A few new candidates still come forward every day; but there are very few days left now before the nominations gre over, and we can tell pretty well what the proportion of uncontested seats will be. In treland, outside Dublin City, the Universities and Protestant Ulster, the Nationalists are of course still all-powerful, and many will be returned unopposed 5 but the Unionists are contesting every seat in Scotland, and only eleven seats in England and eleven in Wales will be given up to the Liberals without a contest. On the other hand close upon a hundred and seventy Unionists, including those in Ire land, will be allowed a walk-over. With all this, however, the Liberals are much mere hopeful now than they werd ten days ago, when Mr. Herbert Gladstone warned them that there was no chance of such a turn-over of seats as would enable a Liberal Government to take office. Only the most sanguine among them, however, hope for anything more than a reduction of the Government majority; and for the rest their hopes of even this modified success are anything but bright.
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