The election of Sir James Duke as Member for London,
in the room of Mr. Pattison, was performed yesterday in the Guildhall, without the slightest infraction of unanimity; no opponent having been found to emu late the fate of Lord John Manners. Mr. Cobden, Mr. Hume, and many of Sir James's Parliamentary friends, lent their presence to the ceremony. Sir James was proposed and seconded by Mr. Thompson Hankey and Al- derman Lawrence. Mr. Hankey had a fling at " Finality,"—proposing Sir James Duke as the steadfast advocate of progressive improvements, and congratulating the electors that they had not been obliged to migrate West- wards in search of a more lordly candidate. In returning thanks, Sir James Duke dispensed with promises; referring to his conduct during the twelve years that he had represented Boston, and especially to his votes. At a meeting of Liberals in Reading yesterday, Mr. Richard Gardner offered himself a candidate on "purely Liberal principles," repudiating sympathy with that "Bankrupt firm" the Russell Cabinet; and he was accepted unanimously.
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