ST. GEORGE'S ELECTION.
(TO TEE Maros or rum “Brscravol:1
8i,—Albeit a Home-ruler—and proud of it—I have a sneaking fondness for the Spectator, with whom I have passed many a happy Sunday afternoon in a quiet country parsonage, and it distresses me to see how careless my old friend has become as to his facts. It was not his use to misquote a date, and then to found on his misquotation an argument which a correct reference would have made impossible.
On the front page of the Spectator of February 12th, I read that "in 1886, Lord Algernon Percy obtained 5,256 votes, against 2,503 given for Sir Walter Phillimore It is clear enough, therefore, that in London, Home-rule is not making progress, but the reverse." As a matter of fact, most people know that there was no contest in 1886, and that in the 1885 .election, to which these figures properly belong, no question of Home-rule was before the constituency. Allowing 10 per cent. for removals, &c., the inference is that there are less than 800 Liberal Unionists who supported Sir Walter in 1885 and Mr. Goschen in 1887.
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