The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-02 00:00:00

vices estimated, not only by the friends of Captain Berke-
ley, but by his own supporters, that a requisition was
generally signed in all quartets, oil ling upon him to again
offer himself in conjunction with Captain Berkeley. With
this request Ile complied, and an active canvass in behalf
of the two candidates has been most successfully carried
on. Opposed to these two is Mr. Phillpotts, whose re-
turn in July last cannot be forgotten. Although this
gentleman has warmly supported the Reform Bill, yet the
popularity he would otherwise have acquired has been most
materially shaken by his first vote in Parliament, which
was against the amendment moved by Sir H. Parnell on
the Civil List. The election is fixed for Monday next.—
Gloucester -journal.
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For the county an active canvass is going on, on behalf
of Lord Edward Somerset, who opposed the Reform
Bill, and Sir Wm. Guise and the Hon. Mr. Moreton,
who are strenuous supporters of it. All the parties speak,
confidently of success. The election is fixed for Tuesday,
the 10th of May next.--Ibid.
WOODS COCK.—It has just been discovered, that
Woodstock, which sends two Members elected by the free-
own, is an open borough ; and that by the charter of
Charles 11. the right of election was vested in the house.
keepers genera'ly. Mr. Buckingham, on Thursday, called
the inhabitants together in the town hall, and explained
the charter, and assured them Lord Brougham had given
his opinion in favour of that interpretation of it. He
also invited them to the poll on Saturday, to tender their
votes for him, and he would try the right.
CLARE—O'Gorman Mahon has received an address
from Clare, signed by 2,000 names, requesting him to
stand for that county.
EDINBURGH.—The Lord Advocate and Mr. R. A.
Dundas are the only candislatss.
SUDBURY ELECTION.—This election commenced
on Friday morning at ten o'clock. The corporation in-
troduced two can fidates, Sir John Walsh, Bart., their old
Member, and Mr. J. N. Macleod : being unable to get
him up to the scratch, they introduced Mr. Digby
Wrangham, a son of the Archdeacon of the same name.
Admiral Wyndham opposes them as a Reformer : a very
sharp contest has taken place, with every prospect of auc-
cess for the Admiral.
MACCLESFIELD.—Lord H. Cholmondeley arrived
this miming. and commenced his canvass, but with very
indifferent success. In fact, there are hut half a dozen
Anti-Reformers in Macclesfield. The meeting at North.
wich, on Monday, will be a private one. We have ne-
glected to mention in our paper that Mr. Wilbraham was
chaired through the town yesterday, after he left the
Guildhall.
MAIDSTONE.—Mr. G. T. Knight, a barrister, and
son of Mr. Knight, of Godmersham-park, has announced
himself a candidate for this borough as a Reformer, in
opposition to Mr. Alderman Winchester, who voted
against the Bill. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (Al-
derman Key) starts, with the certainty of success.
OXFORDSHIRE.—Mr. Fane, who opposed the Bill,
has resigned in depair on the result of a canvass of three
lays ; Mr. George Harcourt (late Vernon), the Member
for Lichfield, has offered himself, and Major Weyland has
consented to be put in nomination, both on the Reform
principle, and Lord Nurreys will, no doubt, be thrown
out. Major \Vey] end's canvass on Thursday, at Banbury,
was most successful ; of 150 freeholders, he got pledges
from 120.

WORCESTER, APRIL 30.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Ste,—Feeling that you are desirous of gaining every informa-
tion of the success of reforming candidates, and that the readers
of your excellent Journal, in different parts of the empire, wait
with breathless anxiety to obtain the intelligence it contains, I
have thought proper to give you a faint idea of the state Wor-
cester was in on Friday evening, and that )ou may know we are
reformers the canvass of our two late Members will prove, for
out of nine parishes they did not meet with fifty refusals. Yet,
notwithstanding this popular feeling a few of the odds and ends
of society, with the Corporation at its head, had managed to
bring forward a third man in the person of Mr. Henry Fitzroy;
but no sooner did he arrive than the town rose en masse, and but
for the entreaties of an influential individual (a reformer) he
would not have been allowed to say one word, and perhaps that
would not have been the least indignity he would have had to
sutkr. However, he began by saying he was a reformer (to use
his own words), " not to the extent of Lord John Russell's Bill"
~that was his dying speech, for not one word more would the
citizfols hear—" Be off;" " Go back ;"—deafening groans and
hisses—then obliged him to retire, and with this load upon his
shoulders, he has started to try (having them as a recommenda-
tion) elsewhere.
I write this and send it to you that it may go after him.
" j warrant me a man now-a-days does not get an ass tacked to
his back for nothing."
To heightoti the scene, just at this time, up stalks the effigy of
our star of despotism, colonel Lygon, candidate for the county—
and the execrations that sent one young tool from the city went
with the other old tool to condole with him in the flames. Do
not be alarmed, Sir, when I tell you he rose the next day, and
"n the very spot where he had been burnt the night before (the
Curwmarket). The farmers, however, recognized him, and
finding the Alynes could not purify so foul a thing as a borough-
monger, they th.iight they would try what virtue there was in
mud and mire ; and it was after an hour's hard pelting proved
to have the effect of changing the epiqur of his face and exte-
Fier, and trusting it will tend to soften his heart, and teach him
i .0 resign before it is worse.
1 reipin, Sir, in great haste, your's respectfully,
AN EYE WITNESS AND Cl'l IZEN.

SATURDAY EVENING.
The Anti-Reformer (Fitzroy) has made Itis retreat, seeing that
the freemen of this city were determined to return their old
Members, It is generally believed that Captain Spencer will be
returned for the county with *lr. Foley.