CANDIDATES FOR MARYLEBONE.
THE eircumstances which attended the resignation by Sir Jostst 1108HOUSE of his seat in Parliament, and his subsequent rejection by the electors of Westminster, must be fresh in the recollection of our readers. Notwithstanding his acknowledged talent and in- dustry, it was evident that Sir JOHN had disqualified himself, by the formation of new party connexions, for being the representa- tive of an extended constituency. Ile is no longer the ardent Re- former a be won the esteem and deserved the support of the West- minster electors; but has become a mere partisan of the Whig Ministry. He found the duties of Member for Westminster and a Member of the Government .incompatible. In the attempt to re- concile them, he lost the confidence of his constituents, and was justly discarded by them. He now comes forward as a candidate for Marylehone. But. it will be difficult to prove that the reasons which induced the Westminster electors to reject -him, should not operate as strongly on those of Marylebone. In what respect has Sir JOHN HosinousE changed since his defeat ? Is he more inde- pendent now than he was then? Have his Whig connexion been abandoned ? What single act has he performed, what single avowal has he made, which can induce the Marylebone consti- tuency to believe that the rejected of Westminster ought to be accepted by them ? The Metropolitan electors, we should imagine, must have seen enough of the disadvantage of returning partisans of the Ministry of the day. They are not to be depended upon in any question (and many such have arisen, and must neces- sarily recur frequently), on which the views of the Government do not coincide with the wishes of their constituents.
The electors of Mary lebone should ask themselves this question —Is it our duty and our interest to choose an independent repre-
sentative of our own opinions, or a representative of Lord ALTHORP and Earl GREY? If the former, reject Sir JOHN HOB- MOINE ; if the latter, choose hint by all means: depend upon it,
he will not disappoint your expectations. • We are glad to see that the electors are awake, and disposed to choose for themselves. They are not ready to be handed over to the Ministerial candidate. They have had too long experience of
Sir WILLIAM BORNE to be again entrapped into the belief, that all that is necessary to secure the benefits expected to arise from the Reform 13111, is to elect supporters of the Whig Government.
If any among them should be so infatuated as to imagine that a
Conservative would answer their purpose, let them refer to the Division-list on Mr. HattvEv's motion on Tuesday ; where they
will find the names of between fifty and sixty of the party, who,
true to their- principles, voted even with the Whigs in defence of the disgraceful Pension-list. Fortunately, in Mr. CRAWFURD, Mary-
leboue Reformers have a candidate for their suffrages upon whom they may rely. The mew circumstance of his being independent of all parties, ought to weigh heavily in Mr.Caswruan's favour ;
but in addition to this, he is well known to be admirably qualified, by extensive information and habits of business, for a seat in the House of Commons.
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