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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25.

WE trust there is as end at last to the silly and
sinister misrepresentations recklessly put forward
regarding the effect of the Reform Bill on the
borough constituencies. Two opposite fictions
have ken relied WI for the purposes of deprecia-
tion and detraction. thi the one hand, it has
been alleged by sham Liberals that, as compared
with the measure of 1832, the present Bill was
not really worth having ; on the other hand, it
was declared by panicinungering Tories that the
noddle chimes in towns would be completely
swamped by the admission of working men to the
franchise in vastly excetding these which
Government professed to contemplate. Both these
fiction, have bei-o tried, condemned, and gibbeted
together. The lucid statements°, Sir Gomez Lewis
oil night, and the logical inferences drawn
by him from the (seta and figures of the case, are
conclusive and unanswerable. Disposing, in the first
1112,111,11.1', of the ignorant or hypocritical pretence
that as a suffrage bill that of 1860 was unimportant
c pared with that of 1832, the Hoes Sante-
T•RY showed that while the borough electors of
England and Wales were then augmented by no
more than 81,869, they will now be increased by
double that number. Regarding the county con-
stituencies, the case, upon the comparison of the
two periods, is even still stronger ; but as no con-
tention is raised on that head it is needless to dwell
on it. Turning then to the rival calumny, which
attributed to Ministers the design of letting in
twice as many democratic suffrages as they ven-
tured to avow, Sir 11 rotten Lewis demonstrated
incontrovertibly that there was no foundation
whatever for such a .large. The Government
rearm lied been rudely branded as fallacious by
those who either did not understand the law of
rating or the practice under the law ; but weeks
having elapsed since the slander had first been
uttered, pains had been taken to sift thoroughly
the statiatica relied on, and he was prepared to
stand by and defend them as essentially and sub-
stantially correct. He asked for no allow-
SIKC to be made ne the score of inadvertence
ma the part of the parochial authorities--for
no indidgence on the score of haste on the part of
the Poor-law COllllllllllllll/11. The data on which
the Bill had Iweni keeled had been carefully col-
lected, scrupulously compiled, and conscientiously
given to the public without reservation in any par-
ticular ; and having had the opportunity of re-
vising and re -.• g them iii the course of the
is three weeks, Juni of referring back to the local
authorities every detail which had been, however
the right hon. baronet not only
Mt bound deliberately to endorse them on behalf
of I self anal his colleagues, but to brand as men
dacious iiiisrepreientations the attempts that had
been made b. impugn thew.
Sir Gromir. Lewis Is, perhaps, of all men in
England the meet competent authority on this
t. For ten years he presided over the
department to which has been confided all that
rile., to rateability, rating, and the payment of
rates. A..., 10..,• quibbles about the meaning of
this or the other phrase in the various statutes that
affect these matters, or flippant assertions made in
debate on the authority of anonymous correspon-
dent', go for nothing when brought to the touch.
stone of practical knowledge and long experience
like that of the right hon. baronet. One after
anther he laid hold of the miserable canards that
had been whining and cackling about the Bill, and
wringing the neck of each threw it aside con-
temptuously. All that we have ourselves so often
saril reganlitig the delusiveness of supposing that the
occupiers .4 eiiiiiameid tenements would or could
become rated instead of the owners, was unequivo-
cally rielfinued by the Hoes filecaereev. He
further pointed out the practical absurdity of pre-
suming that all who might be rated personally in
respect of their dwellings at or over 61., would er
could be stristervil as parliamentary electors.
Thousands and tens of tl sands now rated at and
over 101. a year have never been, and will never
be, inscribed upon the burgess roll. Indifference,
forgetfulness, ueglort, absence, removal, and
death, each Of them exacta an enormous dis-
count from the total awn. " This ass shown
"us the returns in regard to Liverpool, where
" thieve rated above 101. numbered 39,730, while
" the tidal number of electors on the register was
" only 18,000 ; and in the Tower Hendee, where
" the number of registered electors was 28,000,
" while the number of occupiers rated at 101. and