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printed tables, and an old "ready reckoner" on which I pin my faith, cannot discover. Flight is not moving in Election matters, wisely leaving them in the hands of those who are agitating in his behalf. Quietly I have canvassed for him amongst a class likely to do him good service. He is not altogether the man for it, --- a little too old and precise, but his grand stand is being a Government man, and one who will not be objectionable at Head quarters. I was asked to stand, by several who come prepared again to bring me forward against the present man; but I at once objected so decidedly as to throw the interest into Flight's hand. And can my course be wondered at when I see my Chairman and proposer at the Hastings, (Captain King); and my Chairman, who walked arm in arm with me there, followed by the Blues in twos, and preceeded by a monster banner; and who afterwards for two evenings presided at our dinners, (Cutfield), cutting me even at the Church door, on account of the Superintendent's proposed road, in which I concurred as a purely act. No; --- rather than be the object of such manifestations again, I will ten times over retire into the sweet retirement of private life, --- poor though it must be in this poverty-stricken factious ungenerous place. You will see by the paper that our Superintendent appears in print, as the Organiser of a Literary

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