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14 but I cannot legislate till I see measures before me.—Mr. P.: I will ask Mr. Loyd no more questions. The meeting will see that it is quite useless. (Cries of "aye; it's no use he won't do for us.") Mr. Loyd and his friends now retreated hastily from the hustings although a person named Turner had put a question to him about the Short-time Bill, which he was deputed to ask by the body of cotton spinners.—Mr. : Gentlemen, after the manner in which Mr Loyd has answered the questions put to him, and the manner he has left the meeting, without giving any other person an opportunity of questioning him, I will put one question to you which you can at once answer aye or no, which is more than Mr. Loyd can do. Do you think Mr. Loyd fit and proper person to represent you in parliament? This question was followed by an instant, loud, and universal "No," that spoke destruction to Mr. Loyd's hopes in Chorlton-upon-Medlock.

There were now four candidates in the field, and for each there was a newspaper. Mr. Cobbett's cause was advocated by the Manchester and Salford Advertiser, edited by Mr. James Whittle, a good hater, who wished to send to the House one who would tell the whigs that they were base, bloody, and brutal. Mr. Philips had the earnest aid of the Manchester Times because he was a thorough free trader, and a progressive reformer, considerably in advance of the whig administration. Mr. Hope, as a tory, was consistently supported by the Courier. Mr. Loyd, as a professed whig who would not practically be much ahead of stand-still conservatism, had the earnest, so far as it could be earnest, advocacy of the Guardian, which gave a faint support to Mr. Philips, not on account of his political opinions, which were too decided to suit its taste, but because there was next to a certainty that he would be elected, and it might as well sail so far with the stream. Wheeler's Chronicle also gave such support as it could give to Mr. Loyd.

There were four candidates in the field, and each had support of a newspaper thoroughly devoted to his interests; but there was not a candidate for the votes of each of the four distinct classes of politicians amongst the electors—radicals, whig-radicals, whigs, and tories, for Mr.