The Press.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Cabinet Councils were held on Monday and yes-
terday at the Foreign-office.
The Speaker of the House of Commons and Mrs.
and Miss Shaw Lefevre arrived in Eaton square on
Thursday from Brighton.
The United States Minister at our Court, his
Excellency James Buchanan, Esq., according to the
latest despatches from Washington, has been re-
called, and will be succeeded by Mr. Marcy.

Election uteltigtutt.

BEDFORD.—On Tuesday the nomination took place,
when Captain Stuart was proposed as the Conserva-
tive candidate, and Mr. J. S. Trelawney by the
Liberals. The show of bands was declared to be in
favour of the latter, but the poll on the following
day resulted in the triumphant return of Captain
Stuart, by a majority of 422 against 331.
COVENTRY.—On Saturday last Sir Joseph Paxton
was returned without opposition to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr. Geacb.
AntNonoN.—The nomination for this borough is
fixed for Monday next. The candidates, Major J.
Haythorne Reed (Liberal) and Mr. J. T. Norris
(Liberal), are both confident of success, but the
number of unpledged Conservatives makes the result
a matter of uncertainty.
ANTRIM.—The Belfast Newsletter announces that
Captain Pakenham, of the 30th Regiment, who has
just returned to this country, having been severely
wounded at the battle of the Alma, is about to offer
himself as a candidate for the representation of this
county, in the room of his lamented brother.
EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Mr. Grantley Berkeley
has issued an address to the electors. He says :
By the deeply-lamented decease of your late representa-
tive, the choice of a member of Parliament is again before
you, and I have little doubt but that you will be desirous
of selecting one resolute to bring about a glorious and
speedy termination to the war, an end to ruinous taxation,
and to the almost famine prices at which provisions now
stand. In short, you will wish to return a representative
who will be firm for Lord Derby or any other Minister
whose measures will mete to all classes a fair share of
those blessings, which cannot be blessings unless shared

universally.
You have a triumphant registration against those prin-
ciples which have placed Lord Aberdeen at the head of
affairs, and by that act occasioned to the country so much
misery and such tearful mourning.
I therefore pledge myself to open the poll, and to seek
your suffrages, rather than let a report which has reached
me be verified—" that the field is to be abandoned to
your opponents, the supporters of the friend of the tyran-
nical Czar."
Ready, then, gentlemen, to be your leader, if you require
one. I remain your faithful servant,
GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY.

Beacon Lodge, Dec. 2, 1854.
R. S. Holford, Esq., of the Regent's park, and Wes-
ton Birt, near Tetbury, is also spoken of as a candi-
date on Conservative principles.
FERMANAGH.—Lord H. Loftus is the only candi-
date for the representation of Fermanagh, vacant by
the decease of Sir Arthur Brook. The Hon. Colonel
Cole has announced his intention not to persevere in
a contest.
LIMERICK. Mr. Stephen De Vere, of Curragh
Chase, has addressed the electors, avowing himself a
friend of free trade and of tenant right; Captain
Dickson is the Conservative candidate for the county.
MARYLEBONE.—Frequent meetings of the electors
have been held for the purpose of selecting a suc-
cessor to Lord Dudley Stuart, as member for Mary-
lebone. Among the numerous candidates suggested
are Sir C. Napier, Lord Ebrington, and Mr. Jacob
Bell, of St. Albans notoriety. Many of the gatherings
have been somewhat stormy, the constituency ap-
pearing to be much divided in opinion as to the re-
spective eligibility of the gentlemen to be honoured
with their choice.

MR. NEWDEGATE AT RUGBY.
ON the 30th ult. the Rugby and Dunchard Annual
Cattle Show was held in a field near the former
town, the performance of the day being closed by a
dinner, at which Lord John Scott presided, Mr.
Newdegate, M.P., and Mr. Spooner, M.P., being
among the guests. In acknowledging the toast,
" The Members for North Warwickshire," Mr. Newde-
gate touched on the question of the war, and keenly
criticised the conduct of the Government in sundry
matters of detail. Alluding to the ccntroversy
between the Ordnance Department and the manufac-
turing
gunmakers, the hon. member said :
I own that I had special reasons for ♦iewing with dis-
trust the conduct of the present Government as regards
this war. The circumstances which led to the appoint-
ment of the Small Arms Committee, that cost me so
dearly in health last session, afforded a warning that I
could not overlook. At the opening of last session the
Government of this country declared that it had not, and
could not, procure improved arms for the army from the
English arms trade, although, if illustration of the 'haw