Int I:oblates.
The Bolton Tories have adopted an address to the Queen, praying her Majesty to dismiss her present vacillating Ministers.
Captain Phipps has declined an invitation from some Radicals of
Lincoln to become their candidate at the next election. Sir Lytton Buiwer dined with a party of his supporters in Lincoln on Thursday. week : Lord Nugent and Sir De Lacy Evans were amongst the guests. The Boston Herald says that Sir Lytton Bulwcr offended some of his friends by expressing " decided disapproval of Household and Univer- sal Suffrage."
In the event of Lord Derby's death and Lord Stanley's consequent promotion to the Peerage, the North Lancashire Tories intend to elect Sir Robert Peel, if he will consent to give up Tamworth.
There have been several Chartist meetings in the North and the South of England; but it is said they were all spiritless and thinly at- tended.
The wheats on the Sussex hills do not make much progress ; yet on the whole they look healthy, although backward. In the Weald, on the wet soil, they look chilled, but not so much so that a few fine days of warm weather would not restore them. The oat-sowing is nearly finished ; and barley-sowing is commenced with every prospect of a
good season, excepting the cold.—Sussex Eapress.
Mr. Charles A. Monck has written a letter most decidedly con- demning the present Corn-laws, and which is published in the Northum- brian papers. This landlord's protest against the Corn-laws is the more remarkable, as Mr. 3Ionck is the son of Sir C. Monck, who acted as chairman of the recent meeting at Morpeth, in support of these laws. —Leeds _Mercury.
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