The nomination for the Evesham Division of Wor- cestershire to
fill up the vacancy cau.ed by the death of Sir Edmund Lechmere, is fixed for Tuesday next, and the polling for Tuesday week. The Glad stonians have some hope of winning the seat on the ground that their candidate, Mr. Impey, is able and well known in the constituency, and that Colonel Long, the Unionist candidate, is new ; while in Sir Edmund Lechmere the Unionists have lost a very strong and very popular local magnate. The majority of Sir Edmund Lechmere at the last election (1892) was only 580 in a poll of 7,760, so that the change from one side to the other of one more than 290 voters, or the abstention of half the number of Unionist voters and the change of 218, would give the Gladstonians a majority. Still, the Unionists are very confident of carrying the election, we hope, not too confident. It is said that most of the market gardeners of Evesham are steadfast Unionists.
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