The election for Buckinghamshire will take place, it is stated,
within three weeks, and both candidates are stumping the country vigorously. They have about equal support among the "fami- lies," or would have, but that Baron Rothschild is expected to re- main "neutral ;" and both are popular with the farmers, who do not see that while the Tories offer only remissions of rates, which the landlords will take away, as leases fall in, in increased rents, the Liberals will secure them representative government for their own districts, in which at present they are legally as powerless as oxen, all authority being reserved to magistrates who must be landowners. Under these circumstances the election may turn, as a correspondent points out, on the line taken by the clergy. If they obey the dictates of their consciences, and sig- nify by their votes and their sermons that they consider it immoral to follow the man who alone resists the demand of the civilised world for the appointment of .a Christian Prince-Pala- tine in Bulgaria, they may seat Mr. Carington, and so warn the Premier that the alternatives lie between a total change of policy and dismissal from her Majesty's councils. They may reflect, if convinced Tories, that the election will scarcely diminish the majority of their party, while it will warn them that their leader lb viiding them to ruin.
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