The late contest at Leicester has produced a general conviction
there that it will be in vain for the Radical party to struggle tar the continued possession of both seats, and that it will have some difficulty even in preserving one of them. Mr. Frewen started immediately before the election, made no canvass, did not spend a shilling beyond the neces- sary legal expenses, and was nevertheless only outstripped by a make, ray of about three hundred in a constituency of between three and four thousand : although his competitor had been for many days pre- viously in the field, and had eunvassed the whole constituency thoroughly, and at no inconsiderable expense.—Norning Post. [The Liberal can- didate was seta from the first. Had there been any particular anxiety far his success, it is probable that more Liberals would have tendered their votes. Mr. Ellis polled fewer votes than Duckworth and East hope at the last election, but Mr. Proven also polled fewer titan Goal- burn and Gladstone.] Mr. Buller, on his late canvass for North Devonshire, called on Lord. Rolle, at Bicton, before brealeffist, to state to his Lordship the circum- stance of Lord Ebrington's being raised to the Peerage, and the con- sequent vacancy of his scat for Devon, and also to ask for his support. The call was before 1:is Lordship had gone to breakfast, and he was alone at the time. Soon afterwards, Lady Rolle came in ; when, hear- ing of the news, she assumed to have left something in her aparnuent, and, running up stairs, she went for Mr. Chichester, then on a visit to the house, and desired him to put horses to his carriage and go round to oil the polling-places of the county to summon all the Conservative Committees, and request them to commence an active canvass of every doubtful voter. Her Ladyship, lest Mr. Chichester should not have money enough about him, put her purse into his bands, and returned to the breakfast-room ; where she behaved with great kindness to Mr. Buller, taking him to see all the new improvements in the park end grounds, and detaining him so late that the day was lost. During this time, Mr. Chichester had, by extraordinary diligence, visited every
polling-place;
and that same night an active and simultaneous canvass had conunenced, the facts of the intended vacancy being totally un- known to any of the late Member's friends except Mr. Buller."— Abridge( / Pont the Northampton Herald. The bribery-oath was put by Mr. Buller's party to several of the electors. At Ilfracombe, Mr. Davie Bassie caused the oath to be put to a voter for Mr. Backe; and when he had taken it, he turned round to the Radical party and said, " I have now sworn to the truth, but I was offered a bribe of 3/. to vote for Mr. Buller."—Woolmet's Exeter Gazelle.
It has been suggested that Sir Andrew Agnew should be put in nomination at the next election for Bath, in the room of Lord Powers-
rum Gazette.
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