6 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 30

THE BARNSLEY ELECTION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—May I point out that your inference that in Barnsley "there has been no accession of strength to the Home-rulers" is entirely false, whether the Independent Labour party candidate drew his vote "chiefly from the Unionists" or not P And this because that candidate made Home-rule a plank in his platform, and avowed himself a supporter of Home-rule upon the platform in his address, and in his confession of faith placarded all over the Barnsley division.— Northbrook House, Bishops Waltham, Hants., Nov. 2nd.