the campaign of the recess is getting alittle more lively. We have had a series of political speeches from Liberal and Conservative leaders this wack, and we have had. by-election in the Barnsley Division of Yorkshire, where Mr. Walton, the Liberal candidate, has polled very neatly twice as many' votes us his Conservative opponent. It has, of course, always been "Radical constituency. At the just General Election Earl Compton, now the Marquis of Northampton, had a majority of more than 2,000 and the only hope the Conservatives in this by-election lay in the fact that it was a three-cornered fight. But in spite of the fact that Pete Curran, the Independent Labour" candidate, polled just over a thousand yotes, the Conservative candidate could not get within three thousand of the successful! Radical. It certainly looks as if there were something of a Liberal reaction in the constituencies, though what has cause it beyond the apparently inevit~ able swing of the pendulum it would be difficult to say: There are, however,"two mote by-elections pending—both for Conservative seatgjand when these have been fought it will be easy to judge the state of mind of the constituencies.
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