Towns. Constituencies. Birmingham, 8,780 Bristol, 10,958 Bradford, 2,723 Leeds, 6,400 Liverpool, 15,382 Manchester, 17,826 Sheffield, 5,612 Wolverhampton, 3,499 It must strike every one that there can be no principle in this. The constituencies both of Manchester and Liverpool are more than five times larger than that of Bradford, and yet all of them are to have three members; whereas the Tower Hamlets with 25,366, Marylebone with 20,377, and Lambeth with 18,522 electors, are but to have two each as heretofore. Even the sage of the _Edinburgh Review_ has borne testimony to the impropriety and injustice of adding to the number of representatives returned for large towns. In his article of October 1852, he says:— “It would appear that the large towns have their full share of the representation; since, if we add the small boroughs to the counties, on the supposition of their returning a somewhat similar class of members, and containing a somewhat similar constituency, the comparison would stand thus:— Population. Members. Counties and small boroughs, 10,250,000 259 Large towns and cities, 6,660,000 206 —whereas the proper arithmetical proportion for the cities would be 169, instead of 206.”