THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1880.
A cablegram gives the Tesult of the election for Liverpool, showing that Lord Claude Hamilton has beaten Mr Samuel Plimsoll. It will be remembered that Mr Plimsoll resigned his seat for Derby that Sir W. V. Harcourt, appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department in Mr Gladstone's Ministry, might hare a walk over. An English journal, speaking of Mr Plimsoll and his peculiarities, and his late action on the matter of the Derby seat says :—" We English are a stiff and conventional race, and we greatly shrink from doing anything which has never been done before. We like to shroud our domestic life in privacy, and we are fond of having our houses what some people in newspaper advertisements are fond of calling • all retire.' But Mr Plimsoll, with this object in view and still following put his idea, puts these notions utterly into the background. He talks to the electors as if he had known them for years, and they were conversing with him in his back parlour. He tells them the simple story of his coming to the determination to resign his seat; what he said to his wife, what she "Eliza"—said to him; and of how, after the consideration, they kneeled down together and asked for Divine guidancerising from their knees with a full consciousness of heavenly light, aad a full conviction as to their duty under the circumstances. Now, of course, there are many people who will be disposed to laugh at this simplicity, and there are others who will think it outrS, if not highly improper. But the people who will shrug their shoulders and call Mr Plimsoll " odd," are, generally speaking, not persons who ever tackle any useful work with any heartiness themselves; and we think the late member for Derby may easily bear thsir I mild and harmless criticism." The result may be taken as showing a change of opinion is already setting in, for Lord Bamsey—returned at the general election, and by whose elevation to the House of Lords, owing to the death of his father, the vacancy occurred—was a Liberal, and Lord Claude Hamilton, a son of the Duke of Abercorn, is a Conservative. It is to be regretted that Mr Plimsoll is not a member of the present House of Commons, for a more earnest, straightforward and conscientious man there is not to be found in England as a representative of his fellow countrymen Ju the Councils of the Nation.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3626, 10 August 1880, Page 2
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425THE Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. Resurrexi. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1880. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3626, 10 August 1880, Page 2
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