ELECTION TALK.
The prospect of a speedy dissolution of Parliament has put candi- dates and electors on the alert in various parts of the country. In the Metropolis, arrangements are in progress for the establishment of a Central Election Committee. There are several of the present Mem- bers for Metropolitan districts, who must expect to give way to bonester politicians3 and more trustworthy and earnest Reformero, o the first opportunity afforded the constituencies to amend their choice.
It is said that a kind of clandestine canvass has been carried on for some days in the borough of Lambeth, to secure the return of Sir Henry Hardinge. But it seems absurd to suppose for a moment that he could have the least chance.
The Brighton Gazette states that Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, an Anti-Reformer, we presume, who received thirty-two votes at the last election for Brighton, " will fulfil his pledge to the electors by offering himself to their suffrages."
lfAt Stamford, the Independent party are tr,kir g measures to oust at east one of the Marquis of Exeter's nominees. We heartily wish them success. The Reform Bill most unhappily injured, instead of protecting, the Liberals of Stamford. The Honourable W. H. Beresford (an ominous name), and that smart young barrsiter and paragraphist, Mr. Winthorp Praed, who failed so completely in the old Rotten Borough Parliament, have made up their minds to represent Great Yarmouth ; and Mr. Praed, we are duly infuriated by the Anti-Reforming journals, has gone doa-n to try
to effect of his personal solicitations on the Independent majority of that town.
That unfortunate person Mr. Mounsey Rolfe will have a hard struggle to regain hi)3 lost seat for Penryn and Falmouth. Mr. Fresh- held, his opponent, has the means of gaining the affections of the Penryn electors ; and the influence of Government, be that Govern- ment Whig or Tory, is said to "predominate in Falmouth." A. report has been put about of the intended retirement of Sir William Ingilby from the representation of the Lindsey parts of Lin. eolnshire, on the plea of ill health : but this appears to be merely "a weak invention of the enemy," as the honest and facetious baronet is as well as usual.
No opponent to Sir Charles Knightley, for South Northampton. shire, has yet been announced.
Mr. E. C. Lister, the present Member, having been applied to, has promised to become a candidate for Bradford at the next election ; and Mr. Benjamin Hadfield, ofd Manchester, has consented to oppose the other Member, Mr. Hardy, whose votes in favour of the Whigs have displeased his corstituents. Captain Yorke, the late Member for Cambr:dgeshire, is now Earl of Hardwicke. The Anti-Reformers mean to propose his brother, Mr. Elliott Yorke, to succeed him. Mr. Adeane is also talked of.
Sir Courtenay Boyle has offered himself for Ffome, in case of a dissolution.
The Reformers of Newport met on Thursday, and resolved to sup- prt their independent Representatives, Messrs. Hawkins and Ord. The Anti-Reformers mean to bring forward Sir Willoughby Gordon, r Tory, though be held office under Lord Grey.
Mr. Ormsby Gore, an Orange-Tory of the worst stamp, who was defeated in the election of 1832, will offer himself for the Northern Division of Salop, in the event of a general election.
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