Mr. Hutt, the Member for Gateshead, was entertained at dinner
on Tuesday, by about one hundred of his constituents and other gentlemen. He was "cordially thanked for the zealous manner in which he dis- charges his duties." Lord Howick, who was among the guests, declared his belief, that if some great national calamity is to be avoided, it must be by freeing commerce from its shackles ; and he also urged coloniza- tion, not as a vent for " redundant " population, but as affording scope for that enterprise of youth which formerly occupied itself in war, and as extending the name, the language, the civilization, and the religion of England, to the furthest ends of the world.
Lord Ashley is making a tour in the manufacturing districts ; and the Wakefield Journal reports a meeting in Bradford, on Friday, at which the Short-time Committee presented an address to their chief.
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