Lord Salisbury made a brilliant speech to the mass meeting
at the Town Hall, held in the evening of Tuesday, -on some of the principal features of which we have dwelt at length in another column. We may add here that he regarded agricultural depression as more or less due to Free-trade, but that he regarded any interference with Free-trade as certain to produce evils far greater to the nation at large than any evil involved in our existing agri- -cultural depression. As to the proposal of the Gladstonians to bring in a new Reform Bill based on the principle of "One man, one vote," Lord Salisbury deprecated taking up all the time of the Legislature with ever new Reform Bills, which have a tendency to absorb all other questions into themselves, but declared that when the proper time for a Reform Bill -came, he should have no objection at all to reconsider the proper distribution of power, which would, however, involve taking not only their superfluity of power from individual 'voters, but their superfluity of power from over-represented constituencies, and increasing the power of London and the -thicker populations, while diminishing that of Ireland, Wales, and the more distant parts of England and Scotland.
