The Windsor election on Wednesday resulted in a very satisfactory
majority for the Unionist candidate, Mr. Barry. He was returned by 1,522 votes against 972 given to Mr. W. H. Grenfell, the Home-ruler ; majority, 550. The poll (2,494 votes in all) was a very large one. At the last contest in 1885 (in 1886 Mr. Richardson-Gardner was unopposed), the total poll was less by nearly a hundred, 2,397. Mr. W. H. Grenfell was the most popular candidate whom Windsor could have produced for the Home-rulers, but he only succeeded in gaining just six more votes than the Liberal candidate in 1885, at the time when the Liberal Party was undivided. Mr. Barry, the Con- servative candidate, who had nothing like the interest of Mr. Richardson-Gardner, increased the poll of the Conservative (Mr. Richardson-Gardner) in 1885 by no less than 91 votes. Looking to the personal conditions of the contest, the victory was a brilliant one. At the same time, we are quite willing to admit that in such a town as Windsor, even a substantially diminished Conservative majority would have been a serious defeat. Home-rule does not fight under advantageous circum- stances within the shadow of Windsor's stately and historic walls.
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