The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-04
Solicitor General. have been reelected in the
city of Oxford.
ONE MORE FOR THE opposrrIoN
A conservative has been returned from Chel-
tenham. This is another gain for the opposi-
ton.

uOQ.
The Result OF tho Polling During Four
Days-COnservatives stiII Advancing
The BOrOughs May Decide the Fate
or the Gladstone Ministry.
The reports OF the progress OF the British Par
amentary elections, which we publish in the
HERALD to-day, are quite interesting. 1t will be
remembered that the nomination and election OF
members OF the British House OF Commons com.
menced last Friday, and have now continued four
days. The remainder OF the week will be con-
sumed in completing the choices for bOroughs, when
the elections for counties will begin According to
the reports that have sent across the Atlantic
it would appear that about $50 members have been
declared returned (incuding places where there
were no contests). OF whom LOT are conservatives
and 70 liberals. 1t Is true that the number so far
chosen Is but three-eievenths of the total body of
the Commons, and would not constitute a safe
basis to predict the general result which will not
be reached within ten days; but it has
been pretty much, since 1882 upon Eng
lish boroughs that the fate of British
Ministers has depended. The conservative
power in boroughs has been chiefly found in places
where the influence Of the neighborng landed and
commercial aristocracy have procured the election
OF their candidates The first guns from the cities
and towns have at every general election told the
story OF the campaign, just the returns from the
great States of the Union indicate the tide of pop
ular opinion at Presidential election. About one
half of the boroughs In Great Britain and Ireland
have been heard from-there are 376 in all. The
proportion OF successful candidates is three con-
servatives to two liberals. This poor showing for
a majority in favor OF Mr.. Gladstone, as there has
been nothing that experience during the last forty
years mas SHOWN clearer than that the party that
carries the boroughs will have control Of
past four days shows that many liberals
have lost their seats, while the conservative loss
has been continually increasing giving some evi-
dence that thousands of voters, who now for the
first time exercise the franchise remember with
gratitude the party and It's leader, Disraeli, to
whom they are indebted Tor it.
IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT
opened, as on the present occasion. with the bor-
oughs. ON the first day 81 members were elected
30 liberals % conservatives: second day, 24O men,
bers-l72 liberals 68 conservatives. On the fourth
day, when all but a few OF the elections in cities
and towns were concluded, Gladstone had ma
were equally divided between his and Mr.. Dis
raehs supporters The borough elections decided
occasion before back to the passage of the Reform
bill.
The report that "three liberals and two conser-
natives have been elected in Scotlandn after two
days. polling does not augur that the Ministry is
about holding It's own beyond the Tweed. At the
senatves Chosen to a'V Which Scotland IS ented
only eight were supporters OF Mr.. Disraen. Mr.
Gladstone Is evidently the sufferer, as can be seen
by the returns of the elections in the bOrOughs,
which are the true criterion Of the fate OF the
Ministry.
THE CRISIS IN IRELAND
The only report from Ireland IL that the home
rulers are making gains. Irish questions are those
upon which most ministries have been wrecked.
Home rule is now the great question before
the British nation, and all the successes of
the Irish nationalist, while peingnether gain nor
defeat for liberals or conservatives place either
party that may attain power completely at the
mercy OF this section that win appear IN the next
House Of Commons. Mr.. Butt, It's leader, Is re-
garded as being as experienced and adrOit as any
chief Opposea to him, ana there is no reason to
doubt that he Is heart and soul wrapped uD in
identifying his name with the triumph Of the cause
or Ireland, obtaining from her stronger sister the
right OF selEgovernment.
Bullion In Balance from the Bank.
LONDON, Feb. 3, 1874.
The amount OF bullion withdrawn from the Bank
OF England on balance to-day is f2O2, 900.