British Representation Necessarily Partial.

But, it may be said, "Representation in the British Parliament has ever been at best but the representation of a section of the people only, and therefore anomalies like these are of little importance, as, so long as the people are well governed, their right in the matter is maintained as it is not necessarily a part of that right that the people shall themselves govern; and where will you find people who in the past have been so well governed as in England by its 'governing classes'?" That a section of the people has for a long time monopolised the functions of government in England is only too true; but that essentially good government has been the rule under their reign cannot be page 12 maintained with any degree of truth. The whole struggle now witnessed in the United Kingdom is the fearful but natural outcome of centuries of misrule and wrong-doing towards the bulk of the people inflicted by successive members of the hereditary legislating and administrating families there. Education having permeated the middle and upper strata of the great lower classes, discontent, indignation, and a stem resolve to readjust the social balances has taken hold of the public mind, and terrible awakenings are in store for the, in many cases, innocent inheritors of a system of stony-hearted tyranny and proscription, whose control, however entrenched by centuries of usage, must soon be swept away before the onslaught of an intelligent democracy thoroughly recognising its mission and its power.