Mr. Thomas Attwood's resignation of his seat its the House
of Commons far Birmingham, is formally announced in a long letter to "the electors and inhabitants of the borough," published in the Bir- minglum Journal this morning. Mr. Attwootc deals with many important questions, foreign and domestic, and especially his favourite currency crotchet. Inability to effect changes which he deems essential to the welfare of his country. is the cause assigned for his retirement- " For seven years I have toiled on under the influence of the riehteons hope that I might probebly be of service in assisting to restore real and permanent prosperity to the industrious classes, and real and :solid liberty to the people. All my hopes have been disappointed. I have found it latterly impossible to do any good to my country be honest means, either within the walls of Parlia- ment or without the walls df Parliameet."
Mr. Attwood's resignation was known in Birmingham on Thursday morning ; and immediately measures were adopted by a numerous body of influential electors to secure the return of Mr. George Frederick Muntz. That gentleman. as we learn from the Birmingham Journal, had been applied to a month ago by Sir. Attwood, to become his successor, laut declined. Subsequently, however, he promised to stand if no other candidate to keep out a 'Fory could be found. Mr. Muntz's friends contend that Mr. Sturge would not answer that purpose ; and the Journal avers " the mass of electors would not support Mr. Sturge- they would not vote for a Tory, but neither would they vote for him." The return of Mr. Muntz is considered certain by the :Journal ; but we see no symptoms that Mr. Sturge's friends have given way ; and in the mean while, Mn'. Allen, a barrister on the Oxford Circuit, announces his determination to go to the poll on the Whig interest. Colonel Thomp- son also is now at liberty to stand, if he likes.
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