THE ELECTIONS.

THE elections progress very rapidly. Before another week elapse, we shall be enabled almost to state their close. They proceed smoothly

also Whether people be tired of listening to accounts of three or four men making fools of themselves on a hustings, and beasts of their coun- trymen in a public.house—or whether, as we opine, the people are begin- ning to look on the whole affair as a dull farce, in which they have no interest—we Cannot recollect any similar visitation that has caused less general excitement. As yet we cannot attempt any calculation of what the Ministry have gained or the people lost. One thing will not fail to strike the most Casual observer : almost all the Ministerial dependants, as well as themselves, are content to get into Parliament through the medium of rotten boroughs—rotten in the strictest sense. Some of the returns are perhaps temporary, but many are not ; and so great a num- ber argues a strange want of popular talent in the Duke's subalterns. Croker is returned for Aldborough, Arbuthnot for Ashburton, Yates Peel for Little Yarmouth, Doherty for Newport (Cornwall), Calcraft for Wareham, Spencer Percival and Horace Twiss for Newport (Hants), Herries and G. Dawson for Harwich, Planta for Hastings, the Home Secretary for Tamworth, Sir Alexander Grant for Westbury ! The Ministry may boast of themselves as forming a most independent por- tion of the House, for no equal number of members in it are less incum- bered with the interests of their constituents. Some of the returns which we subjoin will be read with general satis. faction. Sir Ronald Ferguson does not retire ; he comes into the House for Nottingham, as honest and independent as ever, and less trammelled than by his Scotch connexion. We hail also with great plea- sure the return of the Common Sergeant ; he is a bold, an independent, and able man. In the borough of Southwark, Mr. Calvert has been thrown out by Mr. Harris. Mr. Harris is a manufacturer, whose fortune is of his own making, and, we believe, a Tory. This is of small importance now. The nominal Tories are, in many cases, better public men than the no- minal Whigs. Mr. Harris will vote for the extension of the elective fran- chise to householders ; he will vote against all monopolies, and for all retrenchments. A man of such sentiments is a real accession to the House. Besides, Mr. Harris is untrammelled by party connexions, and has the power as well as the intention to do right. Mr. Calvert took leave in rather a peevish fashion on Thursday. The best man may be disappointed, but a prudent man says little about his disa,ppoititments. There was a great deal of bustle during the polling—an immense array of hackney coaches, papered up to the eyes with placards of " Harris for •

ever ! " Wilson and cheap Beer ! " " Calvert and Southwark !" and other dainty devices ;—lots of most execrable Music blown through cracked hautboys, by fellows who had been turned away by leaders of street bands for putting out their fellows ;—and crowds of idle people most of them very filthy, and all of them, from the heat of the weather and the dust, in a forward way to be so. In short, Borough High Street presented for two or three days what we gentlemen of the press call a very ani- mated appearance—that is, as we interpret it, a very marked display of the animal part of humanity. Everything was, however, conducted with good humour. We were a quarter of an hour on Monday in pass- ing through the mob, and did not see one fight, nor was our pocket picked. Hunt has not, it will be seen, succeeded at Preston. The money subscribed for his entertainment appears to have been soon exhausted ; for on the third day of the poll, he bid his constituents that were not to be, good morning,—telling them, however, that he would return if elected. He will not be Mungo there again for some years at least.

A small opposition was got up at Liverpool, on Monday, by Colonel Williams; but after a few hours' polling, he very frankly gave in, and the old members were returned without further dispute. Of contests in towns, the keenest seems to be that of Bedford ; where Lord John Russell, Mr. 'Whitbread, and Captain Polhill are the candi- dates. It is still doubtful, so close are the numbers, which of the three will lose.

Mr. Brougham has been giving the people of Yorkshire a small spe- cimen of what a non -resident can perform. He spoke eight S eches the other day to eight meetings, travelled one hundred and twenty miles, and entered court the next morning wigged and gowned, as fresh as if he had never quitted his chambers! We were happy to mark, ira the course of his observations in one case, his attention being called to the events in France—he gave utterance to his feelings in the most un- qualified terms of detestation at the perfidy of Charles. Yorkshire will be contested by Mr. Stapylton, who is determined to go to a poll. If any other person runs a risk by this determination, it is supposed it will be Mr. Duncombe.

Processions have been the order of the day in Newark. Mr. Sergeant 1Vilde had at his entry a mighty grand procession, horse and foot ; and Mr. Sadler, at his, had a much grander procession than Mr. Sergeant Wilde. The speeches on both sides, as might well be expected between a sergeant-at-law and a poet of fifty, have been prodigiously long. Mr. Sadler is said to have 700 votes pledged to him. We shall see.

Mr. Mime has had a procession also to Brentford, that "town of mud ;" but he had no rival. Mr. Byng had nothing but his own chariot. The patriotic Scot was elected without opposition, and with an enthu- siasm of applause which must have been highly agreeable to him. We hope he won't get too big on his new honours—lesser have turned heads of tolerable soundness.

The contest for Surry has begun ; and, as yet, Joliffe has the advan. tage, and will possibly keep it. We should say that he does not possess one qualification as its member, or as the member of any other

place ' • and that Mr. Briscoe possesses a great many, but we do not think his chance in Surry is a whit the better for that.

There have been some serious riots at Northampton ; and one of Mr

lull's men is said to have been killed.

At Bristol, a great many people were seriously hurt during the first day, by the ruffians of Mr. Baillie's party ; yet the Bristol people elected him,—imagining, perhaps, that he whose upholders so readily break laws must be well acquainted with their weak parts, and the better qualified to mend them.

The car of Sir John Rae Reid, the Duke of Wellington's candidate at Dover, was broken by a parcel of boys, and a troop of soldiers from the Castle were sent down to rescue the fragments. The townspeople, it is said, grumbled. If they had broken the soldiers' muskets over their heads, and sent them back to the Castle, they would in all pro- bability have been freed from their future visits.

The Ordnance people have gone down to storm the starving fishermen of Queenborough. They are commanded by Sir Philip Durham; who says he is an independent man, for he married a wife with ten thousand a-year ! We are glad to hear that Portia Main brings so good prices in these times of dull trade. Sir Philip told the Queenborough folks he took the last tri-coloured flag ! The Essex election began yesterday, and promises to Le brisk. Mr.

Western was put in nomination by Sir Themes Leonard and Mn Dis- ney. Col. Tyrrel was then nominated, after a little complimentary co- quettery between him and Mr. Wellesley, by Mr. Tuffnell and Sir Henry Smyth. Mr. Wellesley was nominated by Sir F. Agar, and Sir G. Bennet. Mr. Wellesley spoke at great length, and made a very hu- morous and (for a hustings) ingenious speech. Alluding to Colonel Tyrrel's address, and the arguments on various important subjects it contained, he said the Colonel's manner of treatin5, them reminded him of the candlesmitier's historical knowledge in Sheridan's anecdote :— " Some players were short of a person to play a particular part, and took the candlesnuffer as a derider resort. They taught him to say a certain number. of words, which he did not understand ; but when he came to repeat them beibre the audience and in the presence of Garrick, he said, 6 There he sits like Alexander die Great, after the battle of Agincourt, big with the fate of Cato and of Greece.'—(Roars of Laughter.) There also he would say, sat the honourable gentleman, talking similarly of subjects of importance, when in fact he knew nothing about them. He told them that the King had the power of calling upon them to send members to Parliament, and that be had done so on that occasion. He knew as much of the constitution of the country, as the candlesnuffer knew of Alexander and of Cato." Distinctions between private charac- ter-and public character were naturally to be expected in Mr. Wellesley's address. Speaking of Colonel Bramston, he observed, that he was a worthy character in his private life. "lie knew, however, the late King of France, who was as humane, and as kind, and as amiable a man, in private life, as he had ever met with, but a more damnable despt never breathed."—(Cheers.) At the close of the poll, the speech seemed to have had some effect, for Mr. Wellesley was at the head; and 200 above -Camel Tyrrel.

The election for Bridport took place on Monday. The electors are householders paying scot and lot. They are about 330 in number, nearly 300 of whom expect, and commonly receive 10/. from each mem- ber, so that the entire cost orthe seat does not fall much short of 4000/. to each. Sir Horace St. Paul, is the Ministerial member, and having regularly voted at every call of the Premier, has thus been enabled to obtain occasionally some of the loaves and fishes for his greedy consti- tuents. He had, however, rather a cool reception this time, in conse- quence of some omissions in the payments last due. But as no other candidate has appeared to oppose him, they were obliged to make the most of him, and trust to Providence once more. The other member, Mr. Henry Warburton, would be an honour to any constituency in the kingdom ; and it is deeply to be regretted that such a man should be obliged to incur so shameless an expenditure to obtain such a seat.— From a Correspondent.

O'Connell will come in without a struggle for the county of Water- ford; where it is said the Beresfords are happy to retain the possession of one seat. It was supposed that if Mr. Power, the Duke of Devon- shire's candidate, had stood, he might have been elected along with O'Connell ; but, as the Duke and the Beresfords are both Ministerial- ists, this would have been a contest without an object on their part ; so Mr. Power withdrew, leaving Lord George Beresford and time Liberator to walk the course. "Sure such a pair was never seen!" in Ireland any way.

MEMBERS RETURNED.

ALDBOROUOIL-C. J. Clinton; Lord Stormont.

ALD Be ann.-Marquis Douro ; J. Wilson Croker.

A MERS HAS1.-J. Drain,; W. T. Drake. .ANDOVER.-Sir J. W. Pollen ; T. A. ANGLESEA (County).-Earl of Uxbridge.

Smith.

Asnnurrrow.-Sir L. Palk ; Arbuthnot. AYLESBURY.-Lord Nugent; W.

Itich- - ford.

BANDURY.-11. V. Stuart.

BARNSTAPLE.-S. L. Stephens ; George Tudor.

BATH.-Gen. Palmer; Lord Thynne. BEAU MARIS.-Sir B. Williams.

Bmn ICS' (County).-C. Dundas; R. Pal- mier.

BEEwicx.-Beresford; Sir F. Blake. BEVR atEv.-Burton ; Sykes.

DEW DLEY..-W. A. Roberts. BODMIN.-D. Gilbert ; H. B. Seymour. BOROUGHBRIDGE.-Sir. C. Wetherell ;

Attwood.

Bossixxv.-Tunno; Hon. S. Wortley. BOSTON.-Malcolm;

BRAGRLEY.-R. H. Bradshaw ; J. Brad- shaw.

Baimisma.-Calthorpe; J. Irving. BRECKNOCE.-C. Morgan. BRIDGNORTH-T. Whitmore ; AV. W.

Whitmore.

BRIDPORT....Sir H. D. C. St. Paul; H. Warburton.

BRISTOL.-DaThl j Balllie. B cmiNGHAM.-Nugent ; Fremantle. BUCRIN GIIA al (County of).-Marquis of Chandos; Hon. It. Smith.

Bo y Sr. Enitoxns. - Earl Euston ; Earl Jermyn.

CALLINGTON.-A.Baring ; W. B. Baring. CAuB RIDGE (University).-Palmerston; Cavendish.

CAMBRIDGE (Town) Marquis Graham ; Lient.-Col. Trench.

CA 31 mtponn.-Millbank ; Cradock. CANTERBUR Y.-Watson ; IA. Fordwich. CARDIFF and GLAMORGANSHIRE.-Ld.

James Stuart.

CAnnioArr.-P. Pryse.

CAR rasis.-Lushington ; H. Howard. CA RMARTHEN.-Jones.

CAR NARVON...-W. 0. Gore.

CASTLE Rismo.-Cholmondeley; How- ard.

CHESTER (City).-.Grosvenor; Egerton. Curcrussran.-Lord G. Lennox ; J. Smith.

CHTPPING WYCOMBE:Sir. J. D. Ring ; Sir T. Baring. Cr nEXCESTE R.-Apsley ; Cripps. CLITHEROR.-Curzon ; Cust. COCKERMOUTH.-Lord Garlies; Hon. P. P. Bouverie. CoLcumsyma.-Harvey; Spottiswoode. CORFE CASTLR.-G. Bankes ; P. J. Miles. COVENTRY,-T. B. Fyler ; E. Ellice. CRICRLADE...-J. Pitt ; R. Gordon. DARTMOUTH.-Captain Bastard; A. H. Holdsworth.

DENBIGH.-Biddnlph.

Dean v.-Cavendish ; Strutt. nevizes.—aoan Pearse; G. W. Taylor. DORCHESTEn.-Williarns ; Lord Achley. DOVE a,—c. P. Thomson; Sir It. Reid. DOWNTON.-J. Brougham ; G. Lefevre. DROITWICH.-Earl Sefton ; J. H. Foley. Dt/NWICH, (Suffollt).-Andrew Arch- deekne, Fred. Barnes.

DURHAM (City).-Alr. Taylor; Sir - G resley.

EAST GRINSTEAD;West ; Via. Holmes. dale.

EAST Loos.-H. Hope ; J. Kenmorris. Exxis.-W. S. O'Brien.

EvmsmAu.-Sir C. Cockerell ; Lord Ken- nedy.

E vm.-Sir E. Kerrison; Sir P. Sydney. FLINT.-Sir E. P. Lloyd. Fowmv.-Brudenell ; .1. C. Severn. GATTON,-Shelley; Hope.

GLotrcEsym a (County).-Lord E. So-

merset ; Sir B. W. Guise. GLoucmsyma.-Phillpotts; Col. Webb. GREAT BEDWIN.-Sir J. NiCh011 ; J. J.

Buxton.

Gar usnir.-C. World ; Harass. GUILDFORD.-Wall; Sumner. HARWICH.-Right Hon. J. C. }Terries; G. R. Dawson.

HAVE RFORDWEST.-Sir R. B. Philipps. HEDON.-Farrancl; S. Clifford Constable. LsToN.-Ld J Tow nshencl; J.Pechell. HENDON.-Weyland ; Fortescae.

HE azeortn(City).-LordEastnor ; Clive. HERTFOLID.-Duncombe ; Lord 'ages. tre.

HEYTESBURY.-Sir G. Staunton ; E.H. A. d'Court.

HIGHAM FERRERS.-Lord Howiek. Hut L.-Schonswan ; Wrightson.

v Tlim.-Marjoribanks , J. Loch. Dugclale.

Iesivicit.-5Iackinnon ; Dundas Howard.

Henry Brougham. Slaney.

LANCASLER (County).-Lord Stanley ; Hoy. W. Patten. So I;Tri WA.R K.-Harris ; Wilson. LAUNCESTON.-Sir W. Gordon ; J. BM's. STAFFORD.- GiSbOrrIL! ; Campbell.

Evans. Grimston.

LICOMMSTEB.-Lord Hotham; W. 3far- Sr. Gs it MA ims.-Hardinge ; Ross.

LEWES.-Kemp; Shelley. risen. LICHFIELD.-SirG. Anson ; Vernon. Sr. MAwms.-Carrington ; Pigot.

v ERPO 0 L.-General Gascoyne ; Mr. Stanley.

Hon. E. (just, sell.

LYME.-Hon. H. S. Earle; Lieut.-Colonel Sandon.

LYM1NGT0N. Burrard; Egerton. Baldwin.

IIIBLDoN.-Leunard; Dick. WALLzsoFortn.-Hughes ; Knight.

MALLOW.-C. D. 0. Jephson. WAREHAM.-Calcraft ; Ewing.

31Ant.0w.-0. Williams ; T. Williams. F. Lawley.

turtELL.-J. H. Hawkins. WELLS (Somerset).-Vaughan ; Lee. iniaLms Ex.-G. Byng, J. Hume. WENDOVER.-S. Snub; A. Smith.

Minnuasy.-J. A. Smith; G. Smith. WEAmocm.-Forester ; Thompson.

Bourne; George Stevens Byng. Thymic.

NEWCASTLE,-Ridley; Hodgson. Lygon ; F. H. Foley. Nswrorer.-Right Hon. S. Percival YARMOUTEL-Anson ; Rumbold.

NE wrolIT (Cornwall)-Doherty; Rain. Thompson.

NEway (Irelanci).-110n. J. Knox. To a E.-Bayntun ; Hon. T. Daubs. Nmirrox.-T. Legh ; T. Houldsworth. NE WTO WE, (LW.)-E. Pelham ;R. Gur.. ney.

NORTHALLERTON..■ Beresford ; Las. celles.

NORTH AMPT 0 N.-Robinson, Gunning. NOTTINGHAM (County).-J. S. Lumley ; Admiral sotheron. NOTTINGIIAM.-Sir R. Ferguson; T. Denman.

OAK G.1`.70e1; Sir G.Heathcote Om RAM ON.-Lord Seymour ; Hon. G. A. Ellis.

OLu San (131.-J. Alexander ; J. Du Pie Alexander.

OXFORD.-Huehes; Langston.

PE Mnanx E.-Hu7h Owen. PENH YX.-Sir C. Lemon; J. W. Fresh- field. PETE ,,SFIELD.-Sir WM. Joliffe ; G. E. Jaffe.

PLY:Out:TM-Martin ; COCkinlin. PLYMPT ON,-Lord Valletort ; G. C. An* trobus.

Po xx a F rtACT.-S mith ; Jerningham. Po lira at o TEL-J. D. carter ; F. Baring. PRESTON.-Stanley; Wood. READING.-Piihner ; Russell. RICHMOND.-Sir R. Dundas; Hon. X. Dundas.

pox.-George Spence ; L. H. Petit. RocuEsTmir.-Bernal ; Villiers. HOEIIAMPTON.-Lord Seymour ; Hon, G. II. Ellis.

RYE.-CnI. Baillie ; Bonham.

SALTASII. -Darlington ; Gregson. SA.NDIVIC11.-Narryat ; Price. SCA.RDOROUG11.-Gen. Phipps ; C. M. Sutton.

SEAF0:11/.-Enis ; Fitzgerald. SEACTESRURY.-E. Penrhyn ; W. S.

ILCHESTER.-Bruce; Kerr. Sn o az HAM.- C. M. Burrell; IL H.

KxArtmsnomouort.-Sir J. Mackintosh ; SIIREWSECRY.-Richard Jenkins; R. A.

LANCASTER.-T. Greene ; Cawiliorne. SOUTHAMPTON.-A. R. Dottin ; J. H.

den. STAMP° D.-Lord Cecil ; C. Chaplin. LEICESTER.-Sir C. A. Hastitigs ; N. ST. ALBANs.-Charles Tennant; Lord shall. Sr. IVES (Cornwall).-Wellesley; Nor- LINCOLN (City).-Sibthorp ; Fardell. Svocananica.-G. WilbrallaIn; W. S.

Huskisson. The NTON.-Labouchere ; Bainbridge. LOSTWITHIEL.-W. F. V. Fitzgerald ; TAvisrocm.-Vs..Ebrington ; Ld. Bus.

LUDGERSHALL.-Sir S. Graham ; E. J. THETFORD.-Ld. J. Fitzroy ; F. Baring. Foley. Tat RS H.-R• Fraukland ; R. G. Russell. LUD L 0 w.-Lord CISve ; Hon. R. H. dive Ttv Torg.-Hon. G. Ryder ; - Lord

T. Fain,. Totrrms.-Hon. J. P. Courtenay; C. B.

MAIDSTONE.-Robarts ; Winchester. TR E GOP: 7.-J. A. Cordon; J. Mackellop.

MALTON..-J. Ramsden ; Sir J. Scarlett. WARWICK--S. C. Greville ; J. Tomes. MA R1.130 R 017 H.-Esteourt ; 'W. Bashes. WARWICK ( County).-D. S. Dugdale ; Murton:vs PORT.-Right Hon. W. St WEOBLY.-Lord N. Thynne ; Lord W.

MIX E mAn.-Luttrell ; Tomline. Wssx Loom.-C. Buller, Jun.; Sir C. MONMOUTH (County).-Lord G. Somer. Hulse. Set; Sir C. Morgan. WESTMINSTER.-Sir F. Burdett ; J. C. MONMOUTH, NEWPORT, and Usm.- Hobliouse. Marquis of Worcester. WEYMOUTH and MELCOMBE REGIS.... MONTGOMER v.-Henry Clive. Sir E. D. Sugden ; Mr. tire ; Mr. Bux•• MORPETII.-W. Ord ; lion. W. Howard. ton ; Mr. Gordon. NEWARK.-Willoughby; Sadler. WIGAN.- COI. Lindsay; J. A. Hodgson. NEWCASTLE (Staffordshire). - W. H. WOODSTOCIC.-Blandlord; Churchill. Miller ; R. Bortaclaile. WORCESTER (County Of ).-11011. H. B.

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