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ELECTIONS:A requisition is about to be signed at Liverpool, by

the friends of Mr. Huskisson, calling on that gentleman again to stand for- ward as the representative of the town. It is said that 31r. Brougham

is not unlikely to start in opposition to General Caseoyne. The Liver- pool people can hardly have forgotten the General's mited motions on the shipping interest, and in what a bright point of they placed the representative of the second commercial city in England Colonel Clay. ton, of the Cottage, has started for Great Marlow. The Colonel is a new candidate. The Orange Lodges of Derry are passing resolutions

against Mr. Dawson : he is, they say, unworthy the name of a Protest.

ant. Mr. T. A. Baynton has declared for York city, on the Protestant Ascendancy interest. Mr. H. Manias retires from Rochester ; the can-

didates are Lord Villiers,. Mr. R. Bernal, and Mr. Hughes Hughes-

whether for self, or self and brother, as in the case of the King's Col. lege, we are not informed. -Our contemporary, the Standard, says-

" Lord Milton intends to return himself for Peterborough; and Guilford is to be insulted by the solicitations of the Attorney-General. We can- not forget this was the borough which returned Algernon Sydney, the martyr of Protestantism, and the victim of those same legal doctrines which Sir James Scarlett has so strenuously endeavoured to enforce. We hope then that, if there be any independence in Guilford, this in- tended disgrace may be averted, and that the agent of the Welling. ton Administration in the persecution of freedom of the press may be rejected with disdain." Herttbrd is to be contested by Mr. Bulmer, Mr. Duncombe, and Lord Ingestrie.

Mr. William Smith retires from the representation of Norwich. Mr. Hanbury Gurney has been proposed as his successor, and a requisition of twelve hundred freeholders has been signed, inviting him to stand. Lord Milton, Mr. Mareball, and Mr.lVilson, retire from the expensive honour ,of representing Yorkshire ; and Colonel Brainston from the c.desperate imprudence" of contesting Essex. Sir George Warrender will, it is said, come in for Honiton, on the retirement of Mr. Lett. Sir George promises to support every motion for reduction of expenditure, and never to accept of office. Honiton used to be what is called a Trea- sury boroughs ; it now returns two independent members. Colonel Stewart retires, on account of ill health, from the representation of Tyrone : the new candidates are Sir James Strong and Sir Henry Stewart. The electors of Bridgewater, who return their members free of expense, have presented a respectable requisition to Mr. C. K. R. Tynte. Sir C. Cole retires . from Glamorgan, and Sir M. Shaw Stewart from Lanark. Sir Michael means to stand for Renfrew.

Among the recommendations to the notice of electors, that of the venerable agriculturist Mr. Coke is deserving of notice, for its singularity. He mentions that he voted on the address for putting an end to the first American war ! How many changes of members have occurred since then !

O'Connell, his friends say, has been choused out of Clare, by a pro- mise to Major Macnamara that he would not oppose the Major at this election. Every effort has been made to prevail on the gentleman to forego his vantage, but in vain.

A DANIEL COME TO JUDGMENT.-The freeholders of Colchester, resident in London, held a meeting, at which Mr. Harvey was present, on Tuesday last. When the usual toasts were over, Mr. Buck pro- posed a string of resolutions in favour of Mr. Harvey ; on which that gentleman stood forward to avow his intention of again standing, and to answer the objections of any to his past conduct. He was assailed by loud cries of "Harvey and the Corporation understand one another !'r -" Harvey wants to save his purse ! "-4 The burgesses of Colchester are not to go down " The meaning of the latter ambiguous exclama- tion, we may observe, is that they are not to be carried down t. for there has not been the slightest objection made on any hand to-their goings Mr. Harvey scouted the idea of his coalescing with the Corporation, to prevent a contested election. " A worthy burgess has just stated that it is my wish to prevent a contest for Colchester. I ask that .burgess if he ever looked to the Poll-Book of 1812, when the. contest lasted six days ; and when I took down from this room, after this Club had been established for more than a year, three hundred burgesses-only one hun- dred and sixty of whom remembered their promises to me-when I op- posed Thornton and Davis, neither of whom have had the firmness to present themselves again to the burgesses of Colchester ? Who, in 1816, drove Thornton from Colchester-or stood a protracted contest for the Recordership of that borough ? Who, in 1818, stood against Wright and Davis ?-iu 1820, against Sir H. Russell ?-and, in 1826, braved all who dared to come into the field ? You will find, let who will come intothe field, as long as I have a shilling in my purse, and a drop of blood in my heart, I will stand forward for the freedom of the burgesses. But it is said, I ought to bring forward another man. I ask you if it is my duty to do so ? "-The truth of the case is, Mr. Harvey gained his seat by a contested election. -The Corporation used to return two members, Ministerialists ; Mr. Harvey compelled them to return one who was not Ministerial. There the struggle ended. No independent man stood forward to oust the remaining member. Had that been the case, the worthy electors of Colchester, resident in London, would have been equally dissatisfied. What they desiderata is, not liberal or illiberal men, but men who will spend three or four thousand pounds every elec- tion in carrying them down to Colchester, keeping them there, eating and drinking, for a fortnight, and then bring them up again. On the subject of expenses, Mr. Harvey served up to the electors some truths

• more wholesome than palatable:-" Colchester, I can tell you, is not of sweet-smelling savour. Tierney, who stood in 1788, made sacrifices under which he reeled to the last hour of his life. Fordyce, the banker, fell a victim to his exertion. Thornton ended his days in a foreign country. Wildman was compelled to retire to his West India estates,

• and Davis to be pensioned on the public as a Commissioner of Excise. The time is gone by when men could be found to spend 15,0001. or 20,0001. to be returned to Parliament. The spirit of searching economy is abroad, and you must come down in the market. I say it now, if there he a contest I'll take you down ; but I declare frankly. I will not put myself to a needless expense for a needless purpose."-The terrible an- nouncement that the electors must come down instead of the member, inflamed the ire of the anti-Danielites beyond the power of repression. At length it was agreed, that all who were for Mr. Harvey should leave

• the room (the Kent and Essex Tavern, Whitechapel), and those who were against him should stay ; when it was discovered that the latter amounted to forty-four, and the former to somewhat above two hundred and fifty. This ocular proof of their insignificance seems to have pro- duced quiet, if not good-humour ; and the remainder of the evening was devoted to conviviality. Report says, that the borough of Colchester is for sale-the price 40001.!

Na. LONG WELLESLEY.-This famous personage has started for Essex. His canvass is said to have been hitherto eminently successful. In passing through Chelmsford, on Wednesday, a number of labourers took the horses out of his carriage, and drew him on his way to Brain- tree. "They expected," says the Chelmsford Chronicle, "an inside wetting,"-the rain had attended to their outsides-" but were disap- pointed." Mr. Wellesley thought it might injure his "quadrupeds • with two feet," to soak them through and through.

THE COMMON SERGEANT.-Mr. Denman has declared his intention • to stand once more for Nottingham. Lord Rancliffe retires " disgusted," he says " with the House of Commons."