you will be glad to know this in time. He is admitted to be the best of the family and from my knowledge of many years believe that you will find he is a generous and reliable friend -- He has of course much to learn in our school of politics in wh. there is much base metal in Mr.Williams you will I think find the genuine coin -- He told me at the Bay that he had always been opposed to Cullton's views before and since the Election and had told him so. London got a good show of votes -- he kept open House, but at whose expense I cannot say. J. S. McFarlane, as his own friends say, deserved to lose, taking no personal trouble whatever in the Contest. If he had done so, there is but little doubt of his neck and neck with Williams. He left everything to his friends, Webster and the rest, whose influence now is fast on the decline -- Many of the Natives at Hokianga polled for Lundon, none for J.S. For