'The Pall Mall Gazelle has introduced a new horror into
public life. It has addressed a circular to all Liberal unofficial Mem- bers, asking whether they are in favour of making the Franchise -Bill the first item in the programme of next Session, and Whether they would extend the Bill to Ireland, with some other
• matters. A return of the answers is to be published when they are complete, but the editor already reports an approach to unanimity. Only ten per cent. of the Members as yet heard from object to put Franchise first, and only one Member objects to include Ireland in the scheme. The facts are interesting, but our contemporary should reflect on the reply received by a Boston editor to a circular asking all members of the State Legislature to state their religious faith. One senator told him that he believed in a God, and humbly hoped there was a heaven, "a place where there is less friction than in this world, and no editors."
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