Next to the loss of Liverpool, the severest blow sustained
by the Liberals has been in Berkshire, where Mr. Bouvetie and Mr.
Walter hive ben expelled by undistinguished Tories. Mr. Walter's fate is explicable, the steerage voter being wholly unable to disconnect his opinions from those expressed in the Times, which, again, excite in genuine Liberals a feeling of angry distrust. That jeureal upholds the South, resists reform, and detests Mr. Gladstone, and Liberals, very unjustly perhaps, will have it that oa those three crucial tests Mr. Walter must be unsound. He will be missed nevertheless, particularly in debates on education and the Poor Law, on the latter of which he has been for years far in advance of most landed proprietors. Mr. Bonverie, too, is a loss, being a determined Whig, who never voted wrong.
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