With the resalts of Thursday's contests the general election has entered upon a stage of intense excitement those who are able to project themselves into the harly-burly of these days in Oreat Britain. The number of members of the new Parliament already elected up to Tharsday amount" to 382, leaving 288 seats still to be contested. Of the 382 members 163 fare Unionists, 166 are Liberals or of lists. The remaining scote about 185 Eoglisb county onnstituencies, score of seats in Wales, between forty and fifty in Scotland and the remainder in Ireland. If the Welsh and Scottish seats, with the exception of the six or seven at present returning Unionist members, are reckoned Liberal and the Labour Party experience no farther losses, the two chief left in the following position sta 173, Goverment 22: seats uncontested. Thus, spart from the Irish vote, the Unionists have coly to maintain their present rate of progress among the English counties to Secure 128 seats out of the 175 and thus draw level with the Liberal oumbers, Sach a result will, anfortanately, make the Irish vote master of the titastion and will not conduce to the smooth running of parliamentary business,
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