THE GENERAL ELECTION AT HOME.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 85, 8 October 1900, Page 5

THE GENERAL ELECTION AT HOME.

A SERIES OF GOVERNMENT .VICTORIES. SOME PROMINENT LIBERALS THROWN OUT. [PBEBS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, sth October. The feature of the elections of the last day or two has been, a beries of victories for the Government Party, together with Uie unseating of several conspicuous men on tllo Libeial side. The Hon. Philip J. Stanhope (L) has been defeated lor Burnley by Mr. VV. Mitchell (U), the votes received by the candidates being 6/76 and 6173. [Mr. Stanhope succeeded the notorious Jabez Balfour in the representation of Burnley in 1893. Thougn the fifth son of Earl Stanhope, he has been conspicuous for his hostility to the House of Lords, and lias been described as "a revolutionary aristocrat without being a Mirabeau," Latterly he has been conspicuous as one of Mr. Chamberlain's most violent assailants.] The Government has also gained the Hoxton (Shoreditch) seat, where Mr. Claude Hay (C) has defeated the sitting member. Professor James Stuart (L) by a majority of 271. [Professor Stuart has represented Hoxton since 1885, and had a majority of 1296 at the last^election. He was for a long time Professor of Mechanics at Cambridge, and was s one of the promoters of the University Extension Movement.] Mr. W. Allen, who* sat in last Parliament in the Liberal interest for New-castle-tinder Lynte, has been defeated by Sir - Alfred Haslani, Conservative. [Sir Alfred Hasiam is the principal proprietor of the Hasiam Engineering Company of Derby, and was the inventor of tiie Hasiam refrigerators that have been an important factor in the colonial frozen meat trade. Mr. Allta, whom he has displaced, is a son of Mr. W. Shepherd Allen, ex-M.P., well-known in the Auckland district of this colony, and was returned to Parliament in 1892, when only twenty-two years of age.] A Government supporter, Mr. Ridley, has defeated Mr. li. H. Pickersgill (L) for Bethnal Green South-West. [Mr. Picker&gill, another prominent Liberal, who has been described as "the sleuth-hound of- small abuses," has sat for Bethnal Green since 1885. He was a clerk in the Post Office Savings Bank before he -went into politics.] The returns from Hanlep show that Mr. Arthur Heath, a Conservative, has ousted the sitting member, Mr. \V. Woodall, Liberal. [Mr. Woodall is senior partner in the firm' of James Macintyre and Co., potters, of Burslem, and has been in Parliament since 1880. He was SurveyorGeneral of Ordnance in 1886, and held the office of Financial Secretary for War in the Gladstone Administration of 189295.] Two Government supporters, Mr. T. Chamberlayno (6888) and Sir J. S. B. Simeon (6kJ53) have been returned by the Southampton electors, the rejected Roseberyites being Sir F. H. Evans and Mr. Hyde. LMr. Tankerville Chamberlayne and Sir J. S. B. Simeon were returned at the 1895 election, but the former was unseated on petition, and Sir F. H. Evans(L) was returned at the by-election by only 35 votes. So here the Government takes another seat from the Liberals.] Major W. E. Evans-Gordon, a Conservative, .who was, defeated for Stepney at last election by Mr. W. C. Steadinan, a labour member, has now ousted that gentleman, the respective polling being 3783 and 1718. . * * For Sunderland two Conservatives have been returned at the head of the poll, namely— Mr. W. T. Doxford and Mr. J. S. S. Pemberton. [Mr. Doxford (C) was the sitting senior member, and had as colleague Sir E. T. Gourley, Liberal, who is now displaced in favour of the Conservative Mr. Pemberton. Until 1895 the electorate returned two Liberals in election after election.] It was at first announced that Sir Wilfrid Lawson had been re-elected for the Cockermouth Division of Cumberland. It turns out, however, that the veteran Liberal was rejected by 209 votes, Mr. Randies, a Conservative, being returned. [Sir Wilfrid was one of the humourists and fighting members of the Liberal party, and the recognised representative of the United Kingdom Alliance in Parliament. He inherited his strong temperance principles, as well as the baronetcy, from his father. Sir Wilfrid was one of the oldest members of the House, having sat for Carlisle from 1859 to 186^ (when he lost his seat through the opposition to a strong anti-HquOi Bill which he introduced), and again from 1868 to 1885. Carlisle then became a one-member constituency, and he stood for Cockermouth, but was - rejected by only ten votes., Next year, however, the electors of Cocker- , inotith sent him to Parliament with a majority of 1004, and since then he has sat continuously.] At Portsmouth the polling was as follows:—Mr. -Majendie (C), 10,818; Mr. Lucas (C) 10,383 ; Mr. " Bramsdon (L), 10,031 ; aTid Sir John Baker (L), 10,031. [Another Government vicLory. Portsmouth sent two Liberals, Sir John Baker and Mr. W. 0. Clough to the late Parliament, and the junior member had in 1895 a majority of 538 over the foremost Conservative candidate.] The Liberals of Maidstone turned the tables upon their opponents by displacing , the sitting member, Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis (C), in favour of Mr. John Barker (L). [Maidstone has been consistently Conservative hitherto, and at the last trial of strength, a by-election in 1898, Mr. Cornwallis defeated Mr. Barker by 178 votes.] At Widnes, Colonel W. Walker, a Conservanve, has been elected in place of Mr. J. S. Gilliat, another Conservative. At Bermondsey (Southwark) the contest was remarkably one-sided, the Conservative candidate, Mr. T. 'Oust, polling ■ 4017 votes against 377 secured by Mr? J. Benn, a Radical. [Mr. A. Lafone, a Conservative, represented this constituency in last Parliament, -being elected by a small majority. Bermondsey has long been an evenly di.vided electorate, veering alternately from Conservative to Liberal in its members.] The Right Hon. Walter H. Lour, President of the Board of Agriculture, contested the Bristol South seat with Mr. H. Davies, a Liberal. Mr. 'Long polled 5557 votes, and his opponent 4459. , [Bristol South was represented in the last Parliament by Sir Edward Hill, and has long been a safo Conservative seat. Its new member has sat in the last two Houses for the West Derby Division of Liverpool.] Central Hackney, represented in last Parliament by Sin A. Scoble (Conservative) has returned another Government follower in the person of Mr. Allhusen. At Leeds East Mr. Caulty, a Conservative, has been returned, the. Liberal sitting member, Mr. T. R. Leuty, being rejected. Cork City has returned Mr. William O'Brien (A-P). [Cork is entitled to two representatives and we are not told 1 who Mr. O'Brien's colleague is. The late members were Messrs. J. F. X. O'Brien and Maurice

Healy, both Nationalists or Anti-Parnel-lites. Mr. Wm. O'Brien, who for 1 many years was one of the foremost Irish members and journalists, and 'who spent more than two years in prison for various political offences, has not been in 'Parliament sinco 1895, when he retired on account of the dissensions in the Irish Party.]