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SATURDAY.
There is not much news stirring today ; a few scraps of election gossip, and more Anti-Corn-law displays, being the chief of what the papers furnish.
Mr. Masterman the banker is announced as a candidate for repre- senting the City of London in the next Parliament, in the Conservative interest.
Sir John Beckett of Leeds, says the Manchester Guardian, Mr. George Jackson the Mayor of Preston, and Mr. Robert Gladstone of Liverpool, have each been named as the second Tory candidate, with Mr. Parker, for Preston.
Mr. Scam, the popular candidate, addressedthe electors of Plymouth on Tuesday, declining the honour which they had offered to him of re- presenting them in Parliament, as he prefers domestic comfort. He said that two persons had gone to London to find a candidate in his place. Mr. Gill then addressed the electors. He avowed himself in favour of moderate reform, of Ministers generally, of modification but not repeal of the Corn-laws, Ballot, Triennial Parliaments, of the Church but not of Church-rates, and opposed to Suffrage-extension.
The Devizes Gazette contradicts the rumour that Sir R. Lopez is to be a candidate for Plymouth, in the -room of Mr. Bewes : he will stand for Westbury.
The electors of Penryn and Falmouth, according to the Morning Advertiser, are not to be again solicited by Mr. Freslffield, the Tory Member, and Mr. Hutchins, the Liberal. The Radicals have invited Dr. Bowriug; and the Whigs talk of Captain Plumridge, R.N. The same paper says that the personal influence of the Liberal Mr. Turner and the Tory Mr. Vivian will secure their reelection for Truro.
The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Post says that Mr. O'Cal- laghan, the Whig Member for Dungarvan, has offended his consti- tuents by not answering their letters : Mr. Moore, the Irish Attorney- General, or Mr. Hatchell, (lc., will probably take his place at the hustings. From the same source we learn, that Mr. John M. Galway, who was elected for Waterford county in 1832, and Sir John Nugent,_ will now stand instead of Mr. Christmas and Mr. Stuart, who will not offer themselves again; that Mr. Tottenham will contest New Ross with the Liberal Mr. Talbot, as he did unsuccessfully in 1835 ; and that Mr. Wyse and Mr. Barron will have the support of the Repealers in Waterford city.
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