2 APRIL 1910, Page 3

In a letter published in Tuesday's Times Sir Henry Kimber

points out that the constitution of the House of Commons requires reform no less than that of the House of Lords. "Perhaps," he says, "the mote in our brother's eye may appear less when compared with the beam in our own." One half of the electors send 454 Members to Parliament, and the other half send 216. On the other hand, one half of the Members represent 5,239,300 electors, and the other half represent only 2,466,417. One of the most striking examples of the necessity for redistribution is that it is possible to select two electoral areas of 166,000 voters, one of which returns four Members and the other forty-five.