it looks very mach as if the Liberals were going
to lose Bed- fordshire. Mr. Hastings. Russell has succeeded to the Dukedom, and the great House seems unable for the moment to produce a candidate, Mr. Arthur Russell sitting for Tavistock, and Lord Amberley not being a candidate acceptable to a county. Mr. Bassett, a local banker, has accordingly come forward ; but he says openly he sits as warming-pan for the Marquis of Tavistock, and counties do not like warming-pans. Colonel Stuart, the Tory candidate, is not very popular, but we seem to be coming on days when any Tory can carry an English county and no Liberal can carry an English borough. Are we to have a Parliament in which the Liberal cause will be represented by Scotch Members alone, with a Northern Radical here and there to infuse into their solid sense a little fire?
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