Star.
London, England, 1831-07-13 00:00:00

PARLLIMENT.4RY REPRESENTATION.

From a Parliamentary Paper (No. 69) just pub-
lished by order of the House of Commons, contain-
ing an account of the assessed taxes for the last
three years, ending April 5, 1831, paid by places
sending Members to Parliament, we have the fol-
lowing conclusive and almost startling facto,
grounded on the high authority of Parliament.
The first column contains the names of the
boroughs, the other the amount of assessed taxes
paid in the year ending April 5, 1831 :
SCHEMA A.
runs. AXOII3T. rum. •MOUNT.
Aldeburgh 1297 951 Midhurst E677 16 0
Appleby ... 402 15 4 Milborne Port ...210 13 3
Great Bedwin ... 98 7 9 Minehead .......316 10 21
Beeralston ...... .. 3 9 0 Newport .......100 $ 0
Bishop's Ca5t1e...270 111 Newton 151 5 4
Bletchingley ll7 4 9 Newtown(Hants) 00 0
atreughbridge 558 IS II Orford 143 14 7
Bossiney . 45 IS 4 Petenfield 515 6 11
Brackley ........302 4 4 Plymptoa 314 12 91
Brambcr . l6 8 9 Queenborough B2 3 6
Callington ..204 15 11 Romney, New ...357 17 6
Camelford 127 8 2 St. Garmain's .. 56 3 1
Castle Rising 126 19 4 Sc. Mama .....51 6 6
Corfe Castle 103 18 3 St. Michell .... 34 6 7
Dowoton .. 72 5 0 Saltash 125 16 2
Dunwich
Eye
Fowey 258 0 5 Steyning ..569 8 0
Gatton 206 11 5 Stockbridge ....252 0 2
Haslemere 136 14 4 Tregony llO 1 81
Hedon ... ..... —.270 12 2 Wareham .. ....521 14 3
Heytesbury
Higbam Ferrars..l6B 8 4 Weobley
Hindon 100 1 1 Whitchurch ....545 7 1
Dchester 145 3 9 Winchelsea .....817 4 0!
East Looe. 92 2 7 Woodstock 486 19 111
West Looe
Lostwithiel 545 18 14 Yarmouth 172 8 5
Lvdgershall .....122 9 2

£8,452 10 8

aC4.765 1 211
Thus 57 boroughs return not less than 113
members, while, during the last year, they paid
to the assessed taxes the sum of 11,2171. Ils. 100.
—an average of not 1001. for each member, and,
altogether, not one 27th part of the amount of
assessed taxes paid by the constituents of the two
members for Westminster, which amounts to
303,4201. 15s. 9d. Thus, if the latter city were!
proportionably represented in numbers relative to !
its property, when compared with the average of ;
these boroughs, it ought to have not less than
3,000 representatives.
Each of the following places, which are iu sche-
dules C and D of the same bill, and have hitherto
been unrepresented, paid in the same year a
greater amount of assessed taxes than these 57
favoured boroughs:
Manchester X 40,094 5 11
I3llFinsbury ,C 205,948 2 0
Birmingham 26,986 11 arylebone 290,376 5 9
Leeds 18,800 1 7 !Lambeth 102,514 0 01
Greenwich 21,341 4 4 'Brighton 31,300 9 6i
Sheffield 12,605 6 1 Cheltenham 21,154 19 14
Too.HandetsllB,s46 0 If
The following are the returns of the amount of
assessed taxes paid in the year 1830 by the bo-
roughs in
sersnut.x 11.
Aldborougb £ll5 14 4 Launceston £557 10 5
Amersham 596 1 6 Llskeard 541 17 2
Arundel 877 11 10 Lyme Regis 136 10 6
Ashburton 354 2 4 Lymington 1076 12 10
&Amin 984 6 7 3daldon 1114 10 4
Bridport 761 17 0 Malniesbory 337 17 10
Buckingham 259 1 1 2 Marlborough 1276 6 7
Ckippenham 1657 8 74 Marlow, Great 741 7 6
Clitheroe 406 7 9 10kehampton 324 1 5
Cockermouth 608 18 1 Reigate 662 1 7
Dorchester 1983 16 71 Richmond 1396 19 71
Droitwitcb 519 5 11 Rye 927 13 7
Evesham 1296 11 71 St Ives 337 10 4
Grimsby, Great 461 510 Shaftesbury 518 610
Grinstead, Salt 131 10 0 Sudbury 1131 5 8
Guilford 1650 5 51 Thetford 1187 3 2e
lielston 882 11 2 iThirsk 219 19 11
Honiton 1038 15 5 Totness ' 1016 0 81
Huntingdon 1772 15 1 IWallisigford 1073 8 61
, 1 klYthe 640 4 10 ,Wilton
492 4 8
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