4 JUNE 1870, Page 2

Sir Shaf to Adair has lost his sixth contest for

East Suffolk. He has reduced the majority against him from 1,700 to 171, but still Lord Mahon has been returned. Ile believes that the ballot would reverse the verdict, as it would break the landlord interest, but we are not quite so sure of that. There is a compulsion of enlightened opinion as well as of property, and the ballot would terminate both.