Mr. Courtney also has held his seat triumphantly in the
Bodmin Division of Cornwall, in spite of the very unfavourable reception which he at first met with. He polled no fewer than 3,763 votes, against only 2,101 given for his Ministerialist opponent, Mr. Abraham, so securing a majority of 1,662 votes. In the Truro Division, also, the Unionist, Mr. Bickford Smith, obtained a majority of close upon 2,000 over the Ministerialist candidate, Mr. Lough ; and yet in the North-West, or Cain- borne, Division of the same county, the ultra-Radical, Mr. Conybeare, carried the election by more than 1,000 majority for the Ministerialists, against the Union candidate, Mr. Gay. On the whole, however, the South-West of England has proved itself as decidedly Unionist as the extreme North in Northum-.
berland and Durham has proved itself disposed to trifle with Separatist tendencies. Speaking at Penzance on Tues- day, Mr. Courtney ascribed the voting in Cornwall to the general feeling of the South-West for the historical traditions of the nation, in the story of which they had so great a share. In point of fact, we suspect that the nearness of the Southern counties to the Continent has a great deal to do with the jealousy felt of anything like disunion. From Kent to Cornwall, though Kent is prevailingly Tory, and Cornwall and Devonshire are Radical, the testimony against even the begin- nings of disunion has been both fairly continuous and immensely strong.
