ne siartruptail.
The registrations for the City of London, under the Reform Act, amount to 16,842 electors for the City and 384 for the county ; Westminster, 10,103, rind 746; Mandebone, 6,501, and 277; Finsbury, 10,378, and 1,024.
A meeting of the electors of Marylebone friendly to the return of Colonel Jones was held on Monday, at the Eastnor Castle' Somers Town. A motion to support the Colonel was carried, with four dissentients. The number of electors present is differently stated at 200 and 70. The four dissentients had conic from another meeting, with a . view to catechize the candidate; and one account describes them as/ drunk; they were very noisy and riotous.
A public dinner in celebration of the passing of the Reform Bills i4 announced to be held at the . Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, on Monday( next, for the whole district of the Tower Hamlets; Mr. Hume in thei chair.
A grand Reform dinner took place at Wimbledon on Thursday, in al field belonging to Mr. Lancaster of Nelson House. Three thousamt guests sat down; Mr. C. G. Pepys, M. P., presided.
meeting of the citizens to consider the propriety of a subscription for the erection of almshouses, in order to commemorate the passing of the Reform Bill. The requisition was' signed by two hundred individuals. erection of ouaninisanee to commemorate the removal of another does Tbis will be a mighty pretty sort of monument; a proposal for the
A requisition has been addressed to the Lord Mayor, to call a i credit .to theingenuity.of the ninives1 • . .
The Political, Union, at its ordinary meeting on Wednesday night came to the following resolution— That the Cantrell of the National Political Union view with indignation the coalition between Lords lngestrie and Mahon for the avowed purpose of ousting Mr. T. Duncombe from the borough of Hertford; that the Council toosider Mr. Duncombe to be a fit and proper person to be a member of a Reformed Parliament, from the spirit and honesty with which he has discharged his duties up. to the presenttime; it therefore
recommends to all members of the Union, and especially to those connected with the borough of Ilettford,io use their best exertions in support of the Liberal causeln that place, and in furtherance of the return of two friends -of the People, instead of the two Conservative Lordlings Ingestric and Mahon.
In moving this resolution, Mr. Wakefield mentioned, that Mr. Spalding, the other Liberal candidate, was friendly to the ballot. Mr. Wakefield also stated, that Lord Brougham had received some new light on the subject ; and no longer thought that the ballot would make "the whole of a man's life a lie." We believe he never was guilty of thinhing such incredible nonsense. The phrase was only meant to round a period.
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