there is the Proclamation, any question of a by-election for that Parliament necessarily and automatically drops on the plain principles of common sense. I think that must be the answer to that conundrum. The hon. Baronet also referred to some difficulties which he understood arose from some remarks of the late Mr. Justice Bruce, and also from the remarks of a Scottish judge. I think it will be found, though I have not looked at the particular matters, that all that was being discussed was the conundrum, which is undoubtedly a conundrum, of what point is the point at which you ought to begin, if you are accusing a man of treating before, during, or after an election. That is not this case at all. This case is the case of providing that plural voting shall not be permitted, and shall be penalised during the course of a General Election, and all that is important, if one is a plain man trying to deal with this thing practically, is to be sure to have a clear form of words which do not leave it open to doubt on the part of any honest man as to what is meant. There cannot possibly be any doubt as to what is meant when one says voting during the continuance of a General Election. Every election which takes place after the end of one Parliament and before the beginning of the next is part of a General Election, and by no human possibility