The proceedings in the Registration Courts of the Metropolitan county
were closed on Thursday. The Tories have succeeded in making good a much larger number of objections to claimants than their opponents; and loud are the preens which they sing, as if the battle were already gained, and Mr. HUMS, the terror of the whole tribe of corruptiontsts and political profligates, already ousted from the representation of Middlesex. But wait awhile, gentlemen, you have not yet proved that a majority of Tory votes has been registered; and from .the reluctance to put forth any distinct statement on this head, we suspect that the means of proving this all-important point are not in your hands. Whatever may be the result of the Middiesex registration, it appears certain that, up to the present time, the Liberals have lost ground nowhere else. On the contrary, in Surry, Kent, Sussex, Hertfordshire, North Warwickshire, South Lancashire, the East t Riding of Yorkshire, and in West Worcestershire, they.seem to have gained on the Tories. In the South-west of England, • the revision of the borough votes is said to have terminated very much in favour of the Reformers; and as the days of the rotten Tory corporations are numbered, we fully expect a considerable addition to the Liberals at the next election from the towns in all parts of the country.
