We omitted last week to record the return on this
day fortnight of the Conservative candidate for the Stamford division of Lincolnshire by a very much reduced majority. The contest was a sharp one, and the Gladstonian can- didate apparently a great favourite in the neighbourhood, in which he has been a resident for some time. But the Conservative candidate was also a good one, and there is no doubt that his greatly reduced majority is far from an insignificant sign of the times. Mr. H. J. C. Oust, the Con- servative, was returned for Stamford by a majority of 282 over his Gladstonian opponent, Mr. Arthur Priestley (4,236 votes against 3,954). In 1886, the Conservative was returned unopposed. In 1885, before the division of the Liberal Party, Mr. Lawrance polled 4,631 votes, against 3,530 given for Mr. Cudlip, the Gladstonian candidate,—majority, 1,101.
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