The Suffolk Tories and clergymen of the same politics dined
together at Ipswich on Tuesday. About three hundred sat down to dinner, and
it is stated that u buieired more tickets might have been sold. Sir U. Brooke Vere, Lord Henniker, Colonel Broke, Captain Broke, Cap- tain Buckley, Major Anstrather, Major Henniker, Major Turner, the Reverend Dr. Etough, and the Reverend AIessrs. Cook, Edgar, Mills, Tweed, Long, and a long list of parsubs, together with Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, and Mr. Adam Dundas, formed the elite of the company. The toasts were in honour of Church and State, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Eldon, &e. 1Vhen the Duke of Wellington's health was drunk, the reporter of the Times says_ "It would be difficult to express in writing the manner in which this toast was received. All the company started up at once, cheered, hurraed, struck the table, and clashed their glasses. Scarcely were they seated, when a cry of 'One cheer more for the Duke! ' made them rise again awl repeat the former round of applause. The same ceremony was gone through at least six successive times." Sir Robert Peel's health was only "cordially received." " Vollies of groans" were given for the Duke of Bedford, by way of testifying the abhorrence of Church Reform, which Lord John Russell is sup- posed to advocate strongly. " Peals of groans " were also given for Lord Brougham by these choice spirits. The speeches were of the right old 'Tory textute—insolent, and abusive of every thing Liberal. Au address to the King was adopted, in which, to use the expressions of the Times, this "congregation of resolute men, embarked in a great cause and determined to fight for it with unflinching zeal and perseve- rance," ( Well done, Old 7'imes1) renewed their "covenant of alle- giance," and expressed their determination to defend the Royal person, the rights of the Crown, and the integrity of the Constitution in Church and State.
At an agricultural meeting held at Lewes on Tuesday, there was a good deal of sparring between the Reformers and the Tories. Among the gentlemen present, were Sir R. C. Blunt, Mr. H. B. Curteis, Mr. T. It. Kemp, Mr. George R. Dawson, Mr. Mabbott, and seve- ral other Sussex gentlemen. After the business of the day was over, Mr. Mabbott announced that Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson would be the Tory candidate for East Sussex, in opposition to Mr. Corteis. This was the signal for an altercation between Mr. Mabbott and Mr. Cartels. The latter gentleman gave Mr. Mabbott the lie direct, in reference to a statement which he had made, that Mr. Curteis wished to see Lord Durham Premier. Mr. Blackman and Mr. Curteis deli- vered Liberal, and Messrs. Fitzroy and G. R. Dawson high Tory speeches. Mr. Mabbott's prosecution of the Brighton Guardian was thrown in his teeth by Mr. Curteis ; and Mr. Dawson spoke sneer- ingly of Lord Durham, and eulogized the Duke—as it was his part to do.
Addresses to the King, expressive of devotion to his Majesty's per- son and throne, of a determination to uphold the prerogative of the Crown in the choice of Ministers, and of indignation at the spirit of dictation manifested in the attempts 'nuking to obstruct the exerci,e of
that prerogative, are in the course of signature at the fellowieg pliees : Birmingham, Gloucester, Worcester, Tewkesbury, Falmouth, Kwidal, Colchester, and Harwich. Most of them have been very numerously. signed.—C'eurice. [At none of these places have the Tories ventured to encounter the Reformers at a public meeting.]
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