Mr. Dodson was elected for Scarborough yesterday week by a
majority of 222 (for Mr. Dodson, 1,828; for Mr. Duncombe, 1,606). The majority is not so large as at the general election, when Mr. Caine, who was second to Sir Harcourt Johnstone, defeated Colonel Fife Cookson by 484 votes, more than double Mr. Dodson's majority; but the figures show that the election itself attracted much less interest among the confident and vic- torious party than by-elections usually do, Mr. Dodson's poll being 329 short of Sir Harcourt Johnstone's, while Mr. D uncombe, on the other hand, polled twenty-five votes more than Colonel Fife Cook- son. In the Wigtown Burghs, the Conservative, Sir John Hay, got in, by a majority of sixteen votes, a slightly less majority than that of Mr. Mark Stewart (the unseated candidate) at the by-election in May, when the Conservative beat the Liberal candidate by twenty-three votes. Mr. Garfit and Mr. Ingram, the Con- servative and Liberal Members for Boston, have both been unseated forthe bribery of their agents ; and Mr. Hall, the Con- servative Member for Oxford, has also been unseated, for the same reason. In both cases, the Judges report that corrupt practices extensively prevailed at the election.
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