Mr. Fitzjames Stephen has declined the Liberal candidature for Liverpool,
on the ground of his desire to forward the cause of codification in ways not likely to be secured at present by his appearance in Parliament. The Conservative candidate is Mr. Torr, a retired merchant, who has rashly appealed to Orange -feelings, evidently without feeling equal to satisfy the exigeance of Orange conditions, and after offering to aid in purging the Church of Ritualism, has, greatly to his own credit, but unfortunately for his political consistency, broken ..down in his heroic effort to reanimate the No-Popery cry. Mr. Caine, his opponent,—evidently an able young man, a Protest- ant Dissenter by religious conviction,—is disposed to ally himself with the friends of the Permissive Bill, but mother respects he seems made of very good stuff, and to be a genuine Liberal,— which is somewhat surprising in a friend to the dictatorial policy of a permissive veto on alcohol. Neither candidate is quite acceptable to the infitentials commercial men of Liverpool, and the feeling of the masses wili4Obably have more of its own way than usual. Dr. Verner White has achieved a great split in the Colervative foartykiylaccusing Mr. Torr—just, we believe and hope,—of shrinking from his avolvd", Orangeism. The Roman Catholics support Mr. Caine ; the Ritiralists .will not vote ; and the Irish HomeAulers have found a candidne in Dr. Commins, a local barrister. Thz, election will take place next Friday, and in a constituency of 52,000 votes, it is im- possible &i-predict the ratilt. Mr. Caine, however, who speaks with great -reidinels and force, seems to have a fair pro-
spect of success. It especially injures a Conservative to be thought "injudicious." Mr: Torr has certainly been inju- dicious in raising wild hopes he could not satisfy.
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