At a late sitting of the Council of the Political
Union,— Mr. :Thomas Atwood in the chair,—it was resolved to call a general meet- ing of the inhabitants of Birmingham and of the Midland districts of England, in the fields at the foot of Holloway Head, to be held on Monday the 6th of August. At this meeting, the National Petition for Universal Suffrage, the Ballot, gee. will be submitted for approval. It was resolved that the different towns and districts in the kingdom be recommended to bold public meetings for the purpose of obtaining sig- natures to the petition ; and for appointing delegates, not exceeding forty-nine in the whole, to meet in London next winter, and sit there as a permanent body, to speed the carrying of the People's Charter. The workmen, throughout the kingdom, are also to have a "sacred week,"—that is, a week of simultaneous cessation from ordinary work, and of concentrated attention to politics.
There were two political dinners in Canterbury on Wednesday. Numerous parties of Whigs and Tories dined under tents, within hearing of the rattling of each other's knives and glasses. Mr. O'Connell was the chief spokesman at the Whig entertainment. The Tories met to instal Lord Winchilsea as patron of all the Conservative clubs in East Kent.
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