trbe Country.
The defeated Whigs of East Gloucestershire gave their candidate, Mr. Tracey Leigh, a dinner at Gloucester on Wednesday week. The speeches, as usual, were eloquent and patriotic.
The friends of Lord Grey in-Newcastle and its vicinity have com- menced a subscription to erect a statue of him in his native county, to commemorate his great public services.
A public dinner was given on Thursday week, at Barnsley, to Lord Wharndiffe, in testimony of approbation of his conduct as a Magis- trate, by about ninety gentlemen of property in the county of York.
The entertainment at Wentworth House in celebration of the coming of age and the marriage of Lord Milton was given on Tuesday last. More than a thousand guests were invited, and the preparations were very magnificent. The Duke of Devonshire, the Earl oi Liverpool, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord Morpeth, and nearly all the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire, were of the party. Dancing (to the notes of
Weippert's band, brought down from London by express for the occasion) commenced at nine in the evening, and continued till half- pest six the next morning. Earl Fitzwilliam received his guests with his usual grave affability ; and the whole affair passed off to the great satisfaction of all concerned.
Lord Brougham has assented to a renewed application made to hini, to be present at a general meeting of the members of the Manchester Mechanics Institution, which will take place at the end of October. Lord Brougham will be the guest of Mr. Heywood, at Claremont.— Manchester Guardian.
A severe contest between the supporters and the opponents of the Church took place at a meeting on the 18th September, at Batley (the
Reverend Henry Cooper, curate, in the chair), respecting the amount of money necessary for the repaina and other incidental expenses attend- ing the church at that place for the ensuing year ; which terminated in
the signal defeat of the latter, after every exertion had been used by them to obstruct the purposes for which the meeting had been called. — Leeds Intelligencer. A vestry meeting was called at Halsted, in Essex, for the 24th Sep- tember, to grant a church-rate. The Churchwardens applied for a rat:
of 4d. in the pound. An amendment was moved "that the consideration
of a church-rate should be postponed for twelve months." On a show of hands, the Chairman, the Reverend Dr. Adams, Vicar of the pat i,h, declared the amendment was carried. A poll was demanded by the Churchwardens, which continued two days ; at the conclusion of which?, the Reverend Chairman declared the numbers as follow : for the rate, 7 7 ; for the amendment, Ill ; majority against a rate, 34.
An attempt having been made in the parish of St. Paul, Bristol, to enforce a church-rate upon the inhabitants without their consent, we are informed that the Ecclesiastical Court has refused to confirm the rate; thereby acknowledging the power to be in the bands of the in. habitants.—Bristol Paper.
The parishioners of Dudley, after a severe contest, have voted a church-rate of tenpence in the pound for the ensuing year. At the close of the poll, the numbers were—for On rate, 474; against it, 390.
At Bocking, in Essex, the Church-rate for 1834 has been refused, by a majority of 163 ratepayers to 133.
The Cheltenham Chronicle has been shown "an ingenious model of a balloting-box, made and invented by Mr. W. Thomas, carpenter, of Hereford. It is constructed upon such a principle that it will be impos- sible for any one to know for what candidate each particular elector votes. It should be full nine feet high, with stairs on one side for the voters to ascend to the place of balloting."
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