NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SINGLE Parliamentary elections &repot lof much importanee just now, but those which are going farward help to relieve the same- ness of this eternal Anti-Papal,wivementl ,Iptr,,,41ban's election must always be particularly nturaportant, becauie, whoever, the candidate may be, it turns upon no political principle, but upon the price, or in some instances, perhaps, upon the comparative quiet with which the job can be effected on one side or the other. This time, the contest lay- between two perfectly respectable gentle- men,=Mr. Jacob Bell, of the eminent chemist's house- in Oxford Street, a Liberal too moderate-to-give the Mintstry any trouble, and Mr. Carden, an Alderman of London City, so moderate a Tory that he was lately called a LiberaL These two candidates had to do their best with a constituency numbering about 550. At the nomination, Alderman Carden's party declared that he had the promises of 250 electors ; but he came with the resolution to at- , tempt a purely independent 'Medan.' He- declined to give 2000/. or even 15001., though even the larger sum world have been barely half-price for the borough : consequently—may we not say. con- sequently ?—his numbers at the poll dwindled to 147. Mr. Bell's party disclaimed bribery, but advanced no such revolutionary at- tacks against the usages of St. Alban's • and at the poll Mr. Bell obtained 276 votes. St. Alban's has been true to itself.
