Mr. Baring met his friends thrice yesterday, and at each
meeting he replied to attacks made on him at Covent Garden Theatre ; but not very felicitously, and in a defensive tone, that must encourage his oppo- nents. As a set-off against the popular Free-trade pretensions of the other candidate, he puts himself forward as "fighting the cause of pro- perty " : for he charges the League with saying that the rights of pro- perty may be violated, without fault or crime, if they do not obtain their ends!
Mr. Baring's friends held a meetinc•e today, at which the candidate attended. The Chairman, Mr. G. B. Whittaker, stated that a great number of gentlemen who did not vote at the last election had pledged themselves to vote for Mr. Baring ; but his friends must not be dilatory, for their adversaries were excessively active.
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