Mr. Austen Chamberlain, speaking to the East Worcester Liberal Unionist
Divisional Council on Wednesday, made an announcement of no little political importance. It was to the effect that the time was coming when the Government ought to deal with the inequalities in the distribution of electoral power, which, in spite of the changes in and growth of our population, bad not been altered since 1884, or more than seventeen years ago. The monstrous, and from the Unionist point of view the dangerous, injustice of the present system has again and again been noted by us, and we are delighted at this indication that the Government have at last become awake to the eviL It is needless to say that no tinkering with the subject will suffice, and that unless the Irish repre- sentation is reduced to its just proportions the nation will not rest satisfied. England must have no more Members than those to which she is entitled by population, but the same rule must be applied to Ireland, which now has some thirty Members too many.
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