22 DECEMBER 1888, Page 1

Lord Salisbury evidently weighed his words at Scarborough, but still

he was guilty of one imprudence. He hopes, and avows his hope, that there may never be anything to break his affiance with the Liberal Unionists, but he repeated again his conviction that it would be right to concede female suffrage. The Unionist leaders are certainly not with him in that view, nor do we believe there is a Liberal Unionist who will accept his guidance upon that subject. At all events, he ought to remember that women are in an immense majority in England, and that he is defending as a mere °biter dictum a revolution the consequences of which it is impossible to foresee. English- men are sick of this eternal tinkering with the bases of power. and want peace as to the franchise for a generation.