

The Essex Tories scarcely yield the palm of absurdity to their West Suffolk brethren. On Tuesday " a public dinner was pre- sented," as their journals express it, to Mr. GEORGE PALMER, M.P. for South Essex, at Ongar; Mr. Joust ROUND in the chair. Besides Mr. PALMER, the chief guests seem to have been Mr. QHINTIN DICK, HORACE Twiss, and a Dr. BARRETT. The Doctor's discourse will furnish our first extract- " Attempts had been made to undermine the Church, and to make its ministers dependents upon charity, the creatures of popular dictation, corrupted as that ,iudgment which prompted that dictation might be by human iufirmity, and tempered us it might be by human inaccuruey. The clergy of the Church bad unstained lined a reputation at which the shafts of their enemies must rebound weak and ineffective. Their benevolence and their attachment to the interests of so- ciety at large were well known. He knew that in such an assembly it was un- cureassary for him to dwell upon this topic. Was there any other institution 111Polintarily supported for which they would give up the Church ? (" Hear !" antsF" No!") The property of the Church had not been taken from another, es had been fidstly stated, but it was the property of a church which was Protestant when it was founded; and this had been satisfactorily proved by the pen of a gentleman who resided amongst them (Mr. tioames)." Pray, Dr. BARRETT, has " human infirmity" and " human 4raccoracy" nothing to do with the appointment of the clergy of the Established Church ? are the Dissenting clergy less repu- table and useful ministers of the gospel than the fox-hunting pluralists who crowd to Tory dinners? Mr. BRAMSTON wished that he was possessed of " that extra- ordinary gift of eloquence which was so rarely bestowed ;" but, though assuredly not thus gifted, Mr. BRAMSTON contrived to tickle the ears of the company with abuse of O'CONNELL and igjeriffeation of the House of Peers- " Fortunately there did exist another !louse of wise, honourable, independent, sod able statesmen—men who were not influenced by the taunts or threats of tier Agitator, but considered them as the idle wind and the stubble beneath **is feet- ( Cheers.) Men who had privileges, not for their own good but for the wed of the country, and which stood as a barrier between the Monarchical constitution of this country and the principles of Republicanism."

mx IhiLMER had the assurance to reproach the Whigs with the • Mror-law, and insinuate that the Tories were opposed to it— "took at the Pourdaw Act. Before that Act, the Overseers were respon- ;lade to the laws of the country, but now they were to be under the sole coin- unmet of the Commissioners. Would any Conservative Government ever have proposed a measure, or would any Member of the House have dared to propose *bill, for the separation of man and wife, parents and children ? (" No, not") Would any man have dared to bring in a bill to lock up persons who lied' become poor in continual confinement, to pine away in solitude and misery ?" Mr. PALMER, as a Member of the House of Commons, must lace known, and it is not credible that any person present could be ignorant of, the fact that Sir ROBERT PEEL in the house of Commons and the Duke of WELLINGTON in the Lords, and the great body of the Tories in both Houses, were the supporters of ilte new Poor-law: and now these men have the meanness to pre- tend that She Tories never would have proposed such a measure. Then, why did they vote for, instead of opposing it ? Why, even ssaw..do the leaders of the party declare their satisfaction with the manner in which it has werked? In the records of party warfare them is nothing to be found more contemptibly dishonest than this attempt to turn to account any unpopularity which the Whigs may labour under on account of their Poor-law. floaseE Twiss was the principal performer at the Ongar dinner; het we are sorry to say that his absurdity was so dull that scarcely any quotable matter !can be found in his long-winded harangue. The following attempt at pathos, however, is worth preserving. Reader, prepare your white handkerchief !—

Last, and worst, and wickedest, was the attempt at the spoliation of the Choush; and it was also the most notable of the failures of the Government.

To break in upon the Church, was to break in upon the beet and most cherished feelings of the people. With it are connected our holiest associations here and our highest hopes hereafter. There we have sorrowed over the burial of our parents ; there we have rejoiced in the baptism of our children ; there we have contracted the tenderest and most lasting obligations that can bind us on earth ; and there, on each returning Sabbath, we have renewed our communion with Heaven."

" Hip, hip, hurra ! " with clashing of glasses, kicking of chairs, and thumping of tables, testified the powerful effect of HORACE'S eloquence on the sensitive and heavenly-minded men of Essex. Mr. PRAED, having cut Yarmouth, for reasons known to him- self, and-we dare say satisfactory to his constituents in that place, has been offering his services to the electors of Aylesbury, in consequence of the expected retirement of Colonel HANMER. Unhappily, there is little more than a bare notice of the meeting; for we dare say that the speeches would have supplied us with additions to our cento of Tory absurdities. The catalogue, how- ever, is pretty full as it stands, for one week. There is something melancholy as well as ludicrous in these Tory exhibitions. They prove that the country gentlemen of England—men who can influence the electors so powerfully— are, as a class, the same bigoted, violent, and ignorant partisans, who for so many y cars, reckless of reason, justice, and the com- plaints of the People, supported the PITT and CASTLEREAGH system of plunder at home and bloodshed abroad. Should this party by any means recover their old ascendancy in the House of Commons, it is plain that we should have the old game played over again: at any rate they would attempt it, and probably with partial success. The cheat of "Conformity" is completely abandoned. Hatred of Reform, and triumphant rejoicing that the reign of Toryism without alloy is in prospect, are conspicuous in every speech. The designs and expectations of the party are now stripped of all disguise. It will be the duty of the Reformers to combine steinFly to defeat them.