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:The following is a list of the Ebert vela hate been retained since the date of our kat isublication. It is Wet esiiMated that the Liberals have lost 40 seats and gained 20.] Enowin. Donegal Sir E. Hayes. Cardiganshire Col. Powell. Mr. Connolly. Derbyshire, South Mr. Evans. Down Lord A. E. Hill.

Mr. Vernon. Col. Forde.

Kent, West Lord Holmesdale. Drogheda Mr. M•Cann. Sir E. Filmer. Dublin County Mr. Hamilton. Middlesex. .. ..... Mr. Hanbury. Mr. Taylor. Hon. G. Byng. Norfolk, West Mr. B. Gordon.

Mr. Bentlack.

Northamptonsh. N. Lord Burghley.

Mr. W. G. Hunt.

&froth, East Lord Henniker.

Sir F. K

Surrey, East Mr. Locke g. Mr. Aleock. Yorkshire, W. R. _Sir John Eamsden.

Mr. Frank Crossley. SCOTLAND.

Banffshire Mr. Duff Gordon.

Buteshire Mr. D. Mime.

Kirkcudbright Mr. Mackie. Orkney rt Shetland Mr. F. Dundee.

Wick District Mr. Laing.

IRELAND.

Antrim Lt.-Col. Pakenham.

Mr. Upton.

Armagh County Mr. Verner.

Mr. Close.

Athlone Mr. Ennis.

Carlota Mr. Banbury.

Mr. Bruen.

Cavan Lt.-Col. Maxwell.

Hon. B. Annesley.

Clare Mr. White.

Col. Vamdaleur.

Cork County Mr. Sergt. Deasy.

Mr. V. Scully.

ENGLISH BOROUGHS AND C017NTIES.

Fermanagh Capt. Archdall.

Non. H. A:Cole.

Kerry Mr. H. Herbert.

Visa. Castlerosse.

Kildare Mr. Cogan. •

Mr. M. O'Ferrall.

Kinsale Mr. Arnott.

1,etrion County Mr. Brady.

Mr. Gore.

Col. H. White. Col. Greville.

Meath Mr. Corbally.

Mr. WEvoy.

Monaghan County. Mr. C. P. Leslie.

Sir G. Forster,

New Ross Mr. Tottenham.

Queen's County Mr. M. Dunne.

Col. Dunne.

Tipperary The O'Donogbue.

Mr. L. Waldron.

Tyrone Lord C. Hamilton.

Ht. Hon. H. Corry.

Waterford County.Mr. T. Esmonde.

Hon. W. C. Talbot.

Westmeath Sir H. Levinge.

Mr. Itrqultjt.

Wicklow Mr. Hume.

Lord Probyn.

Youghal Mr. Butt.

Longford

BEDFORDSHIRE. The Liberals have not ousted the Tory Colonel Gilpin. The numbers were—Gilpin, 2030; H. Russell, 1832; Higgins, (the second Liberal), 1576. DERBYSHIRE (South.) This division was very closely contestedand the Tory candidate, Monday, carried his election over the second Liberal by one vote only. The numbers were—Evans, 3536 ; Mundy, 3185 ; Vernon, 3184.

lifmnr..ssax. The sham contest in this county has ended in a manner foreseen. The Liberals have not allowed themselves to be surprised, and Mr. Haig has been sent home to his private affairs. The result of the poll declared by Sheriff Hale wan—Hanbury, 3678 ; Byng, 3618 ; Haig, 1147.

Noawrca. In this city it is the Tories who talk of "ulterior mea-

sures." They derive some support from the declaration of Mr. Tilled, the local radical leader who had given notice that he will move in the Town Council, a petition to Parliament, for an inquiry into the corrupt practices at the late election. SUFFOLK (East.) The polling on Saturday showed the weakness of the Liberals in this division. The numbers were—Henniker, 2674 Kelly, 2520; Adair, 1875.

YAnarourn. Here the Liberals talk of petitioning against the return of the Tories. The reformers have succumbed, they say, in an address appealing for funds, from "the effects of a system of corruption deli- berately propounded by those in high position.' YORKSHIRE (West). The great contest in the West Riding which

has been conducted with so much energy on both sides has now termi- nated. The nomination took place at Wakefield on Saturday. A very large crowd, estimated at from 12,000 to 20,000 assembled m front of the hustings. On both sides Members of Parliament appeared to support, by their presence, their candidates. Sir John Ramsderi was proposed by Mr. Childers and seconded by Mr. Lupton. Sir Charles Wood nominated Mr. Frank Crossley. He felt ashamed when he heard it objected that Mr. Crossley is a Dissenter. In the present day a religious objection to a candidate for Parliament ought not to be heard. He ridiculed the idea that Mr. Crossley is a dangerous man. Ho may be dangerous to Tories, but not to the institutions of the country. Mr. Dunn seconded the nomina- tion. The Honourable Edwin Lascelles proposed, the Right Honourable James Stuart Wortley and Mr. Brook seconded the nomination. Sir John B.ameden said the contest was not one that turned on persons but prin- ciples. Mr. Wortley came forward as a supporter of Lord Derby, who had dissolved Parliament because it bad rejected his reform bill. If they returned a supporter of Lord Derby, they would return a supporter of his reform bill, and it would be said the West Riding disapproves of the conduct of the House of Commons. The Liberals have suffered a humiliating defeat in South Lancashire the second constituency of the empire; it remained for the West Riding to redress the balance. But it would be a hard struggle, for their worthy opponent was supported by a chivalrous party. Mr. Crossley made a fierce attack upon the Derby Reform Bill, and upon the objects of its proposers. He declared he was for progress, not revolution. "I am as much in favour of our glorious constitution of Queen, Lords, and Commons, as any gentleman who wears the Blue Ribbon." He believes in our limited monarchy, and that the House of Lords is an invaluable institution. But he wishes to put the House of Commons, our great bulwark on a wider and safer basis. He is not a Chartist : nothing would please the Tories more than to find the working men going for the charter. As to peace or war- " What causes the war at the present time? Why, we find two despotic Powers going to a weak country for the avowed object of supporting liberty. Do you believe them? ("No, no I") Is that their object ? (" !") Don't you think if they were in earnest in wanting that kind of work they would both find quite enough to do at home ? (" Yes, yea I") Are we, then, to go to war ? (" No, no I") Are we to go side by side with des- potic Powers, fighting for we know not what ? I think not. We must be prepared for any event. I am for keeping up our array and navy in an efficient state; but I am for doing so on economical principles. (Cheers.) I am of opinion that our army and navy might be far more efficient than it isif we had better management than we now have. (" Hear, hear ! " and interruption.) Mr. Stuart Wortley complained of the malignity of the press. The crowd repeatedly shouted " Bute." Why did they twit him with Bute. The Lord Advocate, its present member, is not a warming pan. Mr. Wortley gave up Bute, confident of succeeding in the West Riding. Sir John Ramsden had said he regretted to find himself opposed by one at whose side he sat under Lord Palmerston.

"But who is Lord Palmerston, and what are his political principles? Sir John Ramsden, in the dearth of anything to say in favour of the mo- dern Whiga, has gone back to a question of a century before he was born, and has spoken of transactions that took place before he was in his cradle. (A nice, " Well, what of that ?" and hisses.) I remember Lord Pal-

merston as the Under-Sec of Lord Castlereagh. I remember Lord Palmerston as the Secretary of Liverpool, and I remember Lord Pal-

merston as the friend and colleague of Mr. Canning. I remember him agreeing with all the politicans I have agreed with in the course of my life. And on what terms did I take office under Lord Palmerston ? On the as- surance from himself that he would forward no aweepingmeasure of reform, such as the American plan of Mr. John Bright. (Owen and interruption.) It is no longer pretended that this is a question of reform or no reform. My honourable friends have repudiated that. (Cries of "No, no!" and considerable interruption) It has been repudiated dry the honourable baronet that the question is one of reform or no reform. The people have decided the question ; they have decided we must reform. (Applause.) It matters not, therefore, whether it be Lord Derby or Lord John Russell— the people will have reform, and must and eh. 11 have it. (Loud cheers.) I say the burden of every speech on the Liberal side today has been, not re- form or no reform, but what men shall occupy the place of Ministers. But the people will decide this for themselves. (Cheers.) Here my friend from Cantley introduced a most unlucky allusion—the people of South Lan- cashirehave decided the etuestien. (Load cheers.) The peopleof West Kent, too, know what the question is ; and the great oonstituencies have decided it, not against reform, but against that factious coalition which was formed in the House of Commons, not for the purpose of advancing reform, but for the mere purpose of combining men of discordant opinions to force one set of men from office to place Lord John Russell in power." (Cheers.) As to the Reform Bill Mr. Wortley regretted that Lord Derby had not taken the advice of Mr. Henley and Mr. Walpole. He himself was prepared to lower the franchise in counties to twenty pounds and in boroughs to six pounds but he would not go for the ballot, or universal suffrage, or swamp the free- holders in counties with ten-ponnd occupancy voters. He mistrusts no class of his countrymen, and is willing to admit the honest working men, who, no matter what rent they pay, have invested in a savings' bank, a freehold land society, or a benefit club. He claimed for Tory statesmen the great reforms of the last thirty years, saying that for all great fiscal, religious, and social reforms we are indebted to Canning, Huskisson, Peel, Gladstone, and net to Lord John Russell or any ether Whig statesman.

The show of hands being in favour of Sir John Ramsden and Mr. Crossley, the friends of Mr. Wortley demanded a poll.

At the poll, on Tuesday, the success of the Liberals was decisive. They took the lead and kept it all day, and won by a very large ma- jority. The numbers were—Ramsden, 15,978; Crossley, 15,401; Wort- ley, 13,636. This is the largest number ever polled in the West Riding. hi 1835, Lord Morpeth headed the poll with 9066; in 1837, he headed the poll with 12,578 ; in 1841, the late Lord Wharneliffi then Mr. John S. Wortley, headed the poll with 13,165, Mr. E. Denison coming in second with 12,780; in 1848, at an election for one seat, Mr. E. Denison polled 14,743 against 11,795 for Sir Culling Eardley. Thus it will be seen that the Tories never polled so many as Sir John Ramsden, and only once more than Mr. Wortley.

At the declaration of the poll Mr. Edward Baines said—

"This is by far the moat important victory that has been gained for Re- form in the West Riding for more than twenty years. We have had two Tories representing us ; at another time a Tory and a Liberal; and at another time we have had two Liberals returned by a small majority ; but it is twenty-three years since we had such a great victory, or two such de- cided Reformers as we have gained today. I trust that Lord Derby will now perceive that the people are determined to have an efficient measure of reform, and that the electors of this constituency will not allow him to parcel us out and otherwise deal with us as he proposed. I hope this con- stituency has now given the deathblow to all sham reforms, and a death- blow to the Government."

SCOTLAND.

NOMMEN:LS' TRIRGH8. Mr. Laing WAS elected without oppoartron on Saturday. In his speech he said he was convinced that had Lord Mal- mesburses place been occupied by Lord Palmerston the result of the fo- reign embroglie would have been different. He was satisfied that if any man was morefitted than another in carry- ing on diplomatic negotiations between this country and the great conti- nental Powers of Europe at the present crisis, Lord Palmerston was the man. (Cheers.) That being the case, it was clearly of vast importance, both for our foreign relations and for our domestic peace and prosperity, that a change should take place, and he thought it was the duty of Liberals of all shades to rally round the old chiefs, and do all in their power to further those great questions on which our prosperity, and, it might be, our very existence depended. Like the majority of speakers on the hustings of late Mr. Laing was emphatic in his advocacy of neutrality. The Emperor of the French in his official manifesto has decidedly and plainly told the whole world that he aims only at the independence of Italy. England and Austria are allies. Russia has declared that it has no designs against England or Germany, but that, like ourselves, it has a strong sympathetic leaning to Italy. Now, if that were the case—and we have no reason to doubt it—what possible interest orreason could Great Britain have in wish- ing to take part in the present war? If the designs of France were not those which are avowed ; if a secret convention between that country and Russia has been entered into ; if it were intended to attack Germany and remodel the map of Europe, those designs would soon develope themselves ; there would be plenty of time for us, and we would, with energy and resolu- tion, unite to maintain the independence of our emintry." (Cheers.)

Perearre.

The borough elections in Ireland leave the Government a gain of one. They have gained three and lost two seats. The changes have been less than was anticipated, and except the dreadful incident at Lime- rick, although the contests have been sharp they have been more orderly than usual.

The county elections have been going on this week, and some have yet to come. The battles have been stoutly fought in the contested con- stituencies. The Ultramontane party has thrown its lot with the Der- byites, and in some places has been roughly handled. In Limerich

county a priest come forward to second the Tory Colonel Dickson. The mob called him "Judas," "deserter," whistled, hooted, yelled, hissed, and would not hear him. In Kildare county Mr. More O'Ferrall en- tered on the scene at the eleventh hour and spoiled the game of the Der- byite Captain Browne. On the hustings Mr. More °Terrell made some remarkable statements— It was Mr. O'Ferrall's conviction that if the Catholics of Ireland knew or believed that an attempt was made through persons professing their religion to overturn all theirinterest and defeat their best hopes, not one man acting in that way would be safe iu appearing upon any hustings in the country. (Cheers.) Not only for the peace and real welfare of the country, but for the credit of the religion to which he belonged, he deeply and sincerely de- plored that such a course had been adopted, and if persevered in it would end disastrously. (Cries of " Hear, hoar ! ") He the more sincerely de- plored it if statements which he had heard were true, that that course had been instigated by persons of high position—persons who, above all others, should be the last to do anything that would breed ill-feeling and ill-will among men. Whether the rumours which he had heard were ill-founded he could not say, and being unable to state them as facts he abstained from speaking as he otherwise would of any individual, however elevated he might be, who could take a course so injurious.

In Clare, "the most Catholic county in Ireland" the Tory, Vandeleur, headed the poll. In. Waterford the Liberals have been split up, and a high Tory has come in. Bat on the whole the Tories have gained little from Ireland.