Brighton gave a very decisive victory to the Unionist candi-
date, Mr. Loder, yesterday week. He was elected by a majority of 2,507 over Sir Robert Peel (7,132 against 4,625) ; and though the Unionists did not obtain so great a victory as in 1886, they considerably surpassed the Conservative vote of 1885. Nor can the election of 1886 be properly compared with the election of last week, for the contest in 1886 was hardly serious. It is the more satisfactory that Sir Robert Peel was not returned, as he used language against the ladies who canvassed for Mr. Loder which it is diffi- cult to understand a gentleman using at all. He called them "filthy witches." The Speaker (Mr. Peel), in a few remarks at Warwick on Tuesday night, deprecated the habit of pelting Parliamentary candidates with vituperative epithets, and referred, perhaps, to the ladies who had opposed his brother, - when he described "an Amazonian school of ladies who fought with the most determined vigour, but who sometimes lost the grace and dignity of women without gaining the rigour and
strength and dexterity of men." Doubtless the ladies of
Brighton did attack Sir Robert Peel with unjustifiable acrimony ; but it was not manly in him to retaliate with epithets so ill-savoured. Even at Billingsgate the men usually leave the women in possession of the field ; but Sir Robert Peel does not emulate the self-restraint even of Billingsgate fishmen.
