Some of the other elections of the week have also
been very hard fought. In each of the constituencies of South Wilts, the North Riding of Yorkshire, East Sussex, Dublin, and Portarling- ton the Liberals have gained one seat, and the Conservatives one in East Norfolk, The Liberals have lost two in Berkshire. In East Surrey the Liberals and in West Kent the Conservatives still hold their ground, after a very hard fought battle. The net result of the week is a further gain of fifteen seats, many of them Irish, since last Saturday. The most important of the Liberal successes next to South Lancashire is probably that of Dublin, where the success of a Liberal is almost a prodigy. Mr. Pins beat Mr. Vance by 548 votes. The election of Sir John Simeon and the defeat of Sir C. Locock in the Isle of Wight adds another to the victories of religious freedom. Sir Charles Locock had taken the screaming Protestant line, encouraged thereto no doubt by Sir John Simeon's moderate Catholicism, and the natural divergence of view between a ccoucheurs and the supporters of monachism on the subject of Apulation.
