The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-08

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me- (Great laughtor) Gentlemen, we near
something of bribery az elections. accuss you,
wiichery OF OF your smile; accuse you, LSdy
Clifton, OF havir g mate your husband what he
hand. StHppIsnse1 TSoreh S be&aten & sm noi
dikRraced; have been defeated by two women,
whom could not find the equals Of Creme we'd
applauseC
There is more in the same uuequalled man
ner, and then, while admitting his defeat
could not have been averted. Mr.. Osborne read
a lecture to the electors of Nottingham on
bribery, which his audience hailed with cries
of "That's true" but which the local press,
for some reason, does not venture to report.
He was offered in the morning 30 votes for 90
shillings, and again, half an hour before the
polls closed, 200 votes Of men who had stood
out for q sovereign apiece. Probably Mr..
Osborne was not expected to take OfiiJe with
the new administration though his ability and
long service entitle him to place If he wanted
it. But the House itself will hardly be content
that he should not be one of its members. He
has been in Parliament ever since 1871, and
hope may 60 back for some constituency which
has better taste than Nottingham, ks9
Mr., Lowe is returned for Loudou Unver-
sity without q contest, and thereupon has de-
livered an address which | wish had tune to
discuss, but must pass without word lie is
thus far the only Adullamite who has won an
unchallenged success, and, like all the others
OuJElRuL-uQle55
Bouve1ie be an eXceptiOn-saved his seat by
renouncing his political heresies-at any rate,
by abandoning his policy of insubordination.
| think | have dealt with the cave pretty
fully in former letters, but in addition to re-
cusants therein mentioned, Sir L. Watkin has
been beaten at StOckfort, and Mr.. Marsh re-
tired from Salisbury without q contest. Mr..
Laipg, like Mr.. Wa,kin, attempted a second
movement on Mr.. Gladstones flank in the
Irish Church struggle. He sat last session
for the Wick District, in Scotland, without
contest. Now he has one Liberal and one
Tory against him, and his fortunes are believed
to be desperate. - -,
The defeat of the Tories is nowhere more
signal than among the ultra p Protestant con-
stituencies of Ireland. The headquarters OF
Protestant ascendancy, the chosen home of
Orangeism, rejects the self-styled champions
OF the Protestant cause. Ulster is liberal. It's
capital, Belfast, defeats both Ministerial can
didates, sending Mr.. johnson of Bsllykilbeg, a
Tory who goes for disestablishment, and Mr.
Mcclure, who is a Liberal. Londonderry was
a town not less strongly Tory and Orange to
the backbone, but Londonderry is the scene
OF Lord Claud Hamilton's defeat and supar-
sedes the son of the Lord Lieutenant by
radical Liberal. Newry and Carricktergus,
both in Ulster, and both Tory at the last cleo
tiOn, return Liberal members to the next House,
Els ewheJe in Ireland the popular verdict is the
same. Galway returns two Liberals, a gain of
one the city of Cork of course reelected Mr..
Mcguire and his colleague Mr.. Murphy, whose
loyalty to the Liberal party was never ques-
toned. OF the members thus far chosen
throughout the leland, which awaits its eman-
cipatiOn from ecclesiastical rule, 3S are Liberal
and II Tory. Official influence, landlord in
timidatiOn, and the violence which in too
many cases has been employed without stint
or copcealment, have not all together sufl ,ed
to secure one-third of the Irish seats for the
Tories. The Protestant minority of Ireland
will give but small help to Mr.. Dsraeli in re-
sistipg the overthrow ofthe Protestant Church
monopoly.
In Scotland, the most intensely Protestant
OF countries, Indifference to the danger of It's
cherished creed seems still more stoid. Tae
Scotch burghs are unanimous, their members
Liberal to a man, and of the counties there
are but four where family influence or politi-
cal tradition has proved strong enough to
secure the choice of Tory. Dumbartonshire,
Invernersshire, Wgtonshire, aud one other,
which at the moment forget, hang out their
flags as Tory stroDgholds. Against this for
lo1n hope of political bigotry the Liberals
marshal a phalanx of 36 members, and there
are reinfoTcements yet to come.
The counties have thus far done better for
the Liberals than the Liberals themselves ex-
pecttd- North Lancashire being their only
great disaster. They return so generally
mere local landowners that county contests
have not much more than numerical in
terest outside their own limits. Huntingdon
shire reflects without contest Lord Robert
Montague, whose envy of America is so great
that in a speech last session he annexed
Buffalo to Canada, and then doubled his
blunder by sending a British consul there
after he had made it a colonial town. North
Leioestershire sends Lord John Manners,
whose unhappy couplet about arts and learn
ing, and the old nobility, ought to be in Bart
lett's Familiar Quotations" but is not. Lord
John has vindicated the greatness of the old
nobility by keeping board fence for year
and half about Hyde Park, to punish the
Reiormers for having upset the old railings.
In East Surrey there was q contest
of some interest to Americans. Mr..
Charles Buxton, son of Sir Thomas Fowell
Buxton, was bitterly assailed, as Mr.. Mill had
been, for his share in the prosecution of the
Jamaica murderer, Eyre. The Tories, in fact,
made dead set on the district, but they were
handsomely beaten, Mr.. Buxton having about
400 majority over his highest opponent-three
times as much as he had at the last election.
He might be more radical than he is, consider
ing his name; nor need the Tories owe him
any special grudge on account of the Eyre
business, for he withdrew, l am sorry to say,
from the Jamaica Committee when they decided
to indict Eyre for murder. Mr.. Buxton Is an
able legislator, with a clear head, and students
OF English politics will find in his book, "Ideas