3-052-560 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Middlesex Election: two minutes to five, a sketch at Brentford on Saturday last, 1880. 'About four o'clock in the afternoon Countess Russell and Lady Agatha Russell drove to the market-place and made inquiries as to the progress of the election. Her Ladyship, who expressed her hope that Mr. Gladstone would be successful, was much cheered. The poll closed at five o'clock, but in consequence of the distance that many of the ballot-boxes had to come, it was an impossibility to conclude the counting of the votes before Sunday morning. They remained under seal in charge of Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell, at the Court House, Red Lion-square, to which place they were brought on Saturday evening. The work of counting began at nine o'clock on Monday morning, under the superintendence of Mr. Sheriff Bayley and Mr. Under-Sheriff Crawford. It was finished at two in the afternoon, when the numbers were announced to be, for Lord George Hamilton, 12,904; Mr. Coope, 12,328; and Mr. Herbert Gladstone, 8876. The two Conservatives were therefore re-elected'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.