Within a few days, the Tories have had public dinners
at Bury in Suffolk, at Ongar, Aylesbury, Peterborough, and Beverley. At the last-named place, a son of the late Mr. Wilberforce appeared for the
first time in public. He abused the Ministers ; who, he said, were dragged at the chariot-wheels of a "factious demagogue." Mr. Wil- berforce appears to be a violent and feeble person.
The state of parties at Tamworth is said to give indications of a contest for one of the scats for that borough whenever a dissolution of Parliament takes place. Captain Townshend, a relation of Lord Charles Townshend, foceserly Member for the borough, is announced as the candidate who will oppose Sir Robert Peel and his brother \V. Y. Peel, Esq. About forty objections have been made to the Over- seers' lists by the two parties.— 11Telcerhanipton Chronicle. [When the late Sir Robert Peel purchased the Tamworth property, from the Town- shend family, he supposed that he had bought two seats in Parliament also ; but the old feeling in favour of the Townshends was so strong, that Sir Robert thought it prudent to enter into a compromise with the elec- tors, and take only half the borough. The Townshend prestige, it would seem, is not yet extinct.] The City of London Conservative Association have had the impu- dence to forward packets of' a new monthly paper, called the Conser- vative, to the country booksellers, forgetting to pay the carriage of their trash ; which, in several instances, has, we hear, been returned by the insulted tradesmen to the Secretary of the Association.—Kent Herald.
The Conservatives of Liverpool intend to start Mr. Canning, M. P. for Warwick, in conjunction with Lord Sandon, as candidates at the next election.—Liverpool
An address of thanks to Sir Charles Greville for his valuable sm. vices in Parliament, has been respectably and numerously signed among his constituents in Warwick and its neighbourhood.— Worcester Guar- dian.
The Marquis of Tavistock is to be the new Custos Rotulorurn of the Isle of Ely
The Whig-Radical pluralist, the Reverend Martin Joseph Naylor, Doctor of Divinity, Vicar of Penistone, Afternoon Lecturer of the parish-church, Wakefield, has again been signalizing himself as " Ob- jector-general" to the Conservative West Riding voters in the Wake- field district. How would the Whigs have railed if any Conservative clegyman had undertaken such a task !—Denrester Chronicle.
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