if Further, Mr. Albert Grey holds that if a Franchise
Bill alone is introduced, he must take the precaution of voting on the hypothesis that the Redistribution Bill will be a bad one, and therefore against any change which would deprive minori- ties of their present influence, until he sees that they are to have fair-play. He took care at the close to reserve his right to vote in the way which might ultimately seem to him most likely to forward his own convictions ; but we, at least, under- stand his speech as an avowed intention to secede from the Liberal party on the Reform question, if it should take any action which is in the least probable, or even desirable. He re- ferred to Mr. Forster's policy of moving in the direction of equalising electoral districts, and giving every such district but one Member, and rejected it, as unfair to the minorities for which he pleads. In short, Mr. Albert Grey is against the democracy, unless the democracy will express its will in the abstruse fashion required by Mr. Hare's scheme. As democracies must have a very simple machinery, if they are to have confidence in that machinery, that means a declaration of war on democracy itself.
