We note that primogeniture has come up at last among
the questions put to borough candidates. Sir Charles Wingfield, the able Indian selected by Lord Canning to reorganize civil govern- ment in Oude, is standing for the new borough of Gravesend, in the Radical interest. At a large and enthusiastic meeting of his supporters on Wednesday, only two questions appear to have been put with any degree of earnestness. The first was the use of the House of Lords, which Sir Charles parried humorously enough by suggesting that at least it saved them from increased railway fares, a remark which evidently went home ; and the second was how he would vote on primogeniture. The candidate, like all Indians, who know from experience that equal division does not destroy wealth, was in favour of that arrangement in case of intestacy.
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