SUMMARY OF THE MORNING’S NEWS
Mr. William Nicholson, of Basing Park, Petersfield, has accepted a requisition to stand in the Liberal interest for the borough, for which there is a vacancy consequent on the elevation to the peerage of Sir Wm. Jolliffe, now Lord Hilton. No opposition, it is said, is likely to be offered to his return. Petersfield had for some time in Mr. Hector a member of advanced Liberal opinions; and though the high character and great personal and local influence of Sir Wm. Jolliffe turned the scale in his favour, and enabled him to hold the seat uncontested for many years, there has always been a strong Liberal party in the borough, as the majority in the district in favour of Sir Henry Mildmay at the last county election went far to prove. Under these circumstances a stranger would have no chance, and it is believed that Lord Hilton would not countenance the introduction of a ‟foreigner,” who, without any adequate prospect of success, would involve the constituency in the evils of a contest.