The Committee of the Westminster Reform Society held a meeting
at Stannard's Hotel, Charles Street, Covent Garden, on Wednesday evening, to attend to the registration in Westminster ; when, in addition to the numerous persons already belonging to that body, nearly sixty gentlemen sent their names, and were admitted members.
About eighty members of the Pitt Club dined together on Saturday, to celebrate the "immortal memory ;" Lord Encombe in the chair. The Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Harewood, and Lord Kenyon were present ; but the generally mediocre character of the party may be guessed front the circumstance, that among the few distinguished persons who helped to eat the dinner, were Sir J. Croft, Sir J. Gibbons, Mr Connup, and Major Connup.
The " Protestants " had their annual Exeter Hall meeting on Satur- day. According to the Standard, it was a "splendid" affair : if so, the splendpur was not derived from the great names of those who attended I. There were Lord Kenyon, Lord Bernard, and Lord Ashley, Mr. Chisholm, the Bishop of Exeter, and Mr. hardy, with a host of parsons, not one of whom, as we can recollect, has any reputa- tion as a theologian. M‘Ghee had the assurance to show himself again in Exeter Hull, surrounded with a halo of counterfeit glory, and O'Sullivan also figured on the platform. The assembly consisted for the most part of that "purer and better sex," whose proper ditties are to be found at home, and not in listening by the hour to a farrago of bigotry from clerical mountebanks, no doubt hired by the job. On Wednesday, a meeting was held at the Hanover Square Rooms, for the purpose ot forming ass auxiliary to the great Aletropolitan Pro- testant Association : Mr. Chisholm, M. P., in the chair. A petition to the King and both Houses of Parliament, for the protection of the Protestant religion, was proposed and unanimously adopted.
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