13 MAY 1837, Page 10

L A correspondent, who has the best means of information, has

sup- plied us with the following summary of the causes of Mr. LEADER'S failure in Westminster.]

The Reformers have lost the election for Westminster,

.1st, Because their opponents had an excellent organization, begun walla view to Sir GEORG'? MURRAY'S diction; and they had no previous organiza- tion at all, and pending the election but a very imperfect arrangement. The hired agent of the Tories, Caouctmit—the same who had olgaiiized the City election for the Reformers in 18342—is a perfect artiste in his way, The Re- formers had no paid agent at all : they thought to have supplicil the place of or ganization by enthusiasm and impulse, as they had dooebefure; which proved to he a gross mistake. Because the wealthy chiefs of the Tory party agitated and canvassed with crithusiastn for their new convert ; while the chiefs of the NS lug party were, with a few creditable exeeptions, such as Sir lloshsAn FERGUSON, 111r. PAiLM ETU REX, Mr. FlossINs of Herefordshire, and one or two more, little better than neutral. They wished the success of Mr. LEADER, and they wrote and spoke favourably of him, because his cause was accidentally connected with their own political safety ; but the great mass of Whig influence was neutral and inert. The GREYS, the Russei.es, the CAvzsmise ES, took not the least share in the election. Maay of the Wh:gs were lukewarm, and a few positively boodle. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER and his son lent their names; but the far more attire influence of the eldest son, Lord GROSVENOR, and his lady, Oven to the Tories. Among the more active and stirring canvassers on es Tory side, may he mentioned, the Dutcheas of St. ALBAN's, Lady

GIOSVEN ,

-ori Lord .GROsVrNoit. the Honourable CECIL FORRESTER, BON • CA)' the Tory Whipper•in, Dis RA ELI the Younger, Colonel -PE arEVA L, LOrd SANDON, GEORGE DA wsoN, and WALTER of the Times. These pain•ts, to the number of fifty, sallied out of the Committee- rooms in pairs—to beg, or to demand, or to neutralize votes ; and intimidation has been practised to an unparalleled extent. The chief 'scene of this has been the parish of St.

George's, which contains about 3,200 voters ; of whom a great number of the flefoimers hail been neutralized, and a considerable number forced even to vote

for the Tory. Besides the ohl Reformers of the borough, the active 'old stirring friends t,f Mr. LEA 'mit among the gentry were almost all Radical Reformers, and generally persons of little lard influence ; such as Mr. GROTE, Mr. How- min EserossToNF, Mr. DIVETT of Exeter, Mr. JoiIN CRAwFURD of Wil- ton Crescent, Mr. HENRY GRATTAN, Mr. PARROT Of Toting's, &C.

3d, The prestige of Sir FRANcis BeRnETT's name has been useful to the Tories. It is very true that he has been abandoned toy all the leaders of his former party—for even Mr. De VEAR did not vote for him ; but the stupid or venal thu ; and of this class, the Reformers from the beginning of the con- test reckoned that he would get about 500. The gilded idol that the people of Wotminster had thr thirty years supposed to be gold, was nothing all along but brass; but after the baseness of the metal had been demonstrated by the clealest analysis, the image had still many stupid worshippers. 4th, The sitting of Parliament and the presence of the Aristocracy in town were of course favourable to the Tories,. Many Reformers who would have voted according to their consciences in the absence of the Tory gentry and nobility, were either neutralized or drawn over to the enemy by the direct in- fluence or intimidation exercised by their presence. • 5th, A great number of the R.:Meiners have been disfranchised through the Rite pang clauses, some by neglect of paying taxes themselves, and some by the neglect or bad faith of the tax•gatherers in not demanding them in time. Innumerable examples of this were brought before Mr. LEAnE it's Committee. Chiefly through this calm, the constituency of Westminster is reduced to little more than one half of what it was before the Reform Bill. The whole number probably does not at present inuell exceed 10,000; of which the greatest number which has polled since Is32 (that of Thursday) did not amount

to two thirds. The majority. which decided the contest (the Tory ma- jority of Sir F. Beans:TT) is about one-third of the electoral body;_ one-third isvittimahly disfranchised through the operation of that bad election.

law which inetunies the Money-paying clauses and e.veludes the Ballot. The soundness of the constituency of Westminster has probably been at all times overrated. The only contests were contests between Whigs and Tories; and the most numerous constituency in the kingdom of scot and lot voters gave a natural advantage to the more popular of the aristocratic parties. Sir FRA Nets Br It owed his success to the bail government of the first and the dereliction of principle of the last. When the Whigs and Tories coa- lesced in ISIS, Ihnutorsx was beaten, though 8,3C0 polled, by a majority of 600. The leal her of Reformers who now dare go to the poll is little more thou 3,000; which is 6110 short of what Iloartorsr polled on that occasion. 6th, Bribery has b, en alleged, and two or three strong cases were brought under the notice of Mr. LeAnER's Committee.