ELECTION TALK.

THE METROPOLIS.

FINSBURY. Mr. 'William Tooke has issued an address to his " re- spected friends and neighbours," offering himself to their choice. His pretensions be states thus-

" My pretensions for soliciting this responsible duty at your hands are grounded on a long residence among you, and an active interest taken in many of your local and parochial institutions, while my public conduct is best vouched by my votes in the first two Reformed Parliaments of England."

His professions are vague : he is " devotedly attached to the consti- tution"; but would carry out Liberal measures of legislation in educa- tion, law, and commerce. His expectations are cheering- " Attached to no party, and independent of every claim but that of duty, with no other pledge than what my past conduct affords, and no other profes- sion than my habitual character implies, I look forward to a successful result, with that confidence which my intimate knowledge of so distinguished and in- telligent a constituency is fitted to inspire." [Modest man 3]

GREENWICH. The two candidates who will stand in the Tory inte- rest, according to the papers of the party, are Sir George Cockburn and Sir Thomas Cochrane.

LAMBETH. The Tories are said to have sent a requisition to Mr. C. Baldwin, who contested the borough at the last election.

MARYLEBONE. At a special general meeting of the Marylebone Re • form and Registration Association, on Monday, Sir Charles Napier stated that on the previous Friday he had resigned his command in the Mediterranean.

At a numerous and highly-respectable meeting of the electors of Marylebone, held on Wednesday, the retirement of Lord Teignmouth was announced. It was immediately and unanimously resolved that a requisition should be presented to Sir James John Hamilton, Baronet, requesting him to consent to be put in nomination.—Morning Post.

Mr. Sankey- Lis said to be the candidate whom the Chartists will propose.

TOWER HAMLETS. The Liberals have had much trouble to find a candidate in the room of Dr. Lushington, who should be the advocate, inter alia, of Free Trade. A deputation was sent in search of one ; and at a meeting of electors in the Court-house, on Tuesday, one of the deputation reported : they called first on Mr. Rome, who told them that he was already engaged to the electors of Leeds ; they then went to Lord Palmerston, who was "too closely bound to his constituents " ; and:then they went to Colonel Fox, who promised to send an answer by letter— which he did on Monday, expressing his willingness to stand. The Standard sayg that Mr. Edwin Abbott, the partner of Mr. Hodg- son the brewer, has been invited td stand by a great number of Con- servative electors; with every reason to expect his acceptance.

WESTMINSTER. A numerous body of the electors of Westminster are about, we understand, to present a requisition to Lord C. Wellesley, requesting his Lordship to come forward as a candidate for the repre- sentation of this city.—Morning Post.

THE PROVINCES.

BATH. Mr. William Hobhousc has declined to be a candidate ; and Mr. Blair has refused to stand with Mr. Roebuck.

BEDFORD. Captain Polhill and Mr. H. Stuart are the Conservative candidates. Mr. W. Whitbread is announced as a candidate in the Liberal interest. Had it not been for the decisions of a Whig Election Committee, Bedford would now be represented by the two first-named gentlemen.

BERWICK-UPON-TWEED. The Post names as candidates, Colonel Fox in the Whig, and Mr. R. Hodgson the present Member, and Mr. SonleS the London shipowner, in the Tory interest,

BEWDLEY. The votes of the electors have been claimed for Mr. Robert Monteith, a stanch Tory, and the unsuccessful candidate at Glasgow, who was about to come forward.

BOLTON. The electors of Bolton have invited Mr. Cobden. They know that Stockport wishes to return him ; but Stockport failed to do so at the last election, and the Bolton men seem to think that they can do better. The Bolton Free Press observes that it is now time that the chief of the Anti-Corn-law movement should he in Parliament. [It is.3

BRIDPORT. Mr. Thomas Alexander Mitchell, from London, is can- vassing this borough for the Liberal party, in the room of Mr. Swynfen Jervis, who retires. Mr. Dundas Baillie Cochrane is likewise here on the Conservative interest.

BRISTOL. Mr. Fripp has declined the offer to return him : some of the electors have jilted hint. He says-

" Some of the supporters of Mr. Miles have severed themselves from me, for what reason I know not : it however appears very extraordinary, when I con- sider that in June 1839 I received from them a request to allow myself to be put in nomination with Mr. Miles upon the then expected dissolution of Par- liament ; and I can only account for their present conduct on the ground that I declined that invitation because it was made upon the condition that I would myself contribute a greater sum of money than was expended by both of the Conservative candidates at the severe contest in 1837."

Sir James Graham's name is diffidently mentioned, perhaps as- a feeler: the Tory electors hope that Sir James may deign to accept their votes ; or perhaps Sir James hopes they may deign to accept his.

BUCKINGHAM. Sir Harry Verney, according to the Post, will be op- posed by Sir John Chetwode, whom the Tories will endeavour to place beside their present Member, Sir Thomas Fremantle.

BURY ST. EDMUND'S. The Whig-Radicals have prevailed on Mr. Alston to stand up to be knocked down with Lord C. Fitzroy. Earl Jermyn and Mr. II. Twiss have concluded a most satisfactory canvass. —Morning Post.

CAMBRIDGE. Mr. Wagstaff has published an address to the electors. The Morning Chronicle and the Times mention Mr. E. H. J. Craufurd, of Trinity College, President of the University Whig Club, as a can- didate on the Liberal interest. Our contemporaries have been deceived: we are authorized to state that Mr. Craufurd has no intention of coming forward at the present juncture.—Cambridge Advertiser.

CHESHIRE, SOUTH. Mr. Wilbraham has declared his adhesion to a fixed Corn-duty, as his recommendation on reappearing at the hustings.

CHESTER. Sir Edward Waller, a late Mayor, is spoken of by the Tories as a Liberal candidate with Mr. Jervis ; Lord Robert Grosvenor going to the County.

CLITHEROE. Mr. Edward Cardwell, of the Middle Temple, London, is the avowed Conservative candidate, and Mr. Matthew Wilson junior, of Eshton Hall, near Skipton, the Liberal candidate for this borough ; Mr. Fort retiring.—Courier.

CORNWALL, EAST. Mr. William Rashleigh, a very young man, son of William Rashleigh, Esq., of Menabilly, yesterday accepted an in- vitation to stand for East Cornwall with Lord Eliot, and with his Lord- ship's approbation. It is reported that the young candidate's father has said he will spend his last shilling to return his son for the county. It is rumoured that Sir Hussey Vivian retires, and that he will shortly be raised to the Peerage. Mr. Trelawny, the eldest son of the Lord-Liea- tenant, Sir William Trelawny, is spoken of as the candidate to succeed Sir Hussey. The contest will of course be between Trelawny and Rashleigh.—Falmouth Packet.

CRICKLADE. We understand from good authority that the tenants of the Right Honourable the Earl of Clarendon have received instructions from his Lordship's steward, John Hayward, Esq., to give their whole and sole support to the Honourable Captain Howard at the approaching election for Crieklade.—Wilts Standard.

DERBYSHIRE, NORTH. The Morning Post mentions the Marquis of Granby, son of the Duke of Rutland, as the Tory candidate.

DERBYSHIRE, SOUTH. Whenever a dissolution takes place, says the Courier, Sir George Crewe and Mr. Hunt do not intend coming forward again for South Derbyshire : the candidates on the Conservative interest to replace them are Mr. William Mundy and Mr. Charles Colville.

DEVONSHIRE, SOUTH. The Tory papers announce Lord Conrtenay to stand with Sir John Yarde Buller.

GUILDFORD. Mr. Currie, of the firm of Currie and Co. in Cornhill, is mentioned as the Tory candidate, in the room of "that base betrayer of his constituents" Mr. Baring Wall.

HASTINGS. The Brighton Guardian says that Mr. North has de- clined to come forward again.

HEREFORDSHIRE. Mr. E. Foley, the present Conservative M.P., retires. Two candidates of similar politics are in the field, Joseph Bailey junior, Esq., M.P., and '_Manors Baskerville, Esq.; who will to- a certainty displace either Sir R. Price or Mr. Hoskins, most probably the former. The Radicals of Hereford have not yet succeeded in in- ducing a second Liberal to come forward with Mr. Clive. Morning Post.

HERTFORDSHIRE. Mr. Hale, of King's Walden, has agreed to make. the third Tory candidate, with Lord Grimstone and Mr. Abel Smith.

IPSWICH. Mr. Montague Gore has declined standing.

KENT, WEST. Mr. Hodges, says the Kentish Observer, makes no•

secret of his intention to decline offering himself. • LEEDS. In our second edition last Saturday, we mentioned a meet- ing at Leeds, on the Tuesday before, at which letters of resignation were read from Sir William Molesworth and Mr. Baines ; and Mr. Hume and Mr. Aldam were put forward as candidates in their room. Mr. Baines retires on account of ill health. The cause of Sir William. Molesworth's withdrawal is stated in the following letter- " To THE ELECTORS OF LEEDS.

" Gentlemen—I am strongly assured by many of the leading persons among you. that intoning forward as a candidate to represent you in Parliament. at the expected general election. 1 might endanger the success of other candidates opposed to the Corn- laws and the restrictive system of commerce, without being lure of any own return.. There is no difference of opinion among all porti. us of the Liberal party as to the paramount importance of the questions upon which the present Parliament will be dissolved. However Much we differ upon other grave questions of policy, we all agree in ”pposing commercial restrictions. When you, therefore, are to vote for free trade; or against free bade, you should not be divided in the choice of a candidate. I there. fore act upon the assurauces w hich have been given to me, and do out hesitate to dei.

clam that I shall not be a candidate for the representation of Leeds at the next electio.n " 1 hare the honour to be ycur obedient humble servant, WILLIAM MOLEIWORTH.

1. Loundes' Square, Loudon, 24th May 1841."

Sir William's letter was quite a godsend to some of the managers ; and a vote of thanks to both the retiring Members passed with great cordiality. The Hume party seem to have been at work since the time of the " great demonstration." The other candidate, a young Quaker barrister, is not very particular as to politics, and at present is not a Ballot-man, but he is a strong Free-trader.

LEWES. Mr. Howard Elphinstone, formerly Member for Hastings, and a Mr. Harford, are the Whig candidates for Lewes.

LIVERPOOL. The Liverpool Albion mentions that on Thursday week a requisition to Lord Palmerston, inviting him to permit himself to be -.put in nomination as a candidate for Liverpool, was opened at the office of the Liverpool Times. It received many signatures ; among which were those of several gentlemen who have heretofore been warm sup- porters of Lord Sandon, and some, it is added, of Mr. Cresswell also. It was afterwards laid out for signature at the Exchange and several other places.

Lord Sandon, says the correspondent of the Times, will again solicit tfie suffrages of the electors ; and nothing is known to the contfary but that Mr. Cresswell will be a candidate.

LUDLOW. We have the best authority for announcing that Mr. E. L. Charlton intends to offer himself at the next election tor Ludlow as a candidate to represent that borough in Parliament. It is said that Mr. Charlton's object is to oppose the Radical Town-Council, and the fearful havoc certain parties are making with the public money for electioneering purposes.—Shropshire Conservative.

MALMESBURY. Lord Andover, the present Member, has thought it prudent to withdraw his pretensions ; and a cadet of the house of Suf- folk is to be the Ministerial candidate.—Times.

MAIDSTONE. Mr. Disraeli has announced his intention of retiring. Mr. A. B. Hope, a gentleman of fortune in the neighbourhood, say the Tory papers, has been invited to stand, and has consented.

MIDDLESEX. Captain Wood again intends offering himself for the county. Mr. Byng is also in the field. It is thought Mr. Wood will retire if Mr. Pownall offers against Mr. Byng ; and the Conservatives will most probably then put up some other candidate, so certain are they of success.—Tunes.

NEWARK-ON-TRENT. Lord John Manners is annnounced as the second Tory candidate, with Mr. William Gladstone.

NEWCASTLE. A meeting of the working-classes have agreed to a requisition to Mr. Hume to stand for the borough.

NEWPORT. Mr. C. W. Martin, and Mr. W. J. Hamilton, are said to be the Conservative candidates for this borough.

NORTHUMBERLAND, SoUTH. Major Blackctt has formally expressed his intention of not again coming forward. " Mr. Savile Ogle, son of ,the Reverend John Savile Ogle, of Kirkley Hall," says the Morning Chronicle, " has determined to come forward as a candidate for the re- presentation of this division of the county. Mr. Ogle is well known to be a gentleman of high attainments, of unspotted reputation, and a de- cided Liberal in politics." The Times says, " It is possible " that Mr. Ogle " may meet with no opposition." The Tory papers mention Lord Ossulston, who represented the county in 1831, as likely to oppose Lord Howick.

NOTTINGHAM. Mr. Walter's late election gave occasion for a little electioneering display in case of a dissolution : a " grand tea-party " was given in the Castle-grounds on 'Wednesday. It is estimated that seven thousand persons were present ; and when Mr. Walter entered, he was ushered in to the triumphal sounds of the trumpet. After the speeches, (which were not remarkable,) came music and dancing.

PORTSMOUTH. The Ministerial party have been canvassing on be- half of Mr. Baring, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his colleague, Sir George Staunton. The Times describes the Conservatives as being "at present in static quo."

PRESTON. It is now denied that the Tories bad ever invited Mr. Robert Gladstone to stand.

ROCHESTER. Mr. J. S. Douglas is mentioned as a Tory candidate. RYE. The Conservative candidate is Mr. Farncomb, the respected Sheriff of London.—Brighton Gazette.

SALISBURY. The Wiltshire Independent says that the Tory party have endeavoured to find a candidate for the second seat ; and they applied to Lord Folkstone, whose opinions are supposed to be different from those of his noble father; but he declared he would not lend him- -self to any manoeuvre which would be unpalatable to the Earl of Radnor.

SOUTHAMPTON. Captain Charles E. Mangles and Mr. E. J. Hutchins addressed a meeting of 600 or 700 electors on Friday, as candidates in the Liberal interest. The meeting was also addressed, in their support, by Sir John Guest, M.P., Mr. Divett, M.P., Mr. Easthope, M.P., and Mr. Baring Wall, M.P. The speakers one and all professed them- selves zealous Free-traders ; and as such the meeting adopted the two candidates.

ST. ALBAN'S. On dit that Mr. Godson, the Member for Kidder- minster, will go to St. Alban's.—Correspondent.

STAMFORD. The Stamford Mercury announced the intention of Sir George Clerk and the Marquis of Granby to retire ; but a handbill has been circulated contradicting that announcement.

STROUD. It is reported that Lord John Russell intends to stand for this borough, in spite of the London requisitionists. The Cheltenham Examiner says that Mr. Symons has been applied to, and that he would le willing to come forward, "if invited to do so by a sufficient number of electors stating their objection to Mr. Scrope, who now occupies

SUNDERLAND. Mr. David Barclay has published an address to the electors of Sunderland, announcing his intention to offer himself.

SUSSEX, WEST, The Hampshire Advertiser contradicts, on authOrIty, the rumour that Colonel Charles Wyndham does not intend to offer himself; and mentions a rumour that Lord Fitzallan will be among the candidates, in the room of his father, the Earl of Surrey.

TAUNTON. Mr. Hall has been canvassing the borough as a coadjutor of Mr. Wilberforce, in the endeavour to oust the Liberal Members, Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Bainbridge.

TEWKESBURY. A correspondent tells us that Mr. Dowdeswell, the Tory Member, would have no chance if the opposite party were in- vited ; but some success has attended the endeavour to sow dissension among them.

WELLS. Mr. Lee Lee, a decided Liberal, has determined upon op- posing the return of the present Tory Member, Mr. Blakemore.— Morning Chronicle.

WEYMOUTH. Mr. Gordon is destined for Weymouth.—Courier.

WIGAN. It is now generally understood among the Liberals of Wigan, that George Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., is to become candidate, along with Mr. Standish, for the representation of the borough on the Reform interest. Mr. Grenfell, as many of our readers are aware, mar- ried a sister of the Earl of Sefton.—Liverpool Chronicle.

Wmnson. The Courier mentions a report that Lord George Au gustus Frederick Paget, the youngest brother of the Earl of Uxbridge, is to be a " Castle candidate," with Colonel Fox.

WORCESTERSHIRE, WEST. A " grand Conservative festival" was

held in Worcester on Wednesday, 500 sitting down to dinner, for the purpose of introducing the new Tory candidate, Mr. F. W. Knight,

to the electors. Mr. Pakington was the great orator of the day ; Mr. Knight not promising much for the " floor of the House." A correspon- dent calls hint " a beardless boy," but remarks that a" subscription of

3,500/. and a requisition signed by 1,400 electors are materials sufficient to start with." Captain Winnington, however, it is added, will not resign without a struggle ; but his friends cannot forget his profession of reform and retrenchment, which recur in awkward contrast with his money-votes.

WORCESTERSHIRE, EAST. It is feared that the mooting of the Free Trade question may endanger the return of the good Reformer Mr. Holland.

WORCESTER CITY. " Various parties," says a correspondent, " are talked of for the city of Worcester ; among the rest, the Solicitor-

General. The Tories, according to --, are in doubt if they shall

not bring forward two candidates. Not a bit of it : they know they could not return two unless they can get over the Chartists. I hear in

the best-informed quarters that these latter are determined to start Mr. Hardy, the ironfounder ; and that although they know he cannot be returned, there are 600 who will plump for him."

WYCOMBE, HIGH. We have been thrown quite on the qui vice this morning, by the arrival of two Tories as candidates for the representa-

tion of this borough,—Mr. Freshfield, M.P., and Mr. Alexander ; and both these gentlemen attempted to address the electors in the Town- hall on Monday evening; but so decidedly was the tone of the nume-

rous body of electors assembled against them, that neither could obtain a bearing. The reelection of our worthy and Liberal Member, Mr. Dashwood, is beyond a doubt ; and should the report of Mr. G. R. Smith's resignation be true, another Liberal will be immediately started, and that with every probability of success.—Correspondent of the Morn- ing Chronicle.

YORK, WEST Rrinsio. Sir George Strickland retires ; and Lord Morpeth and Lord Milton are understood to be the Liberal candidates. The Leeds Intelligencer says that the Liberals are canvassing. in their favour. The Honourable James Stuart Wortley, a Tory, has issued an address ; and, says the Intelligencer, " the public eye is fixed " on Mr. Denison, of Doncaster, as " the man" to be the second Conservative candidate.

IRELAND.

ATHLONE. Mr. Edmund O'Beirne is in the field.

CARLOW. The Carlow Sentinel says that a letter has been received from Mr. Ashton Yates declaring his intention not to stand again ; and that Mr. Gisborne will retire. The latter assertion is denied by the Leinster Reformer.

lu a letter addressed " My dear John," Mr. O'Connell gives the Carlow electors a candidate-

., My fourth son and namesake, Daniel O'Connell, stands for Carlow County as a Repealer; a Repealer, whose first political expression, whose every poli- tical thought is for the Repeal. Let Carlow become a second Clare. The Bruens will be scattered to the winds, and Repeal will be triumphant. Burrs for Carlow County and the Repeal! the Repeal and Carlow County—Hurra!"

CLONMELL. With respect to Clonmell, I shall say nothing concern- ing my loved friend the Attorney-General, as I believe that nobody dreams of offering him any opposition."—Mr. O'Connell's Letter. DERRY. According to the Times, Sir Robert Fergusson's support of the Government who propose to "do away with the Canada Timber trade " has strengthened the Conservative candidate, Sir James John Hamilton.

DUBLIN CITY. Mr. G. A. Hamilton has announced his intention to decline standing for Dublin, in consequence, he says in a long address, of the resolution recently adopted by the Corporation to oppose any candidate in the city who would not pledge himself to resist the re- election of Mr. Shaw for the University.

Mr. O'Connell, in offering himself as a Repealer, intimates that Mr. Hutton should be reelected though he is not one-

" It may be asked why not join with my name that of my respected col- league, Mr. Hutton ? My answer is, that if he were a Repealer there is no man living for whom I, as an elector, would sooner vote. He is a man of great intelligence, and the highest political integrity. He is never absent from his duty, and is in every respect, in my humble but decided judgment, qualified to represent a great city. I do hope that the popular party will pause and at- tentively deliberate before they reject him. • • * 1, expressing my opi- nion merely as a single voter, can see no reason why Mr. Hutton should not be preferred to any other candidate of his opinions. He is a thorough Re- former ; he is respected and esteemed by a large class of our fellow citizens; and, in the absence of a Repeal candidate, I, for one, know of no better than my present colleague."

DUBLIN COUNTY the Tories hope to bestow on Mr. J. liamilton of Sheephill, and Captain Taylor, KERRY COUNTY. The Honourable William Browne, brother of Lord Kenmare, will dispute the representation with Mr. Blennerhassett. —Times.

LIMERICK CITY. The Limerick Chronicle contradicts, on authority, a statement previously made by that journal, that Sir David Roche had intimated his intention of retiring from the representation. LIMERICK COUNTY. Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B., will, it is stated, be put in nomination.

- LONGFORD. Colonel Henry White, a Liberal, retires. "The gallant Colonel's interest," says the Times, "is one of the largest in the county, and as many of his tenants, differing with him in politics, but who nevertheless always voted for him as being their landlord, will now be free agents, the chances of success for a Conservative candidate will be greatly increased in this one of the most priest-ruled counties in Ire- land. Mr. John O'Ferrall, brother of the Admiralty Secretary, and one of the Dublin Police Commissioners, is spoken of by the Radicals as being likely to be nominated with Sir Percy Nugent."

Louis. Mr. T. Fortescue retires, to devote himself to the duties of a resident landlord ; and Mr. Matthew Fortescue is announced as the Tory candidate.

MAYO. The Earl of Altamont and the Honourable A. Dillon are again declared to be the candidates.

MONAGHAN COUNTY. It is likely that Mr. Lucas will be induced to forego his intention of resignation ; if so, the Conservatives con- template starting Mr. Evelyn Shirley as the colleague of the Honour- able gentleman.—Morning Chronicle.

TIPPERARY. A son of Baron Pennefather will, it is said, start for the county of Tipperary, in the Conservative interest.

WATERFORD COUNTY. Lord Loftus and Mr. H. Lambert, Esq., are the Tory candidates named for the county of Waterford.

WEXFORD. The Liberal papers say that Mr. C. A. Walker retires, and that the electors are unanimous in the wish to put Sir Thomas Esmonde in his place.

SCOTLAND.

The Morning Post declares a serious defection from the Whig ranks- " We are happy to have it in our power to announce that his Grace the Duke of Roxburgh has at length abandoned the Whig Ministerial faction, and declared his determination henceforward to stand by the great Conservative party. The noble Duke has for some time been dissatisfied with the proceed- ing of the Melbourne Ministry ; and their recent conduct has quite convinced him that no man who cares for the best interests of his country can continue to support so unprincipled a Cabinet. His Grace, we understand, has with- drawn his proxy from Lord Melbourne, and given it to that truly patriotic nobleman the Duke of Bucdeuch. One imo.ediate consequence of the Duke of Roxburgh's accession to the Conservative ranks will be a recovery of Rox- burgshire at the general election. We trust there are other noblemen of the old Whig party prepared to follow so good an example."

EDINBURGH. Mr. Hume being engaged to the electors of Leeds, the Scotsman supposes that the Committee of Dissenters who invited him to stand for Edinburgh will not seek any other candidate, but will rest con- tent with supporting the present Members !

KILMARNOCK Buttons. The Ayr Advertiser names Mr. Johnston of Shieldhall, a member, and, we believe, the President of the Glasgow Anti-Corn-law Association, as the Liberal candidate for the district.

PAISLEY. It has been currently reported in Paisley for the last two days, that 31r. Speirs, son-in-law of Sir W. Napier, is resolved to come forward as a candidate in the Conservative interest for the representa- tion of this town in Parliament. Mr. Speirs, like Mr. Hastie, is a native of Paisley ; and, like that gentleman, he has also made his for- tune in India.—Glasgow Chronicle.

RENFREWSHIRE. Captain Houston Stewart, or his brother, P. M. Stewart, will carry this county against the Tory, Mr. Alexander of Southbar ; who, we understand, will be put forward in case of the re- signation of the present Tory Member, Mr. Houston.—Liberal Paper.

WIGTOWNSHIRE. The Dumfries Courier names Captain Dalrymple, a nephew of the Earl of Stair, and a stanch Reformer, as candidate. The Galloway Register says that Mr. Blair of Penningham will stand again.

[A rabid Whig-Radical of Glasgow complains that we cull too much election-gossip from the Tory papers. Whether those journals are more industrious, or whether they are more unscrupulous of assertion than the Whig papers, it is certain that they abound more in tangible state- ments ; and that is the sole reason why their names occur in the fore- going list so much oftener than those of the opposite party.]