We are happy to state that the present registration for
South Devon holds out highly flattering prospects to the Reformers. We have no doubt that the Reformers will gain nearly 400 on the total registration of the division.— lVestern Times. [It is to be hoped that at the next election the Reformers will bring their registered majority to the poll.] The Leeds Times contains an elaborate analysis of the poll-book published by the editor of the Leeds Intelligencer. It appears that the number of plumpers for Mr. Baines, at the last election, was very con- siderable—for Sir William Molesworth very few ; the splits between Baines and Beckett numerous—between Molesworth and Beckett very few: but the number of those who signed the Liberal requisition, and then broke their pledges, occupies about a column of the Leeds Times, very closely printed in small type. In the lists of those who voted for Baines and Beckett, and who plumped for Baines, are "several aspirants to civic honours." Of these trimmers the Leeds Times says—, " Mark them. These mere Whigs and Trimmers are equally bad and vile as the Tories—equally the enemies of the People and of popular rights, without having the courage to dare to avow it. Mark them, we say again. With all its manifold faults and corruptions, the English Municipal Bill gave the People some small power in towns. Let them use that power wisely, and for their own advantage. If the Whigs have the baseness to join with the Tories to turn out Molesworth, because he will not say ditto ditto to mere Whiggery, for the purpose of making all snug and comfortable, by sending Beckett and Baines as usual, to support each his faction, the People can punish them by excluding thetn from the Conucil-Chamber and what the Democracy, who form the body of municipal electors could do and would do, were such an emergency to come, let them do now to the trimmers and traitors, who preferred Beckett to Mulesworth, and plumped for Baines only. Let that be a mark of exclusion from all power and all trust."
The electors of Harwich have presented a very flattering address to Captain Verner, for his exertions in the late contest there, which terminated in the emancipation of the borough from Toryism. A ma- jority of the electors of the borough, 72 in number, have signed this address. This sends the fate of Herries, who barely escaped on the last occasion by a majority of one, and that a split vote. Captain Verner, in his written reply to the address, pledges himself to come forward again whenever there is another vacancy.—Globe. [Mr. Herries had 75 votes: how then can 72 turn him out/] We learn with regret, that, in consequence of Mr. Fector having lost his election for Dover, be refused to give the plate and other prizes usually given by him, or even to intcrtcrc in the matter ; leaving it to Mr. Rice, who succeeds him. Mr. Rice refuses to interfere in the business ; and the races are consequently likely to be discontinued.— Kent Herald. [ These subscriptions are a tax upon Members, which ought to be discontinued universally. They serve to deter men of small independent property, frequently the best qualified for the office of Representative, from going into Parliament.]
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