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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831. Excerpt: ... The result is, that in these and generally in all the places which are to return members to Parliament, two-thirds at the least, but in some places, as the Tower Hamlets, nearly one-half, of the voters will be persons holding houses from 10/. to 20/. value; and this proportion nearly agrees with what is observable upon the aggregate number of all the houses rated in England and Wales. Thus there ate 378,786 houses in England and Wales rated at 10/. and upwards; of these 116,030 are from 10/. to 15/.; 66,394 from 15/. to 20/.; and 74,499 from 20/. to 30/.; showing that 256,928, or two-thirds of all the rated houses in England and Wales are in the hands of men rated at less than 30/. per annum. Hence "the majority of voters in every town will belong to the very lowest class of houses, and, consequently, the effective Representation of the Whole Em Pi He will be thrown into the hands of one single class, and that, too, a very narrow class of the Nation!"--the small Shopkeepers;--precisely the most dependent race of men in the whole country! And let it be observed, that, as of course the value of houses is highest in the most thickly peopled towns, the number of voters will be the largest where the persons themselves will necessarily be the least respectable.t But let it be granted that it is expedient in a country such as this, some of the most vital interests of which are purely artificial, others wholly without local connexion with Counties or Boroughs, and others, though most necessary, most sacredly guaranteed, generally unpopular with the lower orders of the community--and at a time like this, when the honored and Mr. Croker's Speech. t See Note fi p-25. honoring inter-dependence of a mitigated feudality has almost universally been destroyed under the ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151477927
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151477923
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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