Mr. Bright has issued his address to his constituents at
Birmingham. It is a short one, Mr. Bright justly believing that his opinions are too well known to need long explanation. He wishes for further redistribution in order to secure to the large popu- lations their share of power, and would restore compounding; regards the ballot as of the first importance, as diminishing expense, intimidation, and tumult ; affirms that in disestablishing the Irish Church "we do not touch religion at all," but "deal only with the political institution ; " and declares that minority voting
was " intended " to deprive the great cities of their proper weight in the constitutional scale. Mr. Bright does not say a word upon education, or any one of the many subjects which must hereafter press upon the attention of Parliament, and his whole address has a slight air of content, or it may be of weari- ness. Nothing rouses him fairly, except the thought that if the Tories of Birmingham number a third of the householders, they may have a third of the representation.
