The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

ELECTORAL EIBTORT OF ENGLAND.

This is a midieed eassillcad, knead on
the north, fir some little elmnin, hy a pert of Desbredre ;
on the north-east by lolik• from whirls it is vary
perfestly_separat__ od by as eli Ronal zoaddziesthmsosainsoadt-
mit by Oee • es the sesthsweit br
cm the west by WoMseleraire ; end es ike seirekwait by
Staffordshire. Its mein Misery 10 Nen=
From the point at whether time rands. ot
Shropshire, and VI orwidsrlike sobs, is the sink, to • pent
in r
the south, in tim emleliessbeed el Lens Omens, the
this ems* is My Wise. lie prie
breadth leleegsensthperofe hamlet Sedan of Weredeenelne, mar
Redditon, ma die west,-1, the beans of Nonlmspeneldre,
at a point seer Busby; es Me ere,—thirty-three mar. Of
the several delasind maim of this county, ens lies
to the west, in Me nelhood of Bro , in
Worcestershire ; another frd portion is in
°inch-
west, neer Shipsten-on-Ster, senossded bg=ioeseis of
Worcestershire and Glonedemshke. The of
the three coanties are very demeaned at this pent. The
area of Warwickshire has set yet been very accent* NS-
pitted. At the date of the reported to the Repel
Society of Agriculture, and aeeasrfig to the later ones of
1811, it was estimated at KO mean miles, convene* to
639,760 square acres. But by the later, end no ern min
coffee, surveys connected with the serriag eat of scanty'
boundaries, the area was to be Sued 1197 sines miles,
considerably lees than 600,000 acres. In area War-
wick ranks, then, as the twenty-hank ot the English ementies,
In point of population it is the eleventh, being net below
Olorestenbire' and next above Cheshire. In density of
population it is the fourth, being exceeded only by Middle-
sex, Lancashire, and Surrey, In this particular. In 1831
there were 375 inhabitants to a square mile in Warwickshire.
In 1841 there were 448 inhabitants to a square mile. The
increase of population, between the first and last of the
flee decennial periods, here stated has been each as to have
very nearly doubled in 1841, compared with what it was in
1801. In 1801 it was 208,190; in 1811 it was 228,736 ; in
1821 it had become 274,392. In 1831 it had risen to 336,988 ;
in 1841 it was 402,121. Thu from 1811 to 1841 the
peeve:rive inmate on the return for 1801 had been at
the four decennial periods subsequent to 1801 as re-
spectively, 10, 311, 611, and 93 per cent. The county is
situated, chiefly, in what may be called the basins of the
Severn and the Trent, and some small portion of it in that of
the Thum It kr, by means of other rims and some fine
canals which traverse the shire, an excellent inland nartga-
end it is intersected by the London and Birmingham
(or Great North of England) and other railroads. It has
also a great extent ef excellent high or turnpike roads. At
the period of the Domesday survey, Warwickshire was
divided into ten hundreds. These are now reduced in
eareber to four ; namely, Barlichway, Hamlingford, King-
ton, and Knightley; besides the libertics of Coventry.
These district divisions contain one city (Coventry), the,
market town of Warwick ; the three municipal boroughs of
Birmingham, Stratford-on-Avon, and Sutton-Coldfield.
They comprise, besides, the markettowns of Atherstone
Alcsanr, Henley-in-Arden, Kenilworth, Kinston, Lema n!
ton Priors, Nuneaton, Rugby, Coleehill, and Southern.
Considered as a manufacturing runty (and that
lagoon, keine/bus emporium of nmenhaturinn enterprise
and lagoon, SwwWwillsant. is a ninon-economic
sense, lon tenet (dinky); Warinkine wen the Meth
in rank. This position it maintained at each of the three de-
cennial periods of 1811, 1821, and 1831. But, in 1842, it
was reported as coming between the two counties of Nor-
thumberland and Stafford. It has a very extensive weaving
and ribbon trade at Coventry ; the first hardware trade in
the world at Birmingham ; and produces large stores of iron
coal, &a
In the year 1831, the proportion of the manufacturing
community was as 60 per cent. of the whole population of the
county. There were 2,838 occupiers of land employing
labourers ; 1,742 occupiers of land not employing labourers ;
and the number of agricultural labourers was 15,644.
Besides these, there were 4,500 workmen (at Coventry and
elsewhere) employed in the making of ribbons. In 1841,
there were 81,321 inhabited houses in the county (being
13.068 more than there were in 1831) ; there were, air,
6,908 uninhabited, and 662 building.
These statistics it appears important to note, inasmuch as,
regard being had to the large population at the last census
(taken only six yam since), which was 402,121, as well as
to those large proportions of it engaged in active and various
occupations, the number of freeholder voters entered on the
registry last year dose seem to be very small and
disproportionate. For the two dinars of the county it is
only 10,052. The annual value of reel property, assessed
uader the property-tax in 1805, was 1,901,3901. ; but in 1816
(the last year at its collection), this bad fallen to 1,269,7801.
The charge for the poor-rate presents a decrease upon the
last ten yeas of the undermentioned periods of nearly
_67
per cent. In 1801 it was 117,3581. ; in 1811 it was 157.9321. •
in 1821, 146,1861.; and in 1831 it had reached 161,2121.
Yet, in 1841 it was only 102,8231. ; that is, eleven and three-
quarters kat, with a population of 93 per cent. more. War-
wickshire is to a very Inconsiderable extent a grazing county.
But it is supposed that of its surface, 160,000 acres are
always under tillage, and 200,000 are arable ; 250,000 are in
parterre, and the remainder is in woodlands, &a. During
the continuanceof the property-tax, the annual armament
of this county to it avenged about 2,000,0001. marling.
The present parliamentary representation of Warwick.
shire muck exceeds what it wee prior to the Reform Bill.
The* county then sent up its two knights of the shire ' • the
county town, Warwick, and the Sty of Coventry, their two
burgesses each; in all, six member. Under the new scheme
of the Reform Act, the county now returns, for its two divi-
sions, four members—Warwick, two ; Coventry, two;
Birmingham, two—in all, ten ; which is a gain of four
members.
The parliamentary history of this seemly is net mare free
than that of many others we have reeked, or be yet to
touch upon, from malfeasance on the pen of the =4,
sheriff. " March 20, 1627: It was mined that the
of the county be forthwith sent for by the earjeeet-abeeme,
attending this house, by warrant under the Speaker's head,
fee not returning the knights of the shire, who bare keg
sines bees Meted." Again , Minns years afterwards, is
Nevember, 1640, MTU frasikaiiin of this aunty sem-
d=,ir pea
asa,t, Ell
*tar
blisrawirtopat of Mr
the poll when it en =ld, at Me andos of the goon with
of the shim It wee noshed that Mr. Warren, for
his offence, be earmittod be the Tower daring the
pleasure dike tense, min geed 1001. to Melting, and make
a subminies, here, Ma as Non home shall appaint, sad shall
make the like at Me son maim in NMI Mid malty."
Thee the Mime le Mein veil Me Maim el
Mr. Mimes Lard Omen% al Miens of the dike.
But may Wenriabine Merle are have bees eel* le-
denfelble. Is Mereh, 111111, we lied Mr. Bind Ma
and ethers , on the pat of littmedves end seise ether
freeholders ef Werwiebekte, smadeisiee of
on asp ef the esdernesela egelt
doe, by refine to teas Mak pea it Ricked,
(No report.) Is April, RPM, we ind peaks ef kee-
holders of this seenty_complaintee m min news a
Andrew Archer sad William lasis by the high-
sheriff. Patitiessee oilseed dattrirs Datryss mak
Richard Mennen, teen ikelj lens
k : bat the Mireirmilf,
to frustrate seek eindes, mitred nee arms ilm
larities to be ertmasheee, set only in beating end wesmdri
several that sear Is vetskr Bir John Burgoyne and Sir
Richard Nespesern hatsessing then so likewiee, even to
the hazard of lb Mire s 1W" Ns report erns es to the
ulterior preemie*. Is is this lay resszkable ease.
The Barb bfW Netrlek,Dialfeak Crane., mai Mein ; Vis-
count Hood; LerdDernse, ad the Mamma ef Keettord, are
among the mod 1114.111110 ad idendiel limas is of the
county ; and to these we sky ail Ilk T. Dikedels, be Bro.
Chats nri, Sir we
Chimideles, air
Sid. Kr P. akeekkemit, anyaairbabe.t
(Mew "wok ma the Daserkkillterierre,
lbw Mea wahera *Mien of Wenrienhke *me was a
astir bee at *emboli= of MK sal 1011. In the her
:sttazeoransbedKr. Donis* ajam.mnsdan vie Ind ben
mg ease kr It In UM, de spin Mend, is
with file Berdley Bin, a chug
former. Captain Gresen, the enter endidate, was rejected,
..ch a the irmaidel res having a majority over him
of above 700 veer.
In 1837 them no a MI sews etc seem contact far this
division. Mr. Dater mod be Kerley Wilmot were main
returned—the one 3,3314 moi the sem by 1,766 sins
and Sir they Skipw th, Beet, (a whlg),eel Mr. Brenbeldge.
were thrown out. At thweitMeen Menne, 1841, the same
gentlemen were elected eppenks ; but a new writ
having issued in 1843 for a new election, owing to Sir
Hadley Wilmot having accepted the government of Van
Diemen's Land, Mr. C. Newdegate (a conservative) was
elected in has stead. The registered electors for this division
of the county were, then, 6,786. In 1846 they were returned
at 6,126—a decrease of 660 voters.
The *anthem division of the county has not been so con-
tested. In 1&35 Sir J. Mordant, Bart., was returned, and with
him Evelyn Shirley, Br. (the latter replacing Mr. Sheldon
. who had been Mad, but died, in 1838), represented this