The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-07-23
GLOOMY GLADSTONE.
An Increased Majority Ensures His
Defeat.

There is a clear popular majority thus fal
/ against the Ministry. The great centers o.
population, industry and intelligence hav,
nearly all voted, and the great majority o
/ them we voted against hone rule. The
net loss on the popular vote is already 100.-
! 600. Bright's dignifed reply to Gladstone
I letter remains without rejOinder. More
astonishing bits of current literature are
Balfour's revelations. His account of his
conversation with Gladstone points clearly
to GladstOne's conversation TO home rule
| under the belief of the renewal of dynamite
outrages. This almost incredible story re-
mains uncOntradicted.
SWEEPING MAJoRITIEs
The Conservatives are winning some of
the county divisions by sweeping maiorities
Such is the case in North Cambridgesbire
North Shropshire, West Somersetshire and
Northeast and Southwest Warwickshire in
all of which the Tories have won seats held
by Liberals in the last House. The Tories
have also taken Carnarvon from the Lib
erals. The Gladstonites have captured
Elgin from the Unionist candidate who
represented the district in the last House.
The Tories so far have gained A seats, the
UniOnists 2, the Gladstonians Is and the
Parnellites l. The Tories have elected 235
candidates, the Gladstonians 1874 and the
UniOnists 40. James Rankin (Conserya-
tive) won the Leominster division of Here
fordshire by majority of nearly 1000. He
was defeated by a Liberal in the same
district at the last election by majority of
121.
SERIES OF VICTORIES.
The loyalty of the non Conformist centers
to Gladstone is shaken, Capham replaces
a Gladstonian by a Conservative. Villas
votes with the workshops. Fulham rejects
G.. w. RUSSELL Gladstone's intimate friend.
West Islington returns Chamberlain
brother, whose meetings have been broken
up and whose seat the Ministerialist con-
fdently expected. Mile End prefers the
UniOnist Brewer S, Charrington to the
Arnold White, stanch friend
and benefactor of the poorer classes who
people that burrough. Birmingham for the
first time III forty years sends Tory to
the Radicals and Unionist help
ing Mathews and beating the Ministerialist,
Cook. Collins, against whom Gladstone
hurled his thunderbolts, wins by four to
one. Birmingham is solid for the Union.
whose political ruin was freely
predicted, scores a series of unbroken tri-
umphs, Rylands, whom Gladstone ridi-
culed as Poor Peter, who has gone to the
bad,' carries Burnley. Even Glasgow,
with perhaps the most numerous and best
Irish vote in the kingdom, shows
UniOnist gains. Chelsea, which for twenty
through evil and good report, chung to Sir
Charles Dixie, now rejects him. This is a
terrible blow to him. The typical radical
borough to-day has Torey members. !
Chelsea politicians say that it was not the |
divorce court, but home rule that turned |
out Charles Dixie.
THE BALM OF GosCHEN.
Goschen's defeat in Edinburgh is the one |
drop of balm amid all this Ministerial an
guish. The disrespectful wits in the Lon
Ion clubs declare that when Gladstone |
heard that Goschen was beaten he went |
1ut in the park at Hawarden and cut down
Jour trees, some accounts say five. Cos
chen had committed the objectionable sin
Of opposing Gladstone in Midlothian itself.
No stone was left unturned that could be
eft unturned that could be flung at this
invader. Gladstone's personal
attack on Goschen exceeded in bitterness
Ill the invectives he has launched at the
)ther Liberal Unionists, and his Edinburgh
riends seconded him in a similar spirit.
ioschen has spoken throughout the can
'ass in the face of organized opposition.
10 hostile influence has been wanting.