"PURITY OF ELECTION: .
THE constituency of Southwark have established the fact that a contested election may be managed at a very slight cost to the party as well as the candidate. There were polled at the last elec- tion for Southwark 1,932 votes for Mr. HUNIPHERY, 1,923 for Mr. HARVEY, and 848 for Mr. RICHARDS ; and the moire expenditure amounted to only 3251.; mainly raised by subscription among the Liberals. Now this is something like "purity of election.' In the aristocratic quarters of St. James's and 'Grosvenor Square, it is the fashion to sneer at the Southwark constituency, as com- posed of mere shopkeepers and mechanics : and in truth, " gen- tlemee are not plentiful, and we believe there is not a single Lord in the Borough: but the electors of Southwark may proudly challenge a comparison in point of real respectability and political honesty with any constituency in the kingdom. Two days before the meeting of Parliament, namely on the 13th instant, a party of Reformers will dine with the Representatives of the Borough, to celebrate their triumph. There will probably be a large muster of Liberal Members, not a few of whom will envy the position in which Messrs. HARVEY and HUMPHERY have been placed by unbeught suffrages. It is to be hoped that their zeal in behalf of purityof election will be stimulated by the proceedings of the day ; and that it will not evaporate in toasts and speeches but he brought into practical use in the House of c'ommons.
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