PREPARATIONS FOR THE GENERAL EUECTION.
ENGLSND.
Bartnunx. Mr. Alderman Sidney, according to the Globe, is a candidate for Banbury, in opposition to Mr. Tancred. DEvorfroitT. A fourth candidate, in the person of Sir J. H. Maxwell, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, possessing considerable estates in Scotland, including the famed Gretna Green, arrived on Saturday. He is a supporter of Lord Derby, and an opponent of Maynooth. FINSBURY. Mr. Wakley has resigned all pretensions to the future re- presentation of Finsbury, on the ground of ill-health and pressure of other engagements.—Daily News. inwioll. Captain Warburton, now in command of the Artillery at Languard Fort, has accepted a Liberal requisition to stand.
Kuser's LYNN. Mr. Pashley withdraws his claims on York city, and stands for this borough, on Liberal invitation.
OXFORD UNIvEnsrrr. The Reverend R. Greawell, as Chairman of Mr. Gladstone's Oxford Committee, wrote on the 18th instant to Dr. Wynter, as Chairman of Dr. Marsham's Oxford Committee, suggesting that the sense of the University constituency had now been proved .beyond ques- tion to be opposed to any alteration of the representation of the University. Mr. Greswell submitted that an extensive canvass was known to have pro- duced only 421 non-resident and 44 resident objectors to the reelection of Mr. Gladstone ; while on the other side a counter-declaration had already been signed by 1261 names, a greater number than polled or paired for Mr. Gladstone in 1847, and a number that will be still largely augmented. Dr. Wvnter replied, that all the circumstances of the case had been considered, ana that Dr. Marsham's Committee did not feel warranted in discontinuing their exertions towards the object they had in view. STaoun. Mr. Mere weather Turner retires from the canvass; still leaving four candidates in the field—Lord Moreton, (Liberal and Free-trader,) Mr. Norton, (Radical, Free-trader, and Reformer,) Mr. Scrope, the sitting Mem- ber, (a Liberal Free-trader,) and Mr. Baker, a Conservative, who now declares against a return to Protection. -SUSSEX, EAST. Mr. Dodson, son of Sir John Dodson, the Judge, is a Free- trade and Liberal candidate.
WESTMINSTER. Lord Maidstone is mentioned as a candidate upon the Ministerial interest.
WLNDSOR. The Liberals have started a second candidate, Mr. Samson Ricardo of Titness Park ; and his chance of being returned along with Mr. Grenfell is very good. Their opponents, the Conservative Free-traders Lord Charles Wellesley and Captain Bulkeley, are said to get only lukewarm help from the defeated Mr. Vansittart.
' YORK. Mr. Pashley having retired, the sitting Members are now only threatened by Mr. Henry Vincent.
SCOTLAND.
CLACKMANNAN AND Ross. Mr. Johnstone of Alva is a candidate as an independent Member, in favour of maintaining Free Trade. EDINBURGH. There are now four candidates on the formal list : Mr. Cowan, sitting Member, the Lord Provost, Mr. M'Laren, and Mr. Macaulay. EIFiSIIIRE. We hear that an attempt is making to bring forward, as the Derbyite candidate for Fife, the Honourable Frederick Bruce, third son of the lath Earl of Elgin, and brother of the present Earl, the Go- vernor-General of Canada, in opposition to Mr. Fergus, the present popular and efficient Member.—Dundee Advertiser.
IN-morns Ruauns. The Inverness Courier understands that R. Hartley Kennedy, Esq., has abandoned the intention of contesting the representation of this district of burghs with the sitting Member. PEESLESSIIIRE. Mr. Forbes M'Kenzie is going to lose Liverpool, and in- tends to come back. The name of an aged nobleman connected with the county has been made use of as sanctioning this arrangement ; but that part of the story is incredible, and only to be regarded as a characteristically au- dacious ruse.—Scotsman.
IRELAND.
BELFAST. A deputation has been started to London, with a requisition to Lord Castlereagh signed by 850 electors. [Mr. Robert Tennent was elected at the last contested election by 929 votes.] Duaux Couxrry. It is reported that the Defence Association have got a candidate in the person of Mrpo. Michael Errington, of Kingstown, an English gentleman of great wealth, the bosom friend of Archbishop M'Hale, and a Most devoted child of the Roman Church.
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