THE INEQUALITY OF REPRESENTATION is strongly illustrated by comparing boroughs having only one member each. The following are those (with their population) which the Reform Bill permitted to retain one representative :—
Arundel, Sussex | 2,624 |
Ashburton, Devonshire | 3,481 |
Calne, Wiltshire | 5,128 |
Christchurch, Hants | 5,994 |
Clitheroe, Lancashire | 6,765 |
Dartmouth, Devonshire | 4,595 |
Droitwich, Worcestershire | 2,831 |
Eye, Suffolk | 2,493 |
Grimsby (Great,) Lincolnshire | 3,700 |
Helleston, Cornwall | 3,584 |
Horsham, Sussex | 5,763 |
Hythe, Kent | 2,265 |
Launceston, Cornwall | 2,460 |
Liskeard, Cornwall | 4,287 |
Lyme Regis, Dorset | 2,756 |
Malmesbury, Wilts. | 2,367 |
Midhurst, Sussex | 6,578 |
Morpeth, Northumberland | 4,237 |
Northallerton, Yorkshire | 5,273 |
Petersfield, Hants | 1,838 |
Reigate, Surrey | 3,497 |
Rye, Sussex | 4,031 |
St. Ives, Cornwall | 5,666 |
Shaftsbury, Dorsetshire | 8,618 |
Thirsk, Yorkshire | 4,599 |
Wallingford, Berkshire | 2,467 |
Wareham, Dorsetshire | 2,746 |
Westbury, Wiltshire | 7,588 |
Wilton, Wiltshire | 8,057 |
Woodstock, Oxfordshire | 7,404 |
The following are the boroughs (with their population) on which the Reform Bill conferred the privilege of sending one member each :—
Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire | 22,678 |
Chatham, Kent | 21,341 |
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire | 31,411 |
Dudley, Worcestershire | 31,232 |
Frome, Somersetshire | 11,489 |
Gateshead, Durham | 19,505 |
Huddersfield, Yorkshire | 38,454 |
Kendal, Westmoreland | 10,225 |
Kidderminster, Worcestershire | 20,753 |
Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire | 42,917 |
Rochdale, Lancashire | 24,091 |
Salford, Lancashire | 52,200 |
South Shields, Durham | 9,082 |
Tynemouth, Northumberland | 55,625 |
Wakefield, Yorkshire | 45,648 |
Walsall, Staffordshire | 34,274 |
Warrington, Lancashire | 18,981 |
Whitby, Yorkshire | 11,682 |
Whitehaven, Cumberland | 11,854 |
The thirty old boroughs have a population of only 4,450 for each member; the twenty new have a population of 26,700 for each. The old boroughs, containing 133,600 inhabitants, send thirty members to Parliament; the new, containing 534, 190 inhabitants send only twenty. Such was the justice meted out by the Reform Bill.—Manchester Times.