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The Tory Peers will have S411111. dalitadty in finding , an

excuse for rejecting the Staafford Disfranchisement Bill. They fixed upon a pe- riod for their inquiry subsequent to that which furnished the Com- mons with evidence of the general corruption of the borough,—no doubt, in the expectation that the supporters of the bill would be un- prepared to meet them on that enamel. They seem to have been caught in their own trap ; for it appears by our Parliamentary report, that, in the very election selected by the Tories, the voters were bribed under the seal of one of the candidates himself, to the extent of some hundreds, at the rate of 3/ and Gt a head. Lord U'VtattantD is very sly ; but no lawyer in eXLitellee CilI1 whitewash Stafford.