The Devonport Independent warns Sir George Grey, that if his
votes are to be crippled by his connexion with Ministers, be will not do for Devonport. On the subject of the Ballot, that paper says that Sir George Grey's constituents " will not suffer this vital question to
be compromised by Cabinet politics or sacrificed to party." Sir George may " set his house in order."
The Right Honourable George Robert Dawson has sent a letter to the managers of the Devonport Wesleyan Sunday School, strongly urging them to accept from him the munificent donation of one pound sterling! Of course all the Wesleyans in Devonport will now vote for Mr. Dawson.
We learn from the Suffolk Chronicle, that the Reformers of Bury St. Edmund's are organizing a formidable opposition to Earl St. Jermyn, or the party which supports him, in case his Lordship should retire from the representation of the borough, as is rumoured, to stand for the Western division of Suffolk. Mr. C. F. Bunbury, one of a family long known in Suffolk for their Liberal opinions, well probably be one of the Reform candidates for Bury.
The report that Colonel Grey is about to go on a mission abroad, and vacate his seat for High Wycombe, is contradicted by the Aylesbury News,—a Liberal journal with a strong Radical bias, lately established in Aylesbury, by the Reformers, who disapprove of the lukewarmness of the Bucks Gazette.
The Preston Chronicle says, that Mr. John Crawford has been in- vited to become a candidate for Preston in the event of a dissolution ; and adds, that it has. been " ascertained that Mr. Crawfurd will not hesi- tate to comply with this invitation." There is no doubt whatever of the power of the Preston Radicals to return Mr. Crawfurd, or any other candidate whom they may select, provided they act together. At present, the borough is represented by a very worthy gentleman, Mr. Fleetwood, who is a mild Tory, without the least influence in the House of Commons, and by Mr. Henry Stanley, a Whig, whose name is to be seen occasionally on late divisions. But it is evident that neither of these gentlemen can truly represent the earnest Radicals of Preston. For Mr. Crawfurd's politics and other qualifications we have often vouched.
At the inauguration dinner of the Mayor of Manchester, last Wed- nesday, Mr. Samuel Stocks took the opportunity of announcing his in. tention to become a candidate for the representation of the borough of Stockport, and of stating his political opinions. It is a gratifying proof of the progress of Reform, that a gentleman who was never heard of as a Reformer till the battle for the Reform Bill was fought and won, should now avow himself in favour of the Ballot and Triennial Parliaments.—Manchester Times. [ Have the Reformers of Stock- port no candidate who was " heard of" during the battle—whose sin- cerity and courage was manifested in the day of trial, or the dark night which preceded it /I
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