We have lost a seat in Chelsea also, though Sir
Charles Dilke, having modified his Republicanism into an assertion of his right to inquire into the Civil List, has been returned at the head of the poll. • Mr. Gordon, however, the Tory, comes in second, Sir H. Hoare third, losing-the seat, and Mr. Kiell nowhere: He was, in -fact-, only the candidate of the Evangelicals; Dissenting and other, of Chelsea, and apparently did not receive, vas was at one trine expected, the split vote of the Tory eleators. People who like frightening themselves may compare the ease with-which Sir C. Mike keeps his seat with': the difficulty a man like Mr. Goschen has experienced. In the' Tower Hamlets, the Tory, Mr. R. Ritchie, heads the poll (9,371), and though Mr. Saumda follOws him (5,390), still Mr. Ayiton is fourth, with only 3,202 votes, a great but unlamented lose to the House of Commons. In Southwark, the Liberal; Mr. Locke, is still first (5,901), but Colonel Beresford is second (5,710), and Mr. Odger left out, third, with only 3,496 votes, 2,200 below the Tory. Clearly, the workmen have not yet taken steadily to elect each other, though in Stafford and Morpeth their Member's, Mr. Maedonald and Mr. Burt, are elected by strong majorities.
