The opponents of national representation cannot. recover their recent, and
we believe final, defeat. The Pall Mall Gazette is in quite a feminine fury with the Times and the Spectator, and spiti little nicknames at them, like a child in a passion, ours being the "sparrow on the house-top." That is all fair, if the Gazette thinks that humorous, but 'it also employs the following odd argument :—" If it be true— and we do not say that it is not—that the numerical majority of the English people are by nature a bourgeois democracy With vulgar tendencies, all the dodging in the world will not prevent the Government elected by them from being a bourgeois democracy with vulgar tendencies." Precisely so, and therefore we want to provide that the Government shall be elected by the majority and the minority too. The Gazette's reason for refusing representation to minorities is the strongest conceivable reason for granting it. Mr. Hugh Mason, Vice-President of the National Reform Union, is plaintive. He understands Mr. Lowe and Lord Cranbome, but those "impracticable philosophers Mr. Mill and Mr. Fawcett" he does not understand. Just so, and therefore it is necessary to represent the minority, who do.
