ELECTION TALK.
BRIGHTON.—The Brighton Gazette challenges us to state where and when he praised Mr. Crawfurd as a Tory. Our contemporary is face- tious. Why, in the same Number in which he makes this demand, he praises Mr. Crawfurd outrageously as a Tory. To be sure, he calls the Tories by their new name. If a verbal quibble be all he aims at, we have no objection to his making the most of it he can. His laugh at our enumeration is fair. We were heartily disposed to join in it, when the blunder was set before us in his pages. We could explain the cause, but it is not worth while.
DEVONSIIIRE.—Lord John Russell and John Crocker Baited, Esq. (son-in-law of Earl Grey), will be proposed as members for the Southern Division of Devon ; and Lord Ebrington, and the Honourable Newton Fellowes, for the Northern Division. —Plymouth Journal.
KENT. —A meeting of the freeholders of the Western division of Kent will be held at 1Vrotham on Friday the 27th, which the present members, Messrs. Hodges and Ryder, have promised to attend.
111ARYLEE0NE.—On Thursday evening, a meeting of the friends of Mr. Portman took place at the Café Colosseum, New Road—Mr. S. Vigors in the chair ; when a Conunittee was formed for securing the return of Mr. Portman. Mr. Blakeman, on introducing Mr. Port- man, said he was the best of all the candidates that had hitherto been proposed for Marylebone. He had from the commencement of his Parliamentary career been an advocate of Reform ; in 1823 he sup- ported Lord John Russell, and he had for a long time been favourable to a property-tax. Mr. Portman, who was present, said, he had yielded to the solicitations of his friends in coming forward. If he had merely consulted his own feelings, he should have retired from Parliament altogether.
OLDIfAlL—Mr. Cobbett, in his Register of this day, tells us be has just received an invitation to stand for Oldham ; and that he has an almost certain chance of being elected for Manchester and for Preston; and lie is not sure that he will not Offer for his native place, West Surry. If chosen for all the three towns, he will prefer Oldham to Preston, and Manchester to Oldham. We are not so sanguine on the subject as Mr. Cobbett, and shall therefore be content to see him elected for any of the three ; and of the three, we should prefer Preston. He ought certainly to sit for some place or other.
PRESTON.—Mr. Hunt made his public entry into Preston on Thurs- day the 12th.- He was welcomed by a numerous and irregular proces- sion of his motley constituents. He afterwards addressed the crowd from the windows of the Grey Horse Inn. In the course of his speech, having made a great many very-pointed allusions to his former friend and supporter Mr. Mitchell, Mitchell was called on to answer the member. He entered, in consequence, into an examination of Hunt's Parliamentary conduct ; which he criticized in so severe a style, that the member was not long able to bear with it. The correspondent of the Sun says., that Hunt having put himself in a boxing attitude, struck Mitchell, and knocked him down. That there was a breach of the peace committed or threatened, is evident ; for, next day, Hunt was brought up before the Mayor of Preston, and bound over to keep the peace for twelve months, himself in 201., and two sureties (a shuttle- maker and a "chigger") in 10/. each.
SUFFOLK, EAST.—Among the candidates for this division, is Mr. Fitzgerald, the member for Seaford. Goldsmith's vagabond thanks Heaven, tl ouei he is poor, he is not humble. The Antis can equally thank Beat en, that if their deserts be small, their modesty is not. The claims of Mr. Fitzgerald to the suffrages of the new electors and the Reformers of the old are these—He voted against the second reading of the first Bill in March last year; he voted against Ministers on Ge- neral Gascoyne's motion; he did not vote for the second or for the third reading of the second Bill; he did not vote for Lord Ebrington's mo- tion of the 10th October; he did not vote for the second reading of the third Bill, or in any one of the important divisions that took place in the course of its progress; he did not vote for Lord Ebrington's motion on the 10th Maj. Whenever Reform has been in jeopardy, he has abandoned its side; it is only when it required neither his aid nor his countenance that he has encumbered it with his vote. Yet this gentle- man now comes forward to ask the suffrages of the Suffolk Reformers! A correspondent of the Suffolk Chronicle advises them to give plumpers to Mr. Shawe, the Liberal candidate : divide them, we say, with the town-crier of Ipswich rather. If the Reformers are numerous enough to carry one, they are numerous enough to carry two ; and two votes are as easily given as one, and they cost no more. They can be at no loss for men. If they cannot get them at home, let them seek them abroad. Let them never forget that Whig, Radical, high, low, rich, poor, any thing, is preferable to a trimmer. Where is Mr. Archdeckne ?
TOWER HAMLETS —A meeting of the members of the Council of the Bethnal Green Political Union took place on Thursday night, at the Camden Head, Bethnal Green Road ; when it was agreed that a general meeting of the members of the Union should be called for the
31st instant, for the purpose of considering the best means of pro- moting the election of two fit persons to represent them in Parlia- ment. Dr. Lushington and Mr. Clay, and the other candidates, are invited to attend.
YORK.—Toryism is nearly extinct in Yorkshire. For the city, Mr. D'undas, one of the present members, and the Honouiable E. Petre, the unsuccessful candidate at the election in 1830, have declared their determination to offer themselves again. The Tories, it is said, cannot induce any one to come forward in their interests ; neither is there a Tory candidate for any of the Ridings nor any of the new boroughs, with the exception of Whitby and Leeds. —Morning Herald.
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