" M. Cecil Street, 21st Sept. 1831.
" My clear Sir—Yesterday I had the pleasure of dining with Lord Aithorp, and, in the course of conversatiomhis Lordship intimated to me the necessity of apublic meeting being held in Leicester, to petition the House of Lords to pass without delay the Reform Bill. The late meetings in London and elsewhere, 1 ant sorry to say are very, very fur from satisfying my Lords Brougham and Grey, and their Lordships' coadiutors think, that is the country towns,—to use a vul:ar phrase,— do not come well up to the $cratek, they shall be obliged. however reluctantly, to retire from office. 1 unist, therefore, press on you, without delay, to get sup a re- quisition (not to the Mayor:, and let a meeting be forthwith called to agree to a petition. Waiting a reply, "I am, dear Sir, yours truly, " TDOMAS PAGET.
" P.S. Endeavour to get Mr. Matthew Babington's name at the head of the requi- sition; it will please Mr. Evans. " To Mr. Biggs Leicester."
This was published, so said the //Wet'', for the purpose of showing the means employed in getting up the Reform meetings, and more especially the Leicester meeting of Monday last. In presenting this letter, with the comments of the Leicester Herald on the subject, the Standard of Thursday was exceedingly anxious to impress on its readers, and espe- cially on its Continental readers, the great importance of the text and the comment. " The observations," said the Standard, "of the editor correspond precisely with what we read in the Manchester, Leeds, Li- verpool, Bristol, Sheffield, and other joitrnals, published in the great:pro. vincial towns. These observations correspond also precisely with what is told in the letters of our country friends, and with what we have our- selves witnessed in London. So far they are extremely valuable ; but the able and right-minded editor will excuse us when we say, that his observations, and the observations of all other newspaper editors and news- paper contributors, sink into insignificance when compared wills the letter of Mr. Paget, the Radical member for Leicester, and that gentleman's at- testation to the disappointment of the Ministers."
Nov we confess that the coincidence of the remarks in the journals of the large provincial towns—the Anti-Reform journals; he means—and the letters of Iris correspondents (we shall pass ovet.'what he has witnessed hineelf, in tenderness to one whom, notwitieganding his aberration, we highly respect) with the notable herald of Leicester, strikes us as mere important than either the remarks of the able and right-minded editer of that print, or the letter of the Radical gentleman, as the Snold«rd calls him, who represents the county of Leicester. We do not for a nionment doubt that thestatements of the Manchesterand Leeds and Liverpool and Bristol and Sheffield Tory newspapers, and the state- ments of the Standard's Correspondents, are all and every one of them as true anal consistent and worthy of ecceptation as the facts and argu- mews of the right-minded Leicester editor. Of the value of the latter, we shall let Mr. Paget speak. " To TR:: EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.
"Sir—As you thought proper to eive eh-Ltd:Ilion in your paper of yesterday to a letter ex'...mteti from the Luiee:der .11,,,f,d, purporting to be written by me, 1trust tu your cgoiLtir and sense of propri.:ty f.tr deciering in this dgy's paper. that letter er,c're forgery. I should Lay:: supposed-your knowledge of the notorious cd,.:....icter of Cm teis'esler .11,7o hi 1vould have protLeted your remlers from the pos- sd•itity of your pahnthu upon them fur truth any of the numerous misrepresenta- tit..., and iitt!I;ti I.,)1:rie, of that publication. I trust respect for your own cha- racter %Oil enrol vou in future from insult.ii,g the understanding' of your readers, or imposin.; tin tads erednlity, by making use of a paper that is notwi ntily in tine cwts(rr,et practice of thus suturing l.r.e pn.tic.
"tam, Sir, your obedient servant,
"London, P, Cecil Street, 30th Seat. 1 al. T. PAGET."
A TI:::1111.11.1: '.:awe hem: ti mat a gentleman, is few days agri, said to the Pake of Buck in !inns that lie supposed iris Grace would not, under existing circumstances, make tiny further opposition to Re- fornt. " Wo•NT I ?'' replied Iris tirare, BSing, at tile smile thne, amost sign:Insult t.fesittre.-11,.,:p'rf,;il lie.
rrioNti Sy:uetims.—Liird Muncaster, an Anti-Reform Trish Peer, has addressed tire freeholders of Cumberland, under the contemplated opera- tion of the Reform Bill, and withn time support of Lord Lonstiaiu. His Lord- ship and his friends, it will be seen from his address, are at Ions tirh prospect ofm- plat contem-
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