The English Elections

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1892, Page 2

The English Elections

♦_ (PER PKESS ASSOCIATION.) London, .fuly 7. Mr Gladstone has issued a circular that the Liberals are losing seats to the Tories owing to the intrusion of bogus Labour candidates. The Bight Hon. John Morley, who was elected as junior member for Newcastle-on-Tyne, having declared from the hnstings that unless he was returned by a 2000 majority he would resign, is now asked by the opponents to fulfil his pledge. The polling for the seat was— Hammond, 13.823 ; Morley, 10,905 : Craig, 10,686. Mr J. W. Bonn, a Home Euler, defeated the Eight Hon. C. T. Hichie, President ot the Local Goyernment Board and member of the Cabinet, at St George's in the East (Town Hamlets), by a majority of 398. In the elections the total LiSeral gams are 50 ; the Government gain 20. The returns at present are,— Tories. 191 ; Unionists, 24 ; Gladstoninns, 193 ; Nationalists, 24 ; PornelHtes, 4. Mr Hammond, who headed the poll at Newcastle, is said to have owed his election to pothouse influence, as he is interested in no less than 700 public houses scattered over England, The Daily Chronicle says that popular sympathy will be with the Right Hon. John Morley. who has six times previously defeated Mr Hammond. The re« suit was quite unexpected. Mr Justin MrCarthj was beaten by 26 yotes. July 11. ' Mr Stanley, has been elected for the West Houghton Division of Lancashire. A resoluton, disapproving of Sir C. Dilke as a candidate on moral grounds, was carried by the electors of the Forest of Dean. Lady Dilke, who was present at the meeting, wept bitterly when the chairman announced that the resolution was carried. At Limerick houses of Liberal Unionists were wrecked by a rioting mob.. The Hon. J. Chamberlain, in a speech on Saltirday, said it was a sad thing to see Mr Gladstone degenerate into a mob orator. The Standard believes the Liberals will secure a majority oE from 20 to 30. The poll for Midlothian (Mr Gladstone's constituency) will take place on Tuesday.