4 MARCH 1893, Page 2

The by-election at Horsham (Sussex) last Saturday, caused by the

death of the late popular Member, Sir Walter Barttelot, went, of course, for the Unionists. Mr. J. H. Johnstone (Conservative) was elected by a majority of 1,484. But the Gladstonian candidate, Mr. Reginald Wilberforce (the rather unwise biographer of Bishop Wilberforce), im- proved his position very considerably, as was only natural when so popular a Member as Sir Walter Barttelot had been his former opponent. He diminished the Conservative majority from 2,035 to 1,484.