Mr. G. R. Phillips, Member for Kidderminster, dinned with a
party of 1;i: constituents yesterday week. His address to them was of the description to be expected from a very moderate Whig, the son of one of Mr. Canning's Baronets. He applauded the present Minister: for having taken the " middle path of safety and good sense " between the Tories aud the Radieals. He denied that they bad been I ketructives, and equally repudiated the charge that they had done " nothing"— The Government would, he was convinced, have lone mor,, but thy 'mut re,..ollect that they were not omnipotent. It was very well for one pirty to say why don't you do this, and why don't you do that ? hut it was one thing to propoq: a measure, and another thing to carry it ; and it was opainst wisdom owl common scrim fir any G011711111111, fil firing ,Prward Fir 'is
they must meet with pegoetual discomfiture.
Mr. Phillip: here spoke like a sensible man ; but if he recollected bow many of the Alinisterial measures of last session were brought forward for rejection by the Peers. and that, for aught that appeige to the contrary, the seine policy will be pursued next oesion, he might have perceived that his friend., the Minieters, could not he much served by the character he gave them for wisdom and common s.msc. On the question of Church-rates, Mr. Phillips could oily express his conviction that something satisfactory would be done. 'I' he Irish Cor- poration Bill, he was morally certain, would pass the Hoese of reers- the grounds of his convietion Mr. Phillips did not state. For the fate of the Irish Church Bill he felt great apprehensions. To Peerage Reform he is opposed; and of the Ballot, Suffrage-extensiou, and Triennial Parliaments, he said moiling. One of the gentlemen who followed Mr. Phillips, the Reverend Mr. r Taylor, wa: not quite so complimentary in his tone towards Ministers as the honourable Member. He declared that the Government must be forced to abo- lish Chureh-rates; or if that could ma be done, the people Must below the example of Ireland in regard to tittles, and " manage " the Church- rate question themselves.
There is to be a Tory dinner at Oxford on the 17th.
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