Mr. Stephen Gwynn was returned as a Nationalist Member for
the borough of Galway on Saturday last by a majority of 424 over his opponent, Captain Shawe-Taylor, one of the chief supporters of the Dunraven scheme of Devolution. Mr. Gwynn, who is a distinguished man of letters, and who in the past has often contributed to these columns, will no doubt in many ways make an excellent Member of Parliament; and since there are bound to be Nationalists in the House, we do not in the least regret his election. We must, however, point out how gross is the scandal of any Member being returned to Parliament who has not even received a thousand votes. With such an electoral anomaly before their eyes as that involved in the return of a Member to Parliament by so- minute a constituency as Galway, it seems incredible that the Liberals .should think it right to force through the Plural Voting Bill without giving any guarantee that the plural voting involved in towns like Galway should not go unamended.
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