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At the Lewes Assizes, on the 4th instant, the Court was occupied for several hours in the trial of an action brought against Mr. James Henry Mills, of Lewes, for bribing James Baker, an elector, to vote for Mr. Easthope at the election in April last ; the penalty for which offence is 500/. Baker, it was proved, got MI. for his vote ; and then taking the money to Fitzroy's committee-room, exposed the whole transaction. After hearing a great deal of evidence confirmatory of the fact, and some which went to prove the absence of Mills from Lewes at the time named by the voter, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff: besides the pecuniary penalty of 5001., the defendant suffers disfranchisement. The whole case, however, is to be tried over again in a different shape ; Mills having brought an action against Rogers, the plaintiff. There was no proof that Mills was Mr. Easthope's agent ; and the Morning Chronicle denies all cognizance of the man and the transaction, on behalf of Mr. Easthope.
Lord and Lady John Russell passed through Bristol on Saturday. They travelled in a carriage and four ; Lady John Russell having a pretty baby in her arms. On entering Bristol, the populace cheered them heartily, and, taking off the horses, dragged the carriage to the inn ; where Lord John delivered a speech, and congratulated them on the election of Mr. Berkeley : he wished the Reformers had done as well in other places,—Gloucester, for instance. After staying a short time in Bristol, Lord John, with his Lady and child, proceeded to Combe Florey, to visit Sir Sydney Smith, (Bohr,' on his road with Sir Thomas Lethbridge at Sandhill Park. The Bristol Journal adds to an account of Lord John's visit to Bristol- " The sequel to this little bit of diaplay is droll enough. Horses had been ordered at the Full Moon' to take on the distinguished and accomplished states- man's' carriage ; but the Liberals, horrified that a Conservative's horses should be hired for so noble a purpose, or for a less honest motive, induced his Lord. ship to engage those belonging to persons of 'consonant political opinions' with Iris own; and the noble Member for Stroud, after some resistance, which lasted for a couple of stages, had to pay for four pair of horses instead of two, the koostboys refusing to quit his Lordship's track until their demand was satis- fied.
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