The official declaration of the poll at Wigan was made
by the Mayor on Thursday evening: the numbers were—for Lindsay, 274; Thicknesse, 211; majority, 63. Captain Lindsay was therefore declared to be duly elected.
Sir John De Beauvoir has retired from the contest for Windsor; stating hiSreasons in an address to the electors, which appeared at a late hour last evening. We subjoin it, almost entire-
" Having every reason to believe that upon the present occasion any endeavour on my part to emancipate your borough from unconstitutional control would be abortive, and that further perseverance in maintaining those principles which I was invited by the constituency of your borough to support would prove ineffectual for the accomplishment of that desired object, I have therefore refrained from commencing a canvass, in order that my friends may not be placed in any situation of difficulty, and have retired from the contest; that being, in my opinion, the most manly course, which, under such circumstances, it was in my power to pursue, leaving my supporters free to exercise their unbiased choice between the two other candidates. * * * If at any future period my services may be thought useful to the independent cause, which I have always endeavoured to support, I shall be found ready and willing to use my best exertions to liberate the borough from the bondage of a perpetual nomination."
It is understood that Sir John's interest will be transferred to Colonel Reid.
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