One of the contested elections pending has come off, the
electors of Ipswich having returned Mr. T. Clement Cobbold by a vote of 2,213 to 1,607. Mr. Newton, his opponent, stood as the working- man's candidate, and did not poll the usual Liberal vote within a thousand. The total vote is very small, the registered electors- being 6,200. Mr. Cobbold is a man of forty-one years of age, and has been twenty-one years in the diplomatic service. The Leominster election has not come off, and in the two or three counties vacant there are signs of fierce quarrel between the land- lords and the tenants. In Shropshire the candidate of the former will, it is stated, be compelled to give way. As yet, however, the tenants do not understand the necessity for joining the Liberals, as in Scotland, probably because the Whig landlords sympathise- secretly with their caste.
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