KING'S LYNN AND REDISTRIBUTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Is it possible to gather from the King's Lynn incident any hints as to Lord Salisbury's plan of Redistribution P King's Lynn, with 2,950 registered electors and two Members, stands alphabetically next to Kidderminster, with 3,903 electors and with one Member, whom under any scheme of rearrangement we of the town can scarcely expect to keep all to ourselves.
The Leader of the Conservative party in the House of Lords sends his son, under the wing of his lieutenant in the House of Commons, to be introduced to the electors of King's Ly an as a candidate for their second seat at the next election. This election must be either after redistribution or before it. If before it, the Parliament to be chosen must—so at least from Conservative speeches we are bound to suppose—be a short-lived one. If King's Lynn is to be deprived of one of its Members, it is either very unfair to Mr. Bourke that his chance should be hampered by Lord Cranborne's claim, or very unfair to Lord Cranborne that he should be turned adrift at the outset of his Parliamentary life. And if King's Lynn is to retain its two Members, what can any Conservative scheme of redistribution be worth P-1 am,
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