Mr. Lowe will have it that his remarks about the
venality and drunkenness of the lower classes referred to the lower classes in the existing constituency. The greengrocers, he thinks, are not for- midable, while the artisans are. The excuse is not a very ingenuous one, as the remark was instantly followed by another, that to expect to find the artisans better than the poorer ten-pounders was to expect to get behind the north wind. Mr. Lowe, has, however, been punished a little too severely for an expression which was cheered heartily by the Tory party, and which no one has any right to punish except his own constituency. Mr. Beales, in a letter to the Times pub- lished on Tuesday, fixes him cleverly enough with the words, but forgets altogether the duty of every member to say out what he really thinks.
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