The Right Honourable Frederick Peel has the credit of having
discovered a new and unobjectionable form of political influence. He has chartered an excursion train to bring his constituents from Bury to enjoy themselves at his country seat. The idea once sug- gested will probably spread rapidly. Members of Parliament, no less than the railway companies, will have good reason to thank the pains- taking understanding of the Secretary of the Treasury for this new but solid step in a very difficult art. We do not think it likely that any Constituents-Excursion-Train-Penalty Bill would be soon carried in a grateful House of Commons. Perhaps, however, it may prove necessary for the Board of Trade to limit the number of special excursion trains within a given period of a dissolution, out of regard for the safety of the country.
