The Tories have lost Breconshire, which, since the Reform Bill,
has never returned a Liberal. At the last election, Mr. W. Fuller Maitland received 1,036 votes, and the Hon. G. C. Morgan, Tory, 1,594; but this time Mr. Fuller-Maitland obtained 1,710 votes and Mr. Howell Gwynn only 1,607. The cause of the change was obviously not any personal unpopularity in the candidate, for Mr. Gwynn had more votes than Mr. Morgan, but the Liberals- had drawn out 700 men who previously did not vote. It is affirmed, in extenuation of this defeat, that the Home Secretary had irritated the landlords by refusing to protect the fisheries of the Wye, after ordering an inquiry into the grievances of their owners ; but the local opinion, as represented in Liverpool, seems to be that there was a revolt of the farmers, led by a Mr. Parry, who certainly defied the landlords pretty boldly. The second theory seems to be justified by the very great increase in the total poll, which the fishing landlords could hardly have secured.
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