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Lord Alfred Hervey, a son of the Marquis of Bristol, has addressed the electors of Brighton, as a candidate for the seat vacant by Mr. Newton Wigney's disqualification. He avows himself anxious to see " safe and moderate reforms" effected in Church and State ; he is a warm supporter of the present Ministers ; and a long residence in Brighton renders him peculiarly alive to all that affects its welfare." The Month g Post says that Mr. Hanbury Tracy is a candidate upon 'whom the Whigs have their eye.
A large meeting assembled on Tuesday afternoon, in the market- place of Bradford, in Wiltshire, to protest against Sir Robert Peel's sliding scale, and to petition the Queen to dismiss Ministers, and sum- mon others who would devise measures to remedy existing evils. Three thousand persons stood their ground in spite of a smart rain ; and as it was market-day, many farmers were among the crowd. A resolution denouncing the Corn- laws, old and new, was adopted una- nimously, with one, proposed by Mr. Roberts and seconded by Mr. Henry Vincent, declaring that the only mode of repealing the Corn- laws is by enacting the People's Charter.
Sir Robert Peel has been martyred in effigy at Longtown, close to Sir James Graham's country-seat.
Mr. Feargus O'Connor was to expound his opinions on the Repeal of the Union, in a lecture at the Manchester Hall of Science, on Tuesday evening. About two thousand persons assembled. Several Irish ob- tained admission, and endeavoured to appoint their own chairman ; and in the dispute arose a riot, the Chartists being driven from the Hall. Many persons were much hurt. On Wednesday, both parties were making preparations for a renewed struggle in the evening.
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