Mr. Ewart is to be the Liberal candidate for Liverpool
in the event of the vacancy likely to be caused there by Mr. Cresswell's acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds.—Globe. [Mr. Ewart says that he did not au- thorize the insertion of this statement ; and the rumour of Mr. Cress. well's retirement is contradicted.] Mr. Gladstone, the Tory candidate, who looked in on the Tories at Sandwich, to solicit the honour of being their representative, on learn- ing their terms, made a precipitate and rather unceremonious retreat. Sir R. Donkin, the Liberal candidate, will therefore be elected without opposition.—G/obe [On what " terms" will Sir Rufane Dookin be elected? Are the Liberals more pure and incorruptible than the Tories in Sandwich, or can Sir Rufane Donkin dip into a deeper purse than Mr. Gladstone?]
Yarmouth is on the eve of another election. It is said that Mr. WU-
shere will immediately resign. Baring will not come down to the election ; nor can this be wondered at after the treatment he has re- eeived,...._Kbriblk Chronicle. A canvass is going on at Greenwich, in the expectation that there will soon be another general election. Mr. A ttwood, the present Tory Member, comes forward again ; Mr. Barnard, it is said, retires. There are in his place three Liberal candidates—Mr. Angerstein, the former Member; Captain Napier, R.N. ; and Captain Deans Dundas, R.N., Clerk of the Ordnance. At a public dinner given to Mr. E. R. Rice by his constituents at Dover, on the 1st instant, that gentleman announced his intention to vote for a fixed duty on foreign grain : but added, that his mind was " open to conviction by the force of truth and argument, but not by the force of agitation," Mr. Rice is in a fair way to become a total repealer. As a set-off against the Sunderland Tory meeting., at which the Marquis of Lundouderry and his companions were so jubilant, the Liberal electors, on the 2Sth ultimo, entertained the Member, Mr. ATI- drew White, at a public (Miner. The Independent party are in excel- lent spirits, and the trimming Alderman Thompson seems to stand upon failing ground.
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