The New York Herald

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

We learn from the "Native" papers that the nominating committee of that band of worthy patriots which met on Monday evening, have re-nominated for the suffrages of the people of this city James Harper, as Mayor. This is the first nomination which has been made by any party for the Spring election, coming off in the month of April. The Natives are determined to be early in the field, and probably the Aldermen and Assistants will be also nominated in a very short time. Their prospects of success are none of the best. Their gross faithlessness and treachery to their pledges during the last year, have disgusted every person, and not only that, but the principle of adhesion, which had prevailed among them for some time, seems completely broken in pieces. At the last meeting of the Corporation, and in several recent events, it has been shown that there is a great division among the "Natives" themselves. In their debates they call each other liars, and retail other pleasant and affectionate epithets of the like character. In short, the "Native" movement, and the "Native" party, in this city, appear now to have been boiled down to the narrowest point of prejudice and folly. The whole mass of the people are laughing at them-ridiculing them-their feelings being mixed up with a considerable portion of disgust and indignation, on account of their gross mismanagement of city affairs.

Another party is also beginning to take the field. The whigs meet to-night in all the wards to appoint delegates to the nominating committee, and are fully prepared to rally on their ancient principles, with such an infusion of reforms as have been abandoned by the "natives." It is supposed by many that Dudley Selden will be nominated by the whigs for Mayor; but whether it will be so or not, we cannot tell. The only really efficient Mayor that we have had in this city during the last twenty years was Aaron Clark, formerly elected by the whigs. No doubt the whigs will rally with great force, for all the honest men of all the old factions who wish to get the best of a bad thing, are beginning to think they may as well try the whigs as any other party in the matter of city government. There will be a clean contest between the cliques of this party, however, for the delegates to the nominating committee.

These are the only two parties that seem to be in the field at present; but we suppose the locofocos will soon be out in full force. With the three parties in the field, we will have an interesting time of it. But one thing appears to be certain-the "natives" have no chance. They have succeeded too well in disgusting the people to have any chance of success in the coming contest.