The county of Hants, both in the Northern and Southern divisions, is likely to be excited by contested elections for the new Parliament. The unlooked-for retirement of Sir Thomas Baring to private life has given rise to a notion that Lord Portchester will start as a candidate to supply the worthy baronet's vacancy, but surely no one who recalls to memory his Lordship's liberal protestations in June, 1830, to the electors of Petersfield, when his object was to oust the Jolliffe's property in that borough, and who will contrast that address with this consistent nobleman's splenetic conduct in dividing the House of Commons against the Reform Bill, can by any possibility support him; the idea is preposterous; his Lordship, if he intends to offer himself for any place, must exhibit his newly-fitted suit of Toryism in some distant quarter; in Hampshire, the electors are not such gulls as to be caught by it.—Hampshire Telegraph
