THE OVER-REPRESENTATION OF IRELAND. rre TUE EDITOR OF THE "
SPECT■TOR."1 SIR,—In your article of June 11th on the above you say you can understand Mr. Balfour and his colleagues being un- willing to reduce the number of Irish representatives. Thin may be so now, although, I fancy, all Liberal Unionists voted, like myself, at the last elections under the impression that the over-representation of Ireland was to be abolished. But is it not a fact that both Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain at a political meeting at Blenheim pledged themselves to carry this reform ? I have a strong recollection of this, though I cannot fix the exact date of those speeches. Perhaps you, Sir, or some of your readers can P—I am, Sir, &c.,
G. D.
[At the Blenheim meeting Mr. Chamberlain gave a warm assent to the reduction of the over-representation of Ireland. Mr. Balfour also referred to the matter on that occasion, but his reference was short, vague, and tepid, as always when dealing with this point. Notwithstanding, it is quite fair to say that the mass of Unionist voters at the last General Election believed that they were voting for electoral justice to Great Britain.—ED. Spectator.]
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