12 DECEMBER 1885, page 1

News Of The Week.

T HE Elections are over, and the result is practically a tie between the Liberals on the one hand, and the Tories, plus the Parnellites, on the other. As the Parnellites only......

In Wales, We Anticipated That The Liberal Party Would Lose

one or two seats. It has lost only one. In the new Parliament, Wales will be represented by 27 Liberals and 3 Conservatives, instead of (as in the last Parliament) by 28......

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Sir Charles Dilke, Speaking At The Chelsea Club On Wednes-

day, made a somewhat remarkable deliverance. He denied that the Radical wing were desirous of turning out the Govern- ment. " This was a time at which politics were more......

Assuming Even That The " Independents " Will Prove, As

is very likely, steady Tories, and that the Conservatives carry the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews,— which Mr. Erichsen may very possibly win,—the result will give......

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The Greatest Loss Which The Liberal Party Have Had This

week has been the defeat of Sir Ferrer Herschell, in the North Lone- dale division of North Lancashire, by the Conservative, Mr. W. G. .Ainslie, who won the seat by 225 votes,......