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Mr. Fitzroy Kelly has been reelected for Cambridge—and that is

all ; for he had a most narrow escape : an attractive dinner- party, a game at cricket, might have spoiled his majority ; and just before the close of the poll, he would have given but little for his chance. What was amiss? The town was bustling—gaily. dressed "navigators" literally marched and fought under the banners of " Peel and Wellington "• yet were there complaints of apathy, and the Whig of the John-Russell stamp was near beating Sir Robert Peel's colleague. In Booth there is but little earnestness to spare on elections to a House where parties are so split up, so powerless for good, and so feeble even to advance sectional interests.

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