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seen, and it might prove inconvidat,nay ruinous to teaks.
men and others to institute any
inquiry respecting the dee,-
logs they might have had with their landlords. (Hear) It
would be attended with great difficulty in large constitu-
encies to call for proofs of the payment of rents, but of
rate, and taxes nothing eould be easier. The proof of
rates would, not include church rates ; for the Quakers,
who in Rome iodate:es wailed to be distreined, could nct
be expected to give proof of their having paid, as whether
they might hare done so or not depended upon the will
of the person whose duty it was to dbitrain them. The
registration in towns he propped should be effected by
the Beristers. On the st.lejfe joint occupancy in
p counties, an alteration wee to be introduced,
that in all cases of that nature there4should be enjoyed
as teary waters as there were forty shillings in the joint
occe pansy of the f, er hold ; and the seen! principles he meant
to apply to copy hold, only I.aving the qualification higher.
Thus, if there were a copyhold joint occupancy of 1001. held
by twelve persons, none of them were to have a vote ; but if
it wet" held by ten persons, each would have a vote. This
was a Nee perfectly analeguue to all our ancient legal prin.
ciples; 'ltd, indeed, were it otherwise, endle.s disputes
would ar§ee He did not then mention any V thes • topics
with a view tb,eiecussion ; he merely wished that the pro-
posed ametelmenteshould be printed, placed in the hands of
members, and brought under consideration on a haute dry.
He concluded by moving, that the Chairman rep et progress,
and ask leave to sit again.
Sir J. BIRCH inquired if the equitable instrument re-
quired ti be stamped ?
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, whatever a Court
of Equity held to be an equitable title would be so heist ter
the purposes of the hill.
Alter some conversation, which merely led to upstitlors
and explanations of the foregoing statetnert, the ho i.e re.
named, the Chairman reported progress, and oh shied loser
Walt again on Tuesday next.
The other orders of the day were then disposal of, and
lee beam adjourned at a
SPIRIZ A S OUSIVA LS.
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TIMES—At the same the. that we received dm Belgic
„papers metnioned shove, we asokeed likewise Duteh pipers
to the 13th Instant. The camisudiesionanide by ten 311 -
M for Foreign Affairs to the Stotewanteral, explains the
rift& course of the lets transactions. together with the viers
mitenotlves of the parties. As it is itself a commentary
is the proceedings of the Dutch Government, on the conduct
of
France, and the edgiest* of both to the London Conference,
keequitva no comment from us. It wfilnodoubt be universally
Teta If we can trust the Dutch papers, the war against the
Belgians is popular in Holland. la the Journal de la Rap
we find a patriotic song, entitled •• Onward." in which an
insulting allusion is made to the call for French aid by the
Belgians, who had hitherto pretended to despise •Dutcra
prowess. The following is the verse to which we allude :
" Mats l'ennemi, signalant as faiblesse,
66 Et pit Want devant noire courroux,
" Vela 11.rangto pulse un eel de detresse,
66 Et Pittenger le dkrobe i nos coups !
" Quzga pitie auceide i la victoire ;
el Beiges, cachets sous lee drapeaux fransaie,
" Quc ce refrain vous rappelle i jamais
" Votre defaite et noire Oahe.
TIM RS.—A correspondent has tent us a statement, con.
mining facts, which plead powerfully in favour of the right
of Chelsea to be admitted into a share of the new repro-
serstation. Why it should not have been received into
schedule D, when Greenwich, with the neighbouring towns,
was& !mined into schedule C, it would be difficult to ex-
plain. its exclusion could nab* owing to the insignificance
of its population,—tar the small number of its respectable
bouseholderae—to the trifling amount of its direct contri-
butions to the 8 ate,—.or to the satisfactory share which
it possesses in the representation of any other district.
Its population in the standard year of 1821 amounted to
26,860, and, that it has not been falling off since, is
'evident from the present census, which gives it 33,371.
In the former year, tberefure, it exceed d in population
any one of the wens in schedule I), which are by the
bill entitled to one representative each. It even
amounted to more than the total of any two out of
eleven of the towns in' this schedule,—we mean Brad-
HUI, Bury, Cheltenham, From?, Gnu ahead, Halifax,
Huddersfield, Kendal, etetkificid, Werringten, White.
haven.—While its claim is thus strong in point of popula-
tion; the next test of right, namely, its Assessed taxes, places
it even higher in the scale than the census of ha Wine
bitanta. it pays, in Reword tare, 23,4691. being a
larger amount than that paid by any one of 21e out of
217 places now mailing members to parliament. Take
another mode of estimating the comparative amount of its
direct conteibutions. It will be renteinutred that schedule B
contains bormagiegrof between 2,0110 and 4,000 inhabitants,
which are allowed still to retain' their privilege of sending one
member to parliament. Well. Chelsea. watch only claims
the privilege of sending one representative, pays more amend
taxes alone, than 33 out of the 41 boroughs in that predica-
ment, and exceeds in population the united numbers of 13
places on the name let. To put the injastir of the exclusion in
mother lightethe statement proves wet Ch lees exceeds in poe
polation.trebles in asitesamcnt.a:id nearly equals in number of
houses, tight out of the mimicked uutoughs which still
continue to send each two member,' to Parliament. Thus
this great suburb of the metropolis, which only claims one
representative, possesses more than the bads of property
and population on which sixteen members are nominated in
other places. Tete paper before use. varying the elements of
the remain' -, but still directing .he facts introduced to the
same result, shows that on nu one ground which will admit
any other place to a share in the representation. can Ch.lsea
be justly excluded. But without enlarging ratchet on the
subject, we beg to recommend the facet which we have just
stated to theattention of the authors of the bill.
HERALD.—The proceedings in the House of Coninwns
on Saturday, were chiefly remarkable for land Al iltorp's in.
nouncement of the intended alterations in the return bell.
according to whieb—
An agreement for a lease, or an equitable right under a
lease, is to give a inlet° vote inacounty, aa if me lease was
actually executed.
The payment of a flue or premium, of 3001. or upwards,
is to be considered as equal to a rent of 501. per annum, upon
a lease for seven pun, and to give the right of voting ion
counties.
Copy holders are to be pat precisely In the same position as
freeholders in counties. except as to the value of die estate.
lona fide rent payers to the amount of 101. per annum,
are to have the right of voting In cities and boroughs, with.
out any consideration as to period or proportions in which
the rent is paid; but there mud be a previous ownership ur
occupation for 12 months instead ad dl.
Upon all these arrangements, which refer to that important
branch of the details—the qualification of voters, we appre-
hood there will be very little difference of opinion between
the real friends of the maim. Those who oppose the
principle will, of course, deprecate whatever has a tendency
to carry that principle into effect; and the obvious purpose
of the alterations is to open the qualification, and increase the
number of voters as much as possible, both in towns and coun-
ties, without altering the basis of representation, It cannot
be denied, however, that the liberal Spirit which seems to
breathe in the details, has, so far as- counties are cone rued,
received a check by anticipation in the decision for eplieing
couotiee—that is, cutting them into two, as if for the pure
pm of dividing than between the great Proprietors. That
the miniskirt intended no such effect we are bound to believe.
and that in the working of the measure no such effect may
be realised seem a probable conjecture ; but those who ate
disposed to speak and think most favourably of the libera-
lity which pervades the conditions that confer the right,
must abate their enthusiasm, when they menember the pro-
viso under which the right itself is to be eignised. .
TIDIES.-oThe division of counties ought not to be al.
lowed, and if the people of England be true to themselves, it
will not. This abouilnaele dense would, so far as 34 enact.
here are concerned, be a stultifieatiot of the entire principle
of the Hill. I:nor:nous, sad in NOW respects politically
dangerous. as has been the growth of Individual weal,h in
this cowl ry; ette amodythe totemost duties of the legisle.
wee is, undoubtedly, to counteract that accumulating
poison, by every effort to reinforce those means of confede-
ration possessed by men of inferior fortune, which funs'
' their natural and only Instrument of resistance to the tvtant
leviathan of each: separate -gastrin throughout the lewd
Thie great good might bid fair to be accomelished by tite
destruction of petty boroughs, the extensism of Mediae lean-
chilies, the abridged duastiou of paha, and those several wee-
advances fee frustrating the direct power of tummy over the
repreeentative system whim the authors of tar bell have
Add out le use but no human, malice ever litlrtStd set ei.-
gine fur neutralizing and deteating WI such besiefiseal pur-
poses, decompkiess this csualyegrinding scheme. Suppose
• there be 6,060d/won for a whole county, of which 2.00 e are
to be tonne swig dieseenantry and depeodentkof a certain
nobleman, sad Otis nobleman a proem nut generally contented
• es confided hi for lite-pole& principles: the men tap his
nominee forelte ceutity, abseil, as {wog as it renwien,welt-
viiled, brings 4 0 el electors against hat 2,000,and-teeten as