The Conservative candidate for the City has met with a
powerful op- ponent in the person of Mr. CRAWFORD; who will receive, according to present appearances, the united support of the Liberal party,—Sir JOHN Scow LILLIE and Mr. T. BUNCOMBE having both judiciously withdrawn from the contest, in his favour. Mr. CRAWFORD is a gentle- man of great experience in business, and high standing as a merchant. He professes himself a friend to an extension of the suffrage, the shortening of Parliaments, a reduction of the public expenditure, and a searching reform of the Church Establishment. He is therefore neither a Ministerialist nor a Tory, but belongs to the Independent party ; and as such, he has our best wishes for his success. Mr. BEMBLE has avowed himself a Conservative. At a meeting of the Lumber Troop, on Thursday, he refused certain political tests, which mark the distinction between Reformers and their opponents ; and that worshipful company not approving of his antiquated notions, he retired with his friends, in sorrowful discomfiture.
Yesterday, he met with more congenial spirits. The City Tories congregated together at the London Tavern, and gave him the right hand of fellowship. He was lauded to the skies for his refusal to give pledges to the Lumber Troop, and was duly installed as the Conserva- tive candidate. We cannot find however, that he expressed himself very decidedly at this meeting of his friends ; and though he talked a little about Church and State, he evidently thought it prudent to keep poli- tics in the background. Let the electors of London read Mr. CRAWFORD'S manly address, and then make their choice between the two candidates.
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