[We invite corrcsponner.ee upon useful subjects, and, within reasonable limits and under recog nised rules, our columns are open to everybody. We, however, desire it to be understood that we in no way identify ourselves with the opin ions of correspondents.—Brevity will be accoun ted a virtue.] Tlis Mayoral Election. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —As there are two candidates in the field for the mayoral chair for the

ensuing year, it may not he out of place to give intending vomers my idea of the sort of man we want, and the sort of man we don't want. I will begin with the " do'i't wants." We don't want a man who has no stake in the Borough— who owns no property. We cannot ex pect such a man to take the same interest in Borough affairs as the man who owns a considerable lot of property, and who is cous' quently a pretty large ratepayer. We dou't want a man who is only a nominal ratepayer, meiely a tenant pay ing the rates on the property he occupies. We don't want a man whose duties take him away from the township the

greater part of the day. as this greatly inconvenience*) those who might at any time require a jubilee of the peace before whom to make declaration*, <-tc In a variety of ways residents might be put to considerable inconvenience through "hi* worship" bei,,rr continually absent from the town. We don't want a man who is already a J.P., as the residents would be depriving themselves of one by elcci'.iug fo the mayoral chair one who is already n J.P. The comm'ssion is al ready held by fewenougli here, without still further reducing the number. Wc dou't want a man whose knowledge of the reciuiremeuts of the Borough is practically n'l. We don't want a man whoso busi ic> capacity is also nil. Aivl last, bat by no means lea t, wedon'twyot a man who will allow himself to he led by other's. On the other ha.id. we wa.it a man who has a hj rge iiae est in th" Borough, in the way of property, nnd who naturally enough wi'i noc be in favor of a shilling rate, when a three penny rate will do quite it? we'?. 