The election at Paisley showed an enormous increase of the
GladstAmian majority, and no tendency whatever in the electors to resent Mr. Gladstone's declaration in favour of disestablishing the Church of Scotland. Mr. Dunn, the Gladstonian candidate, recorded 4,145 votes, while Major MoKerrell, the Conservative, polled only 2,807 ; majority, 1,338, on a total poll of 6,952. In 1885, Mr. Barbour, who was then the candidate of the undivided Liberal Party, polled only 3,390 votes, against 2,523 given to the Conservative, Major Mclierrell, showing a majority of only 867 on a total poll of 5,913. The total poll has, there- fore, increased by upwards of a thousand since 1885, and much the larger part of that increase has gone to the Gladstonians. In 1880 the total poll was still smaller, and the majority only 566; so that there is no single symptom of either greater Unionist feeling or deeper Church and State conviction in the Paisley constituency. Mr. Gladstone will justly feel surer than ever of his Scottish followers.
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