Mr. Chamberlain spoke very well at Birmingham on Thurs- day.
He brought out the drift of Mr. John Motley's speech at Newcastle with great clearness and force, and made some- very pregnant remarks on Mr. Gladetone's proclamation of the " One man, one vote " policy, which Mr. Gladstone' deliberately rejected in 1885, when we all asked for it, and wero told to be patient of slight anomalies, but which he now puts forward to tempt the English Radicals, Mr. Chamberlain asked what the passengers in a• great Atlantic liner would say if the Captain stopped it for e good many hours just to mend the pump in the bath-roont,—ft delay which is analogous to the proposal to stop the working of our reformed Constitution now, in order to improve the- register and introduce the principle of " One man, one vote."' As Mr. Gladstone was responsible for ignoring that principle. five years ago, it is not his business to delay the results which, the popularised Constitution ought to give us, in order to. engraft the rejected principle on the•Constitution now. Mr.. Chamberlain is a firmer Unionist than ever ; and he carries Birmingham well with him.
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