24 JULY 1841, Page 14

The Liberal electors of Stroud gave a dinner on Wednesday

to cele- brate the return of their Members. A fatality attends these worthy electors—their Members are doomed to treat them with slights : Mr. Stanton was kept away from this dinner by a domestic calamity, and Mr. Poulett Serope has gone to the Continent. The Chairman sea- soned the jovialities with a recapitulation of the difficulties of the elec- tion: Lord John Russell had left them suddenly ; there was a prejudice against Mr. Scrope ; there was prejudice against Mr. Jellinger Symons ; and, calculating on that, the Tories negotiated for a splitting of votes between Stanton and Wraxall. However, Mr. Symons retired, and the Liberal electors had something to make a dinner for.