The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

TU diANDOS CLAUSE.

(Feoni

he Times.)

Smarting under their recent defeats, the whigs and radicals
have vamped up a plea, which, to their minds at least, seems
satisfactorily to account for their undeniable declension. It
is all the effect of " the Chandos clause," quavers a dolorous
note from the Globe or Examiner, and straightway an hun •
drcd voices catch the cry, and join in a general howl, " It is
all the fault of the Chandos clause."

A whig paper in the north has recently published an
analysis of the West Riding poll, by which it is made to
appear that the £5O occupiers in Yorkshire voted in the
following manner :
Wortley .. • • • • .. 3,627
Denison • • • • .. 3,566
Morpeth .. • • • • .. 1,871
Milton .• • • • • .. 1,864

And the editor's remark on this statement is as follows :
" It is manifest from• this analysis, that the voice of the
people of the West Riding was stifled by the tenantry of the
great landlords."
The Morning Chronicle, in copying and commenting on
the same statement, says—
The landlords of the West Riding, by means of the £5O
occupiers, sent Mr. Wortley to parliament, and not the
freeholders and copyholders."
Thus, these whig journalists, and not these only, but
their brethren in all parts of the kingdom, seem to have
persuaded themselves into the belief of this ridiculousfallacy,
that to be a " £5O occupier," is identical with being " a
slave of the great landlords." To have made their theory
impartially absurd, they should have gone on to assume
that every " freeholder" is a man of independent fortune.
But amidst all this nonsense, the real character of " the
Chandos clause" is quite forgotten. It is talked of as
though it admitted, and was framed to admit. to the county
franchise, solely or chiefly, "the tenants at will of the great
landlords." But will any man believe that such a proviso
as this would ever have obtained the support of Mr. Hume,
and of sixty or eighty other radicals in the House of Com-
mons ? The simple fact is, that the clause itself says
nothing—knows nothing—of either " tenants at will" or
" great landlords." It merely enacts, that all occupiers,
whether of land or houses, to the extent of £5O a-year, shall
have votes for the county, except where they are already
enfranchised by residing in a borough town.
The folly which the whig and radical journalists are always
committing, when they deal with this subject, is—that they
persist in assuming that all these occupiers must be farmerst
and " tenants at will of the great landlords." We do no
believe that the " tenants at will of the great landlords" con-
stitute even one fourth part of the £5O occupiers, taking the
aggregate of England.
These " liberal" reasoners never take the trouble to ex-
amine the facts. We will help them to a few, in order to
show them the baseless nature of their customary assump-
tions.

ral district may be the Elthorne hundred, containing sixteen
parishes. And bow many occupiers and leaseholders do
we find registered for the county of Middlesex from these
sixteen parishes? Only 212, and these include the occupiers
of £5O houses in the towns of Uxbridge, Brentford, and Hil-
lingdon, besides the villas and mansions of Londoners scat-
tered over the whole of the district. Probably there are
scarcely one hundred farm-tenants among the whole sixteen
parishes.
Now turn to another district, that of Hampstead and High-
gate, occupied chiefly by London merchants, professional
men, and retired men of property. The " occupiers and
leaseholders " in these two parishes are 260, and probably a
more intelligent or independent body of electors it would be
impossible to find.
Perhaps, however, we may told that the metropolis and its
suburbs are an exception to the general rule. We pass on,
then to the West Riding of Yorkshire itself.

A glance at the statistics shows us in the West Riding the
following towns, of 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, and 15,000 inhabi-
tants each, whose populations depend upon the " Chandos
clause for their voice in the representation t
Almondbury, Baildon, Barnsley, Batley, Bingley, Brad-
field, Cleckheaton, Dalton, Dewsbury, Doncaster, Eccles-
field, Elland, Golcar, Gomersall, Heptonstall, Hipper-
holme, Honley, Horsforth, Idle, Keighley, Lepton, Liver-
sedge, Lockwood, Mirfield, Morley, North Bierley, Ossett,
Otley, Pudsey, Rastrick, Rotherham, Saddleworth, Selby,
Skipton, Skircoat, Soothill, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland,
Stansfield, Thorne, Thornton, Wadsworth, Warley, World-
dale. _ _

Eleven of these towns have each above 10,000 inhabitants.
The whole number of the towns is 45. If they only con-
tribute, on the average, 50 votes each, as occupiers of £5O
houses or factories, we should here find, at once, nearly half
of the total number of " £5O occupiers" who voted at the
last election. Of the villages of 1,500,2,000, or 2,500 in-
habitants, we have taken no account. . .

There is one apparently trivial circumstance in the very
statement now put forward by the Whig journals which we
have quoted above which detects and overthrows their whole
argument. The " free-holders," they assume, are indepen-
dent voters ; the " occupiers" are the slaves of the landlords.
Now, in the late Yorkshire contest, the two Whig candidates
put forward very different pretentious. Lord Morpeth stood
upon his public character ; Lord Milton stood upon his
father's acres. Upon the Chronicle's hypothesis, Lord Mor-
peth should have received the warmest support from the free
holders; Lord Milton from the occupiers.
But the contrary was the fact ! The poll is thus given in
the morning organ of• the Government :

FREEHOLDERS

Milton ..
Morpeth

10,216
10,160

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