The miners of Morpeth have made between 2,000 and 3,000
claims to be put on the Register, and the revising barrister is said to have admitted them all with the exception of about 73, to the great satisfaction of the miners, who hope to carry a special representative of the mining interest by the help of these votes. They have fixed, it is said, on Mr. Thomas Burt, whom they intend to nominate at the next election, and whom they think they can carry. A few such special members for working-class constituencies would be very useful in the House of Commons, but it would be a misfortune if that kind of representation went too far,—as it is quite conceivable it might do under household suffrage,—fill we had a hundred or upwards of members of the House of Commons who were rather the delegates of special unions than. members of an Imperial Parliament.
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