The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-01 00:00:00

£4ol' 6- 10

Total
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY. —(2O miles open)—Return
of Traffic for the week ending June 26, 1852:..
Passengers, parcels, &c. £ll3, 4 11
Iderchandise, cattle,&c.... *4O 13. 1

Total ... £153 18 0
Corresponding week in 1851 ( I() miles open) :
Passengers, parcels, &c.
Marciumclise. cattle, 0„,

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIMES.-This day the Parliament which had been
convened under the auspices of a Free-trade Govern-
ment is dissolved, and the representatives are sent back
to the constituencies to give an account of their steward.
ship. This great constitutional event has been already
considered in the columns of the Times under many as-
pects. One remains unnoticed. The appeal is to the
country. What is the country to which that appeal is
made ? That is not the least important point for the
consideration of Lord Derby and his colleagues. What
is the real nature and value of the machinery which is
about to be called into play
.? Assuming that Lord
Derby and his party could manipulate the present con-
stituencies to their purpose, still, would they have
gained anything by the manoeuvre but the absolute ex-
tinction of all their party hopes ? We say again, what is
that England to which the appeal is made? Set-
ting aside all shadows of self-deceptions, what is the
construction. of the Parliamentary map of England
at the present time ? The Census Commissioners of
was published last month
1851 have, by a return which
on an address of the House of Commons, enabled
us to form something like an opinionupon the question.
We recommend the paper to the careful consideration of
as many of Lord Derby's friends as do not attempt to 1
,
deal with a great political crisis in the spirit of Purlia-
mentary agents or whippers in. It is well that they
should calculate beforehand the strength of their oppo.
nents. The Parliamentary paper us,
before us gives
then, a return of the population and number of houses,
according to the census of 1851, " in every county and
division of a county, and in all cities and boroughs re-
turning Members to Parliament, in Great Britain re-
spectively, with the number of Members returned;ors
also
in towns containing upwards of 2,000 inhabeittanetes;
herenthoet
returning Members to Parliament." In other words,
we have a brief abstract of the relations between
country and the representation, such as enables us
to form a judgment upon the probable action of un-
represented England, if once its energies
into play. Be it understood that are called
we are not
speaking as advocates on one side or the other;'
we are simply pointing to facts. N,
here are a few
of those facts from the return of tj'
e Census Commis-
sioners:-Arundel, with 2,748 •
inhabitants, returns a
member to Parliament; Birkenhead, with 24,175 in-
habitants, is unrepresented; L
habitants, returns, and Burgle Yran R'gts, with 3,516 la-
y, with 20,828 ts,
does not return, a member; A.shburtor, withinhabita 3,432 n
in-
habitants, is, and Staleybrid
is not, respresented in Parliament.Fe, with 20,760 inhabitants,
space to go on with individual We cannot afford
instances. Let it be suffi-
cient to say, that in the return before us we find that.
in addition to those
we have named, there are among
unrepresented towns
inhabitants, five five containing upwards of 13,000
less than 12,00 with upwards of 11,000 arid
;
12
10 with less than 11,000
and more than
,000 ; five with more than
9,000 and l
them 8,000 less than 10,000 ; six with more
01._ and less than 9,000 ; 13 with less
"11 6,000 and more than 7 • ,000 ; 1 7 with less than
7:000 and more than 6,000; 26 with more than 5,000
and less than 6,000 inhabitants. It requires three
Pages of a large-sized and closely-printed Parliamentary
paper merely to give the names of the boroughs which
run from 2,000 upwards to 5,000 inhabitants, and which
are totally unrepresented in Parliament. At the end of
this list will be found a brief abstract of the four great
unrepresented metropolitan parishes,-Chelsea. with
56,538; Kensington, with 44,053; Hammersmith, with
17,760; Fulham, with 11,886 inhabitants. It would be
we have
simple enough to contrast even the few figuresic
had space to extract with others which shou show the
For
kexample, the
condition of represented England.
following constituencies act exactil as ma eweights in
the legislative scale:- ,
Inhabi- Me
tants. bell- York West
Ludlow 5,376 -• ' Ridi
Thirsk
"4'779 ...
2
Lymington
Leominster
,165 - 1- La s ••• 514,352 ... 2
Caine.........
... 2 con
Marlborouge.- 5:095
... , (North) ... 316,805 ... 2
Northallerton•• t Middlesex ... 283,256 ... 2
Richmond . 4 969•
Kent West 227,637 2
(Yorkshire) , ... 2
Devon South) •••
...... 4 927 217,884 ... 2
Reigate.... , , ,••• 1 Stafford
Wells(Gay).- 4,736 ... 2
Evesham
Dartmouth
.•• Tower Ham-
slarsvich ..,. 4,451 .“ I lets ...539,111 .. 2
Totnes ... ...... 4 4,9 - 2 Liverpool 376,065 ... 2
Thetford ... 4%,' ••• 2 Marylebene 370,957 .. 2
on 2 •
Lyme Regis •„ leo ••• Finsbury 323,772 ... 2
Ashburton . •
,16 ... 1 Manchester 316,213 .. 2
Honiton . • 3.43 t ... 1 Lambeth 251,345 ... 2
Arundel ....... 3,427 ... 2 Westminster 241,611 ... 2
The
number
...... ,i4B ... 1 Birmingham. 232,841 ... 2
e _ of representatives stands at 30 on either
7O of this Parliamentary balance-sheet. We leave it
tl more daring arithmeticiansto
contrast the numbers
of the - '
constituents. Now, at the last moment when he
is about to put his great experiment to the test, we would
remind Lord Derby that lie is still to reckon with a
power which that test cannot appreciate. What would
it avail him to secure a momentary success which must
be purchased at no less a cost than that of rousing all
the latent political animosity of the country against him-
self and his party? He is toying with a power which
would defy the control of the most f l power u statesman
England
ever saw, if once called into play. Men who

Inhabi- Mem-
tants. bers.