The House of Commons, 1911. (The Times Office. is. net.)—
Here we have conveniently tabulated, as well as given in eztenso, the results of the recent Election. There is a science, or, we should rather say, an art, of political arithmetic, practised by some of our contemporaries with great pertinacity and bringing out results which are not at all "according to Cocker." Two things, among others, are abundantly clear when we take the figures as they are and subject them to the ordinary processes of addition and subtraction. First, the numerical result was not such as to justify a fundamental change in the Constitution. Take away the Nationalist vote and the Welsh, both given for special objects, and we get no decisive result. Second, the Government deliberately minimised the force of its appeal to the nation by causing the Election to be made on the old register. In London alone the poll was diminished by nearly forty thousand between January and December, 1910.
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