The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

MINORITY-NOES, 39.

Ansley, T. C. Edwards, Henry Newdegate, C. N.
Arc Mall, Captain Godson,lll, Pakington, Sir J. S.
Baring, Thomas Goring, C. Palmer, Robert
Barrington, Viscount Grogan, E. Rolleston, Colonel
Bcnbow, John Gwyn. Vowel Sibthorp, Colonel
Beresford, William Hall, Colonel Smyth, J. G.
Bourke, Richard S. Heneage, G. 11. Spooner, Richard
Bruce, C. L. Henley, J. W. Stuart, Henry
Buck, L. W. Ilildyard, R. C. Taylor, Thomas E.
Buller, Sir J. Y. Ilildyard, T.. B. T. Urquhart, David
Burrell, Sir C. Hobhouse, T. B. Vivian, J. E.
Christy, Samuel Hood, Sir A. TELLERS.
Dodd, G. Ingestre, Visct. Banker, G.
lltnicombe, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. Hudson, G.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
The following letter from Earl Stanhope has been
received by the Secretary of the West London Anti-
Enclosure Association:—

" Cheveneny, near Seven Oaks, Kent, June 12.
"Sir,—ln
reply to your letter, I must refer you to the
' Resolutions on the General Principles
of
Representa-
tion,'ouldago,
which I prepared several years ago, andrecently
published in some of the newspapers. They w
es-
tablish triennial Parliaments, the right of voting by
ballot when any electors should think fit to exercise it,
and an allowance to Members of Parliament for their'
expenses, if any of them chose to receive it. They would
abolish all property qualifications, both for Members of
Parliament and for electors; and would attain a most im-
portant object, in preventing elections from being expen-
sive to the candidates or profitable to the voters. They
would also give a vote to every citizen of the state, and
would secure a full and fair representation of all classes
of the community. These resolutions were the result of
long and deliberate reflection, but they have received
very little support, and, therefore, at present, I have no
intention or inducement to propose them in the House of
Lords, where I had some years ago an opportunity of
stating my opinions upon the subject.
" The made of representation which I recommend is,
that every citizen of the state should vote in the class
or classes to which he belongs, each class having its ov:n
representatives, and this principle seems to me perfectly
safe as well as salutary . I disapprove very much of
universal suffrage in the common acceptance of the
term, as the votes would be given collectively, and the
numerical faajorhy would thus acquire a prepon-
derating power which no class of the community
could justly claim or could properly exercise. Every
class has a right to be fully represented, but no
class, not even the labouring class, though it is of all
others the most valuable and useful, has any right to be
exclusively represented. Although every citizen of the
state has a right to a vote, he has no right to give it in
such a manner as to render of no weight the votes ot
others. For the same reason I disapprove of household
suffrage, which is liable, though in a lesser degree, to
the same objection, and would, besides, be very partial.
The present representation appears to me very objection-
! able in many respects, and, among others, in excluding

the labouring classes, and in giving too great a share of
power to the 101. voters. Its operation has shown its
defects, and I am thoroughly convinced that a House of
Commons in which all classes of the community were-
fully represented would not have adopted such an in-
human measure as the new poor-law, or a system 01
free trade which is unjust and injurious to the labouring
classes.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.,
" STANHOPE.
"To 11. D. Griffiths."

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business.
The Lord Mayor placed the following letter before the
Court:—

" Whitehall, June 5, 1848.
",My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 24th ult., trans-
mitting to me, at the request of the Common Council of
the city of London, the declarations of loyalty subscribed
by the citizens with reference to the proceedings on Mon•
day, the 10th of April last.
"I have received with much gratification this addi-
tional proof of the loyalty of the citizens of London, and
of their firm attachment to the throne and constitution
of this country.
" her Majesty's Government relies with the greatest
confidence on their zealous and efficacious co-operation
in maintaining the public tranquillity and upholding the
supremacy of the law, in which all classes of her Ma-
jesty's subjects have so deep an interest.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's
very obedient servant,
" G. GREY."
The letter was ordered to be entered upon the minutes
of the Court.