16 JANUARY 1892, Page 3

Mr. Whitley's death on Thursday, from bronchitis, vacates the seat

for the Everton Division of Liverpool, and deprives the Conservative Party in that great borough of its ablest and most popular leader. The seat, however, is safe enough. Mr. Whitley won it in 1886 by 4,535 votes against 2,063 given for the Gladstonian candidate, Mr. P. Davies,—leaving a majority of 2,472 votes. At a by-election likely to be followed so soon by a General Election, the seat will, we think, hardly be even contested.