BRITISH POLITICS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 927, 6 December 1910, Page 4

BRITISH POLITICS.

London, Dec. 4. The general elections in England have commenced.

Dense eager crowds in many centres ot London awaited the results in drizzling rain till long after midnight. The following shows the number of candidates elected in each Party ; —Government supporters: England 47, Scotland 4, Wales 5, Ireland (Redmondites) 5. Unionists : England 58, Ireland 4. West Ham North —C. F. G. Masterman (L) 6657, Wild (U) 5760. No change. West Newington.—Captain C. W. Norton (L) 4038, Mr Brookes (U) 2498. No change. North Camberwell. —Dr. G. T. MacNamara (L) 5038, Mr Goldsmith (U) 4056. No change. Reading.—Mr R. D. Isaacs, K. (L) 5094, Mr Wilson (U) 4995. No change. Mancnester North West. —Mr L. Kemp (L) 5.159, Mr Law 5114. No change. Bristol North. —Mr A. Birrell, K.C., 6410, Sir Philip Magnus 5201. No change. Bristol East. —Right Hon. C. Hobhouse (L) 7229, Mr Hannan (U 1 4263. No change. King’s Lynn.—Mr Ingleby (U) 1765, Mr Borles (Independent Freetrader! 1665. Unionist gain. Great Grimsby.—Sir F. Dougherty (U) 7903. Mr Wing (L) 7205. Unionist gain. Salford South. —Mr Barlow (U) 3666, Mr Kussell (L) 3439Unionist gain. Warrington.—Mr Harold Smith (U) 5162, Mr A. H, Crostield 4916. Unionist gain. Wigan.—Mr Neville (U) 4673, Mr Twist (L) 4110. Unionist gain. Ashtou-under-Lyue. —Mr Aitkeu (U) 4044, Mr A. H. Scott (L) 3842. Unionist gain. Darlington. —Mr H. Pike Pease (U) 4881, Mr Maddista (L) 4775No change. Peckham. —Mr Richardson (L) 5027, Mr H. C. Goch (U) 4986. Liberal gain. Rochester.—Mr E. H. Lamb (L) 2609, Mr Ridlet (U) 2560. Liberal gain, Manchester South West. —Mr Needham (L) 3590, Mr Calitax (U) 3331. Liberal gain. Exeter. —Mr Saintmaur (L) 5786, Mr Duke (U) 4782. Liberal gain. Loudon, Saturday.

The following candidates have been re-elected without opposition ;

Right Hon, J. Chamberlain (U), Birmingham West. Sir D. Brymnor Jones (L,), Swansea.

Mr Rvelyn Cecil (U), Ashton Manor.

Right Hon. A. J. Balfour (U). City of London. Sir F. G. Banbury (U), City of London.

Right Hon. T. Burt (L), Morpeth. Right Hon. J. Collins (Uj, Bordesley, Birmingham.

Right Hon. G. Wyndham (U), Dover. Sir A, F. Acland-Hood (U), Somerset, Wellington. L,ord Hugh Cecil (U), Oxford University. Mr Henry Chaplin (U), Wimbledon. Mr C. Fenwick (Lab.) Wansbeck, Northumberland. Sir Wm. Anson (U), Oxford University. Sir Edward Carson (U), Dublin University. Mr J. H. M. Campbell (U), Dublin University. Right Hon. A, Akers-Douglas (U), Kent, St. Augustine. Mr Joseph Watton (L), Yorks, Barnley D. Mr John Redmond (N), Waterford, City. Mr Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, addressed a huge meeting of 10,000 people at Great Grimsby, on behalf of Sir George Dougherty, the Unionist candidate.

He said that men of moderate opinions were coming over to the Conservatives. If the Liberals’ proposals were carried the time when the House of Commons was a place of free debate would be gone for ever. The Government meant to give one Chamber power to rule, that Chamber working under a gag. The actions of the House of Commons under the group system may not in the least represent the peoble’s settled will. Mr Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, who had spoken at Cheshire earlier, took a special train to Great Grimsby, and spoke there till midnight. Relays of motors carried fragments of Mr Balfour’s speech to the meeting to enable Mr Churchill to reply thereto. Pie said the Lords’ reforms supported the creation of a new Heaven, a new earth, and very likely a new something else also, which would be thoroughly democratic, thoroughly impartial and thoroughly Tory. Nbw York, Dec. 4.

The American United Irish League sends £2OOO in aid of the Nationalists’ fight in Great Britain. Subscriptions are arriving from everywhere in the United States.

Mr Austin Chamberlain, speaking at Darlington, declared that if a Unionist Government came into power it would frame its tariff reform proposals. If the electors disliked it and said “no” it would be the signal of his retirement from the Government.