THE TRURO ELECTION.
[To ins Mina OF TUE " Brcorkios,
Sins—Your estimate of the numbers of electors who abstained from voting at the Truro election is inaccurate. Allowing for double qualifications, &es they did not probably exceed 250, and the Tories can fairly claim 60 of these.
As a business man, I remarked, in receiving my accounts in Truro on that day, the number of new sovereigns paid to me, and a friend to whom I mentioned this told me that nearly all the gold he had received was the same. The festivities at the inns, too, were unusual. Mr. Jenkins' attack upon Mr. Gladstone was injudicious, and caused a lukewarmness in the minds of many. As an advanced Liberal, I, for one, can never sympathize with these attacks upon a Prime Minister and a Government that have done more for Liberal principles in three years than all the preceding Governments did in twenty. The Tories bad the discipline of a regiment ; no abuse of Disraeli for having betrayed them ; and all was gospel that their candidate uttered. Liberals must close their ranks in presence of the common foe, and learn a lesson from the tactics of their opponents. The Tories talk of reaction,—have they ever remarked the receding of a little wave, to be soon followed by the flow of an irresistible one ? A Tory Government iu power for a year would be the most fatal event possible for Tory objects.--I am, Sir, &c.,
A TRUE LIBERAL.
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