The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-20 00:00:00

lASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Duke of Ru'and, in Bolton-row, from Belvoir Castle ;
- "Ike of Devonshire and Mr. George Cavendish, M.P., at
Devonshire House, from Chatsworth ; the Duke of Leeds, in
" James's-s ' ware f m Hornb Castle, Yorkshire ; the Earl
rid c q TC, CO
the E Ountess Grenville, at Devonshire House, from Paris;
arl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Chesterfield House,
Sark the seat of the Earl of Litchfield ; Count Survillicrs,
ietrk-ereseent, Portland-place, from a tour ; Lady Dudley
ivart in Wilton-crescent; Lady Honeywood in Portland-
La" ; the Earl of Shelburne, at Lansdowne House, from
I.r/(7);_/ood Park ; the United States Minister and Mr. Henry
f I"fr in Portland-place ; Lord Seaford, in Audley-square,
rom Kent ; Viscount and Viscountess Sydney from a tour;
%t°r4 find Lady Gardner, at Lord Dinorben's in South Audley-
reet, from Melton Mowbray ; Mr. Nathaniel Edmonstone in
ertiand-place ; Mr. and Mrs. Meynell, in Gloucester-place,
N....-°O4ll Paris ; Sir Richard Paul Jodth-ell, Bart., from Paris ;
ofiirtenel and Mrs. Elwyn, in Grosvenor-place, from York-
M e; Captain Cotton, in Arlington-street, from Plymouth;
str• Charles Elliott in Portland-place ; Lieut.-Col. Scott, on
George's-terrace, from Paris; Mr. Charles Mundy in
park-crescent; Mr. and Mrs. Heathcote, in Piccadilly, from
Itkti°llr ; Captain Hill, in Albemarle-street, from Paris; Lady
street in Park-crescent ; Mr. and Mrs. 'Metcalfe, in Hertford-
p.":", Mayfair, from Paris Countess Saint Germains in
o:rk-ereseent ; the Hon. Thomas Grenville in Cleveland-
; the Earl of Sheffield in Portland-place; Captain and
1)a Bon. Mr. Marlyn in Albemarle-street ; Lord and Lady
444a5. in Arlington-street, from their seat, Aske Hall, Rich-
"cl,cl, Yorkshire ; the Archbishop of York, in Grosvenor-
soillare, from Bishopstlmipe, Yorkshire ; Lord and Lady Mon-
tpg.:'e, in Hamilton-place, from Scotland ; the Earl and Conn-
-6- (-1 Radnor, Lord Folkestone, and Lady Jane Bouverie, in
t°s-venor-street, from Longford Castle, near Salisbury ; Sir
let, .Pben Glynn, Bart., M. P., at the Carlton Hotel, from his
Flintshire ; the Marquis of Granby, at ditto, from
d4colashire ; Mr. C. Codrington, in York-place, from Dod-
wingtno Park, fidoucestershire ; Lord William Bentinck,
at Vernon House, from Paris ; J. Bailey, Esq., M.P.,
f V. James'street, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
L'
.Deaufort, at Badminton, Gloucestershire ; R .Townley,
t 4.1" hi. ,in Conduit-street, from Fulbourn, Cambridge-
ti ; Lord Fitzalan, M. P., at Hyde Park-corner, from
lLit-
free 4MPt°ll, SUM ; the Earl of Euston, in GrosvenoNr-p acr,
to-rrnit Ruston Hall, Thetford, Norfolk ; Mr. Maclean,.hl.P.,
in
I3erkelr-square, from Oxfordshire ; Viscount Vi ers, in
the eY-square, from Middleton Park, Bicester, Oxfordshire ;
Ilerr all of Verulam, in Grosvenor-square, from Gorhambury,
Heo-3; Sir William Pole, Bart., at Hill's Hotel, from Gey's
Potel:finear Nlaidenhead ; Lord Macdonald, at Mivart's
• ern a 1.1,1 r to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at

the- ,er 'Majesty and the Court have fixed Tuesday,
28th inst" to to Windsor Castle for the season.
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n-e r vyaLlarin was visited yesterday by the Russian
juusador Count Pozzo di Borgia, and Count Ludolf.
n the
St G "ening General Sablenkoff dined with his Highness,
91.11 d's Hotel, Albemarle-street.
114seirs
viscount Palmerston was absent from Lord John
.41111 Parliamentary Dinner, owing to the domestic ea-
'tY Which his Lordildp has sustained.
th The
Earl and Countess of Jersey will not commence
dinner parties and soirees until Easter, which will fall
otis Year in March. Middleton Park and its mansion have
continued to receive select parties of the nobility, in sue-
°n, during the last three months.
Lollohe Earl of Howth arrived on Saturday last at the
n Hotel, from the Continent.
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he
iron Duke of Northumberland has arrived in town
4ro Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, to take his. oaths
u seat in the House of Lords.
arriThe
'Juke of buceleuc and
Ithe Earl of Selkirk
fro,2..ed at Montague House, Privy-gardens, on Friday,
iq , brurnlanrio• Castle, Dumfrieshire, to take their scats
the Ho.use r
of Peers.
e Earl and Countess of Granville arrived at
eorricinshire House on Saturday afternoon, from Paris, ae-
tarj44ied by the Hon. F. Leveson Gower. The Noble
Lorlssitortly after his arrival, proceeded to the House of
V;, to take his oaths and his seat.
Bth,
Brabazon, the eldest son of the Earl of
ter a is about to be married to Miss Brooke, the daugh-
o`i!
8. sir R. Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory, Cheshire.
William Pole, Bart., has arrived from Gey's
Spri e' near MAidenhead, at Hill's Hotel, New-street,
carg,,rderis.
actaeus, with al its splendid preparations, will
to ::;!!3'ed at half-price this evening, at Drury-lane Theatre
"C due support to Mr. Otway, who arpears in Hamlet

WEST KENT REFORMERS-DiNNER

TO T. L. HODGES, ESQ., M.P.

On Saturday evening the Reformers residing in the Black-
heath district entertained at a public dinner their patriotic
representative, Thomas Law Hodges, Esq., M.P. The
dinner, which was intended to celebrate the triumph of the
West Kent Reformers at the recent election, was also made
the celebration of Mr. Hodges's return for the fifth time to
Parliament. There could not, we suppose, be less than 180
gentlemen present at.the dinner, which took place at the
Mitre Tavern, Greenwich. Joseph Jackson, Esq., pre-
sided as chairman ; he was supported by Lord Nugent, the
Hon. T. Fiennes (son of Lord Saye and Sele) ; E. G. Bar-
nard, Esq., M.P. ; George Pryme, Esq., M.P. ; Thos.
Hobhouse, Esq., M.P.: Charles Harwood, Esq. ; Colonel
Faed, D. Barnard, jun., Esq. ; G. W. Norman, Esq. ;
George Page, Esq. ; Ch. Perkins, Esq. ; Josiah Hargrave,
Esq. ; Captain Bags ; George Smith, Esq., &c. &c. &e.
We also observed in the room Mr. 0. Holmes, and several
other gentlemen who had materially served the Liberal
cause by their active and zealous attendance at the regis-
tration courts.

Upon the cloth being removed, the CHAIRMAN, after
proposing the usual toasts, gave—
" Lord Melbourne and her Majesty's Ministers, and may
they long continue to be so !"—(Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN said he had next to propose to them the
health of Thomas Law-Hodges, Esq., the representative of
the Western Division Of that County.—(Hear, hear.) If
ever there was a time in which all men, particularly Re-
formers, should be united together for the purpose of sup-
porting and encouraging all honest men who were their re-
presentatives, that time had now arrived. It was certainly
their duty to take care of such a representative when they
had got him—such as they had then before them ; and it
was because they all knew his virtues, that they were now
advised to stand forward as his firm supporters.:—(Cheers.)
They ought to do this, because they knew how firmly, faith-
fully, and honestly Mr. Hodges had served them in the last
five Parliaments.—(Cheers.) The only instance in which
he had ever heard of a complaint being made against his
honourable and worthy friend was upon the occasion of the
lust election. In the course of his canvass he met with a
gentleman from whom he asked a vote for Mr. Hodges.
'The answer of that gentleman was, " I'll not vote for Mr.
Hodges ; I'll vote for Sir Edmund Filmer." He asked
him (the gentleman) why he refused to vote for Mr.
Hodges ? and the answer was, that " he never could find
Mr. Hodges any where but in the House of Commons"—
(Loud cheers.) He believed that the gentleman on that
occasion spoke what he felt. He considered it to be a
grievance that he could not find Mr. Hodges out of the
House of Commons, while, perhaps, if he wished to play a
game of cricket, he calculated he might discover some
other representative at home—(Laughter).—He begged
then to propose to them " Their worthy and honest repre-
sentative, Thomas Law Hodges, Esq."
Mr. HODGES, M. P., rose, amidst enthusiastic cheering
from all parts of the room, to return thanks. The present
occasion, as their excellent Chairman had stated, was in-
tended to celebrate their triumph at the late election
for the western division of the county—(Hear, hear)—and
a great triumph it was.—(Cheers.) It was the triumph of
mind over money—of principle over unfair influence.
When they were about to enter upon that conflict the array
against them was most formidable. He had heard (but it
might have been a mere rumour) that the sinews of war
had been collected to a large amount upon the other side,
and he was perfectly well aware that if the battle was to
be fought successfully, it could only be through the indivi-
dual exertions of the men of Kent—of the men of Kent,
whom he had never yet known to fail. He wished them
now to look at the state of affairs as they were presented to
them. He could not regard the dispute now going on as
a dispute between two political parties. He had long re-
fused to enter into Parliament, and he so refused at a time
when he felt that little good could be done ; but he yielded
to the call made upon him when he saw a political crisis
arise—he yielded to it when the time had come that the
people of England were called upon to interfere in their own
affairs—when the people of England were necessarily called
upon to vindicate before the world the advantages of the
education they had received—of the political institutions
they inherited—and of the patriotism they possessed—
to check the progress of pestilent principles, which had
well nigh involved them all in one common ruin.—
( Loud cheering.) The Press upon the other side—the
Tories—were treating this as a mere party matter ; they
would not, indeed, confess this ; yet the effort was made by
them to treat it as a party matter ; but the people of Eng-
land saw—and would to God they had seen it earlier ! and
that they had not become wise when it was almost too late
—that the Government and the interests of the people should
be identical ; they wished to verify the maxim that " Go-
vernments
are made for the people, and not people for Go-
vernments."—(Hear, beef.) Knowing this, then, it was
impossible for them not to be disgusted with what they had
read lately from writers upon the other side ; they could
not but be disgusted with the tone of exhortation to the
public which the press upon the other side had adopted.—
(Hear.) They were now for calling it a 'religious question.
—(Hear.) A religious question ?—(Cheers.) Why, he
asked the gentlemen present, could there be hypocrisy mere
base than that ?—(Cheers.) What was it that had spread
crime in this country ? What had made men irreligious ?
Why the acts of the former Governments of this country—
the acts of such Governments for many years past—to them
they were indebted for existing immorality and vice. It was
they who had filled their gaols with criminals, and stained
with guilt the name of Englishmen.—(Cheers.) He remem-
bered that in the quarter sessions of their county the
numbers of persons on the calender were not more than
six or seven ; and afterwards he, as chairman of the quar-
ter session, had a calendarkeresented to him frequently with
the names of 100 prisoners ; and this, too, happened under
the uncontrolled reign of the Tories. If they wished to
make the people religious they must give to them some por-
tion of time and leisure to devote to the sacred offices of
religion ; but the measures of the Tories, now displaced
from power, went totally to deprive the working classes of
this country of any leisure at all—(Hear)—for they all
knew, as he certainly knew, that such was the intenseness
of labour now demanded from the working classes, that it
required every hour of a man's existence to enable him to
make out a common maintenance. The measures of the
Tories had pressed upon the poor man so as to deprive him
of the time that he might gladly devote to religion,
and yet now they said that the present was a reli-
gious question.—( Hear, hear, bear.) If they believed
it to be a religious question, why did they not think of
religion years ago ? Why did not religion check them
in their career of extravagance, and before they had re-
duced the people to the condition in which they were now
to be found ? These were the questions to be put to a
party who now spoke of religion, and did so with such
masked hypocrisy upon their faces. He trusted that no
credit would be given to them for one moment.—(Hear,
hear.) He hoped that all in that assembly were unani-
mous in their, support of the present Ministry.—(Loud
oheers.) It was of immense consequence with reference to
the measures that they desired to see carried that they
should give credit to the Goverment for intentions which
they were told were cherished by them. The people should
too, in their unions, in meetings like the present, and by
their political organization, make preparations for the con-
test whenever it might happen. They naturally supposed
that he was going to introduce the subject of the Ballot.—
(Long-continued cheering.) They could have no doubt of
what was his opinion upon that subject, as he had had the
honour of seconding Mr. Grote's motion.—(Hear, hear,
hear.) It was absolutely necessary, as the first
step that they could take to realise the blessings of good
government for the country, that the voting should be free.
—(Cheers.) He knew of his own knowledge—he should
not name them—but he had been told the names of
men in a high station of life, aye, and professional men
too, who had taken the bread out of the mouths of
their washerwomen for the votes of their husbands—
(Hear, hear, and loud cries of " Shame.") This was a
state of things which could be no longer endured in
England.—(Hear, bear.) It had, indeed, been said that
" an Englishman ought to vote independently," to which
it had been well replied, " but the majority of English-
men are not independent"—they were connected with
trade, and they bad their bread to get. If all the
electors were independent, then the Ballot would be un-
necessary.—( Hear.) He knew that the popular feeling
was in favour of an extension of the suffrage. Now, he
told them frankly, he was against an extension of the
suffrage if the voters had not the protection of the Ballot.
—(Cheers.) If they could have the protection of the
Ballot, and take a larger circle, such as would include men
of property and intelligence, he could hardly know that it
could be extended too widely. He proposed to them the
health of " The Chairman, Mr. Jackson."
Mr. JACKSON, in returning thanks, remarked that their
late triumph was indeed the triumph of mind over money,
and a portion of influence which was unprecedented and
almost unknown. In his opinion, they ought all to be
united together—they ought to be determined to have the
full measure of Reform—to give full effect to that Bill
which they had won, in order that they might have, as they
and their friends expected to have, " the whole Bill"—they
ought to have the full measure of Reform to all intents
and purposes, as nothing short of that could ever satisfy
the country, or serve its interests. He could speak from
experience of the influences used over the poor man to deter
him from his vote. He had canvassed the neighbourhood,
and he could repeat instances of this which could scarcely
be believed. Mr. Jackson proposed the health of the honest
Representative for the borough of Greenwich, a gentleman
so well known to them for his determined support of the
1 cause of Reform—E. G. Barnard, Esq.
Mr. BARNARD, amid loud cheers from all parts of the
room, rose to return thanks. With respect to the Ballot