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LONDON, MONDAY. EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1836.

NORTHAMPTON REFORM ASSO-

CIATION.

(From the Northampton Chronicle.)
Inspired by feelings of the most lively interest and plea-
sure, we are at length enabled to announce to our nume-
rous readers the formation of a Reform Association for the
borough ; the object of which we understand to be—the
protection of the Reform electors in the exercise of their
religious and civil rights and privileges ; for assuring upon
all occasions the most active, determined, and zealous co-
operation for collecting and consolidating the best and ear-
liest information on all subjects connected with the Parlia-
mentary, municipal, and parochial registrations and elec-
tions ; and for raising a standing fund, by means of dona-
tions and subscriptions, for the purpose of carrying the
above desirable object into effect. The Association is in-
tended to commence its operations on the Ist of January,
1837. An active Central Committee has been formed.
The division of the borough into wards under the Municipal
Act has been adopted by the committee, and a subdivision
into 11 districts has been deemed the most desirable. The
wards are to be under the management of district committees,
by which means the whole borough has been systematically
placed under most active and efficient superintendence.
A subscription has been commenced, which we are happy
to say is supported in a most liberal spirit. Truly these
are stiring times. The lion spirit of Reform is again
aroused, strengthening and emboldening itself for the ap-
proaching conflict. The next few months will indeed be
a period in British history surpassing, even that renowned
epoCh of the Reform Bill itself., We venture to prep' liesy,
at all events with respect to the Borough of Northampton,
that it will be replete with the most inspiring triumphs.
We do not feel it necessary to urge Reformer to their
duty in their great work, they feel its importance. They
have willed that Reform shall be triumphant. It will in-
deed be so. R. V. Smith and Raikes Currie, Esqs., will
assuredly, ere long, be the M. P.'s for the Borough of
Northampton. The state of the Register fully justifies
our assertions ; and the cold and spiritless demeanour of
the Tories fully bears us out. The rancorous, abusive,
bitter, low, vulgar misrepresentations of the Northampton
Herald fully corroborate the fact. Charles Ross, Esq.,
as M. P. for the Borough of Northampton, we shall very
soon bid you an everlasting Farewell!

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

COURSING.
DEPTFORD INN MEETING.
The Cup.

Second Ties—Breastknot beat Winder ; Gala beat Heirloom.
Deciding Course—Breasitknot beat Gala, and won the Cup ;
Gala the Sovereigns.
Derby.
Second Tics—Lifeguard beat Geofrey Gumbano; Beelzebub ran
a bye.
Mr. Locke and Mr. Biggs divided the stakes.
Oaks.

Second Ties—Pamela ran a bye ; Firefly beat Blot.
Deciding Course—Firefly beat Pamela, and won the stakes.
Beaten Dog Stakes.
Ties—Mr. Fleetwood's Flapdragon beat Mr. Etwall's Elsler ;
Mr. Biggs's Blythesome ran a bye ; Mr. Locke's Echo drawn.
Deciding Course—Blythsome beat Flapdragon, and won the
stakes.

Berwick Puppy Stakes.
Ties—Mr. Biggs's Bravery ran a bye ; Mr. Etwall's Elfwitch
beat Mr. Gondlake's Nebuchadnezzar.
Deciding Course—Elfwitch beat Bravery, and won the stakes.
Codford Stakes.

Deciding Course—Mr. Goodlake's Glee beat Mr. Etwall's Lap-
wing, and won the stakes.

Matches.
Mr. Wyndham's Wildfire beat Captain Delme's Dicebox ; Mr.
Wyndham's Woodbine beat Mr. Goodlake's Charcoal.

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Surrey Fox Hounds on Thursday at the Joliffe Arms,
Chersham ; Saturday, at Hamsey Green—half-past 10.
The Surrey Harriers on Saturday at the Kennel at Coombe—
half-past 10.
The Vine Hounds on Wednesday at Paul's Wood; Saturday, at
Furze Bush—half-past 10.
Mr. Giles's Hounds on Friday at Horn House Lodge-10.
Mr. D. Radcliffe's Hounds on Wednesday at Tewin Green ; Fri-
day, at Bucket Wood—half-past 10.
Mr. Dalyell's Hounds on Wednesday at the Jack; Saturday, at
Throcking—half-past 10.
The Duke of Beaufort's Hounds on Wednesday at Kingston St.
Michael's; Friday, at Shipton Wood; Saturday, at Rudminton
Lawn—half-past 10.
The Atherstone Hounds on Thursday at Fisherwick ; Saturday, at
Coton House-:llquarter to 11.
Mr. Errington's Hounds on Saturday at Wartneby—qr. to 11.
Mr. Drake's Hounds on Thursday at Barton Common; Saturday,
at Rycote Kennel—half-past 10.
The Heythorp Hounds on Thursday at Boulter's Barn ; Friday,
at Tangley--10.
Mr. Musters's Hounds on Wednesday at Gedling ; Thursday, at
Ennerton Wood ; Saturday, at Adbottom—half-past 10r
Mr. Payne's Hounds on Wednesday at Misterton; Friday, at
Cottesbrook ; Saturday, at Duston—qr. to 11.
The Duke of Grafton's Hounds on Wednesday at Furzen Field ;
Friday, at Creslew—half-past 10.
Sir J. Flower's Harriers on Saturday at Bridgham-11.
Mr. Bagge's Harriers on Friday at Bartlemy Hills-11.
'The Knapton Harriers on Friday at Swafield Duke-11.
The Oakley Hunt on Thursday at Hale Weston ; Saturday, at
Astwood—qr. to 11.
The Essex and Suffolk Hounds on Friday at Callawade-street7lo.

Colonel H. yndham's Hounds on Wednesday at Thakenham ;
Friday, at Fisher's-street ; Saturday, at Lisgate Common—hf-p.lO.
Mr. Leche's Hounds on Friday at Sam Bridge-10.
The Holderness Fox Hounds on Wednesday at Burton Agnes ;
Thursday, at Houghton ; Saturday, at Lockington-11.
The Winnstay Hounds on Friday at Porkington-11.
Mr. Foljambe's Hounds on Wednesday at Apley Head ; Friday,
at the Kennel—half-past 10.
Sir C. Constable's Hounds on Friday at Halshatn—ll.
The Raiford Hounds on Thursday at Oxton Warren ; Saturday,
at 011erton Corner—half-past 10.
The Hambledon Hounds on Wednesday at Basing Park ; Friday,
at Hollywell House—half-p. 10.
The N. F. H. on Wednesday at Hunter's Inn ; Friday, at Cowes-
field Green ; Saturday, at Vinney Ridge—half-past 10.
The H. H. on Thursday at Candover Church ; Saturday, at
Preston Oakhills-10.

Mr. Wyndham's Hounds on Thursday at Hook Farm—hf-p.lO.
Mr. Codrington's Hounds on Friday at Sherrington Pond-10.
The Craven Hounds on Wednesday at Henswood ; Friday, at the
Hare and Hounds, Lambourn Woodlands ; Saturday, at Ash House
—half-p. 10.
Mr. Moreton's Hounds on Wednesday at Salthrop House; Friday,
at Ruseott—half-past 10. _ _

_ . .
Mr. Farquharson's Hounds on Thursday, at Warmwell House ;
Friday, at Buckland Wood.
The Burton Vale Hounds on Friday at Landshire Lane Gate.

Mr. Hall's Hounds on Wednesday at King Weston Inn ; Satur-
day, at Yarnfield' Gate ; Tuesday, at Redlynch Gate—half-past 10.
The Somers-et Subscription Fox Hounds on Friday at Nettle-
combo "Kennelhalf-past 10.
The Chesterfidld Hariers on Friday at Barlbro' Common-10.
The Sandbeck Fox Hounds on Wednesday at Eekington ; Friday,
at Stainton—half-past 10.
The Badsworth Hounds on Thursday at Owston ; Saturday, at
Bretton Village—half-past 10.
The Ludlow Hounds on Friday at Milson Wood ; Tuesday, at
Little Hereford' Turnpike ; Friday, at the Old Field-10.
The Herefordshire Hounds on Friday at Moddiford ; Tuesday, at
Bredwardine-10.

The Lambton,Hounds on Thursday at Great Stainton ; Saturday,
at Whin Houses-11.

The Inglewood Hounds on Thursday at Nawortli Gate; Satur-
day, at Brampton; Monday, at the Beacon; Thursday, at Seberg-
ham-10.

TheWigton Harriers on Wednesday at Oulton; Friday,at Bampton.
The East Sussex Hounds on Wednesday at Isfield Bridge ; Thurs-
day, at Five Ash Down Commnii ; Saturday, at Street Green ;
Monday, at 13royle Windmill- -qr. to 11.
The Hastings Hounds ea Friday at Westfield Down-10.
The Hastings Harriers on Wednesday at Cooden Barn ; Friday,
at Filsham Farm--half-past 10.
Mr. S. Owen's Hounds on Wednesday at Acton Bunnell; Friday,
at Boreattou ; Monday, at Cruckton Hall ; Wednesday, at Pitch-
ford ; Friday, at Atcham—hf-past 10.
The Duke of Rutland's Hounds on Wednesday at Piper's Hole ;
Friday, atLenton—half-past 10.
Mr. Fovrles's Beagles on Friday at Higham on the Hill—hf-p.lO.

A storm of unusual violence, passed over the neigh-
bourhood of Peterborough, on Monday last, the rain fell in
torrents, accompanied by thunder and lightning ; and at
Watton, hailstones, or more properly speaking, pieces of ice
fell, some of them about an inch in diameter.—Northampton
Chronicle. _ _

The tools of Lord Exeter in the Town Council of
Stamford have conceded to him the right of controlling the
market ;—thus affecting the interest of private property in
the town to the amount of half-a-million. The sapient in-
struments of aristocratic domination took the opinion of an
eminent barrister upon the question, and although that opi-
nion was extremely favourable to thei right of the Corpora-
tion, they were afraid to act upon t ; and the independence
of the inhabitants found only five supporters, viz. Messrs.
Ashby, Hopkinson, W. Hunt, Newcomb, and Fish. Seven
of the Councillors were ashamed to vote away their own
rights, but being afraid of the Burleigh influence, they de-
clined voting.—Lincoln Gazette.
Dr. Sigmond and Mr. Pettigrew have given notice
to Dr. Golding and Mr. Robertson of their intention on
the first day of the ensuing term to move the Court of
King's Bench for a mandanws, calling on them to show
cause why the former gentlemen should not be re-instated
in the offices of Physician and Surgeon to the Charing-
cross Hospital. Legal steps will also be taken against the
officers of the hospital, for refusing to show the laws to Mr.
Pettigrew, who is a Governor. A Requisition, duly signed,
has been sent" in, demanding a meeting of Governors, to
take into their consideration the general state of the Insti-
tution.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 1.
The General Association met this afternoon at three
o'clock, when the Chair was taken by Peter Purcell, Esq.
After a large number of members had been admitted, and
a number of subscriptions handed in, Mr. O'CONNELL en-
tered the room, and was received with loud cheers. He
then proceeded to read several letters, congratulating the
Association on its success.

Mr. O'CONNELL having concluded reading, said :
I must again express my dissatisfaction at the conduct of
my Lord Plunket. The beach is already filled with Tory
magistrates, and, instead of counteracting the evil, by the
appointment of men of Liberal principles, hels daily adding
to the bad, whilst he refuses us the good.—(Hear, hear.)
I say it is most lamentable that the present Administration,
which entertains the best intentions towards Ireland, should
be betrayed by the timidity, I will add the bad feeling, of
my Lord Plunket. What does he mean by adding Orange-
men to the magistracy? Why, if my Lord Plunket was
an Orange Chancellor under a Tory Government, I defy
him to act worse than he is now doing. The appointment of
such men is a crying grievance—it is a grievance which has
been complained of by Administrations more than once, and
in the present Parliament Mr. Rice demonstrated clearly the
injuries resulting from such magisterial appointments, and
yet, after we have had a Reform Government for five or six

years, instead of the magistracy being purified, or the evil
which already existed being corrected by the appointment
of Liberal magistrates, I declare to heaven that nothing can
be worse than the state of the magistracy at present.—
(Hear, hear.) The people ought not to conceal their in-
dignation at this paltry, miserable conduct on the part of
my Lord Plunket. He does not shrink from appointing his
personal friends, and surely he ought not to shrink from
appointing the friends of the people.—(Hear.)
Mr. LAWLESS had to give notice of a motion for a vote
of thanks to Mr. O'Connell and to Mr. Dickson, for the
splendid talent, the consummate learning, and the spirit dis-
played by both these gentlemen in the course of the last
few days in the Court of Exchequer, in vindication of the
laws of the country.

Mr. O'CoNNELL—I will certainly oppose any such a
motion, should it be brought forward. I pleaded in the
cause in question merely as a barrister, and the exertions of
a barrister are not to be made the subject of a public de-
bate. If the people think that I did my duty on the occa-
sion, I am satisfied--that is a sufficient reward for me.—

(Loud cheers.)
Mr. BOYSE then said, when I had the honour, on
Thursday last, of presenting myself to this Association,
there was so much business of importance to be transacted
that I could not find a pause in the proceedings to give
notice of my intention to move the resolution with which
I shall conclude to-day. That resolution has reference to
the memorable words used by my Lord Lyndhurst, in the
House of Lords last session, when he designated the great
majority of the people of this country " aliens in blood,
aliens in language, and aliens in religion."—(Hear.) It
has been to me a matter of considerable surprise that,
during the long interval which has elapsed since this As-
sociation was established, none of the gentlemen who have
been in the habit of attending its sittings should have an-

ticipated the suggestion which I am now about to propose
for adoption. Sir, our resentment is vented against a
man, though he has sinned much, is, I commend, in one
respect 'at least, entitled to the gratitude of the people
of Ireland ; for by his contumelious rejection of the people
of Ireland from the pale of the Constitution, he has rendered
himself the founder, if not at least one of the founders of
this Association, and has qualified himself to share with my
Hon. and Learned Friend near me the honour of its pa-
ternity. Thus we see that the progress of human affairs
!mod may be often elicited from evil ; for my Lord Lynd-
hurst, when he was about to use those insulting terms, little
thought that they were destined to become the germs of a
great and powerful body like this.—(Continued cheering.)
The Noble Lord has endeavoured to explain these words
away ; but I ask you if it is possible that they could bear
any other construction than their plain literal meaning ? It
is impossible to attach to them any figurative meaning ; in
short, it requires as much cool assurance to insult the
public intellect by an attemdt to explain them as it did to
utter them. I recollect about a year ago, that in this city
a would-be political, as well as religious leader, gave this
advice to his followers—.

" Put your trust in God, my boys,
And keep your powder dry."
Now, with a slight alteration, I would give this advice to
the people of Ireland
Put trust in God and Mulgrave, boys,
And put your powder by."—( Loud cheers.)
We will put our trust in that man who has been tried and
never found wanting in the cause of justice and good go-
vernment—who lives in the affections of a grateful and
admiring people—and whose memory (while that of Lord
Lyndhurst, as my honourable friend expressed it, stinks in
our nostrils) will descend to posterity, honoured and blessed
by succeeding generations, until history becomes silent and
patriotism forgotten. Mr. Boyse concluded, amid great
cheering, by reading and moving the adoption of the follow-

ing resolution -
" That it having been ascertained that Lord Baron
Lyndhurst has asserted in his place, as a Member of
Parliament, that the great and overwhelming majority of
the Irish people are aliens in blood—aliens in language—
and aliens in religion' from the British people, we do deem
it a sacred duty solemnly, and in the face of the entire
British nation, to proclaim our deep conviction, that the
said Lord Lyndhurst is an enemy at one and the same time
to the peace of Ireland—to the stability of the connexion
between these countries—to the liberty of the people, and to
the safety of the throne."—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. O'CONNELL then rose amidst loud applause, and
said, I rise, Sir, with the greatest alacrity to second the
motion of Mr. Boyse, and if the audacious and insolent
language of Lord Lyndhurst had no other effect than that
of producing the speech just now addressed to you, I would
congratulate the people of Ireland on its having that effect
alone.—( Hear.) It has been denied by Lord Lyndhurst
that he used the offensive terms ; but, Sir, I myself was
present, and heard him speak them ; multitudes heard
him ; and we have had above all my Lord John Russell
confirmed, by his important testimony in the House of
Commons, that he heard these expressions used by Lord
Lyndhurst ; and yet against all this Lyndhurst has had
the audacity, the paltry meanness to come down, and in
offering an explanation has recorded sentiments which he
rendered worse than the language be first used.—(Hear,
hear.) There is nothing which we should not do to pre-
vent the base and tyrannizing Tories from again coming
into office. But, let me ask, Sir, what is, or who is
this Lord Lyndhurst—is he one of the current nobility
of England ? I should like to know if he is one of those
who are called the Shaksperian nobility. Is his name
amongst those which are to be found in the plays of
that immortal poet ?—(Hear, hear.) I do not think he
has ever been heard of amongst them—(Hear)—or is
his title one of the time of the Tudors—or is he one
of the Elizabethean nobility ?—(Laughter.) No, no ;if
his pedigree could be traced, I rather believe he is
one of the Cromwellian invaders of this country, and
I fancy it would be foUnd that his ancestors came over here
as a drummer or fifer in Cromwell's army, slaughtering, but
not conquering. But there is no such thing as tracing the
ancestry of this personage till we come to his father, whom
we find to be a respectable painter—a painter of likenesses
to the life, for there is a difference between the pictures
which are drawn by my Lord Lyndhurst and those which
his father painted. The latter drew from nature ; but the
son painted his pictures, in a style the very reverse of the
reality.—(Hear and cheers.) My Lord Lyndhurst was, to
be sure, an adventurous lawyer—and no blame to him.
Well, but what is he ? He was, I believe, born in America,
at least he spent his youth and part of his manhood there,
and his opinions, from his connection with the Americans,
were theoretically republican, and it is well known that
there are hundreds living who shrunk from any association
with him on account of his Jacobin principles.--IHear ,
hear.) It is said when Napoleon returned from Elba,
Lyndhurst sported a tricoloured cockade—that tricolour
which was no favourite amongst the English. There never
was anything more decisive of Copley's Jacobin principles
than his conduct when he first came into Parliament ; he
was then one of the most violent partisans of the principles
of Republicanism—he was then one of the worst and most
indomitable species of that class ; but I never yet have
known one of your exaggerated Republicans that could
be Pon—your Feargus O'Connor Republicans, who
is one eornelied u
of those kind which the French usually term, des
!uwires faux.----(Hear.) They never yet could be reckoned
or relied upon. But with respect to Lyndhurst, he was not
six months in Parliament when he became a slave of the
Ministry of the day. He was first an ultra-Jacobin—he was
then against Catholic emancipation—when presto, the ropes
were pulled, and he became the strenuous supporter of the
principle of the Catholic claims.—(Hear.) But what is he,
I demand ? He is just as void of property as he is of prin-
ciple. He is a state pauper—he has not one penny of his
own—he has 'no property in the world, except his pension
for having been the Chancellor of the Tories whilst they
were in office.—(Hear.) [Here a gentleman from the chair