21 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 2

The explosion in Merionethshire, where Mr. Wynn has been driven

from a seat occupied by Tories for generations ; the success of Colonel Stepney,—a man who in his devotion to his party has entered Parliament when nearly eighty years of age,—the election in Denbigh of Mr. Watkin Williams, once a medical student, now a keen Liberal lawyer, likely to be heard of again, and the unexpected success in Cornwall are all explained in the explanation offered by Mr. Wynn's committee. The ancient Britons are very tractable on every point but one, ecclesiastical polity. For that, and as yet, we fear, for that only, they will face their landlords, defy their masters, and cast overboard their prejudices about birth. Well, it was the same in Scotland once, and now Scotland scarcely returns a Tory.