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The Kent Liberals of the Blackheath district dined together at Greenwich. on Saturday, to celebrate the reelection of Mr. Hodges, for West Kent. In the course of the evening, Mr. Hodges, Lord Nugent, and Mr. Hobhouse, M.P. for Rochester, spoke strongly in favour of the Ballot. Mr. Hodges said he bad the names of men in a high station of life, who had taken the bread out of the mouths of their washerwomen to punish them for the votes of their husbands.
At a public meeting in Peterborough, on Saturday, a petition in favour of the Ballot was adopted. It was stated that the meeting had been called in answer to a challenge from their Member, Sir Robert Heron, that if they could get up a public meeting fur the Ballot in Peterborough, be would then vote for the measure.
A specimen of Mr. Grote's very simple nod ingenious ballot-Lox is now in Birmingham. It is intended to exhibit it at the meeting of the Political Union, when the mode of using it will be fully explained.— Birmingham Journal. Mr. T. W. Tottie has been elected Mayor of Leeds. All the Mayors of that town elected under the Municipal Act have been Whigs and Dissenters.
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