Mr. J. Parker Smith was elected for the Partick Division
of Lanarkshire on Tuesday by a majority of 219 over Sir Charles Tennant, the Gladstonian candidate. This is a very satisfactory majority considering the circumstances of the case, for at the last election Mr. Craig-Sellar was a far stronger candidate than any new man could be on, the Liberal Unionist side, while Mr. A. MacLean, his Home-rule opponent, had nothing like the same popularity as Sir Charles Tennant. In 1886 Mr. Craig-Sellar polled only 3,745 votes, while Mr. J. Parker Smith polled on Tuesday no fewer than 4,148; so the Unionist vote was 403 higher than in 1886, and numbered 763 more votes than the Conservative candidate (Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox) polled in 1885. On the other hand; Sir Charles Tennant pulled up the Gladstonian vote to 3,929; very nearly a thousand more votes than Mr. A. MacLean, the Home-ruler, polled in 1886, and 203 more than Mr. Craig-Sellar, who in 1885 represented the undivided Liberal Party, had polled in that year ; so that the poll was a very heavy one, indeed within less than 900 of the total number of registered electors. Mr. Parker Smith, who is a great mathematician, and a hereditary mathematician, as well as a sound constitutional. politician, has shown great popular capacity in this contest, and we have much reason to hope that, with such varied powers, he may prove himself a power in. Parliament, and increase the already high moral and intellectual prestige of the Liberal Unionist Party,
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