NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Liberals may fairly exult in the progress of the Elections Loud was the din of preparation for their defeat in the Tory camp Not a single member of the new Administration, who vacated his seat on taking office, was to be allowed to recover it. The whole .country was called upon to mark the treatment which the Spolia- tors and Destructives would receive at the hands of the consti- tuency. We were told that the religious feelings of the nation were aroused : that indignation at the factious conduct of the late Opposition, and admiration of the talents, patriotism, and piety of Sir ROBERT PEEL, pervaded every class of the commu- nity. The reaction at last was to be made manifest to the most incredulous Whig, the most obstinate Radical. To inoculate the land with this delusion, addresses by the hundred have been got up and presented to the late Premier ; Tory clubs have been orga- nized; Tory dinner-parties convened ; the drum ecclesiastic sounded from metropolitan and provincial pulpits; the Liberals have been stigmatized as infidels, swindlers, perjured, profane Sabbath-breakers; forgotten speeches and pamphlets have been raked up to irritate the Dissenters, and render the Catholics odious; in short, every effort, every artifice, which furious parti- sanship and interested malice could suggest, have been resorted to by the Tories to inflame the passions and stupify the judgment.
On the other hand, the Liberal candidates and their friends point to their past as an earnest of future services. They ask the intelligent and unprejudiced electors, if it be possible to rely upon the professions of exclusive loyalty, patriotism, and piety, which the Tories are so profusely putting forth ? They ask for the evidence of their zeal in the cause of Reform—what popular measures they have carried ; what national benefits they have conferred? They expose the hypocrisy of the "No Popery" bowl, and the trick of " the old alarm-bell." In this way, the country has become aware of the real nature of the pending contest. It has been shown that they who are most eager in their opposition to the Liberal candidates, are mortified placehunters, or sinecure parsons—men w ho have much to lose and little to gain by Civil and Ecclesiastical Reform. The means which these violent partisans have taken to gain their ends—the personal slander they have resorted to—striving to hold even un- offending ladies up to public odium, and prying into private life to find matter for calumny—all this has served to unmask the motives of these political; incendiaries, and to paralyze their efforts at mischief.
The ill success, up to the present time, of the Tory struggle to thwart and annoy the new Ministry, will appear from the fellows jug summary of election proceedings.
'Sir JOHN BoanoUSE has been returned for Nottingham ; Mr. Pour.Err Tuomsox Manchester ;
Mr. SPRING RICE Camblidge;
Mr. ORD Newport;
Sir T. TROUBRIDGE Sandwich ;
( Falmouth and Penryn ; Berwick ; Totness ; Taunton.
Northumberland; Edinburgh; Dundee; Kirkcudbrightshire • Mr. R. STEUART Lord DALMENY
Sergeant PERRIN Mr. O'LouonLIN Mr. ROLFE.
Sir 11. DONKIN
Lord SEYMOUR.
Mr. LABOUCHERF There will be no opposition to
Lord Howie.: in Sir JOHN CAMPBELL
Sir HENRY PARNELI Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSSON Colonel LEITH HAY.. ................... .........Elgin Burghs; Haddington Burghs; Stirling Burghs ;
Admiral ADAM Clacktnan nen 1 ned Kinross ; Cashel; Dungarvan.
