The Times' correspondent on the prospects of the Unionists in
Wales, assured us on Wednesday that there are several seats to be won there by a very little earnest effort, if the Welsh magnates would but exert themselves with anything like the energy of the same class in England. The transfer of only 140 votes from the Gladstonians to the Unionists would, he says, seat five more Unionists for Welsh seats, while the transfer of 890 votes would give the Unionists nine additional Welsh seats. But great earnestness and laborious organisation will be needed to effect even the smaller transfer ; and it is a question whether the Welsh Unionists will not prefer their usual apathy and inaction to the labour and sacrifices needed for work like this. And we fear it must be admitted that the wrath of the Welsh Disestablishers is quite as likely to swell the majority against the Unionists, as the rising courage of the Unionists to swell the minority on the side of prudence and justice. At election-time, it too often happens that hate is a more powerful motive than charity, and that violent destructives achieve more than self-restrained enthusiasts. Still, the Welsh Conservatives should strain every nerve to vindicate the rather doubtful claim of Wales to some share of political prudence and sagacity.
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