In Scotland the number of seats gained have been two,
Ren- frewshire and Elgin and Nairn, besides the seat won from Mr. Bouverie (a Cave-Liberal) at Kilmarnock, while nine seats have been lost, leaving a net loss of seven. But the Scotch majority is still more than two to one, —thirty-nine to seventeen. In Ire- land the Liberal gains exceed the losses by two, and as far as the returns go,—now seventy-eight in all,—there are twenty-six Conservatives returned, sixteen Liberals who have resisted Home- rule, and thirty-six who in some sense or other, more or less vague, accept Home-rule, in other words, of the seventy-eight members returned, two-thirds are in some sense Liberals and one-third Conservatives. England and Wales remains the most Conservative of the three sections of the Kingdom, Wales indeed being, like Scotland and Ireland, essentially Liberal, but like Scotland, less Liberal than of old. In Wales we have won one borough and lost two, while we have lost three county seats as well.
