ELECTION TALK.

BATH.—Mr. Hobhouse's canvass dinner took place at Bath on Wed- nesday evening. About 240 gentlemen were present ; Colonel An- drews in the chair. Sir John Cam Hobhouse attended, and eloquently returned thanks on " his Majesty's Ministers " being given with three times three.

Mr. Robert Blake Foster has started as a candidate for Bath. BOLTON.—.Mr. T. A. Yates made his public entry as a candidate on Wednesday last week. CAMER1DGE.—Mr. Spring Rice's return for Canabridge is placed be- yond doubt. After the harassing labours of the Parliamentary session, during which he was always at his post, he has returned to Limerick, where he met with a most welcome reception from all classes of his very numerous friends, and was urged strongly to come forward again, or allow himself to be brought forward, as a candidate for the repre- sentation, with a certainty of success. This is alike creditable to both—to Mr. Rice, as an acknowledgment of his long and faithful services in Parliament ; and to the constituency of Limerick, as a proof that they are not forgetful of those services though past. He, how- ever, was not in a situation to comply with the request ; having, before he left England, acceded to a requisition, signed in a few hours by two hundred and fifty of the most influential men of Cambridge, solicit- ing him to consent to be brought forward for the representation. Since then, his Committee have received upwards of one thousand promises, and his canvass has been most successful.—Morning Chronicle.

CAMBRIDGESIIIRE.—Captain Yorke continues to canvass Cambridge- shire. Messrs. Adeane, Townley, and Childers, are also candidates.

ConNwAtt.—The report that Sir Richard Vyvyan did not mean to stand for the county, was unfounded. He has commenced a canvass for the South-west division. The Conservatives are determined to strain every nerve to get him returned.

DEVONPORT.—Stout old Sir Edward Codrington, the conqueror of Navarino, has been posted as a coward, by a person who bears the eu- phonous name of Woolcomb. The Portsmouth Herald thus states the quarrel— "Sir Edward Codrington having stated, in his address to the electors, his regret that Mr. Thomas Woolcomb should have circulated a pamphlet containing statements which had no foundation in truth, Mr. Woolcomh sent a note to Sir Edward, begging he would name an hour for seeing his friend, who would call for an explanation of the language in which Sir Edward had t11011'.;11t fit to allude to him. Sir Edward, in reply, declined to give any explanation, except before the next public meeting of the constituents; when lut would state the grounds on which he charged that gentleman with having put forth statements which had no foundation in find. Mr. NI oolcomb then deputed Mr. Tre- lawny to meet Sir Edward at the coach.ollice, having understood that he was about to leave Derunport by the mail. Mr. Trelawny warned Sir Edward, that if he left that town without giving Mr. Wooleomb such an explanation or satisfaction as one gentle- man had a right to expect from another, Mr. W. would make his refasal public. Sir Edward replied, that after what Mr. Woolcomb had said of him, he certainly should not do so. Mr. Trelawny then informed Sir Edward, if he persisted in his refusal, Mr. Woolcomb would he obliged to post him ; to which Sir Edward replied, Mr. Woolcomb might do as he pleased. Alr.Woolcomb has accordingly been as good as his word,"

This is magnificent !

DEVONSHIRE.—The Western Luminary states, that the requisition to Sir Thomas Dyke .Acland to become a candidate for the Northern division, has been most numerously and respectably signed.

Fissainiv.—The Advertiser of this morning mentions, that last night a number of "respectable gentlemen" met at a house in King Street, Smithfield, to concert measures for insuring the election of Thomas Jonathan Wooler, Esq., clerk to Mr. Harmer, the Old Bailey solicitor, us Member of Parliament for Finsbury.

HA MPSIIIRE.--We are informed, that a requisition has been presented to John Fleming, Esq., calling upon him to offer himself as a candi- date for the Southern division. Sir Thomas Baring retires from public life altogether.—Salisbury Journal.

LAMnETIi.—On Wednesday, a meetina. of the Camberwell electors took place at the Red Cap Inn, at which Mr. Hawes attended. His speech seems to have given much satisfaction. He declared against Church pluralities, the present Corn-laws, Negro slavery, and the taxes on knowledge. Resolutions of support were unanimously voted.

LANCASTER, Souvu.—Mr. George M. Wood has offered himself for this division. He says- " Heartily approving of the principles on which his Majesty's present Ministers ac- cepted office—Peace, Retrencluneut, and Reform—I shall wish to give them all the support that consists with perfect independence, and that befits the Representative of a great, powerful, and enlightened community. To all measures tending to the honour- able maintenance of peace—to every species of economy compatible with good faith and the national welfare—my support shall he afforded. Iu fidelity to the Reform Act, I shall not be found wanting; and in assisting to uphold all its great provisions, my zealous exertions may be relied on. "It is yet too early' lo anticipate all the improvements in our political condition which that great measure will tend to introduce. Public feeling is actively alive to whatever is defective in our national institutions. To investigate thoroughly bat calmly—not dreading change where benefit will manifestly flow from it, but avoiding rash and dubious experiment—will be the duty of a Reformed House of Commons."

This is all good.

LEEDS.—The proceedings of the past week in Leeds have decided the election for this borough. A sinking and desperate party may, in- deed, prolong a feeble struggle against the strong current of public opi- nion • but no man who witnessed the display in the Cloth-hall Yard

on opi- nion; and who knows any thing whatever of the state of the out-

townships, can entertain a moment's doubt that Mr. Sadler's cause is a hopeless one, and that the only considerations now left to him in prudence are, how and when he shall retire. We knew that it would be impossible for Mr. Sadler to stand before such a man as Mr. Macaulay,—that he would be equally dashed by the superiority of his rival's talents, and shamed by the straightforwardness of his conduct. We knew that the conduct of the two would not bear a comparison,—that that of the one was manliness itself, was truly noble, was frank and in- dependent almost beyond any thing we ever knew in public men, was such as to entitle him to the gratitude and confidence of his countrymen ; and that that of the other bad been trickish and hollow, sometimes plausible, often manifestly insincere, and, as a whole, calculated to rouse the indignation and contempt, not merely of all ge- nuine Reformers, but of every honest man of every party. Yet was there adopted by Mr. Sadler's friends so arrogant and vapouring atone, and such laborious manteuvering had there been on his own part, and the part of his friends, to cajole the electors, and especially the working classes, that many were still in doubt whether he would not have much more strength than he deserved, and whether there would not at least be a severe contest for the representation of the borough. The ex- periment has now been tried, and these doubts have vanished into thin air. Never was there a more striking contrast than between these two members of Parliament, as they stood side by side to claim the suffrages of the electors. We could not but feel pity for Mr. Sadler, though he has merited contempt rather than commiseration. He ,did not even allude to the opposition which Mr. Macaulay proved him to have given to every kind and degree of Parliamentary Reform. With .tegard to the shameful proceedings by which he was brought into Par- liament for Newark, he was content to plead, and he had a face to plead, ignorance of them; thus generously shifting the whole blame from his own shoulders to those of his patron, the Duke of Newcastle. Nor did he attempt to explain how, if he was ignorant at the first election for Newark, he came to allow himself to be returned by similar acts of ..oppression at the second. Mr. Sadler's conduct in regard to the ques- tions proposed to him by Mr. Lees, the Secretary of the Political Union, was one of the most ludicrous specimens of political cowardice we ever witnessed. When these questions were put to him in writing, he declined to send any answer whatever, and had-not even the civility to notice the application. When they were put to him orally, he gave a dis- ingenuous reply to some of them ; and when he came to one which he knew he could not answer to the satisfaction of the meeting, after about a dozen turnings and shiftings to avoid it altogether, and sound- ing his cuckoo note on the Ten Hours Bill till every fresh repetition Only provoked shouts of laughter from the audience, when the question as to close corporations was still relentlessly pressed upon him, he ex- claimed piteously that he was tired, that le was sick, and absolutely ran'away from the meeting.—Leeds Mercury.

Lostoosr.—Mr. George Lyall has been called upon, in a requisition signed by 161 mercantile firms ( Baring, Brothers, and Co., at the bead of them), to represent "the commercial and shipping interests." He has accepted the invitation, and addressed the electors.

The members of the Inner and Middle Temples will, it is said, add opwards of 500 to the constituency of the City of Loudon.

LYNN.—A requisition is in course of signature to Mr. D. 0. Healy, requesting him to come forward as a candidate.

MA LOON.—Quintin Dick, Esq., and 1'. B. Lennard, Esq., are on a visit to their friends, and have just completed their canvass in the town. The other candidate, Mr. Flood, has also paid several visits, and addressed the electors assembled in the market on Saturday last.— _Kentish Gazette.

MANCIIESTER.—On Wednesday, Mr. Wilkins, a " member of the Inner Temple," sojourning for the time at Manchester, addressed a number of the electors, in the Exchange Rooms, fur the purpose of -convincing them, that Mr. Cobbett's address to them was inconsistent with his former writings, and that he was a most unfit candidate for Manchester or any other place. Mr. Wilkins may spare the trouble of Such an exposure. ThoseWho support Cobbett do so with a much more intimate knowledge of his political tergiversations than it is pro- bable Mr. Wilkins himself is possessed of. The value of Cobbett in Parliament, as everywhere, would be that of a keen and regardless critic of the plans of other men. He never had a plan of his own worth a farthing, and never will. As to his chopping and changing, no one admits it more freely and fully than himself. The question is not was be once wroilg, but is he now right? Mr. Wilkins bad at- tempted to address the Manchester people at the field of Peterloo; but they treated him very roughly, and he was glad to retreat, from fear of personal violence. The Times correspondent attributes his escape to it halfpenny pay bridge (the Blaekfriars), which the people could not pass, because " the cowardly villains were not able to muster a half- penny each." Non sequitur. Their not passing the bridge only proves that they did not care a halfpenny for Mr. Wilkins. Cobbett tells us, in his Register of to- day, that he had divided Man- chester into fourteen canvassing districts, two of which he visited each day, for the purpose of addressing the workpeople, the one at noon and the other in the evening. He commenced on the 4th. Last Monday he proceeded to Oldham, where be means to observe the same rule. He still expresses his certain confidence of heir, elected for Oldham ; and adds, that if he be elected for Manchester also, the people of Old- ham are agreed that he should sit for Manchester, to give him the more weight in the House.

MARYLEBONE.—On Wednesday night, a very numerous meeting of -the electors of the Southern district of St. Pancras was held at the Blue Posts, in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, to adopt measures to secure the return of Colonel Jones to the new Parliament, as one of the representatives of the borough of Marylebone. A-feeble attempt was made by a Mr. Guthrie to disturb the unanimity of the meeting. The resolutions, however, in the gallant Colonel's behalf passed with -only twelve dissentient voices.

MIDDLESEK.—It is now said that Lord Lowther means to start for Middlesex, since Mr. Alexander Baring has deemed it more prudent to .try what his sweet voice can effect with the calves of Essex than the rabble of the Metropolitan county. On the subject of Lord Lowther's . pretensions, the Globe says— when both Mr. Canning and his opponents were doing their utmost to prevent the Frond' Govermnent from interfering to overturn the constitution of the Cartes, it was reported and universally believed, that their flirts were frustrated by the private in- formation transmitted by Lord Lowther to the Ultras of France. In confidential let- ters to his friends ha that country. he assured them. it is said, that they need not be de- terred by the language held in the English House of CUMMODS for, although both Minisiers and Opposition held warlike language, the friends of neither would consent to a war for the liberties of Spain. Encouraged by this language, the war party in

• France prevailed, notwithstanding the reluctance of M. de Villele himself to engage in lsostiliths."

Our contemporary adds— .-There is no doubt that Lord Lowther is a sharp man of business; but what service, -e may ask him, has he rendered the country in comparison with Mr. Hume? The latter has always supported Reform, and struggled, when he was too little encouraged, So effect a diminution of that public expenditure, which the Tories, for a long course of years, seemed to do all in their power to increase. as the means of enabling them to go- vern the country by corrupt majorities in a House of Commons in which they took care to have a suflicient number of persons rum profited by a system which was involving the country in debt and pauperism. Now the means have been secured of enabling suelt economists as Mr. Hume to labour with effect. it would le most disgraceful to the country if he were to be rejected, iu order to make room for a thoroughpaced and job- ling Tory."

On the first point here adverted to, we must set our contemporary right.' The opponents of Mr. Canning did not do their utmost. That

gentleman offered to cut the Tories if the Whigs would support him ; and the Whigs refused. On the second point we would merely hint, that it is not necessary for Mr. Hume's friends to cry out until they are hurt. Lord Lowther may not stand for Middlesex after all; we don't believe he will; and if he do, be maybe beaten. Mr. Hume has

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. a few non-electoral friends in London and its neighbourhood, to whose

feelings his electoral enemies will no doubt pay some deference. In many of the contests now waging, the parties differ more in colour than in substance ; but Mr. Hume is public property, and we don't choose that he should, be opposed. He shall sit for Middlesex, in spite of allt the Peers and Peerhngs in England.

NORFOLK.—The Honourable G. Keppel has announced his deter- mination to stand for the Eastern division.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—The Duke of Newcastle has set up his son, the Earl of Lincoln, as a candidate to represent the South-east division. The Earl, like his noble sire, is no orator, and his idea is very apt to go astray; but his silence is said to be exceedingly impressive. The Not- tingliam Review publishes the following list of the old Duke's recent ex- ploits at Newark, as the recommendations on which the .young Earl ejected chiefly relies. They are part of a list of 113 persons ected from. their houses by the Lord of Clumber, for disposing. of their votes as the law of the land orders, or being suspected of approving such as did so.

" Anderson, Peter, 13alderton Gate ; rent 41.; self and family tenants for forty years; value of premises 401.—Voted for Wilde.

" Bates, John, Wilson Street ; rent 71. 10s.; father and self tenants fifty-eight years ;- value " Beech, William. Stedman Street ; rent 351.; self and family tenants for one hundred and fifty years-Did not vote at all, having refused to take the oath. " Birkett, William, Parndon Road ; 181. rent ; father and self tenants fifty-six years ilde.

" Carver, James, senior, Norton Disney ; not an elector, but known to be favourable to the Independent cause. His son's tavern was one of Wilde's Committee-houses.

" Gardner, Thomas, Beanmond Street ; rent 181.-Did not vote, but was present- at a dinner. Had expended 4501. on the Duke's premises. " Lowe, Mrs., Wilson Street ; rent 81.10s.-Son voted for Wilde.

"Parkinson, Thomas, Wilson Street ; rent 91.; self and father tenants forty-six years -Wilde.

" Rawdon. Miss, Wilson Street ; rent 61.-Making favours for the Blues i

" Thorpe, James, Market Place ; rent 221.; self, father, and grandfather, tenants for one hundred years ; expended great sums on the premises-Voted for Willoughby and Wilde.

PEMEROICE.—A correspondent states, that Mr. Allen, of Creselly, is actively canvassing the county of Pembroke, with a view to oppose the return of Sir John Owen at the forthcoming election.—Cambrian.

SOUTIIIVARK.—The Lord Mayor has been called upon by a respect- able portion of the inhabitants of Southwark to offer himself as a can- didate to succeed the late Mr. Calvert ; with which he has complied.—

Globe.

The Times of this morning says—" We hear the Lord Mayor has, on further consideration, and by the advice of his friends in the City, declined to offer himself for Southwark." With every submission to the Lord Mayor's friends (who may have reasons of which we. are ignorant), we think the Lord Mayor has erred in not standing. In London he must look for great competition at least ; in the Borough, we rather think he might have come in without opposition.

STAFFORD.—William Blount, Esq., a Roman Catholic gentleman, has offered himself as a candidate for the borough of Stafford, and has commenced a CallVaSS. Mr. Grimsditch, solicitor, of Macclesfield, has tendered his services to that borough.—Birminghant Gazette.

SURRY.—Mr. Jeffreys Allen, Master of Dulwich College, has an- nounced his intention of offering himself as a member for the Eastern division. Dulwich College is a fine school for statesmen : its Masters and Fellows lead a life of such activity!

TlvERTON.—Colonel Chichester, of Calverley, has, we understand, announced himself a candidate.—Ezeter 'Gazette.

TOWER. HAMLETS.—Lord Althorp has addressed the following letter

to Mr. Marshall.

• Wiseton. near Bawtry, 5th September 1932. " MY DEAR Si a—Having ascertained that there is no reasonable doubt of my being reelected for Northamptonshire, I write to you, according to my promise, to say that I feel myself bound to nay old constituents; and that I must decide to sit for Northamp- tonshir; although I should be also chosen for the Tower Hamlets. I beg to assure you, that I feel very much obliged to you and to all the other gentlemen who harepaid me the compliment of wishing me to be member for the great and important borough of the 'rower Hamlets; and that this obligation is not at all diminished, because it as not in my power to comply with your wishes. " Believe me, my dear Sir, yours most sincerely, ALTFIORin" The electors of the Tower Hamlets have now but nine candidates left ; they must really bustle about to make up a decenter number.

WARWICK.—Sir Eardley Wilmot has been invited, by requisition, to offer himself for the Northern division of Warwickshire ; and he is canvassing with Sir George Chetwynd. Mr. Dempster Heming; the third candidate, declines a personal canvass.

WOLVERHAMPTON.—It is stated that F. Holyoake, Esq., will come forward as a candidate for the approaching representation.— Wolver- hampton Chronicle.