The Bristol Conservatives say that they have gained 260 votes
by the last registration.
The Bath Conservatives claim a gain of 49 votes as the result of the Parliamentary- revision.
The Leicestershire Mercury states that the Liberals have gained 211 votes cn the revision for the Southern Division of the County ; and that in the Borough 5 have been added to the previous Liberal majority of 29.
The Leicester Herald says that Sir William Heygate and Mr. Charles Hay Frewen will be the tory candidates for Leieester, in opposition to the present Liberal Members.
The electors of Devonport have had an opportunity of hearing the sentiments of Mr. H. Tufnell, the Private Secretary of Lord Minto and one of the Lords of the Treasury, who will offer himself as a can- didate for their suffrages. He was well received by the constituency on Thursday evening; and his deelarntions on the questions of tint Ballot and Education, being full, hearty, and unreserved, met with cor- dial approbation. Ile is strongly opposed to the Corn-laws, both in their principle and policy, or rather to their want of both; and declared himself favourable to a moderate fixed duty, to be gradually diminished
till the trade in the first necessary of life shall be totally uneheckled and unrestrained. Mr. James St. Aubyn, lord of the munor, lots also declared his intention to offer himself as a candidate. We are re- euested to contradict the statement of our contemporary as to his poli- ties being Conservative ; he (lee-litres himself a supporter of the present Government.—/lionpshire LoLpendent.
We have now the highest satisfaction in being able to state that the ducal "notices to quit" served on those independent tenants (electors of Totnes) who voted for Mr. Charles Barry Baldwin, have been re- turned, with interest, to the grasping and dictatorial family. The high- spirited electors of Totnes have not only sent Mr. Blount about his business, but have politely served Lord Seymour also with a " notice to quit ;" so that his Lordship will have an opportunity of taking his leave of the borough quietly, instead of experiencing the mortification of that signal defeat which awaits him should Ile venture to stand any future contest. The indignation evinced in Totnes, at the faithless and tin- English conduct of the Duke and his nominee, is beyond description ; and the attempt to coerce or injure honest voters has already recoiled back upon the great family with tenfold force. So disgusted are the respectable portion of the Liberal voters with the proceeding, that many of them have openly avowed their determination to withdraw all future cooperation from the party, and to support, heart and hand, the champion of their independence, Mr. Barry Baldwin. Many others will, we have no doubt, follow their noble example ; so that the borough of Totnes will be thoroughly purged front the noxious leaven of Whig- Radicalism, by the return of another independent man with Mr. Bald- win, on the first opportunity. A grand meeting took place at the Auction Mart on Tuesday week, when " notices to quit" were made out for Mr. 13Iount and Lord Seymour, both of whom were publicly challenged to try another election. We hope to be able to announce the second can- didate in our next.—Wooluter's Ryder Gazette.
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