27 MAY 1865, Page 2

It appears that the report which attributed to Mr. R.

Long, the candidate for North Wilts, the preposterous assertion that he had as much plate on his sideboard as the rival candidate, Sir G. Jenkinson, was erroneous. He himself states that what he did assert was this,—that he was descended from a family from which the electors of Wiltshire had often elected their representatives, and whose present head, his father, had on his sideboard a piece of plate given him by his tenantry out of respect to his character as a landlord. Sir George Jenkinson half accepts his explanation, remarking that there was certainly a horrible yelling, but that he stood close to Mr. Long, and that " other ears besides mine were deceived."