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Show UN1ISTS Which Is Almost Offset by Gains of Liberals and Laborites London. Dec. 9 Tonights totals show that ihe coalition parties havo thus far secured 24 4 seats in the new parliament and the Unionists, 207. I The Unionists have ga'ned twenty-1 one constituencies, the Liberals four-j four-j teen and thi Labor party four. The c nlHion argrrgate is divided ' as follows: Liberals, lull; Irish Nationalists. 51; Independent Nationalists, C; Lobor members, 29. Timothy Healy Dtfeated. The parliamentary elections continue con-tinue their hum drum course, the chief feature, perhaps, being the striking slmilarlt) to tho returns of January last. Hardly Is a gain noted on ono side before it is equalized on the other. oth-er. Today's news cf special Interest was the defeat of Timothy Healy' at Louth, which constituency he has represented In the bouse of commons for eighteen years. The Redmondites brouciit all their forces to bear in turning out the man who may be said to be a more vicious opponent of the Irish leader thaTN O Brlen himself. Healy Is known as the Ishmael of Nationalist politics and has fallowed an independent cour.-e since the downfall of Parnell, to which he largely large-ly contributed. The successful candidate, Richard Hazleton. who yesterday also was returned re-turned unopposed for the north division divi-sion of Galway. tiled to send Healy into retirement in January but failed by 99 votes The rejoicings in the Redmond camp over the defeat. of O'Brien's chief lieutenant, quite over-1 shadow the chagrin at Wm. Redmond's Red-mond's failure to oust O Brien in Cork city. Nationalist in Belfast. The cause of woman's suffrage Is making a pitiable show'ng. Thus far they have bad but two candidates and cf these cne polled but twenty-two and the other thirty-three votes. Other interesting developments to-dav to-dav were the captme of the only National Na-tional seat la Belfast city by Jos. Devlin, Dev-lin, one ol' the Redmond party who recently vhltod America, and the return re-turn of Sir Edward Grey, the minister, minis-ter, of foreign ab'jiis, for the Berwick division of Northumberl .in I by a majority ma-jority of three more than he obtained In Januaiy. It is understood Hut H-oly Ins already al-ready made a protest ngainst the con-duct con-duct of the election nt Louth, alleging grcss corruption and intimidation. Exciting Ex-citing scenes marked the polling. Throughout Oo rlav there were fr?o fU-hts a id incidentally considerable damage to property. Healy himself required police protection. oo |