The Tewkesbury election, which took place this week, has resulted
in the return of Mr. Hicks-Beach, the Coalition candidate, by a majority of 5,689 (Mr. Hicks-Beach polled 7,127 votes, and Mr. Boosoy, the Independent candidate, 1,438 votes). Mr. Boosey states that he stood, and will stand elsewhere, as " a protest against the Government's mismanagement of the war." That being the case, it is idle to say that Mr. Hicks-Beach won merely because he belonged to Lord St. Aldwyn's family. We do not for a moment suppose that tho people of the Tewkesbury division of Gloucester- shire are so base-minded that, even if they believed the Government ought to be dismissed, they would have voted in their favour out of loyalty to the Hicks-Beach family. It is preposterous to accuse them of such want of patriotism. They voted for the Coalition candidate because, like the Spectator, they believe that to pull down the present Government is not the way to win the war.
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