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The Honourable Henry Liddell, M- P. for North Durham, must be a person of considerable assurance. It will be recollected that this gentleman affected much virtuous indignation at the assumed inter. ference of Mr. Hutt with the Gibside tenantry ; which interference, it turned out, had never taken place. Mr. Liddell himself, however, appears to have had the benefit of Lord and Lady Londondary's patronage, exercised in a very direct manner. The following letter from those noble persons to their tenants has been published in the Durham Chronicle.

"Holdernesse House, 18th July. " To the Agents, and all employed, and Tenants of the Marquis of Londonderry. " We do earnestly and anxiously entreat our tenantry, as well as all agents, persons, and people employed in our collieries and works iu the county of Durban), of oily description. to come forwent, with the utmost zeal and ardent exertions, at the present important crisis, to return to Parliament, for the Northern Division, our excellent friend, the Honourable Henry Thomas Liddell. We assure all those rho answer to this solemn appeal that we make to them—who step forward with heart and surd in the Conservative cause to rescue the couutry from Radical domination—that the sensed the obligation to us personally will be fur ever registered in our memories; and that the gratitude of ourselves and our family, to those alto live around us and upon our property, will be iu proportion to this important demand we make upon theirs to prove their fidelity and their attachment to our sentiments and confidence in our opinions. " We send these our recommendations to our esteemed friend, the Honourable Henry Liddell, to make every use of he shall think fit ; and we hare hcyged his rope- eially to report to us those who answer zealously our can, and those who arc unrnindfirt and indit/Lient to our earnest wishes. (Signed) " VANE LONDONDERRY,

FRANCES ANN VANE LONDONDERRY."

This is plain enough. More direct intimidation never was employed: and yet, knowing the means used to secure his return, the Honourable Henry Liddell could say to the electors- " I disdain the thought of being returned to Parliament by any other means than the spontaneous suffrages of a free constituency. I pledge myself to pre. tect every elector in the tree exercise of his undoubted and independent tight."

And all the while, the Honourable Mr. Liddell had the Londonderry mandate in his pocket !

The Whigs secured the return of Rumbold and Wilshire for Yar- mouth by bribery. About fifty electors were locked up the night pre- ceding the polling-day, and promised a certain sum if they voted for the Whig candidates before nine o'clock the next morning. In Yar- mouth the unpurchaseable portion of the constituency seems to be pretty nearly divided, and these rogues can turn the balance. The Tories bad calculated on their being still in the market ; but seeing how the thing went, they soon gave up the election for lost. Mr. Baring intimated to Mr. Rumbold that he was aware the game was up very early in the day.

Mr. Edwin Tyson, of Wakefield, has written a letter to the Leeds Mercury, detailing some practices of a Tory attorney in his neighbour. hood. Says Mr. Tyson- " In 1833 I voted for Wortley, and in 1837 for Morpeth and Strickland. About ten days ago, I received a notice of objection to my vote: the address of the notice was evidently written by one person, and the signature to the notice written by another. In examining the writing of tire address, I su-pected that it was the production of a solicitor with whom I have an acquaintance ; and I have subsequently found it to be so. Now let me add, that the solicitor above alluded to is no other Ethan my own solicitor, who has transacted legal business for myself and wife during many years, and who made the conveyance of the property which I thought entitled me to vote in the election of Knights of the Shire. That Caine solicitor was also appointed by one (a petitioning creditor in bankruptcy) to manage the legal department; and he is at this moment acting as tiny adviser."

A petition against the return of Sir Stephen Glynne will, we are assured, be presented to Parliament ; and an inquiry will be instituted as to Or alleged personal interference of a Peer in the late election, contrary to the declaration in the Bill of r k-ts.

A man named Pine was summoned to tilt-eCo—Surt hasbuy o; f.erRequests,r Chronicle. A honripoi:ele.

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for a trifling debt. The wife appeared as counsel for her husband; and pleaded that the reason the debt had not been paid was, that her husband had not received his election money, but that the debt should be paid immediately he received the promised election-money. On refer- ring to the poll-book, it was found that the party on whose behalf this novel plea was urged voted for the Tory candidates.—Kentish Chronicle.

A charge having been brought against a small tradesman of Nor- wich, who is in connexion witn the Baptist church there, of having taken a bribe to vote for the Conservative candidate, a deputation of twelve persons in communion with that sect, took upon themselves to

inquire into the facts, and deal with the person accused according to the

merits of the case. These persona have declared, that the individual first took 101. from the Conservatives, under a promise to vote for them, and afterwards received 30/. from the Liberals, under an engage- ment to vote for them. He then told the Conservatives of the ar- rangement he had made with the Radicals ; received a further sum of 'W. from them ; and ultimately recorded his vote for them. The Baptist preacher has, in consequence of the above facts being made known at a church-meeting, sent to the old man a notice that he has been excommunicated.—Norwich Mercury.

At Shrewsbury, five-pound notes have been very plentiful since the election. People are puzzled to know from what quarter many of them have reached the holders.

Lord Langford, an Irish Peer, who found the interest of the Mar- quis of Exeter too strong for him at Stamford, has written a letter to Lord John Russell on the Ballot. He states that he bad the gond wishes not only of the " townspeople," but of the " electors ;" yet he had no chance in opposition to the Burghley influence-

" Dining my canvass, the voter frequently said, My heart is with you, but you know how I am situated. I live under Burghley. I wish you success, but dare not vote for you.' Others said, they ' worked under Burghley;' others, that they ' supplied Burghley or some of the committee of my oppo- nents with goods, and that they should lose their trade.' Of what benefit is the Refortn Bill under sue/. circumstances ? It professes to confer a right, but fails to protect the individual who conscientiously exercises that right from the consequences of doing so in opposition to the dictation of an exacting landlord, employer, or exclusive-dealing politician. * • * Amongst the constitu- ency of Stamford, I found numbers who had been omitted in the registration- list.by the Orersecrs, but they were all men who had voted on former elections, and whose political opinions were Liberal—not one Tory amongst them! The Overseers who defrauded them of their rights arc subject to the penalty of 500!. ; but what security is the liability to such a penalty if the Overseers are not worth five pence? They, having nothing to lose, risk nothing, but insure the election of the nominees of their lord paramount by their dishonesty."

The Courier still talks of the Ballot as if it were a nostrum of the "Ultra Reformers !" We suspect the 'Ministers will soon be the only professed Liberals opposed to the Ballot.