We perceive that in several parts of the country the
Reformers are laughing at the Standard's account of Tory gains by the registration.
The Reformers of Knaresborough assert that they will assuredly turn out Mr. Richards at the next election.
Lord Albert Conyngham dined with a large party of his Liberal constituents at Canterbury, on Tuesday. His Lordship avowed him- self a thorough Reformer, and a supporter of Ministers.
On the same evening, Mr. S. R. Lushington, the Tory Member ler Canterbury, (thanks to his Tory Committee of the House of Com- mons,) dined with his supporters ; whom he entertained with the well- worn Tory abuse of the Liberal Government and Mr. O'Connell. With regard to the Irish Church, he told the company_
It was impossible for any man who had not been in that country to conceive the state of that suffering Church. Four days ago, he had received a letter from the Archbishop of Timm ; that Prelate -stated that the children of the I'rotestant clergy in his diocese were totally deprived of animal food ; that they subsisted upon potatoes dug up by themselves ; and that they haul not clothing sufficient to cover them. Ile would put it to them whether Iktvernment, having before it all this misery, were not seriously responsible for the manner in which it had been induced ?
The impudence of attempting to cast upon Ministers the blame of starving the Irish Clergy, never was surpassed. But this is now the every-day trick of the unprincipled political faction to which this Mr. Lushington belongs.
After a poll of two days, and a violent contest, the inhabitants of Morley have rejected a proposition for a Church-rate, by 177 to 84.
The Bishop and Clergy of Chester had a meeting on Wednesday, at which OW!. was subscribed for the Irish Clergy ; whose extreme poverty Was dilated on by the speakers.
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