On Thursday, the Leeds Conference resolved that after passing the
extension of household franchise to the counties, a Redistribution Bill should be proposed, "such as would give as nearly as possible an equal value to every vote, and secure a true expression of the will of the nation." To this resolution there was no real opposition, though a discussion arose on the question of minority representation, in which Mr. F. Seebohm made a good speech, in a sense which we conceive to be very much the same as that which we have adopted in another column. He held that, somehow or other, the minority of the nation ought to get its opinions fairly represented in Parliament ; but he did not hold, apparently, that the minority principle, as it is at present embodied in our electoral law, pro- duces the desired result.
