At die sitting of the " Natienal Convention" on Ttkesday,
a Corn- via to draw up a petition to the House of Cumulous the: ...nay to alilseee lite Queen to have Mr. Frost reinstated
1;1 elasistraey. One of the Delegates opposed the appointment of ' usiigee, oil the grouted "that Mr. Frost was more honoured by be' is by the base IN lags than it' retained by them in a situ:L- i:ea e It hi: leiiesiry mid iielependence lied adorned." .1tnong other
eiee, eitesy allusions to Lord John Russell, his Lordship was styled by I a'. Wane a little wasp" and "a Omni.," and was dcserilica as par- o' the "creeping qualities of a viper." A Mr. Sankey was of opinion also, that "the name of Russell, which had once been renowned in fiat person of one of Lord John's ancestors, would he rendered as eantemptilde as the name of' Frost would in future be considered glori :vs."
At a meeting of the Convention on Thursday, Dr. 'Wade tendered his resignation ; because, he sail, he differed with his constituents of 'No:elephant, Staton-in-Ashfitad. and Mansfield, as to the employment of pluyeical force. As a clergymen, and one of the middle classes, he only recommended moral force to be used for the redress of grievances. He would give his coestitutents au opportunity of delaring their senti- saente by rejecting or accepting lam at another election.
Dr. Taylor reed a letter teen a Mr. Donaldson, of Birminghatn, stat- ing flea at a private !meting et' the Birmingham Council on Tuesday last. Mr. Sett had declared that the Convention was unworthy of ciadi- genet!, and he wonia no longer sit in it. Dr. Taylor and other members acts their satisfaction at the secession of the Birmingham _Wk.- m hese treachery they had long suspected. Dr. Taylor moved, that ut sleptitatien simuld he sent to a meeting to be held in Birming- ham on Monday next, to ascertain what the " men of' Birmingham " thought of the conduct of Mr. Salt and others towards the Convention. The motion was rejected ; and then De Taylor said, he would go to Birminaham on his own responsibility, anti accuse those Delegates be- fore their constituents.
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