The Wakefield Reformers expect to increase their force very con-
siderably at the next registration. The Tories of West Somerset were to have a grand dinner at Taunton yesterday. Sir Robert Peel is expected to be present at a Tory dinner at South- ampton, soon after the close of the session. The Northamptonshire Tories bad a dinner at Kettering yesterday; Colonel Stopford in the chair. Among the company, were the Earl of Winchilsea, and the Reverend Messrs. Finch Hatton, B. Stopford, and Herbert Marsh, the Dean of Peterborough, and Mr. Maunsell, M.P. The speeches werebitterly Tory; especially that of Lord Wirichilsea, who talked of the " Popish faction," and the "baseness of those wicked and worthless Ministers."
Mr. Leishington's Tory constituents gave him a dinner at Canter- bury on Thursday. Mr. Lushington dwelt upon " the Catholic domi- nation," and protested against the course of Ministers and their majority in the House of Commons.
At an election of two Town-Councillors at Tewkesbury, on Tues- day, the Tory candidates bad 136 and 132, the Liberals 128 and 124 votes. At the last contest, the Liberals had a majority of 37. When the force of each party is so nearly balanced, accident may give the
victory to either; and yet the Tories, in reference to this election, en. claim, behold the reaction !
The Kest Herald says—" The subscription for O'Connell has pro.; ceeded rather languidly in Canterbury, but for the very opposite reason to that assigned by the Tones. The learned gentleman has not, of late, suf- ficiently identified himself with the Movement to please some of our more ardent Reformers; and we question, ilhin vote on the English Church Bill had been given a month since, whether the subscription would have been patronized at all in Canterbury." (Letters from .Birmingliant, of all places, convsy similar intelligence of the new state of feeling towards O'Connell in that town.] We regret to say that no Kentish Member voted in the independent minority of 44 on Monday last on the question of postponing the Eng- lish Chards Bill. This will somewhat damp the ardour of their friends.—Kent Herald.
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