tirbe Country.
Accounts of the registration received from the country continue favourable to the Reformers. The Hampshire Independent, a South- ampton paper says, that " no Tory—either thoroughgoing and dread- nought like Mr. Fleming, or moderate and conciliatory like Mr. Comp- ton, will be returned under the registry now perfecting. We say not this merely because we anticipate victory—we declare it because in our consciences we believe it to be truth. The Tories did their worst last yeer silently and cunningly—the Reformers have now done their best ; and the result, we conscientiously believe, will be the early removal of two gaitlemen who do not represent the intelligence and virtue of the county. A smart canvass is going on at Portsmouth, in favour of Admiral Sir George Cockburn.
A public notice has been placarded in the dockyard, specifying that
the Lords of the Admiralty having heard that in cases of election the officers and clerks of that department have been in the habit of endea- vouring to influence the workmen, are determined that on all future occasions they will visit with their highest displeasure any officer or clerk who shall presume to influence a voter in the dockyard employ; and it is especially directed to be a standing order of the yard, that Par- liamentary candidates in future are to be allowed to canvass in the yard only such officers as reside therein.—Hampshire Telegraph.
In the township of Leeds, the number of borough as well as of Riding voters will be greatly increased. The increase of registered voters over last year amounts already to 702, the majority of which are on the Liberal side. At Bradford, on Monday, all was activity and bustle, both on the part of the Reformers and the Tories. Upwards of 270 fresh claims have been delivered to the Overseers, of which three to one are in favour of the Reformers. In Halifax, 337 new claims have been put in. The accounts from Wakefield, Heckmond- wike, Keighley, and Doncaster, are equally satisfactory. The Huddersfield Committee for securing Lord Morpeth's election bare returned 10s. fid. in the pound upon the subscriptions. The sub- scription exceeds 10001. ; and the heartiness with which it was entered into proves, that if another occasion for such exertions should arise, the sinews of war, for all honourable purposes, will be instantly forthcom- ing. Thomas Potter, Esq. very handsomely sent the Huddersfield Committee a donation of 20L—Hall Observer.
The great expense of the late Installation festivities at Cambridge, coupled with the recent falling off in the amount of the corn-rents of the different Colleges, will, it is said, cause a serious deduction from the incomes of most of the Fellows for the present year.
A meeting of the Ipswich burgesses was held on Friday, to petition
the House of Lords against passing the Municipal Bill ; and a petition was unanimously adopted. The Stejlidle Chronicle explains the cause of this unanimity. " Mr. Bacon moved, that it be presented by their brother burgess, his Grace the Duke of Wellington ; which was carried unanimously. Mr. Cobbold then stated, that the Bailiffs had been called away from the borough by business not to be neglected, on the occasion of his Majesty's late birth-day. The freemen had not then the opportunity of drinking bis Majesty's health, and long life to him. That was an event that ought to be celebrated every year ; and there- fore the hafT-crowns would be received by the freemen as usual. The meeting immediately broke out into the most uproarious merriment. Three cheers for the half-crowns were given by the patriotic and thirsty burgeSses, three for Mr. Bacon, and three for the Bailiffs : and all consideration of the fate of the petition seemed to be absorbed for a while in the universal feeling of, Drink, 'tis sour country's cause, The State demands it, and you can do no more!' "
About three weeks ago, a petition in favour of the bill was agreed to at a public meeting in Ipswich, almost unanimously. There were many freemen present at that meeting; but they did not oppose the petition, as they were not paid to do so. On Monday, between one and two hundred Tory gentlemen dined together at Maldon ; Lord Ashburton in the chair. Sir J. Tyrrell, Mr. Ilall Dare, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Elwes, and Mr. Dick, were among the company ; whose toasts were of the right Tory sort, and whose speeches seem to live been excessively dull.
The petition to the House of Lords from Leicester, in favour of the Municip:.1 Reform Bill, received upwards of 9000 signatures in less than three days. Only 8250, however, were appended to the petition as presented ; several sheets having been brought in after it was for7 warded to Lord Melbourne, and one sheet (with 165 signatures) having fallen into the hands of is member of the Duke of Rutland's hand, win) destroyed it it. a fit of second-hand aristocratic rage !—Leicester Chronicle, August 1.
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