UNOPPOSED MEMBERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 13, 17 January 1910, Page 7

UNOPPOSED MEMBERS

The following members have been reelected unopposed : — BIRMINGHAM— WEST. Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain (U.). Previous Election. • Rt. Hon. J. Chamberlain (U.) 7173 Mr. R. L. Outhwaite (L.) ... 2094 Unionist majority, 5079. DURHAM— MID. Mr. L- Wilson (Lab.). At the last election Mr. J. Wilson (Lab.), was returned unopposed. DUBLIN— ST. PATRICK'S. Mr. W. Field (N.) Mr. W. Field (N.), was elected unopposed in DUBLIN CITY— HARBOUR. Mr. T. C. Harrington (N.). Previous Election. Mr. T. C. Harrington (N.) 3638 Mr. J. L. Mahon (U.) ... 872 Nationalist majority, 2766." DUBLIN COUNTY— NORTH. Mr. J. J. Clancy (N.). Mr. Clancy (N.), was in 1906 returned unopposed. BELFAST— EAST. Mr. Gustav W. Wolff (N.). Same in 1906. OXFORD UNIVERSITY (2). Sir Wm. R. Anson (U.). Lord Hugh Cecil (U.)_ Previous Election. Rt. Hon. J. G. T»lbot (U.), oiMpt posed ; and Sir W. B. Anson (U.), u5» opposed. DUBLIN— UNIVERSITY (2). Rt. Hon. E. Carson (tJ.). Rt. Hon. J. H. M. Campbell (U.). Previous Election, Rt Hon. Sir E. Carson, K.C. (U\. an d Rt Hon. J. H. M. Campbell. \ft 1 (U.), unogsosed. r .-»■*«,

CUMBERLAND— MID. (PENRITH). Kt. Hon. J. W. Lowther,, Speaker (U.). Same in 11906.1 1906. KILKENNY,, Mr. P. O'Brien. Same in 1906. GALWAY CITY. Mr. Stephen Gwynn. Last By-election. " Mr. S. Gwynn (N.) ... '. . 983 Captain F. Shawe-Taylor (Devolutionist) 559 Nationalist majority, 424. ISLINGTON— NORTH. Mr. D. S. Waterlow* (L.) ... 5543 Mr. Touche (U.) 5512 Liberal majority 31 Previdus Election. Mr. D. S. Waterlow <L.) ... 5284 Sir G. C. T. Bartley (U.) ... 4418 - Liberal majority, 866. DURHAM CITY. Mr. J. W, Hills (U.). Previous Election. Mr. J. W. Hills (Tariff Reform Unionist) 1313 Hon. A. R. Elliot (Free-trade Unionist) 880 BURY. ST. EDMONDS. The Hon. Walter Guinness (U.). By-election in 1907. Hon. W. Guinness (U.) ... 1631 Mr. W. B. Yates (L) 741 Unionist majority, 890. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. Mr. S. H. Butcher (U.). Mr. J. E. P. Rawlinson (U.). Previous Election. Mr. SH. Butcher (U.) ... 3050 Mr. J. F. P. Rawlinson, K.C. -'(U.) , > 2976 Rt. Hon. Sir J. E. Gorst (U.) 1635 ' r JOINT MANIFESTO. DV MESSRS. BALFOUR AND CHAMBERLAIN. EFFECT OF TARIFF REFORM. 1 ' LONDON, 15th January. . Messrs Joseph Chamberlain and A. • J. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, in a. joint manifesto addressed to the electors who are called upon to " vote in to-day's elections, state : ""Tariff Reform will not increase the cost of living to the working classes, nor the proportion of taxes paid by them ; but it will enable us to redtice the present taxes on articles of working class consumption. - "It will mean lesser unemployment,, and the development of trade with the British Dominions beyond the Seas." INVESTMENTS IN PUBLIC WORKS. A SERIOUS FALLING-OFF. (OWING TO LIBERAL GOVERNMENT'S POLICY. LONDON, 15th January. Mr. Alfred Lyttelton, speaking at Cambridge, said that in 1906 there were 208 private Bills passed, authorising the construction of works involving an expenditure of between £60,000,000 and •£70,000,000. East year 112 similar Bills .were passed, the amount involved being '£12,000,000. The decrease was attributable* to confidence iin Britain being shaken in consequence of the Liberal policy. There was no more striking evidence than this of the loss the working classes had suffered. Lord Lansdowne, in' reply to a correspondent, emphasises the statement that old-age pensioners are quite safe, and adds : "Even the Liberal Government has never contended that it should be beyond the power of any future Government to modify the conditions on ■which pensions are granted." REFORM OF THE LORDS. LIBERALS' INTENTIONS UNDISCLOSED. DEMONSTRATION AGAINST FREETRADE. LONDON, 16th January. Newspaper and other comments refer to the absence of a detailed explanation of the method the Government proposes to adopt for the abolition of the Lords' veto, beyond the statement by some speakers that the Lords must pass the Commons' measures within the lifetime of airy Parliament. It is argued that no indication has been given as to how it is suggested this shall be accomplished by legislative action. Two thousand unemployed were engaged as sandwich map in a Manchester Conservative demonstration, against Freetrade yesterday. They formed a , procession two miles in length. PARTY DIFFERENCES COMPOUNDED. LONDON, 16th January. Reconciliations between divisions of the party avoided splits in the Conservative camps at Canterbury, Lincoln, Bossendale, and East Marylebonc. INTEREST FELT ABROAD. LORDS VETO A MINOR ISSUE. HERE HARDEN ON BALFOUR'S PROGRAMME. LONDON, 16th January. Cablegrams received in London, chow that there is intense interest in South Africa and Canada, and especially in Germany, in the election results. There is more concern outside England respecting the Navy, - Tariff Reform, and Socialistic Liberalism than in the question of the Lords. I At Beriin Herr Maximilian Harden, the well-known writer in "Die Zukunf t," tells Germans that Mr. Balfour is no i agitator. He simply warns his countrymen not to depend on the goodwill or the bad temper of any other Power, and that they must pay higher rates of insurance for their safety." Herr Harden adds : "Every Chancellerie holds an Anglo-German war as probable. There are people in Germany who declare that a Customs tariff closing the British Empire to German goods have to be pierced by the German Bword." (Received January 17, 8.45 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 16th January. The South African papers were published on Sunday owing to the intense interest felt in the British elections.