3 APRIL 1875, Page 2

The election for the little Dorsetshire borough of Bridport, which

excited some interest in official circles, ended on Wednesday in a severe defeat for the Tories. Either they did not like their candidate, Sir C. Whetham, or they did not care about their party, for only 189 came to the poll. The Liberal, Mr. Pendale Ralli, on the other hand, received 620 votes, or six-tenths of all upon the register, a fact the more remarkable because he had honestly avowed himself a member of the Greek Church, and was fiercely attacked upon that ground. As far as we remember, Mr. Rail is the first of the Anglo-Greek merchants of London who has as yet reached the House of Commons.