The Members for Sunderland, Mr. Gourley and Mr. Storey, addressed
their constituents on Wednesday, and were both of them thoroughly loyal to the Government, as well as regards reform as regards the Egyptian policy. Mr. Storey, indeed, does not wish to see the 40s.-freehold franchise abolished in counties, though he would allow only one vote to each elector, whichever qualification he might elect to qualify under. The difficulty in that suggestion lies in getting rid effectually of the faggot votes, and in putting the borough elector on an equality with the county elector. Mr. Storey did not in the least believe in the uniformity of the rural voters' politics. As the artisans were all Radicals before they were enfranchised,—because they thought themselves denied justice,—and yet many of them found out that they were Conservatives after they were enfranchised, so it would be with the rural labourers. One rural district would prove to be Conservative and another Liberal, much as one great borough is now Conservative and another Liberal. Mr. Storey ridiculed the alarms of Mr. Albert Grey.
