The Sun. — London, England, 1859-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3,185 g. THE ATLANTICTELEGRAPH. THE PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF ENGLAND AND WALES. 4. ......._._ The future progress of submarine telegraphy may CLAIMS OF THE COUNTIES. be said to depend in a great measure upon the re - We present our readers to-day with some brief Such a scale w .e had indeed arran ged , but its mu ], twelve cm anti es - a difference, too, which has suits which will be achieved by th e company which has laid the p resen t def u nct wire between England tables, which we are confident will d o mor e to guide tiplicity of figures could only annoy the great ma- doubled sine :o 7831 !" We have therefore The secor el table shows, by a moment's and America. If the cable is capable of being re • them towards an impartial decision on the great jority of readers. calculated inspec stored to such a condition as will permit the trans- point in dispute between rival schemes of Reform the results, in a form 8o sim p le that they will re- Lion, the de dais ofpopulation, and o f pro p er ty as re mission of signals, all, of course, will go we ll . If, On the other hand, as is most probable, the wire is than any they have yet seen. We would even quire but small patience, indeed, from those who preselited b y the income tax assessment, and the are at all interested in forming an impartial con- average b e t Steen the two. If an ythi ng can ena bl e found to be useless, and the company fa il t o obtain advise them to preserve these tables withi n eas y a guarantee for the capital required for a new cable access,as a sure and ready means of testing the fair - e lusion , us to arrive .at a conclusion that should satisfy an from the Government, then the advocates of long lines of submarine communication are likely to be ness of the differe n t p ro p osals. The B a llot will, in of We have arranged our tables so as to illustrate the impa r tial Rid, this table will f urn i s h th e ma t er i a l s checked in their enterprises until such time as the course, be one clear issue between the two great claims o f b o th th e p ar ti es i n the impending for doing it„ Here are seen at once what members heavy loss entailed by the present unsuccessful artier . g ument has,_ however, settled that struggle. Our readers will see at a glance are allotted to each class by the Reform Act, by attempt has been forgotten in the mercantile world. I) • Ar The chances of restoring the line to a healthy con- question ; and not a single public meeting has been that we have compared the twelve most populous Mr. BEIGE sr, and by the Times. One amusing dition, as regards the transmission of messages, called, or could be called, not favourable to it by an d b us y counties of England and Wales with all result-a si triking one, too-is, that, taking PRO appear to be very small indeed; in fact, the tests for faults give such results as almost to lead to the immense majorities. On this question mystery the others. An obvious distinction between the PERTY alone( as the basis of representation, it belief that continuity has ceased and the wire is is impossible. It is s imply-" Shall the coercing counties is, DENSITY of population, Now, we find exactly reverses the allotment given us by the completely parted. Nevertheless, in spite of this c l asses a t elections re t a in the coercin g p ower or that twelve counties, reck on i ng th e W es t Ridi ng Ti mes i n it a competiti on f or f a i rness ' w ith M r. . most discouraging state of things, !there are not but imperfectly Yorkshire as one, haveall apopulationwhich wanting able men who express themselves confident not ?" The subject is ye t under- of that the wire is still capable of being restored to stood-the one, therefore, on w hi c h th e ru li ng gives less than two acres to each person-that the thickly-popui;lated counties, and 283 to its favourite good working order. Of these various schemes and classes and the journals in their interest, attempt remainder all give more than two acres to each thinly - people( I counties. The proportions required propositions only t w o d eserve no ti ce . Th e fir s t is made by a gentlem an o f s kill an d exper i ence , who to mystify us is, the re-distribution of the seats individual. The population also of the first class of by the income tax give 283 to the populous coun proposes to better the earth connections of the wire, taken from boroughs wholly or partially disfran. counties increases at more tb an double the rate of that ties and 217 to the others ! which at Valentia were always bad, and which now Two c l asses th e on chised. fight for them. One, the of the agricultural counties. They are, in fact, the The last co lumps in this table afford l from oxidisati on o f the plates, are worse than ever. y By enlarging t o a cons id e rable degree the present LANDED interest-an interest very small in its life and soul of the kingdom. means of deciding on the proportion of members surface of earth plates, and saturating the earth numbers, and wholly distinct from-indeed, in Our first table, therefore, gives the population fairly belonging to each class of counties, quite round them with a solution of sulphate of copper, there is no do u bt th a t th e con dition of the wire may many respects in antagonism with - the AGRictri, of each of the 12 counties at the time of the old apart from me re party considerations. be much improved. His plan is next to charge the VIRAL interest ; and the COMMERCIAL interest. Reform Bill, at the time of the last census, and their The third brief table speaks for itself ; but what wire itself till in a state of electrical equilibrium, - H is last class, properly, includes the farmers estimated population for the present year; that of does it tell us. P Unquestionably that Mr. BRIGHT and so keep it in circuit with a battery, and, on the make-and-break principle, disturb the electricity in and their la boure rs . Theoretically, they w ere th e o ther counties is given in the total only. This has been moderate indeed in his d eman d s f or th e the wire and transmit the signal. This gentleman always food manufacturers ; and they are startling fact results, that in 1831 the twelve busy coun ti es of peogress, increase, and wealth. Accord has made several experiments in the presence of the - daily assuming in their modes of production counties had more than a quarter of a million less i ng t o the scheme of the Member for Birmingham, Lord Lieutenant, in Phcenix-park, upon an uninsu lated w i re , upwards of 100 yards i n length, the appearance of manufacturers. Look at them inhabitants than the other forty counties,-but every member for the sparsely-p o p u l a t e d counties in water, and through which signals were freely sent. h o w we will, the land is but the raw material of that in 1851 they surpassed the forty in population wou ld s till represent 11,623 persons, £85,160 income This, however, is by no means a new discovery, as their manufacture, and the farmers and proprietors by upwards of a million, and surpass them this tax, and £797 assessed taxes, LESS than a member some time since messages were sent across the Ser pentine under water by means of a perfectly unin- of land have no interests in common beyond those year by more than one million eight hundred thou- for one of the . populous counties / ! tmlated wire. But during the experiment in Phcenix which exist between the American growers of cot- sand inhabitants ! All this time they have had but We defer additional remarks for the present, Park the experimenter not only sent messages ton an d spinners and weavers the of it at Man- the same number of Members , and that number is, merely observing that, in two respects, th ese tables through the co re o f th e w i re , b u t through the con ductor and th e ou t s id e me t a l c o v ering of the rope, chester. Give the farmers political independence, it will be seen,l62 Members fewer than their stand- are favourable to the members for thinly-peopled simultaneously. From the results of these expert- protect them, as we propose to do, by the Ballot still neighbours ! To this table we have added counties. First, In some manufacturing counties, meats the inventor thinks that, even in case of the from those who can deprive them of their raw ma- a column showing the proportion of assessed taxes like Glamorganshire, the development, though cooper conductor in the Atlantic cable being severed, he could still transmit signals along the outer cover- terial, the land ; and they and the borough voters paid by the Twelve and the Forty counties respec- rapid, has not broug ht the population quit e u p t o ink w i res, of spiral though this hope is not enter- w ill row in the same boat. tively. It will be seen that the former pay nearly the two persons per acre, at which we have drawn tamed either by eminent electricians or even by the officers of the company. Another proposition is to For these and other reasons we have always £lOO,OOO mo r e th an th e o th ers , an d are , th ere f ore , the line. Secondly, We have placed the unappro underrun the wire till the most serious faults on thought that the representation of the kingdom so far as this test, as well as that of population prided members in the plans of Mr. BRIGHT and the English and Newfoundland side have been raised could be best considered in counties. We would goes, entitled to more members. Indeed, as things the Times' with the populous counties. Were these and repaired. Such a plan, however, would not only be most expensive but hazardous in the ex- ascertain, by the tests of population and property, now stand, each member in the agricultural coun- members either distributed amongst the 40 counties, •, treme, as, in case of the cable parting under the what number of members each county ought to ties represents less than half the taxes represented or given to Scotland or Ireland, the case against strain of raising in deep water, even the value which it now undoubtedly possesses as a medium for the have, and then adjust, on the same principle, the by th e me mbers for the busy counties! While, the latter class of counties would be so much return current, in case of a new wire being laid, proportions which should be returned by the in regard to population, the difference, it will be stronger. would be utterly and totally lost. A costly attempt, and the boroughs likely to be attended with such injurious results, is therefore rather to be deprecated than regarded as 1.-The Parliamentary Representation of England and Wales, divided into Two Groups of Counties, according to Density of population and Annual 1 ameans by which the state of the cable may be im- rate of increase. 7 proved. In the meantime, as we have said, the con- 1. Eleven Counties, and the West Riding of York, in all of which the area gives less than 2 acres to a person (1851 census). The rate at which the dition of the wire is as bad as it can possibly be. population increases is 1.96 per annum. -About the middle of last October very powerful 2. Forty Counties and the North and East Ridings of York, in all of which the area will give more than two acres to a person (1851 census). The rate batteries were put in circuit at the Newfoundland at which the population increases is 0.967 per annum. station, in order to force the signal, if possible, past 3. A column is added for the Assessed Taxes paid, showing the relative number of seats to which the two groups of Counties are respectively entitled. ] the fault on the English side. This dangerous ex- 1 pedient, however, was attended with very slight I Reform Reform Population. Reform Assessed Taxes and Seats Population. I success, the only and the last signal which reached - Counties. Population. Act. Act. 1859. Act.in proportion to Taxes, Counties. 1851. the English shore being. the words, " Daniell's in 1831. Seats. Seats. (Estimated.) Seats. 1856. 1 circuit." Almost immediately after this a large and - _____ 1 most important f au lt was di scovere d a t th e N ew - 1 Chester 2 Durham 239,256 10 390,997 10 4,51,054 10 22,830 6 Durham 2 I foundland end, apparently about 400 miles from 3 Gloucester land, and caused b e y on d a ll d ou bt by th e us e of the 4 K en t powerful batteries referred to. The tests to discover 6 Lancashire 1,336,8.54 26 2,031,236 26 2,343,233 26 120,953 32 Lancashire 5 ( 3 6 Middlesex the exact distance of this fault from land have given 1 7 Nottingham the most uncertain and contradictory results. At 8 Stafford ono time the injury has appeared within 300 miles, 9 Surrey . and the tests for several days has given the dis- 10 Warwick tance as exactly 371. After that, however, the 11 Worcester distance fluctuated between 400 and 900 miles, 12 West Riding (York) 984 ,6 09 18 1,325,495 18 1,529,091 18 71,559 19 West Riding (York) 12 settling down finally at about 750 from land. This - Total fault is supposed to be even of a more serious nature Forty Counties, and tban that on the English coast. About a month N. &E. Riding (Yk.) 7,095,860 331 8,448,845 331 9,085,887- 331 912,629 237 ~ since the words " Henly" and " You understa n d" - - were received at the station at Newfoundland, and Fifty-two Counties... 13,996,797 500 17,927,609 500 20,020,589 500 £1,926,550 500 I . for a time revived the hopes of those in charge at that side of the Atlantic that successful means had SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 1" 1831. 1851. 1859. £ been found to restore the cable to working order. A D Average popu lation er seat in 12 counties of first ou 40 240 56,087 64,701 Assessed taxes per seat in 12 counties of first group Unfortunately, a comparison of dates showed that Do. do. P m 40 counties gr /2" ' of second table .. 21,440 25,525 27,449 Do. in 40 counties on the day thes e word s reac h e d N ew f oun dl an d th e - E station at Valentia was locked u p an d deserted, and Deficiency per seat in the 40 thinly-populated counties.... 18,800 persons. 30,062 persons. 37,252 persons. Deficiency per seat in the 40 thinly-populated counties 3,242 N the signals, therefore, were merely due to the con- atant and perplexing vagaries of earth currents. The estimated population for 1859 is obtained by reckoning the increase to have taken place at the same rate as that at which it increased between C The fault on the English side remains in just the the census of 1831 and the census of 1851. L -- same state and position as when it was first disco- The amount of assessed taxes paid is taken from the return moved for by Mr. J. D. Smith, July 29, 1858. B vered at the beginning of September last, about 270 miles from land. This distance, 'calculating IL-THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES IN TWO GROUPS. the amount of slack wire payed out during the 1. Twelve Counties, in all of which the area gives less than two acres to a person. Si last days of the submerging operation, would place 2. Forty counties, in all of which tha area gives more than two acres to a person. the fault at about 220 statute miles from shore, or 3. Columns containing the present number of seats-the number proposed by Mr. Bright, and the number proposed by the Times plan, Jan. 28, 1859. somewhere upon the now w e ll-k nown moun t a i n 4. The number of seats to which these counties are entitled, calculated upon population and property, and upon an average of both-for 1851 and for range which divides th e d ee p s o f th e Atl an ti c f rom 1859, in separate tables :- - the comparatively shallow waters of the Irish coast. The logs and diaries kept by those on board Ref 'm .5 0 Times' Calculated upon Calculated upon N Income Tax Act :If: si Plan, Population, Ave- 1859' Ave- K the Agamemnon during her las- successful cruise Counties. Assessment, Seats, ar ,s -1 Jan. 1851 Pro- Popu- rage of Population Pro- Popu- rage of Counties. show that this range was crossed between 4 and 5 1857. 1832. 4 28. Census. perty. lation. both. (Estimated.) perty. lation. both. Di CI o'clock on the afternoon of the 3d August, or more - a Chester £2,201,813 10 12 13 455,725 10 12 11 525,724 10 12 11 Chester 1 N than an hour before the time when it expected 2 Durham 1,675,049 10 12 10 390,997 7 H 9 451,054 7 11 9 Durham 2 In the ship would arrive upon it. It was intended 3 Gloucester 2,027,066 13 14 12 458,80.5 9 13 11 529,277 9 13 11 Gloucester 3 by Si r Chas. Bright t o a ll ow a grea t quan tity of 4 Kent slack cable to run while crossing this ridge, in 5 Lancashire 6 Middlesex 24,878,678 26 46 40 14 34 30 2,031,236 63 57 60 1,886,576 108 52 80 2,343,233 2,176,354 63 59 61 Lancashire 108 54 81 Middlesex 6 Li order that there might be amply sufficient to reach 7 Nottingham - 311,964 7 9 8 Nottingham the bottom of all inequalities which might exist 8 Stafford there undiscovered by the sounding line. But, 9 Surrey 'through the d e f ec ti ve an d most uncertain method 10 Warwick of ascertaining the speed of a ship at present in 11 Worcester vogue in the Royal Navy , the Agamemnon through- 12 West Riding (York)... 4,194,574ppr0priat 18 . 7 . 24 20 1,325,495 19 37 28 1,529,091 18 38 28 W es t Ridi ng (York) l2 K Not aed* 11 NS out the whole cruise steamed a t a grea t er rate t h an ' - - -..... as registered by the log line. Owing to thi s c i r - T we l ve Counties..... 169 253 273 278 £64,864,195 228 217 9,478,764 283 263 273 10,934,702 ---- Twelve Counties. - Ci - w cumstance the range of high submarine land was Forty Counties 49,834,136 331 250 283 8,448,845 217 237 227 9,085,887 217 227 222 Forty Counties. 01 reached at least an hour before the exp ec ted - - i - Ci - _ - - - time, the first intimation given to those on board 1 £114,698,331 500 478 1500 t 17,927,609 500 500 500 20,020,589 500 500 l 500 In 5....:....... - -.....1.1 a • 41,,, ...sc. , : ni,...,,.1 ~1...,.:.... Ca The future progress of submarine telegraphy may be said to depend in a great measure upon the re sults which will be achieved by th e company which has laid the p resen t def u nct wire between England and America. If the cable is capable of being re stored to such a condition as will permit the trans mission of signals, all, of course, will go well. If, OD the other hand, as is most probable, the wire is found to be useless, and the company fail to obtain a guarantee for the capital required for a new cable from the Government, then the advocates of long lines of submarine communication are likely to be checked in their enterprises until such time as the heavy loss entailed by the present unsuccessful attempt has been forgotten in the mercantile world. The chances of restoring the line to a healthy con dition, as regards the transmission of messages, appear to be very small indeed; in fact, the tests for faults give such results as almost to lead to the belief that continuity has ceased and the wire is completely parted. Nevertheless, in spite of this most discouraging state of things, !there are not wanting able men who express themselves confident that the wire is still capable of being restored to good working order. Of these various schemes and propositions only two deserve notice. The first is made by a gentleman of skill and experience, who proposes to better the earth connections of the wire, which at Valentia were always bad, and which now from oxidisation of the plates, are worse than ever. By enlarging to a considerable degree the present surface of ear th pl a t es , an d sa t u rating the earth round them with a solution of sulphate of copper, there is no doubt that the condition of the wire may be much improved. His plan is next to charge the wire itself till in a state of electrical equilibrium, and so keep it in circuit with a battery, and, on the make-and-break principle, disturb the electricity in the wire and transmit the signal. This gentleman has made several experiments in the presence of the lord Lieutenant, in Phoenix-park, upon an uninsu lated wire, upwards of 100 yards in length, immersed in water, and through which signals were freely sent. This, however, is by no means a new discovery, as some time since messages were sent across the Ser pentine under water by means of a perfectly unin sillated wire. But during the experiment in Phoenix Park the experimenter not only sent messages through the core of the wire, but through the con ductor and the outside metal covering of the rope, simultaneously. From the results of these experi ments the inventor thinks that, even in case of the cooper conductor in the Atlantic cable being severed, he could still transmit signals along the outer cover in 0. of spiral wires, though this hope is not enter tamed either by eminent electricians or even by the officers of the company. Another proposition is to underrun the wire till the most serious faults on the English and Newfoundland side have been raised and repaired. Such a plan, however, would not only be most expensive but hazardous in the ex treme, as, in case of the cable parting under the strain of raising in deep water, even the value which it now undoubtedly possesses as a medium for the return current, in case of a new wire being laid, would be utterly and totally lost. A costly attempt, likely to be attended with such injurious results, is therefore rather to be deprecated than regarded as ameans by which the state of the cable may be im proved. In the meantime, as we have said, the con dition of the wire is as bad as it can possibly be. -About the middle of last October very powerful batteries were put in circuit at the Newfoundland station, in order to force the signal, if possible, past the fault on the English side. This dangerous ex pedient, however, was attended with very slight success, the only and the last signal which reached the English shore bein the words, " Daniell's in circuit." Almost immediately after this a large and most important fault was discovered at the New foundland end, apparently about 400 miles from land, and caused beyond all doubt by the use of the powerful batteries referred to. The tests to discover the exact distance of this fault from land have given the most uncertain and contradictory results. At ono time the injury has appeared within 300 miles, and the tests for several days has given the dis tance as exactly 371. After that, however, the distance fluctuated between 400 and 900 miles, settling down finally at about 750 from land. This fault is supposed to be even of a more serious nature than that on the English coast. About a month since the words " Henly" and " You understand" were received at the station at Newfoundland, and for a time revived the hopes of those in charge at that side of the Atlantic that successful means had been found to restore the cable to working order. Unfortunately, a comparison of dates showed that on the day these words reached Newfoundland the station at Valentia was locked up and deserted, and the signals, therefore, were merely due to the con stant and perplexing vagaries of earth currents. The fault on the English side remains in just the same state and position as when it was first disco vered at the beginning of September last, about 270 miles from land. This distance, 'calculating the amount of slack wire payed out during the last days of the submerging operation, would place the fault at about 220 statute miles from shore, or somewhere upon the now well-known mountain range which divides the deeps of the Atlantic from the comparatively shallow waters of the Irish coast. The logs and diaries kept by those on board the Agamemnon during her las- successful cruise show that this range was crossed between 4 and 5 o'clock on the afternoon of the 3d August, or more than an hour before the time when it expected the ship would arrive upon it. It was intended by Sir Chas. Bright to allow a great quantity of slack cable to rim while crossing this ridge, in order that there might be amply sufficient to reach the bottom of all inequalities which might exist there undiscovered by the sounding line. But, 'through the defective and most uncertain method of ascertaining the speed of a ship at present in 'vogue in the Royal Navy , the Agamemnon through out the whole cruise steamed at a greater rate than - was registered by the log line. Owing to this cir cumstance the range of high submarine land was reached at least an hour before the expected time, the first intimation given to those on board being a sudden decrease in the registered strain - upon the dynamometer and an equally rapid falling off in the speed of the cable's paying out, the Agamemnon all the time maintaining the same rate registered by the log. Sir Charles Bright's attention was called to the circumstance, and he, seeing that the shallow water was approach ing, or had actually been reached, at once ordered Abe weights to be taken off the brakes, and allowed a quantity of slack cable to go overboard by the 'run. The doubt, however, is now whether the falling off in the strain and speed of the cable was observable at all till the top of the ridge had been gained, and, if this was the case, it is more than probable that the cable remained suspended upon some projecting points of the steep till its insula tion was gr ad ually inju re d an d d es t ro y e d by its Own weig ht. of cou rse, is only a conjecture, but it is quite born e the fault is situated exac tlyun the . distance at which arrival of the Agamemnon atlei9ine .d iding with the range is often mentioned as a slo is l i g g h e. b a n k, s h steep upon what ground it is so called l i n t is h a rd an though upon for but two soundings were taken upon the bottom and another at the top, i t—o neand thes e, at though only eight miles apart, show a difference' n elevation of 7,300 feet ! Of the nature of the inter vening vening space no one can, of course, form eany thing but conjectures, and whether the sides of this submarine mountain are broken by ravines and precipitous cliffs, in the same way as the sides f mountains on land, nothi ng b ut a close and accurate series of soundings will ever determine. The Atlantic Company, in case all methods to resuscitate the cable fail, have applied t o Govern ment for a guarantee of 41 per cent. on a fresh capital of £500,000. This application is based not alone on the ground of State necessity for such a means of instant communication with our North .American provinces, but also on the precedent of the Treasury hivingalready given guarantees to other submarine lines, especially to the Red S ea Company, whose capital of £BOO,OOO is guaranteed to the same amount. If the principle of a guarantee for a submarine line to India is admitted, it appears difficult to see how it can be withheld from a line to America, for none can foretell the hour when such events may occur as may render telegraphic com munication with Canada not only desirable, but of vital importance to the interests and well-being of the nation. During even the brief time that the Atlantic telegraph remained in use ose message alone, countermanding the embarkation of the 39th and 62d R eg i men t s f or I n di a , pro b a bl y save d t hi s e f i ntrY Some £50,000 sterling. If the i mme nse importanc e of such a means of communication was thu s shown in the course of a single fortnight, what results line is laid as can not be anticipated when such a remain in work be implicitly depended upon to whi r ch t years ? From the additional information . now bees gained as to the best means of submer ging exists but that, in th e deep-sea cables, no doubt a fresh wire being laid, contractors could a b S e e fof to undertake to perform the work suceessfull p y nnd for %given sum, in short, to insure both compa n Government against loss. No proposition, howev e r y eha a n n ee ~ from any a in the share Atlantic Company has much market without the sanction of Government guarantee. Reform Seats. Act. in proportion to Taxes, Reform Population. Reform Assessed Taxes, and Seats Population. Population. Act. Act. 1859. Counties. Counties. 1831. 1851. Seats.lBs6. Seats. (Estimated.) 1 Chester 2 Durham 239,256 10 390,997 10 451,054 10 22,830 6 Durham 2 3 Gloucester 4 Kent 5 Lancashire 1 , 336,854 26 2,031,236 26 2,343,233 26 120,953 32 Lancashire 5 6 Middlesex 7 Nottingham 8 Stafford 9 Surrey . 10 Warwick 11 Worcester 12 West Riding (York) 984,609 18 1,325,495 18 1,529,091 18 71,559 19 West Riding (York) 12 - - - Total Forty Counties, and N. &E. Riding (Yk.) 7,095,860 331 8,448,845 331 9,085,887- 331 912,629 237 Fifty-two Counties... 13,996,797 500 17,927,609 500 20,020,589 500 £1,926,550 500 - SUMMARY OF RESULTS. 1831. 1851. 1859. £ Average population per seat in 12 counties of first group.. 40,240 56,087 64,701 I Assessed taxes per seat in 12 counties of first group Do. do. m4O counties of second table .. 21,440 25,525 27,449 Do. in 40 counties * Some seats were left unappropriated by Mr. Bright, and the Times also. We have supposed them to be added to the twelve counties ) to make the totals correct. t Mr. Bright's plan gives 17 seats to Scotland and 5 to Ireland, making up 500. lll.—Three Tables showing the Numbor of Seats allotted respectively by the Reform Bill of 1832, by Mr. Bright's Plan, and by the Times Plan, January 28, 1859, to the population and property of England and Wales, in Two Groups of Counties, twelve densely populated, and forty thinly populated:— Reform Act seats Reform Act seats 'Deficiency in the forty counties for the Twelve Per Seat. for the forty Per Seat. per seat. Counties. Counties. • . . _ Population, 1859 Income Tax, 1857 Assessed Taxes, 1856 I £5,999 , £2,757 £3,242 Assessed Taxes, 1856 Times' Plan, Jan. 28, 1859, including in First Group the 11 unappropriated Seats. Population, 1859 Income Tax, 1857 Assessed Taxes, 1856 , Mr. Bright's Plan, including in First Group the 7 unappropriated Seats. Population, 1859 250 / 36,343 persons 11,626 persons Population, 1859 Income Tax, 1857 £797 Assessed Taxes, 1856 Assessed Taxes, 1856 MAMA-HILL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. A FRENCII SOLDIER DESERTING TO TILE _RUSSIANS. of you afterwards ? " " I remained a prisoner in the town." " After some time you had a desire to return to France, and you came back as stoker in the Don steamer. Did you know the fate that awaited you as a deserter ?" " Yes." "It was in October last that you arrived at Marseilles ?" " Yes." "On the Bth of November last you got into a quarrel with several Russian sailors in a public-house at La Jolliette, and were arrested by a police-officer ?" " Yes, and I told him that I was a deserter." " Did you not tell him that you had received 30f. or 40f. from General Gortschakoff for the information you gave him ?" "No ; what I said was that on Ist Jan., 1858, I, as a deserter, received 900 f. from the Russian Government; and that pre viously I had 20 kopecks (about 16 sous) a day." " You said that you had nothing to fear from the French authorities, as you had become a Russian subject." "I said that I had become a Russian, but I did not say that I had nothing to fear from the French authorities." "Did you not declare you would sooner come to France to die than live in Russia?" " Yes, sir." Some sergeants and an ex-soldier of the 39th then proved the various facts touched on in the interrogatory, and a police officer detailed the man's arrest at Marseilles. One of the sergeants and an ex-soldier who had been prisoners of the Russians at the time of the desertion stated that when they and the other prisoners in the Northern Fort at Sebastopol knew that he was a deserter, they called him a scoundrel ; and added that even some other deserters abused him, because, in addition to the crime of deserting, he had indi cated the position of the French mines. The public prosecutor insisted that he ought to - be convicted not only of desertion, but of having borne arms against France, and having given the enemy infor mation calculated to injure the operations of the French army. The tribunal, however, convicted him only of desertion, and for that it condemned him to death. Had he been convicted of the other two crimes, he would have been condemned to degradation as well. In the course of the proceed ings it was stated that Grosjean, the man whom the prisoner stabbed, was killed in the attack of Sebastopol on the 18th o f June. On Friday evening, Jan. 28, the scientific depart ment of the above college was formally opened by an eloquent lecture on "Common Things, in Educa tion," by the Vice-Principal, Dr.:Reid. At half-past seven p.m. a large and distinguished assemblage of ladies and gentlemen ; chiefly the patrons and friends of the numerous alumni of the college began to as semble, when the lecturer proceeded, amidst the heartyapplause of the audience and the marked atten tion of the students. After cautioning his audience against the danger of falling into a course of in struction calculated to stim u l a t e th e memor y, m ore than to dr aw f or th th e powers o f thought and faculty of f observation, the lecturer proceeded, by a great variety of amusing and lucid argumentative details, to sh ow anwthaat the yo ung s h ou ld b e instruc t e d to observe understand th e common o bj ec t s o f t h e created wo r ld be shown by around them. Much of this might minds of lads ve ry simple experiments, and the were quite alive to learning and appreciating such t I tnowfieelaboratingen information and en forcing the the great statement to the essential differenceellb Lord Macaulay, as importance and knowledge, and eloquentlmye zan en forcing the paramount i d infinite ained that superiority of the. latter, Dr. lainde.ee the practical plans of Dr. Muir's arrangements for the scientific department of the college ha d b een most anxiously matured, and Were founded on a deep conviction that in, the young " th e great inlet for improving the mind is the observation, and that whatever tends to create habits of observation. keeps open the principal avenue to knowledge." Other approaches to the mind are useful as side entrances, but the observation is the street-door. If we can excite this faculty and let the youths use it in their own way, we lay the founda tion of more knowledge than by any mass of facts which we could cram into their heads. The lecture lasted nearly two hours, being, as we noticed last week, introductory to a course of Friday evening lectures on Chemistry and applied sciences, by the Principal, Vice-Principal, and several of the Professors of the College, in their various depart ments of science and literature. Captain Spencer, the able and popular author of " Travel's in Turkey, Asia, and Africa," is to lecture at the college on Friday, Feb. 18, at half-past 7 p.m. We doubt not but this will prove a most interesting and inst ruc ti ve evening. Any lady or gentleman ° is free to attend these lectures on the preseneation of a private card. The military tribunal of Lille, the day before yesterday, tried a man, named Legoff, for having in April, 1855, when a soldier in the 39th Regi ment of the line, before Sebastopol, deserted to the Russians. " You were, on the 22d of April, 1855, in the camp at Sebastopol ?" said the president. " Yes," answered the man. "You had a quarrel with a comrade named Grosjean ?" " I do not re member." " Several persons present say that you and Grosjean quarrelled whilst on dirty, and that a corporal silenced you ; but that, after returning to your tent, Grosjean called you a dirty Breton,' and challenged you to go out to fight ; that you did go out, and that you stabbed the other twice with a knife." " I do not remember." "After this you went away in the direction of Sebastopol, and you ran so fast that, though pursued, you could not be overtaken. You arrived at the enemy's camp—were you ar rested there ?" " No." " You were confined in the northern fort ?" " Yes." " You found some French soldiers there P" " Five." " They asked you if you had been taken prisoner ; you at first pretended that you had, but at last you confessed that you had deserted, and you falsely said that you had done so because you had stabbed with a bayonet an officer who had struck you for refusing to work in the trenches ?" "I did not say stabbed with a bayonet, but that I had given him a blow with the butt-end of my musket." " The tale, however, was not true ?" " It was not." " The other prisoners suspected that you were a deserter, because you had on epaulettes, though in your division the men employed in the trenches did not wear any, and they questioned youraeb remained e. a o ni n tn etfaho four - and-twenty with iatnbhjde_tethtwep I, Nothing was said on the s"ubject, and, in fact, I had not epaulettes on." You once left the Northern Fort, and were were absent 24 hours, and on he"yNsoay, en ot t h y m h .s Ts " ?; your return you h a a l t w y a you said you had been taken before Gen. Gortschakoff, that you had dined with him, that he aused you to be dressed like a Russian officer , took you to the Flag. staff battery, and that yell:indicated to him the situation of the French mines?" " I did not say that." "You were taken to Simpheropol P Yes, on the 27th or 28th of April." " How long did you remain there ? " "T o t h e month of June, and I was with the same prisoners as in the northern fort. Afterwards, however, I left for Tom bock, and they went to Odessa." •6 What became THE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT CAMBE RWELL , Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East s.ur roy, held an inquest on the body of the unfortunate you ng woman, Mary Ann Hum, in who met her death fr om gunshot w ounds accidentally infl icted by her brother, at Camber well, as mentioned our columns yesterday. S evera l witn&ses were examined, but no further facts were elicited than those we have already given. The jury returned a verdict of "Death by inzadveutare." THE MAILS; &C.—SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 2.—The Royal Mail Compatiy's steamer Magdalena, Capt. Baynton, took her departure to-day with the mails for the West In dies, Central America, Mexico, the Pacific, &c., £l2O in specie, jewelleiT value £10,550, and a full cargo. She has 68 passengers, including Col. Mores Cooper and his secre tary, the Lord Bishop of Guiana, Capt. and Mrs. Harvey, Mr. Peter Loys and family. The screw-steamer Barcelona, Captain Don Jose Tapias, arrived to-day from the Spanish ports. of his promised Reform Bill : SCHEDULE A. MEMBERS TO SERVE IN PARLIAMENT. Arundel, ax . Honiton, as . Ashburton, xx Lyme Regis, xx Thetford, xx Totness, xx . Harwich, xx . Dartmouth, as Evesham, xx . Wells, xx . Reigate, xx . Richmond, xx Northallerton, xx Marlborough, xx Caine, xx . Leominster, x . Lymington, x Thirsk . . Ludlow, x . Andover, xx . . Knaresborough, xx Petersfield • . Tewkesbury, x . Maldon, x . . Horsham . . Abingdon . . Launceston . • Brecon, x . . . Ripon, x . . . Cirencester, x . . Liskeard . . . Huntingdon, x Chippenham, x Bodmin, x Dorchester, x . Great Marlow, x Devizes, x . . Hertford, x . . Radnor . . Guildford, x . . Malmesbury . Lichfield, x Midhurst, xx Westbury . • Droitwich . . Wycombe, x . Wareham Cockcrmouth, Bewdley Hasten Christchurch Eye Bridport, z Bridgenorth, a . Malton, a Woodstock Totals . . 332,590 199,713 18,163 87 IRISH BOROUGHS TO CEASE TO RETURN MEMBERS, NINZ IN NUMBER. Direct Taxes EI Q rotulrion Payable £lO 41. n 1857. i Electors.Z 2,964 612 80 1 3,8.54 912 184 1 4,854 1,444 123 1 5,565 1,792 142 1 5,683 954 228 1 5,094 1,532 91 1 6,517 1,692 226 1 7,673 1,674 217 1 7,942 1, 4 00 197 1 Portarlington . Dungannon . Downpatrick . Kinsale . . Mallow . . Enniskillen . Coleraine . . Lisburn . . Bandon . . Totals. . 51,146 12,412 1,553 9 SCOTCH CONTRIBUTORY BURGHS WHICH ARE NO LONGER TO CONTRIBUTE TO RETURNMEMBERS TO PARLIAMENT, 21 IN NUMBER. Direct Taxes Population Payable £lO in 1851. in 1857. Electors.X • 447 178 14 / . 476 437 41 / . 599 124 17 1-6 . 605 118 23 1-5 . 863 616 79 1-5 . 934 507 30 1-5 . 1,064 423 46 1-5 . 1,092 146 38 1-5 . 1,105 378 54 1 5 . 1,148 250 70 I . 1 , 195 194 33 1-5 . 1,247 655 37 1-7 . 1,450 815 46 1-7 . 1,568 364 45 / . 1,652 312 72 . 1,697 574 45 1-6 • 1,742 535 73 1-5 . 1,988 377 33 1-6 . 2,264 926 128 1-6 . 2,381 275 41 1-5 . 2,687 756 112 1-5 New Galloway . Kintore . . Dornoch Culross. North Berwick Inverbervie Inverary . Lochmaben . . Lauder . . . FortrOse . . . South Queensferry . Crail • . • Pittenweem . . Kingthorn . . Whithom . .* . Cullen . . . Oban Cromarty . . . Inverary . . Sanquhar . . Kirkcudbright . Total . 28,204 8,975 1,091 SCHEDULE B. BOROUGHS, 69 IN NUMBER, EXCEEDING 8,000 AND UNDER 16,000 INHABITANTS, IN FUTURE TO RETURN ONE MEMBER EACH. THOSE OF THEM, 34 IN NUMBER, NOW RETURNING TWO MEMBERS TO LOSE ONE MEM • BER EACH. Irish Boroughs are printed in small capitals ; and Scotch Borough in italics. Direct Taxes Populaton Payable £lO in 1851. in 1857. Electors. ATHLONE • . Newport, x . Wallingford . . . Buckingham, x . . Tavistock, x . . . CARRICKFERGUS . . Rye . . Wilton, xx . • . Tamworth, x . . . Chichester, x . _ . Peterborough . Banbury . . . ARMAGH . . Stamford . . . . St. Ives • . . CASHEL . . . Poole, x . . . . Weymouth and Melcombo Regis, x . . . Shaftesbury . . . Windsor, x . . . Lewes, x YOUGHAL . . . Haverfordwest . . Morpeth Beverley NEW Ross . . . Frome DUNDALK . . . Bridgewater ENNIS Newcastle -under-Lynn . Truro . . Grantham . . . Warwick Whitby Tiverton x . . . Newark Barnstaple . . • Clitheroe Pontefract . • . DUNGARVAN . . . CARLOW Sansbury . . . Bedford • . . Cardigan • • • Kendal . • . Stafford Hereford Great Grimsby . . Sandwich . • Beaumaris . • • Stirling WEXFORD • . • Scarborough Hythe . . . • Durham . . . Peurhyn and Falmouth . Winchester . . • TRALEE • . . Bury St. Edmund's St. Andrew's, Cupar, Anstrut her, and Sit- renny Taunton 14,182 14,176 Wick, Kirkwall, Dingwall, and Tain SLIGO . . NEWRY • • 14,212 14,393 14,734 14,938 15,094 15,204 585 337 448 928 447 309 Rochester Berwick, CLONI • • • Dunfermline and Inver keithing . 16,688 4,216 Totals , • 779,916 387,000 33,359 102 MR. BRIGHT'S REFORM BILL. We have been favoured with the following Schedules of Disfranchisement and Enfranchise- ment which Mr. Bright will propose as a portion BOROUGHS IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 56 IN NUMBER, WHICH ARE TO CEASE TO RETURN ANY MEMBER OR [The column of direct taxes payable by each borough is made up from Parliamentary returns fur the year 1857, and includes Schedules A and D of the Property and Income tax, being the tax on real property and on trades and pro fessions, the Tax on Inhabited Houses, the Assessed Taxes, and the Land Tax. The Assessed Taxes and the Inhabited House Tax are not levied in Ireland. Boroughs marked x were to have lost one member, and those marked xx were to have been wholly disfranchised by the Government Bill of 1854. The column of £lO electors includes £8 rated electors in Ireland.] Direct Taxes Population Payable £lO 6 in 1851. in 1857. Electors. 2,748 1,866 130 5 4,427 1,844 193 2 3,432 1,556 198 1 3,516 1,771 293 1 4,075 2,685 217 2 4,419 2,204 295 2 4,451 2,167 297 2 4,508 1,848 301 1 4,605 3,279 305 2 4,736 4,484 228 2 4,927 4,838 297 1 4,969 4,864 342 2 4,995 1,844 299 1 5,135 4,723 250 2 5,195 3,675 145 1 5,214 2,745 340 2 5,282 3,242 322 2 5,319 3,064 352 1 5,376 3,244 394 2 "5,395 3,631 226 2 5,536 2,634 226 2 5,550 3,176 333 1 5,878 3,741 318 2 5,888 3,012 247 2 5,947 3,545 349 1 5,945 3,939 240 1 6,005 2,942 349 1 6,070 4,034 343 1 6,080 3,593 357 2 6,096 6,771 316 2 6,204 2,836 353 1 6,219 5,170 338 2 6,283 4,755 327 2 6,337 2,584 360 2 6,394 4,899 429 2 6,523 2,705 310 2 6,554 4,295 355 2 6,655 5,903 462 2 6,653 3,435 362 2 6,740 4,912 646 1 6,998 4,420 325 2 7,012 4,486 424 1 7,021 2,472 285 2 7,029 3,076 289 1 7,096 5,233 379 1 7,179 3,881 354 1 7,218 3,207 407 2 7,275 3,875 0 1 7,318 4,284 384 2 7,328 2,771 329 1 7,475 4,719 297 1 7,531 3,288 333 1 7,566 2,781 464 2 7,610 4,738 340 2 7,661 4,631 553 2 7,983 3,366 326 1 9,224 8,296 5.153 3,647 3,881 10,332 6,288 5,393 SCHEDULE C. - - BOROUGHS, 41 IN NUMBER, EXCEEDING 16,000 AND UNDER 25,000 INHABITANTS, IN WHICH NO CHANGE IS PROPOSED, EXCEPT WITH REGARD TO THREE OF THE LARGEST SCOTCH GROUPS WHICH ARE TO BE DIVIDED, AND TO HAVE ONE MEMBER FOR EACH DIVISION; AND AN ADDITIONAL MEMBER TO BE ADDED TO KILKENNY. Direct Taxes Population Pay - able in 1851. in 1857. 16,168 23,162 16,592 7,253 16,614 6,160 16,700 6,556 17,011 16,452 £lO E Electors. , 4.1 403 2 Lancaster Dumfries and Annan Denbigh . . Pembroke . . . Hastings . . . Haddington, Dunbar, Jed burgh, Musselburgh, and Portobello . . 21,125 Boston • . • 17,518 Lincoln . . 17,536 Glocester . . 17,572 ..dyr . . . . 17,624 Montgomery . . 17,887 Canterbury • • 18,398 Kidderminster . 18,442 Flint . . . 18,814 Hamilton, Lanark, and _Lin lithgow . • 18,851 Whitehaven . . 18,916 Carmarthen . . 19,234 Inverness, Forres, and 11rairn 19,238 King's Lynn . . 19,355 Colchester . . . 19,443 .Elgin, Ban jr, and Peterhead 19,238 Shrewsbury . 15,681 DROGHEDA •19,829 LONDONDERRY . . 19,973 Cardiff • . . 20,424 Wenlock . • . 20,588 Maidstone . . . 20,801 .Kirkaldy, Burntisland, and Dysart . . . 21,240 _Kilmarnock. 21,443 Reading . . 21,456 Dumbarton, Port Glasgow, Renfrew, and Butherglen 21,922 Wakefield . . . 22,057 Carnarvon . . . 22,210 Dover • . . 22,244 Irvine, Campbeltown, Trig ton, and Stranreer . 22,273 Falkirk and Airdrie 23,187 Warrington . . 23,363 Arbroath and Breehin . 23,623 Perth • . . 23,835 KILKENNY • . 24,182 Montrose and Forfar . 24,549 612 1 521 2 1,137 1 10,305 11,223 14,744 17,989 5,895 8,131 10,868 8,790 8,624 1,104 1 864 2 824 2 1,001 2 581 1 843 1 1,072 2 506 1 663 1 668 / 541 1 769 1 835 1 975 2 790 2 756 .1 1,121 2 372 1 723 1 740 2 1,284 2 6,647 4,342 18,275 1,388 2 964 1 756 1 1,012 2 Totals 1,044 1 795 692 1 846 I 947 1 541 1 699 . 821,553 470,772 33,034 5 SCHEDULE D. BOROUGHS, 43 IN NUMBER, EXCEEDING 25,000 AND UNDER 54,000 INHABITANTS, TO RETURN" Two MEM BERS EACH, OF WHICH 16 BOROUGHS NOW RETURN ONLY ONE MEMBER EACH. Direct Taxes Population Payable in 1851. in 1857. Gateshead . . . 25,568 10,186 Walsall . . . 25,680 22,593 Carlisle . . • 26,310 14,750 Monmouth . . . 26,512 21,836 Northampton . . 26,657 18,956 Aylesbury . . . 27,791 13,636 Worcester . . . 27,528 24,595 Chester . • . 27,766 30,336 Cambridge . . 27,815 26,753 Oxford • • . 27,843 19,765 Chatham . . . 28,429 11,817 South Shields . . 28,974 13,394 Rochdale • . 29,195 22,833 Tynemouth and N. Shields 29,170 17,648 Ashton-under-Lyne . 29,791 14,973 Shoreham . . 30,553 20,667 Huddersfield . . 30,880 27,372 Yarmouth . 30,879 14,945 Leith 30,919 54,980 Bury • . 31,262 24,757 Wigan . . 31,941 16,655 WATERFORD . . 32,601 9,333 32,914 22,955 33,512 26,052 £lO Ei c, Electors. 739 1 1,067 1 825 2 1,582 1 1,520 2 1,308 2 1,602 2 1,099 2 1,980 2 1,638 2 1,339 1 866 1,205 Ipswich Halifax GALWAY Cheltenham 34,146 35,051 3,142 32,232 988 1 971 1 1,552 2 1,415 1 1,268 2 1,375 1 1,056 1 Southampton 35,305 28,237 Cricklado Stroud Greenock Coventry Dudley Macclesfield York Derby Exeter Swansea East Retford Blackburn Paisley Devonport Plymouth Stockport Totals 746 2 622 2 1,516 2 1,218 2 461 2 2,258 1 2,313 2 1,521 2 1,221 2 1,405 1 888 2 919 1 1,103 2 1,691 2 2,101 2 2,272 2 1,337 1 2,262 2 1,325 2 1,305 1 2,390 2 2,462 2 1,403 2 . 1,490,153 965,191 60,087 SCHEDULE E. BOROUGHS, 23 IN NUMBER, EXCEEDING 64,000 AND UNDER 127,000 INHABITANTS, OF WHICH Fouß BOROUGHS NOW RETURN ONE MEMBER EACH, AND THE REST Two MEMBERS EACH, TO RETURN IN FUTURE THREE MEMBERS EACH. Direct Taxes. Population Payable £lO. 6 in 1851. in 1857. Electors. 54,240 46,904 3,142 2 57,407 56,018 3,107 2 60,584 43,940 2,565 3 61,171 30,695 1,724 2 63,080 29,872 985 1 67,394 42,598 2,153 2 68,195 41,271 2,387 2 69,542 44,594 1,824 2 69,561 15,710 1,550 2 69,673 75,593 3,670 2 71,973 65,924 2,346 1 72,096 29,840 3,526 2 72,357 24,182 1,978 2 78,931 65,456 2,343 1 78,354 53,274 3,283 2 84,027 55,224 1,983 2 84,690 74,994 3,074 2 85,108 43,981 4,009 1 87,784 1 0 ,41 7 3,551 2 103,778 62,848 ' 2,723 2 105,784 58,026 6,907 2 114,232 37,704 2,275 2 119,748 66,112 3,499 2 Bath . . . Nottingham . Leicester . . Bolton . . . Merthyr Tydvil . Sunderland . Norwich . . Preston . . LIMERICK Brighton Aberdeen Portsmouth Oldham Dundee BELFAST . Stoke-upon-Trent Hull . • Salford • . Newcastle-upon-Tyno . Bradford . . . Greenwich . . . CORK . . . Wolverhampton . Totals . . 1,799,709 1,162,078 64,604 42 SCHEDULE F. BOROUGHS, 12 IN NUMBER, EXCEEDING 127,000 AND UNDER 270,000 INHABITANTS, INCLUDING THE BOROUGH OF THE TOWER HAMLETS, DIVIDED INTO TWO DISTINCT BOROUGHS. OF THESE BOROUGHS, ONE NOW RETURNS FOUR MEMBERS, AND THE REST, INCLUDING THE UNDIVIDED TOWER HAMLETS, RE TURN Two MEMBERS EACH. IT IS PROPOSED THAT, IN FUTURE, EACH OF THESE 12 BOROUGHS SHOULD RETURN FOUR MEMBERS EACH. IT IS INTENDED THAT EACH OF THESE BOROUGHS SHALL BE DIVIDED INTO TWO WARDS, RETURNING Two MEMBERS EACH; EACH ELECTOR TO BE REGISTERED IN ONE WARD ONLY. Direct Taxes Population Payable in 1851. in 1857. 127,869 1,097,028 135,310 81,474 137,328 144,640 160,302 219,341 172,270 112,422 172,863 185,961 232,841 192,781 241,611 524,176 251,345 198,909 265,252 168,950 269,555 151,684 269,555 151,684 £lO i 4 Electors. A ? 13,582 4 5,612 2 8,378 2 8,297 2 6,400 2 10,604 2 8,780 2 13,355 2 18,522 2 5,103 2 12,668 1 London . . . Sheffield . . Bristol . . . Edinburgh . Leeds . . . Southwark . . Birmingham . Westminster . Lambeth . . DUBLIN . . . Tower Hamlets, A Tower Hamlets, B 12;668 Totals - - - 2,436,101 3,229,050 123,969 24 SCHEDULE G. BOROUGHS, FIVE IN NUMBER, EXCEEDING 316,000 IN HABITANTS, NOW RETURNING Two MEMBERS EACH WHICH IT Is PROPOSED SHALL IN FUTURE RETURN SIX MEMBERS EACH. IT IS INTENDED THAT EACH OF THESE BOROUGHS SHALL BE DIVIDED INTO Two WARDS, RETURNING THREE MEMBERS EACH; EACH ELECTOR TO BE REGISTERED IN ONE WARD ONLY. Direct Taxes Population Payable in 1851. in 1857. 316,213 394,947 323,772 348,129 329,097 337,032 370,957 641,578 375,955 • 602,305 £lO • Electors. A 17,826 2 20,707 2 18,418 2 20,377 2 13,050 2 Manchester Finsbury Glasgow Marylebone Liverpool Totals 1,715,994 2,223,991 90,078 10 SCHEDULE H. ENCILAND, NEW BOROUGHS, SEVEN IN NUMBER., TO HAVE MEMBERS. Population in 1851. 16,633 15,622 20,760 20,828 24,175 56,533 44,053 Gravesend Leamington Stalybridge Burnley Birkenhead Chelsea • Kennington Totals 198,679 No. of INionabers. SCHEDULE I. ENGLISH COUNTIES AND DIVISIONS OF COUNTIES TO RAVE 18 ADDITIONAL MEMBERS. Population in 1 851 Electors. Members. Present Pr 11IeSelesro Westßiding of York, 2 divisions . 794,888 South Lancashire, 2 divisions . . 500,711 York, North Riding 176,224 North Lancashire 316,801 South Devonshire.. 217,884 West Kent . 231,711 South Stafford . 206,305 West Cornwall . 165,167 North Essex . 165,541 South Essex 173,99.5 Lincolnshire, parts of Lindsey . 192,074 West Norfolk . 168,979 East Somerset . 172,189. West Somerset . 160,512 37,153 20,460 12,015 12,105 9,625 8,993 11,202 4,542 5,553 6,169 12,435 7,179 10,735 7,510 SCHEDULE K. IRISH COUNTIES, SEVE N IN N UMBER, TO WHI CH 5 18 PROPOSED TO GIVE EIGHT ADDITIONAL MEMBNRS' Population Members. Profol u in Electors. now. I"' 1851. Melnb" . 180,158 . 208,684 . 251,983 . 255,661 . 320,817 . 331,569 . 563,676 Wexford . Limerick . Antrim . Tyrone . Down . Tipperary . Cork . . 5,582 6,243 8,206 8,423 10,690 7,262 13,473 2,111,848 58,885 1 7 1 22 SCHEDULE L. SMALL COUNTIES IN SCOTLAND TO BE UNITED, -- Al4 MEMBERS TRANSFERRED TO LARGE COUNTIES. Population Present ProP° 4 in Electors. No. of N°•,„;ro. 1851. Members. Menviv . 9,809 362 1 • )1 . 10,738 394 1 Selkirk Peebles 20,547 756 2 1 The member gained by the union of these couw ties to be given to Lanarkshire. Sutherland . . 25,194 261 1 Caithness . . 31,987 779 1 57,181 1,040 2 1 • The member gained by the union of these CO'w ties to be given to Aberdeenshire. Lanark . • . 167,506 3,124 1 2 Aberdeen . . 130,031 4,682 1 2 Bute and Arran to be added to Ayrshire, and the united constituency to return two members : Bute and Arran . 16,608 489 1 12 Ayrshire . . 143,257 3,976 1 ) ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULE A. Direct Taxes Population Payable £lO No. of g in 1851. in 1857. Electors. norosg England . . . 332,540 119,713 18,163 b 6 9 Ireland . . . 51,146 12,412 1,558 9 Scotland (Contribu -0 tory Boroughs) . 28,204 8,975 1,091 21 Totals . . 411,890 '141,100 20,812 86 GENERAL ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULES, SHO W ' ING THE RESULT OF THE pßopos , . CHANGES. FIRST DIVISION. BOR OUGHS TO R ETURN NOT MORE THAN TWO MEMBERS EACH. Direct Taxes Population Payable £lO No. of 31 ,. e ,:d in 1851. in 1857. El ec t ors. B oros. Prop' Schedule B 769,916 386,900 32,689 69 69 Schedule C 821,553 470,772 33,034 41 55 ScheduleD 1,490,153 965,191 60,087 43 86 Totals 3,081,622 1,822,863 125,810 152 210 SECOND DIVISION.—BOROUGHS TO RETURN MORE TH,-• Two MEMBERS EACH. Direct Taxes Population Payable £lO No. of Menliti in 1857. iu 1857. Electors. Boros. Propos e. " Schedule E 1,799,739 1,162,078 64,604 23 6 ?, Schedule F 2,436,101 3,229,050 123,069 12 1,°,, Schedule G 1,715,944 2,223,991 90,078 5 ou Totals 5,951,784 6,615,119 278,651 40 147 Note.—lt will be seen from a comparison of the ,O r° Divisions of the General Abstract here given, that the tie presentation of the large B oroug h s even as now proP °s' is greatly below that which th e y may f a i r l y c l a i m o n the ground of population, taxation, and number of electors. The following Abstract shows the Borough Population of England, Scotland, and Ireland by the arrangements proposed in th e f or egoing Schedules ; the Number of Ten -Pound Electors, 0 0 Number of Members, and the Population for each Member. In the proportion of Members for Eng' land are included Seven Members not yet apPr,° priated, and for which additional new Borougns may be advantageously created : Population No. of £lO No. of Th3 fo P r ul ta i:lll in 18M. Electors. Members. membe r ' 17,319,961 417,441 301 24,3 V, 1,107,918 48,577 40 27,6,!, 827,284 28,075 38 21,77. England Scotland Ireland Total . 19,255,163 494,093 379 COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK—FEB. 2. We have to report a good supply of wheat at marke t ' and prices at about the same as last week, with a very fai r business. Fine barley in fair inquiry, and at late rate!' Beans scarce and is up. Oats a small supply at about late rates. White wheat, now, 48s to 52s Red do. 4os to 45s Old white 483 to 52s Red do. 40s to 45s Barley, malting 36s to 42s Barley, grinding— 27s to V 2 Oats, old, .. 27s to : 47 " New do 30s to 3 34 Beans. 483 to 5 Peas ....—s to --4 HULL—FEB. 2. A fair supply of wheat, which was in good condition, and sold fully at last week's prices. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr. 4os Od to 480 ()(1 „,, Old red ...... ~ New white .. ~ New red .... ~ Dantzic, Konb., &c. old white 5 38 08 8 Dutch, Belgian, and French 4ss Od to 46s v 2, - Baltic and Hamburg, red . . 438 Od to 458 Od Od to 5 40 3 : OA O d St. Petersburg and Riga, Old 3Bs Od to 39s uu Barley.... English malting 33s Od to 37s Od Grinding 2Bs Od to 30s Oa Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and D an i s h 29 s Od to 31 8 u' Grinding 26s Od to 288 Od,, A 0at5...... English, old Archangel and Riga, per st O s lld t o 11. la Friesland and Dutch OBll-id to 10 Od Swedish and Danish Oslld to Oslit i d Beans ....English, old, per qr. 448 Od to 468 Od New pigeon New tick. 39s Od to 40s Od Egyptian 3ss Od to 36s Od, Peas Foreign breakers Grinding 3Bs Od to 49s Od Tares ....Winter Bss Od to 90$ ! i d Indian Corn Linseed, feeding 6OB Od to 558 u 4, crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 5 oto £9 10 I n ' Foreign BlO oto 816 L; Rape cakes 6lO oto 615 0 Bones 512 6to 515 0 DUBLIN-FEB. 1. At this day's market there was only a moderate attend ance of buyers, and the demand was dull f or w heat, except for the best qualities, which met a brisk d e mand. We do not alter our quotations of Friday for any article. a. d. s. d. s. d. 0. Wheat, white 22 6to 25 6 Do new ..... 11 6to 13 0 Do., red 2l 6to 23 0 Bere . lO otol2 0 Do., new Barley Oats ........ 11 otol3 0 B a k ers ' fl our Do., black.... 10 6toll 0 Indian corn [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment.—Skin dis" eases are prevalent everywhere, and everywhere, it i 8 known. that Holloway's matchless oi n t m e n t is a specifiG remedy. The demand for it is extraordinary. When the ointment is applied to the diseased parts the effect is won derful. It is more like that of magic than medicine; but the relieved patient need not let his astonishment a nd delight be dashed with fear or doubt as to the ultimate result of so sudden an action on the system, for this famous ointment is as innocent and benign as it is powerful ; it does not throw the disease inwards, but insinuates itself through the pores of, the skin to the original cause of the evil, and effects a thorough cure. BIRTHS. ClinisTlE.—On the Ist inst., at Hoddesdon, Mrs. Chas. P. Christie, of a daughter. GREENHOW.—On the 2d inst., at Esher, Surrey, the wife of W. J. Greenh.ow, Esq., barrister-at-kw, of a daugh ter. WGREGOR.—On the Ist inst., at 2, Gloucester-place, Port man square, the lady of Sir Charles R. M‘Gregor, Bt., of a daughter. MILLE3.—On the Ist inst., at Howrah House, East India road, Poplar, Mrs. Mills, of twin sons. MARRIAGES. BRUCE.' BURGOYNE.—On the Ist inst., at St. Gabriel's Church, Pimlico, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Bruce, 23d Royal Welch Fusiliers, to Mary Caroline, only daughter of the late Colonel Sir John Montagu Burgoyne, Bart., of Sutton -park, Bedfordshire. DEATHS. BLAIR.—On the Ist inst., at Beechwood, near Edinburgh, Alexander Blair, Esq., Treasurer of the Bank of Scot land. nEssuYnE.—On the Ist inst., at Barton Court, Canter bury, the Rev. W. J. Chesshyre, canon of Canterbury, &c., aged 53. CO WLMT.—onthe 31st inst., at 1, Park-crescent, Portland place, Samuel Cowley, Esq., aged 81. PHILLIPS.—On the Ist inst., at his house, 39, Gordon square, Charles Phillips, Esq., one of the Commissioners of H.M.'s Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, deeply regretted by his sorrowing family and a numerous circle of friends. PAGET.—On the 2d inst., Victo - ria Alexandrine, tho child of Lord Alfred Paget, aged 11. 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