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The Earl of Coventry has been requested to join a Conservative Club about to be established at Worcester. He has declined, however, to belong to it, because " he dislikes political associations altogether, from the dictating Unionist to the spleenish Conservative." His Lord- ship adds-
" Ile finds his rents very fairly paid; and, in turning his eyes to the Funds, he finds them at 88; and really thinks that it is not a moment of such dreadful peril as to make an association of this character necessary in this city or county, exciting jealousies, and keeping up party-spirit, which, while matters go so, it might be quite as well to tranquillize." Mr. J. M. Gutch, the gentleman to whom the letter, from which the above extracts are taken, was addressed, is highly offended with his Lordship for his refusal, and the terms in which it was conveyed; and
i birdupon the subject, in an episile which occupies a large por-, tion of the Standard of last night.
The Coroner's Jury, on Wednesday, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against William Farmer, the coachman of Mr. Harman, who shot his fellow servant, Sarah Parker, on the 21st January, at their master's house near Northfleet.
Two gamekeepers of Sir G. Heathcote, of Normanton, near Stamford, were severely wounded in a conflict with a gang of five poachers, on Wednesday night. The poachers were evidently prepared for fighting, and shot at the keepers with as much coolness as at the pheasants. There is no account of any of them being taken as yet.
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