Both theMembersforBrighton have addressed their constituents.- Mr. White discredited the
cry for more defences as a groundless panic, the cure for which would be an increase of income tax ; held that the British Army presented a maximum of cost and %- minimum of efficiency ; distrusted all Array reform, though he wished for it ; advocated the total and immediate abolition of the Command-in-Chief ; would abolish purchase, and would not intervene anywhere. Mr. Fawcett endorsed his colleague's remarks about the Army, but was entirely opposed to any dis-
regard of treaties such as ours with Belgium. The major portion of his speech was, however, taken up with civil questions, and a defence of his own course as representative of the extreme Left, who, he said, never deserted the Liberal party except when 'Government was showing aristocratic or Conservative proclivi- ties. He pledged himself to resist the dowry for the Princess Louise,—which Mr. White also professed to dislike,—and an- mounced himself to be in theory a Republican, though not a Revolutionist.
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