The feast at the London Tavern on Saturday proved to
be as didactic an entertainment as any soiree at a mechanics' insti- tution. Jung Bahadoor, Itegent-Envoy of the Rajah of Ne- paul, will conceive the natural idea that our public banquets are among our public schools • for he was perfectly baited with monitory lectures. The bhairman delivered a boastful lecture on the freedom of our institutions and the beneficence of our sentiments ; M. You de Weyer on the hospitality of Eng- land ; Sir John Hobhouse on the much greater preference which Nepanl should give to the rule of England over that of China ; Lord Brougham, on the expediency of keeping peace with the powerful English empire, which is most friendly to loyal neigh- bours, but will make mince-meat of the hostile ; Lord Stanley, on the power, accomplishments, philological attainments, civilizing in- fluence, and magnificent hospitality of the East India Company ; all of which, duly interpreted to the illustrious guest, must have impressed him with the conviction, that among the traits of the strongly-pronounced English character the most striking of all is self-praise—self-exaltation over invited guests and independent strangers. The English statesmen wish to show that they are braver than the distinguished Trojan who feared " Danaos et done ferentes ": they fear neither the one nor the other—neither money- refusing Greeks nor present-bearing Nepaulese, but are equally bold in playing pedagogue to both.
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