New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-10
THE NEWS or EUROPE.
,neTOvIAN GAINS IN THE BOROUGH
ELECTIONS.

,rr1,xD AND sCOTLAND-IMroRTANT PART
PLAYED BY TIE woRKINGMEN-MR GLAD
STONES VIGOROUS sPEECHEs-wHNT
v,,rr HE DO ABOUT HOME RCLE7-
ESTIMATES OF Ills PROBABLE MA
JoRTY-pRINCE BISMARCK AND
THE GERMAN ATTACKS UPON HIM
lrYcAsIE TO TRIBUNE
oo,rr,,s, lse2 By Tn. Trtbun, Assoetation
London. July $50 remarkable are the results
~ This weeks elections that they might we'll be
left TO speak for themselves in Amcrica. if the
American ut home woal but take the trouble
70 examine them and arolyzc them for
himself For my part l will s'a'e
the facts and classify them. having
no other aim than to put The reader IN position
70 Judge for himself what they mean and what
conclusions may he drawn from them Nhethef
these conclusions agreeable or disagrceapie
TO tie American reader, who sympathHes win
and honors Mr.. Gladstone, they will at least pe
his own and not mine ! have abstained h'her'o
from prophecy and contentcd myself with record
ing the prophecies of others, quoting impartially
tie predictions of electoral punditS on both sides
I shall pcrseverc in that method and shall try TO
explain what the English have really done and
are doing and 50 far as | understand them. the
motives on which they have acted.
First Of all, the totals for the week
not including yesterdays polingS, whicn
will be published this afternoon. All
the English boroughs, 226 in all. counting
London have now voted and they have Voted
against Mr. Gladstone. albeit not so heavily as
IN 1886 The totals arc: Unionists, 1872: Glad
stonians "a.
OF all the towns of the first rank there Is but
one. Leeds. which elects majority of CLAD
stonians and one, Manchester, which is equally
divided Leeds shows a decrease in every ulad-
stonian majority. Most marked of all is the case
Of Herbert Gladstone, whose majority OF over
1000 in 1856 has fallen TO 35S. London. Liver
2ool, birmingham and Sheffield are all Tor 'h'
I-nionists London, where the GladStonans nave
made great gains. sends nevertheless, thrtN-s'Ven
I'nionists to twenty-five 'iadstonians. Inc gains
Of the latter are nearly all in the Fast End and the
South Home Rule has not even a foothold in
the City of London itself where three Unionis's
contested two seats. Liverpool elected eight
J'nionists TO one Home Ruler, Mr.. T. +. o'Connor.
birmingham has seven members. all CnioniSts ana
oil chosen by enormous ma iorites This is Il grea'
nersonal triunph for Mr. Chamberlain. The Uni
ycrsities, Cambridge, London and OXFORD, are
unanimously the same side, ana so are eve
the Scotch and Irish Universities
Rv far the most brilliant exploit of the Glad
stonians has been their rcconQueSt OF so many
London seats. They have come within one OF
reraining their position in 1ss5. Progressive
nolitics have had their effect, and Municipal IN
forests have carried the day, as against Imperial
interests. Mr. Bcnn, however, who defeated Mt
pi+cbic in Fast London, says lie won on liome
Pple MUS Municipal Reform. The proportions are
M Doubt diaicult to settle. What matters most
i actual gains and Gadstonian gain OF iNf'ceh
GOATS in London cannot he explained away IL
,s a performance of which they have right to
be proud
Posn1ts thus far in Ireland rot entirely
,rr,tirvino IN tho Glalsto onans. Ireland, ont
Of her o3 seats, has polled thirty The unionlF's
have carried six boroughs and six countess 'he
onti-Parnclites six boroughs and elgh' couh'irS'
and the Parncllitcs four boroughs bo'h 'he
Tnionists and Parncllites have shown more s'ehe'"
than they were credited with QUINN ceo''
three Parnclltes and one Cnionlsf, not a single
anti-Parncllte finding seat in the lrlsA 'aPi,a'
pclfost has defeated Mr. Sexton, choosing MI
Arnoll Forster a militant Unionist, in his place
D,rv has treated Mr. Mccarthy 10 better 1t Is
o,,r in thc Southwest that the ant-ParnclteS
hold tbeir own They viii. in the end, choose
a creat majority Of Irish representatives, Dut "'
n-c.,,,, there is a net Inonis gain Of four seats
in Ireland.
Scotland. out Of her seventy-tWo seatS' ha'
ed
twoptv-one GIadstonians. The Unionists gained
one each in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth ana
lost one i'm Inverness, where Mr. thlay' one ol
,boir ablcst men, was beaten by hlty-thr'c votes
Iord WoIn,cr'e success in West Edinburgh Wac
ore or the scrSations Of a week which has Decn
prol,Gc in SENSATIONS Hardly less remarkaplc Il
the decrease Of the GladStonian majority In Ncsi
Arr.caashirc, where DR.. Fafquhar,on, whose
majority in 1856 was 2,l07, now has a majority
Of eighty. Nevertheless here, as iii Ireland, Home
Pale will when the election l. over, DE iouhd III
an ovcrv hrlrIing asccndancy. 80 oil wares where
The Tnionists gained Montgom and are hoping
10 GAIN at least more member. Inc "'iS"
phalanx will remain for Home fule IL now
.,ands niue GIadstonians TO two Unoniss, with
nineteen returns to come.
Talirr each days work throughout thc hinS
d,r b, itself the net lnionist losses were on
Monday ninc the Unonist gain OF 'ucs"a o'0'
the Vnionist loss on Wednesday seven, on l"uis
dsv seycu. on Friday so far known two Inc
larne number Of counties which voted yeSce'u"S
Arc vet In conn, in The voting has been almost
everywhere extraordinarily heavy, and the inaJoii
ties in many cases on both sides are eN'raoi"'i'
small The total number Of votes 'hu9 iu "
2,?93 Ol3. Of which the Gladstonians giVlhs 'ne"
the labor votes 20,l52, have poHcd l'i~-''O"
and the I-pionis,s 1,1OO,2is This takcs no "c'
count OF the uncontcsted Constituencies ''e si"''
part Of which are Unonist ,o
IL j. nOw of course, TO the counties 'i'"V "
Cladstonian pips his faith and his hopes. fc"
Gladsteui gains can. from the nature oi 'ne
case, be expected. either in Ireland, Scotland oi
Wales The Home Rule representation ol eau"
Is already overwhelming, and few Jnlohls' sea'e
are supposed TO bc in danger OF capture
Tremendous oyerturn in the English 'couptles may
Still give him what "Thc Daily News called an
No