NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Registrations being completed, and the Municipal Councils refitted for the ensuing year, there is something like a lull in the political atmosphere. Radicals and Tories are looking out for candidates at the general election, which it is assumed, without any certain knowledge on the point, must take place very soon. The resolution not to give way to the Whigs, in places where they are not the most numerous party, and where they refuse to coalesce with Radicals against the Tories, is spreading among Radical constitutencies. The example of Halifax will, as we predicted, be followed in many other places; among which are Newcastle, Leeds, Northampton, and Devonport. The plan will be adopted in Middlesex also, if there should be any shyness on the part of the Whigs, as there was last year, towards Mr. Hume: the Radicals will plump for their own candidate, and leave Mr. BYNG, or his successor, to fight his battle with the Tory, as a Whig and nothing more. Delicacy in this matter would in- deed be misplaced. The " fast and loose " game does not suit a party whose policy is intelligible and distinct, and whose course therefore ought to be straightforward. A Whig who refuses to aid a Radical, is, at an election, undistinguishable from a Tory, whose return he facilitates, or perhaps procures. The only way to prevent a recurrence of this treachery, is to announce the Radical determination to return blow for blow, be the opposing or skulk- ing party Whig or Tory. This policy will, we are persuaded, pro- cure for Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, in Leeds, the support of Mr. BAINES'S friends ; for Mr. PROTHERO, in Halifax. the aid of Mr. CHARLES WOOD'S Whiglings ; for Mr. RAISES CURRIE, in Northampton, all the votes which the tottering Mr. VERNON SMITH can influence.
