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Duke of Wellington.—“Yes, my Lord, fifty thousand pounds expended, four-fifths of the votes promised, and yet the Election lost!”
Lord Eldon.—“Oh, horrible!!”
INCONVENIENCES THAT MIGHT HAVE ARISEN FROM THE BALLOT. BY G. SEYMOUR.
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“Gipsy-boy” Bludgeon-men.—“Arn’t we Gipsy-Boys to be your Bullies this Election, my Lord—if you want anything done, we arn’t at all partickler what it is?”
First Lord.—“No; I’ve got no use for you now!”
It appears that the Whig interest had it all their own way; Sir John Elley was put forward by the Windsor corporation as an independent candidate, as appears from the following extracts from “A Parody of the Mistletoe Bough:”—
“A banner now hangs in a corporate town
Professing to keep all corruption down,
And many retainers are blithe and gay,
Being keeping an Election holiday:
But the Corporate body, they take offence,
And bring a man here under pretence
That an Independent Gent is he,
And they swear that he is no Nominee.”