At a meeting of the members of the West Ward
',eels Itoforto Association, on the .26th ult., resolutions were passed in answer to the " able letter" of tl.c "honest and independent Representative" ell Leeds, Sir William 3Ioleswortli. The meeting considered it tie impe- rative duty of the it,heletants of Leeds to deelsre their detcrinioation to obtain Universal Suffrage, the Ballot, and Short Parliaments. A vote of thanks to Sir William Alolesworth was carried.
A Ballot-meeting is about to be held at Ludlow,—the first attempt, we believe, at Ballot-agitation in Shropshire.
A dinner was given at Stockport, on Monday, to the Tory Aleinber for that borough, 21Ir. Thomas Mar-land. Sir Francis rut& tt was the " lion" of the show. The following is a specimen (from the Post) of the oratory with which he edified the meeting- " It seemed that we at present are in a most extramdinaty situation. Wi have an Administration which seems to have no coufidence, no fmndation in any part of the country, and which, by some strange means or other, exhibited a strange amalgamatiou at times, and an inconsistency of principle of an extra- ordinary description, and a union of characters amongst whom were the Popish Representatives who acted under O'Connell, and were 1.nown as his Tail, with others of a like description, of whom it might be said, as was said of Sin, that it indeed poseeesed scaly fills, voluminous, and, like the serpent, armed with many a mortal sting. But it was impossible for it to last long. In England the decision was complete, as shown by the want of confidence in the present Administration. The persons by whom they were supported, and from whom they stooped to receive support, were persons who had no conti. dence in them. He meant not only in their integrity and ability, but bad s perfect contempt for their imbecility, and yet were the interested dupes of such a set of persons who acted under Dan O'Connell's influence, who in the House of Commons supported the Ministers, voted against the great patriot Wakley, and others of that description, and in tweuty- four hours after dined at White Conduit House, and then denounced the Whigs as the most degraded people on the earth. Again, he came back—for he had more changes than Proteas himeelf-- he came back, and supported the same Ministry ; and they accepted that ,eepert to enable them to carry measures, though from their internal weakness they were incapable of themselves carrying one measure, or of framing a measure that would operate in any way beneficial to the country, for they bad not passed one that had not failed in its operation, even after coining out of the House of Common., and being improved in the Lords, which, when they could pass without possibility of risk to the institutions of the country, they reluctantly assented to, and lent a helping hand to make perfect that which wee incapable of being put inte practical operation."
Even the eloquence of Mr. Wilkins, who followed Sir Francis, must have been u relief after such balderdash as this.
The Tories of East Cumberland were to give Sir James Graham a dinner, at Carlisle, on Thursday.
An angry correspondence has just been published in the Berwick Advertiser, between Mr. Hodgson Iiinde, M.P., and Major Orde, on the subject of the petition now pending in Parliament against the sit- ting Members, Mr. Richard Hodgson, and the celebrated " Whipper-in" of the House of Commons, Mr. William Holmes. Mr. Hinde opens the affair with an epistle complaining of Mr. Orde having acted disin- genuously in not communicating to him his intention of petitioning against his brother, Mr. Richard Hodgson ; which he thinks he had a sight to expect, from a previous conversation which took place in Major Orde's house. Mr. 0. denies that he had ever personally said any thing which gave him such a right. There is casually introduced in the correspondence an expression of Mr. Richard Hodgson—namely, "Do you mean to show us both up by petitioning ?" which indicates pretty dewily that if the petition be prosecuted, the present Members will be ejected for bribery.—Globe. [There will be no ejection by a Tory Committee; and who will compete with Mr. Holmes in getting a kill attendance of Tories for the Ballot ?] Mr. George Farwell, Town-clerk of Totnes, has been dismissed from his office for misconduct. It appears that he sent up a Tory list of Charitable Trustees to the Lord Chancellor, without the Lordsof the Council, who wished to have Liberal Trustees. Will the Lords of the Treasury give this gentleman compensation for the loss of his office?
The election for a Municipal Councillor at Newark, caused by the lamented death of Mr. W. Tullents, terminated in a triumphant ma- jority for the Conservative candidate ; a proof that a considerable reac- tion has taken place in the town of Newark.—Standard. [ Was not Mr. 'Pancras the agent of the Duke of Newcastle, and a noted Tory ? If so, where is the reaction ?]
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