POT-VALIANT ANTI-REFORMERS.—Orr Wednesday last, there was select political dinner at
the Duke of Wellington's, for the purpose of concerting measures for throwing out the Reform Bill. The Peers who met for this pious purpose were, Lords Londonderry, Jersey, Ellen- borough, Carnarvon, Salishury, Aberdeen, Bathurst, Rosslyn, and Wharneliffe. The incident of the evening was the arrival of Lords Eldon and Kenyon, who had been partaking of the hospitality of his Royal Highness of Cumberland. These latter noble Lords, it appears, bad partaken very largely of the juice of the grape ; and insisted, in all the eloquence of wine, on addressing the soberer party at Apsley-House at great length. The flowers of rhetoric uttered by them have not been preserved, except the bold proposal of Lord Kenyon to take a division against the Reform Bill on its first reading. The noble Lord's absence from the House of Lords on Thursday (in consequence of head-ache) pre- vented his putting his suggestion into practice.—Times, Sept. 24.
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