Mr. Spencer Stanhope, the new Member for the South division
of the West Riding, made a speech at Scisset on Saturday which contained one noteworthy remark. He was altogether against the concession of the vote to the county householder. It would be a revolution tenfold greater than any yet accomplished, for it would destroy the representation of property. At present property was represented in counties and or/ovation in boroughs, but if the labourer were admitted, only occupation would be represented, a. most dangerous innovation. We might ask how property under the Ballot will be represented in the counties, where the tenant-farmers. who are not proprietors have it all their own way, but we will let that pass. What we want to note is that the Tories are shrinking from household suffrage in the counties, which at first they were disposed to advocate. The tenant-farmers detest the idea, and the squires, as usual, must, willing or unwilling, go with the tenant- farmers. They are wise. With the really powerful representa- tives of property, the great Peers, all shut up in a gilt box, the county householders might take a very different view of the neces- sities of the " land" from that taken by- the squires.
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