Lord Hardwicke, Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, called a meeting of the
Cambridgeshire Registration Society for Saturday, to consider future operations. His Lordship himself attended, and his son, Lord Royston, M.P., and a Mr. Hicks ; but not one
other county gentleman, or as Lord Hardwicke put it, " not a single man who is sitting upon his own estate, or at home with his family at ease." Twenty-nine persons not land- holders did attend, and his Lordship declaring that it would be " ridiculous" to proceed, dismissed what he evidently thought a miscellaneous lot. Lord Royston explained the absence of any supporters other than the twenty-nine nobodies and Mr. Hicks by saying the country gentlemen had no opinions, and were waiting to see which way things would go, and threatened that the Duke of Rutland and Lord Hardwicke would spend no more money upon registration. Our readers will remember that this scene occurred in the presence of reporters, in a county which once returned a Dissenting tenant-farmer, and just a year before the suffrage will belong to every 121. occupier.
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