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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The City is put to the trouble of divers elections ; for besides choosing a chief Magistrate yesterday, it still has to fill the vacancies occasioned by the death of Alderman Sir Mathew Wood. It is a "sign of the times" that even the Parliamentary vacancy causes the least possible excite-, ment for such an occasion. Indeed it would almost seem that the two principal parties desire to avoid any marked assertion of opinion in the contest. The Conseavatives have named two candidates, Mr. Wolver- ley Attwood and Mr. Thomas Baring. The election of Mr. Attwood would mean something ; but the state of his health, he says, forbids his undertaking even the fatigues of a canvass. Mr. Baring's supporters rely on his congenial opinions and his commercial connexion. The Liberals have been more numerous in their list of candidates—Lord Morpetb, Sir George Larpent, and Mr. Jones Loyd having been alluded to. They will not, however, risk the effort to place an ex-official col- league beside Lord John Russell ; the other gentlemen hold back ; and the Liberal citizens are content to oppose Mr. Baring by Mr. Pattison- a stanch Liberal, whose hearty nature makes him popular. He has, moreover, the thorough approval of the Anti-Corn-law League ; and the City election will be the first under their auspices in the new agitation.
The Gazette of last n;ght contains a notice by the Speaker, that fourteen days after the appearance of that notice he shall issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for a new writ to issue.
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