21 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 1
The Opposition has sustained one serious, though we trust tem-
porary, loss in the defeat of Mr. Austin Bruce at Merthyr Tydvil, where he has been beaten by an ironmaster named Fothergill and a Dissenting preacher named Richards. It is stated that Mr. Bruce had given great offence by some interference with the local love of malaria, but it is more probable that the electors were only half aware they were expelling a man most valuable to the Liberal cause. Mr. Bruce will, we trust, soon find a constituency able to appreciate his cool brain, capacity for administration, and upright Liberalism.
