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We must apologize to our readers for our reiteration of

this point, but it is the essential factor of the new situation, and therefore we have felt bound to make it absolutely clear. The notion to which the Halsburyites have been clinging, and to which it is evident Lord Salisbury still clings, that the Bill can be defeated by a majority kept artificially small for the purpose, and that then a proportionately small creation will take place, is no longer practical polities. If any creation does take place, it will be a swamping creation.

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