The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-28 00:00:00

In Ireland there see 27 towns rine:sing se&
ono member. Bengtson of these send lamb ;

ten send

giving a majority of *even

against the Government. Therefore MIST as the
voice of the mallet maislitasnoies is oonosnied
these have decided by • majority of 28 or 29 in
England, by a majority of 19 in Boatload, and by
a majority of amen in Ireland m favour of dia-
establishment.

Let us now 0911 what is the voice of the larger
towns as represented by two members. Of these
there are 90 in England and Wales. Twenty-
seven of these are represented by one Liberal and
one Canna-votive. Of the remaining 63 only 13

are represented by two Conservatiiss,
clear majority of 60 boroughs and towns haying
two representatives in favour of disesSablisb-
anent.

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Scotland has but two towns, Edinburgh and
Dundee, which send two members each, and they
are Liberals.

Ireland has seven town constituencies, including
the University of Dublin, which send two repre-
sentatives to parliament, and, with the exception
of the University, not one of the large towns
will be represented exoluavely by Tories. Dublin
and Belfast are divided, whilst Cork, Galway,
Limerick, and Waterford send each two Liberals.
Therefore an overwhelming majority from the
larger towns will support Mr. GLADSTONE in his
liberal, enlightened, and imperial policy. Can
there be a doubt, then, as to the opinion of the
two-voiced constituencies ?
There remain the three-cornered constituencies,
or, as we should prefer to call them, the three-
cornered absurdities. From these, including
with them the City of London, Mr. DISRAELI will
be seat 5 supporters; Mr. GLanerons 14.
Therefore, whether as regards the highest or
the lowest boroughs in the scale of national
representation, the verdict of the country is clear
and unmistakeable.

Looking at the result from the elementary-
national point of view, we have Scotland all on
one side, England by a great majority, Wales by a
great majority, Ireland by a great majority, and
oven the Isle of Wight by its small contingent to
the national representation, on the same side as
Scotland, and that the Liberal one.
But, it is said, the " people," in the largest
sense of the word, have rallied to Conservatism.
As far as we are aware, the only Conservative
representatives of the millions in this vast metro-
polis are Mr. Elm= and Mr. BELL ; and if
we take the country generally we find the follow-
ing to be the state of facts, and we have arrived at
our calculation on data the most disadvantageous
to our own view :
Number of constitnenoies (boroughs) 197

Gross number of Liberal votes
Ditto Conservative votes .

Liberal majority

. 290,261

Of course there are the counties. Here, unlike
our Conservative contemporaries, we unhesitatingly
acknowledge defeat. Wo know not what we have
to gain by not doing so. But we must add
that with regard to the counties we con-
sider their response to the appeal made
to them not the response of opinion or
conviction, but the response of interest. We
do not believe that we shall ever arrive at the real
sentiments of the English agricultural tenantry,
till we obtain vote by ballot; and we are
pleased to see the number of converts to the
ballot that have been made by the occurrences
of the election just gone by. But taking the par-
liament now all but elected as the reflex of the
public sentiment of the country, we have reason to
be satisfied. Finis coronet opus.