The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-18 00:00:00

NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, AND ESSEX.
TO TUC IDITOk Or 1111 DAILT NEWS.
SlR,—Those persona who are resident in, or well
acquainted with, different counties are best competent M
judge of the practical effect of Lord John %weeWs so-called
reforms, and to estimate the animus with which the Pre-
mire sets to work. lam a freeman of Norwich, a free-
holder of Suffolk, and • freeholder and resident in Bases,
and I volunteer • few notm on the changes proposed in
these three counties.
Nottroth.—The addition of Denham, Swaffharn, sad
Brandon to the trumpery borough of Thetford will simply
Mertens the influence of the great adjacent landed pre-1
prieton. Be the voters few or many, they will, if unpro.
meted by the ballet, be thus controlled and coerced. A
reference to any Norfolk poll-book will show that through
entire districts all the voters were accustomed to go for tory
or whig at the bidding of their landlords, and to thew will
now be added the equally, if not more dependent consti-
tuency of shopkeepers in small market towns.
St rrotx.—The CM of this county is still morn gross
and flagrant. In the first Reform Bill (1830), Eye was la
Schedule A, but before the second bill passed, the new
census showed • marvellous increase in the population,
which I suspected to be an erroneous return. I ascer-
tained, at any rate, that it was avert' untrue one, and drew
Lord John's attention to the fact, saying that the truth or
falsehood of the return might be easily verified in a single
day. Whether this step was taken I know not, but the result
we the arkilelea et several sijohdas parishes to Bye. all of
mei* se MN es the little berme& iteri4 Ism sad
me, the property of Sir Edward Karrirea, who her, of
seam, bees UM member ever slum. Now, what Was the
obvious honest remedy ter this groat abuse sad raoastroas
delusion? If not to disfranchise Eye, at least to join to it
seam towns of extensive trade and thriving population,
such as Woodbridge and Lowestoft, both seaports, in which
large and (especially in the latter) very increasing business is
carried on. There, however, remain unreprmented, and to
the miserable borough of Eye two others of the same charac-
ter are added, Framlinglam andDebenham. A century ago
these places were (like many other towns in Suffolk),
chiefly inhabited by yarn-makers and their journeymen,
but this trade has lung since departed, and with it their
only staple business. They lie in districts remote from any
high read and have not only the appearance, but the reality
ot mere decrepitude.
Essex.—ln this county the rotten and infamous borough
of Harwich is, as in Suffolk, to be yoked to more imbecility
sad rottenness. Coggeshall ant llalstead, • century ego,
were scats of the baize and hocking manufactures, wards
ham long been utterly extinct, and the towns are (like the
new Suffolk boroughs) decayed and still decaying. Meet.
while the county town—Chelmsford, a large and thriving
plow, largely increasing year by year, is passed over.
otr, beggarly, corrupt Maldon, remains intact.
These instances reMce to show the spirit in width Lord
John has framed his new Reform Bill. It is a cheat and a
sham—and by honest and consistent reformers will be
treated in the way it deserves.
A REFORMER OF FIFTY YEARS' STANDING.
Feb, 14.