be COuntty.
Mr. James is expected to be returned for East Cumberland without opposition. The requisition to him to become a candidate was signed
by nearly a thousand electers, comprising the chief portion of the wealth
and respectalnlity of the Enstern division of the county. Mr. James is a thorough Reformer,—in favour of the Ballot, Triennial Parlia-
ments, Peerage Reform, the expulsion of the Bishops from the House of Lords, and the abolition of the Corn-laws. This election will de- monstrate the extent of the Liberal strength in East Cumberland, and should be taken by Sir James Graham as warning to depart. If the electors have only the choice between a Tory of the Lowther stamp, and the renegade Baronet, they should prefer the fOrmer; but, with proper care and union, they may return a Liberal colleague with Mr. James at the next general election.
The Honourable J. Fox Strangways, brother to the Marchioness of Lansdowne, has offered himself as a candidate to succeed the Earl of Kerry in the representation of Calne; and it is supposed that he will be elected without opposition.
In the township of Leeds alone there have been lodged 1,101 Libe- ral, and 1,355 Tory objections. The claims arc 101 Liberal, and 95 Tory. The number of claims received by the Overseers of the parish of Brighton from Conservatives is 16. but the Conservatives have not sent in a single objection ; the number of Radical claims are 276, and of objections 83. In the parish of Hove, the Conservatives have sent in 4 claims, but no objection : the Radicals have made 1 claim, and
29 oltiections.—Brighlon Gazette. The prospects of the Brighton Gazette's pet, Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, are rather gloomy.]
The Town-Council of Leicester are resolved not to be trifled with by the ejected officers of the late Corporation. A notice is to be im.. mediately served upon the late Mayor, Town-Clerk, and Chamberlain,
for the production of accounts. The Mayor and Chamberlain must be dragged through the dirt by their notorious friend ; and if plunging them into the mire be the worst thing he does for them, they may think themselves well off. However, it is plain that the serpent is caught, and that twist about as he please he cannot get out of the net. Like the ex-Coroner, the defunct Town. Clerk pales for compensation; the claim for which must be preferred very shortly, or it will not be valid : but 110 accounts, no cmnpensation !—Leicestershire Mercury, a Radical paper recently established in Leicester, and conducted with considerable vigour and ability.
At Ashton-under. Lyne, and at Tiverton, the Church-rates have been refused ; and at Lyme Regis a rate was only carried in Vestry, by a majority of 23 to 21: it has been since discovered that three ille- gal votes were given for the rate, which is therefore null.
A superb piece of plate has been presented to the Reverend J. Topham, M. A., of Droitivirli, by his parishioners, in testimony of their esteem for the excelleuce of his professional and private cha- racter. Among the persons who joined in the ceremony of presents- tion,—which took place in the Court-room, on Friday last week,— were Mr. J. H. Foley, late Member for Droitwieh, the Mayor, and several gentlemen of property arel distinction in the neighbourhood:
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