The Rochester Reformers gave their Representatives, Messrs. Bernal and Hodges,
at public dinner, on Thursday. Admiral Fleinnig and Mr. Law Hodges were among the guests. Mr. Bernal spoke with his usual vigour and manliness of tone. He declared himself the advo- cate of sound, healthful, popular principles-- They had arrived at a period when politica feelings must conic into contact. He did not say that denaucratical tenets, but popular principles, must have play. If the Aristocracy opposed themselves to the feelings of the country at huge, a conflict of principle must ensue. It was useless to resist the marca. tie— idle to contend against the progress of improvement. These were his political sentiments. He Loped they were in unison with the sentiments of all whom he had the honour of addressing. If a constituency wished their Representatives to be honest and independent, they must be honest and independent themselves. As longs'. the independent electors of Rochester thought pi oper to delegate to his bands the honour of representing them in Parliament, they might depend upon it he would never deceive them. He might not always agtee with them upon minor points ; but upon all great questions he believed there would be little difference between them. If they confided in him, they might depend upon it he would not delude them.
Mr. Law Hedges, Admiral Fleming, and other gentlemen, addressed the company.
The Reformers of Birmingham have held a meeting, and adopted resolutions for offering "a public tribute to Lord John Russell for the noble stand he made, and the victory he obtained over a corrupt and oppressive faction--a faction hostile especially to the liberty and wel- fare of the working classes." On Tuesday last, the Glamorganshire Tories mustered courage to assemble in public, to address the King against alienating Church pro- perty to any but Protestant purposes. The meeting was held at Pyle, on the requisition of the High Sheriff; and the address was carried, after considerable opposition. There is an old lurking prejudice against the Catholics among the Welsh peasantry and farmers, which may render it safe for the Tories to call public meetings in that corner of the island. We believe that in modern times the only occasions on which any thing like a general political feeling was displayed in the Prin- cipality was the Queen's trial, and the passing of the Catholic Relief Bill. The Welshmen were for the Queen, and against the Catholics. A party of the Hertfordshire Tories dined together in the Town Hall, Hertford, on Wednesday, to celebrate the return of Lord Grim- ston and Mr. Abel Smith for the county. Lord Granville Dudley Ryder was chairman ; and the principal spokesmen were Lords Salis- bury, Verulam, Grimston, Mr. Ratcliffe, Mr. Smith, and Lord Mahon. The oratory of the evening was full of abuse of the 1Vhigs, the Radicals, and O'Connell. The County Members were lauded by the Chairman, as independent gentlemen, who " would not enter the House of Commons like Egyptian mummies, swaddled round with pledges, or as unreaonsable echoes." Lord Granville Ryder must have been taking lessons in the use of metaphors from Mr. George Sinclair. On the recent announcement of the defeat of the Tory Ministry, some loyal and independent men of Honiton set the bells ringing. The authorities, however, soon interposed, and the ringers were stopped in the middle of a peal. We hope our correspondent will favour us with the name of the person who was guilty of this meanness, in endeavour- ing to stale the holiest joy of the true friends to their Church and .King, and the good old Constitution of these realms, which the Tories have been so long trying to upset.— Western Times.
A meeting of the inhabitants of South Hants favourable to the .formation of a Conservative Association for that division of the county will be holden at the Archery Rooms, Southampton, on Friday next, for the purpose of settling the rules and appointing the members of the Central Committee and other officers of the association.—Hampshire Chronicle.
The Cambridge Chronicle announces the formation of a Conservative Society for the county of Huntingdon, in order to preserve the reli- gious and established institutions of the country from destruction. The Birmingham Loyal and Constitutional Association is daily receiving additions to its numbers, and already includes the names of inost of the respectable and influential gentlemen of the borough: among others, we are informed that the names of Lord Calthurpe and the Honourable Frederick Calthorpe have been lately added to the list of its Vice-Presidents. As the society seeks mainly to promote a union of good fillowship among men of Conservative principles, with- out any thstinction of classes, and without making ang amount ofsubscrip. lion necessary to .membership, it is contideutly expected that the benefit of the society, and the advantages to be derived from becoming mem- bers, will be earnestly sought after and duly appreciated among their Conservative friends of the working and lower classes.—Birrninyhans Advertiser. [Let the Reformers of Birmingham ascertain who are the subscribers to this Association, and how the money is disposed of. Bribery and corruption is at the bottom of the amazing solicitude dis- played at this crisis in politics by the aristocratic and wealthy Tories for the welfare of their " Conservative friends of the working and lower classes."] Last week, we copied from one of the Daily Papers a paragraph taken from the Brighton Gazette, giving an account of' a meeting of the Constitutional Pruning Soviety, at the White hart Inn. In our simplicity we supposed, that as the paragraph was taken from a Brighton paper, the White Hart Inn was a Brighton inn ; and there- fore inserted the words "in Brighton." It appears, however, that the society and the inn belong to Lewes. The _Brighton Gazette of Thurs- day insinuates a charge of wilful misrepresentatioa against the Spec- tator for inserting the words " in Brighton." " Ilear (it says) how the Spectator, after quoting from our last paper the raraeraph respecting the I.ewes Constitutional Pruning Society, and utter, by the imenious additime of two words which will not be found in our columns, colter, tiv it iato a Briyhton dab, spealreth- • The word,: we have pot ill lial:CS. L" rt benifir r!rh"] probably desguate the real nature of this club. The itelintners of Brighton must In igilant, or they may- see it system a bribery established in their bullet:it* under the pretence of charity, as has been the ease at Bristel and elsewhere.'
" We caunot sufficiently admire the coolness with which every spontaneous movement towards Conservatism is instantly set down by Liberal writers as a consequence of intimidation or a symptom of bribery." 1Ve have explained the origin of our mistake as to the place; and the Brighton Gazette, being a constant and watchful miler of the Spec- tator, ought to have known that it could not possibly have been inten- tional. All that we have to add is, that we hope time Reformers of Lewes will be vigilant, since this Constitutional Pruning Benefit Club is, it appears, established in their borouga. From the testiness of the Brighton Tory paper, our " coolness " makes us more suspicious that: ever that political corruption is the main design of the patrons of the society.
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