12 MARCH 1870, Page 3

Mr. Berkeley, the Member for Bristol, and persistent advocate for

the Ballot, is dead, and .three candidates are worrying the -constituency on the Liberal side. Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, Ex-Governor of the Bank of England, and Mr. Robinson, local magnate, will submit to a test ballot ; but Mr. Odger, workman's candidate, will not. If three Liberals, or even two, go to the poll, a Tory will slip in ; but what is to be done ? The workmen will not yield till the class exclusion is over, and if Mr- Odger goes to the poll alone, half the Liberals will vote for the Tory.