┌──────────────┬──────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ │ County. │ Borough. │ Present │Combined │ Present │ Future │ │ │ │Electors.│Electors.│Members. │Members. │ ├──────────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │Yorkshire, │Knaresborough,│ 226│ 583│ 2│ 1│ │ „ │Ripon, │ 357│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │Worcester, │Evesham, │ 396│ 755│ 2│ 2│ │ „ │Tewkesbury, │ 359│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │Surrey, │Reigate, │ 297│ 1124│ 1│ 2│ │ „ │Guildford, │ 595│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │Hampshire, │Andover, │ 232│ „ │ 2│ „ │ │ │ │ │ │ ——│ —│ │ │ │ │ │ 13│ 5│ └──────────────┴──────────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘ Here there are twenty-three seats set at liberty, without disfranchisement in any one instance. In justice to ourselves, we must state that we have implicitly followed the schedule attached to Lord John Russell’s bill, and not indulged in speculations of our own. Had the latter been the case, we might have been tempted to ask why Westbury, with an electorate of 289, is to be spared, while Wells, with 368, is to be blotted from the list of boroughs? Besides these, Lord John Russell proposes that thirty other seats shall be made vacant, by restricting boroughs now returning two members to one. (His number is thirty-three, but we have already noticed Ripon, Tewkesbury, and Guildford.) If it could be shown that there is a really clamant case for representation elsewhere, the reduction might be allowed, but only to the extent required. It seems to us perfect madness to proceed with wholesale disfranchisement, until the necessity of transferring seats to other places is satisfactorily established. We can very well understand why some of the smaller boroughs which have now two members should be restricted to one, in order to satisfy the just requirements of some rising township which has hitherto been unrepresented. We have no doubt that Lord John Russell is quite right in his proposals to give members to Birkenhead, Burnley, and Staleybridge, and to erect Chelsea and Kensington into a Parliamentary borough to return two members. We think that two additional members each might be granted to the West Riding of Yorkshire and to the county of Lancaster—that Salford should return two members instead of one—and that the London University should be represented. We think that these are rational demands, and such as might be accorded; and the necessary number for these purposes, and for putting Scotland on a fair footing of equality with England and Ireland, would amount to the vacation of about thirty or thirty-two existing seats.