The Revising Barristers for the City of London, Mr. Craig
and Mr. .Mylne, will sit on the 15th of September at Guildhall, for the purpose of taking into consideration the claims of persons to vote for Members to serve in Parliament.
The Standard recommends the Tories not to spend all their cash at the registration, but reserve some for the day of actual battle; and becks this advice by an anecdote-
" We remember to have read somewhere, we think, in the life of Frederick dieGreat, of an officer commanding an important advanced post, who was corn. plied to surrender it to an inferior number of the enemy, because, when the moment of contest came, he found that his men bad wasted all their ammuni- tion in firing at what they supposed to be a drummer, but what turned out to be but a drummer's cap. We could mention a para11:1 instance, at one of the late Metropolitan elections. The Conservative party had, at the last registra- tion, expended 20/. or 30/. in opposing the vote of one whom they knew to be as alien ; and they expended it without success. At the late election, however, the alien did not vote—he had returned to his native city of Milan. But the 501, or 304 were lost; and if these 20/. or 30/. had been expended in coach- hire and messengers, hey would have brought to the poll several hundreds of faineant electors, who staid at home, and did not vote at all. Therefore we say to the Metropolitan Borough Conservatives, (London and Middlesex stand Upon peculiar ground,) register, register, register, by all means ; and where you lave reason to suspect gross wholesale frauds, pursue and expose them ; but hatband your ammunition and your energies for the day of the great battle, and 40 not squander them in sharp-shouting at the Registration Court." We learn that the committee for the scrutiny into the poll of the City of London election have been and are diligently prosecuting their inquiries, and that their efforts have been attended with so much sue- cess us to leave no doubt that Mr. Horsley Palmer's name ought to have been inserted in the return instead of Mr. Gro:e's. Mr. Wrentham and Mr. Talbot have been, as we understand, retained for the petition, and other measures have been vigorously pursued for securing a suc- cessful termination. The Conservatives of the City of London have now an opportunity of redeeming the city from the Radical thraldom which has overborne them for years past. The simple fact, that 11,421 electors actually polled at the City election, that Mr. Palmer was in a majority over Mr. Grote up to half-past three o'clock on the day of polling, and that Mr. Grote should only be in a majority of 6, •speitks volumes in support of that revision of the case, which it must now undergo soon : in fact, the City of London would be disgraced if its electors hesitated now to emancipate themselves from the Radical yoke.— Times. [There are two sides to this case, and the Tories Lad better look to their own voters. The Watermen, we have heard, offered to vote for the Liberals if a day's earnings were secured to them : this was refused, and they were bought by the Tories.] Mr. Tuck, the nurseryman or greengrocer, has written a letter to the Globe, complaining of the notoriety which he has acquired by the publication of his letter to Lord Worsley. Tuck stands up for his political consistency, and denies that he ever was a supporter of Sir George Murray.
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