Mr. Bright and Mr. Chamberlain spoke again at Birmingham on
Thursday, devoting themselves to subjects other than those- connected with Ireland. Mr. Bright stated that, in his opinion, the right way to deal with the reform question was to grant household suffrage to the counties, and then have a register of the new constituencies made at the end of the year, so that in the subsequent Session the date for a Bill redistributing the seats might be fresh and adequate. He also denied in the most emphatic manner the rumours of collisions in the Cabinet, which were all, he said, the inventions of men who were compelled to find something to write about, and had to trust for that some- thing to their imaginations. A more earnestly-united Govern- ment had never existed in relation to every critical resolve taken. by them.
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