ebe Countrii. The West Sorry Conservatives dined together, at Guildford,
on Saturday. Lord Hotham, Lord Grantley, Mr. Baring Wall, Lord Egerton, Mr. R. C. Scarlett, Mr. C. Barclay, and Sir Edward Sug- den, were the principal guests. The speeches and toasts were redolent of high Toryism; and full of triumphant anticipation of success at the next election, and the most insulting vituperation of Ministers and their supporters. The Liverpool Town-Council resolved, on Wednesday week, to introduce the Irish system of education into the Corporation Schools. This seems to have been taken hold of by the Tories as a pretext for agitation. Accordingly, the clergy summoned a meeting of the inha- bitants to assist them in raising a fund to build schools where " the unmutilated Word of God" might be taught. The meeting—con- sisting, according to the Tory account, of 8000 persons—was held on Wednesday last, in the Amphitheatre. Seventy clergymen were on the platform. The Reverend Messrs. Brooks, Campbell, and WIsTeil,
and Mr. Adam Hodgson proposed resolutions, and delivered speeches in conformity with the objects of the meeting; and upwards of 2400/. was subscribed.
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