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On Monday sennight, Mr. Walter, M. P. for Berkshire, (lined in comptley with a large body of his supporters at Newbury. 'The inde- ecethed conduct of Mr. Walter appears to havegivt it great satisfaction to his constituents. His assiduity also ill the discharge of his duties oes favourably contrasted with the negligence of his brother Al embers, Alr. R. Palmer and Mr. Throclanorton. The Chairman at the dineer mentioned, that out of fortr.seven divisions on important questious, :to found that 'ii r. Walter had voted on forty-one, while Air. Palmer !oil
heel) present at nineteen, amid Alr. Throckmorton at st —nom only. Alr. Walter spoke at lei gth on the preecedings in Parliameitt last ses- sioi i. lie comb:noted the grant of twenty millions to the sleveowners, in the total absence of evidence that they would eustein a Lets to that amount. Ile had in vain muleavoured to limit the " manse libertdity " with which the Bank Chater had been remodelled. Though the Reform of the Irish Church was tin improvement, it was by no means so complete as he could have wished. In the %yolkii letronehment much remained to be done, though he thought that a peal deal had been effected. He had voted for Sir John Key's motion to re; e tl the As- sessed Taxes ; and having voted fur the repted of the Al elt-tax, he re- fused a few nights after to rescind the decision of th lii iue. He WS anxious that a tax upon Property should have betel imposed, to meet the deficiency which the repeal of these taxes would occasion. lit was fully aware of the vast importance of ban:dee:tie. a new and better sYstem of managing the poen The Tithe system he agreed with
in thinking, a " noxious institution." The leettltlet of Messrs. r end Throekmorton were drunk separately ; the company having to drink them, as at first proposed, in conjunt ' tier' with that of Ale Walter. This shows the discrimination of the 1 ler'es!dre men.
ei r ,rohn Beckett hus accepted the invitetion of the Leede Tories to Leconte a candidate for the representntion of their borouell. His peen. liv yi.dilications to represent tin independent ronstituency, erst brought into beteg by the Reform Act, are stated as fellows: in the Leeds Oler- ,• re di I, indeed, in the course of his Parliamentoy iit. iccc. speeches ; and rite rweasitins of these speeches, as well as the siat,teho., tem-elves, were the 1110-7 it:felicitous that could be imagined. Two out of the six were defences of milt.. try legging : one was a defetwe of the introdnetion of the military at the :to '!-1.: ekvtion ; another was a det.. me of tha Secretary of Site for refusing • t reward fiat the apprehension of a criminal till it was ton late ; and the two were in vindication of his own office of help.. Advocate, when Air. Chetwvnd, Air. flume, Lord MIL on, and others, on the I his being overpaid awl ruiderworked! lie was reder-Secretary in tlet le.partment when land Sirlmonth was the head Of that, department ; anti in the year 1817, when Oliver and his fellow spies were sent out through the country—when they lured so many ignorant persons into sedition and rebel- lion—when they brought three men to the scaffold at Derby, and brought scores into 'dungeons, and filled the green his with those Idse am! wicked materials, 1,11 tha ground of which the Iloteits Coqms Act was twice swpended—Sir John lreekett was the public officer through whom Oliver reo.rved his instruc- tions and credentials."
[We trust that there is no danger—not the slightest chance—of the intelligent and independent electors of Leeds being disgraced by the retuin of such a politician as this ; a inan fitted for the very worst times of the very worst Tories ; a worthy disciple of Sidmouth and Castlereagh.] On Friday week, a dinner was given to the Members for West Somersetshire, and was most numerously attended. 'Messrs. Sanford
and Tynte were enthusiastically received. They expressed their eonfulence in Ministers ; and stated, that whenever they had been COM- pellcd to vote against them, it was with pain they did so. " Earl (1rey and his Majesty's Ministers" was proposed front the chair amidst loud (-heeling. Amongst the party, were several leading (et:it:try gen- tlemen, and the principal yeomen of the neighbourhood. It was deter- mined to call upon the Sheriffs to fix a day for a county meeting to be held upon the Tithe question.
The duy of election for East Somersetshire is fix( ri for the :Id instant.
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