ELECTION TALK.

ASIITON-UNDER-LYNE.—A Conservative candidate has made his appearance, in the person of Mr. Thomas Helps, barrister-at-law, son of Mr. Thomas Helps, of London, who carried on business at Ashton for the space of forty years. It is thought that he has little chance of success ; but the contest between Colonel Williams and Mr. Hindley is expected to be a neck and neck one. BANBURY.—The candidates for this place are H. W. Tancred, Esq., the King's counsel, and H. J. Pye, Esq., the renter of a neighbouring mansion. Mr. Tancred is a Reformer of the old school, and, as might be expected, from his long-tried principles, has the promises of a most decided majority of the electors. His opponent, Mr. Pye, is a Conformer, whose only known part in public affairs was to oppose Lords Althorp and Milton in Northamptonshire, and to support Lord Norrey-s, the Conservative candidate, in Oxfordshire. He, of course, has all the Tory interest. BIRMINGHAM.—An advertiser who signs " Mercator" has announced his intention of demanding a poll on the day of nomination for Mr. Samuel T. Galton and Mr. J. W. Croker. He declares he will pay the expenses, in order to give the electors the opportunity of recording their votes ; and adds, "I shall propose the first as a gentleman unconnected with, but at the same time most intimately acquainted with the trade and commerce of Birmingham ; and the second as one of the most able advocates in the House of Commons which this kingdom can produce." The object of Mr. Mercator is plain ; and we regret that, from the wording of the Reform Act, it should be attainable.* He wishes to subject Messrs. Attwood and Scholfield to the expense of a poll, and he can do so. True, he must pay one half of it, but lie has a long purse, and is willing to subject himself to the tax for the sake of subjecting others. Of Mr. Tertius Galion we know nothing ; • of Mr. John Wilson Croker, we and the rest of the tax-payers of England, know a great deal too much. That neither has, or can have the most remote chance for the representation of Birmingham, is plain to the meanest capacity. They have never solicited the honour, nor has a living soul, save and except Mr. Mercator, ever dreamt of offering it. To canvassing we are decidedly hostile, and hope to see the day when it will be considered dishonourable to the candidate as it is insulting to the elector ; but it is a new discovery to call for the election of men without consulting either their pleasure or the pleasure of their proposed constituency. We trust that Mereator's attempt will be met as it merits.

BRADFORD.—Mr. Hardy commenced a second personal canvass on Thursday. That gentleman's return is probable, whilst Mr. Lister's is generally considered safe. The knowing ones at Bradford think that Mr. Bankes may allow himself to be nominated, but that he will not stand a poll.—Halfax Express.

Dune, LANCASHIRE.—At a meeting held on Saturday sennight, and attended by nearly 12,000 friends of Mr. Grundy, the Radical candidate, the following resolution was unanimously passed— "That we do solemnly pledge ourselves that we will not henceforward spend a single penny with any elector who shall give his vote to the enemy of the people ; and that lists of the voters for each candidate shall be published immediately after the election, specifying their respective occupations anti residences."

.CAMBRIDGE.—Among those who support Mr. Lubbock for Cambridge University are—Professor Sedgwick, the Master of Caius, the Master of Corpus Christi, Professor Pryme, the Lord Almoner's Arabic Professor, the Plumian Professor of Astronomy, the Professor of Botany, the Professor of Chemistry, and several Fellows of Christ's, Trinity, Corpus Christi, Pembroke, Sidney, Magdalene, King's, Downing, and the Vice-Provost of King's College.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.—The contest will lie between Mr. Goulburn and Mr. Lubbock. Mr. Manners Sutton,—whose Peerage seems postponed sine die,—bas been invited to stand, and has accepted ; he will probably receive the split votes of both the other candidates. The struggle will be a severe one ; and as the Reform Act does not include the. Universities, it may be a protracted one : Mr. Sutton had gone down to canvass the resident electors, but he has been compelled to return, from the illness of his lady.

CARMARTIIENSIIIRE.—E. H. Adams, Esq., met the electors of Llanstephan, Llangain, and Llangunnock, on Thursday sennight,

The 71st section allows any candidate or proposer of a candidate to demand a poll. and compels all candidateS or proposers of candidates to bear an equal share in the expenses. Thus. a man who has not a shadow of success, may, by expending a couple of hundred pounds, and bringing up a couple of voters, compel two real candidates to expend our hundred pounds and to bring no four thousand voters. The fair rule would be to make him pay the expenses of the poll who without reason demanded it ; or, what perhaps would be still better, to regulate the payments according to the inverse ratio of the number polled—in the Birmingham case, for instance, to make "Mercator" pay four thousand parts of the expense, and Messrs. Attwood and Scholfield one part each.

at the villages of Llanstephan and Wern, and addressed them successively on the subject of returning proper Members to Parliament at the ensuing election. In goinglfrom the former to the latter place, the wozthy candidate was drawn by the populace from Cwm to Wern, with banners flying, music playing, guns firing, accompanied by tremendous shouts of acclamation. The good cause is gaining ground daily, and there remains no doubt as to Mr. Adams's return by a triumphant majority.—Bristol Mercury.

CHESHIRE.—In the Western Division, Mr. Wilbraham is quite safe. The contest will be between Earl Grosvenor, a Moderate Reformer, and Sir Philip Egerton, a decided Tory. In all probability, Earl Grosvenor will be returned, through the aid of Mr. Wilbraham's second votes ; but the contest between his Lordship and the Baronet will be a severe one.

In the Eastern Division, Mr. J. E. Stanley, a stanch supporter of Ministers and son of Sir John Stanley, will almost certainly be at the head of the poll, Mr. Egerton, son of the late member for the county, carries the Aristocratic interest along with him, and has an excellent chance of being elected. He is opposed by Admiral Tollemache, who professes very liberal principles, and is supported by the manufacturing interest at and in the vicinity of Macclesfield, Stockport, end Hyde. He is said to have 2,000 votes promised out of 5,000, and will give the Tories more trouble than they anticipate.

CHESTER CITY.—Lord Robert Grosvenor is safe. Mr. Finchett Maddock will probably be his colleague—though many persons object to his connexion With the Corporation. He is opposed by Mr. John Jervis (son of the late Welsh Judge), who is an Anti-Corporate man, and inclined to Radicalism. No Tory dares show his face in Chester. Stodport.—There are four candidates,—Mr. E. D. Daverpert, well aknown as an uncompromising Reformer ; Mr. J. H. Lloyd, barrister, of the North Wales circuit ; Mr. Henry Marsland, and Mr. Thomas s Marsland, who, though bearing the same name, are not connected by / • • family. These two latter gentlemen are manufacturers. All the four 'candidates are Reformers ; but the Marslands perhaps are the least popular. Mr. Lloyd is a man of considerable talents. His want of rtune, and with some, his profession as a barrister, are the only smiections against him.

ilfacciesfie/d.—Therel are three candidates for Macclesfichl,—Mr. Ryle, a banker, and brother-in-law to Mr. E. D. Davenport; Mr. Brockleburst, a manufacturer ; and Mr. Grimsditch, an attorney. Except on the local question of free trade, all these • ',fess to be MinisAerialists. Mr. Ryle is considered quite safe, contest between the two other candidates is a personal rather than political one.

Thus it appears that in Cheshire, out of sixteen candidates, of whom . twelve must be returned, only two profess Tory politics.

CHICHESTEIL—The ensuing election will in all probability be contested; a candidate, in the person of William Parrott Carter, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, being likely to appear at the eleventh hour. A re quisition, which originated at a meeting held at the Swan, on Thursday evening last, has been numerously signed, requesting the above eentleman to offer himself as a candidate.—Portsmath Heratd.

CIRENCLSTER.—The Honourable P. P. Bouverie, brot;ssr of the Earl of Ra•lnor, is a candidate.

COVENTRY.—The freemen and Reformers will ty4-7,rieturious. No doubt exists of the return of Mr. Ellice and Mr. Bulmes. Mr. Ellice made his public entrance on Tuesday, and was enthuslast:eally received by his old constituents. —Bina inghant Jon rnal.

DERBY Honore:m-1Th list of voters, as revised by the Earriaters, having been published, the sitting members, Colonel Cavendish end Edward Strutt, Esq. again commenced a canvass on Monday last. • Sir Charles Henry Colville has also been actively engaged in paying his respects to the electors.—Dsrbyshire Courier.

DEVON, NORTIL—IT is rumoured that the Conservatives intend to start a candidate at the coming election, in the room of Sir T. Acland, who has refused to stand.— West Briton. [It is high time they had begun.] DUBLET.—We understand the opponents of Mr. Campbell, the Solicitor-General, avail themselves of the same silly pretext against him at Dudley that the opponents of Sir J. Hobhouse have resosted to in Westminster,—viz., that he had taken office under the Ministers who carried the Reform Bill.,Globc.

DURHAM, Sourn.—A clever copy of verses has been sent us by a

• correspondent. They are founded on a letter sent by the mother of one of the candidates for this -division, to a High Church dignitary, be seeching his support for her darling. They arc entitled "My Mother to his Reverence," 'Tis time, your Reverence, ay, 'tis time indeed, For sake of Holy Church and Holy Creed, That prompt and strenuous measures you should take, For your fat benefice and conscience' sake.

A ranting Radical (alas, too true!)

Who prates of tithes,—and wont letpratiog do; Who talks of melting down your livings fat To give a bit to tbis,—a bit to that; Who'd make you live as sober parsons should,

And carve up all the rest for public good :'—

This broad-brimm'd Quaker's stirring up a rout, And threatens now to turn our Bobby out.

'Twill never do, your Reverence' not at all,

To preach such doctrines in St. Stephen's Hall,

Though to be sure, they'very much. accord With those to which our Bobby pledged his word;

But wide the diff'rence, as your Reverence knows,

'Tween him who says he'll do, and him who does. it seems this Quaker's an unsparing wight, And what he says he'll do he'll do outright;

But my dear Bobby has been better taught * *

In short, your Reverence, between us two, My darling Bobby's just the man for you. 'To true he has a stammer in his throat, But, then, it wont be noticed in his rote: lle'll think as you think, or at least so say, Be any thing you wish—in any way; A Whig or Tory' as the times may be, But ever watchful for his patron's See,

And safe to guide him through these trouldous times,

Still ring las changes with Cathedral chimes."

FINSBURY.—Kr. Babbage met the electors on Wednesday, at the King's Head Tavern, Holloway. The learned candidate made an ad mirable address to the meeting, although part of it tended to provoke a smile. As a solemn preface to a speech, in which he professes his intention, if returned, to promote a large and efficient Church Reform- • to support a motion for the abolition of Slavery, leaving compensation to be awarded, on damage being proved—to support the abrogation of the Cornlaws, and of the Septennial Act—to vote for the Ballo+ to do all and somethieg more than all that the sturdiest Reformers of the Movement demand,—he protested against the practice of pledges, and of members going into Parliament bound hand and foot ! Why, in the name of all that is rational, does Mr. Babbage mean to keep his promises? or does be mean to break them ? We truly believe the former; if so, is he not pledged as firmly as any candidate in Englan?

Mr. Robert Grant also met the electors of Finsbury on Wednesday, at the Bird in Hand, Northampton Street. Mi.. Grant is the most out-spoken man in connexion with the Ministry, and one of the most honest. The conclusion of his address is well worthy of notice— It was erroneous to suppose otherwise than that the Reform was only the means to az) end, and that end was "a cheap and good government." Ile trusted the people would not forget the end, because they possessed the 111CURS. It was to promote and facilitate this result of the great and immortal principles to which he had alluded, that the present Administration had laboured. He did not seek to be their representative as a personal favour, but to support and improve the constitution. Mr. Babbage had another most satisfactory meeting with his future constituents (?) last night, at Gray's Inn Coffeehouse. Sir Harris Nicolas was in the chair. The meeting broke up with nine times nine for the honourable gentleman.

GREENIVICH.—A meeting of the Committee and friends of 3Ir. Angerstein, the Independent candidate, took place at the White Hart Inn, Greenwich, on Thursday last; which was most numerously and respectably attended. From the reports of the several agents there appeared to be no doubt of his ultimate success.

IInsissax.—The Honourable J. S. Wortley, who is asking the voters to signalize the first use of their elective franchise by electing a member of that family which did so much to prevent their having that franchise at all, has been wandering about the streets during the last few days, quite alone. Some of the burgesses seeing him enter their shops, with a smooth address and placid smile, naturally mistook him for a "commercial gentleman," and his canvass-book for a "pattern card." In One instance he announced himself to an elector as" Mr. 'Wortley ;" when die elector inquired " From what house, Sir ?"—Ha4thx Express. [Notwithstanding this, the new Conservative paper, the Halffitx Guardian, represents the return of Mr. Wortley as quite certain.]

Hammon.—Messrs. Tower and Disney dined with their electioneering friends on Friday. They were escorted into the town by a large concourse of 1:cople, wearing orange bows and ribbons, and bearing 11:gs and banners. One flag had painted on it a large bull, with a sack on its balk, onaked 'SG0,000,000 ; and from the mouth of the animal anneared to issue the words—" Reform, relieve me of my burden."

I I rrrrrr Crrv.—On Tuesday last, one of the most numerous and re.-cetable ze:semblagcs ever held within the borough of Hertford took pie-at the Town ilall, a public dinner being given to the much-respected nw.inliers for the borough, and to Mr. Spalding, the candidate in the Reform interest. Four hundred and forty-five electors sat down to dinner, the four rooms in the hall being completely filled.—Herts Mercury.

LousamsTosa—Sir H. Hardinge stands very little chance of occupying a s.eat in the Reformed Parliament. His patron, the Duke of Northumberland, is anxious that Sir Henry should continue to represent this borough ; but that which was . rotten and enthralled is now free, and Mr. Devid Howell, an excellent friend of liberty, is the popular candidate, with the certainty of success. LEICESTER.—John Ward Boughton Leigh, Esq., of Brownsover Hall, near Rugby, in Warwickshire has, in consequence of a requisition, come forward as one of the candidates for the borough of Leicester. He is an Ultra Tory, and will, I believe, be supported by the Corporation. A short time since, this gentleman was spoken of as likely to be a candidate for one of the divisions of Warwickshire. Mr. Wratislaw, an independent solicitor in Rugby, hearing this, declared that upon his being nominated, he should nominate his (Mr. Wmtislaw's) coachman. Mr. Wratislaw is one of those very few solicitors who have refused any retainer from a candidate ; alleging as his reason, that under the Reform Act they ought to be no longer necessary.— From a Correspondent. LEICESTERSHIRE, NORTIL—Lord R. Manners has been driven froni the field by the force of public opinion. Information to this effect was received in Leicester on Saturday afternoon, and was hailed with great satisfaction. Mr. C. M. Phillips, the present member, and General Johnson, will, therefore, be returned as the members for the Northern Division of this county.

LICIIFTELD.—Sir Edward Scott commenced his canvass among the electors on Friday last week. A correspondent of the Liclified Mercury says, 4".clie election for this city is not likely to pass off without opposition. Francis Finch, Esq. of Great Barr, has been in communication with some of the active electors, and rumour states he is certain to come into the field." A handbill issued on Friday announced the appearance of the third candidate. Lwaaroom—There was a trial of strength of Sir H. Douglas's party, by a public dinner, on Wednesday last—tickets 15s. each. Three hundreds at down. Tickets were given away in all directions; but vast nu.inbars refused them, and the affair was a total failure in an electioneering point of view. The West India and North American timber-merchants, with the old Burgesses, are the main supporters of Sandon and Douglas. There is a good deal of bribery going on among the old electors, and intimidation is pursued to a great extent. The Tory candidates are so uopopular, that they dare scarcely walk. the Eaeets, but pcvertheless

speak in terms of the utmost confidence of their ultimate success. The Registry-book is an infamous production : there is no arrangement of names to be depended upon—some burgesses are down three or four times in it. The Liberals must be prepared for trickery without end.

Notwithstanding. all this vile work, Ewart and Thornely go on triumphantly. The Clergy are vilifying thenlatter gentleman for being an Uni tarian. But the high character and superior talents of Mr. Thornely 'will enable him to beat the bigots and the knaves in the ensuing contest. We warn these Liverpool Conservatives, that their illegal proceedings are strictly watched, and that a Reformed Parliament may yet

be called upon to disfranchise both the bribers and the bribed. Mr. Thornely met his fellow-townsmen on Tuesday. The meeting did not fall short of two thousand; it was held in Clayton Square. This was Mr. Thornely's first public appearance, and it was highly favourable.

Ltinaow.—Here the Liberals have lost ground durin,g the last three weeks. We fear that both the Clives will be returned, though by a very small majority. It is said that Mr. Ron-filly will lose his election by sixteen votes.

LYMINGTON.—Captain Blakiston 'has become a candidate in pursuance of requisition.

MANCHESTER.—The preparations for the approaching election have commenced in this town. The Boroughreeve and constables have within these few days been waited upon by the friends and supporters of the five candidates — Messrs. Hope, Lloyd, Poulett Thomson, Phillips, and Cobbett ; and it has been arranged that the place of nomination shall be in St. Ann's Square, a spacious spot of ground in the heart of the town. A large booth and hustings will be erected in the square, from which the candidates will address the electors ; after which, the polling will commence in various parts of the town. The

whole number of qualified electors will not amount to more than 5,000. A grand dinner was given to Mr. Hope, the Tory candidate, on Tuesday. The theatre was the scene of political festivity ; about five hundred gentlemen were present. Mr. Aspinall Phillips was in the chair. Mr. Hope announced as his rallying cry—" A Constitutional Monarchy, an hereditary Peerage, a free House of Commons, a National Church."

MekaLBOROUGII.—The following is the deposition of one John Jordan, a sub-tenant of the Marquis of Ailesbury. Sir A. Malet, we need not say, is the Liberal candidate— I have been told by Messrs. Hillier and May, and Mr. John Wentworth, who are tenants of the Marquis of Ailesbury, that they were no longer allowed to employ me. Mr. John Wentworth told me that he would not discharge me from his work unless he should in consequence be obliged to leave his farm. He afterwards told me he had been to Mr. Iveson, the Marquis's head steward, and that he was obliged to discharge me, which he very much regretted, as I had always given him great satisfaction. This evening (the 1st of December) I received a notice from Mr. William Somerset, another tenantotthe Marquis or Ailesbury, and nuder whom I rent my house and shop, that he was, much against his inclination, obliged to discharge me from-Isis work, or he must leave his.farrn. I have worked for Mr. Somerset for eighteen years, and have always given him the greatest satistetion. " On Sunday, the 18111 of November, I roceived inibrthatirm from Mr. John Withers Clarke, a relation of Mr. Thomas Merritnan, the agent ibr -the Marquis of Ailesbnry for Marlborough, that I was discharged from his work, and when my jourucvmen attended to work for him the following morning, Mr. Clarke told bins that he would have no more to do with me, and desired that on bill might he sent in. I have been given to understand by my neighbours that Mr. Clarke discharged me berace I t ended lire meeting of Sir A. Malet's friends, cud I ens not aware of having give:1111ra airy other cause of Aimee."

This Marquis of Ailesbury will appear in the ensuing Parliament, and speak, and vote, and no one will ever dream of challenging him.

MARYLEBONE.—Sir William Home met the electors on Tuesday evening. Sir William said that—

Nothing had occurred since he last addressed them except the dissolution of the old ?ornament.As the time approached, he saw nothing to weaken his

confidence in the result of the election. He relied most implicitly on the per

formance of those promises which had been made to hint ; and he was sum that that reliance was not misplaced. For himself, he was determined to do his duty ; and, under that determination, he must be pardoned for again reminding the electors that their rights and privileges were deeply at stake. He concluded by assuring the Committee of his sincere determination to do his duty with them and for them to the utmost of his ability.

Mr. Elliot, of Portland Place, congratulated the electors on the withdrawing of some of the candidates, and hoped their example would be followed. Mr. Webb said, he and one of the "poor candidates" had withdrawn. Mr. Murphy was now the only one that remained. He considered Mr. Portman and Sir William Horne as the fittest of the "gentleman candidates," and meant to give them his vote. Mr. Spring Rice presented himself as a supporter of Sir William Horne, whom he highly praised for his honesty-

The profession of his honourable friend had been objected to—the profession of the law. What Englishman did not feel that the honour and integrity of the bar of England was the best guarantee of his dearest rights? If there ever was a period in which such an objection was more ill applied, it was now, when the heads of that profession took the lead in the road of fame, with the science, the literature, the history, and the honour of the country.

The meeting broke up with unanimous expressions of their determination to support Sir William Home's interests at the poll. Mr. Portman met with two parties of his future constituents on -Wednesday, and was exceedingly well received by both. The honourable gentleman has a plan for establishing a Small Debt Court in Marylebone, which promises to be of very great service to the poor and middle classes of the borough.

The electors assembled on Tuesday, also, in order to hear the political exposition of all the candidates for the City, at Warwick Lane, Newgate Street ; at the Yorkshire Stingo, Paddington, to receive Mr. Portman ; in the Waterloo Road, to meet Mr. Wakefield ; at the Mermaid Tavern, Hackney, to meet Sir John Scott Lillie; and at the Flying Horse, Crown Street, Finsbuiy, to meet Colonel Leicester Stanhope.

Minornsax.—Mr. Hume and Sir John Lillie met the electors for the county, on Thursday, at the Crown and Anchor. . The meeting was called on a requisition of fifty-four electors, and was meant for the benefit of all the candidates ; but Lord Henley was not permitted to attend by his committee, who objected that the requisitionists were all opposed to his election, and Mr. Byng declined from his being engaged in canvassing. The room was not above a third full. Mr. kinine spoke at considerable length, in respect to the manner in which he had endeavoured to fulfil the pledges he had given to the electors at last election. He observed— He should not have taken the trouble of visiting the different parts of the county as he had done, were it not that he was anxious to prevent the evil inferences; which would inevitably be drawn from the fact of his being turned out under such circumstances. He was opposed by the Tories, who had always attacked him ' • he was opposed by the Clergy, who had always attacked him; while his old friends, who had once supported him, had not done him =dr service, now,—though probably, if the People returned him, they might be amongst the first to come forward to congratulate him on the occasion.

Sir John Scott Lillie said, he had been called upon to come forward, in order that the voice of Mr. Hume might not be neutralized. At various meetings the electors had expressed a wish to that effect, and to that wish he acceded.

It might be supposed by many, that the opposition to Mr. Hume was not sanctioned by Mr. Byng ; but he would remind the electors of a letter written by Mr. Byng to Mr. Hinne, about six months ago, in which he said it was his wish to retire from the representation of the county, if another candidate could be found to meet his wishes. Now another had come forward, in the person of Lord Henley ; and if Mr. Byng approved of Lord Henley, as it wffls said he did, why did he not retire, according to his expressed wish in that letter? Sir John observed, that he agreed with Mr. Hume, as to the evils resulting from maintaining an overgrown Church Establishment in Ireland. England should take warning in time from the state of matters in Ireland. If Mr. Hume could succeed in assimilating the Church of England to that of Scotland—and if he could succeed in assimilating England, as tar as regarded assessed taxes, to Ireland, where they had none—he would render an essential service to the United Kingdom. As far as he bad seen of the measures advocated by Mr. Hume, he most cordially concurred in all of them ; and he did so not as a revolutionist* but in order to avert the calamity of a revolution.

Mr. Leighs, at the conclusion of the meeting, restated his charges against Mr. Byng—which was hardly necessary after Mr. Byng's letter. He has made affidavit to the facts.

Last night, a meeting of the electors, friends of Mr. Hume, wa i s held in the great room n the Crown and Anchor. It was very nu

merously and respectably attended; and Mr. C. Tennyson was in the chair. Resolutions, highly laudatory of Mr. Hume's Parliamentary conduct, and calling upon the electors to return him free of expense, were carried unanimously. Mr. Hume addressed the meeting at great length, and was enthusiastically cheered throughout the whole of his speech. He dwelt with much earnestness on the necessity of urging forward Parliament and the Ministry in the career of improvement, and denied that the Reform Bill could be considered a final measure. He had always in the House of Commons maintained the reverse.. The repeal of the Septennial Act, the vote by ballot, and the extension of the right of suffi•age, were all necessary, in order to insure to the people the full benefit of Parliamentary Reform. He also advocated the necessity of purifying the Courts of Law, and rendering justice accessible to the poor, instead of locking it up as a luxury to be enjoyed only by the rich. Bets-us utterly opposed to the plan of paying a public officer 2hiii per annum when one equally honest and able could be found to do the work for half the money; and he considered it a piece of gross iniquity to vote away the national funds in payment for ito services at all. The repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge, and the establishment of a system of National Education, he maintained ta be highly necessary. And last, but not least, he was in favour of a thorough Reform in the Church. He would not join in pulling it down, but wished to see it made an effective instrument of national goad. In reply to a question by an elector on the subject of his opinions on Free Trade, Mr. Hume went into a long explanation of the theory of trade and its practical operation on the wellbeing of the community. He was opposed to all monopolies, especially that of the Corn-laws, which he agreed with Lord Milton in considering as highly injurinus to the farmer and agricultural labourer, as well as the manufacturer and artisan. Be denied that free trade could fairly be said to exist in England ; but maintained, on the contrary., that commerce was every

where heavily shackled by absurd municipal and other regulations. ai The meeting appeared to be satisfied with the explanation given by :! Mr. Hume; and, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which called j from that gentleman a short but extremely energetic reply, dispersed in good order.

Moremourri.—This town, it will be remembered, combines with Newport and Usk to manufacture a member of Parliament. Monmouth and Usk have been, are, and till the ballot will be, under the thumbs of the Duke of Beaufort and Sir Charles Morgan. The Duke regulates the election of the Corporation, appoints the Recorder, and ,4 nominates, virtually, the Portreeve. The families of Beaufort and Tredegar accord in principles as in power. They have lone. commanded the return of the member for the three boroughs; they desire to do so still. There is nothing hors de ,igles in all this. Most people in their place would do the same. The fault lies in the Reform Bill, which, 'H though it rooted out many nomination boroughs, yet saved a precious remnant, to show what the system had been. It was too good to be made subject of history all at once. At the last election, the candidates for Monmouth were a Mr. Hall,—a gentleman of fortune, talent, and a Reformer; and Lord Worcester. Mr. Hall was returned, but a 4, Committee of the House of Commons, to whom the case was referred,, found that certain votes had been admitted which ought not to have ;! been admitted ;Tor which cause, Mr. Hall's election was declared void, and Lord Worcester sat in his stead. On the Bill's passing, Mr. Hall was invited by the Reformers of Newport to take the field once more, and he listened to the invitation. He will not be ousted this time, but ,t no thanks to his Conservative opponents. In Newport alone under a clause of the Bill (the 39th) which has been more wantonly abused than any other part of it, no fewer than 227 objections were lodged by the e7-?, Beaufort agents; only 40 of which were sustained, and even of these 40, several were struck off for errers, not of the claimants, but, of the Overseers. The new constituency of the three boroughs stands thus,. —Monmouth, 293; Usk, 107; Newport, 897; total, 797: the number before the Bill was 143. Of the 293 Monmouth voters, Lord Worcester will, as meet is, command a considerable majoiity; of the voters at Usk, he will have nearly all. A-great mares influence always decreases as the constituency extends; a Boroughmonger Duke cuts but a sorry figure when opposed to the electors of a .large town. la.

Newport, Lord Worcester will have about 80 votes, not more. Although, therefore, the run will be a hard one, as the preparations for the run have been great and difficult, the Peer is certain to lose the race. The cause in which the Reformers of Newport are engaged— for on them the burden has chiefly fallen—is a noble one, and has been nobly fought. They have but one brief struggle more to sustain,—if the state of the canvass do not induce Lord Worcester at once to resign ; and then comes the triumph, which will amply compensate all their labours and anxiety.

NoarnamarostsurnE, SOUTII.—As yet, there appears no opposition to the return of Lord Althorp and Mr. Cartwright for this division.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, NORTH.—In this division, another candidate has entered the lists against Lord Milton, in the person of Mr. Tryon, of Bulwick Hall. Applications have been made to Mr. Vernon Smith, the member for the town of Northampton, to come forward with Lord Milton ; but he has declined. William Hanbury, Esq. has, in consequence, determined on standing; and an address to tht, electors, bearing the joint names of Lord Milton and Mr. Banbury, has been issued.

In ,NORT11 WALES, all is right. In Denbighshire, Mr. Biddulph will have a majority, we are informed, on good authority, of more than 150 votes over Mr. Lloyd Kenyon, the eldest son of that weak but zealous Tory, Lord Kenyon.

NOTTINGHAM.—Lord Duncannon has accepted the requisition to come forward in the place of the Lord Chief Justice. Another candidate, in the person of .Lieutenant Gordon, has announced himself.

OXFORD.—Sir Charles Wetherell is making great exertions to secure his return. He represented the city on a former occasion ; but having, in 1826, deserted it, when he offered himself for the University, he gave great offence to the citizens, who think he would not have sought their support if he had any chance elsewhere. His claims to the support of the town are grounded on his being a member of the Corporation, and also on the circumstance of his being a native of the county—he was born at the village of Cowley, about two miles from Oxford. He is of course strongly supported by the High Tory party. Sir Charles, a correspondent of the Times says, frequently visits the public-houses in the evenings, and obtains great favour among the voters who assemble at such places, by treating and drinking with them, and joining in conversation to a very late hour. With all his faults, Sir Charles is so honest, so good-natured, so hearty, and occasionally so amusing, and as an Opposition man so well qualified to keep Ministers to their tether (which all Ministers are given to stretching), that we should feel sorry, after all that has passed, to see him excluded from the House. Tory as be is, he is worth fifty dozen of the pseudo-Alderman of Portsoken;Partywall Hughes.

PENRYN.—Mr. Hyde Villiers, Secretary to the Board of Control, a gentleman of great merit, died on Tuesday, at the seat of Sir Charles Leman. The electors of this borough have in consequence lost a most deserving and trustworthy candidate. To compensate them, we suppose, Lord Tullamore, the ex-member for Carlow—which county he has been compelled, from his Anti-Reform principles, to resign—has made his bow. What right, real or pretended, a Lo-nothing, Saynothing, Know-nothing Irish Peer, whom his own slaves have risen against and cast off, has to intrude himself on the attention of a thriving and intelligent town in England, we are at a loss to know.

PONTEFRACT.—John Gulley, Esq., of Ackworth Park, has addressed the electors. He stands upon the Reform interest. Mr. Gulley was the gallant champion of the prize-ring.—Standard. [He will be the . better able to floor his opponents ; he is a highly honourable man.]

SHOREHAM.—The forces of Mr. Goring and Mr. Jones are understood to be nearly equal. Sir Charles Burrell will receive the second votes on both sides.—Brighton Gazette.

SHRF.WSBURY.—The resolute and independent Mr. Slaney has received upwards of 1,000 promises out of a constituency of about 1,300 voters. Allowing, therefore, that money and undue influence may win over some of the poorer and more dependent members of his party, he will still retain an ample majority. Indeed, a different result would be utterly disgraceful to the electors of Shrewsbury ; who, though by no means remarkable for virtue and independence, have for many years possessed the power, and have hitherto generally contrived to return one Liberal and sensible man out of the twelve members belonging to the county. The contest will be between Sir John Hamner and Mr. Pelham. The prospects of the latter gentleman begin to brighten as the day of final struggle approaches.

SHROPSH1RE.—No new candidate has appeared for the Southern Division of this county ; so that, in all probability, the Earl of Dar-. lington and Mr. Whitmore will walk over the course. Still, were a Liberal of talent and spirit to start at the post, there can be no doubt that he would run them both bard, and possibly after all win the race ; for both the Tory horses are notoriously short-winded, and any thing but sound. Mr. Cotes, the Liberal candidate, has a decided majority of promises over his opponent Mr. Gore. If his agents exert themselves, and proper arrangements are made for bringing up the electors to the poll, his return will be secured. Sir Rowland Hill has been safe from the first. There is good ground to suspect, notwithstanding the vehement assertions to the contrary, that the Baronet has secretly -coalesced with the other Tory candidate, Mr. Gore. His Committee -act for Gore, and his agents also. There must be a vast deal of paltry equivocation, not to say downright lying, on the part of the active men of the Tory party in this county.

SOMERSET, WEST.—Mr. Luttrell has relinquished further intentions of representing the Western Division. This determination was made known last Tuesday evening. Mr. E. A. Sanford and Mr. C. Kemeys Tynte will, therefore, be certainly returned.—Taunton Courier.

Soursimarrosr.—Mr. Mackillop has started as a fourth candidate.

STAMFORD.—The Lincoln Mercury states that Mr. Gregory has completed his second canvass at Stamford since the registration, and that no doubt remains of his return.

A riot, which threatened to be serious, took place at Stamford on Wednesday night. In the first instance, both parties seem to have been equally forward. In the morning, the Tories broke some win, dows belonging to electors of the Liberal side, and assaulted some of

the electors themselves, who resented the outrage. In the evening, the Liberals retaliated, by an attack on the committee-room of the Tories, where they smashed windows and doors equally. The Tories rallied, and attacked the George and Angel, and Tennyson's Arms, where the Liberal party congregate. Mr. Parkes and the members of Mr. Gregory's Committee, who had got into the former tavern, were at length compelled to apply to the Mayor ; but he, as Mayors usually are in similar cases, was more disposed to deliberate than act. At length, Mr. Parkes's party made a sally, and beat their besiegers from the field. The remainder of the night passed quietly off, and on Thursday morning some military arrived from Peterborough.

Sr. IVES.—Our correspondent writes us, that the return of Mr. Halse is certain ; it is believed that his opponent, Mr. Freed, will not appear on the day of election.— West Briton.

SUFFOLK.—The elections in this county are characterized, partly by the rising spirit of the times, but chiefly by the endemic absurdity of

the English Theotia. The late excellent and honest member, Sir Henry 13unbury, retires on account of ill health ; and his colleague, a Mr. Tyrell, whom an accident of time and place converted from a SirThomas-Gooch-supporting Tory to a thorough Bill-supporting Reformer, stands in the Western division. His interest is divided with Sir Hyde Parker, a Whig of the old school ; who, in the necessity for decision which the measures of a People's Parliament will create, may probably be determined, by the name of his parry, to the right side. A Tory opponent, in the person of a Mr. Waddington, has started, but without much reasonuble hope of success. In East Suffolk, Mr. Shawe and Mr. Fitzgerald have for some time solicited the votes of the Reformers ; and their election appeared certain until last week, when Lord Henniker and Sir Charles Vere declared themselves candidates, on the good old Suffolk principles, Church and State, Tithes and Corn-laws. For several months, the Reformers have been using all their endeavours to find a gentleman more worthy to associate with Mr. Shawe, and on whose political character no such spot was resting as on that of Mr. Fitzgerald, the late owner of Seaford. They have literally advertised for an honest, straightforward representative ; and had such appeared, his return would have been certain. In their present circumstances, a considerable number will rather support Mr. Fitzgerald, in coalition with Mr. Shawe, than, by dividing their forces, insure the election of two professed Tories; while a smaller band, who think that principle is here more imperative than expediency—who see in Mr. Fitzgerald, both as the late owner of a rotten borough, and as its irresponsible member, the character of a public enemy, against which the Reform Bill was directed—who believe that Bill to have been the grand instrument, without which all minor improvement, all nibbling at detail, would have been worse than useless,—cannot stultify themselves by sending to the first Reformed Parliament a gentleman who opposed that Bill in the three critical moments of its agony, and who, when its success was proved inevitable, simply abstained from voting at all. They are willing to give a plumper to Mr. Shawe, and leave the other seat to the chance of a false friend or open enemies. With only the crude materials of a hasty canvass before us, it is impossible to guess what this medley of circumstances may produce.

In Bury, there is reason to believe Lord Jermy-n, a moderate Tory, and Mr. F. K. Eagle, a barrister and Reformer, will be elected, to the exclusion of Lord Charles Fitzroy. An opposition is threatened to the return of Messrs. Morrison and Wason, at Ipswich ; but the unfortunate exposure of a letter, in which a late Tory candidate had honestly detailed the dishonesty of the party, has produced too much consternation and disunion to allow the heartiness of co-operation required for even the experiment of a contest. Ten parishes have been annexed to the recent rottenness of Eye, which are themselves all tainted in some degree, as the estates of Sir Edward Kerrison are distributed among several, and his influence among all. His election is certain ; but he is shorn of the privilege of taking with him to Parliament an official supporter of Black slavery and White despotism. At Sudbury, the good honest men are mortally offended with their late pamphletmongering Tory, Sir John Walsh, because, after the last election, he dared to violate the most sacred rights of the borough, and withhold the established fee of two guineas each from the London voters, for whom he expected to have no further occasion. So flagrant a delinquency, the resident electors will at once punish on principle ; and Mr. M. A. Taylor has at present a good chance of filing Sir John Walsh's expensive seat. It may not be uninteresting to state what rank the late borough of Dunwich now holds in the constituency of Suffolk. The whole number of its registered voters amounts to—THREE; of whom one is Mr. Baine, the (no longer) proprietor, and another Mr. Robinson, his tenant, and manager of the elections. TAUNTON.—Mr. Pemberton, of the Chancery bar, started on the Conservative interest for Taunton, where the ground was already occupied by the Liberal members, Mr. Labouchere and Mr. Bainbridge. On Tuesday, finding his ground untenable, be quitted the field.

TAVISTOCK.—Lord Russell, the son of the Marquis of Tavistock, is sufficiently recovered in health to be enabled to offer himself as a candidate. TOTNESS.—Mr. T. Peregrine Courtenay has announced his intention of retiring from Parliamentary labours, and adds that he will do so in a farewell 'address to his constituents. Totness heretofore polled 7.5, the largest number polled during thirty years. Now, besides the Corporation, there are in the borough 316 houses worth 10/. and upwards.

TRITRO.—Mr. Ennis Vivian's friends speak with confidence of their success. The friends of Mr. Tooke have been most indefatiga.ble in their efforts to prevent defection and to obtain new adherents; it is said with such success as to leave no doubt of his return. WARWICK, NORTH.—The Committee of the Conservative candidate for North Warwickshire, Mr. Stratford Dugdale, have found it prudent to contradict a report circulated, that it was their intention to try their strength in that division with a second Conservative. They will find it enough to do to carry one.—Globe. [We rather believe Mr. Dempster Hemming is perfectly secure.]

WENLOCK.—Lord Forester and Sir W. W. Wynne have joined forces, and are striving might and main to throw out the Independent candidate, Mr. Bridges. The latter gentleman, however, is most strenuously supported by the Dale Company and the Quakers. We are happy to learn from competent authority., that the Boroughmongering gentry will probably be signally defeated here.

WESTMINSTER.—A meeting of the friends of Sir John Hobhouse took pia& at the Quadrant Hotel on Thursday; Mr. Barber Beaumont in the chair. A Mr. Evans asked Sir John if he would use his best exertions to procure a Small Debt Court for Westminster; which he described very truly as greatly desiderated. Mr. Beaumont objected to the question being pit. " It was a call fora: pledge, and they had all agreed that pledges were most improper."

Sir John Hobhouse,—who, it appears, all averse as he is to these ,iind.other popular idols, does not hold pledges in quite so great horror aS^•iais zealous admirers,—replied, that he could not scruple to promise to sup)ert such a bill—it was a mere local measure. To ask him to

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suppt kisor that political measure, was quite another affidr. The meeting brobt,o'r 1;4. e .up with an unanimous resolution to give every support to Sir Joln.:?s election. WINDSOR. At a ublic meeting held at this borough on Friday last week, the following veiv sound and sensible resolutions were unanimously carried— "That this meeting do fully concur • with the requisitionists in the importance of ' last election; m

being their decided coic maintaioing the principles adopted at the . , e

Hon that a permanent and real Reform in Par:.ament can only be ffectually secured7.7

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by the electors having the selection of their own r:4, res tative, without solicitation or ex .,...pledge themselves to resist to expense on the part of the elected. That this meetiO the utmost of their power every attempt to impose a noiniOttiun member upon this Ito. :es. the memorable declaration being determined to carry through, its far as in tliinu

ration of. Mr. Stanley, made in this hall, that henceforth there sliCtIld be do nomination boroughs, no, not one." Resolutions were also passed unanimously, expregsing the determi nation of the meeting to support Mr. Ramsbottom, and to inquire carefully for a suitable successor to Mr. Stanley, who has resigned, in consequence of his standing for North Lancashire. • No Candidate was named.

Sir John Brooke Pechell, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, is a candidate for the borough.

WoLvEntrAmrrox.—Mr. Holyoake withdraws. Fortunatus Dwarris, Esip, has arrived in the town, and intends this evening ( Tuesday) to address the electors.. A requisition is also in course of signature to J. Nicholson, Esq., who has expressed his willingness to enter the field.

—Wolverhampton Chronicle.

WORCESTER: CITY.—Mr. Robert Adam Dundas has resigned Worcester as well as Edinburgh. The electors would not take him in, the ungrateful ones !

Yoax COGNTL—Mr. Strickland and Lord Morpeth met the county eleetors of Leeds, at the Cloth Hall, on Monday. The meeting was preceded by a public breakfast, given to the noble and honourable candidates by the trustees of the Commercial Rooms.

PAISLEY.—In consequence of the majority in Mr. ill'Kerrell's favour, Mr. Morris Pollock has resigned the contest. —Edinburgh Observer.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.—On Tuesday last, 1,561 names were on the College books ; and the number previous to the nomination will, it is supposed, exceed 2,000.