The result of the Wimbledon election, where a vacancy NM
created by the elevation of Mr. Henry Chaplin to the Peerage, was declared on Thursday week, the figures being : Sir Stuart Coats (U.), 8,970; Mr. Kennedy Jones (Independent), 7,159; or a majority for the Coalition candidate of 1,811. The reduction in the majority, as compared with those-6,964 and 5,515—by which Mr. Chaplin was returned in 1907 and 1910, has been made the subject of much jubilation by those newspapers which have been moving heaven and earth to wreck the Coalition Government. They profess to believe that with another day or two Mr. Kennedy Jones would have been elected. We grant them all the satis- faction they can derive from their calculations, but the great thing is that, with the entire fome of the Northcliffe Press—with which Mr. Kennedy Jones was at one time intimately associated— at their back, and with Mr. Pemberton-Billing as their " star " performer, the wreckers have failed.
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