The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-05 00:00:00

the wrath of this small Tory, as it has that of the
larger animals of that genus.

The Reformers of Worcestershire gave a public
dinner on Wednesday last, at Pershore, to their ex-
cellent Representatives, Messrs. ..HOLLAND and
CooKEs. Mr. HOLLAND addressed the meeting at
great length, in a speech in which he dwelt upon the
necessity of a reform in the House of Lords, and re-
commended union among the friends of the people.

The Conservatives of the Western Divisipn of Corn-
wall, celebrated the defeats of their faction by a public
dinner at Truro on Saturday last. The principal
feeders on the occasion were Lords FALMOUTH,
ELIOT and BOSCAWEN, T. E. VIVIAN, Esq., M.P.,
a Colonel GILBERT, a Captain HEXT, and twelve
Parsons. The chairman, CLEMENT CARLYON, Esq.,
after the delivery of the usual toasts, opened the per-
formances of the evening with a speech worthy of the
intelligence and political sagacity of an Egyptian
Mummy. This gentleman, who was stated to be the
college chum of a Reverend orator, of whose powers of
ratiocination and eloquence we shall presently have oc-
casion to speak, commenced his address with the fol-
lowing grandiloquent exordium, which we copy ver-
batim from the Post of this morning :
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" When Europe began to settle into a s q
of tranuil-
lity, after the tremendous agitation of the nch Revolu-
tion had subsided, the splendour of Great Bri i ain shone like
the refulgence of some lofty mountain, its summit illurni7
nated by the sun, whilst the other nations of Europe
scarcely could believe themselves released from the fetters
with which they had so long been bound, and were labour-
ing to repair the injuries which their own intestine dissen-
sions or the ravages of an insatiable foreign conqueror had
occasioned ; as if personating her fabled hero, St. George,
England had slain the dragon, and great, glorious, and free,
was at peace with all the world. But, this tranquillity was
. not to be lost for ever ; for although Britons were all equally
free, all could not be equally rich or great, and those halcyon
days which succeeded the hurricane of the war began to
lour. The old volcano continued from :time to time to
burst out anew, and an impatience to follow the example of
France was ere long manifested in this country. But,
thank God ! the fearful din of revolution ended in Reform,
and whether that Reform was the work of consummate
wisdom or not they were not met there to consider.
The peroration is worthy of the exordium. We
quote it from the same Journal :
" And, since nations were but aggregates of individuals,
let them all be prepared to look at home, and to themselves,
and certain he was, that the immortal Bard of Avon touched
a string which would be responded to in the breasts of all
who heard him, when he predicted; with a confidence akin
to inspiration, that
" Nought shall make us rue,
If Englan3 to itself do rest but true."
Mr. CARLYON'S logic is about on a par with his
politics. His speech forcibly reminds us of the an
swer of the superannuated Jarvv—" Tom, why do
they call you a waterman ? " Vv, cos I opens the
coach doors, yer honour." Air. CARLYON put the
few questions he judged worthy of notice in the
mouths of the Whigs, and his answers to them were
quite as amusing, and just about as logical as the old

waterman's.
The Rev. N. LE G RICE followed the Chairman.
Tie talked at great length of the happy effects
of the Union between Church and State, which he
thought proper to illustrate by reference to individuals
among the company. After lauding the zeal, the
knowledge, the patriotism, and the-what-not, of Lord
BoscAwEN, and after leaving it to be inferred that
the Noble Lord was indebted for all these qualifica-
tions to an early education at Eton, the Her. Gentle-
man concluded this topic with the following climax of

absurdity :
" They had another instance of the excellency of those
institutions which inculcated the happy union of Church and
State, in another nobleman near him (Lord Eliot).—
(Cheers.) What qualified him to undertake that embassy
on which he went to a foreign shore, a messenger of mercy
—where he rescued the helpless ? In him was the voice of
pardon heard. From one end of the kingdom to the other
it was considered by one and all that a more proper mes-
senger could not be sent. The Rev. Gentleman next
alluded to Lord Lyndhurst, who he stated was another
bright example of the utility of those nurseries of that
union in Church and State. He (Lord Lyndhurst) had
reached a higher pinnacle of glory than that of Chancellor
of Great Britain—he had had the honour of knowing that
O'Conciell had called him " accursed"—that lie had been
accursed by that man, who could sneer at the hero of
Waterloo."
The Church may well claim an alliance with the
State—aye, and insist loudly upon its necessity—that
boasts of aLE GRICE for one of its pillars. To stand
alone is certainly more than its members can expect, if
common sense in the mouths of its pastors be at all
necessary to its stability. The most ignorant pot-
house demagogue in the three kingdoms would blush
through a mask of triple brass, were lie accused
of uttering any thing so monstrously absurd as, that
without an education at Eton, a man could not dis-
charge the functions of an ambassador to a rebel,
or ascend to the dignity of becoming an object of
Mr. O'CONNELL's abuse. If Mr. O'CONNELL's
well merited castigations were to confer a dis-
tinction more honourable than a seat en the Woolsack,
Lord LYNDHURST would find some strange charac-
ters among his new compeers.
But the leading performers in the course of
the evening were Lords FALMOUTH and ELIOT.
The former spoke by the hour in support of
our " Glorious Constitution in Church and State."
After lauding to the skies the zeal of the parsons who
toasted such brimming bumpers to the case of Conser-
vatism, the Noble Lord sagely observed ;--
" He wished those assailants of the Protestant Church would
point out where in'the history of the world there was a body
of men like the Clergy of that country—celebrated for their
piety, their learning, and the unostentatious discharge of
their social and religious duties."
A wish very reasonable is soon complied with.
With the sole exception of their learning—such as it
is—the Clergy of the Church of England are
celebrated for nothing but their vices, or at best their
rapacity, and their utter neglect of their sacred
duties. As a priesthood charged with communicating
the spirit of the Gospel to the poor—with watching
over the spiritual welfare of their flocks—the clergy of
the Church of England, taken as a body, are incompa-
rably inferior to any other body of ecclesiastics in
Europe. The Presbyterian priesthood of Scotland—
the Catholic priesthood of Ireland, France, and even
Italy—the Protestant priesthood of Switzerland, and
the German Protestant States—and even the ignorant
fathers of the Greek Church in Russia, are a million
of times more observant of their sacred functions than
are the boasted dignitaries of the Established Church
of England. None but an " Eton-bred" statesman
could assert the contrary. His Lordship's panegyric
on the House of Lords was quite equal to the enco-
mium passed upon the clergy of the Established
Church. In times past the Peers had done every-
thing; and if they now did nothing, it was because the
Government had dared to prevent them. The House
of Peers, like
was evDerearreapdeyoptloe, exclaimbeei:
sitting here prepared
Cleon in the comedy of the Knights,
And anxious t I've
o do you good, for these three ages."
It was therefore no fault of the Peers if the people were
not perfectly happy,
"'heir Lordships had gone far
enough in the path of conciliation, and would now
take another course with the demagogues. Lord
ELIOT, like a real Jesuit as he is, threw out a bait to
every faction. He was not a red hot Tory,"
for lie
was prepared to see every abuse removed however
venerable the institution to which it could be traced ;
he was not a Whig, for he was prepared to die rather
than sever the ligature which bound Church
an... State
in one and he was also a member of the Carlton
Club ; and he was not a Destructive, for he was ready
to confess that had he been in the House of Com-
mons he would have voted with Sir ROBERT PEEL
on the Irish Church Bill. He admitted however