ELECTION TALK.

• BERKSHIRE.—Among the various certificates to character given to Mr. Philip Posey of Pusey, the following, from the pen of Colonel Evans, is by far the-most satisfactory. We recommend it to the serious perusal of such of the electors as entertain any doubts of that gentle- : . man's qualifications as a public servant. The Colonel, who dates from Newbury, October 5, says- . e I have been rather surprised, during my stay here. to learn that Mr. Pusey has been supposial by some to stand fur the representation of Berkshire on the ground of being a Reformer. Thinking the composition of the next Parliament of incalculable Importauce to the welfare of the country. it seems at iresent peculiarly incumbent on all who take part in public :inks, to assist in obstructing the return, at the ensuing election, of unsuitable candidates. As an amiable and well-informed gentleman, not a word, that I am asure of, can be uttered against Mr. Posey ; but as a inditickut or mem- ber of the House of Commons. I know no class of persons so obooxions—so injurious to the general interests—as that to which Mr. Posey belongs. They declare for lieform In the abstract, but in practice oppose it with :di their might, and more effectually than any other party. They admit all our 'treatises against the more glaring abuses; but protest to their utmost, and with an astonishing bitterness autl zeal, against each site- chic measure brought forward fin their removal. This is the party under %those inge- 1110115 and specious sophistries the spiritle,s, the interest:Aiwa the hypocritical among voters may best take refuge. Speak of Reform, ;nut they entirely agree tvith yen; but attempt to carry it into execution, and you are met by flu cry of Mill and spoliation. To the Ultra-Tories of Berkshire, whose great object must, of course, be to Istifle the hopes of the People—to render the Reform Bill a dead letter—I would strongly recom- mend Mr. Posey; nay, even if the redoubled Sir C. Wetherell should appear as his op- ponent; fur, without intending it, Mr. Pew', will promote their (Avers much better titan even that learned and celebrated personage. The a .cident of being in this part of the county for a few days has occasioned this letter. 1 have had special reasons for speaking to the public conduct of Mr. Posey—locally and generally—in the senate and on the hustings I have seen him the stanch supporter, in pract me, exist- ing abuses. Twice he has opposed my attempts to open the close borough of Rye, and to carry reform iutu the Cinque Ports. I could have forgiven hint the first time—he . might have been drawn into the contest it:advertently : on the last occasion. I ti.ought It gratuitous. This is my justification for appealing against hint to all those of the con- stituency of Berkshire who believe that any extensive measures of relief ought to be nought for as the fruit of the long. painful, and glorious struggle iu which the country has lately been engaged."

By the by, we bear that the " Poor Man's Magistrate" is secure. There ate considerable doubts, however, of Mr. Throcktnorton's re- turn,—chiefly by reason of his inaction ; he beat Palmer before, and nqw bids fair to be beaten both by Palmer and his humble friend.

In the present canvass through this county, we are informed, upon undoubted authority, of an individual—and that individual a lady too—sending to a butcher (a voter) an order for roasting beef, boiling beef, mutton, &c., amounting to upwards of 801bs. At the foot of the order was added the strongest intimation, addressed to the voter's self- interest, that it was expected the butcher would place his votes entirely at the disposition of the customer. This was buying votes, not by the pound sterling, but by the pound avoirdupois.—Readiny Mercury.

BRISTOL.—The Standard announces, that at a meeting, " the most numerous and respectable that, had been held for the last twenty-five years," a requisition was unanimously agreed to calling on Sir Richard Aryvyan to stand as a candidate. Why not Sir Charles Wetherell ? The "great movement" of the Country began in Bristol—it is right it should end there.

CARDIFF Bonotrons.—Lord James Stuart, the Reform member, has been forbidden by Lord Bute to stand for the district. Lord Bute and Lord Jersey met, together with others, at the Duke of Beaufort's; when it was determined to put forward a Conservative candidate (a son of Sir J. Nicholl) in the place of Lord James. A gentleman of Re- form principles, however, will start as his opponent.— Times.

CHESTER.—There are symptoms of a contest here, both for the -county and city. For the latter,- Lord R. Grosvenor will certainly be re-elected. His colleague, Mr. Maddocks, will be opposed by Mr. Jervis, a banister ; who has already made, as he says, a very successful -canvass. The candidates for the Southern division are the present members, Earl Grosvenor and Mr. Wilbraham. The latter, however, will be opposed by Sir Philip Grey Egerton. on the Conservative in- terest. He has already entered upon his canvass, with a long train of the Tory squirearchy at his heels ; but he has met but with indifferent success in this hundred. On the 5th, Mr. Wilbraham addressed the county electors resident in Chester in the large room at the Royal Hotel, and met a most enthusiastic reception. In answer to it question . by Mr. Hostage, who begged to know whether the honourable member would assist the Dissenters and Catholics of England in getting rid of that odious and insulting burden, Mr. Wilbraham said—" That is cer- tainly a trying question, but I will not shrink from it. I have not now considered it for the first time ; and I cannot give you a more lucid, and at the same time more concise, view of my opinions than in adopting the words of Lord Bacon on the same subject : ' That inert should live of the flock they do not feed, or of the altar which they do not serve, is a thing that can hardly receive just defence.' As to tithes, I look upon them as a partial and unfair tax, operating most injuriously upon improve ment in agriculture, and directly tending to produce a state of feeling that ought never to exist between a pastor and his parishioners ; and if any plan can be devised to obviate these evils, and at the same time pro- tect the interests of the Church, it shall have my warmest support."

COVENTRY.— The Coventry Herald says, that the result of the canvass of Re voters on behalf of Messrs. Ellice and Bulwer is highly satisfactory; and that of the whole number of electors, three-fourths are supporters of those gentlemen. Upwards of 300 voters have been objected to ; of which mintier, 191 are by Messrs. Fyler and Thomas, the opposing candidates, and 107 by Messrs. Ellice and Bulwer.

CRICKLADE.—.It is calculated that the Reform Bill has increased the number of voters for this borough from 1,300.to about 2,000; and it is understood that the Tory patron of it has actually caused no less than 500 notices of objection to be served, not only on the Reformers (many of the highest respectability.), but on all whom he supposes inimical to his interest, the majorityof whose qualifications to vote is indisputable. But this is not all ; for with these notices of objection he has delivered. as many notices of claim, from persons who have no more pretensions to vote than the King of Rome—very many of them paupers. The

most amusing part of the business, however, is the manner in which these notices were manufactured, signed, and served. One or two fellows were employed to sign them in blank; they were afterwards filled up, and, in order to conceal the scheme, messengers were not despatched to deliver them till the 25th (the last day) ; and, owing to the distance some of the messengers had to travel, they could not perform

their duty without calling some of the Overseers from their beds, and in some instances not till the morning of the 26th.

DEVONSHIRE, Soirrst—The Tory candidate, Mr. Buller, was can- vassing, some days since, an honest tradesman not many miles from the hundred of Lifton ; and, in company with a neighbouring squire, he so- licited a plumper. The tradesman refused this, and answered, that he should never have had a vote but for the kind efforts of Lord John Russell, and he could not in conscience think of using that suffrage which his Lordship had obtained for him against him. We are glad to say that there are, in the Southern division, many as honest and grate- ful as this tradesman.— Western Times.

The strong point attempted to be made against Lord John Russell is his opposition to the 50/. clause ; and so mortally stupid are the te- nants-at-will, that the Tory argument is not without its effect. At Honiton the other day, Lord John noticed it rather happily-

" Let us see," said be, " what these friends of the farmers say : they say, 'These are excellent men—vast property—much good sense--patriotic and en- lightened men—they ought by all means to have a vote.' What do they mean by this ? That they should have an opinion as to the fitness of the candidates? .No, not qtaite that ; let them have votes—their names should be posted at the church-door—they are worthy of all honour; but as to having an opinion or judgment of their own, that is rather too much. No—we cannot go so far as amt.' Does not this remind you, gentlemen, with very little alteration, of the fable of the old man and the horse? We may suppose the man saying to the horse, You are a beautiful animal—your speed is admirable; just let use put this little ornament on your back, and this on yourhead, and you will he perfect.' But when be has put on these—in vulgar language, a saddle and bridle—the horse finds to his cost that he was praised only to be made a slave."

ESSEX, NORTIL—The great Mr. Baring was hooted off at Bishop's Stortford, the other day: compelled to make another turn—a turn back ! Mr. Wadd of Royston had the merit of this turn. The Mil- lionaire essayed a reply ; but was drowned with cries of "Put on your hat, and go home ;" and he put on his hat, and went as he was desired. It may be worthy of recollection, that Mr. Baring's was the first name to the original requisition calling upon Mr. Hume to stand for Mid- dlesex.

Sir F. Vincent addressed the electors at Colchester on Saturday, call- ing upon them to show their gratitude for past services, by supporting their old and tried friend, Mr. Western, and urging them not to promise their second vote to any one at present. —Essex Mercury.

EVESIIAM.—Mr. Hudson is canvassing on Liberal principles, with every prospect of success.

HAMPSHIRE, SOUTIL—The requisitions which have been forwarded to Lord Palmerston and Sir G. T. Staunton, requesting them to offer themselves for the representation of the Southern division of this county, were signed by 772 electors.—Portsmouth Herald.

LAMBETH.—On Monday evening, a meeting of the friends of Mr. Moore, one of the candidates for the new borough of Lambeth, was held at the Horns, Kennington. The Chairman, Mr. John Richard- son, stated the object of the meeting to be to give the electors of that district an opportunity of declaring whether they would support Mr. Moore. There were present three of the candidates now in the field,— Mr. Moore, Mr. Tennyson, and Mr. Hawes. A resolution. was passed expressing a high opinion of Mr. Moore's qualifications for representing the borough in Parliament, and declaring their determination to give him their support.

Mr. Hawes met the electors, on Wednesday, at the -Rockingham Arms. The following remark, in the commencement of Mr. Hawes's address, is striking and just--

It had been said that nations, like men, had their periods of youth, man- hood, old age, and decay, and, as we flourished, so must we expect our period of depression, like other countries; but he would observe, that no nation which had ever fallen front an elevated position had enjoyed the powerful agency of a free press, disseminating all opinions, however opposite, and out of the war and conflict of such opinions eliciting political truth. Whilst we possessed such an engine, we might look for a species of political immortality. He trusted that the time would come when we should find it expedient to hide no- thing, and discover that the more the principles and actions of a Government were ex-posed to observation the better. He hoped it would yet become axio- matic, that all truth was innocent, and that the greatest safety lay in the most extensive circulation. This principle had been warred against for the last fifty years by the Tories, whose object it was to benefit their party and not the pub- lic, bui he now looked forward to a new era. LANCASHIRE.—According to a statement in the Manchester Chronide, there are forty-five candidates for the representation of the different bo- roughs in Lancashire,—namely, Ultra-Tories, 7; Liberal Tories and Whigs, 19; Ultra-Whigs, 11; Radicals, 8. At Oldham Mr. B. H. Bright has started in opposition to Mr. Cobbett He is the son of an opulent banker and merchant at Bristol, and brother of the late member for that city. At Preston, a strong rally is to be made by the respect- able part of the inhabitants and the leading manufacturers against Mr. Hunt and his protegi, Captain Forbes. One of the candidates for Salford, Mr. Brotherton, belongs to a sect which interdicts its disciples from the use of animal food.

Maneow.—There has been some bustle in our borough, occasioned by the sudden appearance yesterday morning [Monday] of our Tory member, Mr. Williams, accompanied by old Mr. Wethered, the brewer, and two or three attorneys and clerks, making a regular canvass from door to door, beginning at the top of High Street, and going all round the town. Our party designations here are, the Coppers, or Tories, supporters of Williams, and the Blues, Reformers, who support Colonel Clayton ; the former being under the management and absolute control of Mr. Wethered, the brewer. With this alarm existing in the Tory camp, a considerable sensation was created by the arrival of Mr. Young, of the Home Office, who called upon some of our most influential Blues ; and, without announcing himself as a candidate, made known to them his opinions ; and, in return, received from us assurances ofour cordial good wishes, and eager readiness to support a Reformer in op- position to the Coppers. Mr. Young appeared to be much pleased with his reception.— Globe. MIDDLESEX.—Mr. Hume, having received a requisition to visit En- field, fixed on Monday for the purpose ; when he addressed the elec- tors at considerable length. He was received and heard with much ap- parent satisfaction; and a resolution was passed pledging the meeting to

. . vé him their Utmost support, md exért themselves to secure his re- election to the Reformed Parliament free of expense. Mr. Hume mentioned, in the course of his speech; "that the requisition to Lord Henley had been got up by three parsons, five, half-pay officers, two doctors, and two attorneys. The Chairman stated, that the clergyman of Enfield had opposed the meeting; and that he had a very good reason— he received 1,8001. a year for doing nothing, and his curate 801. a year for doing all.

Mr. Hume was at Staines yesterday. The meetino.a is only worth noticing for the opposition made by Sir John Gibbons to Mr. Home's health, at the dinner that followed. We were not aware that gentle- men went to dinners given on political occasions unless they were friendly to their object. Sir John Gibbons was followed by his son, 111r, Gibbons : they appear to have made a family concern of it. Gibbons junior objected to Mr. Hume for his vote on the Russian Loan, his speech on the Cholera, and his presiding at the Union din- ner. Mr. Hume having in answer said he must give the "lie direct" to one of these charges, the valorous Gibbons bounded across the table— to interchange cards, the Chronicle reporter surmises—in the presence of only two or three hundred witnesses ! He was appeased by Mr. Hume telling him that the "lie direct" was not addressed to Mr. Gibbons, but to the story he told at second-hand. A Mr. Wood, son of Colonel Wood, afterwards charged Mr. Hume with voting five hundred mil- lions to the Emperor of Russia ! Was he not a member of a Political Union? Mr. Hume answered—" Of nine." The resolution of sup- port was opposed by eleven hands only. PORTSMOUTII.—Captain Napier, cousin of the officer whose work on the Peninsular War is so generally admired and read, has olfered him- self as a candidate for the representation of this town on the pure Radical interest. His principal opponent is one of the present mem- bers, Mr. Francis Baring—for the return of Mr. Carter is considered quite certain. A gentleman named Walker, a Lieutenant in the Navy, has just put forth a placard which calls on the gallant Captain to attend a public meetino-b this evening [Monday], in order that his merits as a candidate for Portsmouth may be fully discussed. Lieutenant Walker appeals to the electors to return Sir T. Hardy, Sir P. Malcolm, or the Honourable G. Elliot, in preference to Captain Napier ; whom, by the way, lie designates as Captain Bobadil.—Correspondent (few Globe.

SOUTIIWARK.—Mr. B. Allen met a party of his friends on Thursday evening, at the Anti-Gallican, in Tooley Street. He is opposed to tithes, taxes on knowledge, and he thinks the Poor-laws require amend- ment.

SORRY, EAST.—The freeholders intend, it is said, to invite Mr. Penrhyn, present member for Shaftesbury, to stand for this division.

TOWER HAMLETS.—Captain Marryatt met a party of the electors on Wednesday, at the Court-house in Osborne Street, Whitechapel. He was introduced by Mr. F. Young; who described Captain Marryatt as a Reformer, and the "hero of a hundred fights." What additional facilities his hundred fights were to give him in the making of laws, Mr. Young did not state. '

Captain Marryatt stated his pretensions to the character of a Re- former. He had written a pamphlet on the necessity of doing away impressment ; be had stood a contest for Tregony, where he was al- most killed ; "he thought agriculture, in common with manufactures, commerce, shipping, and every other department of British capital and industry, ought to be protected ;" that corn and every thing else should be protected to the amount of the State burdens they bore at home ; that sinecures and pensions and monopolies should be abolished, saving only the Bank and East India monopolies ; that the slaves should not be immediately emancipated, and that compensation should be given ; lastly, which clinches the gallant Captain's title as a Re- former, he has invented a code of signals, by which hundreds of lives and thousands of property have been saved. To a question about triennial Parliaments, Captain Marryatt replied, that he considered them more constitutional than septennial Parliaments, but he would pledge himself to nothing : he, however, expressed himself friendly to the removal of the newspaper-tax, to the imposition of a property-tax, the reduction of the assessed taxes, the abolition of pluralities, and the continuance of tithes.

A Mr. Mitchell endeavoured to move a resolution against the

"hero of a hundred fights ;" and the attempt led to one fight more, of which the Captain was again the hero,—for his party contrived to knock Mr. Mitchell down, and to expel him from the room. He got back, but the victorious party were too strong for him ; and an amend- ment by Mr. Thomas Wilson, ci-d.evant member for the City, was carried,7tliat Captain Marryatt was a fit and proper man to represent the Tower Hamlets.

So says the account published by Mr. F. Young and the other

friends of the "hero." A correspondent of the Globe gives a different version. He says- " After Mr. Young left the chair, a gentleman addressed the electors (about eight hundred in number) on the conduct of the Chairman who had declared that the resolution in favour of Captain Marryatt was carried an overwhelm- ing majority, when, in fact, the majority was decidedly against the resolution, none having supported it but his partisans whom he brought down with him from the City, and who for the most . part were non-electors. A counter- resolution was then proposed and adopted, amidst loud cheers. The supporters of the gallant Captain consisted of about one hundred and fifty gentlemen, West India merchants, captains, sugar-brokers, and others in the Colonial trade. Among them were many who signalized themselves • in the recent brutal at.• tempts' at anti-slavery meetings."

On Wednesday, Dr. Lushington had another interview with the electors of the same district, at the National School-room, Quaker

Street, Spitalfields ; which was again attended by Mr. Scales. Mr. Scales made a strenuous attempt to prevent the Doctor from being

heard, though not quite so successfully as on the last occasion when these two met and parted. The most novel of the charges brought against the Doctor on Wed- nesday, by his slaughtering opponent, were—that he had antedated, by six years, the Privilege of Parliament Bill, from private pique against Lord Westmeath; and that he had pleaded the general issue to Mr.

Walker's prosecution for the libel that appeared in the Mirror of Par- liament two years ago.

We care as little for Dr. Lushington's success as for Mr. Alderman

.Seales's logic ; but it Woad be well for the electors themselves to-con- sider, whether the travelling about of the latter, for the purpose of pro.. 'clueing interruption wherever the former may happen to meet them, tends to promote their objects. Personal canvass and district canvass are intended, when rightly understood, to enable the electors to knciw, and thus wisely to choose, the best two men who are candidates for their votes. The more opportunities that are given to the candidates of Making themselves known; the better for the electors. If one man or any munber of inen, who happen not to like this or that candidate, persist in following him all over the borough, and in preventing him from 'making his sentiments known, they very much injure as well as insult the electors of the different districts into which they intrude themselves. Mr. Alderman Scales has an unquestionable right, in his own quarter, to oppose the Doctor as keenly as he pleases; but he has no more right to thrust himself forward at every district meeting where Dr. Lushington may happen to appear, than in a personal canvass he would have a right to thrust himself into every elector's house at which the Doctor might happen to call. "Were the Alderman as learned and as eloquent a gentleman as he conceives himself to be, there are others in the borough who are capable and worthy of judging for themselves as well 21S he is. For him to stand forward on all occasions and tell the electors, when about to pass an opinion on Dr. Lushington, or any one else—" Nay, but hear my opinion first ; don't move a finger till I have told you what you are to do and say"—argues a conceit of himself and a contempt of others which We hope to see speedily visited as it deserves.

The Doctor had a third interview with the electors on Thursday; NViliell passed off decently—the Alderman was not present. Mr. Barber Beaumont has retired from the contest for time Tower Hamlets; he has done so on the ground of the necessity which exists of reducing the number of real Reform candidates for that borough.— Globe. [How many real Reform candidates are there ?]

WarstintE, SOUTH.—Mr. T. H. B. S. Estcourt declines coining forward for this division.

ARGYLESIIIRE.—Mr. Malcolm, the Anti-Reform candidate, has quitted the field in despair.

BANIT.—A second candidate for the representation of this county has now come forward, in the person of Colonel Gordon, of Park. —

Aberdeen Herald. • CAITIINESS.—The voters have been counted : they are—for Mr. Sinclair 150, for Mr. Home 22, doubtful 10.

PERTIL—Mr. Richardson, the Tory candidate, has resigned. Out of 781 voters, 485 bad pledged themselves to Mr. Oliphant.

CaaLow.—Sir J. M. Doyle has resigned, on his appointment to a command in Don Pedro's Army.

DacionEDA.—Mr. Wallace has declined taking the pledges demanded by his constituents at Drogheda ; and the Liberal Club in, that town are now debating how they shall act in consequence. It appears there has been a setious mistake in the new Reform Bill relative to the Drogheda constituency, which may go far to nullify the franchises of the newly-registered householders. The 'act recites the powers to be granted to "the county of the city of Drogheda," whereas Drogheda is only a town. —Times.

WickLow.—The following letter has been addressed by Lord Milton to his tenantry in this county.

"Wentworth, 17th September 183'2.

"Gentlemen—The time appears to be arrived at which it will be right that I should give an answer to letters signed by about seventy of the tenants en my father's estate, which I received in the litter part of last month. The request which you make in those letters is, that you may not be asked to vote for more than one of the candidates at the ensuing General Election ; but you have marked with a sufficient degree of dis- tinctness, that Mr. Grattan is the candidate from whom you are desirous of withholding your votes, or in other words, whom you are desirous of ejecting; from the representa- tion of the county of Wicklow. It is not of course for me to uletate to any man the mode in which he will exercise his franchise at an election of Members of Icarliament, or to injure any man in consequence of a vote conscientiously given, though that vote may not have been given in conformity with my wishes, or in accordance with my opinion; but, as two members are to be elected, I feel myself not merely at liberty, but bound by duty to ask you to vote for the two e..Dilidates who are, in my judgment, best qualified on the whole to promote the good oi my country. I say on the whole, for there are cases in which we ought to be governed by the general tenor of a man's con- duct in Parliament, and not by the particular vote he may have given on a particular occasion. Trying, therefore, the merits of Mr. Grattan by this test, I must say (though I did not go along with him in all the votes he gave in the last Session of Parliament), he is entitled to the support of all those who are desirous of supporting Lord Grey's Administration, as one which has already conferred the most invaluable benefit upon the country, and from whose continuance in power there is every reason to expect still farther advantages: it is on the ground of the usual tenor of his conduct, and of the general result to which that conduct Wads, that I shall continne to support Mr. Grattan, and to wish that no change may be made in the representation of the county. Such would be my wish, if the new candidate were an opponent of an ordinary kind, but that is by no means the case; he is indeed a very respectable gentleman, respect:al, as I understand, by all parties, but he cranes forward in direct connexion with Lord Wicklow, who, I am informed, carries on a personal canvass in his favour : and when I know, what may have escaped the notice of persons at a distance, that in neither House of Parliament is to be found a member more persevering in opposition to the Govern- ment than Lord Wicklow, and that he manifests his hostility not merely upon insulated questions, but upon those which affect directly the existence of the Administration, and that, in truth, his object is to subvert it ; when I consider all linac circumstances, I cannot view the pretensions of Mr. Acton with indifference. It is not, however, for me to dictate the conduct which you ought to pursue; but I hope that I may still be permitted, without giving you offence, to express a hope that you will not contribute to, make any change of a Political character in the representation of the county. " To some of you, however. I must address a few more words. The letter which bore the Tinchaly post-mark indulges itself in language and displaYs feelings which those who signed it must allow me to say do not very eminently qualify them to act the part of counsellors, especially when the greatest object of Lime person to whom it is addressed is to promote peace and goodwill among mankind; and when they shall have learned to think and speak with greater calmness and more forbearance to others, they will have taken a very important, and for them, a very necessary step towards qualifying them to act with advantage to their country.

The Morning Post heads this "Whig Dictation ;" and observes' that his Lordship's smooth style cannot disguise his real purpose. Now Lord Milton makes no attempt, either by smooth style or rugged, to disguise his real purpose; which is evidently to persuade his tenants to vote for Mr. Grattan. Why lie shouldnot so persuade them, the Post can perhaps inform us. It is laughable to hear a journalist who defendsi the Duke of Newcastle's ejectment of tenants who may happen to differ from him, object to Lord Milton that he wishes his tenants not to dif- fer from him, and takes pains to satisfy their consciences and judgments why they should not.