It seems more than doubtful if Mr. John Morley will
secure his re-election for Newcastle. Mr. Hamond, M.P., is said to have given it as his opinion that Mr. Ralli, the Liberal Unionist, will beat him by a majority of from 500 to 1,000. In that ease, it is believed that Mr. Stuart Read, M.P. for Montgomeryshire, will be raised to the peerage, and that Mr. Morley will be elected to the vacant seat. It is very satis- factory to find that no attempt is to be made to contest Mr. Gladstone's seat in Midlothian. We could wish that Mr. Morley had been treated with similar forbearance. It is good to reduce a small majority by even one, but it is better still to practise a little magnanimity where a principle is not involved. Mr. Morley ought to be in the House of Commons. It is there that we wish to defeat him, not at the poll. We should not wonder if a good many Irish votes would be turned against him at Newcastle by the refusal of the Government to give satisfactory assurances to the evicted tenants.
