We have two by-elections to record, and both have gone
against the Government and Fiscal Reform. In Market Harborough, the centre of a sporting district, Mr. Philip Stanhope, not a specially popular candidate, was on Friday week returned by a majority of 1,733, an increase of 410 upon the majority secured by Mr. Logan, who, like his successor, was a Liberal. This return does not affect the strength of parties ; but at Devonport, where the number of voters has recently been greatly increased, Mr. J. W. Bann, Chairman of the London County Council, and a Liberal of advanced opinions, was on Monday returned by a majority of 1,041 over Sir J. Jackson, reputed a most popular candidate. The former Member was a Unionist, though his majority was small. In both instances the real dividing line was Fiscal Reform, though in both the reporters note that disgust at the conduct of the Government in respect to the importation of Chinese labour into the Transvaal had considerable weight.
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