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A meeting of the North Lancashire Conservatives was held at Preston on Alonday. Very great surmise was expressed at the con- tents of Lord Stanley 's letter to Sir Thomas llesketh ; which has created a very strong se nsation among the constituency of this division of the county, and noire particularly in the neighbourhood of Preston, the strolighold of his Lordship's; supporters, where lie is most popular. The necessity for looking out for a inure uncompromising candidate, in ease Lord Stanley should continue his opposition to Conservative asso- chitions, has already been the subject of much conversation.—From a ( nt rf the Licurpool Standard.
Colonel Thompson was returned for Hull on Saturday, Lys the nar- row majority of lire; the final numbers being—for the Odom!. 142S3 Mr. Alildmay, 1-123. Mr. Alildmay is son.in-law to Lord .‘shburton, and a partner in the house of Baring, Brothers, and Company.
At a meeting of the \Vest Somerset Reform Committee, which was he lel at Taunton on the instant. it was resolved that an association; , I col. be immudiltily formed in t!::it disttlet, to be entitled the West
Sweets:a Reform Assndation. Sir '1'. B. Lethbridge was union- :t: .‘ Bern hold at Beverley. for the purpose of °ozonizing
Iteo'oria .1s-ociation for the F:ast Riding of Yorkshire. The pro- ce,dires were very spirited, and the Association will be well sup- potted.
A nee, t:1).:: of the rate-pavers of Ihiling was livid c in Menday, for the purpose of making a rate for the support of the church for the ensuing year. A rate of fourpence in the pound was proposed. Mr. Paine moved as an amendment, " that the granting of a rate be adjourned sine die." The amendment was carried by a considerable majority ; when Mr. Churchwarden Jones declared that, as they had for the third time refused the rate, lie would cut off the gas at the Brentford chapel, and likewise discharge the pew-openers, organists, &e. both there and at Ealing Church. The meeting then broke up.
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