FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, SUNDAY

     With respect to the course of the Government, and their attitude towards the House and the Opposition, the Sunday Gazette says:—

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     ‟THE REDISTRIBUTION BILL.—Without professing to give an accurate account of the provisions of the Bill for the Redistribution of Seats for England and Wales, to be introduced tomorrow night, we believe we can indicate some of its leading features. No borough is to be absolutely disfranchised. Some will be grouped together; some now returning two members will lose one. By this process about fifty seats will be available, to be divided between large boroughs and counties The following boroughs are likely to be amalgamated, for electoral purposes, in some instances with each other, or with large existing constituencies, and in others with neighbouring towns now unenfranchised; and by this means, believe, about eight to ten seats will be available:— Abingdon, Arundel, Bewdley, Brecknock, Calne, Christchurch, Dartmouth, Droitwich, Eye, Frome, Helston, Horsham, Launceston, Liskeard, Lyme, Malmesbury, Midhurst, Northallerton, Petersfield, Rye, Shaftesbury, Thirsk, Wallingford, Wareham, Westbury, Wilton, Woodstock. The schedule of those places will be docked one member each, and, at the same time, subside into a portion only of a borough constituency, will, it is believed, include the following:—Andover, Bodmin, Bridgnorth, Bridport, Buckingham, Chichester, Chippenham, Cirencester, Cockermouth, Devizes, Dorchester, Evesham, Grantham, Harwich, Hertford, Honiton, Huntingdon, Leominster, Ludlow, Lymington, Malden, Malion, Marlborough, Marlow, Newport (I. W.), Richmond, Ripon, Stamford, Tamworth, Tavistock, Tewkesbury, Thetford, Wells, and Wycombe. Most of these localities will in future be known as but the designation of a group of boroughs, like the Welsh and Scotch and some few English—Sandwich and Penryn—at present. It is to be remembered that the boroughs in the first list are represented by about an equal number of Liberal, and Conservative, and ‟Adullam” members, while the boroughs likely to lose one member each have 25 belonging to the former and 40 to the latter category.”