The members of the Reform Association of Shepton Mallet had
a public dinner on Monday, when many new members were announced. The Wareham Reformers dined together on Tuesday.
On Monday, Mr. Williams, M.P. for Coventry, addressed his con- stituents from the balcony of the Half-moon Inn. He gave an account of his stewardship, which was highly satisfactory to the electors. That part of his speech in which Mr. Williams dwelt upon the necessity of Peerage Reform, was loudly cheered.
At a meeting of the electors of East Cornwall, at St. Mabyn, on Wednesday week, Sir John Colman Rashleigh entered into a defence of his conduct towards Sir William Molesworth; and informed the meeting, that if he received an assurance of success, Sir Hussey Vivian would probably become a candidate to succeed Sir William Molesworth at the next election. Mr. Hocken moved and Mr. Norway seconded a parting address to Sir William. Both gentlemen spoke strongly in favour of Peerage Reform, and Mr. Norway was also in favour of the Ballot. Sir J. C. Rashleigh expressed his dissent from these opinions, and assured the meeting it would not be prudent in the Liberals to re- note their support to a friend of Government. He mentioned, that be bad received a letter from Sir William Molesworth's agent enclosing Sir William's subscription of 2001. and a declaration of his readiness to support Sir William Trelawney or any Liberal candidate. A motion appproving of Sir J. C. Rashleigh's conduct was carried.
Sir William Molesworth is now mentioned as a candidate for Bath.
Lord Eliot has announced himself a candidate for East Cornwall, on High Tory principles. The requisition to him received the signa- tures of more than two thousand electors.
Mr. Tooke visited his constituents at Truro last week, and harangued them on the subject of the late Parliamentary session. The following passage in his speech has been honoured with the vituperation of the
Times— He ha I anticipated that the rejected measures of last session, on being re- awed next stsion, would meet the same fate, when an appeal to the People might be necessary, of the result of which not a doubt could exist ; and he should have felt more difficulty on the subject had the adverse proceedings of the Lords been approved by the noble names of Howard, Russell, Cavendish, and the great historical families of England ; but when he knew that they depre. cated those proceedings, which were adopted by an obscure mass of Peers, and particularly when, on the last day of the session, the People, through their Re- presentatives, were insulted by a man destitute alike of public principle as of private property, and consequently reckless of the destructive consequences of a schism between the two branches of the Legislature, he considered that such schism had been accelerated by years.
The Halifax dinner to Messrs. Wood and Protheroe was to take place yesterday.
Mr. Poulett Thomson was in Manchester in the early part of last week. He had a long interview with the Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, whereat some leading commercial questions were discussed, it is said by the Manchester Guardian satisfactorily, by the Member and his constituents,
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