10 AUGUST 1867, Page 3

There was a separate division against the application of the

minority principle to the City of London, but of course with no -effect, the only additional argument being the historic dignity of the City. It would have been most unfair to exempt the central borough of the group in which the minority is least represented. There must be a hundred thousand Tory families in the metro- politan district, if there is one, and under the existing system they cannot get even one member, though in its view of local interests Toryism is in London more different from Liberalism than in any borough in England.