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London, England, 1857-03-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 26.

10 OUR

♦ DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will
Iss leashed on SATURDAYS as usual, during the

Tan " commercial candidates "—an euphuism, we
prom% for " trading politicians "—for the City of
Leaded, are sadly annoyed by the indignant feeling
awakened in the breasts of the electors by the treat-
ment which Lord Jowl Russet'. has experienced
at their heads and at the hands of their patrons, the
taw busybodies who have been allowed to act in
the same of the Registration Association. They
pretest that they have no enmity to Lord Joax,
that they have done nothing to injure him. The
lawarMillA of one of their district meetings declared
ea Tuesday that " they have not held any public
meeting in the City, neither have they made any
attack ea Lord JOHN RtgIISLL." An we to infer
from this that all their meetings which we see
reported in our own columns and in the whim= of
ear contemporaries are as strictly private, hole-and-
career affairs, as the first meeting of the Aso-
chilies was attempted to be made? It would
almost seem that they are. Mr. DaLos, with
a view to counteract the effect of a resolu-
tion in favour of Lord Jonx, passed at one of
the Association's district meetings, stated that there
were only fifteen persons present. This may or may
sot be the case ; all that we know is, that Mr.
DILLON himself presided at the meeting in his capa-
city of district chairman ; that it was probably con-
♦ened by himself as chairman ; and that if he had
ant been leR in a glorious minority of one with his
original resolution, we should have beard nothing of
the mall number of persons present. As far, there-
Axe, as concerns the hole-and-corner character of the

Association's meetings, we admit that its district
chairmen have completely proved their ease; and
we oak the electors of London if they are disposed to
he dictated to by hole•and-corner conspiracies against
the freedom of election ?

But when we are eked to believe that they have
made no attaek upon Lord Joint RUSSELL, we met
be allowed to remain at lent sceptical. When an
organised body, before Parliament is dissolved, comes

Seward to nominate four candidates with a view to
exclude one of the sitting members, we must say that
it loam very like an attack upon him. And when
thwe fear candidates meet and pledge themselves to
stand or fall together, it does look very like taking
part hi the attack. If any one of as, on seeking to
eater a hoes. where we had found free and friendly
abaktion for sixteen years, were to be encountered
• triar gentlemen, locked arm in arm, filling up the
adult width of the wave, and refusing to make
way for as, what would we call that ? But perhaps
• " not being parties to any attack on Lard rout"
▪ essat not speaking disrespsethdly of him. Even
this, however, is more than the four candi-
&Ps and their patrons can say for themselves

with truth. Mr.CßAwroan had his snarl at Lord
Joss at the very meeting when the Chairman
pretested they had never attacked the sable lord.
And Mr. RAIEES CURRIE—the Muter Merryman
of the Parliamentary arena—the would-bo
whe inflicts upon the House of Commons his
rgioeted contributions to Punch, took upon him to
user at " the small pigmy wit of Lord JOVE Rec-
ant." These might pass for unpremeditated,
waspish ebullitions of perunal spleen and vanity ;
but we can bring home to the Association, or to its
agents, the dissemination of deliberate calumnies
against Lord lons Rus"rt.c. Menial at elections,
the cards of the Association, dated "Central Com-
mittee-room, Bucklersbury," are hawked about,
akin the " vote and interest" of electors
fir the four " liberal and commercial can-
didates." And along with these cards is
distributed an address to thl " Men of Lee-
dom," in which it is said of certain expremieme
attributed to Lord lonic Ruser.f.t.--" such satins
mayeakt the oldwomen and small clerical tea-parties
et the cathedral close of a little rural borough ; no
maa who aspires to office in this country dare pro-
aay other." Is this or is it seta sues and
calumnious attack upon Lord ions &Team ?
We may be told—and possibly with truth—that
. .

Ow principal members oi the A-seoeistice sad their

candidates know nothing of tine unwasmabable
attack. But this only shows the deogerass ammeter
of sash permanent organisation. A maim of
zealous politicians at some time of gnat ezeiblemat
snits and form an association. At iket they lake an
active part in its promodings—gulde sad refit
late its action. But time cools their amber, sad
the demands of banner divert their atteatiem They
continue to pay their annual subscriptions, sad leave
the management entirely in the hands of their paid
agents. These are composed for the unit part al
ems hardened by long custom to all the hicks sad
Nahtetibgee of political agitation. To obtain their
nods they have recourse to devisee of which their
daipioyere would be esimmed. Bat their empk,yers,
hem hag expairmos in eleaticasering NA ether po-
litical memessua, know that this is the saline
the an.. Employing such en 'gooey, it is their
duty to watch ever it, and cheek it whworms it di-
verges Ban the path of moriety and deonsey. All
lionlskemes are morally resposeible he the action