Mr. Forster made an excellent speech at Bradford on Tuesday,
in the course of which he illustrated the Ministerial position by a very happy story. An old Quaker friend of his was driving with his family along a very narrow road, with a precipice on one side and a high bank on the other, when he met a bull, and in his alarm threw his wife over the precipice to save her from the beast. Mr. Forster denounced all systems of plurality, but was sufficiently. fair to cumulative voting. He would support it, he said, if we- had equal electoral districts, but at present, with so many small boroughs, it was not required,—a matter of opinion rather than a question of princii3le. He would support the Government measure, if a good one, but would rather wait another year than put up with a bad one, or a sham one, such, for instancei as hcinse- hold suffrage with the compounders struck out would be. Mr. Forster was careful, we note, not to say that nothing less than household suffrage would do, though he repeated his individual approval of that limit to the franchise.
