The Electoral History

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Excerpt from The Electoral History: Of the Borough of Lambeth Since Its Enfranchisement in 1832, Portraits and Memoirs of Its During 46 YearsSome Parliamentary papers were published Shewing the anomalous state of the representation. There were three boroughs each containing only. One ten pound householder. One of the boroughs only paid in assessed taxes £3 another, j£io 8s. 9d., a third, {40 17s. 1d., whilst Lambeth paid J£108, 841, and Greenwich both then being unrepresented.When the Reform Bill was in Committee an organized system for delay developed itself. SO slowly were the clauses for disfranchising the small boroughs passed, that the people became impatient and urged more speed in strangling the reptiles. On the 22nd September, three months after the second introduction of the Bill, it passed the Commons by 345 to 239, a majority of 106.And now all eyes were turned to the Lords, to whom the Bill was carried, and presented by Lord John Russell, with a retinue of upwards of a hundred members. The second reading was fixed for the 3rd of October, but, after an able debate, the Bill was rejected by 199 to 158.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.