The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-10
Only Three Seats In ParIia-
 Tnent Have Been Gained
TIMOTHY HfALY DEFEATED
White the Liberal Majorities Have De- creased in Many Places the Union ists Do Not show Great
 Gains

London, December 9.-Over two thirds of 460 members of tho new house of commons have now been elected and the political parties stand prac- tically as they were at the dissolution of parliament. The nnionists who last week expected to gain at least 20 seats thus far have secured but three from their opponents. The standing of the parties tonight follows:
 Government coalition:
 Liberals 16S.
 Nationalists 53.
 Laborites go.
 Independent nationalists 6. Total 251.
 Opposition:
 Unionists 20g.
 Liberal gains IA
 Unionist gains 21
 Labor gains A.
 Outside of the defeat of Timothy Healty, nationalist, in his old constit- uency, Louth, which is attributed to Cardinal Logue, who prohibited the priests from participating in the cleo tion. today's results did not produce any surprise unless it was in the fall ure of the liberals to recapture Dem bigh. The result in this Welsh borough is characteristic of the whole election. w. Orlsby Gore won the seat last Jan uary by eight votes and today he in- creased his majority by one vote, all though the polling on both sides fell off.
 Healy Declines Oner
 Mir. Frewen has offered his seat for Cork to MT. Healy, but Healy has declined 1t, for he intends to trs to upset the election at Louths of Richart. Hazleton national ist, alleging illegal practices.
 Two members of the cabinet, Premier Asquith and Reginald MoKenna, first lord of the admiralty. were involved in to- days contest. but the outcome in Mfr. As quith's constituency will not be known until tomorrow. MT MoKenna obtained a reelection at Monmouthshire. North. al- though he was unable to personally take part in the campaign because he recently underwent an operation. The liberal ma jorities in Lancashire continued to fall today without, however, any increase in the unionist vote. which shows that many liberal supporters are staying away from 1T fe polls. rAa unionists consider tkis she first sign of a wholesale desertion of the government. and that the next time the deserters will vote the unionist ticket.
 tniOusts Lose nope
 The most optimistic of the unionists now have no hope of making serious in roads on the government majority. Their leaders persist, however, that the cleo ton was unnecessary, that the result practically amounts to vote of lack of confidence and that with the nationalists and laborites exacting the fullest price for their support it will be impossible for the cabinet to remain In power.
 To this the liberals reply that the union- ists after the January election insisted that the government had received simply mandate on the budget and that the election was not decisive on the ques- tion of the status of the house of lords. Now. they add, both parties have placed the house of lords in the forefront and even reduced coalition majority will justify them in proceeding with the veto bill and, if necessary, in asking King Georges guarantees to insure It's pas sage.
 The unionist successes in Lancashire cause great satisfaction to the unionist weekly newspapers. But they bemoan lack of unionist success in London. Carried By Corruption
 The Saturday Review says London city was carried by corruption. Such charges seldom are made concerning English elec-
  directly spend great sums of money.
 Little now remains to be done to com piete the nominations to all the 760 seats in the house of commons Wales today officially named it's last candidates and England and Ireland will follow suit to- morrow, leaving but two Scotch districts, Wick and Orkney Shetland, to choose prospective members. The polling tomor- TOW will be brief. Only 13 constituencies are to be called upon to choose mem- bers and in only half of these will the result be known tomorrow night.
 Riotous scenes are taking place in many of the Irish towns. As the result of a riot at Thurles tonight John Dillon was unable to leave town and had to remain hidden as a crowd waited in the road leading to the railway station to waylay him. The trouble began at meeting ad- dressed by MT. Dillon, which the O'Brien- ites tried to break up. The police had to make several charges with batons to uuell the fighting.
 Closing Break in River