The polling for Peterborough, for a successor to Mr. 'Whalley,
was going on yesterday, and the result will be known before this journal is issued. The only candidates in the field were Mr. Sydney Buxton,—who has recently exerted .himself to so much purpose on behalf of Mr. Take's Irish -emigration scheme,—and Major Fergusson, of the Rifle Brigade, who came forward in the Conservative interest. Mr. Sydney Buxton, in his address, promised that he would heartily co- -operate with the Government, if they asked for further powers for regulating debate in order to give legislation a fair chance, and engaged, " as a matter of principle, and not of person," to give the most cordial support to any measure having for its -object the abolition of any religious test which bars the entrance into the House of Commons of a duly elected Member. Mr. _Buxton's address is, indeed, that of a thorough-going Liberal. Major Fergnsson, of course, declared his intention to resist any -measure intended to facilitate Mr. Bradlaugh's entrance to the House of Commons, asserted that " Great Britain has lost all the allies left her by Lord Beaconsfield," and "holds a position of isolation,"—a romance of which he offers not a tittle of proof, —and ascribes all the Irish difficulties of the moment to Mr. Gladstone, while heartily approving the administration of Lord Spencer and Mr. Trevelyan, who are Mr. Gladstone's appointees.
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