A parry of West Somersetshire fortes dined together at Ilminster
on Thursday. The chairman was a Mr. Quantock. The names " unknown to fame" of four squires and tan parsons are then given. The great Man of the evening was Mr. Bickharn &wort ; who inflicted an unmercifully long speech on the company, embracing the usual Tory topics. The Operative Conservative Association of Warrington had a dinner on Tuesday. Mr. Ireland Blackhurne assured the company, that "if the Conservatives were true to themselves, he should be returned at the next election." A Mr. Sowler, who is called a Manchester operative, delivered a violent and absurd speech, quoting Latin phrases and abusing the Liberals; and the ubiquitous Mr. Peter Wilkins, who is said to have been formerly a Radical, also harangued the party. Among other foolish remarks, Wilkins, quoting from a New York paper, said, tat out of 291 members of Congress, only 21 were Christians. "That wa3 a fact which could not but strike every one in that company who bad been brought up in the fear of God." Mr. Wilkins himself would probably have been reckoned among the Infidels of 1,ongress by the New York bigot, unless, indeed (which may be the case), be is a pro- fessor of the peculiar kind of Calvinistic orthodoxy, the publicly-pro- fessed belief in which entitles a person to be called a "Christian" in the opinion of the New York Observer. The Episcopalian, or Church of England members of Congress, would be excluded from the Christian circle by that paper. Perhaps Mr. Wilkins knows all this : if so, be is the more inexcusable for mystifying and deluding the ignorant .octsons by whom he was surrounded at Warrington.
Lord Boseawen has been on a visit to his friends in the West. On Wednesday, he dined at Trevethow, the seat of Mr. W. Praed ; on Thursday, at the Reverend H. Graham's, at Eudgvan ; on Friday, at the Reverend C. V. Le Grice's ; at each of which places a large and numerous company were invited to meet his Lordship. That thi, visit (like his friend's the Bishop) has been a political one, there is not the least doubt ; and as the measures for a general canvass have been so ably concocted, we fully expect his address will shortly appear, arid the Western division will again be engaged in political warfare.— fohnouth Pachet.
.Mr. C. J. W. Ellis, who published an address to the electors of the Western division of Cornwall as a candidate at the next general slection, is seriously indisposed.
) • The Manchester Tories talk of sending an invitation to Sir Robert Peel to a public dinner as he goes to Glasgow.
Meetings have been held in Manchester preparatory to an appli. .-ration to Parliament for an act of incorporation.
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