gbe Vrobintes.

The nomination of candidates for the representation of Kendal, in the room of the late Mr. George William Wood, took place at that bo- rough on Tuesday ; when Mr. G. Bentinck, the Conservative, and Mr. Warburton, the Liberal candidate, were duly proposed.

For his political opinions, Mr. Bentinck referred the electors to his published address ; but he further avowed himself a supporter of the present Ministry. He pronounced the country to be already in a more prosperous state than it had been during the ten years of the Whig rule ; though he did not say that in two years it had been possible to render it perfectly prosperous : that was a difficult if not an impossible task ; and the only persons who would promise to accomplish it were the Whigs. Mr. Bentinck claimed for the new Corn-law a fair trial ; and declared that mere free trade in foreign produce—free trade short of absolute freedom of export and import, allowed by foreign countries as well as this—would ruin the nation. Perfectly conscious of the abuses in the old Poor-law, he would rather return to that than continue the miseries of the existing system. After reprobating free trade and Corn-law repeal at some length, Mr. Bentinck concluded by remarking, that it was now dinner-time, and his hearers would relish their dinners better than discussion.

Mr. Warburton then addressed the electors. He censured a great family in the neighbourhood, [the Lonsdale] who already returned two Members of Parliament by their influence, for interfering in the borough. The contest was not personal, but one between the principle of protection and that of free trade—between the supporter of no parti- cular party, but a friend of popular rights, and an avowed supporter of the present Government. There was, however, some inconsistency between Mr. Bentinck and his friends ; for while he professed to sup- port Ministers who said that the principles of free trade were those of common sense, the speech of his proposer was all against free trade and in favour of monopoly. Mr. Warburton alluded to the ill success of Miniiters as exemplified in Ireland and Wales. While disavowing the imputation of being a Whig, he remarked that he helped to carry Penny Postage in spite of the Whigs. He alluded to the manner in which a clergyman of the place had attacked him for being an "Atheist," because he had objected in the House of Commons to a too frequent and familiar use of the name of the Deity ; an example of what might be anticipated if the education of the people were committed to the care of the Established Church.

The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Mr. Warburton, and a poll was demanded for Mr. Bentinck. The Liberals say that the Tories resorted to the utmost violences in beating-up recruits ; and the condition of a poor public-house landlord, who has lost an eye and suffered a concussion of the brain, attests the accusation : the Tories say that both parties were violent. At the close of the poll, on Thursday, the numbers were--for Warburton, 182; Bentinck, 119; majority for the Free-trader, 63.

Both parties are busy preparing for the election at Salisbury ; and the supporters of Mr. Campbell, the Conservative, and Mr. Edward Bonverie, the Liberal candidate, speak with equal confidence of the result. The League too are in the field: Mr. Cobden and Mr. Moore addressed a public meeting on Monday, expounding the views of the Free-traders in reference to the agricultural population. There seems, however, some misgiving as to the unmixed advantage of this support at Salisbury ; for we observe the Wiltshire Itylependent earnestly dc- daring that Mr. Bouverie is not "the nominee" of the League.

The Morning Chronicle has a general statement of the results of the Municipal Elections on the 1st instant. In seventeen towns the Liberals returned all their candidates—Arundel, Beverley, Birmingham, Congleton, Faversham, Gateshead, Kendal, Lyme Regis, Maldon, Man- chester, 31orpeth, Richmond, Rye, Scarborough, Thetford, Tiverton, Totnes ; in twenty-six towns they returned a majority—Andover, Barnstaple, Boston, Bridport, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Co- ventry, Derby, Doncaster, Dover, Hastings, Hull, Ilythe, Ipswich, Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle, Newport, Northampton, Norwich, Ponte- fract, Sheffield, Stafford, Sunderland, Worcester ; in seven towns equal numbers were elected—Bedford, Bridgewater, Durham, Kidderminster, Oxford, Stockport, Truro ; in fourteen, the Conservatives elected all their candidates—Bridgnorth, Chichester, Colchester, Grantham, Har- wich, Hertford, Lichfield, Ludlow, Shrewsbury, Sudbury, Warwick, Weolock, Wigan, Windsor ; the Conservatives returned a majority in fifteen towns—Bolton, Chester, Devonport. Exeter, Lincoln, Liverpool, Macclesfield, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Rochester, Southampton, Wells, Winchester, York.

Among the elections of Mayors, on the 9th, the two most notable facts are, the election of a Complete Suffragist at Birmingham, and the non-election of a Mayor at Liverpool. In the latter case, Mr. Sands was to have been nominated, apparently without opposition ; but some charges had been made against him and other merchants, of defrauding the town-dues, by calling bales "trusses" and cases " boxes " ; and until those charges be disposed of, he declined to be put in nomi- nation. In order to an inquiry, the Town-Council adjourned till next Tuesday.

On Monday evening, a crowded meeting was held at the Mechanics Institution, Wolverhampton, to memorialize the Queen to dismiss her Ministers. The speakers referred to the conduct of the Ministers towards Ireland ; where they had, it was alleged, violated the constitu- tional liberty of the subject, and where they were employing the taxes levied from the English, and particularly the Income-tax, in suppress- ing liberty. The speeches were loudly applauded; and resolutions dis- approving of the conduct of the Ministers, and memorializing the Queen to dismiss them, were almost unanimously agreed to.—Morning Chronicle.

Mr. Thomas Attwood has promulgated his plan for restoring the country to prosperity and happiness. It is introduced in the Birming- ham Journal by a letter, dated the 26th October, from Mr. Attwood "to the sixteen thousand inhabitants of Birmingham who signed the requisition presented to me by a deputation of forty, on the 29th of last month." He remarks, that the great alterations in the corn and provision laws have given a prodigious accession of strength to the public cause. Those alterations "have produced the disturbances in Wales and the Repeal proceedings in Ireland ; and they are, at this

moment, rendering the payment of the rent of land literally impossible much longer in England, under our present taxation and our present monetary laws." " To use my old phrase, either the burdens must be cut down to a level with the means, or the means must be lifted up to a level with the burdens." " The little miserable improvement of trade which is now visible in some branches of industry, cannot possibly be permanent under our present laws." Another position advanced in the introductory letter is, that " all Governments, of whatever kind, or however composed, whether Republican, Despotic, or Limited, have a tendency to use the power of accumulated wealth in oppressing and defrauding productive industry." The plan itself, set forth at considerable length, is entitled "The National Union, or General Confederation of All Classes, to hold the Ministers of the Crown legally responsible for the welfare of the People." It starts with a number of positions, such as—that in the midst of superabundant productive powers, every branch of industry has suffered for many years ; that society in England is split into many opinions; that it is the duty of the Government to hold the balance between these opinions ; and that the distresses in Wales, Ireland, Scot- land, and England, are daily assuming a more alarming and threatening character. On such grounds the National Union is formed. Its sole principle is, "to hold the Ministers of the Crown legally responsible for the welfare of the people." The business will be managed by a Council in Birmingham ; but public meetings will be held elsewhere ; and men of undoubted prudence and integrity will be admitted to the Council. It is not lawful for the association to have branch societies, or affiliated bodies of any kind. The association will make no enemies, it repudi- ates all violence, will enter into no disputable points, and will propose no specific remedies ; leaving that for the responsible Ministers. " But we will not fail. We will put forth the peaceful powers which the con- stitution and the law have given to the people, and by the legal exercise of those powers we will carry hope and consolation into the hearts of despairing millions." A number of objects of political agitation are enumerated ; the result of such conflicting efforts being necessarily defeat and disappointment. The object is, to devise a plan in which all those classes with separate objects, without compromising their own views, may unite ; and therefore all classes are c tiled upon to support the Union, "when we insist upon it, by every peaceful and legal means, that the general prosperity and contentment of the people shall be the condition upon which the Government shall exist"—

" The Ministers of the Crown possess almost an unlimited influence over the House of Commons ; and through the legal power of that House and of the Crown, they possess an equal influence over the House of Lords. In fact, ex- perience has sufficiently proved that they exercise a kind of virtual despotism over both the Executive and Legislative functions of the nation. So long aa they do not trespass too strongly upon public opinion,they have power to carry whatever measures they please into a law. With this enormous and almost uncontrolled power ia their hands, and with the wonderful energy, skill, and industry of the people to support them, the Ministers ought, therefore, to be held responsible for the poverty and misery consequent upon bad legislation and mismanagement of public affairs. To assert that they have not the power to do justice to the people, in a country like this, is a libel upon the nation, and upon common sense. The constitution has made them responsible; and we we determined, that as far as in us lies, that responsibility shall no longer be an illusion, but a fact. Upon this strong ground of the constitution we take Our stand. We make no war upon any particular Minister. Those Ministers are our friends who make the people happy; no Ministers are our friends who make the people miserable. We enter into no disputes about Tories, Whigs, Radicals, and Chartists : these may be mere forms under which the oppression of the people is transferred into different hands. We only judge the tree by its fruits.'

To effect their purpose, the projectors of the association need a large proportion of the electors of the United Kingdom enrolled as its mem- bers, and a contribution of money, though not one-tenth of the sum (150,0000 demanded by the Anti-Corn-law League. With the elec- tors to support them, they can do everything ; without them, they can do nothing-

" The whole of these electors are' generally speaking, farmers, manufac- turers, merchants, shopkeepers, and traders, who have all of them undoubtedly suffered, for many years, wrongs and injuries of many kinds, at least equal to those which have been endured by their unhappy workmen. In many trades, for the last seven years, the wages of the workmen have been mainly paid out of the capital of their ruined and half-ruined employers. Throughout wide England, this bas been mainly the case. No mischief, indt ed, of any kind can possibly reach the working-classes, without first coming, as it were, through the very hearts of their employers. 'We cannot doubt, therefore, that the great majority of the electors of the United Kingdom are equally discontented with the nun-electors; and if we should conduct ourselves with prudence, justice, humanity, and strict legality, we can scarcely doubt that a majority of the electors of the United Kingdom, or at least a very large proportion of them, will very shortly be enrolled in support of our righteous cause. Then the majority of the House of Commons will be mainly under the influence of our confederation. Then we shall feel our strength, which is the strvigth of the people. We will not then direct our efforts against Sir Robert Peel. We will Scat go to him, and we will respectfully claim at his hands, and by his means the restoration of general prosperity and contentment to the people. If he should promise this in good faith, we shall be content. But if he should refuse to promise it in good faith, or if he should neglect forthwith to carry his promise into effect, we will instantly present ourselves at the foot of the Throne, and we will present innumerable petitions to our most gracious Queen, humbly and dutifully representing the sufferings and dangers of her faithful and loyal sub- jects, and most earnestly imploring her Majesty to dismiss Sir Robert Peel from his high and responsible office. We will present a similar mass of peti- tions to the House of Commons, humbly praying that they will grant no sup- plies whatever so long as Sir Robert Peel should continue in office. We will act by every succeeding Minister in a similar way. We will present thousands of petitions if necessary. We will incessantly petition and remonstrate with the Crown and with Parliament, until justice is done to the people. As far as the law, and the constitution, and the support of our countrymen will give us power, we will suffer no Ministers to govern England who are not both able and willing forthwith to give general prosperity and contentment to the people."

The address comprises some argumentation, but in such very general terms that it is difficult to abridge or even characterize. The following names are given as "the Council of the National Union "—Thomas Attwood, Thomas Chown Salt, William Deakin Whitehouse, William Haslewood Smith, George Jackson, Robert Smallwood, Joseph Bald- win, Isherwood Sutcliffe, John Feild, Isaac Hollingshead, Henry Hulse, William Spicer, William Docker, Thomas Sturland, George Nicholls, Henry Sansum, Thomas Mackay, Joseph A. Lander, William Lowe, George Horton, Joseph Abbott.

The Commissioners of Inquiry into Welsh grievances have declined to admit newspaper-reporters ; for reasons explained to the reporter of the Times, on his asking admission- " I was politely informed by Mr. Frankland Lewis, the Chairman, on the part of the Commissioners, that having no desire whatever to make their in- quiry a secret one, but rather to court publicity, the Commissioners yet thought they would best arrive at information and at the truth without the presence of reporters for the public press, as in some cases parties would be deterred by the fear of publicity from giving full information, whilst in others persons would be prompted to make inconsiderate statements in the hope and expec- tation of seeing them in the newspapers. This esti, at present, the opinion of the Commissioners."

The three convicts under sentence of transportation have issued an affecting admonitory address-

" TO THE PUBLIC GENERALLY, AND TO OUR NEIGHBOURS IN PARTICULAR.

"We, John Hughes, David Jones, and John Hugh, now lying in Cardiff Gaol, convicted of an attack on Pontardulais turnpike-gate and the police stationed there to protect it, being now sentenced for transportation, beg earnestly to call on others to take warning by our fate, and to stop in their mad course before they fall into our condemnation. We are guilty, and doomed to suffer, while hundreds have escaped: let them and every one take care not to be deluded again to attack public or private property and resist the power of the law ; for it will overtake them with vengeance and bring them down to destruction.

"We are only in prison now, but in a week or two shall be banished as rogues, to be slaves to strangers in a strange land. We must go in the prime of life from our dear homes to live and labour with the worst of villains, looked upon as thieves.

"Friends, neighbours, all, but especially young men, keep from night-meet- ings, fear to do wrong, and dread the terrors of the judge. "Think of what we must, and you may suffer, before you dare to do as we have done.

"If you will be peaceable and live again like honest men, by the blessing of God you may expect to prosper ; and we—poor outcast wretches—may have to thank you for the mercy of the Crown ; for on no other terms than your goad conduct will any pity be shown to us, or others who may fall into our almost hopeless situation. "JOHN HUGHES.

DAVID JONES.

"Cardiff Gaol, 1st November. The mark X of JOHN Rocui."

"Witness, JOHN B. WOODS, Governor."

In some parts, the verdict against the prisoners excited animosity ; but there are evidences of a more salutary influence. A deputation of farmers, among whom were several relatives and friends of the prisoners tried by the Commission, waited upon Mr. Chambers junior, of blandly, on Friday, and exprebsed their anxiety for a restoration of tranquillity in the country ; and as an earnest of their feeling, offered to be sworn in as speci d constables to preserve the peace. Mr. Chambers appointed the following Tuesday for the swearing-in.

There is a report that another Special Commission is to be appointed after term, to try the Carmarthenshire prisoners taken in Rebecca riots. Colonel Hankey has been sent down to act as Police Magistrate for those districts where there are no resident Magistrates. Ile was to be sworn of the commission of the peace for the three counties of Car- marthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan.

Twelve fires broke out early on the morning of the 2d instant at Llangwm and Cerig-y-Drnidion, in Denbighshire. Several barns, stables, and other out-houses, were destroyed, with some cattle ; and in one of the buildings a man was found dead. These fires would appear to have been the work of one incendiary, as the trace of a single man's footsteps was observed from farm-house to farm-house. It was remem- bered that a man of bad character had been lurking about the neigh- bourhood, and he had been heard to use threatening language towards the farmers. That person was taken up, examined before the Magis- trates, and committed for trial. He is a mauvais sujet, discarded by his nearest relatives, with whose farm he began his conflagration of vengeance ; and all the rest of the sufferers are more or less related to each other.