ELECTION TALK.

BmariNnItaar.—It is said that the Conservatives really mean to at- tempt this town, in opposition to Messrs. Attwood and Seholfield. The case of these gentlemen is not an ordinary one. The Reform Bill had many able and honest supporters, and Reform bad many be- fore the Bill was heard of. But no set of men were placed in a position where they could give to Reform and to the Bill one tenth or one hun- dredth part of the assistance that was giVen to both by the Council of the Birmingham Union and its President. Nor was the influence that Mr. Attwood and his able coadjutors exercised the result of accident or good fortune—it was planned and matured by themselves; it was their own creation, and as wisely conceived as it was worthily exercised. There is not an elector under the Bill that does not owe these gentle- men a debt which the votes of a lifetime would inadequately repay. It is not an act of mere political opposition, but of base and infamous in- gratitude, for any man, be he Whig, be he Tory, to oppose them. We make these remarks, not because we doubt of their election—we know they will be elected. We make them merely to save the town of Bir- mingham from the shame of an attempt to contest their election. The gentlemen selected by the Tories, to lead this their forlorn hope, have been variously reported. At one time it was a son of Mr. Rothschild's friend, Mr. Herries—now, it seems, Mr. Ilorsley Palmer, the Bank Chairman, and a Mr. N. Clarke, are the men. Of Mr. Palmer's fitness, the kingdom had a pretty good specimen in that communication which led to Lord Althorp's attempt to tax transfers of stock. His politics are well known. Who Mr. N. Clarke is, we cannot tell.

BRIGHTON.—The Revising Barristers for Brighton, Messrs. Ryland and Bosanquet, have terminated their labours. The relative positions of the candidates can HOW be more accurately known. Messrs. Pechell and Crawford come forward on the Conservative interest. The for- mer gentleman is Captain in the Navy, an Equerry to her Majesty, and the possessor of an independent fortune, residing at Castle Goring, --avitinn a few miles of this place. The latter gentleman was born in Brighton; at a very early age lie went to India, where he remained twenty years ; he then returned to this country, after having made a very considerable fortune. Within the last ten or fifteen years, he has occasionally visited Brighton, where he has a small property, a single shilling of which he never spent here until he thought of becoming a can- didate. Mr. Wigney is a banker of distinction in the town : his residence is, and always has been, in Brighton. He was born, bred, and educated amongst the people whose suffrages he asks; he has been a Reformer from his infancy. His father was a Reformer at a period when it was not only not fashionable to be one, but when the bare avowal of the very name was attended with danger. Mr. Wigney is acquainted with the localities of Brighton, and lie knows what will benefit the interests of his fellow-townsmen. These are his claims, and by these he means to stand or fall. Mr. Faithful, the fourth candidate, is an Ultra Radi- cal; his political creed towers above those of the other three candi- dates.- Many who intend voting for Mr. Wigney will, from principle, decline doing so for Mr. Faithful. The number of votes for this bo- rough is 1,642.—Correspondent of the Times.

CAIVIRRIDGE.—Twenty- eight of the names attached to a requisition addressed to Sir Edward Sugden calling on him to stand for Cam- bridge belong to non-electors ! He has, it is said, a great many pro- mises of votes from the same class.

CARNAItVON BOROUGHS.—The result of the registration secures the return of Sir Charles Paget, the Liberal member. Out of 146 regis- tered at Bangor, the Tory candidate calculates on 36. At Conway numbers will be about equally divided. Carnarvon and Pwlheli gave Sir Charles Paget a majority of about 50. In Criccieth, one of the strongholds of the Tory party, k8 have been registered, of which they will have a majority of 16. In Nevin, of 101 on the list, only 68 were admitted, of which they calculate on about 50. The conduct of the Recorder of Nevin has been so extraordinary in his open and un- disguised attempts to support the Tory voters, that Mr. Young. the Revising Barrister, bas determined to lay an account of it before Lord Melbourne.

DERBYSHIRE.—Lord Waterpark's canvass has been such as to exceed his own most sanguine calculations.

DUDLEY.—Mr. Campbell addressed his friends from the Bush Inn on Monday. In the course of his speech he reviewed the political life of his opponent, Sir H. St. Paul ; and said, that though some of his party had gone over to the enemy, and the names of a few had been expunged - from the list, he had the fullest confidence in the result, and should stand or fall with the people of Dudley, whose independence was in- volved in the contest.

BAaRslHitE, SOCTIL—Lord Palmerston has acceded to . the wishes

of the requisitionists who solicited him to stand for the Southern.Di- vision of this county, and has addressed the electors as a candidate.

Hanwleth—Mr. Leader has retired; so the, interest of the two Ali- nisterialists will no longer be divided.

Irswien.—Sergeant Goulburn and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly have offered, in conjunction, on the Tory interest. •

LANCASTER, Sourn.—An application is about to be made by requi- sition to Sir Thomas Hesketh to come forward as a Conservative can- didate, in opposition to Mr. G. W. Wood, of Manchester.

LEICESTER, NORTII.—The Liberal [?] electors met at Loughborough • on Wednesday, determined to bring forward a candidate in opposition to Lord Robert Manners.

LivErtroot--Lord Sandon has addressed to his constituents a letter

which has had the ill-luck of displeasing all parties. For the Tories it is too free ; for the Reformers, not free enough. The only persons to whom it is at all acceptable is the handful of Waverers, of whom his Lordship is specially the representative. The Reformers have called on Air. Thornely to oppose Lord Sandon, and the most respectable re- quisition addressed to that gentleman gives every promise of his per- fect success ; it is signed by no fewer than 1,450 electors—ascertained to be such by comparison with the lists. We need not now express our opinion of Mr. Thornely's perfect fitness as a representative ; it was fully made known during the last election. His address, which will be found in our advertising columns, offers on all points a most favourable contrast to the milk-and-water effusion of Lord Brougham's protége. We direct attention particularly to the just discrimination of that part in which Mr. Thornely speaks of Negro Slavery, and to his important remarks on Corporation Reform. It is curious to observe, that Mr. Thornely was the man who in 1812 introduced Henry Brougham to the notice of the Liverpool freemen. " Tempora mutantur, et nos"— Henry Brougham is now the Baron Brougham and Vaux.

The Tories threaten to call in Mr. Fynes Clinton ; in return for which, a son- of Mr. Gladstone,. who patronizes Mr. Clinton, will be returned for Newark,—that is, if the Duke of Newcastle can return him.

LONDON.—Alderman Waithman's friends met, though in no great numbers, at the City of London Tavern on Monday. The Alderman made a speech on the .occasion. He spoke of pledges— He did not think it necessary that they should require promises or pledges from him ; which he not only considered of no use, but which he even held to be unconstitutional. Representatives were unquestionably bound to obey the instructions of their constituents ; but if members were returned to Parliament fettered by pledges, it was nothing more than returning so many incapable fools.

He told the meeting what he had been— It had been truly stated that he was a Reformer when it was any thing hut the fashion to be one; which was a proof that his principles were inherent—and, he might say, innate—and not the result of interested motives or prevailing doc- trines. He would tell than, lie was a Reformer when it was dangerous to be thought one ; he was a Reformer in 1794, when Home Tooke, Hardy, and others hazarded their lives on account of their reforming opinions; and he knew that among the many warrants issued at the time for the arrest of individuals, whose only crime was that of being Reformers, one was direCted against him.

He mystified, as great men, and those who have been great, delight in doi ng-

A great many questions had been lately agitated, and none more so than that of a repeal of the assessed taxes. He would not say what his intended line of conduct was to be upon that point ; but, from what he had done formerly, might he anticipated what he would do for the future. If, during a long and public life, lie had obtained credit for his conduct, no one could imagine that he would be so foolish as to throw it away or sully it at the very close of his career.

This is mere twaddle. Surely the electors of the City are not such a set of "incapable fools" as to return this man again as their repre- sentative. He talks of his inherent principles and his disinterested motives : was it disinterested motives that prompted his melancholious complaints of the ingratitude of Liverymen when Sir James Shaw got the Remembrancership, and that directed his little band of followers and himself to hoot Mr. Hume because he favoured the appointment ?

Alderman Wood's friends met with the worthy member, by appoint- ment, on Thursday, at the Paul's Head, Cateaton Street. Mr. William Smith, formerly member for Norwich, presided. The Chair- man paid a high compliment to the Alderman's character— Every one knew the indefatigable zeal with which Alderman Wood pursued every object of public poth—a quality which, as a member of Parliament en- gaged in a similar pursuit, he had the most indisputable opportunities of witness- ing. No man could, in fact, exhibit a more decided contempt for fatigue upon every occasion en which exertion was necessary. He could scarcely conceive any ground for discussion in the present meeting ; but a card had been put into his hand, containing questions to candidates, which made it impossible for him to omit saying a few words about pledges. He had sat forty-six years in Par- liament ; and he would not hesitate to say, that those who had returned him not only returned him free of expense and free of canvass, but free of pledges too. And why had they done so ?—Because they had observed his conduct to har- monize with his professions. A constituency could not have half so substantial a pledge of a man's future as the pledge of his past conduct—not for one year, but through a series of successive Parliaments ; and if a man's conduct could not be trusted, it was in vain to talk of trusting his words.

No pledges were required; but Mr. Wood's opinions were asked re- specting Slavery, Tithes, the Assessed Taxes, the Septennial Act, the Malt-duty, and the Newspaper-tax. Alderman Wood referred to his votes and speeches in Parliament, for an answer to these queries. On the subject of tithes, he could quote other testimony. Thirty years ago, he had gone into Chancery, at Isis own expense, to resist an oppressive tithe in Cripplegate-

He had always endeavoured to make the public expenditure less, and the • public happiness greater. He had always expressed himself with respect to the duration of Parliaments; and he had acted upon the opinion whenever he had an opportunity, in favour of their short duration. Ever since the year 1794, he had been the zealous advocate of the reduction of all kinds of taxes; and he bad voted in the House of Commons fora more extended suffrage than was thought expedient to be adopted by the Government, for he was always of opinion that all rated householders should have votes. Resolutions of support having been voted by Mr. Edsthope, member for Banbury, and Mr. Wilkes, member for Boston, and others,—Mr. Pritchard, the Common Councilman, put a question to the Alderman ; which he was not, it seems, ready or inclined to answer— It was the opinion, he said, of many, that the reformation which was about to be visited upon the House of Commons should be extended to corporations, 'and other public bodies which were in the habit of exercising great power. It was their opinion, too, that one branch of the Corporation of London, that to which the worthy Alderman belonged, was not remarkable for its willingness to correct abuses or remedy evils, and that the Court he alluded to would be much improved by being formed of persons periodically elected. Now he wished to know whether Alderman Wood was willing to support a proposition to that effect, and also whether the worthy Alderman would support a proposition for throwing open the doors of the Court of Aldermen to the public?

The Alderman would give no pledge, but said, that, in the House of Commons, when the question was discussed, he would pronounce his opinion.

'There was a meeting in the Ward of Portsoken in the course of the week, at which the several candidates were present, and where resolu- tions of support were unanimously voted to Mr. Grote arid Alderman Seales. Mr. Grote bids fair to divide votes with all parties-.

There was a number of meetings of candidates for the Metropolitan Districts yesterday. Dr. Lushington had a meeting, which was very arch disturbed by some of the Bethnal Green weavers; who have, it seems, entered into a combination to support Captain Marryatt, because h&is a declared enemy to free trade. The resolutions of support were, however, carried unanimously. Captain Marryatt's meeting—for he had one alsodid not terminate so well. The reporter says the majo- rity was against the resolutions of support; which were only carried by the misrepresentation of the Chairman. Mr. Portman's 'friends met at the Cafe Colosseum, where arrangements were made to support that gentleman's canvass. .Ir. Portman was not present. Sir Samuel Whalley also met his friends at the Globe, King's Cross, and addressed them at great length.

MANCRESTER.—The candidates for Manchester arc Mr. Thomas Hope, ex-member for Gatton,—a rank Tory • Samuel Jones Lloyd, equally rank, but be endeavours to keep down the taint of his rankness by-the cosmetic now so fashionable called the Conservative paste ; Mr. Mark Philips, Liberal ; and Mr. Poulctt Thomson. Of Mr. Thomas Hope, little account is made by his friends or his enemies. Mr. Phi- lips is looked on as secure the struggle, if there be one, lies between Mr. Jones Lloyd and Mr. Thomson,—or, more properly speaking, Mr. Thomson's friends, for he is not ostensibly a candidate. A great many letters, addresses, placards, squibs, and other effusions, serious and

comic, have issued from both titles. The calling of names is pretty equally shared, as usual ; but the facts, and by consequence the strength of the argument, lie decidedly with the Liberals. The following com- parison is from the Committee of Mr. Pordett Thomson. It is well drawn up-

been in Parliament at the time, would have

done his best to have defeated that Bill.— in one word, lie is the friend of Liberty,

Reform, and Retrenchment." •

Has been" rA tuned for Dover to, four ' Has been returned fur Hythe to one Par- suci:essiVe l'arlimnents, free if es-— liament, for which he had to pup,-when always at his post.—has made speeches on three, was scarcely ever at his post,—never a great number of questions, always in th- made a speech there.—never originated a vourof Liberal measures,—has brought be- single proposition of any kind,—never stip- fore the House propositions of the first im- ported any measure for reduction of taxes, portanec, as reganls reduction of taxes, par- —discouraged and opposed attempts at Re- tieularly those that press most on the in- trenchment,—is not known ever to have dustrious classes,— always advocated Re- voted for Reform,—voted once fur' inquiry' trenchment, —advocated. Reform before it into Catholic claims,—nothing to do with was a Government question—a stanch ad- the repeal of the Corporation and Test aerate of Catholic Emancipation, toted Acts.—is against the vote by ballot,—on for the repeal of the Corporation and Test the Slave question very cautious ; when Act4,—'elan been in favour of the vote by anti-slavery measures have been discussed, ballot for a considerable time,—is a warm afraid of mixing himself up with their sup- advocate fur the speedy abolition of Negro porters,—says he was quite startled at the slavery, and haS supported measures tend- Reform Bill, and considered it much too in1 to it,—is one of the patriot Ministers sweeping a measure ; being a cool and very who boldly brought forward, unflinchingly moderate man, could not have voted for so supported, and triumphantly carried the much justice all at once, believing it possible Rtroum BILL, that measure which has to have too much even of what is right and given us the right of voting, and without good,—could not have supported the second which we could not now have beendiscuss- reading of Abe Reform Bill,—in one word, iugwhether we should return one of the lesS said about him the better for those Ministers, or a person who, had he him."

We might deprecate, in a new borough of all others, an attempt to oppose an honest and able member of Government, as we believe Mr. Thomson to be,—did we not look upon it as a sort of just retribution. If Government will be so stupid and perverse as to oppose the best friends of the people in one quarter, it is just that they should be op- posed by the enemies of the people in another.

MIDDLESEX.—Mr. HuMe has formally addressed the constituency. He met a numerous body of the electors of the Tower Hamlets dis- trict at the George Tavern in the Commercial Road, on Wednesday ; where committees for each of the parishes of the district were, at his suggestion, appointed. Mr. Hume spoke at considerable length in refutation of the ridiculous charge of Atheism, so industriously propa- gated against him— He had for ten years attended the ministry of the Reverend Dr. Dibdin, at St. Mary's Church,Marylebone; and always attended once, and sometimes twice, in the day with his family. He made it a rule, in fact, to neither visit nor receive visits on the Sunday, but to devote that day among his family to the perform- ance of his duties as a father, a husband, and a Christian.

We believe it would puzzle not a few of the scribblers who cant about Mr. Hume's lack of piety, to give so good an account of their own. The real reason, however, of the imputation was most correctly

stated by Mr. Hume— • If there was any man a friend to religious liberty, and anxious that none shohld be annoyed because of their religious belief, lie was that mar. But the true secret was, that they had no real charge; and if they did not-lie, he deied them to bring any charge against his public character. For the Ministry, Mr. Hume hoped to be able to continue his sup- port to them. He did not desire to see a severance between the Whigs and the Radicals, but that they should go hand in hand in carrying into effect the great objects of the Reform Bill. He said in conclusion—

He was told by many, that in canvassing as he did, he was taking more

trouble than there was any occasion for; but his object was to show himself at the head of the poll, not on his own account, but for the purpose of demon- strating that the principles which brought him in for Middlesex were not in abeyatice, but were active and powerful as ever. To himself personally, his return for Middlesex was no object ; for he could go elsewhere, and he certain of being' returned ; nor was it his intention to go to a poll for Middlesex, unless he had previously ascertained that his return was certain.

The honourable member again met his constituents yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street. Mr. Warburton "presided. It is necessary to extract one passaov of Arr. Hume's speech on this occa- sion, in order to contrast it with one of Lord Henley's speech at Hump- stead— Ile looked on slavery as a national stain, and the first thing he desired was to see it abolished ; the next. that it should be accomplish( d without bloodshed or anarchy; and that it should be accompaoied by an equitable and fair con- sideration el the claims of the planters, who held their present pr,,pertv under the law as fdrly and as equitably as any man in this country hold his. estate. He repeated, it was the sin of the nation, and let not the individual suffer. The nation had done the wrong, aed let them pay the price. lb. teas ready to agree to IA immedin,e, unrl absolute emancipation to-morrow, if it was shown- that it comb( be dune with snlity. Or he wool,/ runs,ut to yo into a committee on the sifitject, on,/ be ynidcd solely by the evidence there (tritium'.

Another part of Mr. Hume's speech respected a lying charge made by a correspondent of the Record (a Tory Evangolicaljournal), and re- peated, is an advertisement, by one of Lord Henley's Committee— Another charge against lihn was, that he had distributed Paine's works ; than which never was a 111010 barefaced lie invented—there was not one word of truth in it—it WaS altogether a base lie. The religious opinions of Paine were abhorrent to his feelings ; but, as respected his political worbs, lie would admit that lie might have spoken in praise of them, for be considered them as containing many of the soundest political opinions. Put that was no ground for blending together two matters perfectly distinct, and charging him with distributing the works. Disttibuting perfectly God ! II never bought lint .one cope of Paine's political works in his life, and that he had by him still. Ile challenged the

assas.:in to mile forward and prove his assertion. lie should be at Twicken-

ham on 7:1 nday, at Bedfont on Wednesday, and at Poplar VII Friday—let him meet him at any of those places, and he would juin answer with him.

Mr. Hume mentioned, at the same meeting, that he had received a letter from Dr. DRAM, expressive of his surprise and indignation at the charge of A theism preferred against Mr. Hume so assidu- ously by Lord Henley's friends and the Tories generally. [It is rather strange that Dr. Dibdin has been so late in being moved to this expression of feeling, : the absurd and unfounded char,ge has been rung the changes on for the last six months by all the Tory scrib- blers in London.) subscription was begun at the meeting, and :300/. contributed on the spot, to defray the expenses of Mr. Hume's return; which we be- lieve, after all the bustle and racket of his enemies, is absolutely

secure. If it be not, lie will be returned by Westminster: the scat of one of the present members depends on this contingency.

A meeting of Lord HeLley's friends took place at Hampstead, in the Hollybush Tavern, on Thursday. A Mr. Garrott presided. He asked if the electors of Middlesex would countenance the man—Mr. Hume to wit-

. Who had hall the impiety to propose, in the House cf Commons, that the words "Divine Providence" should he left out in the Cholera Bill ? Would they support aMan who had thought fit: to remain at table at a dinner party Where that most natural and usual mark of respect, " His Majesty's health," had been refused? Would they elect a man v.diti had, in the same House of Commons, talked lightly of the slavery of 800,000 of our fellow-subjects—of their murderous slavery Lord Henley repeated the profession of his political creed. After Mr. Garratt's tirade about slavery, it is amusing to listen to the Right Honourable candidate himself— To slavery he was a mostdecided enemy, as a system Wholly wrong, unne- cessary, and impious. But this Christian end he would attain in a ehristiait way ;•he would not do evil that good might come of it. if he should be satisfied that bloodshed and ruin would ensue from the immediate freedom of the Blacks, he should have recourse to more cautious methods. With regard to compensa- tion, lie thought it was surely right that England, the guilty participator in so. atrocious a crime, should, at the same thae that she makes reparation to the in- jured, not ruin the means she had employed, but should satisfy them even if she pledged her last acre.

In fact, then, in regard to Slavery, Lord Henley is rather a more nude- rate hybrmer than Mr. Home himself!

Dr. Evans, on moving a resolution of support, disposed of the im- piety as Lord Henley had of the Pro-Slavery attack— As a Reformer, Dr. Evans much preferred his Lordship to Mr. Hume. Not that lie had a low opinion of the latter; on the contrary, he thought him as honest, well-meaning man, though misguided ; and that he had certainly been of value to time country ; and Dr. Evans would reject, with as much abhorrence as Mr. Hume himself could, the contemptible attempt made to excite a preju- dice against him by calling him " Atheist." Mr. Byng has addressed the electors : be refers to his votes on tl e- Test-laws, the Catholic laws, and the Bill; but says Lothing of Mi. Leigh's queries and his own answers.

NORTHAMPTON.—Tuesday, Lord Milton made his entry into Thrap- ston, to commence his canvass, supported by the Reverend Lyttleton Powis, uncle to Lord Lilford, and the Reverend H. Rolls, of Ald- winckle. His Lordship harangued the farmers from the White Hart balcony, on the Reform Bill, the Slave Trade, and the Corn-laws.

NOTTINGIIA31.—The elevation of Sir Thomas Denman to the Lord Chief Justiceship of the Court of King's Bench, has occasioned a vacancy in the representation of this large and populous place. The names of Lord Rancliffe, Mr. Morrison, Colonel Fox, Mr. Henry Houldsworth, and the eldest son of Mr. John Smith, are handed about for the consideration of the electors. Lord Rancliffe declines going again to St. Stephen's. Mr. Houldsworth is too Conservative, and won't do at any price. Mr. Morrison, from his knowledge and expe- rience in mercantile matters, would form an unexceptionable member; and we rather think he will be the man. Colonel Fox is already pro- vided for at Tavistock.

SHROPSHIRE, SOUTH.—It is generally understood that the Earl of Darlington will be a candidate for time representation in consequence of Mr. C. Pelham offering for the borough of Shrewsbury.—Salopian. • Jur rnal. SOMERSET, WEST.—Every thing goes on most favourably for the Liberal cause : the objections &at have been made by the Tory party

are failures in a very great majority of cases; the objections on the Liberal side are very few comparatively. The return of Sanford and Trite is, by all the county who are not wilfully blind, considered certain.

SOMERSET, EAST.—The tactic now seems to be "guzzling," and, considering 141r. Tory Miles is the son of a Bristol Alderman, a very appropriate mode of canvassing. But many of his friends now deem his cause hopeless. Langton is certain, and very little doubt of Brig- stock's return is apprehended.

SOUTH SIIIET.DS.—We find from the communication of an intelli- gent correspondent, that we have been misled, by the Tines, in desig- nating Mr. Ingham, the candidate for this plare, as a supporter of Earl Grey, in other words, a Reformer. The fit et is, Mr. Ingham is a Sneak. He is an anti-free-trade-monger, a shipping-interest advocate, a Canada-dry-rot-man, a supporter of Bell, the Toy candidate for the county—in a word, he is opposed to every thing that Ministers and the Reformers support. He professes himself a friend to the Cabinet merely in order to slip more easily into the House. Such a person is obviously not to be trusted by any Liberal elector; and if even the Tories vote for him, it can only be as a pis aller.

STAFFORD.—Captain Gronow, the last-announced candidate, arrived in that borough on Thursday, and has issued an address, in which be de- clares that " Reform in Church and State, the Abolition of Slavery and useless Sinecures, Retrenchment, and consequent diminution of Taxes," will be his primary objects if returned to Parliament.

SUFFOLK, EAST.—A requisition to Lord Henniker and Sir Charles Vere is in progress, calling on them to offer, in the Conservative inter- est, for East Suffolk. The number of voters registered for the divi- sion is 4,259.

WAinvicx, NORTH.—Mr. Stratford Dugdale has acceded to the requi- sition addressed to him by a large body of the freeholders and electors. A deputation waited upon him at Blyth, on Saturday. Mr. Dugdale's principles are Conservative.

WESTMORELAND.—Nearly the whole of Lord Lonsdale's mushroom freeholders have been admitted upon the registry, by the Registering Bar- rister.— Carlisle Journal.

WHITEHAVEN.—Of the return of Mr. Littledale, a friend to Reform and cheap government, the most confident, and I believe well-founded expectation is entertained, and this is under every possible discourage- ment. Lord Lonsdale monopolizes the appointment of magistrates, making them at his pleasure, and a precious manufacture they are ! One of the latest of his appointments to the bench was that of a Mr. Robert Jefferson, a retail dealer in wines, spirits, and malt liquors. Not long since, the inhabitants, to whom the riot of the 28th of May 1831 had demonstrated the necessity of having some magistrates who were not partisans, petitioned him to appoint to the bench six gentle- men, whom they named, of great respectability. His Lordship posi- tively refused to comply with their request ; and, by way of showing his contempt to the petitioners, handed their petition to an attorney named Heywood, clerk to the present bench of Magistrates, who bung it up in his office, with offensive comments attached to the names of the petitioners.— Correspondent of the Globe.

WORCESTER, EAST.—The Reform candidates, Messrs. Cookes and Russell, have completed a most successful canvass, and no doubt is en- tertained of their being ultimately elected. The friends of the Tory candidate, Mr. Pakington, resorted to every means of annoyance in their power, in order to prevent the registration of votes. Large bodies of electors were objected to on vexatious and paltry grounds, in the hope that they would not take the trouble to defend themselves before the barristers. The result of the revisal of the lists, notwithstanding these Tory tricks, insures the large estimated majority of Messrs. Cookes and Russell.

Mr. Pakington, according to the Worcester Herald, is so secure of his election, that his friends think of starting a second candidate of the same principles, in the person of Francis Rufford, of Yew-tree House.

YORK, CITY.—About one hundred of the most respectable inhabi- tants of the city have signed a declaration, in which they state, that- " Having viewed with regret, at former elections of members of Parliament, the practice of resorting, on those occasions, to bribery and other corrupt mea- sures, which arc not only most unjustifiable and illegal. but highly calculated to -pollute and destroy the morals of the public, and to endanger the best interests of the community, do therefore hereby declare our intention of opposing, by the most efficient means in our power, the return of any candidate who shall, either directly or indirectly, be accessary to such proceedings."

If such a resolution were adopted and acted on throughout the king- dom, there would soon be an end of the system of bribery ; but we fear English nature is not: yet ripe for such an exhibition of honesty and disinterestedness.

WEYMOUTH.—Mr. Burdon,. the new Liberal candidate, made his entry here on the 10th. lie addressed: the electors at great length, and with much approbation. The profession of his political faith may be best gathered from his own words- " None would go farther than myself in extirpating abuses of Church, Law, or State, always with a view- to preserve the good and destroy the bad. The prin- eiples.of our laws and constitution are, or ought to be, reason and common sense; and when they leave these for other foreign objects, they err, the broad principle of happiness and security to all being the only right one. I would exercise the strictest economy in Government departments, paying each man by his de- serts, and not by the measure of his wants or wishes. I would avoid interference in foreign politics as much as passible, or at least take care that John Bull should receive and not pay. I dislike the Corn-laws, but I think it unthir to abolish them till we are relieved from debts and taxation. If the duty be totally abolished, the agriculturists may say justly, We will not pay the interest of the fiindholders; thus making a collision between two parties equally balanced in the State, and perhaps a civil war between the agriculturists and the manu- facturers. We have no right to put one party on a level with the Continent unless the other is also, and that cannot be done without removing debt or taxa- tion—a thing impossible at present. I repeat, I would do away with them when fair to the country, but till then should prefer a low fixed rate of duty. 'Tithes I would remove by a fair commutation, and pay the Clergy liberally and equally. Bishops should be- ministers of religion, and not ministers of state; and .the whole-Clergy compelled to residence and elected by their flocks, thus insuring • good conduct and attention to duty. The whole- Church. Establish. meat should be remodelled, allowing their fair claims to its present members, and giving future satisfaction to those who differ from it. Slavery, that disgrace to civilized society, -I would fain see removed, but in such a manner as neither to destroy the Colonies nor place the slaves iu a worse condition than they are. Place the Africans in a condition to resist the power of making then, slaves—you. will thus reach more effectually the fountain-bead ; but the first slavery to which I would call your attention, is the white slavery at home,—to the state of those poor beings who, compelled to resort for relief from starvation to the parish, are knocked duwn at so much per head to the highest bidder at a vestry meeting, by the merciless hammer of a hard-hearted overseer, disgraceful in a country called free,—a country so anxious to impart that to others which it denies to its own subjects. Free trade I highly approve of Cheapness of goods, cheapness of justice, cheapness of education, I would anxiously promote, as leading to the great ends of life—happiness and security to persons and property ; giving the lower classes a due knowledge of their rights in the state, teaching them not to claim too much nor to be satisfied with too little."

BELFAST.— The last three days have been highly favourable to the Independent cause. Mr. Emerson had from the beginning very few to register ; and Lord Arthur's forces were almost entirely exhausted OR the first call of the list. Miley are now pressing forward, giving a vast and rapidly increasing majority to Crawford and Tennent.—Northern l finis.

CLARE.—John Macdonnell, of Newhall, Esq. has declared himself a candidate. Mr. Macdonnell is a gentleman of large fortune in that county, and well known to the electors.

General Sir A. Fitzgerald, the present member for Ennis, will be in the field for the representation of Clare.

Conx.—Mr. John Hyde, of Castle Hyde, has addressed the free- holders. He declares himself opposed to the tithe system, and looks. "to the wisdom of a Reformed Parliament for suck an immediate dis- tribution of any tax that may be substituted in its stead, as will set to rest the present well-founded excitement." Mr. Hyde is one of the- gentlemen who signed the recent address from the county of Cork.

DUBLIN.—Mr. O'Connell and Sergeant Perrin will stand.

Duxosnx.—In consequence of Mr. M'Alister having declined the invitation of the electors, Colonel Torrens has received a requisition.

GALWAY TOWN.—Mr. A. H. Lynch, of the Castle, Galway, has. come forward as an unqualified Repealer, and takes all the pledges of the Ultra O'Connell party.

KING'S COUNTY.—Mr. Nicholas Fitzsimon is announced by the Dublin Register as a Repeal candidate for the King's County. This gentleman, Mr. O'Connell's son-in-law, was talked of a short time since for the county Dublin. The Honourable Mr. Westenra is also talked of as a second candidate in the same interest.

LimEnrcx CITY.—The Conservative party in Limerick talk of Sir I-high Gough as a candidate likely to come forward in their interest. The Political Union of that city have determined to support Colonel. Evans and Mr. Moore in conjunction.

LIMERICK COUNTY.-14. John Waller, son of Mr. Bolton Waller, of Shannongrove, and nephew of the ex-Lord Chief Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer, Lord Guillamore, is named as one of the can- didates.

LONDONDERRY.—Mr. Assistant-Barrister Hamilton, who presides at the registry for the city of Derry, has taken a new and original view

of the 10/. borough qualification. He refuses the franchise to every

applicant who will not swear the house or premises out of which he claims to register is worth 10/. a year of clear sterling money above the rent paid for it, whatever. that sum may be.—.Arewry Examiner. [Mr. Barrister Hamilton will leave a very select constituency in Derry! We suspect the Examiner has not examined the truth of the report very

accurately. Mr. Stanley has written to advise this pigheaded gentle- man, and the Attorney-General has joined the Secretary; but we know not with what effect.]

Lount.—It is thought the constituency will be limited to about 4611. LOUTH COUNTY.—It is rumoured- that Mr. Blayney T. Balfour pur- poses offering himself.

MEATH.—It is expected that the constituency will note xceed 1,500.

TRALEE.—One of the Denny family will contest the representation with Mr. Maurice O'Connell. Captain Leyne, formerly of the 58th- Regiment, is reported as a candidate.

.TRINITY COLLEGE.—Sir Thomas Staples had been announced as. candidate along with Mr. Crampton, but according to the Evening Mail,, the statement is unfounded.

The Hail also asserts, that the pious Lieutenant J. E. Gordon has consented not to. stand.

TYRONE COUNTY.—The Honourable Henry Corry is at present soli- citing the suffrages of the electors of Tyrone. Sir Hugh Stuart and the honourable gentleman will be again returned.

WATERFORD COUNTY.—Sir Richard Keane is in the Pc1‘7 as the suc- cessor of Sir Richard Musgrave. The principles of the new candidate may be gathered'from the following passage in his reply to the requi- sition—" I have ever held the statesmanlike views of 11 c immortal Grattan as the best guide and guarantee of Irish policy; and his pre- cepts I will endeavour to follow."

WATERFORD Tows.—Mr. Roger Hayes, a Catholic barrister, has allowed himself to be put in nomination by his friend O'Connell. His political creed is described in the following passage of his address—" I am an advocate for an unqualified repeal of the Union; I am an advo- cate for the total extinction of tithes and church-rates; I am an advo- cate for the total extirpation of corporate monopolies, and-their attendant abuses; in one word, I am an- 0' Connellite."

BANFFSHIRE.—Colonel Gordon,:of Park, the Liberal candidate, is canvassing the electors with every chance of ultimate success. In the upper districts of the county his success has been complete; and even in the hitherto most Tory districts he has received numerous pledges.