We shall soon have some means of judging of the effect upon the nation of the recent deluge of speeches on the controversy, for during the past weel death has carried off no fewer than four old and highly respected members of Parliaraent—Sir John Blundell Maple, who has sat Conservative member for Dulwich since 1887; Mr. John Penn who, also a Conservative, has represented the neighbouring metropolitan constituency of Lewisham since 1891; Inv. Jasper More, who first, entered Parliament as a Liberal in 1865 and has represented the Ludlow division of Shropshire since 1886, first ax a Liberal and then as a Liberal Unionist; and Mr. Scale-Haine. who though an agriculturist is treasurer of the Cobden Club and who has sat for the Ashburton Division of Dovonshire since 1885. In ordinary circumstances there would be no chance of the gain or loss of a seat in any of these constituencies. for all were returned again and again by thumping majorities, OF course even now the result will probably be as you were but even then the rise or fal! of the maj ities tells its tale, Certainly in every case the fight will be entirely on the fiscal question.
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