An address from the Scarborough Association for the Protection and
extension of Civil and Religious Liberty was presented on Tuesday to Mr. E. S. Cayley ; who delivered a long speech in reply. Mr. Cayley expressed reluctance to meddle with the constitution of the House of Lords ; but said, that if the People should elect in truly Liberal House of Commons, and the Lords still be "obstinate," that remedy must then be sought.
Captain Dundas will contest Devizes, on the Reform interest against Mr. Estcourt, a Tory.
Lord Palmerston has lately visited his property near Leeds; in which, we understand, he contemplates various improvements. The noble Lord, we believe, took up his abode, somewhat incog., at or near Ferrybridge. A correspondent suggests that the noble Lord has been looking with "a political eye" to his tenantry. We know not bow this may be ; but there is more than one indication of an election in the course of the next twelve months.—Leeds Intelligencer.
Considerable progress has been made by the Revising Barristers ap- pointed by the Circuit Judges under the Corporation Reform At:ton dividing the cities and boroughs into wards; and the whole division • will be completed by the second week in November. The Barristers return their reports and ward recommendations to the Home Office. It is understood that the Secretary of State will allow copies of tee recommended local divisions to all respectable inhabitants of the towns applying for information.
The Common Council of Newcastle, at a meeting held last week, voted a piece of plate of the value of 100 guineas to the wife of the Mayor, as a memento of her accouchement having taken place in the mansionhouse—a rare occurrence in the civic history of the Cor- poration. [It is to be hoped that the new Council will be ashamed of laying out the public money in so silly a way.1
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