Parliamentary reform : a letter to Richard Freedom, esq. on the re-distribution, extension, and purification of the elective franchise / by a revising barrister.

  • Eardley-Wilmot, John Eardley, 1810-1892.
Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Parliamentary reform : a letter to Richard Freedom, esq. on the re-distribution, extension, and purification of the elective franchise / by a revising barrister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Totnes . . Population. 4,419 Thetford . . 4,075 Lyme Regis 3,516 Ashburton . 3,432 Honiton . . 3,427 Arundel . . 2,748 In all these the population exceeds 3,000, except Arundel. Lord John Russell proposed to include the following boroughs in his Schedule (A.), as being under 2,000; but it must be remembered that he probably spoke from the Census of 1821, a period of ten years before, the Census of 1831 not having then been completed. The population of all of these now ranges above 5,000:— Midhurst . . Population. 7,021 Petersfield . . 5,550 Wareham . . 7,218 Malmesbury 6,998 Buckingham 8,069 Woodstock . . 7,983 If therefore the principle of population is to be made the basis of parliamentary disfranchisement at the present time, it is clear that it must range at a much higher figure than it did in 1831; nor can the difficulty be solved by making the number of Registered Electors to constitute the limit of disfranchisement. The following O 13 boroughs had less than 300 registered electors each in December last:— Andover . . Population. . 5,395 Reg. Electors. 241 Ashburton . . . 3,432 236 Arundel . . . 2,748 208 Caine . . . . 5,195 160 Harwich . . . 4,451 272 Honiton . . . 3,427 273 Knaresborough . 5,536 242 Marlborough . . 5,135 271