The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1859.

INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London:
January 10, 1859.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Half-yearly In-
terest on the Capital Stock of the Society, at the rate of 5 per
cent. per annum, to 31st December last, is now due, and in
course of payment at the Society's office, between the hours
all and 3. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.
142, Strand, London, W.C.

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE ,OFFICE,
FLEET-STREET, LONDON, Ist January, 1859.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That -a GENERAL
MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the LAW LIFE AS-
SURANCE SOCIETY will be held, at the Society's Office,
Fleet-street, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 2d day of Feb-
ruary next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the
provisions of the Society's deed of settlement, for the purpose
of receiving the Auditor's Annual Report of the Accounts of
thf: Society, up to the 31st December, 1858 ; to elect two direc-
tors in the room of Richard Harrison. Esquire, and James
Valiance, Esquire, both deceased, and one auditor in the room
of William Frederick Higgins, Esquire, resigned; and for
general purposes. '
The Director to be chosen in the room of Richard Harrison,
Esq., deceased, will remain In office until the 24th of June,
1'862, and the Director to be chosen in the room of James Val-
iance, Esq., deceased, will remain in office until the 24th of
June, 1860 ; and the Auditor to be chosen in the room of Wil-
liam Frederick Higgins, Esq., will remain in office until the
24th of June, 1859.

By Order of the Directors. •
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary

NOTICE OF DIVIDEND.,.

ANK O.F DE-POSIT,
I-, No. 3, PALL. MALL EAST;LONDON, S.W.
- The Warrants for the Half-yearly Interest, at the rate of
5 per Cent. per Annum, on Deposit Accounts, to the 31st
December, r.re ready for delivery, and payable daily between
the hours of 10'and 4. -
PETER 3IORRISON Managing Director.
10th January, 1859.
' Prospectuses and Forms sent free on application.

TWENTIETH REPORT of the- DIRECTORS
of the COMMERCIAL BANK of LONDON for the
HALF-YEAR ending the 31st December, 1858.
At a HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the
SHAREHOLDERS, held at the Banking House, Lothbury,
on TUESDAY, the 18th of January, 1859 :

DIRECTORS.
MARK HUNTER, Esq., Chairman.
Edward Stillingfleet Cayley, Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P.
Esq., M.P. • Robert Stacey Price, Esq.
John Alfred Chowne, Esq. , John Savage. Esq.
George Clive, Esq., M.P. Herbert Taylor, Esq.
Jonathan Hopkinson, Esq. Joseph. Thompson, Esq.
William Jackson, Esq., M.P. Thomas Winkworth, Esq.
MANAGER—Mr. Alfred Cutbill.
SOLlCrroßs—Messrs. Tatham, Upton, Upton, and Johnson ;
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and Messrs. Norris and Son.
Present :—Forty-eight Proprietors.
The Manager read the advertisement calling the meeting,
and afterwards the following
REPORT.

The Direttors have now to lay before the Shareholders of
the Bank the balance-sheet for the half-year ending 31st De-
cember, 1858, s•tiowing a net profit (including £1,391 Bs. 3d.
brought forward from last half-year) of £13,822 ls. 5d., after
payment of all exp;lnses and making provision for bad and
doubtful debts.
The Directors propOe to declare a dividend for the half-
year at the rate of £6 pe_v cent. per annum, payable on and
after the 31st instant.
The dividend will require .1:9,000 ; and after allowing £3,420
19s. sd. for rebate on current bills not yet due, there will
remain a balance of £1,401 2s. Oct to be carried forward to the
present half-year.
COMMERCIAL BANK 9F LONDON.
BALANCE SHEET TO 31ST DE,IEMBER, 1858.
DR.

Capital subscribed
£1,506,000
Capital paid up £2O each on 15,000 shares ...... £300,000 0 0
Guarantee Fund 75,000 0 0
Balances due to the customers of the bank .• •
Balance of undivided profit, 30th
June, 1858 £1,391 8 3
Net profit for the half-year ending
31st Dec.; 1858, after paying in-
come tax and deducting all
charges and expenses, and
making provision for bad and
doubtful debts .. 12,430 13 2
Balance carried down

13,822 i 5

21,291,706 7 0

Ca.
Cash in the bank and at call at the Bank of
England, Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and
Government Securities' £285,045 4 6
Bills discounted, loans on stock, and other
securities 1,003,061 2 6
Strong-room, fittings, and furniture (premises
held on lease) 3,000 0 0

£1,291,700 7 0

Dividend at the rate of £9 per cent. per an-
num, for the half-year ending 31st Decem-
ber, 1858 £o,ooo 0 0
Rebate of interest on current bills carried to
profit and loss new account 3,420 19 5
Balance carried to next half-year 1,401 2 0

£13,822 1 5

Cn.
Balance brought down

£13,822 1 5

The Report and Balance•sheet having _been read,
The CHAIRMAN moved, and JOSEPH ingDnum'ooD, Esq.,
seconded, the adoption of the Report, when
It was resolved,—That the Report and Balance-sheet just
read be approved, printed, and circulated amongst the Pro-
prietary.
The. Chairman, Mark Hunter, Esq., on the part of the
Directors, declared a dividend on the paid-up capital of the
Company, at the rate of 5..6 per cent. per annum, for the past
half-year, free from income tax, payable on and after Mon-
day, the 31st January instant.
Resolved,—That the thanks of this meeting be presented to
the Chairman and Directors, for their attention to the affairs
of the Bank.
Resolved,—That the best thanks of the Shareholders be
given the Manager, Mr. CutbilMAl.
RK HUNTER, Chairman.

COMMERCIAL BANK of LONDON.
The Directors HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that a DI VI-
DEND on the Paid-up Capital of the Company, at the rate of
£6 per cent. per annum, for the Half-Year ending 31st
December, 1858, free from income tax, will be PAYABLE at
the Banking House, in Lothbury, on and after MONDAY, the
31st January instant.
By order of the Board,
Dated 18th January, 1859. A. R. 'CUTBILL, Manager.

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The Best Served Dinner in London for ls. 6d.
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TABLE D'HOTE on SUNDAYS, at 5 o'clock, 2s. each.

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Gentlemen visiting the Metropolis will find ample accom-
modation for dinners at this establishment. The arrange-
ments are varied and perfect, and the tariff of charges is very
moderate. Private rooms for large ar small parties may be
engaged on application to the Superintendent.
By Order. JAMES GOFTON, Superintendent.

WHO WILL PAY THE CHINESE
INDEMNITY ? Why, theEnvlish themselves. An
export duty is to be levied, and then not even the East India
Tea Company will be able, as they now are, to sell 61b. of
Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at is. 10d. per lb., and Coffee, in
the Berry, at 10d.—Warehouse, 9, Groat St. Helen's-church-
yard, City.

GLENFIELD PATEST STARCH,
USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY,
AND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be
THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED.
Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers &c., &c.

A MAN AND HIS WIFE COMMITTED
10. R MURDERING TH:ELR CHILD.

On Monday, Mr. Herford held. an inquest at the
William IV. public-house, Rush ulme-road, on the
body of a female infant, aged fa ur days, :the child
of John and Charlotte Parkinson I.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mawdsley, of :Hyde-grove, stated
that on the sth inst. the parents of the child
engaged lodgings at her hous ?, and afterwards
entered them. About midnight on Saturday week,
Mrs. Parkinson was confined, and her husband
went for a surgeon. No nurse was sent for, the
husband saying that he could do all that was
wanted himself. The child see med to have arrived
at maturity, and several times the witness observed
that it was going on remarkablly well. In reply to
the witness's questions, Mr. Parkinson told her
that the doctor had said the child was weak in the
lungs, and would die in convulsions. On Wednes-
day morning the child appeared to be going on
remarkably well, but the naxt morning it died.
Witness questioned the parents about the death, as
she found that it had died \ vith its mouth open,
and that its lips and tongue we 're quite black. They
replied that "it was inwardly convulsed, and that
they had watched it die." The husband said,
" Now, we must get it interned. as soon as we can,
and we must do it as a still-born child." Witness told
them they have to bury it in a proper manner.
The husband went for a joiner make a coffin, and
on Friday Mrs. Parkinson told witness that the
child was going to be buried, at Id that they had a
certificate from the registrar; and she seemed
" well pleased" at it.
Mr. Charles James Rix, surpoli, said he attended
Mrs. Parkinson soon after midnight on Saturday.
There had been no preparations. In reply to a
question which was put to him by somebody, and
which he thought was a strange one; he told them
that the child was " likely enough to live." It had
arrived at maturity. He never made any remark
(as stated by Mrs. Parkinson to the former witness)
about the child having convulsions, or being likely
to die, or anything of the kind. On Monday the
child was doing well. en Thursday Parkinson
came to him, and told him. that the child was dead,
and asked for a certifi( ate, which he refused to
give. On Saturday he rae.de a post mortem exami-
nation, and found that thf3 child had been generally
healthy. It had died from suffocation. The dis-
colorations on the chin and neck might have been
done during or after Ole ath. The same pressure
might produce suffocation and the appearances under
the chin.

Mr. E. B. Rowley, registrar of births and deaths,
said that Parkinson ca le to him to register the
child, but brought no Iry edical certificate, alleging
that the child was so yo c mg and premature that he
did not think it worth v rhile. He therefore regis-
tered it as "premature ; cnd not certified."
The jury returned a -verdict of "Wilful murder
against John and Charl pfte Parkinson."

MR. BRIGHT' S REFORM BILL.

CONFERENCE OF REFORMERS AT BRADFORD
BRADFORD, TUESDAY._

This afternoon a conference was. held in St.
George's Hall, Bradford, ,to take Mr. Bright's
scheme of reform into consideration, and at which
the hon. member attended for the purpose of ex-
plaining any points upon
.which it -was thought
desirable to have a more definite explanation. There
was a very full 'attendance of gentlemen from the
surrounding districts.
Mr. TITUS SALT took the chair, and haling
opened the proceedings,
Mr. FORTSER, (of Leeds) said he thought that,
however much they might differ with regard to the
details, they 'were tolerably unanimous as to the
general principles • of the bill described by Mr.
Bright on the previous:evening. For himself. he
should be very glad to see the second reading of
such a measure in the House of Commons,, feeling
satisfied that any trifling .defects which might be
contained in it would be easily •remedied in Com-
mittee. It was necessary, however, that the people
themselves should take an active part in support of
the bill, and he therefore trusted that the result of
the conference would.be the formation cf a. society
to carry on the battle of Reform in the West Rid-
ing of Yorkshire. (Hear, hear.)
Mr., BUCK (Burnley) believed that Mr. Bright
had
.mistaken both the disease and-fie remedy.
The real disease to be removed was ignorance,and,
as the only remedy was ine'reasel• intelligence, he
thought that any new Reform Bill ought to.be
based upon the educational test. •
Mr. FAIR (Bradford) wished to know how it:was
that Mr. Bright, after stating that the territorial
interest was at present adequately represented, both
in the Lords and Commons, could consistently add
more members to the counties,: and leave such
places as. Dewsbury and Skipton unrepresented.
After some remarks from Mr. KENNON,

Mr. KELLY (of. Heckmondwike) believed the
object of the conference was to elicit the opinions
of gentlemen connected with various parts of the
Riding with respect to the proposed measure of
Reform, and expressed a hope that the conversation
would be entirely limited to that point. (Hear.)
Mr. LUPTON (of Leeds) said, it appeared from the
report of Mr.. Bright's speech that Leeds, Liver-
pool, and other large towns to which additional
members were to be given were to be divided.
Now, he had misunderstood the speech of the hon.
member if that was really the case, and wished to
know whether his impression was correct.
'Mr. JOHN CROSSLAND said, he was deputed by
the Halifax Household Suffrage and Ballot Asso-
ciation to represent the feelings of the members of
that body on the present occasion. They were most
anxious to assist Mr. Bright in the arduous struggle
in which he was at present engaged, and were fully
convinced that a measure so extensive in its nature
could not be carried without a strong and united
effort ;on the part of the advocates of Reform.
(Hear, hear.)
After several other gentlemen had given their
opinions,
Mr. Moss (of Bradford) wished to know what
Mr. Bright proposed. to do with respect to those
populous and important villages which were so
anxious to secure the right of voting.
Mr. EDWARDS thought that the first thing to be
done was to request Mr. Bright to draw out a pre-
amble of the bill he had suggested on the previous
evening, in order that it should be placed in the
hands of every elector in the kingdom.
Mr. A. ILLIN Gwman (of Bradford) apprehended
that they attended that meeting as reformers to
discuss the question of reform. They had no notion
of the Government passing any bill withotut, in the
first instance, ascertaining the feeling of the great
majority of the constituencies on the subject. They
were now anxious to receive such suggestions as
were calculated to produce an organised mode of
action which should give tone and character to the
present reform agitation.
Mr. HARTLEY (of Pickering) was of opinion that
the bill as proposed by Mr. Bright would consoli-
date the interests of the true Liberals of the king-
dom, promote those of the population generally,
give increased strength to the constitution, and
at the same time add to the. firmness of? the
Crown. It was one which was deserving of the
best support of all Liberals.
Mr. BRIGHT-Mr. Chairman, I am very glad to
have the opportunity this morning of meeting sa
large a number of those who are anxious on the
question of reform. After the meeting which was
recently held at Edinburgh we had a conference
very much of this character, and before the meet-
ing at Glasgow there was a small meeting of a simi-
lar character. I believe the effect of the coming
together of persons from different parts of those
districts in Scotland was very much to help forward
a united movement in that part of the kingdom,
and I believe the result of this meeting will be to
put things in train, so that the effect of last night's
meeting will not merely be the pleasure—if it were
a pleasure—of hearing a speech on a great subject,
but of carrying out in succeeding weeks and months
a movement which shall bring about a great result
in the country. (Cheers.) Various questions have
been put to me to-day respecting my proposed
measure. You probably observed last night that I
spoke, unfortunately, for a considerable portion of
the time with much difficulty (sympathetic cheers)
and I was not able to give that clear and minute
account of the changes I have proposed which I
should have wished to do. But the day before the
meeting I h.sd
posted a copy of the schedules con-
taining the arrangement of the representation of
all the boroughs aSsd some of the counties of the
united kingdom as I pToposed it should stand in
case the bill becomes law, to newspapers in Edin-
burgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Man-
chester, Birmingham, Bristol, and London. As far as
I know, I sent them to all the daily mailing papers
the names of which I happened to have, and it is
possible that this very day in many of those papers
such schedules will be published. I think, therefore,
the object of one of the speakers will be pretty well
accomplished, because before a week has elapsed,
Ithose schedules will be in the possession of all
who read the newspapers—(hear, hear)—and if
there is any point on which I have not quite ex-
plained myself they can refer to these schedules,
and, with the exception of any slight error which
may have crept into the figures and calculations,
they will be able to obtain a pretty accurate idea of
the changes I contemplate. There is one point
which has been referred to here with respect to
Schedule V, which describes the boroughs that are
to have four members each. It is intended that
each of those boroughs should be divided into two
wards, each elector to be registered in one ward
onl v. I need not enter into any detailed argument
on that point now, nor go into the reasons which
induced sae and those earnest men with whom 1 am
acting:to adept that principle ; I can only say that
long before this bill goes before a committee of the
House of (;ommons—if it should ever have the good
fortune to reach that stage—the opinion of the
country will probably be unmistakeably signified
on that point. I have told you before that it is
utterly impossible for any human being to produce
a plan of reform on the basis of apportioning the
representation to the population with arithmetical
exactness unless he cuts the country up into elec-
toral districts, and it is probable that no plan
whatever could be drawn up which would not have
to encounter the strongest objections. Suppose I
adopted the basis of giving three members to
boroughs with a population of 54,000, on the one
side it would be said why not adopt 64,000 as the
basis, and on the other 34,000. I say that you must
draw a line somewhere and submit it to the fairness
and good sense of the. country, trusting that they
will look at it as a whole, and give it that general
support without which no scheme whatever can be
carried. There is another point I should like to
explain. You will find towards the end of these
schedules a general abstract showing the result of
the proposed change. It puts the boroughs into
six classes, and these classes are based chiefly on
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their population, but with respect to the taxationeturn, which is not exactly similar, I begin with
boroughs hex ing.a population u
-vier 16,000. Then
there is a step from 16,000 to 25,0e1°) where I leave
things pretty much as they are now.
to 54,000, which doubles it, and a I;From 25,000tt1e more, I
make another step from 54,000 to 130,e100, which
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doubles it, and a little more, then from 1,
'go to 270,000, which doubles it and a little more,
and then I get to the largest boroughs of 300, "u
and 400,000—there are five of them, and I propos'e
to give six members each to them. Whether a town
like Manchester should be divided into two wards,
with three members to each, into three wards with
two members each, or into six wards with each one
member, will be for the consideration of the parlia-
mentary committee, and I hope that the arr ange-
ment I have proposed will bethought advantal ;eons
to the country. (Hear.) A gentleman here 1 sat a
question to me with regard to the counties, u upon
which 1 must make an observation- in reply. 1 sast
night I stated that I thought, so far as the Jana 1V
concerned, that the representation of the com sties
in the House of Commons, conjoined with the repro-
sentat7on of the land which exists in the House of

Lords, has hitherto given to the land, as we all
know from past and sorrowful experience, a predo-
minant influence in both houses. But there are
many counties which have grown, up into great
populations in which there have arisen great inte-
rests not connected with the land, as, for example,
the manufacturing villages of Yorkshire, Lanca-
shire, and other counties. The population has be-
come so large in these counties as to overshadow
the territorial influence, and I therefore thought
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to the villages or towns of Kcighley, Doncaster,
and Rotherham. There must be some line drawn,
and in order to do so, I have taken the census of
1851. In my opinion it is of no use to ask Parliament
and the Government to disfranchise small boroughs
in One• part of the country if they are to create
small boroughs in other parts of the country. (Hear,
hear.) If you arc to take every town of 10,000 or
12,000 inhabitants and make, a borough of it, you
will. weaken the: popular party by withdrawing
their. influence from the counties. and will do one of
the Most injurious things that can he done: In point
of fact you will do that from whiCh you have aTready
suffered so much. You will make your representa-
tion henceforth as it has been in the past, so exclu-
sively a representation of the land that the county
members aro of no use whatever in considering the
great interests of commerce. (Hear.) With regard
to the particular towns to which reference has been
made, you will find in the general abstract at the
bottom of my schedules a statement that there re-
main seven seats not yet disposed of. These seven
seats have been reserved because I was of opinion,
and am still, that there may be two, three, four, or
more towns which could fairly represent to Parlia-
ment that their population is such as to justify their
being made into boroughs, if this bill should ever
pass a second reading in the House of Commons.
(Hear.) While it was passing through committee,
no doubt if it were in the hands of the Government,
or in the hands of a private member, all questions
with regard to these towns would be fairly consi-
dered. This, however, must always be borne in
mind,—you may make in every place you like a
sufficient population if you take a sufficient district
of parishes and add to it, but that is not the way to
make a borough. It is the way to weaken a great
county, and to make a very small county inside it,
but that is not precisely what we aro looking for.
(Cheers.) A town which has not population enough
in itself to be made a borough had much better re-
main with the county and exercise its influence
along with the county, in order that the borough
and county influence may be blended together.
(Cheers.) I have been asked why in the village or
town of Pudsey, and some others, a man should
not vote unless he occupied a £lO house, when
in Bradford he would vote if he occupied a £5
house. That evidently is a discrepancy. It is a state
of things which exists now and would exist after
my bill became law (if ever it should become law) ;
but it arises from this fact, that you have always
had in your county and borough representation an
entire difference. Public opinion does not appear to
have made up its mind as to the point at which
these franchises should be equalised. All your agri-
cultural labourers, as you well know, are entirely
non-political. In the purely agricultural districts
the newspapers, to a great extent, have been and
are unknown among the agricultural labourers.
There is, therefore, no particular object to serve in
inviting some hundreds of thousands of persons
whose attention has never been turned in the least
to political questions, who have never apparently
been able to manifest an interest in such questions,
to share the representation. The time will conic,
in all probability, when the franchise will be
equalled, and when that is considered advisable on
the part of the public I should not be one of those
who would be disposed to stand in the way of any
equalisation that may be thought desirable ; but I
want now to propose that which, as far as I can
judge, meets the existing- requirements of public
opinion, taking into consideration the timidity that
exists on the one hand, and the earnestness and
the ardour which prevail on the other. (Hear.)
Unless you do that your bill will not be practical.
The most ardent cannot carry all they wish. (Hear.)
The most ardent will not allow the timid to rest
secure in their timidity. We must have something
which meets as much of public opinion as will en-
able it to be carried, and when carried will give
such satisfaction as will make the measure work
satisfactorily to the whole kingdom. (Cheers.) I
believe I have not touched upon all the questions
which have been raised in the course of discussion.
As to what should be done, my notion is this—in
the West Riding of Yorkshire there should be formed'
a general association ; and if that is done, then I
think that in every town and populous neighbour-
hood in the Wrest Riding there ought to be formed a
local association. The special object of these associa-
tions should be to do two things, psrhaps three. In
the first place, to hold meetings for the diffusion of
information among the people. Make them
thoroughly understand, if you can, the nature of the
different schemes which may be before the public ;
for don't suppose for a moment that I am running
about the country to ask the people to take my
child off my hands. Nothing of the sort. What I
want is a real representation of the people, and I
want it to be that sort of representation that the
people will feel it to be a representation. (Hear.)
Make them thoroughly understand the question.
Then have a grand organisation of petitions. Ordi•
narily when petitions come dribbling into the
House of Commons at 5 o'clock they are of little
use. They are put quietly away, and among the
votes at the end of the week there is sent round to
the members a list of the various subjects on which
petitions have been presented. But, if it is found
that night after night on all sides of the house
members getup with great rolls of petitions which
they can scarcely carry, specifying that the peti-
tioners request the house to pass a bill to establish
household or any other suffrage, the ballot, and
such a distribution of members as will give to all
the great towns a fair influence—specifying if they
approve them, when the bills are introduced, the
propositions which I have made, or the Government
or anybody else has made—let the table of the
House of Commons be loaded night after night and
week after week in this way, as I have seen it on
some questions in past times, and then the men in
the house, without any elaborate logic, without con-
stant persuasion and discussion, somehow or other
—they don't know exactly how it gets into their
heads—begin to say that after all it was a mistake
to suppose that the people did not care about the
subject, and that I went about it in order to get up
an agitation. (Cheers.) What am I, if the question
is not one that recommends itself to their hearts?
That is the sort of reasoning which will take place
in the House of Commons, and as we know it is said
by the naturalist that various animals take their
colour from the different grasses or leaves on which
they repose, so the members of the House of Com-
mons, by a process they cannot logically describe,
from the old Conservative or Liberal, feeling that
they repose on public sentiment out of doors, and
that without public sentiment they are nothing,
will gradually moderate their hues, and in the
course of 12 months, if this movement goes on with
ballot is a convenient mode of exercising the fran-
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middle and working classes of this country, now
so happily united, you will find that the House of
Commons, and ultimately the House of Lords, will
become docile in your hands, and I believe you
will find that within a year or two you will have
done one of those great things for liberty which
will stand forward for ever as a bright spot in the
annals of your country. (The hon. gentleman re-
sumed his seat amid great cheering.)
Mr. LORD, of Bradford, believed the proposed
franchise did not include what were called lodgers,
and wished to hear whether Mr. Bright would have
any oljeciion to supplement his bill, with a provi-
sion for the accomplishment of that object ? (Hear.)
Mr. BRIGIIT —lf I am not mistaken, I had the
hGnour of receiving a letter from the hon. gentle-
man who has just spoken. respecting the point
which lie has just mooted. It is a noticeable thing
that there does exist in Scotland at this very mo-
ment a lodger franchise. The practice in Scotland
has been that if a person occupies lodgings the
value of £lO he can be placed on the register for a
Scotch borough ; and when I was in Edinburgh I
was informed that 28 persons in that city had
availed• themselves of that privilege. (Lau ,hter.)
I can only say that the subject has receiv. d the
most careful consideration of those- whom I have