The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-07-15

LONDON, July l4.-Slr William dar'
courts defeat in Derby was the sonsA'
ton in political circles tonight, Il Is
admitted on all sides thatthe Liberals
are beginning very badly, OF ITO mem
bGra thus far elected ninety-six arc
Liberals, ten Liberals and four Parnell.
itss. Eight Liberal seats have been
captured by the UnionistI, and the
Radicals have captured one UnionIat
scat, that at Perth. AZ far as outward
appearances 20 the elections are causing
little excitement In London. There are
a few idlers in tho Strand, where the
Graphic displays arc presentations Of
Lord Salisbury and Lord Rosebery
climbing ladders, to indicate the course
OF election returns.
The moral effect OF Sir William Har.
courts defeat will be great. as even the
most sanguins Conservative aid not OK
pecG Liberal majority Of nineteen
hundred to be converted into Unlontst
majority OF eleven hundred,
While Sir William Harcourt Jared so
badly, Hon. A. j. Ballour, the new first
lord OF the treasury, who is to succeed
Sir William as leader Of the house Of
commons. nearly doubled his majority
In Manchester. After tho result had
been announced in Derby at midnight,
Sir William HarGourt, with his vile,
drove to Liberal headquarters and
made speech, in which he said that
he had been defeated too often to be
either olatod II successful, or depressed
by reverse. But he did not wish to
conceal the magnitude Of tho defeat
which had fallen upon his colleagues
aud himself. Sir Walter Harcourts
defeat is generally attributed to the
prominence which he gave to the local
veto, or local option measure.
The Sunday Observer (Unionist)
points out that Yesterdays returns OF
unopposed candidates arc as significant
as the results OF the contested elections
Seventy.six seats had been handed over
to the uaiontsts without dght, whtle
the Liberals we're allowed to retain only
five unconteSted seats. The Parnellito
total OF unoppoSed returns has been in.
creased to four by the uuconteSted cleo
tion Of John DAILY from Limerick. Thus
the McCarthyites have yielded, without
contest. n scat Of which they were III
actual possession. Judged both by tho
result OF the contest and the numbers
which tho Radicals had allowed to go
by default, there can DO but little doubt
OF the final result.
The O'Connor's sun SAYS that yester'
days results wero keen disappolnt-
mcnt, but that It does not follow by any
means that the whole country 10 going
against them.
"Tho substitution OF a popinjRy like
the marquis OF Lorne," tho Sun goes on
to say. "ior politician so esteemedand
man OF science so honored as Sir
Henry Roscoe is discreditable to Man
chester"
Tomorrow T r'ty moro seats will be
decided, including many In London.
Archbishop Walsh wrote letter
which was read In all the DuhlIn
churches yesterday asking for prayers
that tho spirit OF dissOnsion may be
banished, and adding that the only
prospect before the country is national
ruin aud disgrace II an end is speedily
nut to tho ieud and disasnsions, which
ARE going far to make ireland tho bye.
word throughout the world.
The Times says; "The unopposed re.
election OF DAILY from Limerick is n
significant reminder Of the sentiment
which anlmates all sections Of the Irish
Nationalists ard Rntt-ParneIlitos. In
their own constituency they shrank
from opposing so popular a criminal"