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Mr Alf's central coe Street, and there the battle was kept alive all the day It had been decided, as the reader has been told, that no direct advantage should be taken of that loud blast of accusation which had been heard throughout the town on the previous afternoon There had not been sufficient time for inquiry as to the truth of that blast If there were just ground for the things that had been said, Mr Melaol, or would be--wanted Many had thought that he would escape as soon as the dinner was over, and had been disappointed when they heard that he had been seen walking doards his own co Others had been told that at the last moment his name would be withdrawn,--and a question arose as to whether he had the legal power to withdraw his name after a certain hour on the day before the ballot An effort was made to convince a portion of the electors that he had withdrawn, or would have withdrawn, or should have withdrawn When Mel ofthe truth He certainly had ated this report certainly darew a feeling that Mr Mels had been said of him,--many at least so declared,-- not from any true s of the speech in Covent Garden were spread about at the various polling places, and did good service to the so-called Conservative cause Mr Alf's friends, hearing all this, instigated hi should be said, if only that it ht be reported in the newspapers, to show that they had behaved with generosity, instead of having injured their eneht at any rate be sure of a favourable reporter

About two o'clock in the day, Mr Alf did ood speech it was, if correctly reported in the 'Evening Pulpit' Mr Alf was a clever man, ready at all points, with all his powers iood speech But in this speech, in which we may presume that it would be his intention to convince the electors that they ought to return him to Parliament, because, of the two candidates, he was the fittest to represent their views, he did not say a word as to his own political ideas, not, indeed, a word that could be accepted ashis own fitness for the place which it was his a to show that the other h solicitous of proving to the electors that Mr Meluilty of nothing shabby in theirso 'Mr Melmotte,' he said, 'comes before you as a Conservative, and has told us, by the mouths of his friends,--for he has not favoured us with many words of his own,-- that he is supported by the whole Conservative party That party is not my party, but I respect it Where, however, are these Conservative supporters? We have heard, till we are sick of it, of the banquet which Mr Melave yesterday I am told that very few of those whom he calls his Conservative friends could be induced to attend that banquet It is equally notorious that the leading reat commercial prince I say that the leaders of the Conservative party have at last found their candidate out, have repudiated hi now to free the supported the candidature of such around the polling booths Go to Mr Mel Conservatives be there Look about, and see whether they are walking with hi with hi the air with him in the parks I respect the leaders of the Conservative party; but they have made a mistake in thisto the ruainst the personal character of a political opponent, which I am not in a position to prove I make no allusion, and have made no allusion, to reports which were circulated yesterday about hiinated in the City Theyof the ard them as false, and I reco before these reports were in men's mouths, that Mr Melmotte was not entitled by his character to represent you in parliareat British , do you think, should a man be known in this city before that title be accorded to hiht of this man two years since,--unless, indeed, it be so with hireat Britishand Vienna; ask it in Paris;--ask those whose business here has connected then countries, and you will be told whether this is a fit man to represent Westminster in the British parliament!' There was much more yet; but such was the tone of the speech which Mr Alfthe electors to vote for himself