ELECTION MOVEMENTS.

WEST BIDING OF YORKSHIRE. AS the polling-days approached ibe confidence of both parties seemed to increase. Mr. Worthy's friends, encouraged by the defeat of Lord John Russell in Devon- shire, redoubled their exertions ; and the correspondents of the London Tory papers assured their readers that Mr. Wortley's success was secure. On the other hand, Lord Morpeth's supporters appear to have set to work in good earnest; and the result of the first day's

polling proved that the Tories have no chance of returning a r for the West Riding, when the Reformers exert themstaves with vigour. The following was the state of the poll in the several districts at the close of the first day.

at orpet h. Wortley.

Barnslev 451 2:34 Bradfoid 1315 5:32 Dent 59 61 Doncaster 439 397 Halifax 945 260 lluddersfield 965 443 Keighley 258 161 Knaresborough 234 448 Leeds 667 771 Pateley Bridge 263 241 Settle 314 292 Sheffield 537 2.5:i Skipton 378 164 Snaith 161 328 Wakefield 818 624

7884 5:314 Lord Morpeth's majority was increased by the second day's polling ; and on Thursday the Sheriff officially'declared the numbers to be--for Alorpeth, 9066; Wortley, 6259; Majority, 2807.

STROUD. Colonel Fox having taken the Chiltern Hundreds, in order to make way for Lord John Russell, Lord John, accompanied by the Colonel, presented himself to the electors of the populous and bmportatit district of which Stroud is the centre, on Tuesday last. Colonel Fox addressed the assembly in an appropriate speech ; and a resolution was carried corium-riding his Parliamentary conduct, and the motives which had induced him to surrender his scat. Another reso- lution, pledgiog the meeting to do all in their power to promote the return of Lord John Russell, was passed unanimously. Lord John then addressed the electors- " In coming before you on this occasion (he said) I only regret that I am, In any way, the means of depriving you of the services of a friend whom I have known cud highly valued, and whom you have had occasion to esteem. When Colonel Fox proposed to vacate his seat, I felt much hesitation in acceding to it. I talt, however, that I was instrusted with a giant public interest, and that my own services were needful. After my rejection in South Devoe, thonght it desilable that I should not appear in any place with which I was connected ky property la influence or where the influence of my family could be said to operate ; but before a body of independent men, upon whom I can have no claim but on account of public character ; and knowing the respecta- bility of the borough of Stroud—having had occasion to consider its importance and title to send representatives to Parliament prior to the passing of the Re- focus Bill-1 thought it proper to come and ask, ay or no, whether they would confide in use? 1 was met ill South Devon by much calumny and misrepre- sentation, and had but a short time to answer them. 1 succeeded, however, in refuting them to a considerable extent, and should have gone without fear to the poll had not my adversaries possessed the power of controlling and compelling the votes of tho,e whose principles were opposed to them. [A cry was hoe raised, " Give them the ballot," in which many persons joined.] I will not, said Lord John, now enter upon that much-agitated question : it is my wish to see the elec- tors return their Representatives fairly and indifferently, as the Reform Act in. tended they should. I do not now conic Cu men who are obliged to transfer their votes, as they wete in boroughs under the old system, but to men who will fairly and independently choose their Representatives."

Lord John then proceeded to touch upon his political opinions and the principal acts of his public life, as well as upon the measures con- templated by the Ministry. His speech gave great satisfaction. Alr. Partridge, on behalf of Mr. Symonds, the unsuccessful candidate at the last election, declared that there would be no opposition from that quarter to Lord John : on the contrary, Mr. Symonds would do all he could to assist him. Mr. H. Mildmay was talked of as All opponent to Lord John : but the Tories have officially assured his Committee that no opposition will be attempted.

Stroud, and the adjoining districts forming the borough, contained a population of 41,000 in 1831 ; the number of 10/. houses being 1600. The registered constituency is stated at 1300. The population is six times as large as that of Sir Robert Peel's borough of' ramieorth.

SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The electors are OD the alert in this county. Colonel Anson, the Liberal candidate, is very active. He seems to be warmly supported by the Reformers in the manufacturing districts ; and of course will have the support of Load Lichfield, Lord Hatherton, Lord Shrewsbury, Sir John 1Vrottesley, and other landed proprietors. His prospects are therefore exceedingly good. His op- ponent, Sir F. L. H. Goodricke, will have all the aid the Carlton Club can give him. Ile has left town to sound the constituency, be- fore he gives up his seat fin- Stafford. In case he should resolve to go to the poll, it is said that Mr. Farrand, a Tory, and formerly Member for Balm', a borough as pure as Stafford, will oppose Sir George Chetwynd, who will have the support of the so-called Liberal party. So active have the Tories been in this district of the country, that horses, carriages, and inns are engaged, not only for the ensuing con- tests, but for the next general election. The courier says that the Carlton Club have given Sir F. Holyoakc 15001., half of which is already gone in treating ; but a subscription amounting. to 2000/. has been raised for him in Wolverhampton, according to the Tory state. meats.

POOLE. Captain Byng will, it is said, be elected without opposi- tion for Poole, in the room of his father, Sir John, now Lord Straf- ford. Sir Colquhoun Grant has been talked of as his opponent, but he does not seem to have conic forward.

Dt7enee. The reelection of Sir Henry Parnell took place on Wednesday week. Although the electors had passed a resolution de- claring their readiness to return him in his absence, Sir Henry thought it right to visit his constituents on this occasion. Be' was proposed by Mr. 13oase, banker ; wbo thus concisely and sensibly stated what in Isis opinion were the qualifications of a useful Member of Parlia- ment.

" In the first place, I consider he should be a man not only of extensive in- formation, but one who has been accustomed to the exercise of his reasoning J.:acuities—one who does not take his sentiments and opinions front the mere assertions of other men—but one who is aisle and in the habit of judging for himself, and' consequently who is not liable to be misled by the sophistry of others, nor to be deluded by the sophisms of his own invention. In the next place, I consider that be should be an honest man ; by which I mean one who will not undertake an office without having a fixed determination to perform the duties of it to the utmost of his ability ; in the present case, one who, having a due sense of the importance of the trust confided to him, will not speak or vote on any question till he has well considered what he ought to say and how he ought to vote ; and who, having thus maturely decided what lie ought to do, will so do unprevented by the solicitation of any man and undeterred by the frowns of any man. In the third place, I consider the person to be now elected should be a man of industrious habits. It is no use, my talent's, for us to elect a man of splendid ability and of independent spirit, if he will :tot submit to what I admit, is a long and irksome drudgery—toil which would not be undertaken by you or by me. It is, however, not the less necessary that the duty of close at- tendance in the House should be performed ; and it is therefore well for us that there are men who will undertake it, and the greater is our debt of gratitude to them when it is fulfilled. Such, brother electors, are the qualities which we ought to look for in the man we intend to elect as our Member in Parliament; and, as a man eminently possessing all these qualities, I beg leave to propose Sir Henry Parnell."

Sir Henry Parnell acknowledged the very kind and handsome man- ner in which lie had been elected in the first instance for Dundee; then rechosen at the general election in January last, in his absence; and now a third time sifter his acceptance of office. In taking office, he had not abandoned the principles he had advocated when first be met Isis constituents in the Steeple Church-

" The offices I bold were offered to me by those who well knew what my opinions and principles were, and without asking for any abaudonmant or modi- fication of them. I wish ta take this opportunity of accounting to you why it appeared to me that I might put myself in the situation of a servant of the Crown without prejudice to my own character or the interests of the conatuu7 nitv. 'The reason was, that I entertained full confidence in the principles and intentions of Lord Melbourne and Isis colleagues in carrying on the business of the Government. I have long enjoyed the opportunity, from personal acquaint- ance with the Prime Minister, of knowing what his opinions are ; and 1 con- sider that his firmness, probity, and talents, well qualify bins for discharging; the duties of his high office,_ ea particularly under the present difficult circuni- stances ; and I feel I can refer with confidence to hat are well known tc be his intentions with regard to many great public measures. What his intentioo: were at the time that his Ministry was dissolved, were made known by hi speech at Derby ; and also by the speeches of Sir John Hobbouse and Lord

John Russell. At their election on the last occasion, they el ii nerated several measures which were in preparation, and which were intended to be laid before Parliament. What their present intentions are, you have had an opportunity of learning from the address of Lord John Russell to the electors of the county of Devon. You will find in that address a frank and clear declaration with regard to great measures of reform, which will satisfy you that we have an Ad- Ministration• which promises to carry into effect many of those great improve- ments which ought naturally and necessarily to follow reform in nurliameut."

Sir Henry then adverted to several of the measures indicated in Lord John Russell's speech ; and concluded by exhorting the Reform- ers to he united and active in the good cause. A n address to Sir Henry Parnell from the non-electors was pre- Fented on the hustings ; Mr. John Penny acting as the spokesman, and err forcing the different points in the address with great earnestness. A few p issages of this document are subjoined--.

" Our fixed opinions are uiterly adverse to national establishments of religion, and doubly so to that bloated mass of corruption called the Church of Ireland. bili. under the pretence of disiwminating Christianity, has been kept up in barefiwed defiance of the divine principle of good- will to all, inculcated by that religion—has been kept up at the expeuse of a whole nation, at the expense of thousands of lives, fi.r the sole impose of mogranditing a part y, and as a badge of servitude on the Irish wilier]. tt e trust therefore to see, at tio distant period, llos Establishment —this curse to Ire. land awl to Britain—utterly abolished ; and, as intimately connected with the abuses of t he English Church Establishment, we crave your attention, and tie attentien of his Majesty's Government, to the paramonnt necessity of dispensing by act of Parlia- ment n leeislation of the Bishops, and of exemptiug them flout attendance in the House of Lords. , " On tit., subject of Corporation Reform we feel strongly. We have seen that much ge.el ha been .lone in Scotland by what we consider a very inadequate refi,rin in ottr borough government; and we have recently felt the evil effects consequent on the stumndering of corporation lands in England, in t he bribing awl debauchin,q of the eleeiors, and thereby eff.wting the return of men to Parliament who have no t■ntpathy thgi0Ir1t. W e rejoiee, therefore that the K ing's Ministers have announml their ileention o.; placing these holies ' uuder vigilant popular control :Ind we trust tit It they will tea limit the ext..tision of the franchise to die occupiers of 101.1mses, but all extetel it te a much more numerous and equally intelligent body, occupiers or proinie- t ON of ho:i.,es under that value. " It i. oar 4tecided opinion, that, without the protection of the Ballot, the right of re i g cut :aa be exercised according to the convictions in the mind of the x-oters. We woeht 'lee ..fere prer:s upon your colleagues the necessity of fornarding with all their imbeeev I111. lot neluetieu of the ballot—as there can be no use in giving one man a ve,.• h is to be exercised by another, by means of a weightier purse, or other its. moral influence.

events have :shown us in what was the prerogative of the Crown may be ex-

a t dissob, ing of Parliaments ; and we hope that the lesson n ill not bed:ion-II a‘vty on the men now in power, and they will not allow this session to pass wit bout nr,eing to a law limiting that prerrwative to the dissolving of Parliament every throe veal.. :141.1 waking it imperative to d'o so then,—three years being, in our opinion, a loo enough period for a Member to have the power of sitting in Parliament in sple

vmotituents.

" Est ice has cons bleed its that few men will In their duty properly to the public 1,aid for so doing, and we trust that Members of Parliament it ill soon ne raj.: nem I lw public pur.se for their services in the Legislature; awl this Sir, meth' le, dom. without increasing the burdens of the people, if an unsparing hand were applWil, as it ought to be, to the cutting down of the Civil and Pension Lists.

Sir Henry Parnell said, that he felt gratified by the confidence re- posed in him by the intelligent and influential body from whom the ad- dress proceeded. He could not be expected to notice all the topics it contained,

But he would not allow the mention made of the Corn-laws to pass with- out declarieg his firm conviction that no greater evil could he inflicted on this country than the continuance of these laws in force. He looked upon them as injurious and destructive to the public interests' as bearing oppressively on the industrious class.es, almost cruelly upon them, because, when men toiled from day to day, from morning till night, in earning their bread by manual labour, it was cruel to devise laws calculated to add a fictitious price to that bread. With regard to what was stated in the address on the subject of taxation on the raw material uf manufactures, he was glad to find that what he had stated in his work on Financial Reform had been taken notice of by the non-electors. It had always occurred to him as a strange circumstance, that this country, dis- tinguished above all other countries in the world as a manufacturing country, and which owes its power and influence to the successful prosecution of manu- factures, should have been subjected to taxation on the very vitals of her pros- perity, in the shape of taxes on the raw material of manufactures, He had certainly taken great pains to point out the mischief which such taxation pro- duced, and he was happy to say that he bad been to some extent successful. He was glad to state, that, looking back to the period when his wot k first appeared, which was about five years ago, many of the taxes pointed out had been since repealed, in consequence of the facts there set forth. He assured the non-electors that be would embrace the first oppor- tunity of submitting their sentiments to his colleagues, and would take upon himself to urge the consideration of them. -And, he con- cluded, " as an Administration that would take public opinion as their guide, he was sure they would not treat with idle disrespect the opinions and wishes of the numerous body from whom the address emanated."

INVERNESS-SHIRE. The candidates, Mr. Grant of Glenmorriston and Mr. Chisholm of Chisholm, were put in nomination on Thursday week. After the ceremony was over, the following catechetical con- versation occurred on the hustings: it is a specimen of the miserable cant with which in some parts of the country the recent election con- tests have been disgraced.

Mr. France, of Gtoam, came to the front of the hustinp,s, and said he had a question to ask of Chisholm—" Are you aware that your uncle, General Mac- donell, was canvassing out Me Sabbath?" Mr. Chisholm—" This is the first time I have heard of one individual being answerable for another. The matter is of too private a nature for the hustings ; but I at once acknowledge, that my relative having to go off early on Monday morning by the steam boat, did call on his friend Colonel Macpherson, Arder. sier, with whom he had long served in defmce of kis country, In the S.:eventy- eighth IIighlanders. I would ask Glemnorriston, if he did not troecl from Forres by the coach on Sunday?"

Mr. Giant—" I did come from Forces in the mail on Sum!

Mr. Chisholm—" I did not wish to ask such qtwstions, was compel:ed by the course adopted on the other side. General M manual is well able to answer for his conduct ; but this is' suppose, what you call libel ty ?" Mr. France asked to whom Mr. Chishohn applied the epithets RevAutionists .and Infidels?

Mr. Chisholm said there was perhaps a redundancy in his ex; reasitn, for he considered Mat the term Recolntionist included that of Infidel. Ile mesa( those who were openly (tad admittedly Infidels, such as Hume and Ward, lurton."

Mr. Feanee—" Put what part of the Ministry ?" Mr. Chishollu—" I said nothing about the Ministry being Infidels." [If this Mr. Chisholm—the Chishohn, its Ile is sometimes affectedlf. styled—has succeeded in obtaining a seat in the House of Commons, we hope he will take his place by the side of' Mr. Andrew Johnston : they seem admirably fitted for each other's society, and neither fit to take a part in the legislation of Britain in 11435.1 The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Grant, and a poll was demanded for Mr. Chisholm. It was to commence on Tuesday last.