Three by-elections have been held during the past week. In
Forfarshire the vacancy created by the elevation of Mr. Sinclair to the Peerage has been filled by the return of the Liberal candidate, Mr. Falconer, the figures showing a con- siderable reduction in the Liberal majority. The contest in the Central Division of Glasgow derived special interest from the candidature of Mr. T. Gibson Bowles. Mr. Bowles has done admirable work as speaker and writer on behalf of Free. trade, his mastery of financial problems is quite exceptional, he is a picturesque personality and a trenchant ,speaker. His change of front on the question of Home-rule provoked a powerful letter of condemnation from Professor Dicey in Monday's Times, to which Mr. Bowles made a vulgarly abusive and irrelevant reply, and on Tuesday the seat was captured for the Unionists by Mr. Scott-Dickson, successively Solicitor-General for Scotland and Lord Advocate in the last Administration, by a majority of 2,113, as against a Liberal majority of 431 at the General Election.
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