London, 6th November.
The election of a Menaber of Parliament to replace the: late-Mr. Thomas Fielden has resulted-in the choice of Mr. Duckworth, a Liberal, who secured: 5,964 votes, against- Mr. Mitchell, -the Conservative candidate's 5,664 votes, 'Mr. Thomas Fielden, who represented Middleton, in the "south-east division of Lancashire, w-s a Conservative, and-at the last election was returned at the head of the poll 3,926 votes, the Liberal candidate, Mr.' Hopwood, Q.c., only securing 5,061 votes.' The polling shows' thatthe by-election must have been keenly contes the ided defeat for Ws that the French had.ocoupied Nakki, which is within the British sphere, he and the lain, peaking at, Glasgow,. said that The: Right Hon: Joseph Clianiber-
ith. South - A frioa_.are more satisfactory than they have been for many'a day, and that he believed really that a united Empire was. becoming a question of practical politics, RUSSIA AND SIAM, London, 8th November.
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