Electioneering spreads and - grows more keen; but scarcely so much
as might have been expected in the Parliamentary recess. Most sitting Members appear to have Made holyilay instead of avail- ing themselves of the intermission in their in-door labours of legis- lation to betake them to the field-work of a canvass. A few Liberal candidates are beginning to show themselves in counties : as Colo- nel Challoner in West Surrey, and Mr. Kingscote in. West Glouoes- tershire—whether with real hopes of success, or merely to show a bold front and make diversions, is not yet quite obvious. Reports
of sickness among aspirants are circulated, sometimes with truth, sometimes to mystify constituencies." Sanguine individuals are trying to catch at the names of distinguished men in constituen- cies which do not well know their own mind: thus feelers are thrown out respecting Sir Harry Smith at Glasgow, where it is thought his personal popularity and military renown may recommend him should he choose to be made the stalking-horse of a party. Mr. Henry Drummond has emitted a kind of Protestant Peter the Hermit manifesto of an Anti-Romanist crusade. The whole four candidates for Liverpool have been addressing at once a crowd convened on the Exchange amid a shower of rain, and quite un- heard ; and the electioneering proceedings of the same borough have been varied by a fatal accident. In short, the general can- vass, as far as it has yet gone, very much resembles all that have preceded it.
