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Mlle are some forty or fifty boroughs which now
Teton two members tech to Parliament, which no
revises of ear political system, however conserva-
tive, would coatsad were entitled to retain that
power. Marty would probably argue that, for the
sake of indirect results not very clearly defined, these
places might be allowed to retain the privilege of
returning each one member ; but the double power
of nomioatioo few would be hardy enough to •
assert. The fanciful oligarchic theory would'
still be complied with if ltipon and Rich-
mond, 'Thetford and Stamford, Touter and
Well', and some couple of score like places
throughout the kingdom, were suffered to send to
Parliament each of them a peer's son or nephew
four times uut of five, and the other odd time the
college friend of the heir to the parliamestary
patron. But is all COLIMItIO3O shame of this kind
ought to be single, not double. For the sake of the
makers sad trafickers in such shams it were really
better that such • rule of moderation should be
observed. By merely taking one from each of thee.
rotten boroughs Muster* would obtain a number of
seats to redistribute sufficient to enable them to
provide for most of the rising 011/00 that now
peremptorily demand entreoceisement; and they
would not provoke the sort of resistance which
inevitably attends any plan of total dahlia-
chissment. Thu may be said to be the mere party
•iew of the matter. Terre is, however, another
and very different aspect of the question which de-
serves to be cossidered. Supposing it to be trait, as
some assert, that in the absence of excitement, and what
used to be called pressure from without, it is not in
the power of say Ministry to carry a very wide and
sweeping change in the distribution of political
power, it may nevertheless be possible for them to
do • great and incontestable amount of good by
multiplying the number of communities is tows and
country which are hereafter to be permitted to exer-
cise the power of representation. Supposing the
aggregate number of the House of Commons to be
fixed and determined, it would be plainly to the ad-
vantage of the people that the six hundred sad fifty-
eight should be climes by four rather than by
two hundred constituencies, provided these consti-
tuencies were really and bona pit endowed with the
Power of choice. And to whatever extent the num-
ber of electorates can be increased, the prone,
just mentioned being observed, popular, and, so
to speak, national °pintos is certain to be
rendered effective. A great electoral surface
must be thereby exposed to the political atmosphere.
A greeter number of persons must of necessity be
engaged in the business of constituting • new Par-
lament. .tad even were it certain that forty sesta
seipeestered from small isometry towns would be cowl
ferred 00 places of no greater use, there would, to
certain 'inset, be something gained by the sheave.
It is not, however, to be imagined that if Haywire'
and Huntingdon, Pomfret and Tewkesbury, Ere-
sham and Weas, were relieved of half their present
burden of responsibility, asy Cabinet, whether
Whig or Tory. would be capable of the turpitude of
conferring their IN yue.trated bowers epos any set
of communities equally insignificant in wealth
and numbers. Quiet as the toe* of public
feeling is, and iiifat'iated by oligarchic preferecces
es Oeseernmeste are often known to be, no Adminis-
trate= dare present to Parliament • schedule of
places to be eefru•chieed as unworthy and unfit se
those from which they might safely vesture to with-
draw ea' member each.

Whitt felliews? This manifestly —that le proper-
ties ea the SIM essistiruescirs which sight be called
into slimes." would exceed an impunities, wealth,
and anteing's."' these erti,ch should be partially
disfranchised, tee puhlic interest would be a cleat
(Meer. We any nothing here about the feature, er
the sumo which would b. thereby augmented fee the