About five:hundred Liberal electors of Salford entertained their Member, Mr.
Brotherton, at a public dinner, on Monday last. Mr. Thomas Potter took the chair. In proposing the health of " Lord Melbourne and her Majesty's Ministers," the chairman, after the old twaddling and humbugging fashion, said-
" Now, gentlemen, we all know that the Ministers hare very great dip. &ties to encounter, but let us encourage them with three hearty cheers." How the Ministers encountered their difficulties, Mr. Thomas Potter did not say. Mr. Brotherton denounced the " wicked Corn-law ;" mid insisted upon the necessity of curtailing the power of the Aristocracy and in. creasing the influence of the People. lie could not altogether approve of the conduct of Ministers- " I admit that there has been too much of the do-little or stand-still system, and that more might probably have been done ; and if the Ministry are deter. mined to persist in the finality of the Reform Act, let the Reformers of Eng. land ?nuke an united effort and replace them—not with Tories, but with men of mote liberal principles."
[ Will Mr. Brotherton himself act on the advice he gives to others ?
If Lord John Russell, as the representative of the Government, retract not his Finality speech, will Mr. Brotherton join with those who de-
sire to replace Lord John and his colleagues with men of more liberal principles? If Mr. Brotherton should fall back upon his old Whig. gish courses, he shall be reminded of this speech.]
Mr. George William Wood spoke, of course, like a thoroughgoing Ministerialist ; and by perseverance he may yet obtain the Baronetcy which Mr. Mark Phillips refused. Mr. Thornely advocated free trade in corn, timber, sugar, coffee, and all foreign products. He thought that there had been some risk of famine, in consequence of the deficient harvest; but, happily, the latter part of the season was favourable for getting in the clops, and a considerable quantity of foreign corn had been admitted at a low duty. These are all the noticeable points of the Salford meeting.
A party of East Worcestershire Tories dined together at Evesham on Friday last week. The Worcestershire Guardian calls it a "great dinner ; " but only 150 persons are said to have been present, and there was nothing remarkable in the proceedings.
On Tuesday, the members of the Colchester and Essex Conserva- tive Association assembled at a public dinner. Sir G. H Smyth, Mr. Saunderson, Mr. Round, and several clergymen and military officers, formed the elite of the company.
Sir James Carnac having been actually appointed Governor of Bombay, a vacancy is made in the representation of Sandwich and
Deal ; which the .Kent Herald says that Sir 'Wane Donkin is the Whig candidate to supply. A Tory opposition is expected. At the lust election, the Liberals won by small majorities, the numbers being —Trowbridge 412, Connie 399, Price 374, Br) dges 335.
The Hertford Liberals are much annoyed by the appointment of an active Tory, Mr. J. M. Gilbertson, to the Magistracy, by the Home Office. The Tory majority of the Town. Council recommended Mr. Gilbertson to supply the vacancy caused by the removal of a Liberal Magistrate from Hertford. The Liberals reminded Lord John Rus- sell, that there were already in the commission three Tories to one
Liberal ; and recommended a Mr. Fordham. The Home Secretary appointed both the gentlemen ; gland thur," says the Hertford Reformer, "we have the advantage of four Tory and two Liberal Magistrates ; and the Government have, as usual, the credit of assisting in promoting the domination of their opponents."
The original charter of the Borough of Salford, granted by King Stephen, was discovered lately among some papers in the possession of Mr. Cooke, Law-Clerk to the borough.
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