Mr. H. S. Waddington, of Cavenham Hall, is the Tory
eandida to succeed the late Mr. Logan in the representation of West Suffoik, It is not likely that any opposition to his return will be attemred. Mr. Babington Macaulay is on his way home from India, and criy be daily expected. It is said Mr. Baines, M. P. for Leeds, mean, ii resign his seat in his favour on his arrival, having only kept it tor he by way of warming-pan.—Newcastle Journal. [The attempt to An sm.!' an exhange of Members might be hazardous. The Tories are alrrt, and have a candidate ready : in the mean while, some of the WI Whigs may ask themselves whether their recent language and intm5. dons respecting Sir William Molesworth have done much towards ca. ciliating the Radicals ?] In addition to the petition against the validity of the election of SI! John Walsh, for Sudbury, a great number of swamis have been nis°. tuted against electors, who, it is alleged, have been bribed, ford* penalties of 5001. in each case, and which will be tried at the ensuing Summer Assizes.—Suffolk Chronicle. Mr. Philips and Mr. Poulett Thomson both voted, mucb. nide dissatisfaction of many of their constituents, against the motion dot_ apprenticeships chould cease in Jamaica on the 1st August. 0111°` previous discussion of the motion for a general disfranchisement.* the most powerful arguments against it was, that it would be unjustpunish the other colonies for the crimes of Jamaica. W the
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fore, the motion was confined to the apprentices of that island, It. might have been supported with perfect consistency by those who oP to.
posed the broader measure.—Manchester Times. The Town-hall of Birmingham was completely filled on Valois? evening, by an assembly comprising a large number of the manufso , erchants, brokers, and the most influential residents in 'liming- j:01 °convened to petition the Horse of Commons for the entire ttbo- Won' of the Negro Apprenticeship, and for "full compensation to be mode by Me Planters to the Injured Negroes." The High Bailiff, Mr. William Scholefield, presided. A letter wits read from Sir Eardley Wilmot, pledging himself to bring the question forward in the House of commons on the 8th of May. At this meeting Ministers were toughly handled by almost every speaker. Mr. Sturge coned:tilled that the whole weight and influence of Government was used against Sir George Strickland, and that the Irish Liberal Members had deserted ;because of the Negro. The Reverend Mr. James said, that it was with extreme unwillingness that he relinquished his good opinion of Ministers; hut their recent conduct, and especially the speeches of Lord John Russell, had done much to open his eyes— "Hi Lordship would seem to he rowing vety fastidious about the pressure be without. They all recollected the time his Lordship was not so sen,itive upon that point. When this clamour proceeded from another cause, when it raised him into office and retained him in at, then there n,. no objection rai-ed IOW the clamour from without. The shouts of Newhall-hill were but no easerembk to ham as the little clamour that had lately beim raised in the House of Cormons in behalf of the unfortunate Negro."
The Reverend Thomas Morgan charged Ministers with abetting the Planters in violating the law; and the Reverend Thomas Swan said,
that the people had had plenty of Whig " moderation," which he called sinjustice," and had found out that they had been cheated. A reso- lution moved by Mr.. Douglas contained a vote of thanks to Lord Brougham- ,' This meeting records its high sense of obligation to Lord Bonigham, for his ezertions in exhibiting this nefarious system in all its deformity, and, gene- rally, for his noble efforts in the cause of universal freedom."
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