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At the Conservative meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Chaplin alone appeared

hostile to the proposed measure, and especially hostile to the division of counties into areas each of which was to return only a single Member. He sugared ill for the prospects of the Conservative Party under such a provision ; but Mr. Grantham, (M.P. for East Surrey), opposed this view, and thought that in his neighbourhood the proposed system would work very well. Lord Claud Hamilton seemed to dislike the division of Liverpool into nine single-seated areas; but, on the whole, the Conservatives were not at all inclined to resist the proposal for reading the Bill a second time this week.

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