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

great Duke of Devonshire, the head OF the
Cavendishes, as Lord Derby is the head of the
Stanleys. II was fair struggle between those
two great houses, who alike lavished upon this
contest all their hereditary influence OF land
social position, personal renown, aud wealth.
They say the profusion with which money
was spent on both sides recalls the best days of
bribery. Scores OF thousands Of pounds we're
laid out-quite how they were laid out sup
pose those who know best will be least likely
to tell. The triumph of the Stanleys was sig
nal. Lord harrington began and ended at
the bottom of the poll, and was beaten by more
than 1900 majority. The figures were-Stanley,
6SS4: Patten, 6733; Harrington, 5508. A
detailed history of this contest would be a
most instructive account OF bribery, intmi-
dation, and violence. The defeated Marquis
must be we'll remem bered in New York. He
is that youthful aristocrat who, during the
war, illustrated his good breeding by entering
a ball room wearing Confederate rosette in
his buttonhole. The incident will serve to
remind you how small was the sympathy we
got in those days from the great Whig
families Of England, who were then begin
ming to call themselves Liberal Perhaps II is
cruel to remember such a prank, of which l
hope his lordship has grown wise enough to
be ashamed. His ability is very considerable,
and is the special form of administrative
ability such as iswanted ia the War Office.
Lord Harrington 10 among the strongest men
Of his party. As he cannot be- spared from the
Cabinet-On account OF his immense family
ipflu, nee, if for no other reasOu-a seat is sure
to be found for him somewhere. In the centre
of England the family are still strong enough
spite of two Reform aCts-tO send four or
five of the ''sscred Cavendishes" to Par
Lament.
Next to Lord Hartington-and in everything
but rank his superor-comes Mr.. Miner
Gibson, one of the veteran leaders OF the Anti
Corn Law League, and one of its most noted
orators. He was then member for Manchester.
When Peel went out in 1886 Lord John
Russell made Mr.. Gibson Vice President of
the Board of Trade. He sat sixteen years for
Manchester, during ten of which he had John
Bright for colleague, and they were rejected
together by that constituency in 1887 for the
same TeasOn-their opposition to the Crimean
war. Mr.. Gibson then found a seat at Ashton
under Lyme, and has held it till now, when
he finds himself most unexpectedly defeated
by a Tory, a Mr.. Mellor, by l22 votes. He
was returned at the last election without 3
contest. The whole constituency was then ut
967; on Wednesday there We're 44l6 votes
actually cast, and this is one of the places
where the Reform bill seems to have dug deep
enough to get at that Tory "residuum"
which Mr.. Bright dreaded, and the expeota-
ton of which was one of the arguments that
Mr.. Disraei employed in educating his party
to adopt household suffrage.
Following Mr.. Gibson'5 in importance Is the
deie at OF Mr. Bruce-the Right Hon. Henry
Austin-for Merthyr Tydvil. Mr.. Bruce was
Under-Secretary for the Home Department
from 1862 to 1864, and has held other offices;
is distinguished still more as an educational
reformer. In the new Ministry he was ex-
pected TO be, perhaps, at the head of his old
department, or to take the new Office of Minis
ter for Education, when that shall be esta-
blished. Local causes are said to have de-
feated him, and he stands actually last OF the
three candidates, all Liberals. The consttu-
ency is SO numerous and important that the
last Reform act gave it an additional memb Der,
so Mr.. Bruce, who was returned before with
out opposition, has the modification of seeing
two men of his own party, neither of them
eminent, preferred to himself. 1t was ex-
pected, when his defeat became KNOWN that
one of the two Liberal candidates for the
county of Glamorganshire wonld withdraw in
his favor; but they both declined. But
seat will doubtless be found for him some
where.
The fourth defeated Ministerial expectaut is
Mr.. Horsman, one of the original Adullamites,
who has since made his peace with Mr.. Glad.
stone, and whose undOubted ability marked
him out for office. But he fsd away from
Stroud his old seat, weeks before the election
and appeared in Falkirk to contest that
borough with Mr.. Merry, a Literal, much
better known on the turf than in the House,
where his voice is never heard. In Falkirk
the nomination took place on Thursday, and
the Sheriff declared the show of hands SO even
that he could not decide between them, so
both candidates demanded poll. But at
O'Clock of the same day Mr.. Horsman's heart
failed him, and he withdrew from the contest.
The truth is that though Mr.. Gladstone has
forgiven Mr.. Horsman, his party have not.
The most genuine professions of repentance
do not always avail. Major Anson was an
other of the malcontents who went into the
Cave--a man of note in his profession, and of
some also in politics; younger son
of the Earl of Lichfeld, and one OF the
heroes of the Lucknow defense. He sat
for Lchfeld in Staflordshire, where
the influence of his family is great. OF the
two seats which that borough possessed, the
reform act abolished one, and the other goes
to Colonel Dyott, a Tory-apparently from
! lukewarmness on the part OF the Liberals.
Major Anson does not at all belong in list
of defeated Office holders in expeotancy-he
crept into this paragraph as an Adullamite
only. There remains Mr.. Lawson, who was
Irish Attorney General under Lord Russell,
and who represented in the last Parliament
about the smallest of the ridiculously small
borOughs that still cumber the ground. Port
arlington gives Mr.. Lawson but 81 votes; his
successful Tory competitor, Mr.. Damer, has
68. 1t needs no prophetic gift to predict that
POrtarlington will come to grief in the very
next Reform aot-an act sure to be passed
in 1869, for several purposes.
Mr.. Bernal Osborne's defeat must be
reckoned among the Liberal disasters, although
he stood for Nottingham rather as an indie
pendent than party candidate. OF his genu-
t,a I'D