Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-09 00:00:00

ELECTION NEWS.

Bourn LANCASHIRE.—CoIoneI the Hon. James Lindsay,
who, we stated yesterday, had issued his address to the
electors of Wigan soliciting their suffrages, has been re-
quested by a numerous body of Conservatives to offer himself
for the southern division of the county, but has respectfully
declined. At a large and highly influential meeting of the
liberal electors of South Lancashire, held yesterday, at
Manchester, to consider the question of the county repre-
sentation, the utmost harmony prevailed ; and resolutions,
pledging the meeting to use every possible exertion to secure
the election of Mr. Cheetham and Mr. Heywood, were passed
unanimously.

NORTH LANCASHIRE.—CoIoneI J. W: Patten and the
Marquis of Hartington, the two present members, are again
in the field.

REPRESENTATION OP MAN9HESTER.----JaMeS Aspinall
Turner, Esq., though still suffering under an impaired state
of health, has placed himself unreservedly in the hands of
his friends, We are also glad to be able to express our full
belief in the existence of a similar spirit on the part of Mr.
Bazley's friends. We understand that that gentleman will,
like Mr. Turner, be put in nomination without the slightest
connection with any other candidate, and with the same
desire that a contest may be avoided.

We understand that Mr. George Melly, of this town, in-
tends offering himself to the electors of Macclesfield.
COCKERMOUTH.—Mr. John Steel, one of the sitting mem-
bers, has issued an address, appealing to the electors to
return him, for the third time, their representative in
parliament. He is in favour of the £lO franchise in counties,
and a large extension of the suffrage in boroughs, but is
opposed to the ballot.
ASHTON.—The Right Hon. T. M. Gibson has issued an
address, stating his intention again to solicit the suffrages
of the electors.

BEDFORD.—The Liberal sitting members, Messrs. Whit-
bread and Barnard, have issued an address, again offering
themselves as candidates.

DENBIGHSHIRE.—It is unlikely that anyone will be
brought forward to contest the county with Sir
Watkin W. Wynn (Conservative) or Colonel Myddleton
Biddulph (Liberal).

DENBIGH BOROUGHS.-It is stated that the Liberals
will bring forward Mr. J. Maurice, of Ruthin, to contest
the boroughs with Mr. Mainwaring, who voted with the
Government.

KENDAL.-A meeting of the liberal electors was held
on Wednesday evening, at which it was resolved to reqnest
Mr. Glyn to allow himself to be again nominated.
NOTTINGHAM.—We have now four candidates in the field.
Mr. Paget, the present Liberal member ; Mr. J. A.
Nicholls, of Manchester ; Ernest Jones, Chartist ; and
Mr. G. H. Vernon, who is;understood to be the candidate
of the Liberal Conservatives. Mr. Nicholls was expected
to address a meeting of electors last night.
STAFFORD.—Mr. Alderman Sidney, of London, is a can-
didate for the seat of Lord Ingestre (Conservative), who,
it is rumoured, may be nominated for the county in place of
Mr. Smith Child ; and Mr. Wise seeks re-election. Other
names, including that of the Hon. Colonel Littleton (in
the Liberal interest), are mentioned.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.-There is no probability of
opposition to Mr. W. 0. Foster and Mr. H. J. W. H.
Foley, the present members, who are both Liberals.
TAMWORTIL—The present members, Sir Robert Peel
and Viscolftt Raynham (both Liberals), will be returned
without opposition.
SHEFFELD.—On Thursday evening, a numerous meeting
of the committee of Messrs. J. A. Roebeck and G. Hadfield,
the present members, was held. A resolution, expressive
of confidence in the honourable members, and requesting
them to stand again, was unanimously carried. Mr.
Roebuck acknowledged the compliment, and proceeded to
explain the course he had taken with reference to the
Government Reform Bill, which he characterised as
a sham. Being willing to take an enstalment of reform
from the present Government, because he knew that, what-
ever measure of Reform Ministers pledged themselves to
they could carry through the House of Lords, he asked
them whether, if the bill went into committee, they would
retire if a resolution were carried in favour of a £6 rental
franchise in boroughs and other provisions. Had they
consented to this, he should have voted for the second
reading of the bill, and had no doubt a majority of the
House of Commons would have done the same. He did
not name the ballot, because he knew that that could not
be carried in the present Parliament, and not because he
had changed his opinions on that or any other point with
regard to Parliamentary reform. He was further influenced
in his desire to prevent a dissolution, on account of the
critical state of Europe. We might have war before
another month was over, and knowing the misconceptions
which prevailed abroad as to the English institutions,
he feared that the country might be thought to be in
a state of confusion, and advantage might be taken of this
to prejudice the interests of peace. The government having
refused to give the pledge he asked, they alone were respon-
sible for the dissolution ancLits consequences. Mr. Roebuck
said he was not a friend of any particular party or individual
he would support a good government of whatever party
formed. In conclusion, he urged the importance of the
middle classes educating themselves for the work of govern-
ment. He was repeatedly cheered.

BELFAST.— Sir H. M. Cairns will again offer himself for
re-election.
Mr. Williams retires from Lambeth.
Mr. Horsman is to be opposed at Stroud by Mr. E. A.
Freeman

Mr. Cowan retires from Edinburgh.
Mr. Cardwell has addressed the electors of Oxford, offer-
ing himself for re-election.

'sir W. Heathcote retires from Oxford University, and
Mr. Roundell Palmer is spoken of as his successor. .

Mr. Robertson Gladstone has been invited to Leith

Mr. Laing will probably resume his seat at Wick

The Doncaster Gazette of yesterday (Friday) announces the
retirement of Mr. E. Denison from the West Riding. The
Conservatives will bring forward two candidates.

LORD PALMERSTON'S ELECTION ADDRESS.
In offering himself for re-election, Lord Palmerston says
that the question submitted to the electors of the United
Kingdom is as folloivs, viz. :—Whether the bill proposed
by the Government was good or bad, and whether the
Government was right in proposing such a bill, or whether
the majority of the House of Commons were right in dis-
approving it. His lordship says that, as Ministers took
office avowing that their supporters were in a minority,
they were bound to go as far as possible in shaping their
course in conformity with the declared opinions of the
majority. As with the Indian Bill, last year, Ministers might
have withdrawn their Reform Bill and have proposed another,
framed in conformity with the views of the large majority
of the House of Commons. Lord Palmerston next notices
the ministerial pretext as to their continuance in office being
essential to the peace of Europe. He says : A government
of this country, to be listened to with deference abroad,
ought to have strength and stability at home, and foreign
powers ought to see, in the probability of its duration, a
security for the continuance of the policy on which, as
representing the British Crown, it is acting. But the pre-
sent Administration exhibits itself to Europe, at the outset
of an approaching Congress, as having an irreconcilable
difference with Parliament, of whose assistance it will have
deprived itself during what may be a critical period of the
negotiation, while that confidence of the country which
so long as no expression of public opinion was asked for
might have been assumed to exist, may possibly, by the
result of the elections, .be found not to belong to the present
administration.