Show TOO A VS IN GREAT I BRITAIN TEST OF STRENGTH DEPENDS ON lONDON VOTE Defeat in the Great City Would Mean Loss of the Commons and Make the Lib Liberals Liberals the Opposition Party NO SUCH CATASTROPHE IS EXPECTED HOWEVER Although the Government Lost Several Seats on Saturday the Commoners Are Confident Confident dent of Victory in the End UNIONISTS ARE NOT ELATED London Jan has given en a welcome respite from the strenuous strenuous work at the election stations and an opportunity for calm reflection over the prospects of both parties striving for control of the govern government ment The greatest animation pre prevailed prevailed today at the clubs and other rendezvous of politicians and Satur Saturdays Saturdays days results were excitedly discussed from every possible viewpoint Although both sides preserve a san sanguine game guine air of confidence it was evident to today today day that the have aban abandoned abandoned hope that their party part will form the next Dext government The utmost they dare to 0 expect Is that the liberal majority will willbe willbe be so reduced In the next net parliament as ast t place the liberals at the mercy of o the nationalists It must be remembered that lIt Mr Bal Balfour tour four leader ot of the In the house of at commons In a speech some da days s go said that the great political Issues now in question would not be settled b bone by byone one general election and perhaps not by two Clearly the accurately measured the situation and the hopes of the tariff reformers must now be cen centered upon some future general election An estimate made today by a wellin formed unionist based on Saturdays gives the liberals and laborites a dear clear majority of ninety or over all parties which would provide the liberal government with a good working major majority majorIty ity Many unionists however are aro less They do not believe bellev th tie liberals will finish the election With lh so good a record At the National Liberal club great sat satisfaction is expressed over the results so far Further losses are expected at Glas Glasgow I gow and a reduced vote In the English counties where the agriculturalists would be 8 likely to benefit from tariff reform nd where the land d interests have great I Influence t Today The tomorrow which Include London constituencies and provincial boroughs will pro Ide a better index as to how the country Is going Should the lIberals retaIn the hold on the metropolis which the they gained I In 1906 their prospects wilt will be regarded as much rosier than they appear now At present to sum up nothing can be predicted wIth absolute certainty but only a great Increase in the unionist gains I ver vel Saturday when they gained only laif the number of seats they had count counted ed on wm will give them victory If the unionists continue to gain at the same ratio the liberals still will retain a ma majority majority of about ninety Chancellor Lloyd George said tonight Wo We are winning England is declaring r rIng Ing emphatically against government by bythe bythe the peers ps and beer The north Is over overwhelmingly overwhelmingly with us John Burns Bums president or of the local gO gov government board said AU All things consid considered I ered In the fl fight ht between those who have too much and those who have haO too little yesterdays results are exceedingly good London has done much better than I ox ex tn In my judgment it has done su supremely supremely well To win the tho seats that have i been lost would have required almost i superhuman efforts Crooks well known labor leader w co was in Australia when tho budget began and has been racing against I timE to reach London so that lie he might I take part in the elections arrived tOnight H Me represents In the house of Commons and was received by his con oon constituency with remarkable demonstration demonstrations 1 tion Among the Interesting members elected I yEsterday esterday were the Rev C Sylvester Slvester I home Congregational minister who won i on the liberal ticket at I and Almeric Hugh Paget unionist candidate for Cambridge whose wife Is a daughter of f the late William C Whitney I 1 e i w r s 1 T I T PREMIER ASQUITH AND FORMER FIRMER PREMIER BALFOUR Heads of two great parties struggling for supremacy in Great Britain u |