LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I
rely on your fairness to publish this letter as a correc- tion to a statement made in one of your leading paragraphs in your issue of Saturday, the 3rd inst. You say :—" The municipal elections show a certain gain for the Conserva- tives," &c. By a carefully prepared analysis taken from the Times, and 'published in the Daily News of the 6th and 7th inst., you will find the Liberals gain 94 seats, the Conservatives 59, and the so-called " Unionists " 4, thus showing a net gain to the Liberals of 35, two of the " Unionist " seats (Exeter and Tynemouth) having been won at the expense of their friends the Conservatives.
Though I do not place much reliance on municipal elections as a guide to the result of a General Election for Parliament, I hardly think it either wise or fair that a decided Liberal success like this should be changed into "a certain gain for the Conservatives" by such a reliable and important paper as [We wrote, of course, before the accurate results were known, and our estimate was taken from the papers of yester- day week. The Liberals have undoubtedly gained something in the municipal elections, but the Daily News' estimate does not agree with that of the Times, and we do not know which is the more correct.—ED. Spectator.]
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