The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-25 00:00:00

The Re-distribution Bill.

Lord George Gordon Lennox, under date May
23, writes thus to the Times : Would you do me the
favour of permitting me to call the attention,
through your columns, to the arbitrary and absurd
mode in which the Government Bill proposes to
deal with Lymington, the borough I have the
honour to represent ? The boroughs which the bill
proposes to leave in Hampshire are Portsmouth,
Southampton, Winchester, Newport, Lymington,
Christchurch, and Andover. To form the new

Hampshire group the Government propose to join
Lymington to the borough most remote from it—
viz., Andover. Christchurch is 11 miles from Ly-
mington, Newport 16, Southampton 19, Portsmouth
24, Winchester 29, and Andover 36. Nor is it
merely a question of distance. There are no
two boroughs in the county with less direct
means of communication than Lymington
and Andover. But even this is unimportant
compared with the diversity of interests exhibited
by the two boroughs. Lymington is at the extreme
south on the sea coast, while Andover is the agri-
cultural centre of the north-east district of Hamp-
shire. There are, in fact, no boroughs in the county
the interests of which are so dissimilar. On the
other hand, if the principle on which Mr. Gladstone
proposes to form his groups in the bill were to be
fairly carried out, there would be no difficulty in
associating Lymington with the neighbouring bor-
ough of Christchurch, giving them two members,
or the extent of the borough might be increased by
adding to it the area of the Lymington Union,
which would give the borough so augmented a
population of 12,023 inhabitants, comprising within
its limits a most wealthy and influential class of
residents. It must be patent to every one that the
additional expense incidental to such a system of
grouping must be very considerable, while at the
same time no advantage in the direction in which it
is so desirable will be realised.

Bank of England Returns.•--Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to t]
cap. 32, for the week ending 1

the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, May 16, 1866.
PARTMENT.
Governmt. Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities 3,984,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

ISSUE DE
Notes issued ....£26,800,435

£26,800,435

£26,300,435

IiA.NRING

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 5,994,761
Other Deposits 18,790,917
Seven Day and
other bills

PARTMENT.
Governmt. Secu-
rities(ineluding
Dead Weight
Annuity) .... £10,837,056
Other Securities 31,050,405
Notes 830,866
Gold and Silver
Coin 557,351

551,128

£43,275,678

£48,275,678

Foreign Mail Packet List.
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MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton._ Juno 19
Ditto, via Marseilles June 13
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet June 4.
Ditto, by French packet
ay v.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena H
May 25.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton June 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles ................... May 23
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... May 29.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton... June 3
Ditto, via Marseilles .......... . —....May 28
India (Bombay), via Southampton May 29
Ditto, via Marseilles .. May 23
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton May 29.
Ditto, via Marseilles hay 23.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil,e 3. June 7.
•
Newfoundland
' ' May 23.
t'ortugal

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet ........ May 31
Ditto, by United States paokct, via Southamp-

ton

Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, oy Canadian packet, via Londonderry May 25.
West Coabt of Africa, Madeira, and T.,nerilfe .• .. June 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
110041,11121),, kit _ , to .6 et e•utt4,,,,,,, aday