Mr. J. H. Whitehurst and the Honourable F. Curzon are
candi. dates for Derby, on the Tory interest.
Lord Fitzharris and Sir George Coekburn intend to contest Ports. mouth with Messrs. Carter and Baring.
The Manchester Guardian contradicts the report of the intention of Mr. Brotherton to resign his seat for Salford : adding that " the re- port was propagated in London by a gentleman who might be supposed to have some personal object in spreading it."
The Liverpool Standard says, that Mr. Creswell, a leading barrister on the Northern circuit, is to be the second Tory candidate for Liver. pool.
The Tories at Brighton elected their Churchwardens ; but this advantage is overbalanced by the appointment of four Liberal Over. seers by the Magistrates of the town.
At Oldham, the Reformers elected their Churchwardens by a ma. jority of 700 to 60. At a very large meeting of the inhabitants of Macclesfield, the Mayor in the chair, a petition for the abolition of Church-rates was unanimously adopted. At Ipswich, two meetings have been held—one in the open air, of Reformers who petitioned for the abolition of Church-rates ; and an. other hole-and-corner affair, by the Tories, who got up a counter. petition.
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