The Leeds candidates are astir. Mr. Hume and Mr. Aldan
met their friends among the electors, in the Music Hall, on Tuesday, and delivered long addresses ; after which the meeting passed a resolution promising to support them. Mr. Edward Baines junior formally asked Mr. Hume if he did not belong to the Church of England? Mr. Hume challenged comparison with three-fourths of the Members of Parlia- ment in his attendance at church ; and he gave chapter and verse—" I belong to Dr. Dibdin's chapel ; St. Mary's is our parish." It seems that he had been accused of Atheism among the immaculate electors of Leeds.
Lord Jocelyn and Mr. Beckett met their friends, in the same place, on Thursday. Some one asked Lord Jocelyn if he had ever been brought before a Magistrate for pulling brass knockers from the doors of houses ? Some one called out, " Don't answer!" and his Lordship took the advice, sitting down amid roars of laughter.
[Lord Jocelyn has been round the world and written a clever account of his experiences since he dallied with brass knockers. The brass knockers, however, are a set-off against Mr. Hume's infidelity : and less likely to tell against Lord Jocelyn, even in pious Leeds, than his connexion with the supporters of the Corn-law.]
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