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In other respects the debate was not satisfactory. Mr. Bright

seemed to like the corruption in small boroughs as the only con- dition which would some day ensure their abolition, and perhaps also bestow on us the ballot ; and Mr. Locke agreed with Mr. Bright. Mr. Ayrton was in love with the present system for its own sake; Mr. Henley was jealous of a possible appeal to the House of Lords ; Mr. Berkeley wished the House to keep what it had got ; Mr. Bonham Carter thought election committees were unduly disparaged. In a word, the resistance of the Judges gave the House courage to express its dislike of enforced purity. But Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Gladstone, and Sir Roundell Palmer will, if they pull together, evidently get the Bill through.

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