Several Tory noblemen and gentlemen in the parish of St.
George's, Hanover Square, are using threats and intimidations to procure vote, for Sir George Murray, as Lord Nor:nanton and Mr. Henry Baring can testily ; and to the persecution by the latter gentleman of a trades. man at the lute election, is to be attributed the fact of his promised sp. point ment to supply the Household of her Majesty in his department._. Globe. [We thought that the warrants to the Royal tradesmen had been suspended, in order to leave them at perfect liberty to vote as they liked,-not, of course, by way of threatening them : but in some eases promises of custom, it seems, are made.]
An abridgment of the evidence given before the Bribery and Inti- midation Committee has been published by Ridgway, for the Reform Association. It comes out in the nick of time ; for threats and col. ruption were never more profusely resorted to than just now, when the question is which party shall have a seven years' lease of power. In this pamphlet will be found details of almost every kind of electioneering rascality : each page is replete with proof of the neces- sityof the Ballot. The honest elector who desires a strong argument insisting nsisting on the Ballot-pledge, will not need one after perusing the mass of facts stated by Mr. Parkes, Mr. Cowell, Mr. James, Mr. Edgwortb, Mr. Gunning, Mr. Terrell, and Mr. Maher. And we can encourage him by the assurance, that though organic reform gene. rally is " out of fashion," there is a fair prospect of carrying the Ballot in the next Parliament.
Well may the journal of the Whig-Radicals be the Mourning Chro. nide ; well may the lovers of free election try to buy Irish boroughs; well may the Spectator own that prospects are not quite so bright as they were.-Correspondent of Me Times. [The Ministerial prospects are as bright as we ever said they were. We never calculated on any large addition to the majority, but disputed the probability of the Whig anticipations of gain.]
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