A dinner was given to the South Herts Yeomanry, by
their Captain, G. J. Bosanquet, Esq. at his seat, Broxbourne Bury, on Thursday the 26th ult. Captain Bosanquet presided, and took an opportunity to offer an apology, for the non-attendance of the noble Marquis and the noble Earl, the Colonel and Major Commandants, on whose ac- count the dinner had been already postponed from a former date. Many rumours were afloat as to the desertion of the Nobles. Some imagined it was in consequence of the Reform Bill having passed the second reading in the House of Lords ; and that as in all probability it would pass the third, the Corps would no longer be wanted,—more particularly as it is notorious that nine out of ten of the Yeomanry are staunch Reformers, although from their situation in life they are so in- timately connected with the Tories, many of them being tradesmen and tenants, that their private interests would suffer by a refusal to join the Corps. Others Thought that the noble patricians disdained to meet the plebeians ; that as noblemen they could not amalgamate with mercantile people ; that nothing could tolerate such a mixture but the rank Toryism of the entire party. After all these surmises, it was at last understood, that the Marquis was absent in a distant county ; and that the Earl had lost his way in Hoddesdon Wood, by obstinately pursuing an old and worn-out road, instead of taking the best and safest, because it was a new one. The dinner commenced at five o'clock, and was kept up with festive mirth until eleven. There was a grand display of fireworks ; and, lastly, a ball, to which many of the gentry in the neighbourhood Were invited, and which produced a brilliant exhibition of female beauty. The party did not break up until three o'clock.—Frota a Correspondent.
A Conservative Club has been instituted in the city of Gloucester. There was a grand field-day on the 24th ult. ; Lord Ellenborough in the chair, supported by the Duke of Beaufort, Lords Edward and John Somerset, Lord Apsley, the Hon. Mr. Rice Trevor, Sir William Hicks, Sir Bethel Codrington, Archdeacon Onslow, and the Rev. Dr. Cooke. The number of " lates " were amusingly conspicuous at the meeting. There was the late President of the Board of Control in the Chair ; the toasts were " the glorious Constitution,"- as Lord Ellenborough understands it, soon to be late; " Protestant Ascend- ancy," late already; the late Premier ; the late member for the county; the late member for the city ; the late member for Sandwich ; and to crown the whole, the company, bent on being consistent in all things, sat late and drank late; and so ended the beginning of the Gloucester " Latists."
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