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Mr. O'Connell dined at York on Thursday, the 7th, with a party of 300 "Reformers. After dinner, he addressed the company with his accustomed eloquence and success on the topics with which our readers are familiar, and which he used in his speeches at Nottingham and Hull, noticed in the last Spectator. There were many gentlemen from the vicinity present on this occasion, as well as all the leading Liberals of the archiepiscopal city.
The members of the South Warwick-shire Conservative Association dined together, on Wednesday, at Warwick. Lord Willoughby de Broke, Sir John Mordaunt, M.P., and Lord Lilford, were the principal persons present. The Reverend John Boudier, a clergyman of Warwick, uttered a good deal of the faded vulgar abuse of O'Connell; and Sir John Mordaunt followed in the same strain. Sir John takes excellent tare to keep silence in ;the presence of O'Connell ; in the House of Commons he is one of the mutes ; but this was the fashion of his after- dinner oratory at Warwick- " They must know lie alluded to O'Connell, who had styled himself the stock in trade of Conservative Associations, and who expected to monopolize from one end of the country to the other the abuse of his opponents. Was that indi- vidual to be allowed, under the garb of char ity and Christianity, to deal forth his bitterest invectives at the very time when tire statue of King William was blown to atoms? He hoped that no Englishman, whether he belonged to a Con- servative or.other association, would look upon such a compound of hypocrisy, dissimulation, and cowardice, with any other feeling than those of disgust and indignation."
The Star Conservative Club dined together at Lewes, on the 7th; on which occasion they were honoured with the company of the Honourable Henry Fitzroy and Mr. D'Israeli, who, in powerful speeches, declared their intention of offering themselves as candidates for the representation of the borough at the next election,—Standard. [Poor Runnymede ! where will be go to next?]
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