THE SPECTATOR'S ELECTION TABLES.
The Brighton Gazette corrects a mistake in the list of Final Polls published in the last number of the Spectator. The number of votes given was Pechell, 961; Wigney, 523; Dalrymple, 483; Faithful, 467: whereas in our table the numbers stood thus—Pechell, 560; Wigney, 594; Dalrymple, 583; Faithful, 467. It will be seen that the mistake of 5 for 9 in the poll of Captain Pechell was the only one worth notice. Our provincial contemporary also maintains that we are in error in placing Sir C. Burrell and Mr. Goring among the Anti-Ministerialists, and Captain Pechell among the Doubtfuls; and refers us to the lists published in the Albion, as the most correct and most complete he has seen. The Albion is known to be a zealous Tory paper, which claims, as Ministerialists, all the Members who can by any means be pressed into the service. Well, even the Albion does not put Sir C. Burrell, Mr. Goring, or Captain Pechell, as Conservatives, but styles them "Moderates," and classes them among such men as Captain Howard of Morpeth, Mr. Poyntz of Midhurst, Sir James Williams of Carmarthenshire, Colonel Scale of Dartmouth, and many other known Whigs and Anti- Minis- terialists, who, it is said, are generally pledged to give the Duke a fair trial. As for Sir C. Burrell, he may vote with the Tories; but a single expression re- ported to have been used on the hustings is not conclusive against a man who supported the Reform Bill, and the inquiry into the bribery at Liverpool (one of the very few divisions which the Tory party hazarded)—whose votes during the two last sessions have been those of an independent Representative of the people, and who is not claimed as a Tory by the most sanguine of the Tory scribes. Mr. Goring has voted with Mr. Hume for the abolition of naval and military sinecures; for a property-tax ; for the abolition of flogging ; for the removal of Jewish ; for Mr. Shell's resolution that Irish Church property is public property ; and for Mr. Harvey's motion for inquiry into the Pension-list- Y et we are blamed for putting down Mr. Goring as an Anti-Tory, in the absence of any declaration of a change of sentiments from himself, but merely because his seconder on the hustings said he was a " Conservative." We sus- pect it will turn out, that the Brighton Gazette is not so well-iaformed as it pretends to be, on the politics of the Sussex Members. We remember that its election prognostics were very unlucky ; it looked at every thing through Tory spectacles. Captain Pechell is, we fear, a doubtfal, although the Brighton Guardian would seem to have excellent reason to class him among the Liberals. That journal says,
"A most extraordinary opinion seems to have gained currency among our Metro- politan contemporaries with respect to the sentiments and party politics; of Captain Pechell ; some setting him down in the list of DJuldfuls. others claiming him as a
Tory. We think it therefore right to say what we know of the gallant Captain, lie has for years been known to us as a liberal Whig, whose political principles run very close upon Radicalism. Ile was a stanch supporter of Sir Godney Webster, when the Honourable Baronet first came forward to oppose the candidate of the Tory Aristocracy of Sussex ; and he was an intimate political friend of the late respected Sinclair Cul- len, who was the stanchest, the most consistent. and the most uncompromising Befurmer that ever came into this county."
Yet, forsooth, we are not even to class Captain Pechell among the Doubt- .fuls! The fact is, that the Brighton Gazette is nettled by the utter failuse of the Tories in Sussex. Out of seventeen Members returned by that county, there is not one on whose vote the Duke can rely. There were some other mistakes in our two first impressions last week, which it will be as well to mention here. Mr. Robinson of Worcester was placed among the Tories, instead of the Doubtfuls. Mr. Wedgwood, who has retired from Stoke-upon .Trent, should be replaced by Mr. R. E. Heatheote ; Lord Dalmeny, for the Stirling Burghs, was omitted altogether ; Sir Alexander Hope was put down instead of Captain Hope, for Liulithgowshire; and, by an awkward blunder, Mr. Spiers was called Member for Orkney, and Mr. Balfour for Paisley, instead of' the former for Paisley, the latter for Orkney. The fol- lowing names, being those of Tories, should have been printed in Italics, instead of Roman letters-Fremantle, Estcourt, Inglis, Sir J. Owen, Fresh- field, Hoy, Denim and Bailey of Worcester. These errors were merely typo- graphical, and did not affect the numbers or calculations. They were all cor- rected in the third edition, except the mistake of Mr. Wedgwood's name for Mr. Heathcote's.
Thanks to our sedulous correspondent M. E. S. for his suggestions. It would be out of our line to republish the Tables in a separate form,-even if the current events of this busy time did not keep us fully occupied, and leave us little leisure for going over old ground. We have done our best, and request our readers to excuse the inaccuracies which are almost inevitable in such a work. There will also be the less occasion for our undertaking to publish a Revised List, since a reprint, with our permission in a cheap form, is already advertised. We shall, however, give an Alphabetical List of the Members, classified according to their rotes, soon after the meeting of Parliament. Several of the alterations which M. E. S. proposes in the complete list of names, have more than once been considered, previously to the receipt of his communication. It would take long to write down all the reasons which induced us to place them as we did : but there are reasons for all.
We were prepared to find some inaccuracies in our list of Final Polls, although We corrected the numbers published in the daily papers, as often as we could find what we presumed were more correct returns. If we hesitate now to make some of the alterations our correspondent supplies, it is because we did not put forth the list as au accurate one, because en no instance is the result affected by them, and lastly, because perhaps, after all, ours may be the correct numbers. There were some mistakes and omissions, however, which we now correct and supply. The final poll at Bridport, which we could not obtain in time for the first edition, was-Warburton, 244; Twiss, 207; Romilly, 199. At Blackhurn, the numbers should have been-for Turner, Feilden, and Bowring, respectively, 429, 316, 303; instead of 355, 271, 241. For the Stirling _Burghs, Lord Dalmeny had 420 and Mr. Crawfunl 346 votes ; instead of 203 for the former, and 64 for the latter ; and in Stirlingshire, 779 and 759 should be substituted 551 and 529, as the respective numbers of Forbes and Fleming.
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