21 JANUARY 1837, Page 4

Mr. Beaumont has addressed a letter from Dublin to his

constituents in South Northumberland, assuring them that the Irish Catholics are very fine fellows, with a keen sense of the " point of honour," and that it is a shame for the British Legislature to treat Paddy as an inferior being.

" Gentlemen," says Mr. Beaumont, " you have seen in communications already submitted to you, that the solution of the cause of Irish misery and English degradation may be said to exist in a point of honour. This phrase implies that keen desire of enjoying equality of consideration, in which 1 trust we are not inferior to our neighbours. Should we not give to others the indul- gence we demand for ourselves ? If the cause of this unnatural position has been mistaken, is an entire reconciliation thereby rendered impracticable? Surely not. I pledge myself to lay before yourselves and the British public such facts and arguments as ought to convince you that it is to your interest and your honour, your safety and your advantage, to make discord cease, and establish peace where misery prevails. The means are easy. Confidence is alone required—confidence the most unbounded—for I am convinced that no injury is intended by either side. The Englishman cannot desire to insult his fellow-countryman in Ireland, nor can the Irish harbour resentment where the cruelty of their*treatment can be proved to have originated in error. All the details connected with this most important proceeding will be brought before Parliament at the earliest opportunity ; and I confidently rely upon the justice of my cause and the sincerity of my convictions for enabling me to carry it to ultimate success."

The " proceeding " to which Mr. Beaumont refers is not specified in his letter; but it would seem to be a revolution in the system of legislating for Ireland.

A party of Oxfordshire Conservatives dined together in Oxford on Tuesday, to the number of nine hundred. Lords Macclesfield, Chan- dos, Abingdon, Norreys, and Villiers, were the chief guests ; and Lord Norreys, who aims at being considered a wag, is said to have delivered a very humorous speech ; which, however, is not reported. The few sentences given to his Lordship are as stupid as possible, and quite in accordance with the general tone of the party.

There was a very numerous meeting of West Kent Tories on Wed- nesday, at a public dinner in Maidstone. Seventeen noblemen honoured the feast with their presence, besides a goodly array of baronets, parsons, and squires. Sir Edward Knatchbfill addressed the party at great length, and very much in the manner of an ex-Minister expecting soon to be in. He referred to Sir Robert Peel's Tamworth manifesto, as being still the political creed of the Tories, and eulogized the plan of forming an Administration on the widest practicable basis. He also quoted from the Glasgow speech of Sir Robert Peel, the declaration to stand by the Church ; which was received with much appobatiori by the company.

A committee of working men at Hull are about to establish an ex- treme Radical Political Register.

The appointment of Magistrates known to be of Liberal opinions in politics is beginning to produce beneficial results. At our Quarter. sessions the Tories on the bench were in the minority ; and it was agreed, on the motion of Mr. Thomas Potter, that a petition should be presented to the Privy Council to increase the number of pulling- places in the county, and thus diminish the expense and inconvenience which freeholders have incurred in travelling considerable distances to give their votes.—Manchester Times.