NEWS OF THE WEEK.
LORD DERBY met his supporters on Friday, and his Reform Bill was generally approved. According to a very hurried report in the Standard, its main provisions are these :—The borough fran- chise to be Household Suffrage for every man who has resided two years and pays his own rates, with permission to those who now compound to pay directly if they like. A vote to be given, even to lodgers, for education or payment of income-tax. A second or dual vote to be given to all voters liable to direct taxation of any kind. Disfranchisement to commence with boroughs of 10,000 inhabitants, thus yielding, with the seven crorrupt seats, forty-five vacancies. The hitches in this plan are the exclusion of compounders and the dual vote, but we should not-wonder if the Liberals compromised the matter by rejecting duality, and con- fining the right of composition to houses below Si.
