South Edinburgh, where a Paliamentary vacancy was caused by the death of Mr. Robert Cox, a Unionist, has returned a Home-Role Liberal in his place by a majority nearly twice as great as that by which a Liberal was returned in 1892. The Government can, of course, afford to lose a good many seats without seriously reducing their enormous majority in the Commons, but a defeat like this does not, of course, add to their prestige. The result does not mn turn to the condition of things a few years ago when Scotland was overwhelmingly Liberal, but it marks a decided reaction in the growth of Conser-m in North Britain, Both sides had strong candidates, the Conservat General Wauchope, ga advantage from his ished military career, and Mr. Dewar, a member of the family to which we owe Dewar's Whi having a high local reputation,
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