In former days, Earl FITZWILLIAM was not famous for aristo-
cratic hauteur. We have heard of his familiar intercourse with all classes in his neighbourhood ; and many a stout farmer and peasant could boast of having played cricket and drunk ale with "my Lord." The Earl is still an excellent landlord; but his con- duct on this unhappy Church question is destroying his popula- rity in the West Riding. Lord WHARNCLIFFE himself could not bare carried it more repulsively than Lord FiTzwiLLeeet at the Rotherham Church-rate meeting. His remark that "he hoped nobody would be so officious as to tell him the name" of the person who opposed the rate, and that he supposed the father of that "person" must have been "a glazier,' have produced a letter to his Lordship from the "person "—Mr. HATTERSLEY—WhiCh the Peer may read with profit. Mr. HATTERSLEY tells Earl FITZ- WILLIAM, that his father is not a glazier, but lives on his own estate; and he relates the following anecdote of the old man, which should make the Earl blush at the recollection of his sneer.
"Pinto the period that he felt himself possessed of personal influence he has acted the part of a consistent Reformer: and when the great battle was fought betwixt the House of Wentworth and the House of Harewood, he scorned the vffers made by the agents of Laseelles to take him to York iu a carriage from his own door, and return him free of all expense—annexing a bribe with the offer; but took his own pony out of the stable early in the morning at the commencement of the contest, reached York in the afternoon, a distance of fifty miles—put up his horse at the Windmill Inn, near Micklegate Bar, and was immediately conducted by the friend of your youth, the late celebrated Mellish, to the poll—gave your lordship a plumper—slept at his quarters, and returned home the following day to tea—and all at his own expense. Since that period, icy Lord, he has always voted on the side of Reform, at every election for the county; and &ring the recent struggle was conveyed by myself in a gig to Shaeld—carried from his scat in my own arms, being so old and lame that he could not safely descend of himself—conducted to the booth, and veted for Mor- petit and Strickland. I may add, also, that he never was in an election com- mittee.room in his life, but always paid his own expenses.
,‘ Such is the account, my Lord, I hive to give of my father ; and as he has lived more than sixty years within little more than two miles of the parish- church of Rotherhatn, he is well known by all except your Lordsbip not to he a glazier."
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