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by Lords Grey, Brougham, and John Russell, of the 

 Radicals who followed Jos. Hume, Tom Duncombe, 

 and Cobbctt, assisted by the Irish, under their chief, 

 Dan O'Connell. 



The "great historic County of Bucks," so named, 

 and rightly, by its future greatest ornament, Benjamin 

 Disraeli, was not behindhand in getting excited ; every 

 borough except Amersham was contested, even the little 

 borough of Wendover, always considered a snug pocket- 

 borough of the Smiths (the Carrington family), was 

 fought by two candidates, Messrs. Burge and Camac; 

 Liverpool merchants, in opposition to Abel Smith and 

 his brother. The poll lasted two days, and the two 

 latter were of course returned, the numbers being — 

 A. Smith, yS ; S. Smith, yy ; Burge, 37 ; Camac, 36. 



Aylesbury was the scene of a lively contest. The two 

 old members, both Reformers (Lord Nugent and Mr. 

 Rickford, the banker), w^ere opposed by Viscount Kirk- 

 wall, the son of the Earl of Orkney, who resided at 

 l^aplow. The contest was really between the two 

 lords, Mr. Rickford receiving the second votes of the 

 electors of both parties. Lord Nugent was of a big, burly 

 build, and Lord Kirkwall a very little man ; and the 

 contest was called the battle between " Little David " 

 and the " Giant Goliath." The poll was kept open for 

 five days, and resulted in the return of the old members. 

 The contest was fought under the old franchise, and as 

 the Three Hundreds of Aylesbury had been about thirty 

 years before attached to the Borough, it was like a County 

 election. Some of the voters had to be brought up for 

 more than fifteen miles to record their votes. The poll- 



