21 OCTOBER 1837, Page 4

On Tuesday last, the Members of the North Durham Reform

Asso- ciation held their first meeting for the election of officers, and for ge- nera business, at the City Tavern, Durham. Nearly two hundred members of the society dined together in the evening ; H. J. Spearman, Esq., of Newton Hall, in the chair. Lord Durham, the patron of the society, was present at the dinner ; and on his health being drunk, spoke upwards of an hour, with great animation and eloquence, on the recent contest for North Durham, and on the state of parties in the country at large. On the topic of extension of suffrage, his Lordship stated his opinion to be that the franchise in the boroughs should be ex- tended to the municipal constituency. He repeated, also, his sea- Camas in favour of Ballot and Triennial Parliaments, but expressed his opposition to Peerage Reform. In the course of the evening, his Lords'oip proposed the health of Mr. Hutt and the Liberal electors of Hull, is a powerful speech ; and, after alluding to his connexion with that place as Lord High Steward, passed a high and deserved euloeium on the eloquence, talents, industry, and commercial informa- tion of Mr. Hutt ; and hoped soon to see him again Member for Hull. —1141 Advertiser.

Those arc some honest Reformers in Beverley, anxious if possible to radian the character of the place. These gentlemen have este- bell a Reform Association, in connexion with other Liberals of the Riding of Yorkshire ; and on Tuesday last week they opened a club. room, which has been neatly fitted up, and well furnished with TC spapers, pamphlets, and useful books. Mr. T. Sandys took the el.:.ir, and delivered a spirited address on the objects of the Associa. the,. Letters were read from several Members of Parliament, en. closing subscriptions, and encouraging the Association. About 300 persons have enrolled their names. A petition to Parliament in favour of an extended suffrage and the Ballot was adopted. Mr. Henry Burton, late M.P. for Beverley, was elected President of the Asso- ciation.

hers Grantley Berkeley, M.P. for West Gloucestershire, dines with Lis supporters at Wootton-under-Edge on the 24th instant.

We learn from the Birmingham Journal, that nine Tories of Bir- n.inehani 51110 were displeased by the conduct of Colonel Sir M. aliace at the lute election—that officer not being quite so ready to ti,e the mill tat y against the people as they desired—memoralized Lord 11:11 fur an inquiry into the conduct of Colonel Wallace. But Lord llill, it seems, cannot find the slightest ground for inquiry,—greatly to the mortification of the complainants ; and, adds our Birmingham con- temporary, Lord John Russell, while awhwardig aiming at letting the Tories down soft, according to his usual custom, is yet compelled to concur in opinion with Lord Hill." It is to be hoped that the correspondence, not forgetting the Home Secretary's part of it, will be published.