The Government are out of their difficulties in regard to the one vacancy arising out of the recent reconstruction of the Cabinet. Lord Edmund Talbot, the new Junior Lord of the Treasury, has escaped the fate of Mr. Gerald Loder. Ho has boon ro.clected for the Chichester Division, though his majority has fallen from nearly two thousand in 1802—the last contested clection—to a little over four hundred. On the other hand the Liberals point out that they wore given the shortest possible notice, and declare that with a little longer time to fight they would have won. It is hardly conceivable, however, that in the con~ stituency which includes Arundel and in which a Liberat has hitherto never stood the ghost of a show, the Duke of Norfolk's brother should be rejected. However at Whitby the Liberals can claim a victory without any its and buts. Whitby has hitherto always returned a Unionist by a thumping majority or without a contest; now a Liberal has been returned by a substantial majority for the seat vacated by Mr. Beckett his succession to the peerage. A vacancy has now boon caused for a London seat by the sudden death of Mr. H. ©. Richards, KO, the Finsbury, and s this is one of the nial and popular member for East fare confident of victory and ives are almost resigned to Mr. Speaker, Mr. Gully has formally tendered resignation of the Speakership amid universal tokens of esteem and regret from both sides of the House. It is trae that Mr. John Redmond, the Nationalist loader, thought it necessary to refer in tones of condemnation to the historic occasion when Mr. Gully called in the police to clear the Irish rowdies; but he admitted the absolute impartiality and the ready judgment with which the retiring Speaker had fulfilled his duti Mr. Gully was, according to precedent, not only thanked for his services, but recommended to the Sovereign for some signal mark of favour, the cost of which Parliament would bear. This meat Viscounty and pension of £4,000 a yo Then, on the following night, Mr. J. W. Lowther was with equal unanimity appointed to succeed him. Und old regime the Chairman of Committ was seldom if ever appointed Spoaker but Mr. Lowther has been not only Chairman of Committees but Deputy Spoaker, and in this office he has proved his possession of all the qualities of a good Speaker. Ho is, by a sories of coincidences, the first Speaker elected from the Conservative side for seventy years.
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