24 JULY 1886, Page 1

Mr. Parnell has lost one seat in this Election, instead

of gaining two or three, as he had expected. He did gain the seat in West Belfast for Mr. Sexton ; but he has lost two seats, one in South Londonderry, where Mr. Healy was defeated by Mr. Lea ; and one in South Tyrone, where the Editor of United Ireland, Mr. O'Brien, was defeated by Mr. T. W. Russell, a Liberal Unionist, by a majority of 99 votes, 3,481 having been given for Mr. Russell, to 3,382 for Mr. O'Brien. Mr. Parnell, therefore, has now only 84 followers in Ireland, and 1 in England (Mr. T. P. O'Connor, who represents, as before, the Scotland Division of Liverpool). The Liberal Unionists in Ulster believe that at the next Election they will bare a very fair chance' not only of regaining the seat lost in West Belfast, but of winning a seat in Fermanagh too. It is said that the Member for South Kerry has already been ordered to resign in Mr. O'Brien's favour. Mr. Parnell has reduced political discipline to a scientific despotism which makes his Members resemble rather Maine- lukes than political representatives.