POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
The country is making holyday as to news. There is scarcely any- thing afoot ; and therefore the papers have scarcely anything to tell this morning. The election preparations supply the chief semblance of news. Mr. Roebuck rind his colleague Mr. Parker presented themselves at a Sheffield meeting on Thursday ; and Mr. Roebuck was sharply ques- tioned about the Coppock affair. He was very frank in his explanations ; and added to what he has already written on the matter, that anybody who chooses may see the other letters "marked private," which Mr. Cop- pock still retains. A Mr. Ironsides, not content with 3fr. Roebucks ex- planation, moved an amendment to the resolution of confidence proposed. But the mass of the meeting were quite satisfied, and with few dissentients they affirmed the resolution that Mr. Roebuck is a fit and proper person to represent them. Mr. Paiker had an easier ordeal. Mr. Philip Pusey has issued his address to the electors of Berkshire, in the conscientious and Liberal-Conservative tone which is his charac- teristic. From words of vexation and disappointment lately dropped by Mr. Blackstone, the stanch Protectionist Member for Wallingford, there seems to be good prospect that the Berkshire farmers will not desert Mr. Pusey. In Cambridgeshire, Mr. Edward Ball issues an address which shows that the Protectionists are divided : an influential body of them demur to support Mr. Ball because he is a Dissenter.
The Bridgewater Times shows us " E5then" in the West. Mr. King- lake addressed a public meeting at Bridgewater on Wednesday evening, apparently much to the satisfaction of the assembly. The party situation is peculiar. The candidates—Colonel Tynte, Mr. Kinglake, and Lord Henley—are all Free-traders ; but Lord Henley seems to be rather an interloper, not, like Mr. Kinglake, having any relation to the county by any tie of birth or property, and not brought forward till after Mr. King- lake was in the field.
Sir J. E. Eardley Wilmot has been appointed Recorder of Warwick, in the room of Mr. Mellor, Queen's counsel, who has retired for the pur- pose of offering himself as a candidate for the representation of that borough.
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