The Honourable John Fox Strangways: was elected Member for Caine,
on Wednesday, in the room of the late Lord Kerry. There was no other candidate.
It is said that Mr. W. B. Baring has not the slightest chance of being reelected for Winchester.
Mr. Wightwick is to oppose Mr. Foster, on the Liberal interest, at the next election for Walsall.
There is likely to be an increase of voters in Rochdale for the pre- sent year of nearly one hundred. Reformers are daily gaining strength; and should a dissolution of Parliament take place, they are prepared to return Mr. Fenton by a decided majority.—Leeds Mercury.
The Conservatives of Shrewsbury have resolved not to interfere in the Municipal strife carrying on ; being determined that the Radical Town. Councils shall fully punish those who have elected them, by pur- suing the course they are now taking.—Salopian Journal. [ This is the confession of a beaten party.] The large property in Crown lands near and in Newark, lately enjoyed by the Duke of Newcastle, is advertised for sale, for the bene- fit of the public.—Lincoln Mercury. [The preeminently holy Duke of Newcastle is said to have vented his spite against the Government, for refusing to renew his lease, in a diatribe which worldly-minded people would call impious as well as vulgar.1 Upwards of a thousand pounds has been subscribed in Huntingdon- shire, to present Mr. Day, who was persecuted by the Tories on ac- count of the famous Hartford votes, with a piece of plate. It was proved, as our readers will recollect, that Mr. Day's conduct in that transaction bad been very honourable, and quite correct.
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