The pending South bincashire election displays remarkable " good humour"
on all sides, and some singular traits of moderation,' if not neutrality. Bath parties are said to have applied to the same gentleman "tt Mr; HORLOCK ; both parties, foiled in earlier attempts to find candidates, have taken up with a Couple who do not satisfy
their own supporters while their respective-antagonists affect rather
to despise than dislike them ; yet these, the actual combatants, have so much at least in common that they met at the same hospitable
board the day before the nomination. Mr. ENTWISLE is a politician of the PEEL school ; and therefore, say his opponents, cannot be very agreeable to the Protectionists of the agricultural parts. He is esteemed in private life, and best known in public as a very nil- successful candidate: he has attained the title of " honourable" only on the hustings, where a foretaste of that pleasant jingle of syllables is sometimes courteously reciprocated. Mr. Baowst, the Liverpool BARING or ROTHSCHILD' a man whose dealings embrace the globe, and whose temporary accommodation in time of panic has been sought from the national Bank and reckoned by millions, has suddenly become a nine-days wonder, as a sort of canvassing Crcesus in the tail of Mr. COBDEN—the ROTHSCHILD of the Anti- Corn-law League. He is a perfect revolutionist in Free-trade ; but his politics are a weak point : they appear to be of a kind to suit any class. The issue is very doubtful while we write. It is a signifi- cant fact, when those who support the antagonist of a mere Mr.ERT- wisEE admit that the issue is doubtful. However, under the ordeal of hustings-catechisms both candidates pass muster. Ay, and that is too much the aim oielectioneering-leaders in our day : the object is less to get the best man for a legislator, than to get a man that can shuffle through a variety of questionings with a decent show of compliance—a negatively acceptable person. The result of se- lecting that low staple—that flat level fur the legislative class, is seen in the tedious debates and paltry deeds of Honourable House. There is no determined purpose, and there is no worthy issue ; there is only passable ability, and scarcely passable work isperformed. A bad state of things to be exhibited to the unenfranchised class as the handiwork of the electoral body.
