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The members of the East Norfolk Conservative Association dined together in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, on the 7th. Lord Wode- house, Lord Lieutenant of the county, presided. Tile Earl of Orford was elected President of the Association. The principal speakers of or dinner were Lords Orford, Wodehouse, Walpole, and Stormont, Mr. Campbell Scarlett, Mr. E. Wodehouse, and Mr. Pilled. They were all very earnest in their denunciations of the present Ministry, and especially of Lord John Russell, whose defeat in Devonshire scented mightily to rejoice the whole party. The South Warwickshire Tories assembled in considerable monbers at the Warwick Arms Inn, Warwick, on Saturday, and agreed to esta-

blish a Conservative Association. Many gentlemen of large landed property were present.

About three hundred Tory gentlemen met at Barnstaple, in N-orth

Devonshire, on the 7th, and enrolled themselves members of a " Con- stitutional and Conservative .Association."

A Conservative association has been formed at Axminster, winch is making rapid progress in that place. It is intended to form an associition at Birmingham, to be called the Reformer's Registration Society, the object of which is to watch over the registration of voters for the borough, and for this district of the Northern division of the county, with the view to the promotion of Reform printiples.—Birmingliam Go:rtte. L No time should be lost in ettuying this good "intention" into elfe.et. Don't the Reformers see that their opponents have got the start of them all over the country?)

The Chester Chronicle publishes a declaration on the part of the freeholders of theSoethern division of Cheshire, of satisfaction at " the recent change in his Alajesty's councils, and perfect confidence in Lord Melbourne and his colleagues, with an earliest desire that the liberal principles upon which they have undertaken office may be carried into full effect." The signatures to this declaration occupy five columns of the paper, each line containing, two signatures; and the Chester Chro- nicle intimates that vast numbers of names attached have not yet been forwarded.

The inhabitants of Bridgenorth have forwarded through Lord Lans-

downe an address to the King, maintaining the right of the Legislature to deal with Church property.

The Reformers of Lynn gave Sir IV. Folkes and Sir Jacob Astley a public dinner on the 7th instant, and on the same day, Mr. Thomas .Hobhouse, the defeated candidate for Aylesbury, had a similar compli- ment paid him by his supporters in that borough.

The inhabitants of Hythe have held a public meeting, the Mayor, Mr. George Shipden, in the chair, to address the King upon the state of the country, and also to address Lord Melbourne on his reappoint- ment to the Premiership. Mr. James Watts moved, as an amend- ment, that the address was uncalled for ; but be could not find a seconder.

Dr. King, Archdeacon of Rochester, at a visitation in that city on Tuesday last, delivered a charge to the Clergy of his Arehdeaconry ;

in the course of which he took occasion, in very conciliating language, to express his dissent from those who considered the appropriation of the surplus of Church property to the purposes of education, a sacri- legious use of it. As soon as he had completed his charge, a requisi- tion, with the signatures of nearly all the clergy present, was presented to the Archdeacon, requiring hint to call a meeting of the diocese, to address his Majesty upon Lord John Russell's resolution, which was characterized as "subversive of the Protestant faith in Ireland, and ultimately destructive of the Protestant Church in England." [This

was done, we presume, by way of testifying respect for their superior in the Church. It was delicate and decent behaviour; • altogether

worthy of the men who do their best to render the Church an engine in the hands of a political faction.]

The negotiations between Mr. Briscoe and the Committee for managing Epsom Races, are finally broken off, in consequence of the

demands made by Mr. Briscoe; and the inhabitants have come to a de- termination to complete a new course for 1836 on Walton-on-the-hill, the manor of Mr. Felix Ladbroke.

At a public vestry lately convened by the churchwardens of Sleaford, the meeting, consisting of three Dissenters and a police-officer, unani- mously grunted the amount of the church-rates required.—Staniford Mercury. The agricultural labourers in the neighbourhood of Rye are in a very unsettled state; having made a strike for wages, and being much dissatisfied with the provisions of the new Poor-Law Bill. A meet-

ing of nearly 500 took place lust week, when a union was formed, which now consists of 1,000 members ; and a system was organized for supporting the general body. A few evenings ago, as Mr. and Mrs- Smith, of the Crutches Farm, Icklesham, were retiring to bed, a bullet was tired through the window, and hit the eap of Mrs. Smith, which.

hung on the glass. Fortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Smith were in the back part of the room at the time. All attempts to discover the party who tired the shot have been unavailing.—Briyhton Guardian.

Within the last week, large and tumultuous arsemblages of agricultu- ral labourers, armed with bludgeons, have been perambulating the neighbourhood of Faversham, Sittinglesurne, Duddington, &c. forcing the peacoable labourers to quit their work, menacing the civil authorities, extorting money, and committing violent assaults on persons who refused to comply with their unlawful demands. On Thursday week, two Bow Street officers, assisted by a detachment of military from Chat- ham, succeeded in capturing about twenty of the rioters at Rodmer- sham. The next day, four others of the offending party were tttken at Ospringe; and on Saturday, five more underwent examination at Fuver-hi:m ; all of whom whe committed to St. Augustine's Gaol. Upwards of one hundred special constables have been sworn for the town of Favershiun and the adjoining parishes.—Keniish Gazette.

Oii Moaday afternoon, two steam-boilers exploded, at Messrs. Ring and Vicar's sugar-house, at the bottom of Ford Street,, Vauxhall. Read, Liverpool. Surh was the force of the explosion, that it carried away the whole roof of the building, blew down the newly-erected chin. nu, which fell upon a house occupied by Mr. Acton, his wife, and servant ; and carrying with it the roof, doors, furniture, bedding, Sic. to the bottom rooms. In mm of these, Mr. Acton was sitting with his wife, and a friend who bad just called upon him. The latter was killed, by the accumulated weight of bricks and rubbish falliog upon him ; but Mr. Acton and his family escaped with trilling injuries. Four men engaged on the premises of Messrs. Ring and Vicar, one of ‘vliom was the engineer, were also killed. The cause of the acci- dent was the trial of a new boiler, which exploded from inability to bear the pressure of the steam with which it was charged. Imme- diately after the first explosion, a second took place of the old boiler, occasioned by the concussion, and by the Wittig materials heaped upon it by the first shock. Mr. Ring had charged the engineer to be care- ful not to try the boiler too severely the first time; but it appears that he disobeyed the order. As a chaise containing six persons, who had vote.; for Lord John Russell, returned from Honiton, through Wilmington, one of the hurses because restive on descending the hill, and plunged into the ditch, upsetting the chaise and seriously injuring several persons. One of them, Mr. Abercromby, of Axminster, received a compound frae• tire of the thigh.

On Monday last, a daring attempt nt escape was made by six con- victs, on their way to Portsmouth to be placed on board a convict-ship. Mr. Hardy, the gaoler of Ilehester Gaol, his son, ited two guards, were proceeding with the van containing fourteen comm vie ts ;and when they arrived near Southampton, the guards were surprisd to see six of the convicts running across the fields without their irons. The convicts were immediately pursued, and three of them were secured, but the other three succeeded in getting off. lip:m examination, it appeared that the prisoners had sawed off their irons, but how remains a mystery. After having got rid of their irons, they proceeded to cut a hole through the bottom of the van, it is supposed by means of watch-spring saws. They dropped through this hole on the ground, and let the van pass over them, and then made their way to the fields. All the convicts were desperate characters, and were under a sentence of transportation for life. The three men who escaped had been convicted of an exten- sive robbery at a pawnbroker's shop in Bath.