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One of the most significant features of the new Parlia-

ment is the return of the counties to a Moderate policy after the wild and illusory hopes which Mr. Gladstone inspired in them in 1892. As yet hardly a county seat in Great Britain has been won by the Gladstonians, while county after county has returned to the Unionist party. Indeed, in England proper it was not easy on Friday morning to find a Gladstonian English county division that had had its seat contested and held its ground. The Barnard Castle Division of Durham is the only one that we can recall at the present moment. No characteristic of the contest has been more emphatically marked.

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