In Wales, which gains one Member, Cardiff is to have
three seats, the new borough of Rhondda two, and Swansea two instead of one Glamorgan and Iifonmouth will each, have two more Members. The Commission gravely explains that by a little readjustment it has been able to preserve Mr. Lloyd George's constituency, the Carnarvon Boroughs, although its present population of 30,757 is lees than half the average for a borough. In Scotland, which gains one Member, a separate Commission has swept away the hopeless old system of grouped borough's, a relic of the historic past. Glasgow's importance in Scotland is reeognizerl by the allotment of fifteen seats to her out of a total of sevanty-one, apart from the Universi. ties, and Edinburgh is to have five seats instead of four. Two fins old names are revived—" Galloway " for Wigton and Kirkcud- bright, which are to allure a Member, and " Moray," which replaces "Elgin" in what will now be the constituency of Moray and Nairn. The Western Isles are severed for Parliamentary purposes from Inverness and Ross-shire, and the crofter in" the Ione shelling on the misty island" will at last have a Member to represent his special interests.
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