12 SEPTEMBER 1958, Page 5

the apettator

SEPTEMBER 14, 1833

A GREAT portion of the aged tree under which the farce of-electing Members for Old Sarum took place, was blown down in the course of Friday week.— Salisbury Journal. Surely we may hope that all the offshoots of the Old Sarum .system are about to be rooted out, since the parent tree is blown down at last. This is a good omen of the next session of the Reformed Parliament.