2 MAY 1874, Page 3

Baron Bramwell seems to have been greatly shocked by the

case of an illiterate voter at Stroud who had not a clear idea of what a Liberal and a Tory mean. Has the Baron a good, easily describable notion himself? After all, the man did know who Mr. Gladstone was, and that he was a Liberal. He did not know- who Mr. Disraeli was, nor that he was a Tory, but that last was pardonable,for he is not a Tory at all ; andasfor the man's ignorance of the name, probably Baron Bramwell did not pronounce it after the vulgar fashion. Household suffrage, as we always panted out, was not meant to secure government by political knowledge or judgment. But a vast deal of gross and crass ignorance is consistent with a fair knowledge of the drift of your political interests.