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TILE REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES.

The Conservatives made a wanton sacrifice of
traditional principles to present interests when
they inserted the Minority Clause in the Reform
Act. It was in no sense a child of their own ; they
had borrowed the infant from the philosophical
Radicals, and then starved it so that the parenta
themselves could no longer recognise their offspring.
To have either meaning or consistency, the repre-
sentation of minorities should bo applied imparti-
ally over the whole country, and applied to a
system of personal not local representation. If
electoral districts were substituted for our present
constituencies, there might be groat force in the plea
that, in order to make the House of Commons as
accurate a mirror as possible of the people it pro-
fesses to represent, every section of national opi-
nion ought to be allotted a proportionate number
of numbers. In other words, if every member re-
presented the same number of doctors a
good deal might be said in favour of somo
such &igloo as Mr. HARE'S. But with the
distribution of electoral power which at pre-
sent prevails in England, to talk of repro-
hcnting minorities is to gild refined gold. They
are over-represented already. What is every small
borough, every constituency in which this or
that local magnate " has influence," but a repro-
aented minority ? To introduce the same result
in another shape, as was done by the act of 1887,
is to destroy the main reason for keeping these