The Hampstead Conservative Association have put forth a state- ment
of the result of their labours in the Revising Banisters' Court for time County of Middlesex. They claim to have added 128 votes to their list ; while they allow only 26 new votes to the Liberals, and designate 10 as belonging to parties of undeclared politics. Thus it appears that the Tories in Hampstead, one of their boasted strong- holds, have performed nothing so very wonderful after all : they have only gained, according to their own account, 92 votes, in a constituency numbering about 12,000 electors.
A rumour has been prevalent in Marylebone, that Mr. H. L. Bul- wer has taken a place which will render it necessary for him to vacate his scat; and the Tories have been on the look-out for a candidate. They have fixed upon a Sir W. De Bathe ; but we see no ground for believing that Mr. Bulwer has had the good fortune imputed to him.
A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle complains of the eleva- tion of Mr. Whiskin, an extensive builder in Clerkznwell, to the Middlesex bench of Magistrates. From his account, Mr. Whiskin is an active Tory partisan ; a leader of the Finsbury Conservative Club, and a supporter of the Tory candidates of Finsbury and Middlesex. Several gentlemen of large property and Liberal principles have been passed over by Government; who, with a folly not yet banished from Whig counsels, have thus given a warm opponent an increased power of annoying them.
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