┌──────────────┬──────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ │ County. │ Borough. │ Present │Combined │ Present │ Future │ │ │ │Electors.│Electors.│Members. │Members. │ ├──────────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │Devonshire, │Ashburton, │ 211│ 520│ 1│ 1│ │ „ │Dartmouth, │ 309│ „ │ 1│ „ │ │ „ │Honiton, │ 335│ 649│ 2│ 1│ │ „ │Totness, │ 314│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │Dorsetshire, │Lyme Regis, │ 297│ 665│ 1│ 1│ │Somersetshire,│Wells, │ 368│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │Sussex, │Arundel, │ 208│ 493│ 1│ 1│ │ „ │Midhurst, │ 285│ „ │ 1│ „ │ │Wiltshire, │Calne, │ 151│ 641│ 1│ 1│ │ „ │Marlborough, │ 254│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │ „ │Wilton, │ 236│ „ │ 1│ 1│ │Yorkshire, │Richmond, │ 342│ 642│ 2│ „ │ │ „ │Northallerton,│ 303│ „ │ 1│ „ │ │Essex, │Harwich, │ 299│ 506│ 2│ 1│ │Norfolk, │Thetford, │ 217│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │ │ │ │ │ ——│ —│ │ │ │ │ │ 22│ 7│ └──────────────┴──────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘ Thus, without any disfranchisement, or violent displacement, fifteen boroughs, at present returning twenty-two members, might be formed into seven respectable constituencies, returning one member each to Parliament. There are, however, four others—Knaresborough, Evesham, Reigate, and Andover—which cannot be so easily thrown together. We would proceed with these on the same principle, by adding them to boroughs at present returning two members, but which Lord John Russell proposes to restrict to one member each. The following is our view:—
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