Worcester daily spy., 1860-10-08
GQOrtester 9ailp Spp.

LONDON Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion.
BRITISH STATESMEN AT DINNER.-Sir
Cornewalt Lewis, Sir George Grey, and Mil
her Gibson, are very regular in their refecta.
tory observances, going to work with the air
Vi men VINO dldn mean to stand upon triles
and they certainly don't Lewis, being phil
osopher, very properly holds that whatever is
worth doing at all is worth doing well. Ac.
cordingy he devotcs himself to his supper
with the aborous consciemtiousness which dis
nngulshes everything lie attempts and with
good deal more success than attends some of
his experiments. The late Mr. Dando, the
oystercide, wouldn't ostracise him on the
score OF failure in the opening line for Sir
CornewaL would swallow the whisting oyster
ltsell, and for the matter OF that, the learned
Pig after 1t without making a wry mouth, and
assuredly not a risible one. Grey does much
more justice to his food than his food does to
him for anybody to look at Sir George would
fancy that he hadn't breakasted since last
general fast day. AS for Gibson, he really APP
pears to dine by way of joke, as if TO show,
which that drole countenance Of his does, that
he relishes the humor Of being a curiosity in
the cabinet OF the Comic Old Gentlemen and
there isn't a doubt but he would ply knife
and fork, or rather spoon, at banquet in the
manner OF the ancients, according TO the model
in Roderick Random, if he could thereby con-
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larity of the Conscrpt tathers-his late mas.
ter, John Bright, by no means included But
the opposition are far the best diners, Disrae.
II never misses night; and night Of enter.
talnment it invariably is with the Arabian en-.
chanter. lie bewitches everybody a la Sido-
ma; carrying the PhiliStines wlingI captiyes
to the Judean lions Maccabean banner. in the
fashion of his own Ahoy, whose tale isn't half
so wondrous as the biography of the Hebraic
member for Bucks. Benjamins mess" as
the dinner at his table is called is the one for
winch the bartering away OF a birthright would
hardly be wrongdOing 1t is a feast of ''nec.
tared sweets where no crude surfeit reigns,"
his wit being the sauce piquant that would
create an appetite within the ribs OF death and
prevent an anchorite crying out hold enough
till further absorption was impossible Seri-
ously, however he does exercise extraordinary
fascination over all who approach him and
this by no effort Of his own, and almost in
spite OF himself, as vas the case with Lord
Herbert, OF Cherbury, whom people would in
sist on receiving cuffs on the head from. thew
were so fond of him, and prayed for a striking
reclprocatlon on his part. Like other great sa-
tirisIs, all the Peclslayer's gall is on his tongue;
put milk OF human kindness excludes from
ducts and pores everywhere else. Hence
despite seemingly repellant exterior,
and dlsdain OF all artifices and trickery for
the creation tpartlsans he has personal fol-
lowing, properly so called, which no other po-
htcal individuality of our time could or can
pretend to. Unlike all such, his has been
proof against the want of the leaders success
an ordeal before which the popularity of
every other chief has collapsed in twinkling.
The young Engander so far follows the
example of old Englanders, the precedent of
Pitt Is SO far copied by Pitts successor, that
port is the potation of the Palestine Tancred
perhaps because Of his prediction for bees
wing, suggestive alike of honey and singing,
in both of which articles of taste and virtue lie
particularly exeels. 1t might be thought that
the author of the Young Duke would patron
ize only Laftte Chateau Margeau, and the
rarer growth Of the Cote dor while readers
OF the Rhenish revels in Vivian Grey would
look for Rudisheimer, rokay, Johannisberger,
and the sister vintages of Falherland. But he
adheres to the tory beverage Of the Douro, the
limitations whereof, often better than the origi-
nal, constitute, according to its own showing,
All important domestic manufacture in Hounds
ditch and perhaps that is one reason of his
acerbity toward the vinegarized vinous tipple
of the Gladstone tariff.