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nearly equal to that ef the last General Election. It is, there..
fore, absurd in the Tory candidates to complain of the disad-
vantages of a canvas, limited to the short term of seven days.
No exertions could have brought more Tories to the poll ;
and they could only have succeeded by remissness on the part
of the Reformers in the discharge of their duty. The ex-
ample of London will not be lost on the country. The sig-
nal defeat of the Tories, after a struggle in which they made
the most desperate efforts, sufficiently indicates the state of
the public mind. .With necessitous freemen in the old venal
boroughs they have some charrir but wherever the consti-
tuency is numerous and respectable, they will always be. de-
feated. The prospect is cheering in the other metropo-
litan boroughs. In Lambeth, Alderman Farebrother's com-
mittee had given up the contest ; but though the Alderman
still stands, he will soon fall. In Westminster, the ex-Go-
vernor can have no chance whatever; and the same may be
said of the " accomplished" gentleman who has offered him-
self on Tory principles for the Tower hamlets. If Serjeant
Spankie succeed in Finsbury, it can only be through the
grossest mismanagement on the part of the Reformers. The
Serjeant, who is certainly no fool, whatever else he may be,
displayed considerable address yesterday. If the Reformers
cannot understand the motives for the coquetting between him
and Mr. Wakley, they must be stupid indeed. Mr. Spankie
is too crafty a Tory to throw away any favour on a formidable
opponent. Every vote given to Mi-. Wakley is, of course, an
advantage to him. Do not let the Electors of Finsbury so
stultify themselves as to give votes to Mr. Wakley, who cannot
be returned: the votes are not merely thrown away—they are
given to the Sergeant.— Morning Chronicle.

GENERAL ELECTION

THE COUNTitY.

BRIGHTON.-NOMIArATION.

The nomination of the candidates took place this morning
(Wednesday) in front of the Town-hall.

Captain UHEAPSIDE nominated Isaac Newton Wigney, Esq.
as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parlia-
ment.

Mr. N. M. BRADFORD seconded the nomination.
FREEMAN ELIOT, Esq., proposed Mr. George Faithful
Mr. RICHARD EDWARDS seconded the nomination.

Mr. ALLEN proposed Capt. George Richard Pechell.
Mr. RICHARD TAMPLIN seconded the nomination.
LAWRENCE PEEL, Escr , brother of the Prime Minister,
proposed Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple, the Conservative
candidate.

Mr. BENJAMIN DAVIS seconded the nomination.

I. N. NVIONEY, Esq. then came forward, and said he was
the same as when elected their representative two years ago--
a Reformer. He had supported the Reform Bill in all its
ramifications, and had acted up to the spirit of his pledges.
He had voted against unmerited pensions and sinecures, and
had voted for the ballot, triennial Pa: liaments, the abolition of
flogging in the army and impressment in the navy, and had
also voted for disfranchising all corrupt boroughs. All this
he was prepared to do again—( Loud cheering.)
Mr. G. FAITIIFULL was received with loud cheering, and
said he was again willing, if they chose him, to serve them
in Parliament.

Captain PEcuELL addressed a few words to the electors,
thanking them for the sympathy they had evinced' towards
him during his late misfortune.—( The Gallant Captain a
t time ago had his leg broken by his borSes taking
fright and oversetting his carriage.) llis motto was, " The
prosperity of Brighton."—( Cheers. ) The Gallant Captain
then recapitulated his political ercc,d.
Sir A. J. DALRYMPLE pledged himself to vote for all mea-
sures which would relieve the Dissenters, consistently with the
safety of the Church.
A show of hands was then taken, and was declared in fa-
vour of Mr. Faithfull, the Ultra-Radical, and Captain Pe-
chell, a Whig. Mr. Hilton then demanded a poll on behalf
of Mr. Wigney.
The polling begins to-morrow morning at nine o'clock.
The general mmression is, that Mr. Wigney and Captain
Pechell will be returned.

BARNSTAPLE—NOMINATIOIV.
JAN. s.—The nomination of candidates for this borough
took place to-day. Four candidates are now in the field. Mr.
Gordon (the bribery defender) has met with such a scurvy
reception, that he has resigned in favour of Mr. \Volley, a
youth, apparently just out of his teens, and avowing the same
Ultra-Tory principles; his success is altogether out of the
question—three hands only being held up in his faVotir. At
the eleventh hour Mr. Stewart, a barrister from London, pre-
sects himself to the notice of the electors, professing himself
a Liberal Whig. After the due forms of nomination, &c.,
had been gone through, the candidates, as customary, ad-
dressed the electors.

Mr. CHICHESTER urged his claims on their support, solely
on the ground of coincidence of political sentiments. His
conduct was before them, and he would be judged thereby.
Major Fz.ncourt spoke like a Reformer of the new Tory
school, as he is. He professed to consider the Reform Bill as
" a final settlement of a great question," with which he would
not at all meddle. To-morrow will, most likely, see returned
the former Members, so that Toryism will have gained nought
here