ELECTION TALK.

ASHTON.—The numberof voters will be 441. There are two candi- dates--Mr. Hindley, a resident, and Colonel Williams of Liverpool. The latter gentleman will not canvass, nor even visit the town until after the election, when, if elected, he will serve.

Max.—The Committee of Mr. Hobhouse have addressed a letter to the Times, in which they deny, with great appearance of zeal if not of anger, that Mr. Roebuck has the slightest chance of success, and express themselves perfectly confident, as they have all along been, that Mr. Hobhouse must be returned. Time's a tell-tale. We shall know the certainty by and by. In the meanwhile, we believe we may state that Mr. Roebuck has a minority of at least 1,100 out of 2,000 electors. The Committee seem to feel extremely sore on the subject of the state- ments that have appeared in the columns of certain journals in London, and ours, we suppose, among them—of course, not because they are known to be the true ones. There is one charge made against Mr. Hume, which we have no doubt he can explain. He states, that toss letter addressed to Sir John Hobhouse, he added a postscript, request= ing Sir John to inform Mr. Hobhouse of his (Mr. Hume's) intention to visit Bath with Mr. Roebuck. He had, it seems, promised Mr. Hobhouse to let him know. The Committee say they have the letter in their possession, and that there is no such postscript in it.

Bareroa.—Sir Richard Vyvyan is talked of as- a Conservative cans date for Bristol.

CHH'PENHA1L—Mr. Henry Fox Talbot, son of Lady Elizabeth Fielding, and nephew to the Marchioness of Lansdowne, has completed his eanvass-ofthe elPotors.of. Chippenham, for which hewill probably be One of the representatives at the ensuing election. Mr.. Talbot comes forward as a Reformer; in opposition to the wealthy Mr. Need (son-in-law to Lord Shaftesbury), whose interest in the borough is nearly annihilated by the Reform Bill.

DEVIZES.—Admiral Durham is endeavouring to oust Mr. Locke and Mr. Montague Gore as candidates for the representation of Devizes,

by the same means that Mr. Pusey is endeavouring to sneak in for the county of Berks, by assuming thegarb of a Reformer; but, like the ass who put on the lion's skin, it fits so ludicrously, and the bray is so distinct, as to occasion derision more than fear from his opponents. There is an old saying, that " birds of a feather flock together ; " and not only does this apply to birds, but to kindred animals : mid most un- fortunately for the Admiral and Mr. Pusey, their goodnatured friends the Tories of Berks and Corporation of Devizes cannot help uniting with them, and thereby ruining the joke. It is amusing to see the ex_ posure of the parties, and gratifying to think that they know the little chance they have in their true characters.—Reading Mercury. [ We cannot believe that the gallant Admiral would exhibit in a charac- ter which suited so ill with his whole previous history. The story must have come from the long bow of some enemy; pr, as such stories used to be called when the Admiral was in active service, it must be a Durham.]

DEVONSHIRE.—Lord John Russell has finished his election tour, and has left this city with every assurance of success. His Lordship in the course of the past week visited Ottery, Sidmouth, Topsham, and

Honiton. His friends in Exeter dined together at the Globe, in the Cathedral Yard, on Friday last, Captain Buller, R.N. (a cousin of the Tory candidate), in the chair. His Lordship's reception was most en- thusiastic, both here and in every other part of the county. He has entirely removed the false impressions as to the Corn-laws which the Tories had beaten into the heads of the farmers. His Lordship has left some awkward notions about Tithes in their room—awkward as far as the Tories are concerned (who wish to uphold every thing ob-

jectionable), but such as will conduce to the best interests of the Church, if acted upon by the Clergy in sincerity and good faith. His Lordship had been staying at the residence of Mr. James Terrell, soli- citor, from Wednesday till Saturday, in whose company he departed on

Saturday morning for Topsham, where he breakfasted at the Retreat, the seat of • A. H. Hamilton, Esq. His Lordship afterwards met the electors of Topsham in the town, to whom he was introduced by Mr. Hamilton and Mr. R. Davy ; and having briefly addressed them, reso- lutions were passed to give him their earnest support at the ensuing

election. Lord John then departed for Honiton, where he dined with

the farmers at their eighteenpenny ordinary; to which Sir William Pole had sent a buck. The large room at the Golden Lion was completely

filled, and the worthy farmers expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with his Lordship's views on all subjects connected with the agricul- tural interests. After the meeting, his Lordship proceeded to Shute, the residence of Sir W. Pole, with whom his Lordship spent the whole

of Sunday. Sir W. Pole has hitherto been an Ultra-Tory; he is a man of very extensive influence in the Eastern part of South Devon ; yet, such is the warmth with which he has taken up the cause of Lord

John Russell, that though he could not attend at Honiton himself, he deputed a friend for him to express at the meeting there his deterthina=

tion to support Lord John and the measures of the Government; This will materially affect the character of that portion of -the county, which has hitherto been altogether Tory, by breaking up the Tory junta, and, by a division of Aristocratic opinion, enable the farmers to vote conscientiously.—Times Correspondent.

ESSEX.—The County of Essex has been the subject of much dis.: cussion during the week, partly from the interest of the contest now

waging there, partly from the want of more spirit-stirring matter. The truth is, that contests in Essex are of all things the most common; for hardly a Parliament has been summoned in the memory of man that they have not taken place. The causes of this are not far to seek: There is first, on the one hand, the absence of enormously rich and powerful landlords, to give decided predominance to the Aristocratic party, and of manufacturing towns on the other, to give decided pre.'. dominance to the Democratic party: to these it is but fair to add, the general ignorance -of the people, which has gained them and promises

to continue to them the sobriquet of their favourite animal; and the hold which such ignorance gives the numerous clergy, everywhere Con- servative, over the farmers and smaller freeholders. Of the blunders which have been and are being committed in the county, we cannot give a better description than in the words of our contemporary the Morning Chronicle of thiS day- " Hitherto all that has been done has been done by the Committees. They get up a requisition to Messrs. Western and Lennard of upwards of fifty feet in length; they, and they alone, attended to the registration throughout the division, getting in the claims, and providing the necessary shillings (!); they appointed agents to make and defend objections, and to oppose Tory objections; they twice canvassed the whole division, and have returns of every voter, classed as Blue, Orange, split; and doubtful; and they are, in short, the bond of union of the whole. They tell the Conservative Whigs, You must not split your vote with Western and Tyrell; and they hold out to the Radicals, that the Whigs will.not again disgrace themselves as they did in 1830 by so splitting. These Committees are in sufficientnumber and force in the Hundreds of Uttles- ford, Freshwell, Clavering, Dunmow, South Hinchford, Witham, and Thurso table; and in the south, of North Hinchford ; and the west, of Leaden Hundreds. It would appear, however, that a want of energy, or something worse, has hitherto prevented their formation in all that district of which Colchester is the centre, i. e. the Hundreds of Tendring and Winstray, and East Leaden; and in the north, of the-Hundred of North Hinchford. • Such is the organization in North Essex. On the 21st June and 2d July, after the passing of. Reform Bill, the Committees paned Resolutions of the most spirit-stirring character; telling the people that that Bill of itself gave them nothing, but that it might be made the constitutional means of effecting the greatest good by the proper use of that liberty wherewith it had made them free to choose good men, and true, to do their work in the Commons' House of Parliament. They- consulted with such of the Whig gentry as were within their reach; and, with the acquiescence of all with whom they could advise, they set on foot a requisition bo Mr. Lennard as a colleague with Mr. Western. r We must have ta roan: tin say, whose principles are sincerely in accordancii with the Bill under which we send him to Parliament. . Avowed anemias IP the Bill, we need, in these days; scarcely fear; but we must have no inconsieteuta

'insincere, and wavering friend. Have we not sought the substance, and shall we suffer ourselves to be deceived by the mere shadow—the name only of Reform?'

" Mr. Western and Mr. Lennard were on the point of arranging together for their joint acceptance of the forthcoming requisition; but this would not do for

the marplot Squires. They took it in high dudgeon that the Committees should think of proposing a candidate, instead of waiting patiently to see whom it would please them to fix on at Quarter-Sessions; and they resolved to urge the pre-. tensions of a Sir T. Ormsby,--a gentleman very little known, save by his high Tory connexions ; and they so wrought on Mr. Western, then confined to his room by indisposition, by representations of the advantage he would derive through Ormsby's conciliation of Tory votes, and of the umbrage that would he taken by the gentry at the Committees presuming to invite a candidate (t Still harping on my daughter !') that in an evil hour, that respectable gentleman earnestly urged Mr. Leonard, and prevailed on him to decline coming forward. The requisition, however, was highly acceptable, and was speedily signed by 1,200 electors. So clear was it that the Reformers could bring in both Western and Leonard, that at a meeting of Tyrell's principal friends, it was resolved that he ought not to become a candidate.

ci We pass over a great deal of indecision on the part of Mr. Western and his personal friends, which, on the death of Sir John Tyrell, led to the determina- tion of the Tories to propose Tyrell and Baring, The Association Committees joined the Whigs in a communication to Sir Thomas Ormsby, and published an address to the electors. But here they were disappointed ; and now the Con- servative Whigs discovered that Lennard might be invited without offence to their dignity. The Committees again seconded them. But Mr. Leonard's father (Sir Thomas Leonard) had by this time been induced to stand for the South of Essex ; and he was precluded, by a just regard for his father's interest, from appearing in the North."

ESSEX, SW:TH.—At a meeting held on Thursday at Brentwood, the members of Committees gave statements of the result of the registra- tion in their several districts. In the Stratford district, comprising fifteen parishes, the total registered is 985; which, on as close an in- vestigation as could be made, were as follows—for Mr. Wellesley and Sir Thomas Lennard, 540; against them, 240; doubtful, 205. In Chelmsford district, the numbers were stated to be about half and half, and that the cause was quite as strong as at the last election. At Ray- leigh, the numbers were 40; of whom 9 out of 10 were calculated to be for the cause, and in the district, consisting of twelve parishes, 3 out of every 4. In Brentwood, about 59 for, 9 against; and the district generally favourable, being about 2 to 1 for the cause. In Romford, 120 votes ; 87 for the cause, 22 against, and the others doubtful. In Homehurch, 67 votes, and a majority of 10 for the cause. In Upmin- ster, a decided majority. In Great Burstead, the relative numbers about equal; but in the surrounding district, a decided majority for the cause. It was stated that at Aveley there were 13 for, 1 against. In Orsett, 28 votes ; 23 for the cause. In South Ockendon, 15 out of 25 for the cause. In Grays, 11 out of 14 for. In Wennington, 6 voters, all Reformers. Horndon.on.the-Hill, 17 votes ; 14 for, 1 against, and 2 doubtful. In Rainham, 21 to 12 for. Several resolu- tions were proposed and unanimously carried. Among them, was one expressing a conviction that the return of Mr. 'Wellesley and Sir Tho- mas Leonard was perfectly secure. Another was for dividing the Committees into fourteen districts—namely, the Stratford, Romford, Brentwood, Billericay, Rocbford, Rayleigh, Chelmsford, Maldon, Southend, Grays, Epping, Harlow, Ongar, and Waltham Abbey.— Chelmsford Chronicle.

FEXETER.—It is said, that out of a constituency of not 3,000, the Tories here have objected to no less a number than 800! The general voucher for these objections is a Tory banker. This reckless conduct has created general surprise and disgust. It was a dangerous game : we are happy to add it has fixed the Waverers in favour of the Liberal in- terest; they have pulled the cord so tight, that they have snapped the bond of influence by which they had hoped to have tied down the poor voters to support their cause. They will drive the Liberals, who now possess the power, to seek an extension of the franchise ; and, by the exertion of unfair influence, will force the ballot ; and then what will re- main to them, but the mortification of being left without respect, with- out influence, without place 7—Glebe.

HALIFAX.—We have seen the canvass-books of Messrs. Wood and Erin's Committee, as made up to yesterday (Friday) evening ; and the majority of promises in favour of those gentlemen is so great as to leave no doubt of the result.—Halifax Express.

HAMPSHIRE.—OR Friday last, a meeting was held at Southampton by the friends of the late Reform Bill, for the purpose of putting in requisition two gentlemen in opposition to Mr. Fleming. The room was crowded with respectable persons, nearly all of whom were electors : the best spirit prevailed, and the various resolutions were carried with an unanimity we have rarely before witnessed. The result of the day's proceedings, which had brought together people from the East and from the West, established a perfect confidence in the success of Lord Palmerston and Sir George Staunton.—Hampshire Telegraph.

HULL.—There are no fewer than five candidates for this town : four Liberal—Messrs. Hutt, Hill, Burke, and Acland; and one Tory— Mr. Carruthers. Mr. Hutt and dr. Hill would have carried their election, it is said, without opposition, had it not been for the coming in of Mr. Burke ; but that event, by leading to a separation of interests among the Reformers, has given no small hopes to the Conservatives of carrying their man. Mr. Burke, we see, defends himself, on the ground that there were three Liberal candidates before he started,—as of there ever was the remotest chance of Mr. Acland's succeeding. In .other instances, where a Reformer has come forward against a Re- former, the act has been defended on the ground that the first candidate 'teas not what he represented himself to be; but of Mr. Hutt or of

Hill no such doubts are surmised—they are both men of excellent 'qualifications. However, the electors have the remedy in their own bands ; and if they will not apply it, they must even take the con- tiequences.

LEmntesrea.—Mr. Bish and Lord Hotbam have finished canvassing the electors for this borough ; and there is no doubt both will be re- turned to the next. Parliament, as there is no opposition at present._ .Hereford Time& [This is not so certain as our contemporary's reason- ing would make it.] Lincom—Will it be believed that a Dignitary of the. Church of En-gland and the diocese of Lincoln,.accompamed.by another Reverend Gentleman of the same diocese (whose paternal anxieties may be some excuse for the act), were actually engaged last Sunday evening canvass ing for Colonel Sibthorp!—StanyOrd „News. MALMESBURY.—A most contemptible trick is now being. played .o in the notoriously corrupt borough of Malmesbury, where notices of " objections" haee been delivered to the proper officer against not less than thirty voters on the old constituency for the borough of Cricklade; the greater part of whom are known to be persons of the highest cha- racter and respectability.—Bath and Cheltenham Gazette.

MARYLEBONE.—A meeting was held at Mr. Owen's Institution, in Gray's Inn Road, on Wednesday, for the purpose of hearing from Mr. B. Portman a declaration of his sentiments. Mr. Britton, of Burton Crescent, was in the chair. The business of the meeting was opened by a resolution moved by Mr. M. Quin. The meeting seems to have

been rather Church-and-Kingish ; for on Mr. Quin's remarking that he was not a great friend to the Establishment, there was a decided hissing. Mr. Quin's resolution, " that the candidate for Marylebone must be a friend to Parliamentary Reform and to Civil and Religious Liberty," having been seconded and carried,

Mr. Portman addressed the meeting at some length. He said— The principle he had always acted on was, to do the greatest possible quantity of good to the greatest possible number of men, and to do the least possible harm to any man whatever. The very first vote lie had given in the House was is support of a motion made by Lord John Russell to amend the Representation of the People. He was therefore no new Reformer since Reform had become fashionable. He was sorry that the Reform Act was not in every respect satis- factory. He trusted that the clause which required the payment of the King's Taxes as a qualification would be done away with ; and he hoped, too, that before long, the Assessed Taxes, especially the house and window tax,would be repealed, and that in their stead an equitable property-tax might be imposed. If there was one man in England who was prevented from voting freely (and he knew it was the pride of Englishmen to vote freely according to their conscience), he should then be prepared to say that they ought to have that protection which could akroe enable them to avoid all improper influence—he meant the ballot; he should hope to see it introduced in such a manner as to do away the mis- chievous part of the practice, and to insure to the people the possession of all the good parts of it. He was not a Reformer in politics alone—he was a Reformer of all abuses in Church and State. With regard to one particular point which had been alluded to, he was not prepared to agree to the severance of the Church and State. The abuses of the Church should be reformed—the Church should be purified, not destroyed. He did not think that tithes should be abolished, but there should be an equitable commutation. Au alteration in that respect ought to take place, and ought to take place speedily. They should abolish. nly what was useless, but preserve the rest.

Mr. Portman afterwards touched upon the Game-laws, Slavery, the Corn-laws ; on all ofwhich topics his sentiments are decidedly LiberaL He was heard with marked attention and applause by a large proportion of the meeting ; hut, in consequence of his declaration against the severance of the Church mid State, Mr. Quin requested to withdraw his name as mover of the first resolution.

There was a meeting on the same day, at the King Street Bazaar, is Baker Street, at which about 3,000 individuals attended, which does not seem to have passed so quietly. At that meeting, a Mr. Potter objected' in toto to Mr. Portman as a candidate for the borough. He particularly objected to Mr. Portman's refusal to aid the parish, in purse or person, in their long struggle to get rid of the Select Vestry. A resolution to support Mr. Portman was negatived, by a very large majority. The meeting in Gray's Inn Road appears, from a correspondence in yesterday's Chronicle, to have been a private meeting ; at least no person was admitted to it unless by a letter from Mr. Portman's Committee. Of course there can be no objection to such a plan of meeting the elec- tors. Indeed, until they can prevail on one another to adopt some rides for the regulation of public meetings, private meetings must be had recourse to, or meetings be given up altogether. The lists already published enable every one who is really an elector to be at once found out. Why, then, cannot the several elective districts meet, and, without reference to the wishes of one candidate or another, come to a serious, sober resolution, of supporting two good men ? Why cannot they vote for them at once? by ballot ? and thus point out, beyond dispute, the real feeling of the borough ; and if any feed agent should afterwards attempt to tamper with their resolves, send him to the nearest pump. for his answer.

MIDDLESEX.—An opponent has at length been found to Mr. Hitme, in the person of Lord Henley, an Irish Peer, but an Englishman, se- cond cousin to Lady Brougham, and a Master in Chancery—the first Peer, we believe, that ever held that overpaid subordinate office. His Lordship wrote a pamphlet the other day, in which, as a radical reform of the evil of Tithes, he proposed their equal division among the entire of the Episcopal Clergy. This scheme—which would continue to de- vote a large and oppressive tax, levied on the whole of the community, to the payment, in Ireland, of the instructors of one sixth, and in Eng...- land of one half of the people—was strenuously recommended by the Times; and has, we see, been taken up and avowed as the true Church Reform by the half-and-half candidate for Southwark. thathis subject of Church Reform, Lord Henley says, in his address to the electors of Middlesex— "Though cordially and zealously attached to all our institutions in Church and State, I shall always be ready to support such temperate and judicious measures of refinnatios. as the varying conditions of society or the just demands of the nation prove to be expedient.';

On the other questions that at present agitate the public, the Master in Chancery speaks in the language which is appropriate to the Doubt- ing Castle in which his life has long been spent-

" Upon those great and complicated questions which concern the Currency, the Corr- trade, Me renewal of the Bank and East India Companies' Charters, I desire not to give as early and premature opinion : much evidence still remains to be weighed, and many ar- ignments are still to be adduced, which may influence even those who haveprofessedly and exclusively considered these deep and intricate subjects. I shall, thereke, mere, :pledge myself to approach the consideration of them with the diligence, the candoisr. acid the impartiality which their oast importance demands."

This might serve the giant of the castle, John Lord Eldon himselfa more evidence, more arguments required on the Corn-trade, on Which, to our-certain knowledge, there are in the House of Commons Library fifty voluines folio of evidence and argument, and in the hands of the public five hundred and upwards, octavo et infra! But there is one question on which Lord Henley can come to a judgment, or rather haw come to a judgment already. It is one, indeed, on which we have in- variably observed, that those Vioxfind most difficulty in making up their mind upon any other questim whatever, are readiest to decide upon- .. I alaaiy pledge myself to rum ort ia every way Cie sxedy and complete abolition of 'West India Slavery."

The lure, however, is not fitly framed in this case. Lord Henley must amend his pledge. Mr. Hume is as much a friend to speedy and complete emancipation as the noble Master, and yet Mr. Hume is in Schedule C of the Abolitionists' circular. Lord Henley must vote for immediate abolition, or they will put him in Schedule C also. Having given the pretensions of the man who is put forward (by Lord Brougham and his Reforming colleagues?) for the purpose of ex- cluding from Parliament one who has done more for the Wbig Ministry of Lord Brougham than any fifty members of either House, we shall give those of Mr. Hume also, as they were declared at a meeting of Middlesex electors, held at the Court-house, Osborne Street, White- chapel, on Tuesday. We quote from the Chronicle, where Mr. Hume's speech is given at some length. The Times reporter devotes to the member for Middlesex and his speech exactly 29 words ; 9 of which are insignificant, 9 inaccurate, 9 misrepresentation; and the connecting particles make up the tide. Mr. Hume said— Some misapprehension had gone about with respect to the object which he had in view, in coming forward to address the electure or aliadiesex : for it was supposed that he was there with reference to the December election, whereas his object was ;iitogether with reference to the past, and not to the future. It was well known to all present that he had been for the last fifteen years an active Reformer. During the whole of that time. he had had the honour of representine a district of Scotch Boroughs ; and, during also the whole of the period, he had met wit Ii the most unflinching and unremit- ting opposition, enmity. and abuse from the Government, and from all who profited by those abuses which he had so long and so ardently desired to see abolished. He WIS aware. therefore, from the first period of his return to the House of Commons, that he should have, in every succeeding election, to encounter all the opposition which could be brought to bear against bins both by the Government, and by their natural allies, the public pensioners and placemen ; awl that every means would be taken by those parties to prevent his being re-elected. It was, therefore, his chief object to endeavour to staud well with his constituents in the district of five boroughs for which he was member ; and for this purpose, he laid it down as a rule, that he would at the close of each session of Parliament go down to Scotland. and call his constituents together fur the purpose of explaining the reasons by which his conduct in the House of Commons had been guided, and of submitting it to their judgment. Such was the object which lie had in view in coming beffire the electors on the present occasion ; and he now called upon them to examine into his conduct. to listen to his account of it. :Ind to charge him openly and before the whole country with anv deficiencies ; but failing to do so, to abstain from charging hint in private, end from. house to house, with having derogated from his duty. In the case of the constituency of the Scotch Boroughs. he had found this proceeding attended with the most beneficial results- fins by openly appearing before them. he had it in his power to justify his Totes, and to obviate the fleets of the slanderous reports which the enemies of his public conduct had spread to liisprojndiee. He had left those constituents with reluctance : he accepted the invita- tion to represent the County of Middlesex. only because he reit that by doing so he Should increase his usefulness, by being invested with the influence and weight in the House of Commons which justly appertained to the representative of the first county of England. The present was the first of a series of meeting.: with the electors of Mid- dlesex, for the purpose of accounting to them for his conduct in Parliament. He thought It due to the electors resident within the Tower Hamlets to commence with them, because their district was the most populous and important of any within the county. Be, therefore, begged it most distinctly to be understood. that his "visit to them was iu no way connected with. nor had reference to, the election tier the ensuing Reformed Parliament ; for he was of opinion that. if the electors were satisfied with the condnct of their Representatives, his re-election was more a matter for their own consideratam than his. Nor. on the other hand, had any man a claim to be re-elected, who had not redeemed the pledges upon which he was originally chosen. He took that opportunity of stating. also, that it might be supposed, as there were four borough districts within Middlesex which would return members. he Might possibly be looked to for a recom- mendation on the part of the eandiffietes ; but he begged most dietinctly to be under- stood, that he should exert no influence whatever, either one way or the other; and that he should take great care, as he had heretofore done, not to express any opinion whatever on the merits of the candidates, lest, as he knew some of them, particularly Dr. Lushington and Colonel Stanhope, his friendship for those gentlemen might exert some sway over his judgment. He was told that there was an influential person going about, trying to get up a re- quisition for a candidate to stand against him. Why was this done, but because ire had endeavoured, in his place in are House of Commons, to get that person's salary reduced from 14,0001. to 10,0001. a year? Why did he do this, but from a wish to see the resources of the country economized ? Then. again, there was a Church party. who had got up a cry against him. But why? For the same reason as the other. Because he wished to see pluralities; abolished—to see the working Clergy properly paid out of the enormous superfluities of their beneficed brethren ; and because, also, he wished to see no more political Bishops—because, also, he wished to see tithes abolished, and com- muted into a system of payment for the Clergy, which should not have the effect of preventing the successful application of skill, labour, and capital to the land. He had said this so long ago as 1421, when he pointed out the evils of the Irish Church, and when he was met with abuse on all sides as an Infidel, and as one who wished to see religion abolished in the land ; whilst all that he desired to see was a more equal dis- tribution of the revenues of the Irish Church. end not one clergyman with scarce suffi- cient to keep him alive, whilst another had from 30,000/. to 40,0(101. a vear. But it would not do then. The Clergy here smelt a rat. They said, " If we sulfur this to be done in Ireland, it will be our turn next, and we don't like such reform. No, no—the man who proposes this to you is an Infidel. He must be an Infidel, ay, and a bad father, a bad friend, and unfit for society." Such was the abuse that he met with: but he was proof against all their attacks, and went on his own way, which he trusted would lead to this most desired of all reforms.

Then again, he had been met with censure, ridicule. and abuse from another class of persons, who had raised au outcry against him, because he had repeatedly expressed his desire, and had used every exertion in his power, to reduce the diplomatic expenditure of the country,and to saveto the public the enormous sumsthat were lavished upon Am- bassadors and others or that class. Those who were interested in this species of abuse had turned comet upon him. and bad accused him of being a leveller—of entertaining a wish to see all the best institutions of the country thrown to the ground and de- stroyed, whilst the real fact was, that he only touched the purses of those gentry. If any one present suspected him of entertaining such designs, let them ask him what his opinions were, and he would tell them. True it was, that if he had to ft= a Govern- ment, he might be able to form one upon a principle somewhat less complex than that 'under which they Reed ; but as that was not the case, all he, or any one who thought as he did, could desire to do, was to endeavour as far as possible to accommodate the com- plexity of the State machine to the wants and wishes of the people, by removing the objectionable parts, and simplifying its more abstruse operations ; but, above all, not to pull down without substituting other and better machinery. He was no

leveller—

not he : he saw as plainly as the loudest and most fearful of them, the advantages which resulted from a limited Monarchy. a House of Peers, and a House of Commons;

but what be most to see was, each of those portions of the Constitution execut- ing in the most efficient milliner those peculiar duties which devolved on each of them. What were the purposes of Government ? Why was it instituted, but for the protection of the life and property of the whole community collectively ? It was, therefore, the duty or each member of the community to contribute towards the expenses of the Gos wrnment ; but it was also the duty of Government not to take one shilling more from them fur whose protection it was instituted, than its natural expenses demanded, or than was necessary to pay null the charges connected with it. Ile was not disposed to he niggardly in his allowance to the officers of Government; but be was disposed to say, let there be no simmurists—let there be no placemen whose duties are executed lry deputy at a double charge to the country, oceans° those.exactions fall heavier on the poor niau than on the richer classes, and are thus oppressive to the very class which is least able to bear the exaction. Let this be remedied. All his endeavours in the House of Commons had been directed towards effecting this object, and not towards the destruc- tion of thee-institutions of the country. One great means of accomplishing in more economical expenditure of the public money, was by simplifying the national accotints.so that the people at large might be able to form a judgment as to the mode in which their money was expended. At the time when he first maintained these sentiments, he was strongly of opinion that what he desired to see done with respect to the lessening of the public expenditure could never be carried into effect but throngh the medium of a Reformed ParliaMent ; for he was convinced, that by a fair representation of the People alone would they be enabled to secure their rights. His undeviating aim had been therefore, to effect a reform in Parliament ; and that greatest of all blessings had at length been conceded to them, shackled though it was with several objectionable con- ditions, from which it should be his endeavour to set it free. Such, for instance, was the clause by which registration, in itself it highly proper regulation, was mule conse- quent 11110n the payment of taxes and poor-rates, and also subjected the elector to the expense of a shilliug, in order to secure to him the exercise of his rights. The convul- sion to reside for a certain period in a house, in order to become qualified to vote, ought also to be done away with. Let those, however, who now cavilled at the Bill, recollect what they had obtained, and not forget the vast boon which was confiTred on them by it, without brokine solely at its defects. Let them also recollect that the friends to the Bill had constant ly to meet no less a number of opponents on every point in dispute than 266 members of the House of Commons ; and then let them not complain if such trifling defiwts as those to which he alluded existed in it. lie confided in the Reformed Perliament to do away with the slight blotches in the measure. It was impossible fur any one who looked around him not to see that great changes were impending. One of those changes must be the reduction of the charges which were so unsuited to the country in her present condition. Let any one turn his eye back to 179'2, when the sum of five millions and a half defrayed the whole of the Civil List expenses' which were now swelled to the enormous sum of twenty-three millions. Thimell he was taunted iu the House of Commons with having absurdly gone; back to the standard of l792 as a fit period to compare the Present enormous and extravaeaut pullet expendi- ture, yet, when the Finance Committee of NIS was sitting, be hail the satisfaction of convincing them—and amongst its members were some of the existing ( :over:anent- that the period of 1792 was that at which their vacillations ought to begin ; nue accordingly. the proceedings of the Committee went back to That year, and commenced there. Ile had no doubt that the Reffirmed Parliament would gin back to that period also, and take the Civil List of that day as the basis urn' which the future Civil Lists were to be grounded. A great alteration must also take place in the present system of Taxation. The present was not the proper time to eater into details on this head ; but such a reform, it was evident, must conic.

The state of the Law was also another of those evils which demanded immediate attention and revision. so as to avoii the enormous expense and the vexatious delays which were now attendant on it, and to bring home justice to every man's door.

With respect also to the Landed Interests. he must express it to be his opinion. not- withstanding his income was principally derived from that species of property, that the Corn-laws could no longer be endured, but that they must be altogether revised. and rendered harmless to the industrious classes. It was some years since he submitted his plan for a free trade in corn to the House of Commons, anal yet to that free trade most they come at last. Ile would, in fact, abolish all monopolies, as well those of Banking as of Corporations : for the evils inflicted by them were great In proportion to their general extension. iVith respect to planking in particular, he would place it out of the power of the Government to tamper with the currency; nor would he leave any future :Ministers the means of affecting the general interests of the community in this respect, that it had once been in their power to effect. As to the necessity of Corpora- tions.. there was no doubt iu his mind: the only question was as to their becoming the servants instead of being the masters of the People. for whose benefit they were insti- tilted. So strong was the current of Reform in this respect in Scotland. that he knew of out Corporation which had .given directions to draw a bill, by which in future the inhabitants were to choose thew own magistrates ; and Oils example would. he hoped, Ire followed all over the nation.

With regard to free trade, he was a stanch advocate fur it. and ardently desired to see its principles carried into effect throughout the whole world.

The odious and degrading practice of flogging in the Army. Nary, SCe., as a civil punishment, was one of those things he was most anxious to see abolished.

There was nothing also So degrading to human nature as slavery, and it was one of those blots on the country which must now be wiped off. It was true that the traffic in slaves was now abolished, and that no more of those unhappy beings were torn from their native land to endure the miseries of toiling for a planter ; but what availed it that one evil was put an end to, whilst the degrading condition of slavery was yet in- flicted on any human being ? Nothing could ameliorate, nothing soften the deplora- ble fate of a slave. Yet was this system protected, sanctioned, and regulated by the laws of Great Britain. How, therefore, was its abolition to be offeeted with a due re- gas to jostles? That was a question of the gravest and mast important nature. Prow. he would ask. was the condition of slavery to be totally done away with? Was the freedom of the Negro to be promoted for his cram individual. advantage ? or did any other considerations mix themselves up in that questiou? Were there not other par- ties eoncerued ? Had not the master and the public an interest in this matter, through not to anemia' degree. with the slave himself? and was it not, therefore, a triply diffi- cult (petition? He would at once, and boldly. tell them that, as an honest man, he could not say that the emancipation of the slaves ought to be instantaneously carried into effeot ; and be would tell them why. In the island ofiamaica, there was a slave population of three hundred and fifty thousand. Now. let them only consider what would be the effect of turning this mass of Negroes loose at erne upon society in that island, without mailers, without provision, and all of them without possessing the means of support. Emancipation, in the slave's idea, is synonymous with idleness; and let them only reflect ou the condition in which this population would be if even they were to be turned loose for one day only. He had no hesitation in saying. that such an occurrence would be the roost frightful mil that could happen either to themselves or tine rest of tile inhabitants of Jamaica. That person was, therefore, the most hu- mane who should say, " No, I will not take these men in their present condition, and turn them loose without support. It is we, the nation, who have done the injury to them, who, by our laws, have sanctioned this evil, and it is for the Nation to repair that wrong." Educate, he would say, and prepare the slave for his freedom, and ties when it comes, it is a blessing, and not a curse on him. He had no hesitation in saying that he would institute a thorough revision of the Pension List, and endeavour to reduce its amount to a sum far below that at whi-ch it now was stated. He had now, be believed, gone through the principal heads of the great public ques- tions which remain tole sewed. (A VOICe—" -What would you do with the East India Monopoly ?") He thanked the worthy elector who had reminded him of that subject : he was of opinion that the China tea monopoly, which was the only exiitilig one, would be done away with when the question of the Charter came before the House. He had always been of opinion, with regard to the East India Company's power in their own territories, that the greatest freedom ought to be granted to all persons to go there and settle; and he had no doubt but that the present restrictions on ingress into that country would be terminated. Ile would effect a change in the present term of the duration of Parliament, from seven years to three years, by which. on an average, the members would have to re- turn to their constituents once in every two years. which was as limited a period as was advantageous to either party. For he was not disposed to give a lease of his liber- ties for seven years to any man. He thought, alto. that the 101. franchise was much too high, and that it ought, and indeed would, be reduced to a much lower rate. Ile would not take upon himself to fix the extreme point at which it ought to be placed, but he was decidedly of opinion that it was not so low as it ought to be. There was :mother subject connected with this that he would say a few words on—namely, the Ballot ; and he was convinced that, in order to give the Reform Bill its full power. and all the advantages which were derivable from it, tine Ballot ought to be adopted, as well to secure the electors from the vengeance of the rich, as front being awed by the power of the mob,—in short, to secure them from those below as well as those above them. His observation online construction of large bodies of men in society led him to adopt this belief, that the institution of the Ballot would tend to preserve the peace of society, and to divest men of Mores angry and disagreable feelings which are generated by opposition to their views and wishes. Such was tile principle upon which the Ballot

was adopted in clubs, in bodies of Directors, in the Bank, in the East India Court 01 Dfreetors.

Mr. Hume here proceeded to refer to some proceedings which had been adopted by IS noble lord, a landowner' in Lincolushire, by which it-appeared that he had used Fe" influence on his tenants' votes, and had even. used indirect means to compel them to register their names as voters, inn consequence of the dislike which was entertained by then to become qualified; and thus be under the necessity of 'giving a vote. . Hume also referred to a declaration from the labouring classes of Clitherom binding themselves not to deal with persons who voted for the Anti-Reform party, sad pledging -themselves not to suffer them chilareu to be christened. their youths to be marriid, or their dead to be buried, by the cleigyinen magistratei who headed the militaryin the attack in last August. Mr. Hume then-proceeded to touch upon his conduct in the last session of Parlia- ment, and declared, that he had consented to merge for the time the question of co- nemy in the Civil List, in order to give the Government the opportuuity of carrying the great and important measure which had engrossed the public mind during., the last two years.' He also referred. to the Russian Dutch Loan question, on which occasion, he informed the electors that the Ministers had made a declaration that they would quit office if -they were defeated on that ques- tion; that he had gone down to the House on the night of debate fully de- termined to vote against them, hat that seeing from the state of the House that the Tory party had mustered their strength, with a view.to take advantage of the stragglers who might swell their ranks from the Liberal party, he had come to the determination, as a matter of expediency; and in order that the Tory party might not have the opportunity of again seizing office, to vote With the Ministers. There was one forgotten subject upon which he would now touch. and that was the Taxes on Knowledge, respecting which it was his opinion that they oaght at once to be taken off; and that, next to conferring the franchise upon the People, Ale duty of t he Go- vernment was so to act as to enable all to acquire the knowledge requisite for the proper exercise of their rights. For the attainment of this object, the removal of the Taxes on Knowledge was absolutely requisite, and this was one of the first concessions that the People would obtain. lie begged to thank the Meeting for the atteni ion with which he had been listened to, and also to inform them that hewas ready to answer any questions which any person present might put to him, as well non-voters as voters, for he looked upon himself to be the representative not of the electors only, but of every mau resident within the county of Middlesex. Mr. Hume had occasion to address another meeting of the Middle- sex electors at Uxbridge, on Thursday. We, have already devoted a larger portion of our columns to the honourable gentleman than can be conveniently spared to an individual ; we have done so because we look on the character of Mr. Hume as public property, and as such not to be tampered with on light grounds. It is the more necessary that Mr. Hume should have justice done to him by some portion of the press, seeing that the most Widely-circulated journal in the empire has deter- mined not merely to exclude from its columns, and, by consequence, from its readers, whatever Mr. Hume or his' friends are disposed to say in reply to its charges and-the charges of others,—but, while it excludes every attempt at exculpation, to give insertion and currency, and as far as its approbation goes, credit, to every. charge that is brought against him. Of course we do not mean to blame the Times for this ; our con- temporary has a perfect right to take his way ; but the fact of his great influence being arrayed against the Man of the People renders it impe- rative that those who think the People's men should be protected, even though the Aristocracy's men suffer, should also take their way. Mr. Hume's speech at Uxbridge is far too long for insertion, and we are unwilling to abridge it. The commencement is in a great measure the same as the commencement of that which we have given. At the close, Mr. Hume replied to a placard issued by the Tories ; the groundWork of which was laid a good While ago in the Standard, the chief organ of the Tories. The placard, in which the leading articles of the jour- nal have been reduced into the form of general propositions, is headed "Why do you object to Mr. Hume as Representative for Middlesex?" Mr. Hume answered the objections seriatim, very satisfactorily. They refer to his excepting to the motion for amending the preamble to the Cholera. Bill in order to describe the cholera as a special indiction of ProVidence; his not quitting the chair at the Political Union dinner when the King's health was hissed; his vote on the Russo-Dutch Loan ; . and a few other matters, equally novel and pertinent. • . Mr. POuniall, the solicitor, declared, at the Uxbridge meeting, that he was dissatisfied with every thiny.Mr. Hume had said-s-is he the au- thor of the placard? • From the-mixture of- religious-andloyal fervour with the 'Cant of humanitY; it is eXtremelylikelytti have emanated front some one • of-tine advocates of Mr. John Holcomb and the .journey to Windsor. • The meeting-were of a different opinion, for they passed a

unanimous resolution in Mr. Humes' favour. . .

NEwAnic.--:On Wednesday, Mr. Sergeant Wilde entered Newark, accompanied by Mr. Charles P.earson, and several priVate friends ; . and at once commenced an active canvass, in which they were followed by Mr: Handley, the other sitting member ; and shortly afterwards the champion of Toryism, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, was in the field. The Mayor, who is a 'Conservative, refused to calla meeting of the electors ; and when they did assemble, the Tory candidate did not choose to make his appearance. At the meeting, which was highly numerous and re- spectable, Mr. Handley and Mr. Sergeant Wilde entered into expla- nations, which.were perfectly satisfactory to the electors. The speech of the learned Sergeant was loudly applauded. The meeting being confined to the candidates and the electors; none others took part in the proceedings ; but the inhabitants afterwardS adjourned to an open space in the front of Sergeant Wilde's inn; where the learned gentleman, Mr. Charles Pearson, -and others, addressed the multitude upon various

interesting topics. . . .

NORTHUMBERLAND.—The supporters of Mr.Bell, the Tory candidate, place their chief hopes of 'his'success on the' number of his adversaries' votes, which they Would object to and render nugatory. This system has been carried onto a most disgraceful .extent. Wherever they can discover freeholders who are likely to vote for Mr. Beaumont and Mr. Ord, or either of them, they have served notices upon them, that they will.be compelled to prove their qualifications before they are allowed to vote. The object in view by serving these vexatious notices so in- discriminately is, to induce persons to promise their votes to Mr. Bell. This was proVed at North' Shields on Saturday last. - An elector was that day, served with a notice ; and The person who served the notice told him he would withdraw it, and he should have no further trouble about it, if he would vote for Mr. Bell. The elector, like an honest man, replied, ". If you would give me 1001., I would not vote for Mr. Bell." " Then," said the other, " we will make you prove your qualification."

NOTTINGHAM CouNrv.--.-Colonel Cooper Gardiner has this week been actively. engaged .in paying his respects to the electors of the North-western Division of the county of Nottingham, commencing with those places in which the constituency is numerous. On Monday [sennight], he visited Arnold ; on Tuesday, Hyson Green and New Radford ; Wednesday, Beeston; yesterday, Mansfield; and to-day he Will be at Sutton in .Ashfield. The canvass has been a complete tri- umph; 'on Tuesday only one single refusal was met with in the exten-

sive parish of Radford.—Nottingham Review. . • •

Oironam.lt has been deterinined b-the 'Oldham Magistrates, that the county electors residing in Oldham and Chadderton shall vote at Manchester, and those in Royion and Crompton at Rochdale.L-Man- chester Guardian.

PEMBRONE.—From the returns which have been made, and which will not be materially leslened, . Sir Richard Philipps can command a majority for Haverfordwest of 200 at least ; Sir John Owen, for the county, of 700; and Colonel Owen, for Pembroke, of 600.—Cambrian. SHAFTESBURY.—" In consideration of the support given by the Mar- quis to the Reform Bill, and of the sacrifice he was supposed, as a borough proprietor, to be making, the Independent interest, his politi- cal opponents, offered to join in returning a member that both might approve of, in. the stead of the present nominee, Mr. Penthyn, who is

very unpopular in the borough. The Marquis, however, insisted that Mr. Penrhyn should be thrust upon the electors ; and this determina- tion was followed lip by a canvass by the Marquis's remit-distrainer and other agents. The Independent party resisted his Lordship's dictation, and introduced to the notice of the electors Mr. Poulter„ a stanch Re- former, and of liberal and independent principles. This gentleman canvassed the borough with the greatest success. The :Marquis's agents not meeting with the success anticipated, Mr. Penrhyn put forth an address, declining, for the present, to make a personal canvass, and assigning as a reason that his friends had not been able to fwm. a Com- ?alike. • Subsequently, notices to quit have been served on nearly one hundred of his Lordship's tenants, knowii or suspected to be favour- able to the Independent eandidate, zind adverse to his Lordship's no- minee !"—Correspondent V the illormng Herald.

SHROPSHIRE.—II is reported that Sir 0. Pigott will offer himself for the Southern division.

SOMERSET.—Mr. Escort, one of our Western Division Tory candi- dates, has resigned. He called a meeting of his friends in the Assize Hall, where he attacked Mr. Tynte, one of the Reformers, most furi- ously. Mr. Tynte candidly stated he had become a Reformer upon conviction, and he would never attempt to conceal. that he had once held the Reform Bill to be too .sweeping; he laid, however, seen his error, and avowed it. Mr. Bunter put it to the meeting-, " that Mr. Tynte be entitled to the confidence of the county," and it was carried by an cotirtnolls majority.

SosreasErsionE, EAsr.—" I will state one Tory manceuvre that is playing off here. I claim a vote in consequence- of being a trustee under a marriage settlement. Being myself in the actual receipt of freehold ground-rents amounting to near 501. per annum, situate in this parish, I have been solicited fur my vote by the several patties.; I have promised Mr. Gore. Langton, mid am also on his committee. My se- cond vote I laid not proinioed, and intended to have reserved it. On the 2.5th ult.; the last day allowed, I was served with a notice objecting to my claim, signed by a Richard Perri= Prat, Glastonbury,—a man I know nothing of neither can he know me, living twenty miles off. Upon inquiry; I found 'him to be an agent of Air. Allies :.I went in consequence, and promised my second vote to Air. Brigstork, and then informed Mr. Prat of it, and that I should be . quite prepared to prove my claims. I find, by inquiry at the Overseer's, that the sane person has given notice to twelve inhabitants- of. Bathwick parish,- eight of whom are freeholders, 'claiming' for houses'they do not themselves in- habit, and against whom -there appeared not the slightest ground of legal objection."—Corre.spondssit of Times. . . Soismiwanx:—.Alr. Baugh Allen, formerly a Pollee Magistrate, and now one of the Six Clerks in Chanceess—an old, steady. and consistent Tory,---is a candidate for Southwark, in the- room of the late Mr.

Calve:rt. . . .

• Sunay.,-Alr. Jefferson Allen is canvassing flurry with every pros-. pect of success.- Globe.

TAVIST061:.—Colonel Fox has-left Tavistock, after a most success- ful canvass. His return is considered certain.— Times. [So it would have. been had he never. .canvassed at all.] • TOWER HAMLETS.—At a'. meeting of the electors of the Tower Hamlets on Thursday,'a furious assault was made upon Dr. Lushington, by the Alderman of Portsoken. The assault seems to have been made with more zeal. than judgment, and with a very praiseworthy neglect of facts. The only truth that we are able to pick out of it is, that the learned Doctor had on one occasion given judgment against Mr. Scales, —as the. latter asserts, after the manner of all losing suitors, unjustly. He charged Dr. Lusbington as an advocate of Navy impressment--of Army flogging—of the abuses of. the Ecclesiastical Courts—and a great many.more abominations, amidst an uproar of voices from one side and the other, which rendered hearing and note-taking equally impossible.

Dr. Lushington was at length heard in reply ; but had hardly com- menced; when, happening to designate his assailant " Mr. Scales," he was interrupted with a most bullock-like roar of "Mr.Alderman Scales !" which was repeated ontil he was obliged to drop the form of reference, and content himself with the periphrastic if not more correct form of ." the gentleman who preceded me." The interruptions did not, how- ever, cease, though their form was varied. One of them appears to have assumed for a moment a serious air. The Alderman had charged the Doctor with interfering to prevent a proctor from acting on a complaint which he had determined to prefer against the Doctor. Dr. Lushington, in respect of this charge, said-

" As to the charge, that I interfered to prevent any proctor in the court over which I preside from undertaking a suit for the gentleman who last addressed this meeting—"

Mr. Scales—" You see, gentlemen, he admits the charge; that is just what I charged him-with—the interfering to—"

Here the uproar became, says the. Times reporter, if possible, greater than before ; the friends of Or. Lushington crying out " shame !" at what they termed the scandalous interruption of Mr. Scales ; the friends of the latter as loudly. cheering him on, and contending that he was right. Dr. Lushington, the Moment be heard the interruption, turned fiercely round at Mr. Scales, and fixed his eye full on him for a moment; whether hi accompanied 'the look with any remark, we could not hear; but it was such a look- as is followed more frequently by a blow than a word. The learned gentleman seemed in a state of ex- citement for the moment, which evidently required his strongest effort to control, Mr. Scales did not retnrn the look ; but, turning to some person near him, laughed, or affected to laugh.

The Doctor 'afterwards resumed, and certainly disposed of the prin- cipalcharge of advocating the abuses of the Ecclesiastical Courts very

summarily and effectually-- • ' • Alluiion had been made to a commission of inquiry into the Ecclesiastical Courts having been issued by the Duke of Wellington. That was correct; and he was a member of that commission. They had gone into the inquiry, and made a report ; and that contained—whet? a recommendation that all Eccle- siastical Courts in the kingdom, except one general court, should be abolished. The courts so to be abolished included, of course, that one wherein he presided. That report, it was well known, was drawn up by his hand, though it was signed by all the other members of the commission.

Mr. Scales attempted an explanation after the Doctor had sat down ; but to no purpose, the noise being so great that not a word he uttered could be heard.

These scenes arc the necessary result of the system of canvassing. If Michael Scales have any real ground of objection to Dr. Lushing- ton, or any one else, he has a perfect right to state it ; but he may do so in a plain, unexaggerated way, and produce his proofs, for the dis- passionate consideration of his fellow-electors. By roaring, and blus- tering, and interruption, he evidently strove to prevent Dr. Lushington from answering his accusation,—that is, to perpetrate the very crime which he had laid to Dr. Lushington's charge—a denial of common justice.

WARWICK.—The canvass of Messrs. Tomes and King has been suc- cessful to a degree much beyond their expectations, and there does not appear to exist a doubt of their ultimate return. The latter gentleman, in the course of a brief address to a party of his friends, was requested to state his opinions on the vote by ballot. Mr. King said, be had for- merly felt much opposed to it ; but, from what he had seen during his present canvass, he was of opinion that the vote by ballot would be ne- cessary to secure a free election. In the course of the ensuing elec- tion, the necessity of its adoption would most probably become more ap- parent, and in such case he should give the subject his most serious consideration." He was rejoiced to think that every vote he should re- ceive would be conscientiously given—would be unbought. He had no tenants to turn out of their houses for voting contrary to his wish, no tradesmen whom he could influence by threatening to withdraw his sup- port, and no dependents whom he should require to prop up his cause ; and he heartily wished his opponents were able to say the same, and that every elector in the borough could vote according to his own free- will.—Globe.

WESTMORLAND.—It is certain that this county. will still return a Reformer in the room of Mr. Noel, who is now in the East Indies. Mr. Barham, the representative of the Thanet interest, has already canvassed the county with the greatest possible success, and no oppo- nent is likely to dispute his return.

WILTSHIRE.—Mr. Edridge, of Evesham, has announced himself as a candidate for the North division. He starts on Reform principles.

YORKSHIRE.—The claim of Mr. Sadler to vote for the West Riding turns out to be invalid ; the property from which he claims, does not, according to the Reform Act, confer a vote for the Riding. His vote has, therefore, been objected to, and we believe it is the only one in Leeds to which an objection has been made. It would be well if Mr. Sadler would try to understand the Reform Bill before he attempts to "re- form" it.—Leeds Mercury.