The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1853,

SBABE M.

'THIS DAY.

LANDLORD SEATS IN PARLIAMENT.

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Closing Prices
Leasing Compass. this day.
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Caledou 4B 50
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Gt. Westn 30 32
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Busbies!
this day,

(From the Daily News. )
Those who arc striving to get additional " land-
lord seats" in the House of Commons excuse their
impudent claim by pointing out an alleged disparity
between population and representation in towns as
compared with rural districts. They grumble over
the common-sense arrangements of our forefathers,
who, wanting a body of intelligent and indepen-
dent men to make laws, summoned a certain num-
ber from towns, and another certain number from
the counties. The towns being the centres of in-
telligence, activity, and wealth, have ever shown
by results the wisdom of the ancient arrangement.
Whenever a useful law has been passed, the town-
members will be found in the majority ; whenever
any faction has striven to pass laws dangerous to
the liberty of the people, to the progress of the
nation, the town-members have ever been in
the van of those who have preserved our freedom
and prosperity. The re-actionaries who now seek
to diminish the number of these town-members in
the House of Commons would do so by diminish-
ing, after their own fashion, the disparity they de-
clare exists. But this talk about disparity itself
is based on a false and fraudulent foundation. In
calculating the county populations the Tory statists
quietly "bag" all the inhabitants of unrepresented
towns, and then coolly reckon them in as so many
agriculturists ! The hundred thousand residents
in Chelsea and Kensington, for instance, are
shaken up with the strawberry-gardeners of Isle-
worth and the graziers of Enfield-highway as so
many ill-used, half-represented tenant farmers.
So with the townsmen of such places as Burnley,
of Birkenhead, of Newchurch, of St. Helen's, of
Chorley, of Over Darwen—all are duly entered as
" rural populations." Just the same trick is
played again in Yorkshire, where the honest
townsmen of Barnsley, and Keighley, and Don-
caster—nearly forty thousand strong—are clapped
into the totals and classed as so many quiet vil-
lagers. Everybody else always supposed the places
we have mentioned, with many others we are about
to name, were towns—and towns, moreover, de-
serving Parliamentary recognition as such. "No
such thing," say the men who, with eyes behind
their heads, would always persuade us to go
backward instead of forwards. "No such thing—
the people living in these places are unrepresented
farmers, for whom we want county seats. We will
not let them have members of their own. Cer-
tainly not—that would not suit our purpose, how-
ever well it might suit theirs. Eut as we, the
dominant landlord class, want a plea for more seats,
we will declare the inhabitants of these centres of
industry to be rural agricultural people, and make
them a stalking-horse, for getting more re-actionary
men into the people's House of Parliament." But
this scheme once understood by the country will
never be permitted to succeed. The Times may
twist, and the Morning Herald exhort, the Globe
be oratorical, and the Edinburgh Review be wordy
and dull, but the people will refuse to be cajoled.
Under any new Reform Bill worthy of the name
all the towns we enumerated on Saturday as un-
represented will be provided with members, and
this change, together with another we would name,
would soon remove any such alleged " disparity"
as the Tories have discovered. We have often
urged that no borough with less than a thousand
voters should enjoy a distinct and separate seat,
but by linking four or five, or even six, places to-
gether, upon the Scottish plan, large and indepen-
dent constituencies may be secured. Every one
of the following towns, for instance, is at least en-
titled to a share in the return of borough members
to parliament—many of them, under an extended
suffrage, might probably claim special members of
their own :

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534 -- 544
27 -- 28
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L. & N. W.
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Stckton &
Darlingt.
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2i - 3

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E. Count
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59 - 61

L. &N.W
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Gt Northn
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138 - 142

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95 -- 100

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Colne, Lancashire 8,987 1,729
Leek, Staffordshire
Brentford, Middlesex
Sheerness, Kent
Tredegar, Monmothshire 8,305 1,495
Runcorn, Cheshire 8,049 1,591
Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire 7,934 1,604
Torquay, Devonshire
Stourbridge, Worcestershire 7,847 1,523
Spalding, Lincolnshire 7,627 1,503
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire 7,506 1,561
Accrington Lancashire
Newton, Accrington,
7,481 1,316
Middlesborough, Yorkshire, N. R 7,431 1,262
Gosport, Hants 7,414 1,465
Preqcot, Lancashire
Ryde, Isle of Wight 7,147 1,265
Chesterfield (municipal borough),
Derbyshire 7,101
Redruth, Cornwall
Penrith, Cumberland 6,668
Lowestoft, Suffolk 6,580
Newbury (municipal borough),
Berks 6,574
Camborne, Cornwall 6,547
Traninere, Cheshire
Ulverstone, Lancashire 6,433
Rotherham, Yorkshire, W.R 6,317
Rugby, Warwickshire
Kingston-upon-Thames (municipal
borough), Surrey 6,279
Alnwick, Northumberland
Ely (city), Cambridgeshire
Hinckley, Leicestershire
Worksop, Notts 6,058
Sudbury, Suffolk
Chelmsford, Essex 6,033
Saffron Walden, Essex 5,911
Workington, Cumberland 5,837
Bideford (municipal borough), De-
vonshire
Dartford, Kent 5,763
Middleton, Lancashire 5,740
Maryport, Cumberland 5,698
Halstead, Essex 5,658
Brixham, Devonshire
Ormskirk, Lancashire
Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire 5,472
Nantwich, Cheshire
Worthing, Sussex 5,370
Hindley, Lancashire 5,285
Bishop Stortford, Herts 5,280
Hitchen, Herts 5,258
Leigh, Lancashire 5,206
Woodbridge, Suffolk 5,161
Kettering, Northamptonshire 5,125
Exmouth. Devonshire
Oldbury, Worcestershire
Selby, Yorkshire, W. R.
DWeewllsibougrby, Yorkshire,orongh,Nortliaw. mrpittonshire
55;003631
5,019
5,013
5,002
Radcliffe,Tßemiggni en
i.Yo iIY.Lt 11:,:i1D:eisivihroieiu:: Devonshire B .
Skipton, Yorkshire, W. IL 4,962
Barking, Essex
Hornmstle, Lincolnshire
Ware, Hertfordshire 4,882
Nuneaton, Warwickshire 4,859
Os westry (municipal borough),Salop 4,817
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire 4,797
Cowes, Isle of Wight 4,786
Southport, Lancashire
Goole, Yorkshire, W.R.
'Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire 4,683
Atherton, Lancashire
Hexham, Northumberland
Wellington, Salop 4,601
Faversham (municipal borough),
Kent
Tunbridge, Kent 4,539
Todmorden, Yorkshire, W.R 4,532
Otley, Yorkshire, W.R 4,522
Padiham, Lancashire 4,509
Crewe, Cheshire 4,491
Altrincham, Cheshire .
South Molten (municipal borough),
Devonshire 4,482
Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire 4,465
Daventry (municipal borough),
Northamptonshire 4430
Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. ......
Bishop Auckland, Durham
Beccles, Suffolk
Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire 4,391
Barnard Castle, Durham ...... ~
Chepstow, Monmouthshire ....
Basingstoke (municipal borough),
Hants
Wigton, Cumberland .............. 4 244 957
,
Bradford, Wilts...
4,240 973
Warminster, Wilts, 4,220 872
March, Cambridgeshire........ 4,171 731
Eccles' Lancashire 4,108 746
Ashford, Kent 4,092 737
Here is surely enough for the present to show-
not only that the Tories have swelled the ranks of
their " half-represented agricultural class," by a
wholesale metamorphosis of town into county-but
sufficient also to show that there are quite enough
unrepresented towns in England alone to meet all
difficulty about-What must be done with any town
seats that may be at the disposal of the House of
Commons ?

Town

1,455
1,232
1,307
1,265

1,362
1,174
1,187
1,249
1,269
1,103

1,119

'835
1,302
1,350
1,322
1,280
1,204
1,173
1,360

1,101
1,033
1,179
1,242
1,236
1,179

911
1,239
1,120
964
950
907

979
968
1,015

993
1,125
995
944
814
878
884
575
963

ROUEN.—The letters from Rouen mention that the
market for manufactures was steady, prices having
throughout the week been well supported.
UNITED STATES.—The accounts from the United
States are again satisfactory as regards the tendency of
the rate of exchange on this country, notwithstanding
the large shipments of flour that were in progress. The
present steamer has brought 120,0001., and an expecta-
tion appeared to prevail that the existing high rate of
interest in England, by causing American stocks to be
sent out for sale, would render a continuance of specie
remittances necessary. Up to the present time the ex-
ports of gold from New York this year have been far
below those of the corresponding period of the two pre-
ceding years. They have amounted only to 3,070,0001.,
against 4,223,0001. in 1852, and 6,252,000/. in 1851.
On the other hand, the receipts from California have
been larger than in former years, but their influence has
been in a great measure counteracted by the withdrawal
from circulation of the heavy sums, now amountifig al-
together to nearly 6,000,0001., in the treasuries of the
Union,