Mr. George Peel has withdrawn from the candidature for Warwick
and Leamington, in a letter which does the greatest possible credit both to his temper and his tact. He felt it necessary, he said, to persevere in his candidature until the Conservatives of the constituency had agreed to abide by the compact of 1886, and acquiesce in the choice of a Liberal Unionist so long as the particular Liberal Unionist selected had received the sanction of their branch of the Unionist party, as well as that of the Liberal Unionist branch of it ; but when once that had been secured, he felt that if he per- sonally stood in the way of united action, it was his duty to retire. He finds no fault at all with the Conservative stipula- tion, though he evidently thinks it a little hard that, as they sever thought of submitting their candidate, Mr. Nelson, to ::.lie judgment of the Liberal Unionist branch of the party, it i-should have been made a matter of offence in the Liberal Unionists that they did not submit their choice of a candidate to the judgment of the Conservative party. Bat he acquiesces with the utmost good humour and cordiality in the new conditions. We hear it rumoured that Mr. Finlay, Q.C., an excellent selection, is likely to be accepted by both branches of the Unionist party as Mr. George Peel's successor, and, if so, we have little doubt that he will be returned by a con- siderable majority, though when the late Speaker was first elected he stood and was returned as a Gladstonian.
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