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r. Aunington, one of Mr. Mia.ll's commits,
rated with the people, and requested a fair hearing it
r. Akroyd., The tumult then partly subsided, and Mr

heard somewhat more quietly ; but i

minutes he sank on the floor, and was carried out of the
room quite dead. He was in his 67th year, and had been
for some time in a very feeble state of health, so much so,
indeed, as to be quite unfit to bear any excitement, and
nothing but his high personal respect for Sir Charles

Wood Would have induced him to take part in the election.
THE REJECTED ONES.-Mr. Macaulay has lost his inse-
secure hold on the fickle democracy of the modern Athens.
A candidate who contributes less directly to the wants of
literature has supplanted the brilliant writer. Besides
grievances of a more general nature, the quarrel of the
Free Church has told in this instance. The expulsion of a
Cabinet Minister from his seat is the first instalment of
that revenge which so many hundred relinquished kirks
and manses will surely exact. A not very respectful sense
of security, together with reasons of a more personal and
extraordinary nature, have lost another Cabinet Minister
his seat for Nottingham. For Mr. Macaulay, we presume,
another seat will be found; but whether it will be thought
necessary to ransack the three kingdoms in order to re-
tain Sir John Hobhouse in the Board of Control, we leave
to those who are better able to appreciate his services.
Bath has dismissed Mr. Roebuck to the pleasures of
repose, unless some other constituency should desire to
see its name associated with the most interesting and
critical debates, and perhaps the most gratuitous squab-
bles of the legislature. Mr. Gisborne is again seatless,
unless an Irish borough is in the market, or an O'Connell
to be found. Protestantism has unfortunately lost the
advocacy of Mr. Spooner. Mr. Fielden has sunk himself
in his own lake at Oldham by tying to himself a millstone
of a colleague. Sir Fitzroy Kelly is again without that

success he too ardently courts, -and too nearly attain
`Winchester has wiped out Mr. Escott. Mr. Mantle

Sutton has been sacrificed on the altar of prOtCti-Onins;;:t •

ox has been thrown upon the
government rosources. Perhaps the most wanton and
most deplorable act of mere folly has been the deposition
of Mr. Hawes from his seat, for, as we believe, the
emptiest and most fantastical reasons.
TIM NEW MEMBEitS.—The new importations into
parliament are of a very mixed character. At first sight
one is disposed to apprehend a serious additional inroad
on the time, attention, and forbearance of the house ; but
the danger diminishes on reflection. Mr. G. Thompson,
like many other talkative gentlemen, will find his tether
in the senate. Mr. C. Pearson was once very formidable,
but is now tame. Mr. Feargus O'Connor is not a very
tedious demagogue, and is more imprudent than ill-tem-
pered, Mr. Urquhart may be safely left in Lord Palmer-
ston's hands. Serjeant Talfourd will probably be taught
the need of that terseness, brevity, and point, which
public dinners and juries do not require. Mr. Fox will
contribute to the legislature some of his Covent-garden
eloquence. As a set off against the generation of talkers,
there are some able and eloquent men introduced or re-
stored to the state. Lord Ashley, the new member for
Bath, rests on a firmer basis than the cupidity or the pride
of the Dorsetshire agriculturists. Plymouth has returned,
in Mr. Roundell Palmer, one of the most able and most
promising young lawyers of his day. Mr. Macgregor,
long known as the Egeria of our Numas, the chief source
of the economical and statistical lore which Ministers
interpret to the House, aims, by the favour of Glasgow,
to be his own interpreter for the future, with what success
we shall see. At least he will no longer fret under the
mortification which a Sic vos non robis is sure to inspire.
The railway interest is now strong in the house, though
not really stronger perhaps than when the chairman and
directors canvassed, but could not speak or vote. Cubitt,
Locke, Peto, Glyn, Jackson, Mangles, Ricardo, •Sir J.
Wahnsley, Cobbold, and Lacey, represent their several
lines. The Chairman of the Great Western alone has
sustained an unaccountable defeat, and the broad guage
laments its greatest hero.

A LEGISLATOR IN DIFFICULTII

Ur. W. S. Blacl

stone has been returned the member for Wallingford.
When our despatch was closed on Friday, we left Mr.
Blackstone serenely surveying the proceedings of the
nomination from an upper window of the bank of Messrs.
Wells and Allnatt, in the Market-place, to which place of
safety the honourable candidate had effected his retreat,
in order to secure himself against a threatened arrest for
debt. It appears that more than one sheriff's officer had
come to Wanin,,c,-„.,1 - -

~oru on the
day of
i nomination to capture
the honourableg
gentleman, Mayor that lie would not answerlefyor
wt, ehree
peace
by
of
tt tee
borough, if an attempt were made to arrest
Mr. Black_
stone upon the hustings. The farmers who escorted the
protectionist candidate into town, on horseback, came
provided with heavy bunting whips, and made no secret
of their determination not to permit him to be taken.
There was also a party of stout labourers, armed with
stout bludgeons, who formed a strong body guard around
the honourable gentleman's carriage. On the other
`land_ 11- friends, being naturally anxious

, Morriso
that the law should have its due course, and that none 01
its processes should be obstructed on the present occasion
kindly offered to assist the sheriff's officers with a suf.
ficient force to insure the honourable gentleman's capture,
and his safe lodgment in Reading Gaol, or wher
Doe or Richard Roe might wish to remove 1

'Juicers of me law, tearing that blood might be shed in
the disturbance which must ensue, and being apprehen-
sive, moreover, that if their honourable prisoner were
seized and rescued, the High Sheriff might become
liable for the debt, determined to make no attempt on the
day of nomination, but to wait for a more favourable
occasion. It was thought advisable by Mr. Blackstone's
friends that he should sleep at the Bank on Friday night,
instead of incurring the hazard of a return to his seat at
Howbury. The polling took place on Saturday, and
when the clock struck four the crowd assembled under
the windows of the Bank, and lustily cheered the success-
ful candidate, under the impression that he might then
safely defy his persecutors. The " Legislator in diffi-
culties," however, appeared anxious to hear himself for-
mally declared by the Mayor to be duly elected, before he
trusted himself within the reach of the harpies of the law,
and therefore requested the electors to escort him safely
to the Town-hall, and the hol
was immediately and effectu
fell back, and a clear pa:
Bank to the- Town-hall, t
arms to prevent the enemy

,Ily answered

in's appeal
The crowd
from the
iers joining

>age wai
Le farm(

By-and-bye Mr.
Bank in the mid

tone appeared at the door of the
band of most determined looking
rt sticks, who kept so close to the
was fairly carried off his legs and
"Me rush in which this was

fellows

lion, gentleman that
borne into the Town-hal

Lind night,andthe squeezing which

wderwent during the

i Parliament

rlie-Mayor having
that Mr. William Seymour
cted to serve the how., A, n4' Wnl

the crowd in
Town-hall, 7

.rliet-_place below frOO:
ackbur-ne declarintr tl

mindow of t

were taken to arrest him, lieu-mild malea---nIotio;;In Pd
iianicnt on the subjeet.--Times.