be Coturtrp.
There is to be public dinner to Lord Durham at Newcastle, on the 19th instant. The following requisition, signed by 20.5 of the most respectable inhabitants of that town, was forwarded to his Lordship on Thursday week.
" My Lonl—We, the undersigned, having witnessed with sentiments of admiration the conduct of your Lordship since your introduction to public life, and feeling grati- tude, as well for your great exertions in the passing of the Reform Iiill, as for your noble advocacy of those measures which the nation expect as consequences of that great act of enlightened legislation, request the honour of your Lordship dining with the political friends of your Luedship resident in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the weigh- bourhood."
Lord Durham returned the following answer.
Lambtou Castle, 23il October 1834.
"Gentlemen—I receive with feelings of the deepest gratitude this testimony of your approbation of my political conduct. We have often met in adverse times, and in nu- tarourable cireuntstances; hut we have never celebrated together the triumph of that good cause for which we have so long contended. I accept, therefore, with pleasure, your kind invitation ; and remain, Gentlemen, your most obliged and faithful servant,
" DURHAM."'
Lord Brougham's expected visit to Manchester is for the present deferred.
Mr. G. F. Young, Member for Tyuemouth, visited his constituents ow Tuesday week. The next day, he addressed them at considerable
length on the subject of his Parliamentary conduct, and received a unanimous vote of thanks from a very numerous meeting. On the Friday following, he dined in company with a large party of the in- habitants, who seem to be exceedingly well pleased with the indepen- dent behaviour of the Representative.
The Mayor of Dover, at his inauguration dinner on Thursday week, was honoured with the presence of the Duke of Wellington as one of his guests. Politics were excluded, at the particular request of some of the gentlemen attending the civic feast ; but on every occasion that could be seized upon for giving a display of their Conservative feelings, the company were most vociferous in their applause. The Duke's health was drunk with loud cheering, and when he left the room the company rose and gave him three cheers.
By the decision of the Revising Barristers at Ripon, the class of votes called the Cow-house and Pig-stye Votes, manufactured by Mrs. Lawrence to regain her control over the borough of Leeds, has been pronounced to be "good in law." The Burgage Transfer Votes, held by the same lady, but colourably transferred to dependents and partisans on whom she can rely, are not yet decided upon ; but it is feared that this political fraud will also succeed. Should this be the case, Mrs. Lawrence will' then hold, as it were in her own hand, from sixty to seventy votes, besides her other tenants and the many tradesmen, &c., whom her wealth and patronage influence; and thus the independent constituency of Ripon will be effectually swamped.
A numerous meeting was held in the Guildhall, Exeter, on Tuesday week, to celebrate the anniversary of the formation of an auxiliary As. sociation to the Kildare Place Society in that city. The Bishop of Exeter was in the chair, supported by a large number of the gentry of the town and neighbourhood, and surrounded by upwards of forty of his clergy. In opening the proceedings, and before reading the report, the Bishop addressed the meeting in a speech, the delivery of which occu- pied nearly an hour and a half; detailing the history of the treatment of the Protestants of Ireland, with respect to the education question, and the injuries which had been inflicted on even its Roman Catholic in- habitants by the conduct of the Government, in transferring the public funds for schools into bands of the Romish priests.
It was stated last week that the Solicitor to the Treasury had pre- ferred bills of indictment at the County Quarter-sessions against the Sheriffs for the County and City of Chester, for refusing to execute the murderers of Mr. Ashton, convicted at the last Spring Assizes ; and that the latter was returned a "true bill." In a few days after the finding of the bill, the Prothonotary of Chester received a notification from Mr. Maule, the Solicitor to the Treasury, that he should not act upon the finding of the Knutsford Grand Jury, and directing that a bill should be preferred against the City Sheriffs at the ensuing City Sessions. Accordingly, such a bill was preferred on Thursday last week, and ignored by the Grand Jury. What the next step will be, it is impossible to say. In the mean time, the convicts are further respited.—Macclesfield Courier.
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