1 JUNE 1901, Page 3

The results of two by-elections have been declared since our

last issue. In the Oswestry division of Shropshire the vacancy created by the death of Mr. Stanley Leighton was filled last Saturday by the return of the Conservative candidate, the Hon. George Ormsby-Gore, by a majority of 1,088 over Mr. Allan Heywood Bright. The total vote cast was smaller by 255 than at the last contested election, but while the Conservative polled 87 less than in 1895, the Liberal figures showed a decrease of 168. In the Saffron-Walden divisiox of Essex, a seat vacated by the regretted and premature death of the Hon. Armine Wodehouse, voting took place on Friday, but the result was not declared until after we had gone to press.