POLITICAL HISTORY 



to appreciate the more because the world appreciated him so inade- 

 quately ; his intellectual force could not be denied, but he had never 

 known a person who had such signal virtues that were so little under- 

 stood. 1 



The Reform Act of 1832 made considerable changes in local con- 

 stituencies. Carlisle and Cockermouth returned their two members, 

 but Whitehaven was made a parliamentary borough with a single 

 member ; while Cumberland was divided into two divisions, east and 

 west, each with two representatives. The last election under the old 

 conditions was that of 1831, and old electors have often told the tale 

 how on that occasion they walked to Cockermouth, where the polling 

 was held, from the most distant parts of the county, to vote for 'the bill, 

 the whole bill, and nothing but the bill.' Still further changes followed 

 under the Representation Act of 1884. Cockermouth, which had lost 

 one member in 1867, was now disfranchised altogether ; Carlisle lost one 

 of its seats ; and Cumberland was parcelled out into four single member 

 constituencies, called respectively the Eskdale, Penrith, Cockermouth 

 and Egremont divisions. 



Morley, Life of W. E. Gladstone, \\. 88. 



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