ELECTION MOVEMENTS. ELECTION MOVEMENTS.

BATii. The Whig Captain Scobell, finding he has no chance, and having done all the mischief in his power to the popular candidates, has retired.

BIRMINGHAM. The Tory friends of Mr. Stapleton are active; but they may as well spare their breath and cash—their man has no chance. Flom the Birmingham Journal we learn, that certain licensed victual- lers, having clubbed together to aid his return, complain of coercion by the non-electors ; who, it seems, will not drink Tory beer. But the non-electors, says the Journal, do not interfere to make a Tory vote fee a Reformer; they only say that men who profess to be Reformers, to get the custom of the non-electors, ought not to vote for the Tory candidate. This is the extent of the interference. It is very easy t6 escape from this species of coercion by a proclamation of the real politics of the voter. Let him call himself a Tory, and he will be let alone—and his beer. The Reformers, adds the Journal, will publish the poll-book, in order to ascertain who are the Tories : of this men cannot complain who object to secret voting and oppose the Ballot. REAUMARIB. There will be no opposition to Captain Paget.

BRIGHTON. Elliot, the Radical, retires; and now Pedal and Brigney will probably be reelected.

BURY. Mr. Sergeant Spankie has put forth a sly and well- writtes address to the electors. Referring to the boast of the Whigs that the Queen has sanctioned their policy, the Sergeant says- " It must be manifest to the moat ordinary understanding, whatever the pre. sent Ministers may insinuate and circulate to the contrary, that having merely

chanced to hold office at the time of the late King's death, they continue to

hold the badges of power but provisionally till the advice of Parliament sad the sense of the people shall guide the judgment of our youthful Queen in the choice of her servants. The appointments which have taken place are elm viously provisional. The circumstances of the case utterly exclude all inference of deliberate selection."

BOLTON. Mr. Ashworth has finally refused to stand; and the Liberals have prevailed upon Mr. Knowles, of Eagley Bank, to oppose the Tory, Mr. Bolling.

BEDFORDSHIRE. The Tories will make an effort to displace Lord Charles Russell and engross the representation of the county. Mt. Thornton Astell is their second candidate along with Lord Allow'. 2..1 CUMBERLAND. Sir James Graham is supported by the Tories ; end the large landed property held by himself and his friends makes bite formidable. The Morning Chronide says- ,' In estimating the extent of the efforts which the honest yeomanry of East Cumberland are now called upon to make, let our readers bear in mind that Sir James Graham has himself an estate of 30,000 acres of land in the division; that he has two extensive manors in a remote part of it, which give him the entire control over the votes of his copyhold and customary tenants, who are numerous, and who, in strict accordance with the feudal feelings of former limes, look on their votes to be as much the property of their laird as the wood on their farms. Let our readers also bear in mind, that Lord Lonedale has large possessions in East Cumberland, and that the domains of Lowther Castle abut upon it ; that Sir George Musgrave, of Eden Hall (who is married to a sister of Sir James Graham), and MI. Resell, of Dalemain, also connected by marriage with the Baronet's family, are both men of large estate and possessed of much person ii influence ; that Sir Wastel Reiser), heretofore a Liberal, is said to be canvassing most zealously for the Baronet from a feeling of old family friendship ; that the Bishop of Carlisle lives in the division, and has extensive possessions in it, who, with the whole of the clergy (some few bright examples only excepted), will not be wanting in their efforts ; that the present High. Sheriff, Sir Francis Vane, is a Tory, and the owner of a considerable estate ; that Sir Henry Rom J. H. Graham, Esq., of Edmond Castle, and a number of other gentlemen whose names we could mention, all live in the division, and are exerting themselves to the uttermost, both by night and by day. Now, is opposition to this fearful array of power the honest yeomanry and statesman of East Cumberland have but little to look to beyond their own efforts. A more independent or intelligent set of nien are not to be found in the whole world; but to enable them to win the battle gallantly, they must be assisted, for they are not rich ; and they are well entitled to he so from the spirited manner ia which they have undertaken the punishment of this greatest of all offenders."

A subscription to aid the independent Reformers is advertised. We begin to fear the result of this contest. With the Ballot there would be no cause for anxiety.

CARNARYON. Mr. Bulkeley Hughes, a Tory, is the sole candidate. Where is Sir Love Parry?

COVENTRY. Mr. Ellice and Mr. Williams are engaged in an active canvass, and will almost certainly be elected. Mr. Morgan Thomas, it appears, offered himself as a Liberal to the electors of Cambridge in 1832, and a month afterwards came out as a Tory in Coventry. We hear nothing this week of Mr. Bell.

CHATHAM. The Tory Beresford has withdrawn, and Captain Byng will be returned.

CHESTER. The Honourable James Ryder, son of Lord Harrowby, has at length appeared as the Tory candidate. CameninGE. Mr. Spring Rice and Mr. Pryme canvassed the elec- tors last week ; and Mr. Rice delivered a long speech to the members of the Reform Association, and others, assembled at the Hoop Inn. As Mr. Rice may be supposed to express the intentions of Govern- ment, we give some extracts from his harangue.

The simple motto of Lord Grey's Government was contained in three words —Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform. They were approaching now the seventh year since Lord Grey first undertook the administration of affairs. They were now approaching that period which the artisan of this country adopts as the term of an apprenticeship. " If I have served those seven years honestly and faithfully, if I have zealously fulfilled my duty, receive me again among yon— do not cast me forth as an indolent servant who has abandoned his trust. Eng- land has remained at peace. Retrenchment we have prosecuted to the utmost; we began upon our own salaries—We reduced those salaries, and then, and then only, did we feel di posed to apply that principle to others. We reduced mils- lions in the public expenditure, and then performed Melly our duty to the people of England, by ',tidying the amount to the reduction of an onerous taxation." It was, to be sure, a circumstance which did not admonish so strongly at this season of the year as in winter ; but when Christmas comet., and the cold winds remind us of the comforts of a warm hearth. they would do well to think that it was the Whig Ministers who relieved the fuel from taxation. lf, again, as the hours of Hight and heaviness approach, when they returned home to their families with joy at the thought of beholding their wives and children in do- mestic comfit' t, they would reflect that it was by the light of a candle that they saw them—a candle taxed by the Tories, but relieved ftom that tax by the present Govetninent. Young men, if they were posses,ed of a sweetheart, whom they wish to please by the purchase of a new gown, would think again that they bought it at a price much reduced by the U'Irig Government, though taxed by the Tories for the purpose of carrying on iniquitous wars. And yet, how have these men been calumniated—how have they been misrepresented— how have they been called renegade Whigs, apostate Whigs—how hove they been placarded upon the walls, their names sung in the streets till the vile echoes have been heard from corner to corner, and treated as enemies to their country !

After some more self-glorification, Mr. Rice defended the new Poor-law, and then went on to speak of the Ballot— He need not tell them, that if there were one man in any degree more soli- citous than another to preserve liberty and independence to the voter, in the performance of a great and important trust—to discountenance those who would dare to influence hun improperly in the execution of that public duty—if there were ono man note anxious than another to do this, it was the humble indi- vidual then berme them. He had been told, that if the ballot were introduced into the town of Cambridge, three out of four of its constituency would record him their votes. " Then it is for my political interest that the ballot should be introduced—every personal motive on my part must be inlisted in the sue. cess of the ballot. lf, then, my own interest be involved therein—if by differ- ing with you upon this point, I subject myself to obloquy, to contradiction, to denial, smad to great ditfieulty—you will allow at least that I do so from the purest motives—that I dissent from you upon the strongest conscientious eon. victim' that the ballot would not be productive of the result which is artici. posed. The poiot, then, upon which we differ is this—it is the opinion of many present that the ballot would be the beat and the safest mode whereby the liberty of the voter could be protected ; but until I em persuaded that this is the beet remedy agaiost the evil of corruption and intimidation—until I am persuaded of this fact, I cannot give it my support ( Cries of " Hear, hear ! " and murmurs.) You are already acquainted with my opinion upon this sub- ject ; I have before expressed it to you ; there is no change in me on this par- ticular subject. I do not believe that this secret voting would be an adequate protection to the voter ; and in proof of this, in countries where it has been resorted to already, intimidation has been used, and bribery has existed in all its various ious methods; and if generally introduced, I believe the character of our voting in this country would be thereby injured, and society entirely divided, if the community at large had not the power of knowing and of judging how others acted in this important duty. And not only so, but the prorection afforded would not be e,Iliealent—exposure would be continually taking place, and punish. intimidations, ntimidations, and a numerous train of unlooked-for evils would follow. What then would become of the friends now surrounding me, supposing that we had the ballot now ? This a meeting of Reformers—a Reform Association : each by his presence would expose himself, and by one cheer or single hurrah, draw down upon himself the displeasure of a landlord or probably render him- self obnoxious to his employer; and the remedy would be worse than the disease."

Fine talk, Mr. Rice ; but everybody believes that if Lord Melbourne made up his mind to concede secret suffrage, your conscience would allow you to advocate and support that as easily as any other Govern- ment measure : as for your arguments against the Ballot, they have been refuted a thousand times over. The secret of your opposition is, that the Ballot is not yet a Cabinet question, or even an open one. Praise of the Church, and a defence of the House of Peers, occupied the re- mainder of Mr. Rice's speech. We have seen no report of Mr. Pryme's.

The Tories are very active for Knight and Sutton, and declare that they are sure of turning out Mr. Pryme.

DURHAM CITY. The Whigs will let in Mr. Arthur Trevor, rather than split their votes with a Radical. The Durham Chronicle says-

" We do not hesitate to declare our unalterable conviction, that the Con- servative candidate will owe his good fortune to the conduct of the immediate personal friends of Mr. Harland, in obstinately resisting all approximation to that good understanding with the supporters of Mr. Granger, which, instead of studiously preventing, it was their bounden duty, as Reformere, to have sealously promoted by every means in their power. They have neglected that duty, for no other purpose we can discover or conceive, than that of gratifying a personal predilection on the one hand and a personal antipathy on the other ; placing these considerations above the propriety of maintaining their principles, and encrificing their remaining pretensions to consistency for reasons that cannot be asowed or justified."

Mind this, Radicals. The same game has been played at Bath and elsewhere, slyly, we have no doubt—perhaps even in Middlesex ! DURHAM. Lord William Powlett, who was put in nomina ion by the Tories for the Southern Division, has backed out; and his party talk of Lord Encombe.

DEVONSHIRE. Mr. Newton Fellowes has consented to stand for the Northern Division, but is in ill health, and will not canvass. The Tories are pretty sure to gain a Member here. On the other band, it is said that Mr. Bulteel's canvass proceeds triumphantly, and that be will turn out " Silly Parker." But without the Ballot we do not believe that the Reformers will keep their promises. Why should they do that for Mr. Bulteel which they would not or could not do for Lord John Russell ? Has there been any shifting of property from Tory to Whig hands since the last election ? If not, we see no reason to anti- cipate that the Tory majority of 627 votes will be broken down. At one of the meetings of the Whig canvassers at Plymouth last week, Mr. G. W. Soltan, a Magistrate for the town and county, and chair- man of Lord John Russell's Committee at the last election, announced that the influence of Government would be exercised on behalf of Lord Ebrington and Mr. Fellowes. After mentioning the Tory acts of intimidation, Mr. Soltan is reported to have said— The Reformers, under these circumstances, had but one course to pursue, and that was to adopt the same plan. (" No, no ! ") He had no wish to influence the tradesmen, but they must single out, as the especial objects of their hatred and detestation, those gentlemen who were in the receipt of pay from the Go- vernment, and who were using their influence against that Government. He wished those gentlemen and the public generally to know, and he had authority for saying it, that the Government intended in future to pursue a different line of conduct; and that those receiving pay from the country, who use their in. fluence in opposition to her Majesty's present Government, must not expect in future to receive any favour from that Government. He had no doubt that when this was generally known, many who were now wavering would join the standard of their present Members. FINSBURY. Mr. Duncombe and Mr. Wakley will not escape a con. test. Mr. Dudley Montague Perceval, second son of Spencer Per- eeval, is put forward by the Tories ; who havepromised to pay his ex- penses. We presume that he has no chance of even a large minority. On Thursday, Mr. Perceval addressed a party of his friends at the Freemason's Tavern : he delivered a feeble, prosy speech ; avowed himself a Conservative by birth, feeling, and education ; and apologized for not entering fully into the discussion of political questions, on the plea that he ought to be canvassing—" minutes (he said) are votes, and time is our greatest enemy."

ALMOUTH AND PENRYN. Captain Plumridge, Lord Minto's lucky relative, has been called upon to stand with Sir Robert Rolfe ; Mr. Freshfield is also a candidate. It is said that Rolfe, as well as Freshfleld, would have gladly kept another candidate out of the way; but how would the Penryn worthies like that ? GLAMORGANSHIRE. Mr. Guest, though sure of his election for Merthyr Tydvil, opposes Lord Adare for the county ; with, we should imagine, a doubtful prospect of success. HORSHAM. The Tories declare that their candidate, Mr. Broads wood, will surely beat Mr. Hurst.

Hutt. Mr. Hutt has been most cordially received, and has issued an admirable address to the electors. The following passage, on the postponement of organic reform, and the advantage of pushing practical

questions, marks the cooling that has taken place since this time last year. " Supposing the organic questions postponed for a season, yet the very circum- stance which causes that delay—the presumed patriotism of our new Sovereign,

and the removal of obstacles which have impeded the cause of reform during the last two or three years—affords an opportunity of accomplishing many prac-

tical administrative improvements, of which the effect would at once come home to the business and bosoms of all men. If we are to postpone the organic quay. tione, because at the moment impracticable, we may at least take up those of popular education, law reform, and local courts, the removal of restrictions oil our manufactures and trade, the opening in our colonies of new fields of profit. able commerce, the improvement of our means of communication, and eape.siany of that most important department—the administration of the I'ost Office, and the regulation of our monetary system upon sound and secureprinciplNicii principles. Thre n. are only a few examples of that sort of administrative improvement volves no organic or constitutional change. Whether such improvement can be obtained without further organic change, will soon be determined. To the ex. periment, at least every thing is favourable. I confess to you that my hopes are not equal to my wishes ; but if the end should come by other means than those on which I have hitherto relied, I shall rejoice in acknowledging that I was mistaken. If it should be otherwise—if we should not presently obtain from a Government able to carry its measures those practical Improvements which are the only legitimate aim and end of organic changes, then shall I be disposed—as I hops the country will—to spare no effort for rendering the Legislature more and more responsible to the people, until the happiness of all classes, so far as it depends upon good government, shall be permanently secured."

HYTHE. Captain Beresford opposes Lord Melgund, and the Tories say, will certainly beat him ; but this we do not believe.

KENT. Mr. Law Hodges will have difficulty in maintaining his ground in the West Division, against the united forces of Sir William Geary and Sir Edmund Filmer. At the last election the Tory can. didate polled .500 votes more than the Whigs. Mr. Rider opposes Mr. Plumptre in East Kent.

LONDON. The nomination of the candidates for the City takes place to-day ; the polling will begin at eight o'clock on Monday morning, and terminate at four in the afternoon. There is no doubt of the suc- cess of the four Liberal candidates ; although the Tories, it appears from a statement in the Times, will use the most strenuous efforts to eject Mr. Grote, as the most formidable by far of their opponents,—a suffi. cient reason why the Liberal voters should make Mr. Grote's return their especial care. The Globe says that the result of the canvass proves that Palmer will poll fewer votes than the Tory candidates at former elections.

The Liberals bad a meeting on Wednesday evening, in the George Hall, Aldermanbury; attended by Mr. Grote, Alderman Wood, Mr. Pattison, and Mr. Crawford. Each of the candidates addressed the meeting; but Mr. Grote, as usual, carried off the palm. We subjoin a few extracts.

It was his great anxiety that the Members returned to Parliament should re- present the feelings of the people at large ; that they should carry into Purlia. went a sentiment of obligation, and a bond of duty never to be severed, to- wards that people from whom they sprang and into whose bosom they must return. It was his great anxiety that no man should appear within the walls of Parliament who was not animated by such sentiments as he knew to prevail among the great bulk of the people. It had been with that view, and for the purpose of securing beyond all dispute a free and disembarrassed opinion to every elector, that he had so earnestly advocated the adoption of the vote by ballot. ( Great cheering.) Those who had not read the evidence taken be. fore the Bribery and Intimidation Committee could have no idea of the fright- ful extent to which intimidation had been used in many parts of the kingdom, for the purpose of coercing the votes of electors. it appeared to him that the only remedy for the evil was the Ballot. ( Cheers.) The Reform Act, great as it was—and no man set a greater value upon it than he did, for he would have perilled his life that it should have been carried—but the Reform Act still restricted the constituency to something more than one tenth of all the male adults in the kingdom : therefore he should not consider the Reform Act com- plete, until the suffrage was extended to householders generally. (Cheers.) He also most heartily desired that Triennial Parliaments should become the law of the land.

He had uniformly supported Ministers when they brought forward Reforming measures— He bad supported the Irish Corporation Bill; he had supported a still better bill—the English Municipal Bill—the very best measure that Lord hIelbourne's Ministry had introduced. He had supported a measure for reforming the Irish Church ; and he had supported it especially on account of the principle it in- volved, only regretting that that principle was not carried further—of an ap. propriation of the surplus revenues of that Church. He had supported the Ministry in many other measures ; and he would then only add, that his sup. port of them would have been much more hearty and unqualified if their career had been more vigorous and animated in the cause of reform; for it had not been without regret that he had felt himself compelled on more than one occasion to appear in decided opposition to them ; and much he wished that the present favourable position of Lord Melbourne's Government might enable that noble lord to get rid of some of those lukewarm and backward auxiliaries whose association with the Ministry had retarded and crippled the progress of those reforms which the improved intellectual condition of the people rendered necessary. He generally approved of the Poor-law ; and was sorry that on this point he should differ from any of his constituents, but he could not change his opinion—

He would state, however, that there was one part of the new Poor-law of which be entirely disapproved, and of which he had expressed his disapproba- tion before the bill passed—he alluded to the clause in the Act which sanctioned plural voting for the Board of Guardians. He was opposed to that provision of the bill upon principle ; and if the motion which Mr. Wakley had brought forward for the repeal of it had been persevered in, he should certainly have supported it. It had been said that he had declined to present a petition to the House of Commons which was tendered to him by a party in the city of Lou' don who disapproved of the bill. He did not hesitate to say that that state- ment was wholly unfounded. He had never declined to present any such peti- tion—never, since he had been a Member of Parliament, had he declined to present any petition, provided it was respectfully worded, whether it coincided with his own opinions or not. LAMBETH. The nomination will be on Monday, and the polling on Tuesday. There is little doubt of the reelection of the late Members.

Mr. Baines gave an account of his Parliamentary conduct ; but we have seen no report of his speech. He was cordially received by the vast majority.

Sir William Alolesworth, whose speech has been sent to us printed

separately as a hand-bill, then addressed the meeting. He had not, like the Members who preceded him, any account to render to the electors of Leeds ' • but be could refer to his support of popular mea- sures as Member for East Cornwall; and he would pledge himself to act on the same principles if returned for Leeds. Sir William then recounted several of his votes.

" Upon some of those votes, to which I attach the most importance, I shall now comment. About the beginning d this session, I moved for leave to bring in a bill for the abolition of the property qualification for Members of Parlia- ment. I did so because I thought that the intelligent electors of this great country are perfectly qualified to select a proper person to be their representa-

tive, and that the free choice of such men is a better test of the intellectual fit- ness of an individual to be a Member of Parliament than any amount of pro- petty he may possess. (Loud cheers, mingled with some hisses:,) The Blues

hiss this opinion, probably because they consider themselves incompetent to select a representative. (A laugh.) I will not dispute this point as far as they are concerned, but only as far as you are concerned, I am convinced you

will prove that you are so qualified by electing me; and thus we shall have the satisfaction, as I said before, of making the Billies look still bluer than they

are. (Much laughter and cheers.) Gentlemen, you are well acquainted with by opinions with regard to the extension of the suffrage. With a view to the attainment of that object, I voted first for a repeal of the Rate-paying clauses, which deprive no many intelligent electors of their votes. Unable to obtain this measure, I supported the Government plan for extending the period of the pay- ment of rates, which, if carried, would have considerably augmented the town

constituencies. What, you may ask, has become of that bill ? The Blues will tell you : it went to the House of Lords, and there it was mangled by the Tory Peers, who told us that the People had already as much political power ae they ought to possess, and therefore they should not receive any more. 1 regret ex-

ceedingly that the motion of my honourable friend the Member for Middlesex, for an extension of the franchise to all householders, did not come under the con- sideration of the House, as I should certainly have supported that measure. Indeed, upon general principles, I am favourable to an extension of the suffrage. It has ever appeared to me that there is more danger on the side of limiting, than the side of extending the suffrage. For the possession of the elective franchise interests the elector in the concerns of the community. He considers himself to be a part and portion of the ruling power; he looks upon the laws of his country us mantles to which he has in• directly given his assent ; and when he disapproves of an act of the Legislature, he considers it as the deed of a majority whom he cannot resist—a majority who, though to-day against him, may possibly to-morrow be with him. Thus I contend, that the possession of the elective franchise tends to inculcate notions of duty, notions of order, and feelings of obedience to the laws; whilst on the other band, the limitation of the franchise divides the community into two por- tions of electors and non-electors, the rulers and the ruled ; and the hater are too often, and in my opinion sometimes unjustly, inclined to consider that the electors do not pursue, as much as they ought to do, the interests of the whole community. 'These are the great principles on which I am in favour of an ex- tension of the suffrage. At the same time, the amount of that extension may depend upon two circumstancee—upon the real demand amongst the active

portion of the community, and upon the knowledge and intelligence which exists amongst the mass of that community. On these grounds, therefore, I should at present vote for an extension of the suffrage to all householders. But in addition to the legal claim to the suffrage, the elector should have the power of freely exercising it; and this can only be effected by the vote by ballot, the next great question which most materially interests the elector. Each day and each hour of my political existence, more and more fully convinces me of the imperious necessity of the ballot ; and I am convinced that each of the ap- proaching contested elections will augment the already superabundant mass of arguments in its favour, and produce in men's minds a practical conviction of its utility and paramount importance. The right honourable letionet hits alluded to the election for Westminster with feelings of triumph, as a great gain to the Tory came. Now, gentlemen, I will tell you how that election was gained. It was gained for the want of the ballot. ( Great cheering.) The city was full of Tory lords and Tory baronets, who possess a large amount of property, who had numerous tradesmen depending upon them ; and these lords and gentlemen went about asking and entreating, and forcing and obliging their shopkeepers to vote in favour of their candidate. This I know of my own knowledge; for I not only saw it, but shopkeepers came and told me themselves of the manner in which they had been pressed for their votes. I will tell you, gentlemen, how I acted towards Mr. Leader, who is one of toy most esteemed and intimate friends. When he asked me to canvass for him, I toll him 1 would speak for him, and do every thing in my power at public meetings, but that i had made a solemn rule never to ask one of my tradesmen for a vote."

He trusted that the Ministers, having now the Court in their favour, would move boldly onwards in the path of improvement- " Nu longer will the wishes of the People be thwarted by toe intrigues and caprices of the Court. In the removal of those obstacles to which I have alluded, the present Administration, with an increase of power, will have the fullest opportunity of convincing the People how really liberal their sentiments are. With additional strength, Ministers will now be able to bring Forward and carry measures of the greatest moment. I most sincerely trust that they will act in this 'flanker, and that they will gain both honour and renown. I must, however, observe, that with this increase of the facility of doing good, the responsibility of Ministers is materially augmented, and that if they du not now act with vigour and determination—if they do not now firmly unite with the People—their triumph will be of short duration, and they will be compelled

to succumb before the determined attacks of their opponents. • • • Impressed as I um with the necessity of certain constitutional reforms, neverthe- less, whilst I steadily pursue those ends, I am prepared to support Lord Mel- bourne's Administration in its legislative and administrative reforms. There is much to be dune for the relief of the People by good and cheap government. There is much to be done in the way of improvement, by affording cheap legis- lative redress—by establishing a good system of Local Courts, which would bring justice almost to every man's door. There is likewise another—the greatest of all great questions—the education of the people; to raise them in the social scale, to instruct them in the rights and duties of citizens, to teach them to distinguish between their real and apparent interests, and thus to qua- lify them for the exercise of that power which the irresistible progress of events is about to place in their hands. Here is a noble field of exertion for the Go- vernment. (Cheers, and hisses from the Blues.) Gentlemen, look at the Blues. They called on me to speak to them on that side; the first word I ut- tered was Education, and they hissed me! Hence judge of the liberality of their sentiments. I proposed to educate them in order to qualify them for the exercise of political power, and the Blues hissed! But, passing by this inter- ruption, I say, what a field of noble exertion there is for the Goverment on the subject of national education. I own I read with exceeding pleasure and satin. faction that portion of Lord John Russell's address to the electors of Stroud, in which he laid particular stress on the question."

A person here asked Sir William Molesworth, whether he would

add Christian instruction to his national education ? Sir William replied- " I have not the slightest hesitation in answering that question. I think that religion must and ought ht to be the basis of all good systems of education. (Immense cheering, and a faint Tory hiss.) But I mean no species of secta- rianism; I do not mean that the schools shall be wholly placed in the bands of members of the Church of England : what I mean is that l would have religion taught in such a manner as that the members of every Christian sect should be able to meet and be taught together. I know full well the insidious object w ith which that question was put to me. I know the disposition of the Tories to pad fault with the system of education in Ireland. I know the ridiculous stories which they are in the daily habit of circulating, and the strange doctrines %%loch are promulgated by my worthy diocesan (the Bishop of Exeter ), as I am sorry to call him."

Sir William then expressed his strong approbation of Lord Mul- grave's and Lord Morpeth's conduct in Ireland, by which they had de- served and secured the gratitude of millions-

" Whilst speaking of things which remain to be done, I must observe that much is still to be effected in the shape of improving the material condition of the people—by removing as h as possible all the odious taxes on industry; by extending the field of production and the market for labour and capital ; by establishing systematic emigration ; and by, first and above all things, repeal-

ing the wicked and accursed Corn-laws. (Loud cheers.) In no country ia

the world are the people more industrious than in this ; in no country is there a greater accumulation of capital; in no country are there greater facilities for obtaining the aid of elemental power ; in no country are the means of purchase inure neatly inexhaustible : yet the wages of labour and the profits of capital are low; and in some of the products of the loom and the printing -machine we are already undersold by our foreign rivals. This is partly occasioned by the taxation required for the support of the lavish expenditure in various de- partment's of the state. This 1 say is chiefly occasioned by the increased cost of the food of the woe kinan, the twilit of being obliged to have recourse to the inferior soils of the landed aristocracy, and by the prohibition of exchanging with other countries the products of our industry fur that food which we our- selves so much require, and which is their only means of purchase from us. I listened with attention to mine strange remark of the right honourable baronet on this subject. Ile said lie wished to make corn plentiful in this country : so do 1. And he said he had taken great pains to make corn plentiful, by doing-- what ? By hi itiging in hills for the enclosing of ',minions. (Much laughter.) Now, let us see. The common lands are watt inferior lands. It is conse- quently difficult to produce corn on them except at a high price ; and it is therefore only the great price of corn which enables the right honourable baronet to bring in this bill. If we only raised our corn upon our best and most productive soils—if we purchased the remainder of our corn by sending the products of our manufactures to other countries—to America and to Prussia,—we should then obtain cheap corn and an extended market for our manufactures. Thus the scheme of the right honourable baronet, together with the Corn-laws, can only answer the purpose of rendering profitable the cultivation of the worst lands."

It was said that the Melbourne Government was under the domina- tion of O'Connell and the Radicals: he wished to God it was more so; he wished, for instance, that they would not oppose the Ballot. (A cry

" Poodles 1 ")

" Some persons called out Boodles.' Now. to show the levity of the per sons on the other bide, in the midst of so serious a discussion as that in which we are now engaged—in time midst of a discussion of principles interesting to you all—the Blues think proper to call upon me to explain such a miserable farce as this. It is stated to the hill headed by the title to which I have before alluded, that in one of the largest club.) I was blackballed by 14 to I. (Lanyhtec. ) Why, until a copy of that bill was sent to me, I did not know that my t■ ae had ever been proposed in that club. That club is perfectly Tory; and if 1 I.• rum Vo my name hail been proposed, I should have withdrawn it, for 1 wo..aw ire that I had as much eliance of beiug elected as the right honour- able baronet would b.rve of being elected a member of Brookes 's or the Reform Club. ( Cheers, and hissing jram the Blues.) If 1 mileage not, we shall blackball those Blue gentlemen, and leave them in a miserable minority."

Sir William concluded Isis speech by an exhortation to the Reformers to be energetic and united.

A call being made for a show of bands, an immense majority indicated their preference of the Liberal candidates.

Lascasittitss The Earl of Derby throws all his interest into the scale of Mr. Townley and Mr. Stanley. The following letter, sent from his Lordship's head steward to his agent at Orinskirk, shows how the Derby tensaits must vote-

" Knowsley, lily 19.

" Mr Peet—Will you, as soon as possible, make it known to my Lord Derby's tenant'}, that his Lordship would 01 obliged if they will support the two new candidates, viz. Mr. Stauley and Mr. 'Townley.

" I am your uheilieut servant, ROBERT STATTER."

Mr. Townley lately declared himself opposed to the Ballot, be- cause it would be ease to bribe the man who kept the ballot-box! _By all means let this sag:oiotes person be returned by the Whigs : he is just fit, it would seem, to cheer Mr. Splint; Rice. 'fhe Liverpool Tde- graph spesks confidently of ejecting one of the Tory Members, pro- MI Mr. Wilbraham.

LISKEARD. Mr. Kekewich opposes Mr. Charles Buller.

Lsicssrsa. The Tory manufacturers having used intimidation towards their Radical wutkmen, several of the leading Liberals have announeed that they will find employment in their factories for all who are dismissed on account of their votes.

LICHFIELD. Sir Edward Scott, the Trimmer, has resigned; to be street.. .tied by Lord Alfred Paget. Ls •IINGTON. Mr. Samuel Gregson, an East India Director, op-, poss. the late NIembers, Mr. John Stewart and Mr. Mackinnon, on

the interest. The Tories say that Mr. Gregson is to spend a gr.: :it deal of money.

LINCOLN. Apparently there will be no contest for either Division of this county. Lord Wursley and Mr. Christopher will divide the representation of Lindsey • Mr. G. J. Heathcote and Mr. Henry Handley, two Moderate IVI■ies, (the first, indeed, a Doubtful,) will be elected for Kesteven and Holland.

Al RYLEBONE. At length the Tories have ventured to bring forward their candidate, Lord Teigtimouth, at a public meeting. His friends assembled on Thursday evening, in Lawson's Rooms, Gower Street. Lord leignmouth, ticcording to the Times, gave "a lucid explanation of his political sentiments ; " and denied the truth of a rumour that he bad coalesced with Mr. Hall—their politics were wide as the poles asunder. Confident statements of success were made by the can- vassers at this meeting; and unless some of the Radical candidates withdraw, the Tory Lord will probably be returned. The nomination is fixed for Monday. MtnosEssx. Mr. Hume has attended several meetings of bin friends this week, and put forth six or seven editions of his speech against the horrible Tories. Ile informed the electors of Chelsea, ow Thursday, that "the speech LIVID the Tbrone echoed the sentiment which had so long directed his political conduct," and that it was " as good and as Liberal a speech as be could have made himself." There's a compliment for the Queen! A very accommodating person Mr. flume seems to have become ; for, undoubtedly, there is not a word iu the Royal speech to which the horrible Tories would not say amen. Of Mr. Byng, Mr. Pownall, and Mr. Wood, we hear little, except that they are assiduously canvassing; and that Mr. Byng is not obv_ays anxious to parade his union with Mr. Hume. MAIDSTONE. Mr. Roberts gives up Maidstone, for the very suffi- silent reason, briefly given in the following address to his late con- stituents—

" A dissolution of Parliament having taken place, I beg to inform you it is sot my intention again to offer myself as a candidate to represent your borough. My determination has been grounded on the rooted aversion I feel to encounter, for the eighth time, the trouble and inconvenience of a contested election, and at the hazard of an expenditure no consideration shall induce me ever again to acne.

The Whigs will lose a vote here; as the two Tory candidates, Mr. Lewis and Disraeli the Younger, are sure of their election.

MIDHURST. Mr. Poyntz will be reelected on Monday. MERTHYR TYDFIL. Mr. Thomas Forman, an iron-master, is the Whig candidate to succeed Mr. Guest. A Mr. Bruce opposes him. MONTGOMERY. Mr. Penton Corbet is Lord Clive's candidate to oppose Colonel Edwardes. Mr. Corbet is a alack.brained Trimmer, and we hope that the Colonel will beat him. Mr. Pugh, the former Tory candidate, has been laid on the shelf', and is disgusted.

NORTHALLERTON. Mr. Edward Lascelles leaves Mr. Wrightson to walk over the course.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. Mr. Ord has again addressed the elec- tors; an I Mr. Burdon, late Member for Weymouth, has been asked to stand as the second Whig candidate, against Mr. Hodgson Hinde. NORWICH. Mr. Mountiford Nurse, and Mr. Benjamin Smith, late of Sudbury, have at length appeared as the Liberal candidates ; but we suspect that their dunces of success are scarcely worth calculating. Mr. Smith, who is an intelligent man, is a son of the William Smith who represented Norwich honestly and ably for many years. NEWARK. It is expected that Mr. Sergeant Wilde and Mr. Glad- stone will be returned without opposition. PONTEFRACT. Sir Culling Eardley Smith and Mr. Massey Stan- lev. supported by Mr. Gully's influence, oppose Mr. Mills and Lord Jocelyn. W e suspect that the Liberals have but a poor chance here, where money carries the day. On this point Sir Culling Smith spoke out very plainly to the head-money voters. He said- " Electors of Pontefract, if I wine to tell you that I hail received many pro- mises from the poorer class of voters, I should hi deceiving you, and as long as I have any thing to do with Poutefrart, I will never deceive you. 1 can say this, however, that it is perfectly clear to me, that if it were not for the 81. a vote that each of you are expecting, I should he your Menslier. I do not see why 1 should not spedk openly on the subject ; I am discharging a duty, and one for the pet fonnance of which you will mane tl ty thank me. Sly' fi ieuds, the money that you receive for your votes does you no pond ; and it would he a won- der if it did, considering how you come by it. It is the put chase. money of your honour—it is the price of your franchise—it is the porrli.tse•money of that which is not yours to sell. Oh, no, it dues you no good ; it raises the rent of your houses, and it brings a great many persons to live here who would not otherwise do so, and so It wets the rate of wages. But, even if we could not discern this effect, can you have one moment's doubt that the b'essing of God cannot be on such a system: It is wrong in the sight of God tied luau. But do I compare your share of the blame with the crime of those ti Ito hold out the inducement ? Not for a moment. I can understand a pour matt's feelings when such a SUM of money is withiu his reach. Why, a single vote will nearly pay his rent, and a plumper will pay it for a year and a half. It's a hard thing for a pour man to resist so much molicy—the more so when he fells that it sets so much more money at liberty—to provide more food and more comforts for his wife and children. Oh, I should be a brute if I did nut enter into your feelings. But what is to be said for your tempters? When the high priests offered the thirty pieces of silver, what mattered it to them if Judas went and banged him-elf to-morrow? What matters it to the rich men who tempt you what pangs of conscience they may occasion you, if they can only carry their object? What shall be said for the lawyers?—es long as they can get their fees, and perhaps stop any hack •rent out of the money, and gain credit with their party, what are your kelings and your honour to them? What shall be said fur the country gentlemen—the natural protectors of the poor, the administrators of justice, the great unpaid,

who drive into the town, and expect you to touch your hate to them as your betters—the friends of the Church, forsooth !—the subscribers to national schools, for whom the Bible is not religious enough but they niust add the catechism to it? And these men knowingly sanction the corruption: they will commit you to gaol for stealing a rabbit, and yet they will defraud you of your honour. O church, chinch, church ! how that name is perverted ! What a stalking-horse i. is made for the Devil ! How can men talk about church when they are violating the commandments of God ? Your franchise is your country's, and they are eueouraging you to steal it You are jurymen, as I told you yesterday—you are witnesses between the candidates, and they are encouraging you to bear false witness. Where are the ministers of the gospel ? where is the Wesleyan minister?—the spirit of John Wesley will rise in judgment against you if you do not bear evideuce from your pulpit against the evil I complain of. Your influence, the influence of hlethodissu, was used to procure the abo- lition of slavery : it was not thought a wrong subject from the pulpit to plead the cause of the oppressed negro; and you are bound-1 say you are bound—to counsel your flock against the trammels which traffickers in bribery are devising for thew."

POOLE. Sir H. Willoughby, Sir J. Walsh, Mr. Ponsonrby, and Mr. Phillips, are the candidates ; the two first Tory, the two last Whigs. READING. The candidates are Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. loyshe Palmer, and Mr. Charles Russell.

SHEFFIELD. At the great meeting in Paradise Square, mentioned briefly in last week's Spectator, Mr. John Parker, the Lord of the Treasury, delivered a very cautious Whig speech ; a great part of which was devoted to a defence of the Poor-law. Mr. Parker made very ample use of the Queen's name in his own behalf and that of Ministers. Mr. Ward avowed his thoroughly Liberal opinions without reserve ; and be defended his opposition to Sir Andrew Agnew's bill, like one who felt that to be his a•tackuble point. He was catechized rather closely on the subject of the Poor-law, but gave satisfactory explana- tions on so lie things on which the querists were misinformed, and r.erns to have done much towards disarming opposition. Both candi. Mates left the meeting amidst hearty cheers ; and the Shlield Indepen., dent says that the Reformers may be quite easy as to the result of the election, as the Tory candidate, Mr. Tbornely, has no chance. SUFFOLK. Mr. Shaft() Adair and Mr. Gordon have at length agreed to become the Whig candidates, against Lord Henniker and Sir C, Broke Vere for the Eastern Division.

SURRY. The Honourable Locke King comes out like a man. At a ".• meeting of Liberals at Wandsworth, on Thursday, he declared himself in favour of a gradual reduction of the duty on corn, of "a great mid sweeping reform of the Church," and of the entire abolition of Church. , rates. " The congregation," said Mr. King, " is the Church." He seems to be a" chip of the old block." At this meeting, Mr. Leader acted as chairmal, and delivered a clever and telling anti-Tory speed. SUDBURY. Both the lute Members have deserted this corrupt borough ; Mr. Bugshaw having gone to Kidderminster, and Mr. Smith to Norwich. 'f be Times mentions a Ministerial candidate of the name of Turton, and asks who he is? If it is Mr. Turton the barrister, who returned from India lately, he is an able man, and an excellent speaker what domestic processes of law he may have been connected with as a party, is hardly more to the purpose in the case of a Liberal candidate fur the suffrages of Sudbury, than a similar consideration would be in that of the Tory candidate for the suffrages of Westminster SOUTHAMPTON. Lord Clarence Paget is the Whig candidate; Mr. C. Martyn and Mr. notch' stand oh the Tory interest.

Sussex. Squire Curteis declares that he will not be plundered as heretofore : if he is to stand for the county, he will do the thing econa. mically this time- " I tun determined not to allow the charges to amount to what they have upou former occasions, but to confine myself strictly to legitimate and unavoid- able expenses."

Mr. Curteis seems resolved, however, to be in the next Parliament; for he is a candidate also for Rye, e•.d means to have a double return. The Brighton Gazette talks largely of Tory gain inn Sussex-

" We would not be unduly sanguine, but there is now every prospect,

ac- cording to our present information, of no less than six seats being gained in this county to the good cause. A very short time will show whether we have erred in our calculation. The elections for most of the boroughs will, we appre- hend, take place at the commencement of the next week ; and we trust that we shall next Thursday have the pleasing task of recording a triumphant issue to our labours."

ST. Ives. Mr. Long Wellesley has addressed the electors ! STAMFORD. Lord Langford, an Irish Peer, has offered himself to the Reformers ; but we suspect that the Tory candidates are safe here : they are Colonel Chaplin and the Marquis of Granby. SorcstwanK. The nomination and election of Mr. I-lumphery and Mr. Harvey tuke place to-day. Mr. John Richards, late of Knares- borough, threatens to appear as the Tory candidate. TowEit HAMLETS. Dr. Lushington and Air. Clay will he nomi- nated and elected on Monday, without opposition. WESTMINSTER. Mr. Leader is believed to be safe ; Colonel Evans trot so secure, though even his return is considerably more probable than that of Sir George Murray. The Tories are m oiking hard and spending freely. intimidation too is practised to some extent ; and a great fuss has been made about a circular letter of John Broad wood and Solis, the piatioforte.maker4, to their numerous workmen, asking, that is directing, them to vote for Murray. The following is the letter, (disavowed for himself by one of the partners, the candidate for Horsham,) and a pretty specimen of composition it is. " Sir—We trust that you sill give your vote and interest to Sir George Murray ; Ia so doing your %mild much oblige us. In supporting a candidate who promises to up. hold the Protedant faith, rompwed as it is of King, Lords. and Commons, we believe that we are not only doing Mir duty to our couuriy, but, that by trIuling our alit towards the nmiutenattet,of the established orderer things. we are furthering our own iuterests gull the interests of Ouse in our employ, which we believe to ho identical. We arc. Sir, " JOHN OROADWUCIU sad SUNS, "Great Pulteney Street, June 14." This is bad enough, to be sure • but is it worse than the use of Government influence to carry the election of Whig candidates ? We see no difference ; or if there be arty, the intimidation practised by a soi-disant Liberal Government is the more objectionable.

There have been several meetings of both parties, and a good deal of speechifying. The Tories parade about the streets a set of ragamuf- fins with a fellow called " General" ut their head ; and distribute prints of cat-o% nine tails, and flogging of soldiers, to annoy Evans, whom

they make responsible for the severity of the military discipline in the Auxiliary Legion. We doubt whether a single vote is gained for the Tories by these exhibitions; while it is said that many, who disap- proved of the conduct of General Evans as a Member of Parliament, have been provoked by them to promise him their support. Evans denies that he ever himself ordered a man to be flogged at the General Court-martials, over which alone he presided ; and says that, as the Legion was to be governed tiy the British war code, he could not pre. vent the floggings which his officers declared to he necessary. On the other hand, Sir George Murray has been accused of flogging a woman;

which, of course, he denies.

Whatever may be thought of Colonel Evans's reply to the charge of cruelty in Spain, he has given no satisfactory answer to that of desert. ing his duty to his constituents. It is easy to say, in friendly reports of the proceedings at friendly meetings, that he successfully vindicated himself; but we have seen no such refutation of the charge of neglect of duty, nur do we believe that it can be given. It will be up-hill

work to get the Colonel into Parliament again for Westminster; and

it ought not to be easy. WARWICKSHIRE. Sir Grey Skipwith and Mr. Bracebridge oppose Sir Eardley Wilmot and Mr. Dugdale, for the Northern Division. WEestoterti. Mr. Buxton's return is pretty certain, but where is

the second Whig candidate?

WILTON. Colonel Baker, of Salisbury, replaces Mr. Penruddocke,

as Lord Pembroke's Member.

Wotveattamerrost. Mr. Thornily and Mr. Villiers addressed a public meeting of the electors on Tuesday. Mr. Thornily said, that if his opinion in favour of the Ballot bad needed confirmation, what be had seen during his canvass would have completely satisfied him of its necessity : be would tell the electors that he would never lose an opportunity of advocating the Ballot. Referring to the Corn.laws, Mr. Thornely said— He went twee to Ireland in September last ; that from what he saw of the state of the crops, owing to the wetness of the season, he was convinced a con-

siderable advance in the price of corn must take place; and, knowing the effect

of this would be to take a much greater portion of the working-man's wages for bread, he wrote a long letter to Government, pressing upon them the ne-

cessity of getting the Corn-laws mitigated or repealed. He also urged the same views when he was in town on several Members of the Administration, and told them he was sure they would have the support of the representatives of the

manufacturing districts, and that the .good men of Wolverhampton, who took a deep interest in the question, were in favour of their repeal : and he could communicate to the.. the fact, that the Government was not favourable to the Corn-laws as they now exist. ( Very great cheering.) Owing to the opposition of the landed interest, though they had laboured all they could, they had been unable to effect their intentions; and he regretted the failure of their endeavours on the occasion of Mr. Clay's motion, which was brought forward with a view to reduce the present tax to an almost nominal duty. His honour- able colleague had seconded that motion, in a speech replete with sound argu- ment, and which he hoped they had all seen ; but they could not muster one hundred votes. They had sailed ; but he trusted the question would be revived with better success • and then the greater their demand for untaxed corn, the greater would be the demand for Wolverhampton manufactures. Mr. Villiers made an eloquent vindication of his conduct in Parlia- ment. He referred at the conclasion of his speech to some discredi- table behaviour of the noted Captain Ryder Burton, who, with a Mr. Benbow, opposes the Liberal candidates— He had never made any personal attack upon Captain Burton ; who, he 'thought, took a strange way to recommend himself to the electors, by making personal attacks on hon. lie did not even know of such a person as Captain Burton till he came here : he would give no offence, but he would bear with no insult; and though Captain Burton might say, as he was informed he did at Bilston, that be (Captain Burton) lived in an elegant residence, while he (Mr. Villiers) lived in a garret, at 7s. a week, he challenged inquiry into his birth, family, education, ability, and principles, with Captain Burton. ( Very great cheering.) If he had lived in a seven-shilling lodging, he would never deny the truth. ("What if you did? you would be none the worse.") He would not condescend to deny such an accusation ; for many a man might be honest and competent though poor, and many a man might be a great knave though rich. ( Unanimous applause ) lie had been pretty severely criticized as to his condition and character when he first came; and how lie answered they all knew. He had no aecrets and was not ashamed that his circumstances and conduct should be inquired in the market place. He was independent of any and every Minister, and he had no selfish end to promote in soliciting to be -their Representative. ( Great cheering.) Of the reelection of both the excellent Liberal candidates we trust there is not a shadow of doubt. Perhaps no constituency in the country has been so well suited with Representatives as Wolverhamp- ton.

WILTSHIRE. Mr. Paul Methuen having retired, 900 Tories got up a requisition to Sir Francis Burdett to stand for the Northern Division ; and the unblushing old renegade eagerly accepted the offer, in the fol- lowing letter. "Gentlemen—The numerously and respectably signed requisition I have just received from you I lose no time in acknowledging. With pride and satisfac- tion I read in It the expression of your 'confidence and relianep mum my umfild aainstautionai principles.' Gentlemen, by God's blessing, I am so restored to health and strength, that, induced by so spirit-stirring a call from such a body of my countrymen, I hesitate not to answer it in a note, tuned to the self-same key, and to assure you I am ready again to buckle on my armour, and again to meet the enemy in the gate. " Gentlemen, should you replace me in Parliament at the ensuing election, no effort of mine shall be wanting to aid in the defence of our unrivalled institu- tions, to rally 'round the Throne, Lords, Commons, and Established Chinch.' gall that is good, wise, and patriotic.' Gentlemen, these words of my Lcrd Durham express all that need be said or can be desired. " I will only add, gentlemen, I accept the omen, and remain your most de- voted and very humble servant, FRANCIS BURDETT. " St. James's Place, July 17." It is now manifest that Burdett purchased the support of the Tories at the last election for Westminster by an engagement to make room for Sir George Murray at the dissolution. Has his illness been a mere sham all the time? Burdett thought to walk over the course, but he will probably be beaten in an expensive contest ; for, at the earnest solicita- tion of the Liberals, Mr. Methuen, though in deep affliction for the recent loss of his eldest son, has withdrawn his resignation, and stands again.

YORKSHIRE. There was a grand muster of electors in the Coloured Cloth Hall at Leeds, on Tuesday. About fifteen thousand persons are said to have been present. The candidates who presented them- selves were Lord Morpeth, Sir George Strickland, Sir John Beckett, Sir William Moleswortb, Mr. Baines, Mr. Stansfield for Hudders- field, and Mr. Busfield for Bradford. The Liberals, who wore orange cards in their hats, greatly outnumbered the Tories, who sported blue cards. Lord Morpeth was the first who addressed the Assembly; i and it will be seen from the extracts we subjoin, that his Lordship is no bad electioneerer, and is improving in readiness-

" Gentlemen, it is now seven years since, upon the precisely corresponding occasion, the death of one Sovereign and the accession of another, that I, in this place—this now to me well-known familiar spot—first stood before an assembly of Yorkshiremen, first presented myself as a candidate for their auf- fraies, and here then first woo, and have since won, that high distinction. (Cheers, and great hisses from the Blues.) Gentlemen, I have remarked that it is seven years ago since I appeared first before you ; which is the ordinary, kwful, and recognized period of the duration of a single Parliament. ("Hear, hear!" and hisses from the Blues.) Well, you may perhaps think it too long; but at all events we have had four elections since ; so I think that unless you are very insatiable indeed, and very fond of cheering us here, you must think that enough. But, gentlemen, mike.: for a moment upon the various and busy and important passages and events which have marked that confined and limited period in its rapid flight. It is good for us sometimes to throw back our glances upon the occurrences of the past, in order to draw auguries and to learn lessons for the future. When I first stood here, I stood by the side of Henry Brougham—( Great laughter and hisses from the Blues)—a name which it may suit some capacities to sneer at. Within three months of that period, he became, from the pinnacle to which you had raised him, Lord High Chan- cellor of England. When we then stood here, one of the prominent topics of complaint from all the hustings of the land, and from this as well as all the others, was the existence of such mockeries of representation as towns without inhabitants—names which are happily now nearly forgotten—( Cheers, and cries from the Blues of "Come t'ot point ! ")—I will not leave out any subject which you may choose to hear—names, gentlemen, as I said before, which are almost now forgotten, the sound of which we hardly remember, excepting the sound of such places as Gatton and Old Sarum serve to revive in our recollec- tion—( Cheers and hisses from the Blues, accompanied by a cry of " Mor- peth !")—Well, I am not afraid of any Tory. I am sorry to hear that a contest is threatened at Morpeth ; but I hope the present Member,who is a good Whig and Liberal,will receive at their hands a renewal of the trust which they have previously confided to him. It may be remembered that Morpeth had two Members—not one Member, as it now has; whilst such towns as Leeds, Birmingham, and

Manchester could not obtain a single voice to represent their important intermits and their immense population in the Imperial Senate of the country, and when

my neighbour, Sir John Beckett, (personally of whom I speak, as you must all speak, with respect,) could not have had the opportunity of walking up and down the crowded area of the great mart of your manufacturing industry, bow- ing gracefully, with looks of grateful acknowledgment to the scattered Blues. (Cheers and laughter.) Well, within six months of that period to which I have alluded, the Reform Bin was brought in, which abolished fifty-six of those old rotten boroughs, and which gave a representative to every important town_ and city in the kingdom. This was not done without a struggle ; and whereas before we were satisfied in the county, which was then undivided, with bidding for four Members, the next time we could not stop short of six—that is, we could not stop short of all. ( Cheers and laughter, and hisses from the Blues.) It seems our friends on the other side do not wish to hear the truth. Then, gentlemen, the West Riding had to return two Members ; and then Sir George Strickland, my worthy colleague and myself came before you, and we then ob- tained what we have since worn, and what I trust we mean to keep, a return to Parliament by your suffrages. ( Cheers, and shouts of "We will," and "IVe won't.") That return, gentlemen, was a good one ; it was a consistent return ; it was one which did not leave our principles half carried out, and which neutralized the opinions of each other, but it was a return of one colour, such as I hope to hear of in Leeds and in the West Riding myself."

Lord Morpeth then referred to his conduct in Parliament ; and entered into iin elaborate defence of the Poor.law, promising his sup. port to any attempt to render its operation just and kindly towards the poor. He reminded the electors that he had defeated Mr. Wortley in the last contest by a majority of 2807- " I now come again before you. I ask you to renew that bright example. I fearlessly throw myself on you to know whether my subsequent conduct has disentitled me to a renewal of your indulgence, your favour, and your support. Since we last met, the great battle•tield of contending parties and princi- ples has been upon Irish ground. In the position in which I have had the honour to be placed, I have been called upon to take a prominent part in that battle ; I have fought it in good faith. I have fought it with honest inten- tions ; I have fought it unflinchingly. Gentlemen, will you send me again to fight that battle ; for the stuggle has been protracted—the victory is not yet won? ( Shouts rf " We will, we will ! " aercomparried by much cheering.) Will you send me to win it now? (" We will.") Then let me remind you to make this a united einem. Together we come before you--(" And together ye mute return !")—and in our joint cause we appeal to you for your support. It is possible that a person may root out some points of difference, but I believe them to be very few and immaterial , for I believe, upon the main question of the principles on which the government and the high destinies of this great empire are to be carried un, we most cordial) y correspond ; and we call upon you to give effect to, and not to neutralize, that correspondence. Together, gentlemen, we are eatolidates for your suffrages; together we call forth your Orange chivalry. The memory id• old associations, the breezes of former tri- umphs, are floating on our banners ; and I set oat on my canvass, and take huve of you by imploring you to remember, as the pass-words of our march and of our cause, I'llit111—f”rward—vietory."

Sir George Strickland followed Lord Morpeth ; and in the course of his speech emphatically denounced the Corn-laws, its injurious alike to the agricultural mid commercial interests.

Sir John Beckett was allowed a fair hearing by the majority. He dwelt on the inconsistency of the Whigs, who profes.ed Conservative politics and yet gave their support to such men us Mr. Leader. He inveighed against the Poor-law, and generally against the blundering manner in which Ministers conducted the business of the country.

IRELAND.

There is very little election intelligence from Ireland that can be relied on. Candidates are put forward on paper day after day, and then disappear, without the least notice being taken of their entrances or exits. It would seem as if anybody who fancied anybody might or ought to be a candidate for any place, immediately proclaimed him as such, of his own free will and pleasure. The following announcements, however, rest upon a little better authority : Mr. Robert Hutton stands with Mr. O'Connell for Dublin, Mr. Beamish with Mr. Callaghan for Cork, and Mr. Gibson with Lord Belfast for Belfast. Out of the hurly-burly of the contest, we presume Mr. O'Connell will take care to produce his promised number of triumphant candidates.

SCOTLAND.

DUNDEE. In his address to the electors of Dundee, Sir Henry Parnell takes credit for secret services in the cause of Reform, as a set- off for the abeyance in which he has kept his political principles- " With regard to myself, I appear before you with the same political prin- ciples which I avowed when I was first a candidate to represent you. My name has not, it is true, been in the divisions on some important questions, as it would have been in support of them if I had not been called on by his late Majesty to fill a high and important office in his service; but I am able to state, as some compensation for this circumstance, that I have successfully exercised the powers and influence of office in forwarding the progress of Reform in various ways. I have used may utmost endeavours to have the questions referred to made open questions; and I shall not desist from conti- nuing to enforce the expediency of adopting this course. I have not failed, as far as I have had the means, to carry forward those plans of public economy which I have advocated during a long period of public life ; nor to promote the removal of injurious restrictions on trade, more particularly those restric- tions which are the result of the Corn-laws. With respect to the local into- rests of Dundee, no instance can be shown in which I have neglected to pro- mote to the utmost of my power the various applications which have been made to me ; and I have the pleasure of being able to refer to the long-pending questions of building a new customhouse, and of accelerating the arrival of the London mail, as evidence of my attention to these objects, with which the interests of Dundee are essentially connected ; for I am able to inform you, that both these measures are on the point of being immediately carried into effect."

The electors of Dundee ought not to be satisfied with the secret services of their Member. They chose Sir Henry Parnell to repre- sent them openly and publicly in the House of Commons. Anybody might advance the excuse of having done something in private to coon- terbalance the neglect of duty in public. Who can tell how far one is a fair equivalent for the loss of the other ? The advantage of the public expression of the opinion of Dundee in Parliament, by a man of the experience and weight of Sir Henry Parnell, need not be enforced— it is evident. Sir Henry was elected on account of his high standing in the country, and his reputation as a perfectly independent man, who bad quitted office even under Lord Grey rather than not bring forward measures he approved of. It is easy to estimate the gain to the good cause from the public services of such a man representing a town of 60,000 inhabitants; but who can tell of what avail his private remon- strances may have been ? Judging from experience of their results, the electors of Dundee may suppose them to have been all but nu- gatory; for, during the period which has elapsed since Sir Henry's first and second elections, the Ministers have become more lukewarm in the cause of Reform, have developed Conservative tendencies more . strongly, and were never so unworthy (to all appearance) of the sup. port of the real Reformers as at present. So much for the practical effect of Sir Henry Parnell's secret eloquence on the policy of Minis- ters. Meanwhile, the advantage of his advocacy of his own and his constituents' opinions in Parliament has been entirely lost ; and, worse than this, his example has been most pernicious. Willing, however, to look on the bright side of things, we cannot say that the electors of Dundee, under all the circumstances, will act unwisely in trying Sir Henry t'arnell, under the new state of affairs at Court, a little longer. The Dundee Advertiser, a paper friendly to Sir Henry Parnell, comes to nearly the same conclusion as the Spectator of last week ; and ad- mits, that in reelecting Sir Henry, the Liberals are making an " expe- riment." " We shall see," adds the Advertiser, " how far the altered circumstances of the Court may not lead to a satisfactory adjustment." But, since the change at Court should have the effect of making Ministers more Liberal, if they are sincere, it obviously entitles the Reformers of Dundee to expect a move in advance, not backwards, from Sir Henry Parnell. At all events, the electors would do well to bind him down to a pledge to resign when called upon by a majority of his supporters ; otherwise they may be misrepresented during the entire period of a septennial Parliament. GLASGOW. At length we learn something definitive respecting the election arrangements of this city. The Tory candidates, Mr. Robert Monteith and Mr. Campbell of Candleriggs have been for some time before the constituency, trying what spouting and cajolery would effect. Of these gentlemen it is only necessary to say, that they are fair, com- monplace Tories. Mr. Monteith was the candidate defeated by Mr. Dennistoun at the last Glasgow election. The Liberal candidates are Mr. Dennistoun and Lord William Bentinck. It was known from the first that Mr. Dennistoun would stand again, but there was much diffi- culty in selecting his colleague. Lord William Bentinck had formally announced his intention to retire, being satisfied that lie did not exactly suit the majority of his supporters. In fact, from his station in society, connexions, and habits, it is natural that Lord 'William should attribute greater weight to the aristocratic elements of obstruction in the existing order of things, than:a rising, politically youthful, and commercial con. stituency can discern. The Glasgow I Aberals are more Radical, in short, than Lord William Bentinck. It was, 'therefore, by mutual agreement that they seemed to have parted. But when it became un- expectedly necessary to elect a successor to Lord William, there was much difficulty in finding one ; and then the many friends whom he had secured by his amenity and attention to the local business of Glasgow, joined with the respect universally entertained for his high character, and the conviction that be was at least as Liberal as the Ministers, and would willingly move more briskly along the path of Reform in their company, determined the Reformers to invite Lim to withdraw his resignation. A meeting of the Liberals was summoned for Mon- day, at the Justiciary Hall ; but it was found (according to the Glasgow Argus) that the Tories had packed the room, and the meeting was then adjourned to the Bazaar, too large a place to be packed. A resolution declaring the necessity of union was adopted unanimously ; and it was subsequently agreed to support Mr. Dennistoun and Lord William Bentinck—only thirteen hands being held up against the former and thirty against the latter. After the meeting, several Eentlemen, who bad stood aloof, gave in their adhesion. Lord Wil. am has consented to stand, and we have no doubt will be reelected : with him and Mr. Dennistoun for their Members, who can say that the Reformers of Glasgow will not be well represented ? It is to be re- membered that Lord William is pledged to vote for the Ballot.

Psieritstnite. The Post this morning has news from Perthshire, which its readers would do well to receive with caution. It is said that there will be a majority of 150 for Lord Stormont ; and the results of the Tory canvass in several districts are given as con- firmatory of Mr. Maule's anticipated defeat. The Liberals, however, feel certain of success. Mr. Maule addressed a large assembly of his

friends in Perth yesterday week, and appeared to be full of confidence. Wiororismae. Mr. Blair, a Tory, has offered himself, although Sir Andrew Agnew has not retired. Probably the plan is to see

whether Mr. Blair cannot procure more votes than Andrew ; and if he succeed, then the latter will back out. Well, anybody but Andrew ! The Courier, however, promises that Mr. Murray, the Liberal, will assuredly succeed ; though we scarcely know why our contemporary invokes the spirits of " the old Covenanters " in his behalf—they, we suspect, would have taken part with Agnew.