The post this morning brings us news of the Movement in a letter from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. We give an extract
" An important meeting will be held at Newcastle next Tuesday evening. The object of its promoters, who are the leaders of the Liberal and preponderating party here, is to invite Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH to become a candidate at the next election. I have seen the resolutions ; they are spirited, and embrace ' Peerage Reform' very affectionately. A few feeble Whigs, toadies of Lord GREY, and fit supporters of a monument to be erected to the memory of that venerable Earl, tried to damp the public ardour in favour of the meeting; but have signally failed. It will be numerously attended, earnest, uncompromising, and orderly. You may, with perfect correctness, announce, that Mr. ORD will lose his seat unless the Whigs join the Radicals in supporting MOLESWORTH, or any other person of the same stamp, in case he should decline."
The Radicals of Newcastle are following the example set them at Halifax, and the advice which we quoted from the True Sun in our second edition last week,—namely, to select unexceptionable Radice/ candidates, and compel the Whigs either to support them, or to take upon themselves the responsibility of aiding the Tories in turning out their own .friends. The Radicals must not be expected to submit any longer to the reproach of haughty Whiggism in its dotage, that if they do not accept some nominee of the Whig party, they will "play the Tory game."
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