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The Liberals have lost the seat for Coventry, Mr. Eaton,

locally influential Tory, beating Mr. Mason Jones, Radical lecturer, by a small majority. Sir Arthur Buller has been returned for Liskeard without opposition, and Devonport has accepted Mr. Brassey, son of the great contractor. This last election was remarkable, Mr. Brassey telling the electors that after completing his educa- tion at Oxford, he had deliberately made his choice between an unequalled opening for a commercial life and politics. IIe chose the latter, fought Birkenhead, and though defeated there, is now member for Devonport. Wealthy, commercial, educated, self- conscious, is it a new Peel we have got, or only one of the aristo- cracy of trade ?

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