The Clubs arc full of prognostics of the result of
the elec- tion, none of which are worth much, except as regards uncon- tested seats. Southwark is evidence on the Tory side, and Elgin on the Liberal side, that under the ballot, calculators are at fault, and pledges very frequently broken. It is said that as accounts come in, the Tory managers grow less confident ; but they do not know any more than the rest of the world. What is certain is. that the party majority of the Government is less than sixty, and that thirty seats therefore must be won, to bring Tory Democracy to an end. With twelve seats won in Ireland, and nine in Scotland, that much should not be difficult, as twenty-three seats were lost in England by mere mismanage- ment. We hope much better things than that, but even a Conservative Government or a coalition would be far better than a Government of Lord Beaconsfield.
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