The Yorkshire West Riding revision, thus far, gives the Tories
a gain over the Reformers of 200 on the objections, (of which 163 are in the Sheffield district,) whilst the new claims on both sides are exactly equal. The Tories are at their old trick of putting on the Register the sons and relatives of agricultural tenants, as partners with their fathers, &c. This is playing with edged tools. Every tenant who allows his landlord thus to make is tool of him, puts himself at the mercy of Me fictitious partner whom he thus receives, and makes himself liable with his whole property for the effects of the misconduct, imprudence, or fraud of others.—Leeds Mercury.
In the borough of Leeds, where there have never at any election been found at the poll more than about 4,000 voters, there are at the registration of the present year, no fewer than 3,400 objections! It is true that the number of objections made by each party is nearly equal ; and no doubt both parties justify their conduct on the ground of self- defence ; but if the bill of the last session had passed, by which it was provided that the grounds of objection should be stated in the notice, and that the persons making objections without any reasonable and probable cause, should be obliged, on the order of the Revising Bar- rister, to pay costs to the party objected against for the trouble and loss of time consequent upon attending to support his vote, it is highly prohible that, instead of three or four thousand objection,;, the number would not have amounted to half that number.—Leuds Mercury.
The Reform party of the borough of Aylesbury lied hundreds is in as sluggish, indolent, and spiritless a state us its worst enemies could wish ; and we trust that the feeling of shame which this plain avowal may cause, will have some effect towards the arousing our partisans from the state we have been describing, and which unfortunately. every Reformer knows to be a true ()rte.—Aylesbury News.
It has been stated that the election to supply the vacancy in the Par- liamentary representation of the borough of High Wycombe, occa- sioned by the succession of the Honourable Mr. Smith to the barony of Carrington, cannot take place until after the next meeting of Par- liament. This is an error. The writ for a new election will he issued forthwith, as in other cases of vacancy occasioned by death, on the necessary facts being regularly and officially notified to the Speaker. The election will probably take place in about a fortnight from the present time. Mr. George Smith, who is already in the field as the Whig candidate, may probably, we under,v.oll, he oppoed by :qv. Hardy, the lute Member for Bradford. —Aforniuy Post. L Let Liberals of all shades unite to exclude that Pharisaical trimmer Mr. Headmoney Hardy.]
11 ',Mr. Macaulay, who has returned from India in perfect health, pro- poses, we bear, to spend the winter in Italy, and will riot return to
England till the spring of next year. The honourable gentleman's pursuits, since his return from the East, have been ahnost entirely literary ; and he seems not to have mixed in politics —Leeds Mercury. [Mr. Macaulay has no intention of embarking his fame and fortune in the crazy Whig vessel.]
The Honourable Newton Fellowes, the next brother and heir to the Earldom of Portsmouth, who was rejected by an English constituency at the last election, will come into Parliament at the beginning of the
ensuing session, under the auspiees of Mr. O'Connell, fur one of the Irish boroughs. —Sunderland Herald. [We noticed last week Mr.
Fellowes's subdued and Whiggish tone at the South Multon dinner. Does the fact just mentioned account for his conversion from Libe- ralism to Whiggery ?]
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