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CHAPMAN AND HALL, LIMITED,

11, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.

1883.

[The Right of Translation reserved.]

LONDON:

FRINTED BY J. S. VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED,

CITY ROAD.

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SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles Victor Hugo: La Légende des Siècles

VENABLES, G. S., Q.C.

VOGEL, Sir Julius, K.C.M.G.

WARING, Charles

WATERFIELD, O. C.

WILBERFORCE, R. G.

Charles, Bishop of St.
Andrew's

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THE

FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW.

No. CXCIX. NEW SERIES. JULY 1, 1883.

THE FUTURE OF THE RADICAL PARTY.

It is from one point of view a striking testimony to the success of the Bright Celebration at Birmingham last month that its influences should have been felt in Parliament itself. Speaking in the capital of English Radicalism, Mr. Bright and Mr. Chamberlain afforded suggestive material for critical inquiry and indignant comment by the leaders of the Opposition in the two chambers of the Legislature. The language employed by Mr. Bright merely raised a question of taste and usage; that employed by the President of the Board of Trade raised a question of hard political fact. Correctly to be understood, the address of Mr. Chamberlain on the 13th of June, in the Bingley Hall, must be taken in connection with that which he delivered some weeks earlier, when he gave similar offence to Lord Salisbury by declaring that the great landlords resembled the lilies of the field in that "they neither toiled nor spun." Mr. Chamberlain returned to the subject of the landlords the other day, when he pointed out that it was incumbent upon them-rather than upon the Government, at the expense of the public-to provide better accommodation for the working-classes in town and country. Strongly as Lord Salisbury may disapprove the policy which this proposal indicates, he selected for his special censure a statement of Mr. Chamberlain's of, as it might be thought, a comparatively inoffensive character. The constituencies, he asserted, were more Radical than the House of Commons; and if the House of Commons is to be the instrument or expression of the popular will, it must be by the introduction of organic changes into its composition. Alter, said Mr. Chamberlain in effect, the electoral body and you will alter the elected. An extended suffrage will mean the redistribution of political power upon a basis of equal electoral districts, and to ensure that the candidate whom the majority of voters in each locality wish returned may take his seat, the payment of Members of Parliament is imperative.

Such, according to Mr. Chamberlain, is the direction in which the

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