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The Tory journalists would have shown more discretion by submit.

thug quietly to the defeat at Glasgow than in rucking their brains to prove that it was no defeat at all. The Post was the most adroit; Mr, by putting forth the sophism, that because Mr. Oswald was the Member whose retirement made room for Mr. Dennistoun, the numbers polled for Dennistoun should be compared with Oswald's, not with Dunlop's minority, it made a show at least of a large decline of Liberal strength. The Standard finding that truth would not serve the pur- pose, had recourse to invention. Said the punctilious paper— "Thai trick played in forwarding the writ by express has bad, we believe, the effect of determining the election, by retaining upon the registry, on the day of pall, between 300 and 400 votes that are at this timo legally extinct, and ex- cholla g from it a much greater number that are at this lane legally acquired." This was what is vulgarly called "going it strong," as no new voters could be put on the poll till time registration next autumn. The Times at first quietly observed, that there seemed to have been some irregularity in forwarding the writ, but that it was a " mere acci- dent." Yesterday, however, the Tunes, with minsuul want of tact, returned to the subject, and persisted in (muting an incorrect version of a pu,soge in Mr. Dennistoun's speech on proposing thanks to the

Sheriff at the close of the proceedings, us reported, hastily, in the

GlasyGw Liberator. According to this inaccurate report, Mr. Dennis- term admitted that the Sheriff had it in his power " to disfranchise at

least 1,000 of Om Liberal electors, by postponing the election, which

would have given his own _friends a mojoritg of 200:" whereas Mi. Den- aiistoun, as loporrcd in the Glasgow Argus of Monday lust, before a question had been raised as to this adini,sion, only stated, that by post- poning the hit bum the Sheriff " would have lessened his majority by

200; " and Al v. Dermist , moreover, took the trouble of writing a

letter to the lanalou newspapers, to state that he was misinformed in supposing that his loss would have been even as much as 200 votes— it wuuld only have been 100. Yet, in the teeth of all this, tine Times asserted that the precipitancy of the Sheriff, by the admission of Mr. De 'lout' himself, lost the election .1 to the odes !