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Domestic politics are overshadowed by the chance of an American

war, but we must not omit to record a most manly speech by Mr. Horsman to the non-electors of Stroud. He refuses to be coerced into pledges in which he does not be- lieve. He will vote for the admission of representatives of the working men, but he will not, by a meaningless reduction of the suffrage according to house-rent, swamp intelligence, edu- cation, and property by numbers alone. lie spoke straight out, and to non-electors, and if all candidateskAis opinions had the same moral courage, we should soon have a plan of Reform which would admit the workman without turning out his employer.

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