Sir Hussey Vivian's return for Cornwall is said to be
secured. Ile has a pledged majority of voters, giving all the doubtful men to Lord Eliot.
The following requisition to SirWilliam Molesworth is in the course of signature at Leeds-
" We, the undersigned electors of Leeds, admiring in common with the rest of our townsmen the unflinching honesty, unswerving consistency, and great talents with which, since your entrance into public life, you have advocated the great principles of civil and religious liberty—principles for the full application of which the people of this land have so long struggled against open enemies and pretended friends,—and, moreover, fully convinced that, among the public men of the present day, the people of Leeds could find no one more willing or more able worthily to represent them than yourself,—request you to become a candidate for this borough on a dissolution of Parliament, assuring you that the Liberals of Leeds have both the will and the power to carry your election."
We hear from good authority, that out of the 2000 votes boasted of by the friends of Lord Eliot, no less than 500 disappear on a scrutiny. —Plymouth Journal.
Captain Berkeley, M. P. for Gloucester, addressed a letter to his constituents previous to his leaving England in the Hercules, stating that, should circumstances determine him to remain abroad longer than the meeting of Parliament, he will take the necessary steps to place in the bands of the electors the choice of another Representative, as he
conceives it to be esaential nut ta deprive the toLeaal iiiteieat oh oat vote during the ensuing struggle in Parliament. Mr. Edward Davenport, a very clever,but crotchety Whig- Radieal„ has been invited by the Liberals of Warrington to contest the repre- sentation of that town with Mr. Ireland Blackburne, the present Tory Member. It is said that the Reformers have secured a sufficient majority, at the registration which has just been concluded, to return him with ease. Mr. Blackburne had a majority of only 18 votes at the last election.
Mr. Entwistle, the Tory, will probably leave Rochdale open to Captain Fenton, the Liberal. In Denbighshire, the Reformers have been very active, and hope te return "honest John .Madocks " in the place of Mr. Wilson Jones, and Mr. Myddleton Biddulph for Mr. Bagot on the first opportu- nity.; Even in Merionethshire, the Liberals are gaining upon Sir Robert Vaughan's party.
The Hertfiod Reformer says that the Reformers have gained 60 rotes at the registration for the borough, and have the advantage in mostdis- triets of the county of IIertford. It is certain that, compared with the registration on which the last Leeds election was taken, the numbers of the Reformers will hare experienced a large increase from three causes,—first, because their registration is much better attended to than it was in the year 1831; second, because the compounded cases of payment for poor-rate, of which the Tories took such extensive advantage, no longer exist; and third, because any influence that the close Corporation and their Ma- gisterial bench then possessed, has now slipped from under them, parti- cularly as regards those numerous bodies of electors, the publicans and the beer-sellers. —Leeds Mercury.
Three or four attornies who are making the circuit of the West Riding with the Revising Barristers, on the part of the Tories, are relying for payment on the Carlton Club. No less than 3000 ohjections have been made, tinder the directions of these gentlemen, to the voters in the Reform interest, whilst only about 1000 objections have been made by the Reformers. The desperate efforts of the Tories to make an impression on this great constituency, ought to be met by cone- sponding exertions on the part of the Reformers. —Leeds Mercury.
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