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are shown to have a majority of nearly 7,000 in the country din. tricts. If the fhptrm were thorough- iy investigated we are convinced that a majority of the farmers of not less than 15,0000r 20.000wasrolled up against the N.P. Except the farmers are prosperous the prosperity of the towns and cities, which depends upon the agricultural dis. tricts, cannot endure. That they are not doing well is unmistakably demonstrated by their votes on March a. These Bgurm show " astonishing result when we consider the infhusneea used by the Government. The election was sprung upon the Liberals at five weeks' notice. The alien and dead vote was brought in free of freight charges from all over the continent. Huge sums of money were, spent in the cash purchase of votes. Tho red-parlor men extorted cast iron 1pledges from their workmen that they i,' would vote for restriction at the peril of ' prompt discharge. The banks exerted pres- sure and the business interests in seine of the centres of population took a strange alarm at tho hysterical predictions of the beedle press and red-parlor craters. But in spite of it all the Government was saved from defeat only by tho gerrymandcr. Some of the Liberal papers have declared since the election that the eil'ects of the tterrymandor have been overcome. This is not so. That unholy instrument was of great advantage to tho Government in the recent election. It is true that in Bruce it has been partle and in Huron wholly overcome. But the Conservatives still hold North Bruce and South Norfolk and South Wentworth by the agency of that infamous measure. In Middlescx County, which gave a majority of 52 against the Gov. ernment, three out of the four seats al- lotted to the county are held by the Conservatives. M uskoka or North On. taric belongs to the Liberals. Farther east the Liberals are weakened by the operation of tho gerrymtutder. Under a fair redistri- bution, a fair vote and afair count the Liberals of Ontario would hold eight or ten additional seats in the new Parliament. The figures prove that their leaders have the eontidena, of the country, and that the policy of trade restriction is doomed ; and no influence that can be employed by the desperate restrictionists can avail to retard for long tho triumphant advance of the forces that make for trade emancipation. -rr--r---i-.