11 JANUARY 1834, Page 14

51 Captain Seat% Captain Strachey, and a son of Colonel

Horner, arc all mentioned as likely to oppose Mr. Miles, the Tory candidate for East Somerset- shire."—Daily Papers.

We hope that the Somersetshire electors will have the sense to choose a man of business as their Representative, whatever may be the complexion of his party politics. Surely the House is overstocked already with dragoons ; and yet two or three more are ready to impose themselves on the people " as discreet and proper persons " to represent them in Parliament ! Military men are, generally speaking, the very worst Members ',in the House,—un- fitted by professional habits and education, by their readiness to take offence, and lamentable ignorance of the mode in which pub- lic business ought to be conducted.