Star. — London, England, 1831-04-29 00:00:00

TIER MAJESTI ^ S DRAWING-ROOM. iler MAJESTY held a Drawing-room yesterday, which was numerously attended as fitly of those which the Queen has ~e ! d since her accession to the throne : the company began arrive before one o'clock, and continued setting down,with mit intermission, for about three hours. The dresses were very splendid : a number of ladies wore Aire silk dresses, of Spitalfields manufacture. Iler Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Charlotte St. Maur, and Sir John Conroy, arrived in teat: v ith two carriages, and escorted by a party of Life g uar ds. Her Royal Highness entered by the Great Court vard, where the Royal Duchess was received by the band of King's Guard, playing "Go n save the King." The Aim. brandies of the Royal Family, consisting of the Duke aral Duchess of Cumberland, the Lnndgravine of Hesse /loinbeig, the Princess Augusta, the Duke of Sussex, and l'riuce Leopold, entered by the garden gate. Their Majesties, accompanied by their royal relatives, and attended by the great officers of state, &c. entered the draw lag-room at ten minutes past two o'clock, and after giving several audiences, proceeded to hold the entree drawing-room. Le Baron Behr d'Edwahlen was presented to the Queen by Prince Leven, the Russian Ambassador. Monsieur le Duc de Broglie, Peer of France, and Monsieur Casimir Perrier, attache to the French Embassy, were presented to the Queen by the Prince de Talleyrand, Ambassador from the King of the French. There were also present the Russian Ambassador and Princess Lieven, the Austrian Ambassador, the French Ambassador, the Netherlands Ambassador and Madame ialk, the Spanish Minister and Madame Bermudez, the Prussian Minister and Baroness Bulow, the American Milliaer and Mrs. M‘Lane, the Bavarian Minister and Ba roness Cetto, the Mexican Minister and Madame Goros tin , the Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornsjerna, the Ne apolitan Minister and Countess Ludolf, Danish, Sardinian, and Wurtemburg Ministers, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, First Lord of the Treasury, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Lord Chamberlain, Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, the Judges of the Arches Court, the Treasurer of tie Household, Mr. Justice James Parke, the Attorney and Salicitor-Generals, the Clerk Marshal, M. Bourke, the Stcretary to the Danish Embassy; M. de Gorostiza, attache to the Mexican Embassy; Mr. Justice Christie, from the Mauritius ; and Alderman Garrett. At the general Drawing-room were : Dukes—Gordon, Poulenc/. Buccleugh, Beaufort, Newcastle. Duchcsses—De Dino, Cannizzaro. Marquisses—Thomoed, Hastings, Bate, Blandford. Marchionesses—Thomond, Lansdowne, Dowager Clanricarde, Ito. thian. Blandford. Earls—Harewood, Rosebery, Dlulgrave, Bandon, Warwick, West moreland, Rosslyn, Stradbroke, Scarborough, Talbot, Lonsdale,Aboyne, Chichester, Sheffield, Winchilsea, Mayo. Oxford, Radnor. Countesses— Rosebery, Harewood, Warwick, Morton, Winchilsea, Amherst, Scarborough, Dowager Ilchcster, Shrewsbury, Lonsel ale, Dow. :.„'er Guilford. Balcarras, Lindsey, Sheffield, Chichester, Radnor, Clare, Cl.tntnel, Bandon. Viscounts—Gage, Maynard, Sidmouth, Bernard, Boringdon, An. :over, St. Vincent. Viscountesses—Gage, Maynard, Allen, Dowager Anson, Middleton, Sidmouth. Lords—Dufferin, Teynham, Stafford, Lilford, Ssye and Sele, Begot, Ducie, Tullarnore, Garen!' Titch fi eld, W. Powlett, Daae , Gardner, Howard do Walden, Auckl and, Dormer, Rendlesham, Carteret, J. S. Churchill, Malmesbury, Forester, Saltoun. Bishops—Chester, Winchester, Lincoln. Honourables—Miss Jervis, Mrs. Musgrave, Mrs. E. Petre, Mrs. C. Ofiley, Miss Dillon, Miss Courtensy, Miss E. Brodrick, Miss Petre, Mm. flak, Mrs. Vansittart, Miss L. Brodrick, Lady Middleton, Lady Ed•nonstone, Mrs Godsal, Mrs. Congreve, Mr. W. White, Miss Jer. nin.;ham, Miss G. Jemingham, Mrs. Perceval, Mr. Begot, F. Rice, C. Rice, Champion Dymoke, Sirs. Leigh, Mr. Fielding, Lady Turner, Mot. Beaumont, Mrs. A. Trelluson, Mrs. H. Montagu, Mrs. Port ran' A. Lascelles, F. Curzon, Arthur Thelluson, Rev. Mr. Cathcart, Mr. Bagot, Adm. Curson, Rev. Mr. Stopford, Capt. A. C. Browne, Crofton, Mrs. R. Stopford, Mrs. Vernon. Ladies —Parke, Denman, Nayler, Quentin, Home, Phillipps, C. Bann ton, Dalrymple, Donner. E. Couttenay, B. Johnstone, Whit. Elizaluth F. Drummond, Curds, Astley Cooper, Jemims Ben. ti It. Dowager Sitwell, Elisabeth Talbot, Saye and Sele, Elinor Camp. htil, Caroline Stewart, Bentinek (2) Hippisley, Fitzgerald. Caterer, Ann CAie, Elizabeth Kerr, Frances Kerr, Graham, Imhoff, Harriet Kerr, Gn - ragh, Hargood, Blount, Mary O'Bryen, Chatterton, Anstruther, R. 011 yen, Willoughby de Ereaby, Howard deWalden, Harriett Bernard, ectherine Buckley, Hussey Bickerton, Stafford, E. Lowther, Colville, E. Palk, 1.. Vaughan King, Gould, Stopford , Louisa Pole, Frances Lascelles, Dufferin, B lackett, Roasmore, Welby, Louisa Lascelles, Mary C. Rees, Hamilton, Rose, Lambert, Agnes Buller, Taylor, Letitia Browne, Dowager B rownley, Frances Scott, Gibbets, Fuller, Maynard Hrseirige Freemantle, Charlotte Greville, Tullamore Granville So merset, iridget Bouverie, Dynevor, Francis Ley, Mar tin,: Deere, de Stronge, Isabella Brydges Wynne, C. Jervoise, Mosley, Ca ikrine Cavendish, Carr, Caroline gcott, Charlotte Stuart, Tichborne, goorbby, Saltoun, Georgians F. de Roos, Charles Rowley, Stracey, Mary Fitzroy, Shiffner, Sarah Ingestrie, etwynd, Howard, Douglas, Teynham, Beauclerk, Codringron' r S. Amherst, C. Talbot Dufferin, E. Berkeley, Rayensworth, %I. Berkeley , Rendlesham, F. Talbot, G. North, S. Bayley, E. Belgrave, Nave, S. North, Grace Gore, A. Mon. t.gu Scott, Margaret M. Scott, Dickson, Bryce. Mieuesses.—Watson Taylor, Ward, Comae Garrett, Henry Ben. tinek, Whatley, Sumner, Fox, blasters, Wynne, Gonlburn, 0. Pechell, G. Lamb, Augustus Clayton, Smith, Dymokc, Ruston Rode, Deni. son, %Ismer, Granville Penn, Wm. Ward, Walter Jones, erawson, Spencer Perceval, Rob e rt Jenne'', Fraser, Marsden, Rice mor, Asteil, Borough, Clayton E a st, Col. Stafford Jerningharn, John Foley, John Kirkland, Bernal, CoL Armstrong, Vernon ' Gen. Moore, Spencer Stanhope, Cox, Slade, Pellew, John Round, Sc ott, Dawkins Pennant, Henry Dawkins, jun. Grenville Berkeley, Maitland, Charles Sotheby, Gore Langton, J. Croft, Gamut, Blatlen Cape!, Pemberton, W. L. I C. Keane, Tredcroft, Lambert. T.Chaplin, Yorke,Wadham Wyndham, W. A. Nesbitt, Braces, Pinney, Hoare Johnstone, 0. ' Rob e rt Smith, A n th ony H am il ton , W illiam hlaberly, Coote, Davies Gilbert, Denm a n, B a lf our . Elwood, W. Herbert, Dering, Kaye, Fester, W. Ciente, W. Branching, Coupe; Price, Blackwood, Fan- shave. Backhousc, Agar, Ellison, Watson Taylor, Thistlethway te, General Darby Griffith, Marie; Lasalle Iremonger, East, Chandos Leigh, Gardiner, Brackenbuty, Edmondstone, Dixon, itzgerald, John Kingston, Cl ar k e J e rroi se , J ames S co tt, Henry entinek, Ed ward Bouverie, C. Boyle, Massy Daemon, Beauclerk, Charles Stun ners Russell , Whalley, Corbet, John T. Jones, T. B. Fyler, George BPI. Lanford, Pertiward, Balfour, Charles Lindsay, Blunt Bede w. Robert 11. Stanhope, Lychc, Boehm, Charles leamsden Pellew. Misacs—Fanny Denrnan, Pennant, Emma Pennant, devendisb, Penn (2), Ley (2), Douglas Alexander (2), Navler, Nicholl, de Gcrostisa, Denman, %Jassy Dawson, Hoare, Georgians Chetwynd, )Mania, Kerr, Dawson, Catherine Talbot, Charlotte Dawson, Chet ;jock Talbot, Cavendish, Brydges, Fitzerald, Denison, Emily Rue, I:&bella Porn, Rose, Henrietta Denison, Augusta Martin, ilickburne, Mackinnon, Fraser. Nlessieurs—Dixon (oi' Stanstend), Pocock. J. F. Gore Langton, S. Hancock, John Round, Edward Foley, Walter Jones, Charles Ca Bernal, Massy Dawson, Brand, Dawkins Pennant, Duckett, John Foley, W. Comae, Glanville Penn, Congteve, Woods, Denman, Ward. Watson Tnylor, James Hudson, Granville John Penn, Frank Elanctr,stone, Clayton East John Kirkland, Coltman. Sara.—George Pocock, Howard Douglas, George Naylor (Garter), (Earley du Vocux, Edmond Stanley, John Nicholl, Sandford Graham, Judaea eleredyth, G. Berkeley, Henry Tichbome, C. %looney, J. thde, E. Blount W. Middleton, R. Rice, C. Ibbetson, A. Edmon. stone, J. Fitzgerald, J, Strong; J. Ihickwurth, W. Doothby, J. Man ,el, T. Philhpps, E. Strawy, 0. Gibbes. Archdeacons— Bemere, Lindsay, Hamilton. Rev. Doctor—Keats. Rey. Messieurs—W. Bradford, Philip S. Dodd, P. W. Pegus, Grey Patter, A. P. Clayten, C. H. It. Bodes, G. Simpson, M, Kermit, T. Briggs, T. S. Grover, It. Chanuos Pole. Aohirals—Sir 11. Blackwood, Sir C. Rowley, Sir R. King, Sir R. H. Bickerton, Sir W. Hergood, Sir J Vont& Generals—Sir John Keane, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir C. Grant, Lloyd, Dickin son , Si r T. Bra dford, Balfour. Colonch—Ellwood, hard Duffer'''. Sir C. Dance, Hon. 0. Rice Tr,ev 3 r, Des Vuus, Lascelles, Poten, Sir Charles W. Thornton, Sir P k e kaltlel Dicksee, K.C.B. lair , Charlewood, Clive, Sir John filacra, uelas, C B. Powell, Baker, Bush, Boller, O. Iligginson. 3l ajcrs-IVrottesley. Croke., Breton, Olivier. Cafrtains—Cates, George Martin, R.N. G. PecheU, R.N. C. Rams. f. Drake, Macpherson, E. Sparshott, R.N. Co mmanders —Arrow, Stopford, Popplewell, Arthur Douglas, M. ,Jantagu. L ieutenants —Lord Francis Russell, R.N. R. Welch, R.N. omers—Legartl, Fullerton, Macdonald. The noblemen and gentlemen, and the naval and military mileers, presented to the King at the L evee on W e d n esday, 1-,..re most of them Presented to Her Majesty yesterday. THE GENERAL ELECTION. P 9 13 al ti f. C E L C. B H ii is !41 NEWS FOR CANDIDATES AND ELECTORS. SOUTHWARK.—(THts DAY.) DEFEAT OF THE BOROUGHMONGERS. At nine o'clock this morning, the High Bailiff, accom panied by WILLIAM BROUGHAM and CHARLES CALVERT, Fsqrs. &c. appeared on the hustings; and the usual forms having been gone through, SOLOMON DAVIS, Esq. pro- CH A EES CALVERT. Eaq. 88 a Candidate for the rlc R p r i esentation of the Borough, which was seconded by JOHN ELLIS, Esq. J. Richards, Esq. propored William Brougham, Esq. and was seconded by Mr. Davis, High-street, Borough.— The proposers, seconders, and candidates, severally ad dressed the meeting ; but we are under the necessity of abstaining from entering into their speeches this day : suffice it to say, they pledged themselves to support the Reform Bill. We may probably give the speeches to-morrow. At eleven o'clock, C. Calvert Esq. and Wm. Brougham, Esq. were declared duly elected members for the independent borough, amidst the loudest cheers for the King and Constitution. Thanks were voted to the High Bailiff, after which, the Constitutional supporters of the can didates departed for the City—by which the Reform Bill has gained-0 NE. Dover has returned Mr. Powlett Thompson, and Captain Stanhope, instead of Sir J. R. Reid, by which the Reform Bill has gained—ONE. BOROUGH OF ST. ALBANS. FIRST DAY'S POLL. Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. - . 139 Lord Orimston 137 Sr. Godson 130 There is little doubt but Sir Francis Vincent and Mr. Godson will be returned. M I DDLESE X.—Since the dissolution of Parliament, Mr. Hume has engaged himself in daily visiting his late consti tuents in different parts of the county of Middlesex, every where meeting with the most cordial reception. Yesterday he visited Acton, Hanwell, Southall, Hayes, Hillingdon, and Uxbridge; at Acton, the whole of the freeholders of that parish, near forty in number, had assembled at the mansion of Kelly, Esq. where they one and all ten dered their votes and services for the re-election of Mr. flume, with assurances that at every point where their votes and exertions could be available (several of them being free holders of other counties), to serve the great cause of Re form, as proposed by the present Ministers and sanctioned by the King, they should be exercised. At Uxbridge, where it was market-day, and where Mr. Hume was hardly personally known to any individual, a meeting of se veral hundreds of the inhabitants, icnluding all the free holders of the town and adjoining parishes, was held at three o'clock, in the large room over the Market-house, when re solutions of thanks for his past, and pledges of support to Mr. Hume in confidence of his future conduct in Parlia ment; and addresses to the King and his present Ministers, for the Reform Bill which the Ministers had brought for ward, were unanimously agreed to. In the manifestation of sincerity of the proceedings of the meeting, none were more earnest than the Quakers, of which society there are several very wealthy and amiable families in Uxbridge, at the house of one of whom Mr. Hume, and a gentleman who accom panied him, with several other gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, were hospitably and elegantly entertained. Uxbridge contains a great number of freeholder. of the county of Buckingham, and from its contiguity and con nection with that county, an equal interest in regard to the election therein was manifested. Before Mr. Hume left the town, several subscriptions were offered to him, one of 2001. and another of 1,0001. or 2,0001. if necessary, in support of any gentleman of character in opposition to Lord Chan doe, and who would pledge himself to support the great measure of Reform, as recently proposed. We understand, if Mr. Fyler hesitates or equivocates at Coventry, that a candidate of high moral• worth, and dis tinguished as a reformer, is ready to obey the call of the electors. We must never forget that your moderate reformers refused even to transfer the forfeited franchise of East Ret ford to Birmingham! Yet such men have the hypocrisy to call themselves reformers. Such hypocrites are more dan gerous than open enemies. A coalition of Western and Wellesley will assure the re turn of two reformers for Essex. Mr. Western standing on his past services and high public character is coy, but in being so he hazards the triumph of the county over an in veterate Tory, who in these days ought to know that he ought not to aspire to represent real electors. We commend to Mr. Western, and to all gentlemen in his situation, to lay aside private piques and ancient jealousies for the public good. A tory candidate may be an agreeable neighbour, but he ought, by a genuine patriot, to be regarded as the most offensive of all colleagues in a reforming Parliament. Mr. Gore Langton is invited, by a requisition numerously signed, to stand for Somersetshire ; and Mr. Sandford has earned the good-will and preference of the freeholders by his past conduct. Sir W. B.Guise is certain of his return for Gloucestershire ; and he has found a worthy colleague in Mr. Morton, of Las borough, who is invited by 2,100 freeholders out of less than 6,000. The hated influence of the Beaufort& is there fore likely to be destroyed in this county. Bristol seems likely to rescue its intelligence from the ignominy of misrepresentation. E. B. Fripp, Esq. has pre sided at a large meeting, which has pledged itself to main tain that Bristol, in spite of appearances, is worthy of rank ing as the second city in the empire. A member for so great a population ought not to be the most infuriated and unflinch ing supporter of all abuses. Mr. Curteis offers himself again for Sussex, as a st?ady supporter of the Reform Bill, and also Lord J. G. Lennox, in the same interest. Mr. C. M. Burrell for Bramber and Shoreham, on principles of independence ! Mr. Howard for the same, as the well-known friend of the Reform Bill. Sir John Shelley as its opponent, because he tells the borough of Lewes, it increases the members for Catholic Ireland, and is a wild scheme of real revolution to entrap We un wary into the support of the ministerial faction ! Mr. Kemp also for Lewes, says, if be sits in parliament it must be as a reformer and friend of the bill. Sir C. R. Blunt calls on Lewes to support him as a determined enemy of the bo roughmongers. Lord D. C. Stuart is canvassing Arundel, in opposition to Alderman Atkins. It is generally supposed that there will be 200 new mem bers returned to the new parliament, and that the majority of decided votes for the Reform Bill will be at least 100. What a revolution in fortunes of adventurer., who have so long lived on politics, and on the sale of their votes in support of parliamentary jobs. Mr. Talbot is the popular candidate for Athlone. The Duke of Devonshire has the nomination this time of Baud's Bridge. Sir Thomas Butler and Mr. H. Rochfort are spoken of for Carlow county. Mr. Napier is proposed as a eolleague of Lord Killeen. An independent candidate is to start for Dublin. Mr. North has been canvassing in vain. Sir W. Hart is announced for Kildare. Mr. Tuite's return. for Westmeath is considered certain. Mr. Jos. O'Donnell will contest Mayo. Mr. Wallace, the eminent and worthy barrister, starts for Drogheda, with the certainty of success. The example of the city of London ought to be imitated every where : the reforming candidates ought to have but on e committee. Coalitions, in this instance, are for the public GENERAL ELECTION. good. If they hold together, and electors do not split their votes with tory candidates, the result will be certain. If candidates hesitate, owing to personal feelings, committees should combine aa•their own act, and refractory candidates be excluded, and others found. By this means tory can didates may be shut out from all counties and all places where there is free election. When " the Charles-street funds" are brought to bear as at Harwich and other rotten boroughs, other candidates should be started, and then try the election before a com mittee of parliament. In that case the Charles-street funds would be exerted in vain. We need not wonder at the splendid sums set down by borough patrons to the Charles-street association. They are _ ._ . an edge-off. There are no buyers in the market, but if the fund buy, the subscription is returned in the beneficial sale of a property otherwise valueless. A. has two boroughs ; B. C. D. and E. cannot afford to buy for a short reforming parliament under a retrenching administration. A. then puts down his name for 10,0001. and sells his four seats for _ _ 20,0001. to the fund, who buy for B. C. D. and E. No bad speculation, and a fair specimen of the sacrifices of borough- mongers. Messrs. Penleaze and Atherley start as reformers for Southampton, with every assurance of decided success. The friends of the Hon. H. B. Lygon, in Worcester shire, are making active arrangements to meet any opposi tion which may be offered to his return, in case of a disso lution of parliament. Two new candidates for the repre sentation of the county, have presented themselves—Sir T. PhiHipps, hart. of Middle-hill, Broadway, and Mr. Richards, the eminent hop-merchant, of London. Mr. R. has pur chased Wessell Grove, the property of the late Daniel I , Rogers, Esq. He intends to make it his residence for a part of the year. Sir Thomas Phillippa is very candid in his address to the freeholders; he tells them, at starting, that he stands forward on the principle of " Election free of expense to the candidate ;" but the hon. bart. seems aware that this principle is not very palatable, for he con cludes by saying " I must acknowledge I have little hopes of success." Mr. Richards, who is related to the Attwood family, has published the ablest address that we have yet read, and he assails, with great point, the Ligon and Foley interests, which hitherto have reduced Worcester to the condition of a nomination borough, and exposes the false pretensions of lawyers to the preference of independent electors. Some silly creature, who had not sense enough to feel for himself that no timo is to be lost by the friends of reform, has called a meeting at the White Hart, Bath; but such ignorant persons injure a cause which is already in better boas. Forty of the principal inhabitants of Salisbury have pre sented an address to W. Brodie, Esq. requesting him to al low himself to be put in nomination as a candidate to repre sent that city in Parliament, principally on the ground of that gentleman's being known to fully approve of the Reform Bill. To this requisition Mr. Brodie has replied, that he is not without hope that " his old and much-valued friend," the present member for Salisbury, will ultimately be induced to support the Reform measure : should he, however, be dis appointed in that expectation, " then Gentlemen," says Mr. B. " will the field be fairly open to me—then will I accept your offer, and run an honourable race with any competitor, should one arise, for the prize you hold out as the reward of him who will exert himself to contend for it." Mr Patten is obnoxious, and meetings have been held to obtain an opponent in Lancashire, Lord John Russell is invited, but he stands for Devonshire. Mr. P. is a friend to part of the bill l but Lord Stanley to the whole bill. Lord E. Somerset fills the papers with lists of his sup porters—you scratch me and I scratch you. Mr. Tracey, a country gentleman of liberal character, starts for Tewkesbury, in opposition to Mr. Dowdeswell, who qualifies his support of the bill. Mr. Webb starts again for Gloucester, and adops Capt. F. Berkeley as his colleague, both of them reformers. Glou cestershire will therefore be severely contested in every place, but the result is not doubtful. LIVERPOOL ELECTION.—We understand that it is the intention of several influential gentlemen to invite Lord Francis Leveson Gower, son of the Marquis of Stafford, and late Secretary for Ireland, to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of Liverpool in Parliament. We also understand, that his lordship, if invited, will offer himself. Lord Francis is, we bear, a moderate reformer. Should a writ for Liverpool be issued, the election will take place on Saturday or Monday next. We hear that the town will be divided into districts, and that a booth for receiving the votes of freemen will be erected in each. This arrangement will materially shorten the duration of the poll. Mr. Ewart, General Gascoyne, and Mr. Denison are expected in town to-day or to-morrrow, to commence their canvass. —Liverpool Albion. PRESTON ELECTION.—This election is fixed for Friday next, and we regret to say that there is as yet but little prospect of any gentleman offering himself in opposition to the " Preston Cock," who is now scouted by every class of society in the country. It was intended that Mr. Stanley should be put in nomination ; but it having been ascertained that that gentleman would not at present give up Wind sor, the idea of nominating him has been abandoned.— The respectable electors being disappointed of obtaining Mr. Stanley, determined, on Monday last, to invite Mr. Richard Potter, of Manchester ; and accordingly two gentlemen were deputed to wait upon him ; but their mission was unsuccessful, as Mr. Pott.r is engaged in canvassing the electors of Wigan. Mr. Wood and NI r. Hunt both arrived in Preston on Monday : the reception of the latter, though not marked by any strong marks of open hostility, was entirely divested of that enthusiasm with which he was formerly received. He addressed the people from his old lodgings at the top of Lime-street, in a long rambly speech, with scarcely a single point in it to create a respond ing cheer : it was flat and spiritless in the extreme : if any gentleman will offer himself upon liberal principles, Mr Hunt's rejection is certain. From a communication received last night, it appears that Mr. Charles Swainson has been invited to become a candidate, but he also has declined.— Blackburn Gazette. Sir James Graham is opposed for Cumberland, by the Leviathan of tho North; but there is no county more dis tinguished for its sturdy independence than the men of Cumberland, and no man deserves better of Lis country than Sir James Graham. Sir W. Forbes offers himself again for Kirkcudbright, as an opponent of the bill. Sir R. C Fergusson for the same. Sir J. J. H. Johnstone, for Dumfries ; also Mr. W. R. K. Douglas ; Mr. M. Sharpe, for the royal burgh ; and Sir A. Agnew, for Wigtown. We lament to learn that the patriotic Mr. Richards, of Worcester, has been appalled by the bold front of the Beau champs, at the head of whom is an old Lady, with her 50,0001. It is paying a bad compliment to the Free holders of Worcestershire ; but it may be hoped that Mr. R. will become a candidate elsewhere. He is a reformer, and he understands the currency question. It is said Mr. Sadler retires from Newark, but though he voted for his patron on the reform question, yet Mr. Sadler was in other respects so valuable a member, that it may be hoped he will be in the next Parliament, and be able to act for bieopelf. GENERAL ELECTION. The people of Harwich are about to afford a practical proof of the indispensible necessity of reform, by returning Messrs. Herries and Dawson, v. ho have, it seems, established claims on their gratitude, and are probably well backed by the Charles-street fund.. All Essex is indignant at the affair. Yo R TESIII It E.—The four liberal candidates of the county of York Lo:d Morpeth, Sir John Johnstone, John Charles Ramsden, F_sq. and George Strickland, Esq. acting with the same decision and unanimity as the King and his ministers, immediately on the prorogation of parliament, sent forth their addresses to the freeholders, and within three days took the field in person, by adiiieszing the pco ple of Leeds and the clothing district, at our cloth halls. As it was known that the election would take place in the course of next week. thC friends of Reform throughout this vast county, excited in behalf of the glo rious measure of Reform, beyond all former precedent, began everywhere to make preparations for the return of the four liberal candidates. It was well understood that all the candidates were acting together—that no manner of compromise would be listened to—that the aristocracy and the mercantile classes the rich and the poor, were all per fectly united (except the few opposers of reform who ate sprinkled over Yorkshire), in the firm reso:ve to support the King and his Ministers, by returning four candidates who would vote for the ministerial bill. It will be seen that the election is now fixed for next Friday week, the 6th of May, and therefore the candidates lost not a moment in commencing their canvass. Mr. Strickland, who was at York, c mne over to Leeds yesterday, and Lord Nlorpeth, Sir John Johnstone, and Mr Ramiden arrived this morning at half-past 8 o'clock. SCOTLAND. REX EIFREWSIIIRE.-Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, one of the few Scotch Members who supported the bill, has ad dressed the (4ectors. EDIN BU KG lISII I v.e.—Sir George Clerk, in his address, says " that he is ready to give his support to any measures calculated to correct the abuses which may have grown up in• the political system." That part of the system n hick returns such men as the worthy candidate for a county is, of all others, perhaps, the abuse most deserving correction. H ADDINGTONSIIIRE.— \ Ir. Hope (late of Gatton) will have an opponent on the side of the ministerial measure of reform in Mr. Baird of Newbyth ; he says, " that measure is founded on justice, and well adapted to calm the agitation which now exists throughout the country." ListuTitoowsittae.—General Sir A. Hope has again come forward ; he was an opponent of the bill, and declares himself opposed to any change tending to deprive those really (parchment voters, query ?) interested in land of their just influence in county representation. LA N MESH I R E.—Sir C. Douglas, the late member, comes forward again. PEILTIIBIIIIt E.—Sir G. Murray is up again ; he declares in his address, that " he has never been an enemy, at any period of his public life, to prudent ameliorations of the po litical system of the country." Did not Sir George vote against the transfer of the elective franchise from East Retford to Birmingham ? DUMBARTONSHIRE —Lord W. Graham is not again coming forward. Mr. John C. Colquhoun, however, is in the field, but has made no avowal of his principles with res pect to reform : the late member opposed the bill. Ft yesui a E.—Mr. J. Lindsay opposes Captain Wemyss, who supported ministers ; the new candidate is one of the " well-regulated reform" supporters, and talks in his ad dress of " that religion (we suppose boroughmongering and place-hunting) which the experience of many ages has shown to be the surest foundation of our liberties and hap piness." SELICIRILSHIv.E.—Mr. A. Pingle has solicited the suf frages of the freeholders ; be opposed the bill. Mr. A. E. Lockhart is to be put in nomination on the other side. KIRICUDBRIO HTIMIRE.—Mr. Cutler Ferguson has come forward here on his old principles as a supporter of the ministerial Bill of Reform. A second candidate has started, Mr. Forbes, of Callendar House, who declares himself" firmly resolved to support establishments in Church and State," and " not indisposed to support any prudent change in the representation, consistent with the safety of the Constitution,' that is, with the maintenance of rotten boroughs, and equally rotten Scotch counties. ARO Y LLSHIRE.—Mr. W. Campbell is in the field for this county. He voted for the bill. ROX BUROHSHI RE.— Mr. Scott, who voted against mi nisters, says, in his address to the freeholders, that, " after the late discussions, &c. in the house, he is inclined to be lieve (a new version of the Marquis of Londonderry's almost lead me to think') that some equitable and moderate alteration as to the distribution of the elective franchise ought to be adopted." How parrot-like ! These " equi table, moderate, just, and fair" reformers seem to have obeyed the instructions given them by the " Conservative Senate" in Charles•street. EDINBURGH CIT Y.—A meeting of the Merchants' Com e pany was held on Monday, at which it was unanimously re solved to memorialize the magistrates and town council to do themselves and the city honour by selecting as their re presentative their fellow-citizen, the Lord Advocate. A public meeting of the householders was about to be held for the same purpose. The Edinburgh Political Union met for the same purpose on Friday. LElTH.—sMonday the inhabitants voted, una race, an ad dress to the King for having dissolved the late parliament. GREENOCK.—The Magistrates have announced a meet ing to congratulate his Majesty on the firm and dtaermined manner in which he has supported his Ministers on the sub ject of reform. The Political Union ere on the alert, can vassing for such candidates as may come forward as reformers on the principle of the ministerial bill. IRELAND. Lox E.—Mr. James Talbot, n•ho petitioned against the return of the patron's nominee, but without success, is again coming forward, pledging himself as a " staunch and an uncomprising reformer." Now is the time for the thirteen corForittions to shake cif the yoke of Lord C;stlemaine, and by one good act conciliate their townsmen. MEATH.—Mr. Naper, of Laugherew, and !.,,rd Kii!cen, both pledging themselves to reform, are in the held. In the other parts of Ireland similar promi•iitiale is ex hibited to return reformers. • _ ELECTIONS FIXED. Tit Is DA Y.— London, Canterbury, Chest( r, Norwich, Great Yarmouth, Abingdon, Lewezi, York City, Homhain, Preston, Lincoln, Hereford City. SAT Ult DA Y.—Bath, Rochester, Bristol, Seaford, Leo minster. Mo DAY, May 2.—lpswich, Sandal( h, Southampton, Liverpool, Taunton, Ten( kesba y, Westminster. Ty Es DA Y —Suffo: k (nomination), Cambridge iTniversity, Shoreham. Tit t: RS DA Y.—ESSEX, Surrey (at Guilford). Fit IDA Y.-- Norfolk ; Sussex, at Chichester; Yorkshire; Southamptoushire, nomination day; Was; at Presteign ; Breckaockshire. SA't u It DAY .—Herefordshire. To LIMA Y.—Suffolk, at 11 swich ; Edinburghshirc. WEDN VIDA Y.—Kent ; Somersetshire, at llchester. Cl• We repeat our wishes lo be favoured tr Rh the State of PWI4, day by day, by Candidates or Committees. This Paper lain,. during the Election. Me focus of information. so interesting tevel Me people of Empland. Hitherto our Rlcetion intelipence, derivrd from tits Us: soirees, has supersede: loot of most of our Conleasperaries. i ~~