Peking, December 12. apa, the army and nary as well as all teachers and pupils and the diplomatists accredited abroad to cut off the queue, than in January, So far thirty thou-fewer Unionists and 40,000 fewer have cast votes. The people evidently are quite unaffected by the of Mr. Lloyd George on the one side and Mr. Balfoar aod Lord Rosebery on the other, They regard their utterances as harmless electoral derices, eapecialy all the talk about the Dictator, tyrannical Peers, the adam, ete. Practically the parties have revealed the same strength as in Janoary last, Trae, there are some slight changes, bat these'are caused not Tu London, he Liberals have won a rear snccose, and have Yous more than muiataioed their own, The failarcs of some Liberals ara dae to private causes, seo slight that in Glozcester and West Bromwich the Unionists have munintsiaed their by smajprity of only four votes.—
The Union' caure is being helped by ® powerfal letter in "The Times" signed by Lord Cromer aad Mr. Dicey, two of the profoundest students of nen tons relating to the Coustitation, The great Tory papers are aho straining every nerve to help the Unionists, whose rior motors even, in ti abaoorally rainy weather, are help the On the other hand, the people are al id that a Unionist majority will make the Lords masters of England, They recognize that " reformed Upper House will be it italily of a Tory type. Deprived of the prerogative to create new peers, the Commons are checked by the Royal privilege to order a diseolation of Parliament, Mr. Balfon rabtlety makes the people distrust his pledge about " refereadam respecting Protection, It that his pledge is vague, his promi:
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