PREPARATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION.
ENGLAND.
IlEnrono. Mr. Whitbread junior and Mr. Chisholm Anstey are rival candidates on the Liberal interest.
COLCHESTER. The Ipswich Express gives a report that Lord John Man- ners will not stand again ; but has had an invitation by the county consti- tuency of East Cornwall. CtiMBEBI.AND. Mr. E. Stanley intimates by address, that he will retire from Parliament with this session. Mr. Irton of Irton Hall, a former repre- sentative of the county, comes forward as a Protectionist of all domestic in- dustry. FINSBURY. Alderman Challis is to be invited by a requisition now under signature. LANCASHIRE, NORTH. The Freston Chronicle states, that the Earl of Derby, "having been apprised of the state of the register for this division of the county, and having also ascertained the feelings of a large portion of the constituency, has declined to allow the name of his son Lord Stanley, to be connected with so hopeless an enterprise as raising the standard of Protection in North Lancashire." MA.NCHESTER. The "Independent Election Committee "—Anti-Maynooth —manounce that Lord Moreton has declined to stand ; but that Mr. Loch has consented, and that another candidate will be found in place of Lord Moreton.
IRELAND.
ANTarst. Mr. Nathaniel Alexander has formally taken leave of his An- trim constituents; and has recommended Mr. George Macartney, a stanch Protectionist, as the candidate whose views and opinions he alleges to be in accordance with those entertained by the majority of the electors. BELFAST. It is stated that the Tory party in Belfast held a meeting on Tuesday, at which a variety of very fierce 'religious" orations were deli- vered, and at which it was agreed to ask Mr. M'Calmont Cairns to stand for the borough as a colleague to Mr. Davison Mr. Dunbar having refused a previous invitation from the same party. Lord John Chichester has, it is said, declared his intention of retiring from the field.—Northern Whig.
am°. The Sligo Journal states that Mr. Sheriff Swift calculated on having the tenantry of Lord Palmerston permitted to vote for him ; but has been disappointed, by learning that "his Lordship's desires" have been in- timated in favour of Sir R. Booth and Mr. Ormsby Gore, who, though Pro- tectionists and Derbyites, are Protestants.
SCOTLAND.
EDDMITRGH. Mr. Boaverie, learning that "a requisition was getting up in Edinburgh" to ask him to be their Member, wrote to an influential in- habitant of Kilmarnock saying that he should "not be induced to leave Kil- marnock by anything of the kind." The North British Mail says that the Lord Provost has now "consented to comply with the proposal of the Inde- pendent Committee to stand for the city, in the event of a sufficiently nume- rous requisition being presented to him by the electors."
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