IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIV, Issue 10705, 15 July 1895, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN. [Special to Press Association. I LONDON, July 13, The following members have been returned unopposed : —Yiscount Chelsea, Bury St Edmunds ; Mr Welby, Taunton; Sir E. Ashmead Bartlett, Ecelesall; Mr Penn, Lewisham ;Mr Greene, Shrewsbury; Mr Yearburgh, Chester; Mr E. Spencer, West Bromwich; Sir R, Hansen and Mr Gibbs, city of London ; Mr Myers, Winchester; Sir O. Hail, Finsbury; Mr Henniker-Heaton, Canterbury; Mr Tritton, Lambeth; Colonel Vincent, Sheffield; ail Conservatives. Mr Langley, Liberal, Sheffield ; Mr Dixon, Unionist, Edgbaston; Mr Stuart Wortley, Conservative, and Messrs Hallam and Mundella, Liberals, Brightside; Mr M’lver, Unionist, West Edinburgh; Mr M’Ewan, Liberal, Edinburgh; Sir A. Borthwick, Conservative, Kensington ; Mr W. F. Smith, Conservative, Strand; Mr W. Field, Parnellite, Dublin; Dr J, Kenny, Parnellite, College Green; Mr T. Harrington, Parnellite, Dublin; Mr Stone, Conservative, East Birmingham ; Mr Hunt, Conservative, Maidstone ; Mr F. Barry, Conservative, Windsor; Mr Lyttelton, Conservative, Warwick; Messrs Fardell and Wyndham, Conservatives, Dover ; Mr Brodie • Hoare, Conservative, Hampstead ; Mr Goscben, Conservative, St George’s. Lord Beresford has withdrawn from Central Birmingham, and Mr Parkes, a Unionist, is elected.^ Mr Fardell is elected for Paddington, July 13. Lord Hopetoun has been appointed Paymaster-General and a member of the Privy Council, and Earl Coventry Master of the Buckhounds.

Lord Rosebery explains that the baronetcies conferred on Messrs S. J. De Stein, M.P. for the Stowmarket Division of Suffolk, and Mr James Williamson, M.P. for the Lancaster Division of Lancashire, were in fulfilment of a promise made by Mr Gladstone:

The following members have been re-elected unopposed .—Right Hon Sir John R. Mowbray and Mr J. Gilbert Talbot, for Oxford University; Eight Hon Sir J. Lubbock, for London University; Mr Richard C. Jebb and Right Hon Sir J. E. Gorst, for Cambridge University; Mr Edward Carson, Q. 0., and Right Hon Dr Plunkett, Q.O-, for Dublin University ; Mr W. Ambrose, Q. 0., for Harrow; Lord Stanley, for West Houghton; 'Right Hon Sir Ugbtred Kay Shuttleworth, for Olitheroe; Right Hon Sir Matthew White Ridley, for Blackpool; Colonel Cotton Jodrell, for Lancashire; Mr Burdett Ooutts, for Westminster; Mr John W. Maclure, for Stratford; SirW. H. Walrond, for Tiverton; Major O. B. Warde, for Medway; Mr T. B. Bolitho, for St Ives; Mr W. F. Lawrence, for Abercromby; Mr James H. Stock, for Walton (Liverpool) ; Mr John A. Willox, for Everton (Liverpool) ; Mr James Begwood, for Brentford; Mr Philip A. Monk, for Tamworth; Mr Yicary Gibbs, for St Albans; Mr Thomas Usborn, for Chelmsford; Mr Ernest W. Beckett, for Whitby; Colonel W. H. Wilson Todd, for Howdenshire; Mr J. Lawson, for Thirsk and Malton; Sir Alexander F. A. Hood, for Wellington ; Mr H. O. Stephens, for Hornsey; Mr W. Wickham, for Peterafield; Eight Hon A. Akers Douglas, for St Augustine (Kent) ; Mr G. H. Finch, for Rutland; Mr W. B. Davenport,for Macelesford; Mr W. Brymer, for South Dorset; Sir Charles Palmer, for Jarrow; Lord George Hamilton, for Ealing; Sir Herbert Maxwell, forWigton; Mr Andrew G. Murray, for Buteshire; Lord Cawas (Conservative), for Chorley ;.and Mr Monkton (Conservative) for the North Division of Northampton. July 14.

.At the elections further results are .—Derby, Mr Primrose (Conservative) and Mr Drage (Conservative) were returned, defeating Sir W. V. Harcourt, late Chancellor of the Exchequer, by, 840 and 202 respectively. Por Perth, Mr Wallace (Liberal) was returned by a majority of 370. The Barrow election resulted in the return of Mr Charles W. Cayzer, the late member, by a majority of 800. Darlington returned Mr N. Pearse (Unionist), by a majority of 657, the seat having been held in the last Parliament by a Liberal. Por Chatham, Mr Davies (Conservative) was returned by a majority of 588. Por Manchester North-west, Sir W. Houldsworth (Conservative) was returned by a majority of 1400. For Machester East the Eight Hon A. J. Balfour defeated Professor Joseph E. C. Munro (Liberal) by 776, Por Manchester Mr S. W. M’Galloway (Conservative) was returned by a majority of 490. For Manchester North-east Sir James Hopeson was returned by a majority of 200. For Manchester South Lord Lome (Conservative) won by 780. For Manchester North Mr Charles Sehwoom (Liberal) was elected by 455. For Grantham Mr H. Y. Bullep Sopes (Conservative) was elected by 340. For Salford North Mr Higgins (Goneer vative) was elected by a majority q£ 6. For Line Mr Selby (Conservative) was elected by 200. For Salford South Sir H. H. Howorth was reelected by 74. For Salford West Mr Lees Knowles was re-elected by 100. For Stockport, Messrs G. Whiteley and Melville, Conservatives, were returned. For Christchurch Mr Abel H. Srhith ; for Exeter, Hon Sir S. Easter; for York City, Mr G. J. Butcher and Sir Frank Lockwood; for Leicester, Messrs H. Broadhurst and H. W. Hazell.

The totals are—Liberals 10, Conservatives 96, Parnellites 4. The Unionists have returned 76 members unopposed. Their gain at present is eight, while they have lost one seat.