led us. We have not the least doubt that on
this occasion he tells an "ower true tale," which would apply to other counties as well as Wor- cesterehire— " We are, I mourn to confess it, bound bawl and foot by the Tories. Last, West, City or Borough, it is nearly all the same. The champion of LIberalisin in the East, the man who advanced from the rear to the front rank of Reform, has had enough, and report says has reduced his establishment pleparatoly to a residence abroad. The loss of Mr. Holland, who was our main-stay in the East, will be sufficient reason to abstain from contesting the Division, and will, I much fear, prevent the return of a Liberal for Eyestrain.
"The sale of the Watley property to Lord Ward carries with it the represen- talon of the West, and that nobleman's brother will in all probabilito be re-
turned at the next general election. Bewdley, the hold of the Winitington family, stay possibly be preserved ; but even here a Tory opposition raised its head, and blusters loudly, threatening expense if it can do nothing else. Mr. Pakington presetves Droitwitch, and Mr. Godson Kidderminster. Mr. Hawkes is invulnerable at Dudley, and Mr. Bailey at Worcester. Colonel Davies may be again returned ; but much money cannot be found to effect even this.
" 1/acl our Rtpresentatices made a stand for the Ballot, we ought to have struggled on; but the predominant landed interest thus stifled the People, and they trill not be made tools of to support the Aristocracy. In fact, in all our
elections we have been led by the Squirearchy, while our views and theirs cor- responded. To assist themselves, they have lent us their aid ; but is hen we ask
for something, they preach to us of the finality of the Reform Bill, and shrug
their shoulders with pious horror at the idea of an extended suffrage, or a shorter duration of Parliament, while the Ballot is as Utopian as blackberries
in March. Notwithstanding all this, there is much beneath the surface that cheers one. The barbers, the blacksmiths, and that class, are more attentive to passing events than they used to be, and most of them read the newspapers; even my own servant-man receives his paper as regularly as his master gets the Spectator; and weekly journals are taken in by little coteries of working men, whose fathers would have thought them mad to have spent their money any where brit in an alehouse."
A correspondent has sent us the result of the 1Vest Surry registra- tion, as far as the objections are concerned; and it shows a Liberal majority of 38. It is necessary to ascertain the comparative numbers of claims established, before the relative position of parties can be known.
It was mentioned in our second edition last week, but not in the first, that the Marquis of Tavistock and Mr. C. B. Greville, to whom the point was referred, have decided that Mr. Wilshere cannot sit for Yarmouth, if required by Mr. Baring to vacate his seat. Mr. Wit- shere may oppose any candidate except Mr. Bating.
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