There was a muster of Yorkshire Tories at Sheffield, on
Thursday week. Lord Wharncliffe was the great man of the day; and delivered a very long and prosy speech upon the old topic, O'Connell's "dis- graceful coalition" with the Ministry. His Lordship also laboured to convince his audience that Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues were honest Reformers.
The Tories of Birmingham and the vicinity assembled in the Town- ball on Thursday, to the number of about 800. The occasion was to celebrate, by a dinner, the first anniversary of the establishment of the Birmingham Loyal and Constitutional A ssociation. Perhaps our readers may remember, that we noticed its formation this time last year' and warned the Reformers, that, like similar institutions at Bristol and elsewhere, its rules were framed so as to make it a useful instrument of corruption at contested elections. Previously to the dinner, a meet- ing of the Association took place; at which an address to the King was adopted, praying his Majesty not to permit the revenues of the Irish Church to be diverted to the education of Catholics, and assuring him of the warm loyalty and Protestant feelings of the country.
There was a meeting of the Hertfordshire Conservative Associa- tion at HatfieM,'on Thursday; from which the reporters were ex- cluded, as the business to be transacted was the examination of the accounts of expenses at the last registration. [Was it only the last registration? perhaps the last election, or the next, came in for a sharci.]
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