THE ELECTIONS AT HOME.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 7113, 10 July 1886, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS AT HOME.

— #■ — CONSERVATIVES RETURNED BY A LARGE MAJORITY. HOME RULE PARTY SUSTAINING DEFEAT. The gcueial election in Great Britain is now taiaug place, aud evidently is creating tbo most furious excitement, it grows more aud more iutorostiug each day as tho daily returns are telegraphed, aud the news reaches us of 0113 prominent mau after another now ou one side, aud now on the other, having sustained defeat. The contest was fairly entered upon at the end of last week, and tho latest returns up to yesterday show the following result : Conservatives... 230 I Gladstoneites... 131 Uuiouibts ... 50 I Pcirnellites ... 05 300 196 | Tho House of Commons consists of G7O members, aud as 490 are returned there remain only 174 to bo elected. At proseut tue Home Eule party are 10 i t in a minority, whilst tho Conservatives have a majority of four in tho Houso over all the others olected. The con. stitution of the lato House was — Liberals, 332 ; Conservatives, 217; Nationalists, 62 ; Independents, 5. There were four doublo returns au^

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one vacancy which made up the total of 670 seats. Tho folio wing are the latest telegrams from Lonelon respecting the elections : — London, July 9. — Liberals have been ousted by Conservative candidates at Camberwell, Woodbridge (Suffolk), Pembroke, and Southern ! Lanarkshire. The state of the parties according to the returns on Friday were 250 Conservatives, 50 Unionists, 131 Gladstoneites, and 65 Parneilites. Supporters of Mr. Gladstone have been returned for Dumfries and East Fifeshire. Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary for War, has been re-elected for Stirling ; j and John Pender has beeii defeated for Wiok District. The whole of the elections of the English boroughs are now completed. The list shows 144 Conservatives, 22 Unionists, 60 Gladstoneites returned, of which 49 Conservatives, 2 Unionists, 11 Gladstoneites have been eleoted for the Metropolitan constituencies. The Fall Mall Gazette says that Mr. Gladstone's defeat is beooming a rout. Mr. Goschen has been offered a seat in Cornwall, and another has been offered to Sir Thomas Brassey. Mr. Justin McCarthy was defeated for Londonderry, by three votes. He is not returned as has been stated in a previous cablegram. The error arose out of a telegraphic mistake. Mr. Gladstone is writing letters daily to the newspapers, which are querulous, arrogant, and almost inBulting in their tone.