. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. poll at Aylesbury itself, awhole day was often spent by a man in going to andfro. I shall crive later some curious details of electionexpenses to show wdiat long purses elections in the goodold times could drain. But it is not only for records ofbribery that Aylesbury has a past worth noting: manyinteresting events are connected with the representationof the Borough. Sir Henry Austen Layard was first returned to Parlia-ment for Aylesbury in conjunction with Mr. Bethell, whobecame Lord-Chan
. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. poll at Aylesbury itself, awhole day was often spent by a man in going to andfro. I shall crive later some curious details of electionexpenses to show wdiat long purses elections in the goodold times could drain. But it is not only for records ofbribery that Aylesbury has a past worth noting: manyinteresting events are connected with the representationof the Borough. Sir Henry Austen Layard was first returned to Parlia-ment for Aylesbury in conjunction with Mr. Bethell, whobecame Lord-Chancellor Westbury. Mr. Layard wassubsequently defeated by Mr., afterwards Sir, ThomasBernard, the son of the Bernard of 1802. We heardmany stories of the future Lord-Chancellor whilst hewas member for Aylesbury ; a marvellous advocate nodoubt, he was nevertheless a conspicuous failure inParliament, and even as a political speaker when address-ing his constituents he was extremely disagreeable, acertain mincing manner of delivery did not at all pleasethe rough-and-ready voters of the immaculate Borough. ^ ^ SIR RICHARD BETHELL. 29 of Aylesbury. When he started for the Borough hisgreat patron was Mr. Acton Tindal, and both he andBethell were members of the Conservative Club ; yetBethcll came forward to oppose Bousfield Ferrand, whowas already in the field as the Tory and Protectionistcandidate, Bethell posing as the champion of Free Tradeand advanced Whiggery. He defeated Ferrand duringthe last half-hour of the poll by twenty-two votes out ofa constituency of I2C0. As this was a test election in an agricultural constitu-ency about Protection and Free Trade, it made theConservative party extremely angry, and they proposedthat both Bethell and Tindal should be expelled fromthe Conservative Club. At that time Mr. W. Bcresford,one of the members for Essex, had made himself verynotorious for his pronounced Toryism, and had deliveredsome very foolish speeches. He was known in theHouse of
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