19 JANUARY 1839, Page 10

Sir Francis Burdett is about to attend a Tory dinner

in Wolverhamp- ton; and a hundred workmen-probably not without having been prompted thereto-have sent him an invitation to enter into a discus- sion with them on the chief questions of political importance. They pretend that

" associations, former sense of gratitude, and a variety of circumstances, render them anxious to have an opportunity of removing, if possible, those im- pressions which the recent accusations of the press have caused to clisturb that high opinion of Sir Frar.cis which thirty years' experience of his political career Lad created."