PENRITH HERALD AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. No. 439. - Seventh Week in Quarter. Registered for Transmission Abroad. SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 14, 1874. PRICE 1D. EAST CUMBERLAND ELECTION 1874. The fight is o'er, the battle's won, Go tell it to each sire and son, The Royal Lion shakes his mane, East Cumbria is herself again. Again a Howard heads the poll, With strength sufficient for the whole, Each soldier sheaths his battle blade, For Howard's won the Blue eyed maid. It was a hard contested field, 'Twas said the Musgrave would not yield, But Howard beat their squadrons fair, And had three hundred men to spare. The field was fought, sir, inch by inch, But who e'er saw a Liberal flinch; The generals stood there undismayed, Till Howard won the Blue eyed maid. Who comes ? (they're asking) who comes now? With a broad pennant at the bow; Westmeria's fleet now leads the van, And Admiral Elliot is the man. Fetherstonhaugh all in his might, And Capt. James the Barrock knight, The great commander Crackanthorpe, And Salkeld too, all full of hope. And last came Lawson to the field, And called East Cumbria ne'er to yield; He found where Hodgson made a stand, And fought him in East Cumberland. West Cumberland sent to our aid, Her conquered chiefs still undismayed; Truth may be worsted, never dead, If ever falsehood rears its head. The fight began on Tuesday morn, And closed with the setting sun, The eastern fell turned out its men And carried every vale and glen. Cumwhitton marshalled on the plain, And Brampton fought with might and main, And Alston lads were stern and true, And steady backed the bonny Blue. And Corby's knight, and Lonsdale came, And marshalled up their dauntless men, And many more I cannot name, Fought in that fight now known to fame. But Naworth's Lady brave and true, Came forth a champion of the Blue; 'Twas then the Yellow ranks gave way, And owned a lady's powerful sway. The fight is o'er, the battle's won, Got tell it to each sire and son; The Royal Lion shakes his mane, East Cumbria is herself again. ~~~~T. J. DRYDEN.~~~~ Renwick, Feb. 12th, 1874.