THE LONDONDERRY ELECTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." ]
SIR,—It is not the first time that the Unionist candidate at Derry has been defeated, and on this occasion the Liberals (not the Nationalists, though they voted for him) had a popular local man, while the Unionist was a comparative stranger. But Ulster is still Unionist, as the figures easily show. The apparent predominance of Home Rulers is merely the result of a faulty distribution of seats. The sixteen constituencies in Ulster which return Unionists have a popu- lation of 908,000, and will be entitled under the Home Rule Bill to send thirty-five representatives to the Dublin Parlia- ment. The seventeen constituencies in Ulster which return Home Rulers have a population of 673,000, and will return twenty-four members to the Dublin Parliament. The present under-representation of the Irish Unionists is thus made plain
by the Home Rule Bill itself.—I am, Sir, &c., X.
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