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Rh this question is surrounded;but in coming to a decision I should studiously keep in view all the varied interests of this great community which would he affected by it." He concluded a well delivered speech by saying: "I beg distinctly to state that I will not be bound by any decided pledges on any particular question. On any other subject I shall now be happy to give any explanation, subject, however, to the qualification to which I have alluded."

Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd made his first public appearance as a candidate, in the Exchange, on Thursday, July 12th, introduced by conservatives, and addressed the subscribers there assembled from the bar counter. I endeavoured to catch some definite exposition of principle in the midst of the very vague generalities which formed the staple of his speech. Occasionally there was a tone of liberality that might lead one to think that a more explicit utterance was to follow; but nothing explicit did follow, except that he would rather have the general concurrence of the constituency than the support of any party, and warned the electors not to choose representatives from that class of persons "who, with the best intentions, but with more zeal and ardour than discretion, would wildly rush through the temple of our constitution, and with a bold and reckless hand, proceed to remove the pillars and buttresses on which it rested; with an honest view, no doubt, of letting light into its recesses, and widening its avenues, but at the imminent risk, as he that he conceived, of levelling the whole edifice to the ground." Like Mr. Hope, too, he expressed himself unwilling to give pledges which might fetter his independence. It appeared doubtful whether his speech savoured most of stand-still toryism, or somewhat progressive whiggism; but there was a sound of liberalism about it that took well with his hearers. I resolved to hear him a second time in the belief that something might be uttered to show more decidedly what his political opinions were.