Mr. Gully, M.P. for Pontefract, gave a dinner on Wednesday
week, at his seat, to a select number of his constituents ; after which he in- formed them of his intention to withdraw from public life ; and re- commended to them as a candidate at the next election, to fill his place, either Sir Culling E. Smith or Colonel Raphael.— Yorkshireman. [ The Reformers of Pontefract will find it difficult to secure a more at- tentive and independent Representative than Mr. Gully, whose votes have been uniformly on the right side, and who deserves the thanks of the Liberals for his exposure of that remarkable purist--who pays head-money to his voters, though sadly against his conscience—Mr. Hardy of Bradford.] The above-mentioned Mr. Hardy has bad the indiscretion to continue his controversy with the Leeds Mercury, in apparent ignorance of or in- difference to the very despicable figure he cuts in the course of it. The Mercury must have the advantage in the dispute, until Mr. Hardy can di-prove either his spoken or written declaration thus recorded against him-
such a thirty."—Mr. Hardy; Letter to Mr. 1"liste Leathatn.
It is said that Mr. II. T. Stan ey, M.P. for Preston, who is at present in Lausanne, intends to take the Chiltern Hundreds ; it is not stated why. In addition to Mr. John Crawford, Mr. C. J. Stanley, Lord Derby's third son, and Mr. Towneley. Parker, are talked of as candidates for the vacant seat. Mr. Parker is a Tory.
The Operative Conservatives of Sheffield had a dinner on Thursday week. Mr. John Stuart Wortley " excited the greatest enthusiasm" by his eloquent address to the sympathetic knife-grinders.
Mr. Hodson Kearsley has been "the honoured guest" of a Tory party at Wigan. It is not stated how many beer-barrels were un- plugged on this occasion ; but Mr. Wilkins, the itinerant talker, elec- trified the company with a speech. It is really too bad of the Tories that they suffer this industrious gentleman to spout for nothing. Why is there no " vacancy " for Wilkins ?
Several of the Blues (Tories), regularly employed in the dirty busi- ness of buying votes, in 1Vakefield, went the other day to a tradesman in the town, taking care to go at separate times, that it might appear as if all the Tories intended to give him their support. " Well, Sir, I want goods in your line : I have hitherto bought them of Mr. —, but his politics are too Yellow ; and hoping you will be a friend of ours, I shall support you." After a short interval, his partners in iniquity make their appearance, and each performs his part in a similar way. In the evening, what they call the Committee of the Trades- men's Conservative Association meet to receive the reports of the vote-buyers as to how many tradesmen they have been able to bribe.—• Leeds Mercury. The Conservatives of Hull intend to rescue the representation of that important town from the Radical hands which at present hold it. As as first step, and in order to be ready for squalls, they have sent a numerously-signed requisition to their much-respected townsman, Thos. Bentley Locke, Esq.—Morning Post. [Thos. Bentley Locke, Esq., says he will not burn his lingers for the gain of the Hull corrup- tionists, and has declined the disinterested invitation of the pub- licans.]
Mr. John Drakard, a well.known Reformer of Lincolnshire, has published an address to the Liberals of that county, strongly urging them to vote for no candidate not pledged to the Ballot.
The Members of the South Derbyshire Conservative Association dined together in Derby on Monday. There seems to have been a goodly lot of J. Ps. but no M. Ps. at this dinner; which must have been a very flat affair. The Conservatives of Cambridge have resolved upon starting, at the next election, the Honourable T. Manners Sutton, as a second candi- date, to stand along with Mr. Knight.—Suffulk Herald. Sir John 0. married a daughter of the late Earl of Liverpool, and possessed, therefore, considerable influence in the palmy days of patro- nage; but being Member for a county which was equally divided, he had more claims upon his gratitude than he could handsomely satisfy. A stanch friend requested of Sir John some trifling favour. Sir John was sorry that it was not in his power to confer it. " You know, Sir John," urged the holiest man, nettled by the refusal, " you know, Sir John, that I am a man you could always depend upon." " And that," replied Sir John, " my good friend, is the reason : I am compelled to provide so lavishly for those I cannot depend upon, that I have not so much as a porter's place to spare for those upon whom I can."—Leices- ter Paper. [There is some mistake in this story, as the late Earl of Liverpool, though twice married, had to children.]
A Church-rate was refused in Great Marlow, Bucks, on the 29th ultimo, by a vote of 240 to 63.
Amongst the Municipal Charity Estate Trustees approved of by the Master in Chancery for the city of Exeter, appears the name of a Roman Catholic priest, Father G. Oliver, a Jesuit. Such a circum- stance has not taken place in England since the death of Queen Mary. It is expected that the Lord Chancellor will confirm Master Brougham's choice.—Exeter Gazette.
On Friday week, a meeting was held at Chelmsford, consisting princi- pally of Dissenters, for the purpose of forming an Anti-Church-rate Society, in connexion with a similar Society in London. An opinion of Dr. Addams, LL.D., given in answer to a case submitted to him, as to the power of the majority at the late Vestry, to make a Church- rate, and to remit the arrears of certain defaulters, was read ; in which the learned civilian generally affirmed the powers of the majority of the Vestry legally to perform the acts done by them. Several long speeches, principally by Dissenting preachers, were made ; and reso- lutions were passed, pledging the assembly to resist the enforcement of Church-rates, and obtain their abolition by petition and otherwise.— Essex Herald.
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