The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31.

Inlll=ky the resent ministry to the
111 Br St. Alban will have the effect
el Vim *not er debate on ream; for, whim
that bee retilived the royal anent, and bosom
law. die • More of Commons will have to consider
the gaol el electoral distribution apropos of the
mote at their disposal.
Lent JOHN ittNazu. avoided electoral redistribu-
tion in his late Reform Bill, expressly on the plea
that any attempt in that direction to alter or amend
the inequalities of the reprrsentatiun, would ine-
vitably produce a claw oontlict of the most exciting
character. Lord Muir told the House of Lords,
the first night he appeared in it as minister, that
"his endeavour would be to terminate the strife of
ohm" which of late years hos exercised so perni-
cious an influence over the welfare of the kingdom."
Certainly, no measure could be less calculated to
" abate the strife of classes," than a partial measure
of electoral redistribution. The very attempt to ap-
propriate the scats which are vacant by the due-
franchiseinent of Sudbury, and which will become
so when St. Albans ceases to be a borough, raises
questions of very grave political importance. Upon
what principles is the distribution to be made?
What two localities are to have the advantages of
representation ? 'f he government seize upon these
Nets es eagerly as they seize upon a vacant gauger.
gip or a dropped deanery. Do they intend to dis-
pose of them with the same object, to strengthen
their own party, and oblige their friends ?
In suggesting to the House of Commons that it
might be well to give members to such towns as
Birkenhead and Burnley, Lord ions Rusoxix in
erect laid down, on the 9th of February last, the
principles by which he should be regulated in &epos-
tog of any vacant seats. Lord JoIIN would give nom-
inee to Birkenhead and to Burnley as to two large
=nted towns situated in districts which have
or proportionate representation. Cheshire and
loatathire are both considerably under represented,
sod the fact that they are so is entirely to be attri-
buted to the existence in these counties of large
towns which send no members to the great council
of the nation. And if we examine the representa-
tion thoroughly, we shall find that this is common to
every district in the kingdom ; and that wherever
there is an excess of population to representation,
there is some town or another which returns no
wissabar. The excess of population in Middlesex is
midety attributable to the disfranchisement of such
area districts as Chelsea and Kensington. In Surrey
is Croydon, a town with a very larr popula-
tion, returning no member to the House of Gammons.
In Kent, Gravesend, Margate, and Ramsgate are
all esrepreeented towns. In another large county,
I Staffordshire, West Bromwich is without a
amabar ; and in Yorkshire and Lancashire, which
is both most disproportionately represented, there
are ten or twelve largo towns which send no repre-
sentative to parliament. This is very important to
be borne in mind, and we are anxious to impress it
as the public ; for it is exceedingly likely that in
the camas of future debates this question will pro-
duce, counties will be referred to as under repre-
Den o.4l,which, in point of tact, would have quite
their la lee of representation if their large towns
weirsizesely enfranchised.
is in Suffolk; St. Albans is in Herts.
Thane essaties are neither of them under repre-
sented's propel to property, population, or In-
telligente. Um dee contrary, in comparison with
other Blots, they have a very excessive share of
represaistion, as it would not be difficult to show.
In Sun* therein ao unrepresented town that can
claim elsidesaiint in Harm there is 00l see--
ths lo Wald. which elm a of
WO. moddwhi.elebeed with woe
111:11.1hiimitaitin of tewit :hen so is.,
amt ere unseparated altogether,
ana eCrly Verey esoondary. Them. Ilia,
=Tames if St. Albans and Sudbury en die-
the counties in which they are Illy
elle /aid have any share of the representaden of
eelte than places are, for their delinquencies,
Ace fie. disfranchised esestitaasela are town con-
sellase, it is quite arios that the new meal-
tososiss lid be town aosMiitmirs. Tbe ißefbem
most wronged the towns imaasely. by Mahan,*
bon then bliss 70 and SS reprenatativee. The
Megileh esenties, Sestleolk balsa, and Wake. all
repsonletioirt the exams of
the Ina& roesesi rbet of the
epee net seat L 4 Any to add
ass masts to partiveler Wen
hinds under
throe arrengemett 4at Rem eriseelY AN&
Sygh:lll:Won al dist:r=hie
wpm= between town and
easely seporrotation, these are valid grounds', for
iffeekieS. Properly dimmest the counties,
reed
irmall Sod that as counties they are quite
an mpreesnied at paint; and that there are
them, ming the West Biding, South Unm-
ade% sod Mdesen, that son present, OS counties,
wadi to eifildseal ropressetation equal to the
aim donde hone= Tower Gimlets, Glea-
geteti Liverpool, end
Mr. JOUR STUMM, the Illeegeee for Newark—who,
eatirding to 001' tory omiumporanies, was to have
hem Berms Somebody or other, Lord Chanadke of
=itbut who retake Mr. Joist SWART,
s it is aged. to his own chards--Mr.
Joist STUART, Ilestihnen, has lose reading
the pare of an swain is which the
thine et the " o'celies '1 an set forth, sa
to as such as they pt. Mr. lOIN &MART, not
being Lad anwoolintliss bend it neotenary to
&seem sanrtge ei =glebe hasselA and he
asomesealy a anise the
_paper ea
intendies to 'esnninen ems
the Vt. Album' Dim-
kaailionent 11l to sae_ provides M the :stern
to portioneat of ate aillionel "
them the
ossaty of of owl another fie
Inuerown That nada has al
palabl only oat, again letnesAssiannt
what earthly g Mr. *mat ids not
,seek a motion it pane oar ampreilmodso to
..wades. Lanark is a meaty with 0 ipso
Ir=ollo,ooo. Bat of this amber are
within the parliamentary limits of the sky
damper, and nearly 60,000 more are residint
Mendlton. Lanark, Airdrie, Ratherdiso, sod ether
pion, which are contributors to the lslhiek ad
Air &nine of burghs so that the reel esemity
is set above 160,000. The osostlay
is $,470 i is other words, cite-half ef the
menhir of the woodboomy of Eclat Barmy, sod sew
MEOW the man of the emetitweacy of Maaboxy
or Masylsinws. To a gnu extent the repainte-
d.. this =is inland by largo Land
y by the Duke of Kum,
Pyrairdriftairnon. Now, moth a estmty
as this by Abe side of or the West
Birks& peas" me, whet pindhle dein it
eon hen lne shin ell earn annitenesies
la the sonnengmeed of in refilleeelethe And
if Lenerkshin los se oldie et all, Inversonshire, to
use an ',ABMs" has still Ira. The mid= and
electorate of that essay do net opal that of a large
English town: of nosy a town witiel only sands
one wreak, to the Mama of theassoe. Inverness-
eldrs, it is true, hen a brie earage i bet we do not
know that that awsritates a dela to ageseentation.
Or if Mr. Stunt Q.C., dose eonsidsr that a valid
reason far Ong levereen.shire as Whim' nem-
bee,. why, we naiad Mee that there is
pest epee Mat Men, and that SaliabalMt
innernsated.
The fast Dens to be that Mr. Sense has
read his text-book to very little perpoes. It is
admitted that " several of the Scoteh make
am a pit of population and coneliteeney,
badly weetky of he name." That which the
writer Mileatsd wee net an addition to the nuts-
* Air Jewel kr. such small cesammities as
tlithusee, and Peebles, bet
lbr the larger town—the
greet ennitanoles of Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dirndl*

and Paisley, dm throe last of whkh aro only represented
by MO umber each. This would be a most proper
didss to the Scotch constitmasies, and as for the
Scotch senuties, if any of them deserve or retrire ad-
ditional representation, it alight he wily given to
them by a marrangonesed w wield throw two
my small adjacent soundee together, and give a
amber, taken from AWN tea brier population.
Bat, without farther obseevetkon, we congratalate
relhentere that thenteenigneetion will soon Immersed
by her MAJEIVEIeI advisees. It will do the ewe as im-
aorsaity 'flood to moths rotas beams& ventilated,
and the oportions of our represenistlas properly
dilemma. In whatever way the goverameaktreat
the .0 jut. unless they treat it fairly, they can be
mot by as overwhelming masa of facts, statistical
andsimd and we wish Mr. BENJAMIN DIMRAELI
joy the prospect which is before him if, when ho
doss oaks up his plan, he should attempt to
disturb the flied proportion between town and
county.