Nevertheless there was at first some difficulty in finding a proper Liberal candidate to run against him.  The nobleman who had been elevated out of his seat by the death of his father had been a great Whig magnate, whose family was possessed of immense wealth and of popularity equal to its possessions.  One of that family might have contested the borough at a much less expense than any other person,—­ and to them the expense would have mattered but little.  But there was no such member of it forthcoming.  Lord This and Lord That,—­and the Honourable This and the Honourable That, sons of other cognate Lords,—­ already had seats which they were unwilling to vacate in the present state of affairs.  There was but one other session for the existing Parliament; and the odds were...