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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9.

Two candidates are in the field for the Southern
Division of Northamptonshire. It is no disparage-
ment to either of them to say that he comes forward
rather am a fair impersonation of the feelings on
which he relics for support than as the self-nominee
of a proprietor of great territorial posses ions. The
Whig aspirant to the honour of regimenting the
county, though by rank a Peer of Irelsad, is entitled
by fortune rather to be classed with the gentry
than the territorial magnates of the shires, and
in this respect his Tory competitor and be
stand on equal footing. One advantage to
the public will probably result from this. The
profuse expenditure of lad election will not be re-
peated ; and if a few votes leas are polled in copse-
quence of a more economic scale of arrangement being
adopted by both sides for the conveyance of sleets=
from their homes to the hustings, the public at large
will not be disposed to express any vehement regret.
The practice, indeed, to which we refer is one of the
most liable to abuse in our existing system. Enor-
mous sums are frequently squandered by opulent
candidatee on the hire of conveyances for the
polling day ; the opportunity is deemed by their
embers in too many instances one for limitless
exaction; no justifiable end that we know of
is attained by the wasteful outlay ; and the
whole affair is, in most instances, nothing more or
km than a part of the trial of personal strength by
wager of purse, against which every honest and in-
dependent-minded man ought to set his face. It is,
in point of fact, but another mode of limiting the
choice of a constituency by means the most repugnant
to every intelligible or reasonable principle of select-
ing Members to serve in Parliament. Our Minis-
terial contemporary, who the other day boasted of
the reformatory virtue of that pre-eminently delu-
sive statute "The Corrupt Practices Act of 185.1,"
would do well to stodge the scandalous
charges for carriages, fig, ace., to be found in
the Auditors charges for borough sad county elec-
tions during the last five years, beginning with
Lord EPRINGTON'S election for Marylebone, and
ending with that of Lord Avrnoar for South
Northamptonshire.
Lord HVILEY of late has been favourably known
to the Liberals of his neighbourhood from the active
sympathy he hum more than one occasion manifested
in their assertion of their claims upon the representa-
tioo. He once before offered himself for the count c, but
was defeated by thethenundispelled fanaticism shoat
Protection, now happily laid to rest with the be-
lief in witchcraft and the Popish plot. Though the
price of corn is at this moment lower than our
farming friends perhaps desire, we doubt if
a simgle vote will be given to the Conservative or
withheld from the Whig candidate on account of any
prejudice that may have outlived the Corn-law coo-
troverey. Upon other and far different questions the
isms in future contested elections must torn—upon
religious questions (so called)—upoa social questions
when they have been sufficiently discussed to resew
thou capable of popular appreciation—and finally,
upon political questions, like that of war abroad or
legislative reform at home. On most of than Ina
HENLEY has bid higher at starting than
tor. He avows himself ready to exonerate dawdle
from the payment of church-rates, be offers to egged
• policy of spirit and vigour in our relations with
foreign States, as contra-distinguished from that which
used to be denominated Aberdeenises a short while
ago, and, as a pledge of his fidelity to Reform psis&
pies, he dulness himself ready to vote for the Ballet.
Colonel CAITWILIGHT,OR theotber hand, 'VOWS UM.
self to be • Conservative, attached to old institutiose,
and averse to violent change of all sorts. But, south
to say, he dose net uses to be particularly apprebesi-
sive of the violence he coeventionally deprecates;
and being just sew fired with the ambition of sitting
for the musty, he hastens to obliterate as far es
he dares, the unfavourable impression which his
recitation of the stereotyped dogmas of the Carlton
would tend to create, by assuring the constituency
that he is quite op to any fair and equitable mea-
sure of progress which may be brought forward.'
It is curi-us indeed, and highly signilieant, to ob-
serve bow diligently Tory candidates everywhere
seek of late to prepare the way for • rush onward,
should the opportunity offer. All men of fore-
sight or energy sincere the party have come to per.
calve that their position, as mere defenders of abor-
tive negatives, is untenable sad intolerable. It
is eelf-evident that, no matter how slow
Whig movement on wards may be, it mast
always be successful, until the Opposition
muster courage to outrun them in the race. Haying
behind, grumbling and carping, bat still thanking.,
forced to fviiow, is a piteous condition for any body
of men to be doomed to, sad it is becoming pretty
plain that the younger members of the Tory part,
are resolved not to submit to it rank haw. Poe
ourselves, we are heartily glad to recephe web dyne
of awakening and ambition. There never was a goo
open field for generous emulation than at the pima
hour. The Whigs hay, palpably become "did
by success in holding a monopoly of pewee; ad
were it only for their re-invillerunik als
should sincerely desire that the Cenigegellng
would enlarge their political phylasigin, and