They have odd ideas in North Wilts of the qualifications
which fit a man to be a good county member. In that division the Tory electors are divided as to the claims of Sir George Jen- kinson and. Mr. Long, and those gentlemen are as furious with each other as if they represented opposite parties. The other day the candidates met at Chippenham to press their claims, when according to Sir George Jenkinson the following scene took place. We quote it in the first person, as reported by Sir George in the third :- Mr. Long: My father represented the division, and I have been born among you. Sir George: Mr. Long has advantages I do not possess, but I have this one. I am heir to the second Earl of Liverpool, a Conservative statesman, and I possess estates in the county. Mr. Long : Sir George is bragging about his high descent.
Sir George : Do not put words in my mouth. Mr. Long: have as much plate on my side-table cut he has,
—a remark which we imagine, from the intense acerbity with which Sir George Jenkinson related the story, quite carried the day. Are all the electors in North Wilts butlers ?
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