31 JULY 1886, Page 18

THE EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE ELECTION.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR... j SIR,—The simple explanation of my polling the phenomenally small number of 298 votes in the late contest in East Cam- bridgeshire, in which I was the Liberal Unionist candidate, is to be found in the too late discovered melancholy fact that there were practically no Liberal Unionist voters. The Liberals of East Cambridgeshire are unhappily an almost unbroken band of what Mr. Bright compares to " personally conducted tourists."—I am, Sir, &c.,