Lord Charles James Fox Russell is to take the chair
at the magnifi- cent banquet to be given to Mr. Byng on Wednesday next, in Drury Lane Theatre. More than a huadred and fifty Members of Parliament, including most of the Ministers, will be present. The pit will be boarded over ; the boxes and galleries will be filled with ladies and per- sons having tickets of adndssion apart from the dinner-tickets. Mr. E. Taylor, the Musical Professor of Gresham College, has undertaken to direct the music.
The members of the Reform and Registration Association for the Borough of Maryleboae held their annual meeting on Tuesday ; Mr. Bagshawe in the chair. The report of the Committee related the exer- tions made to procure signatures to a requisition to Mr. Ewart. In ten days the signatures of 1,100 electors had been obtained ; and of Mr. Ewart's success at an election there would have been no doubt ; but Mr. Ewart having declined to stand, and the prospect of a general elec- tion being now remote, the Committee had thought it unnecessary to select another candidete. The state of the funds wits encouraging— a debt of 2001. having been paid off.
Mr. Bagshawe urged the necessity of great exertions to keep Mary- lebone out of the hams of the Tories. Ile believed there were :33,000 householders paying more than 10/. a year ; bet only 11,700 were re- gistered. He recommended that some gentleman should hop a watch on the morements of the Ttwies in ere,/ siioj, and report removals and underlettings to the Committee. In this way hundreds of Tory votes might Le struck off the register
Mr. Sinnett, on moving that the report be adopted, said, that although apathy pervaded the Liberals throughout England, when the day of battle came, Reform would be again victorious ; and Mr. Stuart- said there was "a feeling in existence that would shake Toryism to the very core."
The report was adopted, and Mr. Bagshawe was appointed President of the Association for the ensuing year.
Merchant Tailors Hall was occupied on Saturday by the members of the City of London Conservative Aseociation, 'who met to dine and make speeches. Aldeemaa Thompson was chairman ; supported by Lord Teignmoutle Sir Fredeick Pollack, Mr. Recorder l.:iw, Sir George Murray, Sir George Cockburn, Al iceman Copeland, S!,.'r Heygate, Dr. Crosly, aucl severel Members of Parliament, and merchants and bankers of the Metropolis The speeches were strongly Anti-Ministerial ; but for the most part very uninteresting. Sir Ed- ward Sugden, we observe, was at pains to repel the imputation that divisions had broken out in the Conseremive ranks. On proposing Sir Robert Peel's health, he said— If they looked to the charactLr of the great leader of the Conservatives, they found his political views receivtd with acclamation throughout the country ; they found him endowed with elomo nee which had never been surpassed, and possessing powers as a debater rarel■ if ever equalled. It was in this man that the Conservative body in the Huese of commons placed their entire and un- bounded confidence, and had put him voluntarily at their head, because they believed he was the only individual capable of leading them to victory. The Conservatives in the Ilutee of Commons were as firm and compaet a body as ever existed; they were united iii their great principle; and lie who imagined that there was any disunion amoee them, because a ditlerenee of opinion pre- vailed with respect to some in,tters where a difference of opinion might with consistency be entertained, would be wofidly disappointed.
Congratulatory addresses to the Queen, the Prince, and the Dutchess of Kent, were yesterday adopted by a thin meeting of Liverymen at the Guildhall.
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