The simultaneous meetings of the Chartists have everywhere turned out
a decided failure. Kersal Moor meeting was to have been attended by 500,000, and.was to lead to the most astounding- results : we have seen various accounts of the meeting, and the highest estimate of the number is that of the Manchester Courier, which estimates the numbers present "at most 15,000 "—other accounts estimate the nuntbers vari- ously from 5,000 to 10,000. The Birmingham Journal says of the meeting in that town, that " it was a miserable failure." The Sunder- land Herald says of the meeting on the Town-moor of that place, that the men, women, and children present, might be about 10,000, but that the Chartists were at no time more than four hundred; the rest being, " like ourselves, amused spectators of a somewhat diverting comedy, got up to gratify the vanity of a small number of political performers?' —Morning Chronicle. Mr. Bernal, M.P. for Rochester, has given great offence to his Minis- terial friends by refusing to vote on the West India Bill. Mr. Bernal is a great West India proprietor hiniself.—Kentish Paper. [Mr. Bernal acted as an honest man, and not like a House of Commons jobber : being an interested party, he declined voting in his own cause.]
It is said, that in the event of a general election, Feargus O'Connor intends to contest the borough of Birmingham.
P. J. Budworth, Esq., has announced his intention of coming forward as a candidate for the borough of Sandwich, in the event of a vacancy. Mr. Budworth is the son of an Essex gentleman of large fortune, and ,closely allied to several of the most distinguished families in the Peer- Aige.—Conterbtery Journal.
Mr. Wigram, Queen's Counsel, the Chancery barrister, has been tailed on by a deputation of the people of Leominster to suffer himself to be put again in nomination as a candidate to represent that borough in Parliament.— Worcester Chronicle.
It is stated to be the intention of a body of the electors of Newcastle- under-Lyne, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, to invite Sir Robert William Horton to offer himself as a candidate. Sir Robert re- presented this borough previously to his appointment to the Governor- ship of Ceylon.-1Vokerhampton Chronicle.
A report has been got up, and diligently circulated during the week, with what design it is not difficult to guess. that in the event of an elec- tion which cannot be fur distant, Lord Henniker will decline to offer himself as a candidate for the future representation of East Suffolk. We have his Lordship's own authority explicitly to contradict the re- port. —Ipswich Journ«l.
Mr. Godson, M.P. for Kidderminster, will be strenuously opposed at any future election by a gentleman of Constitutional and Liberal poli- tics.— Worcester Chronicle.
In addition to the candidates who, it is said, are to come forward for Bath in the case of an election, Captain Seobel is mentioned.—Bath Chronicle.
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