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where the £lO,OOO which they spent at their election
went to. On the other hand, Colonel GARDNER has
failed to eject Mr. EYKYN at Windsor; Mr. GARTH
will not have the pleasure of stepping into Mr.
ONSLOW'S shoes at Guildford; the sitting members
at Limerick, both Liberals, have been declared duly
elected. Mr. WHITWORTH is the only Liberal as yet
unseated, and though he is scarcely likely to remain
so, it must be admitted that, so far, the Fates have
been unkind to the Opposition in reducing their
already small minority.
The Bewdley case, with which we have to do
to-day, is a peculiarly flagrant one. This Worcester-
shire borough contains a population of about 7,000
persons, and was, until the present Parliament,
represented by Sir THOMAS WINNINGTON for more
than a quarter of a century. He was generally
fortunate enough to get returned without a contest.
Apparently he seems to have distrusted the new
voters who became enfranchised by the Reform Bill,
and to have suspected that they would prove venal.
At all events he did not offer himself for re-
election in November, and the seat was contested.
The rival candidates were Mr. THOMAS LLOYD, of
Birmingham, in the Liberal interest, who was un-
seated for bribery at Barnstaple some five years ago,
and Sir Rim= GLASS, of Atlantic Cable reputa-
tion, and whose formerpartner, Mr. ELLIOTT, was the
successful candidate for North Durham. Mr. LLOYD
appears to have learnt wisdom by experience, and to
have carefully avoided any transactions which were
likely to compromise him. Sir RicHAßD,being a man
of wealth who had not yet discovered how
dangerous wealth, may be at a contested election,
spent it freely. He had won a fortune and a
baronetcy out of the Atlantic Cable : he wanted only
a seat in Parliament to establish his social position.
For that seat he was willing to pay handsomely;
money was no object with him. Unfortunately
for him, the Legislature forbids the purchase of seats
by wealthy manufacturers, and he has now not only
lost his seat, but will have to undergo ostracism
during the present Parliament. He had an agent
named PARDOE, and that person's son engaged
twenty-nine roughs from London, in order to keep
the peace at the nomination. Women are not per-
mitted to vote, but they are not forbidden to scream,
and Mr. PARDOE will not deny that a number of
female Bewdleians were paid for the use of their
sweet voices. Then there were a large num-
ber of " watchers," who were paid £2OO to parade
the town at nights—this town of 7,000 inhabitants—
in order to prevent any voters from being kid-
napped. Beer and kindred drinks kept flowing in
a never-failing stream. Twenty taps were turned
with a golden key furnished by Sir RICHARD'S agent.
No wonder that almost all the publicans voted for
Sir RICHARD GLASS, at whose expense so many a
glass had been drained. There were certain payments
to be made which do not appear in Sir RICHARD'S
audited account, and which therefore were not paid
through his regular agent. This itself was an ille-
gality directly contrary to the recent Act of Parlia-
ment. The matter was arranged by a Worcester
solicitor, who appears to have been concerned in many
of these jobs, and who has always denied any insinua-
tions to that effect with lofty indignation. This
attorney hired a man named RussoN, and told him
that it would be expedient for him to disguise himself.
Russo` shewed his employer a wig, which satisfied
him, and more so as RUSSON (who went by the name
of the " Man in the Mask ") was " in the habit of
paying all sorts of people." He appears to have paid
£9O at Bewdley, and for this amount the Worcester
attorney took no receipt, can give no account, nor did
he mention it to the election auditor. After such evi-
dence as this there could be but one course for Justice
BLACKBURN. He declared Sir RICHARD GLASS
unseated, and condemned him to pay the costs of the
inquiry. Thus the Conservatives have lost one of
the seats which they had counted won, and will
henceforth recollect Mrs. GLASS'S advice to the cook ;
Sir RICHARD GLASS has paid more than £3,000 for
the barren honour of tacking M.P. to his name for
two months while Parliament was not sitting ; and
if Bewdley does not get disfranchised its escape will
be due to Ro deserts of its own.

Ll 7 ERATUIM

Breezie Langton. By Hawley Smart. 3 Vols.
Richard Bentley.

The names of the heroine and the author of these
volumes are quite characteristic of the style—lively,
smart, and vivacious —in which the story is penned.
Purporting to give us a picture of molern society
during three memorable years, from '52 to '55,
" Breezie Langton, " beginning with lively
sketches of fashionable life in town and country,
conducts us in the third volume to scenes of
romantic interest and horror, the battle-fields of
the Crimea and the hospitals of Scutari. Poor
Breezie, for such is the appellation of the heroine,
has cause to quarrel with the conclusion of the his-
tory, but we shall betray no secrets. The readers
cf her story will find that a tale which begins in
a manner the most amusing, furnishes, before its
conclusion, matter of deep and lively interest. The
villain of the tale, the unscrupulous Captain Delete,
affords us in the first volume considerable matter of
entertainment. His cool escape from under the
very hands of a sheriff's officer is delightfully told, and
the reader, for the time being, sympathises with the
delinquent captain, and enjoys the discomfi-
ture of the unfortunate bailiff. There are
other scenes, however, in which Captain
Delme does not appear to such advantage, such as
the one where he plays the thief by the bedside of
his dying sister. While this reprobate furnishes
the tragical element ofithe tale, we have a variety of
more pleasing characters—Jack Travers, Tom Lyt-
tlereck, Charlie Repton, and others, who take part
in the livelier scenes. The gay group assembled in
the early chapters at Donnington Hall, who are scared
by the midnight apparition of a white owl, presumed
to be a ghost, meet with a variety of chances and
changes during the three eventful years which ensue;
but " all is well that ends well," and the various
personages of the drama, after a very spirited per-
formance of their several parts, retire happy ever
afterwards, with the important exception of the fair
Breezie Langton herself, whose name lingers with
regretful interest in the recollection of the reader.

Diana's Crescent. By the Author of " Mary
Powell." 2 Vols. Richard Bentley.

It is pleasant for us to meet again a work from
the well-rememembered hand of the delightful
authoress of " Mary Powell." That charming
autobiography of the wife of Milton is not likely
to be forgotten by any of its readers. Not
for that work only, but for some half score of
others, all in their several ways more or less attrac-
tive, we have cause to feel grateful to the author
of " Mary Powell." " Diana's Crescent" ac-
cordingly will find favour with many readers.
It is a pleasant little tale, narrating the adven-
tures of the various inhabitants of Diana's Crescent
meaning thereby not the celestial ornament of the
goddess, but a semi-circle of suburban dwelling-
houses. Mrs. Grace, and her worthy husband and
her charming daughters, are delightful acquaintances,
and the life and soul of the social gatherings of
the Crescent. Among the inhabitants of this clas-
sic neighbourhood is a misanthropic author, spok en
of as " the great Panjandrum," who is at one time
imagined to be no other than Junius himself ! The
time of the narrative is at the beginning of the
century, and some of the English visitors kept as
" detenu," in France are connected with the heroes
and heroines of the story. Not containing matter
of very deep or serious interest, " Diana's Crescent"
gives us a pleasant history of an attractive group
of very miscellaneous characters.

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