BRITAIN. 



703 



Keu EngUih Boroughs uhich are to return one Member 

 each. 



Boroughs in Wales tchich return one Member each. 



To most of these boroughs other places are united, which 

 share in the election of the members. The population of 

 the principal boroughs only is given, with the number of 

 voters in the district. Two of these boroughs, Merthyr 

 Tydvil and Swansea, have been added by the reform act. 



Beaamaris 



Carfiff . '. ' 

 Cardigan . . 



Carmarthen . 

 Carnarvon . . 

 Denbigh . . 



2 497 24 Flint I 2,216 nearly 1200 



5,026 700' Haverfordwest . !' 3,915 500 to 520 

 6,1871500tol750,[MerlhyrTydil . 22,083 

 2,795 about 1460i .Montgomery . . 1,188 about 80j 

 9,995 460 to 465 Pembroke . . . 6,511 about 900, 

 7,642 upw. of 800 Radnor. . . . 4721150101200, 

 3,786 950-IO 1000 Swansea .... 13.694 



Summary of Reformed House of Commons. 



;Z6 counties, 4 each ; 7, 3 each ; fa, 2 each ; 

 Yorkshire, 6; Isle of Wight, 1, . . 144 

 133 cities and boroughs, 2 each, , . . 266 

 53 boroughs, 1 each, 53 



City of London, 4 



Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 



2 each, 4 J 



5 3 counties, 2 each ; and 9 counties, 1 each , 15 i 

 1 14 districts of boroughs, 1 each, . . 14 5 



, 33 counties, 30 



asgow, 2 each, ... 4 

 districts of boroughs, 



Wales, 



Scotland 



l ! 



33 counties, . . 

 J Edinburgh and Glas 

 '] 19 boroughs and dis 

 L 1 each, ... 



10 



("32 counties, 2 each, . 61 



Ireland, < 6 cities, 2 each ; 27 boroughs, 1 each, . 39 

 [The university of Dublin, 2, .... 2 



Representation of Scotland. From the time of 

 the legislative union of Scotland with England in 

 1707, till 1832, the former has returned lorty-fite 

 members to the British house of commons, thirty for 

 the thirty-three counties, and fifteen for fifteen districts 

 of boroughs, which comprised sixty-six towns or 

 burghs. But the right of voting for members has 

 heretofore been extremely limited. The number of 

 freeholders, or voters, in 1825, was 3066. The num- 

 ber in 1811 was only 2429. In 1796, the number of 

 real voters in the Scottish counties was estimated at 

 1390. In two counties, there were only three real 

 voters in each, and in seven not more than ten. The 

 nominal and fictitious voters were said to amount to 

 1202. The number of persons who actually voted at 

 the elections of the boroughs was very inconsiderable, 

 consisting in general, ot the magistrates and town- 

 council, amounting to only twenty in each burgh, or, 

 in all the sixty-six burghs, to 1320. By the late re- 

 form act, eight members are added to the represen 

 tation of Scotland; and the representation is now 

 distributed as follows: To the thirty-three counties 

 thirty members ; to Edinburgh and Glasgow, two 

 each; to Aberdeen, Dundee, Greenock, Perth, anc 

 Paisley, one each; and to fourteen districts of burghs 

 one each; total, fifty-three. The right of voting is 

 also placed on the same footing as in England. By 

 this act the constituency in Scotland in 1831, amount- 

 ed to 33,222 for the counties; 31.324 for the burghs 

 total, 64,546. 



Table of the Boroughs of Scotland trhlcA return Pl(mt>er* 

 to Parl'uimeut. 



Representation of Ireland. Since the legislative 

 union with Britain, in 1801, Ireland has heretofore 

 sent one hundred members to the. British parliament, 

 sixty-four for the thirty-two counties, two each ; for 

 the cities of Dublin and Cork, two each ; for thirty- 

 one other cities and boroughs, one each ; and one for 

 the university of Dublin. By the late reform act, five 

 'members have been added to the representation, one 

 to each of the towns of Belfast, Galway, Limerick, and 

 Waterford, and one to the university of Dublin. The 

 following table exhibits the Irish cities and boroughs 



