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

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
arP arranged in order of latitude.
SooTramrrosr—Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—foggy.
I.A.kEsToNE--Wind S. E., light airs—overcast.
lIIIVBRIDGE—Wind N.:E., gentle breeze—overcast.
GREENWICH—Wind E., gentle breeze—overcast.
COLOLIESTER—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast.
C kMBRIDGE— Calm—cloudy.
YaamouTH—Wind W., calm—cloudless.

The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine

o' clock :••••••
MULIMGAR—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
POOLE-.-Strong breeze—partially cloudy.
Lexcesrza—Wind S.W., calm—partially cloudy.
DAMLINGTON—Wind S.S.W., gentle breeze—rain.
SaAp—Wind W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
BRATTOCK—Wind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1862.

A triumphant festivityl4
Its
tt
zT
defeat of the Hon. GR
servative candidate for the li "EELEY as the Con-
representationlt
of West
this.
Gloucestershire. We like t breathes so de-
lightfully of the truest and
gentlests
resigna-
tion. If it fails to greet our senses like
aromatic
e redolent
gales of Araby the Blest, it is at any
rate
of the most charming (and under the circumstances,
really, the most praiseworthy) contentedness.
For
considerable time past the public has not witnessed r a a
pleasanter illustration of what is known by the feral
liar phrase of " Making the best of it." Here is
a gentleman who has been totally—we might
almost venture to say disgracefully—defeated on his
own ground, receiving a piece of plate in the pre-
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. BERIZELEY consisted,
presume,
ac-
scording to the reporter, of a " magnificent candela-
b" ^ for the purpose, we may candela-
brum"l
~
the Of reminding the Honourable Gentleman
light of other days " which lights
by the way, the poet Buss tells us has faded with
the
foreg.se.nerttlity, and has certainly in the instance be-
was, "30 gonet out altogether. Although the tribute
very course,ineppo well meant, it was unquestionably
precisely the Tr. Occurring as the dinner did at
LEY had not succeeded,
when Mr. GRANTLEY BERKE-
ceeded, it partook rather of the cha-
racter of condolenceto than of congratulation. Osten-
sibly it was
laurel wreath resemblexl the conference of a
whereas, in sob" Pa:ra. a political conqueror,
more like the bestowal loTis reality, it looked much
tunate. However, it
wear guerdon upon the unfor-
„Zaperfluous, not to say
discourteous, to quarrel
dis-
posed to put the best face or, their 1"s se amiably
cidiscomfiture. We
can only regard the festivities which
Wednesday at Thornbury, in Gwirjhplace on
uh
stershire, with
took
the feelings of amusement with
which 1
general.
fail to witness the ovation of some defeated
could not
.
The Protectionist organ informs the
that the proceedings constituted one communitya
most enthusiastic demonstrations of Conservatthe
feeling ever made in the county of Gloucester." ,s 7
shall hear next, of course, of Vienna being illuminated
on the anniver3ary of Austerlitz, and of the Te Deum
being snug in all the churches of Paris by way of
commemorating the great sea-fight off Cape Tra-
falgar.

So that the banquet given to the Hun. GRANTLEY.abt!.O de-
BERKELEY Will " one of the most enthil•l
ruonstrations of Conservative feeling ever
made in the
county of Gloucester 1"
~ e suppose it was thus
w
enthusiastic because Mr.KINGSCOTE, the Liberal can-
didite, headed the poll for West Gloucestershire by
:;,528 votes at tliA last general election ? Or perhaps
it. was because Mr. HALE, the Conservative candi-
date, who was first in 1847 by four thousand and
odd, was in 1852 only second, with merely two thou-
sand and upwards of supporters ? Or perhaps it was
because Mr. BanxELEY himself, who polled in 1847
more than 2,70 t, polled in 1852 very little more than'