14 MAY 1881, Page 3

Mr. Collins, the Conservative, has been returned for Knares- borough

by a majority of 41,—the numbers being 374 for Mr. Collins, and 333 for the Liberal candidate, Mr. Milnes Gaskell. At the general election, Sir Henry M. Thompson, the Liberal candidate unseated on petition, obtained a majority of 10 (357 against 341), so that nine more votes were polled on this occasion than on that, besides which some 16 votes must have changed sides, Knaresborough, however, has much oftener been Con- servative than Liberal. It is evidently a place which tarns Liberal only at spring-tides.