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The Editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, in a leading article dealing with the Election of the Aldermen on the London Council, says:—

"But what is far more serious is the effect, the very serious effect, which the gerrymandering of the Council will have upon the cause of Home Rule. Let us give credit where credit is due, and recognize frankly and without demur the fact that the Council has been gerrymandered chiefly, if not entirely, owing to the earnestness and ability with which the Star has advocated the course which Mr. Firth carried to victory yesterday. Now, it is no breach of the anonymities of journalism to say that the Star is Mr. T. P. O'Connor—one of the ablest and most industrious of the lieutenants of Mr. Parnell—whose journalistic talents we insisted upon repeatedly long before his present paper came into existence. Now what is it that Mr. T. P. O'Connor has done? He has taught all men that when Parliament creates a subordinate assembly to carry on the work of local selfgovernment, it is in accordance with Irish ideas of fair play to [167