Lord Edmund Talbot has managed to hold his seat for
the Government at. Chichester ; but the majority was reduced from 1,875 in 1892 to 412 on the present occasion. The Liberal poll shows an increase of 1,401, while the. Tories polled 62 less than formerly. When the great territorial influence possessed by the sitting Member is taken into account, as well as the fact that the Liberal candidate had only a bare week to organise his campaign, the result is not less striking than that achieved at Whitby. If the Protectionists could not win Chichester, they would have had to acknowledge, not defeat, but actual extinction. And this is not the only Free- trade triumph of the week. The Board of Trade Returns, issued on Wednesday, show an increase in British exports for the month of May over May, 1904, of 22,920,601; and for the five months ending with May of £9,673,927 over the corre- sponding period in 1904.
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