The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-20 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX.

• In the Middlesex election the conservatives have played at
"double or quits," and have lost the game. They might have
brought iu Mr. Wood without the least difficulty, but they con-
sidered that as only half the game. To attempt anything less
than unseat Mr. Hume they deemed unworthy their efforts.
They, therefore, gave Mr. Byng inure than thirteen hundred
votes, lest he, instead of' Mr. Hume, should be the rejected can-
didate. Had they withheld this aid the veneruble whig would
have been left at the bottom of the poll, and would have termi-
nated for ever his parliamentary career.
• A comparison of the contests of 1832 and 1835 will be both
interestiug and instructive. The constituency in 1832 was
6.972; in 1835 it is 8,005. The number of voters who came to
the poll in 1832 was about 4,900. In 1833 it was as nearly as
possible 6,000. But the distribution of the votes varied in this
remarkable manner :
1 1835.
&32.
Hume (R.) 3 /38 Byng (W.) 3,472
Byng (W.) 3,033 Hume (R.) 3,102
Forbes (C.) 1 494 Wood (C.) 2,711
Thus we see that the whig candidate has scarcely obtained
his fair proportion of the increase of the constituency, and, in-
deed, but for the aid of Mr. Wood's second votes he would have
experienced a woful falling off. As for Mr. Hume, instead of
obtaining 3,700 votes, which, to have maintained his former
• place, he ought to have done, he has only reached 3,102; while
the conservative canitidate has very nearly doubled the votes
given on the same siert in 1832. Will the radical press tell us
that there is "no re-action" here? Another view of the ques-
tion may be interesting. We mean that which distinguishes
the votiug in the various districts of the county :
Wood. Hume.
London and Westminster, at King's-cr055..1,033 .. 1,008
E
Hammersmith, Edgware, Infield, -13edfont,
and Uxbridge
Brentford
• Tower Hamlets 440 .. 818

A glance at these nerribers shoivi that Mr. litime is neither
the choice of the freeholders of London and Westminster, nor
vet of the agricultural parts of the county. Brentford and the
'rower Hamlets have furnished his whole majority—the Tower
'Hamlets, which is distinguished by the possession of Dr. Lush-
ington, and which now imposes urn the county perhaps the
only English representative who is worthy of holding the same
'ma *ith that distinguished civilian.

NORTHUMBERLAND—SOUTH Div tsiort.—Matthew Bell,
Esq., Conservative. T. W. Beaumont, Esq., a Reformed
Radical.
NORTH DIVISION.—Lord Howick ; Lord Ossulstone,
ormEssx.—This election closed on Friday evening, after
a severe coutect. when the numbers were as follows:—
George Byng, Esq. 3,461
Josepi Hume, Esq. 3,115
Thomas Wood, Esq 2,677
Hume and Byng were returned. At the last general election
Sir Charles Forbes, the tory Candidate, did not poll more than
' about 1,400 votes, while Hume was at the head of the poll with
a majority over 13yng of about 600.
WORCESTERSHIRE—EASTERN DIVISION.-- Cookes, Esq.;
Holland. Esq.
WESTERN DIVISION.—First days poll—
Honourable Colonel Lygon 1,515 conservative.
C.iptain Winnington 1,44 whig.
Mr. Fabington. 1,391 conservative.
STIRI.INGSHIRE.—Chse of the poll—
Mr. Forbes 779 conservative.
Admiral Fbmticg 759 whig.
Forbes returned.