The by-election at Taunton took place on Tuesday, Mr. Peel
being returned with a majority of 891 (1,976-1,085). In 1906 the Unionist majority was 339. The decrease in the total poll appears to have been 284, and the decrease in the anti-Unionist vote 418. The lesson of the election, such as it is, would seem to be that the out-and-out Socialist, even when there is no Liberal candidate to split the vote, as the Socialists would say, makes but a poor show. More interesting will be the group of Scottish by-elections. The polling in Forfarshirc takes pleas) to-day, and in Central Glasgow next Tuesday. In Forfarshire the Liberal majority was 3,519, and in Central Glasgow 431. South Edinburgh polls next Thursday, and Hawick Burghs nett Friday, and in these the Liberal majorities were respectively 2,960 and 681.
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