THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 25, 29 July 1895, Page 2

THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

» WITHIN FOUR KETUBNS OF COMPLETION. [l-KESS ASbOOIATION.] London, 2Gth Jnly. The Bitting member, Br. D. Ambrose, Nat., bus been roturned for South Loath. The ParnellHos regain from the Nationalists thu Koßcommon North spat, where Mr. J. J. O'Kolly, who was defeated at the general election by 52 votes, has been returned. 27th July. The return of Mr. Nicholl for Argyll iB a Unionist gain, not a Liberal as at first mentioned. The following Bitting member % have been returned : -Mr. C. B. M'Laren, Lib., Bosworth Div. of Leicestershire; Sir John Pender, Un., Wick Burghs; Mr. Joseph Arch, Lib , Norfolk North- West j Mr. H. C. Luttrell, Lib , Tavistoek Div. of Devonshire j Sir John Austin, Lib., Osgoldcross Div. of Yorkshire ; Mr. J. B. Br.lfour, Lib., Clackmannan and Kinross ; Mr. T. G. Owen, Lib , Launooston Div. of Cornwall ; Mr. J. H. Lewis, Lib., Flint j Mr. J. Gibney, Nat., North Meath ; Mr. U. B. Haldane, Lib , Haddingtonabire ; Mr. A. Holdon, Lib., Buokroso Dir. ot Yorkshire; Mr. J. M'Gilligan, Nat., Fermanagh South; Mr. J. G. Weir, Lib , Koss and Croinarty. The following have been elected, eaoh replacing another on tho same side of politics : —Mr. Wooliffe, Con., Wells Div. of Somorset; Mr, Mnrnaghan, Nat , Mid-Tyrone ; Mr. Beaumont, Lib., Hexbam Div. of Northumberland ; Mr. Gold, Lib., Saffron Walden Div. of Essex. The Conservatives gain the following seats :— khipton Div. of Yorkshire, Mr. W. Morrison, whom a Liberal defeated by 92 at the last election ; Devizes Div. of Wiltshire (which returned a Liberal by 138 at the last elect on), Mr. Joulding ; South Eaßt Durham, General Sir Henry Havelook-Allan, who was defeated at the last eleotion by Mr. Richardson, Lib., by a majority of 164 ; and Inverness-shire, where Mr. Baillie his been returned, reversing a Liberal majority ot 329. Mr. Harry M'Calmont has defeated Sir G. Nownes, Liberal, for the Newmarket Div. of Cambridgeshire. Sir G.Newnes.whoiathe well • known journalist, was the sitting member, and was elected in 1892 by 1223 votes. An eleotion riot broke out in Dunstable, and the Riot Aot was read. The disturbance was only quelled on the arrival of police reinforcements from London. Mr. Kilbridgo, Nat., has beaten Colonel J. P. Nolan, the Bitting Parnellite member, for North Galway. The returns so far give : — Unionists '110 Liberals 175 Parnollitß3 12 Nationalists 69 Total 666 Four retnrns are yet to come in. THE TAXATION POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. THE POSITION OF PARTIES. A UNIONIST MAJORITY OF 152. | SPECIAL. | (.Received Jnly 29, S a.m.) London, 27th Jnly. Mr. Vf. H. Long, President of tho Board of Agriculture, slates that, while the Government is unable to remove the agricultural depression, it is intended tolightonthe burden of taxation by relieving real estate at the expense of personal property London, 28th Jnly. The net Conservative and Unionist gain in the eleotion is 90 seats, equal to 180 votes on a division. Deducting the Liberal majority of 28 in the last Parliament, the new Government has a majority of 152 on a division. Mr. Chamberlain's letter attributes the victory of the Conservatives entirely to the strong feeling against Home Rule and the preference for domestic and social reforms as compared with revolutionary legislation. Tlio Irish Catholic states that a highlyhonoured clerical dignitary writes, suggesting that a National Convention should arrange to withdraw the Irish members from the Imperial Parliament, where their presence would be little better than a mere mookery, owing to the Unionist majority.