PREPARATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Just on the eve of the dissolution there is a flood of addresses ; some of which we have noted in the Provincial news. In this place we note only such main facts as appearances and retirements.

ENGLAND.

Rtaexstrair, Mr. Eccles, a cotton-spinner, on a great scale, has suddenly stepped forward to a contest with the sitting Members.

Bast:oat. Mr. Charles Rodney Morgan, eldest son of Sir Charles Morgan, has come forward as a Derbyite.

CAMBILMOPAH.THE. Mr. Townley is at last driven to retire ; and Mr. Ball will take his place as a Protectionist.

Friesnrary. Mr. Henry Gardner, of the great brewing firm in Clerken- well, stands as an independent Radical for the seat resigned by Mr. Wakley.

Lanthrennts, SOUTH. It is said that the hope of starting Conservative candidates has died away.

Liam:owe. There is some ferment here. Mr. Hume is and to have been conferred with, and to have refused to stand against Lord John Russell. A requisition to Mr. R. W. Crawford, chairman of the Committee for Reform of the Board of Customs, is talked of.

Manywroara. Two votes are here transferred to Free-trade. Bya com- promise, Mr. Fector Laurie is to give way to Mr. Whatman, who is to sit with Mr. Dod. Mr. Dod is a recent convert to the Free-trade faith. Marron% Mr. C. W. Fitzwilliam is to be returned with Mr. Denison, in place of Mr. Childers, who will retire. MANCHESTER. Mr. George Wilson, chairman of the Bright and Gibson committee, has published a statement of the canvass, showing that the poll will be about 7400 to 4520 in faTour of the sitting Members. The Anti- Maynoo th party are said to be discouraiged.

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xLairoatx. An influential meeting has started a movement to return Sir B. Hall, and Lord Dudley Stuart, free of expense, as the electors did Sir Francis Burdett in 1807. Nonananeron. Mr. G. Ward Jackson retires, in tenderness to the Liberal interest. ronrsstoum. They are signing a requisition to ifIr. {hear the ship- builder.

Sormwanx. Alderman Humphery retires, after a twenty years' service, finding that some of his supporters are going over to his opponent, Mr. Apsley Pellatt.

SUFFOLK, Kest Mr. Thomas W. Western is announced to be coming forward in the Liberal interest.

WESTMINSTER. The Carlton Club are said to have got a candidate ready. Sir De Lacy Evans and Sir John Shelley have coalesced. Mr. W. Coningham is a declared candidate.

SCOTLAND.

GLASGOW. Mr. Alexander Alison, formerly in the iron-trade, author of works in which some peculiar religious views are promulgated, and of a po- litical production entitled " Universal Free-trade, by means of a Property, Income, and Wages-tax," is a decided candidate. GREENOCK. Mr. Alexander Dunlop, the Free Church counsel, and Sir J. D. H. Elphinstone, a Free-trade Conservative, are opponents.

IRELAND.

lirrnnt. There is to be an attempt to oust one of the Derbyite candidates. BELFAST. Lord Castlereagh has declined to be nominated ; and the Whig party are in some confusion.

Coax CITY. Sergeant Murphy and Mr. Fagan have coalesced. DROGHEDA. Mr. Brodigan and Mr. M'Can are opponents. Duimue CoUNTY. The Times sans—" The Defence Association has at last fished up two gentlemen of undoubted respectability prepared to maintain Roman supremacy, in the persons of Mr. John Lenlaigne, of Tallaght House, and Mr. Augustus Craven, an importation from the other side of the Chan- neL Both gentlemen are, of course, Roman Catholics, and both pledge them- selves to oppose to the death the Government of Lord Derby." KILKENNY COUNTY. Mr. Otway Cuffe has quitted the field, disgusted with the Ministerial abandonment of the old Protection policy. The candi- dates are now Captain Greene, the sitting Member, Mr. Sergeant Shee, and Mr. R. Welch, all "Brigadiers." Mr. P. S. Butler, the other sitting Mem- ber, has as yet made no sign. The Honourable Leopold Agar Ellis, brother of Lord Clifden, will positively stand on the Whig interest.