THE RIVAL MANIFESTOES.

Ionia JOHN RUSSELL has published an address to the electors of Stroud ; and Sir ROBERT NEL, in a similar form, offers a renewal of his services to the Tatuworth constituency. Both documents are important, from the position of the caudidates. Lord JOHN may be supposed to speak the sentiments and set forth the policy el the MELBOURNE Administration in its newest phase ; Sir Roy-mater PEEL is the mouthpiece of the Tory party. We place both the addresses on our file.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO THE ELECTORS Or STROUD.

"Gcutlemen—The lamented death of the late King. sill render urceesaly so early slissolutiou of Parliameut ; dial it is my. iideution again to requiter at sotir hands the honour of being one of your Representre Ives. ''the Qui., n hos been pleased to muffle to Lord Ms Theurer and his colleagues the viminietration of public affehs; stud it will he their duty to give her Majesty suell advice as may be, in their judgment, best calculated to follit her Majesty's gruelling intesitions of mainleiniug the His:aim and improviug the lass or the kingdom which she has been called by Divine Providence to govern. Nor will her Majests expect in vain from a loyet people that support which to the Sovereign of a free country is the goatee of strength, dignity. end leaver.

" Since I have hail the bellow of being elected to serve you in Parliament. some im- portant steps hate been token to improve the existing man

'By the Act fur the Amendment of Mu.nicipal Corporations. the honseholders oh est tom us have obtained that due morel over their own locust affairs a bleb is agree- able to the spirit of our euuslitution, coat,' mable to the tntentton of aucieut chatters, and due to their own worth.

"Tim SVsaion of 1836 was not ba,ren of legislative measures.

• "fhe Act tor the Cum...Walton of Tithes in EnglInd provides nu effectual method too ex.:hanging the vexetious pincer of taking a truth of the produce of the land into legatee end Aged payments. "Thus the buslowner sod the farmer can improve the tioli without fear of loss; sati the clergy can collect their just incomes, neither blamed for extort:on nor imeovetished by forbearance.

In the snme session. the Protestant Dissenters obtained the right ef solemuitine marriage according to their own forms; and the %hole committiity gained a general and uniform system of regisliation for births, deaths, nud meninges. " In the present session, interrupted as it has beets in its mole, tal abruptly ter- minated as it must be. a considerable mitigation will, I trust. be made in the provisions of our statutes relating to mph's' offences, ants some impruvement effected in other de- partments of the law.

" More than this has in far tbeen obtained. The .foundations hare teal laid for a better, becalm, juster, system of legislation towards trebled ; and we are no longer told even by our opponente, that the Awhile denial ol Municipal Corporations to that country is essential to the maintenance of the Protestant CIIIIICII. " In administering the affairs of Ireland, yet more efficient progress has been made, Trauquillity bas been mainteined by the enforcement of the military s-wratiuns uuf the law ; and the unaccustomed blessings of a vast majority of the ;snipe:- have given vigour to the executive authority, and strength tin the legislative unions

" Who, theu, are the persons reckless enough to place themselves between the Quern and her sullects; intercepting the benefits of a just protection, and chilling the pulse of a grateful loyalty ? " The conduct of tliose who usually oppose Government Imo been Nurious.

"The Duke of 'Wellington. raising himself above party views, has supported the Poor-law Amendment Act, with a fearlesness nud sincerity shieh lune been little imitated by the mass of his party. In the House of Commons. t he chief efliirt of tie. so-called Conservatives has been directed (vainly) to affix a mark of dishonour on their countrymen gallantly contending in arms in a foreign land. In the country (twit adherents have been dishonestly active in seeing the seeds of religious intoletance atia nationai discord.

" The future Parliament will have to consider many arduous lind weighty matters. " The settlement of the Civil List will not. I trust. occasion much difference of opinion. It is not far the true honour of the Crown to affect concealment or reserve with respect to its revenue and expenditure. Nor is it for I be intetest or accordant to the feelings of the people to diminish the Iwcomine dignit y of the Sovereign. " The authors end supporters of the Poor-law Amendment Act have never eltrunts from an exit minatien or discussion of' that renamiug measure; and if alt) impruvements can be mule in its enactments or in its administial ion. they will he stilling to consider and adopt them : but of the utility of the measure itself I cannot entertain a doubt.

'' With respect to other questions of great importance, my opinions end conduct de. ring the past must serve as an indication for the Inter°. " I have endeavoured to strengt hen our instit mime, by reforming them ; to obtain complete and full liberty for every religious opinion; to give to Ireland the franchises of Great Britain. But in so doing I have been cautious Out so to innovate as to 'Hindi any principle by a hich our ancient institutions might themselves be enitatigend ; nut so to define religious liberty us to eaken the Estublisited Church ; not so to provide for the wauts and wishes of the people of Ireland as to break or dieterb the y of tlw empire. In this spirit I must always tiptoe any propositirs for the adoption of an elective House if Lords, or of the %Villainy pm Weide in "There is but out' subject more to %hid, I shell part iettlarly allude, as it has beet, little discussed in Parliament. I meau tlw extension of education. The state Ims Itt this matter a paramount duty to perlorm. It was the benevolent wish of George the Third that every child in his dominions might be able to read the Bible. May bus illiislriotts desceudent see OW wish aceomplisited I Mity the diffusion of Mime ledge, the increase of religion and morality, and the augmented happiness of tlw people, make the present reign more truly glorious than triumphs in the lield have readmit those which preceded it, and ' Peace have her victories no less renowned than war.'

" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obliged and faitlifuls.ei. servant.

, ..Wilton Crescent. June 29, .

SIR ROBERT PEEL TO THE ELECTORS OF TAMWORTII.

' Gentlemen—In comequenee or the itemise of our beloved and revered Sovereigir the present Parliament must necessarily, he dissolved at no disinut period. " Whenever the election shall take place for that by a Lich it a ill he succeeded. I shall hope for a renewal of the confidence a Web ler some >mos past )011 hare reposed in me as one of your Represeutatives in the House of Commons. • " 1%1 y hope is founded ripUll the experience of your kindness in all those relation. which have sprung out ot the friendships of early. life, out of reeitheace sotir imine diate neighbourhood, and out of liunily onnexions with the bolougli, altich linve continued uninterrupted for more thou forty years. lt is louteled not only on the deep andcommon iuteiest which toe have hail in all matters of lucal concern. hut on the consciousness that I have with industry. with fidelity. and to the best of my ability, discharged the important trust which ou committetl to me as a Member of Parliament.

" When 1 last addressed you, I failed the highest station in point of respite:414M y and power in which a subject of the Crown cnu be pinced ; and I then felt it iticum bent on me to set Myth the principles on 05 Well I illi1.11114.1110 aull the practical ap plication of them to various measures of public coucern which were about to occupy the attention of the Legislature. " Those priliciples met e ith your sanction; and I trust you will find, on a review of the course which I have taken, that. ns well during my short tenure or official power. as since my retirement from it, I have *Wadi:tatty adhered to them ; that I hate fah filled every promise which I mule with regard to the relief of couscient iotis ecruples, or to improvements in the enactments or administration of the law ; add, above all. that I have laboured to distend the Constitution from schemes of daugeious innovation, to protect the just privileges and authority of each branch uf the Legislature, end to maintain the Protestant Reformed religion as the Establislwd and National Church. " In cordial concurrence with that powerful Conservative party with which I am proud to boast of my connexion, looking rather to the defence or great principles than to the mere temporary interests of patty. I have given a lealuus support to a weak and ineflicient Govelument. limever it lies offered an opposition, however ittkeaarin nod hesitating, to projects of further change in the system of represent-0.km, or in the balance of the constituted authorities of the State. I lusts strenuously resisted that Government on every occasion on which, with reference to our foreign or domestic Policy. I deemed its measures disparaging to the character uf the country, or iujarioue to its Interests.

" I shall continue to act in conformity with those principles, believing that the steedy maintenance or them hes averted much of immediate evil, and encouraged Is supportiug them by their growing influence amon.g the most intelligent classes or um comtnunity—thuse classes which have the ileepest interest in the cause of good govern- ment, and which are convinced that the rellIVIIS of every real grievance is perhictly con- sistent with the maintenance or the Constitution and the support of tho National Church.

" I have every hope and belief the sentiments of my valued and respected friends and constituents. in reference to these important subjects, have undergo:le no change ; nod that I may look forward with confidence to a renewal of that trust which aid enable me to support in Parliameut the public principles I have thus professed, and at the same time to advance the special and local interests of a community with oulmich, I am connected by evsry tie that mu bind a Representative to his constituents. " Believe me, with eiucere esteem, your grateful and faithful friend, " Whitehall. June 22. " Rosner nom."

We have called tliee "rival manifestoes," because they are the production of rival candidates for office ; but, waiving the inflated recapitulation of by gone performances in the first of the two documents, and fixing attention on the actual position of affairs at present and the principles of future conduct, there is cer- tainly little to choose between them. Both declare, in effect, their opposition to organic reforms ; both are resolved to maintain the Church in its ascendancy ; both plume themselves on relieving conscientious scruples—meaning thereby a kind consideration of the Dissenters' claims; both eschew the Voluntary principle. The tone of both is alike Conservative; and, while Loid JOHN denounces, Sir ROBERT is careful not to countenance, the efforts of the bigoted portion of the Tory party. Lord JOHN too goes over the way to pay a compliment to the Duke of WELLINGTON. Very proper and consistent is the conductor Peat.: he preaches Conservatism to the dependent electors of his paternal borough. and mildly expounds the policy of his party. But can that be good for Lord Jonx Kincaid. which suite Palm and his friend?

are the RetOrmei8 to be uddressed like Tome ? is the newly-en- franchised borough of Stroud altogether Conservative ?

But perhaps, after all, Lord JOHN means one thing, and Sir ROBERT means another, while they both hold forth in the same strain. Lord JOHN seeks to cozen the moderate Tories : should he fail in this, he may succeed in diseusting the earnest. Liberals, who desiderate plain-speaking as well as plain-dealing, and may sake him at his word.