ELECTION TALK.

On Monday evening, a numerous meeting of the Marylebone Re- form Association adopted the following resolutions, unanimously- " That in the existing state of parties in the borough, the return of two Reform candidates can he secured only by a cordial union among Reformers:. that to promote such an union, this Association do choose by ballot only one Reform candidate, and that the Marylebone Reform and Registration Associa- tion is also hereby invited to choose only one Reform candidate ; that in the opinion of this Association, when the two Reform candidates have been also' chosen by their respective Associations, a public meeting of Reformers ought to be convened to ratify thole anil to secure the cordial coOperation of all classes of Reformers; and that the Reform and Registration gaiety be requested to accord in these views."

[The success of this scheme will of course depend upon the sort of choice the Associations may make. Mere Whigs—even Ballot-men and nothing more—will fail in "keeping out the Tory." The baronetcy of one of their present Representatives is an unpopular theme with some of the Marylebone Reformers.] The Conservatives of Manchester entertain the most sanguine hopes of being enabled to return one Conservative at least as their Represen-

tative. The constituency for some tunic has been very Whiggish, but

a great reaction has taken place lately in public opinion. Since the last election, a powerful Conservative Association has been formed in the borough, which has done r, great deal of service in exhibiting to

the electors the chicanery and deceit of Whiggery. The contest, mfl the event of en election, will be principally between Mr. 3Iark Plimbps and the Conservative candidate ; the inhabitants being heartily tired of

that gentleman's misrepresentation. With respect to Mr. Poulett

Thomson, politics have had little to do with his election, the Manches- ter people having considered that their branch of trade has been well represented by him. It is not yet known who will be the Conservative candidate; but a meeting of the most influential of the loyal burgesses, and also of the Association, is to be held this -week to take the subject into consideration.— Tittles.

The Salford Conservatives are busy canvassing for Mr. Garnett of Lark Hill, and the Whigs themselves despair of returning Mr. Bro- therton. Mr, Garnett would have been returned at the lust contest be The two Tory Members are considered safe in Liverpool. party, who a large majority, but for intimidation of the Brotherton hired a band of Irish bludgeon-men to keep Garnett's voters from the hustings until the poll closed.— Times.

Mr. Busfield and Mr. Lister are looking after their constituents at Bradford.

Mr. Fielden is secure of his return for Oldham, but it is said that General Johnson is not so popular.

Captain Ramsay, a Conservative, will come out for Rochdale, and -will be returned, and "no mistake." It is doubtful whether, under re circumstances, Mr. Fenton would again stand ; both he and his family, it ieh understood, having a strong repugnance to the office of 31.13, 1`,10 other gentleman would have the shadow of a chance against Captian Ram say, who would muster a strong body of decided Conseryatues d 're not a little aid from the Chartists. The latter would go any isii,e-fdd reeetio oppose a Whig candidate, or even a Moderate Radical ; and w ken heads or a bit of punching would be of service to any ?s,t11 ailthbesroe fellows would not be within a trifle in that line.—Times. Report says, that in case of an election, the Tory candidate for Hall- oo; he William John Norris, Esq., late of St. John's House, near tiltown and now of Radwell House, Herts. Robert Alexander, Esq., id:h-arris'ter, has also been talked of. —Halifax Express.

The Conservatives (of Plymouth and Devonport), who have every- t gain and nothing to lose, the representation of our two boroughs

thllg being to gainhands of the Liberals, will, doubtless, nm!,e an effort' to get 2 footing in one or the other, perhaps in both, although their chance of success is all but desperate. The names of Sir George Cockburn od Sir Ralph Lopes have been mentioned at Plymouth ; and reports Are e uttent that an invitation has been actually sent off to the former ; -mws cannot learn upon what authority these statements are circu- wed. Sir George Cockburn has good reason to hesitate before he de- cides on becoming a candidate for the suffrages of the Plymouth electors, who, at the last election, fought a most spirited and suc- cessful battle. In Devonport, there is a good deal of bustle and much idlispering behind the scenes among the Conservatives, but no name ins yet transpired on that side. The Ultra-Radicals, however, talk of inviting Sir William Molesworth to oppose Sir George Grey.—Decon-

port Telegraph.

Two Conservative candidates, Mr. Townley Parker, one of our pre- sent Members, and a highly-respected gentleman engaged in the cotton- trade, will be put in nomination for Preston. It is also said that Cap- tain Whalley, the candidate for Clitheroe at the last general election, will again contest that borough ; and Mr. Turner, the Member for Blackburn, will, as a condition of his reffiection, give in his unqualified adhesion to the expected. Peel Administration. These are the current statements of the day.—Preston Chronicle.

No movement has yet been made by the Liberal party in Warrington

to bring into the field a candidate. Surely Mr. John Ireland Black- lame will not be allowed to walk over the course unopposed? We fed satisfied that the Reformers had never a better chance of success than at present. The number of deaths and removals since the last election have been so numerous on the side of the Conservatives as to knee little doubt as to the issue of a contest in the borough. We can venture to assure the Liberal electors of Warrington, that a candidate of Reform principles will not be wanting when the day of trial comes, and that the present snug and easy representative will not be allowed to walk quietly over the course. A gentleman of stanch Reform prin- ciples will be forthcoming whenever the electors require his presence is Warrington.—Manchester Times.

Lord Lindsay, eldest son of the Earl of Ralcarras, will be a candidate

for the borough of 'Wigan on the Conservative interest.—Prestun It is reported that Sir James Graham and the I fonourable John Stuart Wortley will be the Tory candidates for the West Riding, at the next election, in opposition to the present Members, Lord Morpeth and Sir George Strickland.—Halifor Express.

At a meeting of the Hull Liberals, on Thursday, a letter was read from Mr. Hutt, declining again to come forward for Hull, in copse game of the great expense attending elections in that place, the un- certainty of the result, and the laborious duties connected with the re- presentation of so important a community. Mr. Hutt said he had de- clined an invitation to stand for North Durham ; and had only pro- mised to comply with a requisition from Gateshead, in case it were made in the name of a body of electors sufficient to preclude the possi- bility of a contest. Resolutions expressing gratitude for Mr. Hutt's services, and regret at his loss, were unanimously adopted; and it was agreed to search for a successor,--whose claims, however, were not to dash with Colonel Thompson's.

It is probable that the opinion of the country will ere long be sub-

mitted to the test of a general election : let the Radicals, therefore, be upon their guard. Confront the pretended friends of liberty, who have gone neck and neck with the present Ministry, with their recorded votes, and let no special-pleading throw a veil of mystery over the filets which these votes tell. The time has now come when a candidate and ti constituency ought to understand each other, and positive pledges must take the place of general professions. We have seen the conduct of seeming Liberals to be very different to what their vague generalities on the hustings would have led us to believe, and that ought to act as a warning for the future. A mere Whig is only a Tory with another name, who both assume Finality as their motto. Let the test be, an extension of the Suffrage, vote by Ballot, and a total ahoiition of the Corn-laws, and all restrictions on trade and commerce. If the people keep these principles in view at the coining election, and show lv their representatives that they are determined to have them, a .linistry will ben nominal engine for carrying into effect their wishes.—Skiliehl Iris. [This hint from Sheffield is worth attending to, especially at a time when there is so visible a disposition in certain quarters to "moderate " still further, demands previously moderate enough for persons pro- fessing to be Independent Reformers.] The Honourable W. Cowper, whose scat for the Borough of Hertford becomes vacant by his acceptance of the Commissionership of Green- wich Hospital, again offers himself to his constituents ; and we under- stand the Tories do not intend to offer any opposition to his reMection. ,In Mr. Cowper's first address to the Hertford electors, dated the 13th instant the following passage occurs—

"Every dictate of feeling and honour, of loyalty and justice, impel me, at all hazards, to support our Queen in her noble resistance to the cruel attempt Ill unworthily made to wrest from her Majesty a prerogative hitherto lingoes

- Stoned, and to usurp the power of dismissing, at the Minister's those ladies of her court whom, from their sympathy and devotion, and from long acquaintance, her Majesty could look upon as friends." On the 15th, Mr. Cowper withdrew the accusation contained in the ate Passage: thus—

The explanations which have taken place in Parliament since my first lamas and which certainly remove all Founds for ascribing any but proper lad loyal motives to the leaders of the fory party in their late negotiations, assure us of the reiistablishment of the Whig Administration, whose career ot sound and practical reform, if duly supported by the people of this country, will not suffer from this momentary interruptio:i."

The Tory papers remark that Mr. Cowper, as Lord Melbourne's

Private Secretary as well as nephew,night have known that his first statement was false ; and intimate that he put it forth with the view to secure promises of votes. Be this as it may, his candid avowal, that in the late negotiations the Tory leaders acted on "proper and loyal motives," and that there are no grounds for ascribing any other to them, is rather unfortunate for the outcry which the Whigs are raising against their opponents, on the pretence that the Duke and Sir Robert wished to make the Queen " a prisoner in her own Palace."

Just before the last election for Tewkesbury, one or two of our calcu- lating and never-easy opponents stated, that Mr. Peel would be returned by a majority of nearly 20 ; but the independent electors diminished their calculations, and increased Mr. Martin's votes 23 over Mr. Joseph Peel. Such will be the result again, good Conservatives, if that gentle- man is led on to contest this much-wished-for neutral borough. Mr. Martin's friends wish to return Mr. Dowdeswell (as a Conservative), and that gentleman's friends are equally anxious for the return of Mr. Martinas n TiVwther.—Correspondent if the Globe, signed " A Whig." [Here, then, is an avowed coalition between Whigs and Tories. Are there any independent 13 eformers in Tewkesbury ?] By the death of Earl Powis, a vacancy is created in the representa- tion of Ludlow ; Lord Clive having succeeded to the earldom. Parties in Ludlow are very nearly balanced; as the following numbers, polled at the last election, show— Colonel Salwey (Liberal) 197

Viscount Clive (Tory) 192 — Aleock (Liberal) 166

The Liberal candidate will have the advantage of that loyal and Anti-Tory fervour which the Whig newspapers boast of, and therefore ought to be returned by a larger majority than Colonel Salwey's. It is said that Mr. Alcock will stand.

In the event of a dissolution of Parliament, we understand that " good Man and true" will be brought forward in opposition to Mr. Winnington for Bewdley, and with every probability of success.—Wur- Custer Journal.

The Tory clique in Worcester, whose countenances were all smiles, and whose conversation was all triumph for the two previous days, un- derwent a prodigious change on Saturday, when intelligence arrived of Peel's failure to patch up a Government. The barometer fell at least from a hundred to below zero ; and grim visages, and sullen replies, were all that could be met with, where joy unbounded reigned so shortly betbre. The Journal announced, that in the event of a dissolution the Tories were prepared to start another candidate of "eminent" abilities; which we have little doubt the citizens will much lament in not knowing more distinctly, and the Guardian ascribed the advent of Peel to office as nothing less than providential I The latter denies that the Tories were prepared with a talented candidate, and which of these parties is to be believed we do not know. Colonel Davies will stand again, and be returned ; hut we would not give much for Mr. Bailey's chance, notwithstanding the beij:—IVoreesteishire Chronicle.

Captain Bulkeley, a Conservative, will certainly offer himself as a candidate for Windsor.—Windsor Journal.

The Brighton Gazette furnishes the following epitome of the election news of Sussex. It most be remembered, that this paper is an organ of the Sussex Tories ; but at the same time, that it is conducted with caution and attention to facts.

" The 'straw' is 'moved.' Mr. H. D. Goring,, the Whig Representative of Shoreham, is already frightened from the tield ; and oae -f the stone name (Mr. C. Coring), but ot widely different principles, will take his place; for Mr. Salomolis' interference will end, as it ended lietlwe, in smoke. One seat will also certainly be !,:tined to the entice of Conservatism in the W estern division ; and there sue even rumours of all Co ntill1 forward a Con- servative opponent to laird Arthur Lennox, so much ills.;ati-thetion have the recent votes of his Lordship given at Chichester. In East Sussex, Mr. Caven- dish will, it is expected, decline standing 'Viii: ht. llOCS stand, he is Sure to

be beaten ; is Mr. Curleis, should vela it willed' has reached us of such an

intention move true. The Conservative ,trength lii E:: :t Sussex is abundantly sufficient to return two Conscrvatives; and it is 01,0 preiell that Sir Charles Blunt will make his how at I otin's. Whether he docs or cities not, the return of two Conservathc, may he confidently relied upon. ( If the other boroughs we have not at pa--ent inftwination, although we know that hopes aro entertained of reinovin 31,.-rs. Hurst and Iflollond from the representation of Horsham and Ilastint;s; mid it is liar from improbable that Midhurst will, in the next Parliament, 'be represented by a Conservative instead of is Whig. At Rye some intrigues have liven going on, to whirl' We hove more than mice re- cently allinted ; but Captain Moneypenny is purfeetly secure. At Brighton, Adolphus Dalrymple will no doubt be ret umie,l cf the bead of the pull; as he would have been at Ow last election, hut tin. the digraccful and barcf:tced interf.:.ence of the Govevionent subordinates ; and the struggle, acrording to present appearances, Will be between l'eehull and Wigney, one of whom, it is certain, must go to the wall. We luive 1%11,4111. 111111,11, to believe that a vCry pretty ' jealousy* has sprang up li.tween these ri I kings of Brent ford, who have at length discovered what evul) one hut saw long ago, that two -Whigs will never again be returned for 13righton.- Fifty pounds worth of' tea, in packets of' one pound each, has been presented to such of the electors of Lewes as chose to accept the same, by the Lady of the Ilonourable I Ienry Fitzroy, 31.1).—Nus.vex Adrer- liser.

It is generally minim:red that Earl Jermyn will not again contest the representation of Bury, as it is said his Lordship is anxious to retire from Parliament, from motives of personal convenience.—S4o/ft Chronicle.

In the event of the contemplated retirement of Mr. Gore Langton from East Somerset, the following gentlemen are generally spoken of as candidates to succeed him—Colonel J..1..lolitTe, Mr. W. Knatchbull, and Mr. J. Homer.

Should Sir Eardley Wilmot think proper to decline contesting ;mother election for North Warwickshire, we have two gentlemen of consider- able property and influence in the county, and warmly attached to Con- servative principles, and we doubt not that either of them would consent * " We have heard that symptoms of this jealousy broke out at the meeting of the Wigney and reeltell Club last Monday."

to be put in nomination in concert with Mr. Dugdale, whose election these 'Whig-Radicals themselves acknowledge to be secure.—Birming- ham Advertiser.

The Norwich Tories resolved at a meeting on Tuesday to support the Marquis of Douro and Mr. R. C. Scarlett at the next election.

In Edinburgh, it seems to be taken for granted that Mr. Abercromby will be made a Peer ; and the Whigs are busied about the selection of a candidate to succeed him in the representation of the Scottish capital. The Whig organ there echoes the "Office" whisper here, recommend- ing Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay ; and "Lucky Tom" would doubtless be the favourite of the old Whig clique. The names of the Lord Provost, Lord Dahneny, and Mr. Horsman, are also mentioned.