The result of the three elections which have as yet
occurred makes no great change in the House of Commons ; but what change there has been is unfavourable to Ministers. For their colleague Sir William Follett, at Exeter, is substituted an Anti- May-nooth Tory; who is likely to be less welcome to the Ministers, though sitting on their side, than the League candidate, Gene- ral Briggs, would have been. By the by, this sending of men to optose the Maynooth grant when it is all settled, is very ap- propriate in that Ultra-Tory paiho stand by the past and cestaot reconcile themselves to acknowledging even a "fait ac- compli." And at all events, it is a very safe pledge for a candi- date, worthy of imitatien at the next general election : let all the Conservatives pledge, themselves not to vote for the Reform Bill of 781tI or the New Tariff of 1842. West Suffolk has contributed, acconEng to expectation, an Ultra-Tory of the Protectionist clam Sir Frederick Thesiger barely retained his seat for Abing- don; being almost ousted by an unknown man, General Caulfield, a Free-trader. The next trial will be at Cambridge, on Monday; where the new Solicitor-General, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, must go through the ordeal of a reelection or rejection.
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