NO LIBERAL GAIN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1000, 15 December 1910, Page 5

NO LIBERAL GAIN.

9 — MAJORITY UNCHANGED. YESTERDAY'S SEATS DIVIDED EQUALLY.. POSITION IN IRELAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. December 14, 11 p.m.) London, December 14. Despite the fact that twenty-two moro seats have been filled since yesterday the. Government majority is unchanged, and still stands at 60. Five hundred and forty members . hava now been elected to tho new Parliament, and only 130 contests re■main to be decided, The position of parties now stands at follows, the number of members required for each part of the United Kingdom being shown in parentheses:

The number of members elected and yet to be elected in the various parts of the Kingdom is as follows; Elected. Not elected. England 388 77 Wales 27 3 Scotland 42 30 Ireland 83 20 • 540 130 GAINS AND LOSSES. INTERESTING DETAILS. , London, December 13. The following. additional tesults of the general c-lection are ■ announced CAMBRIDGESHIRE, E.—NEWMARKET. Sir C. D. Rose (L.) 4780 *Mr. G. H. Verrall (U.) ..; 4387

Liberal majority ■ 399 [January result: Unionist majority, 120. Seat Liberal in 1892, Unionist in 1895 and 1900, Liberal in 1903 (by-elec-tion) and 1906.] TYRONE-MID. ■ Mr. Macghe'e (Nat., Redmondite)... 3102 *Mr. G. Brunskill (U.) 2379 Nationalist majority ' 723 [January result: Unionist majority. 405. Seat Nationalist in 1895, 1900,• and 1906.1 - 'in. DEVONSHIRE-TORQUAY., Mr. Burn (U.) " :....'........ t 5101' e Sir F. Layland-Barratt (L.) 4971 Unionist majority 130 [January result: Liberal majority, 111. Seat Unionist in 1592 and 1895, Liberal'in 1900 and 1906.1 CORNWALL, 1 " S.E.—BODMIN. I.ieut.-Gen. Sir R. Pole-Carew (U.) 5121 Mr. Foot (L.) : 4350 Unionist' majority ■ i..„; 141 . [January result: Liberal majority, 50. Seat Unionist 1892 to 1900, and Liberal 1906.] KEEPING THE FLIES OFF THE MEAT. MR. ..CHURCHILL ON THE REFER. ;::.ENDUM;._ (Rec. 14, 10.20 p.m.) 1 London, December 14. Mr. Winston Churchill, Homo Secretary, speakiug in the Isle of Wight, said tho referendum which tho Tories claimed would keep the flies off the meat, and teach the canaries to sing "Rulei Britannia" was only a fortnight old, and its proposers. had not given their policy the attention which a parish council would give to the laying of a drain.

ELECTIONS INCONCLUSIVE. DICTATION BY MINORITIES. (ltcc. December 11, 10.20 p.m.) London, December 11. , Lord Lansdowne, leader of tho Opposition in the Houso of Lords, in a speech at Plymouth, declared that the verdict of the elections was inconclusive, The great political parties were again nearly evenly balanced, and the key of tho position was \ held. by two factions ablo to dictate their terms to a Ministry, HOME RULE AND HISTORY. COMMENTS BY "THE TIMES." (Rec. December 14, 10.20 p.m.) London, December 14. "The Times" says tho assurance by Lord Aberdeen, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, as to tho baselessness of tho alarm about Home llule, does not count for much with anyono knowing history. It will count for nothing in Ulster. .THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE. BISHOP ON NONCONFORMIST x • ATTITUDE. (Rec. December 14, 10.20 p.m.) London, December 14. The Bishop of Durham ,in a letter to "Tho Times," calls attention to the silent surrender by the Nonconformists of Great Britain of the Irish Protestants -to the tender mercies of a - Parnellite and Roman Catholic majority. RIOTING AT WEXFORD. CHARGE BY THE POLICE. (Rec. December 14, 10.20 p.m.) London, December 14. Election riots -took place at Wexford, and a mob attacked tho police, who charged several times. A number of persons were injured. A FLOOR COLLAPSES. MEETING FALLS INTO A STABLE. (liec. December 14, 10.2Q p.m.) London, December 11. A Nationalist meeting at Dundrum, at which Professor Kettle and Mr. W. Field, M.P. for Dublin, wero tho principal speakers, was being held in tho upper part of a disused mill, when tho floor collapsed and precipitated thirty persons on to the horses in a stable below. Six persons were seriously injured. SIR W, LAURIER'S ATTITUDE. REPLY TFTFINQUIRY. (Rec. December 14, 10.20 p.m.) London, December It. Mr. Lan Mnlcolm, nt one time private secretary to the Chief Secretary for Iro-

land, stated that, he cabled to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, . asking him whether ho thought ho was subscribing to a separation scheme or to federation on Canadian lines.. Sir Wilfrid Laurier replied that in the heat of tho campaign ho did not liko to say anything seeming like interferouce. He added, "I notice my namo has been used in that way, ami I must protest. 1 strongly desiro to have it kept out of the contest." Sir Wilfrid Laurier, sneaking at an I"sli Homo Rule meeting addressed by -L •. P. O'Connor at Ottawa in October, said tho. treatment of Ireland was the only blot on England's record. Ho could not understand tho granting of autonomy to Canada and South Africa and not to Ireland.

Government. Unionist. England (465) 174 214 Wales (30) ; 25 2 Scotland (72) 34 8 Ireland (103) 67 16 300 240 The Government supporters in Ireland are made up as follow:— Redmondites GO O'Brienites 7 67