The Anti-Corn-law League have improved-their defeat in Salis- bury, by
forming a branch association in the borough. There is no more talk of prosecution for past offences against election- purity : from which it may be inferred that the offences were either not very gross or not very tangible. The "influence" exerted was probably a' moral and implied, rather than an express and cognizable intiMidation. But the League promise future "pro-
tection " to the electors The :.striking 'fact is that they have effected a permanent occupation of Salisbury, and are to pursue in that town the same process of gradually exciting and absorbing into their own body, a large portion of tile community, that they have pursued with ,so much success in the North. Mr, COBDEN, the most business-like of agitators, establishes the branch associa- tion in person. It does not appear that the agriculturists have any leaders of equal activity, pertinacity, and ability, to oppose to the League councillors; or that ,they" have any organization which • might help them to bear up against the encroachments of the foreign invaders. The League have taken a formidable bite at Salisbury, and will probably swallow it quite before the next elec- tion.
