The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1836.

A splendid entertainment was given on Friday lasi
by the Reformers of Tewkesbury, in honour of Mr.
TRACEY, the long-tried and highly-respected Member
for that borough. Nearly three hundred gentlemen
sat down to dinner ; General Sir JOHN GUISE in the
chair. On the health of Lord SEGRAVE, the new
Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, being given, the
Noble Lord made a speech which is particularly worthy
of the consideration of those Reformers, who are appa-
rently never so much pleased as when they are finding
fault with the conduct of Ministers, and not only find-
ing fault with it, but holding it up to popular repro-
bation. The obvious and natural effect of this course
°f proceeding, if it have any effect atoll, is to prepare the
boy for the restoration to power of that detested fac-
e, whose blighting influence had reduced this great
country to the very brink of ruin, when the manage-
ment of its affairs, by the blessing of Providence, was
undertaken by wise and liberal statesmen. The danger
arising
from dissension among the Reformers was for-
cibly pointed out by Lord SEGRAVE, and the absolute
necessity of union and energy, if it was seriously wished
that the present Government should continue to direct
the destinies of the nation. We can scarcely believe,
Is it would appear Lord SEGRAVE does, that the
;hers who, while they profess extreme principles of
ef°rrri, take delight in dwelling upon what they con-
ceive to be the short-comings of the Melbourne Admi-
nistration are in the pay of the Tories. We must, at
the
same time, admit that they play the game of the
Tories as effectually as if they received the gold of the
Carlton Club.
t Mr. TRACEY also made a most excellent speech, in
w"ich he took occasion to expose the fallacy of the
b
which it is so much the fashion for some Re-
formers to sport, namely, that little or nothing has been
done for Reform during the last session of Parliament.
t° refutation of this inconsiderate and superficial, not
Say absurd, view of the progress made in the improve-
ments of our institutions during the period alluded to, Mr.
TRACEY adduced the Tithe Commutation Bill, and the
abolition of Orange Societies. He might also have in-
stanced the Registration and Marriage Acts, which,
thoughl apparently held 41 little estimation by the more
at riguine among the Reformers, are, in our opinion, the
most important measures, in regard to their permanent
bearing on the cause of liberty, which have passed the
Legislature since the Reform Bill itself. f.
1, The Lambeth Meeting on the question of Peerage
cforrn, which took place last night at Kennington,
gtrill not be without its effects on the country. When
th,
4i provinces see that the metropolis is beginning to
14n they will stir also ; and prove, to quote the Chair-
t 'a observation, that " the question of Peerage Re-
or has made more progress in the course of the last
Yamtl,elllie months, than the former question of a Reform of
t• ouse of Commons made in twelve times the pe-
roti.,,
t It is greatly to the credit of the Members for
etb, that both spoke out boldly and undisguisedly
the necessity of a Reform in the House of Lords,
h
it at House did not speedily recover its senses, which
nev
hothine: will ; for, as th,e, old adage , says, " out of
hes 3
to
cometh nothing, and it would be sheer mad-
atv expect a restoration to reason, in those who
eareeer I?ad any reason to return to. We therefore
1),(1 with Mr. TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT, that the
or the, must actively bestir themselves, and in default
er
ttletit being able to convince the Lords by argu-
Preh' Influence them through the medium of their ap-
h• ensions. Many a school-boy who would flatly
lcet
seNe a dose of wholesome physic, when his good
Ivith .only was appealed to, would swallow it,
infinite promptitude, when once he saw the
Iler flourished above his head. In like e
L man-
If the people expect to do any good with
_
"da, they must flourish the Reform birch
krtii er their coronetted brows. To reason with them
,
vfn4 Would be only to provoke their derision, as
air
tvith Apidantly manifested last Session. As we agree
City of 1.• D'EyNcounT in his opinions of the neces-
With agitating Peerage Reform, so also do we agree
tit. Alr•
ANDERSON, in the substance of the propo7
iht,Whtcli he brought forward at the Lambeth meet-
41°Ple;.ainelY, that Ministers are worthy of the
8 confidence ; and that splits and divisions

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