The North and South Warwickshire Tories have been in motion
this week. The former gave a dinner on Wednesday, at Coleshill, to both their Members ; but Sir Eardly Wilmot would not attend. flowerer, his health was drunk, and be was praised for his honesty, and as a good Chairman of the Quarter-sessions. ilr. Dugdale re- turned thanks, in a long but stupid speech : he seems to have been out of spirits, and by no means to anticipate a Tory triumph. A success. ful,resistance to Radical assaults is the utmost he looks for ; and be bids his party not to despair.
Parliament wal•agaiu about to meet, and no doubt fresh assaults would be committed upon the ancieut institutions of the country. Let them, however, not despair. They had in the House of Commons three hundred Conservative Members, with Sit Robert Peel at their bead. They had a large majority in th House of Lords ; and above all, they had a Protestant King. He hoped, therefore, they had nothing to fear for the Constitution ; but if a dissolution did come—and some people thought it would probably take place in the spring —Ate hoped the Comervative electors throughout the kingdom would exert themselves to return a majority to the House of Cumtnons coinciding with the House of Lords and the King. He for one, with their assistance, was not afraid of a disiulution. He trusted, however, that the electors of Warwick- shire would be at their posts, and that their example would be followed by all the Conservatives in the kingdom.
This, we think, is sufficiently flat.
The South Warwickshire Tories bad their dinner on Thursday, at Stratford ; but they also must have been " in the dumps." Mr. Shirley and Sir John Mordaunt, the two Members fur the Southern Divi- sion of the County, delivered themselves of a quantity of moderate Toryism ; and Sir John essayed to refute Mr. Grote on the Ballot. As this is the only piece of argument the report of the proceedings supplies, and as it seems to have been considered an admirable hit by the company, we extract from the Times report this spechnen of a Warwickshire Tory's logical proficiency- " At a meeting of the Radicals held at Drury Lane Theatre the other even. ing, he found Mr. Grote had made use of certain observations which he thought worthy of notice, emanating as they did from a reflecting man. Mr. Grote had asked whether any man could wonder that the country should cry louder and louder every day for the vote by ballot, when Tory landlords, in their spseches null then papers, meached loudly the doctrine of exclusive deal- ing, and when they complained openly and undisguisedly, ou the house-top and in the Lee of day, Of the wrong they sustained in being robbed of their tenants' eotes,--as if the votes were nothing more than a ti ibute of homage or mice front a serf to his lord, or a slave to his master? Ile also asked, ' if every contested election did not leave behind it a track of suffering and sacrifice, the more deplorable became it fell upon the most high- minded and conscientious of the whole of the electoral body ?' Ile (Sir John Mordaunt) could only say with regard to these observations, that they would answer themselves ; but he would lust say, that if the Radicals should be enabled to carry this measure into etlect, the eouutry would be subject to a state of political tyranny which had neva been experieoced in any of the contested elections they had hithetto been happy enough to be connected with. ( Tremendous cheeriny.)"
Sir John Morduunt doubtleti drank his wine under the impression that he bad given poor Mr. Grote and the Ballot a knock-down blow. And this gentleman is a legislator !
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