The Reform Association had a grand dinnerat Tiverton on the
17th instant. Lord Ebrington, and the other Member for time Northern division of the county, were present, with about 600 electors of the borough and county. Of these, at /east 300 were electors of the bo- rough; and, when we state that at the Conservative dinner which took
place some days since they could not with all their efforts muster more than from 200 to 250 from town and country, we need scarcely add that the Reform interest is in the ascendant. It is worthy of remark, that Mr. Newton Fellowes, in the course of his speech at the dinner of the Reformers, said that, as he was next in succession to a Peerage, lie wished for a reform of the House of Lords, in order that he might have something to succeed to.—Morning chronicle.
At Wakefield, the claimants to be registered on the Reform interest are 60; on the Tory, 40. In the Barnsley district, the Reformers have ulso a slight advantage; the numbers of their claimants being 50 to so Tories.
A party of North Cheshire Tories, members of the Conservative Association, dined together at Stockport on Wednesday. The speeches were very violent and abusive, but otherwise harmless.
A meeting of the Town. Council of Coventry took place on the 13th, for the purpose of petitioning the Lord Chancellor to be allowed to appoint trustees to the various charities of that town. This mea- sure was strongly opposed, but was ultimately carried ; and a petition to the Lord Chancellor was approved of, and signed by the Mayor and several of the Council.—Coeentry Herald.
The port wine belonging to the late Newcastle Corporation is adver- tised for sale : there are three hundred and seventy dozens of it.
The parishioners of St. Mary's, Leicester, have rejected a motion for a church-rate, by 600 to 457.
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