Sir Fowell Buxton has failed in his gallant attempt to
carry North Norfolk. If Yarmouth had been restored to its rights as a borough, he might have succeeded, but the mass of voters there who become county voters through the disfranchisement of the borough turn the scale, and he was beaten by Colonel Puff, by 2,302 to 2,192. On the other hand, the Liberals have carried East Cum- berland, after a very hotly contested election, Mr. E. S. Howard, son of the late Mr. Henry Howard, of Greystoke, beating Sir R. Musgrave by 2,939 to 2,783. This does not indicate any grave change of opinion in the county, as Mr. Charles Howard, a son of the late Earl of Carbide, was at the top of the poll at the last election, but it gives the party another seat. It shows, too, that the Whigs have fight left in them yet, and they are the best candidates just now, electors not being able to believe that Howards and the like want to attack property or upset social order.
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