While I have been writing the results of the pollings in the first. of the contested county election have been coming in. They seem to indicate that the Unionists are not likely to do quite so well in the counties as in the boroughs. At present: there has been one party gain on each side. Sir John Pender has been ousted from Mid-
Northamptonshire, his place having been taken by the Hon. C. B. Spencer. Sir John Pender's loss will be much regretted by the Unionists; but they have compensation in the fact that Sir Wilfrid Lawson, one of the most extreme of the Little Englanders, has been turned out at Cock mouth. Sir Wilfrid too will be missed. His tumour is not always of the highest order, but humour is too rare among parliamentary orators ts be willingly spared. The Unionists have also scored a welcome victory in Londonderry City. This, added to the remarkable success attained by Lord Morris's son in Galway City—tho first Unionist seat won outside Dublin and Protestant Ulster ince the last Reform—seents to show that the Home is even in Treland other hand the Unies Irive lost tin Dubli Sth October.
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