It is, of course, quite misleading to count the Labour
votes as only four. It is true that Mr. Burt, Mr. Fenwick, and other Labour candidates regard themselves as good Gladstonians, who may be relied on to give a hearty support to the general policy of Mr. Gladstone,—sometimes even when there is considerable difference of opinion amongst the labourers as to that policy. Still, multitudes of the Gladstonian county representatives are deeply pledged to support such measures as the agricultural labourers desire,—though it is as yet by no means clear what they do desire,—and on any issue on which the labourers are united and feel strongly, they could put a very powerful pres- sure upon Mr. Gladstone. On the whole, however, we may say that there are only four representatives of Labour who hold themselves ostentatiously aloof from Mr. Gladstone's party, and would be rather pleased than otherwise to find themselves called upon to thwart his policy.
