29 JULY 1865, Page 1

Major Beresford's defeat in North Essex by a majority of

fifty for Sir Thomas Western is one of the most remarkable of the Liberal successes. North Essex has been hitherto conceived as a peculiar retreat of Toryism of the strongest form, indeed it is said there is not a single Liberal peer in Essex to make lord-lieutenant of the county. Mr. J. Pope Hennessy's disappearance below the political horizon of King's County is scarcely less remarkable. Regarding himself as the father of the faithful and the friend of the Pope, he had rather patronized promising young Conservatives willing to 'go in' for Pio Nono, and half offered Irish seats under the shadow of his own wing. Suddenly, after his adversary Sir Patrick O'Brien had admitted his defeat, the fates turned; it appears that Mr. Ilennessy's influence is undermined, King's County trembles and gives way beneath him, and at the declara- tion of the poll the advocate of Pope, Queen, and Protestant Establishment is excluded by a majority of six. He is a loss to the Conservatives. There was no better Tory terrier in the party, when it was essentially desirable to hunt out a Liberal hedgehog.