North Notts has already followed the North-West Riding, and a
good deal more than followed. According to the Conservative re- turn, Mr. Monckton, the Conservative candidate, had got a majority of the whole electorate before half-past four o'clock, while the Libe- ral, Mr. Laye,ock, had not yet polled much more than half as many votes as his opponent. North Notts is the county which returned the late Speaker, Mr. Evelyn Denison (now Viscount Ossington), and was always, we imagine, Conservatively inclined, Mr. Denison himself having been quite a Conservative Liberal. The revolt of the Duke of Newcastle against Mr. Gladstone has, of course, done a good deal to turn the scale, but no doubt Conservative reaction is a principal cause of the change. We have now an early pros- pect of a Parliament in which the counties will return very few Liberals indeed; and, even in the boroughs their majority will be vastly reduced. The advent of a Conservative Government, with a majority of its own, and power to do what it likes, will be quite a refreshing and very instructive novelty.
