ELECTION TALK.

BEDFORDSHIRE.—It was lately stated by the Standard, on the autho- rity of a correspondent, that the Duke of Bedford had been endeavour- . ing to coerce his tenants' votes. At the annual agricultural meeting for Bedfordshire, the Marquis of Tavistock, alluding to this report, ob- served— To "live and let live" was the principle on which his father had always de- sired to act ; and therefore, in compliance with that principle, he wished to see . .every one connected with him in the full enjoyment of the same power that he de- . sired to claim for hiniself—namely, the power of acting freely on all political matters, according to the dictates of his own conscience. With respect to his tenants, he felt that he was entitled to the punctual payment of their rents, to the due fulfilment of their covenants, and to the good cultivation of their farms; but having made no stipulation for their votes, that he was not entitled to their c onsciences. If, therefore, there were any of the Duke of Bedford's tenants present who had reluctantly promised to vote for his son at the ensuing election, . not approving of his political principles, but thinking, erroneously, that their landlord would, nevertheless, require their votes,—if there were any present -who had unwillingly promised under such a persuasion, he declared to them on the part of the Duke of Bedford (although he thought it right to say that he had no authority from his father to do so), but knowing the liberality of his

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sentiments and the generosity of his heart n all these matters, he felt assured - that he was not going one step too far, when he declared, that he released all such tenants from promises so given, and desired them to give their votes ho- nestly and fearlessly, according to their opinions; assuring them that those votes would never he brought in question by their landlord, who, however he might lenient over their politics, would still respect and honour thew independence.

Barnirrox.—The electioneering politics of this place assume a more determined aspect every day. The Radicals and Moderate Reformers are all confident of success. The Radicals think it would be a disgrace • to return such men as Captain tiechell and Crawford. Wigney and

Faithful are the popular candidates. It is objected to Mr. Wigney, that he is a man of no experience, and therefore not a proper person to represent the town in Parliament ; while his want of experience (roguish) is urged by his friends as recommendatory of him to the *lectors. Mr. Wigney is certainly not a Cicero in point of eloquence ;

_but he has a very good substitute for this beguiling qualification, viz.

industry and application to business. Many believe that, if returned, lie will make a very useful member. The purity of his intentions has never been questioned ; he has always been a Reformer ; and the views

• taken by him in his address of important political matters has won for him the approbation of the majority of his fellow-townsmen.—Corre- spondent of the Times.

BRISTOL.—The Bristol Mercury predicts certain disappointment to . Sir Richard Vyvyan. Of the numbers registered for six of the districts ...erf the city, there are 1,005 for Protheroe, 731 for Baillie, and 278 for Sir Richard.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS.—Mr. Rolfe has signified his intention of -withdrawing himself as a candidate for this borough. Lord Jermyn

• . has made a successful canvass among Mr. Rolfe's friends.—Bury Nerd&

CAMBRIDGE.—We said, last week, on the authority of a letter in the . Times, that the resident officials of the University of Cambridge were

very zea'ous in their attempts to prevail on the tradesmen that had pro-

mised Mr. Rice their votes, to break their words. A letter from Cambridge informs us, that our statement "is too true. as applied to a few individuals, but by no means so respecting the officials as a body."

• " Indeed," continues our correspondent, "the ungenerous and indecent ...conduct of the individuals alluded to, has excited the deepest disgust in .. the minds of all well-principled and high-minded men of every party: and I have no doubt that a great majority of the officials of the Univer- sity look upon it as base and unworthy in the highest degree, to take advantage of the dependence of tradesmen and college servants for the purpose of influencing their votes. The following document, issued by Corpus Christi College, is a confirmation of what I have stated ; and I hope, in justice to the officials of the University, you will insert it with these remarks in your next paper." The following is the document which our correspondent encloses— 'Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, November 1, 1332. ...Whereas a report is prevalent that attempts have been made by Authorities or this College to exert an influence over certain voters in the borough ;

We the undersigned, hereby inform the tradesmen and servants connected with us, that we entirely disclaim all such interference, and are determined. as far as we are oncerned, that each of them shall be left to the unbiassed exercise of his elective franchise. " LAHR, Master.

BOWSTEAD,

CALTHROP, Bursar." ,

This notice is highly honourable ts the parties who have issued it ;

who, we presume, speak, not merely as individuals, but as the official representatives of Corpus Christi College. As, however, the officials a the University of Cambridge, generally, have been accused of at- tempting to interfere with the freedom of election, and even to pervert

• the morals of the people of Cambridge, we should have been glad to . see a more comprehensive disclaimer of conduct so peculiarly unbecom- ing a body of Christian divines and teachers of youth. We therefore hope that the excellent example set by Corpus Christi will be followed • by the other Colleges. -

Mr. Spring Rice has published a spirited address to the electors of Cambridge. He thus comments on the singular objection to the Ministry of Earl Grey, that its main support in power is its popularity— 'I admit that this reproach, if it be one. cannot be directed against our opponents. But if it be an undue seeking after popularity to reduce the burdens of the People— to redress their grievances—to promote the cause or seusid morality and general educe. tion—to ameliorate the condition of the slave—to simplify our laws—to cheapenjustice —to mitigate the severity of our criminal code—then the Whigs must plead guilty. It is true that the Whigs are guilty of having repealed the tax upon coals ; we are guilty of repealing the duties on printed cotton ; we are guilty of freeing the makers and wa- goners of candles from the burdens and regulations of the Excise. On these grounds' merchants, manufacturers, consumers, and the public, are called on to oppose us. We. were guilty also of the unpardonable offence of endeavouring to procure for you good timber at a cheap rate: but this crime was averted by our opponents,—who, having supported nomination boroughs, became, consistently enough, the patrons of the dry rot. We have been guilty of reducing the Estimates of the present year 2,301,000L, in an expenditure of 19,566,000/. We have been guilty of sweeping away the mass of Excise and Customs' oaths, so long the pride of our ancient system. We have been guilty—most unpardonable of all delinquencies 1—of the unprecedented offence of re- ducing our own salaries. I stand convicted 4f discharping increased duties, and of receiv- ing one third of the emoluments paid to my predecessors in the good old Tor.y times. We am guilty of maintaining, even at the hazard of misrepresentation, the fair fame of England and her faith to foreign Powers. It is rather too hard to be charged with the Russian. Dutch loan by those who had framed the treaty, mill who could not deny that their duty, like ours, would have been to pay their engagement had they continued lit office.'

imputation of popularity to public men, is not wisely made. If true, the Ministers must prevail, and in that case the objection is useless ; if false, the Tories have invented and circulated a lie, whieb may, as far as it gains currency, do good to their enemies, and can do nothing but injury to themselves ; and in that case the objection is worse than useless. Mr. Spring Rice's remarks are the best thing, the best expressed, that has come from any one immediately connected with Government, with the exception only of Mr. Macaulay's letter to the Leeds electors.

CARMARTHEN.—The "doings" of the Conservatives in Carmarthen have secured the election of the Honourable Mr. Yelverton, the popu- lar candidate.

ESSEX, NORTH.—Fourteen gentlemen, appointed by the Vestry of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, as trustees for the poor of that parish of certain estates in the parish of Much Totham, have been allowed to be registered. Their claim was keenly but not very logically contested by the Conservative agents, who were pretty well aware of the side to which their votes would be given. There was no interest in the case, but inasmuch as it went to weaken pro tanto the Tory interest in the division.

GRANTHAM.—The Liberal interest will, it is conjectured, be able to return two members. At all events, the election of one, Mr. Talmash, son of Lord Huntingtower, is considered certain. He supports Re- form in the Church, and Economy in the State Expenditure.

HAMPSHIRE, NORT11.—The cause of the Reformers in this division is secure. The result of the returns already made will give a majority of two to one over the Conservatives.—Brighton Guardian.

Irswicii.—Mr. Sergeant Goulburn and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, the Con- servative candidates, have formed a coalition. Mr. R. A. Dundas was about to come forward, but finding he had no chance he declined. Mr. Mackinnon makes a third Conservative candidate.

LAMEETH.—Mr. Daniel Wakefield, the young barrister, who dis- tinguished himself at Stamford last year in assisting the people there against their local tyrant, has been invited by a number of the Lambeth electors to stand for that borough ; and he has accordingly declared himself a candidate, on decidedly Radical grounds. He met the electors on Thursday evening, at the Horns, Kennington. Mr. Fox- smith took the chair ; and stated, that the electors wanted a candidate who was of the party of the People, and that man was Mr. Wakefield. Hitherto the electors, to a great extent, had kept themselves dis- engaged: he had reason to know that more than five sixths of the electors of Lambeth had declined to promise their votes either to the one party or the other. Mr. Wakefield then stated his political opinions, and answered questions put to him. He acquitted himself with great eclat, and a resolution to support him was passed by a large majority of the meeting. Mr. T. Duncombe, the Member, was pre- sent, and one of Mr. Wakefield's warmest supporters.

LIVERPOOL.—The requisition to Lord Sandon was forwarded to him on Monday evening, after receiving 679 signatures.—Lii,erpool Courier.

It is said that a considerable body of the Liverpool freemen have it in contemplation to invite Mr. Hume to become a candidate for that borough.-11./anchester Chronicle.

LONDON.—A meeting of the friends of Mr. Lyall was held on Thursday, at the City of London Tavern. Mr. Ward was in the chair ; the resolutions were moved by Mr. Thomas Wilson and Alder- men Lucas and Brown. Mr. Ward's address to the meeting bad the merit of novelty : we do not recollect " the insult to the Queen" i having appeared n any speech pronounced out of Parliament before— He felt the same interest which others felt in this important crisis of the country. He alluded to the professions and promises which had been made by some of the other candidates with regret, and deprecated the undue influence which appeared to have been exercised by the demand of pledges, as a security for the conduct of the representatives. if he were to inquire any thing of Wen who promised to interfere with so many interests, it would be to know how many interests they intended to leave undisturbed—whether their feelings of loyalty were such as distinguished former periods, and whether they did not feel indignation at the insult offered to the Queen of England. Mr. Ward is a good cricketer—and it is better to be a good cricketer than a bad politician. Mr. Lyall was overcome with his feelings—that is the stock phrase. He tried to speak ; but to speak without voice or words is up-I

—ideas may be dispensed with. He was at length, as the reporters

have it, understood to say— ill work He would give no pledges. Decision ought to follow, not to recede cps- cussion and deliberation ; and if he were to go to Parliament bound by specific pledges, instead of being the representative, he would be the mere delegate of the citizens of London. He was not connected with any political party. He acknowledged himself an admirer of a Constitution composed of the Three Estates, according to the principles established by our ancestors. He was willing to reform any abuse, to repair any deficiency—in fact, to accomplish any reform consistent with the welfare of the country, and not calculated to endanger it. He confessed he was in a certain measure a Reformer ; but his object was to prsserve, not to destroy.

Although he would give no •pledges, he expressed himself ready to give an 'account of his opinions,—opinions requiring no discussion nor deliberation for their formation : but the meeting had had enough of Mr. Lyall's eloquence, and so they cheered him down.

MARYLEBONE.—Mr. Henry Gahagan, of Wimpole Street, Caven- dish Square, has announced himself an additional candidate. He is a Conservative of the lowest grade—one who dare not avow that he is a

Conservative. •

MIDDLESEX.—Lord Henley canvassed Uxbridge on Thursday. He did not appear to take much by his condescension ; which is described as exceeding great. Sir John Scott Lillie was also there ; and a large meeting was immediately formed in the Market-place, for the purpose of hearing the sentiments of the worthy candidate. Mr. Leigh repeated the answers given by Mr. Byng to his questions, as we stated them last week in reporting the first meeting of Sir John Lillie's friends.

Mr. Leigh added, that Mr. Byng had openly avowed his intention to oppose the reelection of Mr. Hume, whose politics lie by no means

approved of. Mr. Byng is, it seems, as much attached to Lord Henley as he is averse from Mr. Hume. On Mr. Leigh's remarking that he had been sending emissaries through the county, Mr. Byng said- " What reason has Lord Henley to send secret emissaries ? What has he to fear from a contest? I firmly believe Lord Henley to be a most worthy inan, and I don't see what objections can be made to his becoming member for the county."

Sir John Scott Lillie, on Mr. Leigh's sitting down, addressed the meeting at length. In respect to the junction of interests between Mr. Byng and the noble Master in Chancery, he observed— In the public papers, accounts were constantly appearing that Mr. Byng and Lord Henley attended the same public dinners, toasting and complimenting each other in their individual capacities as candidates for the county, and then it other public dinners denying and diso.vowing, with virgin coyness, all connexion or coalition. He wished much he could see the same sort of unanimity prevail in the sentiments which prevailed amongst the People. The question now be- fore the electors of Middlesex was this—did they wish to see their voice neu- tralized in the House of Connnons, by sending as their representatives a man like Mr. Hume and one who was so diametrically opposed to him as both of the other candidates? He would take that occasion to deny that there was any coalition between him and Mr. Hume; in most of whose sentiments, however, he cordially concurred, and whose public views he was anxious to promote as far as Was in his power. He, however, was before them on independentgrounds; and it was for them to decide whether they would, to use a farmer's simile, yoke both their horses to the fore, or, by yoking one horse at the cart-tail and the other in the shafts, neutralize the efforts -of both, and make their cause stand still.

The fact is, unless the Reformers unite, and that heartily, in sup- porting Mr. Hume and Sir John, neither the one nor the other will get into Parliament. Middlesex will not be neutralized ; it will be constituted into a rotten borough, and represented by a false Whig and a true Tory.

Lord Henley dined with a party of his friends in the evening of the same day. Mr. Newdie•ate was in the chair, and made a furious speech against poor Joseph }fume. " Middlesex," he said, "was not repre- sented at all—it was derogatory to the dignity of the county to say it was represented by Mr. Hume."

Lord Henley afterwards addressed the meeting. He, too, stands upon his dignity, as a Peer ought to do— •

Since lie had been called Upon to come forward to represent the county, he had canvassed the town of Uxbridge, and he sincerely regretted that be had not hail an opportunity of waiting upon every elector. In one instance, a shopkeeper had put this question to him= Sir, are you an advocate for Political Unions?" He certainly was pleased at the interrogatory; for although he differed with violent men on both sides, nothing so strongly excited his aversion as a Political Union. His mind was most decidedly and irrevocably made up as to the evil tendency of Political Unions. His answer satiified the honest and independent elector, and he secured his suffrage. They were a free people, and had the con- stitutional moans every seven years of electing fit and proper persons to repre- sent them in Parliament; and they were thus possessed of the power of obtain- ing a redress of grievances by returning those men who were entitled to their confidence.

The Unions do tend to compromise dignities, that is certain. The noble Master is as much alive to the dignity of the Church as the dignity of the State— He was a Churchman, and an advocate for a national establishment, as beneficial and necessary. He was determined to support the Established Church in every legal and lawful way. Those endowments possessed by the Church were as much the right of the Church, and as inalienable from ecclesi- astical purposes, as the estate of any gentleman in the company. He could not imagine such a situation of public affairs as could justify the State in alienating that property, which he considered sacred. He was free to discuss other things which had a tendency to defeat that friendly intercourse between the Church and the People. With a view to effect so desirable an object, he would promote a proper commutation or composition; and he could not see any prospect of being ever able to concede more.

Enough of the Irish Peer.

Mr. Hume, the member who brings indignity on the county, met a party of his friends at- White Conduit House also on Thursday. We need not give his speech, for his sentiments do not, like those of Lord Henley, require description or explanation ; nor are his deeds, like those of the Master, all to come.

NORTIIAMPTONSHIRE.—It would appear from an account in the Times, that this county is to figure during next Parliament in the de- graded and disgraceful character of .a neutral. Lord Althorp, Whig, Is to be conjoined with Mr. Cartwright, Tory; and Lord Milton, Reformer, is to be similarly conjoined with Lord Brudenell, Conser- vative. We know no proof more perfectly demonstrative than this of the utter inefficiency of the Reform Bill as far as counties are con- cerned. It is quite impossible to avoid the conclusion to which it leads, that Northamptonshire is not •represented at all, buf that only a few great families in Northaniptonshire are represented. If the people bad means furnished them of readily expressing their real wishes, they would return the men of whom the majority approved; for to suppose that the majority in any division approve of two men of wholly oppo- • site sentiments is to suppose the majority as ignorant as their own swine, and wholly unworthy of any franchise at all. We would much rather see two Anti-Reformers returned for a county or town than a Reformer and Anti-Reformer : the former Wehld at least indicate' thought in the electors ; and they who have the capacity Of thinking in any way, always end by thinking in the right war.

PENRYN AND FALAIOUTIL--The proposal made at Lord de Dunstan-•

ville's recent Manor-court at Selley's Hotel, of inviting his Lordship's

- nephew, John Basset, Esq. to come forward as a candidate, has come' to nothing ! Report says, that the agents of Sir Richard Vyvyan of- fered Mr. Basset the full benefit of the canvass made for the honour- able baronet some two or three months since, upon condition of his paying the expenses—from 500/. to 1,000/. ; whirl he was disposed, in the first instance, to accede to, but subsequent inquiries satisfied him that the baronet's interest was not worth the price put on it—Fa/mouth- Paper.

SOUTH SIIIELDS.—There are four candidates,—Mr. Ingham, a bar- rister, a supporter of the Administration ; Mr. Palmer, of London, a Tory, supported by the shipon iiers ; Mr. Bowlby ; and Captain Gowan, who has been introduced by Mr. Hume.

SOUTHWARE.—A meeting of Mr. William Brougham with the elec. tors of Christchurch, held at the Kent and Surrey Hotel on Thursday,

was distinguished by the attendance of that notable Reformer Mr. Henry Hunt ; who came from a sick bed, he said, to catechise the honourable member and blackguard the Whigs--

He begged to inquire whether Mr. Brougham had voted in the minority on his (Mr. Hunt's) motion, that the Civil List he redoced by the sum of lil,(100/.. Mr. Proughain— No ; I was not thenin Parliament.'" ( Cheers and loud laughter.) 3Ir. Hunt next inquired was he in Parliament when 100,000/. jointure was voted to the Queen ; and if he voted in favour of that grant ? The same in- quiry he put with respect to the additional grant of 10,0001. a v:.ar to the Princess Victoria. He wished to know how he had voted when 1.141 Althorn proposed a grant of 82,000/. for beautifying Windsor Palace, on which 750,000/. bad already been expended, and also on the proposition of 10,000/. to furnish two new 100111S. 3In Hunt put similar questions as to how Mr. Brougham • had voted on several of the motions and ai—ulments which hail been moved by Mr: Hunt himself. He then pnieeeded to allude to his own Pailiamentary con- duct in opposing certain details of the ReforniBill, to the priliciple.of which he declared himself friendly. He contended that the Bill hail lessened and dimi- nished, instead of extended the franchise, and this was owing to the clause re- quiring the qualification. of .having paid the taxes. After adveiting to the. Bankruptcy Court Bill, and to the increase of the Chancellor's retiring salary, • as specimens' together with those already mentioned, of Whig economy and re trenchment, he complained of the attack made upon him .in his absence by Mr. Brougham at the last election; and concluded by saving, that lie believed that Mr. Brougham would lie returned ; and even in that event, he (Mr. Hoot) had discharged the duty he felt he owed to his country.

Mr.. Brougham replied to the charge of attacking Mr. Hunt in his absence, by observing, that Mr. Hunt's character was public property (and a precious inheritance the public have of it !), and he had not spoken of Mr. Hunt but as a public man— In the same speech and in the same sentence, he had also adverted to Sir Robert Peel. Ile had coupled them together, and said that the Bann) Bill

then before Parliament, and Which it was the anxious and shinest universal wish of the People of England slieuldpass into a law, had not two greater enemies in the House of Commons than Sir Robert Peel and Mr. Hunt. He had said this, because he had witnessed the rank and factious opposition by which the progress •

-of the Bill was impeded in the House of Commons. With reference to the grant to her Majesty, he was not in Parliament until the May following. The

Civil List question, to which 3Ir. Hunt had adverted, arose a year before he

haul a seat. So that in these discoveries he thought Mr. Hunt had only found a mare's nest. He, however, candidly avowed, that had he been in Parliament, it was highly probable that he should have voted in favour of those measures. He had supported the grant of 82,000/. for Windsor Castle, under the convic- tion that it was final ; but he would oppose that lavish expenditure which had before taken place, but with which the present King was not chargeable. He, however, should object to any further grant.

[On the subject of Mr. Hunt's statements, we have one remark to make. He was speechifying' at a meeting of operatives last week, in Manchester; his speech is reported by his friend Mr. Henry

Hetherington, in a supplement tc the Poor Man's Guardian; and therefore Mr. Hunt cannot slip out of his misrepresentations by father-

ing them on his reporter. He stated at that meeting, that the Civil.

List was one million. Now he was in the House when it was discussed; he Voted on it, spoke on it, and must have known the gross falsehood

of his statement the Civil List is only a few thousand pounds more than half a million. He made another statement at the same meeting, which, for its minuteness of falsehood and impudence, is quite unpa- ralleled even in his history. The Secret Service Money, be said, was proposed at first to be fixed at 44,0001.; he (Mr. Hunt, to wit) pro- posed 22,000!.; he divided the House on it ; and only 4 members went below the bar with him. The Ministry were not satisfied with

44,0001.; they pressed for and obtained 50,000/. Such is Mr. Hunt's charge ; and what is the fact? The vote for Secret Service, us it is called, is precisely 23,000l.! Fancy such a fellow showing his face in a public assembly of honest men to make charges against either Whig or Tory !] STAFFORDSHIRE.—Mr. Watts Russell (once M. P. for Gatton) is supported by the whole strength of Ultra-Toryism, in opposition to Sir Oswald-Mosley, Chairman of the Quarter-Sessions, and Mr. Ed- ward Buller, a grandson of the Judge of that name, both stanch Whigs, but without a particle of Radicalism about them.— Times.

SUFFOLK, WEST.—Mr. Henry Spencer Waddington, of Cavenham, has come forward in the Conservative interest.

SURRY, EAST.—It .would be convenient to have a name by which to designate those Tories, of whom there is a great number, that would fain sail into Parliament under Whig ensigns ; and whom nothing, but a shot across the forefoot and a scrupulous overhauling of their papers, will compel to show their true colours. Perhaps "Sneaks"--a name by which those thieves that crawl about areas, in order to pick any odds and ends that lie convenient, are known—may do. One of these Sneaks is at present trying to pick up the stray votes of this division. Mr. Hardy, an elector of the county, at a meeting held at the Horns, Kennington, on Wednesday, thus described him— On asking him his pretensions, lie dwelt much on his introduction to the county, and mentioned the name of a nobleman who was a well-known friend of :liberty; but when the Elector questioned him on his views of political subject* —one, in particular, on which he *as certain there was a unanimous opinion in the meeting, and he believed throughout the nation—he meant the repeal of the Septennial Act, he (the Sneak, to wit) said he would not vote for any such measure. Upon which Mr. Hardy immediately replied, "Then, Sir, you shall not have my vote." He asked him if he would vote for the Ballot? and the candidate, Mr. Jefferys Allen,—he did not see why he should withhold his name,—again replied No.

Mr. A. W. Beauclerk met the electors at Croydon on Saturday. Mr. Beauclerk is a zealous Reformer on all the questions on which honest Reformers are zealous. We need not, therefore, quote his pledges. The close of his address runs thus— He called on them to view him with the greatest jealousy—to inquire into his private character and public conduct; and then, if they found him the man he

professed to be,—if the principles be expounded, and which were dear to him as life, accorded with those by which they themselves were animated, then let them give him their support. He did not come to them as a humble candidate, cap in band; he did not come to them as the nominee of some imperious aristocrat; he came not to them as the tool or slave of any party; he came to them on prin-

ciple, and principle alone. If returned; as their representative, they should find him always at his post, and always watchful of their interests; and if he

did not act up to his professions, let a committee of those leading men of the Liberal party who now supported him come to him and tell him so, and he would never retain for a single day the situation of their representative after his opinions ceased to accord with those of the majority of electors.

TOWER HniviLETs.—Colonel Stanhope met a large party of the electors on Wednesday. night. There is but one portion of the gallant Colonel's address that is important, from the fact it announces—

He took the opportunity of answering some anonymous charges that had been brought against him in the public prints. He had been accused of taking up the cause of Greece from selfish motives, and for the purpose of supporting the Greek loan speculation: On the honour of a soldier, he never was, either directly or indirectly, connected with that loan, and never possessed a bit of Greek scrip in his life. It was true, he did interest himself in some small de- gree to promote that loan, thinking to benefit the cause of Greece; but he feared and even prophesied its fate.

WALLINGFORD.—Mr. Eyston, of East Hendred, has started as a candidate on Liberal principles.

WEYMOUTH.—Mr. Fowell Buxton met the electors on the 31st. He spoke strongly against the attempt of Sir Frederick Johnstone to foist Mr. Bankes as well as himself on the borough. For the third candi- date, Mr. Burton, he said.—.

"Is the man you select a Reformer? If he is, I cordially go along with him : if not, I go against him. If the inhabitants of Weymouth think otherwise, I bow to their decision. I will maintain my own privileges. I will not adopt us my friend and companion any man who is not a Reformer; and I must have a distinct avowal before I can pledge myself to go hand and heart with him. Is be a Reformer? I repeat. Is he resolved for the abolition of corruption of every kind ?—for, allow use to say, I have found a great many Reformers lately, who would still support those little corruptions by which they are themselves benefited. There are lots of such Reformers now, who do not advocate the abolition of the corruptions in the Law, and the corruptions in the Church. Such Re- formers won't do for me."

It seems not improbable that Sir Frederick's anxious desire to get a seat for Mr. Bankes may lose him his own.

WHITEHAVEN.—The past week has been a busy one in Whitehaven. Never, we suspect, since old White first sheltered his frail bark in this goodly haven, and gave his name to the bleak spot which posterity has since seen crowded with stately shipping, an emporium of commercial wealth and enterprise, has there been a week more fraught with in- terest and importance to its future reputation and prosperity. The real battle has now been fought, and the triumph of the good cause, if mot already grasped, is secured. In the county registration, Mr. Hey- wood, the objector-general for the Conservatives, opposed the regis- tration of twenty-two freeholders. Of these, he abandoned his oppo- sition to the largest part; and of those whom he put to the trouble of proving their qualifications, he only disfranchised one, and that one only because the party, for the purpose of trying the right, waved a formal objection to the notice. Of three names objected to by the Reformers, every one were struck off, including that of Mr. Heywood Whitehaven Herald.

WINCHESTER.—The divisions of the Revising Barristers have in- creased the Liberal party considerably. Mr. East, the Duke of Buckingham's candidate, will, it is said, in consequence resign.

WYCONIBE.—The friends of Colonel Grey, present member for this borough, dined together on Wednesday, at the Red Lion Inn. About one hundred and fifty electors sat down to dinner; the Mayor of Wy- combe in the chair. Among.other distinguished guests, Dr. Mitford, the father of the authoress of Our Village, was present. Colonel Grey's speech on returning thanks, on his health being drunk, is impor- tant, from the relation that the speaker bears to the Premier. He said— The Reform Bill had now become the law of the land; and having become so, gave the people a right to expect that they would soon obtain other reforms equally advantageous. He had no doubt but they would soon have a practical and beneficial Church Reform ; not a niggardly .Bit-by-Bit Church Reform, like the Pluralities Bill of last session, but as full and efficient, and because full and efficient, as satisfizctory a Church Reform, as our own Reform Bill. They would also have a speedy abolition of slavery; for it was impossible to suppose that, being free themselves, they would be mean enough to keep others of their fellow-creatures long in slavery. They would also have a more rigid economy observed in every branch of the public service; for the economy of a Reformed Parliament would not be an economy in name, but a rigid, searching, all-pervading economy.

The Tories of Wycombe, under the direction of the author of Vivian Grey, have formed a junction with the Radicals, for the purpose of throwing out their opponents—we sympathize sincerely with the Radi- cals. Mr. Hobhouse (a younger brother of Sir John, and candidate for Aylesbury) spoke very slightingly of Mr. D'Israeli as the author of "a few miserable novels." Now let the truth be told ; the novels are not so miserable—it is the politics of Mr. D'Israeli that are miser- able. He is a determined, and to his friends, an avowed Tory ; and yet he babbles as much about the Rights of the People, as the loudest and lengthiest spouter of Saville House. This is miserable.

YORK CITY.—On Monday, the Honourable T. Dundas, the Ho- /mumble E. H. Petre, and Mr. J. IL Lowther commenced their can-

vass. Mr. Bayntun has, we believe, already completed his. Mr. Petre, it may be recollected, was a candidate last election. MG Dundas is one of the sitting members.