The Warwick and Leamington Election is very creditable to the
loyalty of the Conservatives. They must have voted solid for Mr. Lyttelton, in spite of their disappointment at not being able to return Mr. Nelson, or they could hardly have given him so large a majority. Mr. Lyttelton (Liberal Unionist) received 2,816 votes against 2,236 given for the Gladstonian candidate, Alderman Duckworth ; majority, 580. Nothing could have demonstrated more completely that the alliance between the Conservatives and the Liberal Unionists is as close as, perhaps even closer than, ever. Since 1885, the Gladstonian poll has absolutely fallen off by 408 votes ; while the Conservative poll, through the help of the Liberal Unionists, has risen during the same ten years by 544. No doubt we have, in part, to thank the spiteful Conservative attack on Mr. Chamberlain for this brilliant result.
