The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-16
ENGLISH NATION ENDEAvoRs TO SETTLE BIG QUESTIONS, BUT
 WITHOUT RESULTS.
Liberals Will Retain Control of the 2 Government, but the unlonists Have Made Significant Gains Everywhere.


 ment in the fight for tariff reform, a
 great navy and the supremacy of the
 lords as against free trade, reform of
 the house of lords and home rule,
 ended tonight with neither party in
 commanding position.
 The results of the polling today
 tend to confirm the forecast that the
 Liberals will retain control of the
 government with a greatly reduced
 majority.
 The Unionists have gained an en-
 couraging number of seats, although
 less than the twenty-nine which they expected to take from the Liberals out of the seyenty-four balloted for, The popular vote goes strongly against the Liberals. The members of that party who hold seats won them today by majorities ranging from 80 70 60 per cent below their majorities iS06 except in few boroughs here special conditions figured in the campaign.
 The popular votes boiled by the Liberals for the twelve London seats show a stronger hold on power than ' in the provinces.
 The majority Of the London DOT & cughs were labor districts Of these the Unionists carried five, three being captured from the Liberal column. but by small gains.
 Manchester and Birmingham give heavy Unionist gains. Birmingham has been strongly Conservative, large ly the result of Joseph Chamberlain's crusade for prot ection and today the Unionists carried the city solidly by an increased majority, nearly 5000 larger than 1906.
 In Manchester the Unionists in creased their votes. for while the Liberals will have five of the six seats, the Liberal maiorities were de- creased nearly 5000.
 The most sweeping change in Lon don WAS in Fulham borough. where the middle classes went enthusiast. ically for tariff reform, giving w. Hays Fisher, the Unionist candidate. majority Of 2000 In this borough in the last election the seat went to Liberal by 600.
 Davenport, where the big navy is- suew as predominant. wiped out the Liberal majority of 1900 and return ed two Unionlsts by 800, Sir J. Jack son and Sir C. Kinloch Cooke. Sir Henry Norman, the Liberal journalist, who is well known in America and who recently was appointed assistant postmaster general. was beaten at Woverhampton south by small ma joriiy. In order to retain his place in the cabinet he will be nominated for another borough.
 Waldorf Alstor and Sir H. Mortimer Durand. the former ambassador to the United States, who contested the two Plymouth seats as Unionists, were defeated, but cut down that city's Liberal majority from 2,36i in 1906 to 946. David Dalziel, pro- moter and at one time conspicuous in Wall street, running on the Union ticket turned out c. H. Seaverns, Il Liberal and former American, from his seat in the Brixton district of Lambeth.
 W. Johnson-Hicks, the Unionist who beat Winston Spencer Churchill in the Manchester bye-election of 1908 by 429 votes. loses his seat to Sir G. Kent. Liberal, hy 7s3. The Right Hon. tawynndham, who will be goyer. nor general of Canada if the Union ists take on the government carried lis seat by slightly increased ma jority.
 The Liberals took away a thousand votes from Sir Gilbert Parker in the