A party of five hundred Tories assembled at Kettering, in
North- amptonshire, on Wednesday, to meet the Earl of Cardigan, who, as Lord Brudenell, represented the county in Parliament, and welcome him on his return from India to take possession of his family property. Messrs. Cartwright and Maunsell, Lord Maidstone, and Sir Charlee Knighticy, the four Members for the County, the Reverend Sir George Robinson, and several other clergymen, were of the party. The speeches were almost entirely of a political character ; and the tone of the orators, in allusion to Whigs and Radicals, was contemptuous and bitter. That enlightened statesman and legislator, Sir Charles Knightley, elicited vociferous cheering by the patriotic declaration, that, " for himself, he would rather go without a shirt, and wear wooden shoes, than allow any Radical to contaminate the representation of North- amptonshire." Lord Maidstone said, it was really" tantalizing" to think how small an addition of Members was required to give the 'Tories a majority in Parliament; and he dial hope that they would gain the 20 or 25 votes, all that were " necessary for their purpose." A great many toasts were drunk, and the shouting was prodigious ; but we are happy to see it stated distinctly by the Times reporter, that " the meeting quietly separated,"—being in that respect on a par with the Manchester Radicals, whom Sir Charles Knightley abominates. .11
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