The freeholders and inhabitants generally of Melbourne, in Leices- tershire,
presented Lord Melbourne with a complimeotary address on his Lordship's arrival at his seat in the neighbourhood. Lord Mel- bourne replied to the address, in a speech which is given in the Derby Reporter. He said, in reference to the circumstances attending his dismissal, that he did not feel himself in the slightest degree personally aggrieved by any thing that had taken place; and that the question of who should be Minister was one of such vast national importance, that individual considerations were quite absorbed in it. He spoke cau- tiously on the subject of the Reforms which his Cabinet was prepared to bring forward ; though he asserted plainly that he and his colleagues intended to remove the abuses in our Ecclesiastical and Corporate system, to do "as much as was sufficient, as much as would have re- medied the most pressing evils—as much as could have been digested and matured—as much as in all circumstances it could be considered safe, prudent, and practicable to effect."
Two thousand copies of Lord Durham's Newcastle speech have been printed and circulated at Brighton ; part were sold at a halfpenny each, the working classes buying with eagerness ; the rest were distributed.
The first number of a newspaper called The Reformer was published at Hertford on Tuesday. Its appearance was sudden and unexpected; though not uncalled for, since the Anti. Reformers of the county bad been active in journalism for a considerable time past. They will no longer occupy the field exclusively. The leading article of the new paper is written in a style very superior indeed to that of most provincial journals. It is statesmanlike in its tone and views—forcible, and oc- casionally sarcastic, in its language. As the Independent party in the county were much in need of such an organ, we hope The Rybrnter will be encouraged, and circulated extensively.
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