The General Election.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1609, 15 January 1886, Page 2

The General Election.

[Per ' Frisco Mail.] j A despatch ot 25th November said :— At Home great interest centered on the contest at Birmingham between Mr Jolin .Bright' and 1 Lord Randolph Churchill. v Tbjß Duchess, of Maryborough an^ Ladjy Leonard Jerome, of New Yqrk, at the head of 300 ladies v made ahouse tohouie icafa^asfiii ;j»nd were ev^|7\rherft"politeiy repeiyed. ! The Bj^dicals oheore'd. '-them. L;idy B. Churchill also addressed tike %orkmen m the principal factories. Mr John Bright, m his speeches, referred humourously io/ the'l'J'Phinrose Campaign." The result was declared on the Mh;}firigk being eleoted,; But] with'a suialler majority-over Eord Rl '< ChurdhiU than the Radicals expected. Sir Charles Dilke ■\^aß|e ; le ( cte i d\fdrv,Glrel^ea, receiving 4,291 votes', and the Conservative candi-

date 4,116. -Sir-G. Dilke's Committfee | ■asserted tliat an organisation of, ladies went from house to ho'u'so making ihfauious and untruthful charges against their candidate",' based on the recent divorce case. ' In his • s^eecli Sir Charles thrnatened one of the party, (.whom he 'did not name, but .who i» : kno,^n to be Lady Cadqgan) with one, year' simpriaon-" ment for intiraidating, voters, , and also with a suit for slander. Lqrd Randolph •Churchill, r .wh6 was also' a candidate' for Paddingtori, gained;, that seat by a vote fof 2,881 against J,025f t or his opponent. The Tory ; candidate defeated Mr .jbliiL ders, m Pbntefraci. In Harnpstead, Sir H. Holland , Conservative', received'2,7Bs votes, defeating"tKe Marqms of Loriie, who received I^Blo, a "reshlt 'which is said' to give iuiniense satisfaction m almost all circles, as Lord Lome has had the misfortune to please nobody^ It is reporied Prince' of Wales and his set J were-e'spackHy' delighted. ' The Queen took a lively interest m the progress : of the' elections!. .'The defeat (of Mr Ghilder* 1 i has JspeciaHy ,; gratifieid .the . Liverpool Tories. .The. Liberals ascribe the work to Irish Home. Rulers' interference. An election riot occurred at Nottingham on the *26th. 'Several conflicts took place between the mob and police, and 47 perSons were in] ured. , Troops were called o«t to. 'suppress the dißturbance.. 'm Lpndon,, several Tory, candidates hired fire-engines, which fusHed madly 'through the streets, with bells clanging arid'whistles blowing} while "riieri clinging to the engines showered Tory leaflets on the crowd. Th 9 sweeping defeats of Liberals m London and Lancashire are entirely due (says : a, despatch of2§th November) to the Parnellite vote, to .the unequalled perfection of its organisation,' and to the frantic energy of the Irish leaders and the rank and file. Onithe 1 other hand,., the Liberals worked With Jassittide,; th^irY appearance hope-' lessly wealc m 'the ""secoiid 'part of the campaign. A limes despatch of 4th December mentions; among other casualties attending the election, that Mr Charsley (the. defeated Tory candidate against Baron Bothschild m the Aylesb^ury, 4iyisipn. of . Bucks) died at a local hotel from injuries received at "tb,e hands of the mob. 'Jthe residences of several Tories, and two chief hotels . at Radsto.ck, SomeVset; were "desfrrfvedl Scores! of paople, including police, were in^ro'd at where the pqjijser were stoned Fifty casualties are reporteid at Wiltqn, whei'e the Riificeasful Liberal candidate was beaten black an blue,' and only by the aid of sixty pqliceiAen b,a.ttling their way %q \i\e stiiticih; 4id h,p es-. cape heing thrown iqto the -river : Mr W. B. Trefus, who recently returned, from Egypt covered with .the .distinction, and who had just inherited,; an enormous fortune, from his aunt, was the Tory candidate it) the Devon. division., | He died while, the, votes *ye.re iheinsr coqntecl'. i The result showed he had. been tUdly. ( treated. : . . . ]