The Independent Labour party has lost the Gladstonians a fair
number of seats by its self-will; and the leader of that party, Mr. Keir Hardie, has lost his seat for South West Ham. Even Mr. John Burns's majority at Battersea dwindled from 1,559 in 1892, to 253. Indeed, the Labour party, though it has made the Gladstonians feel its strength, has lost almost all its power in the House of Commons. Many conspicuous figures have vanished in the battle. Mr. W. S. Caine, Gladstonian, has been rejected in East Bradford, and Sir Henry Roscoe (Gladstonian) in South Manchester, where he has been defeated by the Marquis of Lorne, a good Unionist, but not a very well-informed speaker ; Lord Elcho has lost a Unionist seat at Ipswich, and Sir J. T. Hibbert a Glad- stonian seat at Oldham. Mr. Alpheus Cleophas Morton dis- appears as the representative of Peterborough. Mr. Creruer disappears in Haggerston. The Whitbreads have lost their seat for Bedford. Mr. Storey (a great Radical champion) disappears from Sunderland, Mr. Brand, the Gladstonian brother of Lord Hampden, from North Cambridgeshire, and Mr. Hopwood, the terror of Home Secretaries, from the Middleton Division of Lancashire ; Sir A. D. Hayter loses his seat for Walsall, Mr. H. W. Paul, the Radical orator, for South Edinburgh ; and Sir Charles Cameron, the great Scotch Disestablisher, for the College Division of Glasgow, while Sir J. M. Carmichael is rejected by the St. R,ollox Division of Glasgow. Many distinguished men, and perhaps an even larger number of bores, will be missed from the next Parliament.
