The Bight Honourable G. S. Byng, M.P. for Poole, arrived
here on Monday evening last. A number of his friends met him at the London Tavern, when he entered into an explanation of the cause of his absence from the late dinner. His explanation was not altogether so satisfactorily received as could have been wished. He left the town on Wedre;day morning.—Dorset Chronicle. [We should like to have some further particulars of Mr. Byi.g's meeting with his constituents. lie is a Whig, whose votes cannot have been very satisfactory to a con- stituency which elects a Radical and a supporter of the Ballot, such as Mr. Tulk.]
Mr. Freshfield says that be will not retire from Penryn and Pal- mouth; but then, Mr. Freshfield must give up his Parliamentary business as a solicitor. Look to this, Mr. Harvey.
Mr. George Keppel—a son of Lord Albemarle, we presume—has been canvassing King's Lynn. Sir Stratford Canning and Lord George George Bentinck, alarmed at this inroad into their territory, lost no time in calling upon the electors. So that the place is in as great a bustle as if a contested election were close at hand.
A Mr. Williamson, of Wickham, talks of opposing Mr. Cuthbert Rippon at Gateshead.
At the Wakefield Tory dinner, there were only about 100 electors of Wakefield present. The remainder of the company at the "most splendid dinner ever held in the West Riding," consisted of gentlemen brought from different parts of Yorkshire. The Leeds Mercury says that the tables were filled by giving tickets away, and selling them at Bradford for less than the cost of the dinner. The Mercury adds, that the Tory candidate has no chance at Wakefield.
A meeting is about to be held in Cambridge to petition for the Ballot.
Mr. J. H. Lowther, M. P. for York, having intimated to Sir Robert Peel, that the York Tories would get up an invitation for him to attend a public dinner in that place, if there was any chance of his ac- eepting it, Sir Robert replied, that it was wholly out of his power to stop at York, as he should go to Glasgow and return home as expe- ditiously as possible.
The Reformers cf Rochdale and Halifax expect Mr. O'Connell at public dinners before the meeting of Parliament.
Mr. Wyndham Lewis, the Conservative Representative of Maid- stone, has sent SOW., and his lady has also sent 3001. as a Christmas present to the poor and necessitous inhabitants of the town.
We are enabled to lay before our readers the result of the Liverpool registration of this year, as compared with that of the last ; by which it appears, that there is an increase of Parliamentary voters on this year's list of 498; the registration of 1835 being 12,981, while that for 1836 is 13,449. It is in the highest degree satisfactory to state that the increase is on the part of the householders, there being a decrease on the freemen's list of 3'26, leaving 794 more registered household voters than on the registration of 1835.—Liverpool Telegraph.
Church. rateswere refused at Braintree, in Essex; on the 8th instant. Meetings are about to be held in Newcastle, Lrightoa, and Newport 'Pagnell, to petition for the abolition of Church-rates ; and societies to effect that purpose, are in process of formation in many places.
The Earl of Eldon has erected a beautifully-executed tablet in St. Nicholas Church, at Newcastle, to the memory of the late Mr. Wil- liam Scott, the Earl's father. T i
The inscription s from the pen of the learned lord, and concludes with the following sentence—" This tablet is placed here by one of his affectionate sons."
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