The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-27 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 27, 1852.

A trium
Pbant festivity at Thornbury celebrated the
defeat of the lion. GR
servative candidate for the
BERKELEY as the COD-.
the representation of West
Gloucestershire. "we like
this. It breathes so de-
lightfully of the truest and gentlest
ou entleat spirit of resigna-
tion. If it fails to greet senstes like the aromatic
gales of Araby the Blest, it ia a
ap rate redolent
of the most charming (and
under circumstances,d
really, the most praiseworthy) contentedness.
considerable time past the public has hotness' For a
witnessed a
~ pleasanter illustration of what is know
by the fem.
liar phrase of " Making the best of it." Herel-
been totally _we is
a gentleman who has might
almost venture to say disgracefully—defeated
4
own ground, receiving a piece of plate in th°,phr!
sence of about 500 of his admirers, making a florid
after-dinner oration, and altogether being so tho-
roughly glorified upon the occasion, that one might
have fancied he had carried seven counties, instead of
having lost one division. The plate thus ostenta-
tiously presented to Mr. BERKELEY consisted, ac-
cording to the reporter, of a " magnificent candela-
brum " for the purpose, we map presume,
of reminding the Honourable Gentleman of
" the light of other days " --v, hick light,
by the way, the poet BUNN tells us has faded with
the generality, and has certainly in the instance be-
forevg us gone out altogether. Although the tribute
very as, of course, well meant, it was unquestionably
inopportune.Tle. Occurring as the dinner did at
Precisely I/ the time when Mr. GRANTLEY BERKE-
LEYna not succeeded, it partook rather of the cha-
racter of condolence than of congratulation. Osten-
sibly it
v.rtil
was to resemble the conference of a
laurel
whereas, in
sob upon a political conqueror,
more like the. better serious reality, it looked much
tunate. nowever"al of a guerdon upon the unfor-
were superfluous, not to say
discourteous, to wirirt
best
fettle With persons so amiably dis-
posed to put the
feesoun their discomfiture. We
can only regard the
which took place on
Wednesday at Thornburywi•ties
wuithGloucestershire, with
the feelings of amusement
informs
defeated general.
fail to witness the ovation of some we could not
The Protectionist organ
community
that the proceedings constituted ~'''
most enthusiastic demonstrations of (),,,Tie of the
feeling ever made in the county of Giouc,,etotneare,rivative
shall hear next, of course, of V
Vienna being illuminatedWe
on the anniversary of Austerlitz, and of the eTn
being sung in all the churches of Paris by Wa„, of
Deem
ecquroemorating the great sea-fight off Cape Tra-
falgar.
So that the banquet given to the Hon. GRANTLEY
BEoa4ELEY was " one of the most enthuliastic de-
monstrations
of Conservative feeling ever made in the
county
of Gloucester l" We suppose it was thus
enthusiastic because
Gloucester l"
the Liberal can-
didate,headed the poll for i, W
est
3,528 votes at tfici last general Gloucestershire by
ito was because Mr. HALE, the Conservative candi-
date, who was first in 1847 by four thousand and
odd, was in 1652. only second, with .
7 merely two thou-
sand and upwards of supporters
Or perhaps it was
br.2cause Mr. BERKELEY himself Who
more than 2,700, polled in 18r ,) polled in 1847
s).. very little more than