The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-19 00:00:00

MB. BBIGHTB REFORM BILL.

CONFERENCE OF REFORKERB AT BRADFORD.

BRADFORD, TUMIDLY.

This afternoon a conference was held in Bt.
Gouge's Hall, Bradford. to take Yr. Bright's ethane of
rakers into oonektoration, at which the how somber attended
tar the purpose of explaining any point upon which it was
thought dedrable to have &moved/disks explanation. Thane
was a stay hill attendants at gendasen from the marroandthe
districts.
Mr. Tim Barr was celled to the chair.

Mr. Ilatoirr, M.P., seld—l am dry glad to have the
oppodeolty tide siondag of meeting so large a number of
them who eta anxious ea the question dram. after the
mass reemetly held to MAisbergh, we hod a conferms
very mach of the sues character, eat beide Mt at Grego,
theme wee a smell ere of this Morlptkm. I belles the effect
des mead tegather of perm from aired parte of their
dirt* Y Seetiesi was very leech to help hewed the united
moveseestledmipsiteterkbpsee,esd khelieve the remelt of
this waft will listo yet tht•ga kends, so We the idea of
Met sights Imam will sot essely be the having breed to
a appeal se a peat subplot, bat to carry oat a movenmst
width don Mg about a great moult in this *miry,
(Cilrees.) Yates gemeicer have bean put to me to-day
respodeg my moped seesdas. You poi:ably observed
that I epee mderemeely for a coselderable padre of the
ale s whb scat Mlieelly—(isms)--sal I wee not able M
1111.11.111•1 IRA nib lomat of the amps I have
yndosed whisk I dwell have wished to do. Bat the day
helm the mafi•l I hid yodel a cow of the Modules eon-
Ming the simpered of the regamestallos of all the
homer and mem eras osenthe of the United Kingdom se
I puma It abseil stoat is sum the Mil Mom law, ao
esespepes Y lembergb, Olammw, Msemestia, Ler"
Liverpool, Merehestar, Dimbegharo, Bristol, sad Leedom.
As for es I Mew I east them to ell the daily =dm ppm
lee mess of which I bapplasd to have, eat it le
wide that this very day in mesy of those
yams toes Misthiles have bee pabliehed. I think
Meisel the object et am of the spathe will be wry well
somplidel, booms Mee a week hes shyest those
marbles ea be la the leased all those who red the

arrwepepas—(besr, lees}—rd if damn h say poist ea which
I have ad quite explained myemil, they can mike to those
eshodulee, sad with thrs amegthoa of any slight ones which
may have erept late the figures sod relaulaticas, they will be
able to thlsia • pretty seem% ides of the damps I eta-
template. Them is Gas Isle which hue bees minted to
M with impel to Belsdab 1, which dintutbss the
Imes& est are to have bar amembers. It is Weeded
that earl el thus boroughs should be dialled tote two
wait ath arta to be registered la as ward oaly. I
used ad take We say detailed argument es that petit
vow. or go We the mamas whisk ladueed ms sal those
alma rem with whim I ass Wise to adopt that pelasipirn
I OM oily wq due hag bias this hill goes b shire
• ememithe of the Hems el oicanise, if it shield ever him
the good /arta to meek that step, the ephisa ot the
ornery will gmbahly be uandstakeably alealani ea that
pail. I have told yea Whew that it is shady hermit&
br ney lama being to maw s pha of reloess an the brie
al spperticaing repsemdMies to ths populates with
arithmeneal ezaelams, 'ohm be cab the ormairy up late
alsetereldietriols, sad it is pebahie that so plea wishes*
TM be &Mead wither will not have to entarantr the 'humeral
Faith °Whams. Sapporo I bed adopted es • bads the
;dad* of 'Meg three atiNgliel le peptides al 64,01/0.
Oath. ere sib is woad be said why sot adopt 64,000
se the beeth, aid es the ether %OW I ray
that yea suet draw • lime onembere, rd admit
it to the thinmee end good arose Oi W esiesdry, boas easy
will loot at ft es a whole, mad give it that math sapper,
without which so "clime whatever ma be tarried. (Cheers)
Than is mother plat I should like to impish. You will
dad towards the sad of the.. schedules • geseral abstract
thowlne the malt of the propread dame% It parts the
boroughs hate Na dense, sad them dews me based elderly
as the pop/bilks. But with moppet to the taxation shunts
it is not 'sadly similar. I begin with bansagise hiving a
pepshilsa under 16,000. Them there I. • Map from 16,000 to
96,000, when I leave tidap pretty =oh es theyamaow. From
24000 to 6t, 000, whiehdetthise mad a little awe, I make smother
step. From 64,000 to 130,000, whisk doubles aid a tittle more
I make another step ; mad then from 130,000 I go to 270,000,
which doubles it sad a little more • and thee I get to the
largest boroughs of 300,000 aad 400,1100 ; them amen of them,
sad I peep.." to glee Na =emigre to each of them. Whe-
ther • tows Uk. Manchester should be divided foto two wards
with three members to such, into those wards with two
amsetheis each, or fob Na muds with are member each,
will be 6:c the maideratics el the parliamentary meareittes.
I hope that the esvenemeent I have proposed will be
thought admatageous to the country. (Owes.) A gem-
them here pet a quades to me with regard to the
oewaties, to which I will make sea obeervatica la reply
Lest night I stated that I thought, so far as the lead wee
osaawaed, the represratatka of the coatis in the Home at
Commons, emeathed with the representstios al the had,
which hats ia the Haase of Loris, has gives to the hada
as we all law from put and sorrowfal exterieurs, a pro
dosthmat inflows In both bourse. (Hear, hem.) Bat
there me many counties to which have grown up great pope-
Whew, aid is which there have arisen great interests not
emaseted with the ;salaam, the meatthaturiall

villages of Yorkshire sad Lancashin, and ot►er eoa•tles
The popolstion has become so large in those mantis' se to
overshadow the territorial inflame*, and I therefore thought
that to disposing of the new seat, after glebes • fair wpm;
sentation to the boroughs, It was not unjust, and would not
be pornicioss, but on the contrary, that thou counties should
have one addition to the number of their representatives.
Pm that mama Lord J. Russell, in his bill of 1864, proposed
to divide the West Riding of Yorkshire into two divisions,
giving four members where there are now only two,
sad mho to constitute • new dinsioa in Lancashire with an
additional number of members. !dilution has been made to
the vmagee or towns of Keightley, Doncaster, end Rother-
ham. Now, there must be some linedrawn, and in order to
draw a line I ban taken the comas of 1801. In my opinion it
la of no use to sak parliammt and the government to disfran-
chise small boroughs in or part of the country if they are to
meats smell boroughs In other parts of the country. (Hier,
hear.) If you are to aka every town of 10,000 or 13,000
lababibutts, and make a borough of it, you weaken the
maim party by withdraw' s( their inflame* from the man-
des, and will do me alike not injurious things that can
be dens. In point of fad, you will do that from which yen
ban sulked so much already ; you will make your cosaty
representation hencekellt so excludes • representation of
the laud, that the county seembers are of no use whatever is
considering great commercial questions. With regard to the
particular town to which reference has been road*
you will Ilia in the gamest donna at the bottom of the
natant. • statement that there remain seven mats not yet
dimmed of. Them seven mats have bens maned, bee.ause
I was of opinion that there may be two, three, four, or mon
towns which could fairly represent to parliament that their
population is such se to justify their being made Into
boroughs If this bill Mould ever pass • second resdiag in the
House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) Whilst it was pealing
through committee, no doubt, if it won• to the hand, of the
government, or of a private member, all questions with re-
gard to these towns would be fairly ooneldwed. This, how-
ever, most always be borne in mind—you may maks to every
plan you like a sufficient population if you take • soffieleat
maim al parishes and add to It. But that is not the way
to make a borough ; it Is the way to weaken • great county,
and to makes email county inside it, which is sot exactly
what we are looting for. (Hear, bear.) A town whisk has
not in itself a population sufficient to makes borough bed much
border remain with the county, and enrolee iti influence
along wish the county, in order that the borough and °panty
islasnes may be blended together. I have been asked why,
in the village of Paden and some ethers, • ma should not
vole If be did not weary a 100. bream while in Bradford he
would vote U he occupied aU. house? That evidently Is a
disorepenea. It isa state of things which mists now, and
would exist after my bill became law, If It ever should ; but
It mass from this fact, that you have always between your
coati and laroegh immortal= as make dilemmas. The
public do not apples, to have toad* ap their mind as to the
point at which the franchises should be essallsed. Year
Needhaml labourers are entirely nompoilikal. In
the purely agricultural &shins, the newspapers to •
great extent have been and an maknown among the
labours% That. Is, therefcen no particular object
Ito awe hi Whig gm Imirsie of theamds of