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Show A VERY CUBE SHAVE. Sir John McDonald will Have a Majority of Between 30 and 40 in tha Parliament ' n LIBERALS GREATLY ENCOURAGED o Two Cabinet Ministers Defeated All tha CO Frominent Liberal Leaders Elected , A Number of tarprises z Toronto, March 0. The Empire (the Q government organ) sums up the result of yesterday's election as follows: Con- L servatives 125, reformers 83; majority for conservatives 42, with seven seats Q to be heard from, of which live at the H last election returned conservatives. U The Worid (government paper) claims a majority of !!!) for the government. pH The Mail (independent), gives the government a majority of 2(5. The (Hobo (opposition), says the gov- j eminent majority will not exceed 20. A dispatch from St. Johns says tho latent returns from Kings comity show George K. Foster, minister of finance is elected by a small majority. Monti su., March (I. Tho Independent's Inde-pendent's estimate of yesterday's vota gives the government a majority of from twenty-eight to thirty. The most important fact revealed by yesterday's vote are that tho annexation cry is not so unpopular in Canada as was supposed; sup-posed; that closer trade relations with the Unite. I .States is inevitable and that tho liberals will bo returned to power at the next general election. Tokonto, March 0. All the prominent prom-inent liberal leaders except Peter Mitchell are elected. The liberals are; greatly encouraged by the "hewing and confidently assert that Sir John will era long bo forced to make another appeal to the country, 'when I hoy expect to overcome his present majority. There are thirteen cabinet miuisters, eleven of whom have been elected and two defeated. Tho latter are Hon. C. C. Colby, president of the council, and Hon. John Carliue, minister of agriculture. agricul-ture. There were a number of surprises, notably the defeat of Carlino and Colby. Sir John McDonald polled a suprising vote in Kingston, whore the liberals expected to defeat him. His majority of seventeen at tho last election elec-tion is increased to .'150. The Globe (opposition) says this editorially: edi-torially: Tho government has been sustained by a majority which, at pros-, ent writing! seems far too small to enable en-able it to carry on affairs for any considerable con-siderable length of time. Its majority in tho last parliament was fifty, and iu tho new parliament will not exceed twelve or fifteen. At outside, it will be less than tweutv, and in times like these, the tory administration, pledged to oppose a trade policy which is impoverishing im-poverishing the people, cannot work with so slender a majority. Ontario has done her duty. The government vr"k - had a majority iu Ontario of twenty,, ... m but as things" look the representation ' will be evenly divided. Quebec also has done much work. ' Tha Administration Not Interested. Washington, March 6. Secretary Blaine said this morning that he had nothing to say in regard to the Canadian Cana-dian election, except that there seemed to be in some quarters an opinion that President Harrison's administration ' was interested in the election. "A a matter of fact," ho said, "the administration adminis-tration is utterly indifferent as to tho result; none of the members of the cabinet cab-inet took any interest iu the matter and cared less about it than the Canadians usually do about our elections." |