Progress of the English Elections

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 160, 10 July 1886, Page 7

Progress of the English Elections

Further reports of the results of the elections in England show that an undoubted Conservative reaction has taken place, and the chances of Mr Gladstone returning to power are , now very meagre indeed. Sir Charles Dilke's defeat at Chelsea, though to some extent due to the CHclandre with which his name was recently associated, isoneof thesignificantsymptoms of the anti-Liberal wave that has swept over the country. That Glasgow should have returned four Gladstonites against two Unionists and one Conservative affords evidence of the firm hold that the great Liberal leader has upon the Scottish people, and of the improbability 'of the latter being to any appreciable extent influenced by the Tory reaction. It is the English vote that will swamp the Home Rule proposals if they are rejected, and such a result is not to be wondered at when it isremembered thatnearly all thenewspapers are opposed to the scheme. Late papers, to hand by the Arawa, show that the agricultural classes in England were being preju diced against Home Kule by the assertion that the passing of the measure would have the effect of flooding England with Irish agriculturists seeking work at low wages. Then the commercial classes are all opposed to the disturbance of business which has been caused by the political excitement, and they are voting in the hope of a Tory Government proving more stable and therefore conducive ' to industrial and commercial activity. The result so far * proves— what no one could have imagined possible— that Mr Gladstone is far in advance of English popular sentiment in his attitude upon, the great question of justice to Ireland, and the gi eater question of principle involved in the proposition that each ■ division of the kingdom has a right to manage its own affairs.

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