The election of a member of Parliament to represent the
county of Sutherland took place at Dornock, on Thursday. Sir David Dundas, who represented the county for many years previous to 1852, was proposed. No other candidate came forward, and he was declared to be duly elected. A Reform meeting, got up by the friends of Mr. Baines, has been held at Halifax, thus continuing the dropping fire of meetings in the North on this subject, which have attracted little attention beyond the borough limits of the towns where they have been held. The Exeter Liberals held a Reform meeting on Tuesday. The speakers bitterly condemned. the Whigs, but did not go the length of some of. the Chartist orators in the north in expressing preferences for Lord Derby. They regretted that the present Government had abandoned Reform, and declared that a bill should be at once intro- -dated, having for its object a large extension of the franchise, a fair distribution of seats, and the protection of the voters. Besides these meetings, others have been held in Walsall and Roch- dale. The chief speakers at Walsall were two members of Parlia- ment, Mr. Sheridan and Mr. B. Forster. At Rochdale the orators vrere local notables. They support Mr. Baines's demand, and urge others not included in the bill of the Member for Leeds.
Bow has also " demonstrated" its attachment to Reform, and has afforded Mr. Washington Willis another opportunity of making a democratic speech.
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