The by-election at Evesham comes off on Tuesday, and is
e :citing a great deal of local interest. It is said that the number of strangers imported to canvass on one side or the other, is extraordinarily large. There is to be a discussion,— a sort of political combat,—at Feckenham, before the election, between the Rev. H. C. O'Connor, of Moira, County Down, who will state the Unionist argument against Home-rule, and the Rev. Thomas Thompson, on the Irish Home-rule question, of which we hope a good report may be published. One of the Gladstonian ladies who was imported to canvass for Mr. Impey, is said to have caused the landlady of the lodgings she occupied, the loss of her servant, who was suddenly fetched away by an irate father, who declared that he would not have his daughter waiting upon "one of them Impeyites." Political toleration is not popular among the voters on either side.. We hope that Colonel Long may win by a considerably increased majority.
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