Chamberlain is winning over she country to his view is a question on which there may be two opinions; but his own Birmi ham is with him. Elsewhere the majority of Liberal Unionist M.Ps. are Freetraders, but not a single Birmingham repre-entative has deserted his local leader. They were all present on his platform when he addressed a great and wildly enthusiastic meeting in Bingley Hai! on Weilnes: From the rhetorical point of view—whatever may be said of ite argue-nts—his speech was magnificent. It was crammed with smart gibes at his opponents snd telling pom's; and almost every sentence was punctuated with cheers.
Chorley.
The Inst of the by-elections consequent upon the new Ministerial appointment"
place yesterday in the Chorley of Lancashire, where Lord Lord of the spinner. fla has: taken price ther we 1885, when tee constituency had just been created by the Act of year; and the ca) mn that ces It is compari by a period of el not unreasonable to assume that, if Lawrence had stool in 100 the m: of Lord Baleares would have be aS great as of his brede 1885. Lin v whole much more onsetvative 1900 than earlier year apart from it in 1885 there were only twelve Con tives against leven Unionists. Looked at from this ive of the] feeling throughout Lancashire, a lass of half n dozen county sexts there. On the other hand " loss of 1,600 votes in a constituency, bad as it he, is not so bad as some of the losses incurred by the Government in the six months before Mr. Chamberlain broached his plan. The: afore if a Liberal majority should he returned at the next General Election, Mr. Chamberlain will be entitled to argue that the party would have fared no better and might have fared worse if liv hal never calved a new. or rather resived an ancient issue electioneering ery.
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